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Scandal has erupted over a proposed library being built in the Capilano area. Construction of a new 1,000-square-metre Capilano library is set to start this year near 67th Street and 99th Avenue, backing on the Fulton ravine. But Joanne Groot worries the facility will bring noise, traffic and troublemakers into what she says is a peaceful community. “For environmental purposes, I don’t want anything over there,” Groot says. “It should be kept as a ravine … The green space in this city is dwindling. Why do you put it in front of our houses?” One-way 67th Street might become a two-way road, which could increase shortcutting from 98th Avenue, she says. First off, the concerns about "shortcuts" is, as always, practically insane. Whenever residents get so concerned about "shortcuts" they should ask why the City of Edmonton is always making roads that aren't shortcuts to begin with. Secondly, bad planning by the city left this quagmire in place to begin with. As you can see from the Google Maps screenshot above, there was formerly a really big piece of land (red circle) that could easily hold an 11,000 square foot library and maybe even some parking. Another piece of empty land (blue circle) sits above the black "X" that designates where the library is planning to be built, presumably at the loss of some trees. The area in the blue circle could easily handle...say...a skate park, without moving a single tree. Why did I say skate park? Because recently the City of Edmonton built a skate park right smack dab in the middle of that red circle. Here's a street view level showing the skate park, which wasn't there at the time the aerial shot was taken. This is, in other words, a new thing that has gone in there. You would also think they could probably fit a library in that space instead, but I digress. The key point to take away is that the skate park is new. So what do you make, then, of this? The proposal has been in the works for years. A larger building was originally slated to go around the corner on 101st Avenue on the site of a demolished fire station. But architects felt there wasn’t enough room for parking close to the entrance and it would be overshadowed by a nearby apartment, Land says. “We have been looking for a location. It wasn’t easy to find a site where a library could be built.” They’re still doing a traffic assessment and transportation surveys, including whether to make the entire street two-way or just as far south as the library, she says. The ravine location should let patrons enjoy nature all year, and might allow the treed area to be extended, Land says. “We want the library to celebrate the ravine and the green space,” she says. “We’re looking at having the east wall … made out of windows so people can look into the ravine.” Wait, the proposal has been in the works for years? So as you have this proposal coming along, you decide to put a skate park in the big area that you could put a library with access from Terrace Road? Why would you do that? I understand you were hopeful for the firehall idea, which I assume from the description and proposed to be the area in the blue circle, but until you were certain couldn't you have waited on that oh-so-critical skateboard park? Come to think of it, why is the city so gung ho to build a new community bonding facility library along that ravine in the first place? I get that the second floor of Capilano Mall poses problems for the old people who live in the Capilano area, what with the stairs and their bad hips and whats nots. The elevator, they note, breaks down sometimes and makes it hard for those with walkers to get to the library. The space isn't as big as they would like it to be. But, and here's the crazy thing: couldn't the city just lease space on the main floor of the mall? Had they acted on this earlier, maybe they could have avoided Capilano Mall tearing out huge sections of their unused floor space they couldn't lease out because Capilano Mall is slowly dying. Which is to say, if the City of Edmonton is long-term that interested in having a library in the Capilano area close to where the mall is today, it makes far more sense to remain a tenant of the mall until -- and this day probably isn't that far away -- that another major space opens up in powercentre which Capilano Mall has become. Walmart isn't making a Supercentre there, for example, which is usually a sign they won't stick around for long. In other words, despite the city's concern that is "isn't easy to find a site" to build the library, there will soon be a glut of available space in the area, that meets all the criteria the city is looking for building a new building, and still keeps the residents happy. Not that we've let them off the hook yet, mind you. The NIMBY-ism in the objections to the library are actually pretty funny, even the ones that have a serious objection behind them. Libraries are quiet! They have those "shhhhhh!" signs and everything. More importantly, how much traffic do they really think the Capilano Library is going to get? I'd rather object to this based on my tax dollars being thrown into this expensive LEEDS-qualifying library that at the end of the day not many people are going to be using. Who looks at their local branch library and thinks "holy shit this place is generating a lot of traffic". Let's go down the road to Bonnie Doon Mall, where the library is a standalone building. Let's look at a Google Maps view of the parking lot around the library. Cars close to the bottom are actually probably mall parking, possibly even Sears employee parking. Looks packed, doesn't it? Jim Richardson, who complains that he won't be able to see deer in the ravine anymore, is worried that the library doesn't have any transit access -- which is odd but not really, EPL says that their LEEDS certification will depend on transit access and in this fight I give residents a slight edge over the city in the credibility of possibly dumb statements. So let's say more parking will occur because of lacklustre transit. Bonnie Doon shows us that's not a problem. Joanna Groot isn't finished complaining, though. Along with traffic and noise, she says troublemakers will come along. By troublemakers, I assume she means homeless people, and while there has been a very public problem with homeless people nesting at the Stanley Milner Library downtown, that just isn't a problem at the smaller libraries out in the little neighbourhoods. If she doesn't mean homeless people, troublemakers generally aren't found in libraries. Besides, Fargos is already there, as are the low income rental apartments littering the area. If trouble hasn't found Capilano by now, it probably never will. Groot also complains about the "dwindling green space" in the city, which sounds fair enough except that the Capilano area already has a boatload of green space. It also has not-green space, otherwise known as development, which is also known as where non-homeless people park their keisters at night. The section of Fulton Ravine being impacted here is actually very small, it's already a little pocket between Terrace Road and 101 Avenue. There's another small pocket south of Terrace Road, but then north of 101 Avenue the Fulton Ravine extends all the way to Gretzky Drive, is broken up by 106 Avenue, but then resumes all the way to the river valley. That's a fair bit of green space. 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The Real Athlete Blog Keyword: Pro Athletes PR Management Reputation Management: Lessons from the St. Louis Cardinals on Collapse and Comeback by Wesley Mallette 10-31-2011 12:35 AM Public Relations | Crisis Management | Image Branding The sixth game of the 2011 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers will go down in history as perhaps the single greatest World Series game ever played. By now, we are all aware of the Rangers' late (and extra inning) collapse and the Cardinals' unbelievable and incredible comeback. Twice the Cardinals were one strike away from elimination and the end of what was a miraculous run to and through the playoffs. Twice the Rangers were one strike away from greatness and their place in baseball history with their first World Series title. And one man named David Freese, a local St. Louis area guy, found himself on center stage and in a place where he would either be remembered as the final out or the one who enabled his team to fight another day. We all know the outcome. Freese delivered and thrust himself into the history books with a game tying triple in the bottom of the 9th inning and then hitting the game winning homerun in the bottom of the 11th inning. His role in the Cardinals' comeback was pivotal in what would result in the Rangers' collapse and it was all in lockstep with his team's never give up, never quit attitude. Despite the obstacles in front of them or the adversity they faced, they never gave up. It's a lesson for all of us, that no matter what happens to you, you cannot quit. No matter how dire the circumstances, you cannot give up. Even if you lose or come up short, it is not the end. You have to fight on. Especially when it comes to building, managing, rebuilding or repairing one's reputation. Athletes and public figures (everyone for that matter) should take a similar approach when it comes to managing their reputations. Too often, the carelessness of self-inflicted wounds caused by careless comments or stupid actions, quickly lead to the demise or sullying of one's reputation. The results can be devastating as millions in endorsements, sponsorships and contract renewals are at risk for loss, as well as one's future in their chosen sport or high profile profession. Sadly, many of these career-changing moments occur or are influenced by an athlete's actions off the field—actions that are easily controlled. So when it hits the fan, what do you do? How do you get through reputation damaging situations? The road to reputation redemption is not easy, but getting through the recovery process can be done if managed properly and a well thought out strategy is in place. For starters, you should: 1. Always Be Prepared. Understand the importance of your reputation and protect it by having a good team of strategic advisors in place (i.e., PR, agent, lawyer, etc.) to help build your brand strategy well in advance and stay aligned with that strategy as you move through your career. 2. Build your "bank of goodwill" from the outset. This will help you as you build your name both on and off the field. 3. Understand the importance of your words and actions. Be consistent in how you govern yourself in all situations. Always think before you speak and act, and understand that your actions and words are subject to interpretation (especially in a digital universe) and may not be received the way they were intended. In other words, don't say things to "get them off your chest" in the media and don't allow Twitter to be a 140-character shotgun blast to the head of your reputation. 4. If you do mess up, realize that it's not the end of the world (although depending on the circumstances, the damage may be significant). Understand that the process of reputation recovery and getting on the road to reputation redemption will take time. 5. Recognize that should you fall from grace, you will have opportunities to rebuild your name, reputation and image—in time. You may not experience a return to prominence or have everyone believe in you once again, but you can regain some of what you had or at worst, start over. 6. Look at your initial strategy and revise accordingly, and if you didn’t have a plan in place from the outset, it’s time to develop one. 7. Don't give up. Again, at some point you will have the opportunity to rebuild and redeem yourself. What is most important is how you respond to adversity and the plan you put in place to work through reputation recovery and redemption. Can you comeback from reputation collapse? Yes. Is it easy? No. Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers hit rock bottom years ago and a man who was once baseball's top prospect found himself outside the sport and on the fringe of society. He has bounced all the way back to the top from battling the demons of drug addiction and the pain of tragic loss in his life. He has been a standout player for the Rangers. In that same incredible World Series Game 6, he hit a home run to put his team ahead in the 10th inning and get them one step closer to winning before ultimately being outdone by Freese's walk-off homerun. Hamilton turned his collapse into comeback. The Philadelphia Eagles' Michael Vick has seen the highs and lows and suffered the consequences of his off-the-field actions. He went to federal prison for his offenses. But he has since stayed on the difficult, slow and steady path of rebuilding. Although not everyone is going to forgive him, he has been fortunate enough to have a team take a chance on him and he maximized the opportunity—both on and off the field. He is rebuilding. He is turning his collapse into comeback. NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens has proven that being a polarizing figure on and off the field can and will damage your career opportunities. Owens should be sitting in a Michael Jordan-esque position of having fans across the country excited to see him play and get a chance to see one of the game's best perform his craft. He should be in the twilight of what should otherwise be a surefire Hall of Fame career. Instead, the 37-year-old wide receiver now finds himself without a job or team to play for, and holding an open audition for teams to see what he can do—all on a high school field in Southern California with no teams showing up for the show. I guess they weren't interested in getting their popcorn ready for the latest installment of the T.O. saga. 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Orlando Summer League: Day Two Note on coverage: With so many players to cover and little time between games to do so, we’ll be focusing on the main prospects here and recap the rest at the end of the Summer League in a separate article. Note on the Summer League: Major props go out to the Orlando Magic for putting together a wonderfully organized event. Every minute detail has been taken care of to the fullest extent and the result is a superb facility with high-level basketball and a consistent game flow from the minute things started to the very end. Game Three Final: Charlotte 88- Chicago 87 Adam Morrison After having watched 8 of the top 9 picks in this year’s draft and almost all of the first rounders, we can say with the utmost confidence that Adam Morrison put in the most impressive performance in a half of any of the rookies we’ve seen thus far this summer. Morrison came out as aggressive as we’ve seen him in the years we’ve scouted him. He utilized screens perfectly in isolation situations to take advantage of his terrific ball-handling skills and either get to the basket or pull-up off the dribble for one of his trademark high-arcing shots. If guarded too closely, Morrison would just take his man off the dribble and get into the paint, slashing aggressively and finishing with a beautiful one-handed floater or hook shot that both fell for him repeatedly. Since the entire frontcourt would rotate and try to stop him, Morrison was intelligent enough to create and absorb contact to get to the free throw line if his shot wouldn’t fall. After seeing the way he started off the game (8/11 from the field), the Bulls decided to trap, double and sometimes even triple team him to keep the ball out of his hands. It really didn’t help them since he was so hot at the time, coming off screens and knocking down NBA 3-pointers and 20 footers (college 3’s) both on the catch and shoot as well as off a single dribble. His off the ball movement at this point was absolutely exquisite, and he actually put in a very solid effort both defensively. He capped off the half with a deep jumper at the buzzer, finishing with 25 points in 16 minutes on 8/11 shooting. In the 2nd half, Morrison started off much slower. He didn’t play as many minutes (only 13) and was much less aggressive looking for his own shot when he was in, as Charlotte’s offense seemed geared more to getting other players looks. Once he did decide to get going, he was being defended by a phenomenal defender in Thabo Sefolosha who did a great job getting in his face and denying him the type of shots he is used to getting. Speaking to Morrison after the game, he had nothing but high praise for his efforts, calling him “an incredible defender, and just a great all-around player.” Morrison got the last laugh at the end of the game, though, coming off a screen with a few seconds left on the clock and his team down by a point. He slashed towards the hoop and went to his trademark 14 foot one-handed floater, which went in and out and looked like it was about to fall right back into the net before it was touched by one of Chicago’s big men. The refs rightfully counted the basket and Morrison continued his tradition of clutch play by winning the game for his team. Tyrus Thomas Tyrus Thomas gave the Bulls a little hint of what he can bring to them with the way he played today. He contributed in many different facets of the game, showing showed plenty of potential as a mismatch threat, always playing incredibly hard and dropping some extremely intriguing sparks of the player he will develop into. The first half brought us a glimpse of his mid-range jumper and all-around effort and activity level on both ends of the floor. His athleticism rarely goes unused, whether it’s soaring to the clouds for an emphatic offensive or defensive rebound, utilizing a lightning quick spin-move and then exploding off the ground instantaneously for a dunk attempt (which he unfortunately missed), or climbing the ladder to send back a shot-attempt. It’s hard to pin-point any one part of his game that is polished enough to work consistently in the NBA, but his defense might be the closest. Thomas absolutely shut down Sean May when he was defending him, getting in his face and challenging him, intimidating with his length and moving his feet incredibly quickly to stay in front of him when he tried to put the ball on the floor. His intensity throughout the entire game might have been the most impressive thing we saw today. As the game progressed, Thomas’ confidence in his mid-range jumper increased with every shot that fell for him. He hit a short 14 footer and then stepped outside a bit more and knocked down a very effortless looking 20 footer from a difficult angle and with a man in his face. He hit a few jumpers that weren’t just in static fashion, also pulling up off the dribble and using the glass on two separate occasions. All in all, this was an exciting way to take in Thomas’ potential Aaron Miles Miles has shown plenty of improvement over the past year, particularly in his offensive game. Always an imposing defender and consummate floor general, Miles has been incredibly aggressive in taking the ball to the basket and getting to the free throw line. Miles now utilizes a wider arsenal of ball-handling and hesitation moves, being more motivated to get into the paint and find his own shot. It appears that he realizes that this is what it will take to make the NBA, and even if he gets his shot blocked on occasion, he’s helping himself a lot by doing so. Thabo Sefolosha Sefolosha had an impressive outing today, and even would have came away credited with the game-winning had his teammate not touched the offensive rebound that came off the rim but was still in the cylinder after an Adam Morrison floater. He was extremely active throughout the game, doing plenty of ball-handling for the Bulls, even running the point, and looking pretty smooth doing so. He was constantly creating shots for others and might have even been a little too unselfish looking for his teammates, passing up shots that we’ve seen him hit today and especially in the past. Sefolosha made a living in the paint today, utilizing his outstanding athleticism and ball-handling skills to break his man down and penetrate and then either finish the play himself with a layup or kick the ball out to teammates that couldn’t knock down their shots. Defensively he was extremely aggressive, particularly in the 2nd half when he was assigned to defend Adam Morrison. Morrison scored 25 points in the first half, mostly with Eddie Basden on him, but only 4 in the 2nd. Sefolosha harassed him with his freakish wingspan and discouraged him from trying to get around him and create his own shot. Game Two Final: Orlando 80- Indiana 79 Danny Granger Danny Granger was all over the floor today, contributing to the Pacers in every facet of the game. Offensively, he scored most of his points on jumpers from mid-range and through posting up and using his size and length to score over his opponents. He uses his smarts more than anything, moving off the ball intelligently and finding ways to make his impact felt. Granger isn’t much of a shot-creator in isolation situations, but when given an opportunity to surprise his opponent and take the ball to the basket, he does very well. Despite his status as the biggest star on the floor and the focal point of Indiana’s offense, Granger didn’t force the issue and was more than willing to give the ball up and find the open. Defensively, he was very active and did a great job anticipating what his man will do next. He came up with a number of blocks and steals and defended guards as well as big men like Killingsworth. He would hit the glass very hard and then ignite the break all by himself. Granger’s biggest weakness besides the fact that he isn’t a freakish athlete is his ball-handling skills and overall shot-creating ability. If he can shore up this part of his game and also become a more consistent 3-point shooter, he could become more than the consummate and fantastic role-player that he is right now. James White had a nice outing in limited minutes, showing flashes of potential in different parts of his game and giving the Pacers plenty to get excited about in regards to his potential as an NBA player. White looked good shooting the ball both from mid-range and the NBA 3-point line, although he did not attempt that many shots. Offensively he was asked to play the point guard position, and even though he struggled to really organize the half-court offense, he showed nice ball-handling skills and made a couple of nice passes. Travis Diener Far and away the best player on the court today, Diener is the type of player you live to see in a summer league setting. Even though he didn’t shoot the ball all that well in the first half, he dominated the game the way only a true floor general can. Diener got to the basket time after time despite his below average first step, using an array of fakes and hesitation moves to throw off his defender and keep him on his heels the entire game. Most of the time he would find the open man at the rim, whether it’s a big man who presented himself for a layup or a shooter spotting up on the wing. After his confidence in his shot returned in the 2nd half, he also showed a nice pull-up game off the dribble, because wasn’t a surprise since it’s obvious that great shooters like him can’t be kept down an entire game. Diener ran Orlando’s offense extremely well, particularly the pick and roll plays that the Magic love to run. Defensively Diener struggled staying in front of Indiana’s quicker guards, but all in all it was hard not to come away extremely impressed by the way he played today. James Augustine When given an opportunity to play, Augustine looked impressive, particularly in the way he hit the glass. He came up with 9 rebounds in 16 minutes in the first half, 5 of them on the offensive glass. He was incredibly active when he was on the floor and showed great toughness and plenty of length and mobility to get his hands on plenty of loose balls. Offensively, he stepped outside and knocked down one mid-range jumper, got an easy layup at the hoop that Diener created and had another 2 on a putback dunk. Gorat did a great job being in the right spot at the right time today, presenting himself to Diener on a few occasions around the basket, going after rebounds on both ends really strong and generally doing a good job playing his role minimizing mistakes. He is very athletic, but fairly raw, and still lacks some strength to play the center position in the NBA that he looks best suited for. Game One Final: Miami 91– New Jersey 85 Earl Barron Barron was hands down the best player on the floor today for either team. He’s improved his body since we last saw him before training camp in October. He was extremely aggressive today and did a nice job showing off his new-found (but very basic) post moves and jump-hook. Barron was active in hitting the glass and scored quite a few points off his work there. He scored points both off the pick and pop thanks to his very effective (but not very pretty) 18 foot jumper as well as by putting the ball on the floor and going to the basket. When getting the ball in the post, Barron showed simple, but effective footwork and a nice hook shot that he’s apparently picked up over the past year. Barron was a nice find for the Heat, but its hard to see him ever becoming more than a marginal role-playing center in the NBA due to his very average athleticism. He can score big numbers in settings like these, but its tough to see most of these things translating that well to the NBA. Dorell Wright This was a solid performance from Wright, a player with a lot of talent but still a lot of things he needs to work on as well. He scored most of his points from pull-up jumpers and from using his athleticism to blow by his defender on the perimeter. His chemistry with Earl Barron seems to be very good and the two connected regularly between them off pick and roll plays the Heat ran. Wright is clearly an excellent athlete, but he still doesn’t quite know how to take advantage of it. His shot-creating skills aren’t very advanced in terms of using ball-fakes and hesitation moves on the perimeter, as he is able to get by his man just by blowing by him with his first step, but not by outsmarting him. Once he gets in the paint, he lacks some body control and strength to finish amongst traffic. Wright is talented and definitely seems to be making progress in the right direction, but after going into his 3rd year in the NBA still isn’t ready to be an important rotation player. Boone had a very solid showing doing many of the things he’ll be asked to next year off the bench for the Nets. He was very effective finishing down low off the shots that were created for him by Marcus Williams and others, and did a good job taking the ball strong at the basket and getting to the free throw line. Boone did the dirty work for his team, hitting the offensive glass and cleaning up the garbage points that were left for him around the rim. He scored 15 points in the first half, but slowed down a bit in the 2nd. His chemistry with Marcus Williams is always evident, and he is profiting from it immensely in the form of plenty of easy points. Once stepping outside of the paint he was quite a bit less effective, missing free throws and even airballing the only mid-range jumper he took. Defensively Boone was aggressive and used his body to try and slow down Earl Barron, with little success. He did a nice job working the boards on both ends of the floor. Marcus Williams Today was mostly a mixed bag for Marcus Williams, showing some flashes of brilliance that few players his age are capable of executing, and also making some bone-headed moves that showed his inexperience and lack of chemistry with his teammates. Running the offense, Williams was at times spectacular. He did a masterful job running the pick and roll and regularly threaded brilliant bounce passes into cutters slashing into the paint. His vision off the dribble is second to none at a setting like this, but the confidence he received from some of his early passes in the 2nd quarter may have led him to force a little too much in terms of the flashiness he was trying to show. On a few occasions he just was not on the same page as his teammates and threw cunning passes into spots that weren’t even close to where his teammates where at. He is certainly a step or two ahead of most of the players here, and with how many people are coming in and out its tough for them to keep up. His mid-range shot was off and on, but he showed solid ability to pull up off the dribble and knock down a lefty jump-shot, as well as a nice little floater in the lane. Defensively, Williams has a ways to go. Adam Morrison SF Thabo Sefolosha SG/SF Tyrus Thomas PF Sean May PF Eddie Basden SG/SF Danny Granger SF James White SG/SF Earl Barron C Marcus Williams SF
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» Solar Energy » Solar Pumps Silver Bullet: Are Solar Pumps a Panacea for Irrigation, Farmer Distress and Discom Losses? Solar-powered irrigation is being aggressively promoted by the government as an affordable and sustainable solution for agriculture as well as the rising burden of electricity subsidy. But will solar pumps become a win-win situation for all stakeholders? Source: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Solar Pumps, Irrigation, Agriculture, India, CSE, Groundwater Irrigation, Farmers Mapping policy for solar irrigation across the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in India This paper seeks to assist policy-makers and researchers in India who are working to promote the uptake of off-grid, solar-powered pumps for groundwater irrigation. It begins by setting out key WEF linkages of importance for off-grid solar pumps. Author(s): Christopher Beaton, Purva Jain, Mini Govindan, & et al Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Solar Pumps, Off-Grid, Groundwater Irrigation, India, Bihar, Rajasthan Question raised in Lok Sabha on Subsidy for Solar System for Irrigation, 09/07/2019 Question raised in Lok Sabha on Subsidy for Solar System for Irrigation, 09/07/2019. Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE), has launched a scheme for assisting farmers for installation of solar pumps and grid connected solar and other renewable power plants in the country on 08.03.2019. Source: Lok Sabha Solar Pumps, Irrigation, Subsidies, India, Parliament Solarisation of agriculture Greenpeace India’s Solarisation of Agriculture report, examines five models of solar irrigation pumps in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Odisha, looking at state policies and cost/revenue and benefit sharing associated with each case study. Source: Greenpeace India Solar Pumps, Irrigation, Agriculture, Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Orissa (Odisha) Draft guidelines for implementation of the scheme for farmers for installation of solar pumps and grid-connected solar power plants The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued a notice inviting suggestions and comments from stakeholders on the draft guidelines for implementation of the scheme for farmers for installation of solar pumps and grid-connected solar power plants. Source: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Solar Pumps, Solar Energy, Farmers, Agriculture, India 'We need 1 lakh professionals to set up 17.5 lakh solar photovoltaic pumps' Government stresses on creation of green jobs, but we need a growth plan strategy, say academicians and industry experts Source: Times Of India (New Delhi) Solar Energy, Solar Pumps, Energy Technology, Renewable Energy, Budget, Energy The benefits and risks of solar-powered irrigation: a global overview This report takes stock of the experiences with solar powered irrigation systems (SPIS) around the world. What are the real costs and benefits of SPIS compared with other technologies? What rules, regulations and policies are needed to manage the risks and realize the potential of such systems? What are viable business models? Source: FAO Solar Pumps, Irrigation, Water Resources, Solar Energy, India, Global Farm electricity dues have soared to Rs 32,000 cr, state plans to shift farm consumers to solar power Out of the total project cost of Rs 240 crore, the Centre and the state will bear Rs 50 crore and Rs 12 crore, respectively, said Bawankule. Source: Indian Express (New Delhi) Electricity, Maharashtra, Solar Energy, Solar Pumps, Farmers, Energy Rajasthan farmers benefited from solar water pumps: study ICSSR-funded BITS, Pilani project also found a significant decline in the consumption of fuel in the agriculture sector Author(s): Mohammed Iqbal Source: Hindu (New Delhi) Rajasthan, Solar Energy, Farmers, Solar Pumps, Renewable Energy, Energy Funding cloud on Modi govt's solar plan for farmers after FinMin red flag The Finance Ministry has reportedly asked the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy rework funding plans Source: Business Standard (New Delhi) Renewable Energy, Farmers, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Solar Energy, Solar Pumps, Energy Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) Solar Air Heaters Solar Cookers Solar Desalination Solar Dryers Solar Ponds IEP News Clipping (123) Apply IEP News Clipping filter Feature Article (3) Apply Feature Article filter
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David Vann: Genesis David Vann, author of the critically acclaimed Legend of a Suicide talks about the glacial walk that inspired his latest novel Caribou Island, which is in stores now. An Interview with Paula McLain, Author of THE PARIS WIFE --- Part I Author Paula McLain blends fact with fiction in her ambitious novel The Paris Wife as she recreates Jazz-era Paris and the little-known courtship, marriage and unraveling of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson. The second part of this interview will run Thursday, March 3rd. The Paris Wife is in stores now. An Interview with Karen Russell, Author of SWAMPLANDIA! Karen Russell captured the book world's attention with her story collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, when it was published while still in her early 20s. Now she returns with her long-awaited novel, Swamplandia! (in stores now). Lincoln Child: GIDEON'S SWORD Lincoln Child (orange shirt) and Douglas Preston have teamed up to write 10 bestselling novels featuring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. Michael David Lukas: THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL Author Michael David Lukas talks about the internationally renown authors and their works that inspired his recently-released debut novel The Oracle of Stamboul. Also, a heavy influence on the novel's development was Lukas' deployment to the Middle East during an unstable time. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Announces American Series Editors Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced earlier this week its editori lineup for its annual Best American Series, which celebrates the best writing across eight categories. The series will be released October 4th in paperback format. Below are the guest editors for 2011 and their bios. Allison Pearson: I THINK I LOVE YOU Still recuperating from another Valentine's Day? Or seeking another romance diversion? Bestselling author Allison Pearson (I Don't Know How She Does It) has you covered with a her favorite crush songs, as inspired by her latest bestseller I Think I Love You, a novel that celebrates love and music. Cavanaugh Lee on Valentine's Day in "Generation Text" Cavanaugh Lee is the author of Save as Draft, in stores now, a love story told entirely through e-mails, texts, Twitter, Facebook and the online dating world. When not writing and searching for love herself, she is a prosecutor in Savannah, Georgia. Visit www.CavanaughLee.com for more. An Interview with Eleanor Brown, Author of THE WEIRD SISTERS Eleanor Brown is stunning audiences with her debut novel, The Weird Sisters, a quirky coming-of-age tale about three incredibly bookish sisters (who don’t happen to like each other very much) who return home to lick wounds and bury secrets, only to find that each of the others is already there --- and might have more to offer than any of t Heather Gudenkauf on Sisters Heather Gudenkauf's These Things Hidden, the follow-up to her excellent The Weight of Silence, explores the sometimes complicated relationships of sisters. In this special essay she discusses how her own sisterly bonds influenced her writing. As a bonus, she also shares her favorite sister-themed novels.
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This Week In Gaming 8-6-19 By Legolas_Katarn EVO announcements, winners, and rivalries. People Make Games investigates the truth of Civilization's Nuclear Gandhi bug, new gameplay for Mount and Blade 2 and The Outer Worlds, phone numbers and addresses of journalists and Youtubers leaked by E3 organizers, Radek Koncewicz looks at 10 JRPGs from the fifth console generation to analyse the generation's effects on pacing and structure, Moira Hicks examines how the magical realism of Metal Gear is used to better communicate the horrors of war and American imperialism while Reid McCarter explores how A Plague Tale does the same with the Hundred Years’ War, Noah Caldwell-Gervais gives his thoughts on the gameplay and worlds of Horizon Zero Dawn vs Days Gone and shares his critique and retrospective of the Alice series by discussing how it subverts the work it was based on, Archipel speaks with Koji Igarashi about development and alternative funding, and more. Gaming News (Announcements, previews, release dates, interviews and writing on upcoming games, DLC and game updates, company and developer news, country news, tech, mods) Here's an hour of side-quests from The Outer Worlds—including a murder investigation We completed missions involving a missing person, a murdered gambler, a local drug dealer, and more. You can kill every character in The Outer Worlds There are back-up systems in place to make sure you can still complete quests. The Outer Worlds Is Just As Screwed Up As Real Life Before one of the designers of The Outer Worlds talked to me about the game he worked on, he commented on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer patch on the back of my denim vest. How I wasted my hour with The Outer Worlds Ask anyone reviewing an RPG on a tight deadline how they're doing, chances are, you'll receive either stony silence or a murderous glare. These are typically vast things, where the main storylines alone can last upwards of 40 hours: and with such a huge variety of quests, narratives and locations, it's necessary to put the time in to get a feel for the title. There's also plenty of world-building going on, meaning some quests are lore-heavy, and some storylines will inevitably be less interesting than others. Which is fine, because you can simply move onto a better one with ease. But what happens when you pick the wrong one, and you've only got an hour? 'The Outer Worlds' and Having Politics vs. Just Referencing Politics Given the length of most games, it can sometimes be hard to parse their politics or meaning even from a few hours of play. Endgame twists can paint the entire narrative of a game in a different light, strengthening core themes at best, and undermining them at worst. So it's natural to wonder where a narrative might go even if it's opening hours seem to hammer home a specific point of view. On this episode of Waypoint Radio, we discuss how this feels in The Outer Worlds, as well as making new friends in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and just what is up with...the Clancyverse??. You can listen to the full episode and read an excerpt below. You can kill everyone in The Outer Worlds. It’s a development nightmare. Senior designer Brian Heins explains how tricky it is to pull off infinite murder The Outer Worlds Brings the Stupidity of Capitalism to Space When Leonard Boyarsky, creative director at Obsidian, told VGC the company didn’t want to “lecture” its players about politics, I took a mental note I carried with me into my closed door demo with The Outer Worlds in mid-July. How could a game about corporate greed on a galactic scale be apolitical? How could it not lecture? While it might have been expedient for the team behind The Outer Worlds to distance itself from a clear political agenda, the attitude of this game is clear: the horrors of capitalism will follow us into the cold depths of space if we let them. We Talk About World Building in Obsidian's New Game The Outer Worlds Kahlief hangs out with the folks from Obsidian Entertainment to check out their new game The Outer Worlds. We catch up with Senior Narrative Designer Carrie Patel to hear all about world-building. The new companion system and dig a little into what players might find while exploring the world. Watch 20 minutes of Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord beta footage It's starting to seem like Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord might actually launch one of these days, what with some lucky players getting to test the skirmish mode in beta and the game's impending appearance at Gamescom later this month. If you didn't get into the beta and need a fix, you can watch some raw footage above. The upcoming RPG Warsaw taught me an important piece of Polish history Today is an important anniversary. At 1700 hours (4pm UK time), Warsaw will fall silent. Sirens will sound and the Polish capital will grind to a halt, as it has on this day, at this hour, for the past 74 years. Today, people will remember the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who died as a result of the Warsaw Uprising. But 75 years ago, it had just begun. Ooblets is an Epic exclusive, and its creators say it's 'nothing to get worked up about' Designer and writer Ben Wasser said the decision to go exclusive was made because Epic offered a minimum guarantee on sales. "That takes a huge burden of uncertainty off of us because now we know that no matter what, the game won’t fail and we won’t be forced to move back in with our parents (but we do love and appreciate you, parents!)," he wrote. "Now we can just focus on making the game without worrying about keeping the lights on. The upfront money they’re providing means we’ll be able to afford more help and resources to start ramping up production and doing some cooler things." Epic condemns “misinformation and abuse” after harassment of Ooblets devs In a statement, Epic says this has “highlighted a disturbing trend which is growing and undermining healthy public discourse, and that’s the coordinated and deliberate creation and promotion of false information, including fake screenshots, videos, and technical analysis, accompanied by harassment of partners, promotion of hateful themes, and intimidation of those with opposing views.” Regarding what’s been happening Content warning for the included screenshots involving graphic language including racist/ethnic/homophobic slurs, threats, violence, rape, suicide, self-harm, and other stuff. Hey, this is Ben. My wife Rebecca and I have been the target of a pretty big internet storm for the last five days following our Epic Games Store timed-exclusive announcement for Ooblets. We’ve been trying to make ourselves as available as possible to maintain an open discourse with newcomers — some friendly, some extremely aggressive — and unfortunately quite a number of them have decided to cross multiple lines into the realm of harassment. We wanted to take the time to put together an official statement in regard to all that. Epic Store Rage Has Gotten Out Of Hand So far, it seems like the company has been true to its word. “A lot of companies would’ve left us to deal with all of this on our own, but Epic has been by our side as our world has gone sideways,” said Wasser. “The fact that they care so much about a team and game as small as us proves to us that we made the right call in working with them, and we couldn’t be more thankful.” That’s a step in the right direction, and hopefully one that other companies will follow. But the gaming industry has allowed this problem to grow and grow and grow over the course of many years, and it’s hard to see a future in which blowups like this don’t remain a regular occurrence. In his post, Wasser faced this sad reality. A new Borderlands 3 trailer introduces Moze and her best friend Iron Bear Earlier this week, Gearbox introduced us to the character Zane, a semi-retired corporate hitman turned vault hunter in Borderlands 3 who relies on guile, technology, precision applications of violence, and boozy Irish charm to get the job done. Today it's time to meet Moze, a former soldier who decided to try more solo-focused pursuits after the rest of her squad ran into a spot of trouble on what was supposed to be her final mission. Borderlands 3 - Official Amara Character Trailer Meet Amara, a powerful brawler, renowned champion of the people, and bonafide Siren badass. Borderlands 3 will be released on September 13, 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Zachtronics’ next game is a visual novel Zachtronics is known for its particular brand of puzzle game. It’s a developer behind games like Infinifactory, Magnum Opus, and Shenzen I/O, all games about learning and adapting automatic processes to produce particular results. So it’s a bit of a surprise the studio’s next game is a visual novel. Making family matter in Children of Morta A few years ago, developer Dead Mage made waves with the Kickstarter for Children of Morta, a pixel art action RPG that gives players control of a monster-hunting family who fight through randomly generated dungeons. Dark Envoy is a Divinity-like CRPG in which you save or doom the world and get an airship The last few years have been an uncommonly good time to be a CPRG fan, with the likes of Larian, Obsidian, and others giving us some of the best entries this classic genre has seen in years. One you may have missed was last year’s well-received (87% positive on Steam) Tower of Time, and developer Event Horizon has just announced its sophomore effort. The Oriental Exorcist ChinaJoy 2019 off-screen gameplay Gamer.com.tw has posted nine minutes of camera-recorded footage of the newly announced 2D side-scrolling action RPG The Oriental Exorcist from ChinaJoy 2019. New Guilty Gear title announced Arc System Works announced a new Guilty Gear title at EVO 2019. It is due out in 2020. An official title and platforms were not announced. Granblue Fantasy: Versus EVO 2019 Percival gameplay XSEED Games debuted first gameplay footage of newly announced Granblue Fantasy: Versus character Percival during its Granblue Fantasy: Versus Cygames Beast Exhibition at EVO 2019 side event series AnimEVO. The King of Fighters XV announced The King of Fighters XV is now in development, developer SNK announced at EVO 2019. The First 15 Minutes of Rebel Galaxy Outlaw Gameplay (1080p 60fps) Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. In the Dodge Sector it's hard to get by - and even harder to get even. New Gameplay Today – Trails Of Cold Steel III Kim joins Cork and Leo to share impressions from her five hours of early gameplay as a teacher with a poor sense of boundaries. The Good Life, Swery's life sim RPG, is delayed until 2020 If you like cats, dogs, life and strange videogames, The Good Life is probably on your radar. The work of Deadly Premonition creator Swery, it was successfully Kickstarter-funded last year, promising "a Daily Life Simulator x SWERISM". Initially scheduled for a Q4 2019 release, Swery has taken to Kickstarter to announce that it will be delayed until spring 2020 (or autumn in Australia). New Details On Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare's Multiplayer Game Informer's Ben Hanson, Dan Tack, and Brian Shea share new impressions for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's multiplayer modes based on our cover story trip to visit Infinity Ward. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer feels fantastic - but there's cause for concern At a recent Activision-hosted event in Los Angeles, I got the chance to go hands-on with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's competitive multiplayer portion and came away impressed - despite a few niggles and one lingering concern. How Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will offer the “ultimate multiplayer playground” How do you recreate a classic? It’s a challenge that plenty of developers are taking on these days. Understanding the context of the original is key in finding the answer, as it usually illuminates the game’s achievement. Doom brought gore and gunfights to players who had been hanging out with Mario. Square Enix has created magical worlds through Final Fantasy many times, with new stories and better graphics each time, but the essence of the series is in far more than this. Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 Takes The Intense Restaurant Sim On The Road The first two Cook, Serve, Delicious games cast players as the head chef and principle operator of small restaurants, cooking and managing their way to foodie fame. Announced today for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC, Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 sends players on a journey across war-torn America in a food truck with a trusty robot crew. Gotta love a sequel that switches things up. Azur Lane: Crosswave ‘Story Mode’ gameplay Compile Heart has released a 20-minute gameplay video of the Story Mode in Azur Lane: Crosswave. Soulcalibur VI DLC character Cassandra launches August 5; Season Pass 2 featuring Haohmaru from Samurai Shodown announced Bandai Namco also announced Soulcalibur VI Season Pass 2 featuring four additional characters, the first of which will be Haohmaru from the Samurai Shodown series. There Wasn’t Originally A Plan For A Season Pass 2 For SoulCalibur VI We’ve only seen a little bit of what the Season Pass 2 for SoulCalibur VI has to offer, including guest character Haohmaru from Samurai Shodown, but it seems that things weren’t always going to be this way. Valve apologise for leaking Street Fighter V DLC characters Whoops, say Valve. Yes, we did accidentally put a Street Fighter V trailer up early on Steam this week. Yes, it did leak three new characters who’ll be joining the roster. Sorry. We’ll try not to let it happen again. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Winds of Magic sends in the cow men on August 13 Winds of Magic introduces a new enemy type known as the Beastmen, a faction of cloven-hooved bipedal jerks who, according to Warhammer lore, are intent on destroying civilization and being all around bovine-faced hooligans. After a meteor crashes in the Reikland, the Beastmen rush to its epicenter to claim their sacred Herdstone shrine. The result is a bloody mess of dark cow action, a first-person slash-and-prod in a deep fantasy woodland that is explorable by your collective of heroes. Watch the gameplay trailer after the jump. Total War: Three Kingdoms is getting a free horde mode Fight an endless army with just a trio of heroes. Rocket League won’t have loot boxes later this year A change is coming to the Rocket League store later this year, one foreshadowed by fellow Epic Games Store title Fortnite. Epic Games recently removed loot boxes from its Save the World mode. Now that change is coming to Rocket League—which Epic now owns—as well. All paid, randomized loot boxes, known as Crates, will be removed from the Rocket League storefront. Ducktales Remastered Will Be Delisted From Digital Stores On August 8 Wayforward and Capcom’s Ducktales Remastered, which originally released in 2013, is getting delisted from digital stores beginning August 8, 2019. E3 Expo Leaks The Personal Information Of Over 2,000 Journalists A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors, and other content creators was recently found to have been published and publicly accessible on the website of the E3 Expo. The List of 2,000 Journalists the Video Game Lobby Doxed Is the Last Thing It Had to Offer With E3's relevance increasingly in doubt, the ESA managed to destroy its reputation and its fitness to host a media event in one fell swoop. Betrayal, Disappointment & Anger - The Story of the ESA This week we talk about the negligence of the ESA leaking personal information of the press. Why eSports is keeping Black players out of their competitions. We round up our favorite moments from EVO 2019 and much more! Amidst Controversy, Twitch Confirms That Breastfeeding On Stream Is Allowed Last week, Twitch partner Heather “HeatheredEffect” Kent breastfed her baby while talking to a friend and streaming on Twitch. She didn’t try to draw attention to the act; she did it then and there simply because babies gotta eat, too. However, Twitch ended up deleting a clip of the moment, and the incident sparked a debate about whether or not breastfeeding should be considered sexual content. Now Twitch has weighed in, saying that breastfeeding does not violate its terms of service. Mixer's clothing guidelines are very concerned about cleavage Yesterday, Ninja announced that he was leaving Twitch to stream exclusively on Mixer, putting a lot of new eyes on Microsoft's platform. Not all of that attention has been positive: Twitch partner Emily Bello checked up on Mixer's clothing guidelines for streamers and found a set of rules that's giving me flashbacks to my days in a Catholic high school. Rockstar hires testers full-time after criticism – “things have been better since last year” As criticism of the game industry’s often abusive labour practices took hold, reported crunch at Rockstar proved to be one of the biggest points of discussion. Things at the QA department, primarily based in Rockstar’s Lincoln studio, seemed especially bad – in addition to mandatory overtime, testers were often employed on temporary contracts with no guarantee of renewal. Now, it seems that things are changing. Nearly 60% of Take-Two’s revenue in the first quarter came from microtransactions and DLC Take-Two, the parent company for Rockstar and 2K Games, has revealed some big earnings in the first quarter of FY2020. The quarter, ended June 30, generated net revenue of $540.5 million, a 39% growth compared to the same period last year. US president Donald Trump blames videogames for fueling violent culture Speaking in the wake of mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left 30 people dead and more than 50 wounded, the president of the United States has called for a change in the nation's culture, specifically singling out the influence of violent videogames on youth. Tencent aiding with localization, online services for the Switch's move into China Nintendo is working on bringing its flagship game console, the Nintendo Switch, to China in the future, and has started to explain how the Chinese company Tencent will help make that launch possible. Best XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen mods Welcome back, Commanders. I’ve returned to an expanded and finalised XCOM 2 this week. Since the launch of 2017’s War Of The Chosen expansion and last year’s Tactical Legacy Pack, things have been quiet on the XCOM front. The game is finally stabilised, giving modders a nice static test-bed to add new weapons, aliens and features to the squad tactics sandbox. Here’s a deep dive on the boldly named “A Better Everything” – a modular overhaul mod package – plus a few fun extras to freshen up your next scuffle with Advent. GO1 Breaks Down In Tears After Defeating SonicFox, Winning Dragon Ball FighterZ At Evo 2019 Dragon Ball FighterZ is in a very different place than it was in 2018, especially when it comes to the Evolution Championship Series. The shine has worn off the game a bit due to various factors, and attendance dropped considerably compared to 2018, relegating the once-beloved game to a Saturday finals placement rather than a spot in the arena on Sunday. But all of that outside noise fell away as soon as the Evo 2019 finalists took their place on stage. Dragon Ball FighterZ Evo 2019 Grand Finals Watch the grand final game for Dragon Ball FighterZ held at Evo 2019. Thank you to Evo for letting us host the video. SonicFox vs GOO1 Samurai Shodown Evo 2019 Grand Finals Watch the grand final game for Samurai Shodown held at Evo 2019. Thank you to Evo for letting us host the video. Mortal Kombat 11 Evo 2019 Grand Finals (Sonicfox VS Dragon) Watch the grand final game for Mortal Kombaty 11 held at Evo 2019. Thank you to Evo for letting us host the vod. EVO 2019's best story was the unstoppable rise of Pakistani Tekken player Arslan Ash The best Tekken player in the world had to overcome visa and travel challenges to win the year's biggest tournaments. Smash Bros. Takes Center Stage At The Biggest Fighting Game Event Of The Year For the first time since it was released in 2016, Street Fighter V won’t be the final headlining event that concludes the Evolution Championship Series this weekend. Instead, that honor goes to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This is the first time in the history of the series that it’s ever received top-billing at the event. Under Night’s Community Found Validation and Explosive Growth at Evo Under cobalt lights arranged into three diamonds, people crowded into the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend. Many more spilled out onto the concrete floor. They were there not for a musical artist or a high-profile comedian, but to watch the top eight competitors of anime fighting game Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] (UNIST) compete for a coveted Evolution Championship Series trophy. Who Won at EVO 2019? Here are the Results and How They Did It EVO 2019 is officially over, and unsurprisingly, it’s been a weekend full of knock-down drag-out fights between competitors at one of the world’s most prolific fighting game tournaments. We’ve had upsets, comebacks, and literal tears from some of the greatest fighting game players out there. We’ve rounded up each grand champion by game, plus the runner-ups, and we’ve got video of each final match to show you just how heated things can get in Vegas when EVO is in town. The voice of Solid Snake says EVO “failed to consult me or Konami” on that Tekken 7 gag At EVO 2019, Tekken 7 action was briefly interrupted by a message from Metal Gear’s Solid Snake, who remarked in a teaser on “some good-ass Tekken.” Fans took it as indication that Snake was coming to Tekken 7, but EVO organizers say it was just “our idea of a little joke.” It doesn’t seem like the voice of Snake is laughing, however. Crowdfunding News (not sharing everything I find, just ones that look interesting, have known talent behind them, and a chance to succeed) Psychonauts 2 investors are getting guaranteed profits before the game even launches Psychonauts 2 is getting made because enough people believed in it. Some of those people supported it like a normal crowdfunded game -- chip in at a tier and then earn some rewards. But, because it was funded by Fig, others made actual investments. They believed Psychonauts 2 would be a success and that they'd earn money by the game selling well. Content I found interesting this week (interviews, recommendations, think pieces, history, music, culture, design, art, documentaries, criticism, etc) What it's like to get laid off in the games industry It’s easy to see game layoffs as a tragic but disconnected event. 150 people lost their jobs, but that’s easy to reduce to simple numbers. What does it mean? For many developers, it can be anything from the confusing loss of a dream job, to the sudden absence of treasured friends and colleagues. According to one person who requested anonymity—I’ll call him Jason—it meant a $25 Amazon gift card. Player Two: An Interview with Ben Babbitt With the premiere of the final act of Kentucky Route Zero increasingly close at hand, I revisited old conversations with composer Ben Babbitt that we shared back in 2017, just weeks before the official release of the short interlude Un Pueblo de Nada between the acts of the main game. One third of developer trio Cardboard Computer—alongside Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy—Ben Babbitt caught up with me at the PlayStation Experience showcase and followed up afterward for a long conversation about Kentucky Route Zero and his work. Structured around five acts with short, standalone interludes that divide each release, Kentucky Route Zero continues to beguile audiences with its decelerated approach to gameplay and its quietly surreal and folkloric narrative of a crumbling, magical realist South. The game has enjoyed no shortage of critical praise (including my own) since the first act was released in January 2013, and anticipation for the long-awaited conclusion for a game almost a decade in the making is palpable among those players who have plunged deeply into the game’s mythic vision of rural Kentucky after dark. The moral panic over Fortnite and the “purpose” of play The recent Fortnite World Cup stirred up a lot of interesting reactions. It was great to see an increased awareness of esports and the hard work and dedication it takes to play games professionally, but amid the attention a particular narrative developed, that somehow knowing there is a potential career in the game makes it more acceptable to play. The idea that play in and of itself isn’t enough, that there needs to be some tangible benefit, either through the development of transferable skills or by going pro, is common, but it can undermine the play itself. Thousands of people have come together for the most moving game of the year Kind Words is not like any game I’ve ever played. And while Kind Words relies heavily on the input from other players, it’s definitely not like any other multiplayer titles I’ve come across. THE JRPG STARTUP COST, PART II In the previous entry, I analyzed ten notable turn-based JRPGs from the 16-bit era. Each title was measured on how long it took to reach 12 different milestones common to the genre. My goal was to help quantify the amount of time required to “get into” these games by obtaining a certain level of comfort with their mechanics. An additional goal was to measure how these metrics changed over time, which we can now observe with the 5th generation of consoles. Making penises in games: it's hard Modders and developers tell us the good, bad, and ugly of adding dongs to games. How Metal Gear Eschewed Realism to Convey the Horror of Imperial Violence The Department of Homeland Security was established November 25th, 2002. Immigration and Custom Enforcement was established March 1st, 2003. The War on Terror is harder to formally establish a starting time on — do you start at September 11th, 2001, as many people do, or do you fold the conflict into the Gulf War (August 2nd, 1990)? Either way, the Metal Gear series is older than all of them. It’s also the only piece of art I know that makes the scale and sensation of the escalating American imperialism and violence they represent comprehensible. A Plague Tale: Innocence Is the Anti–Assassin’s Creed Asobo Studio takes a more grounded—and human—approach to historical fiction than you find in most games. 'Hotline Miami' Showed the Futility of Ultra-Violence as Critique After a decade of games asking what kind of person commits video game violence, returning to Hotline shows that we need new questions. The Dark Side of the Video Game Industry | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix Minhaj provides a deep dive into the subject, summarizing the general culture of crunch and layoffs, and specifically discussing the death of Telltale Games and the misconduct at Riot. (He talks to Kotaku reporter Cecilia D’Anastasio about the latter, and she does a great job of helping break down that situation with facts and humor.) He also brings up Game Workers Unite, an organization devoted to helping game developers unionize, and ties it into a larger trend of increasing union activity over the last few years. It’s not a short segment—the entire episode was devoted to this one topic—but it’s worth watching, especially if you’re interested in learning how the games you play are made. Check it out below, and watch the full episode on Netflix. How the Simulation of a Hitman Level Works How does IO Interactive create the simulation of each level in Hitman? We talk to the team about creating the sandbox, positioning targets, and the delicate task of guiding the player. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noclip Revealing the Tricks Behind Hitman's Level Design How were the Hitman levels of Miami, Mumbai & New York designed? We sit down with the designers at IO Interactive to talk about track teams, creating explorable spaces and creating satisfying targets. History Respawned: Astrologaster Bob talks with Dr. Lauren Kassell about Astrologaster. Topics include Elizabethan London, Medical Astrology, Forman and Napier's Casebooks, and consulting on historical games. Please consider supporting us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyrespawned Rage 2 and Game Feel This episode was made possible by generous support through Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/errantsignal Why Does Celeste Feel So Good to Play? | Game Maker's Toolkit Celeste is one of the most satisfying platformers released in recent memory. And a big part of that is due to the tight and responsive controls of the game’s main character: Madeline. In this video, let’s look at how designers Matt Thorson and Noel Berry made the hero of Celeste feel so good to play. Support Game Maker's Toolkit on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GameMakersToolkit Did Nuclear Gandhi ever really happen in Civilization? We investigate* one of gaming's most infamous bugs, Civilization's Nuclear Gandhi. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeopleMakeGames Monster Mash-- Horzon: Zero Dawn vs. Days Gone This is a comparative video critique of Guerilla Game's Horizon Zero Dawn and its Frozen Wilds expansion with Sony of Bend's Days Gone. They're both PS4 exclusive open world titles that are, on a surface level, extremely similar but on closer examination show themselves to be diagonally opposite games. What elements allow them to achieve such difference in such similar formats? SPOILERS THROUGHOUT. If you enjoyed this video and want to contribute to the production of others like it, please consider donating through the crowdfunding website Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noahcaldwellgervais Manic Pixie Dream Worlds: A Critique of American McGee's Alice Games This is a video critique and retrospective of American McGee's platformer adaptations of Alice in Wonderland. It looks at how they deliberately diverged from the Quake aesthetic while still using the Quake engine, and how Alice's perspective shapes the game world. It goes in-depth trying to examine how this off pairing of artist and subject brought out some of the best of both of them and how the sequel fared in living up to it. Good Game Design - Super Mario Maker 2: Building Better Creators Mario Maker 2 has been incredibly addicting since its release. I've been hooked on creating my own stages and learning new ways to utilize the plethora of tools at our disposal. Let's talk about how this sequel upped the ante in terms of teaching and encouraged better game design in its creators. Iga's Lair - an alternative path to game creation Iga's Lair - an alternative path to game creation We met with game industry veteran Koji 'IGA' Igarashi, who recently released "Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night", after a successful Kickstarter campaign held in 2015. As he reflects back on the story behind his title, he was joined later that night by Yohei Kataoka, the creator behind "Tokyo Jungle", another game resulting from alternative funding. BringBackKI 2019 Killer Instinct: Lead Designer Developer Interview What Makes Metroid Music Sound Like Metroid Music? Nintendo is the best in the biz when it comes to great video game music, producing decades-long-musical-legacy after decades-long-musical-legacy. One such legacy that has somehow avoided analysis on this channel up until this point is the Metroid series, which has a consistent and unique musical identity that goes toe-to-toe with the Marios and the Zeldas of the video game world. At the same time the approach music in Metroid games is very different from all other big Nintendo properties, prioritizing ambience and a dark, creepy tone over the kinds of memorable melodies that you'd find among its peers. So what makes Metroid music sound like Metroid music? Let's find out. PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/8bitmusictheory The History of Sleeping Dogs Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GVMERS Making open world games is far from easy. The number of assets necessary to fill them is colossal. The amount of testing required to polish them is unthinkable. And unless your name is Sam or Dan Houser, whatever you make is almost always going to live in the shadow of Grand Theft Auto’s scope and brand power – unless you find a unique way to counter its supremacy. Death and Religion in Final Fantasy X In this episode of Dissecting Final Fantasy X, we examine the history and prevalence of Yevon throughout Spira. Support the creation of more videos like this at: https://www.patreon.com/AOrlando Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura Retrospective | A History of Isometric CRPGs (Episode 7) Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura has obtained cult-classic status over the years due to some excellent worldbuilding and implementation of steampunk technology alongside traditional fantasy elements like elves and dwarves. I've been looking forward to playing this one for a while but didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped. Things I found entertaining throughout the week relating to the game industry What to do when Bolivia hates you Lewis Manalo used his life experiences to write on Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and was met with the wrath of both the critics and the entire country of Bolivia Go to articles Articles By koqociwo Hello, fellow gamers :) By Weirdoofdawoodenwoodz What's up!? ...Just a new bro! By SUKADEEEK Best Videos and Video Series of 2019 This Week In Gaming 1-14-20 Best Games Writing of 2019 GAMES BEATEN BY THE AJSA (2020) Kountdown to Kombat - Xbox Fight Nights Schedule By SickShock6 Platform Gaming Topics PS4 Division PSN ID List By WITHASTICK WARFRAME Who want to play By strafumato By infantryman9244 Death Stranding Incoming By Grinning_Zero PSNOW? By adamtx001 Genre Gaming Topics Anyone play? 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Family & Adult Programs Art Splash Parkway 100 Fall into Art South Asian Art ART 24/7 Costume & Textiles Study Room Prints, Drawings, & Photographs Study Room Center for American Art Korean Heritage Group School & Teachers Arranging Your School Visit School Tours & Programs Wachovia Education Resource Center Target Your Gift Associates and Chairman's Council Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and the Stella Kramrisch Collections Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), Second half of 19th century [ More Details ] Stitching kanthas was an art practiced by women across Bengal, a region today comprising the nation of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India. Lovingly created from the remnants of worn garments, kanthas are embroidered with motifs and tales drawn from a rich local repertoire and used especially in the celebration of births, weddings, and other family occasions. This exhibition presents some forty superb examples created during the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century, when this vibrant domestic art flourished and encompasses works by women of diverse backgrounds—rural and urban, Hindu and Muslim. While all share a collective Bengali culture, the amazing variety of motifs, patterns, color combinations, and designs of the kanthas in this exhibition demonstrates the imagination and creativity of their makers. View more objects in the exhibition >> The first exhibition devoted solely to this unique textile tradition ever presented outside of South Asia, Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and the Stella Kramrisch Collections focuses on two premier collections, one assembled during the 1920s and 1930s by the legendary historian of Indian art, Dr. Stella Kramrisch (the Museum’s Curator of Indian Art from 1954 until her death in 1993), the other recently assembled by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, leading proponents of American self-taught art. The accompanying catalogue, published by the Museum and Yale University Press, presents the two collections in their entireties for the first time. The majority of the Bonovitz kanthas on view are gifts and promised gifts to the Museum, while the Kramrisch kanthas are part of the Museum’s permanent collection. Join Darielle Mason, The Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art, for an in-depth look at this exhibition. Learn about the intricate domestic art of the kantha, and see how the distinguished, yet different kantha collections of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and Stella Kramrisch bring this unique art form to life for audiences. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue were made possible by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, with additional generous support from The Coby Foundation, Ltd., and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Darielle Mason • The Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art Joan Spain Gallery, first floor, Perelman Building Buy Now & Save © 2020 Philadelphia Museum of Art Search | Shop | Privacy & Security | Contacts | Sitemap Search | Sitemap | Privacy & Security | Contacts
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Audio-Drama.comThe Audio Drama Directory Audio-Drama.com is a directory with the goal of offering the most comprehensive listing of websites for audio drama enthusiasts. This directory includes links to full cast audio drama, storytelling podcasts, nonfiction stories, and other genres and formats of audio storytelling. Help Support Audio-Drama.com via Patreon Audio-Drama.com is currently updating its structure and appearance. Some pages may not look correct. During this update logins are disabled and the RSS feed will be deactivated. For any questions or comments during this you can message the admin via the Audio-Drama.com Twitter. Star Trek: Unity Website: http://www.startrekunity.com/ Star Trek: Unity is a fan fiction audio drama set in the Star Trek universe. The audio drama is intended to serve as a backstory for an upcoming fan-produced animated series. There is currently two episodes available out of a planned total of four. The Star Trek: Unity series starts off with a four-part audio mini-series that provide an introduction to the crew of the USS Unity set against the starship's construction at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in Mars orbit. These audio-only episodes will also shed some light on the back story of these characters and the internal character drives that will impact how they will handle the situations they will face in the animated series. fan fiction, free, full cast, science fiction, sound effects, star trek fan fiction free full cast science fiction sound effects star trek Audio-Drama.com The Audio Drama Directory
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Home / Bangladesh / It’s US Embassy that had ulterior motive: Sajeeb Wazed It’s US Embassy that had ulterior motive: Sajeeb Wazed Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed. Photo: Collected Dhaka, July 21 : Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed on Sunday said the US Embassy here is the one that had an “ulterior motive” mentioning that they picked Priya Saha because they knew she would make this outrageous statement. He said Priya Saha was a member of a delegation selected by the US Embassy in Dhaka and the Embassy stated they do not restrict participants. “Which is fine, but why would they not refute an obviously false and outrageous statement made by one of their selected participants to their own Head of State? This tells me the US Embassy is the one that had an ulterior motive here,” Sajeeb said in a message shared on his verified Facebook page. He said they picked Priya Saha because they knew she would make this outrageous statement. “The only logical outcome of making such a claim to the US President is to build demand for a military intervention in the region on humanitarian grounds.” “After these last elections I had taken a bit of a break and did not post much on this page. Recent events, however, warrant an observation,” Sajeeb said. Priya Saha made “ridiculous claim” to United States President Donald Trump and she claimed that 3 crore 70 lakh minorities, or almost 4 crore, have disappeared. “That is more than ten times the number of our martyrs in our Liberation War, or almost as many people as were killed in World War 2. Yet this happened without anyone even knowing about it? Did 37 million people just vanish without a trace?” Sajeeb questioned. He said it ties in with another US Congressman’s recent statement that Bangladesh should take over Rakhine state. “It is no secret that the US Embassy is decidedly anti-Awami League. They have always hosted Jamaat and war criminals at all their events. With their support of Priya Saha’s statement they now appear to be plotting a direct takeover of our country,” Sajeeb said. “Fortunately for us, President Trump and his administration have a very different policy of non-intervention in foreign affairs. They are also not so stupid to believe such a ridiculous claim,” he said. Previous: 9th wage board file to be sent to PM Thursday: Info minister Next: Moon back in NASA’s court 50 years after 1st lunar landing Dhaka, Delhi discuss joint study on proposed economic partnership deal China to build stronger ties with Bangladesh keeping ‘Mujib Year’ in mind Arrest warrants issued against Prothom Alo editor, 9 others Joy hopes IT export to exceed RMG earnings soon EC not working at govt’s order: Quader on Dhaka city polls
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Verstappen, Ricciardo told to apologise to Red Bull staff after crash Meanwhile, Hamilton acknowledged he had been fortuitous to win his first race of 2018. It was just for me, if my normal level is eagle, birdie, today was par, on an average, and then a couple of bogeys. The pair were slammed by their furious Red Bull bosses after crashing out of Sunday's Azerbaijan race. Horner sat motionless, aghast at what he had just witnessed. (more...) Sergio Ramos: 'Real Madrid do not fear Liverpool star Mohamed Salah' But that's exactly what he did during today's press conference ahead of tomorrow night's Champions League semi final second leg against Roma. The Egyptian global has had an incredible season, having scored 43 goals in 49 Liverpool appearances so far. (more...) Why Verstappen was chiefly to blame in Baku They've been reminded that they are part of a team and that they have a responsibility in the role that they perform, that they're both highly paid individuals to act with the team's interest at heart and not just their own - and the message was delivered very clearly. (more...) Red Bulls collide in Azerbaijan Grand Prix Verstappen and Ricciardo retired in Baku as the Aussie went to attack his team-mate only for Verstappen to block resulting in Ricciardo rear-ending him. Ricciardo also revealed on Thursday that he had required surgery in London following the Chinese Grand Prix for a wound to his lip, which he had bitten during the Bahrain Grand Prix last month. (more...) That Yankees-Red Sox London showdown is on London Mayor Sadiq Khan scheduled a news conference for Tuesday with baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred but did not announce the subject matter. Yankees manager Aaron Boone said before Thursday's game at Houston: "I've never been to London, so I'm looking forward to that". (more...) LeBron James makes sizable profit from Liverpool investment The heart of the matter. . The Reds will meet Real Madrid in this year's showpiece event in Kiev on May 26 after they beat Roma 7-6 on aggregate in the semi-finals. Liverpool, which has yet to win a modern Premier League title, won the UEFA Champions League in 2005. "It has been a thrill to watch such a storied club make their way back to the top again and to be a part of it all". (more...) Medicine Hat player selected in WHL Bantam Draft Born and raised in the city, Stankoven spent a year ago playing out of the Yale Hockey Academy in Abbotsford. After a 70 point regular season, which included 31 goals in 30 games, he also captained his team to a CSSHL Championship netting 14 points in five playoff contests. (more...) Caglar Soyuncu set to join Arsenal, claims Altinordu president Caglar Soyuncu is about to agree with Arsenal. "Arsenal demanded his youth information from us". With doubts over the future of Shkodran Mustafi at Arsenal, Soyuncu could be the one to replace him. Arsenal have scouted him several times this term and were present again at Turkey's 1-0 win over the Republic of Ireland last month where Soyuncu picked up his 13th cap. (more...) Denzil Ware to pursue grad transfer Ware, a 6-foot-2, 240-pound linebacker/defensive end, was expected to be a cornerstone of the Wildcats' veteran-laden defense in 2018 opposite fellow linebacker Josh Allen. However, Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said this spring that Ware was a full participant. Ware was named the SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week in Week 1 of last season after finishing with a tackle for loss, a sack, a forced fumble and two fumble recoveries against Southern Mississippi. (more...) Nationals' Bryce Harper enjoys big game in win over Pirates He ended the night with three RBI in addition to a stolen base, which matched his season total of four a year ago. Sean Doolittle recorded the last five outs for his sixth save in as many attempts. Pittsburgh loaded the bases in the eighth against Ryan Madson on a hit batter, a single and an error. Hellickson pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings, retiring 13 in a row before yielding a two-out single in the sixth to Adam Frazier. (more...) Braves' Teheran has no-hit bid through 6 innings vs Mets NY did get some good news Thursday morning, when Jacob deGrom's MRI came back clean a night after the ace right-handed pitcher suffered a hyperextended right elbow. Through two starts his ERA is 16.20 and WHIP is 3.00 in only 8.1 innings. Teheran's pursuit of history was the only bit of suspense left after the Braves piled on against Jason Vargas (0-2) and Matt Harvey . (more...) Ben Roethlisberger says he plans to play 'three to five more years' Martavis Bryant openly stated that he wanted the Pittsburgh Steelers to trade him last season, and he finally got his wish during the draft when he was sent to the Oakland Raiders for a third-round pick. "As we mentioned before, and it's nothing against Landry [Jones] or Josh Dobbs, it's just this kid was available at a very easy selection point and that's a critical position", Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said, per Bouchette. (more...) Marseille Seal Europa League Final Spot With Controversial Goal But Marseille struck the victor with four minutes of extra-time to go, substitute Rolando finishing well from a Dimitri Payet corner to spark delirious celebrations. Malian worldwide Haidara burst forward and fired a low strike under the body of Pele to halve the deficit with his eighth goal of the season. There appeared little danger when the 20-year-old Mali worldwide picked the ball up some 45 yards out, but a mixture of pace, power and skill saw him charge through the heart of the ... (more...) Knicks reportedly to hire Fizdale as new coach Fizdale went 50-51 with the Grizzlies before he was sacked early this season after an apparent dispute with star center Marc Gasol . As a Knicks fan I am thrilled to have David Fizdale as the new coach. The 43-year-old Fizdale began his National Basketball Association coaching career in 2003 as an assistant with the Golden State Warriors. Prior to coaching the Grizzlies, Fizdale had lengthy stints as an assistant coach for the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks . (more...) Peter King leaving SI for NBC Sports King chose NBC Sports over offers from both Sports Illustrated and The Athletic, according to sources. "But the only place that felt like a great fit after my years at SI was NBC, which has always made me feel like a member of the family". (more...) NBA warns Drake over 'bad language' after Kendrick Perkins incident In fact, Woj says the NBA's exec V.P. of basketball operations, Kiki VanDeWeghe, spoke with Raptors president Masai Ujiri to help get the point across. Perkins took exception to Drake's comments as the teams were leaving the court at the end of the first half Tuesday (Wednesday NZ time). Besides, what could he possibly do to me? Former Raptors guard Jose Calderon stood in front of Drake during the halftime exchange as Cavs teammate JR Smith gently moved Perkins toward the ... (more...) Jose Mourinho wants Daley Blind, Matteo Darmian at Manchester United Marouane Fellaini's representative will continue talks over a new United contract soon, Sky Sports News understands, and Mourinho remains confident of holding onto the midfielder . "So the club knew they made a mistake with me". Manchester United are now preparing for their trip to Brighton on Friday night, before turning their attentions towards their FA Cup final clash against Chelsea FC at the end of the month. (more...) Jose Mourinho Reveals The Strange Reason Why He's Not Playing Eric Bailly However, Martial is still behind Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford for a place at the focal point of the United attack and whether Mourinho can keep the Frenchman happy remains to be seen. Indeed, the Red Devils manager hinted that Ivory Coast's absence from the 2018 World Cup has altered his mindset when it comes to selecting his two central defenders. (more...) Jose Mourinho explains freaky Eric Bailly absence from Man Utd team Cote d'Ivoire will not be playing at this year's tournament in Russian Federation and the gaffer has opted to bolster the World Cup chances of Phil Jones [England], Chris Smalling [England], Marcos Rojo [Argentina] and Victor Lindelof [Sweden]. (more...) Paul Lambert: 'We have to beat Crystal Palace' Instead of filling their coffers from the off-the-scale TV revenues and fixtures against some of the biggest clubs in the world, Sunderland will next year be playing Accrington Stanley and Fleetwood. Even after 11 games, the Eagles' points tally was at four, so for them to be as good as safe pleases Hodgson. "I am really proud of those achievements". (more...)
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Calico Review: Chatting With Allah-Las Guitarist, Pedrum Siadatian Taylor Wojick September 8, 2016 People slowly trickled into the Urban Lounge venue Tuesday night, faces in full anticipation of what would be a memorable night for the Salt Lake City music lovers. It’s no secret that the lead guitarist, Pedrum Siadatian, spent a majority of his childhood in Utah’s capital city; more or less a reason that the SLC venue was particularly crowded, fans shoulder to shoulder, waiting for the psychedelic, Los Angeles-based band to take the stage. The energy in the air was at an all-time high; you could overhear murmurs of what songs people hoped would be played. The Allah-Las took the stage, looked around at one another and fell right into rhythm. It was after their opening song, “No Werewolf” that the foursome slyly shifted into crowd favorite “Tell Me What’s On Your Mind”, encouraging their fans to not shy away from singing along. With their new album, Calico Review, due out tomorrow, the Allah-Las speckled their set with the new album’s songs, showcasing a slightly more polished sound, pushing beyond their well-known grungy garage vibes. We had a chance to talk with Pedrum prior to the show, where he filled us in on pieces of life that have influenced the band’s music, what it’s like living and working in Los Angeles, and finding a balance between playing old and new songs to an ever-ready fan base. You’re in the midst of touring; how does the group handle life on the road? What’s it like to be on tour and come back to your hometown to play a show? At this point I think we’re pretty good at handling ourselves on tour; we pack less and can sleep better in the van. It’s really cool for me whenever we play SLC because I get to see a side of the town that I didn’t really get to know that well when I was growing up here, since I left when I was 15. I still feel really nostalgic when I come here, even though a lot has changed. It’s clear that you draw musical influence from a range of genres. Is genre, and where you guys fit within different genres something the band focuses on? Or do you guys just create based on the music that is most interesting you at the time? I think we focus less on genre and more on giving each song what it needs. Each song is communicating a unique point of view and idea. We definitely love 60s and 70s fringe music though, there’s no hiding that. Calico Review is coming out a couple days. Each of the band’s albums has encompassed a variety of sounds and each one sounds completely unique. What is the creative progression like for you and the other band members, both independently and as a group? The first record was collaborative musically, with Miles doing most of the vocals. With Worship the Sun and our new one, the songwriting has become more individual, where someone will write a song and bring it to practice for it to be learned and embellished. There are different vocals and songwriting styles composing our records now. The band has been together, in Los Angeles, since 2008. To me, you could really feel the creative community of LA coming together and creating an identity. What was it like becoming a band during that time versus the major artistic surge we have seen within the last few years? It definitely seems like there are more backwards-leaning bands now than when we started, and in general it seems there’s more bands in LA than I remember when we started. There are a lot of groups that have transplanted to LA cause there’s so many good venues here and rent is more reasonable than SF or NYC. Tell us about what it is like to debut your new songs to an audience? Do you enjoy watching their reactions more when playing a new song or when you play a song that the audience knows all of the words to? Hmm it depends on the crowd. Sometimes an audience just wants to hear the songs they’re familiar with and some fans are more excited to hear new songs. It’s very cool to see people singing along, but for me, it’s more fulfilling to see people get into new songs, that way I know we don’t have to play the same shit forever. For more from the Allah-Las head to www.allah-las.com. 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Creating filtered version of banner image. BLUE NEON TOUR Join the #AidansArmy email list! An actor, singer-musician and environmental activist ACTOR Learn more about Gallagher’s acting career here: IMDB + Currently starring as Number Five in the highly rated Netflix series The Umbrella Academy + 2018 Variety Power of Youth Ones to Watch + Nominations (2016, 2017) Favorite Male Tv Star, Kids Choice Awards for his starring role as “Nicky” on Nickelodeon’s Emmy-winning comedy hit "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn" CLIMATE ACTIVIST United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador, N. America An active social media influencer with over 3 million following and an average 36 million impressions per week, Gallagher’s goal is to use his celebrity status to help save the world’s oceans and species by raising awareness of critical environmental issues. + 2018 History making designation as the youngest goodwill ambassador in the entire United Nations system + 2018 Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference Host on invitation of the UK Government and the Duke of Cambridge + 2019 Face of the United Nations "The World is in Our Hands" climate campaign + 2019 Youth Climate Summit interview with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and CNN International live interview A singer-songwriter, Gallagher plays the piano, guitar, sings and writes his own original lyrics and compositions. He enjoys playing live performances and is currently in the studio producing his upcoming EP. MORE SONGS COMING! I'm in the studio! Watch for "In The Blue", "Dream", "Let's Get Lost" and others! © 2020 Aidan Gallagher. All Rights Reserved.
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New expedition rules in force in Nepal Three 8000ers at a glance: Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu (from l. to r.) The much-discussed new rules for expeditions in Nepal are in effect. According to Dinesh Bhattarai, General Director of the Ministry of Tourism, the amendment of the mountaineering rules was published today in the government gazette. “The Department of Tourism can now issue certificates to the Sherpa summiters,” Bhattarai told the newspaper “The Himalayan Times”, referring to the only new rule that in advance had been met with approval by all sides. 500 Sherpas can request certificates After the spring season 2016, the coveted certificates were for the first time denied to local climbers. The reason given at that time: Within the meaning of the law Climbing Sherpas who fix ropes on the route or support clients up to the summit were no expedition members and therefore did not receive any certificates. It was a slap in the face of the Sherpas, without whose support most climbers of commercial expeditions would never have a chance to scale an eight-thousander. About 500 Sherpas can now request their summit certificates, which mean more to them than just a piece of paper. The certificates are considered as proof of performance, as a kind of self-promotion. Solos forbidden From now on, also the controversial regulations are obviously in force: Neither blind climbers nor double amputees will receive permits for all mountains higher than 6,600 meters – these fall under the responsibility of the government . Solo ascents will be forbidden. Every mountaineer is obliged to climb with a guide. 6. February 2018 | 17:49 Dinesh Bhattarai, Expedition rules, Mount Everest, Nepalese Tourism Ministry, Sherpa, Summit certificate, The Himalayan Times Mount Everest took their husbands. And the fathers of their children. Nevertheless, Nima Doma Sherpa and Furdiki Sherpa want to climb the highest mountain on earth this spring. “We are doing our expedition for the respect of our late husbands because they were mountaineers too,” Nima Doma replies to my question about the purpose of their project. Whiteout at Mount Vinson Christmas with the family beneath the Christmas tree – this might not happen for about 40 mountaineers in Antarctica. For about a week now, several teams have been stuck in the base camp at the foot of the 4,852-metre-high Mount Vinson, the highest mountain of the continent. Stricter regulations for expeditions on the Tibetan eight-thousanders The expedition operators in Nepal might have been so shocked that they dropped their pencils. In the “New Regulations for Foreign Expeditions 2019” in Tibet (available to me) it says under point 6: “In order to ensure the healthy and orderly development of mountaineering and minimize the occurrence of mountaineering accidents, mountaineering teams which were organized in Nepal temporarily will not be accepted. Aid project: School up! Amical Alpin Nanga Parbat K 2 Cho Oyu Ueli Steck Karakoram Shishapangma Alex Txikon Mount Everest Luis Stitzinger Thulosirubari Avalanche Expedition Tibet Earthquake Daniele Nardi Tomek Mackiewicz Ralf Dujmovits Manaslu Elisabeth Revol Pakistan Nepalhilfe Beilngries winter ascent Broad Peak Annapurna Tamara Lunger Billi Bierling Simone Moro Kangchenjunga K2 Expeditions Dhaulagiri Makalu first ascent Thomas Huber Mingma Gyalje Sherpa Nepal Lhotse winter expedition
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Africa & World Car tests & New Models Gadgets & Reviews ICT Guest Indigenous games Mobile & Telecoms Motorsport -Formula One Select LanguageAfrikaansArabicChinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchPortugueseRussianSpanish OPINION: Top 6 Innovations on the HUAWEI P30 Pro Decoded Huawei Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Consumer Business Group, Akhram Mohamed JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – HUAWEI’S recently unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the HUAWEI P30 Pro. Dubbed the Supercamera Phone, it is packed full with the company’s latest and greatest innovations. Here’s what’s new on the super powered flagship. 1. Optimized Snapchat Experience Huawei announced that it has worked to optimize the Huawei P30 series camera for Snapchat, bringing more camera innovations to users, aiming for Snapchatters to soon be able to enjoy more experiences using the Huawei P30 camera. 2. Leica Quad Camera Setup The HUAWEI P30 Pro packs a revolutionary Leica Quad Camera setup. This includes a 40MP main camera with the HUAWEI SuperSpectrum Sensor which brings in more light so taking pictures or shooting videos in the dark is not a challenge, a 20MP Ultra-Wide angle lens for both horizontal and vertical shooting, an 8MP telephoto SuperZoom lens and a 32MP front camera for shooting selfies with unparalleled quality. The camera setup also includes the HUAWEI Time of Flight (ToF) camera that is designed to measure depth of field for beautiful portrait shots with blurred backgrounds and sharp foregrounds. 3. SuperZoom Huawei’s engineering marvels have come up with a way to embed a massive zoom lens into the ever-so thin body of the HUAWEI P30 Pro. This SuperZoom lens lets users enjoy a 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom and an unprecedented 50x digital zoom that can bring even the farthest objects up close. 4. Dual-View Video Sometimes a single recording is just not enough and you might even miss some details. With the HUAWEI P30 Pro, this is not a problem anymore, thanks to HUAWEI Dual-View Video1 technology, which splits the screen in two and allows users to record a wide-angle shot and a close-up shot at the same time. While this allows for better viewing angles while recording, it also gives users a more creative way of recording videos. For example, this feature can come in use when watching a football game, where users can have a wide-angle recording of the match, with a close-up of their favorite player. 5. Definitive Performance thanks to powerful hardware Powering the HUAWEI P30 Pro is the Kirin 980 chipset, Huawei’s most powerful smartphone chipset yet. One of the world’s first commercial 7nm chipsets, the Kirin 980 packs 6.9 billion transistors, cutting-edge process technology, a revolutionary architecture and a Dual-NPU, all which contribute together to a more efficient performance. The Kirin 980 7nm process technology compared with the 10nm process, improves performance by 20%, power efficiency by 40%. The Kirin 980 can quickly adapt to AI scenes such as face recognition, object recognition, object detection, image segmentation and intelligent translation. So whether it’s dancing to a fast song or quickly running in front of the camera, the Kirin 980 can focus on the joints and lines of the human body in real time. The HUAWEI P30 Pro also houses a new and improved In-Screen Fingerprint sensor. Fingerprint recognition is improved by taking advantage of the ultra-wide 3p lens and a large aperture, which works in tandem to the pixel photosensitivity enhancing the Microlens. The new sensor also supports auto ring-tuning focus, further improving the autofocus accuracy by 35 percent ensuring every senor on the device lands the most precise focus. Unlock speed is also improved by 30 percent thanks to the industry-leading multithreaded dual-matching algorithm, which also uses a fluid unlock animation and hover sensing to improve user experience. Keeping in mind users who require their phone at any point of the day, Huawei has worked towards developing the battery on the HUAWEI P30 Pro for extended use. The 4,200 mAh battery can give users up to an entire day of intensive use and is complemented by the 40W Huawei SuperCharge which will give users approximately 70 percent in just 30 minutes. The phone also supports 15W Wireless Charging, and a unique Wireless Reverse Charge feature, allowing users to place their friend’s phones or other devices including earphones and wearables on the HUAWEI P30 Pro to instantly start charging it, provided it supports the Qi wireless charging standard. 6. Night Shot Night photography on smartphones has always been a challenge due to hardware and software limitations, often resulting in blurry or shaky shots. This will no longer be a challenge on the HUAWEI P30 Pro thanks to the Night Mode, which stabilizes pictures with the help of AI Image Stabilization and Optical Image Stabilization. The HUAWEI P30 Pro also takes advantage of the SuperSpectrum sensor which brings in more light and supports ISO levels up to 409,600. This makes it easier to take pictures and shoot videos even in dark conditions without having to compromise on details and clarity. These are just some of the few innovations that can be found on the HUAWEI P30 Pro, with much more hiding under the hood. NB: Akhram Mohamed is Chief Technology Officer for Huawei Consumer Business Group. To reach Mr Mohamed, write: Abigail le Roux Ogilvy Public Relations Abigail.leroux@ogilvypr.co.za Short URL: http://cajnewsafrica.com/?p=30392 Posted by Admin on Apr 26 2019. 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Are Your Characters Contradicting Themselves? Back in June, I caught that nasty flu that was going around and spent a few miserable weeks napping and watching a lot of TV. One of my distractions of choice was the show, Bones. It had been a long time since I’d seen the first few seasons, and while it was fun to re-watch them, one thing did annoy me. The character Temperance “Bones” Brennan is a world-class forensic anthropologist who is very literal-minded and repeatedly says she doesn’t like psychology and doesn’t do motive. She’s a bestselling author who writes mysteries. Writing is all about characters and why they do what they do. Motive is what’s driving every character to act—especially in a mystery. Someone who doesn’t understand why people act and how emotional minds work would never be able to write great mysteries. It’s a TV show, I get it, they wanted to make her famous and awesome on multiple fronts. And for all I know, her books are more procedural and less character, but that’s not how they’re described or referred to in the show itself. One major aspect of the character, Bones, contradicted the core of who she is—and that bugged me every time they brought it up. Don’t get me wrong—contradictions in characters are wonderful things, as they show the various layers of a person and turn them into real people. But when creating a character, be wary of where those contradictions lie. You can’t have a world-class swimmer who can’t swim. If two skills or traits of a character absolutely rely on opposite personality traits or skill sets, it’s going to feel wrong. When creating a character, consider: Do any traits go completely against the core of that character? People believe one thing and act in contrary ways all the time. That whole “do as I say, not as I do” cliché. This is a solid character contradiction and a writer can create an interesting backstory to go with such a character. But when the core of who they are prevents the skill or trait they’re exhibiting, it stretches plausibility. (Here's more on fleshing out flat characters) Is the character lacking the necessary skills to possess a particular talent or trait? This is a common problem in Chosen One stories or Mary Sue/Gary Stu characters. A character exhibits a trait or talent, yet there’s no groundwork laid to show how they got it or why they can do it. It’s even worse when the character is introduced as someone who had no access to or way to learn any of said skills. They need a skill, so boom—they have it. (Here’s more on Mary Sue/Gary Stu characters) Are the contradictions of that character believable? If a character is socially awkward and has trouble understanding personal relationships, think twice before making them the celebrity host of a popular TV talk show that interviews people about their lives and relationships. Aim for contradictions that fit the personality and history of that character. A good example here is how many actors are painfully shy, and they got into acting as a way to combat that. They might be in the limelight all the time, but only if they’re playing a role and being “someone else.” Off-screen, they stay away from the public eye. (Here's more on maintaining believability in our stories) Good characters will have contradictions, so choose them wisely. Make sure they come from real places within that character, based on their experiences and personality. Creating a well-rounded character takes work, but it helps to look at the entire character as a whole and not just a bunch of pieces stuck together. Make sure what they do and how they think fits who they are at their core. Have you seen any character contradictions that bugged you? What about your own characters? Are their contradictions believable or could they use some tweaking? Find out more about characters and point of view in my book, Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems. Go step-by-step through revising character and character-related issues, such as two-dimensional characters, inconsistent points of view, too-much backstory, stale dialogue, didactic internalization, and lack of voice. Learn how to analyze your draft, spot any problems or weak areas, and fix those problems. With clear and easy-to-understand examples, Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems offers five self-guided workshops that target the common issues that make readers stop reading. It will help you: Flesh out weak characters and build strong character arcs Find the right amount of backstory to enhance, not bog down, your story Determine the best point(s) of view and how to use them to your advantage Eliminate empty dialogue and rambling internalization Develop character voices and craft unique, individual characters Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems starts every workshop with an analysis to pinpoint problem areas and offers multiple revision options in each area. You choose the options that best fit your writing process. It's an easy-to-follow guide to crafting compelling characters, solid points of view, and strong character voices readers will love. Labels: character motivation, characters, creating characters, flaws Marilynn Byerly 9/7/16, 3:27 PM In a later episode, Bones realizes that Angela, who is her expert on all things emotional, has essentially become a co-writer. That would help explain it, but they should have done that from the start :) Brian 9/7/16, 4:23 PM I am so glad that I'm not the only one who noticed this. Also, the whole idea that she is an FBI special agent's partner is a real stretch. The "I'm a literal minded scientist type" works better in Rizzoli and Isles where their personalities play off each other and their is no conflict in Mara Isles job(s). I'll accept a lot on a TV show--they need to bend the rules to create entertainment--but sometimes it goes too far. I love Rizolli & Isles. They did do a great job with Maura. Please forgive the spelling in the above comment. No worries, I speak fluent typo :) Contradictions seem to happen so often on TV - very annoying. Maybe we notice it more as writers. Maybe. I think there's also more binge watching now, so it's easier to see large chunks of the series on one sitting. Things we don't notice on a weekly basis jump out when you watch it back to back. A. R. Braun 2/12/17, 12:35 AM This may not be a character contradiction, but when Vince Masuka on Dexter said, "Nobody reads anymore," they lost me. The show idea comes from a novel.
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All data must be read in conjunction with the survey limitations. Sixty percent (60%) of survey respondents reported that they were taking other medication prior to starting benzodiazepines. A variety of other medications were being taken. Twenty percent said they were taking a combination of medications. The most common single medication being taken was antidepressants. Eighteen percent (18%) reported they were taking this class of medication. A comparison of the group that was taking other medication at the time they started benzodiazepines with the group that wasn't taking other medication shows very little difference on their average functionality rating at the worst point in withdrawal, the difficulty they had withdrawing rating, or the number of months that it took them to recover. Those who didn't take additional drugs prior to taking benzodiazepines reported that they were able to 2.2 of the nine functionality tasks with ease compared to 2 that was reported by the group who did take other medications. Both groups rated the difficulty of withdrawal as 12.5. (The ratings were 10 = Easy, 11 = Wasn't easy but not too difficult, 12 = Difficult, 13 = Extremely Difficult). The group who didn't take additional drugs got better on average 11.7 months after ceasing benzos while those taking drugs averaged 12.4 months. AVERAGE FUNCTIONALITY RATING Additional Drugs Prior to taking Benzos No Additional Drugs Prior to taking Benzos Mean 2.0 2.2 WITHDRAWAL DIFFICULTY RATING Mean 12.5 12.5 AVERAGE RECOVERY TIME - MONTHS Around 40% of respondents said that they added in medication during withdrawal. The most common action for those who added in drugs during withdrawal, was to add either a combination of drugs (13%) or added in antidepressants (9%). Of those that added in medication during withdrawal, around 50% thought that it helped them, 25% thought that it didn't make any difference and 25% though that it was detrimental to their withdraw. The table below compares 4 groups. The groups were, those that added in medication during withdrawal who thought it helped them, those that added in medication during withdrawal who thought it neither helped them nor hurt them, those that added in medication during withdrawal who thought it hurt them, and those who did not add medication in during withdrawal. They were compared on their - average functionality rating at the worst point in their withdrawal - the rating they gave to their withdrawal experience (10 = Easy and 13 = extremely difficult) - the average number of months it took to recover. Those who did not add medication in mostly rated themselves better on the three measures than the other groups. For instance they felt at the worse point in withdrawal that they were able to do 2.5 of the 9 activity tasks with ease. The group who added in medication and felt it helped were able to do 1.9 tasks and those who added in medication and felt it hurt them only rated themselves as being able to do .5 of a task. The group who did not add medication in said they recovered on average 11.4 months after ceasing benzodiazepines compared with 15.8 months for those who added in medication and felt that it helped them. Note the figures below cannot be used to establish that adding medication is causing the difference. The table only shows that there was some difference between the various groups. The difference may be random occurrences or the group that didn't add medication in may not have been as sick to start with. It is a concern that those who added in medication and felt it hurt them are scoring worse on the various comparison statistics. Extra Meds Added Not Added Helped Neither Helped or Hurt Hurt Mean 1.9 1.3 0.5 2.5 Mean 12.4 12.9 12.9 12.4 AVERAGE MONTHS TO RECOVER Mean 15.8 8.1 18.7 11.4 Back to Contents Page Disclaimer: The information contained in this website was not compiled by a doctor or anyone with medical training. The advice contained herein should not be substituted for the advice of a physician who is well-informed in the subject matter discussed. Before making any decisions about your health or treatment you should always confer with your physician and it is always assumed that you will do so. About this site Disclaimer Contact Last updated 22 July 2015
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Boshdirect Archive of Josh Lyon's personal blog Josh’s Blog Tag: Stars Josh Lyon Dallas Stars are not moving to Austin Post author By Josh Lyon 3 Comments on Dallas Stars are not moving to Austin The Dallas Stars are not moving to Austin. There is a new AHL team that going to start in Austin for the 09-10 season and will be a top affiliate of the NHL Dallas Stars. Each NHL team typically has a “farm” team in the AHL that they develop new talent in… the Texas Stars in Austin will be that new team. Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Stars Wikipedia Excerpt: The Texas Stars are an announced American Hockey League team. They will begin play in Cedar Park, Texas in the 2009-10 AHL season. The team will be the top affiliate of the NHL Dallas Stars. In April 2008, the Iowa Stars announced that they would no longer affiliate with the Dallas Stars. For the 2008-09 season, Dallas made agreements to send their AHL prospects to four different teams. AHL teams which the Dallas Stars sent prospects to include the Hamilton Bulldogs, Iowa Chops, Manitoba Moose, Peoria Rivermen, and Grand Rapids Griffins. The Iowa Chops used to be the Dallas Stars affilliate AHL team named the Iowa Stars until the Dallas Stars announced that they would be associating with the new AHL Texas Stars. The Iowa Chops have now signed with the Anaheim Ducks. Tags affiliate, AHL, Anaheim, austin, Cedar Park, dallas, farm., Hockey, Iowa, NHL, Stars, Texas Multiple Servers from One Port on NAS Azure Functions – Serverless Code Reolink HTML5 IP Camera Viewer Android TV: GuidedStep InflateException Azure Queue via Shared Access Signature and REST Josh Lyon on Multiple Servers from One Port on NAS josh on Multiple Servers from One Port on NAS Viking on Multiple Servers from One Port on NAS ESPe on Multiple Servers from One Port on NAS Archives Select Month August 2016 July 2016 February 2016 July 2015 February 2015 October 2014 September 2014 July 2014 June 2014 October 2013 September 2013 June 2013 February 2013 December 2011 September 2011 August 2011 April 2011 February 2011 September 2010 July 2010 June 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 April 2009 March 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 March 2006 January 2006 © 2020 Boshdirect
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Aadhar Project Of India Is Unconstitutional Says Praveen Dalal Aadhar project of India or unique identification project of India (UID project of India) is a project that is a classic example of lack of management and planning. Aadhar project has been launched despite numerous shortcomings and deficiencies and as a futile project. Techno legal experts of India have been warning against the continuance of Aadhar project and have suggested that it should be scrapped. The futility of Aadhar project and UIDAI was very apparent from the very beginning but Indian government and unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) kept on wasting crores of public money without any benefit. Finally, Aadhar project of India may be scrapped. According to experts like Praveen Dalal, managing partner of techno legal ICT law firm Perry4Law and a Supreme Court lawyer, there is no second opinion about the fact that Aadhar Project and UIDAI are “Unconstitutional” in the absence of a “Constitutionally Sound Law” in this regard. This is more so when there are no dedicated Privacy Laws in India and Data Protection Laws in India, opines Praveen Dalal. Even after the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 (NIDAI Bill 2010) would have become an applicable law, both Aadhar and UIDAI would have remained “Unconstitutional”. This is so because the “Constitutional Safeguards” that are required to make Aadhar/UIDAI Constitutional were still missing from the proposed Bill. In fact, a parliamentary committee has rejected the NIDAI Bill 2010, inflicting a severe blow to UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani and raising doubts about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's pet project. This decision of parliamentary committee seems to be an acceptance of suggestions of experts like Praveen Dalal. The parliamentary committee has recommended that the government should review or reconsider the project by a bringing in a fresh Bill. The committee has said that the Bill and the project are not acceptable in the present form. Privacy laws in India and privacy rights in India have always been ignored. We have no national privacy policy in India as well. Data protection laws in India are missing and so are data privacy laws in India. Privacy, data protection and India seem to be separable and unrelated concepts. Indian government launched projects like Aadhar, National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid), Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Central Monitoring System (CMS), Centre for Communication Security Research and Monitoring (CCSRM), etc. None of them are governed by any Legal Framework and none of them are under parliamentary scrutiny. It must be appreciated that intelligence gathering is not above privacy rights in India. In reality, Aadhar project and UIDAI are booty sharing mechanisms meant for few companies. Praveen Dalal has been constantly suggesting that Aadhar project must be supported by a Techno Legal Framework that must be supplemented by robust Cyber Security, Privacy Protection and Data Protection. Indian government, Aadhar project and UIDAI are hiding truth from Indian citizens and are fooling them. However, sooner or later the truth was bound to be revealed. Besides experts in India now even the home ministry of India has been opposing the Aadhar project and UIDAI. Aadhar project is the most evil project of India that aims at strengthening illegal and unconstitutional privacy violation and e-surveillance in India. Internet censorship in India has already increased multifold. Censorship of Internet in India is a hint towards the growing hunger for e-surveillance by Indian government. The truth of Aadhar project and UIDAI is too frightening to elaborate. Aadhar project and UIDAI have evil intentions that are executed under the façade of welfare and social good. Both Indian government and UIDAI are fooling Indians by using the façade of benefits and welfare. Aadhar project and UIDAI are big troubles. Still the PMO is supporting the unconstitutional Aadhar project and UIDAI. Aadhar project and UIDAI are big brother project. Nandan Nilekani is wrong regarding Aadhar project. It is high time that Aadhar project of India and UIDAI must be scrapped. There is no sense in wasting any more time and money on a project like Aadhar that has no legal and constitutional basis to continue. Posted by Pritesh at 11:06 PM Labels: AADHAR PROJECT OF INDIA, PERRY4LAW, PRAVEEN DALAL, PRIVACY RIGHTS IN INDIA, UID PROJECT OF INDIA, UIDAI, UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA, UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION PROJECT OF INDIA Aadhar Project Of India May Be Scrapped Aadhar project of India or unique identification project of India (UID project of India) is one of the projects that have been imposed upon India and Indian citizens by Indian government. From the very beginning the futility of Aadhar project of India and UIDAI was apparent. However, Indian government kept on wasting crores of hard earned public money for the sake of commercial benefits of few Indian and foreign companies. In reality, Aadhar project and UIDAI are booty sharing mechanisms meant for few companies. Techno legal expert and Supreme Court lawyer Praveen Dalal who is managing partner of techno legal ICT law firm Perry4Law has been constantly suggesting that Aadhar Project must be supported by a Techno Legal Framework that must be supplemented by robust Cyber Security, Privacy Protection and Data Protection. In the absence of these Procedural and Constitutional Safeguards, both Aadhar Project and UIDAI are Unconstitutional, says Praveen Dalal. So much so that even after the passing of the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 (NIDAI Bill 2010), both Aadhar Project and UIDAI would “Remain Unconstitutional”, opines Praveen Dalal. We need an altogether different law than NIDAI Bill 2010 suggests Praveen Dalal. Aadhar project and UIDAI are big brother project. Nandan Nilekani is wrong regarding Aadhar project. It is high time that Aadhar project of India and UIDAI must be scrapped. Sensing the gravity of the situation a parliamentary committee is set to reject the NIDAI Bill 2010, inflicting a severe blow to UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani and raising doubts about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's pet project. This decision of parliamentary committee seems to be an agreement with the suggestions of experts like Praveen Dalal. Parliament's standing committee on finance, headed by Yashwant Sinha of the BJP, held deliberations on the controversial NIDAI Bill 2010 for a year. It considered the suggestions and recommendations of various experts in this regard. The committee's draft report giving the thumbs down to the NIDAI Bill 2010 is ready. Sources in the panel indicated that the decision to recommend that the government should withdraw the present NIDAI Bill 2010 and bring a new one was taken "unanimously". Even Congress members found the project "directionless". It is learnt that the draft report has recommended that the government should review or reconsider the project by a bringing in a fresh Bill. The committee has said that the Bill and the project are not acceptable in the present form. The PMO must seriously think about continuation of Aadhar project now. Posted by Pritesh at 9:19 PM Google Outcry Lack of Proper Internet Intermediary Law In India Internet intermediaries in India have started showing their dissatisfaction towards the draconian policies and rules of Indian government pertaining to Internet and its use. E-surveillance in India and surveillance of Internet traffic in India have increased to a considerable limit that now requires judicial scrutiny. Censorship of Internet in India should be challenged as soon as possible in the larger interests of Indian Internet users. Intermediaries liability for cyber law due diligence in India has been extended to such levels that Internet intermediaries are now finding it difficult to comply. Internet censorship in India has become a big nuisance for these Internet intermediaries. Naturally these Internet intermediaries cannot remain silent anymore. In fact, Yahoo has filed a petition raising the questions regarding the right to privacy of a company that stores sensitive data of its customers and users and to what extent authorities can coerce it to part with the information considered necessary to either track terror perpetrators or thwart future attacks. Now Internet intermediaries in India have been asked to pre screen contents before they are posted on their websites. India wants companies like Google and Facebook to censor users’ contents before they are posted. Naturally this is an unreasonable and impractical demand that Internet intermediaries cannot fulfill. Google has reacted to this dictate by responding that they follow the law regarding removal of illegal contents. It has also clarified it stand that when content is legal but controversial it do not remove it because people's differing views should be respected, so long as they are legal. Further, even where content is legal but breaks Google’s own terms and conditions, it is removed once Google is notified about the same. Internet intermediaries are now complaining that India has no clear guidelines about what constitutes offensive and hateful contents. Sources from Indian government claims that the officials had got instructions to draw up the guidelines in this regard soon. Indian government is working upon the guidelines that may take three/four months to formulate. Let us hope that Indian government would formulate suitable and sensible guidelines in this regard. Labels: Cyber Law Due Diligence In India, E-SURVEILLANCE IN INDIA, INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN INDIA, Internet Intermediaries In India, Right To Privacy In India, Surveillance Of Internet Traffic In India Censorship Of Internet In India Internet censorship in India has crossed all the limits. Firstly, we have a bizarre cyber law of India that provides for Internet censorship without any procedural safeguards. Secondly, India has formulated rules that have prescribed stringent Internet intermediary liability in India. Thirdly, there are no dedicated data protection and privacy rights in India. All these loopholes are allowing Indian government and its agencies to ask for data, information and records from Internet intermediaries of India. Surprisingly, no court order is required to ask for such sensitive and personal information from Internet intermediaries in dominant majority of cases. Intermediaries liability for cyber law due diligence in India has become very stringent after the information technology amendment act 2008 has been notified. Information technology act 2000 (IT Act 2000) now carries many e-surveillance, websites blocking and Internet censorship provisions. Surveillance of Internet traffic in India has become a nuisance for internet intermediaries of India. In fact, Internet intermediaries like Yahoo has already dragged Indian government to court to resist illegal and unconstitutional e-surveillance demands of Indian government. In its petition, Yahoo has raised questions on the right to privacy of a company that stores such sensitive data and to what extent authorities can coerce it to part with the information considered necessary to either track terror perpetrators or thwart future attacks. It is high time for constitutional courts of India to take notice of these unconstitutional developments and stop the initiatives of Indian government and its agencies before it is too late. Is SCADA The New Cyber Attack Battlefield For India? The supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) has been in limelight these days. This is because malware are specifically designed these days to target SCADA systems. It is not the case that malware were not used in the recent past to target SCADA systems but their sophistication and intensity has increased tremendously these days. SCADA generally refers to industrial control systems (ICS) like computer systems that monitor and control industrial, infrastructure, or facility-based processes. The SCADA systems may involve a human machine interface (HMI), a supervisory system managing the processes, remote terminal units (RTUs) interacting with the supervisory systems, programmable logic controller (PLCs) usable as field devices, etc. An attack upon SCADA is essentially an attack upon the critical infrastructure of a nation. Recently, cyber criminals used SCADA to burn out a public utility water pump in United States. Malware like Stuxnet and Duqu have further created nuisance for US and other nations. These incidences have also forced the defense advanced projects research agency (DARPA) of US to further strengthen its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. In the Indian context, the critical infrastructure protection of India is not in good shape. There is neither an implementable cyber security policy of India nor there is any critical ICT infrastructure protection policy of India. Even the Indian nuclear facilities may not fully cyber secure. As more and more ICT would be used for critical infrastructures like SCADA, the risks of cyber attacks sabotaging the same are great. India has already received enough hints about the possible cyber warfare, cyber espionage and attacks upon its critical infrastructure. It is high time for India to protect its critical infrastructure from local and foreign cyber threats. Posted by V.K.Singh at 12:41 AM Labels: Critical ICT Infrastructure Protection In India, Critical Infrastructure Protection Policy Of India, Cyber Warfare, Duqu, Stuxnet, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) Indian Higher Legal Education Needs Reforms Higher education in India is suffering from many deficiencies and irregularities. These include lack of practical training, academic nature of education, absence of skills development, corruption, lack of research capabilities, etc. Universities and colleges are engaging in all sorts of undesirable behaviours and practices and this is affecting the higher education and research oriented courses like PhDs. Indian government is also not very much enthusiastic in curing these deficiencies and eliminating the irregularities. This guest column is analysing all these irregularities and illegalities happening in the higher education field in India. Law minister Salman Khurshid and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal must urgently intervene to save higher education in India in general and higher legal education in India in particular. There is no second opinion about the fact that legal education in India needs urgent reforms. This is more so regarding higher legal education in India that is in really bad shape. Despite many suggested measures, higher legal education in India is still in a very poor state. This is also the reason why continuing professional legal education in India has failed miserably. Further, this is also the reason why PhDs in India are almost extinct as far as legal education is concerned. Naturally, higher legal education in India is in doldrums. Vast spread corruption has destabilised the higher education in India. These are serious issues that must be resolved by both the education minister and law minister of India. Higher legal educational reforms in India must comprise of many essential elements. Transparency to support for higher legal research and education in India are essential components of the same. These days news of international cooperation in the field of education between India and other nations is in abundance. However, that is just stressing upon the outer shell without curing the diseased inner core of decaying educational system of India. India needs to urgently take care of the fallacies and deficiencies of its educational system that is not serving any purpose except brain drain. The sooner we do this the better Indian education system would be. Is Corruption Undermining The Higher Education In India? India is projecting itself as a global education hub. This claim seems to be exaggerated and far from realities. Before claiming India as a global educational hub we must have a reality check. Do we have qualitative education in India? Do we encourage research and novelty in India? Do we discourage corruption and arbitrariness in India so that education can be qualitative? The answers to these questions seem to be in negative. Neither have we qualitative education in India nor our educational system is free from arbitrariness and corruption. Our educational system is academic in nature that is far from developing skills and practical acumen in our educated masses. The truth is that PhDs in India are dying despite our boastful claims. Higher education in India needs to be rescued from arbitrariness, lack of transparency, corruption and other vices. Take the example of higher legal education in India. The truth is that higher legal education in India is in jeopardy. The same is so tardy, troublesome and difficult to be successfully achieved that a majority of researchers do not wish to engage in the same. Even if some dare to go for higher education in India, the flawed educational system of India does not allow successful completion of the same. While India is making lots of efforts to make Indian educational system qualitative in nature yet till corruption and arbitrariness is eradicated all such efforts would be futile. Time has come to question and punish those who have made Indian educational system a menace and breeding ground for corruption. Unless this is done, all educational development initiatives of India would fail. Higher Legal Education In India Is Dying In this guest column, Praveen Dalal, managing partner of India’s exclusive techno legal ICT and IP law firm Perry4Law, has shared his recent communication with Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid. This communication has drawn the attention of these two ministers towards the decaying standards of higher legal education in India. Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid are two of the most Important and Learned Politicians of India. If we have to take care of the “Deteriorating Conditions” of Higher Legal Research and Education in India, their “active participation and continuous attention” is a must. While Kapil Sibal has been working hard in the field of Higher Education Cooperation with United States and other Countries, yet in our own Nation Higher Education Standards are not upto the mark and are prone to various “Corrupt Practices” and “Arbitrary Decision Making”. Recently, I sent E-Mails to both Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid and brought to their notice the deteriorating conditions of Higher Legal Education in India. This is the excerpts/relevant portion of the same. “I hope this E-Mail would find you in the best your Health and Strength. Although I can wish a Good Health for You but I am afraid I cannot expect the same from our Dying Educational System, especially our Legal Educational System. I am personally acquainted of this decaying of our Legal Education in India. Higher Legal Education is a must for Country like India. Being a Pioneer in Legal Fraternity and then as a Productive and Useful Member of Parliament, You are Yourself aware of the importance of Legal Education in India. However, Higher Legal Education in India is in “Doldrums”. Corruption and Lack of Transparency has eaten up the Good Legal Standards and quality that was once a “Benchmark” of our Legal Education. Whether it is the “Funds” for PhD Candidates or other Financial and Non Financial Facilities, Legal Researchers are finding it really difficult to do PhD except by “Compromising” with Moral and Ethical Standards. A person like Me, who believes in Transparency and Lack of Corruption, is seldom satisfied with the Legal Education of India. While I would prefer a Foreign University to do my PhD due to these “Irregularities” yet I hope You would not allow this “Negative Precedent” to repeat in the future. I hope You can do a “Great Service” to this Nation by eliminating the “Factors” that are responsible for the deaths of PhD in India”. If PhD is a “Breeding Ground” for Corrupt Practices and Irregularities, there is no scope for Higher Legal Education in India. I hope the two Learned Ministers would take an immediate and urgent note of this “Precarious Situation”. Posted by Cjnews India at 3:45 AM Civil Liberties And National Security Must Be Reconciled Nations across the world are ignoring civil liberties for the false claims of national security. This is a disturbing trend especially when the United Nations is silent on the protection of human rights in cyberspace. This applies to India as well that has draconian laws like information technology act 2000 to violate civil liberties in cyberspace. Unfortunately, UN has not been able to formulate a universally acceptable legal framework of cyber law and human rights protection in cyberspace. The obvious result is that different jurisdictions have different cyber laws. The only thing common in these cyber laws is that virtually none of them is protecting human rights in cyberspace. According to Praveen Dalal, managing partner of New Delhi based ICT and IP law firm Perry4Law and leading techno legal expert of India, there is need to have “Reconciliation” between National Security needs of India on the one hand and Protection of Fundamental Rights on the other. I have also sent a communication in this regard to Government of India in the past, informs Dalal. It seems some segments of Indian government agree with this “reconciliation theory” suggested by techno legal experts of India. For instance, the Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Shri Kapil Sibal has said that adequate balance needs to be maintained between needs of ‘privacy of individual’ and ‘genuine security concerns of state’ while dealing with challenges of cyber security. Another area that deserves the attention of Indian government in general and UN in particular pertains to Human Rights Protection in Cyberspace. According to techno legal experts like Praveen Dalal, presently UN and Human Rights in Cyberspace are two separate issues although they need to be one. Similarly, we have no International Cyber Law Treaty, International Cyber Security Treaty, International Cooperation in Techno Legal fields, etc, informs Dalal. Interestingly, Kapil Sibal appealed to the global community to collaborate and evolve global protocols in security of information and network. Sibal assured that India stands committed to contribute and cooperate with international community on this issue. It seems at least Kapil Sibal is aware of the details of techno legal issues and that is good news for India. Posted by Pritesh at 4:54 AM Ravi Shankaran’s Extradition To India Is Now Doubtful Today information and communication technology (ICT) is involved in almost all crimes. Today’s era belongs to cyber crimes and the corresponding cyber forensics capabilities and cyber forensics skills development to solve the same. Law enforcement agencies, security agencies and intelligence agencies of India need to have good techno legal cyber forensics trainings. However, we have very few cyber forensics research, education and training institutions in India. As a result our law enforcement agencies, security agencies and intelligence agencies are not well equipped to deal with cyber crimes and cyber forensics cases. Even lawyers and judges are not well versed with techno legal issues and this at times results in acquittal of the accused. While lawyers in India can affords to take techno legal issues lightly yet this casual approach may prove fatal if a well versed and technologically sound lawyer is pitted against them. This is exactly what happened in the Naval war-room leak case’s investigation. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now facing a setback in the extradition of Naval war-room leak case accused Ravi Shankaran. The secret evidence provided by CBI has been declared to be shaky by the experts appointed by London court. This has demolished the case of CBI to a great extent. The case appears to be falling apart as the UK court-appointed cyber forensic expert has raised doubts over the secret evidence provided by Government of India. The prosecutors of India had earlier presented secret evidence about an e-mail with an attachment of Sir Creek sent by Commander Virender Rana to a person called Vic Branson of Inmaty company in Belgium, which they claimed was owned by Shankaran. These attachments they alleged had material which compromised the integrity of India. The Judge noted that the alleged e-mail by Vic Branson to Rana, produced by the prosecution as the main evidence against Shankaran, had no date and time and an independent court approved expert has confirmed that it is not possible to create an email, type 11 words, attach 8 documents and then save it all in 2 seconds only. Cyber forensic expert Jason Coyne has, according to the judge, stated that such an e-mail could not have been sent based on the evidence produced by Government of India. Earlier James Lewis, representing Shankaran, pointed out that Coyne's conclusion on the e-mail in question "has completely destroyed the Indian Government's case" against Shankaran. The Judge at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court put off the hearing after a plea from the Crown Prosecution Service John Hardy, who sought time to consult Government of India. The hearing about admissibility of the extradition case against Shankaran, will be held for two days from October 10, District Judge Nicholas Evans said. In the past as well, the CBI has failed to act in a timely manner while investigating the case of defacement of its website. We just came across some media reports after our posting. Hence the editorial comments. If possible, we would also come up with techno legal expert’s testimony in this regard very soon. Dismissing reports of a setback in the extradition case involving Ravi Shankaran, main accused in the Naval War Room leak case, the CBI today claimed that a UK-based cyber expert has "wrongly considered" the creation time of email, presented as evidence by it in a London court. The agency said there was "no setback" to it in the case and it will present its views before the Westminster Court on October 10. CBI will present its argument that the expert has wrongly considered creation time of the 'Temporary' internet file, related to email in question; which is actually an automatic process in the computer system to cache open files, which can be recovered in case of any crash" a senior CBI official said. Will Indian Courts Accept Technology Ever? Technology is most often used in civil cases especially matrimonial cases. Even in criminal cases, video conferencing is frequently used by courts for various purposes. This is the beginning of a larger effort known as e-courts. We have no e-courts in India till September 2011. This means there is something grossly wrong with our management and expertise in this regard. For instance, we have a single techno legal e-courts research, training and consultancy centre in India. It is managed by Perry4Law Techno Legal Base (PTLB), the premier techno legal segment of Perry4Law, the exclusive techno legal ICT and IP law firm of India and world wide. We need more such techno legal e-courts centers in India. Further, there is also reluctance on the part of Indian courts to use technology for legal and judicial purposes. This is also the reason why e-courts could not be established in India till now. Police, lawyers and judges are finding it difficult to deal with cyber crimes. More sophisticated fields like cyber forensics have yet to be introduced in Indian legal and judicial system. Here is an urgent need to develop cyber skills of police, lawyers and judges in India. Take the example of a very recent case in this regard. A man who filed his divorce petition through a video conference from Canada has been directed to make a personal appearance in the court on December 15. Second additional family court judge G Manjula passed the order. Personal appearance is a concept that strikes at the very concept of e-courts and video conferencing. This means courts and judges in India are still not comfortable with the use of technology. However, technological issues would be required to be taken care of by courts and judges in future. Police, lawyers and judges must stress upon cyber skills development in India. E-learning for lawyers in India must be strengthened. Similarly, techno legal training and courses like cyber forensics trainings in India must also be undertaken by our police force, legal fraternity and judicial community. Posted by Catherine Fernandes at 10:20 PM The Futility Of Aadhar Project Of India And UIDAI The Aadhar project of India and unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) have never been considered to be legal and constitutional. This is because both Aadhar project and UIDAI have been imposed upon India that also without any parliamentary oversight. In fact Aadhar project and UIDAI are both undemocratic and unconstitutional as they are openly violating various fundamental rights of Indian citizens that also without following the constitutional procedure. Form time to time, experts have been suggesting that Aadhar project and UIDAI must be scrapped. Neither Aadhar project nor UIDIA have been able to provide the mandatory legal framework under which they can operate. Further, both Aadhar project and UIDAI are openly violating various civil liberties like right to privacy in India. Realising that Aadhar/UIDAI may be challenged in the Indian Courts; a façade was created in the form of National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 (Bill). The Bill is still to become an applicable law as it has not been approved by the Parliament of India. However, according to experts like Praveen Dalal, a Supreme Court lawyer and leading techno legal expert of India, even after the Bill becomes and applicable law, both Aadhar and UIDAI would remain “Unconstitutional”. This is so because the “Constitutional Safeguards” that are required to make Aadhar/UIDAI Constitutional are still missing from the proposed Bill. The Home Ministry has now further identified flaws in the enrolment process followed by the UIDAI, citing cases where people have got UID numbers on the basis of false affidavits. None can doubts that fake UID cards has made Aadhar project further vulnerable to misuse. What is surprising that our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has failed to take notice of these unconstitutional and illegal irregularities in the functioning of Aadhar project and UIDAI. In a note written to the Cabinet Committee on UIDAI headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the home ministry has questioned the security of the biometric data captured by the UIDAI and pointed out uncertainties in its revenue model. The UIDAI has sought an additional 15,000 crore to do biometric scanning of all residents of the country through its own registrars, a proposal that is being opposed by the home ministry and the planning commission, as the government has already tasked the census office with the primary responsibility of collecting biometric data of all Indian residents for a National Population register card. The data collected by the census office is supposed to be shared with the UIDAI and every NPR card will carry the UID number of the card holder. The census office is part of the home ministry and so far has collected biometric data for 30 lakh individuals. The home ministry has urged the Cabinet to restrict the authority's multi-registrar model of biometric enrolment to the already decided level of 20 crore by March 2012. "The home ministry, the Planning Commission and others have given their comments," Home Minister P Chidambaram said about the UIDAI proposal for more funding recently. He also said that the Cabinet Committee on UIDAI (CCUIDAI) would take a call on the overlap between the NPR and the UIDAI. Why CCUIDAI is allowing futile Aadhar project and UIDAI to continue is still a big mystery? Labels: AADHAR PROJECT OF INDIA, Cabinet Committee on UIDAI, National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010, PRAVEEN DALAL, UIDAI, UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA Parliamentary Scrutiny For Intelligence Agencies Of India Intelligence agencies of India are not governed by any legal framework and parliamentary oversight. Legal experts in India have been stressing upon existence of such parliamentary scrutiny for intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies of India for long. In fact, intelligence infrastructure of India is in big mess. However, for one reason or other, Indian government has ignored this much required constitutional mandate. Now the problem has taken a serious dimension, so our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh found the situation alarming. He has commissioned a new law to be drafted that would make India’s intelligence agencies accountable to the parliament. According to Praveen Dalal, the leading techno legal expert of India and a Supreme Court lawyer, till now we have no laws that govern the functioning of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Intelligence Agencies of India, etc. The draft Central Bureau of Investigation Act 2010 has proposed a law for CBI and the draft Intelligence Services (Powers and Regulations) Bill, 2011 has been suggested for Intelligence Agencies of India. Since the PM has commissioned a new law to be drafted for intelligence agencies, it seems the proposed law would be independent of the recent proposed Bill 2011. It would be appropriate if techno legal issues are covered by the proposed law as suggested by our PM. Software Patent Trolls In India Patent trolls are people or organisation that acquires a patent with the primary objective of non use of the same. Their main objective is to get maximum commercial benefit through licensing mechanism. They also intend to sue others for patent infringement and derive monetary benefits through compensation for the alleged patent infringement. Software developers in US are frequently targeted by such patent trolls through cease and desist orders by alleging patent infringement. So bad has become the situation that software developers in US have threatened to leave US unless they are duly protected from such trolls. So what is the position regarding the same in India. Patent Trolls and their Regulations in India is well founded says Praveen Dalal, managing partner of New Delhi based IP and ICT law firm Perry4Law. Indian Patents Act 1970 “Prohibits” Unfair Trade Practices of Hoarding a Patent by not using the same and hindering its availability to general public, informs Dalal If a cease and desist order is issued in respect of such a “Hoarded Patent”, the very grant of Patent can be challenged. This is sufficient “Deterrent” for Patent Trolls operating in India, opines Dalal. It seems Indian patent law is well founded to protect software developers as software is not a patentable product or process in India. If something cannot be patented in India, there are practically no chances of its violation in India hence there cannot be any litigation as well. So the chances of software patent trolls to flourish in India are not much provided people are aware of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) laws of India, especially the patent law of India. United Nation’s Regional Economic Commissions And India While discussing the regional initiatives of United Nations regarding economic development, i asked myself about the true nature of such regional initiatives. Are these regional initiatives truly regional in nature or can they cooperate and collaborate among themselves or with other individuals and organisations residing beyond their regions? In other words, does the charter of such institutions or commissions allow them to engage at international level directly or indirectly? If these regional initiatives are strictly regional in nature, this may hamper their effectiveness. For instance, recently I came across the activities of United Nation’s Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) regarding intellectual property rights (IPRs). I found this initiative really impressive. However, can India be a part of UNECE directly or indirectly? According to Geeta Dalal, partner at New Delhi based ICT and IP law firm Perry4Law, UN-ECE is one of five regional commissions of United Nations, working for economic integration and growth in Europe primarily. For Asian countries/ India, UN regional commission is Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). Does this mean professionals and organisations working as members or otherwise of UNECE and UNESCAP have to essentially confine their initiatives and efforts to their regional initiatives alone? This may not necessarily be the case. For instance, the International PPP Center for Excellence by UN-ECE, to my understanding, is global initiative having much wider objectives useful for all countries although it is primarily designed as a regional initiative, suggests Geeta Dalal. Considering the ever increasing scope of engaging PPP model in growth map of Asian countries like India particularly in infrastructure projects such as road, transport, telecom, ICT etc, initiatives like UN-ESCAP and UN-ECE could play a possible pivotal role. In any case, it should engage experts from all over the world as there is nothing that restricts this exercise, suggests Geeta. .It seems, although many UN initiatives have been launched as regional, their public private partnership (PPP) model may help in expanding their expertise and scope. At the end of the day, any regional initiative that helps in achieving a global objective is always welcome irrespective of its mandate. EU India FTA, Data Exclusivity And Foreign Direct Investment European Union (EU) is actively working in the direction of strengthening the regional and international intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection for its member States. Working in this direction, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has recently held a two day meeting to increase IPRs awareness throughout the Europe. Similarly, EU and India would also sign a letter of understanding which will ensure that EU countries would not seize Indian medicines passing through Europe on the ground of violation of IPRs. These are positive developments despite some initial hiccups like EU decision to withdraw the generalised system of preferences (GSP) scheme where India was on the receiving end, says Geeta Dalal, partner at Perry4Law a New Delhi based IP and ICT law firm. Now Indian government has made it clear that the “data exclusivity” provision would not form part of the proposed EU India foreign trade agreement (FTA), informs Geeta Dalal. Asia is a very important market for EU companies and by adopting a very strict attitude this market could have been jeopardised. Similarly, India is also a very important market for pharmaceutical companies of Europe. The proposed EU India FTA may open new markets for these pharmaceutical markets. By adopting a flexible approach, both EU and India can be benefited. Indian would get good foreign direct investment in the pharmaceutical and allied fields and European companies may get access to Indian pharmaceutical market, informs Geeta Dalal. The proposed FTA would be concluded within this year and many trade related issues would be discussed there. Let us wait for the final version of the EU India FTA. Renewal Of An Expired Trademark Trademark registration in India is well founded and properly regulated. The trademarks act 1999 of India regulates the registration and management of trademarks in India. It protects trademarks, well known marks and brands. Once registered, a trademark is granted for a period of 10 years and can be subsequently renewed for another 10 years period. During the registration period the trademark holder can enjoy the benefits of registration that prevents others from using the registered mark. At times a trademark is not renewed and this makes the mark in question susceptible to registration by others. Thus, it is very important that trademarks are renewed at appropriate time. The questions is can we re-register a trademark whose duration has expired? Even if the mark has been expired, one can apply for its re-registration. And in case, someone else applies for registration of expired trademark as per the prescribed procedure, owner of expired trademark can file objections at the registry, tribunal or appropriate forum, says Geeta Dalal, partner at New Delhi based IP and ICT law firm Perry4Law. It is a good strategy to keep a close watch at the registered trademarks as renewal of a trademark is definitely less cumbersome as compared to opposition and re-registration efforts, suggests Geeta Dalal. So even if your trademark registration period has expired do not loose heart and approach a good lawyer or law firm to get it renewed or registered as soon as possible. Labels: Geeta Dalal, Indian Trademark Act 1999, Indian Trademark Registration, PERRY4LAW, Re Registration Of An Expire Trademark In India, Renewal Of a Trademark In India, Trademark Registration In India Indian Government Would Clarify New Data Protection Rules Soon Indian government is planning to clarify the nature and scope of the newly proposed data protection rules very soon. These rules have raised lots of concerns in India and abroad, especially among the outsourcing industry. There has been some confusion over the interpretation of Sec 43 A of the information technology act 2000 (IT Act 2000), the sole cyber law of India. .IT Act 2000 has been in controversies ever since the information technology amendment act 2008 (IT Act 2008) was notified in India. The IT Act 2008 incorporated many provisions that are not in conformity with the spirit of Indian constitution. In fact, experts like Praveen Dalal have suggested the repeal of the IT Act 2000 so that a better and constitutional law can be formulated. The new data protections rules have raised many concerns for foreign companies and outsourcing players. They believe that under section 43A, an Indian outsourcing provider would be required to obtain written consent from each individual of an organisation whose outsourced work it would manage. They fear that such a consent requirement will potentially put a huge additional financial burden on these companies and thus affect their profitability. The new Rules for Data Protection need to be “analysed in detail” and these issues must be sorted out so that outsourcing industry can work in an effective manner, suggests Dalal. This is exactly what the Indian government is planning to do. On the one hand India needs to ensure privacy and data protection laws whereas on the other hand concerns of outsourcing industry have also to be accommodated. 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About CLASS Economy and Industry CLASS publications Non-CLASS publications Workers' Voices CLASS in the news Search Class Labour Market Realities: February 2017 Dan Durcan, Dr Faiza Shaheen Government employment figures announced today show that unemployment is at a near record low, and that more people than ever are in work. These headline statistics feed claims that the Conservative economic strategy is working - that the Conservatives are steering the economy out of recession, and are navigating the choppy waters of Brexit. However, these figures are meaningless for millions of workers, with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation also announcing today that almost a third of the population of Britain have been living on an inadequate income in recent years. Beyond the headline figures, the picture is not quite so rosy. The government finds it easy to make bold claims about employment figures because on the surface, they are positive. The current employment rate is 74.6%, the highest ever recorded, and the unemployment rate is 4.8%, the lowest since 2005. Employment levels since the financial crash have been so strong that even experts have been surprised. The problem, however, is the quality rather than the quantity of work. The number of people in insecure work has rapidly increased by more than 660,000 (27%) over the past five years. The TUC estimates that over three million workers are now in insecure work, amounting to one in ten workers. Equally as concerning is bogus self-employment, which is thought to apply to as many as 460,000 workers. These workers lose an average of over £1,200 a year in holiday pay alone, as well as having almost no job security, sick leave, or employer contributions to pensions. Wage growth is another indicator of problems behind the headline figures. After inflation, wages are still 7% below their pre-recession peak. No wonder then that so many people have yet to feel the impact of economic growth. The picture is even bleaker for public sector workers, who have suffered a long and difficult pay freeze. The strong headline employment figures have hidden the true nature of the state pf the labour market. The combination of insecure work and poor wage growth has meant that more than seven million people from working families are now in poverty (55% of all people from working families). There are a number of often interrelated factors behind these labour market changes: Low productivity growth – measured by the amount each worker produces - has meant wages haven’t grown as employers choose low skilled employment models over investing in their workforce; Declining wage share of workers with growing profit share for shareholders and executives; Declining influence of trade unions and reduced collective bargaining coverage meaning workers no longer have power to negotiate for good pay and contracts; Globalisation and de-industrialisation destroying many well paid manufacturing jobs. The growth in poor quality employment is contributing to underlying weakness in the economy. In other words, insecure work is bad news for everybody, and not just carers and Uber drivers. We would all benefit from strong, sustained and equitable economic growth, just as we all lose out from a low wage economy. Since the end of the recession, headline economic figures, particularly employment figures, have been relatively positive. When you look beneath these figures, you find these changes are almost all cosmetic, as the quality of the employment growth has not been strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Instead the nature of poverty has shifted as in work poverty has become more prevalent. With the most recent employment, inflation and GDP figures, there is mounting evidence that the low economic and wage growth of the past two years is now stagnating. Given that this period of growth brought insecurity and poverty, we should be very concerned about a more subdued economy. There is a huge disconnect between the rosy picture the government is painting of the state of the economy and the often grim reality of the lives of millions of working people across the UK, and nowhere has this disconnect been made more clear than in the result of the Brexit vote. CLASS hopes to bridge this gap with our Labour Market Realities series. Work areas: Economy and Industry, Inequality. Labour’s Small Business Manifesto Assessed Bad Brexit Deal Leaves Women Vulnerable © CLASS 2017 | About | Contact us | Privacy and cookies | Website by Social Spark
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I, Los Angeleno From the Mexican border to Los Angeles County, 80-90 percent of the original shoreline wetlands have been dug up, wiped out, built on. The amount of suburban and exurban and neo-tripleX- unurban development that's happened in Southern California -and that's an idiotic phrase because it didn't "happen", it was made, bought, built and sold- since the Second World War, is truly mind blowing. Housing - the phenomenon of unchecked unending single home sprawl along the California coast- is one of the great unwonders of the world. I never get used to it. It's like watching a fire. Or like watching something you hope will catch fire and never stop burning till the scrub fields, and the salt marsh, and the pine gatherings return. But it's a hopeless hope. California's great undying myth is homeownership. Like capitalism, like cancer it HAS to grow. My door, my garage(s), my yard. Ad infinitum. And the other undying aspect of Cali life is the story of what was. Or more accurately what wasn't. You get it first, you notice it, or seek it out, from the old guard, the third and fourth and that rarest of the rare, the fifth generation Californian - Cheryl Camp you red headed genius where are you now - they look up slightly from their Vans and their Dickies shorts, over the top of their rebuilt Broncos and the sun glazed eyes focus somewhere toward when they were 15 or 16 and they start to tell you about the open fields that were the Marina, hunting for foxes with rifles over their shoulders where the condos spread now, the old Irvine ranch lands above Orange County which into the early 60s stretched for 20 thousand acres. Santa Clarita when it was an empty desert camp. The back lot of Fox spreading across Olympic and Pico to lean up against Beverly Hills like a fantastic theme park for the celluloid visionaries in their Canyon manses. The story of California is always what's been lost. The virgin territory of Old California. But what's actually been lost is the urge not to do something. Not to build or sell or develop. It's almost unimaginable to them. But somewhere in the depths of their psyche the Californian feels the urge- Don't Rent It- they just can't bring themselves to say the words. For a place constantly trumpeting its growth and richness and adaptability, the deeper narrative of the local is a false lost innocence, his or her lost lebensraum, how the promised land broke its promise to them, its Covenant. (Why are my taxes so high!!) Californians are hard but dreamy Protestants -Catholic, Jew, Muslim, Hindu no matter, the dream's the same- who can't figure out how they get even less now that they all decided to stop paying taxes for what they had. Saint Ronald, in the long run, let them down. And what's left to represent their American Dream? Nothingness. What's left simmering in their minds behind the wheel as they resent waiting for you to cross the street? The lust for open space, unused territory. Because it's the clearest expression of wealth; Land you didn't sell. They say once you've made it thru six years in "The City" you can call yourself a New Yorker . I think you become a New Yorker like you fall in love or you can throw a spiral - it just happens for some people and not for others. You can call yourself a Los Angeleno I think when you love a part of the town that no longer exists. You suddenly feel a ghost landscape in your heart. And you don't have to do anything about it. It's happened to me finally. To get to Venice Beach from the airport you have to drive north on Lincoln Blvd. It's a simple and an easy drive, a god send if you travel a lot. I could get home or back to LAX in 15 minutes. Lincoln drops down from Westchester Heights and into the giant Santa Monica basin. 7 miles of flatland, the great plain of Los Angeles, held in by the Mts to the north. When I first moved here to work in 1996 that descent out of the crowded and condo'd and mini malled Heights used to take you down into a long dark field. The Balloona wetlands. The delta of the northern flood plain of the LA river, which had never been built on. From the docks of Marina Del Rey it held out for two miles inland. A salt sea, scrub desert. Heavy succulents and dark bushes with spritzings of wildflower. Glimpses of calm water. Acres of what LA once was. The thing the Spanish said they saw when they landed in a bay with no harbor. Swampland and fields of seagrass as high as the saddle, one Captain wrote, his legs soaked to the skin by dew long before he reached the Mission 11 miles inland. And here it still was, minutes after leaving the hectic airport. Primordial California. A beautiful nothingness in the epicenter of west LA wealth, no houses, no shops, no light. The drive home like passing thru the blacks at the edge of a stage - an intake of breath, a place to clear the mind before I dove back into the narrative of the city and my place in it. And of course the point is it's no longer there. Well half of it is. The County sold it to Spielberg and Katzenberg and David Geffen, men with the power of Conquistadors, a power of Chinatown scariness, Stanford, Huntingdon, Chandler type strength. They were going to build their Dreamworks studio and leave half the wetlands alone. Which is half of what happened. The titans fought, the studio went elsewhere, half the wetlands closer to the water can still be seen and the other half East of Lincoln blvd is now the ultimate expression of that dreaded big box reality, Live/Work. Is there a better moniker for the New America? LiveWork. The two now fused. You MUST work. It will follow you home. It IS you. Work IS home. Here are the keys. So my lost LA is a hemmed-in triangle of weeds just south of Marina del Rey. Fitzgerald talked about My Lost City. I suppose this is My Lost County. (Los Angelenos being a little more expansive in their dreams). Strange the difference. NYers live in a compressed landscape of particulars but dream of the grand city. Los Angelenos live in a colossal city state but dream of a deli they used to go to when they were kids. Posted by David Conrad at 2:52 PM Marsiglia baby August 13, 2016 at 7:16 PM thank you decried a new continuous david KAT August 13, 2016 at 9:35 PM Your descriptive writing transports the reader to where you are writing about. Thanks for making life a little more interesting, for those of us stuck in relatively boring lives. A welcome distraction from classes (my new direction in life). The most interesting time for me this past week was cleaning up 3 rescue horses heading to their new homes. No matter which direction I choose to go in, I will always be 'tied' to nature. Thanks for continuing your writing. Wife2Mom August 14, 2016 at 1:45 AM You have a rare talent of transporting the reader to another place. I enjoy the diversion. Doreen S. August 14, 2016 at 3:17 AM Thank you for this vivid piece of writing. Just wondering, did you move back to LA? Jennifer Lawrence August 14, 2016 at 1:11 PM Jennifer Lawrence August 15, 2016 at 2:10 AM I love reading your posts, you make everything come alive with your descriptive words Marsiglia baby August 15, 2016 at 2:17 AM Jennifer Wolff August 15, 2016 at 5:04 PM Glad to see ur still writing, love reading ur blogs Genevieve Powell August 16, 2016 at 9:01 AM Glad youre back! I use to live in Santa Clarita, cant imagine it being like you described!. cant handle the concrete jungles of NY, or Los Angeles. I take the open country anyday, free to breath and listen to the birds. very good reading David!! Happy birthay david conrad 🎂🍾🎼💖 Susanna Casanova August 23, 2016 at 12:13 PM The way things used to be, the good ol' days, a simpler time, I hate all those phrases. I say this even after watching "Stranger Things" and LOVING it, it's my age I was 12 at that time and I remember what it was like but I won't say any of it was easy. It bothers me when people fantasize history as if it was all so easy once. Urban sprawl is somehow always portrayed as somehow just happening or newly agitating. I grew up a true Tex-Mex. I can trace my ancestry in Texas back to Mexico before Pancho Villa, something has always been changing. Someone is always taking over, something is always lost. If no one fights to preserve things then all we're doing is watching it all go. Cast 39, Agência de Talentos August 27, 2016 at 2:54 PM Hello David,hope you see this message.my name is karina i'm from portugal and live in lisbon (the capital) and i'm 32 years old.i know that you had done lots of things in your like but what i love more is ghost whisperer.not because of the stories only but the love that you have with melinda.i know that is fiction,not real but i'm romantic so..lol...i work in a agency with actors too. If one day you come in lisbon can you remember me? My boss is an actor too. You can write to karinavalente@sapo.pt. please say something.i know that you have lots of fans but..i dont know...never knows one day we could be friends. Sandcastles
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Industry Digest January/February September/October November/December EARLIER ISSUES Carbon Fiber Prices Could Drop by As Much As 90 Percent Mary Beck MAI Carbon Cluster Management GmbH, a partner of BMW & Audi, says production costs of carbon fiber could soon be lowered by 90 percent. Their $102 million research project is backed by Germany’s federal government and more than 70 business and research institutions hoping to reduce carbon fiber production costs. Currently, production using carbon fiber costs 20 times higher than using the same amount of steel. However, more and more OEMs are looking to alternative materials for lighter cars to meet stringent fuel standards. Less expensive carbon fiber allows manufacturers to drop their costs significantly while decreasing the fuel consumption of their cars and therefore cutting down on CO2 emissions. Head of the project Klaus Drechsler says they have reached the halfway point and “we’ll see a lot more carbon fiber use in the next generation of cars.” BMW’s head of development Herbert Diess announced that besides the i3 and i8, the next generation 7-Series could also employ carbon fiber. This could shave off as much as 200 kg (440 lbs). The research will continue until at least 2017. “The key is to really drive automation” in production, Drechsler says. “There are different scenarios about how carmakers can use carbon fiber — extensively like BMW, with a carbon-fiber chassis, or with smaller components.” Branch Technology Prints Massive 3-D Printed Composite Structure in Nashville Magna Wins Big at SPE for Automotive Composite Innovation Learn More About Composites! Composites Headlines Lightweight Composite Seat Back Developed for Electric Concept Car Griffith University Racing Team Succeeds with Composites Apollo IE Hyper-Car Uses Carbon Fiber for Strength and Aerodynamics Composite Aeroshell Will Protect NASA’s 2020 Rover Throughout Journey to Mars Recycled Carbon Fiber Repurposed into World’s First Carbon Fiber Rail Bogie CCT Certification Programs Interested in using composites in the automotive industry? Learn more about certifications in the following areas: Light Resin Transfer Molding Vacuum Infusion Process (VIP) Join a CGI Committee ACMA's Composites Growth Initiative (CGI) committees promote and expand the use and understanding of composite materials. Join a CGI Committee related to automotive industry: Automotive Composites Alliance ABOUT Composites Manufacturing Composites Manufacturing is the official publication of the American Composites Manufacturers Association. Published bimonthly, it offers practical assessments of the current state of the composites industry as well as thoughtful explorations of the opportunities and challenges ahead. It includes timely coverage of core market segments, materials, processes and technical education plus topics such as sustainability, plant safety, operational efficiency and research advances. Subscribe to Composites Manufacturing Magazine. The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) is the world's largest trade group representing over 3,000 companies in the composites industry in North America alone. ACMA is recognized as the premier provider of composites industry educational resources through its CAMX show, conferences, and Certified Composites Technician (CCT®) program. It serves its members and the industry by providing strong, proactive leadership in growing the composites market and technical, legislative and regulatory affairs. American Composites Manufacturers Association 2000 N. 15th Street, Ste. 250, Arlington, VA 22201 Ph | 703.525.0511 Fx | 703.525.0743 | www.acmanet.org Copyright © 2015 ACMA. All Rights Reserved.
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NYC Mayor de Blasio ending his campaign for Democratic presidential nomination Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00 AM EDT New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' that he has ended his bid for president. Mayor de Blasio launched his bid for the race in May. He said on 'Morning Joe,' "I feel like I have contributed all I can to this primary election. It's clearly not my time, so I'm going to end my presidential campaign." Power & PoliticsMore>> Republican Brian Farnen wins 132nd district special election in Fairfield Updated: Tuesday, January 14 2020 10:02 PM EST2020-01-15 03:02:28 GMT Republican Brian Farnen won the special election for the 132nd district in Fairfield Tuesday. 132nd District hopefuls campaign at Fairfield train station ahead of special election Updated: Monday, January 13 2020 1:49 PM EST2020-01-13 18:49:51 GMT 132nd District hopefuls campaigned outside Fairfield train station Monday ahead of tomorrow's special election. Fairfield candidates hit campaign trail ahead of special election for state House seat Updated: Sunday, January 12 2020 6:54 PM EST2020-01-12 23:54:58 GMT Fairfield candidates made the final push to secure votes Sunday in the special election race for the state House seat in the 132nd Assembly District. Power & Politics - Toll plan latest, cell service on trains and more Updated: Saturday, January 11 2020 7:26 PM EST2020-01-12 00:26:34 GMT Democrats say they may have enough votes to pass a tolling plan. Plus, the trains may be slow -- but your phone is about to get a lot faster on Metro-North. House approves measure to restrain Trump’s actions on Iran Updated: Thursday, January 9 2020 6:30 PM EST2020-01-09 23:30:11 GMT The House passed the measure, 224-194, with just three Republicans voting in support. Eight Democrats opposed the measure. The measure will “protect American lives and values” by limiting Trump's military actions, Pelosi said. "The administration must de-escalate and must prevent further violence.''
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Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia Browse and search site Images Details 'Ceremonies at the Chinese Josshouse, Emerald-Hill', 1875, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). 'Ceremonies at the Chinese Josshouse, Emerald-Hill' Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne Published illustration 1985.07.07, P00637 Illustrated newspaper collection, 1985.07, 1730.0003; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details Sketcher, 12 June 1875 Reproduction rights owned by the Chinese Museum Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1920, Raphael Arts, South Australia, 1977. Details cartoons and etchings, 19th century Melbourne (Victoria) See Yup Temple, South Melbourne (Victoria) (1856 - ) Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 11 November 2012 Published by Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia, 11 November 2005 Comments, questions, corrections and additions: chia@chinesemuseum.com.au http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au/objects/D000765.htm
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Gambling Report Released On December 8, 2011 the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform issued its second report into interactive and online gambling and gambling advertising and the Interactive Gambling and Broadcasting Amendment (Online Transactions and Other Measures) Bill 2011. The 428 page report had 20 recommendations and said that the Bill should not be passed. It recommended that advertising gambling during times when children are watching TV should be banned. See the full report and recommendations, or the media release about the report. TOPICS Advertising • Children • Gambling • Media • TV Anti-Discrimination Laws Attorney General Robert McClelland and Minister for Finance and Deregulation Penny Wong launched a public discussion paper on Sept 22, 2011 to seek community views on the consolidation of Federal antidiscrimination laws. Senator Wong said: “As part of this project, the Government is also delivering on its commitment to introduce prohibitions on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.” The Australian Sex Party is drafting a submission and has Christians in its sights. It is calling for people to come to them with stories of religious groups that have discriminated against them based on their sexuality and is asking people to comment on whether they think religions should be allowed to discriminate. They want to include these stories in their submission. For discussion paper: http://www.ag.gov.au/antidiscrimination Submissions should be sent to the Attorney-General’s Department via email: antidiscrimination@ag.gov.au (preferred method), fax: 02 6141 4925 or mailed to: International Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Branch Attorney-General’s Department Robert Garran Offices 3-5 National Circuit BARTON ACT 2600 The submissions will inform the development of exposure draft legislation, which will be released for further public consultation in early 2012. Submissions on the discussion paper can be made until 1 February 2012. TOPICS Christians • Gender • Government • Human Rights • Penny Wong • Sex • Sexuality Marriage Defence Campaign The Labor Party has voted to change its policy to allow homosexual marriage at its national annual conference held in Sydney in early December 2011. Tony Abbott has said that the Liberal Party members will not be give a conscience vote and they will stick to their election commitment to not allow for homosexual marriage. Abbott’s position is covered in the Australian or Here. For Bill Muehlenberg’s position: http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/12/10/but-we-told-you-so/ TOPICS Conference • Defence • Election • Homosexual • Marriage • Saltshakers • Tony Abbott WA Prostitution The WA Govt did not debate the Prostitution Bill in the final sitting week of parliament for 2011. The next opportunity it can be debated is Feb 21, 2012. The Bill will make prostitution, for the first time, legal in WA. The Labor Party has said it would oppose the bill while the Liberal Party members have been given a conscience vote. View the Govt press release Read the ACL response Action: the Australian Christian Lobby, Association for Reformed Political Action, Saltshakers and other organisations say it is a good time to write to local MPs. Action: The ACL’s Make a Stand Website has launched the “Women are worth more” campaign. Send your local MP a letter using the Make a Stand website. As at 22 Nov 2011, 1188 people had sent a letter to their MP using this service. TOPICS ACL • Christian • Prostitution • Saltshakers • WA Tasmanian Surrogacy The Tasmanian Legislative Council Committee has recommended on Dec 1 that the Surrogacy Bill 2011 be amended to \”better protect the interest of the child\” by making written surrogacy arrangements mandatory and including a medical and social need test. The Tasmanian Bill allows for homosexual partners (unlike in WA) to have a surrogant child and the committee did not recommend changing this in line with WA\’s laws. In her submission to the inquiry the Tasmanian Commissioner for Children Aileen Ashford urged the need to consider the interest of the child. She did not recommend that homosexual couples should be excluded from receiving surrogant children. View the press release. See the Commissioner of Children\’s submission View the report recommendations Action: www.makeastand.org.au is urging Tasmanians to write to their local MP and write a letter to the editor. For more on the issue and to write a letter using the makeastand website through the Kids Rights Count campaign. As at Dec 8, 2011, 8137 people had sent a letter to their MP using this service. Action: Saltshakers is asking people to write to their local MP and to the Premier. They ask that people pray that Lara Giddings will be removed from the Tasmanian Parliament and that the majority of MPs will oppose her social agenda. For MP contact details: http://www.saltshakers.org.au/take-action/campaigns TOPICS Children • Homosexual • Saltshakers • Surrogacy US International Propaganda The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has established new criteria for anti-trafficking grants mandating that applicants offer full reproductive health services to victims, equating contraception and abortion with basic rights like food and shelter, according to C-Fam. Click HERE for story. TOPICS Abortion Chinese Film Clampdown According to the Barnabas Fund, Chinese authorities have confiscated copies of a new documentary about overseas Chinese Christians and detained a chief representative of the company that produced and distributed them. Full report at the Barnabas Fund TOPICS Christians Vietnam violence Leaders of the 2200-member Agape Baptist Church (ABC) — a house church network near Hanoi — were violently assaulted on Sunday 13 November, Compass Direct News reports. They were meeting in Lai Tao village, Bot Xuyen commune, My Duc district at the home of evangelist Nguyen Thi Lan, a former Communist Party (female) official who recently converted to Christianity. Unhappy about conversions in the village, the gang of over a dozen local people (including plain-clothed police) burst in beating the leaders while looting and ransacking the home. For more read the Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin TOPICS Church • Prayer • Sunday • Vietnam On 12-14 December 2011 a meeting will be held in Washington, USA, to consider UNHRC Resolution 16/18. The resolution, proposed by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is described by the Religious Liberty Monitoring to be more dangerous than Resolution 2005/3. The new resolution \’deliberately and strategically adopts the language of the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights which mandates that any advocacy of hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law. View details TOPICS Violence Movie-Puss in Boots From www.movieguide.org: “Overall, PUSS IN BOOTS has a strong moral worldview, with an aspect of redemption. For example, the movie condemns revenge and shows the importance of family. Eventually, Puss in Boots learns to do the right thing, but the sexual undertones are disconcerting and require caution for young children.” Full review
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The annals of history in the making Reflections » Belief and unbelief » Muhammad: separating the man from the myth Muhammad: separating the man from the myth By Khaled Diab As a clash of idiocies erupts over the depiction of Muhammad in an obscure Islamophobic film, it’s time for a sober look at the man behind the prophet. A cask by losing centre-piece or cant Was never shattered so, as I saw one Rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind. Between his legs were hanging down his entrails; His heart was visible, and the dismal sack That maketh excrement of what is eaten. Who is this poor man who has just been chopped in half and is literally wearing his guts for garters? And what precisely has he done to deserve such a gruesome fate? Well, this is not a scene out of the latest slasher film but describes the eternal punishment dreamt up for Muhammad by Dante in his Divine Comedy. The Muslim prophet was condemned by this Italian poet to the ninth bolgia (ditch) of the eighth circle of hell, reserved for “disseminators of scandal and of schism”. Compare Dante’s words with those of the Sufi scholar Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai: Oh Moon, never mind if I tell you the truth Sometimes you are dim Sometimes you are bright Still, your brightness is not equal To an atom of the dust From the foot of Muhammad Traditionally, Muhammad has represented two polar extremes. Even today, for bigoted Christians, the Islamic prophet is a symbol of unadulterated evil, as reflected in the crass, vulgar and lurid way in which Muhammad was depicted in a low-budget, low-brow film The Innocence of Muslims. Meanwhile, for too many Muslims, despite Islam’s prohibition of deification, he is the embodiment of unimpeachable good for devout Muslims, which partly explains the rage sparked across the Arab and Muslim world – though it’s also about distrust of the West and its aggressive hegemony, poor education and poverty, the rise of bullying religious extremism and fundamentalism, the need to deflect domestic discontent towards an external targets, and other complex factors. Nearly a millennium and a half after Muhammad’s death, so many Muslims find it hard to step back and take a clearer-eyed and more critical view of him. After all, even if you do believe in the divinity of Islam, one of its main messages was that Muhammad was a messenger and it was the message, not the man, that counted. He was fond of saying: “I am a man like you. I eat food like you and I also sit down when I am tired like you.” So, between this demonisation and exaltation, where exactly does the historical Muhammad lie? Who precisely was he? What made him tick and how exactly did he rise to global and timeless prominence? Muhammad, whose name means “Praiseworthy”, was born in Mecca, the financial and spiritual centre of Arabia, in 570 AD. Although times were booming for Mecca and other Arabian city-states, Muhammad was born in volatile circumstances. In addition to incessant warfare between the Arab tribes, Arabia was surrounded by three mighty empires – Persia, Byzantium and Abyssinia – who, unable to dominate the vast expanses of Arabia directly, tended to prop up local client rulers. In Mecca, the mighty Quraysh tribe, of whom Muhammad was a member, brought peace and stability to the city but at the price of stark socio-economic inequalities. Despite the wealth of the Quraysh, Muhammad grew up in relative want and loneliness after being orphaned at a very young age. He was to suffer further heartbreak when his beautiful cousin, Fakhita, with whom he was passionately in love, married another man before the shy and sensitive prophet-to-be could pluck up the courage to ask for her hand. Realising how important wealth was in Mecca, his broken heart prompted him to begin a career as a merchant and he became a caravan agent. His business dealings earned him the epithets al-Sadiq (honest) and al-Amin (trustworthy). Travel is said to broaden the mind and what Muhammad saw on his trade missions heightened his awareness of both the breadth and commonality of humanity. His growing reputation brought him to the attention of Khadijah, “Ameerit Quraysh” (the Princess of Quraysh), Mecca’s wealthiest and most powerful woman, who hired him as her agent on trade caravans. Muhammad turned her a handsome profit and repaid Khadijah’s trust by doubling her earnings, but she gradually grew more interested in the handsome future prophet himself. There was more to Muhammad than his money-spinning acumen and Khadijah was so impressed by his honesty, humility and modesty that she bucked convention and her own determination not to remarry a third time and proposed marriage to the 25-year-old who was 14 years her junior. Bucking convention himself, Muhammad agreed to the match. His undying love for Khadija, his refusal to marry any other woman until her death despite the conventions of the age, his willingness all his life to carry out domestic chores (conveniently ignored by generations of scholars!) and her pivotal role in the early development of Islam (she was the world’s first Muslim) are used by Muslim feminists to argue that Islam is woman-friendly and that, if Muhammad were here today, he would be an advocate of women’s rights. However, detractors compare the status of women and slaves in Islam with modern standards, forgetting that Islam seriously improved their situation, and made men and women equal in many respects. Also, such comparisons are unfair, since it would also, for example, compel us to condemn America’s founding fathers, despite their visions of equality. A millennium after Muhammad, Thomas Jefferson was opposed to slavery but was a slave owner and declared that “all men are created equal”, effectively brushing over half of humanity. Life is said to begin at 40, and it certainly did for Muhammad. But rather than invest in a Porsche or even a 16-cylinder camel, Muhammad set about to found a new world religion. Disaffected by the socio-economic injustices and conflict around him and the hollowness of Mecca’s materialistic cults, Muhammad began to meditate but was so distressed by his first “revelation” that it required the rock of Khadija, who believed implicitly in her man and became the world’s first Muslim, for him to build up the confidence to begin preaching the new faith. In retrospect, there were early signs in his behaviour of what was to come. For instance, in his 20s, Muhammad was instrumental in forming a short-lived chivalric association called the “Lovers of Justice” which was established to help a foreign merchant cheated out of his money by a dishonest member of the Quraysh. This pan-clan brotherhood demonstrated to the young Muhammad the benefits of moving beyond tribal loyalties and focusing on common humanity. I personally don’t believe Muhammad’s revelations were divine, nor those of any other prophet or religion for that matter. But that’s not to say he didn’t believe it himself, seized as he was by mysterious fits. There is a case to be made for the idea that successful prophets could only make it through the unwavering conviction that their unconscious is actually a channel to God. To my mind, this lack of divine intervention makes his achievements all the more remarkable, but also makes him open to the same critical approach applied to any other historical figure. Modern western historians largely agree that Muhammad “was absolutely sincere and acted in complete good faith“. Would someone who did not truly believe in his message expose himself to the total ridicule and mortal danger which his mission attracted in its early years? With the odds stacked against his nascent community of believers, Muhammad was dealt a near-mortal blow by the loss of his beloved Khadija in what became known as the Year of Sorrow. Some historians have suggested this may have partly motivated his decision to flee Mecca and set up base in Yathrib (later Medina), where his fortunes as a prophet took a major turn for the better. And I wonder whether the status of Muslim women might not have been very different if Khadija had outlived her husband? Perhaps if he’d lived to a ripe old monogamous age, he would have exerted more effort to end male-only polygyny rather than limiting it or, at the very least, future generations might have followed his example as they do on other issues. After a quarter century of faithful monogamy, he embraced polygamy with passion, mainly as a political tool but perhaps also in a futile quest to find another Khadija or to find solace for his lonely heart. Interestingly, the Quran conveniently gave him licence to take as many wives and concubines as he liked. Some of Muhammad’s post-Khadija relationships have elicited the greatest controversy among non-Muslims, such as his marriage to underage Aisha, and been the most difficult to rationalise by Muslims who prefer to ignore those aspects of his behaviour which conflict with their modern standards. This is one of the biggest issues facing Muslims today, since so much of Islamic jurisprudence is based on Muhammad’s sayings and actions. The question is which of those actions should be interpreted as guidance for all time, and which relate specifically to circumstances in Arabia during his lifetime. Muhammad’s time in Medina started well and he was selected as an impartial arbiter between the oasis’s warring factions. In a demonstration of his preference for diplomacy over war, he drafted the Constitution of Medina to resolve the century-old tribal conflict and, in its place, he established an alliance among Yathrib’s eight tribes. However, it is also in this post-Khadija, post-Mecca era that much of the controversy surrounding his life is focused. It is in Medina that the philosopher, poet, rebel and social reformer also became a warrior and a statesman. Under attack from the mighty Quraysh of Medina and their allies and with his followers suffering from poverty, he became less tolerant of dissent and came down heavily on the city’s Jewish tribes for their opposition to him. Accused of outright treachery by Muhammad, the Banu Qurayza were to suffer the most of all the Jewish tribes. One of the prophet’s biographers states that Muhammad approved the beheading of up to 900 members of the tribe, while the women and children were sold into slavery. In the contemporary West, this has elicited some accusations of anti-Semitism. John Esposito, professor of Islamic studies at Gerogetown University, argues that Muhammad’s motivation was political – the Jewish tribes were rich, influential and well-armed – rather than racial, since they were all Arabic-speaking Semites, or theological. In addition, Norman Stillman, chair of Judaic History at Oklahoma University, argues that the slaughter of adult males and the enslavement of women and children cannot be judged, in this context, by modern standards, since it was common practice throughout the ancient world. Moreover, in his treatment of the Jews of Medina, Muhammad broke his own principles and brought himself into conflict with the Quran’s exaltation of the “People of the Book”. And thanks to this high regard, the treatment of Jews and Christians in the Muslim world was generally better than Europe’s treatment of Jews (not to mention Iberian Muslims) until recent times. Upon his triumphant return to Mecca, Muhammad went back to being a diplomat and philosopher, and pardoned all his enemies. He even pardoned Abdullah Ibn Saad, who had been so trusted by the prophet that he was assigned the important task of copying down some of the verses of the Quran. This man abandoned the Muslims in Medina and returned to Mecca to denounce Muhammad’s entire revelation as a hoax. Muhammad died after unifying Arabia and his lifelong declared love of learning protected and added to classical knowledge and carried on the tradition of Persian scholarship during the dark ages of Christendom. For centuries, Muhammad inspired the Muslim world to thrive economically, scientifically, culturally and artistically. However, nearly 1,400 years on, the presumed divine providence of his philosophy, among myriad other socio-economic and political factors, is acting as an anchor slowing the development of many Muslim countries. Follow Khaled Diab on Twitter. A version of this article first appeared in The Guardian’s Comment is Free on 13 March 2008. Muhammad: separating the man from the myth, 6.8 out of 10 based on 5 ratings Tags: aisha, arabia, christendom, christian, divine comedy, extremism, faith, fundamentalism, islam, jews, khadijah, monogamy, muslim world, philosophy, polygamy, prophets, religion, slavery, the innocence of muslims, women's rights The mash of civilisations (3) Islam’s freedom of expression… and insult (0) A ‘War on Error’ against radical anti-Islam (2) A successful caliphate in six simple steps (22) Gay marriage but no polygamy? (2) Alt-jihad – Part II: Delusions of grandeur and persecution (0) Why doesn’t God use Faithbook? (3) Posted by KhaledDiab at 09:41 Islam for the Politically Incorrect With Islam one of the most controversial and misunderstood issues of our time, the task of telling the truth from the post-truth and weeding out the alternative facts has become more urgent than ever. Khaled Diab's highly readable and necessarily controversial book tackles all the hot topics relating to Islam uncompromisingly and head on. This book’s thematic chapters take you on an in-depth tour of Islam – its people, politics, history, culture, philosophy and mind-spinning diversity. On Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Islam-Politically-Incorrect-Foreword-Donald/dp/1908531800 Ray of Hope Gifted, list-making teen Jacob joins Ray, a PR-exec and wannabe Shaman with a mysterious past on a road trip of truly Biblical proportions that ends in Hope – the one in Maine, not the Rambo film one. 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SitemapRecent changesLogin Trace: • gabriel_faulkner [[eternity:gabriel_faulkner]] Gabriel Horatio Faulkner - The Ordinary Justice “One of the greatest Warriors of the Independence was Gabriel Horatio Faulkner. He was a private figure, never stepping into the public eye himself, but oh what a stir he caused. The release of Great Fire, his brilliant opus on the evils of the supers, landed a decisive blow to the One World campaign, just when we needed it most. “I really do believe that Great Fire should be one of the fundamental tenets on which our movement revolves. The call for the Ordinaries to unite in a wave of peaceful protests against the tyranny of Supers and their disproportionate share of the world's power is beautiful in its crystal clarity. The explanations of the moral obligation of the Ordinary to protest, set against the backdrop of the super-caused Crisis, are second to none. “Without Mr Faulkner's work, I do not think the frenzy of destruction that was the inevitable conclusion of the vicious spiral that was being traversed by the supers of the world could ever have been avoided. Certainly, it could not have been avoided with the fervour that we have shown thanks to him. “I have also always admired the quiet conviction shown by Mr Faulkner after the release of Great Fire. Where many would have basked in the limelight, using the fame of their work to further their own ends, Mr Faulkner returned to his previous life as a prosecution lawyer. Through a lifetime of quiet efficiency, Mr Faulkner upheld the rights of a great many Ordinaries.” - Extract from “Warriors of the Independence” by Felicie Chaput eternity/gabriel_faulkner.txt · Last modified: 2015/06/23 22:34 by gm_cameron Introduction for New Roleplayers Costume Swap Shop Conduct & Themes SETTING! Separatists The Rothwell Science Park Gamasot Laboratories JeevesCorp Minor Organisations SYSTEM! Origins & Manifestations Turnsheets Sample Turnsheet Intro to the Wiki System
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French Open Day 2 Picks 2015 (May 25th) The French Open has started very positively for the picks, but you can still read the outright picks I made here. While there weren't many upsets or truly entertaining matches on Sunday, the biggest talking points both came out of the top two Swiss male players in the world who both comfortably won their First Round matches. However neither Roger Federer nor Stan Wawrinka were impressed with the tournament organisers and made their feelings clear in their press conferences following their wins. Roger Federer was stunned to see someone manage to get on the court for the second time in two days as he was asked for a 'selfie' and he had a lot to say about the lack of security. I can understand exactly where Federer is coming from as he should be free to concentrate on working without fearing someone will get onto court and the French Open should be disgusted especially in light of what happened to Monica Seles twenty years ago. The last thing anyone would want to see is a repeat of that situation and the French Open should be roundly criticised for allowing this to happen on consecutive days on their main court. Stan Wawrinka concentrated more on an article that had been placed on the Roland Garros website making a note of his recent personal troubles and he wasn't holding back as to what he wanted to see happen to the 'journalist' who wrote the piece. A controversial start to the second Grand Slam of the 2015 season, but it was a positive one for the picks which went 4-1 on Sunday although I would never have guessed the one losing pick would have been Steve Johnson beating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez outright. Hopefully the start to this week can be built upon in the next two weeks as Monday continues the First Round action. Juan Monaco v Federico Delbonis: I did consider picking Juan Monaco to cover the 1.5 game handicap, which would also protect you from any injury withdrawal that Juan Monaco could potentially have. I decided against that simply because there wasn't a noticeable price difference between picking Juan Monaco to win straight up or to cover the games, but I am clear that I believe he should come through in this battle of two Argentinians on their favourite surface. Juan Monaco has shown more consistency on the European clay courts than Federico Delbonis over the last six weeks, although Delbonis had a welcome return to form having reached the Final in Geneva last week. Delbonis has won a Challenger tournament in that time too, but failed to qualify for either the Madrid or Rome Masters and this is the level that Monaco has been winning games in. It can be frustrating backing Monaco simply because he can be something of a choker under the pressure of expectation when he comes close to winning matches. He has allowed opponents back into matches when Monaco should be closing them out, while Delbonis did beat Monaco comfortably on the clay courts last season. However, Delbonis can be moved around by someone like Monaco and the latter can win this match if he can prevent Delbonis teeing off from the baseline. That can happen by keeping Delbonis on the move and this match will be decided in a couple of tight sets which may go either way. I just feel Monaco is the better player and he is slightly overpriced to win this match and I will look for him to progress to the Second Round. Fernando Verdasco - 7.5 games v Taro Daniel: Taro Daniel has come through the qualifiers which can make him a dangerous First Round opponent for Fernando Verdasco who is certainly not the same player as a few years ago. The Spaniard is still capable of having runs in Grand Slams as Verdasco is very comfortable in a best of five set match and feels he can out-last others, but he can also be erratic which can give Daniel a chance. With that erraticism in mind, this might initially seem like a lot of games for Verdasco to cover, but Daniel doesn't usually play at the same level as the Spaniard. Daniel was comfortably beaten by Nicolas Almagro in Casablanca and he has the kind of serve that will offer Verdasco chances to get a double break in a single set. Verdasco himself will give Daniel some chances as he likes to go for his shots and can give away silly points when perhaps pushing too hard, but I think his power will eventually wear down what Daniel can do. As I have said before, any qualifier has to be respected with three wins behind them and Daniel has done a lot of winning at the Challenger level. However, I think Verdasco will come through a tight first set and then pull away in a 75, 63, 63 win and a cover of a big number of games. Dominic Thiem - 4.5 games v Aljaz Bedene: How weird is it to call Aljaz Bedene the British Number 2? But that is what Bedene is having won a Challenger in Rome and he also reached the Quarter Final in the main draw in Casablanca so confidence could be high that he can make an impact in the French Open by upsetting Dominic Thiem. That won't be easy as Thiem won his first main Tour title in Nice last week and has reached a career-high Number 31 coming into the French Open. He is considered one of the top talents on the ATP Tour and Thiem has always called the clay courts his favourite surface so it made sense he won his first title on this surface. This could actually be one of the more fun matches to watch on Monday as both players will look to play their shots, but I think the edge has to go to Thiem who should have a little more from the baseline. Thiem can sometimes be erratic when it comes to protecting his serve, but I think he will put plenty of pressure on Bedene's serve too and he should have the edge as long as he remains focused on the task at hand. It will be fun to watch however long it lasts, but Thiem can cover even in a four set win. Tommy Robredo - 5.5 games v Andrey Golubev: Andrey Golubev has entered the main draw at Roland Garros as a Lucky Loser and he will be hoping that his two wins in qualifiers from the three matches played will give him a chance to beat Tommy Robredo on his favoured surface. Golubev will look to take advantage of any match rustiness that Robredo displays after he returns to competitive action for the first time since Barcelona last month. It will be difficult for Golubev to beat Robredo if the latter is ready to go in Paris and not being troubled by any kind of injury. The match up looks a good one for Robredo as he should be able to extract plenty of errors from the Golubev game as the rallies are extended and the Spaniard remains one of the fittest players on the Tour. The Robredo serve can be a weakness so Golubev will feel he can have some chances to break and get himself involved in the match, but he has struggled to really perform on the main Tour over the last few seasons. Golubev is also more suited to the faster surfaces and I think that all comes together in this First Round match to see Tommy Robredo move through to the Second Round. There is a real chance this match needs to go at least four sets, but I think Robredo can earn a double break in one of the sets to move through with a 46, 64, 62, 64 win. Borna Coric v Sam Querrey: Borna Coric is another young player on the ATP Tour that is expected to be part of the next generation that will challenge for Grand Slam titles and perhaps reach the World Number 1 status. He has begun to make a real impact on the Tour already at 18 years old and Coric comes to Paris having reached the Semi Final in Nice last week. Admittedly this might not be the surface that suits Coric prefers, but two of his best performances on the Tour have come in clay court events and I was perhaps a little surprised to see him as the underdog to Sam Querrey in this First Round match. It is an intriguing contest as Querrey has the serve that can frustrate opponents, but he is not a comfortable performer on the clay courts and is just 4-8 in previous matches in Paris. The American has struggled on the European clay courts during the last month and Querrey is probably already looking forward to getting onto the grass courts. The serve makes this a more difficult match to predict as Querrey could frustrate Coric whose own serve is still developing and will give the American chances to break. However, I think Coric has an edge in terms of movement and rallying from the baseline and I believe he extracts enough mistakes from Querrey to move into the Second Round as the underdog. Adrian Mannarino - 3.5 games v Jurgen Melzer: I did have a couple of second thoughts about this pick because of Adrian Mannarino's poor 1-6 record at his home Grand Slam and his general struggles on the clay courts where he can't use the pace his opponents are bring to turn things around on them. Over the clay court season, Mannarino has won just 1 of 5 matches so you can understand my concerns, although I think the First Round match against Jurgen Melzer is the kind of match the Frenchman would have hoped for. A few years ago I would have made Melzer a big favourite to win this kind of match, but he has really slipped down the World Rankings and looks to be coming to the end of a decent career. Melzer has had a poor 2015 season and you could see the lack of confidence in his own game in his defeat to Joao Sousa last week in Geneva. There should be plenty of breaks in this match and it would be a real surprise if it is won in straight sets, but I think Mannarino is playing at a better level than Melzer in general these days. While the clay courts are not the type of surface Mannarino enjoys, he did win his first match at Roland Garros last season and I think he can come through with a 75, 36, 63, 64 win. Angelique Kerber - 5.5 games v Timea Babos: It has been a couple of lean seasons for Angelique Kerber having reached just one Grand Slam Quarter Final since July 2012, although the French Open has arguably been her most consistent Slam over the last four years. The German has been producing some top quality tennis since the move to the clay courts after a poor start to 2015 and I can see why some would have tipped Kerber up as a dark horse in this tournament. She won in Stuttgart, a big clay court title, but Kerber didn't really back that up effectively in Madrid or Rome which would be a negative against her. However, I think she will be too strong for Timea Babos in this First Round match on Monday, especially as Babos has had a tough time finding consistency on the clay courts over the last six weeks. Aside from a strong run in Marrakech, Babos has really struggled to earn wins and will always give opponents a chance to win sets with a double break of serve. The Kerber serve can be a little inconsistent too and she will have to do well on that front if she is to cover a big number, but I think she will find a way to do that in one set which will lead to a 64, 62 win. Sam Stosur - 5.5 games v Madison Brengle: Sam Stosur is no longer a legitimate contender to win Grand Slam events, but the French Open may provide her best opportunity to go deep in a Slam draw again. She is a former Finalist at the French Open and winning the tournament in Strasbourg last week will have given the Australian some confidence, even if the draw didn't have the big names the one in Paris does. Stosur can only take it a match at a time and see where that leads her and the first test is presented by Madison Brengle who has been struggling badly since reaching the Semi Final in Stuttgart. Four consecutive First Round losses coming into the French Open will have dented Brengle's confidence and I think the Stosur serve can keep her under pressure in this match. The kick serve Stosur employs is really effective on the clay courts and that should put her in a stronger position to hold serve compared with Brengle. Setting up short points on the clay and beginning to dictate the rallies is very important, while it will also allow Stosur to protect the backhand wing which is clearly a weakness in her game. If Stosur can serve well I would expect the scoreboard pressure to be very important in the match and allow her to wear down Brengle in a 75, 62 win. MY PICKS: Juan Monaco @ 1.73 Sky Bet (2 Units) Fernando Verdasco - 7.5 Games @ 2.00 Bet365 (2 Units) Dominic Thiem - 4.5 Games @ 1.91 Bet Fred (2 Units) Tommy Robredo - 5.5 Games @ 1.91 Bet365 (2 Units) Borna Coric @ 2.10 Betway (2 Units) Adrian Mannarino - 3.5 Games @ 1.91 Bet Fred (2 Units) Angelique Kerber - 5.5 Games @ 2.00 Sky Bet (2 Units) Sam Stosur - 5.5 Games @ 2.05 Bet Victor (2 Units) French Open Update: 4-1, + 5.84 Units (10 Units Staked, + 58.4% Yield) Labels: 2015, ATP, Betting, Betting Advice, Day 2 Picks, First Round, First Round Picks, Free Tennis Picks, French Open, French Open Picks, Grand Slam, Grand Slam Picks, May 25th, Tennis, Tennis Picks, Tennis Tips, WTA French Open Day 8 Picks 2015 (May 31st) Europa League Final 2015- Dnipro v Sevilla (Wednes... 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UZAMASA LIMELIGHT [Japan] – Thursday 21 April, 8pm By Jamie January 2, 2016 archive, Season 14 Films Season 14 concludes with this multiple award-winning story about an aging and unsung hero of Japanese samurai films who never gets the limelight – until now. Uzumasa (Kyoto) is considered the Hollywood of Japan. It has produced many “jidaigeki” films (period dramas with sword fighting) that are loved by many Japanese, and are highly praised all over the world. These films wouldn’t be what they were if it weren’t for the “kirareyaku” (actors whose main job is to be killed by the lead star). Men who are killed, without ever being lit by the limelight. This story is about those men, the unsung heroes of classic jidaigeki films. They loved and respected the art, even when the production of classic jidaigeki films began to dwindle. Using Charlie Chaplin’s film “Limelight” as an underlying theme, the admirable story of these men dealing with a new generation and fading craftsmanship is told with melancholy and soul. “movie magic” – The Los Angeles Times “Being killed on screen isn’t as easy as it looks, as actors who make their living by dying will attest…Owner of one of the great faces of Japanese cinema, Mr. Fukumoto, warm-eyed and hollow-cheeked, was made to be looked at. Dying with panache might be a near-obsolete talent, but holding an audience’s attention will never go out of style.” – The New York Times Click here for official website. Japan, 2014 | Language: Japanese | 103 minutes | Cert: CLUB Director: Ken Ochiai Starring: Seizo Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Goda
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The U.S. Supreme Court says the purpose of the civil RICO law is to turn us into "private attorneys general", "diligently investigating", and filing anti-racketeering lawsuits "in the public good". What is "civil RICO" ? Second in a series By Udo Birnbaum Below are my answers to questions I am frequently asked about civil RICO: What is "civil RICO"? Simply put, it is a provision put into the anti-racketeering law ("RICO") that allows one to bring a suit for damage that resulted from any other person‘s violation of RICO. You mentioned that civil RICO cuts through "procedural defenses". What are those? Well, simply put, it is all those papers that lawyers write to "show" the court that one does not really have a "cause", asking the judge to throw the case out. Well, like "summary judgment". That is when a lawyers claims that a case is missing an "element". What are "elements"? Well, lawyers speak English like most of us, except some of the words can have a different meaning. To them "elements" are what makes up a "cause of action". You got to have all of the "elements" to a cause of action. Who decides on the "elements"? Well, other lawyers who are judges. It is pretty well based on "precedent", what has been done before, for thousands of years. How can our law be that old? Well, we took a lot of it over from the English law, and they got it from the Romans, who got it from the Greeks, who got it from Mesopotamia down Iraq way thousands of years before Christ. Modified, of course. Yes, by our Constitution. And the laws passed by legislatures. This is called "statutory" law, as opposed to the "common law". Common law? What is that? The law of precedent, commonly referred to as "tort law". Remember all the talk in Austin about "tort reform". Give an example of a "tort" cause. Well, a "negligence" case, for example. The "elements" are 1) someone has a duty to do something, 2) he failed to do it, 3) someone was "damaged", as the lawyers say, and 4) it was "proximately caused by" the failure to do what one had a duty to do (like maybe keep banana peels off his sidewalk). So how can someone get "summary judgment" on a tort case? Suppose someone sues, claiming that someone was negligent in not painting his house green. Well, one normally does not have a duty to paint one’s house green. Element 1 is missing. Presto, summary judgment against him. Case out. Oversimplified, of course. What does all this have to do with civil RICO? Well, simply put, civil RICO gets around element one (1), duty. We all have a duty to obey the law. And RICO is the law. Also civil RICO gets around "summary judgment". More on that next time. Are you a lawyer? No. But I do speak from personal experience and concern for the public good. "Stop Courthouse Illiteracy" "Real progress and real reform won't happen without an understanding of the real truth". OpenJustice.US Pol. adv pd Udo Birnbaum 540 VZ CR 2916, Eustace, TX 75124
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ARMED ROBBERY DOLLAR GENERAL in Glen Daniel on August 12th The Raleigh County Sheriff`s Office is investigating an armed robbery that occurred at the Glen Daniel Dollar General on August 12th at approximately 9:55 PM. The offender is described as a male wearing a dark colored mask, gray hoodie and dark colored pants. He brandished a crowbar type weapon and demanded money - the clerks complied. During the robbery the offender did shove a female customer, causing her to fall to the ground. SOPHIA FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH June 12th The Sophia Police Department is investigating the theft of a flat screen television and a Blue Ray player from the Sophia Freewill Baptist Church on Wickline Avenue in Sophia. The theft occurred during the early morning hours of June 12th. SHADY SPRING LIBRARY - BREAKING/ENTER July 27 - 28th The Raleigh County Sheriff`s office is investigating the Breaking/Entering of the Shady Spring Public Library that occurred during the overnight hours of July 27th and 28th. Money was stolen fom the premises. ARMED ROBBERY June 21st Temple Street in Beckley The Beckley Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred on the 500 block of Temple Street at approximately 11:57 PM on June 21, 2012. The victim was approached by three Black males when one presented a gun and demanded her purse. The victim handed over her purse and all three males took off running towards Prince Street. The Black male who brandished the gun is described as wearing a dark shirt that was wrapped around his face. Another suspect was wearing black shorts and a blue and red striped shirt. All three suspects were around 5`6" to 5`9" tall. Multiple people have reported that three Black males that frequent the Hager Street Apartments were bragging that they were the ones that committed this robbery. BLACKTOP/PAVING SCAM Raleigh & Surrounding Counties Several residents in Raleigh County and surrounding communities have fallen victim to Blacktop Pavement scams recently. Even though the suspect was arrested and pled guilty to such charges in 2009 in a northern WV county, he and his accomplices continue to carry out these scams. Be wary if you are approached by subject(s) offering to apply blacktop and even more so if they state "that they will give you a good deal because it is blacktop left over from anothr job" - They will apply blacktop pavement, however the quality will be very poor an not worthy of the cost. It is suggested that if you are approached about a blacktop/paving job that you ask to see a business license. WALGREENS Beaver June 29th or 30th The Raleigh County Sheriff`s Office is investigating a break-in that occurred between 9:30 PM on June 29th and 1:00 AM on June 30th at the Walgreens in Beaver. Unknown person(s) forced entry into the store and stole some medication from the pharmacy while the store was experiencing a power outage. SHOOTING OF OAK HILL POLICEMAN - SGT. LEE KIRK on 06/13/12 The Fayette County Sheriff`s Office is investigating the shooting of Oak Hill Police Department Sergeant Lee Kirk that occurred during the early morning hours of Wednesday, June 13, 2012. The suspect is described as a Black male, medium height, medium to stocky build, approximately early to mid-20`s, with his hair worn in medium-length tight corn rows. The suspect has a medium-dark complexion and is believed to be right-handed. The suspect is believed to reside in or have ties to the local area of Whipple / Scarbro / Oak Hill / Mount Hope / Hilltop. A .25 caliber handgun was used in this shooting incident. June 20th ROBBERY PIZZA HUT DELIVERY DRIVER Beckley Beckley City Police are investigating an armed robbery of a Pizza Hut delivery driver on June 20th at approx 10:45 PM at th Willbrian Apartments. Three very skinny young Black males wearing blue bandanas, white tank tops and dark shorts took an undisclosed amount of money from the delivery man. One of the males, approx 5`9", pointed a long barreled silver pistol at the victim and demaded money. June 11th ROBBERY DOLLAR GENERAL Harper Heights The Raleigh County Sheriff`s Office is investigating an armed robbery at the Harper Heights Dollar General on June 11th at approximately 9:30 PM. The robbery was committed by a white male wearing a red hoodie, black ski mask and blue jeans, brandishing a club. He demanded money from the clerks and fled on foot wth the money. June 2nd ROBBERY LITTLE GENERAL STORE S. Eisenhower Drive Beckley The Beckley Police Department is investigating an armed robbery at the Little General Store located at 202 South Eisenhower Drive on June 2nd at 5:15 AM. The clerk was robbed at knife-point by a Black male wearing dark clothing, a hood over his head and something covering his face. The suspect left the store with an undisclosed amount of money, headed on foot towards Huffman Street. May 30th ROBBERY PIZZA HUT DELIVERY DRIVER BECKLEY The Beckley Police Department is investigating an armed robbery of a Pizza Hut delivery driver early Wednesday morning (shortly after midnight on May 30th). While the driver was paused at the STOP sign on Grey Flats Road & Armory Drive, a white male of average height and large build stepped out of the darkness to block the roadway and commit the armed robbery, covering his face with his Tshirt. The suspect then fled on foot toward Eisenhower Drive. The suspect has a large tattoo across his abdomen. ARMED ROBBERY - DOLLAR GENERAL Harper Road Beckley The Raleigh County Sheriff`s Office is investigating an armed robbery that occurred at the Harper Road Dollar General on May 13th at approximately 10:00 PM. Two males brandished weapons (one firearm and one club type weapon) and demanded money. The clerks complied and the males left the area on a red side-by-side ATV. The ATV possibly had camouflage netting on the side and may have been a Polaris RZR. ARMED ROBBERY @ City National Bank of store clerk Apr 29th On April 29th the Beckley Police Department responded to City National Bank at 1 Park Avenu in reference to an armed robbery. Between 1:45 PM and 2:10 PM, the victim entered the front foyer of the bank to make a deposit in the drop box when she was surprised by a Black male who had been waiting inside. The Black male subject, wearing a mask to cover his face, produced a handgun and demanded money from the victim who was ordered to lie on the floor and wait for the suspect to leave. The suspect, described as being between 25 and 35 years of age, got away with an undisclosed amount of money and other items stolen from the victim. Investigating Officer: Dave Allard, Beckley PD ROBBERY GO MART MACARTHUR April 30th The Raleigh County Sheriff`s Office is investigating an armed robbery at the GO MART in MacArthur on April 30th at approximately 9:30 PM. A white male entered the store wearing a dark colored hoodie, skull mask and blue jeans. He demanded money from the clerk and then fled the area in a dark colored vehicle toward Sophia. Investigating Officer: Detective L. Lilly, Raleigh County Sheriff Office MEDICAL ASSOC BREAKING/ENTERING GLEN DANIEL The Raleigh County Sheriff`s Office is investigating a Breaking & Entering at the Medical Associates of Glen Daniels during the late night hours of May 1st or early morning hours of May 2nd. Various items were taken during the breaking/entering. THEFTS FROM CAR WASHES Throughout Raleigh Co The Raleigh County Sheriff`s Office is investigating thefts from multiple car washes throughout the county wherein subjects have targeted the vacuum cleaners in most cases: April 8th Early morning hours: Bradley Speed Car Wash April 15th Late night hours: 119 Flat Top Road, Shady Spring April 15th - 16th: Scrubbies on Eisenhower Drive The Beckley Police Department is also working cases of similar thefts from car washes in Beckley. THEFT OF GUN SAFE LAYLAND/LAWTON AREA The Fayette County Sheriff`s Office and the National Park Service are conducting a joint investigation into the theft of a gun safe. On Friday, March 16th, between approximately 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM, suspects broke into a residence in the Layland/Lawton area and stole a large black or gray gun safe, approximately 6` tall by 4` wide. Since this crime occurred during daylight hours, investigators are hopeful that residents of the area may have seen the individuals loading or hauling the gun safe and can provide a description of the individuals and/or the vehicles used in the commission of this theft. The thieves are believed to be from the local area. BURGLARIES BOLT/GLEN DANIEL AREA The Raleigh County Sheriff`s Office is investigating several burglaries between the Bolt and Glen Daniels area. These burglaries hae occurred between the last of March through the first week of April, 2012. The items stolen range from jewelry and tools to clothing and digital cameras. ROBBERY ONE STOP HARPER ROAD BECKLEY On April 2nd this individual robbed the One Stop Convenience Store at 1937 Harper Road in Beckley. The individual is described as a white male, mid-twenties with brown hair and moustache. He displayed a handgun that was carried in his waistband. The individual left on foot headed west toward the interstate. COMPESTRE GRILL Harper Road Beckey WV The Beckley Police Department is investigating the Breaking & Entering of Campestr Grill at 1914 Harper Road in Beckley. On March 14th at approximately 12:30 AM a white male with dark hair wearing a light colored hoodie and dark shorts threw a rock at the window of Campestre Grill, entered the restaurant through the broken window, plundered th business and, carrying th cash register in hand, exited through the front door. The suspect cut himself somewhere on his body entering through the window as blood drops were located throughout the business. The white male is reported to have a medium build and to be of average height.
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Mobilis 1: Strubbelingen (2000) Title Mobilis 1: Strubbelingen Author Argé Nieuwenhuis Magazine Publication ZozoLala (2000, number 114) from the article "Mobilis 1: Strubbelingen (2000)": The series Mobilis of draftsman Christian Durieux and scenario writer Andreas seems promising. The edition of the album, like all other books in the Blitz series, has been given a lot of effort. Unfortunately, it could be better, and in Kortrijk they still have not looked hard enough for someone who could make a decent translation into Dutch. To my knowledge I have never "een tas thee gedronken", or had "een vieze haar in de staart". Although reading Heurts gave me some idea. These minor details do not make reading an album a pleasant undertaking and they take the speed from the story. Specially if it concerns the beginning of a new series, creating the conditions for the actual story. The story is set in the second half of 1992. The inexperienced writer Ross Nevada has trouble getting his debut novel published. This is followed by one setback after the other: his girlfriend leaves him, the original manuscript of his debut disappears without a trace, and his mailbox mysteriously keeps filling up more and more. Ross hitches a ride from an ufologist but is kicked out of the car in Nowhereville. At the end of Heurts a (semi)religious manuscript is delivered to him and he receives the assignment to write the biography of a billionaire. In the meanwhile somewhere in the South East of the US a UFO is discovered. So far the abstract of the story, or really the lack thereof. The first part of a series is always hard. The loose wires that should eventually form the the story. Moreover, the end of the album is not a cliffhanger that makes me yearn for more. The story has more shortcomings. For instance, why should we be interested in the problems of Ross Nevada? The only possible explanation is that he is named after the well-known American town Rosswell, where so many weather balloons crash. Undoubtedly, Nevada will be associated with the aliens in the newly discovered UFO, and, knowing Andreas, will be part of the crew of the vehicle. Unfortunately we have seen an earlier and more successful expression of an alien among men. And nobody is waiting for a mix of Rork and the X-files. Not even the solid, yet soulless drawings of Christian Durieux will help. Heurts is not a must-have. Maybe the rest of the Mobilis series will have some quality, but I fear the worst.
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On my favorite movies February 17, 2016 106 Comments Name your favorite movies. I’m gonna keep submitting this ’til you post em, beeyotch. Okay, okay. In no particular order and off the top of my head: Ferris Beuller’s Day Off Searching for Bobby Fisher Grosse Point Blank The Adventures of Baron Munchausen The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Raising Arizona The Godfather I and II Monty Python’s Life of Brian Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang L.A. Story (I know I’m forgetting some, so I reserve the right to revise and extend my list.) → On fun-sized advice ← On living your life 106 thoughts on “On my favorite movies” That one-l0ng-tracking-shot scene towards the end of Children of Men is nuts. It never fails to get me choked up. (This is a good mix of movies I love, movies I’ve been meaning to see, and movies I haven’t heard of but will put in my DVD queue.) My three favorite movies are Fargo, the Usual Suspects, and Silence of the Lambs. I feel so validated. Oh, and Mean Girls. The Coquette says: Heathers and/or Clueless are my Mean Girls. Rainbowpony says: Dude, you are like 35. Heathers is awesome!! I love Mean Girls as well though. I’m surprised Devil Wears Prada isn’t in here. Beasts! Its makers are good friends & almost definitely among your readers. They will be so pleased. How nice to feel connected to a piece of art that means something to you. Thank you for sharing all of this. Beasts moves me to tears every time I see it. Every time. I love that movie. It will always have a special place in my heart. That means so much. I will spread the word. There will be deep rejoicing. Sending love to you. FJ!! says: Nothing before 1969? I thought the same thing! I would’ve thought Coke had a penchant for the James Stewart or Humphrey Bogart era. (It Happened One Night- check it) I like Jimmy Stewart, but other than North by Northwest, I really don’t care for his movies. (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was okay, I guess.) As for Bogart, Casablanca and The Big Sleep are classics and I like them, but I don’t love them. Craig Russell says: North by Northwest is Cary Grant! Maybe you mean Rear Window or Vertigo? Either way, incredible list. You’re right. I was thinking of Vertigo. (I’d just finished typing North by Northwest in another comment and got my Hitchcock confused.) I hated Rear Window, though. Hated it. A/c says: No metropolis? Gaybeard says: She’s not a first year film student 😛 I had to see metropolis in music history class as a music major fyi. Why did you hate rear window? Wait, not even The Philadelphia Story? I feel similar to how (I think) she feels. I’ve studied a lot of film, and I’ve watched a lot of the classics, American and foreign. I love film history, I love digging through the old stuff, puzzling over the French New Wave and Neorealism and piecing the history together. I love the feeling of completion from finally seeing a classic I’ve been hearing about for years. However, I don’t really LOVE most of those grand old films. I appreciate Casablanca and Citizen Kane, and Kurosawa has a special place in my heart, but none of them resonate with me on a deep, emotional level the way movies from our era do. (There are exceptions, though. The biggest I can think of at this moment is Ikiru.) Crisco says: You forgot to add Cloud Atlas. Good lookin’ out. where is the pride & prejudice bbc miniseries!!!!! I’m also surprised that nothing before 1969 is on there. I thought that All About Eve, or Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? would be on there…. When I was a kid, my mother ruined me when it comes to old movies. (That’s all she ever watched, and therefore all I was allowed to watch.) There are a few that I like, though. Off the top of my head: Nice, high quality list. Holy shit, seeing Children of Men at the top of that list made me fall in love, just a little bit. ItchyTeeth says: Great selection! I love that you’ve included Point Break, a high point in cinematic history IMO. bathtubgin says: Children of Men. Goddamn, that movie hit me hard. Goodbye Ruby Tuesday. Bodallas says: Oh shiiiiet. Thanks for this. Sarah Woolley says: I approve of this list and I’m guessing that a lot of us will go and watch Cold Mountain. A movie I had dismissed along with Seabiscuit and other early 00s oscar folly. I’m so happy for everyone who will go and watch Working Girl for the first time because of this list. That movie is wonderful and I feel like it wouldn’t get made today. If you haven’t seen it I reckon you might like Jodorowsky’s Dune. Actually…knowing your favourite documentaries would be pretty sweet. KG says: I always use the Shawshank Redemption as a litmus test for working out whether someone’s taste in movies is any good. I find pretty much 100% of the time, you can write someone’s taste off immediately if they tell you they didn’t like Shawshank. My husband and I use Buckaroo Bonzai as our movie advice litmus test. If the adviser hasn’t seen it, we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but if they didn’t *like* it, well, clearly our tastes will not overlap. Love that you put Love Actually on there… I think it’s cheese af, but it’s kinda special to me for other reasons haha Honest trailers did a great one on youtube. I’m trying not to lose respect for coke because this is on the list. But hey we all have shit we like that other folks be like WUT. But since there’s other stuff on the list I totally approve of I guess we’re still cool. definitely not batman says: Aw, I love that you love The Fifth Element. I know it pretty much by heart and I’m surprised not more people do. Whenever I reference it, it falls flat. At least I had some personal satisfaction out of identifying myself as a “meat popsicle” at that horrible time when otherkin and such were a thing on Tumblr. Man I’m so glad I’m off that shit site. Bruce Willis in Fifth Element was my first crush and that movie will always have a special place in my heart. So good. HM says: I’m so glad Moonrise Kingdom is on there! And… are you talking about the old or the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (please say old)? I don’t even acknowledge the existence of the new one. There is only one Willy Wonka, and he is played by Gene Wilder. keeley says: PREACH. Young Frankenstein is also a superb Gene Wilder film! He’s the best. coskel says: This is confusing, but I agree. The Devil’s Advocate? rollertrain says: Reaaally creepy thriller. Loved it. Still kickin’ FWIW, and this could be a list I wrote myself Coke. Except I would have included The Philadelphia Story, just adore that film, sexism and all. Anonymous Poster says: I’d give you a fistbump for listing Clue if I could. And you have excellent taste, by the way. The astonishing amount of overlap between your list and mine makes me think we must have extremely similar values when it comes to movies and this makes me feel good. A bit high says: I had always pictured you as someone working in the music industry, but now my idea of you has changed into a movie producer or casting director or something of the like. This list is as impressive as it is intriguing. I love getting small glimpses into the life of Coketalk. I want to rewatch/watch all of these movies now! a long time reader says: It’s interesting you say that. I had also always imagined that she worked in film. But after seeing this list I’m 95% sure she hasn’t. No heavy hitter “canon” films that someone working in film would likely include. Very populist list. Which I should make clear isn’t a value judgement. Like whatever you like Coquette. I guess I was just expected to see some more foreign films (Kieslowski, Bergman, Tarkovski). Very interesting CQ There’s a difference between favorite films and best films. Honestly, I could write a cogent analysis of the French New Wave’s influence on Italian Neorealism, but that doesn’t mean I enjoy Godard or Fellini. The movies that I like are contemporary, fairly mainstream, and rarely foreign. I go to movies to feel big sloppy emotions. I’m in it to laugh or cry, not to think. I do plenty of thinking elsewhere. For me, movies are an escape. That’s just how I roll. Rimi says: This is almost exactly what I was saying to my boyfriend the other day! I love that Eternal Sunshine is on your list. It’s in my top few films I watch the death out of that film – probably seen it about seven times (usually stick it on after an awful argument because my brand of cathartic melodrama is kaufmanesque) and cry at something different each time. Sarsfield says: For big sloppy emotions, Inside Out is one of the best. It roller-coasted all the way, and while I knew it would have a happy ending, I loved letting go and feeling the cascading up and down of crying, laughing, then crying and then laughing, all the way through. I loved Inside Out. Niqi says: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Really? I have to admit that I was surprised it was on her list, but also delighted because it’s one of my favorites. It got me. (I was going through a breakup at the time.) Yes really says: That movie is amazing. Go somewhere else with your reallies. I just couldn’t stand the cliche manic pixie dream girl longass pretentious hipster title bullshit when I watched it. But if it hit an emotional nerve with Coquette, I can respect that. bch says: sorry I can’t let this go, Eternal Sunshine is a deconstruction of the MPDG trope, not an example of it It’s fucking amazing. Barefootsie says: Apropo of nothing, I like the new logo. I’m sure it’s temporary like the other one was, but but I still dig it. Plagarism says: Wait, what new logo? Pretty sure they meant tagline. I did! My bad. You have named a lot of my favorite movies. I will have to check out some of the titles that I have not seen. That’s the Gene Wilder Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, right? I love that one, I used to watch it to go to sleep. Surprised to see Love Actually on here, though I freely admit to being heavily biased against it. But in general, this is a really solid list. What’s the cause of your bias? Sincerely asking because I can’t make up my mind about that movie. Surprised by Cold Mountain. Is it because of the music? Also surprised that The Craft isn’t up there. The crap? They really needed a better technical advisor. thorn says: I’m going to recommend maybe the first 45 minutes to an hour of Bad Boy Bubby. The means by which they reach the ending are… not for me… but the first half had such promise for being a fascinating thought experiment about alienation and confinement since birth. Don’t research it at all. Just watch it. Also, I was gonna light my hair on fire about the absence of Blue Velvet but I haven’t watched that movie in about a decade. I hope it aged well One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? “The secret ingredient is love” Interstellar is a very interesting failure. The scene where Matthew McConaughey tries to convince Matt Damon to stop head butting him by telling him that he has a 50/50 chance of cracking his own visor and Damon’s character responds “50/50? I haven’t had odds like that in years!” made me laugh so hard I cried. That whole fight was just, so funny and amazing. perspectivator says: Well. Now I have proof you’re not perfect. 🙂 While I’m thrilled Being There is on the list, I’m fucking shocked that Network isnt. PS I Love You is another good sobfest cheesy movie that I love :d P.S. I Love You is a vomfest Agreed. I’m super surprised coke likes these cheesy love films. It just seems so against what I’ve read of hers over the years. Full of surprises! Some I totally get. But that movie in particular I found unbearable. For me there is a different between a good cheesy movie and a bad one. Although it’s subjective I’m sure! I do like some fairly terrible movies . I like some pretty awesome ones too though 🙂 As do I! This list is ace. What about… Léon: The Professional? I adore this film. It’s pretty close to making my list, but not quite. I did not get why people liked that film. Once was plenty. Perhaps I would prefer it better as a novel than a film tho. Maybe.. Jen W says: This list jibes so well with mine, I love it! LA Story forever. What about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World? BUCKAROO BANZAI. Yes forever. Yes. Forever. Quinn says: How do you feel about Hedwig and the Angry Inch? It is everything I want from a movie. Amadeus, Buehler, Heathers and Buckaroo? Either you watched some fun movies at a young age, or you are older than I thought. Those are the movies of my teenish years, and I’m 45. You *might* enjoy Better off Dead, it certainly gave me the big emotions, and held up well when I watched it later. Spirited Away is also awesome, if you haven’t seen it. Swamp Ass says: Defending Your Life was great. And if I can throw a recommendation back, Chris Morris’s 2011 comedy “Four Lions.” Cinéma Paradiso. Amadeus is a real masterpiece. It is funny how movie lists can leave people surprised or even judgmental. It is possible for people to like both cheesy movies and movies that make people think. Like CQ though, I generally watch movies to be entertained. surprised no Peter Greenaway on that list. The Draughtsmans Contract is pretty wonderful. Most folks jump all over The Cook, The Thief,His Wife and Her Lover, but my vote is for early Greenaway. I love True Romance! I’m sure you’ve seen it but just in case, Natural Born Killers! Also, it’s been mentioned by Quinn but I’d also recommend Hedwig. Nah, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell. His Girl Friday. Other movies can do a lot of things, but you want sex on the screen without any sex, you want comedy, you want pathos, you want romance, this is your film. Watch it. Randy not Randy says: So if I give Mia a foot massage in Marcellus absence have I committed adultery? dk says: Have you seen Antonia’s Line? My favorite movie ever, and now one of my daughter’s since I shared it with her last year when she was 16. Funny, charming, sex-positive. Big Lebowski is on this list and that is a very important thing. HB says: I would have thought that Gone With the Wind (and Scarlett) might have spoken to you. Pikk says: 12 Angry Man ? Right on List! Wish I hadn’t seen most of these already, that’d be a blast. How ’bout Inception… Wings of Desire, Hair, Pappilon and for something completely different: Fletch! Love the list, remembering Working Girl and its ear worm of a theme song & Ordinary People makes me think of Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting telling Mat Damon, ‘it’s not your fault!!!!’, except better. No Vanilla Sky? Damn. Oh man, Dead Poets Society made me cry before Robin Williams’ passing, but now? Gets me in floods every time. I’ve loved several movies of his – Good Will Hunting, Good Morning Vietnam, even Jumanji (…nostalgic childish delight is a powerful thing). How do you feel about The Blues Brothers? Leave a Reply to The Coquette Cancel reply
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~Freemasonry~ Papal Condemnations of Freemasonry Pope Leo XIII 1878-1903 Pope Leo XIII, successor of Pius IX, upon instructions from the Holy Office, dealt, first of all, with the Brazilian Masonic question on July 2nd, 1878. Then later, addressing the whole Church, on April 20, 1884, Pope Leo XIII published his magnificent Encyclical "Humanum Genus." Taking up once again Saint Augustine's pages concerning the two cities which, on earth, constitute the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan, the Pontiff reviews the considerable development which Freemasonry has taken and writes: "Today evil doers all seem allied in a tremendous effort inspired by and with the help of a society powerfully organized and widely spread over the world, it is the Society of Freemasons. In fact those people no longer even try to dissimulate their intentions, but they actually challenge each other's audacity in order to assail God's August Majesty. "It is now publicly and overtly that they undertake to ruin the Holy Church, so as to succeed, if it is possible, in the complete dispossession of Christian nations of all the gifts they owe to Our Savior Jesus Christ. "As a result, in the space of a century and a half, the sect of the Freemasons has made incredible progress. Making use at the same time of audacity and cunning, Masonry has invaded all the ranks of social hierarchy, and in the modern States it has begun to seize a power which is almost equivalent to Sovereignty. In order to strengthen those enlightened observations, Leo XIII refers to his predecessors and writes: "This peril was denounced for the first time by Pope Clement XII in 1738, and the Constitution promulgated by that Pope was renewed and confirmed by Benedict XIV; Pius VII followed in the footsteps of those Pontiffs, and Pope Leo XII including in his Apostolical Constitution 'Quo Graviora' all the deeds and decrees of the preceding Popes on that subject, ratified and confirmed them for ever. Popes Pius VIII, Gregory XVI and on several occasions Pope Pius IX spoke in the same manner." Whereas he approved and confirmed all the Pontifical condemnations issued against Freemasonry from those of Clement XII in 1738, Leo XIII moreover more amply exposed the reason for such actions and gives as his motive for acting thus: "It is because of the fundamental aim and spirit of the Masonic sect which has been exposed in full light through the evident manifestation of its deeds, the acquired knowledge of its principles, its rules, its rites and its commentaries to which have been added the testimonies of its own adepts . . . "It is exceedingly important to bring to the notice of all peoples to what extent events confirmed the wisdom of our predecessors. Their foresight and paternal soticitude did not always attain the desired success. This failure must be ascribed on the one hand either to the dissimulation and cunning of men members of this pernicious sect or, on the other hand, to the imprudent lightness of character of those who should, however, have been highly interested in watching it attentively" Leo XIII refers frequently to the hypocrisy which is the basis of "White Freemasonry" and mentions the fatal evolution of its revolutionary aims which turns it into "Red Masonry." Upon being attentively studied this Encyclical most strikingly reveals the triple Masonic character, namely that its aims are: Counter-Morality Counter-State Counter-Church 1. Counter Morality The Pope defines the Masonic point of view on morality thus: "The only thing which has found grace before the members of the Masonic sect and in which they request that youth should receive the proper teaching is what they call 'Civic Morality', independent morality, free morality, in other words a morality in which religious beliefs find no room. This morality is insufficient and its effects are its own condemnation. "Furthermore there have been found in Freemasonry several sectarians who have maintained that all means are to be systematically used, in order, to saturate the multitudes with licentiousness and vices; because in their opinion peoples would naturally fall into their hands and become the instruments needed for the accomplishment of their most audacious evil projects. Such counter-morality is that of civil marriage, of divorce, of free love and of irreligious education for youth. "It aims at the complete destruction of the main foundations of justice and honesty. In this way Freemasons make themselves the auxiliaries of those who wish that, like an animal, man had no other rule of conduct than his own desires -- Such a scheme can only dishonor human kind and ignominiously cast him into perdition." 2. Counter State On this subject Pope Leo XIII foresaw that Freemasonry, "the power which is almost equivalent to sovereignty," and which already occupied the place of "State within the State," would soon form the Super State. It is from such a situation that there was issued the Masonic dogma of separation of Church and State; thence, issued also the anti-religious laws which Brother Bethmont, member of Parliament of the department of Charente Inf'erieure and former President of the Cour Des Comptes, in 1878 was explaining to Monseigneur Pie, Bishop of Poitiers. The prelate then said to him: "Sir, I believe you want to inaugurate anew the fight against the Church; have you any hope of succeeding there, where Nero, Julian the Apostate and your great ancestors of the 1793 French Revolution failed? -- He replied: "Your Eminence, at the risk of seeming too bold, I will say that those ,you have mentioned did not quite know how to act. We shall do much better. Violence against the Church leads nowhere, we shall use other means. We shall organize a persecution which shall be both clever and legal; we shall surround the Church with a network of laws, decrees and ordinances which will stifle it without shedding one drop of blood." Who, may I ask, is making those closely woven nets of laws, decrees and ordinances? The State, of course, but it is a Masonic State, an irreligious State under the power of a Super State which at the present moment is the Ruler of the World. When Leo XIII adjures his Venerable Brethren to unite their zeal to his own efforts in order, "to annihilate the impure contagion of the poison which flows in the veins of human society and causes a state of total infection," it is with a feeling of fear that one brings to mind the death sentence pronounced against humanity in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." "When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism its whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with a mortal illness -- bloodpoisoning. All that remains is to await the end of their death agony." Thus, while States are gravitating toward a Universal Republic, the Super-State becomes an infrangible dictature, which according to its will grinds them down or else thoroughly infects them; that Super State is called Judeo-Masonry. 3. Counter Church Hence the supreme aim of the Sect, as it has been pointed out by the Popes, is none other than the complete destruction of the Church and the Papacy. Pope Leo XIII persistently underscores this rigorous consequence and says: "Since the proper and very special mission of the Catholic Church consists in the safeguarding of the incorruptible purity of the doctrines revealed by God, as well as that of established authority for their teaching and other God given help for the salvation of mankind; it is inevitable that the major antagonism and most violent attacks of the Sect should be directed against the Church . . . Therefore, even at the cost of a lengthy and opinionated labor the Sect's purpose is to reduce to naught the teaching, and authority of the Church among the civilian population. . . "The enmity of the sectarians against the Apostolic See of the Roman Pontiff has increased its intensity . . . until now the evil doers have reached the aim which had, for a long time that of their evil designs, namely, their proclamation that the moment has come to suppress the Roman Pontiff's sacred power and to completely destroy this Papacy which was divinely instituted." Lastly, Leo XIII concludes in unmasking the Satanism of Judeo-Masonry: "The facts which we have reviewed throw sufficient light upon inner constitution of Freemasons and show clearly the road they are following in order to reach their goal. Their chief dogmas are so completely and manifestly opposed to sane reason that it is difficult to imagine deeper perversion. In reality is it not the peak of madness and of the most audacious impiety to be so presumptuous as to want to destroy the religion and the Church created by God Himself: and assured of His perpetual protection; and after 18 centuries to want to replace it with the customs and institutions of pagans? "Still no less horrible nor easy to bear to witness the repudiation of those gifts which, in His mercy, Jesus Christ bestowed first on individuals, then to human beings grouped both in families and in nations. Even the enemies of Christianism acknowledge the supreme value of those gifts. "There is no denying that in this foolish and criminal plan it is easy to understand the implacable hatred and passion for revenge which animate Satan toward Jesus Christ. We refuse to follow the dictates of such iniquitous masters that bear the names of Satan and of all evil passions." 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Galapagos, Glimpses of Nepal - KATHMANDU, CHITWAN, POKHARA & TREK CALL US TODAY 801-466-8811 OR MAKE A RESERVATION General Information & Travel Tips Skeletal Itenerary Day 1 Arrive Kathmandu Day 2 Half Day sightseeing tour in Kathmandu Day 3 Drive to Chitwan en-route rafting Day 4 Full day Jungle activities Day 5 Drive to Pokhara Day 6 Drive to Nayapul / Trek to Ghandruk Day 7 Trek back to Nayapul /drive to Pokhara Day 8 ​Drive back to Kathmandu Day 9 Final departure Detail Itenerary ​Arrive Kathmandu / Local Live Band in Thamel Welcome to Nepal! It is a panoramic thrill flying into Kathmandu on a clear day. The views of snow-capped mountain peaks sprawling down below you are almost ecstatic, beginning a whole chain of memorable experiences that stay with you for a long, long time. A representative and driver from Enchanting Adventures will meet you at the airport with welcome garland and escort you to Hotel. The representative will help you check into Hotel. Check in and Overnight at Hotel. Optional Mountain Flight / Half Day Sightseeing Tour / Pm: Free One of the must-see landmarks of Nepal is, of course, the highest peak in the world – Mount Everest. An awe-stricken silence comes close to matching the experience of a mountain flight. For one hour, you’ll fly over the Eastern Himalayan Ranges of Nepal where some of the highest peaks in the world including Mt. Everest lie for a surreal feeling as you come face to face with the world’s tallest and most enigmatic of Mountains. Even those visitors who like the rigors of a trek won’t miss the opportunity to “conquer” the mountains in one stunning swoop. After breakfast at the hotel, commence the sightseeing tour of Pashupatinath and Boudhanath. PASHUPATINATH: Pashupati Temple stands in the center of the town of Deopatan, in the middle of an open courtyard. It is a square, two-tiered pagoda temple built on a single-tier plinth, and it stands 23.6 meters above the ground. Richly ornamented gilt and silver-plated doors are on all sides. On both sides of each door are niches of various sizes containing gold-painted images of guardian deities. Inside the temple itself is a narrow ambulatory around the sanctum. The sanctum contains a one-meter high linga with four faces (chaturmukha) representing Pashupati, as well as images of Vishnu, Surya, Devi and Ganesh. The priests of Pashaputinath are called Bhattas and the chief priest is called Mool Bhatt or Raval. The chief priest is answerable only to the King of Nepal and reports to him on temple matters on a periodic basis. Pashaputi Temple's extensive grounds include many other old and important temples, shrines and statues. South of the temple, for instance, is Chadeshvar, an inscribed Licchavi linga from the 7th century, and north of the temple is a 9th-century temple of Brahma. On the south side of Pashupati temple is the Dharmashila, a stone where sacred oaths are taken, and pillars with statues of various Shah Kings. The Bagmati River, which runs next to Pashaputinath Temple, has highly sacred properties. Thus the banks are lined with many ghats (bathing spots) for use by pilgrims. Renovating or furnishing these sites has always been regarded as meritorious. Arya Ghat, dating from the early 1900s, is of special importance because it is the only place where lustral water for Pashupatinath Temple can be obtained and it is where members of the royal family are cremated. The main cremation site is Bhasmeshvar Ghat, which is the most-used cremation site in the Kathmandu Valley. The preferred bathing spot for women is the Gauri Ghat, to the north. We carry on the sightseeing tour of the BOUDHANATH: the world’s largest stupa. It is a site of great reneration to the Buddhists. Bouddhanath is the center of Tibetan culture in Nepal. The 36-meter-high stupa of Bouddhanath is one of the largest stupas in South Asia. Bouddhanath Stupa was renovated by Licchavi rulers in the eighth century. The mandala design in Bouddhanath is a copy of the one in Gyangtse in Tibet. The stupa is located in the area of ancient trade route to Tibet where Tibetan merchants rested and offered prayers for many centuries. When refugees entered Nepal from Tibet in the 1950s, many decided to live around Bouddhanath. Hence, a complete township has developed around Bouddhanath. The stupa is said to entomb the remains of a Kasyap sage venerable both to Buddhists and Hindus. Smaller stupas are located at the base. Gompa monasteries, curio shops, and restaurants surround Bouddhanath. PM: Free. Drive to Chitwan En-route Rafting Drive to Chitwan - 180kms (approx. 05/06 hours) en-route rating at Trishuli river. Rafting on the Trishuli River is an excellent opportunity to observe the diversity of demography, landscapes, and cultural heritage and the flora and fauna. You can experience the thrills of white-water on the course of three days trip. This can be degraded as per your interest and time. The Trishuli River is the most easily accessible from Kathmandu, Pokhara and Royal Chitwan National Park by far a trip on this river can be made for a varied duration, depending upon the availability of time and interest. Scenic valleys and impressive gorges, exhilarating rapids and easier sections as well as the right amount of time all make it the perfect trip for first-time or experienced rafters. During the monsoon, Trishuli River promises a more challenging ride, with powerful rapids and whirlpools. When the river is running high and wild, there are hardly any rafters around, and rafting on the Trishuli River is without a doubt the most exciting thing you can do in Nepal during monsoon and quite possibly one of the best two days big water rafting trips offered anywhere. There are numerous exciting rapids as the name of Snail's nose, Teendevi, Malekhu rapid, Monkey rapid, Upset, Surprise, Monsoon, Cotton Pony, Ladies Delight, S-Bend, Highway, Monsoon and Pinball Rapid. This makes your fun more challenging during high flows with a good mixture of continuous rapids and pleasant calm water. Kuringhat, a small and picturesque village is an ending spot from where you can drive to Kathmandu or Royal Chitwan National Park or Pokhara to continue your adventure in the Himalayas. For a country known for its beautiful mountains, the gigantic flat lands of Terai that stretches throughout the southern part of Nepal; provide a wholly different experience section on the Terai. A visit to Nepal remains incomplete without seeing the beauty of the Terai. The Royal Chitwan National Park, established in 1973, provides a great wildlife experience with its rich flora and fauna, breakfast at the hotel. The wildlife and the landscape are not as breathtaking as those found in Africa but still, the experience will stand out. Chitwan is only 150m above the sea level. The place gets steamy from March-June, with peak temperatures reaching 43°C in the shade. Short grass makes Feb-May the best game-viewing season, but the autumn months are gorgeous, with Himalayan views, and in winter (December-January), Chitwan is pleasantly warmed compared to Kathmandu. The monsoon season (July-August) is intense, with pounding rain, swollen rivers, and luxuriant vegetation. While the rain isn't constant, the humidity is all pervasive. Check In and Overnight at Resort. Full Day Jungle Activities Breakfast at the resort. Full-Day Jungle activities: ELEPHANT SAFARI: Seated high on the back of an elephant, gain a unique viewpoint of the Chitwan jungle. As an experienced mahout tracks animals through the dense jungle growth as you sit back on a howdah, you can imagine yourself being a Rajah or Rani going on a shooting trip (with cameras of course!) in the days of yore. An elephant safari allows you to go places that would be impossible to get to by foot or Jeep and get up close to the wild animals of the jungle that are normally wary, but at home with a fellow creature of the jungle. BIRD WATCHING: Chitwan is an ornithologist’s delight and a must for any serious twitcher, as more than 450 species of exotic birds such as the Oriental Pied Hornbill, Paradise Flycatcher, and Lesser Adjutant Stork congregate at this biological hotspot of Asia. Our experienced guides will take you to select spots ideal for birding, where you can observe a breathtaking diversity of these beautiful feathered creatures. CANOEING: Let your mind wander and relax as you float on a serene trip down the Rapti River in a traditional dugout canoe. Spot crocodiles and other reptiles sunning themselves on the riverbanks, or admire the graceful lines of Ibises and other waterfowl as you travel silently and peacefully down the river. This activity is available October to mid-March only, when the water level in the Rapti is neither too low nor too high. NATURE WALK: Take an exciting and invigorating walk through the lush sub-tropical jungles of Chitwan. Our trained naturalists take you to prime spots to view deer, rhinos, sloth bears and other wildlife. They will also give you interesting information about the various plants and animals of the jungle throughout your walk. ELEPHANT BRIEFING: Learn more about this gentle giant during our daily elephant briefing. Our expert naturalists will inform you of various facts about the life and habits of the wild and domestic pachyderms, enlighten you as to the differences between the African and Asian elephants, and other interesting titbits. You can also request to learn how to ride one of these magnificent beasts during the briefing. SWIMMING & ELEPHANT BATHING: Cool off on one of the scorching summer days by taking a refreshing dip in the waters of the Rapti River – hope you don't mind an elephant in the tub! You can help bathe the elephants, and get a unique "shower" as well! This activity is only offered in the warmer months (March to July, please inquire), as it is too cold for the elephants in winter. OBSERVATION TOWER: Feel like stout Cortez as you gaze across the beautiful vista of the grasslands and jungle high in this 22ft wooden tower or machan. The observation tower lets you quietly observe wildlife who are blissfully unaware of your presence, as well as allow you a chance to just relax and take in the views. Overnight at Resort. Drive to Pokhara After breakfast at the resort we drive to Pokhara - 180kms (approx. 05/06 hrs) Pokhara is a remarkable place of natural beauty. At an elevation lower than that of Kathmandu, it has much more tropical feel to it; a fact well appreciated by the beautiful diverse flowers that prosper in this environment. The enchanting city with a population of around 95,000 has several beautiful lakes and offers stunning panaromic views of Himalayan peaks. The valleys surrounding Pokhara is home to thick forest, gushing rivers, emerald lakes and of course, the views of world famous Himalayas. The serenity of the lakes and the magnificence of the Himalayas rising behind them create an ambience of peace and magic. Pokhara is the most popular destination for visitors to Nepal. The city is also known as the center of adventure. There is little in its past by way of neither history nor culture impact and the only important role that the old Pokhara played was that it was along the route of trade between India and Tibet. Today it is one of the fastest developing cities of Nepal, mainly due to tourism. The natural beauty of its lakeside location and its proximity to the mountains has made it the natural choice for trekkers and adventures. Pokhara is also the base for some of most famous trekking circuits of Nepal. By itself surrounding area provides ample scope for short walk and day trips, suitable for children or weary trekkers, which can be made around the valley. Drive to Nayapul / Trek to Ghandruk Today, after breakfast in Hotel we leave Pokhara for Nayapul (New Bridge) by private transportation, through Dhampus Phedi, Naudanda, Kande, Lumle and finally you reach at Nayapul (1070m). It’s about one hour drive then your trek will be begins from here just few minute walk down then easy flat walk to Birethanti (1025m) then cross the modi river then right turn to go for Ghandruk village though passing a beautiful village Syauli Bazaar (1220m) and climb Kimche (1640m) until higher part after that flat and uphill to Ghandruk village (1940m). On the trail you will see beautiful view of Modi Khola, Annapurna south, Hiunchuli, fishtail and beautiful landscape. Dinner and overnight at local tea house. Trek back to Nayapul / Drive to Pokhara Trek from Ghandruk to Nayapul via Birethanti takes about six hours. You begin your trail following gentle flat path passing through forests, rocks and terraces. After Kimche (1638m.) the trail descends through human settlements and terraces up to Seuli Bazaar. From here, the trail moves along the bank of Modi Khola to Birethanti. En- route, you pass through forests, rice terraces, waterfalls and green scenarios. Birethanti is a small town with few lodges, shops and human settlements. Now, you walk for almost twenty minutes through flat path up to Nayapul (New Bridge), after reaching at Nayapul we drive to Pokhara. Dinner and overnight at Hotel. Drive back to Kathmandu Drive back to Kathmandu (approx. 06/07 hours). Check in at the hotel. Evening free time, so you can have a great shopping experience at the local tourist market - THAMEL. Thamel is a popular tourist destination in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is a full Wi-Fi zone in Nepal. Thamel has been the centre of the tourist industry in Kathmandu for over four decades starting from the hippie movement when many artists came to Nepal and spent weeks in Thamel. Even though Thamel has been referred to as the "ghetto" by some, most low-budget travelers consider it a tourist heaven. Its concentration of narrow streets are lined with small shops selling everything from food and provisions to clothes, walking gear, cakes, pastries, music, DVDs, handicrafts, travel agents and budget hotels. The area has some very good restaurants. Although prices tend to be significantly higher than non-tourist areas, food hygiene is generally a lot better too. Thamel also acts as the pre-base camp for mountaineers. It boasts a wide range of mountaineering gear shops, foreign money exchange booths, pubs, clubs and nightlife along with the numerous travel agents, and guest houses. All in all, Thamel is home to a wide range of audience of the Nepalese population for entertainment and employment purposes. On Wednesday, 28 September 2011, Thamel was declared a full Wi-Fi zone in Kathmandu. We ensure that you will leave Kathmandu with cherishing memory and an experience of a lifetime. Our representative from Enchanting Adventures will drive you to the airport in time for your flight back home. Have a Pleasant Journey! Eastern Travel 2900 South State Street, Suite 260 We are a proud member of © 2020 Eastern Travel · Privacy · Terms Designed and developed by Nicholas Chow and Sigmund Chow
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PROPERTY MODERNISATION Dyfi Renovations Ltd We have over 30 years combined experience Enhance your property No Building job too small We work with you, for the best results Experience in Delivering Large Projects in 2012 the Old Fish Shop in Aberdyfi was purchased with the intention of converting it into an Art Gallery. The original plan was to renovate the property, however as work progressed it became clear that there were serious structural issues with the building and the decision was taken to demolish it. Planning permission was obtained on the basis that the new building would match the design of the old building. The work proved to be extremely challenging, due to the location of the property and it's proximity to the village square, which is very busy during the summer months. One of the main challenges we faced were having to match the new building's appearance to the that of the old building, whilst complying with modern building regulations. Working closely with the Building Inspector and Structural Engineer, we completed the new Art Gallery on time and with complimentary reviews from Snowdonia National Park, Locals and Visitors alike. ‹›x Dyfi Renovation Awards Our mission is to ensure the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) is recognised as the best trade association in the construction industry, committed to quality and service. The FMB aims to: Provide business tools and services which allow FMB member firms to win more work and operate efficient and effective businesses Ensure that FMB membership provides credibility and the FMB logo is recognised as the sign of building quality to provide members with a competitive edge Provide a strong collective voice to policy makers and the media that enables the concerns of FMB member firms to be heard and acted upon by government Dyfi Renovations won the prestigious Builder of the Year award for work completed on Xanthus in 2012. Contact Dyfi Renovation Dyfi Renovations Ltd., 6, Prospect Place Aberdyfi LL35 0EY info@dyfi-renovations.co.uk Dyfi Renovations Aberdyfi, LL35 0EY
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Pre-Conference EventsPDF Version Click on presenter name if blue for bio and photo. If the presenter had a PowerPoint presentation and allowed us to post it, there will be a "Presentation" link following their name. Click on "Presentation" to open a PDF version. The first three sessions also have a video recording. Click on "Video Recording" to open YouTube to view the video. Conference Registration (Ballroom Foyer, Ballroom Level) State Energy Office Director and Staff Training (NASEO State and Affiliate Members and Invited Guests Only) (Longworth Room, Ballroom Level) NASEO will provide foundational guidance on a range of key energy issues. This instructor-led session is a forum for discussion and learning among State Energy Office directors and senior personnel. Topics include: Engaging in NASEO; Federal Appropriations and the Legislative Process; Ten Things Every State Energy Office Needs to Know; U.S. State Energy Program Basics; and Leveraging Private Sector Expertise. David Terry - Presentation, Executive Director, NASEO Corporations, Investors, and Clean Energy Workshop (State Energy Offices and Invited Corporate and Investment Representatives Only) (Ballroom I, Ballroom Level) Corporate energy consumers and their investors are increasingly focused on strategies to improve energy efficiency, procure renewable energy, and support policy and program frameworks that enable clean energy investments. This workshop, co-hosted by NASEO and Ceres, will feature a dialogue among State Energy Offices and Ceres members, including consumer brand companies and mutual fund companies. Key insights to be explored include: how corporations are procuring clean energy; how investors view these developments and the implications for the companies and utilities; and how state policies and programs support these efforts. Participants will include State Energy Offices and representatives from Calvert Investments, E Bay, Impax Asset Management, and other private firms. (Lunch will be provided.) David Terry, Executive Director, NASEO Brandon Smithwood, Senior Manager, Policy Program, Ceres U.S. State Energy Program Competitive Project Meeting (State Energy Offices by Invitation Only) (Ballroom I, Ballroom Level) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs meeting will convene State Energy Offices selected under the FY’14 U.S. State Energy Program competitive process. Amy Royden-Bloom, State Energy Program Supervisor, Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs, U.S. Department of Energy Exhibitor Set-up (Ballroom Foyer, Ballroom Level) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Concurrent Sessions) NASEO Regional Meetings (NASEO State and Affiliate Members Only) The NASEO regional meetings provide an opportunity for states to meet in-person with their colleagues to discuss program and policy implementation and share lessons learned. Each region will follow a meeting agenda tailored to the priorities of the states in the region. NASEO Southeast Regional Meeting (Ballroom I, Ballroom Level) Brian Henderson, Southeast Regional Coordinator, NASEO NASEO Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Regional Meeting (Dumbarton Room, Second Floor) Chuck Clinton, Senior Advisor and Lead Regional Coordinator, NASEO NASEO Western Regional Meeting (Longworth Room, Ballroom Level) William Nesmith, Western Regional Coordinator, NASEO NASEO Central Regional Meeting (Culpeper Room, Ballroom Level) Melissa Savage, Central Regional Coordinator, NASEO NASEO Midwest Regional Meeting (Decatur Room, Ballroom Level) NASEO Board of Directors Meeting (NASEO State and Affiliate Members Only) (Culpeper Room, Ballroom Level) NASEO’s Board of Directors Meeting will cover programmatic and administrative updates of the organization. Janet Streff, Manager, State Energy Office, Minnesota Department of Commerce; Chair, NASEO Board of Directors NASEO Energy Policy Outlook Conference Conference Registration and Exhibit Hall (Ballroom Foyer, Ballroom Level) Continental Breakfast (Ballroom Foyer, Ballroom Level) Welcome and Opening Remarks (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) [Video Recording] This year’s NASEO Energy Policy Outlook Conference will focus on practical energy policies for economic growth and modernizing the nation’s energy infrastructure to achieve a more resilient, sustainable, and energy efficient future. The opening session will set the stage for the conference. Tommy Wells, Acting Director, District Department of the Environment Infrastructure Modernization: Examining the Impacts of Energy Supplies, Markets, and Trends (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) [Video Recording] The Federal Government’s Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) – a U.S. Department of Energy-led, multi-agency, review and analysis of energy infrastructure modernization needs and opportunities – is set to be released in early 2015. This session offers an early, in-depth presentation on the findings and recommendations of the QER, state and private sector grid modernization opportunities, and federal-state efforts to enhance energy assurance and emergency response preparedness. Dr. Ernest Moniz, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy America is Kicking It’s Imported Oil Habit – How Far and Fast Can We Go? (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) [Video Recording] After a decade of decline, North American oil production is back and has contributed to the lowest gasoline prices for consumers since 2009. Declining equipment costs, enhanced drilling techniques, increased fuel efficiency, changing demographics, and an increase in renewables are increasing America’s oil exports while simultaneously decreasing our dependence on foreign oil. Where is all of this good news headed? This thought-leader session examines these important questions and what it means for state and federal policy and the future of oil investments. Edward Morse, Global Head of Commodities, Citi Research Adam Sieminski, Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration 9:45 am - 11:30 am (Concurrent Sessions) Session One: Microgrids and Combined Heat and Power – Traction, Trends, and Opportunities (Ballroom I, Ballroom Level) Years of experience and efforts to open market opportunities for combined heat and power (CHP) and microgids are showing increasing results. This session explores lessons learned about successful deployment policies, applications, and opportunities. Presentations will offer details on successful project drivers, system resilience options, and air quality compliance opportunities. Robert Underwood, Energy Administrator, Delaware Division of Energy and Climate; Member, NASEO Board of Directors The Challenges and Opportunities of Microgrid and Combined Heat and Power Jesse Douglas, Business Development Manager, Veolia Energy North America Holdings, Inc. Resilience Through Microgrids: Opportunities and Trends Michael Burr - Presentation, Executive Director, Microgrid Institute Combined Heat and Power as a 111(d) Energy Efficiency Compliance Pathway Bruce Hedman - Presentation, Technical Director, Institute for Industrial Productivity Combined Heat and Power and the Traction It’s Gaining in the Midwest Clifford Haefke - Presentation, Acting Director, Energy Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago Session Two: Renewable Power – The Outlook, Trend, and What's Happening Now (Roosevelt Room, Ballroom Level) In its Annual Energy Outlook 2014 Report, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind power will dominate renewable capacity growth for the foreseeable future. According to a 2014 report from Deutsch Bank, declining installation costs, innovative financing mechanisms, and rising volumes will cause rooftop solar PV to reach grid parity nationwide in just two years, and the EIA expects national wind capacity to increase 23% by 2016. As renewable power becomes more cost-competitive throughout the country, states are facing a number new opportunities, incentives, and challenges to incorporating these resources into their energy mix. This session will explore how states and industry are responding to these growing trends, the implications of near term grid parity for solar power, and the renewed vision for U.S. wind power research, development, and deployment. Eddie Trevino, Program Manager, Texas State Energy Conservation Office DOE's Wind Vision Rich Tusing - Presentation, Wind and Water Power Technologies Office, Wind and Water Power Technologies Office, Office of Renewable Power, U.S. Department of Energy Photovoltaic Industry Trends Katherine Stainken - Presentation, Director, Government Affairs, Solar Energy Industries Association Session Three: Picking Up Speed for Alternative Fuel Vehicles (Culpeper Room, Ballroom Level) By engaging sister state agencies, Clean Cities Coalitions, and private and local stakeholders, State Energy Offices can play a crucial role in efforts to advance the market for alternatively powered vehicles. Yet, the dual need to deploy the vehicles themselves, as well as build up the fueling and charging infrastructure network that allows them to operate across long ranges, requires innovation in how states fund, finance, and build partnerships in the transportation sector. This panel discussion will explore strategies for State Energy Offices and their partners to tap into the Federal Highway Administration’s Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) program to support efforts to advance alternative fuel vehicle and infrastructure projects. It will also include a discussion of the alternative fuel vehicle market across different states and regions, with an emphasis on the policy and financing interventions that support market expansion and transformation. Maria Redmond, Senior Analyst, Transportation Fuels, Wisconsin Energy Office; Co-Chair, NASEO Transportation Committee Tapping into CMAQ: How States are Using Congestion Mitigation Air Quality Funds to Deploy Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Emily Biondi - Presentation, Air Quality Specialist, Federal Highway Administration Michael Scarpino - Presentation, Transportation Project Engineer, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, U.S. Department of Transportation Jeff Ackermann - Presentation, Director, Colorado Energy Office Vehicle Market Outlook and Implications for State Policy Nick Nigro - Presentation, Senior Manager, Transportation Initiatives, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Caley Johnson - Presentation, Market Tansformation Group, Transportation Systems Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory The Role of Nuclear Plants in Modern Energy Policy (Colonnade Room, Lobby Level) According to the U.S. Department of Energy, America will need 28 percent more electricity by 2040, which means building hundreds of new facilities to generate electric power. During this session, hear a discussion focusing on the United States' energy portfolio and the value of existing nuclear energy plants. This session will address the economic, carbon-free, and reliability benefits of nuclear energy, as well as the challenges facing the industry. Molly Cripps, Director, Office of Energy Programs, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation; Member, NASEO Board of Directors Evan Bayh, Former Senator and Co-Chair of Nuclear Matters Keynote Lunch: Modernizing America’s Energy Policy and Ensuring Reliability (Colonnade Room, Lobby Level) This keynote session features an outlook from Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Economy. Congressman Tonko will provide an overview of the Committee’s priorities and his views on key energy issues. John Rhodes, President and Chief Executive Officer, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Paul Tonko, Ranking Member, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Economy; Member, U.S. House of Representatives State Energy Offices and Secondary Market Financing – WHEEL Opportunities (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) Nearly one year ago, the Energy Programs Consortium, NASEO, Renewable Funding, and Citibank formally launched the Warehouse for Energy Efficiency Loans (WHEEL) to create the first secondary market for unsecured residential energy efficiency financing. This session offers news on the experience to date and a first-hand state update on this market-oriented model. Elizabeth Bellis, Counsel and Director of Finance Programs, Energy Programs Consortium Kelley Smith Burk, Acting Director, Office of Energy, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Colin Bishopp, Vice President, Renewable Funding A Global Cyber-Crisis in Waiting (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) From cyber threat to cyber war, the national security and economic risks of an interconnected world with Internet-driven critical infrastructure systems – oil, natural gas, electricity, water, telecommunications, commerce – is changing the way America thinks about risks and vulnerabilities. National security expert and bestselling author Richard Clarke offers his views and the outlook for cyber security policy and priorities. Mr. Clarke served four Presidents including coordinating diplomatic efforts for President George H.W. Bush during the Gulf War and as Deputy Assistance Secretary for Intelligence under President Ronald Reagan. Most recently, he served on a five-member expert panel created by President Obama to investigate the National Security Agency’s domestic and foreign surveillance activities. This special session examines the cyber crisis, critical infrastructure, and what might be done about it. Richard Clarke, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Good Harbor; Chairman of the Board of Governors, Middle East Institute Modernizing the Grid – Information Technologies, Renewables Integration, Active Distribution, and Holistic Planning (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) The U.S. Department of Energy continues to advance and focus grid modernization efforts through technology research to provide states with modeling and analytical assistance in the creation of more holistic planning approaches. This session provides a look at DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability’s leadership programs and opportunities to partner with states. Mark Glick, State Energy Administrator, Hawaii State Energy Office; Member, NASEO Board of Directors; Co-Chair, NASEO Fuels and Grid Integration Committee Patricia Hoffman, Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy New York State: Reforming the Energy Vision (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) New York is undertaking a substantial restructuring of its energy regulatory environment and clean energy programs through the nation-leading and comprehensive Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy. This session describes New York’s plans to evolve its energy programs by accelerating the clean energy market transformation process and scale-up of self-sustaining clean energy markets, modernizing its grid, and leading by example through actions at the state and local level. The goal of these efforts is to significantly reduce greenhouse gases, decrease energy costs and accelerate the growth of the clean energy economy and jobs. David Althoff, Energy Group Manager, Office of Pollution Prevention and Energy Assistance, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Break (Ballroom Foyer, Ballroom Level) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm (Concurrent Committee Sessions) NASEO Energy Security Committee (Ballroom I, Ballroom Level) NASEO’s Energy Security Committee convenes State and Territory Energy Offices, relevant federal partners, and industry stakeholders to discuss policies and programs related to energy assurance planning and preparedness. This meeting of NASEO’s Energy Security Committee includes updates from DOE as well as presentations on a variety of energy security, reliability, risk assessment, and resiliency topics as it relates to states’ planning and risk analysis activities. Committee Co-Chair: Doris Jansky, Statistical Analyst, Nebraska Energy Office; Co-Chair, NASEO Energy Security Committee State Energy Risk Assessment Initiative Update Alice Lippert - Presentation, Senior Technical Advisor, Energy Infrastructure Modeling and Analysis, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy Presentation on the National Petroleum Council's Emergency Preparedness Study Dr. Paula Gant, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy Peggy Montana - Presentation, Chief Executive Officer, Shell Midstream Partners; Chair, National Petroleum Council’s Emergency Preparedness Study Coordinating Subcommittee Private- and Public-Sector Collaborations in the Face of 21st Century Threats Scott Aaronson, Senior Director of National Security Policy, Edison Electric Institute NASEO Energy Security Program Update Jeff Pillon, Director of Energy Assurance, NASEO NASEO Financing Committee (Roosevelt Room, Ballroom Level) NASEO’s Financing Committee identifies market barriers, engages private sector and program partners, and shares solutions for effective clean energy financing. This meeting will convene committee members for a discussion on key financing challenges and opportunities identified by State Energy Offices, including bond finance and Davis Bacon/Buy American program compliance issues. Committee Co-Chairs: Jeff Pitkin, Treasurer, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority; Co-Chair, NASEO Financing Committee Al Christopher, Director, Energy Division, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy; Co-Chair, NASEO Financing Committee Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds: Legislative and Activity Update Elizabeth Bellis - Presentation, Counsel and Director of Finance Programs, Energy Programs Consortium USDA Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program Update Gerard Moore, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, Rural Development/Rural Utilities Service/Electric Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture Davis Bacon and Buy American Compliance Strategies in ARRA-Funded Financing Programs Eddy Trevino, Program Manager, Texas State Energy Conservation Office Networking Reception (Ballroom Foyer, Ballroom Level) What Does EPA’s Clean Power Plan Mean for Electric Reliability? (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently announced that it will hold a series of technical conferences to examine the impact of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan on electricity reliability, markets, operations and infrastructure, highlighting the substantial, potential impact of EPA’s actions on the power system. This expert session reviews some of the key issues and concerns as states and utilities consider such as FERC Order 1000 and the long-term implications of 111(d). Gene Therriault, Deputy Director, Statewide Energy Policy Development, Alaska Energy Authority; Vice-Chair, NASEO Board of Directors Cheryl LaFleur, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission The Future of Coal in a Carbon Constrained World (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) Even as pending air quality rules constrain the use of coal, research continues to advance clean coal technologies and other means to utilize this important resource. This session includes an overview of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Coal and Carbon Management’s work on clean coal, carbon capture and storage technologies, as well as these technologies relevance to the pending EPA 111(d) regulations at the state level. John Davies, Deputy Commissioner, Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence; Secretary, NASEO Board of Directors Christopher Smith, Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy Regional Transmission Operation: Planning for Change, Prepared for the Unexpected (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) PJM Interconnection manages the electric grid in parts of thirteen states and the District of Columbia and handles the grid’s growing reliance on natural gas, increasing renewable energy production, cyber threats, environmental rules, and extraordinary weather events such as last year’s polar vortex. This session provides the latest news and outlook from America’s largest grid operator. Terry Boston - Presentation, President and Chief Executive Officer, PJM Interconnection 10:00 am - 11:45 am (Concurrent Sessions) Session One: Modeling and Implementation Tools for 111(d) Compliance (Ballroom I, Ballroom Level) Following the release of EPA’s proposed 111(d) rule, a number of state agencies and other organizations have begun to develop modeling and implementation tools to help states assess different 111(d) compliance strategies. This session will explore insights and challenges associated with several of these efforts. The presenters will address state and regional modeling efforts, analysis focused on understanding the contribution energy efficiency and renewable energy policies can make in meeting 111(d) targets, and a potential registry that could assist states with 111(d) compliance. Garrett Martin, Senior Energy Analyst, Montana Department of Environmental Quality Analysis of Beyond the Fence Solutions When the Fence Spans Four States Tom Eckman - Presentation, Power Planning Director, Northwest Power and Conservation Council EPA's Clean Power Plan: Evaluating State Compliance Plan Options Christopher Van Atten - Presentation, Senior Vice President, M.J. Bradley and Associates 111(d) Compliance Registry: Taking Care of Administration So You Can Focus on Policy Pat Stanton - Presentation, Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, Conservation Services Group Session Two: How to Put Technology to Work for the Grid (Culpeper Room, Ballroom Level) As information technology and “big data” hit an electricity system with access to many more cost-effective clean energy resources, we have an unprecedented opportunity for system optimization. An optimized system can deliver benefits to customers in the form of more affordable, resilient, and clean electricity. However, reaping these benefits means taking a hard look at which existing electricity policies might be stifling innovation. This session will look at how the electric power system is changing with the rise of distributed energy resources and identify new policies, regulatory models, and power market mechanisms that can support an optimized system. Chuck Murray, Senior Energy Policy Specialist, Washington State Energy Office EPRI's Integrated Grid Barbara Bauman Tyran, Director, Washington and State Relations, Electric Power Research Institute; Affiliates' Co-Chair, NASEO Board of Directors The Grid of the Future: Evolving to Meet America’s Energy Needs Ladeene Freimuth - Presentation, Policy Director, GridWise Alliance; President, The Freimuth Group America's Power Plan: Rethinking Policy to Deliver a Clean Energy Future Sonia Aggarwal - Presentation, Director, America’s Power Plan Session Three: Natural Gas – A Fuel for All Sectors . . . How Will Price Volatility, New Demands, and Today’s $45 Oil Impact the Future (Roosevelt Room, Ballroom Level) The rapid and continued shift to natural gas for power generation, manufacturing, chemicals, microgrids, export facilities, and transportation have produced tremendous economic development and emissions benefits. However, what will happen to price volatility? Will the infrastructure build-out move fast enough to avoid an impact on states’ economic growth? Will $45 oil impact natural gas in some way? How will regional constraints impact prices? This session examines the global market forces at work and the federal and state policies that will continue to drive demand for natural gas. Paul Miller, Assistant Director of Energy, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Economic Impacts of Oil and Gas Price Volatility Kevin Book, Managing Director, Research, ClearView Energy Partners, LLC Regional Supply and Infrastructure Trends Kevin Petak - Presentation, Vice President, Fuels Markets Analysis, ICF International Natural Gas Domestic Market Outlook Daniel Lapato - Presentation, Director of Government Affairs, American Public Gas Association Impact of LNG Exports on U.S. Natural Gas Markets Dr. David Shin - Presentation, Senior Economic Advisor, American Petroleum Institute Keynote Luncheon: U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Compliance Options (Colonnade Room, Lobby Level) State Energy Offices, Public Utility Commissions, and Clean Air Agencies submitted thorough comments to EPA on the proposed Clean Power Plan at the end of 2014. Many of these comments highlighted strengths or limitations of how energy efficiency and renewable energy could be used as compliance options. EPA’s task moving forward is to publish a final rule that is informed by comments submitted by states, utilities, the private sector, and other stakeholders. This session provides an update from EPA on the draft rule, opportunities for state-federal cooperation, and a timeline for federal and state actions. Jessie Stratton, Policy Director, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; Member, NASEO Board of Directors Gina McCarthy, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Understanding Privately Delivered (non-ratepayer) Energy Efficiency: The Lowest Cost 111(d) Compliance Opportunity (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) Over the past year, NASEO has worked with the state energy directors, air directors, utility commissioners, and the private sector to identify and advance privately delivered (non-ratepayer) energy efficiency compliance options under EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. While NASEO has not taken a position on the proposed rule, we have identified private-sector driven programs, many of which are operated by the states, which can be tapped for win-win compliance pathways. This session explores both the “what” and the “how” as State Energy Offices and State Air Agencies consider next steps. Al Christopher - Presentation, Director, Division of Energy, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy; Co-Chair, NASEO Financing Committee Ken Colburn - Presentation, Senior Associate, Regulatory Assistance Project Bruce Biewald - Presentation, Chief Executive Officer, Synapse Energy Economics Ashley Patterson - Presentation, Director, Government Relations and Public Policy, Ameresco Paul Hamilton - Presentation, Vice President, Government Affairs, Schneider Electric A Total Energy Approach to Meeting State GHG and Renewable Energy Goals (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) Vermont recently completed it “Total Energy Study” which reached some interesting conclusions about meeting the state’s energy and greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals. This session reviews the modeled combinations of technology deployment and novel policy structures that Vermont is investigating as they invest in the future. Kristy Manning, Deputy Director for Policy, Missouri Division of Energy Dr. Asa Hopkins - Presentation, Director of Energy Policy and Planning, Vermont Department of Public Service NASEO Buildings Committee (Roosevelt Room, Ballroom Level) NASEO’s Buildings Committee convenes State and Territory Energy Offices and NASEO Affiliates to discuss state and federal policies and programs related to energy use in buildings. This meeting of NASEO’s Buildings Committee will include presentations on a variety of buildings-related topics in the residential, commercial, and public building sectors. NASEO staff will also provide a brief update on upcoming projects and priorities in the buildings area. Greg Guess, Director, Division of Efficiency and Conservation Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence; Co-Chair, NASEO Buildings Committee Building Asset Ratings – Findings from the Massachusetts Commercial Office and Residential Pilots Ian Finlayson - Presentation, Deputy Director, Energy Efficiency Division, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources New Releases from DOE’s Existing Homes Programs Danielle Sass Byrnett - Presentation, Supervisor, Better Buildings Residential Programs, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy Update on DOE’s Building Energy Codes Program David Cohan, Program Manager, Building Energy Codes Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy NASEO Fuels and Grid Integration Committee (Ballroom I, Ballroom Level) The NASEO Fuels and Grid Integration Committee is the focal point for sharing of state, federal, and private sector activities related to the production, distribution, and consumption of electricity and liquid and gas fuels. The Committee helps to develop policy positions for consideration by NASEO's Board, shares best program and policy practices among the states, and supports pilot projects and programs developed by NASEO, the State and Territory Energy Offices, and Affiliate members. This meeting of NASEO’s Fuels and Grid Integration Committee focuses on State Energy Office and Public Utility Commission cooperation, discussions on pending federal resiliency legislation, and updates from DOE’s National Electricity Delivery Division. State Energy Offices and the Eastern Interconnection States Planning Council Commissioner Betty Ann Kane - Presentation, Chairman, District of Columbia Public Service Commission; Secretary, Eastern Interconnection States Planning Council Resiliency and the Prepare Act Ryan Martel, Legislative Assistant, Office of U.S. Senator Schatz (D-HI) National Coal Council Existing Coal Fleet Study Janet Gellici - Presentation, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, National Coal Council, Inc. OE-NEDD Opportunities and Update Dr. Caitlin Callaghan - Presentation, Chemical Engineer, National Electricity Delivery Division, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy NASEO Affiliate Members' Reception (Culpeper Room, Ballroom Level) (NASEO State and Affiliate Members and Invited Guests Only) NASEO Affiliate members will convene to network and discuss partnership and promotional opportunities with NASEO and the State and Territory Energy Offices for the coming year. Contact NASEO staff to learn more about the benefits of Affiliate membership. Affiliate Co-Chairs: Bob Dixon, Head of Industry Affairs - Americas Region, Building Performance and Sustainability, Siemens Infrastructure and Cities; Affiliates' Co-Chair, NASEO Board of Directors Exhibit Hall (Ballroom Foyer, Ballroom Level) U.S. State Energy Program, Weatherization Assistance Program, and State Technical Assistance Updates (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) This session will provide an update on the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs (WIP) plans and priorities for 2015. Participants will learn more about the technical, policy, and financing assistance provided through WIP and planning direction for the U.S. State Energy Program and Weatherization Assistance Program. David Gipson, Director, Energy Resources Division, Georgia Environmental Finance Authority; Member, NASEO Board of Directors AnnaMaria Garcia - Presentation, Director, Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs, U.S. Department of Energy Water System Retrofits and Innovation in Regulation – Options to Maximize Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) A variety of organizations are stepping up to the opportunity to improve the energy efficiency and sustainability of America’s water system – including fresh water and wastewater treatment. From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding efforts to new U.S. Department of Energy and state programs, options abound. This session looks at both practical, near-term solutions for municipally-owned water systems and policy and regulatory modernization to enhance private sector water system efficiency. Jim Horne - Presentation, Sustainability Program Manager, Office of Wastewater Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Amy Royden-Bloom - Presentation, State Energy Program Manager, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy Adam Carpenter - Presentation, Regulatory Analyst, American Waterworks Association EERE Technology Programs Outlook and Opportunities (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) technology program offices offer a wide range of opportunities for federal, state, and industry partnerships. Historically, formal and systematic communications efforts by EERE and NASEO provided regularly connecting points between this critical applied research programs and the State Energy Offices. This priorities and opportunities session is a first step at renewing these communications efforts and will provide attendees with a concise, clear sense of partnership opportunities and potential areas for future collaboration. Vaughn Clark; Director, Oklahoma State Energy Office; Past Chair, NASEO Board of Directors Dr. Jonathan Male - Presentation, Director, Bioenergy Technologies Program, Office of Transportation, U.S. Department of Energy Jose Zayas - Presentation, Director, Wind and Water Power Technologies Office, Office of Renewable Power, U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Mark Johnson - Presentation, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Office, Office of Energy Efficiency, U.S. Department of Energy Preliminary Results of NASEO’s 2014 – 2015 Member Survey: The Landscape of State and Territory Energy Offices (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) Preliminary results of the most comprehensive survey of the 56 State and Territory Energy Offices will be provided during this insightful session. The survey includes data on allocation of State Energy Office resources, projected budgets, priority work areas, staff size, program offerings and more. The initial results will be presented in national and regional aggregate form and a full report of the aggregated results will be made available to all NASEO members in a report expected in mid-2015. Chuck Clinton - Presentation, Senior Technical Advisor and Lead Regional Coordinator, NASEO Washington Update and States Only Discussion (State and Territory Energy Offices Only) (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level) This session will focus on Congressional and Administration energy policy and appropriations and serve as a preparatory discussion for State Energy Offices participating in congressional and federal agency visits in the coming months. Participants will learn what may be in store for federal energy and environmental policy and explore the impacts of federal actions on energy policies and markets at the state level. Jeff Genzer, General Counsel, NASEO Closing Remarks and Adjourn (Ballroom II, Ballroom Level)
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It felt like I had an exciting game to play every time a turned around, and I finished the year with a large back catalog of games from this year that I am still picking away at as we tread into the new year. Take a look for below for some of my favorites. Let me know how you feel in the comments section below! The Family Games of the Year My game of the year, without question, is Marvel’s Spider-Man. I’m a big web-head to begin with, so I was predisposed to like this game. But, nothing prepared me for how much it would captivate me. In order for a Spider-Man game to work the developers need to nail the traversal. Spider-Man is a hero built around agility and mobility. Insomniac executed perfectly here. I could have spent literal days swinging around their recreation of New York if I didn’t have to work and feed myself. It was a remarkable achievement that made me sad when it was finished. The web-swinging was so good that I would have tolerated a hack job of a story and still loved the game. That wasn’t a problem though as Insomniac delivered a very interesting story about a slightly older and more experienced Peter Parker. To be honest, its one of the best Spider-Man stories I’ve experienced in a long time. I especially loved how they handled his relationship with Mary Jane. Marvel’s Spider-Man is a game I’ll remember for a long time and has me ravenous for its inevitable sequel. It is, as far as I am concerned, required reading for anyone who owns a PlayStation 4. Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu/Let’s Go Eevee I’ve always struggled to get into Pokemon games. I love the idea of playing them. I have bought several of them and been enamored with them for a while. But, somewhere around hour 20-25 I fall off. The grind catches up with me and I find something else to play. Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee was the first Pokemon game to overcome that. It managed to give me all of the charm of the Pokemon franchise without the grind. Game Freak did that by removing random encounters and replacing the long-standing pokemon capture system with the system used in Pokemon Go. I had my doubts as I was waiting for the game to come out. I just didn’t think that Let’s Go would hold my interest. But, I was wrong. This is a wonderful departure from the earlier games in the franchise. I can’t wait to see what else they do with it. Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Holy crap. Super Smash Brothers Ultimate is a big video game. Every time I turn it on it feels like I am finding something new. The character list alone contains more than seventy characters that all play very differently from each other. I think I’ll be playing Smash for years with my boys. The value is unquestionable. Smash’s size isn’t the only thing going for it though. It is a polished fighting game that is fun to play alone and in groups of up to eight players! This is a must-own for families who have large groups of gamers in their house regularly. EFG fans know that I am a sucker for a retro-inspired platformer. My game of the year in 2014 was Shovel Knight. There is just something about a game being made with modern design sensibilities that also reminds me of the games that captured my imagination as a kid. The Messenger is clearly inspired by Ninja Gaiden, a devilishly hard ninja game from the NES. But, somewhere along the design process, they decided to add a whole other game into it. I’ll never understand why they would do that to themselves, but their efforts paid off. They somehow combined an 8bit (ish) linear platforming game and a 16bit (ish) exploration platformer into the same product. They also managed to create one of my favorite games of the year. Grown-Up Game of the Year I never liked Kratos or the God of War games. They were crude and juvenile. The only reason we could ever call those games “mature” was for the violence and nudity. The series just echoed on in the background and I ignored it. But, something about the way Sony was marketing the newest game in that franchise caught my attention. They gave me a glimmer of hope, somehow, that Sony Santa Monica was going to make me care about Kratos and show me that even he could grow up. I am so glad that I was paying attention, because God of War was the most pleasant surprise I have had in my, near thirty-year gaming, career. Kratos not only grew up, but he matured into a man I could relate to as a father and as someone who has done things I regret. I, obviously, never hunted down an entire pantheon, but it wasn’t hard to draw connections between his dark past and his obvious pain and regret with some of my more regrettable memories. Its worth mentioning that I just wrote four paragraphs about a God of War game before I mentioned how amazing the combat was. I loved every second of the combat. It was every bit as brutal as I expected, and it was more personal than I thought I would ever be comfortable with. This is, obviously, not a game for kids, but I would recommend God of War to anyone who owns a PS4. Grown-ups simply must play this game. It’s impossible to talk about games of the year in 2018 without talking about Fortnite. It’s a game that has stolen the hearts and minds of (most of) our children and has reached further into our wallets than we ever thought possible. I can’t say that it was one of my favorite games of the year, but I think that we will be talking about Fortnite far longer than we will any of the other games I wrote about in this article. (For more info: Take a look at our Fortnite Beginner’s Guide or our Parent’s Guide to Fortnite) What were your favorite games of the year? Sound off in the comments and let us know! Make sure to keep your eyes on Engaged Family Gaming for all of the latest news and reviews you need to Get Your Family Game On! Game of the YearNintendo SwitchPS4Video GamesXbox one FacebookTwitterPinterestRedditEmail Stephen Duetzmann Founder/EiC EngagedFamilyGaming.com Blogger, Podcaster, Video Host RE: games that families can play together. Editor@engagedfamilygaming.com Family Board Game Review: Coder Mindz Family Friendly Video Game Releases from January 6 – 12, 2018 8 Great Games for Your Nintendo Switch Under... Holiday Gift Guide 2019 – Subscription Gaming Services Family Video Game Review – Ring Fit Adventure Is Grand Theft Auto V Ok For Kids? E3 2019 – Dragon Quest Builders 2 E3 2019 – HALO Infinite E3 2019 – The Dark Crystal: Age of... E3 2019 Nintendo Direct – 5 Things Parents... Square Enix E3 2018 Press Conference – 5... Ubisoft E3 2019 Press Conference – 5 Things... Ken Gagne January 4, 2019 - 2:45 pm Nice write-up! I bought The Messenger last year and now am even more looking forward to getting it out of my backlog. It wasn’t a game this year, but what did you think of Horizon Zero Dawn? I know you’re a Breath of the Wild fan, and HZD has some similar appeal. Stephen Duetzmann January 4, 2019 - 9:38 pm Horizon Zero Dawn was one of my absolute favorite games of last year. So good. Can’t wait for the sequel.
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Measuring and interpreting repeat victimization using police data: A study of burgaries in Charlotte, North Carolina Farrell, G orcid.org/0000-0002-3987-8457 and Pease, K (2003) Measuring and interpreting repeat victimization using police data: A study of burgaries in Charlotte, North Carolina. Crime Prevention Studies, 16 (Theory for Practice ). pp. 265-289. ISSN 1065-7029 This study of repeat victimization and crime prevention tackles issues relating to the measurement and interpretation of police data. In a study of repeat burglaries in Charlotte, NC, published in this series, LeBeau and Vincent (1997) framed their discussion as a critique of our work on preventing repeat victimization. We reanalyze and reinterpret the data and findings from that study. First, we explain why the police data significantly understated the true rate of repeat burglaries in Charlotte. Second, we reanalyze the published data to show that, nevertheless, there were at least nine times more repeat burglaries than would occur by chance and that, after a first burglary, the predictability of repeats rises dramatically with each subsequent burglary. Third, we explain why the policy conclusions of LeBeau and Vincent were misleading in relation to preventing repeat burglary. Fourth, we explain why their policy conclusions were misleading with respect to the potential use of burglar alarms as part of a prevention strategy. Fifth, we list some of the relevant literature that the study should have considered more closely. We conclude that their 1997 study did a disservice to the study of repeat victimization and crime prevention, and we reassert that the prevention of repeat burglaries could be a useful component of crime prevention strategy in Charlotte. More generally, the need for academic studies to consider the methodological issues relating to the measurement of repeat victimization is not sufficient reason to avoid or delay practical crime prevention efforts. We conclude with a "hit rate challenge" that crime prevention research should seek to identify predictors that are more efficient than, and at least as practical as, prior victimization. Farrell, G https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3987-8457 Pease, K repeat victimization; hot spots; micro-places; police data; recorded crime; criminology; crime science; criminal justice The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) Criminal Justice Press Download not available A full text copy of this item is not currently available from White Rose Research Online
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Without a God of its own, the planet is subject to much damage from other celestial bodies and deities. The planet's binary moon stays primarily north of the equator, pulling the planet north of its original orbit. Thus, no point north of 10 degrees S will receive direct sunlight. The northernmost 15 degrees receives no more than a few weeks twilight during the summer. It is plunged into complete darkness for all but 20 days a year. This darkness was chosen by the moon god Ingolé as punishment for the colonies of the Northlands. They used the magical crystals that grow underneath the Permafrost to empower their weapons' abilities and revolt against Voréa. The constant, oppressive sunlight in the south was the moon god Càno's punishment of choice. The emperor called upon the brightest scholars to develop a new style of magic that would change the face of warfare as they knew it. No longer did a mage have to cast one spell per enemy to fell an army. With their new system of magic, entire towns could be leveled in minutes through the work of a single mage. For 70 years the battle for the world raged, raping the land. Finally, the Gods reached a unanimous decision and Mana was removed from the planet. Millions of the elves died, those who survived remained either in the Northland, thus evolving into Snow Elves. They eventually forgot about the natural crystals that grew there. Other elves remained on Voréa, retreating into the jungles and becoming Wood Elves. A few surviving gray elves went into hiding, and the memory of the great Apocalypse faded into the sands of time. Nearly 14,000 years later, the gnomes rediscovered the power crystals. Being a superstitious lot, they believed the Apocalypse myth and strictly limited the amount of magic crystal allowed per item. It has now been 16,500 years since the great battle. Humans have become more than a group of territorial monkeys. They have learned the power and technique behind magical weapons and alchemy. They have begun abusing this power to create monstrosities such as cannons, bombs and flying vehicles. page revision: 2, last edited: 11 Jan 2009 02:55 Enchanted Bros wiki RSC Institution Research, Secure, Contain Dragon Trees A Dragon Cave Fansite SCR公司 安全.收容.研究
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Vietnam, US boost cooperation in fighting crime PSNew - General To Lam, Minister of Public Security, on July 3, received Mr. David Bowdich, Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, who is on a working visit to Vietnam. Deputy PM hails contributions by businesses to Vietnam-US ties MPS of Vietnam, U.S Department of Interior sign deal on fight against wildlife trafficking Vietnam, US hold 10th political, security, defence dialogue Overview of the reception. Speaking at the reception, Minister To Lam affirmed that the cooperation between the two sides has achieved significant and positive results. The two sides have implemented effectively the signed agreements on transnational crime prevention, shared intelligence on terrorism, and exchanged information about criminal investigation, prosecution, and trial processes, especially cases relating to hi-tech crimes, child sexual abuse. Sincerely thanking Minister To Lam for the kind reception, Mr. David Bowdich believed that the bilateral relations and cooperation between Vietnam and the United States in general and between the Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security and FBI in particular would further develop and gain more fruitful results. Deputy Minister Le Quy Vuong, Mr. David Bowdich and the delegates. On the same day, a Ministry of Public Security's delegation, led by Deputy Minister Le Quy Vuong, and an FBI delegation, led by Mr. David Bowdich, had talks. At the talks, the two sides discussed the key approaches to further strengthen the bilateral cooperation between the Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security and FBI in the coming time, focusing on implementing effectively the signed agreements between the two sides, negotiating and signing new agreements to create a framework of criminal justice cooperation, including deal on criminal legal assistance and extradition, so as to boost cooperation in the field of ensuring cyber security in general, preventing and fighting against high-tech crimes in particular. By Thien Minh Tag cooperation in fight against crime US Vietnam Public Security Guard of Honor to perform at Hanoi pedestrian street Hue police launch campaign to ensure traffic order and safety during Tet ASEANAPOL Training Cooperation Meeting takes place in Hanoi Vietnam Buddhist Sangha visits Ministry of Public Security on occasion of Lunar New Year Vietnam, Laos draft agreement on transfer of imprisoned persons Ben Tre police visit families of two police officers who have been injured and killed in fighting criminals Thua Thien Hue police successfully safeguard Complex of Hue Monuments Economic Security Department reviews performance of tasks New Director of Quang Binh Provincial Police appointed High Command of Mobile Police reviews task performance in first half of 2019
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BREXIT&MORE REFERENDUMS FOR A NEW EU FORM UNI-TY (IIIast) (BEING CONTINUED FROM BREXIT II ) POLITAES,CITIZENS,METAPOLITANS, READERS AND FOLLOWERS,CHAIRESTHAI, THINGS ARE PROCEEDING WELL THANKS TO YOUR KINDNESS AND THE eCOWAVERS SUPPORT IF IT IS TAKEN OUT OF CONSIDERATION A VIOLENT ACT AGAINST THE WRITER OF THE TEXT BY SOMEBODY PAID FROM THOSE WHO DONT LIKE OUR IDEAS. ENDING OUR INTERFERENCE WITH BREXIT IT SHOULD BE MENTIONED THAT THE PROPOSAL DONE FROM OUR PART WAS HEARD BY THE BRITISH DEEPER SOCIETY WHICH INVITED ME TWICE HERE IN BRUSSELS IN ORDER TO ANALYSE IT. a)Exploring arrangements to avoid a hard Irish border after Brexit 11/07/19 AT A BROADER AUDIENCE WERE BRIEFLY MENTIONED OUR IDEAS: A)5 YEARS DELAY AND AFTER NEW REFERENDUM B)NEW EUROPEAN CURRENCY ON PARALLEL WITH EURO C)UK TO ORGANISE WITH CONSILIUM THE EUROPEAN DEFENCE COMMUNITY b) AT AAC MEETING EXPRESSING OUR SUGGESTED POLICIES FOR BREXIT 24/09/19 INVITED AT AAC TECHNICAL COMMITTEE WHICH CONSULTS THE UK GOVERNMENT ABOUT THE TECHNICAL ISSUES OF THE THEME. IT WAS PRESENTED OUR PROPOSAL AS IT CAN BE READ BY CLICKING ON THE TITLEs LINK. BELOW WE PRESENT an article first posted on GR in October 2017 WHICH DESCRIBES THE SITUATION FROM ANOTHER POINT: In this truly alarming story I connect three significant articles to show that Brexit, far from being the result of representative democracy, is in fact a campaign of covert intervention by foreign billionaires to bring about economic chaos in Britain in order create the circumstances for making huge profits. This is not the stuff of mere conspiracy theories. Clear evidence has emerged that Brexit was engineered and is already proving to be a catastrophe, as confirmed by the mainstream media frenzy over Theresa May’s political mis-management of the greatest post-war challenge of our time. In part-one (by left leaning, The Guardian newspaper) we see how Brexit really came about and who influenced it. In part-two (by centre newspaper The Independent) we see how opaque and deceptive think tanks have heavily influenced Brexit and in part-three (by right leaning EUReferendum) we see that economic chaos is being planned in a post-Brexit era, who is involved and why. These articles identify the actors behind the current attack on Britain and what has happened to date so far. At the end, the reader should get a sense of the impending disaster being constructed by the super-rich against the people of Britain purely for profit. Just as oil speculators pushed up global energy prices to $145 a barrel just prior to the financial crash in what was termed the London Loophole, and then profited from short bets on the way down – Britain is being set up for a fall where those with big money will ultimately clean up. PART ONE: Carole Cadwalladr from The Guardian wrote a searing piece last May on what really happened in Britain’s EU referendum vote. Her first sentence led the reader into a 7,000 word setting of foreign actors and corporations intent on usurping democracy in Britain. “A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum.” The article entitled “The Great British Brexit Robbery: How Our Democracy Was Highjacked” is now the subject of a bitter legal battle between the accused; Cambridge Analytica LLC and SCL Elections Limited and The Guardian newspaper. Several amendments to the article have been made since the original publication in a climate of legal threats. The stakes are very high just for reporting it. The article went deeply into how technology and data was illegally used in Britain’s EU referendum voting process. One former employee of the main company involved, Cambridge Analytica, confirmed that they were using psychological operations – the same methods the military use to effect mass sentiment change. It’s what they mean by winning ‘hearts and minds’. “We were just doing it to win elections in the kind of developing countries that don’t have many rules.” Except they were doing it in Britain, and at a historical moment for its future. As the reader continues, names like Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, Facebook, Google, MI5 and other vested interests such as hedge funds and banks litter the story. It is clear from Cadwalladr’s investigation that British democracy was subverted through a covert, far-reaching plan of coordination enabled by US billionaires and she shows how Britain is in the midst of a massive land grab for power by them. These determined individuals bypassed Britain’s electoral laws and swung the margins in favour to Brexit. She also highlights some political activities much closer to home – note the involvement of the DUP, now the balance of power in Theresa May’s government. “Vote Leave (the official Leave campaign) chose to spend £3.9m, more than half its official £7m campaign budget. As did three other affiliated Leave campaigns: BeLeave, Veterans for Britain and the Democratic Unionist party (DUP), spending a further £757,750. “Coordination” between campaigns is prohibited under UK electoral law, unless campaign expenditure is declared, jointly. It wasn’t”. The story gets darker as it accuses the British military-industrial complex, old-school Tories, a former parliamentary under-secretary of State for Defence procurement, director of Marconi Defence Systems, and David Cameron’s pro-Brexit former trade envoy – of involvement. Allegations are made that the head of psychological operations for British forces in Afghanistan are in on the game. One alarmingly frank quote says: “SCL/Cambridge Analytica was not some startup created by a couple of guys with a MacBook. It’s effectively part of the British defence establishment” using “military strategies on a civilian population.“ Data, algorithms, micro-ads, emotional manipulation, voter engagement/disengagement, and psyops strategies are just some of the buzz words in use to ensure enough votes go the right way. These strategies are all connected to names such as the aforementioned Cambridge Analytica, but also Robert Mercer, Steve Bannon, AggregateIQ, Leave.EU, Vote Leave, Nigel Farage, the DUP and big financial donors. “We are in an information war and billionaires are buying up these companies, which are then employed to go to work in the heart of government. That’s a very worrying situation.” David Miller, a professor of sociology at Bath University and an authority in psyops and propaganda, says it is “an extraordinary scandal that this should be anywhere near a democracy. It should be clear to voters where information is coming from, and if it’s not transparent or open where it’s coming from, it raises the question of whether we are actually living in a democracy or not.” This all conjures up the characteristics of a great novel, a story that helped to bring about the biggest constitutional change to Britain in a century. In the end, the article concludes that “we, the British people, were played.” This conclusion is best described by Cadwalladre’s final words. “This is Britain in 2017. A Britain that increasingly looks like a “managed” democracy. Paid for by US billionaires. Using military-style technology. Delivered by Facebook. And enabled by us. If we let this referendum result stand, we are giving it our implicit consent. This isn’t about Remain or Leave. It goes far beyond party politics. It’s about the first step into a brave, new, increasingly undemocratic world.” Unfortunately, Cadwalladr’s article is not a work of fiction or theory. And if you think that is depressing – that foreign billionaires can usurp Britain’s democracy at will, then it does in fact, get much worse, because obviously there must be reasons why so much time, effort and money has gone into such a dangerous high stakes game in the first place. MORE BY CLICKING ON CONCERNING OUR PROPOSAL FOR A)5 YEARS DELAY AND AFTERWARDS NEW REFERENDUM THIS WILL GIVE A COMPETATIVE ADVANTAGE TO THE UK CITIZENS BUT ALSO TO THE EUROPEANS&MEDITERRANEANS IF THEY FOLLOW OUR B)&C) PROPOSALS BY PRESSING THEIR OLIGARCHIC PARTY SYSTEM IN VARIOUS WAYS. MEANWHILE SCOTLAND,WALLES&N.IRELAND MIGHT WORK ABOUT OUR MACRONATIONAL EUROPEAN PROPOSALS FOR A UNIFICATION AREA AT UK-IRELAND TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION AND THE MACROREGIONAL EU POLICIES. B)STUDIES ABOUT THE CREATION FOR A PARALLEL NOMISMA BASED ON THE CURRENCY BASKETS OF UK AND THESE COUNTRIES WHICH ARENT IN THE EUROGROUP OR THOSE WHICH WANT TO DEPART AS IT WAS SUGGESTED TO THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE with an advanced discussion for a third digital currency later on.A PARALLEL USE LATER ON INSIDE and or OUTSIDE EUROZONE COULD GIVE A COMPETATIVE ADVANTAGE TOTHE EUROPEAN&MEDITERRANEANTERRITORY OUT OF THE CONTROL OF N.Y. SYSTEM. C)THE CREATION OF THE EUROPEAN DEFENSE COMMUNITY COULD PRESS THE EUNION IN ORDER TO BECOME LESS BUREAUCRATIC,MORE INNOVATIVE AND TO BE FOCUSED&BE EFFECTIVE TO THE eCONOMIC INTEGRATION FOR A HUGE AREA AS OURS IS COMBINED WITH THE NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICIES. ON THE OTHER HAND THE DEFENSE WILL OFFER FLEXIBILITY TO OUR POLICIES AS EUROPEANS&MEDITERRANEANS BY THE PARTICIPATION OF COUNTRIES WHICH ARENT MEMBERS OF THE EUNION OFFERING ANOTHER CULTURAL ELEMENT APART FROM THE HOMO ECONOMICUS WHICH IS PRESENTED BY THE GLOBALISTS . ALREADY THE EUROPEAN ADMINISTRATORS HAVE HEARD OUR CALL AND THEY ORGANISE THE European Intervention Initiative OUTSIDE THE Common Security and Defence Policy WHICH LATELY WAS MADE BY THE EU.THE UK IS A MEMBER OF THIS INITIATIVE WHICH CAN BE THE VEHICLE TOWARDS THE EUROPEAN DEFENSE COMMUNITY.THIS NEW ENTITY BEING GOVERNED BY AN ORGAN WHICH WILL BE A SYNTHESIS OF THE EU CONSILIUM,THE ABSORBED ENTITIES OF THE ORGANISATION OF SECURITY (EOS) PLUS THE COUNSIL OF EUROPE (COE) WILL PROTECT THE FOUNDING NATIONAL MEMBER STATES FROM THE DANGER WHICH DERIVES FROM THE EUNION REGIONAL POLICIES WHEN ALSO WILL BE ACHIEVED A COST DECREASE FROM THE OPERATION OF ALL THESE BUREAUCRATIC INSTITUTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TAX PAYERS. IT IS THOUGHT THAT THE UK DUE TO ITS ROLE DURING THE 2 WW IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF EUROPE AND THOSE POLITICIANS WHO ARE INFLUENCED FROM POLICIES COMING FROM THE EX COLONIES CANT WORK FOR BEING(making) THE BRITISH SUBJECTS PROTAGONISTS ONCE AGAIN.ON THE CONTRARY BY SUCH DEPENDANCIES THEY CONTINUE THE DECLINE OF THE GREAT BRITAIN AFTER 1950. CONCLUDING IT IS BELIEVED THAT THESE 3 ARTICLES OF OURS ABOUT BREXIT WILL OFFER TO THE EUROPEAN&MEDITERRANEAN CITIZENS THE WAYS FOR OPENING A DIALOG WITH MORE REFERENDUMS IN ORDER EUROPE&MEDITERRANEAN TO BE ONE DAY AN INTEGRATED ZONE IN ECONOMY,DEFENSE&CULTURES. THE EU AN ENTITY WHICH WAS ARCHITECTURED FROM THE MIDDLE OF 19TH CENTURY BY THE ESTABLISHMENT ON 1952 OF THE European Coal and Steel Community BASED ON MARSHALL PLAN FUNDS INVESTED BY THE USA ISNT OUR EUROPE BUT IS DESIGNED TO BE THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE A CHEAP IMITATION OF A RICH EX COLONY. THIS EU MAINLY AN ECONOMIC UNION IS PART OF THE EUROPE&MEDI UNION WHICH WE THE eCOWAVERS ARE ENVISIONING.IT'S THE OLIGARCHIC PART OF THE GLOBAL ELITES&THEIR FOLLOWERS. EUROPEANS&MEDITERRANEANS LETS FIGHT IN PEACE FOR A ZONE OF OUR DREAMS THAT ONE OF : CITIZENS,PEOPLES,NATIONS THANKS FOR SUPPORTING OUR POLICIES posted by The visioner @ 5:27 PM THE RE-TURN OF THE 0-1
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Bachelor Flat (1962) “Here, in this bachelor flat on Pacific, Professor can relax and get away from all those amorous college girls…” A British archaeology professor (Terry-Thomas) fights off amorous females while dealing with the sudden presence of a seventeen-year-old “juvenile delinquent” (Tuesday Weld) who is actually the daughter of his fiancee (Celeste Holm). Celeste Holm Films Frank Tashlin Films Mistaken or Hidden Identities Tuesday Weld Films Although it’s beloved by fans and has received reasonably positive reviews from critics (the All Movie Guide notes that it was “written and directed… with [director Frank Tashlin’s] usual grace and elegance”), it’s truly difficult to understand the appeal of this dated and tiresome ’60s comedy, starring gap-toothed British comedian Terry-Thomas, heartthrob Richard Beymer (a year after his leading role in West Side Story), and 18-year-old Tuesday Weld. Tashlin does indeed keep the film moving quickly, and shows evidence of his skill at directing broad slapstick, but the storyline itself falls completely flat: Terry-Thomas’s “irresistible” appeal to women of all ages never once rings true (not even as a gag), and Weld’s rash decision to pawn herself off as a juvenile delinquent (rather than revealing that Terry-Thomas’s absentee fiancee is her mother) feels equally forced. If you enjoy this type of mindless, colorful piffle, certainly feel free to seek it out; otherwise, film fanatics should feel no obligation at all to watch it. Francesca Bellini as Gladys Schmidlapp — just one of Terry-Thomas’s seemingly countless pursuers No; definitely feel free to skip this one. Variety Review Excerpt All Movie Guide Review (SPOILER ALERT) Posted on February 5th, 2010 by admin One Response to “Bachelor Flat (1962)” David Csontos, on February 5th, 2010 at 3:34 pm Said: Extremely PAINFUL viewing the first time around. Wouldn’t dream of a re-watch to confirm that. Wouldn’t go near this one again for love or money. Well, maybe money. « Riders of the Purple Sage (1925) Jabberwocky (1977) »
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Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot] and 12 guests Incongruencies in the books (yet I still love them) by RustyDust » Fri Jul 26, 2019 7:39 am RustyDust I just got around to registering. I've been a fan of the Honorverse books for around six years now. I devoured them in one two-month long mega-readathon, up to the available volumes. I am a rabid fan, yet after three or four complete read-thrus of the complete books, spin-offs, anthologies, some online available stories, etc I have detected a few inconsistencies in the books. I'd like to pose them as questions, rather than assuming I am right about it. So, without further ado: 1) Temporal inconsistency: In "The Promised Land" and "Ruthless" we come to see the story of Judith and Michael Winton. In this story Michael Winton's role first is that of quasi-ambassador to Massada, plus his help in gettting Judith and the refugee women to Manticore. But in "Ruthless" Michael's role is that of the patsy to embarass his sister, Queen Elizabeth, so that the newly formed alliance contract with Grayson should become invalid and useless. This is pretty much the reason for the whole shenanigans of the second story. Problem: this story plays 2-3 years after "The Promised Land", which was set in 1892 A.D., so it should play around 1894-1895. Unluckily for the temporal consistency, there was no contract of alliance with Grayson at that time. That is dealt with in the novel "Honor of the Queen", which is set in 1903 A.D., thus at least 8 years AFTER "Ruthless". Thus, the whole premise for the story becomes invalid. Unluckily it is also not possible to just rejigger the whole stories of the escape from Massada by a few years forward, as Michael would then have been a few years older, and his family and relatives would also have been older as well. But the story explicitly points to the specific ages of Michael's relatives. A) Did anyone notice this? And B) How would you propose to solve this conundrum in future editions of the books (should there be re-edited versions in the pipeline)? 2) In "Honor Among Enemies" during the last few chapters, the destroyer Hawkwing tears off in its 'unscheduled' exercise, while Artemis and the convoy the destroyer is guarding are in a grav-wave at several thousand gravities acceleration. Here comes the inconsistency: Mr Weber specifically explained multiple times that missile combat in hyper is completely impossible as absolutely NO impeller wedge can form inside a grav-wave in hyper-space. Thus there could also NEVER be sidewalls in H-space, as there would be no wedge floor and roof to anchor the sidewalls to. But the description of the faked action of the destroyer includes multiple inconsistencies: the destroyer bringing up sidewalls before haring off, then multiple missile waves in rapid fire mode being fired at an imaginary target that Artemis could not detect,all while in H-space. Is this an inconsistency, or did I miss info about alterations to sidewall generators that work off the Warshawski sails? Or missiles that work in H-space by employing Warshawski sails as propulsion? 3) How is any kind of communication possible inside H-space among ships of a convoy? As any kind of emmissions used for communications are basically light-speed or slower, but the ships themselves are travelling in a compressed H-space bubble at speeds effectively greater than the speed of light, anyone at the front of such a convoy could never recieve ANY kind of transmission from anyone behind them in the convoy. 4) How are pinnaces or shuttles able to travel between ships in a convoy in H-space as they can not generate warshawski sails themselves. As they leave the field of the Warshawski sails of the ship that is carrying them they should immediately be slower than the ships they just took off from, as these ships are under continuous acceleration. As pinnaces and shuttles are ONLY able to generate wedges, but not warshawksis they should not be able to travel inside a grav-wave at all by themselves. As such, transfer from one ship to another inside a grav-wave by pinnace or shuttle should be impossible. Again, did I miss somethig there? Re: Incongruencies in the books (yet I still love them) by Theemile » Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:52 am Theemile Location: All over the Place - Now Serving Troy, Mi RustyDust wrote: Hello everyone, Hello RustyDust, Welcome to the Forum, as it's customary here: Sidle up to the bar and the first virtual Old Tilman's on us. After that, My stock is running low, so If you find a local vendor, please let me know. Let me handle a few things... #2) this has been brought up before. I believe it was authorial error - It was meant to be set in Hyperspace between grav waves, not a grav wave itself. It's been awhile since I read the book. It might have been set in a Rift - a volume of space that a rogue wave travels. The Rogue waves move across these voids randomly, so Rifts are usually avoided unless they are in major trade paths, which one (the Sellkar?) does between Andermani and Silesian Space. When the wave isn't there, the Rifts are just like normal Hyper space, and are traversed via wedges. The problem is the wave can suddenly shift positions, so the rifts are traveled at a fairly low speed, so sensors will give you enough warning to shift to sails if the wave suddenly comes your way. At that time, sidewalls required wedges to be stitched to and there has never been a hyperspace missile - It would require Alpha nodes to make the sails, and thus be the size of a small Dispatch boat, and as expensive to boot. 3) When you are in Hyper, each Band acts like a version of normal space - with a local light speed and similar physics rules. You just need the hyper generator to move between them - the generator is in standby mode when you are moving in a hyperband. The big difference is the grav waves that run through the bands. Light and radio still work the same, so you could still talk via radio and laser beam - you would just need to adjust for any gravity distortion of the signal - which would be easy with a digital signal. 4) same as #3 - when you are in "normal" hyper space, the physics rules are similiar enough that any thing you can do in normal space, you can do in Hyper space. The partical count is significantly higher, so I would assume the radiation count is also - so no sunbathing without SPF 9x10^8, and all swim trunks should be lead lined. In an Grav wave, however, nothing can exist without Sails, so small craft, missiles or EVA is impossible, but in the spaces between waves (which is >90% of Hyper space) the normal rules apply. I strongly suggest checking the pearls if you havn't, Joe Buckley (the one who launched a thousand deaths) has collected some of David's wisdom from conversations online. http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/series/Harrington/ Last edited by Theemile on Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:47 am, edited 1 time in total. RFC said "refitting a Beowulfan SD to Manticoran standards would be just as difficult as refitting a standard SLN SD to those standards. In other words, it would be cheaper and faster to build new ships." by kzt » Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:06 am #1. It’s a cool story. It understands the cultures and tech and has characters that seem fairly real. But the timeline doesn’t work. You are not the first person to notice that. It is what it is. Basically you have to not think too hard about the timeline. by Theemile » Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:06 am kzt wrote: #1. It’s a cool story. It understands the cultures and tech and has characters that seem fairly real. But the timeline doesn’t work. You are not the first person to notice that. It is what it is. It could have been that they were negotiating for that long. The crazyiest point is Grayson and Masada are just 1 week's hyper travel from Manticore - a region that Manticore has been patroling in one way or another since the war with the Brotherhood (Prior to 1600 pd), and is essentially Manticore's back yard. And yet, Manticore (whose freighters will travel 1000 light years to make a buck) is just getting around to normalizing relations and extending trade to both of the planets in 1890-1902 PD. Since they are the only "power" in the region, Manticore had to be THE member of the "Outside Universe" which refused to give Grayson technology to bring them back up to the level of the rest of the known universe, so Grayson had to develop it themselves. Yet, in Honor of the Queen and the 2 sub-stories, we get the impression that Manticore is saying "Hey look, someone new, what will it take to make them my friend?" Not the "I guess we need the barbarians now, what shiney things will they want" attitude that the timeline and location suggests. Worse, Graysons and Mesada's only hangup appears to be all the females strutting around in uniforms, not the fact that the richest and most advanced polity in the known Universe sits figuratively at the end of the block and has refused to talk to them or invite them in until recently, when Manticore decided to start a block watch due to the encroachment of people from the wrong side of the tracks. Sorry, that's always bothered me.... by Jonathan_S » Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:18 am Theemile wrote: He might have originally intended to set in in a rift, but if so he only did an incomplete revision when he moved it into the 'wave. The book always has the ships accelerating away at "close to two thousand gravities, thanks to the grav wave", and Hawkwing always deploys sidewalls and decoys. But the original version of the text (which is what my ebook is) also has her launching missiles. I've also read a later partial revision where instead she lashes out with her energy mounts. (But that revision didn't fix the problem of sidewalls and decoys -- neither of which Hawkwing would have been able to deploy in a grav wave) Just authorial error I assume - especially given that RFC did a partial fix in later editions. (It'd have been easier to just reduce the accel and claim the convoy was in a rift; that would have been just one sentence to change) Now there are sidewalls that can work in grav waves, with sails up. Those are the bubble sidewalls that forts use, and one of the infodumps in either SVW or MTH mention that they can be used in ships - but grav wave combat is so rare that no navies do so; to much trade off against where they'd expect to experience combat. One minor addition to that. You're right about how light and radio waves propagate in hyper, but there should be a surprising twist about how grav sensors and Manticore's FTL comms work there (that isn't really discussed in the books). RFC said that the FTL comms and grav sensors work by detecting ripples moving along the next higher alpha wall AND that those signals propagate that that next higher hyper band's speed of light. So in normal space those signals move at 62c (because if you look at the pearl on Effective Speed by Hyper Band we see that the velocity multiplier for the Alpha bands is 62, so the ratio between Alpha and normal is 62/1=62. In the Delta bands where most merchant ships travel that multiplier is 2178; however the ratio between the Delta and Epsilon bands is a mere 1.32 - which implies that all FTL signals (ship's wedge/sail emissions, FTL coms, etc) are only 1.32x faster than light within the Delta bands. Vastly less useful than 62x you get in normal space. And the Theta bands where warships travel it's an even lower 1.16 ratio. So in commonly traveled hyper bands what your sensors tell you of other ship's maneuvers is far less FTL than you're used to. Jonathan_S wrote: You missed the other salient point about Bubble Sidewall Generators - they are huge. Nothing short of a Super Dreadnaught can carry one casually - and even then it would cut significantly in to its armament. Forts use them because: 1) Forts are friggin' huge 2) Forts get to save mass on not having the 2nd drive ring, the Alpha nodes in the main ring, and all the associated hyper hardware - not to mention the normal sidewall generators 3) Forts are defending a point target so they don't need to move 4) The Bubble allows Forts 360 degree firing arcs - perfect for defending against attackers coming from all angles. Awhile back we discussed what a Grav wave only combatant would look like - It would be a ship optimized for a Grav wave run between 2 points in pace, with little to no normal space fighting capability. It would probably be a BB sized ship, with no missile launchers or CMs or PDLCs, festooned with armor on all sides and armed with Heavy Grasers. With no missiles, no missile defenses and ECM would be needed. With no Wedges in a Grav wave, determining the actual location of any ship would be easy for an opponent, removing the need for a multitude of small energy weapons to achieve a high probability of hits, which was required for Wedge combat. To make a multipurpose version, you would have a gelded SD sized ship, probably with a BB's firepower and active defenses, just to protect merchies in a grav wave. And no one would build either one - it would be pointless, especially due to the rarity of hyperspace combat (because just finding someone there is ... hard, to say the least). Since such a ship would be next to defenseless inside a system (where pirates and commerce raiders actually tend to lurk) and in the >90% of hyper that lies outside a grav wave, a normal destroyer, built a <10% of the cost, would be a better solution. You missed the other Salient point about bubble Sidewall Generators - they are huge. Nothing short of a Super Dreadnaught and carry one casually - and even then it would cut significantly in to the Armamant. I didn't miss the point so much as gloss over it in my reference to "too much trade off" for installing them. Though I admit I'd forgotten that the text in SVW explicitly said "capital ships" Short Victorious War - Honor Harrington's Navy: NAVAL DESIGN AND DOCTRINE wrote: A few navies have experimented with the idea of mounting the sidewall bubble generators used to generate 360° "sidewalls" around fixed fortifications in their capital ships for use in hyper-space engagements, but the sheer mass of the system is self-defeating. A ship so equipped has an enormous advantage in hyper, but the volume consumed by the generators cuts deeply into that available for weapons, which places the same vessel at an even greater disadvantage in normal-space combat. Since n-space combat is the rule and hyper-space combat is the exception, no navy has ever built a major class of warship with bubble generators. by TheMadPenguin » Thu Aug 01, 2019 4:10 am TheMadPenguin Location: Emerald Coast, Panhandle, Florida. There is another incongruency that is both dreadfully large and incurable: It's just fiction; the whole Honorverse is just fiction! Dammitalltohell! Last edited by TheMadPenguin on Wed Aug 07, 2019 8:13 pm, edited 1 time in total. Nimitz has a bleek sense of humor. by Daryl » Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:44 am Careful they will hunt you down and kill you for that. I have greatly enjoyed reading the Honorverse, regarding it as some of the finest entertainment I have ever come across in 65 years of reading. That said I do find some discussions on here amusing, as fans debate finer points as if it is actually real. TheMadPenguin wrote: There is another incongruency that is both dreadfully large and incurable: It's just fiction; the whole Honoverse is just fiction! by Daryl » Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:35 am Come on you folks, I expected an immediate response. Combining the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle with the reality of an infinite universe, whatever can happen will. Robert Heinlein covered this in "Friday". Somewhere in this infinite cosmos there is a Honor Harrington fighting the good fight with Nimitz on her shoulder. Daryl wrote: Careful they will hunt you down and kill you for that.
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Grounds Maintainance Construction/Design Home » Articles » Managing Insects & Related Pests Managing Insects & Related Pests Insect species number in the millions worldwide. Although they make their livings in a variety of ways, a great many do so by consuming vegetation. It is not surprising, therefore, that insects constitute one of the major pest groups of turf and ornamentals. Mites, another group of serious plant pests, are related to insects but more closely to spiders. However, it is convenient to include them with insects when discussing control measures. Other plant pests�such as snails, slugs, millipedes and centipedes�fall into other groups. The one thing these groups have in common is that they are all invertebrates. We�ll deal with several kinds of invertebrate pests in this chapter. However, in practice, the vast majority of invertebrates with which you must deal in landscapes will be insects and mites. Recognizing damage is an important step to managing insects and mites, because you usually see these signs before you actually spot the pest itself. When you do see the signs of infestation, they often tell you the general type of pest present, if not the exact one. Then you�ll know where to look further, if necessary. Insects generally feed by either chewing plant tissue or piercing the plant tissue and sucking out plant fluids. An insect�s mouth parts and its method of feeding determines the type of injury it causes. For example, an insect with biting/chewing mouth parts damages plants by physical removal of plant tissue, such as pruning roots, notching out leaves or hollowing out crowns and stems. Insects with piercing-sucking mouth parts, on the other hand, damage plants more subtly by leaving the plant intact and removing fluids. This is an important distinction because of the implications it has for control measures as well as diagnosing damage to determine which pest is responsible. The keys to controlling insect pests are: Identify the pest. Understand its life cycle. Select and apply an appropriate control method. The following sections describe important landscape pests. Because insect pests, insect damage symptoms, microenvironments and control strategies differ among turf and ornamentals, we will discuss turf insect pests and ornamental insect pests in separate sections. TURF INSECTS Turf insects can be broadly divided into three separate groups depending on the environment in which they are found: soil, thatch, or leaves and stems. Those in soil generally feed on turfgrass roots. Thatch-inhabiting insects live in thatch and feed on turfgrass leaves and stems. Leaf-/stem-inhabiting insects are found almost solely on leaves and stems. SOIL-INHABITING INSECTS --White grubs. White grubs, the larvae of several closely related species of scarab beetles, are perhaps the most common and troublesome soil-turf pests on a national basis. The species involved vary from one region to another, but several characteristics remain constant. The grub typically is cream-colored with a brown head capsule, has three pairs of legs and often curls into a �C� shape. It ranges from 0.125 inch long when young to 0.5 to 1 inch long when fully grown, depending on the species. � Life cycles. Most white-grub life cycles fall into one of two patterns. The most common is the 1-year cycle. The insect spends the winter just below the frost line as a full-grown grub. In the spring, as soil temperatures begin to warm, the grub migrates upward, back to the root zone, where it feeds on roots for 6 to 8 weeks (April to June). In late spring, the grub pupates and emerges as an adult about 1 to 3 weeks later. The adults of the various species differ in appearance and habits. Some, like the Japanese beetle, are active during the day and feed on the foliage of ornamental plants. Others, like the European chafer, are active at night. Adults mate and females begin to lay eggs in the soil (June to August). These eggs hatch into tiny grubs that immediately begin to feed on grass roots. The grubs molt twice as they feed and grow. They reach the third (largest) stage by September and feed into October or November before migrating downward in the soil for the winter. Some species have a 2- or 3-year cycle, particularly in the cooler regions. In these cases, the insect spends an extra year or two in the grub stage, feeding throughout the growing season and moving deeper into the soil each winter. � Symptoms. Damage typically is most obvious in September and October and again in April and May, when the grubs are largest and hungriest. Grub damage is more obvious when turf is under stress. Turf first appears wilted even under irrigation. Upon closer examination you�ll find that the turf can be pulled up like a carpet due to the grubs� root feeding. Skunks, birds, moles and even armadillos often feed on grubs and tear up turf in the process. � How to identify white grubs. The best characteristic to use for grub identification is the rastral pattern�the arrangement of the small hairs and spines on the raster, the ventral side of the grub�s posterior end (see illustration). This patterning is characteristic for most species. You can view it with a 10x eyepiece, available from many suppliers and surplus outlets. Although numerous kinds of grubs exist, a relatively small number are responsible for most damaging infestations. On page 119, we show the most important species you�re likely to encounter. To find out which species is damaging your turf, match the rastral pattern you see to one of those shown on the previous page. --Mole crickets. Mole crickets (see illustration) are relatives of grasshoppers that are well adapted to burrowing in soil. They have an enlarged thorax (shoulder region) that pushes soil and strong, thrusting hind legs. The front legs are enlarged and act like spades for digging and like scissors for cutting small roots. The body is light brown and usually is covered with light brown, velvety hairs. Adults are 1.0 to 1.5 inches long. Immature mole crickets resemble adults except that they are smaller and have very small wing pads. All stages feed on grass roots and tunnel through the soil, often causing the turf to dry out. Mole crickets are most common in the Southeast and can cause significant damage on a variety of warm-season turfgrasses. The Changa and Southern mole crickets are the most common and troublesome species in the Southeast. The Northern mole cricket occurs much less frequently. Mole crickets spend the winter months as adults. In the spring, the adults burrow several inches into the soil and lay up to 35 eggs in a cell. Eggs hatch in 2 to 3 weeks, usually in May or early June, and the nymphs (immatures) begin feeding on the roots of various plants. Most individuals complete their development by late fall and spend the winter as new adults, deep in the soil. Mole crickets tend to be most active at night and can cause a nuisance in the spring when adults are attracted to lights during mating flights. --Wireworms. Wireworms (see illustration) are the larvae of click beetles and occasionally occur in large numbers among turfgrass roots. They are slender, shiny, relatively hard-shelled, about 0.5 to 1-inch long and usually dusty brown. Wireworms have a long life cycle. Adults often live for nearly a year and lay eggs near grass roots. Wireworm larvae hatch and spend 2 to 6 years in the soil, depending on the species. Generations often overlap, so adults and larvae are present at the same time. Adults are not particularly mobile, so populations can build to significant levels over the years. Wireworms seldom cause serious turf damage, even when they are present in large numbers. Damaged turf has irregular dying or dead patches in which roots are partially eaten. --Billbugs. Several species of billbugs (see illustration) damage turfgrass throughout the United States. Some of the more common species are the hunting billbug on zoysiagrass, the Phoenix billbug on bermudagrass and the bluegrass billbug on Kentucky bluegrass. Billbug larvae are small (0.25 to 0.375 inch), legless and cream-colored with brown heads. They often have a gray or black patch in the middle of the back, and the mid-section usually is noticeably broader than the head. Billbug adults are weevils (beetles with long snouts). The body is black, appears somewhat pointed at each end and is relatively broad in the shoulder region. Most billbug species overwinter as adults in protected areas. In the spring, the adults begin to move around, and you often can find them on driveways or sidewalks adjacent to turf. Adults lay eggs in May and June. The eggs hatch in about 2 weeks, and the young larvae feed inside the grass stem for a while before moving down the stem to feed on the crown. The larvae pass through several molts, feeding as they grow, and end up feeding in the root zone. In northern regions, larvae are most abundant in July and August. They complete their development in August, pupate and emerge as adults. You may find these new adults in large numbers on driveways and sidewalks in September and October. As cooler weather approaches, the billbugs find shelter in hedgerows or other protected areas and prepare for winter. You readily can pull billbug-damaged turf out by hand because the stems break off at the crown. Often larvae feeding in the root zone leave behind a fine white material that looks like sawdust. The sawdust-like material is a good indication of billbug activity. Usually, by the time billbug damage becomes noticeable, it is too late to get satisfactory control with pesticides. Successful control depends on anticipating the problem. Watch for billbug adults on nearby sidewalks in the spring. If more than five billbugs are observed during a 5-minute period, consider applying an insecticide to the affected turf areas. Make the application on newly mowed turf (generally in June or early July) and water it in lightly to move the material into the thatch, where the young grubs are active. --Black turfgrass Ataenius. The black turfgrass Ataenius (BTA) (see illustration) is a close relative of white grubs, but the life cycle is markedly different. The grub resembles the white grub (cream-colored, three pairs of legs, C-shaped), but it is much smaller�only 0.25 inch long when fully grown. BTA overwinters as adults in protected areas, such as clumps of tall fescue or ground covers, and migrates to turf areas in early spring. Adults mate, and females lay eggs in May or early June. Grubs hatch in about a week and begin feeding. They pass through two molts and reach the largest grub stage in June or July. These grubs then pupate, emerge as adults and usually lay eggs to produce a second generation of grubs. This generation feeds on turf roots in August and early September, pupates and emerges as adults in September. These adults migrate to overwintering sites later in the fall. Damage is most apparent in July, particularly if the weather is unusually warm, and again in August. Damage resembles drought stress and can cover large turfgrass areas, such as an entire fairway, if the insect population develops unchecked. The best time to control BTA is when adults are laying eggs in the spring. Timing is critical but should be correct if your applications coincide with the flowering of Vanhoutte spiraea or black locust. Lightly water these applications in because the adults reside in the thatch. Do not water so heavily that you wash the insecticide past the thatch and into the soil below. Another control alternative is to treat the soil to kill young larvae as they hatch. Make these applications from late May on, depending on the local weather and grub activity. Timing is not as critical, but you must water these applications into the soil thoroughly for them to be effective. In general, once damage is evident, control won�t be effective. This is because grubs have already finished feeding and will not be affected by the insecticide. --Ground pearls. Ground pearls (see illustration) are tiny scale insects that attack the roots of many warm-season grasses, particularly bermudagrass and centipedegrass. The life cycle of ground pearls is not well understood. Apparently mature females emerge from their protective shells, move a short distance and lay eggs in the soil. Nymphs hatch and attach themselves by their mouth parts to nearby roots and remain for the duration of their development. Nymphs suck nutrients from the roots, begin to grow and produce a hard, pearl-like shell that may become as large as 0.19 inch in diameter. A typical generation (egg to adult) takes at least 1 year to complete and may take 2 or 3 years. Damage from ground-pearl activity is caused by the pruning of fibrous roots and removal of plant fluids. Turf turns yellow, resembling drought stress, and eventually brown. Damage appears in irregular patches. Insecticidal control is extremely difficult, partly because the insect spends virtually all of its life cycle protected by a hard, waxy shell that insecticides cannot penetrate. Furthermore, ground pearls may develop at depths up to 10 inches. The best approach to their control is to provide optimum growing conditions, particularly in terms of irrigation and fertilization, to enable the turf to tolerate ground-pearl activity. THATCH-INHABITING INSECTS --Chinch bugs. Chinch bugs (see illustration) are small, white-and-black insects about 0.20 inch long when fully grown. They suck plant juices from grass plants. Severe feeding causes yellowing of the turf in spots. These spots often turn brown and die. In many instances, damage takes place without the chinch bugs being observed. Several different species of chinch bugs occur in the United States, but only a few are known to cause damage to turf. One species, the southern chinch bug, infests St. Augustinegrass and other grasses. The hairy chinch bug, commonly found in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, feeds on bentgrasses, fescues and Kentucky bluegrass. Life cycles are similar between the two species. The black-and-white winged adults overwinter in taller grass and debris. The Southern chinch bug continues to be active during winter in the South, but its development is slow. In spring, adult chinch bugs move from hibernating sites to growing turfgrasses where they feed and mate. The female chinch bugs lay about 100 to 500 eggs over a 3- to 4-week period. Eggs hatch into tiny, red-and-white nymphs about half the size of a pinhead. These nymphs feed on plant juices and continue to grow. As they enlarge, they shed their skins four times before becoming a winged adult. With each shedding, the nymph increases in size, becoming black with a small white area between the wings. The wings of the adult are white. In the northern United States, two generations of chinch bugs generally hatch each year; in Florida, Louisiana and other Southern states, the Southern chinch bug may have overlapping generations. In late summer, the population in turf can build up to 200 to 300 per square foot. Both adults and nymphs are found in sunny areas in uneven clusters or patches, not distributed uniformly over the lawn. When chinch bugs are numerous, you�ll find them on sidewalks, driveways and even on the sides of houses. To determine if chinch bugs are causing damage, it often is necessary to flood them out of their feeding sites. A simple method is to remove the bottom of a metal coffee can and drive the can into the soil at the periphery of the damaged area. Fill the can with water and check for chinch bugs floating in the can for the next 5 minutes or more. --Sod webworms. Sod webworms (see illustration) are the larvae (caterpillars) of a number of moth species. Of those species attacking turf, the vagabond webworm, silver-striped webworm, bluegrass webworm, tropical sod webworm, and the lawn or large sod webworm are most damaging. One sign of sod webworms is the presence of small buff-colored or almost-white moths flying just above the grass in a zigzag pattern in the early evening hours. These moths collect around lights and screens after dark. When at rest, the moths are tubular in shape because of how the wings wrap around the body. Most sod webworms pass the winter as larvae, tightly coiled in a closely woven silk case covered with particles of soil. In the spring, the webworms change into pupae within cells in the soil. Adult moths soon emerge to mate and lay eggs. Eggs are laid by the female sod-webworm moths while flying low over the turf in the evening hours. Eggs hatch after about a week, and the young webworm larvae begin feeding on turfgrass leaves. Sod-webworm damage results from feeding larvae�the adult moths do not feed. Sod webworm larvae construct silken-lined burrows or tunnels in the thatch. Their feeding consists of clipping off the grass blades just above or at ground level and eating them. Most feeding occurs at night and in the early morning. The larvae hide in their burrows during the day. In healthy turf, a considerable number of webworms are necessary to cause visible damage�in most instances, at least six webworms per square foot of turf. Usually, the first generation of sod webworms in early summer are not numerous enough to cause damage. But in each succeeding generation, 6 to 8 weeks later, the number of webworms can greatly increase. The caterpillars have bigger appetites as they grow larger, reaching a full size of 0.75 to 1 inch long. They are gray to dusky-green with a dark brown head and brown spots over the body. Most areas of the United Sates have 2 or 3 generations a year. Sod-webworm feeding first causes small, irregular areas of dead or dying turf. These small patches merge as they enlarge from continued webworm feeding. If the number of webworms in the turf is high, they can severely damage the turf in a few days. Badly damaged turf has many ragged, uneven patches of dead grass. Pencil-sized holes are produced by birds digging webworms out of their silken burrows. Much of this bird feeding occurs in early morning. --Cutworms. Cutworms (see illustration) that damage turf include several types: black cutworm, variegated cutworm and bronzed cutworm. Cutworms are a group of thick-bodied, dull-brown, gray or dull-black caterpillars up to 1.5 to 2 inches long. These caterpillars usually live in the soil or just under the soil surface during the day and feed on the turfgrass at night. Some species eat only grass leaves, while others cut off plants at the soil surface. When you find cutworms resting in the soil during the day, they commonly are in a curled position�the same posture they assume when disturbed. Adult cutworm moths are active at night and common around lights and on windshields. They are dull-black, gray or brown with a wing span of about 0.5 inch. --Armyworms. The armyworm (see illustration) commonly overwinters as a larva or pupa. The worms are green with black stripes down the center of the back and along each side. They measure about 1.5 inches long when fully grown. Adult moths are bright brown with a white spot near the center of each front wing. The moths often appear in large numbers around street and building lights in summer. The eggs are greenish-white and laid in rows on the lower leaves of grasses. Three generations of armyworms commonly hatch each year. Armyworms cause damage by devouring grass, usually in circular patches. An �army� of worms hatching from egg clusters in a concentrated area can completely eat the grass from a small area before migrating to other areas in the lawn. These insects feed more commonly at night but do not hide completely during the day. LEAF-INHABITING INSECTS --Aphids. Aphids, or plant lice (see illustration), are soft-bodied, usually wingless, slow-moving insects. Certain species, such as the greenbug or the oat-bird cherry aphid, have been observed feeding on turfgrass, especially bluegrasses. Aphids form a �crowd� on turfgrass leaves and stems and suck juices from them. The damage caused by aphids is similar to that of other sucking insects such as chinch bugs. Infested areas are circular with the grass turning yellow or dying. These patches are common in the shaded areas under trees. Close examination of the outer edge of the damaged area will reveal aphids massed on the grass leaves. --Mites. Mites (see illustration), which are relatives of insects, are small and difficult to see without a hand lens or magnifying glass. Mites are eight-legged, wingless and usually oval-bodied. They feed by sucking sap from grasses, causing mottling or blotching of the leaves. Severe feeding by high populations of mites can kill turfgrass. Several species of mites can occur in lawns anywhere in the United States. Spider mites are yellowish or greenish, often with two or more dark spots on the body. They feed on many plants including grasses. The white, worm-like bermudagrass mite feeds on bermudagrass in the Southwest. Another important species is the clover mite. These greenish to reddish-brown mites feed on clovers and other plants in addition to turfgrasses. They are more of a household pest, however, migrating up the exterior walls of homes. They often find their way inside homes in late fall, winter and early spring, crawling on window sills, drapes and the insides of windows. Mite control with chemicals is not often necessary. Only when many mites are feeding on each grass plant will you observe damage. Mite numbers are usually kept in check by insects and predatory mites. Sometimes the predator population is absent, reduced by insecticides or not numerous enough to keep the pest mites in check. --Scales. Scale insects (see illustration) are mobile only in the young, immature stages. After that, they settle in a location on the leaf or stem, feed with needle-like mouth parts and usually cover themselves with an armored or shell-like protective covering. These tiny, globular or oval insects are easily overlooked when you examine turf. Two species of scale insects feed on turfgrass leaves: Rhodesgrass scale and bermudagrass scale. The Rhodesgrass scale is found in the Gulf states and other southern states toward California. It attacks turfgrass crowns causing infested plants to wither and die. The Bermudagrass scale infests bermudagrass, especially in shady areas. Both scale insects begin as nymphs, or crawlers, that move around on the plants before constructing their armored or shell-like covering. The covering of the Rhodesgrass scale is dark purplish-brown with full-grown insects about 0.125 inch in diameter. Bermudagrass scales are white when mature and 0.06 inch long. Infested crowns have a moldy appearance. When numerous, scale insects produce dead areas in turf, especially in the shade. Detection is difficult because of their small size and lack of activity on the crowns of turfgrass. Insect pests of ornamentals often are host-specific, and larval stages (which often are not highly mobile) usually remain on the host as they develop. Therefore, accurate plant identification is an important part of diagnosing insect problems. As we mentioned earlier, insects possess either biting/chewing mouth parts or sucking/piercing mouth parts. Let�s look at important examples of each. � Chewing insects. Most damaging chewing insects are the larval stages of insects. Beetles, butterflies and moths, grasshoppers and related insects, and wasps feed on foliage during their immature stages, and, in some cases, as adults as well. Roots also are commonly attacked. Leaf-feeding damage usually is quite easy to spot. Parts of leaves are chewed off, or in some cases, entire branches are stripped bare. In other cases, insects feed on layers of leaf tissue without consuming the entire leaf. Thus, they leave thin leaf �skeletons� behind. Leaf miners leave peculiar trails or pockets in the leaf. Another common strategy of many leaf feeders is to live among the young leaves of a shoot tip, often binding them together with silk. Other caterpillars do this with older leaves as well, creating tunnels or nests in which to live. These are the leaf folders, leaf rollers and leaf tiers. Some caterpillars live in groups and build large webbed nests that are quite conspicuous. These are the tent caterpillars and webworms. As this discussion shows, leaf feeders can leave a variety of signs and include many types of insects. They all ultimately do the same thing: They consume foliage. Sometimes you will never find the feeding insect itself. Often this is because the damage was caused by a generalized feeder, such as grasshoppers. These insects, unlike host-specific insects, are mobile and often feed and then move on. Thus, you see the damage but do not find the insect. This type of damage is often difficult to distinguish from feeding due to caterpillars. � Sucking/piercing insects. This group includes aphids, scales, whiteflies and mites, among others. These pests cause damage different from that of chewing insects. On leaves, speckling is a common symptom. Each small, light-colored spot is a point at which the pest inserted its mouth parts and withdrew plant fluids. This is typical of mites and leafhoppers. Insects such as scales simply stay attached to one site, and so the insects themselves are what you�re likely to spot. Aside from foliar discolorations, sucking insects cause cupping, curling and other distortions of leaves and shoots. These result, in part, from toxins that the insects inject while feeding. Another sign of sucking insects is the growth of sooty mold. This fungus lives on honeydew excreted by sucking insects. Though unattractive, sooty mold is harmless to plants and is an excellent means of spotting infestations. The most serious damage of sucking insects results from the withdrawal of sap. This can amount to a great proportion of the plant�s resources if pest populations are large. Lack of vigor and dieback often result. BEETLES (COLEOPTERA) As with turf, beetles pose some of the most serious problems for ornamentals. Often it is the larval (grub) stage that inflicts the most serious damage, but adults can be harmful as well. Damage includes foliar feeding, root feeding and wood boring, depending on the pest. --Japanese beetle. Japanese beetles (see illustration) were introduced into the United States early this century and have spread through much of the country since then. Both adult and grub stages cause damage to plants. The grubs are damaging to turf but also can harm ornamentals with their root feeding, especially on nursery stock. However, adults cause extensive feeding damage to flowers and foliage, and this is the most common reason ornamentals require treatment for Japanese beetles. The most favored host is the rose, but numerous other ornamentals are subject to attack as well. The shiny green thorax and brown wing covers of Japanese beetles are distinctive. Foliar insecticides provide some protection from adult feeding, though repeat applications usually are necessary to protect newly emerging growth. One strategy is to reduce grub populations in nearby turf, which usually harbors the largest populations of developing Japanese beetle grubs. While this may reduce populations in the immediate area, it will not eliminate them entirely because Japanese beetles are excellent fliers and will move in from other areas. --Leaf beetles. Leaf beetles (see illustration) include several species that consume the foliage of various tree and shrub hosts. The larval stages do the most serious damage, but adults often feed as well. Leaf-beetle larvae have an appearance unlike that of caterpillars, appearing more like grubs (but usually more colorful). Feeding often leaves foliage skeletonized, and the larvae usually live in large groups for at least part of their development. Elm leaf beetles are one of the more familiar leaf-beetle problems. Foliar or systemic insecticides are effective against leaf beetles. Many other leaf-feeding insects attack ornamentals in landscapes. Many caterpillars, unlike those discussed above, live solitary lives and do not create nests or produce highly visible damage. Often, the damage is not even noticed. When control measures become necessary, foliar insecticide sprays are almost always effective for foliar pests. --Root weevils. Root weevils include several species that attack a variety of woody ornamentals. The black vine weevil (see illustration) and the strawberry weevil are two of the most injurious species, feeding on broad-leaved evergreens (notably azaleas and rhododendrons) and conifers (especially yews). The larvae feed on roots, causing severe damage that can lead to plant death. Also, the larvae sometimes feed on stems just above the soil surface, often girdling them completely. Affected plants frequently decline rapidly and die. This is often attributed to other causes because the damage can be inconspicuous. However, a close inspection of feeder roots and stems near the soil line usually reveals feeding damage if these insects are present. Feeding notches on foliage (from adult weevils) are another indication, but other, less-injurious weevils may be responsible. Foliar notching on Taxus (yews) is diagnostic of black vine weevils, however. Soil-applied insecticides control root-weevil larvae, while adults are susceptible to foliar applications. Even though adults do not inflict serious damage, controlling them reduces subsequent larval populations. --Borers and bark beetles. The larvae (grubs) of certain beetles that bore into the wood of trees and shrub are borers (see illustrations). The adult beetles lay their eggs on the host plant. When they hatch, the larvae bore into wood, on which they feed, and cause decline and dieback of the affected plant. When they complete their larval stage (which may take one or several seasons, depending on the borer species), borers pupate within the host plant, eventually emerging as adults. Entrance holes, sawdust-like frass (droppings) on branches, swollen limbs and branch dieback are other typical symptoms of borers. If you cut into wood near entrance holes, you may be able to spot tunneling within the wood or perhaps the borer itself. The difficulty of treating borers is due to the protection they receive by living inside the wood of the host plant. Bark beetle grubs feed on tissue just inside the bark and on vascular tissue beneath it. The feeding usually occurs in interesting patterns�the larvae tunnel outward from main tunnels creating feeding galleries (see illustration). The gallery patterns are sometimes diagnostic. As the tissue underneath the bark dies, the bark may slough from the plant. Though a great many plants are vulnerable to many species of borers and bark beetles, the more common and serious pests include: Dogwood borer Shothole borer on cherries, peaches, plums and other trees Elm bark beetles (which spread Dutch elm disease) The bronze birch borer The willow-and-poplar borer The flatheaded appletree borer, which attacks many ornamental species Pine bark beetles, which rapidly infest stressed pines. Traditional treatments consist of spraying insecticides on the bark of trunks and branches of susceptible species to provide a chemical barrier against newly hatched borers trying to gain entrance. This means you must time the applications to coincide with egg laying and hatch. Extension services sometimes announce treatment windows based on borer hatch times, which often occur in spring or early summer. Products developed relatively recently provide control of some borers with parasitic nematodes. The advantage of these products is that they can provide control of borers even after they�re inside the plant. Thus, timing may not be so critical with these products, though control is not always consistent. Pruning operations should take place at some time other than when prevalent borers are laying eggs. Apparently, open wounds allow easy entrance for some borers and may even attract them. Many borers lay eggs in spring or early summer, which are not typical times to prune, so this should not constitute a major scheduling adjustment. Because borers are an ongoing threat, a good practice is to use non-host ornamentals. This avoids the need to treat every year for the same pest. Also, many borers and bark beetles detect stressed trees and attack them preferentially. Thus, good cultural care also reduces infestations. BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS (LEPIDOPTERA) We are all familiar with the larvae of butterflies and moths�caterpillars. A huge number of species feed on plants, but relatively few become pest problems in landscapes. Most cause noticeable damage with foliar feeding, though a few are wood borers. --Tent caterpillars and webworms. These caterpillars are the immature stages of moths and use silk to create nests. Several species have this habit, and host plants include a range of ornamental species. The most common of these pests include the Eastern and Western tent caterpillars and the fall webworm. The nests, which can be large and conspicuous, are not difficult to spot. However, careful inspection of trees that have been affected in past years may allow you to spot the caterpillars before their nests become too visible. Control is usually easy and effective with several insecticides, though occasionally nests are high up in tree crowns and you must use a forceful spray to reach them. --Bagworms. Bagworms (see illustration) are common pests in large parts of the country, especially the Eastern half. They feed on well over 100 species of plants, including both broadleaf and coniferous types. Bagworm damage consists of foliage consumption, though the familiar �bags� can be unattractive. Bagworm caterpillars live inside these structures throughout their development. These pests can build up high numbers on individual plants because the females cannot fly and must lay their eggs on the same plant. On isolated plants, it sometimes is practical to simply pick bagworms off by hand. They are so conspicuous, it�s hard not to spot them. If this is not practical, several insecticidal products provide adequate control with foliar sprays. --Cutworms. Cutworms (see illustration) are the larvae of several moth species. These caterpillars spend most of their time in burrows underground and emerge at night to feed on plants. Although the caterpillars consume leaves and flowers, they also have the habit of chewing through stems at or near the surface, often severing the plant entirely. Thus, they destroy far more than they actually consume, making even small populations destructive to herbaceous plantings. Because cutworms feed at night, they are seldom seen. However, plants with severed stems lying on the ground or wilting plants that show stem damage near the ground are telltale signs of cutworms. Foliar applications of insecticides or granular baits are the customary control measures. --Borers. The larvae (caterpillars) of certain moths invade shoots, branches and trunks of trees and shrubs. Damage and symptoms are essentially the same as those of beetle borers�as are treatment strategies�though you should identify the specific pest and obtain appropriate treatment information. A significant wood-boring pest is the lilac borer (or banded clearwing ash borer�they�re the same species of moth) which attacks lilac, ash and other members of the ash family. This insect often leaves pupal cases protruding from exit holes in the trunk when the adults emerge. Another serious pest is the dogwood borer (see illustration), also a clearwing moth. APHIDS, SCALES, WHITEFLIES (HOMOPTERA) This group of insects contains a large number of plant pests, including some of the most damaging and difficult-to-control insects. All possess sucking/piercing mouth parts. The serious pests in this group often build to enormous populations that withdraw large amounts of plant fluids, seriously degrading plant vigor. --Aphids. Aphids (see illustration) are some of the most-recognized plant pests. They are small, soft-bodied insects that may or may not possess wings. Some species have woolly or waxy surfaces. A large number of species exist, attacking nearly every kind of plant. They pierce soft leaf, stem or flower tissue and feed on plant sap. Cupping, curling and other growth distortions are common symptoms of leaves and shoots. Aphids may be visible on young shoots, but they often reside on the undersides of leaves, as well. Some aphids even feed on roots, but aboveground infestations are those which most often require treatment. Much has been made of biological controls for aphids�parasitic wasps, ladybugs, lacewings�and these are effective in many cases. However, aphids often are able to build to damaging populations in spring or summer before predators can increase to effective levels. Thus, chemical control measures may be necessary. Because aphids often prefer to feed on succulent young shoots, repeat applications may be necessary to protect new growth during growth flushes. Systemic insecticides are useful against aphids. --Scales. Scale insects (see illustrations) are some of the most difficult-to-control pests. They actually are soft-bodied insects, but the hard covering many species possess provides good protection. These types are called armored scales. Other types lack hard coverings and, therefore, are called unarmored or soft. Several other families are of importance and include mealybugs and cottony cushion scales. Altogether, a great many species occur, and most plants are susceptible to some type of scale. Scales anchor themselves to stems and leaves (or even bark) and suck plant fluids. Because they are essentially immobile, armored scales effectively seal themselves off for protection beneath their hard coverings. This is why they can be so difficult to control. Fortunately, scale parasites offer good natural control of many scales. When they do not, scales can cause extensive damage to plants. A side-effect of scale infestations is the secretion of honeydew, which then gives rise to sooty mold on leaf surfaces. The occurrence of this is a good sign that scales (or other sucking insects) have infested a plant. The stage most vulnerable to control measures is the crawler stage. Crawlers are immature scales that move to new feeding sites. When they find a suitable site, they settle down and assume the typical scale lifestyle. Until then, they do not possess a protective covering and so are more susceptible to pesticides. Unfortunately, the crawler stage does not last long, so timing is critical and sometimes difficult to gauge accurately. Extension services sometimes announce applications windows, and pheromones also are available as monitoring tools. Another option applicators use is spray oil (sometimes mixed with a pesticide), which is useful against some scales. Effectiveness depends completely on the degree of coverage, so high-volume applications are typical of oil applications for scales. --Whiteflies. Whiteflies (see illustration) cause symptoms similar to aphids, to which they are related. Several species are of some importance, but the greenhouse whitefly is the most important. It attacks many plant species, including outdoor landscape ornamentals. Whiteflies are small insects but easily visible to the naked eye. The adults are winged, but the immature stages�found on the undersides of leaves�resemble small scale insects. Various whitefly species attack a great many plant hosts by piercing soft plant tissue and sucking plant sap. This causes curling and cupping of leaves. Further, whitefly infestations often produce copious amounts of honeydew, which causes sooty-mold growth and creates a nuisance for cars parked underneath infested trees. Persistent control measures are necessary for whiteflies, and even then control may not be adequate. Adult whiteflies are good fliers and spread rapidly, often re-infesting treated sites from nearby areas. In some regions, the deliberate introduction of parasites has dramatically reduced whitefly problems. WASPS, BEES AND ANTS (HYMEN OPTERA) Most members of this group are considered beneficial, because they prey on other insects. However, several species can cause problems for the landscape manager. --Sawflies. Several kinds of sawflies (see illustration) are pests of ornamentals. Sawflies, though they look like caterpillars, are the larval stages of wasps. Often, their posterior ends are curled in a peculiar fashion. Sawflies feed on numerous plant hosts, but each species usually is specific to one or a few types. Birch, pine and rose are some of the more commonly attacked ornamentals. Several foliar insecticides control sawflies. However, you often can pick off limited infestations by hand because the larvae often congregate in dense masses that are easy to clip out and discard. --Ants. Ants seldom consume plants directly, but they still can become serious pests in landscapes. Some ants are known to farm aphids, moving them around to different plants and providing them with some protection from natural enemies. Of course, many people consider ants a �nuisance� pest, which they certainly can be. Fire ants are a more serious problem because of the serious reaction people have to their stings, and their mounds can become quite large and disruptive in turf and shrub areas. Several products are formulated specifically for fire-ant control. Carpenter ants nest in tree trunks. They do not actually consume wood for food. They simply hollow out spaces for the use of the ant colony. Some colonies become large enough to weaken trunks or large branches, creating hazardous trees. --Mites. Mites (see illustration) pose serious control challenges to landscape managers. These tiny creatures live on leaf surfaces (usually the undersides). They also commonly create webbing that may be conspicuous when infestations are heavy. Initially, it often is easier to spot the feeding damage than to find the mites themselves. Mites often cause spotting or speckling on leaves that is visible on the upper leaf surfaces. These mark the points where mites have pierced the leaf tissue to feed and should prompt you to inspect the leaves closely. Though tiny, most mites are visible to the naked eye. A 10x or 20x magnifier is a great aid, however. On some plants, conifers for example, feeding may not be noticeable as such. Look for browning and tip dieback, as well as webbing. Other symptoms, depending on the plant, may include purpling, leaf cupping or curling and leaf death. A method some use to inspect for mites is to hold a sheet of white paper beneath a shoot and strike or shake it. If mites are present, some will fall onto the paper, where you can see them crawling around. If certain plants have a history of mite infestation, monitor them closely�you�ll want to take control measures before populations become heavy. Mites are notorious for rapidly rebounding from control applications. The key to successful mite control is to repeat applications 7 to 10 days after the first one. This way, you�ll kill mites that hatch from eggs laid before the first application (most miticides do not kill the eggs). Complete coverage, especially on the undersides of leaves is essential. Mites reproduce rapidly, so they are able to develop resistance to pesticides relatively easily. Thus, it is important to rotate chemicals when you must make repeat applications for mites. Mites typically thrive in hot weather. Thus, damage tends to show during summer. Dusty conditions also seem to encourage mites, so dust-control measures sometimes reduce mite populations. These familiar pests feed on foliage of many ornamental species, though they clearly prefer some plants over others. When populations are high, serious damage can result. The shiny slime trails snails and slugs leave behind are the surest way to distinguish their feeding from that of other pests. Although several home remedies have long been used�such as beer in a pan or salt granules� pesticidal baits are very effective and fairly inexpensive. CONTROLLING PESTS The most important part of controlling pests in landscapes is to provide proper cultural practices for the plants growing there, whether they be turfgrasses or ornamentals. Some insects (for example, pine bark beetles or bronze birch borers) are noted for their ability to detect stressed plants, which are less able to resist attacks. In addition, vigorous plants tolerate higher levels of pests without showing serious symptoms (for example, grubs in turf) and more rapidly outgrow damage that does occur. Proper cultural care does not mean that pest problems will disappear, but in general, they should be less frequent and less severe when plants are healthy. A range of control products and techniques exists for controlling infestations. Your choice will depend on the pest, the host plant and other site factors. Many pests can be tolerated at low levels, from which only minor damage will result. It is the large populations that require attention. Predators are a vital part of pest control in landscapes, but natural control obviously is not sufficient if damaging outbreaks are occurring. Thus, chemical controls also are a necessary part of maintaining landscapes in acceptable condition. In some cases, introducing predators can substitute for chemical controls. However, this should be thought of as longer-term solution�if immediate control is needed, chemicals often are the only effective option. Providing good cultural care, encouraging natural predators, using plant species not preferred by prevalent insect pests and judicious chemical applications are all aspects of integrated pest management (IPM). All the aspects of IPM are important for maintaining healthy landscapes and making efficient use of available resources. Insects come into contact with insecticides in various ways. Contact insecticides are applied as sprays to surfaces, usually foliage, where the target pests reside. Often, it is enough for the insect simply to walk across the treated surface and contact the insecticide with its feet. Leaf-feeding insects ingest foliar-applied chemicals when they feed on treated leaves; this is a typical means of control for many chewing insects. Soil-inhabiting insects contact the pesticide when it is washed down into the soil after an irrigation. Piercing-sucking insects, thought they are susceptible to contact products when directly contacted by them, do not consume foliage, so they do not ingest contact products. However, several insecticides have systemic qualities, meaning that plants take the chemical into their tissues. When sucking insects feed on sap, they also ingest some of the insecticide with it. Thus, systemic products are especially useful for pests such as aphids, mites, whiteflies and some scales. Granular formulations are effective for treating soil addition, vigorous plants tolerate higher levels of pests without showing serious symptoms (for example, grubs in turf) and more rapidly outgrow damage that does occur. Proper cultural care does not mean that pest problems will disappear, but in general, they should be less frequent and less severe when plants are healthy. Insects come into contact with insecticides in various ways. Contact insecticides are applied as sprays to surfaces, usually foliage, where the target pests reside. Often, it is enough for the insect simply to walk across the treated surface and contact the insecticide with its feet. Leaf-feeding insects ingest foliar-applied chemicals when they feed on treated leaves; this is a typical means of control for many chewing insects. Soil-inhabiting insects contact the pesticide when it is washed down into the soil after an irrigation. Piercing-sucking insects, thought they are susceptible to contact products when directly contacted by them, do not consume foliage, so they do not ingest contact products. However, several insecticides have systemic qualities, meaning that plants take the chemical into their tissues. When sucking insects feed on sap, they also ingest some of the insecticide with it. Thus, systemic products are especially useful for pests such as aphids, mites, whiteflies and some scales. Granular formulations are effective for treating soil insects, especially in turf. These must be irrigated to wash them into the soil where they can contact soil-inhabiting pests. In some cases, granular insecticides, after being irrigated into the soil, are taken up by the plants, which then gain systemic protection from the product. Recently, soil or trunk-injected systemic insecticides have become a more popular means of treating trees. The advantages of their over traditional sprays are obvious and provide a level of control not usually possible with sprays on large trees. Baits are useful for mobile insects, insects that do not reside on the host plant (cutworms, for example) and other pests such as slugs and snails. Using baits that attract these pests is more efficient than spraying an entire landscape just to ensure the pest ingests some insecticide. Horticultural oils are not traditional insecticides. They work by literally suffocating insects. Thus, complete coverage is essential for good control with oils. In hot weather, some oils pose a risk of burning foliage, so this type of application is best suited to winter and spring applications for many oil products. Winter-applied oil treatments are referred to as dormant sprays and control insects overwintering on the plant. Insect growth regulators (IGRs) are a relatively recent development in pest control but show much promise. These chemicals mimic natural hormones that control the life cycle of insects and interrupt the normal development process. Manufacturers already have introduced a few IGR products, and more are being developed for both turf and ornamental uses. IGRs are highly specific to the target pest, so their use does not harm predator populations. Predators and parasites are used successfully by many landscape managers. Unfortunately, many customers demand more immediate results than predators can offer. When they fit into a pest-control program, however, predators can cost-effectively and successfully control a number of pests. Parasitic nematodes, wasps and flies�as well as predatory insects such as ladybugs, lacewings and mantids�are available from suppliers. Much more remains to be learned about using natural controls in turf and ornamental sites, so this is an actively evolving field. 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The Blendover Podcast Heavy Metal Album Cover Art IV: The Most Iconic Metal Album Covers Posted by :cGt2099 On : October 20, 2017 Category: Heavy Metal Historian Tags:AC/DC, Adam Jones, Anthrax, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Brad Guice, Cannibal Corpse, Dave Mustaine, David Coverdale, Deep Purple, Derek Riggs, Dio, Don Brautigam, Ed Repka, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Guns N’ Roses, HR Giger, Hugh Syme, Iron Maiden, JRR Tolkien, Judas Priest, Ken Kelly, King Diamond, KISS, Lemmy, Lemmy Kilmister, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Motley Crue, Motorhead, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore, Robert Williams, Rod Smallwood, Ronnie James Dio, Slayer, Tool, Venom, Vincent Locke, Whitesnake http://media.blubrry.com/heavymetalhistorian/p/heavymetal666.com/wp-content/uploads/2017-10-18-HMH-0055.mp3 Heavy Metal Historian We close our journey through album art with another different kind of episode, in which we consider twenty of the most recognizable metal album covers of all time. Many will agree and many will not, but we run through a discussion of the most iconic cover designs by some of the biggest bands in heavy metal… Hosted by Greg Davies, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time. Clips and Sources Motörhead – Ace Of Spades DVD Part 3 Ronnie James Dio Interview – Devil Horns Origin Metal News Links All 4 DECAPITATED members formally charged with rape BELPHEGOR, CRYPTOPSY, and HATE Announce Dates for North American Tour BUCKETHEAD Suffering from Potentially Fatal Heart Condition CINDERELLA’s TOM KEIFER Hospitalized After ‘Medical Emergency’ Finland’s OMNIUM GATHERUM – release lyric video for new single “Blade Reflections”! JUDAS PRIEST, BON JOVI Among Nominees For ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Induction MARILYN MANSON releases new NSFW video for “Say10” – featuring JOHNNY DEPP MORBID ANGEL Unleash New Song, Announces New Album: “Kingdoms Disdained” ROBB FLYNN Says the Vegas Shooting Makes Him Wanna Retire MACHINE HEAD’s “Davidian” WALLY WORLD: These May Be the Greatest Heavy Metal Music Videos of All Time Recqommended Listening: “Hollow” by Pantera from Vulgar Display of Power “Paradise City” by Guns N’ Roses from Appetite for Destruction “Living After Midnight” by Judas Priest from British Steel “Transylvania” by Iron Maiden from Iron Maiden “A Dangerous Meeting” by Mercyful Fate from Don’t Break the Oath “Mirror, Mirror” by Blind Guardian from Nightfall in Middle Earth “Jesus Saves” by Slayer from Reign in Blood “Detroit Rock City” by KISS from Destroyer “Come as You Are” by Nirvana from Nevermind “Indians” by Anthrax from Among the Living “Hangar 18” by Megadeth from Rust in Peace “Stinkfist” by Tool from Aenima “Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake from Whitesnake: 1987 “The Cryptic Stench” by Cannibal Corpse from Tomb of the Mutilated “The Unforgiven” by Metallica from Metallica: The Black Album (1991) “This Love” by Pantera from Vulgar Display of Power “Don’t Talk to Strangers” by Dio from Holy Diver “Stars” by Hear N’ Aid from Hear N’ Aid: Stars “Kickapoo” by Tenacious D from The Pick of Destiny “The Wizard” by Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath “Stargazer” by Rainbow from Rising “Love Me Like a Reptile” by Motorhead from Ace of Spades “Looks That Kill” by Motley Crue from Shout at the Devil “Still… You Turn Me On” by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer from Brain Salad Surgery “Raise Some Kaine” by Wally World as posted at MetalSucks.net “No, No, No” by KISS from Crazy Nights Music used in the Heavy Metal Historian Intro Theme was performed and written by AGAINST 72 – used with permission [Music and clips are copyright to respective owners, and are used under Fair Use] The Future of Groove Metal Posted by :cGt2099 On : January 5, 2017 Tags:Adrenaline Mob, Alabama Thunderpussy, Alice Cooper, Battlecross, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Cavalera Conspiracy, Chad Gray, Coal Chamber, Damageplan, Dave Grohl, David Allen Coe, DevilDriver, Dez Fafara, Dimebag Darrell, Dope, Down, Fear Factory, Five Finger Death Punch, GrimWolf, Hellyeah, Henry Rollins, Igor Cavalera, Iommi, James Niggemeyer, Jeff “Mayhem” Thompson, Kill Devil Hill, KISS, Mastodon, Max Cavalera, Meridian, Metallica, Mudvayne, Nathan Gale, Otep, Otep Shamaya, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Paulo Jr., Phil Anselmo, Ratgod, Rebel Meets Rebel, Rex Brown, Rob Zombie, Saliva, Scum of the Earth, Sepultura, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Shapeless Sphere, Soulfly, Superjoint, Superjoint Ritual, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Native Howl, Threat Signal, Tony Iommi, Vinnie Paul, Volbeat, Zakk Wylde We revisit the tragic night of December 8, 2004, the fallout among bands and fans the following day after the final live performance of Damageplan. And then we move to the advent of Hellyeah, and into the rise of Nu Metal and Metalcore. We close our examination of the subgenre, and dig deep into the Future of Groove Metal. After Thirty Years, METAL HAMMER Magazine May be Finished AS I LAY DYING’s TIM LAMBESIS Suing Prison for $35 Million Because He Has Man Boobs BREAKING BENJAMIN Guitarist Loses Newborn Son FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Guitarist Comes To Aid Of Cop On Highway GARY CHERONE Says EXTREME Is ‘Focusing On Putting Out A New Record’ This Year GENE SIMMONS Says KISS Was Never Asked To Perform At DONALD TRUMP’s Inauguration MAX CAVALERA On SEPULTURA: ‘Tell Me One Great Song They Have Written Since I Left’ THE DEAD DAISIES release new music video: “Long Way To Go” TOOL Announces First New York City Show In More Than A Decade WINTERSUN Completes Work On Third Album Recommended Listening: “Save Me” by Damageplan from New Found Power “Cemetery Gates” by Pantera from Cowboys From Hell “Bestial Devastation” by Sepultura from Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation “Pride” by Damageplan from New Found Power “Soul Bleed” by Damageplan from New Found Power “Nothin’ to Lose” by Rebel Meets Rebel from Rebel Meets Rebel “Hush” by Hellyeah from Blood for Blood “Strange” by Kill Devil Hill from Kill Devil Hill “We’ve Lost You!” by Sepultura from A-Lex “Sanctuary” by Cavalera Conspiracy from Inflikted “Prophecy” by Soulfly from Prophecy “Nothing for Me Here” by Dope from No Regrets “Confrontation” by Otep from The Ascension “Click Click Boom” by Saliva from Every Six Seconds “Fiend” by Coal Chamber from Dark Days “High Road” by Mastodon from One More ’round the Sun “A Warrior’s Call” by Volbeat from Beyond Hell / Above Heaven “Sail” by DevilDriver from Winter Kills “Push Pull Destroy” by Battlecross from Pursuit of Honor “I am the Scum” by Scum of the Earth from Blah Blah Blah “Turn it Up” by Texas Hippie Coalition from Peacemaker “Come on Get up” by Adrenaline Mob from Men of Honor “Under and Over it” by Five Finger Death Punch from American Capitalist “Motor-Ready” by Alabama Thunderpussy from Staring at the Divine “Thunderhead” by The Native Howl from Thrash Grass “Wicked Young Man” by Alice Cooper from Brutal Planet “Laughing Man (in the Devil Mask)” by Iommi from Iommi “Fucking Hostile” by Battlecross from Hostile “Drone Hunter” by Shapeless Sphere from Shieldead “Becoming the Beast” by GrimWolf from Lycanthrope “When Time Stood Still” by Sergeant Thunderhoof from Ride of the Hoof “Less Than” by Ratgod from The Loneliest Place on Earth “Domination (Live Moscow 1991)” by Pantera from Cowboys From Hell (Deluxe Edition) “Children of Rust” by Meridian from Meridian Music used in the Heavy Metal Historian Intro Theme was performed and written by AGAINST 72 – used with permission Controversies and Scapegoats Tags:AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Body Count, Burzum, Cannibal Corpse, Chris Byers, Damien Echols, Dead, Dee Snider, Dylan Klebold, Elvis Presley, Eric Harris, Euronymous, Fastway, Gene Simmons, Ice-T, Iron Maiden, James Vance, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelly Jr, Judas Priest, KISS, Marilyn Manson, MayheM, Metallica, Michael Moore, Milton Berle, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Pungent Stench, Ray Belknap, Richard Ramirez, Slayer, Stevie Branch, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Twisted Sister, Varg Vikernes, Venom Since its origin, metal has been plagued by misinterpretations from critics of the genre who claim the style corrupts its fans and listeners. From claims of devil worship, to the rise of the PMRC, and from the notorious Judas Priest trial, to cases such as the West Memphis Three, and more, we examine the Scapegoats and Controversies of metal. Hosted by Greg Davies from Blendover, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time. Are Classic GUNS N’ ROSES Lineup Tour Dates Being Offered To European Festival Promoters? CANNIBAL CORPSE-Branded Beer ‘Amber Smashed Face’ Coming Soon DEVIN TOWNSEND: Trailer For ‘Ziltoid Live At The Royal Albert Hall’ DVD, Blu-Ray Former OBITUARY Bassist FRANK WATKINS Dies At 47 METALLICA Is ‘Recording Right Now,’ Says JAMES HETFIELD PROTEST THE HERO Announces Unique Distribution Model For Upcoming EP SAXON: ‘Battering Ram’ Electronic Press Kit Available This T-Shirt of Bernie Sanders in Corpse Paint is Amazing WIDOWS WALK renamed to WOMB OF NATIONS, new music available ZAKK WYLDE Is Still Working On ‘Book Of Shadows’ Follow-Up For 2016 Release “Strange Ways” by KISS from Hotter Than Hell “Am I Evil?” by Diamond Head from Am I Evil “Let’s Spend the Night Together” by The Rolling Stones from Between the Buttons “I Love the Dead” by Alice Cooper from Billion Dollar Babies “God of Thunder” by KISS from Destroyer “Unholy” by KISS from Revenge “The Number of the Beast” by Iron Maiden from The Number of the Beast “At War With Satan” by Venom from At War With Satan “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister from Stay Hungry “Night Prowler” by AC/DC from Highway to Hell “Better by You, Better than Me” by Judas Priest from Stained Class “Postmortem” by Slayer from Reign in Blood “Chainsaw Gutsfuck” by MayheM from Deathcrush “Dunkelheit” by Burzum from Filosofem “And Only Hunger Remains” by Pungent Stench from Been Caught Buttering “Body Count’s in the House” by Body Count from Body Count “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” by Metallica from Master of Puppets “Harvester of Sorrow” by Metallica from …and Justice for All “The Love Song” by Marilyn Manson from Holy Wood “Hound Dog” by Elvis Presley from Milton Berle Show, June 05, 1956 “Trick or Treat” by Fastway from Trick or Treat “Mouth for War” by Pantera from Vulgar Display of Power The Rise of Doom Metal Posted by :cGt2099 On : July 16, 2015 Tags:Acid Bath, Agalloch, Ahab, Anathema, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Cathedral, Crowbar, Draconian, Earth, Electric Wizard, Esoteric, Geezer Butler, Jake Holmes, Led Zeppelin, My Dying Bride, Ozzy Osbourne, Pallbearer, Paradise Lost, Pentagram, Rapture, Reverend Bizarre, Ronnie James Dio, Saint Vitus, Shape of Despair, Skepticism, Sleep, Solitude Aeturnus, Sunn O))), Swallow the Sun, The Beatles, The Yardbirds, Tony Iommi, Trouble After exploring the roots and ancestry behind Doom Metal, we start on examining the spread of the genre. Progressing through the 1980’s and into the 1990’s, and from the likes of Candlemass, Cathedral, Electric Wizard and beyond, we uncover the Rise of Doom Metal. AC/DC Drummer PHIL RUDD Sentenced To Eight Months Of Home Detention Brazilian Female Thrashers NERVOSA: ‘Into Mosh Pit’ Video Released COHEED AND CAMBRIA To Release First Non-Conceptual Album ‘The Color Before The Sun’ DESTROYER 666 Signs With Season Of Mist Great White Sharks Love Extreme Metal, Documentary Crew Finds NAPALM DEATH: Previously Unreleased Song ‘Earthwire’ Made Available As Charity Download NILE: ‘What Should Not Be Unearthed’ Track Listing Unveiled RITCHIE BLACKMORE’s BLACKMORE’S NIGHT To Release ‘All Our Yesterdays’ In September Trial Date Set For JOURNEY Drummer DEEN CASTRONOVO THE RUNAWAYS’ JACKIE FUCHS Reveals Rape By Manager KIM FOWLEY “The Tempter” by Trouble from Psalm 9 “Day of Reckoning” by Pentagram from Day of Reckoning “The War Starter” by Saint Vitus from Born Too Late “At the End of My Daze” by Trouble from Trouble “Council of Ten” by Reverend Bizarre from II: Crush the Insects “Crystal Ball” by Candlemass from Epicus Doomicus Metallicus “Haunting the Obscure” by Solitude Aeturnus from Through the Darkest Hour “Serpent Eve” by Cathedral from Forest of Equilibrium “Dragonaut” by Sleep from Holy Mountain “Dopethrone” by Electric Wizard from Dopethrone “All I Had (I Gave)” by Crowbar from Crowbar “Sign of a Storm” by Skepticism from Stormcrowfleet “Abandonment” by Esoteric from Paragon of Dissonance “Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine” by Earth from Earth 2 “Eternal” by Paradise Lost from Gothic “The Crown of Sympathy” by My Dying Bride from Turn Loose the Swans “Far Away” by Anathema from Eternal “The Amaranth” by Draconian from Where Lovers Mourn “Past Nightmares” by Rapture from Silent Stage “You were but a Ghost in My Arms” by Agalloch from The Mantle “Bombers (Can Open Bomb Bays)” by Bill Ward from Ward One: Along the Way “Evil Eye” by Black Sabbath from Cross Purposes “Psycho Man” by Black Sabbath from Reunion “Dazed and Confused” by Jake Holmes from The Above Ground Sound “Black Sabbath Medley” by Candlemass from Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Zombies and Metal Posted by :cGt2099 On : June 4, 2015 Tags:Alice Cooper, Anthrax, Bath Salt Zombies, Bela Lugosi, Cannibal Corpse, Death, George Romero, Ghoulunatics, GWAR, HP Lovecraft, Iron Maiden, Kingston Trio, KISS, Lucio Fulci, Max Brooks, Metallica, Misfits, Murderdolls, Obituary, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Space Chaser, They’re Coming to Get You Barbara, White Zombie We return to looking into Horror Folklore and examine how the concept of zombies has influenced metal, and recognize some of the quintessential metal songs exploring the idea of a zombie apocalypse. After looking at the mythos of Vampires and Werewolves, we now turn our attention to Zombies and Heavy Metal. 3 INCHES OF BLOOD To Disband BATTLECROSS To Release ‘Rise To Power’ Album In August Ex-KISS Guitarist BRUCE KULICK Releases New KKB Single ‘Got To Get Back’ GHOST: New Single ‘Cirice’ Available For Streaming GLENN DANZIG Dons ‘Skull Face’ Makeup For First Time In 35 Years MASTODON members appear in latest episode of GAME OF THRONES Metal bands unite for Nepal Benefit Concert QUEEN’s Official App ‘Play The Game’ Now Available TOOL’s MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN Undergoes Hip Replacement Surgery Why Heavy Metal Fans Are Most Loyal Clip Sources News of the Living Dead Real Life Zombies: True Horror Re-Animator Trailer Star Wars Meets Metal The Serpent and the Rainbow Trailer The Walking Dead Theme White Zombie Trailer Zombies: A Living History “Slowly We Rot” by Obituary from Slowly We Rot “The Trooper” by Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind “Star Wars Meets Metal” by Eric Calderone from YouTube “The Walking Dead” by Rodrigo Garcia from YouTube “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins from I Put a Spell on You “Astro Zombies” by Misfits from Collection “Living Dead Girl” by Rob Zombie from Hellbilly Deluxe “Zombie Ritual” by Death from Scream Bloody Gore “Pit of Zombies” by Cannibal Corpse from Gore Obsessed “Dawn of the Dead” by Murderdolls from Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls “Zombie Stomp” by Ozzy Osbourne from No More Tears “Fight ’em ’til You Can’t” by Anthrax from Worship Music “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica from Ride the Lightning “King of the Undead” by Ghoulunatics from King of the Undead “Ghouls vs Zombies” by Bath Salt Zombies from Ghouls vs Zombies “Drunken Zombies Killing Spree” by Space Chaser from Decapitron “Ill Gotten Gains” by They’re Coming to Get You Barbara from Dead Reckoning “Zombie Jamboree” by Kingston Trio from From the Hungry I “Zombie” by GWAR from For Lucio Fulci: A Symphony of Fear The Rise of Traditional Heavy Metal Posted by :cGt2099 On : May 28, 2015 Tags:AC/DC, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Budgie, Deep Purple, Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Manilla Road, Metallica, Motorhead, Nazareth, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, Rob Halford, Ronnie James Dio, Rose Tattoo, Steppenwolf, The Angels, The Yardbirds, Thin Lizzy, Twisted Sister, Uriah Heep, Van Halen We voyage back in time to examine the emergence of the bands that followed the Early Metal movement. As the scene was forming up in the Seventies, the word “METAL” began being used to describe the sound. From Alice Cooper and KISS to AC/DC, and to the Metal Gods themselves, Judas Priest, we investigate the Rise of Traditional Heavy Metal. ANTHRAX Is Working On 17 Songs For Follow-Up To ‘Worship Music’ BLACK SABBATH Reunites With Drummer BILL WARD At U.K.’s IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS CLUTCH To Release ‘Psychic Warfare’ Album In September Listen Now: New HIGH ON FIRE Song “The Black Plot” NICKELBACK Beats FOO FIGHTERS, LINKIN PARK In ‘Lyric Intelligence’ Study PHILIP ANSELMO To Guest On New CATTLE DECAPITATION Album SEBASTIAN BACH slams SKID ROW over songwriting claims SLAYER To Release ‘Repentless’ Album On 9/11 TERROR To Release ‘The 25th Hour’ Album In August Two Men Missing After Attending ROCKLAHOMA Festival Metal Evolution: Early Metal UK “Almost Human” by KISS from Love Gun “Black Sabbath” by Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath “Born to be Wild” by Steppenwolf from Steppenwolf “Rocka Rolla” by Judas Priest from Rocka Rolla “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper from School’s Out “Hotter Than Hell” by KISS from KISS Alive! “Walk This Way” by Aerosmith from Toys in the Attic “Tie Your Mother Down” by Queen from Queen “Crash Course in Brain Surgery” by Budgie from In for the Kill “Hair of the Dog” by Nazareth from Hair of the Dog “The Boys are Back in Town” by Thin Lizzy from Jailbreak “It’s a Long Way to the Top” by AC/DC from TNT “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?” by The Angels from The Angels “Rock n’ Roll Outlaw” by Rose Tattoo from Rose Tattoo “Hell Bent For Leather” by Judas Priest from Killing Machine: Hell Bent For Leather “(We are) The Road Crew” by Motorhead from Ace of Spades “Enter the Warrior” by Manilla Road from Metal “Runnin’ with the Devil” by Van Halen from Van Halen “It’s Electric” by Diamond Head from Lightning to the Nations “Train Kept a Rollin’” by The Yardbirds from Shape of Things “Diamonds and Rust (Demo)” by Judas Priest from Rocka Rolla Werewolves and Metal Tags:Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Bobby Pickett, Bram Stoker, Cadaver Club, Danzig, Gene Simmons, GrimWolf, Heavy Duty, KISS, Lamplighter, Lon Chaney Jr., Macabre, Mary Shelley, Metallica, Necro Forest, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Stumpp, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Sardonic Wrath, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Cramps, Ulver, Warren Zevon We keep on the horror folklore kick, and turn our focus away from vampirism, and over to lycanthropy. We look to the emergence of the creatures that would become known as werewolves, and where the mythology came from. We investigate how they’ve influenced literature and movies and look into Werewolves and Heavy Metal. ANTIGAMA release seventh album DUFF MCKAGAN To Pen ALICE IN CHAINS Biography FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: ‘Got Your Six’ Artwork, Release Date Revealed Founding YES Bassist CHRIS SQUIRE Diagnosed With Leukemia IRON MAIDEN’s BRUCE DICKINSON Given ‘All-Clear’ Following Cancer Treatment LAMB OF GOD To Release ‘VII: Sturm Und Drang’ Album In July LAZARUS A.D. Drummer Ryan Shutler Dead at Age Twenty-Eight METALLICA’s JAMES HETFIELD covers ADELE song ‘Crazy For You’ with his daughter Parrot-Fronted Death Metal Band HATEBEAK Is Back With ‘Number Of The Beak’ Album Rockers Pay Tribute To Blues Legend B.B. KING True Horror: Werewolves True Legends of Werewolves “We Drink Your Blood” by Powerwolf from Blood of the Saints “Little Red Riding Hood” by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs from 20th Century Masters “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon from Excitable Boy “Bark at the Moon” by Ozzy Osbourne from Bark at the Moon “Of Wolf and Man” by Metallica from Metallica: The Black Album (1991) “Hymn IV: Of Wolf and Man” by Ulver from Nattens Madrigal “The Werewolf of Bedburg” by Macabre from Murder Metal “Lycanthropy” by Six Feet Under from Haunted “I was a Teenage Werewolf” by The Cramps from Songs The Lord Taught Us “Lock Up the Wolves” by Dio from Lock Up the Wolves “Pure Lycanthropic Art” by Sardonic Wrath from Pure Lycanthropic Art “Full Moon Mayhem” by Necro Forest from The Paths of Forefathers “Lycanthropy” by Lamplighter from Lycanthropy “Lunatic in Love” by Cadaver Club from Lunatic in Love “Angry Again” by Heavy Duty from Angry Again “Monster Mash” by Bobby Pickett from The Original Monster Mash “Little Red” by GrimWolf from Lycanthrope The Origins of Progressive Music Posted by :cGt2099 On : December 26, 2014 Tags:Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Bob Dylan, Broken Hope, Captain Beefheart, Chris Broderick, David Gilmour, Deep Purple, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Duke Ellington, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Frank Zappa, Genesis, Grace Slick, Jason Bittner, Jason Newsted, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Elliot, John Coltrane, Kelly Smith, King Crimson, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Lucas Mann, Megadeth, Modest Mussorgsky, Momorio Clover Z, Newsted, Ocean Architecture, Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Spector, Pink Floyd, Plato, Procol Harum, Queensryche, Roger Waters, Rush, Shadows Fall, Shaun Glass, Shawn Drover, Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Doors, Zakk Wylde We examine how the relevance of experimental avant-garde substance and the work of psychedelic rock would cause to influence the development of a style that has become one of the most popular among fans. From the inheritance left by classical music, the flexibilities of Frank Zappa, the explorations of Pink Floyd, and the early beginnings of Rush; we take a look back at the Origins of Progressive. BROKEN HOPE Parts Ways With Bassist SHAUN GLASS and Guitarist CHUCK WEPFER FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Joined By SHADOWS FALL Drummer JASON BITTNER Former MEGADETH Members Join Forces With Ex-SCAR THE MARTYR Singer Former RINGS OF SATURN Guitarist JOEL OMANS: “LUCAS MANN is a Hack of a Musician” JEFF SCOTT SOTO Launches SOTO Band, Prepares To Release ‘Inside The Vertigo’ Album JOE ELLIOTT Says DEF LEPPARD Album Will Include ‘Musical’ And ‘Experimental’ Stuff KISS Collaborates With Japanese Pop Group MOMORIO CLOVER Z NEWSTED no more? Guitarist says project was “shut down” nearly a year ago. OZZY OSBOURNE To ZAKK WYLDE: ‘My Schlong Doesn’t Work’ SCORPIONS: More ‘Return To Forever’ Album Details Revealed Documentary / News / Video Clips Ancient Chinese Experimental Music – From Yue Jing- No.1 + No.2 – ADACHI Tomomi Batman Begins (5/6) Movie CLIP – Train Fight (2005) HD Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story – Roger Waters on Sid ENG The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory in Clay The Matrix and the Cave The Trolley Problem “Themata” by Karnivool from the album Themata “Yue Jing- No.1 + No.2” by Adachi Tomomi from YouTube “Plato’s Cave” by Ocean Architecture from the album Animus “Night on Bald Mountain” by Modest Mussorgsky from the album Fright Night “Jubilee Stomp” by Duke Ellington from the album Jubilee Stomp “My Favorite Things” by John Coltrane from the album My Favorite Things “Norwegian Wood” by The Beatles from the album Rubber Soul “Sgt. Pepper” by The Beatles from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band “You Still Believe in Me” by The Beach Boys from the album Pet Sounds “Willie the Pimp” by Frank Zappa from the album Hot Rats “Ant Man Bee” by Captain Beefheart from the album Trout Mask Replica “The End” by The Doors from the album The Doors “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane from the album Surrealistic Pillow “Astonomy Domine” by Pink Floyd from the album Piper at the Gates of Dawn “Echoes” by Pink Floyd from the album Meddle “21st Century Schizoid Man” by King Crimson from Court of the Crimson King “Working Man” by Rush from the album Rush “Promenade” by Mussorgsky from Pictures of an Exhibition “White Rabbit” by In The Woods from Three Times Seven on a Pilgrimage The Origins of Thrash Metal Tags:Ace Frehley, Alessandro Del Vecchio, Alex Skolnick, Angel Witch, Anthrax, Battle Beast, Bill Ward, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blitzkrieg, Blue Cheer, Cavalera Conspiracy, Charlie Benante, Cliff Burton, Cliff Richard, Cream, Damn Yankees, Danzig, Dave Mustaine, Dead Kennedys, Deen Castronovo, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Diamond Head, Dick Dale, Dimebag Darrell, Discharge, Doug Aldrich, Elvis Presley, Eric Carr, Exodus, Foo Fighters, Gene Simmons, Hardline, Hirax, Holocaust, Iron Maiden, Jack Blades, Jack Bruce, James Evans, James Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Jeff Hanneman, Journey, Judas Priest, Kerry King, Kirk Hammett, KISS, Kreator, Lars Ulrich, Leather Charm, Led Zeppelin, Lemmy Kilmister, Liv Jagrell, Megadeth, Metallica, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Motorhead, Night Ranger, Overkill, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Phil Taylor, Queen, Ramones, Revolution Saints, Ron McGovney, Samson, Saxon, Sepultura, Sex Pistols, Sister Sin, Slayer, Tank, Testament, The Beatles, The Chantays, The Clash, The Damned, The Del-Tones, The Rolling Stones, The Safaris, The Shadows, to Scott Ian, Tony Iommi, Venom, Whitesnake If there was a metal subgenre that was one of the most prominent and important, it would be Thrash. The style would be inspirational in the development of crossover genres, the rise of Death Metal and Black Metal; plus much more from around the world. For this episode, we look to where it came from, and it begins earlier than you might think. BATTLE BEAST To Release ‘Unholy Savior’ In January CAVALERA CONSPIRACY: ‘Babylonian Pandemonium’ Video Released DANZIG: New Album Due In Fall 2015, Covers Collection To Arrive In March EXODUS Guitarist Says Arrest Of Fan Shows ‘We Live In A Very Paranoid Society’ FOO FIGHTERS: New Song ‘The Feast And The Famine’ Available For Streaming JOURNEY, NIGHT RANGER, WHITESNAKE Members Join Forces In REVOLUTION SAINTS KISS, BLACK SABBATH, RUSH, MEGADETH Members React To Death Of JACK BRUCE OZZY OSBOURNE Says BLACK SABBATH Will ‘Disband’ After Next Studio Album, Tour SISTER SIN: Entire ‘Black Lotus’ Album Available For Streaming Video: GENE SIMMONS Signs Copies Of ‘Me, Inc.’ Book In New York City “I am the Law” by Anthrax from the album Among the Living “Pipeline” by The Chantays from the album Pipeline “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” by Black Sabbath from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath “Parasite” by KISS from the album Hotter Than Hell “Stone Cold Crazy” by Queen from the album Sheer Heart Attack “Overkill” by Motorhead from the album Overkill “Am I Evil?” by Diamond Head from the compilation Am I Evil “In League With Satan” by Venom from the album Welcome to Hell “Hit The Lights” by Metallica from the demo No Life ’til Leather “Ghost Riders in the Sky” by Dick Dale from the album Unknown Territory “Black Smoke” by Hirax from the album Immortal Legacy The Rise and Future of Shock Rock Posted by :cGt2099 On : October 9, 2014 Tags:AC/DC, Ace Frehley, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Anal Cunt, Arcturus, Arthur Brown, Avatar, Behemoth, Bill Clinton, Black Sabbath, Black Veil Brides, Blackie Lawless, Blue Cheer, Bob Ezrin, Butcher Babies, Cannibal Corpse, Cheap Trick, Combichrist, Cradle of Filth, Darkthrone, Dave Lombardo, Dave Mustaine, Deep Purple, Devin Townsend, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Gene Simmons, Genitorturers, GG Allin, Ghost, Grand Guignol, GWAR, Headkase, Impaler, Iron Maiden, Iron Reagan, Justin Bieber, King Diamond, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Lemmy Kilmister, Lizzy Borden, Lordi, Malcolm McLaren, Marilyn Manson, MayheM, Mentors, Mercyful Fate, Metal Evolution, Mick Mars, Miley Cyrus, Misfits, Motley Crue, Motorhead, Mr. Bungle, Murderdolls, Napalm Death, Nekrogoblikon, Nikki Sixx, Nine Inch Nails, Oderus Ungerus, Ozzy Osbourne, P.T. Barnum, Papa Emeritus II, Paul Bostaph, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Pussy Riot, Quiet Riot, Rammstein, Ratt, Rob Zombie, Robin Thicke, Sam Dunn, Sarah Palin, Schoolyard Heroes, Screaming Lord Sutch, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Seraphim Shock, Seth Putnam, Sex Pistols, Slayer, Slipknot, Steel Panther, Steppenwolf, The Beatles, The Clash, The Cramps, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, TISM, Tommy Lee, Trent Reznor, Twisted Sister, Type O Negative, U.D.O., Van Halen, Venom, Vince Neil, Vladimir Putin, W.A.S.P., Wednesday 13, Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics, White Zombie, Wicked Lester, Zombie Girl In 1969, fans were hungry for something different. The cultural movements had become dominated by musical heroes. It was time for a rock villain. Beginning with Alice Cooper, then KISS, & their descendants in the “Motleypocalypse Generation”, the rise of Shock Rock in Metal would have a huge impact, into the future & beyond. 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Heroes Community > Tavern of the Rising Sun > Thread: Football bar: Bottlejobs' league Final edition(with an appetizer from the Eastl) Thread: Football bar: Bottlejobs' league Final edition(with an appetizer from the Eastl) This thread is 4 pages long: 1 2 3 4 · NEXT» CountBezuhoff Master of the merchant's guild posted May 29, 2019 07:19 PM Edited by CountBezuhoff at 19:53, 29 May 2019. Football bar: Bottlejobs' league Final edition(with an appetizer from the East) Greetings, laidees and gentle Me, Tonight we celebrate the long-awaited return of the football fan's favourite thread, the infamous "Football bar", and what a better way to commemorate the occasion than a final of a top competition? But this is no ordinary final, no, it's a true London derby! Chelsea vs Arsenal! Interestingly, the event takes place nowhere near London- in fact it will commence at 20:00 GMT on the opposite end of the continent in far off Baku, Azerbaijan. It is believed that Her Majesty the Queen has been personaly involved in this choice of venue in a last ditch effort to put an end to all speculation and to once and for all pin a definition on the divisive term "Brexit". You see, the Brittish didn't really want to leave the EU because it is snow, they actually wanted to leave the UK because it is snow. For Arsenal, the EL may be a season saver, since they uncharacteristingly failed to hit top four this season and guarentee Champions' league football. Chelsea may have finished third, but so far they are running emty-handed and will look to win their first(and only) throphy for the season. This match will also serve as Eden Hazard's unofficial benefit match for Chelsea as he is rumoured to leave for Real Madrid in the summer and certainly seems set on a course to do so as Chelsea have performed inconsistently in the last two seasons and have little perspective of succeeding domestically next year. That would certainly motivate the talented Belgian to put up a performance for Chelsea fans to remember. The final seems highly contested and will certainly result in a memorable show. Be sure to tune in and watch it through any means you see fit! Written by The Count UPDATE: Apparently the Gunners' Mikhitarian- an Armenian- is not a part of tonight's squad as the match takes place in Azerbaijan. The tensions between those two countries have raised concerns about his safety and reputation, so he opted not to attend the match. Really makes you think what a Serbia- Kosovo World Cup final might escalate into (check this out "Football war"). Thankfully, neither teams have the capacity to reach such a final (for now). "...Mr Hack... I don't feel so good..." NoobX My Pattern Emerges There won't be enough of Serbia left to make a football team by the time Kosovo makes it to a WC finale. Ghost said: Door knob resembles anus tap. Starting XIs Chelsea(4-3-3): Kepa; Azpilicueta, Christensen, David Luiz, Emerson; Jorginho, Kante, Kovacic; Pedro, Giroud, Hazard; Subs: Caballero, Cumming, Barkley, Higuain, Zappacosta, Willian, Cahill, Ampadu, Gallagher, McEachran Arsenal(3-4-1-2): Cech; Koscielny, Sokratis, Monreal; Maitland- Niles, Torreira, Xhaka, Kolasinac; Oezil; Lacazette, Aubumeyang; This is going to be Cech's last ever match! He is retiring at the end of the season. (Serbia won't fall that easily) It's already falling apart. Edited by CountBezuhoff at 21:22, 01 Jun 2019. Now for the main event: the battle of the bottlejobs. Two teams which have become synonymous with not winning anything and always surprising us with the lengths they are willing to go to achieve that. Spurs vs Liverpool. An apocalyptic event in the making. If either teams manage to win anything, the world shall watch in awe and horror as meteors shatter the Earth's crust, contemplating: "What wizardry let them through to the final?". I intend to sit back and enjoy the show (and sadistically laugh as Liverpool miserably bottle a 3 goal lead). No football fans here? Not even a Liverpool-apologist? That's no fun! Screw this, I'm heading straight for the Celestial Heavens. EDIT: That penalty was full of ****. the wizardy part only applies to spurs. That club has only played football for 45 minutes (second half against ajax) in the last 3-4 seasons of UCL, and now they're in the final?!? no one really knows how they got there, which is why I think (and hope) liverpool will win, even though I'm not a fan of either team Spurs pulled off some serious trickery, that's for sure. In theory, Liverpool should waste them, but... it's Liverpool after all. I don't really care who wins it, but the enjoyment I would draw from bullying the fragile mind of a delusional Liverpool fan amounts to much more than kicking the hollow shell of a Spurs supporter. Otherwise, the match has been quite dull so far.IMHO, English teams should never be allowed to reach finals. lol, so you're not into this sport for the beauty of it, you're into it for mocking the fans. Your call Personally, I think english teams should reach the finals more. Personally I am sick and tired of spanish teams (I have never liked the spaniards anyway, both at club and international level), but - and this is me being unbiased - english teams play football (with a few exceptions lately, such as spurs or arsenal). I think liverpool will win this final, one way or another (purely by talent, by experience, or by luck). They have too many advantages on their side I am into sports because I enjoy dynamic, thrilling matches and to back my favourite teams. But when it comes to several English teams, I just can't help it. Spanish dominance was annoying and I'm glad it appears to have ended. The other teams are excellent, they only lack confidence. Origi scores! What a legend. It's surely over now? Though Spurs missed a handful of chances themselves. They had a taste of their own medicine. Allison>> Karius It's over! Alright, I'll be adding some new silverware in Spurs' trophy cabinet. How does "reaching the UCL final" sound? Edited by monere at 23:08, 01 Jun 2019. sure that alison is better than karius, there's no debate here, but in my opinion spurs' lack of performance is their long history of always being in the shadow of the top 4-5 big teams in EPL. Also, not sure which "the other teams" you are referring to, but if you mean french and italian teams please don't! If you mean Bayern (one of the few clubs that I still like when they have a team) then yes, I agree that they are excellent. But they need to re-build. I actually wished to see Ajax against liverpool in this final. I think Ajax could have beaten liverpool to be fully honest. Sometimes football is so unfair. As for origi, I don't like him, just like I don't like moura and many other one match / one season wonders. Last but not least, I think Son Heung-Min is the biggest yellow Asian player I have ever seen. Not sure if he really enjoys playing for spurs, or just doesn't have offers from bigger clubs, but he should have played for a bigger club. He's way too good for the nuisances that play for spurs. Actually, spurs' performances over the last seasons have been the doing of 3 men, and 3 men only: son, pochettino, and kane. Everyone else... no difference between them and huddersfield, or brighton & hove. Anyway, glad that it's over. This game has been atrocious to watch, almost as painful as the 2002-2003 final between Juve and my (then) beloved AC MILAN team. Football is not what it used to be when almighty Milan used to snow on every so-called big european club. I remember at one point during the UCL draws for the knock-out stages that one of Barca or Real's officials (sorry, don't remember exactly which of the 2, but one of them anyway) has facepalmed himself when his club has been drawn against the almighty Milan. THAT good my beloved AC Milan team has been back then (Kaka, Shevchenko, Maldini, Inzaghi, Nesta, Pirlo, Seedorf). And we're talking about a period when Real Madrid was fielding Zidane, Raul, Beckham, Figo, Casillas, Hierro, and Ronaldo (the real Ronaldo I mean). Good ol' days that have been magical and will never come back EDIT: I love the spurs' trophy cabinet. It suits them I was talking about teams like Ajax (and a few English teams) that simply lack the mindset to win a competition like this. Liverpool have learned their lesson from last season, but still they were too scared to play all-out. Of the semi-finalists, Ajax were definitely my first pick, but they cracked when it mattered the most. Football has really grown stale the last few years both internationally and domestically. Winning is more important than style and teams who employ more careful, "strategic" plays deliver more often. That has led to a surge in calm, low risk football which is a pain to watch.(ahem, France, ahem) My chosen team (MU) has also been missing for some time now, so I dofeel your pain. Don't despair! Someday it'll work out! Surely... PS: Yeah, if any of those three people leave, it's the end for Spurs. Especially Pochettino. ah-ha! My bad for misreading your comment. Man Utd is one of the few clubs I usually root for (Milan, Bayern, Man Utd... in this order), so we've got something in common. OK, I have stopped liking Milan when the last legend (Seedorf) has left the club around 2011-2012. Ever since that's happened I have usually rooted for Man Utd and Bayern... until Sir Alex has left Man Utd, too, that is... which brings me to the evergreen question that I still haven't found an answer to: why has Fergie left MU out of the blue? Something not right about this, I'm telling you... And the issue with the current MU team I think is they lack a manager with a strong hand like Fergie's. Nothing against Ole, but he's too soft for such crybabies and weak personalities. With all due respect to you and MU fans, but I don't think you can create performance with Lukkaku, Fred, Rashford, Lindgard, and Herrera. Pogba is good, but only if he has strong characters around him, and Rashford is good, too (I mean, he's got the right attitude), but he needs more experience and to improve his shot accuracy. Actually, McTominay is a good player, just like Zinchenko of MC. I like them both, and I think they will become solid startups for their teams if they're not dragged down by the weaker players. Anyway, the only way for MU to get back where they belong is either to bring a tough manager (although, that might not work in today's football where everyone is a pansy), either bring in strong characters (roy keane-type of players) - and not just 1, but 2 or 3 - either both of these options combined. Success and performance always start with great personalities first, and only after that with great footballers. blob2 Blob-Ohmos the Second Edited by blob2 at 23:58, 01 Jun 2019. I'm feeling that the Liv-Tot was almost a mirror match of Klopps earlier CL tackle, back when he helmed Borusia Dortmund against Bayern Munchen. At that time, altough Borussia was seemingly beating Bayern on every field, it was Bayern who has shown cold calculation and won. This time Klopps team was the one who "waited out" their opponents. Liverpool actually won the CL with their (already legendary) comeback against Barcelona. Not a great fan of Liverpool, but I'm happy for Klopp, I like the guy, he deserved the cup. Although I think Liverpool was in it's prime back in 2018, they were strong enough to beat all the opposition this time around. Though lets face it, they did have a weaker opponent then Real in its last years top form. And didn't have Karius, lel yeah, Klopp is one of the few reasons I rooted for liverpool, too, in this game. No offence taken, we are well aware of our team's weaknesses. And you are completely right about us needing a coach with a strong character. But we also need one with more executive power. Since Fergie not one of them has had complete control over transfers. We've pretty much been lost the last few windows. IIRC sir Alex retired because of an illness or something. He was getting way too old as well. At some point you are just too tired to go on. BTW I actually support the same teams you do, only in the reverse order. OK, good choice of teams to support Also, I'm not buying the illness thing. He looks too fresh and still capable of managing for this to be the reason of his departure. But, I'm not gonna insist on this topic... I just hope to see MU back on top, cause I'm feeling empty inside without watching quality football. Ajax would have brought back the joy of watching have they at least made the UCL final, but you may be right and they have probably chocked due to lack of experience, although... truth being told ajax is the most experienced club at european level (they've had several finals in the last 3 decades). Oh well... we will see what the next season brings. Drakon-Deus capit�n I was hoping Ajax make it to the CL final and in the end they didn't. Thus the final itself was of little interest to me. Awaiting international games in June. The Romanian U21 team will be playing at the Euro in Italy and San Marino. Drakon-Deus said: as a Romanian I don't give a snow, man. Romanian sports are so corrupt that only who pays the coaches gets to play. I know 2 amazing young Romanian footballers (the type of players who can do magic on the pitch), but they have quit playing football because the coach hasn't give them enough playing time because they would not pay him. This is the present and the future of Romanian football, so I'm not interested in this c0cksuckery, and you shouldn't be, either. If you want to use your energy and time to do something constructive for this snow country then channel your energy towards praying for it and hoping for better times, but don't invest anything (time, money, or energy) into Romanian sports cause they're corrupt to the bone. Even our #1 WTA Simona Halep is forced to fix matches Okay monere. But I "give a snow" about our football and I am free to post about it. Besides, the champions league final was rather boring, don't you think? Jump To: « Prev Thread . . . 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List of Gods : "S" - 915 records "S ar" Western Semitic / Syrian God of the dawn. Generally linked with the god of evening, S ALIM.... "S ara" Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian Minor war god. Mainly identified with the city of Umma, north east of Unug (Uruk), and identified in some texts as the son of INANA (IS TAR).... "S e ab" Egypt Minor god of wine and oil presses. Known from circa 3000 BC until the end of Egyptian history, circa AD 400. In later iconography he is depicted as a lion, but more generally is in human form. Sezmu had a definite cult following in the fertile Faiyum region of the Nile valley, but was probably represented in most sanctuaries, particularly where ritual unguents were made and stored. He is recognized in both benign and malevolent roles. In the latter he is reputed to squeeze human heads like grapes, but in beneficent mood he provides aromatic oils and ointments.... "Sa" Babylonian The remote and inscrutable divinity of the cosmic deep. Babylonian "Sa" Kono / eastern Guinea, West Africa Chthonic creator god. One of a pair of creator deities, with ALATANGANA. Sa inhabited the primeval swamps before the sky or the light existed and before there were any living things on earth. He had a daughter who eloped with Alatangana and bore fourteen children, three pairs of black and four pairs of white, all of whom spoke different languages and to whom Sa gave the tools of survival.... "Sa Kono" E Guinea A creator god, one of a pair of creator deities "Saaiz" Enochian A minor angel. Enochian Planet name "Sabaoth" Gnostic The genii of Mars, one of the planetary regents of the seven sacred planets. Gnostic "Sabazios" Phrygian / NW Turkey A god of Agriculture "Sabazios" Phrygian / northwestern Turkey God. Eventually Hellenized, identified with ZEUS and DIONYSOS and linked with Dionysiac mysteries, appearing in Athens from circa 400 BC. His device is a right hand cast in bronze and decorated with symbols representing his benevolence. His influence extended into Roman culture where he reached a height of popularity circa AD 200. As late as AD 300 there are frescoes of Sabazios in the tomb of Vibia whose husband was a priest of the god's cult.... "Sabazius" Phrygian A Phrygian divinity, commonly described as a son of Rhea or Cybele ; but in later times he was identified with the mystic Dionysus, who hence is sometimes called Dionysus Sabazius. For the same reason Sabazius is called a son of Zeus by Persephone, and is said to have been reared by a nymph Nyssa. "Sabda" Sanskrit The cosmic Word, equivalent to the Greek Logos. Sanskrit "Saci" Brazilian An impish mythical character of Brazilian folk tales. "Saci Devi" India The goddess of wrath and jealousy. India "Sacp" Enochian A minor angel. Enochian "Sacra Savadia" Jewish The deity åśśociated with the Jewish Sabaoth (Tseba'oth). Plutarch states that the Jews worshiped Dionysus, and that the day of the Jewish Sabbath was a festival of Sabazius. "Sadaksari" Buddhist The tantric form of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Buddhist "Sadaksari (Lokesvara)" Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet Variety of AVALOKITESVARA. The form of Avalokitesvara that is incarnate in the succession of Dalai Lamas. Color: white. Attributes: Book, conch, jewel, lotus and rosary.... "Sadaksari[Lokesvara]" Buddhist / Lamaist / Tibet A variety of Avalokitesvara that is incarnate in succession of the Dali Lamas "Sadarnuna" Sumeria Goddess of the new moon. Sumeria
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7 foot skeleton Westmorland, England The skeleton of a seven foot male skeleton was recovered, while two female skeletons were uncovered from a kistaven in Sunbiggun. Funerary urns were found at Hart Rigg that were two feet in length and one foot in diameter which contained the burnt remains of a female. Many mounds, and giant gravestones can still be seen. All of this testifies that the large megalithic stones scattered across England are grave markers for giants. On many sites like the one near Rawthey Bridge, there are giant holes where a large megalithis stone circle once stood. Now it has been plundered and its mysteries lost. A bridge was in need of repair and the stones were removed. At another location (Rasate) are large stone mounds built over graves, much like the mounds in America. Bones in these have been plundered some exist that may still have not been opened. Seven foot skeletons are a global pheneomenon, people were larger in the past as the animals were larger in the past. It was also said that the funerary urns that were found were well fired, meaning that there was examples of technology, enginuity and knowledge. This covers all of Greater Ancestry and paints a different historical picture than what is currently politicized. Professor Rolleston, was one of the excavators of many of these tumulus mounds. History, Topography and Directory of Westmorland , 1885 Fritz Zimmerman: The Nephilim Chronicles, Angels in the Ohio Valley. # November 23, 2011, 5:31 pm
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Turtles Under Threat: Ocean warming forces leatherback turtles to travel further for food London, 15 January 2020 – New research in French Guiana supported by Greenpeace, reveals that rising ocean temperatures and changing sea currents are forcing Pacific leatherback turtles to travel almost twice the distance to reach new feeding grounds after leaving their nesting grounds. Greenpeace, Aardman and Oscar winning actors collaborate on groundbreaking new animation highlighting global ocean crisis London, 15 January 2020 – Greenpeace and Aardman, the award-winning creators of Wallace & Gromit, have today launched a powerful new animated film highlighting the plight of the world’s oceans. Greenpeace report highlights severe threats to Earth’s largest carbon sink – the ocean Labour’s plans for climate and nature score twice as high as the Conservatives, according to election manifesto ranking A new ranking evaluates the green credentials of all major political party manifestos Supermarket plastic rises above 900,000 tonnes per year, despite plastic reduction pledges Boris’ chlorinated chickens coming home to roost Amazon deforestation highest in over a decade Brazilian Indigenous leaders at Downing Street to demand UK government suspends trade talks with Brazil Meanwhile Burger King, KFC and McDonald's snub London meeting with leaders 100,000 people demand televised election debate on climate change Greenpeace petition, signed by more than 100,000 people, calls for a national televised debate on the climate and nature emergencies with all party leaders Coalitions call for nature and climate change to be put at the heart of election manifestos Ahead of the upcoming general election campaign the UK’s largest environmental groups, as well as human rights, development, faith and health organisations have set out a series of demands for party leaders in order to tackle the climate and nature emergencies.
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By Darius Wallace Album Reviews September 11, 2016 Isaiah Rashad – “The Sun’s Tirade” (Album Review) Following the cultural movement that Kendrick Lamar crafted with To Pimp a Butterfly is a monumental task, add on top of that following the critical darling that Schoolboy Q created with Blank Face LP just this year and you’ve got an uphill battle against Mt. Vesuvius. Despite this, there’s a certain artist hailing from Chattanooga, TN begging to take on the Herculean task of following two of the largest artist not only on his record label, but in the rap industry. Isiah Rashad is the static definition of a great background player, especially in today’s ever-evolving music industry. A great background player, within any boy band, girl group or hip-hop collective, knows when to let their fellow star players shine and when to accept the spotlight, something Rashad knows how to do. With effortless jumps to the foreground in the wake of the Cilvia Demo, an eye-opening BET Cypher and an international tour, Isaiah Rashad has finally returned from the shadows, this time armed with one of the year’s most solid efforts. The Sun’s Tirade begins with TDE President Dave Free questioning Iasiah Rashad about his absence following the critically acclaimed Cilvia Demo, stating that he’s got until Friday to drop this next project and he isn’t asking anymore. That semblance of self-awareness is only the tip of the proverbial sword when it comes to this project, as Zawop moves onto construct one of the most well-crafted albums heard in 2016. From the artwork, production, titles and even atmosphere, The Sun’s Tirade captures an attitude that’s reminiscent of the Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest and other acts of the 90’s, albeit packed in a contemporary seal. The first 10 tracks of Tirade are a thumping, smooth compilation of jazzy inhibitions and synths. Rashad is comfortably at home here, utilizing his voice in a variety of ways and cadences like an instrument as he spits lyrics about his travels, his children, depression and stuntin‘. From opener 4r Da Squaw to SZA-assisted album centre-piece Stuck in the Mud, the variety and intensity that Rashad ushers in – with help from artists including label mates Jay Rock and Kendrick, and The Internet‘s Syd – is awe-inspiring. Free Lunch, the back track rosegold, Wat’s Wrong, Park, Bday, Silkk da Shocka, Tity and Dolla are phenomenal and if just the front half of this project was an album alone, then we’d probably be looking at a very serious rap album of the year contender – though sadly, that’s not the case. The transfer after Stuck in the Mud alters the stream of consciousness to a much different narrative, one that’s more selfish, more introspective and more self-destructive, as the songs ramp up in thuggish ignorance and intensity. It’s interesting change, especially when you learn of Zawop’s dependence on Xanax and alcohol that almost got him kicked from the TDE Label, but it’s a slight stumble in quality from the strong first half of the album. Tracks like AA, Don’t Matter and By George (outro) aren’t bad tracks in any respect, it’s just the production on these tracks as well as the subject matter don’t gel with the album very well. But the seventeen track album ends on a healthy note with Find a Topic (homies begged), effectively ending Rashad’s run in the sun, soaking up the rays and looking towards the future. Name any background player from any hip-hop collective, boy band or girl group that could emerge as an underdog within their crew with an effective project of their own. The answers are few and far in between, with many falling into a cacophonous pit of half-baked noise and forgettable trends, but not Isaiah Rashad. The self-proclaimed preacher’s son effectively followed up the releases from his two biggest label-mates with an ambitious effort of his own. Isaiah Rashad has, for now, earned a beautiful moment in the sun. FINAL SCORE - The Sun's Tirade Tirade boasts smooth, jazzy production, highlighted by Isiah’s introspective and conscious lyrics. The album is incredibly cohesive, with only a few tracks spoiling the brew. Isaiah RashadJay RockKendrick LamarScHoolboy QSZATDEthe sun's tirade Darius Wallace Wallace is a Biology Major from Old Dominion University. He makes it through it all with the help of Scorsese films, Kanye albums and Lebron highlights. 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Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences Effectiveness of Paromomycin on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Rahmatollah Moradzadeh 1 Parvaneh Golmohammadi 1 Hami Ashraf 2 Haidar Nadrian 3 Mohammad Reza Fakoorziba 4 1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran 2 Razavi Cancer Research Center, Research and Education Department, Razavi Hospital, Mashhad, Iran 3 Department of Health Education and Promotion. Faculty of Health Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz. Iran 4 Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, Research Centre for Health Sciences, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 10.30476/ijms.2019.44973 Background: Some treatment reported for cutaneous leishmaniasis. The studies examined the impact of the paromomycin has different characteristics and results. The aim of the present study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of all randomized clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of paromomycin in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran.Methods: Literature search was conducted using MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus, Scientific Information Database, IranMedex, Magiran, Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (from February 2000 to May 2016), and references cited in the text of selected studies. Search terms used were “paromomycin”, “cutaneous leishmaniasis”, “randomized”,” aminosidine”, “controlled trial”, and “clinical trial”. Random effects models were used to calculate the measure of association, with 95% confidence intervals, to analyze the efficacy of paromomycin in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis.Results: Initial search yielded 76 citations. Of these original results, 9 met our specific selection criteria. Four of the randomized controlled trials compared the efficacy of paromomycin in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis with that of a placebo; they were included in the meta-analysis. The success rate of treatment with paromomycin was higher than that with the placebo (pooled RR=4.50, 95% CI: 2.54 to 8.02; P=0.001 and I2=26.7%), whereas the difference with the non-placebo treatments was nonsignificant (pooled RR=0.79, 95% CI: 0.58 to 1.073; P=0.131 and I2=83.3%).Conclusion: No significant difference was observed between paromomycin and the other treatments in their effectiveness in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis. Because no single drug is effective against all the forms of leishmaniasis, we suggest multidrug therapy. Paromomycin May and June 2019 Moradzadeh, R., Golmohammadi, P., Ashraf, H., Nadrian, H., Fakoorziba, M. (2019). Effectiveness of Paromomycin on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 44(3), 185-195. doi: 10.30476/ijms.2019.44973 Rahmatollah Moradzadeh; Parvaneh Golmohammadi; Hami Ashraf; Haidar Nadrian; Mohammad Reza Fakoorziba. "Effectiveness of Paromomycin on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 44, 3, 2019, 185-195. doi: 10.30476/ijms.2019.44973 Moradzadeh, R., Golmohammadi, P., Ashraf, H., Nadrian, H., Fakoorziba, M. (2019). 'Effectiveness of Paromomycin on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis', Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 44(3), pp. 185-195. doi: 10.30476/ijms.2019.44973 Moradzadeh, R., Golmohammadi, P., Ashraf, H., Nadrian, H., Fakoorziba, M. Effectiveness of Paromomycin on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2019; 44(3): 185-195. doi: 10.30476/ijms.2019.44973
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immigrantchildren.ca Building our capacity to support transitions of immigrant/refugee children and youth BCs Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies (AMSSA) have released a report post their provincial learning exchange on the topic of Building capacity to support transitions of immigrant and refugee children and youth held this summer. There were several goals for the event: – to create opportunities for learning about current and emerging research and best practices – to increase the skills, knowledge and practice of service providers who work with immigrant and refugee children and youth – for networking, learning from each other and meeting new colleagues – to re-energize and develop synergy amongst the different sub-sectors – to identify emerging issues and priorities for future work and development. The report includes background, goals and overviews and discusses what is called three big ideas for serving newcomer children and youth: Settlement, culture, and readiness. Webinar: Alternative care and safe accommodation for trafficked children The Child Recovery and Reintegration Network will hold a webinar on Alternative care and safe accommodation: What are we learning about alternative care for children generally and what does ‘safe accommodation’ for trafficked children look like. The webinar will be held on Wednesday November 14, 2012, 3pm (London time). The webinar will include presentations from: Emily Delap: Senior Policy Advisor at Family for Everychild Dr Lucie Shuker: Research Fellow in the International Centre for the Study of Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Young People at the University of Bedfordshire For more information about the webinar please email nicole.mccloy@perth.uhi.ac.uk Call for papers ~ Growing up global: Childhoods in a transnational context Announcing a joint session of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCY) and the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) to be held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC June 1-8, 2013. From the call for papers: “As people and institutions connect across the borders of nation-states, children are invariably part of the processes of transnationalism. Yet their presence has largely been ignored by much of the scholarship on transnationalism. While they may lack the abilities to fully articulate and engage with the social, political, and economic forces behind transnational movement and circulation, young people are just as affected by – and central to – these global currents. Thinking about childhood in a transnational context requires a greater awareness of how contemporary global culture is creating a unique experience of childhood itself, both of childhood, and for children themselves. “The purpose of this panel is to put children and childhood at the center of discussions concerning transnationalism. We seek papers that investigate the ways in which ‘the child’ both impacts and is impacted by circulation across global borders. We encourage research that questions how children experience transnationality and how we understand the child and childhood in the context of nation states whose borders are not what they once were. “Possible topics include, but are not limited to: -researching children and childhoods in transnational contexts -the experiences of children in the transnational context -the relationships between global capital and the transnational child -securitization and the transnational child -children in transnational families -cosmopolitanism and the transnational child -transnational migration and the child”. Deadline is November 1, 2012. For more information, visit the ACCUTE C4P page. Papers, the book immigrantchildren.ca reviewed the documentary Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth two years ago. It is a provocative and moving piece depicting the triumphs and challenges faced by undocumented youth in the US. Now, Papers, the book has been released. From the announcement: “Papers the Book is here!! Order your copy today! “This beautiful book includes 30 stories by undocumented youth and is illustrated with color drawings by undocumented artist Julio Salgado. “These moving and inspiring stories were written by young people who range in age from 10 to 32. They were born in countries throughout the world and raised in the United States. The writers sent these stories to Graham Street Productions during the production of the documentary film Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth. “For bulk and educational orders of this book, please contact us at info@grahamstreetproductions.com or 503-282-8683. “For press inquiries or for a review copy, please contact us at info@grahamstreetproductions.com or 503-282-8683″. There is no one undocumented experience. Some of our parents crossed the border without authorization, some of us came here legally and overstayed visas, some of us were escaping persecution while some came seeking more prosperity. We are from all over the world. But somewhere in all our stories, there is a common thread: there is an act of love. – Prerna Lal, Undocumented and Unafraid Undocumented youth have been the leaders of a cultural transformation that has swept the country, making huge gains for the immigrant rights movement. Unapologetic and unafraid, they are writing their own history and establishing new rules in the game. – Favianna Rodriguez, artist and co-editor of Reproduce & Revolt In the dawn of the 21st century, undocumented youth are a living testament to what is enduring about the American spirit. – Jose Antonio Vargas, award-winning journalist and founder of Define American Mothercraft’s “Caring for Canada’s Children” online training project Caring for Canada’s Children was an online training event offered by Mothercraft 2009-2010, and can be found archived on the Mothercraft website. Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Mothercraft offered Caring for Canada’s Children training course for settlement workers and other professionals working with newcomer families and children from birth to age six. The two-year online training program covered many topics, including: The effects of migration policy on family reorganization Adaptations to parenting: Healthy family functioning The Challenges to cultural and geographic dislocation The global worker: Cultural competence in the settlement sector. Mothercraft is seeking renewed funding to support updated training to include a training manual and future professional training. If you participated in Mothercraft’s Caring for Canada’s Children, and have feedback, please respond to the following questions via email to Cindy Kwan at ckwan@mothercraft.org . 1. Since the Caring for Canada’s Children training, have you found the information useful in your professional work? 2. Would you be interested in a more thorough updated training manual focused on newcomer families: issues for families with infants and young children under six years of age? 3. Please share a quick comment with us about the Caring for Canada’s Children training and its use in your professional work. Responses are due by Friday, August 24, 2012 Call for papers: International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care The International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care is (from their website) “a multidisciplinary journal focusing on international migration. The journal’s focus includes coverage of labour migration, asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants, with an emphasis on health and social care and mental health issues. “The following themes are of particular interest to the journal: – Health care of migrants and refugees – Impact of displacement on health and social care needs – Treatment of refugee children – Impact of family separation – Human trafficking – Integration of migrants and refugees”. Submissions should be sent to the Editor, Professor Charles Watters at charles.watters@rutgers.edu Author Guidelines. CIC call for proposals for settlement and resettlement programs Citizenship and Immigration Canada has issued a call for papers for the provision of settlement and resettlement projects that are local, regional, national and international in scope. National call for proposals This call for settlement and resettlement projects includes mention of a new model of what used to called “childminding”. The new model is now called Care for Newcomer Children (CNC). Information is available on the CMAS website on the CNC model, including: Care for Newcomer Children: Highlights Care for Newcomer Children Bulletin Care for Newcomer Children: Questions & Answers For more information on the CIC call, and to ask questions, contact CFP2012@cic.gc.ca. Deadline is Sept 7, 2012. On new shores immigrant children conference, 2012 The program for the 2012 On New Shores: Understanding Immigrant Children and Youth (ONS) conference is now available. The theme this year is Social Support and Capital: Happiness in Immigrant Families. The 5th ONS conference will be held October 25-26 in downtown Toronto at two venues: The Ryerson Centre for Immigration Studies (RCIS) and the Downtown Holiday Inn. Attached is the ONS 2012 program, but here are some highlights: Opening keynote is by Fons Van De Vijver, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, on the topic of Identity and Well-Being in Immigrants Ethnic Identity and Acculturation of Turkish-Bulgarian Youth: Evidence from Self and Parents Reports, with R. Dimitrova, A. Chasiotis, et al., Tilburg University et al., The Netherlands Acculturation in 3D: Psychological Assets and Liabilities of Black Jamaican Immigrants in the United States, G. Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US Immigrant Mothers’ Interactions with their Children’s Teachers, Mehru Ali, Ryerson University Welcoming All Voices: Building Inclusive Parent Groups in Schools, M. Abbott, London Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership Social Support in the Lives of Russian Immigrant and Sudanese Refugee Men as Fathers in Canada, David Este, University of Calgary Communication Brokering in Immigrant Families: Avenues for New Research, Vappu Tyyska, Ryerson University Social Support Systems at Play for Newcomer Youth E. Ghassemi & T. Velox, Newcomer Centre of Peel Closing keynote is by Dr. Ross Parke, Wellesley, on Future Directions Connecting immigrant children to the outdoors, Alka Burman, Region of Peel Resilience of Colombian immigrant youth living in Canada, M. Cabal Garces & S. Chuang, University of Guelph Welcoming newcomer children and families: Understanding “Three Big Ideas” – settlement, culture and readiness, Judith Colbert Depressive symptoms of Italian immigrant children and parents, R. Dimitrova, Tilburg University, The Netherlands When support is left behind: Experiences of lone immigrants in Canada, B. Martin, Ryerson University Chinese adoptees in Canada: The Role of policy and parents in facilitating transnationalism, M. Symington, Ryerson University ONS 2012 Registration form. See highlights from the 4th ONS conference: Resilience of immigrants – Coping with stress in various cultural contexts. Call for papers: Honour/shame related violence in Canada Amina Jamal, Mandeep Kaur Mucina and Farrah Khan are planning a symposium and edited collection of (as posted on website of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall) “critical essays on “honour” related violence. The idea for this anthology emerged initially in reaction to the murder of Aqsa Parvez and the responses of various institution and communities. As other murders of young women come to light in Canada, such as Amandeep Atwal, Jassi Sidhu, Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia, we find that there are limited spaces for us to mourn and reflect on the complexities of these murders. “Often the reactions of mainstream society and the questions posed to us are the following: is violence endemic to South Asian communities? Do some religions condone “honour “based killings? Reacting to the death and to the responses, the following questions became a central focus for our work: How can we begin discussing the complexities of violence in South Asian and other racialized communities? What are some ways to do this without reinscribing colonialist assumptions that violence lives in racialized cultures? Indeed how do we talk about violence within and with our communities outside of the parameters of dominant discourse? How do we demand accountability for gendered violence within our communities without serving the interests of institutional racism, economic exploitation, Islamophobia and hetero-national imperialism”? Submissions are welcome from academics, community workers and activists from perspectives from sociology, critical criminology, education, gender studies, law, social work, cultural studies, communication and social psychology. Suggested topics may include but are not limited to: Popular media, critiques and questions Grassroots movements to address violence The “Honour” crimes industry Sexual and bodily rights Community conversations, healing, resiliency The Construction of girlhood Counseling frameworks and supports Experiences in newcomer and/or racialized communities State interventions and policies i.e. immigration Role of institutions i.e. education and social services The Editors are also planning to hold a symposium, inviting contributors to present their papers to “critique and share some of the work that is currently happening in the Canadian context”. Deadline for abstracts: August 10, 2012. For more information, visit the IFLS website. Call for papers: Intercultural counselling & education in the global world The Centre for Intercultural Studies, University of Verona and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Toronto, in cooperation with NAME will be hosting an international conference on Intercultural Counselling and Education in the Global World in Verona, April 18-21, 2013. From the (US-based) National Association for Multicultural Education listserv: The Verona Conference will provide a unique opportunity for teachers, educators, counsellors and psychotherapists from Europe, US, Canada and other countries, facing issues of diversity, plurality and multiculturalism, to meet and share research findings and practical experiences. The conference will be bilingual – English and Italian. Abstracts for papers, posters and workshop sessions are welcome. Conference themes include: Integrating counselling and psychotherapy approaches into inter- and multicultural therapy Integrating traditional healing and spirituality into counselling and psychotherapy Diversity issues in therapy: Gender, race, class, sexual orientations, disAbility, age and religion Cross-cultural supervision and research in counselling Intercultural and multicultural education Democracy, citizenship, equity and student engagement Cooperative learning. Deadline for submissions is Nov 1, 2012. For more information, please visit the conference website. Parenting and discipline across cultures From the CERIS (Centre of Excellence in Research in Immigration and Settlement) website, a post about parenting across cultures, as discussed in a television show, featuring CERIS Director Dr. Mehru Ali on parenting and discipline across cultures): “Ali talked to TVO Parents about the cultural aspect of parenting and discipline in a Canadian context. In an expert panel to introduce a new TVO series The Slap, Dr. Ali shared her perspective and research on parenting and the situation that newcomers find themselves in a new society with potentially different norms. She emphasized that cultural norms greatly differ among groups and that we must consider the diversity of parents before judging one type of discipline over another”. Ali comes in at about six minutes into the video. She addresses the discipline issue of hitting children. Increasingly, physically hitting a child is becoming unacceptable but Ali says we need to “consider” different parenting styles. Ali wavers on whether physical force is ever warranted but says the key principle is to keep the child protected. My question is how do we reconcile types of discipline, though, with Canadian norms and laws? The host of the show cites that about 20 countries have banned corporal punishment. Canada, as a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Article 19 (see below), have a legal obligation to protect children from physical violence, whether it’s from a parent or not. Article 1. States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child.” What’s next for immigrantchildren.ca? immigrantchildren.ca wants to know what you want to know! Please take our very short poll on the future of immigrantchildren.ca. Thank you for your participation. It is greatly appreciated! 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Home repairs: Which jobs come first? Lean times call for budgetary triage. But while you should clearly opt for orthodontics before Disneyland, the choice is tougher when it comes to home maintenance. Should you get a paint job or a new furnace? "There's no homeowner's manual that tells you when to do what," says Naperville, Ill., home inspector and structural engineer Mark Waldman. Emergencies aside, the project that could cause the most damage and expense if left unfixed is the priority. Below, the order in which to tackle your biggest repair needs. 1. Electrical system Wiring problems claim the No. 1 spot for good reason: They can lead to fires and electrocution. "That trumps everything," says Waldman. Danger signs: Circuit breakers that trip frequently, lights that dim when you turn on the vacuum or outlets that are loose, hot, or accept only two-prong plugs. How to check: Spend $300 to $500 for a licensed electrician to open up your main panel to look for trouble and to tighten any loose connections. He'll also spot-check switches, outlets and light fixtures to ensure that the wiring is in safe working order. Replacement cost: $4,000 to $10,000 to rewire the house. Prolong its life: Flip every circuit breaker off and on again once a year to prevent corrosion. Add new circuits ($100 to $500 each) to take the heaviest electrical loads, like window air conditioners, off the old wires. 2. Basement Structural problems downstairs mean shifting and cracking upstairs -- at the very least -- so there's little point in doing other repairs until you've fixed the building's foundation. Danger signs: Bowed or split beams, rotted posts, piles of sawdust (evidence of wood-boring insects), tiny mud trails (indications of termites), or large cracks in the masonry foundation -- especially if the cracks are horizontal, which tends to indicate a bigger problem. How to check: A contractor will usually take a look free of charge. If he recommends significant repairs, hire a home inspection engineer (find one at nabie.org) to investigate ($350 to $500). Replacement cost: Major foundation work can cost $3,500 to $8,000; new posts or beams could run $1,200 to $2,500. Prolong its life: Water is the cause of cracked concrete, rotten timbers and wood-eating pests. So keep your basement dry by making sure the landscape slopes away from the house and maintaining the next two items on the list: the roof and gutters. 3. Roof Water leaking into your home from above can lead to a host of pricey problems: rot, insects, electrical shorts and mold. Danger signs: Dampness or stains on ceilings; curling, missing, or broken shingles; smooth spots where the granules have worn away; green algae growth. How to check: Have a roofer inspect your home. This is typically free, but the pro, of course, is looking for business. So check the company's reputation at angieslist.com ($5 a month). Replacement cost: $5,000 to $15,000 Prolong its life: Prune tree limbs so they're at least 10 feet from the roof to keep squirrels away and to let moisture evaporate quickly after storms. If shingles blow off, replace them immediately, and repair small leaks promptly. 4. Gutters Your gutters are just as important as the roof. The only reason they're lower on this list is that if you replace gutters first, they're likely to get damaged when you reroof later. So if you need a roof too, it's better to wait -- or do both projects at the same time. Danger signs: Dented or disconnected gutters, pooled water around your home's foundation, or basement flooding near the downspouts. How to check: Head outside during a rainstorm and watch the gutters in action, says Caitlin Corkins, stewardship manager for Historic New England, which maintains dozens of historic properties. "The best time to see clogs and overflows is when the system is working," she says. Replacement cost: $1,500 to $3,000 Prolong its life: Hire a gutter company to clean, check, and repair your gutters ($100 to $200) at least once a year -- two or three times if you're in a wooded area. And have someone clear the eaves of deep snow to prevent icing, which can split open gutters or rip them right off the house. 5. Exterior walls "People think paint is just a decorative element, so they let it go," says Robert Niemeyer, a Winston-Salem, N.C., handyman, contractor, and electrician. But without a weather-tight seal, water can infiltrate the siding, causing rot and attracting wood-damaging insects. Still, leaks from a vertical surface generally aren't as quick or lethal as ones from a roof and gutter. Danger signs: Paint that's peeling, cracking or blistering Replacement cost: $4,000 to $10,000; make sure the painters replace loose putty around the window glass and caulking gaps around molding. 6. Aging equipment An old heating or cooling system is costly to operate -- and the risk of a breakdown increases with age. But as long as your old furnace, boiler, or AC is operating safely, there's no rush to upgrade. Danger signs: The system cycles on and off frequently to hold your thermostat setting; you spot corrosion on the vent pipe; the natural-gas flames are yellow or orange instead of pure blue. How to check: Get a repair estimate: if it's more than a third of the replacement cost, spring for a new machine, says Indianapolis plumber Larry Howald. Replacement cost: Typically $2,000 to $4,000 for a furnace (forced air); $4,000 to $8,000 for a boiler (hot water); $1,000 to $3,000 for a water heater; $6,000 to $10,000 for an air conditioner. Prolong its life: Have your systems cleaned and tuned annually, including flushing the water heater to remove sludge, replacing all filters and lubricating any pumps. Original Article from CNN Ken Keegan Real Estate Broker Posted by Ken Keegan at 2:25 PM No comments: Mortgage rates hit a new low: 30-year fixed at 3.87% Just one day after President Obama detailed a proposal to enable millions of homeowners to refinance to record-low mortgage rates, those rates notched another record. The 30-year, fixed rate fell to an average of 3.87% and the 15-year fixed dropped to 3.14% for the week ending February 2, both the lowest rates ever recorded in the 40-year history of the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist at Freddie Mac said the rates fell to new lows after the fourth quarter gross domestic product report last week showed that the economy was growing at a rate that fell short of expectations. The new record rates were "fortuitously timed" for the Obama administration to announce its latest refinancing proposal, said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com. The plan, which requires approval by Congress, would allow borrowers who are current on their mortgage to save an average of $3,000 a year by refinancing into loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration. Has Obama's housing policy failed? "A lot more homeowners figure to get help over the next few months and that intersects nicely with these attractive rate terms," said McBride. A year ago, mortgage borrowers were thrilled to get 30-year mortgages averaging 4.81%. These days they're finding ones nearly a full point lower. The difference in the monthly payments between a 4.81% loan and a 3.88% is about $54 for every $100,000 borrowed. For someone with a loan balance of $250,000 that comes to more than $1,620 a year. But many of the borrowers that Obama's plan would help currently have mortgages that carry interest rates of 6%, 7% or higher. If someone with a $250,000 mortgage carrying a 7% rate could refinance into a 3.88% loan, it would reduce payments by nearly $6,000 a year. Such bargains figure to be around for awhile. In fact, they could get even better, according to McBride. Mortgage rates closely track bond yields, which plunged after the Federal Reserve said it expects to keep the Federal Funds rate near historic lows until late 2014. The yield on a 10-year bond has nose-dived since the Fed's action, falling from 2.05% on Jan. 25 to 1.81% on Feb. 1. McBride said the difference between mortgage rates and bond yields, the spread, widens when yields decline. After yields stabilize again, the spread should shrink. The usual spread is about 1.7 percentage points, according to Keith Gumbinger of HSH Associated, a provider of mortgage data and information. Currently, it's about 2 points. If it dropped to the normal average of 1.7 points, the interest rate on a 30-year could plunge to 3.5%. St. James Stats Single Family Homes: 113 Active Average List Price: $397,123 Median List Price: $359,000 Highest List Price: $1,145,000 Average Days On Market: 276 Lots: 273 Active Highest List Price: $595,000 2012 Solds Single Family Homes: 5 Sold Average Sale Price: $277,300 Median Sale Price: $245,000 Highest Sale Price: $390,000 Lots: 3 Sold Posted by Ken Keegan at 10:51 AM No comments: Mortgage rates hit a new low: 30-year fixed at 3.8...
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Best Screenwriters in 2019 Talent On Tap – Rick Dugdale Envisioned the Death of an Author The Most Impactful Canadian AI in Movies Tapeworm – Infectious Plot with a Multitude of Storylines Why Most Films Deserve a Second Viewing VSFF: HATCH-ing a Personal Tale with Heather Perluzzo Hollywood North Magazine Insightful Commentary from and on the Canadian Film World VQFF: SONG LANG is a Beautifully Subtle If Not Imperfect Picture August 20, 2019 August 17, 2019 Shaun Lang Aside from conspicuously rhyming with this reviewer’s name, the title of Leon Le’s debut film Song Lang refers to a musical instrument of the same name. An instrument that keeps the rhythm in an orchestra. This is explained to us via the opening narration of Dung “Thunderbolt” (Lien Binh Phat) who has found that his own rhythm has been off-centre ever since he was abandoned by his opera performer mother (Kiehu Trinh) followed by his musician father’s (Xuan Hiep) passing. Now introverted and shut off from any artistic impulses, Dung spends his days in 1980’s Saigon as a debt collector for the cold and calculating Auntie Nga (Phuong Minh) and is not above using harsh measures in order to extract re-payment. The first real resistance to Dung’s methods arrives in the form of young Cai Luong opera star Linh Phung (Isaac) who stops Dung from burning his theatre troupe’s costumes and promises to re-pay the theatre’s debt himself. Dung can’t help but be impressed and when the two cross paths once again in a bar brawl, a friendship begins to form. As circumstances forces them to bunk together, the two young men slowly open up to each other. Dung has completely abandoned any artistic aspirations due to his traumatic past and Linh holds anxiety over his starring role in the Romeo and Juliet-esque production as he “has never been in love” according to one of his co-stars. Linh invites Dung to leave behind the thug life and join the troupe as a two-chord guitar player. But Dung’s checkered past may not yet be through with him yet. From the above synopsis, you’d be forgiven for wondering why this film would be part of, let alone serve as the opening to a queer film festival. The truth is that Song Lang plays its romantic angles subtly. So subtle in fact that the same script could’ve been rendered as a tale of brotherhood. I confess I found myself waiting for something…well, gay to happen. But there’s no real physical intimacy between the leads to be found here. Any romantic subtext is displayed in the form of glances, body language and mostly from the changes in Linh’s mannerisms. It’s largely up to Isaac as Linh to carry the emotional weight here as Lien Binh’s Dung shifts the gear firmly into neutral and leaves it there. Besides the odd moment of aggression and a single smile, the audience is mostly on their own as to what this guy is all about and it’s largely left to younger actors via flashbacks to help mould his character which is a bit frustrating since the majority of the first half is largely spent with Dung. Speaking of the first half, I can’t help but wonder if it was cut by a completely different editor than the second as many simple dialogue scenes are rendered a flurry of quick-cut coverage. This isn’t helped by mediocre subtitles that too often disappear before they can be read. The film makes up for these shortcomings in it’s thoughtful scripting (many moments really clicked with the audience) and a beautiful rendering of 1980’s Saigon. The film is exquisitely shot in a 1.37:1 frame that invites you in to it’s warm palette. High marks for the detailed production design that handily evokes the period. Leon Lee has produced a solid work here whose script might have benefitted from a more focused first act and a better lead actor. Song Lang is certainly a thought-provoking film but is still an odd choice to launch the Vancouver Queer Film Festival in this reviewer’s opinion. Song Lang plays as part of VQFF at Cineplex International Village on Wednesday August 21, 7pm Review Isaac, Lien Binh Phat, Phuong Minh, Song Lang ← Toronto International Film Festival 2019 – Everything you need to Know Canadian Actors of the MCU and Spider-Man’s Departure → Show Support, Leave a Tip! Want to Sponsor? Reach out on BlogDash CNW News
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MIKE TYSON vs. ANDREW GOLOTA (Showtime) Description : Here we have the official Showtime Boxing PPV poster from the savage foul filled brawl between Tyson & the lunatic Golota..... Both men entered the fight with reputations for being roughhouse fighters. Golota had been disqualified twice against Riddick Bowe in 1996 for hitting below the belt. Tyson had served a suspension and had been disqualified for biting both of Holyfield's ears in 1997. Although Golota publicly stated that he planned to fight a clean fight, skeptics doubted the match would be clean.....Tyson tore into Golota from the 1st bell, decking the big pole at the end of the round, round 2 was the same & at the start of the 3rd Golota would not leave his stool & no wonder!....Golota's decision to give up angered Tyson, who felt that he lost the chance to gain a traditional knockout victory. Tyson's corner was forced to restrain the winner to prevent him from attacking Golota. The fans who attended the fight were also angry and pelted Golota with popcorn, beer and soda as he returned to his dressing room. It was later discovered that Golota had suffered multiple injuries that led to his decision to quit. The day after the fight, Golota was taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered that Golota had suffered a concussion, a fractured left cheekbone and a herniated disc between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae. These HBO & Showtime PPV posters are not made available for public consumption & can only be sourced from a participating PPV outlet hence the scarcity as once the televised event if over, then these posters go straight to skip. Postage: £10.00 Special Delivery... £20.00 International. Condition : Excellent/minor edge wear / Framed 4 display purposes only! Price : £75.00
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[Reading] ➻ Beyond the High Blue Air By Lu Spinney – Larringtonlifecoaching.co.uk Beyond the High Blue Air Lu Spinney10 on Beyond the High Blue Air When Lu Spinney S Twenty Nine Year Old Son, Miles, Flies Up On His Snowboard, He Knows He Is Not In Control As He Is Taken By Force Up The Ramp, Writes His Mother, Skewing Sideways As His Board Clips The Edge And Then He Is Hurtling, Spinning Up, Up Into The Free Blue Sky Ahead He Lands Hard On The Ice And Falls Into A Coma This Begins The Erratic Loss Miles First In A Coma And Then Trapped In A Fluctuating State Of Minimal Consciousness That Unravels Over The Next Five Years Spinney, Her Husband, And Three Other Children Put Their Lives On Hold To Tend To Miles At Various Hospitals And Finally In A Care Home They Hold Out Hope That He Will Be Returned To Them With Blunt Precision, Spinney Chronicles Her Family S Intimate Experience This Is A Story About Ambiguous Loss The Disappearance Of Someone Who Is Still There Three Quarters Of The Way Through, However, Spinney S Story Takes A Turn The Family And, To The Degree That He Can Communicate, Miles Himself Come To View Ending His Life As The Only Possible Release From The Prison Of His Body And Mind Spinney, Cutting Her Last Thread Of Hope, Wishes For Her Son To Die And Yet, Even As She Allows This Difficult Revelation To Settle, She Learns That This Is Not Her Decision To Make Because Miles Is Diagnosed As A Being In A Minimally Conscious State Rather Than A Persistent Vegetative State, There Is No Legal Way To Bring About His Death, A Bewildering Paradox That Spinney Navigates With Compassion And Wisdom Encompassing The Lyrical Revelations Of A Memoir Like Jean Dominique Bauby S THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY And The Crucial Medical And Moral Insights Of A Book Such As Atul Gawande S BEING MORTAL, Lu Spinney S BEYOND THE HIGH BLUE AIR Is At Once A Portrait Of The Fearlessness Of Familial Love And The Profound Dilemma Posed By Modern Medicine 10 thoughts on “Beyond the High Blue Air ” Rebecca Foster Rebecca Foster says: Nearly 4.5 In March 2006 Lu Spinney s 29 year old son, Miles King, was on a snowboarding holiday in Austria with friends On the final morning of the trip he took the fall that would leave this athlete, intellectual, and entrepreneur with a traumatic brain injury The family brought him back to London via an airlift, and over the next five years he passed between various brain injury units and care homes Eight weeks after the accident he opened his eyes, but given his minimally conscious stat Nearly 4.5 In March 2006 Lu Spinney s 29 year old son, Miles King, was on a snowboarding holiday in Austria with friends On the final morning of the trip he took the fall that would leave this athlete, intellectual, and entrepreneur with a traumatic brain injury The family brought him back to London via an airlift, and over the next five years he passed between various brain injury units and care homes Eight weeks after the accident he opened his eyes, but given his minimally conscious state his only communication would ever be facial expressions and roars of frustration.Pointless to mention just how sad this book is Spinney tells her tale remarkably well, in a consciously literary style With no speech marks and present tense narration, thought and action flow lucidly into dialogue and daydream She always chooses just the right metaphors, too I would highly recommend this to readers of other illness and bereavement memoirs written in a literary style, such as Paul Kalanithi s When Breath Becomes Air or Marion Coutts s The Iceberg.See my full review at Nudge Amy Morgan Amy Morgan says: Thank you Edelweiss for my review copy of this book Wow what a beautifully written and emotionally charged read This story portrays the love a mother feels for her son and her fight to help him get well again after a horrific accident The decisions she has to make in regards to what is best for him once she realizes how much he is suffering is unimaginable to me as a mother The fact that she could do what she knew was best for him in the face of her pain of losing him and in the recent death Thank you Edelweiss for my review copy of this book Wow what a beautifully written and emotionally charged read This story portrays the love a mother feels for her son and her fight to help him get well again after a horrific accident The decisions she has to make in regards to what is best for him once she realizes how much he is suffering is unimaginable to me as a mother The fact that she could do what she knew was best for him in the face of her pain of losing him and in the recent death of her husband makes my heart hurt for her going through this This is a sad but beautiful tribute to her son and his life that was cut much too short Kayo Kayo says: Moving and sad. Marika Marika says: A memoir written about a son s tragic accident and subsequent death is not destined to be an easy read It s not easy because readers will be able to identify with the author s journey as her son is first in a coma, then in a fluid state of consciousness, until eventually death A compassionate, raw and intimate journey that no one ever chooses to embark on, but one in which the landmarks must be discussed.I read an advance copy and was not compensated. Rhonda Lomazow Rhonda Lomazow says: A gut wrenching raw look at the heartache Luher family suffered when her son miles suffered a traumatic brain injury.in a horrible accident At times hard to read but at the same time an unputdownable look at her lovef for her son, Shirley Freeman Shirley Freeman says: Well I read the ARC, not the kindle edition but whatever I couldn t put this beautiful memoir down Lu Spinney had a lovely second husband and four high achieving twenty something kids when oldest son Miles, age 29, suffered a traumatic brain injury during a snowboarding accident Spinney begins by telling the story of his accident from several points of view including Miles though that part was necessarily her imagination, based on deep knowledge and love of her son along with accident re Well I read the ARC, not the kindle edition but whatever I couldn t put this beautiful memoir down Lu Spinney had a lovely second husband and four high achieving twenty something kids when oldest son Miles, age 29, suffered a traumatic brain injury during a snowboarding accident Spinney begins by telling the story of his accident from several points of view including Miles though that part was necessarily her imagination, based on deep knowledge and love of her son along with accident reports and reports from his friends Miles was in a minimally conscious state, one step above a persistent vegetative state, for 5 years Spinney s language is lovely and unflinching The family hoped for many months years that Miles would get better but it eventually became apparent that wasn t going to happen It became clear to all who loved him that he preferred to die It also became apparent there was no legal method for that to happen in England Though this is a memoir of deep suffering, it is also a story of deep love, strength and hope Linda Linda says: Every mother s nightmare Lu receives a call that her 29 year old son has been seriously injured in a snowboarding accident She is in England, and she and the rest of the family hurry to the hospital in Innsbruck where doctors are trying to save his life Is it possible that the adventurous young man with the Oxford degree will come back to them Is this what Miles would have wanted How many actually have an advance directive to make things easier if the unthinkable happens Intense and at time Every mother s nightmare Lu receives a call that her 29 year old son has been seriously injured in a snowboarding accident She is in England, and she and the rest of the family hurry to the hospital in Innsbruck where doctors are trying to save his life Is it possible that the adventurous young man with the Oxford degree will come back to them Is this what Miles would have wanted How many actually have an advance directive to make things easier if the unthinkable happens Intense and at times painful to read, this memoir is reminiscent of Joan Didion s The Year of Magical Thinking Heather Heather says: This book was heart wrenching to read and only solidified my feelings about what is life and what is existence The heart break this mother endured losing the son she knew, always hopeful that the child she gave birth to, raised and watched grow into an amazing man, would come back to her The reader shares along as she details her new normal of hospitals, carers, feeding tubes and spasticity This was a beautiful telling of a very tragic story and the love a mother has for her children in life This book was heart wrenching to read and only solidified my feelings about what is life and what is existence The heart break this mother endured losing the son she knew, always hopeful that the child she gave birth to, raised and watched grow into an amazing man, would come back to her The reader shares along as she details her new normal of hospitals, carers, feeding tubes and spasticity This was a beautiful telling of a very tragic story and the love a mother has for her children in life and death Paulina Paulina says: Brilliant, heart rending, impossible to put down I have to add, albeit a few months later that I cannot stop thinking about miles kemp I have re read the book 3 times. I count my blessings, I realise life is short and precious This book has become a bible in an inspirational way Thank you Lu Olga Fry Olga Fry says: Beyond the High Blue Air is a memoir about the love of a mother and her child In this case, it is March 2006 and her oldest son, Miles, has gone on a backpacking trip with friends to celebrate his birthday On the last morning of their trip, they set off to go snowboarding There is a scene in which Miles prepares for this by purchasing a helmet Miles lands hard on the ice, injuring his brain, and falls into a coma He is 29 years old, an entrepreneur and an athlete That s how hospital staff Beyond the High Blue Air is a memoir about the love of a mother and her child In this case, it is March 2006 and her oldest son, Miles, has gone on a backpacking trip with friends to celebrate his birthday On the last morning of their trip, they set off to go snowboarding There is a scene in which Miles prepares for this by purchasing a helmet Miles lands hard on the ice, injuring his brain, and falls into a coma He is 29 years old, an entrepreneur and an athlete That s how hospital staff refers to him as well The first thing, he says, is that you must never reprimand him for doing that jump It was a brave and wonderful thing to do He is a young man and young men should all go out and grab life in the way he did.The family flies to Austria from England, Lu s husband Ron staying behind for a few days to give Miles s father a chance to be there without him The beginning and the middle of the memoir remain hopeful as Miles is transferred to a different facility, he s brought out of his coma, he opens his eyes, he exhibits signs of understanding the world around him Through it all, the reader observes how Lu keeps it together it s even referenced at one point and how palpable her grief is she waits for her son to return to her I say grief because Miles is neither here nor there but rather in a vegetative state She is mourning her son while trying to keep him with her as well In this case we are talking about my son s life and as he is unable to speak for himself, I am his spokesman Surely you understand it is my duty, my responsibility, to try to understand his situation The end is certainly no less hopeful, but in a different way Lu tries to do what she can to ensure her son dies with dignity Lu is Miles s staunchest advocate and supporter, arranging and re arranging parts of herself and relationships with others to ensure that Miles is receiving the best treatment and care possible in his minimally conscious state MCS This means he was one step above a persistently vegetative state The legalities are different in the United Kingdom Had he possessed PVS, the doctors would have been able to remove his suffering I wish the memoir did a better job of indicating time markers, though in a way, it benefited the memoir since time is an abstract concept here We flit between Miles s accident, his childhood, adulthood, and before you know it, five years has gone by since his accident I also liked that Lu Spinney acknowledged her privilege through the memoir, about how she was able to pay for his treatment and other things The end of the memoir is really what got me, after she has lost Miles and Ron as well, unfortunately Two years into the accident, he passes away as a result of cancer The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is mentioned throughout I could see remnants of it in these pages At one point, it s revealed that the author and her son read it together when he was 13 years old The memoir is a heartwrenching read, albeit very well written and Lu s suffering as well as those around her is palpable to the reader
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Mark Chelgren’s Greatest Hits Before Sizzler U, there were the Chickenman, keggers, a wheelchair invention, and a proposal to execute undocumented immigrants Gavin Aronsen Mark Chelgren For Iowa/Facebook Editor’s note: This post has been updated to include information about Chelgren’s firearms manufacturing business and his proposal to allow students to fire professors they didn’t like. It has also been corrected to clarify that the attorney who filed incorporation paperwork for Fizzix LLC is no longer president of the lapsed law firm and supported Chelgren’s opponent in their 2010 state Senate race. Long before state Sen. Mark Chelgren caught the eye of an NBC News reporter for falsely claiming to have earned a business degree from a Sizzler steakhouse franchisee while pushing a bill to apply political litmus tests to university hires, his political aspirations were largely dismissed. Observers viewed the eccentricities of the man known then for his beer-guzzling, naked-bike-riding antics as a serious liability. But in 2010, an election year driven by anti-establishment Tea Party sentiment, Chelgren unseated state Sen. Keith Kreiman, a Bloomfield Democrat, by just 11 votes. He was re-elected in 2014 by fewer than 400. With controversy once again surrounding him, his prospects for 2018 may be even more endangered. On Saturday, the editorial board of the Ottumwa Courier, Chelgren’s hometown paper, called on the 49-year-old Republican lawmaker to resign over the Sizzler U fabrication. “He has gotten into shouting matches on the Senate floor. He sulks like a spoiled child when reminded that he represents this area and that it deserves better. Those incidents already undermined his reputation at the state level,” the paper wrote. “Now, he has made Ottumwa a national punch line.” It wasn’t the first time. Here’s a look at some of the more notable events in Chelgren’s life and career that have led up to this moment. RAGBRAI’s Chickenman Before he was a state lawmaker, Chelgren was best known as Chickenman, a fixture in the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. He was once part of the five-member Quadrabong team, named after “a four-tubed, giant beer funnel that could hold and deliver a six pack of suds to one to four players in an amazingly short amount of time,” as Janna Trevisanut, a support driver whose brother was also on the team, described it in 2002. “It was an extremely collegiate approach,” she explained. “We were small but extremely popular, as any time we would load that monstrous contraption up, people would encircle us, cheer us on, and sometimes partake, even the locals.” Eventually, the Quadrabong team split up, but Chelgren — who, Trevisanut wrote, had “gone batty with his alter ego, and drives a beer truck around the route dressed in a loincloth” (with fuzzy pink balls concealed underneath) — rode on. “That beer would go not to teams that had signed on with him but to random riders who were friendly (or cute) enough.” His RAGBRAI celebrity received wider notice when he announced his campaign to unseat Kreiman in 2010. “He’s best known for wearing a chicken-like skullcap with a little beak at the forehead, bicycling naked at times, and, most of all, for providing back-of-the-pack riders with keg after keg of free beer at daily roadside stops,” reported the Des Moines Register, the newspaper after which the annual bike ride is named. “If someone ripped off my little loin cloth, being drunk, I’d run around and talk to people,” Chelgren told the paper, revealing a libertarian streak. “On RAGBRAI, I do believe that adults do have a right to make adult decisions. Whether those decisions are deemed to be appropriate or inappropriate is up to the person — as long as it doesn’t affect children.” The beer was dispensed from the refrigerated truck he took on the route, which was modified with taps on its side and decorated with stickers bearing slogans including “I Bit the Bone with Team Dawg,” “Team BARFLY,” “BAD GIRLS WERE HERE,” “BIG EARL’S GIRLS: DES MOINES,” and “TEAM STIFF.” The kegs for the taps were provided by other RAGBRAI teams, but they weren’t always the ones who ended up drinking the beer. “Part of the deal was that Chickenman would take one of your kegs and hook it up to his own special Chickenman tap,” a Cityview reader told the alt-weekly. “That beer would go not to teams that had signed on with him but to random riders who were friendly (or cute) enough.” Chelgren’s fun was cut short, the reader added, when the Iowa State Patrol cracked down on the festivities in the mid-aughts. Invention of Frog Legs, shock absorbers for wheelchairs Chelgren’s most respectable claim to fame, perhaps, is Frog Legs Inc., the wheelchair parts manufacturing company he co-founded with fellow RAGBRAI enthusiast Dave Carr in the mid-’90s. The company’s name is a reference to its flagship product, shock-absorbing caster forks resembling the shape of a frog’s leg that can be installed on wheelchairs to reduce muscle spasms and lower back pain caused by vibrations. The idea was inspired by members of a quadriplegic rugby team the two men met during a trip to Colorado. An Iowa State University newsletter from 1999 describing the university’s role in Chelgren’s Frog Legs invention. The Frog Legs invention, which was created with assistance from Iowa State University’s College of Engineering (PDF), earned Chelgren and Carr a shout-out from Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack in his 2000 Condition of the State address (PDF). “Will investing in our natural resources by being a national leader in private land conservation, our parks, our roadsides, and our trails lead to more Iowans, younger Iowans, and better-paid Iowans?” Vilsack asked, before describing the co-founders’ history with RAGBRAI and their trip to Colorado where they got the idea to create wheelchairs with the “high-performance features” of mountain bikes. “Quality air, water, and open spaces were Iowa’s promise to Dave, Mark, and Dave,” Vilsack concluded, also recognizing the company’s marketing director. “Welcome home to Iowa.” Gun manufacturing company Chelgren is also the owner of Fizzix LLC, a manufacturing company that operates in part under the name Epic Defense, an Ottumwa business that advertises custom-built AR-15s. Fizzix was registered for Chelgren in 2007 by Kenneth Duker, an assistant public defender for the state of Iowa who until 2010 was president of the lapsed Ottumwa law firm Breckenridge & Duker PC and ended up supporting Kreiman over Chelgren in their race that year.* Since arriving in the Legislature, Chelgren has introduced and co-sponsored numerous pro-gun bills, including several stand your ground bills and a proposal to allow school employees to carry “a firearm of any kind, whether concealed or not, in or on the grounds of a school where employed, if the employee has a valid permit to carry weapons.” (Read our follow-up report on Epic Defense, and Chelgren’s domestic violence arrest shortly before founding the business, here.) Campaign kegger After Chelgren defeated Kreiman in November 2010 and was on his way to the Statehouse, the pseudonymous blogger Krusty Konservative boasted that he was probably the only one who thought Chelgren had a chance of winning. “He first got my attention,” Krusty wrote, “when he held a campaign event where he provided live music and 20 kegs of Keystone, 5 kegs of Blue Moon, and 5 kegs of Sam Adams. At first I criticized him for purchasing the Keystone, but it was an absolutely brilliant political move.” “If someone sticks it out to drink all of that Keystone, you know they are going to the polls for you.” Why? Because “if someone sticks it out to drink all of that Keystone, you know they are going to the polls for you.” Rumor had it, Krusty joked, that each of the votes responsible for Chelgren’s razor-thin margin of victory were cast by people willing to stick around and kill the kegs full of the watery staple of college freshman — a feat made all the more impressive by stormy weather that diminished the turnout at the Ottumwa rally. Whatever Chelgren’s true strategy, he was drawing on past experience: As Chickenman, according to legend, he once tapped 70 kegs at a single RAGBRAI party. Drug testing for state assistance Chelgren may be a longtime beer-bong aficionado, but he views bong-ripping welfare recipients with less favor (despite the “420” sticker that also appeared on his beer truck and his support for rescheduling pot). Shortly after taking office, he co-sponsored a bill with 17 other Republicans, including Joni Ernst, to require anyone receiving financial aid from the state to participate in random drug testing. If they failed a test, they would become ineligible for aid until they could piss clean. The bill died in the Senate’s State Government Committee. The following year, lawmakers laughed out loud at Chelgren as he proposed an amendment to a budget bill that would have required that divorced parents receiving child support submit to drug testing as often as once every six months if their exes requested it. The amendment, which Chelgren said was inspired by a constituent who believed his ex was blowing child support money on drugs, was quickly withdrawn. Preschool and Nazi indoctrination Going on the offensive in 2011 against the state’s free preschool program for 4-year-olds, Chelgren warned that authoritarian regimes have also provided education to young children when they are “malleable” and easier to manipulate. “What question I have for this body and the question I have in general, if it is all about indoctrinating a child, I would use the exact same arguments that the Nazis used, that we should take children immediately, as soon as we recognize they have potential,” he said. Instead, he argued, more responsibility should be placed on parents so that their “maternal and paternal bond” is not replaced by an “indoctrination process by teachers.” Firing professors, reality TV-style Before introducing his bill to require political litmus tests for faculty hires at Iowa’s state universities, which would have prohibited new hires if they “would cause the percentage of the faculty belonging to one political party to exceed by 10 percent” over the other, Chelgren introduced legislation to establish a system to fire unpopular instructors through student voting. “A bill circulating in the Iowa State Senate offers a novel (and cutthroat) way to hold professors accountable: putting their fates into students’ hands, Survivor-style,” the Chronicle of Higher Education described Chelgren’s proposal in April 2015. Under the proposal, professors whose evaluations scored below a minimum threshold would automatically get the axe. Then, the names of the five professors with the lowest scores above that threshold would be published in an online ballot for students. The prof receiving the most votes would get the boot, too. The bill died in committee. Death penalty for undocumented immigrants Seeking to spread his chicken wings and fly higher after his re-election to the Statehouse the previous year, Chelgren launched an ill-fated bid for Congress in 2015 against Dave Loebsack, the sole surviving Democrat among Iowa’s congressional delegation. In one of the most egregious instances of burying the lede in Iowa newspaper history, Knoxville Journal-Express editor Steve Woodhouse waited until the final paragraph of a campaign profile with the yawn-inducing headline “Chelgren is running for Congress” to casually mention one of the lawmaker’s most extreme proposals to date: executing undocumented immigrants deported after committing felonies who were caught entering the country again. “There is no reason to have felons here who threaten our way of life,” Chelgren said. Woodhouse paraphrased the rest of Chelgren’s position on the issue, leaving him an opening to claim his words had been misconstrued. But after the Register reached out, he offered only a slight clarification, saying he intended for the proposal to be narrowly applied to undocumented immigrants who came back with the intent to commit an act of terror or another felony crime. He accused the Democratic Party of engaging in “race-baiting” for condemning his remarks, despite that the state GOP did the same. His proposal quickly caught the attention of the national media, drawing comparisons to Donald Trump’s harsh anti-immigration rhetoric. (The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast inquiring whether it would consider Chelgren as Trump’s running mate.) Retribution for Iowa-bashing Rose Bowl halftime show In a pander to voters (which also drew nationwide attention) before dropping his congressional bid, Chelgren introduced legislation demanding an apology from Stanford University for its poorly received 2016 Rose Bowl halftime show that mocked the University of Iowa with hick stereotypes and a FarmersOnly.com jingle. He argued that because of sanctions the marching band was under, the university erred in allowing it to perform at the Rose Bowl in the first place. The bill stipulated that until Stanford apologized to both the University of Iowa and all Iowa citizens, future “collaboration or cooperation” between Stanford and Iowa’s three regents universities — excluding sporting events — would be prohibited. Like many of Chelgren’s other proposals, the bill was widely mocked and went nowhere. * Correction: This article initially stated that Kenneth Duker, the attorney who filed Chelgren’s incorporation paperwork for Fizzix LLC, is president of the law firm Breckenridge & Duker PC. In fact, the firm is no longer active and Duker stepped down as president in December 2010. “While I am a long-time Republican, I supported Keith Kreiman in 2010 in his race against Mr. Chelgren,” Duker added in an email to the Informer. “Needless to say, I am not a Mark Chelgren fan and believe that he is not the right person to represent southeast Iowa in the state Senate.” Chickenman Gavin Aronsen is an editor and reporter for and founding member of the Iowa Informer. He previously worked as a city reporter for the Ames Tribune, research assistant to investigative journalist Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice, and in various roles at Mother Jones, where his work contributed to a National Magazine Award nomination for the magazine's digital media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Email: garonsen [at] iowainformer [dot] com. Boeing CEO Ousted After Deadly Crashes Is Iowa Native, Iowa State University Grad Denison Government Teacher Who Used N-Word in Front of Students Returns to Class
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Home / Board of Appeal / partial priority / poisonous divisional; divisional application; priority application; Article 54(3) EPC / Partial Priority - questions for the Enlarged Board now revealed Partial Priority - questions for the Enlarged Board now revealed Darren Smyth Thursday, August 13, 2015 - Board of Appeal, partial priority, poisonous divisional; divisional application; priority application; Article 54(3) EPC Thanks to the comments posted by keen-eyed readers here and here, it has come to this Kat’s attention that EPO Board of Appeal decision T 0557/13 has finally been published (despite the patent in question having already expired...). Tufty the Cat covered this appeal in an article in January, as he pawed through the minutes of the Board of Appeal hearing, and has since already published an in-depth analysis of the recently published decision here. This Kat will therefore give but a brief overview of the situation. Even Merpel is subject to partial priority This decision relates to patent number EP 0 921 183 (which is the result of a divisional application) in the name of Infineum. The patent is directed towards the use of cold flow improvers in fuel oil compositions - essentially, introducing additives to diesel such that the freezing point of the diesel is lowered, thereby avoiding undesired characteristics in cold temperatures. The appeal itself derives from a decision by the opposition division to revoke the patent, based on the fact that the claims were not fully entitled to their priority - the granted independent claim was a generalisation of a more specific disclosure in the priority document. As a result, the published parent application constituted prior art under Article 54(3), and was novelty-destroying. Enlarged Board decision G 2/98 was cited by the opposition division. The independent claim of the patent features a generic chemical formula which, due to the variable nature of the described substituents, encompasses a number of alternatives but does not specifically define each alternative. This can be viewed as a 'generic "OR"-claim', in the language of G 2/98. With respect to this type of claim, Reason 6.7 of G 2/98 states: The use of a generic term or formula in a claim for which multiple priorities are claimed [...] is perfectly acceptable under Articles 87(1) and 88(3) EPC, provided that it gives rise to the claiming of a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters. The opposition division did not believe that the claim gave rise to the claiming of a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters, and so revoked the claim. In the present decision, the Board of Appeal recognised that first and foremost, the issue to be resolved was whether partial priority could be claimed: The concrete question to be resolved here is whether Claim 1 enjoys partial priority to the extent that the use of [a specific compound] as disclosed in [the priority document] is encompassed by the more generic definition of Claim 1, rather than being spelt out in it. It therefore follows that there needs to be clarification as to what the "limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters" of G 2/98 means. The questions referred are as follows: 1. Where a claim of a European patent application or patent encompasses alternative subject-matters by virtue of one or more generic expressions or otherwise (generic "OR"-claim), may entitlement to partial priority be refused under the EPC for that claim in respect of alternative subject-matter disclosed (in an enabling manner) for the first time, directly, or at least implicitly, and unambiguously, in the priority document? 2. If the answer is yes, subject to certain conditions, is the proviso "provided that it gives rise to the claiming of a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters" in point 6.7 of G 2/98 to be taken as the legal test for assessing entitlement to partial priority for a generic "OR"claim? 3. If the answer to question 2 is yes, how are the criteria "limited number" and "clearly defined alternative subject-matters" to be interpreted and applied? 4. If the answer to question 2 is no, how is entitlement to partial priority to be assessed for a generic "OR"-claim? 5. If an affirmative answer is given to question 1, may subject-matter disclosed in a parent or divisional application of a European patent application be cited as state of the art under Article 54(3) EPC against subject-matter disclosed in the priority document and encompassed as an alternative in a generic "OR"-claim of the said European patent application or of the patent granted thereon? This Kat is pleased to see that the Board purposely formulated the questions in terms broader than those suggested by the parties, such that they reflect the issues of partial priority generally, which can arise whenever there is state of the art potentially relevant under either Article 54(3) or 54(2) EPC, and not only in situations of "poisonous priority". This Kat would like to thank his colleague Rob Barker for authorial assistance with this post. Partial Priority - questions for the Enlarged Board now revealed Reviewed by Darren Smyth on Thursday, August 13, 2015 Rating: 5 poisonous divisional; divisional application; priority application; Article 54(3) EPC Anonymous Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 21:43:00 BST May be we should remember why the right of priority has been created in 1883: it was simply to avoid self-collision. Whatever the Enlarged Board might decide following the present questions, it should remember this important function of the priority right. Using the prior application as prior art under Art 54(3)seems to go contrary to the concept of avoiding self-collision. G 2/98 was far from perfect, but has to be seen in the context at the time, i.e. with respect to the Snackfood T 73/88 and the similar following decisions. As it made clear that the Snackfood decision should not be followed, it brought some clarity for applicants and third parties. Can it really be correct to claim that the FICPI memorandum can be said to express the legislative intent underlying Art 88(2), second sentence? Why did the EBA at the time have to go into this? Kobus says: @anonymous of 21:43 I do not agree that the (sole) purpose of a priority right is to avoid self-collision. The Paris convention dates from the 19th century when it would be impossible to file patent applications in different countries on the same date. It allowed an applicant to protect an invention in many countries provided he filed the first (or priority) application before anyone else. It would then not be necessary to race to beat competitors to file at patent offices in the other countries because the date of the priority application would already be established. The applicant could then comfortably travel around the various countries by train or ship at his leisure in order to file further applications. The question of whether a claim to priority is valid relates more to whether the applicant is truly filing a further application for the same invention or has altered the subject matter since the priority date. Such an application should only be accorded a filing date when the amended subject matter was invented and attempting to claim the date of the priority would be cheating. Self-collision? Is that the case? "Any person who has duly filed an application for a patent, or for the registration of a utility model, or of an industrial design, or of a trademark, in one of the countries of the Union, or his successor in title, shall enjoy, for the purpose of filing in the other countries, a right of priority during the periods hereinafter fixed." Where is the self-collision in other countries? MaxDrei Friday, 14 August 2015 at 07:48:00 BST Useful thread. Bear in mind that outside Europe your own earlier (and as yet unpublished) filings don't hurt the patentability of your later filings. But the earlier unpublished filings of others do. Under the AIA even for obviousness. My own view is that EPC Art 54(3) gets it exactly right: novelty but not obviousness; your earlier filings just as prejudicial as the filings of others. That's because obviousness alone is enough to set patentability relative to the publicly-known state of the art. Novelty is needed simply to i) stop double patenting and ii) mediate between rival filers none of whom have yet published. Art 54(3) does this job, as optimally as it can be done. Anonymous Friday, 14 August 2015 at 08:29:00 BST It is certainly not self-collision as many (I would venture to say most) countries in the world do not recognise internal priority. You can only claim priority from applications that have been filed abroad. That the EPC does recognise EP files as priority rights is an exception to the rule due to the nature of the European patent. Priority rights were established to allow filing with ease in other countries without having to race to beat the competitor, as was mentioned by another commenter yesterday. And why is it that, outside Europe, your own earlier unpublished filings don't get applied against your novelty? Anybody know? OK, I'll tell you. It's in the Tegernsee Group Report on Art 54(3). Japan reported that it is just "too difficult" for a corporation filing streams of patent applications to keep track of whether they have novelty over all their own earlier filings. And how "difficult" is it for the public to keep track, I wonder, of which earlier unpublished filings shall "count" under Art 54(3) and which do not. Does that count for anything? Meanwhile, the USA always gave a "Free Pass" to earlier filings of the same inventor. I guess Japan felt constrained to follow the Americans, when writing that part of its patent law. The snag is, of course, deciding what is "my" earlier filing and what is in fact the earlier filing of "another". The simplicity of the EPC's Art 54(3) cuts through all that nonsense. Let's see now if the EBA can continue to "Keep It Simple"! A further thought occurs. Prior to the EPC, the UK had ist Patents Act of 1949. There were some nice provisions in there, that might have helped Inventors if they had been carried through ito the EPC. One such was Section 52, which provided that disclosure during the Paris year of the content of the "earlier" priority-providing application for the "same invention" would not be available to attack the patentability of any claim that has the bad luck not to be entitled to the priority date. So the UK, even back then, was on the side of the world today outside EPC-land, in softening the horror of "self-collision". The Point of a properly functioning patents system is to get early filing and early A-publication, to "Promote the Progress of Useful Arts". If Inventors are going to be deterred from early filing, perhaps even cautioned by their patent attorneys to hold back till the invention is perfect, that is not promoting the progress. So, if the EBA has difficulty deciding, whether to hold to a strict line, or to be a bit more tolerant towards filers who have collided with themselves, perhaps a reflection what patent laws outside EPC-land think is right might help them to get to a balanced clean and clear line that is fair to i)inventors who find they have to divide, ii) inventors who file on every scrap and so don't need to divide and iii) the public, and which the world can applaud. THE US anon Friday, 14 August 2015 at 12:07:00 BST MaxDrei at 7:48 - what meaning are you using with "unpublished" and the AIA? Why do you seemingly want to use only novelty and not obviousness as a screen between filers? Does only the one and not the other control what is awarded a patent? Do you leave out as well any sense of enablement of other particulars of patent law? As to your rather presumptuous KISS at 8:39, I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Einstein (you are trying to be too simple, my friend). Lastly, the argument you make at 10:44 harkens to the US system pre-AIA. As I recall, you often chided us Americans to join ROW and eliminate that which you now appear to pine for. I am left with the distinct impression that your view on "best system" is a bit muddled. Proof of the pudding Friday, 14 August 2015 at 13:20:00 BST Is not the most pressing point to deal with here the absurdity that the mere act of dividing an application and allowing the divisional application to publish can render unpatentable subject matter that would have been totally unobjectionable if the applicant had not taken the decision to divide? Remember, a poisonous priority objection has no teeth if the divisional application is not published. However, what kind of public policy is served by punishing applicants for publishing divisional applications (whose subject matter cannot, in any event, extend beyond what has already been published in respect of the parent application)? It is THAT absurdity that has no counterpart anywhere else in the world. Debate all you wish about which system is the most sensible when it comes to dealing with Article 54(3)-type prior art. However, any system that includes such a ridiculous, unfair and potentially inescapable "bear trap" for applicants to fall into is, at least in my book, a very broken system indeed. Remember, applicants may have no choice but to file divisional applications (e.g. due to an unexpected non-unity objection based upon newly-discovered prior art). The purpose of a divisional application in that situation is supposed to be to help the applicant secure protection for all of the inventions that they have disclosed - and not to poison the well so that (suddenly) subject matter of both the parent and the divisional becomes unpatentable. All fine and good Pudding, but your wickedness only clicks in when there is a disconformity between your priority-date-defining earlier application and your one-year-later-PCT filing. When the two have identical disclosure content, the one cannot poison the other, can it? Given that Paris promises a right of priority only for the "same invention" what makes you think you can file one disclosure on the priority date and a different one as your PCT without suffering any adverse consequences. You are abusing the system, aren't you? I mentioned the 1949 UK Patents Act above. That was a different system, written in the full expectation that inventors would have more disclosure in their "complete specification" at the end of the priority year than in their "provisional specification" that starts their priority year. But all that stuff got swept away in 1973 when Europe settled on the EPC regime. If, during your Paris year, you find that you have more to tell the Patent Office, file another application, with claims that are novel over your own earlier application. I do understand that the EPC puts a premium on competent drafting. Every other jurisdiction is more lenient and forgiving of poor drafting. When EPO Examiners routinely urge it on Applicants that they are the authors of their own misfortune, they don't understand i) how tolerant the world outside Europe is, of poor drafting and ii) how hard it is to draft well. But we want respect for good drafting, don't we? Tim Jackson Friday, 14 August 2015 at 16:01:00 BST MaxDrei: "Given that Paris promises a right of priority only for the "same invention" what makes you think you can file one disclosure on the priority date and a different one as your PCT without suffering any adverse consequences. You are abusing the system, aren't you?" Max, you seem to have overlooked Paris Article 4F, which allows exactly that. Partial priority. You should get the benefit of priority to the extent that your claim overlaps subject matter in the priority application, not just if it's identical. That ought to protect you from a novelty-only attack under Article 54(3). Unfortunately G 2/98 has spawned a line of case law which says otherwise, based on its requirement for "a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters". Question 2 of the present referral asks if that's right. You previously mentioned Section 52, Patents Act 1949. That went further. Not only were you protected against a novelty-only attack if your claim was wider than your priority document. Section 52 also said that an intervening publication of subject matter in your priority application couldn't be used in an inventive step attack. So for example, if your priority application said "copper" and you published a paper the next day saying "copper", but your eventual claim said "metal", then your publication couldn't be used to argue that using another metal such as iron would be obvious. Yes Tim, I had overllooked Art 4F. Thanks. I am reminded of an old discussion: http://tuftythecat.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/article-543-and-ep-divisionals.html Meldrew Saturday, 15 August 2015 at 09:07:00 BST Proof of the pudding has nailed it with use of the word "absurdity" The EPO is already seen as expensive, slow, and formalistic. Poisonous divisionals adds Kafkaesque to the list of unfortunate adjectives that could reasonably be applied. MaxDrei Saturday, 15 August 2015 at 10:24:00 BST Meldrew writes excellent stuff but this time I cannot go along with his attitude that, when the law gets messy, it's all the fault of the EPO. Perhaps he is one of the crowd that would have it that DG3 has messed up not only the law of novelty but also the law of eligibility (Art 52) and obviousness (Art 56)? On that, count me out. I'm not in that crowd. Fact is, Meldrew, the founding fathers of the EPC thought it right to include your own earlier filings in the Art 54(3) definition of novelty-prejudicial art. That's the root of the problem, I say, and the EPO didn't write the European Patent Convention. Where the EPO does have to step up to the plate is to say whether those who bundle their disclosures and later file divisionals are to be advantaged relative to those who file a stream of new patent applications for each of their discrete disclosures. Agreed? And as to Paris 4F, I think that contemplates successive filings with successive contributions to the art. I'm not sure it was written to legitimate successively wider claims (statements of invention) supported by the same unchanged disclosure in the description and drawings. We in the UK like to think we can draft claims better than anybody else. We cannot fairly exhort others to "Get it Right First Time" if we don't hold ourselves to the same standard. Did I say it's it's all the fault of the EPO? I merely said that the adjective Kafkaesque is one that is likely to be added to other adjectives reasonably applied. Of course judges can create problems in the law by undue over-analysis of words rather than intent, and the judge-wrought wording “provided that it gives rise to the claiming of a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters.” of G2/98 seems to account for most of the ills we are seeing. So yes, there is someone to blame: whether it is those who used these unfortunate words, or those who have over-interpreted them, I leave it to history to decide. By the way, I think the EPO is great, which is why I care about its reputation. Anonymous Saturday, 15 August 2015 at 11:53:00 BST I also hate the hypocrisy of attorneys who take advantage of the law of novelty the EPO has developed, then bemoan their approach to added matter. Rather than whinge, I suggest these attorneys take this long-standing law into account in their drafting. Yes, yes, it isn't possible to cover every eventuality, but life is a series of swings and roundabouts and you win some, you lose some, and if you excuse the use of an idiom, go take a chill pill. Tim Jackson Saturday, 15 August 2015 at 12:50:00 BST MaxDrei: "... the founding fathers of the EPC thought it right to include your own earlier filings in the Art 54(3) definition of novelty-prejudicial art. That's the root of the problem, I say..." Is that really the root of the problem? In this respect, no problem appeared for the first 20 or 30 years of the life of the EPC. Then came a line of case law which interpreted the phrase "a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters". That phrase doesn't come from the EPC, but its gradual development is what has eventually led to poisonous priorities. Notice, however, that Question 5 of the referral asks whether the founding fathers really did intend to include the subject matter of your own earlier filings in the Art 54(3) definition of novelty-prejudicial art. What a pleasure to read these eloquent contributions from Meldrew and Tim Jackson. They prompt a comment from me on stare decisis (binding precedent) a thing I used to think was vital for legal certainty and which the EPO lacks. Now I think the "survival of the fittest" progress of DG3 law delivers more certainty on the substantive law of validity under the EPC. G2/98 has to go! I agree that "limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters" is Quatsch, unhelpful, and must be over-written by the EBA, at the first available opportunity. Like, now! Just as DG3 got there in the end, on Art 52 and Art 56, so too, with this case, I expect it to find a line that everybody can sign up to, on Art 54(3). And, yes, anonymous, attorneys do indeed work Art 54 jurisprudence to their advantage while disparaging the EPO when, for Art 123(2), it adopts exactly the same stance on what is the disclosure content of any particular document. Some attorneys seem to be adopting the Nelsonian approach, of putting the telescope to their blind eye. They would call it "zealous advocacy", I suppose. I deplore it as much as you. The Cat that Walks by Himself Saturday, 15 August 2015 at 17:15:00 BST If it's 54(3) EPC and "OR", how about disclaiming the parent application alternative/embodiment? The added subject-matter test is more strict than the novelty test. Namely, a general is not new over a specific, however the general adds subject-matter to the specific. Therefore, the general is not new and without priority granted to the specific. In case the specific can be delimited within within the general, there is no obstacle to claiming partial priority for the general. Regarding question 1, if a claim merely encompasses (i.e. is broader than) subject-matter disclosed in the priority document, it follows immediately from the order of G 2/98 itself that in principle the claim cannot enjoy a right of priority. Where the subject-matter of a claim is the union of a finite number of subject-matters disclosed in the application, there is of course no harm in recognising a separate priority right for each of those subject-matters. This is because the applicant could anyway have claimed them separately, and actually forcing the applicant to do so would be silly and unhelpful. That was the point of the famous memorandum and G 2/98 acknowledged that point. (Really, the memorandum is about a simple formal point: do we need to file each alternative as a separate claim, or will the EPO allow us to group them in one claim. Dissecting the memorandum's examples from the early 1970s using post-G 2/10 knowledge of the disclosure test is not the right approach.) Note that being "generous" on partial priorities will not be of much use outside the area of poisonous priorities/divisionals. If the priority document discloses copper and the application claims metal, then even with the "generous" approach an intermediate document showing copper will be 54(2) prior art for the "metal minus copper" part. So it won't be novelty destroying, but it will normally take away inventive step. (And in the rare case where an inventive step is involved in replacing copper with any other metal, it would be rather strange that a patent is effectively awarded for inventing "metal minus copper" without the application actually disclosing that subject-matter. Of course IF the application did disclose "metal minus copper" together with "copper", then partial priorities should be recognised, see the previous paragraph.) At the same time, the proposed "generous" approach will invalidate many priority claims due to the priority document not being the "first" application anymore (compared to the accepted approach). In fact, T 1222/11 is an example of just that happening. Unintended consequences of Art. 54(3) should be fixed by carefully interpreting Art. 54(3). Shouldn't be too hard and won't mess up other areas of patent law. @The Cat that Walks by Himself: Very good point but see G 2/10, in particular point 4.7. The EBA decided that the "undisclosed disclaimer" approach of G 1/03 cannot be used to disclaim subject-matter that is disclosed in the application. General encompasses the specific so CANNOT be novel by any stretch of patent law anywhere. This does not make the added-matter rules stricter. 'General excluding the specific' is novel. Draft this and you have a novel claim. Have a fallback to this and you won't add matter by amendment. MaxDrei Sunday, 16 August 2015 at 00:22:00 BST So, have I understood the recent anonymous contributions aright, in the situation where you realise during drafting the PCT that you were too narrow in your priority document, you can avoid poisoning yourself by careful claim drafting during the preparation of the PCT. Thus: If your priority application described and claimed "It, using copper", but for your PCT a year later you want to claim "It, using metal", you should include in the PCT a precautionary statement (or a claim) that discloses your invention to be "It, using metal other than copper". Anonymous Sunday, 16 August 2015 at 12:28:00 BST Max, I was only considering the strictness of added matter versus novelty comment. However, what you say is certainly good practice, not only to deal with known potentially poisonous priority issues, but all 54(3) overlaps that are known at the time of drafting the PCT. If an attorney is aware of a 54(3) novelty issue where a species has been disclosed in an earlier application, and the attorney fails to either draft a claim as you have described (general disclaiming species) and/or fails to draft alternative embodiments that are novel, I believe that attorney is negligent. And, it happens. An attorney should be aware if 54(3) art if they are intimately involved in a project. Up until recently, a failure to take into account poisonous priority issues when drafting a PCT, would not be negligent, in my view. The issue is now so well known (to those who bother to perform the most basic CPD) that it must now be taken into account. However, a good draft should have sufficient fallbacks to overcome unexpected issues, such that commercially valuable patent claims could be obtained. Thanks Anonymous. On drafting the PCT, one knows (or ought to know) the disclosure content of all your own earlier filings (including the earlier filed applications you will declare in your PCT), so one can take them into account when drafting the claims. It is the same issue, I suppose, whether the A-publications which will later self-collide are parent and divisional or just an ordinary 54(3) cite. You can see all the cards in your own hand. But one can't know yet what 54(3) novelty issues are going to arise out of the near contemporaneous filings of others, when they go down, face up, on the A publication table. Those who see how to draft around those 54(3) disclosures are the really gifted ones. But DG3 does see the issue and does allow for it. I saw a petition recently for some unjust-treatment complaint where a divisional application had been filed with a claim disclaiming subject matter of the parent case. No literal basis for the disclaimer wording and no basis to remove the added disclaimer because the divisional was an amended version of the parent case. Arguable whether the disclaimer should have been allowed, but not a situation that was wholly unavoidable, to say the least. I couldn't work out the reason for the disclaimer, because there was no poisonous priority issue that I could make out, this being the reason for my initial interest. Proof of the pudding Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 10:01:00 BST Max - on 15 August you wrote the following. "Where the EPO does have to step up to the plate is to say whether those who bundle their disclosures and later file divisionals are to be advantaged relative to those who file a stream of new patent applications for each of their discrete disclosures. Agreed?" Can you please explain how you think that those who bundle disclosures together might (through proper allocations of partial priority) be advantaged relative to those who instead file streams of separate applications? Partial priority is only applicable in cases of overlap between the disclosures of an EP application and its priority document. If you have a separate application with a broader disclosure that overlaps with a more specific disclosure in one of your earlier filings, then why on earth would you not arrange to claim priority from that earlier filing (thus placing yourself in exactly the same position as if you had bundled together and only later divided)? Anonymous Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 11:32:00 BST It looks like T 1890/09 should have been stayed. http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/pdf/t091890du1.pdf Maybe the representatives were not aware of this pending referral but even so for the board to deny a priority right and then find the priority publication novelty destroying does stretch the twisted logic of the EPO somewhat. MaxDrei Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 13:36:00 BST Pudding, good day to you. You ask me to expand on my thought about Art 54(3) EPC and divisionals. The specific "poison" issue is one I see as being slightly different from the general "self-collision" issue. We all know that for Art 54(3) it matters not whether the reference is your own or somebody else's. So it has been a standard part of the "scenery" under the EPC that your own earlier filings are used as novelty attacks. Nobody was dubbing this ordinary self-collision "poison". The notion of poison emerged only recently, with "poisonous" divisionals and poisonous priorities. Only recently has everybody started citing parent A publications against divisional claims, and vice versa. There is something about it that strikes one as "not right". Hence my thought, that the EBA might somehow "grace" parent/div A publications under Art 54(3) while leaving the general self-collision regime untouched. In logic, there seems no good basis to distinguish poisonous divisional self-collision from ordinary self-collision, but who knows what thoughts might find favour with the EBA, when grappling with, say, Referred Question 5? I'm not spending a lot of time thinking about all this, just running thoughts up the flagpole for others to think about, and comment on. Max - thanks for clarifying the origin of your original comment. I am not sure that I agree with you that divisionals need to be treated as a special case. As far as I can see, all that is required to minimise the impact of a divisional upon a parent (and vice versa) is a common priority and a sensible approach to partial priorities. By way of illustration, please consider the following scenario: - both parent (A1) and divisional (A2) applications disclose a species (X) and a genus (G) that encompasses X; and - X is disclosed in an earlier application (P1), which is the earliest priority document for both A1 and A2; but - G is not entitled to priority from P1. A1 and A2 are, in theory, 54(3) prior art against one another - meaning that a claim to G (in one A1 and A2) could be alleged to lack novelty over the disclosure of X (in the other of A1 and A2). However, what if it is assumed that the claim to G is entitled to priority from P1 to the extent that it covers X? If one takes this approach, there is no collision between A1 and A2 and the claim to G is indisputably novel. What you will note from the above analysis is that there is no need for A1 and A2 to be related as parent and divisional. Instead, all that is required is for both to share a common priority (P1). No doubt there are more challenging scenarios than I have described above - though none that I can think of that would merit "special" treatment being given to divisionals. The Cat that Walks by Himself Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 21:37:00 BST Re: @The Cat that Walks by Himself: Indeed, the situation after filing of a divisional is more complicated. After filing, I would try to exclude a specific embodiment in order to restore novelty of a remaining general by arguing "avoiding double patenting",since the specific embodimen has been patented within the parent application. RE: What you will note from the above analysis is that there is no need for A1 and A2 to be related as parent and divisional. Instead, all that is required is for both to share a common priority (P1). Well noticed. If the EPO 'grace' parent/div under 54(3), what happens when someone decides to include numerous inventions in their PCT so as to split them out at a later date, thereby avoiding their own 54(3) art? Partial priority to subject matter disclosed is the answer. Distinct alternative embodiments, or whatever was previously decided, is not. If the priority doc discloses 'copper' and the PCT claims 'metal', and 'preferably copper', then priority exists for 'copper' itself and the part of 'metal' that is 'copper'. A divisional to 'copper' alone should not destroy the novelty of 'metal', because the part of 'metal' that is anticipated by 'copper' is entitled to priority. Note: It is much too late at night to be giving full consideration to one's random thoughts, so this will have to do. Warts and All. Anonymous Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 01:20:00 BST Partial priority to subject matter disclosed is the answer. An easier remedy: Art. 54(3) does not apply to subject-matter that is disclosed with the same effective date in the application itself. So if both the priority document and the PCT application disclose 'copper', then that disclosure of 'copper' in the PCT application or in its divisionals does not count as prior art under Art. 54(3). If the priority doc discloses 'copper' and the PCT claims 'metal', and 'preferably copper', then priority exists for 'copper' itself and the part of 'metal' that is 'copper'. A divisional to 'copper' alone should not destroy the novelty of 'metal', because the part of 'metal' that is anticipated by 'copper' is entitled to priority. The problem of this approach is that 'copper' does not cover all of 'metal' and that 'metal except copper' does not have 'its own date', unless it is disclosed in the application itself. In this regard, see point 11.5 of T 557/13. The memorandum seems to say that if a first priority document P1 discloses copper and a second priority document P2 discloses metal, then 'copper' has priority from P1 and 'metal except copper' has priority from P2. It is then argued that the same should apply if metal is not in P2 but in the application, "the European patent application itself taking the place of the second priority document". That last sentence makes sense, but the step preceding it has a problem. According to the order of G 2/98 (in combination with G 2/10, point 4.5.3), 'metal but not copper' simply does not have priority from P2 if P2 only discloses 'metal' (or 'metal, preferably copper'). In my view, the rule that T 1222/11 extracted from the memorandum examples (that refer to first and second priority documents) is in conflict with the order of G 2/98. T 1222/11 applying that rule to the partial priority case (the EP taking the place of the second priority document) made the conflict less visible, but did not remove it. See also point 17.3 of T 557/13: "whether all conceivable alternatives encompassed by the generic "OR"-claim which are not disclosed in the priority document can be considered in toto as one alternative, as was the approach in T 1222/11". This really is the crucial question. But G 2/98 (order) in combination with G 2/10 has answered it in the negative (at least in the multiple priority case: an alternative has priority from P2 only if P2 discloses that alternative.) MaxDrei Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 09:09:00 BST There is a newer thread running now, on the PatLit blog: http://patlit.blogspot.de/2015/08/all-change-for-priority-at-epo-referral.html "The problem of this approach is... that 'metal except copper' does not have 'its own date', unless it is disclosed in the application itself." That sounds like a re-statement of the current application by the EPO that is the problem. 'Metal except copper' is not specifically disclosed in the PCT application so there is no basis for including such wording in a claim. However, to the extent that the claim covers 'metal except copper', it cannot lack novelty if we give partial priority to the part of metal that is copper. There is no need for disclosure of specific wording/alternative embodiments. No rules require amendment - just a G decision. "I'm not spending a lot of time thinking about all this, just running thoughts up the flagpole for others to think about, and comment on." That's decidedly UNhelpful. We do not need more unthinking thoughts cluttering up the flagpole. We need better thoughts upon which to build upon. Tim Jackson Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 21:14:00 BST Why does it need to have its own date? The claim doesn't say 'metal except copper'. It just says 'metal'. That has priority from P2. Of course, that then overlaps with the partial priority from P1 for 'copper', rather than being a neat alternative subject-matter according to G 2/98. But the present referral is asking the Enlarged Board whether G 2/98 really had the right test anyway. True, the FICPI memo suggests that if partial priorities cannot be claimed for one and the same claim, then the applicant would have to draw up a separate claim for (in this example) 'metal except copper'. But presumably the EP application would then also have to explicitly disclose 'metal except copper', and would not get priority for that unless P2 also disclosed it explicitly. But that's hypothetical. The claim just says 'metal'. That has priority from P2. It also has a partial priority from P1, to the extent that the metal is copper. That sounds like a re-statement of the current application by the EPO that is the problem. That current application is based on the order of G 2/98 and the systematic conception of disclosure and priority that lies behind it. Exceptions to that approach will lead to inconsistencies and surprising results like the outcome of T 1222/11 (a patent was revoked that would have survived under the normal EPO approach). Poisonous divisionals are a problem of Art. 54(3). Why not solve it there? However, to the extent that the claim covers 'metal except copper', it cannot lack novelty if we give partial priority to the part of metal that is copper. You can give partial priority to copper, but then you still need to identify some alternative to copper. As I tried to explain, T 1222/11 in fact argues, based on the memorandum and a sentence from G 2/98, that the complement of copper in metal should be given partial priority from P2 (in case of multiple priorities, P2 disclosing metal). I hope we can agree that this is in conflict with the order of G 2/98. So the basic premise of T 1222/11 is flawed. Of course we could accept that the reasoning of T 1222/11 is flawed and still argue that its approach should be adopted, but what use would that have? All that just to find an antidote to poisonous divisionals and priorities? We can find that antidote elsewhere (Art. 54(3)) without making a mess of priorities. Tim Jackson Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 00:49:00 BST "I hope we can agree that this is in conflict with the order of G 2/98. So the basic premise of T 1222/11 is flawed." Or G2/98 is flawed - which is what the Enlarged Board is now being asked to consider. Well, it is one thing to say that the conclusion reached in points 6.4-6.7 of G 2/98 is flawed (even though T 1222/11 derives its approach from those points). But expecting the EBA to overrule the order of G 2/98 goes a bit far. That would create a considerable amount of legal uncertainty, in particular if a decision is taken that goes against G 2/98 but does not completely rewrite G 2/98. In my opinion the order of G 2/98 is just fine and accepting the order and its implications means that T 1222/11's theory cannot stand. That leaves the problem of poisonous divisionals. Why not solve it by giving a slightly restricted interpretation to Art. 54(3)? One that excludes part of an EP being cited against that same EP? Justification can be found in the reasons of G 1/03: if the priority document discloses copper, the EP discloses metal, preferably copper, it was not the intention of Art. 54(3) to prevent a patent being granted on metal. On the other hand one could argue, as I think some have done in this thread, that there is no problem that needs to be solved: the drafter of the EP could and should have avoided the problem by always making sure that the genus minus the species finds a basis in the EP. But this would force the drafter of a PCT application to be aware of the EPC-specific problem of poisonous divisionals. According to the EBA that would be wrong. See G 1/03, point 2.4.3: "The same situation exists if an international application under the PCT is filed which has the same effect as a national filing in more than 120 Contracting States. In both situations, the applicant cannot be expected to check the substantive patent law of all possible states before filing the application and to introduce appropriate limitations in order to cope with any exclusions which he might later face in the respective states." This is about exclusions for non-technical reasons, but I do not see why it would be any better if an EP deriving from a PCT is refused for being anticipated by its divisional (or itself!) and only because the PCT-drafter was not aware he should have included a sentence creating an artificial basis for "metal but not copper". (I'd say point 2.4.3 of G 1/03 also shows that G 2/10 was wrong in deciding that the G 1/03 approach does not apply to undisclosed disclaimers of disclosed subject-matter.) Proof of the pudding Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 10:46:00 BST Anon 19 Aug 21:27 - there is no need "to make a mess of priorities". Indeed, as far as I can see, there is nothing "messy" about affording partial priority to a claim to the extent that it fully encompasses a more specific embodiment that is disclosed both in the priority document and in the application as filed. What would be the implications for novelty assessments if we took this approach to priority? I guess that we would be saying that a more generic disclosure, to the extent that it encompasses a specific disclosure, is not novel over (i.e. is the same invention as) that specific disclosure. But then that conclusion is not exactly a surprise. We would also be saying that a generic claim is conceptually sub-divisible in a huge variety of different ways - rather than just being divisible between discrete alternatives listed in an "OR" claim. But then what would be the harm in adopting that convention? In any event, an alternative approach that assigns partial priority only to "OR" claims would result in the triumph of form over substance. This is because it is often the case that precisely the same technical subject matter can be claimed using either "generic" terms or a list of alternatives. For example, consider the situation where: (1) a priority document (P1) describes and claims only compounds containing the structural motif -[X]n-, in which n=3; (2) the subsequent application claiming priority from P1 discloses and claims compounds in which n can vary from as little as 1 to as many as 5. Under what circumstances would partial priority for n=3 be afforded to the claim to the broader genus of compounds? We can all agree that partial priority would be afforded if "n" were defined as "1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5". In that instance, "3" is an explicitly listed alternative in an "OR" claim. But what about if "n" were instead defined as "from 1 to 5". There is no use of "OR" in that definition, and so we might hesitate to reach the same conclusion. Yet that definition clearly relates to precisely the same subject matter as the alternative. There are plenty of other examples that one could envisage, such as the numerous "generic" terms of art that, in reality, define a closed set of discrete alternatives. An example of this would be "noble gas" - which can clearly only mean a gas selected from a list of 6 alternatives. Another example would be an (elementary) metal. Which elements count as "metallic" might be a matter of technical dispute, but there is no doubt that those skilled in the art only have access to a limited number of alternatives when it comes to selecting an element that is a "metal". With this in mind, what is the harm in taking a pragmatic approach to partial priority and assigning it to anything that can be shown to be an embodiment of the more generic claim? It would appear to me to be a more defensible approach. That does leave a problem for some claims that have been narrowed relative to the disclosure of the priority document. However, that would be entirely consistent with the approach to novelty (where more specific subject matter is novel over - i.e. not the same invention as - a more generic disclosure). maxdrei Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 12:27:00 BST Pudding, write something will you,on where that solution leaves novelty of selection. Priority application: n = 3. PCT: n = 1 to 5, preferably 3. Parent EP: n = 3. EP divisional: n = 1 to 5. Partial priority can be afforded to the EP divisional for the subject matter n = 3, as a species of the broader range. n = 1 to 5, excluding the subject matter for which priority is valid (n = 3), does not lack novelty over the parent disclosure. Novelty of Selection (Example as above without any priority claims/concerns): Prior art discloses n = 1 to 5, therefore a claim a compound where n = 3 is novel. I don't see a problem. Indeed, perhaps there is no problem. I was only thinking that if you can find n3 in a claim to the range 1-5, then you can also find n4, thereby to deprive of novelty a later claim to n4, a purposive selection by another applicant. Claims can disclose subject matter, can't they? Max - novelty of selection is a different beast entirely. I am not sure that the EPO has got their rules on that quite right. Indeed, I think that the EPO might even admit this, as there appear to be signs of the "purposive" part of the selection rules being abandoned. If you think about it, the EPO's current approach does not make sense in relation to the "pseudo-generic" claim language that I described previously. That is, why should you get novelty for n=3 when the prior art disclosure is "n = 1 to 5" but not when it is "n = 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5"? Remember, in the example that I gave, n can only be a whole integer - meaning that the two "generic" definitions are identical in terms of the technical information that they convey. For my own part, I would rather have "special treatment" for selection inventions than for interrelationships between parents and divisionals. We already have various legal fictions employed in the assessment of novelty, so why not one more? By the way, I am not sure that abandoning the "purposive" element of the selection test is necessarily the right way to go. If you do this then you could end up in a tricky situation where an earlier document disclosing "n = 1 to 5" is Article 54(3) prior art to 5 separate applications filed by the same party that claim (separately) n=1 through to n=5. In other words, if the Article 54(3) document was filed by the same party, then they could effectively achieve (term-extending) double patenting of precisely the same subject matter - without ever having to show that there is anything "special" about the inventions described in any of the 5 later applications. Disclosure of a genus of compounds where n = 1 to 5 would not anticipate a future claim to n = 3, or to n = 4. The partial priority application would not affect this. Still no problem. @Proof of the pudding: You are effectively arguing that certain generic terms disclose the same subject-matter as an OR-claim. Where that is the case, Art. 123(2) would allow one to replace the generic term with the OR-claim, so each alternative may have its own priority date. I agree that there is no difference between "1, 2, 3, 4 or 5" and "1 to 5". I don't think the EPO distinguishes between "a method according to any one of claims 1 to 5" and "a method according to any one of claims 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5". (I also don't see why n=3 would be novel over a document disclosing "an integer from 1 to 5". Is there case law that says otherwise? For very long lists it might be different, though. And we're not talking intervals here.) However, I don't think "metal" is commonly understood as being limited to elementary metals. In any event, in this thread "metal, preferably copper" is intended to represent the most general case of ", preferably ". One of the memorandum examples is "hollow body, preferably a bottle". The term "hollow body" certainly is not equivalent to a finite list of specific hollow bodies, so rewriting it as "bottle OR (hollow body but not a bottle)" adds subject-matter. (If it does not, then rewriting the claim is allowable and partial priorities work just fine even under the strictest approach.) With this in mind, what is the harm in taking a pragmatic approach to partial priority and assigning it to anything that can be shown to be an embodiment of the more generic claim? It would give the applicant the benefits of a disclosure of "a hollow body that is not a bottle" without his application actually disclosing that subject-matter. Why would that be justified? Anon 09:56 - "Well, it is one thing to say that the conclusion reached in points 6.4-6.7 of G 2/98 is flawed ...." That was the point I was making: the conclusion in point 6.7 is flawed, though points 6.4 - 6.6 may not be. ".... (even though T 1222/11 derives its approach from those points)." As it had to. An ordinary BoA can't overrule the EBA, whereas in the current referral the EBA itself could do so. "But expecting the EBA to overrule the order of G 2/98 goes a bit far.... In my opinion the order of G 2/98 is just fine and accepting the order and its implications means that T 1222/11's theory cannot stand." I agree it's unlikely the EBA will make any change to the basic principle of what "the same invention" means in Art. 87(1) EPC. But I would hope for a change in how partial priority is determined under Art 88(3). There are several ways that might come about. For example, the EBA could answer 'no' to Q2 of the referral. They could say that "a limited number of clearly-defined alternative subject matters" is not the correct test (overruling point 6.7 of G 2/98). In that case, T 1222/11's analysis of that phrase becomes irrelevant. Or they may say that "a limited number of clearly-defined alternative subject matters" is correct, but that subsequent decisions have misinterpreted it (as T 1222/11 argues). See Q3. Interesting to read document D26 in the referring decision. Or document D25 is a longer version in German. These articles are by Rudolf Teschemacher, who was one of the members of the EBA in G 2/98. Dr Teschemacher's view is that "The sentence in G 2/98 that multiple priorities are acceptable provided that they give rise to the claiming of a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters has been interpreted out of context". He hopes that other Boards will follow T 1222/11. @Tim Jackson: But I would hope for a change in how partial priority is determined under Art 88(3). Why exactly? Just for the sake of solving the poisonous divisional problem? Are there any other real advantages? Let me point out one consequence, assuming the order of G 2/98 survives. P1: copper P2: metal, preferably copper application: metal, preferably copper. Claims metal. D1 published between P2 and the application. It discloses metal. Assume the answer to question 1 is "no". Now P1 is the "first application" for the part copper of metal. Therefore that part cannot get priority from P2 (it does from P1). The remaining part is "metal but not copper". P2 does not disclose "metal but not copper", so the part "metal but not copper" of the claim does not have priority from P2. This is what the order of G 2/98 states. So D1 is prior art under 54(2) for the claim part "metal but not copper". Assuming D1 only discloses metal and does not exclude copper, that part is new over D1. However, it will most likely not be inventive to start from D1 and pick some other metal than pure copper. So the claim lacks inventive step. I suppose this is not what you would like. But you can't pick and choose the consequences of answering "no" to question 1. The Cat that Walks by Himself Friday, 21 August 2015 at 11:52:00 BST There are two other interesting aspects in this subject. First one is that there is a certain difference between "species vs genus" and "species vs a limited number of clearly defined alternative". Second, patentee A of parent (species) and divisional (genus) applicatoin and patentee B (genus) should have the same rights with respect to 54(3)EPC. To Anon at 9:30, The answer to your point is in my post of 21:14 on 19 August. If the answer to Q2 is 'no', then we no longer need to look for "alternative clearly defined subject matters". The EBA will have rejected that test, overturning point 6.7 of G 2/98. So the alternative "metal but not copper" is now not relevant. Instead we have overlapping priorities. 'Copper' has priority from P1. 'Metal' has priority from P2. The priority from P2 protects the claim from the intervening publication D1. There's a residual complication under Art. 87(4) EPC. To the extent that the metal is copper, P2 is not the first application. So the claim is not entitled to priority from P2 to that extent. But to the extent the metal is copper, the claim has priority from P1. So there's no problem; D1 is still not prior art. (As in T 1222/11, there would be a problem if P1 was filed more than 12 months before the EP application under consideration.) Note that throughout all of this, I'm looking only at the subject matters actually disclosed and claimed in the various documents. Namely, 'copper' and 'metal'. And I'm only looking at them to the extent that they are disclosed. There's no need to consider hypothetical subject matter which is not disclosed, like 'metal but not copper'. Anon 21 Aug 09:30 - are you sure that there is not another way of looking at this? What part of the EPC (or the intention behind Articles 87 and 88 EPC) says that there needs to be a disclosure of "metal but not copper" in order for partial priority to "copper" to be effective without leading to the absurd situation that you describe? What is wrong with instead viewing "copper" and "metal" as each having their own priority dates, but a claim to "metal" - when the application claims priority from P1 - as having both dates? This can be justified on the grounds that "metal" clearly encompasses copper and is a development (broadening) of the same invention. Would not that "layering" approach (as opposed to your either / or approach) fulfil the legislative intent behind Articles 87 and 88 EPC? I think that the Enlarged Board of Appeal needs to be bold here and provide an interpretation of Articles 87 and 88 EPC that serves the intended purpose behind those provisions - and the absurdities that arise from "strict" interpretations of G2/98. "(I also don't see why n=3 would be novel over a document disclosing "an integer from 1 to 5". Is there case law that says otherwise?" When I argue n = 3 was novel, I am arguing on the basis that there is a selection from more than one list, etc, and trying to stick to the point at issue. I may have a comma out of place somewhere also. In the case of chemical compounds where there is a disclosure of a genus where the only variable is n (e.g. n = straight chain alkyl group -(CH2)n-), where n = 1 to 5 (subscripts for 2 and n should be imagined as I can't write them here), then n = 3 would not be a novel selection. However, such explanations distract from the priority/novelty discussion. What you are saying here is that you want the usual strict approach when considering D1. But you can't have it both ways. If you accept that "metal" has a partial priority from P1 to the extent that it covers copper, P2 is simply not the "first application" for metal to the extent that it covers copper. The applicant does not get to choose here. And unfortunately, G 2/98, order, prevents a partial priority for "metal but not copper" from P2. (Maybe what you really want is a special rule for dealing with 54(3) prior art?) RE: Instead we have overlapping priorities. 'Copper' has priority from P1. 'Metal' has priority from P2. Why 'Metal' would be new ? RE: There's no need to consider hypothetical subject matter which is not disclosed, like 'metal but not copper'. Tim Jackson, would you see any difference between 'metal but not copper' and 'metal other than copper'? See the order of G 2/98: "The requirement for claiming priority of "the same invention", referred to in Article 87(1) EPC, means that priority of a previous application in respect of a claim in a European patent application in accordance with Article 88 EPC is to be acknowledged only if the skilled person can derive the subject-matter of the claim directly and unambiguously, using common general knowledge, from the previous application as a whole." Partial priority for an alternative subject-matter simply means that that alternative subject-matter enjoys a priority right. So that alternative subject-matter must be directly and unambiguously derivable from, i.e. disclosed by, the priority document. There is nothing absurd about this. It just shows that the "relaxed approach" to multiple and partial priorities does not fit into the systematics of G 2/98. The usual interpretation of point 6.7, i.e. that each alternative subject-matter should be disclosed as such in the application as filed, does fit perfectly and, in my opinion, was clearly what the EBA had in mind. The usual approach follows not just from point 6.7, but from G 2/98 as a whole. Again, poisonous divisionals should be fixed, but let's leave G 2/98 alone. There's no need to consider hypothetical subject matter which is not disclosed, like 'metal but not copper'. There is if you want to avoid poisonous divisionals. The application discloses metal, preferably copper. Copper has priority from P1. A divisional is filed. Copper in that divisional has priority from P1. Conceptually rewrite the claim as an OR-claim: metal = copper OR X. The claim is new only if copper is new and X is new. If X is metal, then copper will be novelty destroying for X. If X is "metal but not copper", then you are considering hypothetical subject-matter which is not disclosed. Anon writes: "If you accept that "metal" has a partial priority from P1 to the extent that it covers copper, P2 is simply not the "first application" for metal to the extent that it covers copper." Yes, I said that. "And unfortunately, G 2/98, order, prevents a partial priority for "metal but not copper" from P2." But we don't need one. First of all, the EBA simply might not see any reason to get into this level of detail, leaving it as self-evident that between the full priority to P2 and the partial priority to P1 the applicant has all the bases covered. However, if you do get into that detail, the issue would be that P2's full priority for 'metal' fails to the extent that the metal is copper. That's the extent to which P2 is a "subsequent application in respect of the same subject-matter as a previous first application" P1, according to Art. 87(4), but fails to meet the proviso that P1 should be dead at the date of P2's filing. The partial priority to P1 then makes up the deficiency. Note that this doesn't require there to be a partial priority for "metal but not copper" from P2. Instead, it's a partial failure of the full priority to 'metal'. You might say that amounts to the same thing. The difference is how you get to it. You are rightly pointing to the difficulty under G 2/98 of ascribing a partial priority for something that's not disclosed in P2. But instead, I'm taking a different approach which does conform with G 2/98. It applies G 2/98's order twice, first to the 'same invention' in Art. 87(1), and then by analogy to the 'same subject-matter' in Art 87(4): -- First, the claim says 'metal' and P2 says 'metal'. They are the same invention under Art. 87(1). So far the priority claim for 'metal' is allowable. -- But to the extent the metal is copper, that's also the same subject-matter as P1 under Art 87(4). So the priority just allowed fails under Art. 87(4). But it only fails to that extent. Cat that Walks asks: "... would you see any difference between 'metal but not copper' and 'metal other than copper'?" I think it's slightly more subtle than that, as explained above. P2 gives full priority for 'metal', except to the extent that the metal is copper. There's no separate priority for 'metal but not copper' or 'metal other than copper'. Anon 15:11 writes: "Again, poisonous divisionals should be fixed, but let's leave G 2/98 alone." How about if we leave the main Conclusion of G 2/98 alone, i.e. the requirement that the 'same invention' must be directly and unambiguously derivable from the priority document? How about if we just address point 6.7 as has been suggested? There would then be no requirement for "a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters". No need for you to try to ascribe a priority date to any alternative subject-matter. And no need for any alternative subject-matter to be directly and unambiguously derivable from the priority document. The problem arises that under the EPC, the disclosure of P1 stating "copper" is different to P2 disclosing copper but referring to metal. The technical content is the same to all intents and purposes - the EPO though has the narrow approach to added subject matter. In the US, for example, I would have thought there would be no problem with adding a claim to metal in P1 on the grounds that copper is a metal. This is the area which needs to be worked on, not the "partial priority" aspect. When I was developing my thoughts on poisonous divisionals, it became clear that the narrow approach to priority and added subject matter opened a perfectly logical attack even if in the real world it should not fly. Anon 16:41 writes: "Conceptually rewrite the claim as an OR-claim:" If the EBA holds that point 6.7 is wrong and there's no need divide the claim up into alternative subject matters, why do we need to conceptually rewrite it? The claim of the parent says 'metal'. It has a partial priority from P1 to the extent that the metal is copper. Having junked all the case law that was based on point 6.7, this partial priority doesn't depend on hypothetical considerations of alternative subject matters in rewritten claims. This partial priority from P1 is now identical to the divisional's partial priority from P1. So that's the end of the matter. Anon 21 Aug 15:11 - sorry to be pedantic, but you have not pointed to any provision of the EPC (or a legislative intention behind such a provision). Whilst clearly important, a decision of the EBoA interpreting the legislation is really not the same thing - especially as it is perhaps possible that you might not be interpreting that decision correctly. There was a typo in my earlier post and I should therefore clarify that my wish is for the EBoA to provide an interpretation that serves the intended purpose behind Articles 87 and 88 EPC and that avoids the absurdities that arise from "strict" interpretations of G2/98. The purpose of Articles 87 and 88 EPC is clearly not to provide "bear traps" for unwary applicants (e.g. foreign applicants who cannot be expected to be intimately familiar with all of the intricacies of drafting practices under the very latest EPO case law). Thus, any interpretation of those Articles that produces such a result must be wrong. Remember, the interpretation of Article 88 EPC really ought to be consistent with Article 4F of the Paris Convention, which states that: "No country of the Union may refuse a priority or a patent application on the ground that the applicant claims multiple priorities, even if they originate in different countries, or on the ground that an application claiming one or more priorities contains one or more elements that were not included in the application or applications whose priority is claimed, provided that, in both cases, there is unity of invention within the meaning of the law of the country" Hard to see how poisonous divisions are consistent with this legislative intent, is it not? sorry to be pedantic, but you have not pointed to any provision of the EPC (or a legislative intention behind such a provision). Whilst clearly important, a decision of the EBoA interpreting the legislation is really not the same thing - especially as it is perhaps possible that you might not be interpreting that decision correctly. Did I ever claim there was such an explicit provision in the EPC? In my comment of 21 Aug 09:30 I already referred to the order of G 2/98. Did you read the order? Not difficult at all. Art. 4F PC merely states that an application cannot be refused on the ground that it extends beyond the content of the priority document. That is pretty basic stuff nowadays and the EPC clearly complies with it. The EPC even goes further and does not require there to be unity between the application and the priority document. More importantly, I thought I have been rather clear in stating that and explaining why the problem of poisonous divisionals needs a solution. But somehow there is this strange craze about partial priorities that is entirely unnecessary to achieve that aim. Anon 00:38, you agree that the problem of poisonous divisionals needs a solution. What solution do you propose without involving partial priorities? Proof of the pudding Saturday, 22 August 2015 at 18:17:00 BST Anon 22 Aug 00:38 - My mistake. When you quoted my question, I assumed that what followed immediately afterwards was your attempt at answering that question. I did not realise that you were instead discussing something different. It looks like you have something against using priority to solve the issue of poisonous divisionals. However, given that the difference between a divisional and a 3rd party document is a claim to (partial) priority, I am not sure that it is worthwhile looking elsewhere for a workable solution. However, chacun à son gout, as they say. With regard to the Paris Convention, I am not so sure that the legislative intent was as narrow as you imply. A benefit of priority provided by Article 4F is that your application cannot be rejected solely upon the basis that the disclosure has been broadened relative to the disclosure of the priority document - provided that the disclosure retains unity of invention. However, Article 4G(2) goes on to say that all divisional applications will "preserve... the benefit of the right of priority". If a divisional retains the benefit of priority provided by Article 4F, it appears to me that an application that is divided cannot be rejected solely upon the basis that the disclosure has been broadened relative to the disclosure of the priority document. However, is not the broadening of the disclosure relative to that of the priority document the entire basis of the "poison" in poisonous divisionals? There are two other elements that need to be in place for the poison to kick in, namely retaining the original (narrow) disclosure in the later application and including a claim to the broader disclosure. However, I cannot see why either of these elements would make a blind bit of difference when it comes to assessing whether a divisional application can benefit from the combined effects of Articles 4F and 4G of the Paris Convention. Anon 00:38, on re-reading the thread, I guess you might be the same Anon who was previously suggesting that the poisonous divisionals problem should be fixed by carefully interpreting Art. 54(3)? OK, so I think you would leave partial priorities to be determined on the basis of point 6.7 of G 2/98, as at present? That is, only if it "gives rise to the claiming of a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters". But then I guess you would favour a 'no' to Question 5 of the referral, so that a divisional and its parent couldn't be cited against each other under Art. 54(3)? However, I suspect that poisonous divisionals might not be the only problem derived from the requirement for a "limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters" if partial priority is to be granted. Here's a 54(3) scenario which I think might still be a problem with your approach. Comments welcome: I'm trying to get this clear in my mind. -- On 1 January 2015, a UK company Whitehat Ltd files a UK application GB1 which describes and claims a species X1. -- They continue their work, and as a result they find that the invention works across a broader range. On 1 June 2015, they file a European application EP1, claiming priority from GB1. Thereafter, GB1 is abandoned and never published. -- EP1 claims a genus X, which encompasses the species X1. EP1 describes embodiments X1, X2, X3 etc which provide support and enablement under Arts. 83 and 84 across the range for the genus X. Nevertheless, the genus is claimed generically; it would cover many other embodiments too. -- Meanwhile, Blackhat Inc (Whitehat's US competitor) has also been working. They independently invent the species X1, but they are behind Whitehat. On 1 May 2015, they file a US patent application US1 which describes and claims X1. -- But Blackhat never do any more work. They file a European application EP2 on 1 May 2016, which is identical to US1 and claims its priority. But it only describes and claims the species X1, not the genus X. It is published on 1 November 2016. -- Subsequently, Blackhat's EP2 is cited against Whitehat's EP1 under Art. 54(3). What is the outcome? I think the outcome ought to be that Whitehat's broad claim to the genus X should survive. Under Art. 54(3), their partial priority from GB1 (1 January 2015) is earlier than Blackhat's priority from US1 (1 May 2015). And Whitehat are the ones who did the work; Blackhat never even contemplated the broad genus X. But when Whitehat's EP1 is examined (or reaches an EPO Board of Appeal, or the UK Patents Court), someone refers to point 6.7 of G 2/98, and the case law which it has spawned. Whitehat's broad claim to the genus X can only have partial priority from GB1 if this "gives rise to the claiming of a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters". Does the broad claim to the genus X meet that requirement? Under most of the case law, no. The broad claim covers many embodiments, not a limited number of clearly defined ones. So under the case law, Whitehat's meritorious broad claim is invalid. True, they can have a narrow claim for X1 (and perhaps for X2 and X3). And as consolation, Blackhat's EP2 is also invalid. But inspired by Whitehat's original work on the genus X, the way is clear for Blackhat and other competitors to develop embodiments X4, X5 etc. Can anyone see a flaw in this reasoning? If not, I think that re-interpreting Art 54(3), as proposed by Question 5, is never going to be the answer. The problem is broader than poisonous divisionals. It lies with how partial priority is interpreted under point 6.7 of G 2/98. An interesting post, Tim. This illustrates for me how the concept of "partial priority" is doomed to failure. Whitehat has priority for X1 alone. Any subsequent application claiming broader than the individual solutions (x1, X2, etc.) will be anticipated by blackhat's filing. This would not be the case if the EPO were to allow a broader concept of the "same invention" but I fear this is so firmly entrenched, it is not going to hppen. Now you're talking, Tim and EdT. If you are still there, can you comment on what I write below, on a thought which occurred on reading your most recent exchange. In licensing, we have the concept of "franked" goods, on which the licence fee has been paid. Can something like that be applied to Tim's scenario? What I mean is, looking at Whitehat's claim to genus X, part of its scope, that which corresponds to species X1, can be thought of as being "franked", back to 1st Jan 2015, by GB1. US1, directed to X1 but filed later, is disabled as a 54(3) attack by this "franking" notion. This is the Tufty Approach, is it not? Tufty works with self-collision because there is never one iota or scintilla more of disclosure in the 54(3) reference than in the attacked case. It would also work for Tim's White/Black scenario if US1 contains not ons iota more disclosure about X than White's earlier GB1. But in real life, that's highly improbable. When two patent attorneys independently priority file on Discovery X1, their respective claims might be identical but surely their respective disclosures won't be. For Tim's hypo though, I guess we are to asume that the respective White and Black prio doc disclosures are verbatim the same? The EBA has on occasion reversed itself. It handed down G2/98 before the argument over "partial priority" and its repercussions grew so intense. I would think there should be no shame or loss of face to the EBA if it has another crack at the problem, and replaces G2/98 with something more intellectually satisfying. Mind you, then Whitehat and Blackhat both discover X1, both take that discovery and run with it, and both file their own stream of patent applications, it is inevitably going to be messy sorting out who gets what. We just need a high quality legal roadmap to guide us through the treacherous swamp of facts that real life cases exhibit. Is "franking" a concept that one can do anything with, when it comes to 54(3) law and poisonous priorities and divisionals? It carries echoes of the UK Patents Act 1949, doesn't it? Section 52 was it? Couldn't the EBA reach back to 1973, look at Section 52 and say it was not a bad idea, which even now could inspire a solution to the problem of "self-collision"? Afterthought: It occurs to me that a very similar problem arises under the grace period provisions of the AIA in the USA. What is the scope of the "grace" given? Is it exactly what the inventor makes available to the public before the prio date? Or is it that plus all equivalents to it? Still not settled, I believe. My preference for a test for a valid priority would be if the priority filing supports the claimed subject matter rather than whether the claimed subject matter is disclosed, such that the recital of a species (or perhaps better, two) in the priority filing entitles the applicant to priority for the genus if the latter would be considered to be supported by the disclosure. Tim Jackson Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 18:32:00 BST Max, perhaps what you call "franking" is just the natural way in which novelty and priority ought to work with each other under the EPC. Both rely on the same test: that subject matter should be "directly and unambiguously derivable" (at least implicitly). In the case of priority, this stems from the main Conclusion of G 2/98. So if the EBA were to answer 'no' to Q1 of the referral, novelty and priority would counterbalance each other exactly, as follows: For novelty, the disclosure of a species can destroy the novelty of a genus which is claimed generically. More precisely, that follows when the generic claim encompasses a species which is directly and unambiguously derivable from the prior art disclosure. For full priority, the situation is different. Under G 2/98, a generic claim for a genus only gets full priority if the genus itself is directly and unambiguously derivable from the priority document. The disclosure of a species doesn't achieve that. But then Art. 88(3) comes to the rescue with the Paris Convention notion of partial priority. A generic claim can have partial priority from a species. More precisely, that follows when the generic claim encompasses a species which is directly and unambiguously derivable from the priority disclosure. Do you see what I did there? I copied and pasted the same phrase for novelty and partial priority. The partial priority test is the same as the novelty test. So if you are considering the same species and the same genus, as in an Art. 54(3) poisonous priority situation, then the partial priority exactly counterbalances the novelty attack. This means that the novelty attack must fail. If you want to call that "franking", then fine. So why have things gone wrong with poisonous priorities? It's because G 2/98 pronounced the "directly and unambiguously derivable" test for full priority, but didn't just leave it at that. It also added point 6.7, requiring "a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters". That has been taken as an additional test for partial priority, leading to an imbalance between the tests for novelty and partial priority. Interestingly, if you read point 6.7 it's actually talking about multiple priorities, not partial priorities. Maybe we need to look at the subsequent case law to find out how it came to be applied it to partial priorities. By the way, this still doesn't go as far as s.52, PA 1949, since it's novelty only. As we've discussed previously, s.52 also "franked" against obviousness attacks. THE US anon Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 18:45:00 BST MaxDrei, An interesting question, but one that has a ready response: ordinary understanding. Scope discussed follows what scope is - there is no NEW definition of "scope" that would supplant the established understanding under law. Unless you can demonstrate a clear rationale for somehow wanting to have a different understanding of what the word in its ordinary sense carries (that would be the natural use of equivalents), you appear to want to hide an elephant in a mousehole. I have just read Tim Jackson's of today at 18:32 and it left me feeling like I want to mutter "Hallelujah". I'm thinking, wouldn't it be nice if the EBA were to read it too, and then adopt it for their own forthcoming Opinion. EdT, I'm sceptical, about setting up one standard "supported by" for priority and a different one for novelty. I'm thinking "undisclosed intermediate generalsations", prosecution amendments, and Art 123(2) EPC. Do you want the 123(2) standard also to be loosened as far as "supported by", do you want it to stay strict, directly and unambiguously derivable, or do you want something in between? Are you advocating one standard for intermediate generalisations during the Paris year and a different one after the year is over? EdT writes: "My preference for a test for a valid priority would be if the priority filing supports the claimed subject matter rather than whether the claimed subject matter is disclosed, such that the recital of a species (or perhaps better, two) in the priority filing entitles the applicant to priority for the genus if the latter would be considered to be supported by the disclosure." If we're going down that route, I'd add that the priority filing should also enable the claimed subject matter across the range (Art. 83) as well as supporting it (Art. 84). Realistically, of course, there's no chance. This was the question decided by G 2/98. The EBA is not going to overturn it's main Conclusion, even if they can be persuaded to revisit point 6.7. Wouldn't it be nice if extension of the subject matter (Art. 123(2)) was also decided by whether the original disclosure supported and enabled the revised claim, rather than by whether it was "directly and unambiguously derivable"? I'm not sure, but maybe that's closer to the US view of added subject matter, and is why Americans can't understand the European approach? But realistically that's not going to change, either. So now, Tim Jackson, EdT, we are on to the issue whether claims are disclosures. If they are, and if the disclosure of a document ought to be the same for Art 54 as it is for Art 87 or 123(2) EPC, then you can't go for a "supported by" standard for Art 87 and 123(2) but a "d + u derivable" standard for Art 54. I don't fancy facing novelty attacks in which I am told that the disclosure of D1 is enough to "support" an objection under Art 54. That's one reason why I support a "d + u derivable" standard for the allowability of prosecution amendments, whether in the Paris year or afterwards. Another reason is that it strengthens the degree of confidence I have in my clearance opinions. You can have a loose "supported" standard for Art 87 and 123(2) issues under First to Invent. I think it ain't right in First to File territory, where the only thing that determines priority between rival filers is what they disclosed to the PTO in their respective patent applications as filed. For that very reason, I expect to see the courts of appeal in the US, when they are first confronted by priority contests under the AIA, getting progressively stricter on "same invention" and "added matter" issues, until they arrive, in 40 years or so, at something like the EPO's "d + u derivable" strict standard. Anonymous Monday, 24 August 2015 at 13:10:00 BST Probably my point of view is tainted by the work I did one developing the "poisonous" divisional attack where the parent had a wider scope of protection than the original filing but with essentially the same technical disclosure, rather than the addition of new species together with a more generic claim. It comes down to the correct interpretation of "same invention" Should the novelty/added subject matter test be applied or should some leeway be given to the applicant to redefine their invention, perhaps following the results of a search on the priority filing? The latter to me makes sense and hence the test is more in line with is the new claim supported by the original disclosure rather than actually disclosed. MaxDrei Monday, 24 August 2015 at 13:49:00 BST Thanks EdT. In what follows, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, just teasing out the issues. UK law always used to give Applicant a one year grace period (following the priority date) for drafting claims that are "supported by" the disclosure of the priority document. The EPC gives you just as much time to file your claims. It is just that to meet the "supported by" standard you have to state your invention to the EPO in terms verbatim to your future claim, already at the priority date. Inside the EPO, they are quick to put all the blame for lost rights on "poor drafting". They don't know how hard it is! But isn't it hard to deny, that you should be required to state what your invention is, at the widest level of generality you can imagine, already by the time you file on it, at the Patent Office. Once you have found that widest level of generality, it should be more or less routine, to step down in scope, through a nice set of dependent claims. Why does a patent attorney of ordinary competence first need to see the results of the EPO search before she (or he) can draft a suitably wide claim 1? Let's take an example of a case originating in the US. The priority filing has a single independent claim and all dependent claims referring back, as is their practice, only to claim 1. Following a search, claim 1 is shown to be too narrow but on the information available, claim 2 looks fine. A PCT application is filed with the switched on attorney including multiple dependencies and also the original statements of invention. On entering the regional phase, the new claim 1 is shown to be obvious so the applicant combines claims 1 and 2 (claims 2 and 3 from the priority filing). The application is allowed. A divisional is now filed combining claims 1 and 3 from the priority filing. Claim 1 of the allowed EP is not entitled to priority since the claimed combination of features was not originally disclosed and the divisional now anticipates the allowed claim. Is this really fair to the applicant? Yes, the main idea being that Art. 54(3) should not be understood as allowing self-collision, i.e. subject-matter with a particular effective date disclosed in the EP itself cannot form prior art under Art. 54(3) for that EP. In other words: the fact that subject-matter with a particular effective date is disclosed in the EP itself with that same effective date should protect that EP against that subject-matter under Art. 54(3) (even if that subject-matter with that same date is disclosed in a divisional or parent or even some unrelated published European application). This rule has no explicit basis in Art. 54(3), but I think it makes sense (self-collision being ridiculous) and I believe it precisely solves the problem without having unintended or unexpected effects in other areas of patent law. I would prefer it over a rule that only prevents parents and divisionals (and the EP itself) from being cited against an EP, as that would discriminate against applicants who file multiple applications having identical descriptions (for example claiming a different invention in each). Yes. I understand an OR-claim to be a claim that could be rewritten as a number of separate claims within the limits of Art. 123(2). The formulation of point 6.7 might not be optimal: - "clearly defined" seems to refer to Art. 84, but I think that is a different matter. I would prefer "individually disclosed". - the subject-matters do not need to be strictly "alternative" in the sense of being disjunct. For example, a claim to "a composition comprising one of substances A and B" might be rewritten as two claims "a composition comprising substance A" and "a composition comprising substance B", both "alternative subject-matters" covering compositions comprising substances A and B. So the alternative subject-matters may overlap (unlike what happens in the "to the extent that" approaches). (Continuation in the next post.) Whitehat should be allowed to disclaim X1 under G 1/03. Unfortunately, G 2/10 prevents that in this specific case, because X1 happens to be disclosed in EP1. I find it difficult to agree with G 2/10 on this point. Whitehat is obviously allowed to claim X1 separately: EP1 discloses X1, and X1 has priority from GB1. If Whitehat is allowed to have a claim to X minus X1 (ignoring G 2/10) and a claim to X1, then I see no reason to be formalistic and require 2 separate claims. Whitehat can have its claim to X. In fact this corresponds to my understanding of multiple priorities: the generic claim to "X" may be rewritten as two separate claims "X minus X1" and "X1", so both alternatives within "X" have their own priority. (Of course, if the G 1/03 approach would be applicable to undisclosed disclaimers of disclosed subject-matter, then the poisonous divisional problem would mostly disappear by the same method. The further conditions of G 1/03 might still present complications, though.) Let's change the scenario a bit: EP2 only discloses XX1, which is more specific than X1. Now Whitehat can disclaim XX1 to get X minus XX1 (G 1/03). It can also claim X1. Both claims together cover X, so the claim to X should be allowed as it is possible to rewrite is as separate claims to X minus XX1 and to X1 (or a claim "X minus XX1" OR X1). That G 2/10 stops this from working if XX1 happens to be not narrower than X1, but identical to X1, seems unjustified. If EP2 discloses not X1 or XX1 but X4, then Whitehat can get X minus X4 (G 1/03). Whitehat may want to add a separate claim to X1, or claim "X minus X4" OR X1, in case X1 and X4 overlap. So I don't think a more liberal ("to the extent that") approach to partial priorities is necessary here, and it could not replace G 1/03 anyway. Fairness is all very well Ed, but let's be equally fair to everybody involved. Not only Applicant but also the 2nd to file, one day later, with a similar embodiment but a different statement of invention. Novelty law invokes the concept of "planting the flag". So in what sense does one "plant a flag" when one files a priority document? Is it enough to describe a specific prototype to the Patent Office? Or should "planting the flag" involve a requirement for a "statement of invention" in my patent application, which defines my inventive concept, at the level of generality I visualise for my invention? I had thought that the value a competent drafter adds is to define the metes and bounds of the inventive concept, as opposed to doing no more than announcing the "best mode" so far known to you. It seems to follow from G 2/98, point 6.2, last sentence, that "elements of the European patent application" should be understood as subject-matter disclosed in the application: Both an "element of the invention" and an "element of the European patent application" actually constitute subject-matter as defined in a claim of the European patent application. Your "partial priority" seems to be a different notion than regular / full "priority". But there is nothing like that in the EPC. Something (i.e. particular subject-matter) has full priority or not at all. It has full priority if it is disclosed in the priority document. (In case of multiple priority documents, different subject-matters may have different priorities.) See also point 5 of G 2/98: "the protection from novelty destroying disclosures during a period of twelve months from the date of filing of the first application is necessary only in case of the filing of a subsequent application relating to the same invention". If the subsequent application claims a more general invention, it does not claim the same invention, so there is no right to priority. It may be possible to interpret Art. 88(3) differently than I do here, but that is not what the EBA did in G 2/98. I can find no trace in G 2/98 of an "to the extent that" approach that assigns priorities to "elements" that are fractions of disclosed subject-matters. An example where your approach seems to go "wrong": P1 discloses copper. The application claims metal. D1 is prior art with a date between the dates of P1 and the application. D1 discloses metal and does not specifically mention that the metal may be a metal other than copper. In your approach, the claim to metal has priority from P1 to the extent that it covers copper. It has as effective date the filing date of the application to the extent that it does not cover copper, i.e. for "metal but not copper". Now D1 is only prior art for the claim for the part "metal but not copper". Since it does not disclose an embodiment excluding copper, the part "metal but not copper" is new over D1. If D1 is prior art under Art. 54(2), then the claim will likely lack inventive step. But lack of novelty seems to be the more appropriate outcome here. If D1 is prior art under Art. 54(3), then the claim will survive. That does not seem right. With the strict approach the same situation occurs if the application happens to have a basis for "copper" and "metal but not copper". A claim to "copper" would have priority (and anyway be new over D1) and a claim to "metal but not copper" would be new over D1. But now novelty is achieved on the basis of a feature disclosed in the application, so that simply has to be accepted. An improvement of my example. The application is filed one day later and discloses and claims metal. It does not mention copper. D1 is an EP filed before P1 and published after the filing date of the application. Its description, claims and drawings are identical to those of the application. D1 clearly is prior art under Art. 54(3). According to your approach, metal has a partial priority from P1 for the part "copper". The remaining part has the filing date. As explained in the memorandum and in G 2/98, partial and multiple priorities are about OR-claims. An OR-claim does not need to be written out with an actual "or" in it, but it does have such a structure: A or B, and the claim is new precisely if both A and B are new. In this case we have "copper" and "metal but not copper" (or however you want to word the remaining part). Both parts are new over D1. So the claim to metal is new over D1!! This example shows that it is crucial that each "alternative" of an OR-claim is individually disclosed in the application itself. Otherwise, the "conceptual" rewriting of a claim into an OR-claim introduces features that have no basis in the application as filed. Those features can give the applicant an unwarranted advantage. Are we not in danger here of making things more complicated than they need to be? Let us first remind ourselves that what a claim "covers" is not necessarily the same as what it "discloses". What does the undisclosed disclaimer look like, that finesses out of a 54(3) novelty attack? Now applying that to anon's P1/D1 hypo above, one would have to disclaim all the disclosure of D1, leaving nothing left to claim. But when the 54(3) cite is your own, why should you have to "disclaim" any part of what the claim covers, for the reality is that it's all yours and does not belong to some other party who got to the Patent Office before you did. As Tufty tried to explain,a long time ago now, the "splitting" of the claim into two coverage zones, one entitled to priority, the other not, is not a "real" splitting, to be effected in writing, in real words, warts and all, but, rather, just a notional one, for which there is no call to express in words. As I wrote above, sorting out between rival applicants "who gets what" might be fiendishly difficult. Moreover, that particular difficulty is unavoidable. Compared with that irreducible problem, self-collision can just be waved away by the EBA, if it chooses, with a mere thought experiment. Oddly, "Let us first remind ourselves that what a claim "covers" is not necessarily the same as what it "discloses"." Sounds as if you are making things more complicated than they need to be. It is the application as a whole that serves the function of "discloses." So while it is without question a matter of fact that the claims are part of the disclosure, it is entirely unclear why you are trying to make this something about the claims alone. @MaxDrei: I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make in relation to my P1/D1 example(s). This is of course true. If D1 is 54(3) prior art and discloses what is claimed in its full generality, applying G 1/03 does not leave you with anything. But this is exactly what G 1/03 intended. The invention belongs to the first one who disclosed it, i.e. the one who filed D1. If D1 is your own but really filed earlier (so we're not looking at a poisonous divisional situation), there is no reason why D1 should not be citable against the application. It is not relevant for 54(3) that D1 is your own. The applicant can get the protection he deserves through D1. (If D1 is a poisonous divisional, then everybody seems to agree that a solution has to be found one way or the other. The main discussion is about the best way to achieve that aim.) Even Tufty probably agrees that the notional splitting results in a notional OR-claim (see memorandum, see G 2/98) of the notional form A OR B, and that such a notional OR-claim is new precisely if both notional parts A and B are new. That is the whole point of the notional splitting: Tufty uses it to notionally get two parts that are both new and concludes that the original claim is therefore new. Without rewriting it. What my examples show is that this may result in undesirable outcomes. Metal becomes new over metal, without rewriting it, by notionally splitting the claim in "copper" and "metal but not copper", or even "metal with melting point >= 1000 degrees celcius" and "metal with melting point < 1000 degrees celcius". Both notional parts are new over a disclosure of metal. How will Tufty solve this? Also allow a notional splitting of prior art disclosures? Reason that a disclosure of metal notionally discloses copper? Then nothing will be new anymore. The "notional" and the "to the extent that" approaches work reasonably well if the prior art discloses single embodiments, but they fall apart if the prior art discloses the genus. This seems to have been overlooked. It may still be possible to save Tim's approach (or maybe not, I have not tried yet myself), but at the very least it will have to abandon the idea that partial and multiple priorities are about OR-claims. And that gets you pretty far from the memorandum and G 2/98. Sorry I was not clearer. I had in mind the situation where D1 is a patent family member. Self-collision with your own earlier filings, non-family, is just as problematic as when D1 belongs to somebody else, I agree. As you say, everybody agrees that self-collision of family members is a nonsense. What's not yet delivered to us by the EBA is the killer argument to get rid of the nonsense. slartibartfast Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 23:01:00 BST Anon 16:39 - can you explain what you mean that the "notional"/"to the extent that" approaches "fall apart if the prior art discloses the genus"? I think that the "issue" is really (or, at any rate, should really be) a non-issue and there is an awful lot of overcomplication going on in the discussions both here and elsewhere. To my mind T1222/11 is surely the correct approach and in line with the memorandum in the travaux preparatoires. I have yet to see a convincing explanation as to why this should not be correct - or at any rate an explanation which does not rely on an overly literal interpretation of G2/98 point 6.7. Sticking with the "copper"/"metal" example: Application 1 (let's call it "P1") discloses copper. Application 2 (let's call it "A1") claims metal. A1 claims priority from P1. P1 publishes and is therefore comprised in the state of the art under Art. 54(3) EPC to the extent that A1 is not entitled to the priority date of P1. In this instance, as pointed out by Tufty and many other commentators, we can notionally divide the claim into "copper" and "other metals". Copper is entitled to priority from P1's disclosure of copper, therefore P1 is not prior art for that portion of A1's claim. "Other metals" are only entitled to the filing date of A1, so P1 is Art. 54(3) prior art for that portion of A1's claim, but P1 only discloses copper and so cannot anticipate "Other metals". Simple, no? Now let's consider that P1 instead "discloses the genus" as mentioned by Anon 16:39. Here presumably we mean that P1 discloses "metal". But in that case there is absolutely no question that A1's claim to "metal" is fully entitled to P1's priority date. P1 cannot constitute prior art against A1's claim, even if P1 is allowed to publish. There is no problem! What about the intermediate situation? Say that P1 discloses "d-block metals" (i.e. a genus) and A1 claims "metals" (a super-genus encompassing the genus of P1). Here I cannot see any difference from the first situation above, in principle. We can notionally divide the A1 claim into "d-block metals" and "non-d-block metals". As before, A1 is entitled to priority for d-block metals and so P1 is not prior art against that notional portion of the claim. A1 is not entitled to priority for non-d-block metals, but P1's disclosure of d-block metals cannot anticipate A1's claim to non-d-block metals. Again, there is no problem. Perhaps I've misunderstood Anon 16:39's remark? I also don't understand what you mean by "notionally splitting prior art disclosures" - this seems to be overcomplicating the issue needlessly. I can't imagine why you would need to envisage splitting the prior art when the issue is really all about the priority entitlement of the new application. Perhaps someone can explain? @slartibartfast: I've already explained it, but I'll do it again. First note why the T 1222/11 is so "wonderful". In your example it allows you to rewrite "metal" as "copper" OR "other metals". The first part has priority, the second part is new over "copper". Since both parts are new over "copper" disclosed in a divisional, "metal" is new. Just as one would like. But now suppose there is some "real" 54(3) prior art disclosing "metal" (so not a poisonous divisional). This prior art disclosing "metal" SHOULD take away novelty of the claim to "metal". But it does not. The claim to metal can still be (notionally or whatever) rewritten as "copper" OR "other metals". Copper is new over "metal". "Other metals" is new over "metal". So the claim to "metal" is new over "metal". Such ridiculous outcomes can only be avoided by requiring that the (notional or whatever) rewriting of a claim into an OR-claim does not extend beyond the content of the application as filed, i.e. each alternative subject-matter should be individually disclosed in the application as filed. I have already explained how the poisonous divisional problem should be solved without creating the mess that the "partial priority" approach would make. I also don't understand what you mean by "notionally splitting prior art disclosures" That was sort of a joke. In a desparate attempt to repair the ridiculous outcome that "metal" can be made novel over a disclosure of "metal" by conceptually/notionally/whatever rewriting metal as an OR-claim (e.g. copper OR other metals, or "metal with a melting point >= 1000 degrees" OR "metal with a melting pint < 1000 degrees"), one could argue that this notional splitting should also be applied to the prior art disclosure itself. But then things quickly get even beyond ridiculous, as "metal" would be disclosing everything that is encompassed by it. So this is not serious. Most of the above comments relate to the example of copper/metal, similar to the chlorine/halogen situation. This is, however, only one, essentially chemistry based "species/genus" scenario. The original "poisonous divisional" attack was however based on a description which was common to the priority, parent and divisional filings, with the claimed subject matter varying, in a simplified manner, narrow/broad/narrow respectively. This is somewhat similar to the example I gave above with the US based priority filing. For such situations, I have not been able to see how the "partial priority" type arguments help. If the concept of poisonous divisionals is considered to be an undesired consequence of the EPO's case law on the entitlement to priority and on the filing of divisional applications, either the enlarged board has to come up with a artificial interpretation of the wording of the EPC (along the lines of the straw man opposition solution) or revisit the established case law as to the meaning of "same invention". Perhaps the solution lies in amending the EPC. Dave Wednesday, 26 August 2015 at 09:04:00 BST The idea that the claim can be notionally split for the purpose of determining novelty is not something that Tufty (or I) would agree with. The notional splitting is only for the purpose of resolving priority issues. It would be stupid to apply it to assessing novelty. All this talk of claim splitting reminds me of Robin Jacob's cautionary words, to the effect that we can learn much from the Americans: we should observe closely what they do; and then make sure we don't repeat their mistakes. Remember how to "provoke an interference" to resolve a priority contest? You copy their claim into your application. What a shambles: their chosen terminology in the claim, supported by a disclosure written in your chosen terminology. Perhaps the result doesn't trouble them much in bio/pharma, where terminology is universal, but imagine it in another field where priority contests are routine and everybody has their own individual terminology, namely, strut matrices in trans-luminal stents to keep you alive. For example, suppose you and the other bloke both file on the same stent matrix improvement. Your struts and also his enhance both stenting force and flexibility along the lumen. Quite some achievement! But you claim struts that are "serpentine" while in his claim they are "zig-zag". Is that the "same" invention? Does "serpentine" mean "bends not elbows" while "zig-zag" means "elbows not bends"? I think not but who knows for sure? In engineering performance, are his "zig-zag" struts the same or different from, or equivalent to your "serpentine" ones (especially when one of you forms your matrix by laser-cutting and the other by chemical etching). So, here at the EPO, let's not go down that route. Let's confine ourselves to self-collision between patent family members, and even then, let's keep the claim splitting no more than notional, shall we? @Dave: Avoiding poisonous divisionals by notional splitting is all about assessing novelty, is it not? You take out copper from metal, and suddenly what's left of metal becomes new over copper. But take out copper from metal, and what's left of metal becomes new over (the genus) metal as well. You introduce a limitation that confers novelty. That is fine if the limitation was originally disclosed, but problematic if it was not. The solution is not to introduce limitations, not even notionally, that have no basis in the application as filed. (And again, note that both G 2/98 and the memorandum start with OR-claims and only then say that the alternative parts may have different priority dates.) Who needs to take copper out of metal? Why, for the purposes of assessing priority, is it not possible to view "metal" as "the same invention" as "copper" to the extent that the genus and the species overlap? Is that not exactly the kind of assessment that is made with respect to novelty? Who needs to take copper out of metal? Why, for the purposes of assessing priority, is it not possible to view "metal" as being "the same invention" as "copper" to the extent that the genus and the species overlap? Is that not exactly the kind of assessment that is made with respect to novelty? The Cat that Walks by Himself Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 21:34:00 BST Monday, 24 August 2015 at 20:06:00 BST It's a very good comment. Who needs to take copper out of metal? Both G 2/98 and the memorandum state that multiple and partial priorities are about OR-claims. So if you want to have multiple or partial priorities for a claim, viewing it is as an OR-claim is the first step to take. The idea of an OR-claim is that it has a structure A OR B and that it is new (and inventive) exactly if both A and B are new (and inventive). The proponents of partial priorities as a cure against poisonous divisionals argue that to form an OR-claim, it is sufficient that the claim encompasses A and B (and that together they cover the whole claim). They do not require that A and B are individually disclosed in the application. The proposed cure works as follows. If the application and its divisional disclose copper with priority and metal without priority (so that copper arguably is novelty destroying for copper under 54(3)), then a claim to metal is viewed as "copper" OR "metal but not copper". Both alternative parts of "metal" are new over "copper", so in this way novelty of the claim to metal is established. But this trick can be used to re-establish novelty of anything. If a claim to "metal" is confronted with 54(3) prior art disclosing metal, just split "metal" in "copper" OR "metal but not copper". Both parts are new over metal, so metal is new over metal. Or if there is regular 54(3) prior art disclosing copper, just conceptually split "metal" in "metal having property X" OR "metal not having property X" where X is a property that is not mentioned in the 54(3) prior art. Now both parts are new over copper, so the claim to metal is new over copper. No need anymore to apply G 1/03 in order to disclaim copper. So: flexible OR-claims are an essential ingredient of the "partial priority" cure to poisonous divisionals, but these flexible OR-claims lead to chaos. Why, for the purposes of assessing priority, is it not possible to view "metal" as "the same invention" as "copper" to the extent that the genus and the species overlap? Is that not exactly the kind of assessment that is made with respect to novelty? What exactly are you proposing, how would it work? Would you still have OR-claims? If so, what are the rules for forming an OR-claim? If you avoid OR-claims but still fiddle with partial priorities, how do you reconcile that with the memorandum and with G 2/98? "But this trick can be used to re-establish novelty of anything. If a claim to "metal" is confronted with 54(3) prior art disclosing metal, just split "metal" in "copper" OR "metal but not copper". Both parts are new over metal, so metal is new over metal." No, because priority and novelty are different even if we apply identical rules for interpretation of the claims. In order to determine whether a claim is entitled to priority, application of the partial priority rule you recite works to avoid the poisonous priority issue. I think you agree with that. If we forget about the priority aspect (let's assume priority doesn't exist in law) then in the above case the earlier application disclosing metal would, under current rules, destroy novelty of the later claim to metal. I agree that, if the claim could be interpreted in the way suggested as an 'OR ' claim, there would be an issue. However, there is no legal basis for considering the later claim to metal as a two-part OR claim. So, it simply is not an option. Meanwhile, the ability to claim priority does exist, and it is this legal provision which provides the basis for the 'OR' claim interpretation. As to the so-called "trick" I do not see it as a "trick". Tricks are when an Applicant amends after filing by inserting new matter, illegitimately to improve its position relative to its filing date. Here, the so-called "trick" is just to restore primacy of the date on which you file your "application for protection" at the Patent Office. All that the "trick" is doing is to restore that fundamental undisputed primacy of the overall notion of "Paris Convention priority". If you do add to your priority date matter M, some additional matter M+ during the Paris year, you get your priority date for M but only your filing date for M+. That much is not in dispute. There just has to be a complementary way of managing the validity of the set of claims that has been founded on that discloisure. Lancing the poison in priorities and divisionals requires no shift in the way Art 54(3) references are dealt with under novelty law. So I agree with that last anon, that: ".....priority and novelty are different even if we apply identical rules for interpretation of the claims." "The idea of an OR-claim is that it has a structure A OR B..." "... and that it is new (and inventive) exactly if both A and B are new (and inventive)." No, neither G2/98 nor the FICPI memo are suggesting that. They are talking about the priority of A and B, not the novelty of A and B. But here's how the priority of A and B affect the novelty of the claim as a whole. Priority stems from the subject matter disclosed in the priority document. That's why you look to see whether and to what extent the claim of the subsequent application relates to that subject matter. Partial priority occurs when some notional part A of the claim relates to the same subject matter (using the G2/98 test of "same invention"), but another notional part B does not. The novelty test just compares the whole claim to the prior art. However, in doing so, if the prior art has an intervening date, the priority can be used as a shield. This follows from Art. 89 EPC - the effect of the priority is that the relevant subject matter has an earlier date of filing for the purposes of Arts. 54(2) and (3). But it only shields for the subject matter actually disclosed in the priority document. So if the whole claim says metal, its novelty can be destroyed by an intervening prior art disclosure of metal. Partial priority just for copper is not good enough to shield that. If the whole claim says metal, its novelty could also be destroyed by an intervening prior art disclosure of copper. But this time, the partial priority for copper is an effective shield. Nowhere does this analysis look at the novelty of B alone. It looks like my earlier comment did not get posted, so I shall try again. Anon - The point that I was making is that there appear to be different assessments under novelty and priority when it comes to deciding how an (expanded) genus relates to a more specific disclosure that is encompassed by the genus. To my mind it is THAT discrepancy which leads to the problems of self-collision, etc. If you think about it from first principles, things really ought to be much simpler. That is, assessments of both novelty and priority ought to ask the same question: To the extent that the claimed genus overlaps with the earlier disclosure, does it relate to "the same invention"?. If the answer to this question is "yes", then your claim does not have novelty. However, if the earlier disclosure is in your priority document, you should have entitlement to priority for the invention disclosed in that document. On the other hand, if the answer is "no", then there is novelty but no entitlement to priority. What the whole concept of self-collision is based upon is the idea that a claim can be effectively "novel" for the purposes of assessing priority but yet still lacking in novelty under Article 54(3). Whilst most of us clearly struggle with the absurdity of this conclusion, it appears that few are prepared to contemplate that the FICPI memorandum and/or G2/98 might not have got things quite right when it comes to assessing partial priority. Personally, I am not convinced that an "OR" claim is an essential prerequisite for assigning partial priorities. On the other hand, I can understand why there is confusion surrounding this point. This is because, if you add something extra to an "AND" claim, you are almost always narrowing the scope - which makes it much trickier to assess whether the resulting (more precisely defined) invention is "the same" as the broader disclosure in the priority document. However, just because things can sometimes get a bit tricky does not mean that the EPO should abandon common sense and end up with a situation where novelty and priority are assessed according to different standards. Pudding, you are confusing me, when you urge the EPO to hold to the same standard when assessing priority as when assessing novelty. How can that be, when Paris is all about "same invention" but Art 54(3) and 123(2) are not. We did away with "prior claiming" back in 1973. Since then, we have had "whole contents" for Art 54(3) and 123(2). Thus, for Paris Convention priority the Gold Standard is still "same invention" yet for novelty and new matter the concept of "same invention" has no relevance. Can you say more? Have a read of T1890/09. That sets out the differences between priority and novelty. Max - Article 54(1) EPC states that "An invention shall be considered to be new if it does not form part of the state of the art". Thus, to take away novelty, the state of the art needs to disclose the claimed invention (i.e. the same invention as defined in the claims). This is all that I mean when I say that the assessment of novelty involves asking the question of whether the earlier disclosure relates to "the same invention". I was not saying anything about Article 123(2), the wording of which clearly relates to "subject-matter" (and not to an "invention"). Nevertheless, I think that having equivalent (or corresponding) standards for assessing both novelty and priority is pretty much essential - as otherwise you end up with a mess like self-collision. T1890/09 is in German and I've only scanned it quickly. However, as far as I can see it doesn't consider partial priority at all. So I don't think it is very useful in the present discussion of how partial priority affects (or should affect) novelty. The decision just held that the claim didn't have full priority, because the priority document omitted a feature of the claim. The priority document then destroyed its novelty under Art. 54(3). In my view, partial priority should have been considered. Whether it would have led to a different result would have depended which interpretation of "a limited number of clearly defined subject-matters" the Board then chose to follow. Or like Q1 and Q2 in the present referral, they too could have asked the Enlarged Board whether "a limited number of clearly defined subject-matters" is really the correct test. From point 3.1 of the Reasons of T1890/09, however, it appears that the opponent only sprang the poisonous priority issue shortly before the oral proceedings in the appeal. It looks as if the proprietor was unprepared. He just argued for full priority, not partial priority. Then when that failed he argued that the poisonous priority attack was inadmissible because it was too late. That failed too. Pudding points out at 15:27 today that Art 54(1) provides that "an invention" shall be new if "it" does not form part of the art. If I read him right, he is suggesting that Art 54(1) looks whether the "balloon" of claimed subject matter is "part of the state of the art". Fair enough, one would think that, wouldn't one, from the literal wording of Art 54(1) EPC? Except that, as we all know, you don't need the balloon in the art, just a novelty-destroying "needle" that will puncture the balloon, the claim. The degree of generality with which the needle is described in the document asserted against the novelty of the claim is irrelevant to the issue whether it does destroy novelty, whether it does puncture the balloon. In fact, when enablement is in issue, the more specific and detailed the prior art disclosure, the more penetrative will be the novelty attack. So I still do not accept his point, that priority (same invention) and novelty under Art 54 EPC are the same thing legally. The EPO's "Gold Standard" has to do with a fact, what any given document discloses to its skilled reader. We need the same Gold Standard for the factual underpinning of all olegal issues arising under all of Art 54, 87 and 123(2) EPC, it goes without saying. But the questions of law, when to accord priority, when to allow a prosecution amendment, and when to find a lack of novelty, are not the same as each other. That, anyway, is how I see it at the moment. I'm only applying identical rules. The starting point for the partial priority cure to poisonous divisionals is forming the OR-claim. Split the claim into two new parts (notionally or however you want it), and now the claim is new. That is how OR-claims work and that is what makes the cure work. If this trick works, then why can I not split my claim to metal to establish novelty over metal? I don't even need priorities for this; an OR-claim with two parts, each narrower than metal, will do. (Suppose the application actually discloses metal, copper and "metal but not copper". In that case a claim to "metal" can be rewritten as two separate claims to "copper" and "metal but not copper". Now each of these two claims really is new over metal. This might at first sight be somewhat surprising and even disturbing, but this really is how it is. One can still discuss whether it is allowable to keep the original wording "metal" or whether the applicant should switch to two separate claims, but for his final scope of protection that does not matter. I'd say he can keep "metal". As one can see from this example, being able to split for the purpose of novelty can be very useful and hence really should have a basis in the application as filed.) I suppose you agree that if the application individually discloses the two parts A and B, there is nothing to stop the applicant from rewriting his claim into an OR-claim A OR B having identical scope to his original claim. I suppose you also agree that if both A and B are new, then A OR B is new. (If you do not agree, then consider two claims: 1. A; 2. B. Both are new.) If you agree with me that OR-claims require both parts to be individually disclosed in the application, then you should also agree that partial priorities are no cure for poisonous divisionals (so the cure will just have to be found somewhere else! I'm not arguing in favour of poisonous divisionals). On the other hand, if you are still of the view that partial priorities form a cure to poisonous divisionals, then I would like to know how that should work exactly. Do we agree (with the memorandum, G 2/98, T 1222/11 and T 577/13) that the first step is viewing the claim as an OR-claim? What precisely are the conditions for a claim to be (equivalent to) an OR-claim? Those conditions should somehow be flexible enough to cure poisonous divisionals, but rigid enough to exclude ridiculous results. I'm pretty sure such conditions do not exist. (And of course they won't have a legal basis.) No, neither G2/98 nor the FICPI memo are suggesting that. Are you really suggesting that a claim to "A OR B" is not new precisely when both A and B are new? The memorandum is rather clear about an OR-claim with alternatives A and B being equivalent to two separate claims: It is also widely accepted that a claim to "iron or copper" is new precisely if iron is new and copper is new. Note that being able to assess novelty and inventive step separately for the alternative parts of an OR-claim is why it makes sense to assign different priority dates to those parts. It seems to be your position that it is the other way around: because different priority dates are assigned, the alternatives are to be examined separately for novelty and inventive step. Maybe you even only want them to be examined separately against documents that are prior art against one part and not against the other part. However, that gives a messy situation in case of a potential inventive step attack based on documents D1 and D2, one document being prior art for both parts and the other being prior art only for one part. In any event, consider the following example: The application discloses copper and metal and claims metal. D1 is an independent EP filed between P1 and the application and discloses metal. What are now the (notional) parts of the OR-claim? Copper and ...? If the other part is "metal but not copper", then your approach leads to the claimed "metal" being new over "metal" in D1. An unacceptable outcome in my book. If the other part is "metal", then you haven't fixed poisonous priorities: metal is not new over "copper" in a divisional of the application. You will probably say that the other part is "metal" and that it is shielded against "copper" in the divisional by its "partial priority" for the part "copper". My first observation is that you are not following the OR-claim approach of the memorandum, G 2/98, T 1222/11. In fact, you have no need for the "copper" alternative at all. My second observation is that your approach might be unproblematic in case of 54(3) prior art that is only used for novelty, but creates chaos for 54(2) prior art and inventive step. If D2 discloses copper and is published between the filing dates of P1 and the application, how are you going to examine inventive step of "metal"? If metal is really protected against copper, then D2 is not citable against the claim. That seems to be an unacceptable outcome (and is in conflict with G 3/93 (*)). If D2 is citable against the claim, then how is metal protected against disclosures of copper? Do we have to examine "metal but not copper" for inventive step over D2? Then you are effectively looking at the alternative "metal but not copper" after all. We should then also examine "metal but not copper" for novelty against D1, leading to the unacceptable conclusion that that part is novel and the claim to "metal" is new over "metal" in D1. (*) It follows from G 3/93 that whether a document is prior art does not depend on the subject-matter disclosed in that document. Note that what I care about is that the "partial priority" approach to solving the problems of self-collision and poisonous divisionals either leads to contradictions or to ridiculous outcomes in carefully constructed examples. I am not worried about the self-collision and poisonous divisional problems themselves, as they can be solved in other ways without creating a mess. Give me a detailed and complete (non-handwaving) recipe for applying partial priorities, and I will give an example where that recipe fails miserably in the sense that it gives an outcome that you will call ridiculous (or I will show that it does not solve poisonous divisionals). That is, assessments of both novelty and priority ought to ask the same question: To the extent that the claimed genus overlaps with the earlier disclosure, does it relate to "the same invention"? Novelty only asks whether the claim encompasses subject-matter in an earlier disclosure. For priority, see G 2/98 and G 3/93. First you determine the subject-matter that you are going to examine for novelty and inventive step (might be the whole claim, might be (each) one of several alternatives). Then you determine its priority date (essentially by determining the earliest priority document that discloses that same subject-matter, G 2/98). When you have its priority date, you know which publications are citable against it (no need to look at the content of the publications here, only their date is important!, G 3/93). Then you do the examination of novelty (for both 54(2) and 54(3) documents) and of inventive step (only for 54(2) documents). I don't understand what you are suggesting (I am sorry, but for me it is not a recipe that I could apply to a concrete case), but I don't think it complies with the scheme I have just outlined and which is firmly based on G 3/93 and G 2/98. it appears that few are prepared to contemplate that the FICPI memorandum and/or G2/98 might not have got things quite right when it comes to assessing partial priority. This shows that I am having some success in pointing out the deficiencies of the partial priority "cure". That cure has its origin in an interpretation of G 2/98 according to which the literal examples of the memorandum are to be taken as gospel, and now you are saying that the memorandum might not have gotten things quite right. Before you start working out a whole new (and preferably consistent!) theory of disclosure and priority, let me ask a question: why? It would be trivial for the EBA to wipe out the problem of poisonous divisionals by stating that members of a family of divisionals cannot be cited against each other. It would also be easy to solve the same problem for simultaneously filed unrelated (but essentially identical) applications, if the EBA deems that desirable. No need for a whole new theory just to resolve those issues. @Anon 29 Aug 2015 01:26 "Novelty only asks whether the claim encompasses subject-matter in an earlier disclosure". And what is the problem with applying the same standard to partial priority? Max - I hope that this explains to you the concept that I have proposed does not change the assessment of novelty (i.e. it would still be destroyed by the "needle" as well as by the "balloon"). Anonymous writes: "It would be trivial for the EBA to wipe out the problem of poisonous divisionals by stating that members of a family of divisionals cannot be cited against each other." but I don't think it is "trivial" so to "state". To my mind, you can't just "state" what you want the law to be, by fiat. Rather, you have to get to it, from the statute, by reasoning. That's the non-trivial part. Pudding, you ask "what is the problem". I'm surprised that you ask. I had supposed the problem (nonsensical self-collision) to be as plain as a pikestaff. To repeat though, I'm here as a dilettante, an interested bystander. I will never carry the burden of writing the text of a decision coming out of DG3. What I care about is that DG3 caselaw gets ever more respect from all over the world, rather than increasing frustration, incomprehension, impatience and ridicule. Come on EBA. The Supreme Courts of the Member States, and in the wider world, have an excuse for blather, muzzy thinking and obfuscation, that they are not specialist patents courts. But the EBA is. It did alright with G3/14 on Art 84 clarity, with its excellent sentence about being pragmatic rather than overly theoretical. Now let's have another sensible working roadmap please, if necessary dumping ideas expressed in earlier G Decisions, thereby to re-set the compass, going forward, and purge the caselaw body of all this self-collision nonsense. For me in this subject there's only one question left. Namely, whether it's desirable to allow a lower patentability threshold of art. 54 (3), i.e. novelty only, for patentee's own further/divisional applications. I have an impression that it's a way to extension of patentability period and patenting on novelty only. Can it lead to a chain of "generalisation applications" ? "If this trick works, then why can I not split my claim to metal to establish novelty over metal?" Absolutely you can. Provided you do so when drafting your application. Either that, or get all nations back to Paris to agree a new convention on entitlement to novelty. Can CWH say more clearly please what precisely is the "only one question left"? For self-collision in Europe, we are NOT talking about everything filed by the same Applicant or Inventor. Rather, we are discussing the extent to which different members of one single patent family, all declaring the same priority date(s), can "collide" with each other under Art 54(3) EPC. Specifically, I cannot gather what CWH means by: "...a lower patentability threshold of art. 54 (3), i.e. novelty only, for patentee's own further/divisional applications." Perhaps he means that my priority document, which under Art 54(3) EPC is effective to destroy the novelty of your later-filed application for the same subject matter, shall be deemed not to destroy the novelty of any claim of my own patent application. The thing is though, my application, unlike yours, does contain a declaration of my own priority date. That declaration is the "shield" that Tim Jackson so helpfully mentions. I've got one, and you haven't. That's all there is to it. When the USA switched away from First to Invent to First Inventor to File, there were a large number of "Chicken Little" commentators running round telling us all that "The Sky is Falling". Well, it hasn't fallen yet. Likewise, here, there seem to be commentators also telling us that if the EBA sweeps away the nonsense of self-collision between family members the sky will fall down. I still don't see it. We agree on this. So the trick only works if the application as filed discloses the alternative subject-matters into which the claim is to be split. That means the trick is of limited use for working around poisonous divisionals. (Which is not a big deal, as the EBA can choose to address Art. 54(3) directly.) In principle I agree, but in practice the EBA has considerable freedom. G 5/83 and G 1/03 are two examples where the EBA created a rule that definitely was not in the statute. Of course the EBA still needs to give some justification for any new rule. Now let's have another sensible working roadmap please, if necessary dumping ideas expressed in earlier G Decisions, thereby to re-set the compass, going forward, and purge the caselaw body of all this self-collision nonsense. I don't see this as a problem that the case law has created, but as a problem that is in the EPC and that the case law has not yet solved. It is caused by the interaction of Art. 54(3) with Art. 89. But we'll see what the EBA will do. Max, possibly it will all seem simpler when (if) the EBA simply resolve the issue. Too may attorneys find this an over complicated issue to deal with for my liking. I'm concerned. The main problem is that "applying the same standard to partial priority" does not have a clear meaning. The EPC only refers to "priority". Art. 88(2) and (3) only state that certain parts of an application may have one priority date and other parts another priority date or none at all. The term partial priority is commonly used to refer to the latter case: one part has regular priority, another part has no priority at all. There is no concept in the EPC of particular subject-matter having "partial priority". One could say that a claim to metal may have "partial priority" to copper which somehow "shields" the claim against certain intermediate documents (in particular documents that disclose copper) but not against others (such as documents that disclose metal). But that is simply too vague a notion: we need to pin down the precise details of what this means. If it means that a document with a date between P1 and the application does not count as prior art if it discloses copper, but does count as prior art if it discloses metal, then that is in direct conflict with G 3/93. That decision explains that whether a disclosure is prior art only depends on the date of the disclosure and not on its contents. (Note that the date may depend on the contents in case of 54(3) prior art that claims a priority, but that is a different matter.) If, on the other hand, it means that we do not examine "metal" for novelty (and inventive step) against intermediate documents, but "metal but not copper", then we get the unacceptable result that the claim to "metal" is new over "metal" (without there being any basis in the application as filed for actually splitting the claim to metal into two or more parts that are new over metal). Such conflicts, inconsistencies and contradictions remain hidden as long as we keep things vague: a "partial priority" that "shields". Keeping things vague simply does not help. Instead, we need to consider in detail what rules and tests to apply. The full recipe has to be spelled out. The anonymous commenter of earlier today is worried that the "shield" idea is "keeping things vague" and so will not help. I don't follow. Early in his post he envisages the partial priority shield as one that protects against "certain intermediate documents" that are asserted as Art 54(3) novelty attacks. That is not how I envisage the "shield" at all. For me there is no shield other than the imaginary one that wards off Art 54(3) novelty attacks that come from your own priority document. For all other Art 54(3) attacks, it is "as you were". No change in the law of Art 54(3) EPC whatsoever. I fail to see how the shield idea keeps things vague. It seems to me to be, on the contrary, a crystal clear way to eliminate the burgeoning vagueness, whether or not your very own priority document can be a fatal novelty attack. I wonder, Tim Jackson, do you see the shield different from me? As long as one spells out what it really means, "shielding" is not vague. If one does not spell it out, it tends to mean different things depending on the criticism it is exposed to. For me there is no shield other than the imaginary one that wards off Art 54(3) novelty attacks that come from your own priority document. For all other Art 54(3) attacks, it is "as you were". No change in the law of Art 54(3) EPC whatsoever. That is a good solution and similar to what I have proposed (novelty attacks cannot be based on 54(3) prior art that is disclosed with the same date in the EP itself). Your solution (novelty attacks cannot be based on 54(3) prior art that is disclosed with the same date in a priority document) might be preferable. (With mine, a divisional that claims the genus and does not disclose the species would still be killed by the parent that discloses the species.) In my view your solution does change the law of Art. 54(3), as it removes certain disclosures from the prior art under Art. 54(3). I do not consider your solution to be based on "partial priorities". You're not assigning different dates to different parts. Thanks for that. Pointing out the difference between the Tufty Approach and the one you advocate is important. There is no mention in the EPC or the Imp Regs of anything called a "shield". If the EBA is now going to create one, to stop the nonsense of self-collision under Art 54(3) EPC between patent family members that all declare the same filing and priority dates, it has to get there from the EPC. One way is to perform a "notional" splitting of the claim, into a part that takes priority from the prio doc and another part that doesn't. Another way is to excise patent family members from the 54(3) prior art universe. Given that there is nothing new in the concept of assigning different dates to different "parts" of a single claim, I prefer to purge the poison using Tufty's notional claim splitting rather than an EBA re-write of Art 54(3) EPC. I'm glad to think I'm not assigning different dates to different parts of the claim. It seems to me that I am, but I don't really mind which of us is right on that because, in the case of colliding family members, it is all notional anyway. Of course, in the case of colliding cases that are not members of the same family, the claim splitting is real and has somehow to be accomplished. Often tricky, frequently not possible. But, free of any requirement to find words available and effective, a splitting that is no more than notional is always possible. But if the EBA reasons via a partial priority approach to eliminate poisonous divisionals, then that same approach will also be applicable in other situations, and in particular it will lead to "metal" being found new over "metal" as in my example. I don't see how the EBA could ever argue that the partial priority approach may be applied where it gives a result that is "desirable" (no poisonous divisionals) and not where it gives a result that is ridiculous. In my opinion, the clean solution is to excise exactly those disclosures from the 54(3) prior art universe that hurt. Those are the disclosures of subject-matter having a particular date that is disclosed in a priority document with the same date (or, alternatively, that is disclosed in the application as filed with the same date). This also takes care of simultaneously filed identical applications that are not family members (because they disclose subject-matter that has the same date as identical subject-matter in the priority document or application as filed). As justification for creating the rule the EBA could argue that Art. 54(3) clearly was not intended to let the priority document and/or the application itself be detrimental for novelty of the application. This solution involves an element of law making, but the EBA does not do anything else in G 1/03. @MaxDrei (still same anonymous here): I'm glad to think I'm not assigning different dates to different parts of the claim. It seems to me that I am, ... Different priority dates for different parts would mean that certain disclosures would be prior art for one part (because of their date), but not for the other (again because of their date); that is how priorities work (G 3/93). This is not the same as excising certain disclosures from the 54(3) prior art for the whole claim. In my view, different priority dates for different parts also necessarily implies that the two parts are examined for novelty and inventive step independently (the whole claim being new and inventive precisely if each part is new and inventive). This is because it makes no sense to examine inventive step of the claims as a whole in view of, for example, a combination of documents D1 and D2 where D1 is prior art for some parts of the claim and D2 is prior art for other parts of the claim. So the "notional" splitting is in fact a very real splitting when it concerns the examination of novelty and inventive step (and should therefore have a 123(2)-basis in the application as filed). Thanks for those last two mails. I regret my haste yesterday in posting before reading very carefully what the auto-correct had written for me. I intended "I'm glad you think....." but what I posted was "I'm glad to think....". Most unfortunate and confusing. Sorry about that. The way I see it, self-collision is a 54(3) issue, so we are spared wrestling with dire Art 56 consequences if the EBA takes up the "shield" idea. You envisage zealous attorneys using the shield in non-family situations. But I imagine an EBA opinion which creates a narrow shield defence against self-collision with wording that effectively shuts off its spread to situations where the sword is a non-family Art 54(3) document. There seems to be little between us. Whenever a TBA decides against me, I leave the room unhappy, and keen to read in the written decision where the Board went wrong. When I get the decision in writing, however, I sometimes have to concede that the decision is not bad. So, here, I look foirward to an EBA opinion which I can agree is not bad. We both just want an elegant solution that works, I think. One that increases legal certainty and doesn't harm it. The Cat that Walks by Himself Monday, 31 August 2015 at 19:14:00 BST Re MaxDrei: Perhaps he means that my priority document, which under Art 54(3) EPC is effective to destroy the novelty of your later-filed application for the same subject matter, shall be deemed not to destroy the novelty of any claim of my own patent application. The thing is though, my application, unlike yours, does contain a declaration of my own priority date. That declaration is the "shield" that Tim Jackson so helpfully mentions. I've got one, and you haven't. That's all there is to it. Indeed, I had in the mind a similar situation. Let's say: Applicant A: copper at P1. Let's say Applicant A does not have an enabling disclosure for metal as genus at P1. Applicant B: metal, in particular copper at P2. Applicant A: metal, in particular copper at P3. P3 later than P2 later than P1. If I would follow your "shield" reasoning, I would have to give a patent for 'metal' to Applicant A, who is not a first inventor to file 'metal'. It is like declaring as a winner in the 4×100m relay the team that has won first 100m... Cat, I am grateful for your hypothetical but do not agree with your conclusion. It seems that we have different ideas what constitutes the shield. What I say is: no divisional, no shield. This is late in the evening, and written in haste, but here goes. A was first to file (on date P1) with an enabling disclosure of copper. He is entitled to a claim to copper. B's Art 54(3) enabling first disclosure of metal was filed (P2) before A's (later, on date P3). It therefore destroys the novelty of A's claim to metal. For me then, B can have his claim to metal, provided he disclaims copper. Now imagine that there is no B. Instead, A files a divisional, with claims that are not entitled to date P1 but with a scope that embraces copper. Absent the "shield" proposed in these columns, the P1 enabling disclosure of copper destroys the novelty of any such claim. I think that's wrong. I think that the validity of the claim should be judged as of its date P3 and if there is any intermediate filing by B, such as the one you suggest, that first enabling filing on metal, by B, is definitely novelty-destroying for A. One invokes the "shield" only against the fatal "auto-immune" disease brought on by the A-publication of your very own priority document. I do not see your reasoning. Will you give us more? If the applicant were to withdraw the priority doc before publication it would not be 54(3) prior art as was standard practice in the UK. A rebel Proof of the pudding Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 10:51:00 BST It seems that there is a concern that approaching novelty under Article 54(3) using the "Tufty" approach to partial priorities (notional separation of the claim into two alternatives). For example, as others have pointed out, "metal" (as notionally separated into "copper" and "metal, but not copper") might then be deemed novel over an earlier disclosure of "metal". However, for at least two reasons, such a concern should not rule out a common sense approach to partial priorities. Due to length restrictions, I will deal with these two reasons in separate comments. The first reason is that the salami-slicing approach to achieving novelty over a "generic" disclosure can produce equally absurd results when the separation into alternatives is real (as opposed to just notional). For example, consider the following situation in which A1 is Article 54(3) prior art against A2: A1 discloses "metal" A2 discloses both "copper" and "metal, but not copper". Can A2 legitimately claim both of the alternatives that it discloses? I presume that many of those commentators who have raised concerns about "notional" splitting of claims would think so. If so, is the root cause of the concern expressed by those commentators really to do with partial priorities? I think not. As I have previously stated, novelty of selection is another beast entirely from partial priorities - and, in my view, is a problem that also needs to be tackled by the Enlarged Board. But I digress. The most important point will follow in my next comment, which explains how I believe that novelty can be assessed in a situation of partial priority. The concept that I am envisaging for assessing novelty in a situation of partial priority can perhaps be explained by an analogy involving battleships. Let's imagine that: - the disclosures of each document together represent a battleship that is plotted on a two-dimensional graph; - all battleships are aligned parallel to the x-axis and are spaced apart (on the y-axis) in date order; - each battleship has a length and position (on the x-axis) that is determined by the (breadth of) the subject matter disclosed; - all battleships have an array of guns spread out along their entire length, which guns can fire only in lines parallel to the y-axis and then only in one direction (i.e. towards ships that are "later" on the y-axis); - all ships fire their guns in strict date order; - guns fired from ships representing priority documents only destroy guns on an "enemy" ship; - for the purpose of assessing novelty, any gun fired from an Article 54(2) or (3) document that hits an "enemy" ship will sink that ship. Now, with this analogy in mind, what happens with the situation where: - an application claims "metal" but has priority only for copper; and - there is an intervening disclosure of "metal"? The answer is that the priority ship (which fires first) knocks out the guns of the intervening disclosure, but only along the portion of that ship that relates to "copper". The intervening disclosure ship then has guns left that it can fire, relating to the subject matter that has not been knocked out (i.e. the portion of "metal" that does not relate to "copper"). When it fires its guns, it sinks the application ship (though not a life raft on the ship that represents a fall back claim to "copper"). Thus, in this way, it is possible to view the claim to "metal" as an uninterrupted whole whilst still assigning multiple priorities to different embodiments covered by the claim. The analogy can be pushed further too. When it comes to assessing inventive step, one could imagine a fresh set of guns being able to fire at various angles relative to the y-axis (depending upon the angles that those on the intervening disclosure ship would think of setting). Thus, an intervening disclosure of "copper" might not sink a "metal" application ship when firing for novelty, but could when firing for inventive step (if the intervening disclosure is Article 54(2) prior art for "metal"). The approach to partial priority that I have outlined (i.e. assigning priority to some, but not all, embodiments covered by a claim) appears to me to be completely consistent with the Paris Convention. For example, as discussed in G2/98: "The possibility of claiming multiple priorities was introduced into the Paris Convention in order to avoid improvements of the original invention having to be prosecuted in applications for patents of addition. This makes it clear that ”element” was not understood as a feature but as an embodiment" The trouble that I have with G2/98 is that the phrase "a limited number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters" appears to have no basis in the EPC, the Paris Convention or the legislative intent behind either. I have previously argued that the intent behind the Paris Convention rules out refusal solely upon the grounds of self-collision (between divisionals). Why, therefore did the Enlarged Board chose language that leads to that absurd result? And what does "clearly defined" mean? Defined where? In the application or the priority document? Or is it OK if the alternatives only emerge by comparison of the two? Would we not be better off if the Enlarged Board had instead indicated that partial priority can be awarded for disclosures of a priority document that represent embodiments of the later claim? This would seem to deal with the tricky issue behind G2/98 (i.e. because it would not represent an embodiment of a broader "AND" claim in the priority document, a more narrowly-defined "AND" claim would not be entitled to the priority date). It would also seem to avoid the problem of self-collision (e.g. because the later, narrow claim could be afforded priority for those embodiments from the priority document that still represent embodiments of the invention as more narrowly defined). I can only hope that the Enlarged Board is brave enough to step out of this particular corner that they have painted themselves into. Anonymous Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 01:06:00 BST We both just want an elegant solution that works, I think. One that increases legal certainty and doesn't harm it. We seem to agree on the end result. To get there, I think the EBA needs question 5. I see two ways: - declare that certain (poisonous) disclosures don't count as prior art under 54(3), or - reason that claim splitting would be allowable via a G 1/03-disclaimer (this is problematic in view of point 4.7 of G 2/10, but that could be overruled). If the claim can be split to get two valid claims that precisely cover the original claim, there should be no need to actually perform the split. In my view the "shield" should only remove P1 (copper) from the 54(3) prior art, because the application (or, alternatively, the priority document) discloses copper with the same date as P1. (So I agree with MaxDrei.) But these are not absurd results. If the split is real (i.e. has a basis in the application as filed), the applicant can actually formulate separate claims. Separate claims indisputably have to be examined separately for novelty and inventive step. So if both claims are new and inventive, the applicant can have both. What is happening here is that the applicant benefits from a limitation that is disclosed in the application as filed, which is perfectly fine. What would be absurd is if the applicant could have the same benefit from a notional limitation not having any basis in the application as filed. If your proposal somehow "fixes" the "absurd" results of real splits, then it will likely make it impossible to render a claim novel by introducing a further limitation. Do you realise that? I have previously argued that the intent behind the Paris Convention rules out refusal solely upon the grounds of self-collision (between divisionals). Not a chance! The drafters of the PC had no knowledge of Art. 54(3). The best your argument will do is explain why Art. 54(3) should be interpreted as ruling out self-collision. Why, therefore did the Enlarged Board chose language that leads to that absurd result? Self-collision is caused by an unforeseen interaction between Art. 54(3) and 89 EPC, not by G 2/98. That a particular approach to priority (or to Art. 123(2)) possibly might have masked it is a different matter. I assume that by "embodiment" you mean some kind of atomic particle covered by a claim. In chemistry such claims and corresponding embodiments might exist, but in general they do not. More importantly, prior art disclosures often disclose "clouds" of embodiments instead of atomic particles. This is why your partial priority approach goes wrong when confronted with prior art disclosing "metal". The EBA in G 2/98 got this completely right. You do not agree that, as has been pointed out above, there are simple solutions to poisonous divisionals that do not require a complete rewrite of the case law on novelty, the disclosure test, and priorities (a rewrite that likely is impossible to get both consistent and sensible anyway)? Proof of the pudding Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 08:09:00 BST Anon 2 Sep 01:06 - if you do not see arbitrary salami-slicing (and effective double patenting) as an absurd result, then you and I will have to agree to differ. The patent system is intended to reward innovation. There is nothing "innovative" about arbitrarily dividing up a genus into different parts. I therefore see no reason why a second patent - providing up to an additional 18 months' protection - should be awarded in such circumstances. Anyway, I really don't think that you have read my previous comments correctly. I was not proposing a solution to the problems with the novelty of selection - just merely highlighting that the concerns raised over notional splitting of claims were a red herring and should not prevent a solution to self-collision being sought in the interpretation of partial priorities. MaxDrei Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 08:26:00 BST I'm impressed. If I knew what name by which to salute that last anonymous, posting very early this morning, I would do so. Well said, and even before that, well thought through, madam or sir! Thank you. By the way, are we not now in times when contributers should cough up a pseudonym? This one is prompted by the comment from Pudding earlier this morning. I see now what it is that troubles him/her: the spectre of 18 months of "double patenting". I never did understand why so many people inside the EPO get their knickers in a twist over this supposed evil. Does it trouble the patent judges, the litigants, thie legal advisers? Not much, if at all. Art 54(3) is in the EPC for quite another reason, namely to adjudicate priority between rival filers, each of which is inventive over the 54(2) state of the art and sincerely believes himselöf to be the very "First to File" and therefore entitled to a patent. In return for all the official fees they have paid, you could simply dole out patents on the same invention to each of these 18 month span petitioners. That really would be "double patenting" or triple or quadruple or whatever. There is a well-known patent attorney retired from service in an oil company, who gives training courses and puts up a slide to show how nine oil companies all hit on the same invention within 18 months of each other and then filed on it. All of them! Each thought it was going to get a pre-emptive monopoly. In the monumental scrap over who would get what, many of they filed cascades of divs. Even before self-collision of patent family members was invented, a huge task, to settle what claims each rival Applicant can take to grant. Hence 54(3), to adjudicate between these rival filers. Compared to what's obvious, what is novel is relatively clean-cut, b&W issue, thank goodness. I am OK with EPO law on 54(3) apart from the nonsense of self collision. I am OK with EPO law on "novelty of selection" and OK with "distinctly different invention" as the litmus test for divisionals. What's not to like, in EPO Art 54 jurisprudence? Only 54(3) self-collision of patent family members. Robin Jacob again. Observe the Americans, learn from them, but don't copy their mistakes. In their new statute, the AIA, 54(3) art is good for obviousness attacks. Talk about turbo-charging First to File. Not content with harmonising with the Rest of the World to First to File, the Congress has to make it a typically American "Winner Takes it All" second filer gets zilch system. Is that what we want (specially when we are acting for a party other than the one with the most elderly filing date)? I think not. Pudding, do I do you wrong? Would you like to respond? @ Anon 2 Sep 01:06 Not really, no. I can see why "exempting" divisionals from Article 54(3) might help, but I cannot see any legislative basis for providing such an exemption in the law of novelty. Also, would you extend the exemption to priority documents that are published EP applications (or PCT applications that have entered the EP regional phase)? If not, then what you present as a "cure" for self-collision is only a partial cure at best. On the other hand, partial priorities may well provide a complete cure. The basic concept would be to award partial priority to any disclosure of the priority document that represents an embodiment of the invention as defined in the claim of the application that is under consideration. (Just to clarify, by "embodiment" I simply mean anything that, relative to the terms of the claim under consideration, is more precisely defined - i.e. anything from an "atom" to a (narrower) "cloud".) I have seen nothing written so far that persuades me that it would not be possible to approach partial priority in this way. To my mind, if a disclosure of a document is capable of destroying novelty it is surely equally capable of giving rise to a right of (partial) priority. Applying partial priorities in this way requires nothing other than jettisoning (or re-interpreting) some rather unfortunate language from G2/98 ("a limited number of number of clearly defined alternative subject-matters"). This would appear to be the simplest and cleanest solution possible - as not only does the problematic language appear to have no clear basis in the legislation, but a more generous interpretation of partial priorities arguably has solid basis in the (legislative intent behind) the Paris Convention. With partial priorities potentially providing such a clean, compete and effective solution (which solution does not require the invention of some kind of special exception), you can perhaps understand why I am not tempted to look to Article 54(3) for a cure to self-collision. Max - I just believe that the bargain with the public that underpins the patent system demands a meaningful, technical contribution to the art before a patent can be awarded. The effective re-claiming of the same whole that has been arbitrarily divided into pieces just does not seem to me to meet that demand. In any event, this is all a diversion from my main point about partial priorities. This is not only because is it unlikely that the kind of effective double patenting that I am envisaging will leave the realm of the hypothetical, but also because I do not believe that it is necessary to notionally split a claim into different parts in order to assess novelty in a situation of partial priorities. I refer you to my analogy above involving battleships. Pudding - There is no "evergreening" - additional 18 months - if the later item must draw to the earlier item, for the clock even for the later item runs not with its filing, but from the earlier filing. Max - The "choose a pseudonym" timeline is September 8 - as has been mentioned at least twice now. Pudding, you exhort me to get into your notional array of battleships. So I went back to it and tried again. I still don't "get" it. Sorry. You tell me that each battleship has a length along the X axis that is determined by the "breadth" of the subject matter it discloses. I don't like equating scope of claims with enabling disclosure. Very often, applicants Claim wider than they enable. I assume then, that you mean "disclosure that is enabled". I suppose that each functioning gun on deck is an enabling disclosure (what I called above a balloon-puncturing "needle"). So might some ships have only one gun, or even no gun at all? But then I read that even when a gun is functioning, it is capable of hitting only enemy ships. You seem to have come up with that rule out of whole cloth. The military have an expression "friendly fire". Our problem is that, on the face of it, Art 54(3) allows friendly fire. So how do we stop it? Not just by simply announcing that friendly fire is forbidden. The military has tried that already, and it doesn't always work. Let's instead invent a bullet-proof vest that deflects friendly fire but is no defence against the guns of other parties. That way, we can leave all other aspects of present 54(3) jurisprudence undisturbed. Agreed? Max - Yes, the "breadth" along the x-axis is determined by the enabled disclosure (i.e. a disclosure that is capable of destroying novelty - or giving rise to a right of priority). However, I did not say that guns could not fire at "friendly" ships. It is just that the illustration that I gave did not involve "friendly fire" (as it was supposed to merely illustrate why "metal" with a partial priority for "copper" would not be novel over an intervening disclosure of "metal"). For divisionals, the analogy needs to include a further assumption. That is, we would need to imagine that the "priority" boats fire first and can hit the guns of an identically positioned "prior art" boat. If the "priority" boats truly are identical to the "prior art" boats (which they should be in the case of divisional applications), then the latter would be left with no guns left to fire. Which means no Article 54(3) issue for the "application" ships. Problem solved, n'est-ce pas? As you can see, this should work perfectly when the (enabled) disclosures that count as Article 54(3) prior art are identical to the disclosures that give rise to a right of partial priority. This is because any priority-entitled disclosure in the application (i.e. a disclosure that has the potential to destroy the novelty of your claim) is "neutralised" by the fact that your claim is entitled to partial priority for precisely the same subject matter. You can advocate your special "exemption" for divisionals under Article 54(3), if you wish. However, as that only does half a job, I would much rather stick with my alternative that seems to get the whole job done. Suppose the application discloses: - a composition comprising X, - a composition comprising X and Y, - a composition comprising X but not Y. The application originally claims a composition comprising X. A regular (non-poisonous) Art. 54(3) document discloses a composition comprising X and makes no mention of Y. What do you do if the applicant replaces his single claim with two claims: 1. a composition comprising X and Y. 2. a composition comprising X but not Y. Both claims 1 and 2 are now new over the document disclosing "a composition comprising X". Together these claims give protection for "a composition comprising X". I see no way around it, and I see no problem with it. The applicant benefits from having disclosures of the two alternatives in the application as filed. The patent system is intended to reward innovation. There is nothing "innovative" about arbitrarily dividing up a genus into different parts. Art. 54(3) does not require innovation but only novelty. The split is not arbitrary, as it has a basis in the application as filed. Art. 54(3) is intended to avoid double protection, but it is an imperfect tool. If the earlier application claims metal and the later application claims copper, Art. 54(3) does not prevent a patent on the claim to copper, even though that claim protects many embodiments already protected by the earlier claim on metal (if granted). I can see why "exempting" divisionals from Article 54(3) might help, but I cannot see any legislative basis for providing such an exemption in the law of novelty. Also, would you extend the exemption to priority documents that are published EP applications (or PCT applications that have entered the EP regional phase)? I don't propose to exempt divisionals. I propose to exempt any 54(3) disclosure of subject-matter with a particular date that is identical to subject-matter with the same date in the application itself. Allowing such subject-matter to be cited under Art. 54(3) would make a European application be novelty destroying for itself, which is so ridiculous that a legal basis for not allowing it is hardly needed. So: if the application discloses copper with a certain priority date, then a 54(3) disclosure of copper with that date cannot be cited against the application, no matter whether you find that disclosure in the application, in a divisional, some other kind of family member, or even a completely unrelated EP. There are just two small steps to take: (1) recognise that actual self-collision is not allowed under Art. 54(3), this identifies the subject-matter / date combinations that are "poisonous"; (2) extrapolate to arbitrary documents disclosing such subject-matter with the same date. Another justification for this surgery can be found in G 1/03. In that decision, the EBA looked at Art. 54(3) and argued that if an earlier application only partially covers a later application, the rights to what is not covered belong to the applicant of the later application. To achieve that, the EBA allowed the introduction of a disclaimer (without any legal basis btw). The solution is not complete, as the disclaimer is not allowable if it "becomes relevant for the assessment of inventive step or sufficiency of disclosure". This is to prevent the applicant from benefiting from the disclaimer, which after all has no basis in the application. In a case of self-collision, the rights to what is not covered by the earlier disclosure (i.e. metal minus copper) should still belong to the applicant. If we allow a disclaimer, the applicant can get both copper (provided it is disclosed in the application!) and metal minus copper (thanks to the disclaimer). The limitations of the disclaimer solution are now still present, but we can easily remove those by allowing the applicant to join the two parts in one claim to "metal" having the filing date as effective date. There is then no way the applicant can benefit from the undisclosed disclaimer and there is consequently no need to make the solution dependent on the absence of certain prior art. If we now look back at what this (virtual) disclaimer approach achieves, we see that it nicely removes the disclosures from the prior art under 54(3) that I have outlined above. Or put another way, having a disclosure of "copper" in the application with a particular priority date protects against any 54(3) disclosure of copper with the same date (in the sense that those disclosures are not citable under 54(3)). This approach requires "copper" to be disclosed in the application itself (and not only in the priority document), which is why I prefer my approach over MaxDrei's (who proposes to let disclosures in the priority document act as shields). Hmmm, it seems this G 1/03 approach could also protect against 54(3) disclosures of copper having a later date than the priority date of copper. If we accept that (I'm undecided), it becomes similar to a partial priority approach, EXCEPT that it does not disturb the examination of novelty and inventive step with respect to other 54(2) and 54(3) documents. That is exactly what we should want. With partial priorities, you change the prior art that can be cited against various parts of the claims, which gets messy (think of inventive step attacks based on a combination of documents and try to avoid an advantage from the undisclosed notional limitation). The Cat the Walks by Himself Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 12:06:00 BST You've reminded me school times when we played Battleship game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game) Patent attorneys, supporters of XY approach, can train their partial priority skills here: http://en.battleship-game.org/ Coming back to the subject, the more I think about the partial priority issue the more I like the idea that a divisional application for the purpose of 54(3) EPC test should be treated as a third party application. In other words, I think that "shielding by own priority application" would lead to double patenting and other uncertainties related to the first to file principle. MaxDrei Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 13:26:00 BST Cat's last posting suggests that there are people out there who really do disapprove of divisionals. Perhaps they lament the cancellation of the 24 month cap on the time available for filing a divisional. I can understand that view. There are applicants who file divisionals, one generation after another, so as always to have "something pending" at the EPO right up to the end of the 20 year patent term. This strikes many as an abuse. And probably it is! But if it is an abuse, where's the harm? Given a strict approach under Art 123(2) EPC (and it certainly is a given), what progress can an Applicant make with his cascade of ever-pending divs. Take the Medinol stent case, for example. Multiple generations of divs, DG1 allowing them every time, despite the prohibition on divs to inventions that are not distinctly different. But every time the owner asserted them, the involved court threw the complaint out, telling the patent owner to come back only when he has a patent that has survived EPO opposition proceedings under Art 100(c) EPC added matter). Priority documents poisoning their own one year later filed family members really is a mischief. By contrast, divisionals as such, and directed to distinctly different inventions that were fully disclosed already in the PCT as filed, are not an abuse but only a fair way to deliver to a deserving Inventor, with reasonable legal certainty, a scope of protection that is commensurate with their contribution to the art. The Cat that Walks by Himself Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 15:39:00 BST @ MaxDrei Priority documents poisoning their own one year later filed family members really is a mischief Allright, how about the following test: Applicant A: a specific priority embodiment at P1. Hypothetical Applicant B: genus embodiment at P2. Applicant A: genus embodiment at P2. Test: if B would be allowed to disclaim, then A is entitled to partial priority. Anonymous Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 20:30:00 BST @Cat that Walks by Himself: The solution I propose would let subject-matter with a particular date in the application itself "shield" the application against 54(3) disclosures of that same subject-matter with the same date (in the precise sense that those disclosures cannot be cited against the application under Art. 54(3)). Alternatively, one could let subject-matter in the priority document shield the application in a similar manner. (This is not a "partial priority" solution, as a priority-based solution would necessarily affect novelty under both 54(2) and (3) and inventive step.) How would this lead to forms of "double patenting" that are not already possible now? Could you give an example? Cat I'm not understanding your point. What I see is that both A and B file on one and the same date P2 an enabling disclosure of a Genus. However, A declares an earlier filing date P1, for a species within the genus. So A is entitled to a patent on the Genus including the species whereas B can have a patent for the Genus only if its claims disclaim A's species with earlier date P1. It works out different though, if A files a divisional and allows it to go to A publication. Because then (thanks to 54(3) self-collision) A can no longer have a claim to the Genus, in either the parent or the divisional. This is because any such claim is entitled only to P2 and the other of A's A publications (with its P1 enabling disclosure of the species) destroys its novelty of the claim to the Genus. Why should the mere step of filing a divisional and taking it to A publication change what A can substantively claim? Given all that, not in dispute, what are you driving at, please, in your last line? The Cat that Walks by Himself Friday, 4 September 2015 at 09:36:00 BST @MaxDrei Applicant B is hypothetical, only for the purpose of the test. I compare Situation I: Situation II: The test that I suggest treats all applications with priority date P2 as third party applications. If in Situation II, Applicant B would be allowed to disclaim a specific embodiment of P1, then, in Situation I, Applicant A is entitled to partial priority for the specific embodiment of P1. The idea behind is that patentability of all applications with later date P2 is evaluated in the same way agains an earlier specific embodiment of P1. MaxDrei Friday, 4 September 2015 at 10:19:00 BST Be that as it may, Cat, I want now to say that I work in engineering cases rather than chemical ones, so all this Genus/Species terminology is not fitting, and leaves me feeling uncomfortable. Take my typical situation. Inventor tells the story, I draft and we file. Inventor continues to work on the invention. Time to draft the PCT. We look at what the inventor brings new to the table, since we filed the priority document, and we map it on to the priority document. In describing the funnelling means, for example, we should better have used the word "receive" rather than "contain" and "tapering" rather than "conical". In general, and sadly, I often find that, despite my best endeavours on behalf on the inventor, I could have phrased more felicitously, this that or the other passage in the priority document, the better to express more accurately, precisely and clearly the contribution the inventor's invention has given to the art. BIG PROBLEM: do I change the wording of the priority document or not? If I do, the public benefits (and that after all is the point of it all, isn't it). But if I change the wording, might my clientrend up with no protection at all, purely because of Art 54(3) EPC and self-collision. As you know, more or less ANY change of wording, after PCT filing, is greeted with a 123(2) objection, that subject matter has been added. Any change before PCT filing is just as scary because then my claims are deemed to be unworthy of Paris priority. The likelihood of 54(3) art from another party is low. I can factor that into the risk assessment. If it happens, we have a priority competition and for that contest the rules have been well-understood since 1978. It's difficult, but it cannot be made any easier. At least it is less exhausting than declaring an interference between the two rival Applicants. Fortunately, it doesn't happen that often. It is a bit like the attitude expressed in G3/14 on the subject of poor clarity after issue. It's going to happen, from time to time. Tough though. We have to live with it. The courts can cope. I like that pragmatism. But back to self-collision. Filing divisionals is an everyday matter, more than likely to happen than a priority contest between rival filers. After the EPO gives me the results of its first class search it could very likely be that my most ambitious claims are no longer tenable. Then, with self-collision, I find all my claims, in both parent and divisional, and however narrow their scope, all blown away, and this simply because in the PCT I made the big mistake of defining the invention in words more accurate and clear than those I used in the priority document. What has Genus and Species terminology to say to us, in this situation? It is all very well those inside the EPO pontificating, that they have no sympathy, that all Applicant difficulties are self-imposed by incompetent drafting. Just learn to draft, they say, and all will be well. What do they know though, about the real world of drafting in the engineering arts, where it's all about choosing the words that are the most apt and fit for purpose. They should try it sometime. Self-collision! It ain't fair. It ain't right. Are you listening, EBA? Something should be done about it! Anonymous Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 10:05:00 BST The EBA, in point 4 of G2/98, determined, through contrary interpretation of Article 4H of the Paris Convention, that the priority for a claim can be refused pursu¬ant to the provision of Article 4H of the Paris Convention if “elements” of the “invention” for which priority is claimed are not disclosed in the priority applica¬tion. On the other hand, according to the provision of Article 4F of the Paris Con¬vention, it is not possible to refuse a priority on the ground that an application contains “elements” that are not included in the priority application. In order to concurrently satisfy these two provisions that are conflicting at first glance, it is necessary to understand “element” not as a “feature” but as an “embodiment.” However, this logic ignores an important prerequisite prescribed in the text of the Paris Convention. The EBA states, at the beginning of its reasoning, that “a claim, i.e. an ‘element of the invention’ within the meaning of Article 4H of the Paris Convention. . .” therefore, the logic is developed based on the prem¬ise that “claim” and “element of the invention” are the same concept. As it is understandable from the statement “priority . . . is to be acknowledged, if the sub¬ject-matter of the claim is specifically disclosed . . .,” the EBA argues about the validity of priority only for a claim. In addition, the subject matter of a priority is, as a given, limited to an “invention,” as it is stated in the middle of the reasoning that “according to Article 4H of the Paris Convention, an invention for which prior¬ity is claimed need not be defined in a claim of the application whose priority is claimed. . . .” However, in the text of Article 4H of the Paris Convention, is the subject matter of a priority necessarily limited to an “invention”? A key to solving this question is hid¬den in a linguistic problem. The official text of the Paris Convention is in French, and according to Article 29 of the Paris Convention, in case of differences of opinion on the interpretation of the vari¬ous texts, the French text shall prevail. Then, it is obvious in terms of grammar that, in “certains éléments de l’invention pour lesquels on revendique la priorité” in French text of Article 4H of the Paris Convention, the antecedent, which re¬sponds to relative pronoun “lesquels” in relative clause “pour lesquels on re¬vendique la priorité,” is not “l’invention” but “éléments.” Seen from this perspective, EBA’s limited interpretation of “element” as “embodiment” is a misunderstanding that was made based on the English text, in which it is ambiguous whether the an¬tecedent of relative pronoun “which” in relative clause “for which priority is claimed” in the provision of Article 4H of the Paris Convention is “invention” or “elements.” Therefore, it is significantly questionable to recognize such inter¬preta¬tion as justifi¬able (there may be cases where “element” is one of the choices of invention such as “embodiment,” but ele¬ment is not limited to “embodiment,” and it is natural to ordi-narily understand “element” as “feature” of the invention). Article 4H of the Paris Convention pro¬vides that “element” of the invention may become subject to priority, and it is a provision that forms a prerequisite for the multiple priority sys¬tem and the partial priority system. How¬ever, the EBA inter¬preted the provision in a twisted way. Anonymous Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 13:08:00 BST EBoA Opinion G3/93, for the first time, argued about the validity of priority only for a claim. The EBoA instructed as follows: “The corresponding Article 4, Section A(1), Paris Convention, makes no mention of the subject-matter of the subsequent application. It is generally held that the subsequent filing must concern the same subjectmatter as the first filing on which the right of priority is based [cf. R. Wieczorek, Die Unionspriorität im Patentrecht, Koln, Berlin, Bonn, München 1975, p. 149; G.H.C. Bodenhausen, Guide to the Application of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as Revised at Stockholm in 1967, Geneva 1968, at Article 4, Section A(1), sub (i)].” Anonymous Wednesday, 6 July 2016 at 15:40:00 BST But, at footnote 10 of p.156,Wieczorek says “Enthält die Nachanmeldung gegenüber der Erstanmeldung einen erfinderischen Überschuß, so liegt Erfindungsidentität dennoch vor, wenn dieser Überschuß für jeden Fachmann naheliegend war, also keine eigene Erfindungshöhe besitzt”. Furthermore, at p.70, Wieczorek says “Klarzustellen bleibt noch, daß Teilprioritäten immer nur innerhalb einer Anmeldung, nicht aber innerhalb einzelner Ansprüche einer Anmeldung vorkommen können, denen als kleinster Einheit der geoffenbarten Erfindungsgedanken immer nur eine einheitliche Priorität zuerkannt werden kann”. Anonymous Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 13:50:00 BST With regard to G.H.C. Bodenhausen, Guide to the Application of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the actual statement at Article 4, Section A(1) is as follows: The subsequent filing must concern the same subject as the first filing on which the right of priority is based. This means that in the case of patents, utility models or inventor’s certificates it must concern the same invention or innovation. . . . Moreover, with regard to patents, special rules concerning the identity of the subject are given in Sections F, G and H of Article 4. These provisions will be commented upon below. Furthermore, Bodenhausen explains multiple priorities and partial priority as stipulated in Article 4F of said Convention as follows: It frequently happens that an invention is not immediately complete, so that, even after a patent application has been filed for it, improvements or additions are found which are made the subject of other patent applications. The Convention makes it possible to claim, in one and the same later application in other countries of the Union, separate (multiple) priorities for the different parts of the invention, based on the various first applications made in respect of each of those parts, provided, of course, that these various applications are filed within the term of priority counted from the first application. …… It frequently happens that, after a first application for a patent has been filed, subsequent applications in respect of the same invention for which the priority of the first application is claimed contain elements of the invention which were not present in the first application and which either no separate patent application has been filed in time to claim multiple priorities or no separate patent application will be filed at all (for example, because the added elements do not, in themselves, have an inventive character). 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Iris hub not discontinued, no new hub in sight. By Steve White | April 18, 2015 A few weeks ago Lowe’s was blowing out the old hubs for $5 with the rumored intent to clear out the old stock before the release of the new hub. Well, so much for that theory, the old hub has recently been re-released under a new SKU and the new hub is nowhere to be seen. Excitement has been building for a new hub since it was first hinted at by Lowe’s Kevin Meagher last August. “It will be in our next hub.” When, I asked? “Late Q1 of 2015.” Asked and answered! Source: NextMarket Insights Come and gone. Obviously a statement made off-the-cuff during an interview can hardly be considered absolute, however it was still encouraging to hear it from the person who is directly responsible for the future of Iris. The Iris platform is almost 3 years old and while there have been updates to it since, most have minor adding support for a handful of new devices. Iris has fallen very far behind competitors like Wink, SmartThings, and Staples Connect who offer systems which are more flexible and support a wider range of devices. So, why is a new hub so important? The current hub is missing newer technologies such as Bluetooth LE (low energy) and Insteon, while existing technologies like Z-Wave have seen updates which are not present in the current hardware. Support for modern devices is also anemic compared to competitors; a limitation that may or may not be due to the older hub hardware. The bottom line is that the Iris platform has become stagnant and outdated. The promise of a new hub offers those heavily invested into Iris hope that Lowe’s is committed to not only supporting Iris but growing it into the system that it was meant to be. iris hub new hub ← New $49.99 Iris Hub at Lowes.com Hub Update 4.06r05 status; possible Alarm problem? →
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Smart Cities Tracker Place Profile Data In News Mapping India News in Numbers IT snag trips NSE July 11, 2017 hilnews Leave a comment What is it? The duration for which trading at India’s largest stock exchange, National Stock Exchange (NSE), was halted on Monday. Why is it important? This is the longest ever halt in trading at NSE, which has dominant market share in equity derivative market in India. This comes ahead of NSE’s plans to list, which has already been delayed by an investigation due to its December disclosure that some of its traders may have been given unfair access to its servers. Tell me more: Both NSE Nifty and BSE Sensex rose to record highs of 9,771.05 and 31,715.64, respectively on Monday. Rs 4.59 lakh crore What is it? The total central government expenditure between April-May this year, 54% higher compared to corresponding numbers last year. Why is it important? Advancing of budget by a month this year has helped government departments to spread out expenditure. Likely to aid economic growth as private investment, the main driver of GDP growth, has remained anemic so far in 2017. Government spending accounts for 10% of India’s GDP. Tell me more: The capital expenditure in the April-May period was Rs 52,536 crore, up 58.1% from the corresponding period in the previous fiscal. What is it? The number of people affected by cholera in Yemen in the last 10 weeks, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Why is it important? This is the worst cholera outbreak in the world, with 7,000 new cases and 1,700 deaths so far. The outbreak is due to the civil war between the pro-government forces and the rebel Houthi movement. With no electricity, a broken water system and only 45% of the hospitals operational, the situation isn’t likely to improve anytime soon. Tell me more: There are between 21,000 and 143,000 cholera deaths out of 1.3 million to 4 million cases each year. Cholera can be successfully treated with oral re-hydration solution. What is it? The number of pilgrims on this year’s Amarnath Yatra killed on a bus in a terror attack on Monday night, in Kashmir’s Anantnag. Why is it important? This is the second deadliest terror attack on the pilgrims, after the massacre in 2000. The pilgrims were caught in a crossfire and were travelling past the stipulated pilgrimage travel deadline of 7 pm, after which security cover is withdrawn daily. Tell me more: The terrorists had started firing blind after facing retaliatory fire from a police check post and security personnel’s vehicle nearby. The bus carrying the pilgrims was not part of the official Amarnath tour and was not under the beefed up security protection arranged this year. >Rs 2,000 crore What is it? The claim for compensation filed by SpiceJet’s erstwhile promoter, Kalanithi Maran, chairman and managing director of Sun Group, from the low-cost airline. Why is it important? This was filed before the Delhi High Court tribunal which is deliberating on a share transfer dispute between Maran and the airline’s current owner, Ajay Singh. The claim stems from SpiceJet’s inability to issue convertible warrants and preference shares to Maran and his firm, KAL Airways. Tell me more: The tribunal, last week, directed SpiceJet to pay Rs 250 crore in cash deposit and Rs 229 crore in bank guarantee to Maran for the same. As part of the tribunal hearings, it was also divulged that Singh bought 58.46% stake in the airline for a sum of Rs 2. Amarnath Anantnag central government expenditure cholera India GDP International Committee of the Red Cross KAL Airways Kalanithi Maran Kashmir National Stock Exchange NSE SpiceJet Sun Group terror attack Yemen News in Numbers, Feb 03, 2017: 2G scam’s half a dozen February 3, 2017 hilnews Leave a comment What is it? Number of those acquitted, including erstwhile telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and two companies, in two different cases on the Aircel-Maxis 2G deal, by judge, OP Saini, at the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Delhi on Thursday. Why is it important? The efforts of the CBI and Enforcement Directorate, probing the wide-ranging offences in India’s 2G scam, took a beating with the exoneration. Maran was mired in the controversial spectrum allocation, favouring Aircel, and brokering a deal in Aircel for Maxis since 2010 onwards. In one of the cases, there was an alleged money-laundering of Rs 742.58 crore in kickbacks, by two companies South Asia FM and Sun Direct TV. The other involved criminal conspiracy of pressurising one of Aircel’s promoters to sell his stake to Malaysian Maxis Group. Tell me more: The others acquitted include Maran’s brother Kalanithi, Kalanithi’s wife Kavery Kalanithi, South Asia FM (SAFL) Managing Director K Shanmugam and the companies SAFL and Sun Direct TV. What is it? Number of states in the US where federal judges have objected, in part, to president Donald Trump’s executive orders for restricting entry to people of seven nationalities and refugees. Why is it important? Trump’s move is not only inviting widespread protests but also facing legal challenges by federal judges in the country. Most of them are taking up parts of the order as challenged by cases brought to them by affected parties. US District Judge Andre Birotte Jr followed four other instances to limit the order issued last Friday to bring relief to plaintiffs in a case. But he widened the sphere of his ruling by including anyone from the seven countries with a valid immigrant visa to the US, unlike the earlier rulings Tell me more: Reports claim that immigration/customs officials were ignoring the judges’ earlier orders by refusing access to the detainees who had moved court. At the same time, the Trump administration tweaked their’s to allow green card or valid US permanent residence holders to enter, irrespective of nationality. What is it? Number of warheads on China’s recently-tested long-range missile. Why is it important? A flight-test in January is being seen as China flexing its military muscles, even though its nuclear stockpile might be smaller than United State’s traditional rival, Russia. The missile, DF-5C, is clear evidence of China increasing its nuclear arsenal. Its warhead count has likely gone up from the estimated 250. Not just over trade relations with the US, China has also had recent disagreements over its military activities in the South China Sea. Tell me more: Chinese state television had broadcast another nuclear missile, DF-41’s deployment and strike path into the US last week. What is it? Amazon.com’s international losses in the fourth quarter, ended December 31. Why is it important? It increased by four times year-on-year. The business arm, which includes Amazon’s India concerns, grew 18% to $ 13,965 million but could not keep losses at bay. Last month, Amazon India’s FY15 losses were found to be Rs 1,724 crore, rising by five times. The perseverance of the US-based e-commerce company goes to show its deep pockets as it is prepared to dig its heels in a promising market by advertising and discounting aggressively. Tell me more: While its North America and cloud Amazon Web Services arms posted profits, this was its international business’ biggest operating loss. In many of its international markets, Amazon also offered its Prime Videos at no additional cost to its Prime members, streaming original content that it had produced. What is it? The listing price of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on rival bourse, the National Stock Exchange, on Friday. Why is it important? The shares listed at a premium of 34.6% of its IPO issue price of Rs 806. Investor faith in the stock of the world’s 10th-largest and India’s largest bourse gets reiterated by its debut, as it beats the 5-15% premium that analysts expected it to launch at. It reflects the 51.22 times oversubscription of its IPO in January. Tell me more: At 10:30 am, it was trading at Rs 1,119.50. 2G kickbacks 2G scam Aircel Aircel-Maxis Amazon India Amazon loss Amazon Prime members Amazon Prime Video Amazon revenue Amazon Web Services Amazon.com Andre Birotte Jr Bombay Stock Exchange BSE CBI CBI court Central Bureau of Investigation Central Bureau of Investigation court Chinese warheads Dayanidhi Maran DF-41 DF-5C K Shanmugam Kalanithi Maran Kavery Kalanithi Maxis National Stock Exchange NSE OP Saini South Asia FM South China Sea Sun Direct TV test flight US District Judge Andre Birotte Jr US executive order US federal judges US immigrant visa News in Numbers – September 10, 2015 September 10, 2015 hilnews Leave a comment News In Numbers: September 10, 2015 Rs 50 lakh The amount the National Stock Exchange (NSE) has been fined by the Mumbai High Court in a defamation case it had filed against financial news website Moneylife. The bourse filed a Rs 100 crore defamation suit against Moneylife following an article written by Sucheta Dalal alleging that NSE staffers were leaking sensitive information related to high-frequency trading, which helped a select set of investors to trade faster than their competitors. Despite repeated requests by Moneylife, NSE did not participate in the story. According to Hoot, a media watch website, there were 21 instances of defamation cases and legal notices being filed by politicians, business houses, lawyers, former judges and media houses to book publishers, advertisers, other media houses and journalists in 2014. Share of revenue Infosys expects to earn by way of acquisitions of the total 2020 target revenue of $20 billion. The Bengaluru-based IT firm is working towards a 30% operating margin and $80,000 revenue per employee in another five years. In 2014-15, Infosys earned $8.7 billion in revenue. Quoting the way Accenture and Cognizant have acquired other companies, Vishal Sikka, managing director and chief executive of Infosys, said they need to do something similar without copying them. The company has made two acquisitions this year. Since the beginning of 2015, Accenture has acquired nine companies. 1.9 percentage points The amount by which global corporate profits as a share of global GDP will fall by 2025, according to a new study by McKinsey, the consulting firm. According to McKinsey, the share of corporate profits as a share of world GDP was 9.8% in 2013. By 2025, this will fall to 7.9% due to a range of factors. Increased competition as firms in emerging markets continue to expand beyond their borders is one major reason. Another reason, McKinsey says, is the fall in labour costs and interest rates observed over the last few decades is unlikely to continue. According to a survey conducted by the Indian government, over a fifth of the toilets it has constructed are non-functional and effectively beyond use. The government has built 6 crore toilets. Chaudhary Birendra Singh, Union Rural development minister, said a change in mindset was needed to make people use toilets. The government is aiming to do away with open defecation under the Swachh Bharat mission by 2019. Over half a billion people in India – or 59% of the 1.1 billion people in the world — still defecate in the open, according to the World Health Organization. The number of Indian railway stations Japan will help India redevelop by sending an official mission to “study the opportunities for industries”. Besides this, Japan has agreed to participate in Indian railways’ investment plan of $140 billion in the next five years and engage in technology cooperation for modernising and upgrading Indian railways. 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**Course maps Students who commenced study in 2016 should refer to this course entry for direction on the requirements; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course. Monash University > Publications > 2016handbooks > Prospective students Bachelor of Science Advanced - Global Challenges (Honours) Undergraduate - Course Commencement year This course entry applies to students commencing this course in 2016 and should be read in conjunction with information provided in the 'Faculty information' section of this Handbook by the Faculty of Science. Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year. BScAdvGlblChal(Hons) CRICOS code Managing faculty Dr Rowan Brookes Telephone: +61 3 9905 4604, email: sci-enquiries@monash.edu or visit http://monash.edu.au/science/current/undergraduate/help/ Admission and fees Find a CourseFind a Course (http://www.study.monash/courses/find-a-course/2016/S3001) Single degree Bachelor's entry-level honours Standard duration 4 years FT Full-time study only. Students have a maximum of four years to complete this course including any periods of intermission. Mode and location On-campus (Clayton) This course requires students to undertake two internship placements, one of which must be completed overseas. Award/s The Bachelor of Science Advanced - Global Challenges (Honours) includes all the elements of the Bachelor of Science, together with formal training in leadership and persuasive communication, and hands-on practice in transforming an idea into a business or social enterprise. Fundamental to the program is an in-depth exploration of the big issues of our time. You will explore approaches and pathways to potential solutions, and think deeply about the qualities underpinning effective leadership and how to implement change. In your final year, you will partner with external organisations and tackle a problem of real world significance. The course includes two internships at least one international that provide significant experiences in government, business, or a social enterprise such as a placement in an NGO, contributing in a corporate outreach project, or shadowing a CEO. This course is breaking new ground in science education in Australia. Throughout the course you will be encouraged to develop professional relationships and mentors with the Science Faculty alumni and the broader community. As a graduate of this course you will have access to all the traditional careers of Science honours graduates, and also be well prepared for further studies. You will enter the workforce equipped to grow into a leader capable of exploiting science to address complex challenges. You will have the necessary knowledge and skills to be attractive to top management consultancies, businesses and institutions. Whatever path you decide to take, you will be able to use your broad-based training, learning and experiences as a launch pad to making significant contributions to improving the human condition. These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 8, the Bologna Cycle 1 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 8, the Bologna Cycle 1 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html). Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to: demonstrate advanced knowledge and technical skills in one area of science, and a basic understanding of at least one science discipline other than the one in which they specialise analyse some of the big challenges of our time, and appreciate the impact individuals can have in addressing them listen, understand, and communicate persuasively to a variety of audiences, using a variety of formats and working effectively with media apply critical thinking, analysis, evidence gathering, and entrepreneurship and leadership skills to examine challenges, and to develop, implement, and report effective solutions apply multicultural literacy to work across and with government, academic, private and public-good enterprises, and society demonstrate understanding of the importance of leadership, social responsibility, ethics and mentoring to success. Students must complete two approved internships. One of these will be international and include travel overseas. These internships will involve a placement in government, business, or a social enterprise, contributing in a corporate outreach project, or shadowing a CEO. This is an advanced comprehensive course. It includes all the requirements of the Bachelor of Science, with additional study that addresses the learning objectives relating to global challenges. The additional study commences in year one, develops throughout the course and culminates in a major project in the fourth year. The course is structured in four parts: Science specified study, Science listed major, Free elective study and a substantial Impact through science project. Part A. Science specified study This study has two components. The first component will expose you to several science disciplines contributing breadth to your understanding of science and giving you the opportunity to learn more about several disciplines before finalising your choice of major. It will also provide you with the mathematical or statistical foundation for your study of science and address the nature of science and its communication. The second component will provide you with the skills to use science to address complex global challenges, to lead and inspire others and to convert your ideas into tangible solutions. Part B. Science listed major This will provide you with practical and theoretical skills and knowledge of a science listed area of study. You will learn to develop, apply and communicate an advanced level of understanding of the concepts and theoretical frameworks that constitute the knowledge base of the discipline. Part C. Free elective study This will enable you to further develop your knowledge of your major area of study, or science more broadly. Alternatively you can select units from across the university in which you are eligible to enrol. Part D. Impact through science project This will be the culmination of your degree utilising and synthesising the skills built over the first three years of the course. During your honours project you will form a partnership with an external organisation to tackle a meaningful real world problem. The course is structured in four parts: A. Science specified study (78 points), B. Science listed major (48 points), C. Free elective study (18 points) undertaken in the first three years, and D. an Impact through science project (48 points) in the final year. This includes a minimum of 78 points of science listed study over Part A and Part B. In choosing your 78 points of science listed study over Part A and Part B, you must ensure that you complete five of these units (30 points) at level 1 and eight units (48 points) at levels 2 and 3, with a minimum of four (24 points) at level 3. It is recommended that you complete level 1 sequences first as these lay the foundation for further study. You must also ensure that across the whole course, you complete no more than 10 level 1 units (60 points). You must complete two approved internships. One of these will be international and will include travel overseas. These internships will involve a placement in government, business, or a social enterprise, contributing in a corporate outreach project, or shadowing a CEO. To remain in the program you are required to maintain at least a distinction average (70 per cent) across all units in each calendar year. If you do not achieve this average you will be required to transfer to S2000 Bachelor of Science. In addition, in order to progress to the fourth year, you must normally complete 144 credit points, including the six levels 1 to 3 Impact through science units. You must also achieve a minimum of a distinction average (70 per cent) in 18 credit points of level 3 units in the relevant science discipline and the level 3 Impact through science units. If you successfully complete the first three years (144 points) of the course but do not meet the academic standard hurdle for the fourth year, you will graduate with the Bachelor of Science. The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-s3001.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study. Units are 6 points unless otherwise stated. Part A. Science specified study (78 points) Although the requirements in Part A appear to exceed 78 points, a level 1 sequence is typically counted towards your major (Part B) and not towards this Part. a. Students complete: At least two level 1 approved science sequences (24 points) from the following list. Normally, the units in a level 1 sequence are required for the completion of your selected major. The choice of level 1 sequences will influence your choice of level 2 and level 3 units and lay the foundation for your major. One pair of: BIO1011 Biology I and BIO1022 Biology II BIO1011 Biology I and BIO1042 Environmental biology CHM1011 Chemistry I and CHM1022 Chemistry II CHM1011 Chemistry I and CHM1052 Chemistry II advanced CHM1051 Chemistry I advanced and CHM1022 Chemistry II CHM1051 Chemistry I advanced and CHM1052 Chemistry II advanced FIT1045 Introduction to algorithms and programming and FIT1008 Introduction to computer science Earth, atmosphere and environment EAE1011 Earth, atmosphere and environment 1 and EAE1022 Earth, atmosphere and environment 2 Geographical science ATS1310 Extreme earth! Natural hazards and human vulnerability and ATS1309 The global challenge ATS1310 Extreme earth! Natural hazards and human vulnerability and EAE1022 Earth, atmosphere and environment 2 MTH1020 Analysis of change and MTH1030 Techniques for modelling MTH1030 Techniques for modelling and MTH2010 Multivariable calculus MTH1030 Techniques for modelling and MAT1830 Discrete mathematics for computer science MTH1030 Techniques for modelling and STA1010 Statistical methods for science Note 1: Students with a strong mathematics background and an interest in the subject could replace the units MTH1030 and/or MTH2010 with their advanced versions MTH1035 and/or MTH2015 respectively. Students will need to seek permission to enrol in these units at the Science Student Services office. One pair of PHS1011 Classical physics and relativity and PHS1022 Fields and quantum physics PHS1080 Foundation physics and PHS1022 Fields and quantum physics PHS1031 Physics for the living world and PHS1022 Fields and quantum physics PSY1011 Psychology 1A and PSY1022 Psychology 1B b. 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Two units (12 points) from the following: ECC1000 Principles of microeconomics* ECC1100 Principles of macroeconomics* ACC1200 Accounting for managers ATS1325 Contemporary worlds 1 MON2005 Law in professional contexts MGX3100 Management, ethics and corporate governance* * Note 3: Students will need to seek permission to enrol in these units at the Science Student Services office. e. Any additional level 2 or level 3 science units required to take the total of science listed units to 78 points over Part A and Part B. Science listed units are chosen from the following: units listed under any major, extended major or minor offered in the Bachelor of Science SCI3910 Schools science project. Part B. Science listed major (48 points) Students complete a Bachelor of Science major. A major requires eight units with no more than two units at level 1 (12 points) and at least 18 points at level 3. 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A Wiki of Ice and Fire Forum of Ice and Fire Blood of Dragons MUSH Houses of Westeros Geograpy Alysanne Targaryen From A Wiki of Ice and Fire Alysanne by Amok© Good Queen Alysanne[1] The little maid[2] The other daughter[2] Princess[3] Queen[1] Crownlands In 36 AC[3], at King's Landing[4] In 100 AC[5], at King's Landing[4] King Jaehaerys I Targaryen Aegon Targaryen Aemon Targaryen Baelon Targaryen Alyssa Targaryen Maegelle Targaryen Vaegon Targaryen Daella Targaryen Saera Targaryen Viserra Targaryen Gaemon Targaryen Valerion Targaryen Gael Targaryen The World of Ice & Fire (mentioned) Fire & Blood (mentioned) The Sons of the Dragon (mentioned) The Rogue Prince (mentioned) The Princess and the Queen (mentioned) A Storm of Swords (mentioned) A Feast for Crows (mentioned) A Dance with Dragons (mentioned) The Sworn Sword (mentioned) Queen Alysanne Targaryen, also known as Good Queen Alysanne, was the queen consort of her brother, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. Alysanne was a dragonrider whose mount was Silverwing. 1 Appearance and Character 2.1 Youth 2.2 Early marriage 2.3 First royal progress 2.4 Early challenges 2.5 Progress to the North 2.6 Motherhood 2.7 First and Second Quarrel 2.8 Final Years 3 Recent Events 3.1 A Storm of Swords 3.2 A Dance with Dragons 4 Quotes by Alysanne 5 Quotes about Alysanne 6.1 Ancestors 7 Behind the Scenes Appearance and Character See also: Images of Alysanne Targaryen Alysanne was a small woman,[6][7] slim of waist and slight of frame.[2] According to a semi-canon source, she was small of breast, with a long neck, a fair complexion, a high forehead, and high cheekbones.[8] Alysanne was described as "pretty", but seldom as "beautiful" She had blue eyes and honey-colored curls,[2] which according to a semi-canon source, turned white as snow in old age. She wore it in a bun, pulled back and pinned behind her ears.[8] Additionally, age left crow's feet around her eyes and laugh lines about her mouth, although her face never lost its strength.[8] Alysanne became thin and frail after the death of her son Aemon in 92 AC, and began to have difficulty in climbing hills. After she broke her hip in 95 AC, she walked with a cane. Further, as she aged, her hearing began to fail, and she became too unsteady to fly.[7] Alysanne was bright but unremarkable as a young girl. She was courteous and biddable, and had a sweet smile and a pleasing voice. As a child, she was neither timid nor did she have a willful and stubborn temperament.[6] According to Lord Rogar Baratheon, Alysanne was a proud girl at the age of thirteen.[6] She was considered to be gentle, kind and loving.[6] Alysanne loved her subjects, both highborn and lowborn,[7] and was well loved throughout the Seven Kingdoms in return.[9] She loved her women's courts, where she listened to and learned from the women of the realm. She loved music, dancing, reading, and flying on her dragon.[7] She was a fearless woman.[7] According to a semi-canon source, Alysanne was a fine archer and hunter in her youth, and became renowned for her charities.[8] Later in life, it was said that Alysanne had learned to read before she had been weaned. According to Septon Barth, she would have been sent to the Citadel, had she been male. She had a great wit, and all the chronicles agree that she made a powerful impression on those who met her.[2] Alysanne was high-spirited, charming and keenly intelligent.[9] Lord Roose Bolton considers Alysanne to have been shrewish.[10] George R. R. Martin has stated that "You might consider Alysanne as the Eleanor of Aquitaine of Westeros, and model her on Katherine Hepburn's portrayal of Eleanor in the film The Lion in Winter." Alysanne often wore a slimmer, more feminine version of her brother-husband's crown at court.[8] Alysanne was born to Prince Aenys Targaryen and Lady Alyssa Velaryon in 36 AC. She had four older siblings - Rhaena, Aegon, Viserys, and Jaehaerys - and one younger sibling, Vaella.[11][3] According to legend, her sister Rhaena placed a dragon egg in Alysanne's cradle, from which eventually the dragon Silverwing hatched.[3] In 37 AC, following the death of her grandfather, King Aegon I Targaryen, on Dragonstone,[12] her father Aenys ascended the throne.[13] Followers of the Faith of the Seven began an uprising after King Aenys I married Alysanne's two eldest siblings, Rhaena and Aegon, to one another in 41 AC. After Poor Fellows scaled the walls of the Red Keep in an attempt to murder the royal family, Alysanne fled with her family to Dragonstone.[13] By the end of the year most of the realm had joined the side of the Faith, and King Aenys, unable to decide how to deal with the rebels, fell ill. In 42 AC, he collapsed when learning that Rhaena and Aegon were besieged at Crakehall, and died three days later.[13] Alysanne was present on Dragonstone for her father's cremation.[3] Following Aenys's cremation,[13] Dowager Queen Visenya Targaryen brought her son Maegor back from his exile. At Dragonstone, Maegor claimed the Iron Throne for his own, ignoring the claim of Alysanne's eldest brother Aegon. Before he could arrive, however, Alysanne's mother took her and her brothers Viserys and Jaehaerys to Driftmark. Late that year, they traveled to King's Landing for the wedding of King Maegor I to Tyanna of the Tower. Following the wedding, Alysanne, Jaehaerys, and their mother were kept on Dragonstone, prisoners in all but name, by Dowager Queen Visenya, while Alysanne's brother Viserys was kept in King's Landing by Maegor.[3] Alysanne, Jaehaerys, and Dowager Queen Alyssa escaped Dragonstone in 44 AC, in the chaos following Visenya's death.[14] As the realm slowly began to turn against Maegor, Alysanne's only brother Jaehaerys put forward his claim for the throne, as their elder brothers had both died during the years before; Aegon had been killed in battle by Maegor in 43 AC, Viserys had been tortured to death by Maegor in retaliation for the escape of Alysanne, Jaehaerys and Alyssa from Dragonstone.[14] Alysanne stood beside Jaehaerys as he vowed to end Maegor's reign at Storm's End. Following Maegor's mysterious death in 48 AC, Alysanne, Jaehaerys, and their sister Rhaena flew on their dragons to King's Landing to claim the Iron Throne for Jaehaerys.[3] Alysanne would serve as a counselor to her brother throughout his reign. She urged him to allow the five surviving knights of Maegor's Kingsguard to join the Night's Watch, instead of executing them. When Jaehaerys allowed it, four of five took the black.[15] Alysanne was one of many of the royal court who accompanied Jaehaerys to Oldtown in late 48 AC, where she attended his coronation in the Starry Sept.[15] The next year, Alysanne entertained the noble ladies who came to visit King's Landing for the wedding of her mother, Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon, to Lord Rogar Baratheon.[2] Early marriage Following Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon and Lord Rogar Baratheon's Golden Wedding, the small council began to debate about potential spouses for Jaehaerys and Alysanne. Still recalling the uprising of the Faith that had followed the wedding of her children Rhaena and Aegon, Alyssa decreed Alysanne and Jaehaerys should not be wed to one another, and after Septon Mattheus agreed that such a marriage would likely again inflame the pious of the realm, the council agreed to find other spouses for the siblings. The council was quick to agree on a husband for Alysanne: Ser Orryn Baratheon.[2] The wedding of King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne on Dragonstone, as depicted by Douglas Wheatley in Fire & Blood. Alysanne soon learned about the council's decision. According to some, a servant who had been present for the council's discussions warned her, while others claim that it had been her uncle, Lord Daemon Velaryon. Alysanne informed Jaehaerys, who acted immediately, ordering his Kingsguard to discreetly travel to Dragonstone during the night, while he and Alysanne flew together to the island upon their dragons. On Dragonstone, Alysanne and Jaehaerys were married in secret, with Septon Oswyck performing the ceremony. As Jaehaerys refused to consummate the marriage, believing Alysanne to still be too young, Alysanne remained a maiden. Lord Rogar and Queen Alyssa arrived on the island soon after the wedding. Upon learning that the marriage had not yet been consummated, Rogar ordered his men to secure the two children, but was defied by the Kingsguard, who formed a wall in front of their king and queen. While Alyssa and Rogar departed, defeated, Alysanne and Jaehaerys remained behind on Dragonstone, where they would spend the rest of the king's minority, spending nearly every hour in each other's company.[2] Although they had the means to do so, Alysanne and Jaehaerys did not announce their marriage to the realm. Meanwhile, the king's council at King's Landing made no announcement either, but instead began to consider ways to undo the marriage.[2] On the seventh day of the second moon of 50 AC, several ladies-in-waiting departed King's Landing to Dragonstone on the orders of Dowager Queen Alyssa. Although Alyssa sent them under the cover of serving her daughter and being her household, their true purpose was to try and persuade Alysanne to rescind her marriage. Lord Rogar approved his wife's plans, as he wanted eyes and ears on Dragonstone, and saw these women as an opportunity to learn all Jaehaerys was doing. Despite her youth, however, Queen Alysanne charmed all her ladies-in-waiting, who soon became completely loyal to her.[6] On the twentieth day of the ninth month of 50 AC, Jaehaerys came of age.[6] He flew his dragon to King's Landing to claim the throne soon thereafter, while Alysanne remained on Dragonstone. She followed him nigh on half a year later, flying from Dragonstone to the Red Keep on Silverwing. A month later, Alysanne and Jaehaerys married in a small, public ceremony; this time the ceremony was followed by a consummation.[16] First royal progress The attempted assassination of Queen Alysanne at Jonquil's Pool, as depicted by Douglas Wheatley in Fire & Blood. Main article: Royal progress In 51 AC, a pregnant Alysanne accompanied Jaehaerys on his first royal progress, touring the crownlands. At Duskendale Alysanne held the first of her famous women's courts, where she heard women of all ages and births bring her their fears, hopes and consternations. These courts would be held every time the queen visited a castle, town or city. The progress continued to the riverlands, where Alysanne and Jaehaerys eventually arrived at Maidenpool. There, the pregnant Alysanne wished to bathe in Jonquil's Pool. Jaehaerys's Doctrine of Exceptionalism had won over most of the pious in the realm, but not all. Some of the women who tended Jonquil's Pool believed that the pool's sacred waters would become polluted if the queen, pregnant with the king's "abomination", were to enter the waters. While she was inside, Alysanne was attacked by three of these women with daggers. As only women were allowed in the bathhouse, Alysanne was accompanied only by her maids and septas, who did not hesitate to protect Alysanne by stepping between Alysanne and her would-be assassins. Their shouts alarmed the two Kingsguard knights who stood outside, who burst in and slew two of the attackers, sparing the third for questioning. Under questioning, the remaining would-be assassin revealed the names of half a dozen more in the order who had helped plan the assault. Lord Mooton hanged the guilty women of the order, and planned to hang the innocent ones as well; Alysanne convinced him otherwise.[17] Alysanne returned to King's Landing, where she remained until she went into early labor in 52 AC, giving birth to a son, who died three days after being born. Alysanne blamed the early birth and subsequent death of her child on the women who had attacked her at Jonquil's Pool at Maidenpool, believing that if she had she been allowed to bathe in the pool and its healing waters, her babe would have lived. Alysanne insisted that she needed a female protector, who could accompany her in places where men were not allowed to go. As such, Jaehaerys sent a raven to Duskendale to summon Jonquil Darke, who was subsequently appointed as Alysanne's sworn shield.[17] Early challenges A young Queen Alysanne and King Jaehaerys with their son Prince Aemon as depicted by Magali Villeneuve in The World of Ice & Fire. When the High Septon passed away in 54 AC, Alysanne and King Jaehaerys I Targaryen flew to Oldtown on their dragons, accompanied by Jonquil Darke and Ser Joffrey Doggett. There, they hoped to influence the election the new High Septon. In this they succeeded. They visited several castles on their way home. While at Blackhaven, Alysanne and Jaehaerys learned that their pregnant mother, Alyssa Velaryon, was on her deathbed. Alysanne and Jaehaerys immediately flew to Storm's End, where they arrived in time to see their mother before she died delivering a daughter.[17] That same year, after several of close friends of Rhaena Targaryen were poisoned on Dragonstone by Rhaena's husband Androw Farman, Alysanne traveled to the island in an attempt to comfort her sister. Instead, Rhaena attempted to send her away on three occasions. When Alysanne refused to leave, Rhaena retreated to her chambers, while Alysanne met with her niece, Aerea, who begged Alysanne to take her back to King's Landing with her. Alysanne brought Aerea's request to Rhaena, who refused coldly, stating that Rhaena had nothing and Alysanne had everything, but would not have Rhaena's daughter too, concluding that "you have my throne, content yourself with that". Alysanne left soon after.[17] After Aerea had escaped Dragonstone atop Balerion, Alysanne prayed daily for her, blaming herself, but mostly Rhaena, for Aerea's flight. In 55 AC, Alysanne, together with Septon Barth, Grand Maester Benifer, and Lord Albin Massey, began to aid Jaehaerys with codifying, organizing, and reforming all the kingdom's laws. The project would take decades. That same year, Alysanne traveled to Dragonstone where she gave birth to Aemon. Alysanne was displeased when Jaehaerys began to refer to Aemon as his heir, as she believed their daughter Daenerys should be the first in line for the throne, as she was the eldest of the two. Although Jaehaerys would always reply that Daenerys would be queen when she wed Aemon, the answer never truly pleased Alysanne.[5] In 56 AC, Balerion suddenly appeared at King's Landing with the severely ill Princess Aerea on his back. As Grand Maester Benifer and Septon Barth attempted to save her, Alysanne and Jaehaerys stood vigil outside the chamber.[5] The next year, Alysanne supported Septon Barth's plan of constructing wells, pipes, tunnels, and cisterns to provide King's Landing with fresh, clean water. Barth pointed out to Jaehaerys that the defouled river water was the only source of water for the smallfolk, suggesting his plans would provide the smallfolk with clean drinking water instead. When the king and his master of coin, Rego Draz, balked at the costs, Alysanne served them a tankard of river water and challenged them to drink it. Instead of drinking the water, the king and his master of coin approved the construction of the fountains, which would become known as "the queen's fountains".[5][9] That same year, Alysanne gave birth to another son, Baelon, just before spring broke.[5] Progress to the North In 58 AC, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen planned to visit the north on a royal progress together with Alysanne, intent on visiting Winterfell. However, when Jaehaerys was detained at King's Landing, Alysanne suggested she could go on the progress as planned to prevent Lord Alaric Stark from taking offense, with Jaehaerys catching up with her as soon as possible. As such, Alysanne traveled upon the back of Silverwing to White Harbor, with the royal retinue later joining her by ship. At White Harbor, Alysanne was hosted by Lord Theomore Manderly. She held a women's court at Lord Manderly's hall, where two hundred women laid their grievances before her. A tourney was held in her honor, and Alysanne's sworn sword Jonquil Darke sparred with a wildling woman during the event, much to the approval of the northmen. Next, Alysanne traveled to Winterfell, where she was coldly received by Lord Alaric Stark. However, due to the queen's charm and wit, he warmed to her during her stay, while Alysanne in turn grew close to Alaric's daughter, Alarra Stark. According to Archmaester Gyldayn, Alysanne grew restless of waiting for Jaehaerys at Winterfell and decided to travel to Castle Black at the Wall.[5] Bran Stark however, claims that Alysanne grew bored only after Jaehaerys had arrived at the north, and flew to the Wall while Jaehaerys discussed matters with his Warden of the North.[1] According to Bran Stark and his bastard brother Jon Snow, Alysanne stayed in several local villages while flying north. One such establishment, Queenscrown, changed its name following Alysanne's visit in her honor, and painted the merlons atop the holdfast golden to look like the golden crown she had worn during her visit.[1][18] During her time with the Night's Watch, Alysanne saw groups of wildlings when the Lord Commander presented her with his captives. She insisted on visiting other castles alongside the Wall as well. In addition, she attempted to fly Silverwing north beyond the Wall on three occasions. The dragon's refusal to go was troubling to Alysanne.[5] Alysanne suggested to the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch that the Nightfort, the oldest and largest castle at the Wall, which was too costly to maintain, be replaced with a smaller castle nearby. She used her own jewels (including her own crown) to finance the construction of the castle, which was named Deep Lake.[5] King Jaehaerys later sent men north to build the castle.[19] A statue of Alysanne was constructed in front of the castle. Furthermore, Alysanne pressured Lord Commander Burley to escort her to Mole's Town, where she held one of her women's courts amongst the whores who lived there.[5] Alysanne so admired the Night's Watch's bravery that she convinced Jaehaerys to double the amount of land held by the black brothers[1] after having reunited with him at Winterfell. Lord Alaric was not pleased by the notion of having to force his bannermen to give up parts of their lands, but Alysanne charmed him into doing so either way.[5] According to Maester Yandel, however, this granting of the New Gift was not taken well by all the Starks,[N 1] and Maester Yandel believes that this might have influenced Lord Ellard Stark's choice of support during the Great Council of 101 AC.[20] The Night's Watch, on the other hand, was grateful. To thank Alysanne for financing Deep Lake and winning them the New Gift, the Night's Watch renamed the castle Snowgate, dubbing it Queensgate in her honor.[9][21][18] From Winterfell, Alysanne and Jaehaerys traveled to Torrhen's Square and Barrowton, after which they returned to King's Landing.[5] Back at King's Landing, Alysanne made a plea before the small council. During her time in the North, she had heard tales from women during her women's courts concerning the first night, and the horrifying experience it was for the women who suffered through it. During the council session, with the help of Septon Barth, she convinced the king and his counselors, to abolish the right of the first night.[10][9][22][5] This became known as the second of Queen Alysanne's laws.[5] By this time, Alysanne was overwhelming loved by the people in the Seven Kingdoms, especially the smallfolk.[9] In late 58 AC, Alysanne attended the tournament held in celebration of King Jaehaerys's tenth year on the throne. She was crowned as the queen of love and beauty by the victor, Ser Ryam Redwyne.[5] The next year, the Seven Kingdoms were struck with a harsh winter and the deadly plague known as the Shivers. The plague lasted for more than a year and many succumbed to the disease, including Alysanne's daughter Daenerys, who died in 60 AC. Alysanne stopped attending council meetings for a while after this. Within two months of Daenerys's death, Alysanne discovered she was pregnant, and in late 60 AC gave birth on Dragonstone to another daughter, Alyssa, named after Alysanne's mother.[7] Other children followed during the next few years. In 62 AC, Alysanne gave birth to a daughter, named Maegelle. The next year, a son, Vaegon, followed, and in 64 AC another daughter, Daella. Two more daughters followed a few years later: Saera in 67 AC and Viserra in 71 AC. In 73 AC, Alysanne and Jaehaerys announced that their ten year-old daughter Maegelle would join the Faith of the Seven. That same year, Alysanne gave birth to another son, Gaemon. However, Gaemon was born early, and the labor was so long and difficult that the maesters feared for Alysanne's life. Although Alysanne recovered from the birth, Gaemon died within three months of his birth, in the early days of 74 AC. Three years later, Alysanne gave birth to her twelfth child, a son who she named Valerion. This labor was difficult as well, and as a result Alysanne was bedridden for half a year. Valerion himself was small and sickly, like Gaemon had been, and died the next year, a fortnight before his first nameday. Alysanne took his death with resignation and declared that she was more suited to be a grandmother now than a mother. Regardless, in 80 AC, during winter, Alysanne gave birth to her thirteenth and final child, Gael. Though small and frail at birth as well, Gael lived, to Alysanne's relieve and joy.[7] Alysanne became a grandmother for the first time with the birth of Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, the daughter of Alysanne's son Aemon and her half-sister Jocelyn Baratheon, in 74 AC. The marriage of her children Baelon and Alyssa yielded three additional grandchildren: Viserys, born in 77 AC, Daemon, born in 81 AC, and Aegon, born in 84 AC.[7] First and Second Quarrel In 80 AC, following threats made by King Jaehaerys I, Alysanne finally succeeded, after several failed attempts, in arranging a marriage for her daughter Daella, who was wed to Lord Rodrik Arryn in early 81 AC. After a year and a half of marriage, Daella wrote to Alysanne to inform her of her pregnancy, telling her mother that she was frightened and asking her to come. Alysanne flew to the Vale, arriving three months before Daella was due. Alysanne remained with Daella until she gave birth. Daella went into labor a fortnight too early, and had a long and troubled labor. Although her daughter, Aemma Arryn, was healthy, Daella soon fell ill and died. According to Archmaester Gyldayn, Daella’s death was the first hint of the rift that was to open between Alysanne and Jaehaerys, as Alysanne believed Daella had been pushed into marriage at too early an age, and blamed Jaehaerys for insisting their daughter was wed this young. Alysanne's older daughter Alyssa died in childbirth two years later.[7] In 84 AC, Alysanne and Jaehaerys learned that their daughter Saera had bedded three young knights. When Saera told her parents that she could wed all three of them, comparing herself to King Maegor the Cruel and his many wives, Jaehaerys had her confined to her bedchamber. Furious and ashamed, Jaehaerys was said to have stated more than once that "she is no longer my daughter". Alysanne agreed that Saera had to be punished for her actions, but argued for Jaehaerys to allow for her to redeem herself as well with soothing words. That night, however, Saera escaped the castle and fled to the Dragonpit, intent on stealing a dragon. As punishment, Saera was sent to Oldtown to serve the Faith of the Seven as a novice with the silent sisters. Saera escaped to Lys the next year, where she became a prostitute working in a pleasure garden. Alysanne despaired when she heard the news and proclaimed that the Lyseni had turned their daughter into a whore, Jaehaerys replied: "She always was", which further devasted Alysanne.[7] In 87 AC, Alysanne arranged the betrothal of her daughter Viserra to Lord Theomore Manderly. The night before she was to take ship, however, Viserra died in a drunken race through the city. In pain over the deaths of three daughters (Daella, Alyssa, and Viserra) in five years time, Alysanne begged Jaehaerys to bring Saera home, saying that she needed her daughter. Jaehaerys refused, however, and warned her against flying to Lys to retrieve Saera herself. Jaehaerys instead told her that "[Saera] is dead. bury her". This led to the couple's first big rift, which would last for two years, during which time Alysanne resided on Dragonstone while Jaehaerys traveled the realm. They were finally reconciled after their daughter Maegelle persuaded King Jaehaerys to reconcile with her. A fortnight later, both Jaehaerys and Alysanne finally returned to King's Landing.[7] In 92 AC, Prince Aemon, Alysanne's eldest son and the Prince of Dragonstone, was killed by a Myrish pirate on Tarth. When King Jaehaerys named Aemon's brother Baelon as the new Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the throne instead of Aemon's only child, Princess Rhaenys, there were some who voiced their objections. Alysanne, angered about the fact that Rhaenys was passed over on account of her sex, was the most prominent amongst them. The disagreement over Jaehaerys's decision led to the Second Quarrel, which began when Alysanne left for Dragonstone after telling Jaehaerys that, if he indeed believed women lacked the wit to rule, he had no need of her. Although they were reconciled again two years later, once more by their daughter Maegelle, they never agreed on the matter of the succession.[9][23] Final Years Alysanne in her final days on Dragonstone reminiscing about her happy youth on the island, as depicted by Douglas Wheatley in Fire & Blood. As she aged, the joys in Alysanne's life were slowly taken from her. In 93 AC, she flew Silverwing for the final time. Two years later, Alysanne slipped and broke her hip, and had to use a cane to walk thereafter. Her hearing began to fail, leaving her unable to enjoy music anymore, nor participate in discussions of the king's small council. Alysanne's youngest and most favored daughter, Gael, committed suicide in 99 AC. Gael's death broke Alysanne, for she had outlived all but three of her children (Baelon, Vaegon and Saera). No longer able to bear living at King's Landing and the Red Keep, Alysanne returned to Dragonstone, where she died on the first day of the seventh month the following year. She was cremated, and her ashes were interred either beneath the Red Keep, or on Dragonstone.[9][5][24] Jaehaerys outlived Alysanne by a few years. She had been his great love, and it was said that the grief caused by their parting hung over his court,[9] reducing him to a shell of the man he had once been.[25] After his death, he too was cremated, and his ashes interred with hers.[9][24] There is a sad song, "Alysanne", that may be about the queen.[26] The fleet of Stannis Baratheon, contains a war galley called Queen Alysanne.[27] Alysanne is remembered in Westeros with great love by the smallfolk. A Storm of Swords Jon Snow recalls a tale told to him by Old Nan, in which Jaehaerys and Alysanne traveled to Winterfell together in a great royal progress that contained six dragons.[18] As they travel north, Bran Stark tells Jojen and Meera Reed about Queen Alysanne and the New Gift. As they arrive at Queenscrown, Bran tells them the story from Old Nan about Alysanne's visit to the village on her way to the Wall, which Maester Luwin had mostly confirmed.[1] When Bran's bastard half-brother Jon Snow arrives at the village not long after, he tells the story to Ygritte.[18] Roose Bolton speaks of Alysanne with contempt when talking to Theon Greyjoy over her involvement in making the First night illegal.[10] Quotes by Alysanne A ruler needs a good head and a true heart. A cock is not essential. If your Grace truly believes that women lack the wit to rule, plainly you have no further need of me. [28] —Queen Alysanne to her husband King Jaehaerys shortly before the Second Quarrel My uncle Maegor was cruel, but age is crueler.[7] —Alysanne near the end of her life. The Mother Above loved my children more. She took so many of them away from me.[7] You will be a great king, even greater than your father.[7] —Alysanne's last words to her son, Prince Baelon. Quotes about Alysanne She was his most trusted counselor and his right hand.[8] No mother ever loved a child more.[7] —Grand Maester Benifer Valaena Velaryon Visenya Aegon I Rhaenys Orys Argella Durrandon Ceryse Aenys I Costayne Harroway Maegor I Rhaena Viserys Jaehaerys I Alysanne Vaella Jeyne Tyanna of Rhaella Aemon Baelon Maegelle Vaegon Daella Saera Viserra Gaemon Valerion Rodrik Various men Corlys Bastard sons Laena Laenor Aemma Viserys I Alicent Laena Velaryon Rhaenyra Aegon II Helaena Aemond Baela George R. R. Martin has compared Alysanne to Eleanor of Aquitaine, including Katharine Hepburn's portrayal in The Lion in Winter.[8] In one of the earlier drafts of the Targaryen family tree, dating circa 1998, Alysanne was displayed as the daughter of King Maegor I Targaryen. Not much later, however, George R. R. Martin changed the family tree and Alysanne became the daughter of King Aenys I Targaryen, Maegor's older brother, instead.[29] As a result of this change, Alysanne's husband, Jaehaerys I Targaryen, became her brother instead of her cousin. ↑ Earlier prints of The World of Ice & Fire, published in 2014, state that Lord Ellard Stark was the lord who had been forced to give up the New Gift. However, it has been confirmed that this is an error, and that the statement has been replaced by "the Starks were glad" in later prints, leaving it unknown for the time being which Stark had been the lord in question. In addition, Fire & Blood, published in 2018, state that the Lord of Winterfell at the time was Lord Alaric Stark, who had no living brothers at the time the New Gift was granted. It has been confirmed that George R. R. Martin wished for the granting of the New Gift to have been a point of contention that some scholars believe informed Ellard Stark's choice to back Laenor Velaryon in the Great Council, several decades later, leaving it unknown which Stark, from which time, objected to the granting of the New Gift. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 40, Bran III. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Fire & Blood, The Year of the Three Brides - 49 AC. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragon. ↑ 4.0 4.1 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Alysanne Targaryen. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 Fire & Blood, Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Fire & Blood, A Surfeit of Rulers. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 Fire & Blood, The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 So Spake Martin: Good Queen Alysanne and Rhaenyra (June 18, 2006) ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys I. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III. ↑ The Sons of the Dragon. ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon I. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I. ↑ 14.0 14.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Maegor I. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Fire & Blood, Prince into King - The Ascension of Jaehaerys I. ↑ Fire & Blood, A Time of Testing - The Realm Remade. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Fire & Blood, Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 41, Jon V. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 56, Bran IV. ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The North: The Lords of Winterfell. ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The North: The Wall and Beyond: The Night's Watch. ↑ The Sworn Sword. ↑ Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon—A Question of Succession. ↑ The Rogue Prince. ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 10, Sansa I. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 58, Davos III. ↑ Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon: A Question of Succession. ↑ asoiaf.westeros.org: The Book of Swords - The Sons of the Dragon SPOILERS (August 28, 2018) Royal consorts in Westeros Targaryens Consorts of the Iron Throne Visenya Targaryen (1–37)1 Rhaenys Targaryen (1–10) Alyssa Velaryon (37–42)1 Ceryse Hightower (42–45) Alys Harroway (42–44) Tyanna of Pentos (42–48) Elinor Costayne (47–48)1 Rhaena Targaryen (47–48)1 Jeyne Westerling (47–48) Alysanne Targaryen (48–100) Aemma Arryn (103–106) Alicent Hightower (106–129)1 Helaena Targaryen (129–130) Jaehaera Targaryen (131–133) Daenaera Velaryon (133–157)2 Daena Targaryen (161)3 Naerys Targaryen (172–c. 179) Myriah Martell (184–209)2 Aelinor Penrose (209–221)2 Betha Blackwood (233–259)2 Shaera Targaryen (259–262)2 Rhaella Targaryen (262–283)1 Consorts to claimants Rhaena Targaryen (42–43) Daemon Targaryen (129–130) Drogo (298) Hizdahr zo Loraq (300–present) Baratheons Cersei Lannister (283–298)1 Margaery Tyrell (300–present)4 Consorts to rival kings Selyse Florent (299–present) Margaery Tyrell (299)1 Independence movements Greyjoys, Kings of the Iron Islands Alannys Harlaw (289, 299)1 Starks, Kings in the North Jeyne Westerling (299)1 1 Survived as Queen Dowager. 2 Unknown whether the Queen outlived her King. 3 Marriage was annulled. 4 Outlived one king, but subsequently married his successor. 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*** Welcome to Mineral Classics! Friday, January 17, 2020... Our database contains 2821 specimens, encompassing 192 species... Please be sure to check out our new fully searchable database feature (click on the Search Site button on the left side of the screen) Spinels from Mogok, Myanmar (Burma) The area around Mogok is world famous for producing the finest crystals and gems of Spinel in the world. Many of these crystals have yielded the most impressive red "Ruby Spinel" gems ever found. Mogok is most likely the site of the discovery of the famous Black Prince's Ruby in the Crown Jewels of the UK. This significance of the stone is the crown is that it was actually revealed to be a giant (170 carat) Spinel, and not a Ruby as thought for centuries. Spinels are typically found in opaque, dark crystals, but we were fortunate to pick up a parcel of not only colorful but GEMMY crystals direct from the source! Enjoy! 2020-01-17 15:38:33 (MST): Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/vol-97eb4796/data/minclassics/www.minclassics.com/navbar.php:360): /mnt/vol-97eb4796/data/minclassics/www.minclassics.com/s_present.php: line 37 US$ € EURO ¥ YEN £ POUND CAN$ AUS$ Note (click on the pictures to enlarge) No. SPINEL111901 - $ 1800.00 (=~ CAN$ 2355.40) Spinel on matrix Locality: Mogok Valley, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar (Burma) Specimen Size: 5.8 x 5.6 x 4.6 cm (small cabinet) Spinel Crystal: 1.3 cm A pristine, sharp, lustrous, complete, gemmy, beautiful reddish-pink colored octahedron of Spinel measuring 1.3 cm across beautifully set atop white marble matrix. No damage and no repairs! It's incredibly difficult to obtain UN-repaired, fine quality isolated Spinel crystals on matrix like this, let alone such a GEMMY crystal! These pieces are highly prized by the locals who mine them, and this particular specimen is very fairly priced compared to everything else I've seen on the market. The crystal shows superb deep red fluorescence under UV light. To order this specimen click here No. SPINEL111902 - $ 8500.00 (=~ CAN$ 11122.74) A superb small cabinet display specimen featuring a large (nearly a full inch) free-standing Spinel crystal with very sharp, highly lustrous faces and textbook octahedral form flaring out of sold white marble matrix. The main Spinel crystal is completely undamaged and it's NOT repaired, which is significant, as the vast majority of Spinels from this locality are glued back on the matrix. The color is a strong reddish-pink, and the crystal shows good translucency when backlit. You can see the crystal shows superb deep red fluorescence under UV light. It's incredibly hard to find a specimen with such a large, fine quality crystal so aesthetically positioned in the ideal point at the top center spot of the specimen, and when you throw in the fact that it's completely undamaged, it makes the specimen all the more desirable. If you collect gem crystals, Spinel is one of the great gem minerals in the world, and most collectors do NOT have good representation of this historic and important species in their collections. Don't miss out on this one. Spinel (twin) on matrix Specimen Size: 4.4 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm (miniature) Spinel Twin: 1.8 cm A superb, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, fine reddish-pink colored twinned crystal of Spinel measuring 1.8 cm is proudly sitting atop white marble matrix. A couple of secondary complimenting Spinels are visible on the specimen to really round it out. The piece is not only fine quality and aesthetic, but sits beautifully as you can see in the photos. The big twin is undamaged and shows beautiful twin lines all around. The most important aspect of this piece to me is the fact that NONE of the crystals are repaired, the piece is 100% natural, which is incredibly rare in my experience, as it's hard enough to find ONE un-repaired crystal on matrix, let alone THREE like this piece. Great quality, very showy and certainly a must have for any fan of gem crystals, as most collectors do not have a good matrix Spinel like this in their collections. The crystal shows superb deep red fluorescence under UV light. Spinel Crystal 1.8 cm A superb small cabinet display specimen featuring a very good sized free-standing octahedral crystal of beautiful reddish-pink Spinel with very sharp, highly lustrous faces and textbook form flaring out of sold white marble matrix. The Spinel crystal is completely undamaged and it's NOT repaired, which is significant, as the vast majority of Spinels from this locality are glued back on the matrix. The color is beautiful in person, and the crystal shows excellent gemminess / translucency when backlit. You can see in the last photo that the crystal displays a superb deep red fluorescence under UV light. It's incredibly hard to find a specimen with such a large, fine quality crystal so aesthetically positioned at the ideal point at the top center spot of the specimen, and when you throw in the fact that it's completely undamaged, it makes the piece all the more desirable. If you collect gem crystals, Spinel is one of the great gem minerals in the world, and most collectors do NOT have good representation of this historic and important species in their collections. Don't miss out on this one. Spinel (3 twins!) on matrix Largest Spinel 1.3 cm A trio of classic "Spinel-law twins" with sharp, lustrous faces, fine reddish-pink color and textbook form are beautifully positioned on white marble matrix to create this attractive miniature display specimen. All of the twins are in excellent condition with no major damage that I can see with the naked eye. With moderate backlighting, you can really see the color and gemminess come through! It's rare enough to find THREE twins on matrix like this, but what really makes the piece special is the fact that NONE of the crystals are repaired! The piece is 100% as it was found in nature, with no repairs, restorations or alterations whatsoever. If you collect gem minerals or colorful display specimens, think about how many (or most likely how few) UN-repaired matrix Spinel specimens you have in your collection. Spinel Twin: 1.2 This piece is significant for three reasons. First it features a wonderful, classic, "Spinel Law" twin (along {111}) showing a compressed pair of octahedral crystals growing along a common place. This particular twinning habit is seen in many other species around the world, but first and most often in Spinel, hence the name. Secondly, the twin itself measures 1.2 cm across and is very sharp, lustrous and well-formed, but most importantly it's GEMMY when backlit. It's not 100% water clear, but it certainly shows areas where the light shines through to highlight the glowing reddish-pink hue of the crystal. It's not common to find gemmy twins like this from Mogok, but that's not the most significant factor for me. What really matter here is that this crystal is un-repaired on matrix! The nature of these specimens is such that the vast majority of the Spinel crystals found either weather out, or are knocked loose from their marble host rock matrix during the mining process. Only a small percentage of Mogok Spinels are found on matrix, and many of those pieces are actually glued back on after they've been discovered. The fact that this piece features a sharp, lustrous, gemmy twin that is not repaired on matrix, gives it all the necessary criteria for a top specimen of this classic and beloved material. Spinel is very popular in the gem world, but it doesn't get the recognition it deserved in the mineral world, as it's simply not found very often in good display specimens like this. I think it is important to stress that collectors should treasure something of such beauty and rarity, as these specimens simply are not seen on the market very often. No. SPINEL111907 - $ 700.00 (=~ CAN$ 915.99) Spinel ("Ruby Spinel") ("floater") Specimen Size: 0.7 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm (thumbnail) A pristine, complete "floater" crystal of "Ruby Spinel" with textbook octahedral faces, excellent luster and that classic glowing ruby red hue! These are iconic examples of the species from Mogok and a must have for any fan of gem crystals or "floater" crystals. You just don't see good quality gemmy red Spinel crystals on the market from anywhere these days, so don't miss out on this one. The piece shows beautiful glowing red fluorescence under UV light. Spinel ("floater") This piece is a complete "floater" crystal of gorgeous glowing pink Spinel from the famous locality at Mogok. The piece is undamaged with very sharp, lustrous faces and textbook octahedral form. It's notably GEMMY inside when backlit, which isn't terribly common in crystals over 1 cm. This is a wonderful thumbnail sized specimen of this classic and beloved material that is rarely offered on the market these days. If you collect gem crystals, Spinel is a must have species, as it is one of the iconic and historically significant minerals out there, and it's almost never found in good sized gemmy crystals like this. The piece displays a strong glowing red fluorescence under UV light. A lovely strong red colored complete "floater" crystal of the famous Ruby Spinels from Mogok featuring textbook octahedral form, sharp faces and good luster. The crystal was difficult to photograph, and really looks better in person. While the internal color is truly red, the piece does have some beautiful "wispy" inclusions of pink and orange hues that not only give the piece character, but also a unique quality that one does not often see in Spinel. A very attractive larger Spinel crystal from this historic locality in southeast Asia. Under UV light, the piece displays a strong red fluorescence. No. SPINEL111910 - $ 850.00 (=~ CAN$ 1112.27) Here we have a fantastic nearly full-sized thumbnail crystal of Spinel from Mogok. In reflected light, the exterior almost have a purple color, but with decent backlighting, you can see strong red-pink color coming through in areas. The piece is in good shape, but there are a few minor imperfections here there that keep it from being a complete "floater". I think my favorite aspect of the piece is the fact that there is a "hollow" area on the underside that gives the piece a distinctive character. The crystals shows a strong pinkish-red hue under UV light. A textbook, pristine, complete "floater" crystal of beautiful glowing pink Spinel. This attractive and fine quality thumbnail is a fine example of this well-known, yet elusive material from Mogok. The piece was a bit difficult to photograph but truly looks much better in person. Upon exposure to UV light, the crystal shows a mix of whitish-pink and strong red fluorescence. Spinel ("Ruby Spinel") ("floater" twin) When it comes to Ruby Spinel, Mogok is the world leader in terms of producing the finest crystals ever known. Not only are these crystals highly desirable on the market, but when you find a complete "floater" twin like this, it's all the more satisfying. This beautiful specimen shows classic textbook twinning on the {111} octahedral face creating a gorgeous thumbnail. The color is a wonderful pinkish-red and the crystal shows an intense red fluorescence when exposed to UV light. A textbook octahedron of "Ruby Spinel" with smooth, sharp, well-formed faces and a classic red color. The crystal is complete all the way around, but it also shows an interesting hollow cavity which gives the piece character and a uniqueness not often seen in single Spinel crystals. The color is excellent, but the piece shows an even stronger red fluorescence under UV light. A notably sharp, very well-formed, lustrous, single floater octahedron of Spinel with a gorgeous reddish-pink interior. The crystal is rather gemmy (better than the photos might indicate), but what really sets it apart is that it contains several wispy inclusions with varying orange to pink hues that create eye-catching color combinations when the piece is backlit. The fact that the crystal is rather gemmy is significant since it measures over 1 cm, and the faces are very smooth with a glistening luster on the surface. A small indentation can be seen on one side, which is not damage, but rather an interrupted growth where the crystal was pushed up against the host rock marble in which it formed. This crystal displays a fiery glowing red fluorescence when exposed to UV light. This crystal has one of the strongest electric pink hues I've seen in a Spinel from Mogok. It's not the gemmiest crystal in the world, but that actually helps to intensify the color. The piece is complete all around with no actual damage, but it does have some small areas of interrupted growth where it was inhibited by the marble host rock in which it formed. Very attractive color, and it's even STRONGER when the crystal is viewed under UV light. A beautiful and excellent quality floater octahedron of gorgeous lavender colored Spinel. The faces are incredibly smooth and lustrous and you can see this is a textbook example of a single octahedron. The crystal is actually quite gemmy, with good sized sections inside the crystal that are WATER CLEAR when backlit. Hard to photograph, but really attractive in person, and a nice piece to add to any thumbnail collection or a suite of gem crystals. The crystal shows an interesting and eye-catching fluorescence under UV light with shades of pink, purple and even a slightly greenish-blue tone. | Home | About Us | Order Info | Search Site | Links | | New Minerals | Minerals | Gemstones/Jewelry | Wholesale Minerals | Click here to email us for requests, placing orders, adding your email address to our mailing list, and more ! All images and text copyright ©2002-2019 Brian Kosnar and Mineral Classics "Mineral Classics" - P. O. Box 620982, Littleton, Colorado 80123 Phone: (720) 436-2161 or (303) 523-4538 (Brian's Cell) Web: www.minclassics.com
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This had been achieved through building social bonds and morality by way of a conservative brand of religion, set against a backdrop of prejudice. Read More Visit site £ Scotland Journal article Bailey et al. (1994) The Chinese community in Scotland Although conducted over two decades ago, Bailey et al (1994) provide analysis of Scotland’s Chinese community, focusing on their economic and employment characteristics; housing and household structure; and analysis of urban settlement patterns. Drawing upon the 1991 Scottish census data, the authors also provide a brief but interesting historical background to Chinese migration to the UK and later arrival to Scotland. There is also a discussion of the debate over whether or not the Chinese can be said to constitute a community. Based upon the study’s findings, the authors reflect upon policy considerations which could best meet the needs of Scotland’s Chinese population in a culturally sensitive manner. The study was – and still is - viewed very much as a starting point in terms of researching this community. It highlights the presence in Scotland of a significantly under researched and distinct ethnic minority. Read More Visit site £ TCN Scotland Journal article Bailey et al. (1995) Pakistanis in Scotland: Census data and research issues Bailey et al (1995) highlight the significant place of the Pakistani community in Scotland as a distinct population group, particularly in terms of demographics, housing and career/occupation compared to Scotland’s wider population. Drawing upon 1991 Census data, the study examines the household composition and economic position of Scotland’s Pakistanis in addition to shedding light on their pattern of settlement across Scotland. The authors find distinct patterns emerge from the data which suggest a notable contrast with those of the general Scottish population. Although dating from 1995, the authors’ inclusion of a historical background the study provides a useful insight into one of Scotland’s important ethnic minority communities. For more on Scotland’s Pakistani community, see an earlier study by Bowes et al. (1990a) and a subsequent study by Saeed et al. (1999) which focuses on issues of identity among Glasgow’s Pakistani teenagers. Read More Visit site £ TCN Scotland Journal article Barnard and Turner (2011) Poverty and ethnicity: A review of evidence Barnard and Turner (2011) produced this report on behalf of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It examines existing evidence on the relationship between poverty and ethnicity. The report succinctly summarises the evidence within the domains of education, work, caring, social networks, inequality and the role of place. The report also emphasises the need to understand the connection between these domains and features of ethnic identity, whether religion, age or gender related. In addition, the influence of community actions, location and broader interactions with wider structures - such as social services, the labour market and social norms - on outcomes for an individual is considered. While the report also draws attention to migrant worker susceptibility to low-paid and low-status employment, importantly, it also offers a better understanding of how to support action on poverty amongst ethnic groups. Read More Visit site Free UK Third sector Migration Information Centre Establishing Migrants' Rights and Entitlements National Outcomes Other Services and Partners COSLA Homepage COSLA Excellence Awards The Improvement Service myjobscotland Business Gateway The Employers' Organisation COSLA Migration, Population and Diversity Team, Floor 3, 49 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 2DL
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Laser-induced graphene gets tough, with help – February 12, 2019Posted in: Current News Rice lab combines conductive foam with other materials for capable new composites Laser-induced graphene (LIG), a flaky foam of the atom-thick carbon, has many interesting properties on its own but gains new powers as part of a composite. The labs of Rice University chemist James Tour and Christopher Arnusch, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, introduced a batch of LIG composites in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano that put the material’s capabilities into more robust packages. Composites of laser-induced graphene with a variety of other materials are tested for their anti-icing capabilities. Electrifying the thin, hydrophobic material prevents ice from forming on the surface. Courtesy of the Tour Group By infusing LIG with plastic, rubber, cement, wax or other materials, the lab made composites with a wide range of possible applications. These new composites could be used in wearable electronics, in heat therapy, in water treatment, in anti-icing and deicing work, in creating antimicrobial surfaces and even in making resistive random-access memory devices. The Tour lab first made LIG in 2014 when it used a commercial laser to burn the surface of a thin sheet of common plastic, polyimide. The laser’s heat turned a sliver of the material into flakes of interconnected graphene. The one-step process made much more of the material, and at far less expense, than through traditional chemical vapor deposition. Rice University scientists have combined laser-induced graphene with a variety of materials to make robust composites for a variety of applications. Courtesy of the Tour Group Since then, the Rice lab and others have expanded their investigation of LIG, even dropping the plastic to make it with wood and food. Last year, the Rice researchers created graphene foam for sculpting 3D objects. “LIG is a great material, but it’s not mechanically robust,” said Tour, who co-authored an overview of laser-induced graphene developments in the Accounts of Chemical Research journal last year. “You can bend it and flex it, but you can’t rub your hand across it. It’ll shear off. If you do what’s called a Scotch tape test on it, lots of it gets removed. But when you put it into a composite structure, it really toughens up.” To make the composites, the researchers poured or hot-pressed a thin layer of the second material over LIG attached to polyimide. When the liquid hardened, they pulled the polyimide away from the back for reuse, leaving the embedded, connected graphene flakes behind. A scanning electron microscope image shows a composite of laser-induced graphene and polystyrene. Courtesy of the Tour Group Soft composites can be used for active electronics in flexible clothing, Tour said, while harder composites make excellent superhydrophobic (water-avoiding) materials. When a voltage is applied, the 20-micron-thick layer of LIG kills bacteria on the surface, making toughened versions of the material suitable for antibacterial applications. Composites made with liquid additives are best at preserving LIG flakes’ connectivity. In the lab, they heated quickly and reliably when voltage was applied. That should give the material potential use as a deicing or anti-icing coating, as a flexible heating pad for treating injuries or in garments that heat up on demand. “You just pour it in, and now you transfer all the beautiful aspects of LIG into a material that’s highly robust,” Tour said. Rice graduate students Duy Xuan Luong and Kaichun Yang and former postdoctoral researcher Jongwon Yoon, now a senior researcher at the Korea Basic Science Institute, are co-lead authors of the paper. Co-authors are former Rice postdoctoral researcher Swatantra Singh, now at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and Rice graduate student Tuo Wang. Tour is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation supported the research. A hydrophilic composite of laser-induced graphene and other materials readily soaks up water. Courtesy of the Tour Group Tags: Chemistry, Elevate Research, Natural Sciences, Research
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COVER STORY: Why the Liberals were wiped out in Victoria CANBERRA OBSERVED: First strike? With what? VICTORIAN ELECTION: Cause of Liberals' decimation clear Higher costs force up cover price of News Weekly STRAWS IN THE WIND: Physician heal thyself The panacea of free trade (letter) Free trade: myth and reality (letter) HOUSING: A solution to young home-buyers' nightmare Universities: quantity replaces quality (letter) Medicare (letter) Ignored Australians (letter) ECONOMICS: Just how real are Japan's money woes? COMMENT: The cause one dares not criticise SUGAR: Sugar cane farmers rally to unite industry MEDIA: Counting the cost of the Pay TV war HISTORY: Revisiting the Dismissal ASIA: Taiwan Strait's delicate military balance BOOKS: Dry: In Defence of Economic Freedom, by John Hyde Revisiting the Dismissal by Kenneth Gee News Weekly, December 14, 2002 The 30th anniversary of the election of the Whitlam Government prompts consideration of its dismissal, three years later. Kenneth Gee re-examines these events. On 11 November 1975, Sir John Kerr, Governor-General of Australia, dismissed from office Gough Whitlam and his Labor Government, bringing to an end a financial and political crisis that went close to bringing this country to its knees. Thereafter an opaque cloud has lain over the events of that day, made up of ignorance, distortion and calculated falsehood. From time to time the true facts of '75 should be rescued from political obfuscation and rewritten history. The present writer has some expertise. John Kerr and I were lifelong friends, We met at Fort Street High School at the age of eleven, myself middle class, John a Balmain boy and a proletarian. I watched John's soaring career; a tertiary scholarship, augmented by 'The Doc', H.V.Evatt, top pass in the Leaving Certificate, the University Medal in Law, then the Bar, finally carrying a silk gown to the Himalayan heights of the law - the Chief Justice of New South Wales. There, with his great bonhomie, he brought proper harmony to a discordant bench. Then, at Gough Whitlam's urging, - and to our surprise, since the position seemed purely ceremonial - agreeing to be the Queen's viceroy, the Governor General of Australia. (How Gough must regret now his persuasive powers, assuming as he did that John, engrossed in the rituals and baubles of office, would faithfully do his bidding). John and Gough continued to be friends, but not close friends. Before long, in the Loans Affair of December 1974, John's trust became stretched to breaking point. A huge loan was to be manipulated by a plausible denizen of the Middle East financial bazaars named Khemlani. Deliberately, John was not told of the Executive Council meeting that authorised it. At the end, it was all a fiasco. Khemlani was not able get his hands on a brass razoo. This crisis passed, but another loomed, of awesome proportions. Malcolm Fraser and the Liberals, hungering for the office they believed was their God-given right and using their majority in the Senate, blocked the passing of the Bill of Supply, without which the coffers of the Treasury could not be replenished, and the country must grind to a moneyless halt. Whitlam and Fraser became locked in an unshakeable impasse, while Kerr looked on with growing dismay. Whitlam refused to resign, as he himself had, not long before, proclaimed that he must. The Liberals under Fraser's iron control refused to budge an inch. So the country moved toward an unprecedented crisis. Without Supply, that is, without money, the Government would sink into a coma, with the pensioners, - the halt and the blind and the aged - and the armed services and the federal police, all unpaid, the States starved, the unemployed streaming out from public works brought to a standstill. The catalogue of disruption seemed to have no end. In the field of battle Whitlam and Fraser were implacable. Fraser had time on his side. He knew that if he could hold his party together long enough he must force Kerr to exercise the reserve powers and dismiss Whitlam. For his part Whitlam, devotee of Crash Through Or Crash, devised harebrained schemes for the banks to fund the public service. Immoveable in his self-esteem, he was determined that once and for all he would break the power of the Senate to Control the money supply. Between the warring giants was John Kerr, trained as a Judge to ignore his liking for Whitlam and his distaste for Fraser, unworried by the threat of dismissal, but determined that the Queen should not be sucked into the eddies of a sordid Party conflict. He knew full well the storm that would descend on his head whatever he did. Hayden, Gough's treasurer, told Kerr that money would begin to run out in early November, and by the end of that month the Treasury would be as bare as Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Kerr consulted Chief Justice Barwick - a precedent well established. Barwick was emphatic - legally, Kerr must act, and act now. On the morning of 11 November, Kerr summoned both champions to his office. He had made his decision. First Gough Whitlam. Acting not under the reserve powers, but under Section 64 of the Constitution, he handed Whitlam the letter of dismissal. Then Fraser, able to get Supply, and therefore to become Prime Minister, but pledged to call a general election before Christmas. He did so, and won by a massive majority. The Constitution and the democratic system worked in unity. The people spoke, and Australia's greatest political crisis evaporated. The consequences for Kerr came quickly. He and his courageous wife Anne had to endure not only the bellowing of the lunatic left - the gramophone gangsters, in Orwell's apt phrase - and the paint thrown over his car, but the upmarket billingsgate of a self-proclaimed Great Hater, the brilliant but splenetic Jim McClelland. Basically, the issues presented by November 1975 were simple enough. Fraser blocked Supply. No government can survive without money. Whitlam refused to resign or to call an election. Kerr alone had the power and the duty to resolve this terminal crisis, and he did so. But thereafter, November 1975 has served to demonstrate the power of political mythology. lt is time, in fairness to Sir John Kerr, that this debris was removed. Kenneth Gee
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H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education Mark Walden Jan 17, 2020 - 21:01 PM 885 Title: H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education Author: Mark Walden H I V E Higher Institute of Villainous Education HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATIONOtto Malpense may only be thirteen years old but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives and he has come up with a plan clever enough to tri HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATIONOtto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country He is the perfect candidate to become the world s next supervillain.That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E handpicked to become a memberHIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATIONOtto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country He is the perfect candidate to become the world s next supervillain.That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E handpicked to become a member of the incoming class The students have been kidnapped and brought to a secluded island inside a seemingly active volcano, where the school has resided for decades All the kids are elite they are the most athletic, the most technically advanced, and the smartest in the country Inside the cavernous marble rooms, floodlit hangars, and steel doors, the students are enrolled in Villainy Studies and Stealth and Evasion 101 But what Otto soon comes to realize is that this is a six year program, and leaving is not an option.With the help of his new friends an athletic martial arts expert a world famous, beautiful diamond thief and a spunky computer genius the only other people who seem to want to leave can Otto achieve what has never been done before and break out of H.I.V.E. H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education - Mark Walden Mark Walden 418 Mark Walden Title: H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education - Mark Walden Posted by:Mark Walden About Mark Walden I am the world s laziest man.No really Not just a bit slack, really, truly, breathtakingly lazy.Which is why it s taken me so long to get off my big, lazy rear end and get myself properly on line.I m the author of the HIVE series of books which I hope that some of the people who stumble across this might have read and enjoyed Or read and hated I am fortunate enough to live with the two most beautiful women on earth And yes of course I m hoping they ll read that and forgive me for any one of the incredibly stupid things I ll do this month.I have yet to hold down anything even vaguely approximating a proper job.I did help make video games a while ago but that was not the best environment for someone as lazy as me. Jennifer Wardrip Reviewed by Jeremey for TeensReadTooWelcome to Hogwarts for bad guys, minus the magic. H.I.V.E. is a school set on a deserted island where brilliant young adults who have come from criminal families or have taken part in criminal projects are taught to become the worst that they can be. Otto Malpense remembers nothing about how he came to be on the H.I.V.E. island, and neither does him Asian friend, Wing. The H.I.V.E. staff explains to the young criminals that their parents agreed to let them jo [...] Well rant time, I guess.First of all, I was going to finish this book. (because, after all, it is better to rant when you've read the whole thing and I don't like not finishing a book) But it's missing 30 pages! O.o It jumps from 154 to 187 or something like that. And it's not like someone ripped them out, you would be able to notice that. They were never there. Did anyone else have this problem? 'cause it's weeeeiiiird. The editor/publisher/author/someone should have caught that Majorly should [...] Shanshad Whelan I admit it. I'm picky. I'm particularly picky when it comes to depictions of villains and superheroes. And the books on villainy tend to leave me sorely disappointed when they don't work.The Hogwarts only Evil/or Hall of Doom for the school set is a nice idea, and in fact it's perfectly fine. I've no problem with the school, or the idea of one. But I read for character, and I just found myself dealing with a bunch of stereotypes and people that all think in the same tone and same vocabulary. May [...] CLICHESSO MANY CLICHESIt's not even funny.We've gotThe Hogwarts of evil people.The fat kid who eats ALL THE TIME-The smart Asian-The bratty fashion-obsessed blonde American (however, this does change. I do have to give the author credit for that)-Our not-NEARLY-as-cool-as-Neville-Longbottom who has to live up to his parents' lives-The nice girl who we ALL know is going to end up with our protagonistThe mysterious guy whose motives are not known but the majority of us know he's going to be relate [...] I read this because it was a "Reader's Also Like" for Anthony Horowitz's excellent Alex Rider series. While perhaps written for the same audience, I found it lacking. The premise of kids being snatched to be taught how to become master criminals was decent and the previous accomplishments of the students was probably the highlight of the book; however, now at the school, they seem to become incompetent bumblers despite their prodigious skills -- constantly out-maneuvered by their foes. Otto, Win [...] Nicanor While I don't think it was bad by any means I think this is more of an introductory book to the series, feeling short and lacking in details, even with the potential huge H.I.V.E. world and characters. I can only Imagine that the next books on the series will have more background and development, so I think it will be safe to give the next one a try before having an opinion on the series. H.I.V.EI have read the book called H.I.V.E and wow, if you can put a little bit of everything into a book this is it. It has action suspense, comedy, drama. This book is now my favorite series other then Eragon. The main character is Otto, but some other ones are Wing Fanchu, Laura, Shelby, and Nigel Darkdoom. They have all been brought to the H.I.V.E. They don't know why, except for the fact that they are some of the most talented criminals the world hasn't seen.It all started when the Prime Mi [...] PurplyCookie Welcome to Hogwarts for bad guys, minus the magic. H.I.V.E. is a school set on a deserted island where brilliant young adults who have come from criminal families or have taken part in criminal projects are taught to become the worst that they can be. Otto Malpense remembers nothing about how he came to be on the H.I.V.E. island, and neither does him Asian friend, Wing. The H.I.V.E. staff explains to the young criminals that their parents agreed to let them join the school--and that they are und [...] chucklesthescot Otto is less than happy to be removed from his life, and taken to enrol in a school for evil genius children. With his friends Wing, Laura and Shelby, they decide that escape is the only option but the staff are determined that nobody leaves the island. Can Otto and his friends outwit the school and get away?I really enjoyed this book. Otto was selected for the school after he was able to force the Prime Mininster to insult the people of Britain in a speech and moon at startled journalists! He i [...] This book was everything I wanted and more. Do you ever find yourself rooting for the villain? I know I sure do. I didn't even have to read a synopsis, by title alone I knew H.I.V.E. was my sort of book. I love reading about the Mafia and gangsters. I love bad boys.But of course, being me I tore through the book in several hours, hungry for more. I was surprised to read that this is a debut novel. The plot, characters, setting and world building we're all done remarkably well. I can't think of a [...] On an island in the middle of nowhere, there is a school. But not just any school, it's a school for villains! Named H.I.V.E. for Higher Institute for Villainous Education, H.I.V.E. recruits only the best and the brightest of students to become criminal masterminds. Each person has a special talent that could potentially be used for criminal deeds and H.I.V.E aims to foster that potential. The story follows an orphaned, white haired young boy with the name of Otto Malpnese. He is a genius and ca [...] Have you ever felt like your schoolwork is killing you? Well, Otto Malpense has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a school that might literally be the death of him. The story begins as Otto wakes to find himself strapped into a helicopter flying over an ocean. Upon landing he is introduced to the strange island world of H.I.V.E the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, an exclusive school for turning out world-class villains. There is no communication with the outside world. There seems to be [...] Vanessa Montês ()A melhor decisão do autor neste livro foi escrevê-lo do ponto de vista de Otto. O ponto de vista de um futuro supervilão acaba por tornar a leitura muito mais irónica e divertida, e este foi um dos grandes pontos positivos. Admito que não esperava pelo final deste livro, embora o restante seja um tanto ou quanto previsível. Mas o que prende neste livro não é propriamente a história, mas a forma como as personagem vivem a história. Elas são a vida de toda a narrativa e é graças a e [...] It was AMAZING. This book is one of the best books i have read in a while. I am very hooked and am committed to reading the whole series. "This book is if Harry Potter met James Bond". It is action backed with cool technology. Already started to devour book 2. BetweenThePages The Higher Institute of Villainous Education (hereafter referred to as H.I.V.E.) is the first book in a series about four students adventures at this unique school.H.I.V.E. is basically a weird combination of Disney's The Descendants and James Bond. For those of you who haven't seen the movie, The Descendants is about four children of Disney villains. It plays around with the idea of morally grey characters, the choice between being good or evil and was a nice twist on the expectant parent clich [...] Welcome to H.I.V.E a top-secret boarding school for evil child geniuses.The concept was interesting enough, even though similar things have been done before. Reading a book from the perspective of the villian(s) is different, because you end up liking them despite the bad things they may have done. But the "Special kid goes to a school for other special kids and becomes the best of them all" trope is a little overused. I think I would have appreciated it more if I was younger.The characters, whi [...] This book was two stars until the ending, which is actually quite decent, even for a cliffhanger. Otherwise, the book was kind of forgettable. I think that a lot of people will actually like this concept quite a bit, and probably like the characters as well, but I was not one of those people. I think what got me was that the world-building seemed incomplete. Or vague, maybe - about as vague as the location of a certain island volcano. I never got a very good sense of H.I.V.E or any of the people [...] "Hogwarts untuk penjahat tapi tanpa sihir." Plot dan karakter di HIVE seri pertama oke. Meski tagline-nya seperti di Hogwarts, dengan segala fasilitas dan kemampuan para muridnya, mengingatkan saya pada film Spy Kids. Bagian mendekati terakhir saat warga HIVE melawan tanaman bermutasi Nigel terbilang seru dan mendebarkan. Sasha Khalid I had such high hopes for this one especially after reading king of bad. But this one turned out so dull and boring, i had to force myself into finishing it. This could've been a great MG/ YA series, like 39 Clues, but the whole concept and potential was drowned in cliches and lack of character development. Basically, every character had a "specific set of skills" (XD) which the MC could use, and nothing more. Otto, of corse, being the perfect orphan-hero-to-be had all of those skills and more. Now here is some eye-rolling material found in the book: Russian spy named Raven, mysterious dangerous dude called Number One, professor who's literally in a [...] Clayton Schulenburg I really enjoyed this book. It was fast paced and full of amazing ideas that the author had. I recommend this for anyone who wants a fast exciting read. Heather Eames I got through this book fairly quickly, and although I did enjoy it, I don't think I'm invested enough to read the other books in the series. Good as a one off read, and fairly easy to follow. Vishal Mehta Well, its not Artemis Fowl but fun anyways. GRRRRR CLIFFHANGER ENDINGS SHOULD BE FORBIDDEN PHGKSDHGAHKGHKAHGAKAGHHHHHHHHH.Anyways. The book. Right.So, H.I.V.E. is the debut novel from the author, Mr. Mark Walden. The premise--a school for villains-in-the-making--is a nice one, and is the whole reason I wanted to read the book. Now, this book sure isn't flawless. (Not like any book is flawless, anyway) But it was a fun read, and I did enjoy it.Alright. Here's the actual scoop:For one, I didn't get the idea of why Otto, Wing, Laura, and She [...] Torrin It's always unpleasant to think, "Am I too old for this book?" To be honest, even if a book isn't meant for a certain age group, gender, whatever, its enjoyability should overpower that. But no, H.I.V.E. is not one of those books - not at all. I suppose it's geared towards kids around middle school. Funny that this genre was made for me just a few years ago (now, YA is supposedly more suitable), but I never really read books like this. Why? It was so trope-y, boring, simplistic, as though childr [...] Higher Institute of Villainous Education (H.I.V.E) is a great book. The main character is Otto, an intelligent boy from a run down orphanage. Otto never really had any friends because he was "different" than most of the other kids in the orphanage, but when he is transported to H.I.V.E, a secret school for kids used to train them into the greatest super villains, he meets Wing. The two soon become great friends and they both immediately hate H.I.V.E. The two soon put together a team to make a pl [...] Pranta Ghosh Dastider Ok, lets talk about this. I have started to read the book last month when I bought two books from the series. And I thought I would check out the first book since it's rated so high! And for the first 40% of the book I roam around to find absolutely no reason to say it a 4 out of 5 rated book. Ok lets say for first 30-35% it was alright a decent 3.5 rating to be exact. The characters were interesting the story was developing, many things were common in an alternate version but I didn't hate it. [...] HAMBAR!!! Harapanku tinggi ketika baca sinopsisnya, idenya unik dan aku suka. Tapi ceritanya Tidak se-elegan idenya. Aku tahu kalau ini buat Young-Adult, tapi tetap saja elemen penting novel terlewatkan. Karakternya kurang dalam dan terlalu menggampangkan. Bagaimana mungkin anak genius seperti itu nggak ada kelainan psikologis seperti superior, atau minimal, perfeksionis? Teknologinya umum banget tapi dibuat seakan rumit. Yeah, I know that what its like. Seperti membayangkan cara kerja teknologi [...] The first book in a YA series that smells a lot like Harry Potter, but isn't quite as good as the Percy Jackson books. It's also a somewhat predictable book, albeit predictable in enjoyable ways. Neither the characters nor the plot are in the same category as Rowlings or even Riordan or Colfer. Still, I found myself getting into it by the end, and starting to appreciate the unique elements of the first book.Orphan boy genius Otto Malpense-- who is in the unique position of having peers who respe [...] Jack Heath If you kidnapped the world's most mischeivous, cunning teenagers and imprisoned them at a secret training academy for supervillains, what would happen?That's the shamelessly ridiculous premise of Mark Walden's H.I.V.E. (which stands for Higher Institute of Villainous Education) and if you can suspend your disbelief far enough, you will find it a rewarding read. The dialogue is witty, the plot twists deft, and the setting inventive, with plenty of knowing nods to the comic books and Bond films wh [...] Esperanza's Box Of Saints Corps De Jeune Fille (French Edition) Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry O Homem da Carbonária Learning to Live with High Functioning Autism: A P... Opening Doors Within The African Union and Its Institutions Before The Road Came The Lively Ghost Of Howe Sound The African Company Presents Richard III Masters of Disguise: A Natural History of Chameleo... Generous Anger: The Story of George Orwell Maigret Goes Home A Hundred Years of Georgian London: From The Acces... Maigret Mystified The Irish Famine (Discoveries) Copyright © 2020 H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education. Powered by WordPress and Envince.
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My Football Writer My Football Writer Norwich City news… comment… analysis Norwich City – news, comment and analysis Archives Index Time for those in power in Carrow Road to take a long, hard look at this club’s direction of travel 23rd November 2017 By Martin Penney 55 Comments Whatever happened to the heroes? No more heroes any more Now I’m not daft enough to go on about Trotsky, Lenin and ice picks and my recreational habits are much more conventional (I would imagine) than those of Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers. But he could have written that chorus specifically for City as we stand today. Where are our heroes? I ask you again, where are they? We once had Flecky, Gunny, Chippy Crook, Disco Dale and Foxy. Another generation enjoyed watching Iwan, Malky, Flem (there’s only one F in Fleming), Adam Drury and the legend that is Hucks. Plus Paul McVeigh – probably blessed with the best NCFC song of all time. No need for me to reprise “We love you…” here – we all know it so well. The Paul Lambert era sprinkled us with stardust. Holty was more celebrated than The Great American Songbook. Even the lesser lights had their own songs. Just a few that I can remember: “Fraser Forster one more year, one more year. Fraser Forster one more year – stay at Norwich” “The Norfolk Cafu” – from the days when he used to do his stuff bombing on down the right flank – Russell Martin. “You’ll never beat Marc Tierney” “Simon Lappin King of Spain” “Willy Willy whippet on the wing” – Elliott Bennett. Players such as Andrew Crofts, Jens Bertel-Askou and Tiny Ward were celebrated and lauded too. Even Ollie Johnson (two goals against Southend in the last five minutes of that single match and bugger all afterwards) and Anthony MacNamee were praised to the skies. “MacNamee, MacNamee, he looks f***ing good to me.” He scored once, against Stockport as I remember. And the season after that Javier Garrido: “He likes to eat paella and now he is a Yella.” Seb Bassong and Kei Kamara doing that famous jig after one of them scored against I cannot remember who (Everton? – Ed). Wesley, Chrissy Martin, John Ruddy, they all had their own chants. Which current player has his own song? Tom Trybull? Don’t make me laugh. CamJam and Wes? Maybe, but we don’t hear those expressions of adulation any more. Against the Tykes on Saturday we couldn’t even muster On the Ball City. Our lot in the Upper Barclay tend to join in after the first line. We let “Kick it off, throw it in, have a little scrimmage”, pass and then chip in to add some extra volume at the right time. There was nothing to join in with. Nothing at all. First time in many years. There were quite a few empty seats dotted around the ground, the atmosphere was the worst I can remember in many seasons and I’m sorry to say it’s surely only going to get worse. Daniel Farke can say what he likes of course, but many of the 1,400+ Yellows who went to the City Ground were not exactly enraptured by all accounts. La tristesse durera… Can you imagine what it’s going to be like when we have an £8,000 a week wage cap? Apparently it’s coming, so there will likely be no renewals for those such as Klose, Pritchard and Tettey. Stuart Webber will be on his Raleigh Racer straight out of town at some point. He’s naturally ambitious and when he goes, fair play to him. I doubt he signed up to see the gruesome reality of this situation through. And where will that leave the rest of us? Up that famous creek that rhymes with “hit”, I’d say. Heroes? We’ll be lucky to have players we can tolerate at this rate. I watched Callum Wilson score an excellent hat-trick for Bournemouth on MotD (you know, some fool chose Lewis Grabban instead), Martin Olsson playing well in admittedly a poor Swansea side and John Ruddy and Ryan Bennett both cutting it for Wolves. Jeez. Andrew Surman was strutting his stuff for Bournemouth. Even Cody McDonald scored for somebody. Meanwhile Shrewsbury’s gain is our loss. The way Paul Hurst is going they’ll overtake us in 12 months despite their 5,000 gates at this rate. Carlton and Ben aren’t doing so badly for them, now are they? And where are they? Not here. Somebody commented very recently about one or two of the writers on MFW being “happy clappers”. It’s not a description that applies to me so that’s probably why I’m not particularly offended by the terminology. But if those writers still have faith in what they believe in, good luck to them – it’s what it’s all about. Diversity and debate. It’s what we’re here for. I am still prepared to give the Webber-Farke project more time, but I just wish that our majority shareholders would take a good, hard (as in granite) look at themselves, do the decent thing and proactively seek some outside investment for NCFC. Even if the old twister control on the yellow and green trainset might have to be passed into somebody else’s hand on occasions. Anybody who has had children or even family pets would automatically understand what I’m on about: If you love somebody or something with a passion, please do not be afraid to share your love. Even if you can no longer directly control what happens after that sharing. Despite my initial positive thoughts concerning him, Tom Smith is shaping up as a hybrid of The Invisible Man and The Ghost. He can hardly be anything else with Auntie still at the helm. He is not, and never will be, the answer. Of that I am utterly, regrettably convinced. Why can’t one or two of those at the very top of the tree infiltrate football’s modern world before NCFC sinks without trace? Because as of 0600 Wednesday morning, the Championship table paints a pretty grim picture. This is the modern world that I’ve learned about This is the modern world We don’t need no one to tell us what’s right or wrong This is the modern world. (Paul Weller/The Jam) Filed Under: Column, Martin Penney 23rd November 2017 at 7:12 am Nice piece that Martin And some more lyrics from The Modfather ‘Struggle after struggle – year after year, The atmosphere’s a fine blend of ice – I’m almost stone cold dead martin penney says Thanks Simon – I used to love The Jam. Your Weller quote is probably more pertinent than mine. Delia Mugabe loves to cling on. A supporter led coup d’etat is the only way they will get the message because people insist on renewing season tickets to watch this dross. True fans would want to see progress and act. Jeff just a minor point on the season ticket issue – all those of us who pay by DD can cancel at the drop of a hat. The only problem – and I’m sure Delia and others are well aware of this – is if we did cancel our STs and things did not get much better a la Lambert, we might not be able to get them back! There is no appetite for direct action, just a sense of resignation from some of us and blind obedience to the hierarchy from the rest. Even if the peasants were revolting (groan) we could not create the necessary wealth to run the club even if 22,000 regulars stuck together. Again Delia knows this and acts accordingly. That Times article still sticks in my throat. However none of this helps the guys on the pitch. I remain onside with Webber-Farke even if only because I have no realistic choice. The Mugabe reference is unfair, but I will say that you are looking at one stubborn lady whose criteria for accepting investment simply cannot be met. Unless one of my mates has £200 million quid he hasn’t told me about… BecclesBoy says 23rd November 2017 at 1:35 pm Martin, both in the article and this reply you’ve summed up my thoughts entirely. The trouble is no-one really cares anymore because it’s not worth it. Nothing will change whilst D&M are at the helm. I was asked at the start of the season why I was still going, my response was “What else am I going to do?” I don’t think Delia adequately understands the damage The Times article did, no owner should have in print “the fans won’t like this but”. I was at the City Ground on Tuesday and refused to applaud anyone but Maddison when he came over on his own, childish I know but how am I supposed to protest properly when the rest wouldn’t venture closer than the 18 yard box (some disappeared straight down the tunnel). In my heart of hearts I know it’s wrong to renew, and the only way we will change this s**thouse of a situation is to stop going. Any useful suggestions as how to change things gratefully welcomed……….. lucioperca says What do you mean by “Don’t make me laugh” at the Tom Trybull song Martin? What gets you goat about that? He’s one of the newbies who’ve had less than 10 games at Carrow Road and you’re looking for “Hero’s” already? Surely you earn the right to become a “Hero”. It sounds like you’re one of the old guard that insist on not giving this transitional period any time. That, I’m disappointed in Martin. 23rd November 2017 at 10:24 am Not so Lucio. I was referencing the way it petered out before it really got going. Trybull is the pick of the newbs, and deserves a song. Pity not enough of us wanted to sing it. “I am still prepared to give the Webber-Farke project more time,” Those words are in this very article and, no I’m not one of the old guard by making that very statement. I’m as open to constructive change as much as I guess you are. My bad for the Trybull comment – I can understand why you disagreed with what you thought I meant. Ben K says 23rd November 2017 at 12:28 pm Graham Fuller says That is the best summary of how I feel about my club right now. I have been Going to carrow road since the 1959/60 season. There have been great and bad times but I always wanted to go, because it was my club. I have lost enthusiasm and confidence in the way it’s being managed. This is not something which has just happened but has been creeping in for a few years now and I don’t like it! With over 1500 games watched in my lifetime, I think it may be coming to the point where I don’t care whether I go or not. To carry on with music theme……we had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun…..it’s getting a little dark now.. OTBC! Thank you Graham. I am (just, I think) over the 1,000 game mark myself and cannot but agree with you. Winston Churchill always described his depression as the “black dog on his shoulder”. Manic Street Preachers wrote a song on that theme and with more or less that title, for what it’s worth. I have a real blood-pumping black dog who I obviously cannot take to Carrow Road. But Sir Winston’s one has taken his place as I do my three-mile walk to the ground. If people like you and I cannot be bothered then the Smiths really are in the doggy doo. Hilary Briss says Great piece. I think MFW has decent, realistic writers crafting balanced prose which is why I turn to it aside of the EDP and terrible forum for cranks, the Pink ‘Un. I would say, “if you love something, let it go” would be the more apt phrasing here. Totally agree Hilary, the forums you refer to are synonymous for posts by either pensioners who comment on what they hear on the wireless who have never set foot in Carrow Road and just like a good old moan a particular fave of mine, Trevor K who posts chapter after chapter basically writing the same dross every other day with the words jumbled around in a different order. Thankfully the forum is gradually dwindling, unlike MFW which is thriving ! Thanks very much Hilary. I’m sure our Editor Gary will take that as a compliment to all of the MFW team. We have different opinions and try to be as balanced as we can when writing, but it’s not always that easy when that ole thing called passion is a-burnin’ through. Lucio: I’ve read some of those posts too. It’s amazing how many “ex-pros” and “ex-managers” pop up out of the woodwork:-) General Melchett says It’s as ever a tricky situation to call. External investment with a sudden cash injection could be just what the doctor ordered or could leave us tens of millions in debt with a Marcus Evans like burnt owner who will leave the club ticking over on freebies and loanees. Or a Venkies could leave us even worse. against that we could become the next Bournmouth or Man Citeh if you’re really optimistic. Would we care if we were qualifying for Europe if we had broken FFP? (Everyone else is doing it! Its working for Wolves) I know I wouldn’t,it would be a hell of an adventure. Do I like having a local owner? It’s kind of nice, but is it the right local owner? Maybe, maybe not. For a club of our size, I would argue that these last few years have been pretty good. So on the one hand Delia et al can’t have done everything wrong. But those who got us there (an act that should illicit some faith) have mispent many millions to blow a quite ligitimate chance to stay in the PL. Delia’s fault? A little yes. But is she guilty of anything more than backing her managers (Maybe not in PL case). Should a halfway competent board of a club like ours have samctioned the Naismith signing? No, not in amillion years, no matter how much Neil stamped his feet, we should not be signing 30+ players at the top of our wage structure, leave alone without huge relegation clauses. The Webber + Head coach model needs more time. (Not saying Webber + Farke very deliberatly) Webber is the football savvy guy running the football side that we have needed for a long time. Would he have sanctioned the signing of Naismith? Not on your Nelly. Farke may be a mistake, he is struggling of that there can be no doubt. I can’t decide if he should get more time so that Webber can actually get the players in and squad evolution that is needed for Farkedrum football. Or that Webber took a gamble on him, it hasn’tworked and that we should role the dice again. With Hughton we sacked him too late and compounded it with a decision so stupid I’ve made my mind up, Delia out! We then did the same with Neil letting it drag on far to long. Or did we, is the club poison and good managers are doomed to fail here? look at Neil and Hughton before and after. Could Hughton have turned us around with time? Neil too? The squad needed the clear out, (Neil knew this) I think most agree with that. But now should we give Farke and Webber time? Or just Webber? And with that Delia? For me it is painful to think that a season perhaps should be written off, but I’ll have maybe 40 more to look forward to, so maybe this is egg cracking time, omlettes for next year and beyond? Still you don’t want to make that omlette with a rotten egg, so for me, Farke has till Xmas to show us that he can actually get this squad scoring, if not we continue to build in a direction Webber will dictate and find a coach who might get more out of a still talented squad. Watford have become masters of improving despite constant managerial change, perhaps with Webber at the club we could too. Another fine despatch from the trenches by the General. It is so true that just now very few of us know how this is going to work out. When you say: “But those who got us there (an act that should illicit some faith) have mispent many millions to blow a quite legitimate chance to stay in the PL” you nail it big time. Be careful or Gary might be after you for a guest blog during the March international break… Gary Field says Ice picks and burning ears – not sure if either are really likely though! Nice work Martin Colin M says Martin, go see the Dr and get some happy pills! What’s happening at Carrow Road is taking place at many clubs. Attendances are down, the love affair with footy is changing. The financial squeeze is having an effect. As for heroes, they will appear but it’s a talisman we need right now and they are rare but lets not be to gloomy, Just what, as fans, are we aiming for? Premiership? really? We’ve been there plenty of times and its not much fun and we can’t survive for long even with our best players and so called heroes.I suspect an injection of millions wouldn’t really alter that outcome for long. This season top 6 would be a fantastic achievement given all that’s changed. We are 6 points adrift at present but Leeds, Shef Wed, Forrest, all bigger clubs, are also in the chasing pack. Up until Arsenal we were happy again, the feel good factor had returned and there was a sense of togetherness once again. Lets not ruin it all and turn on those running our club, the width of a post, a couple of dodgy refereeing decisions have also played their part. We are a great club with genuine people running it, okay we play crap sometimes but Spurs were rubbish against Arsenal last weekend. For F**k sake lets get behind the boys and make sure we send AN back to Preston wishing he was still in Norfolk. I would tend to agree with your sentiment up until Arsenal (a new acronym is in there somewhere akin to the Along come Norwich moments.) however, prior to that first international break we were dreadful. Farke turned that around but we’re back there again. I hand on heart want the model to work out, I desperaly want Farke to do well but I just don’t think he’s the one. Yeah we do play badly but the caveat here is is we’ve been playing badly since Farke started. There’s fleeting moments of brillaince but the players and manager are not good enough to pull off what they want to do. We cast an eye on Wolves – the money, the man, the players to peform as a collective hence why they sit on the top of the pile. Good football at Norwich? I’m struggling to remember what that was. We’re a great club run by genuine people yes, but it also doesnt mean those great people don’t have great egos, or a great sense of worth as they peer down from their parapet atop the coliseum of Carrow Road. We demand more because we’ve had the taste, and why not? This sense of entitlement is bred by recent history aimed at a future generation of NCFC fans who now want a chance at the best. And why wouldn’t they? It’s their club too. It’s too easy to go, “oh well, I’ve been a fan of Norwich for 100 years and I’ve seen this before.” Why does it HAVE to be this way? We had so many opportunities to cement the club in the PL but failed at every attempt because of poor business acumen, a malaise of accepting our lot as that club from Norfolk. To bow to a ‘that’ll do attitude’ is an apathy the powers at Carrow Road have adopted for some time now, you only have to take the overhaul of staff to realise that. Oh yes things could be worse, but they could be so so much better. That is a soulful comment. Love it. Good comment Colin – thanks. The only “happy pills” I take are via a bottle manufactured by one Henry Weston of Hereford. I understand where you’re coming from – I really do – but I think a lot of us have had an overdose of the Smith dynasty. We could be PL established if they had the drive for it, but they ostensibly don’t. The day they refused to accommodate Paul Lambert’s relatively modest recruitment demands and thus binned him off to Villa spoiled everything imo. Lambert’s out of work and we’re struggling. So what went wrong? Much needed article to balance some of the delusional ones that regularly appear on these pages. It’s simply a case that if Delia stays Norwich will be doomed to lower league football. The game is now global and as a consequence very expensive. Don’t think any of us at MFW are delusional – we just have different views on things. You are totally objective and imo it’s impossible to disagree with you. sgncfc says I hadn’t heard mention of a wage cap before – and am not sure whether it’s fact or just a rumour presented as fact in true modern, journalistic fashion. £8,000 a week is less than half of what some Norwich players were earning back in 2008 when a certain offer was made by a certain businessman, so I doubt it’s remotely close. I can’t imagine what standard of team we could put out with that restriction in place, but it wouldn’t be at Championship level. But I still think some people are delusional if they imagine that investors are queueing up to take NCFC off Delia’s hands. The simple fact is that she and her husband are the majority shareholders of the business and there’s nothing anyone can do about it if they don’t want to sell. People need to accept that Norwich is a selling club and always will be, unless we were to attract a multi-billionaire who didn’t care about money – not too many of them about; even the owners of the big PL clubs want their pound of flesh in return for the cash. If we get good players, they have to be moved on, for as much as possible, and we hope to get decent replacements – it has always been this way. Those heroes you mention were generally part of very temporary success. The one chance we had was Lamberts legacy – but let’s not forget that he walked out on us too. The Board destroyed that legacy by appointing the wrong man in Hughton and not responding to his very obvious shortcomings quickly enough; since when they have compounded the initial error by making it again and again. We are now back to where we were before relegation to League One except we are not in debt. At that time, this position would have been something most of us would have gladly taken. As for Webber/Farke it’s as good an idea as any other this Board have tried. It’s unlikely to work (if by “work” you mean promotion to the PL) but it’s too early to say. I think Farke has a classic football brain, with all the drawbacks that brings, because footballers or football coaches are not known for their intellect. Tactically, he has already shown an inability to read a situation, either before a game or during it (evidence – the team selections at Villa and Millwall; the “surprise” at the Bolton result; the “best away performance” comment at Forest). He will need to learn quickly – we said the same thing about Alex Neil but he didn’t learn anything at all. Funny old world – your last sentence says it all to me and you’re quite correct with it. I nevertheless dispute your point about intellect amongst managers because I once had the privilige to meet Wycombe’s Gareth Ainsworth (such a nice guy I would have signed up there and then). Martin O’Neill appears to be on a similar level, although I’ve never met him. Ken Brown, Mike Walker and particularly Dave Stringer were no fools either. And they all at some stage had to put up with Mr Chase… Lambert may well have walked – but I’m pretty sure that it was down to the board not backing his relatively moderate requests in the transfer market. I do wonder if (like me) they wonder where NCFC might be now if only they had believed that he knew more about football than they ever will!!! O T B C As you say Martin, Webber may easily go when he gets fed up, but I don´t agree with the faír play bit I´m afraid. He, after all, has played his part in getting us into this mess, by appointing a novice, when that was the last thing we needed after last season´s debacle. Neither does it say much for his powers of judgement, that he actually thought Farke might pull it off, in classic ´David Wagner style´, and apparently still does, with certainly no signs of pulling the plug, coming from his direction. To be honest I wouldn´t trust Webber to get it right (or even half right) if he had a second chance, so as far as this season is concerned, we may as well stick with Farke, and see where it leads us. As for outside investment, that old chestnut, forget it, it won´t happen – Delia and Michael have made their feelings clear on numerous occasions. Thanks George. When he arrived, Webber was envisaged as the Messiah. He still might prove to be. He’s hardly Monty Python’s naughty little boy. But he buggered off out of Huddersfield pdq and look at what’s happened to us since. A poor start, a little consolidation and then a load of poo. He’ll be off soon, Easter’s my exit guess. But it’s better than our life under Alex Neil. I know we scored goals then and don’t now but, c’mon, what do you want? Yeah, I know, a bit of entertainment. And then we could sing some songs with some feeling. Don Harold says I took 5 minutes to read your piece and agree that our team is short of peaches to sing about..I generally don’t join in with the singing as I sound like a semi-articulate goat but there wasn’t much on Tuesday to make me feel I’m missing out. I am always hesitant to jump aboard the outside investment bandwagon as I feel, without having done any real research, that more clubs of our size suffer than do well out of it. However, it does look like something better to change and Smith and Jones are not rich enough to do what they would probably like to do. One way of ensuring that a new investor will be the right type would be to ensure that the fans have an unrepealable stake in the club. If we followed a successful model Delia could create something like the Chelsea pitch owners group which at least ensures that any decisions about the physical infrastructure of the club are done with supporters having a say. Straight forward asset stripping would be impossible. The Farke/Webber revolution has to be given more time and there is still room for some of the optimism September brought. We need to stop hanging around and Delia needs to show that she’s not a strange little girl and bring in changes that are not just skin deep. I like DF and lots of things about the Webberlution, I just hope we don’t have to say ‘go, Buddy go’ in a few months. Blimey Don I had to flog my way through the Stranglers references! This is where you banged it on to the ceiling: “Delia needs to show that she’s not a strange little girl and bring in changes that are not just skin deep” A more powerful comment than most I’ve ever observed. You might get stick for it but it’s just honest and sound. I have previously mentioned you have a way with words… Thanks Martin. I had to stop the Stranglers references somewhere; I told myself ‘get a grip (of yourself)’ YellowSquare says We won’t have no strangers here….this is a local club for local people! Joking aside, even though i don’t necessarily think we will ever find a billionaire asian or arab it must not be ignored that in the last 2 occasions this club almost went under was under the ownership of ‘locals’. I’ll see your no more heroes Martin and raise it with something better change. Every time I get a few lines of prose ready for publication, you guys go and make my points and I have to rip it up and start again. No matter, I’ll find the right time to make my case. In fact, you’ve hit on the main points quite nicely and it’s becoming more difficult with each passing day for the obtuse to argue with the mounting evidence presented here and elsewhere. Supporters are sick of hearing how “entitled” they are, as if hoping for the best for Norwich city is a crime. They see through the mantra of “patience” and recognise it for what it is, simply an exercise in stalling for time. They see 80 or more,clubs going one way and Norwich city swimming in the other direction. To what end? Utopia? This is the real world. The club owners appear to be trying to carve some sort of right on niche for Norwich city, a type of forest green approach, quirky, different, at odds with the footballing firmament. Frankly a bit weird. The “webberlution” (retch) is more and more seen as a smokescreen, with Webber a glorified time and motion man skulking around with a clipboard looking for any ounce of fat he can trim to save the owners a buck or two. Sell big, buy cheap, charge as much as you dare all while telling them how valued they are and how wonderful. I’m not sure where the wage cap,rumour stems from Martin, but I know several players are on considerably less than that already. If the budget is trimmed as much as seems inevitable you’re not far off the mark in any case. Never in my lifetime have I witnessed a section of a clubs fans giving support to owners/board who have banked tens of millions for selling talented players and readily state that there is much more to come. Sell Brady, olsson, canos, dorrans, Murphy, howson in just 7 months? Yay! Go Delia. Anybody who thinks the next garage sale is going to be greeted in so quiet a manner needs their bumps felt. The likes of Madison, Pritchard, Nelson, pinto, Klose and a few others are in Webbers crosshairs as the webberlution oils up Madame guillotine for another aristocratic bloodletting. All the while we have old crones knitting while telling us what we’re entitled to and to have patience. You’re right Martin, the nephew brings nothing to the party save the surname smith. Delia says he’s good, therefore it’s a fact, whether he gets to enjoy his inheritance is a moot point, as its value drops and the natives grow increasingly restless it’s doubtful he has the relevant wherewithal to pay for the privelige. Added to the fact that it might soon get a little tasty and the novelty of auntie-poos little bequest may ware thin. Really all I and most others want from our club is that it strives to be the best it can be. That place in the order is some way behind Manchester United, a long way ahead of Ipswich town. The smiths are aiming at burton Albion. It won’t wash. It’s stated above that there is little anyone can do to oust the smiths or encourage them to enable the club to grow organically. The crowd figures at carrow road are already dwindling and this will continue with the dissillusionment hanging over the city at the moment, if we won’t foot the bills, smith will have to do it, or the bailiffs will move in. Time to go dear. Well Chris we almost got our MFW article from you in the end! You’re even more sarky than me, which is something, I must say. Look at how many upvotes you have – I don’t get them! “Really all I and most others want from our club is that it strives to be the best it can be.” – yeah but there are people at the top that don’t agree with us because we are collectively nobody. And they know it. Fantasic post – don’t worry about the rest of us and do your own thing. Editor Gary would embrace it, I am sure. Phew! Some wonderful comments on here today – I always try to reply individually if I can so bear with me for a while – two mucky terriers to clean up after their morning walk:-) Alex B says A few weeks ago I mentioned that Delia and Michael had reached their joint sell-by date sometime ago and were hanging on to City as if it was there child. I also said we owe them thanks for saving the club from the South/Chase, Jones era. I was informed by one of your fellow writers that at no time had the club either looked for or deterred outside investment if the offer was right for the club’s board and that the great deal maker in Mr Hunter never found a potential investor. If this is the case what is putting investors off whether they be local or international: 1) Is it the Board? 2) Is it the conditions that are quoted? 3) Being in East Anglia? 4) Amount needed to buy in? 5) Size of the Ground? Whilst the ground is in great condition, it still has a long way to go to be the best but it has potential and a so called ST waiting list. We are told that it would cost £25m to redo the City Stand and double it’s size. The club has had full houses for over 10 years, surely in that time it would have paid for itself? We are now told that City’s season tickets are the 8th most expensive outside London and some of *them* are cheaper than ours. As for Delia and hubby, they must run the board on very strict lines ie their ideas and only theirs. You never hear Mr Foulger or others coming out and saying this or that needs doing – and just look at the Turners, the great hopes of a future to come less than three years and ousted. Didn’t the Turners agree with Delia or could they see it would never change whilst the Smiths held the reins? I would be sorry to see them go as they have be a great figureheads for the club but needs change things and City need a new figurehead with a new view on the world of football. Blackpool are in turmoil and the Oystons are to blame – 17 years in charge, 1 season in the Premiership and now they have split the club into 2 businesses: 1 is the team the other is the Stadium, Hotel, Training Ground and other items. If someone buys the team they have to rent the Stadium and training ground from the Oystons. So far no takers. Please oh please lets not get this far down the line – the supporters groups should try and get the board to a meeting and talk about how to take our club forward. Great comment as always, Alex. Trouble is it looks like we cannot get rid of the Smiths, so have to stick with them. It breaks my heart, but then I think of the Mrs, our kids and the dogs and feel a lot better. They are important. Not the Smiths. And what kind of man would accept not being allowed to share his surname when apparently married? Bloody wars. That’s a touch too much for me. They imagine they are rich and powerful while we have comparatively very little in our locker. But I know how to spend fifty quid at ASDA:-) Forgot to say… there *are* people looking to invest. Just look at the lady doing a deal for Newcastle and her previous deal at Man City; both mentioned in excess of £300m. So surely if someone put out the feelers to her she could help. David Bowers says The house caught on fire in the winter The bosses lay slain And each of the workers decided to ten-fold their pay And they saw in the mirror the sun had been shot down in flames And nobody minded the hole in the sky or the rain Don.t know your original reference Dave so I could either refer you to the Ladie of Shallott or do this – my original, no fee required. When you sit on your bot while your world gets shot never mind, never mind, You can talk all you like, it’s all flippin’ shite, never mind, never mind. We mean nothing to you – never mind, never mind. It’s down to you – never mind, never mind. We’ll be there on Saturday. Never mind. Many of us have had enough of you. Never mind. Oh well not very poetic – thoughts out there though. Derek P says I am always staggered by the negativity of some of our supporters. After AN, we craved change and it’s been given to us. I don’t recall much adverse reaction to Daniel hen he first arrived nor with the players who came in or went out. So, it was a poor start. DF proved that he can adapt and change things and, for a while, we were all happy again. Manager of The Month contender, glorious defeat against Arsenal, a comfortable win over that lot. OK, so it’s gone a bit pear shaped since then but what do people expect? This is a new team, it’s going to take time and there will be bumps in the road along the way. These are the times when they need our support most, not having us suddenly wanting the owners out again. Seriously, we all need to calm down a bit. Borussia Dortmund don’t employ fools and Daniel will sort this out. If anyone thought we’d be romping away with it at this stage of the development, they need their head examined. Wouldn’t be surprised that, when we win on Saturday, we’ll suddenly be automatic promotion contenders again. We won’t be but neither are we the relegation fodder that some to think we are at the moment. We all agree that the system needed changing now that it has we have many wishing it would go back to the way it was. DF has come in and said he agrees to the signing that have been made I just wonder if that is lip service to Webber and the board being his first head coaches position for a major club not an academy. Webber seems to be the instigator for the players but does he get feed back from DF or players recommended by him???? Chris Anderson says I have made my feelings clear regarding our present owners upon MFW a few times, so I won’t reiterate what I’ve said, however, suffice to say I agree with everything you say Martin and also Gary’s recent article on the same subject. The one thing I would like to add is your reference to the lambert years. If it had been up to our owners this would not have happened. It took an effective vote of no confidence letter from Progressive thinking board members when we were heading for oblivion that made them change their direction, they had no other option and self preservation kicked in along I’m sure with their worry of the significant loss they would have taken financially. Mr McNally was appointed and the rest as they say is history. My main concern now is they’ve surrounded themselves with a bunch of mates and sycophants on the board so the lack of dissenting voices and the fact the club owes them nothing now, will only entrench them further. It’s a totalitarian utopia they desire, akin with their obvious socialist outlook on life. like any great social experiment it’s looks great on paper but when humans come into the equation, the ones at the top become more equal than others and they lose touch with the masses they are claiming to represent. A “we’re in charge, we know best” attitude kicks in soon after. Football isn’t about politics I know, but the parallels to politics and individual beliefs in this case are strikingly similar. Its worrying…. Wow. I don’t often read stuff at this time of night because I’m up with our dogs at 0600 every day. However, I’m delighted I switched back on for once because I could not agree with you more and I’m pleased to acknowledge that. I cannot and will not do religion or politics but everything you say has the ring of truth about it. I’m an apolitical socialist but unfortunately the professionals ruin it because they are SOCIALISTS. And get paid handsomely for being so in many cases. From a personal viewpoint I love what I perceive to be your Orwellian attitude. Certain people trade on the fact that they think we as supporters are “thick”. And we are not. Not at all. We are lucky that here on MFW we can express our opinions freely with no prejudice invading us, whatever our views might be. I would rather support 1p5wich than be actively involved in any form of politics. Great comment and many thanks. True words. The reference to Orwell pertains to the line about “some being more equal than others” which I feel fits this situation well. Having at one stage or another voted in every shade of the political spectrum I finally realised that without exception they are all hypocritical self servers, concerned only with feathering their own nests while preaching to the rest of us lesser mortals simply trying to,do,the best for our families in an honest way. I recall both Arthur South and Robert Chase being active in local politics. Neither man used his position with Norwich city to expound political viewpoints or their own cause Celebre. I always felt that Norwich city was a place where for 90 minutes everyone of a home persuasion, regardless of his colour, creed, politics or social standing were all together, as one. We were. Personally I don’t give a flying one who owns the clubs, I care less for their political views, their nature or their nationality. I judge them solely on one criterior, their running of Norwich city football club. The real interest is in the eleven men on the pitch. Some now appear star struck not at the thought of seeing professional athletes in the flesh, but with the z list celebrity circus going on in the directors box. The infamous times article let the cat out of the bag once and for all, a real Pandora’s box moment if ever there was one. I still can’t quite believe the astounding lack of judgment it showed. The club needs a change of culture, a new direction, purpose and identity – an escape from this snowflake w.i. Image some hold so dear. It needs its edge back. It will never get it under the current ownership and the thought of the heir apparent inheriting the lot in true champagne socialist style will be the end of the club as a football league concern in time. A fine speech, sir. Eloquently put sir. 24th November 2017 at 12:18 am Thanks Martin glad you enjoyed it. I was wary of going down the politic route as in my mind that is a personal thing between yourself and the ballot box and should be kept as far away from a Saturday at the football as possible. It was just an attempt at delving into the mindset of our majority shareholders and what might shape their thinking. Thanks again for allowing me the platform to have my say. And yes I nearly mentioned Orwell but you’ve kindly picked up on the swerve! Superb comment, Good article Martin and although as a club we will be eternally grateful to Delia and Micheal it may be time to seek new investment. Big problem at the moment is we are an entertainment buisness and are not being entertained, to lose is one thing to lose and get no value is another thing totally. Will always follow the mighty yellows as I have since 1969 but I do not want to see a stadium full of empty seats a la Portman rd so be very careful NCFC it could happen so easily…………. OTBC I reckon it’s a bit like going to Alton Towers or wherever only to discover most of the big scary rides are out of action. You pay your thirty quid or whatever and feel disappointed – or ripped off, to be harsh. Thanks Carl. Percy Varco says I can’t be arsed any more. In my 50 years as a Norwich fan, I have seen us win the grand total of one cup (Milk) and a few promotions from the second tier. Plus one from the third. There was one, glorious, top three finish in the Premier League (the very first year of it) followed by a a tantalising glimpse of European competition. Not much is it? But at least we tried. Geoffrey Watling tried. Arthur South tried. Robert Chase tried. They all tried to improve this club, to make it grow and be able to compete against the very best in this country. Watling got us into the top division for the first time, South consolidated and kept us there (mostly) and Chase took us to the highest point we’ve ever been. None of these were perfect, none of them didn’t make mistakes. But they understood that the sole purpose of a professional football club is to win trophies and titles. Or at least die trying. I haven’t got another fifty years, but I wish all those Norwich fans who do the very best of luck if they want anything better than I’ve had trophy wise while the club is run by people in charge now. “I can’t be arsed any more”. I think too many of us are feeling the same way, “Percy”. Including one or two on the pitch. Good comment and thank you. Nobody I know dreams of winning trophies, but then nobody I know dreams of being a community asset or a co-operative either. All people of a certain generation, that is those that aren’t bothered about stadium wifi, selfies and youtube highlights want, is the assurance that we are trying to be as good as we can be and the Times interview made it perfectly xlear we aren’t. So that was that for many I know. Quite what they think that their nephew brings to the party is beyond me and Ed Balls is a sorry replacement for Alan Bowkett. I do think Webber and Farke should be given time,, it isn’t their fault the owners have consistently made the wrong calls or avoided making them at all over the last few years, but I’m 48 and I’ve all but given up now and that’s purely and simply down to their arrogance in that interview. Robert I’m 60 next week and I couldn’t agree with you more. That Times interview, however much some people play the “quotes taken out of context” card, was like being run through with a marlinspike for anybody who wants our Club to progress. It basically said welcome to Stagnation City. Sums it up perfectly! Leave a Reply to YellowSquare Cancel reply FIND MY FOOTBALL WRITER ON Norwich City News 24/7 @NorwichCityMFW latest Tweets by @NorwichCityMFW #NCFC LATEST Deluded Delia@DeliaDeluded· Big day tomorrow my beautiful #ncfc fans. 5 course meal with plenty of red to wash it down. May even watch 20 minutes of those I Useless idiots trying to win a game...and they call me #deluded oh well still got the 100mill to fall back on. Such fun xx 😘 The Pink Un@pinkun· More of this tomorrow! 💪 🔰 #ncfc 🍒 #afcb @MrBlack1902 @MarkOwe70155611 You forget the bit where I nearly took MY club into administration twice! I've not put a penny in the club since all my loans where paid back. Now every week I wine and dine friends and get drunk but 🤫 don't tell the fans 😂 they all adore me #ncfc Cory@iwritethings23· Played and won on January 18th last year. Played and won the last time Conor McGregor fought on January 18th. Played and won on January 18th in 13/14. 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Hello, my name is Neil Casey. I am a proud member of both SAG-AFTRA and the WGA-E. "Another good idea is to think about owning his or her name.com as a Web site [sic] where casting professionals can see special aspects of the performer. But be careful not to pay large sums to experimental casting sites on the Web and don't ever reveal your date of birth, school name, or locale on any web site" Henson, Phyllis and Adria Manary. Kids Hollywood Magic: Insider Tips and Tricks to Get Your Child Into Show Business. Los Angeles: iUniverse, 2008. Here are a few basic facts about me: I am an Emmy-nominated writer and a reasonably well-regarded actor. I have written for Saturday Night Live, Inside Amy Schumer, and Kroll Show. I have acted on a number of television shows and in a few movies. I am represented by Mackenzie Condon of UTA and Christie Smith of RISE Management. I split my time between New York City and Los Angeles County. I perform regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. "There is a much better way of utilising [sic] the Internet for getting your CV and photograph (as you would wish them to be seen) onto someone else's computer screen: get a properly designed website. Then you can e-mail an invitation for someone to look at your details on your website. In fact, if you are in Spotlight, they can already check out your details on that site; however, it can be useful to evolve your own website to help you stick out from the crowd. Overall, it must look professional, and be easily accessible and navigable to the first-time eye [sic] – just like a good letter, CV and photograph." Dunmore, Simon. An Actor's Guide to Getting Work, Fourth Edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. Here are a few pictures of me: From Kroll Show Oh, Hello From SNL Update Cameo 1 Pig Statue Hansom Cab Modeling a Shirt Improv4Humans "When someone in the audience sees an actor on stage that they have never seen or heard of before, and they are amazed at their talent, the first thing they want to do is go home and learn more about them. And the first place they go to is the Internet. They will probably type in a search for "www.actorsname.com." [sic] to see if the actor has an official Web site. Usually, they are interested in other shows the actor has performed in, if they have any recordings, and if they possibly did see them in another show, but may not have known it. All of these can be found on the actor's official Web site." Alterman, Glenn. An Actor's Guide - Making It in New York City, Second Edition. New York: Allworth Press, 2013. Here is me starring in sketches I wrote: Hello M'Lady I wrote this sketch for Inside Amy Schumer Season 2 and also starred in it as a loser. Mobile-C I wrote this sketch for Inside Amy Schumer Season 4 and also starred in it as a commercial director. Security Questions Will Hines and I wrote this sketch for our stage show Small Men which we performed at the UCB Theatre to great acclaim. That show and this video were directed by Michael Delaney. Your Son's Band This is another sketch for our stage show Small Men. This video was directed by Mitch Magee. Belle & Bernice: Livin' in the City I wrote and starred in this web series with the incredible Sue Galloway in 2012 for AboveAverage. I play a monster! Watch all the episodes on YouTube. "Every actor needs a website. As the casting industry has become more tech savvy, we search the Internet for talent. When an actor I don't know is suggested to me and I don't have a hardcopy [sic] of his or her picture and résumé, the first place I turn to is an Internet search engine. I type in the actor's name and fully expect that the actor has a website. When the actor has a website, fantastic—my job is easier. When an actor doesn't have a website I disregard him or her and move on to the next referred actor. Time is precious in the casting process, and actors who can be readily accessed with ease are the ones whom we reach out to first with audition appointments. If you're an actor and don't have a website, get one immediately or get out of the business because you'll go nowhere fast if casting people cannot locate you online." Russell, Paul. Acting - Make It Your Business: How to Avoid Mistakes and Achieve Success. New York: Back Stage Books, 2008. Here is me acting out the writing of others: Broad City I play an accountant named "Killian Casey" in this clip from the second episode of your favorite new show, Broad City. Playing House After a grueling audition process, I beat the competition to land the role of "Neil Casey" on Jessica St. Clair's and Lennon Parham's fantastic show Playing House. Gritty Justin Bieber Movie Trailer I have only a brief cameo in this UCB Comedy video but I've always been proud of it. "If you really want to impress the people, and you are really serious about your career, get you [sic] own Website. If you have an Internet service provider, odds are you already have a free Website available to you, and they will walk you through it step by step. Put your picture and resume [sic] on the Website. Put the name of your Website on the bottom of that photo business card." Blood, Michele and Rock Riddle. How To Become a Magnet to Hollywood Success. La Jolla: MusiVation International Publishing, 2005. Here is me improvising: Uncle Bronto I appeared as a guest star in Connor Ratliff's and Catherine Mudon's improvised web series I'm Too Fragile for This. Connor and I did not coordinate our outfits or hairstyle choices in advance of the shoot. Rabbits This is another episode of I'm Too Fragile for This that Connor Ratliff, Catherine Mudon, and I improvised. Sister This is another episode of I'm Too Fragile for This that Connor Ratliff, Catherine Mudon, and I improvised. Buffet Here is my final appearance on I'm Too Fragile for This with Connor Ratliff and Catherine Mudon. Everything I say in character in this piece is something I actually believe to be true in real life. Say No to Great Opportunities This is an improvised scene I performed at UCB Theatre to mild acclaim with other members of the UCB Touring Company. Improv set with Zach Woods This is an improv set that Zach Woods and I did at the UCB Theatre in New York. We did not know that someone was taping it but since it turned out good we don't mind. In the first edition of this book I recommend getting a personal computer for keeping track of contacts, doing mailings, and updating your résumé. Now I cannot imagine living without a computer for those very things, as well as for others, such as that awesome Internet. You can create your own web page and print the web address on your business card and résumé, and you can access up-to-date information when you need it. Probably I am speaking now to my more mature colleagues, who sometimes still resist that 'devil box,' rather than to you youngbloods who are already computer literate and can see the future for what it will be." Reilly, Andrew. An Actor's Business: How to Market Yourself As an Actor No Matter Where You Live Boulder: Sentient Publications, 2004. Here are other people starring in sketches I wrote: Hotel Fees This is the first sketch I got on the air at Saturday Night Live. It stars Louis CK and Bobby Moynihan. I wrote it with Mike O'Brien. Pity Sex with a Prom Loser I wrote this sketch for Inside Amy Schumer Season 2. I make a brief cameo as the Silly Man driving the hansom cab. McDonald's Firing I wrote this sketch with Bobby Moynihan and Cecily Strong for Saturday Night Live late at night. It stars the full cast of SNL Season 38 plus Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway. Ink Blots I wrote this sketch based on an idea by Sigmund Freud for Inside Amy Schumer Season 2. Gun Lawyer This is a political sketch. I do support an individual's right to own firearms, but I think it's reasonable for states and municipalities to regulate this right based on local circumstances. "Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer–speaker and the listener. That is the immediate aspect of radio. A private experience. The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber." McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: Signet, 1964 Here are some radio programs and podcasts: Comedy Bang Bang #291 "Summer Haunted House" — I joined Bob Odenkirk, Adam Resnick and Fran Gillespie to improvise in character on this episode of Comedy Bang Bang hosted by Scott Aukerman. Improv4Humans #134 "Hubba Bubba Worthy" — Danielle Schneider, Pam Murphy and I improvised based on your suggestions with host Matt Besser. Hollywood Handbook #25 "Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich, Our Business Associates" — Will Hines and I improvised in character on this program hosted by Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport. It's That Episode #72 I sat down with Craig Rowin to talk about "Cause and Effect", a memorable episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Womp It Up! #3 I play Mr. Jordache, a disgruntled Computer Science teacher, in Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham's improvised podcast. W3C Valid HTML5
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Browse: Home / 2013 / November Mindy Lovell pleads for help to feed 43 TBs By Susan Salk on November 29, 2013 Mindy Lovell, the Ontario woman who rescued top-earning racehorse and broodmare Press Exclusive, a Thoroughbred who was as good as dead in a kill pen when she intervened, and who has saved scores of other discarded racehorses, teeters on the precipice of financial ruin. Earlier this week, Lovell issued a plea for donations to help support the herd of 43 discarded ex-racehorses, most rescued from the slaughter pipeline. Citing a decline in donations and an uptick in the number of horses she has rescued—at one point she was single-handedly caring for 90 rescued Thoroughbreds—Lovell announced on Facebook that she needs […] Millionaire racehorse is Mr. Cool off the track Author’s note: In memory of Dry Martini, we are re-running his story. Nothing could shake Dry Martini. Not the dogfights of horse racing, where he won $1.3 million dollars, and certainly not foxhunting and jumping, where he dashed through the wilderness of the Pennsylvania foxhunting territory with the cool-headed aplomb of James Bond. “When he first came off the track, just about anybody could have sat on him,” says Priscilla Godsoe, who, along with James C. Paxton of River Hills Foxhounds, re-schooled Dry Martini. “All the credit really goes to the horse. It’s a hard thing to explain unless you’ve ridden […] DRF’s Mandy Minger Joins New Vocations Board Mandy Minger, vice president of marketing for the Daily Racing Form and president of the Turf Publicists of America, has joined the New Vocations Racehorse Adoption’s Board of Directors. In a press release issued on Nov. 22, Anna Ford of New Vocations announced her arrival while citing Minger’s extensive work with horse charities such as the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, Old Friends, KY. She noted that Minger will make an excellent addition. “We are excited and feel very blessed to have Mandy Minger join our board,” Ford says. “She brings a wealth of experience as well as Thoroughbred industry connections that […] Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a response
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Moving Up Ceremonies and Graduation June 25, 2019 - PreK For All Classes End of Year Ceremony Mrs. Gonzalez, Ms. McGarry, Mrs. Serbones' Classes June 26, 2019 - End of Year Mass @ 10:00 AM 8th Grade Graduation 1:00 PM Dismissal for all students Report Cards will be distributed before dismissal Success Maker -12th Month Summer Program As an ongoing educational incentive the Catholic School Region of Manhattan and Mr. Tweed, the regional superintendent, has obtained funding for a summer initiative for all students in grades K-7 to continue the learning that has occurred here at OLQM from September to June. While it has been our custom to assign books to be read over the summer months - this new initiative will focus instead on online learning in both Reading and Mathematics. Students will be given access to Success Maker an on-line program that we have been piloting in grades 2, 3 and 4 and is similar to Freckle which we have been using the last two years here at OLQM. Students will be expected to do one hour of Reading and one hour of Mathematics per week and will be expected to complete and pass these lessons on Success Maker. Teaching staff will be available twice a week Tuesdays 9:00 AM -1:00 PM and Thursdays 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM to assist students who are experiencing difficulty or do not have access to an electronic device to complete the assignments. Parents will be called once a week if the assignments have not been completed and reminded that this summer work will count as a student’s first grade in Reading and Mathematics in September. Should you have any questions that you would like to directly ask me please feel free to see me on Sunday June 23rd from 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM or send me an e-mail at olqm1@aol.com. Recently parents have forgotton that there exists a Parent/Student Handbook that was distributed in September 2018. The goverance of the school follows the rules of NYS education law along with policies that have goverened Catholic Schools for many years. Some malcontent parents recently have been vocal with teachers over rules that are basically common sense: 1. If a child is late - that means they have missed part of the school day- see NYS regulations below. OFFICIAL COMPILATION OF CODES, RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TITLE 8. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT CHAPTER II. REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER SUBCHAPTER E. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION PART 104. PUPIL RECORDS 8 CRR-NY 104.1 104.1 Pupil attendance recordkeeping. (a) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to: (1) ensure the maintenance of an adequate record verifying the attendance of all children at instruction in accordance with Education Law section 3205; (2) establish a practical mechanism for every public and nonpublic elementary, middle and secondary school in the State of New York to account to the parents of all children enrolled in such schools for the whereabouts of such children throughout each school day; and (3) ensure sufficient pupil attendance at all scheduled periods of actual instruction or supervised study activities to permit such pupils to succeed at meeting the State learning standards. (b) Definitions. Whenever used in this section, the following terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated: (1) Pupil. A child enrolled in any public or nonpublic elementary, middle or secondary school. (2) Register of attendance. Any written or electronic record maintained for the purpose of recording the attendance, absence, tardiness or early departure of a pupil. (3) Scheduled instruction. Every period that a pupil is scheduled to attend actual instructional or supervised study activities during the course of a school day during the school year from July 1st through June 30th. (4) Teacher. A member of the teaching or supervisory staff of a public or nonpublic elementary, middle or secondary school. (5) Employee other than a teacher. A suitable person other than a teacher employed by a public or nonpublic elementary, middle or secondary school in a position appropriate for the maintenance of pupil records. (c) The record of each pupil's presence, absence, tardiness and early departure shall be kept by each public and nonpublic elementary, middle or secondary school in a register of attendance in a manner consistent with subdivision (d) of this section. (d) The register of attendance shall set forth at least the following for each pupil: (2) date of birth; (3) full names of parent(s) or person(s) in parental relation; (4) address where the pupil resides; (5) phone number(s) where the parent(s) or person(s) in parental relation may be contacted; (6) date of the pupil's enrollment; (7) a record of the pupil's attendance on each day of scheduled instruction. Commencing July 1, 2003, attendance shall be taken and recorded in accordance with the following: (i) for pupils in non-departmentalized kindergarten through grade eight such pupil's presence or absence shall be recorded after the taking of attendance once per school day, provided that if pupils in such schools are dismissed from school grounds during a lunch period, each such pupil's presence or absence shall also be recorded after the taking of attendance a second time upon the pupil's return from the lunch period each school day; (ii) for pupils in grades 9 through 12 or in departmentalized schools at any grade level, each such pupil's presence or absence shall be recorded after the taking of attendance in each period of scheduled instruction except that where such pupils do not change classrooms for each period of scheduled instruction attendance shall be taken in accordance with subparagraph (i) of this paragraph; (iii) any absence for a school day or portion thereof shall be recorded as excused or unexcused in accordance with the standards articulated in the comprehensive attendance policy adopted in accordance with subdivision (i) of this section; (iv) in the event that a pupil at any instructional level from kindergarten through grade12 arrives late for or departs early from scheduled instruction, such tardiness or early departure shall be recorded as excused or unexcused in accordance with the standards articulated in the comprehensive attendance policy; 2. Parents sign an agreement that they will pay tuition on time when they register on TADS every year. Those who are deliquent basically forfeit the rights of their child to attend school -- not Mr. Woods -- the parent does the nasty work by not paying on time and ignoring the letters, reminders, IRIS alerts and payment plans that are meant to assist parents. The tuition management office for the Archdiocese recently sent a reminder to all principals of the following regulations; Please remember our tuition policies: · Records and report cards cannot be transmitted for students with delinquent tuition payments, and financial aid/scholarships provided will be at risk and may be rescinded. · Families with delinquent tuition payments may be ineligible to re-register or apply for financial aid for the following school year. · Students with delinquent tuition payments may not participate in school activities and graduation ceremonies. 3. Probably the clincher was that Mr. Woods is unavailable to meet with! As parents of students in the sacarmental program can attest Mr. Woods is present on Sundays from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM. The open door policy of parents coming to see him during those times is clearly stated in the Parents Handbook on this blog and in IRIS messages on a weekly basis. Hopefully as we end the year parents who are trying to foster a negative atmosphere will read all publications that pertain to the orderly running of the school beginning with the Parent/Student Handbook and join us as a school community in prayer in the morning instead of gossiping in front of the school building. Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist PreK Summer Program begins with Mrs. Fundora. Awards Day Ceremony 10:00 AM Parents invited. 8th grade students off today to prepare for graduation. PreK For All end of year ceremony 10:00 AM parents welcome. 10:00 AM - end of year Mass followed by 8th grade graduation. 1:00 PM - dismissal Report Cards and Honors will be distributed before dismissal. Moving Up Ceremonies and Graduation June 25, 20... Week of June 17, 2019 Announcements Moving Up Ceremonies and Graduations June 18, 2...
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Online Educare P.S.C. Suggestion for PSC Class Six Class Seven J.S.C. Suggestion for J.S.C. Suggestion for S.S.C. Eugen O’neill Fransis Bacon Mathew Arnold Percy Bysshe Shelly Olympic games- why this discrimination? Life is a precious seed The Achievement and Contribution of I. A. Richards as a Critic. By mamuns di rock in Criticism In the twentieth century Anglo-American criticism Ivor Armstrong Richards is the most influential critic. Among the moderns he is the only critic who has expressed a systematic and complete theory of the literary art. According to the view of George Watson, “Richards’ claim to have established Anglo-American New Criticism of the thirties and forties is unassailable.” His reputation as a critic: His reputation as a critic lies on a limited number of critical books he wrote. The relevance of psychology to literary studies emerges clearly in his first book, The Foundations of Aesthetics (1922), written in relationship with his two friends. In this book the authors have tried to define ‘beauty’ by studying its effects on the readers. Psychological theory: In his book The Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), Richards alone explains his psychological theory of value and explores the emotive language of poetry. He is the father of the psychological criticism as well as of New Criticism. He developed the unhistorical method of criticism. He holds that satisfactory knowledge of psychology is essential for a literary critic to enter into the author’s mind. He also gives supreme importance to the art of communication and brings out a distinction between the scientific and the motive uses of the language. Before coming to the value of imaginative literature he first formulates a general psychological theory of value, and then applies it to literature. This is scientific or psychological approach to literature. Learning: As a critic, I. A. Richards is not only learned and abstract but also learned about revolutionary and original. He is a loyal advocate of close written and oral study and analysis of a work of art without reference to its author and the age. His method is practical and experimental. Appreciation: According to him, poetry represents certain classification in the poet, and for a proper understanding of the poem, the critic must enter and hold this classification and experience of the poet. He should also be able to judge the value of different experiences, i.e., he should be able to separate between experiences of greater and lesser value. His value as a critic: His value as a critic also lies in his conclusions about what imaginative literature is, how it employs language, how its use of language differs from the scientific use of language, and what is its special function and value. His conclusion, at this stage in the development of his critical ideas, is that a satisfactory work of imaginative literature represents a kind of psychological adjustment in the author which is valuable for personality, and that the reader, if he knows how to read properly, can have this adjustment communicated to him by reading the work. Richards did a great service to literary criticism by linking it with psychology. But some people also say that psychological approach to literary criticism makes it too technical and dull a subject. Furthermore, Richards’ conclusions are based on psychology as it is today, development of psychology and our understanding of the human mind, this theory might lose its importance or vanish completely. Some people also doubt whether literary criticism based on individual psychology can ever explain fully the mystic nature of the poetic experience. Fundamental questions of criticism: According to Richards the questions which a critic must ask are “what give the experience of reading a certain poem its value? How is this experience better than another? Why prefer this picture to that? In which ways should we listen to music so as to receive the most valuable moments? Why is one opinion about works of art not as good as another? These are the fundamental questions which criticism is required to answer, together with such preliminary questions— What is a picture, a poem, a piece of music? How can experiences be compared? What is value?—as may be required in order to approach these questions. Anglo-American criticism, Appreciation of I.A.Richards, Fundamental questions of criticism, I. A. Richards, I. A. 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About non-profit housing Join ONPHA Member Support Helpline Advocacy & research Courses and webinars Conference and Trade Show ONPHA Select ONPHA’s Federal Election Analysis What happened in the election? After a tight-run race between the leading Liberal and Conservative parties, Canadians sent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau back to 24 Sussex Drive on October 21, 2019, albeit with a weakened mandate: he will likely lean on the NDP to form a governing majority in Parliament. If the Liberals fail to negotiate with either the NDP or Bloc Quebecois, the Conservatives have a chance to form a separate coalition. The Liberals – despite losing the popular vote and 21 seats – held on to win a minority government. The NDP, projected to perform better, lost 15 seats. The Bloc performed well in Quebec, winning many former NDP ridings. The Conservative popular votes in the Prairies did not turn into critical seat-heavy gains in Quebec or Ontario, while the Green Party – despite an early win in Fredericton – did not perform as well as early polling projected. A minority government means the ruling party may form formal governing coalitions with other parties to stay in power, but could instead hold loose, informal agreements to pass legislation. The ruling party may face non-confidence votes at any time – like in 2008 – so Liberals must be kind to their allies to stay in power. Regional politics – especially in Quebec and B.C. where the Bloc and NDP fared well – may play a larger role to keep potential Liberal allies happy. Analysts – and Trudeau himself – suggest an informal agreement – not a formal coalition – between the NDP and Liberals is the most likely outcome for at least the next two years. ONPHA’s election activities During the election, ONPHA promised to work with its federal partners – the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA) – and all political parties to ensure housing remained a top priority during the election. We created a plan to highlight key ridings where housing needs were greatest in Ontario and work with candidates eager to learn and act to make housing more affordable. Throughout the election, ONPHA monitored issues for opportunities and created opportunities for members and the organization to work with candidates. ONPHA also engaged with candidates and the media across Ontario to advocate about the importance housing affordability plays for the province’s economy and its people. ONPHA garnered significant media coverage throughout the election period through its involvement developing the Canadian Rental Housing Index (CRHI), prompting candidates to take notice. With over 7 million media impressions, the CRHI launch helped ensure housing was a key issue for Ontarians on Election Day. ONPHA’s election priorities were aligned with asks made by the CHRA. We urged parties to: Create and implement distinct urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing strategies to eliminate the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous housing standards and living conditions Preserve existing community housing stock Expand the Federal Lands Initiative to increase community housing in high-priority areas Provide funding and financing opportunities to incentivize the private sector to increase community housing What was promised during the campaign? With a likely ad-hoc agreement between the Liberals and NDP on the way, both parties’ housing priorities are critical to understanding what policies may come to fruition. The Liberals committed to spend $55 billion and build 100,000 affordable housing units over the next 10 years as part of their National Housing Strategy. This includes an additional $15 million annual investment to address veteran homelessness. The Liberals also promised to develop distinctions-based community infrastructure plans for Indigenous, Inuit and Métis communities over the next decade, though a dollar figure was not attached to the announcement. Liberal MP Adam Vaughan noted at the national housing debate that the party wants to create an Urban Indigenous Housing Authority, create a self-directed fund, and open up the full scope of CMHC programs for Indigenous peoples. Singh made housing affordability a central tenet of his platform, committing to 500,000 affordable housing units over the next ten years – even commenting on housing priorities in his concession speech. The NDP also promised dedicated “fast-start funds” to streamline applications and expedite project start dates. The NDP also committed to waiving federal portions of the GST/HST on the construction of new affordable rental units, providing resources to facilitate co-housing and retrofitting all housing stock in Canada by 2050. For Indigenous communities, the NDP committed to implement co-developed First Nations, Métis, and Inuit housing strategies, in line with the Liberal’s distinctions-based housing commitment. The Conservatives may be consulted on some housing issues: with their plan to make surplus federal real estate available for development to increase housing supply and increase provincial healthcare funding, there may be opportunities for the Liberals and Tories to work together. What’s next for ONPHA and housing? All major parties made significant commitments to address housing across the country. With an uncertain alliance between the Liberals and NDP likely in the cards, determining what housing policies will be put in place remains to be seen. ONPHA will work hard in the coming weeks to closely monitor the situation at Parliament Hill and ensure it works closely with its federal partners and Ontario MPs to keep housing a priority. The election could mean the National Housing Strategy (NHS) may be strengthened and expanded as governing parties negotiate and try to deliver their commitments to voters. Providers could see greater funding packets from the federal government. The province and service managers might find greater incentives to quickly dispense money to providers as a new government will seek to gain quick political wins to solidify a progressive mandate. With general progressive policy alignment between the Liberals and NDP, housing providers might see positive funding and possible legislation to cool the housing market and make rentals more affordable. Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised to work with all federal parties to “make life more affordable.” A statement from the Premier committed he would work with the new government on shared priorities, including “critical infrastructure for the future” including affordable housing. While the new minority government deliberates over its cabinet and composition shape, ONPHA will monitor and update members as developments are known. Advocacy will remain a key priority for the organization as the new government forms. From the election, ONPHA will build on its relationships with key MPs, work with our federal partners like the CHRA and provincial counterparts through the Canadian Alliance of Non-Profit Housing Associations (CANPHA) to ensure everyone has a place to call home. If you have a new MP, or want to stay in touch with decision-makers, introduce yourself to your representative. If you want to reach out and are unsure how to approach a meeting, contact our advocacy team. Stay tuned for more announcements as the government’s housing priorities and policies unfold. Armed with our materials, ONPHA will engage with candidates in Ontario’s ridings to ensure they see the value community housing brings to the province. Read our materials below to learn more about what we’re saying in our meetings with candidates. This is a document ONPHA uses in our meetings with candidates. We are sharing it for our members to use in their local ridings. 2019’s Canadian Rental Housing Index UPDATED RENTAL HOUSING DATA BY FEDERAL RIDING Stock Letter for Candidates Want to get involved? Reach out to your local candidates to let them know why community housing matters in your riding. Fill in our template letter and send them to your local candidates to let them know they should support community housing. Check out these resources - printable PDFs from Elections Canada and other websites - to post in your buildings about common voter questions. Have trouble getting to vote? Who are my candidates? CBC’s poll and projections tracker Which party do my values most align with? Party platform guide ONPHA's National Partner - the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association - and its website Party Commitments What are the parties saying about their affordable housing priorities? As parties release their platforms and make promises, this table will be updated. ONPHA Housing Priorities Create urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing strategies Trudeau promised community infrastructure plans will be developed to meet “critical infrastructure needs in First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities” over the next decade. A dollar figure was not attached to the announcement. Liberals want to create an Urban Indigenous Housing Authority, create a self-directed fund, and open up the full scope of CMHC programs for Indigenous peoples Preserve existing community housing stock N/A N/A N/A Expand the Federal Lands Initiative to increase community housing in high-priority areas N/A Make surplus federal real estate available for development to increase the supply of housing Provide funding and financing opportunities to incentivize the private sector to increase community housing Spend $55B to build 100,000 affordable housing units over 10 years The Conservatives have told building associations they would ease regulations to help get new homes built. Create 500,000 affordable homes over ten years Set-up fast start funds to streamline applications Waive federal GST/HST on construction fees Over the next 10 years, it would like to build 25,000 new affordable units and renovate 15,000 others Speak to our advocacy team to see how you can learn more about how ONPHA is working for you this election season. Job board | Accessibility | Privacy | Join ONPHA | Contact us
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Open University of the Left About Open University of the Left Andy Thayer Presents: Why Chicago Leaders Hate the Homeless October 12, 2017 wartfrog9 Leave a comment Join Open University of the Left on Saturday October 21 at 2:30 pm at the Lincoln Park Public Library 1150 W. Fullerton Ave. (at Damen) Chicago, free parking, wheelchair accessible, (Red Line: Fullerton) In recent weeks City leaders have dramatically escalated their ongoing battle against Chicago’s homeless population, repeatedly evicting Uptown’s Tent City — the most visible symbol of the city’s failure to house its own residents. The evictions are an attempt to set new precedents in guaranteeing even fewer rights to those who already have the least in our city. The goal of guaranteeing profits for the real estate industry has long dominated decision-making in city politics. It determines City Hall policies towards the homeless, the near-homeless, and housing for all the other residents who also do the work that makes Chicago work. However, lack of affordable housing and homelessness cannot be properly understood if viewed in isolation from other issues. Policies on policing, race, jobs, education, transportation and healthcare are all inextricably linked to housing policies. Homelessness is but one of the more brutal aspects of an ongoing war vs. the non-wealthy by those who run our city. Join long-time activist Andy Thayer of Uptown Tent City Organizers as he examines how homelessness relates to other issues, why homelessness is a human-manufactured crisis, and what we can do to solve it. Andy Thayer has also worked on such other issues as 1st Amendment rights and ending U.S. wars. A protest organizer, Andy is a co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network, a multi-issue LGBT rights direct action group which helped win equal marriage rights in Illinois. He’s been arrested in various protests, not only locally, but twice in Moscow, Russia for protesting against the government’s bans on gay rights demonstrations. All Open University of the Left event are free of charge and open to all. All prior video programs are viewable on our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenUnivoftheLeft Join the low traffic email announcement list (yahoo group) at: oulchicago-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Previous PostNow Up on YouTube, Video: Dr. William Pelz, “People’s History: A Lens to understand the Past…and the Future.”Next PostNow Up on YouTube, Andy Thayer: “Why Chicago Leaders Hate the Homeless” OUL YouTube Videos OUL Yahoo Group (Low Traffic E-mail list) OUL on Facebook Now Up on YouTube, Dr. Lee Artz, “How to Stage a Coup! Media, Politics, and Interventions in Bolivia” Dr. Lee Artz at Open University of the Left Now Up on YouTube, Rich Whitney, Making America Care Again: “Why Americans Should Oppose War “ Waldo Spadoni on Thomas Frank: Toxic Tour invisalab.com on Dr. Lauren Langman at Open University of the Left Anonymous on About Open University of the Left
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The Everything Learning Russian Book with CD: Speak, write, and understand Russian in no time!. Julia Stakhneivich The.Everything.Learning.Russian.Book.with.CD.Speak.write.and.understand.Russian.in.no.time..pdf Download The Everything Learning Russian Book with CD: Speak, write, and understand Russian in no time! The Everything Learning Russian Book with CD: Speak, write, and understand Russian in no time! Julia Stakhneivich Publisher: Adams Media Corporation They don't think about all the grammar rules when they speak, it just comes out. Sep 23, 2013 - Happy people know that happiness is a choice. Sep 20, 2011 - This is why most native speakers have a hard time explaining the rules to someone learning the language. Aug 22, 2012 - My good Russian friend asked me today why so many people tell her they are studying Russian but then quit. May 1, 2014 - I don't read as much as I once did; I don't have the time to give it the full attention it demands if I am going to learn anything. But that kind of thinking uses a lot of energy, making doing both at the same time almost impossible. But it takes them another eight or twelve years to be able to write and speak fluently. I told her So it's not to hard to learn any romance language if your native language is one; and it's not too hard to learn Greek, German or Gaelic if you know English. But I used to spend a lot of time in libraries, and developed the habit of choosing several books - usually three - at random. They just know what sounds right. Nov 11, 2004 - Since being able to write formally in ukrainian evolves into a requirement for many jobs, in a country where practically everyone thinks in russian, and only write very good in russian, people are not able to get the right jobs in their own country! No one in Ukraine can understand them. Instead, happiness is an available decision despite them. They know it is not a reaction to present circumstances. I learned Ukrainian in the school. In order to speak Ukrainian language you have to learn it as any other language. I… Although the Russian buy of Ukrainian debt was to have conditions mostly to protect the security of the money, Russia did not specify political reforms by Ukraine as part of the deal. Download more ebooks:
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NATIONAL BALL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION OF CANADA ABOUT THE SPORT AGE GROUPS & LEVELS OF PLAY REFS ROOM Error loading feed data U18 Team Canada Announcemnent Featured CANADA – The Best Junior U-18 Players in the Country The National Ball Hockey Association of Canada is once again pleased to announce the 2020 Under 18 Junior Team Canada ball hockey team roster that will represent Canada at the 2020 World Junior Ball Hockey Championships in Rovaniemi, Finland. Held every two years, the World Junior Ball Hockey Championships showcases the best under-18 ball hockey players in the World. U18 Junior Team Canada returns to defend its 8 year reign as World Junior Ball Hockey Champions winning Gold in Pisek, Czech Republic in 2012; Budapest, Hungary in 2014; Prague, Czech Republic in 2016; and most recently in Nitra, Slovakia in 2018. Leading the 2020 team will be head coach Shawn McGuire (JTC 2018, Oshawa Minor), assisted by Sam Gagnon (Penetang Minor) along with a pair of equipment managers Dan Blais & Jeff White, Team Doctor and physio Dr. Andrea Jones, and General Manager Scott Jacobi. The team selection was led by GM Jacobi and his team of staff and scouts, and all players have been evaluated throughout the ball hockey season including league games, Provincial Championships, and ultimately at the CanAM Ball Hockey Championships. “We are excited about the players we have named to Junior Team Canada. The selection process was extremely difficult, but I believe we have a team that is highly skilled and continue to push the pace at the World Championships and will once again battle for the Championship,” said Jacobi. Jacobi continues, “The team will gather in Oshawa in June for a two-day camp prior to flying over to Finland so to allow players to familiarize themselves with what we would like to do as a team, but more importantly to have the players get to know one another and come together as a team. If the team comes together and bonds, if we work hard with and for one another, I believe the results at this Championship will again favour Canada. We are aware we have a target on our backs; every year the World teams continue to get better and stronger, and when playing against Team Canada, we know we will always get the other teams best game. But in the end, we are representing Canada Ball Hockey, we will set our goals high, and with our preparation, our work ethic, and our attention to detail that will get us to where we want to be.” Commenting on the goal of the 2020 teams Steven Dockerty, National High Performance Director adds, “we have a Mission Statement - To prepare and assemble a team of the Country’s best junior ball hockey players to compete for gold at the WJC. To field a team that sets extraor­dinary standards for competitiveness, sportsmanship and team continuity. To create a ‘life experience’ for the members of the JTC and the officials.” Ball Hockey is an amazing sport and these young men are truly fortunate to have the opportunity to compete with the best in the world and absorb the culture of each European host city” Dockerty concluded with “The ultimate goal is to ensure each player has a life experience that he can take with him for years to come. We are pleased with the scouting, selec­tion and acceptance of the players chosen for the team.’ “Having spoken to all members of the coaching staffs throughout this process, I am confident that the work that they have put in will translate into a highly satisfying trip along with a good showing on the floor.” said Dockerty. “In the last four international competitions the staff thought out all the little things and planned accordingly because once you start traveling with this amount of players plus staff in a short period of time through major European cities, it all has to run smoothly from start to finish in order for these players to produce on the floor.” People that tend to be missed in these types of announcements are the local coaches, associations and family members that have helped the players get to this level, along with these individuals all those that scouted for Junior Team Canada at local and regional events should take pride in this team, as they too played a big part in the team composition. “On behalf of the National Ball Hockey Association of Canada, I would like to congratulate the players and staff named today, along with their provincial associations, leagues, club teams, families, coaches and officials who have helped them along the way,” said Dockerty. With that said, it is with great pride that we present you the 2020 Junior Team The 2020 Junior Team Canada U18 Team: Goalies: Sean Grey, Tucker Clyne Defencemen: Brayden McGuire, Cameron Clarke, Kael Mizen, Riley Thayer, Weston Bartlett, Zac Correia Forwards: Brendan Browne, Brett Bressette, Ethan Larmand, Jack Gasperetti, Jake Lemere, Jeffery Galloway, Karsten Leonard, Keenan Scrimshaw, Liam Doyle, Nick Blais, Stefano Abbondi, Tyson Farrow Your Passion…Your Dedication…Play Like A Champion…Play Like Team Canada…Commit To The Culture of Excellence….We Are Canada #wbhf2020rovaniemi #WeReady #BeGreat #WeAreTeamCanada #BeTheStandard Read 845 times Last modified on Tuesday, 24 December 2019 16:22 Published in JUNIOR TEAM CANADA More in this category: « The Best Junior U-16 Players in the Country WHBF Copyright © National Ball Hockey Association of Canada [NBHAC - 2012] Powered by marCOM
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the best weddings ideas and advice Laura and Jonny’s Super Stylish Sheffield Warehouse Wedding by S6 Photography 18.04.2018by adminArticles Laura and Jonny’s Super Stylish Sheffield Warehouse Wedding by S6 Photography 18.04.201818.04.2018admin Happy Monday everyone, I do hope you had a wonderful weekend and that you are all rested and ready for the week ahead? My weekend was spent with a very rare night out for Nik and I. We went over to Matlock for my friends 20th wedding anniversary party! It was a fab night and great to catch up with so many old friends. We are starting the week off in style with this stunning wedding from my good friend Jon at S6 Photohraphy. It’s a wedding that is dear to me as the lovely couple Laura and Jonny have used all local suppliers, many of which are my friends and a lot are in house experts here on the blog. It’s an amazing wedding, set in a local warehouse so filled with cool decor, stunning flowers and it just looks amazing! It really does show Sheffield off in the best light with some of our top suppliers. We wanted our wedding day to feel ‘like us’ and for everyone to have a great time, giving them little surprises along the way. Sheffield is so important to us and a big part of our story so we wanted elements of that to come through in the day itself. Laura and Jonny were married on 9th December 2017 the Ceremony was at 99 Mary Street, Sheffield, with the reception at Trafalgar Warehouse. ‘We got officially married the day before at Sheffield Town Hall with only our close family, then we took them to The Riverside in Kelham Island – the place that we met – for food and drinks. We’re both from Sheffield and love the city but when it comes to wedding venues, we knew that we wanted to steer clear of the more traditional venues Sheffield has to offer as they just didn’t feel like us. We loved the urban, industrial feel of Mary Street and Trafalgar and knew we could do something really special there, that reflected us as a couple. We kept it to 80 in the day and 100 for the evening. We sorted out the big stuff early on and then we left a lot of it until a few months before. We just didn’t want it to take over so we sorted a few bits at a time and didn’t let it get stressful.’ How they met We met in 2004 at The Riverside in Sheffield when we were just 18. We stayed together for a few months but then went off to uni separately and did our own thing. Jonny will admit himself, he made sure we always stayed in touch over the years as he wanted us to get back together and we would meet up every now and then. In 2011, we were both living in Manchester and we finally decided to make a go of it and, because we’d known each other for years, launched straight in to a full-on relationship. When Jonny proposed, we were on holiday in Spain where we go every year with my family. We’d had some food and then went for a walk to this viewpoint where you can see all the way down to the coast from the mountains. Jonny was getting his phone out to take a photo and I was faffing about with my hair, but when I looked up, he was holding a box with an engagement ring instead of the phone. I just stared at it for a few seconds then burst in to tears, he got down on one knee, said some lovely things that neither of us can remember to this day, and I said yes through lots more tears. I had no idea and hadn’t suspected a thing so the boy did good! How did you allocate your budget? We set a budget and then put in some estimated costs on my super-cool spreadsheet. We pretty much stuck to that and just moved things around as some costs went up and some turned out to be cheaper than we expected. We put the majority of the budget in to the things that we knew would make a big difference, so our photographer, deciding that actually we really did want a videographer, catering, decorating the venue, alcohol… How did you choose your photographer? Jon from S6 Photography had been the photographer at our friend’s wedding a few years before and their photos were stunning, so when it came to getting engaged, Jon was probably the only thing that we knew was a must. We were undecided about whether we wanted a wedding video at first but then thought we would regret it if we didn’t, so got in touch with Zena at Fern and Compass and we’re so glad that we’ll have our wedding video to look back on because it goes by in a blur! It took me ages to find a dress because I’ve never been one of those people that dreamt about their wedding day and knew exactly what type of dress I wanted. I’d been to Emily Bridal in Sheffield a couple of times and went for a third time to have a look – I knew I wanted something simple, classic but with a modern twist. After trying on a few dresses and not really getting anywhere, one of the girls said she had an idea. She brought in an Essence of Australia dress in a matte silk, I tried it on and it was exactly what I’d been looking for. It was so simple, but it was the simplicity that I fell in love with – and the pockets! I even did the whole crying thing because I knew that I’d found the dress. Jenn Edwards & Co. did our hair and make-up and were so much fun to have around in the morning, helping us to get ready. The suit and bridesmaids Jonny’s suit was from ASOS and so were the bridesmaid dresses. Theme or colour scheme Our wedding website was black and white so that was the basis for the colour scheme that ran through our wedding stationary, signs etc. We then added some gold and some more wintery colours for a December wedding. We wanted to incorporate elements of Sheffield in to the wedding, from Sheffield gin bottles to hold the flowers, to Henderson’s relish on the table. I knew I wanted an unusual bouquet so went to Tracey at Campbell’s flowers with my ideas and she brought them to life, creating a stunning sprayed asparagus fern bouquet. For the rest of the wedding flowers we had greenery in Sheffield gin bottles, including some eucalyptus leaves from the eucalyptus tree in our garden. Decorating a warehouse is a bit of a daunting task but we had lots of festoon lights, candles and we decided on using white drapes to break up the space a bit and create a bit of impact. Inner City Weddings were such a huge help, sorting us out with suppliers and taking all our ideas and helping us to make it all happen. We dropped everything off the day before and they did all of the set up for us, bringing everything to life so that when we walked in on the day, it was incredible to finally see everything come together. Campbell’s flowers also created a wall mural for a photo backdrop for us. Our caterer was Andy Gabbitas from The Wortley Arms who created a menu for us that had a Sheffield feel to it. We had mini Yorkshire puddings with a French onion demitasse for the starter. Our main meal was pie with mash, mushy peas, gravy and of course, Henderson’s Relish. Then for dessert we had chocolate brownie with strawberries cream. For our evening food, we had the Wing Kings. Olu put together chicken wings, mac n cheese, corn bread and fries for us served out of a street food van that we unveiled from behind a backdrop curtain later in the evening. Instead of wedding cake, we opted for the Wing King’s unbelievable strawberry cheesecake. We managed to get the DJ who used to play at Republic nightclub in Sheffield when we were all at school – Lee ‘Da Truth’ Smith. Jonny also had a surprise lined up for me Who supplied the stationery One of the best men did our stationery based on the design of our wedding website Our wedding celebrant Louisa made our ceremony so personal and told the story of us as a couple perfectly. It was really important that our family and friends were a big part of the ceremony as they’re so important to us and we worked with Louisa to incorporate them in to the ceremony. Advice for other couples Remember who you’re doing it for and keep it about the two of you. When the day came, we both felt really calm as though it’s totally normal to be getting in a big white dress, or having all of these people you love in one place just for you, but – everyone will tell you – it goes so fast. Take moments out throughout the day just for the two of you. Our photographer, Jon at S6 Photography, was great at taking us off for a few minutes and giving us that time to take it all in and just look at each other and talk about how crazy it all is. The biggest surprise came at the end of Jonny’s speech. He’d already had everyone laughing, then in tears and, at the end, he told everyone that he’d bought me a present each day in the lead up the wedding and had one final surprise for me. He then went on to say that he knows how much I love a gospel choir and it was something I’d mentioned on one of our first dates. Cue a girl with an insane voice coming out and singing hallelujah followed by a full-on gospel choir. He’d organised it in secret with Ellie at Inner City Weddings and I still can’t believe he did that for me. Everyone loved it, they got us all up singing and dancing with them – it was unforgettable. Supplier Shout Outs Wedding Planners: www.innercityweddings.co.uk Photographer: www.s6photography.co.uk Videographer: www.fernandcompass.com Caterer: www.wortley-arms.co.uk Evening food caterer: www.twitter.com/thewing_kings Celebrant: www.starrgazingceremonies.com Ceremony Venue: www.99mary.st Reception Venue: www.trafalgar-warehouse.com Flowers: www.campbellsflowers.co.uk Dress: www.emilybridalwear.co.uk Make-up and hair: www.jennedwards.com Gospel Choir: www.demontfortsu.com/soc/DMUGospelChoir Wedding reception : which of these 10 themes will you choose to do the staging ? 11.10.2018 The marriage of Navy and David tinted pretty notes bohemian 10.10.2018 7 things to know before you sign the contract for the reception hall 10.10.2018 The dishes from my wedding meal : how to choose the right one ? 10.10.2018 What is the difference be... When the married american surround at least three of th... 6 wedding dresses tend 20... 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200 Chopin Stories Episodes 1 - 25 Episodes 26 - 50 Episodes 76 - 100 Episodes 101 - 125 The Ballades The Etudes The Impromptus The Mazurkas The Nocturnes The Piano Sonatas The Polonaises The Preludes Rarities, One-offs, & Miscellany The Rondos The Scherzos The Variations The Waltzes The Works for Piano & Orchestra Works inspired by Chopin Chopin's Circle About Chopin Friends, Lovers, & Rivals Friedrich Kalkbrenner Pauline Viardot Great Chopinists Garrick Ohlsson Bruce Murray Emily Jarrell Urbanek Joe Brant Frank Dominguez Jennifer Foster Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr Don Lee Marc Overton Benjamin K. Roe Lisa Simeone Ted Weiner Chopin Resources World of Opera Innocence Exploited: Gounod's 'Faust' There's a familiar saying among the spiritually minded: "The Lord works in mysterious ways." No matter what culture or belief set it springs from, it generally refers to a benevolent lord, whose ways are aimed at achieving the greater good. But what about the lord of the underworld? At least in art and literature, that darker lord often works in ways far less mysterious, but at times devilishly effective. One of those ways is by zeroing in on universal frailties by offering people exactly what they truly want, and even need, at the expense of beliefs they had thought were dearly held. That's what happens in one of the most famous devil stories of them all -- the tale of Faust -- and the tactic is at the core of Charles Gounod's operatic version of the story. The legend of the man who trades his soul for infinite knowledge -- and sensual pleasures -- is centuries old, and it's famously told in the classic drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in the early 19th century. But the story of the so-called Faustian bargain goes back far earlier than that. The historical Dr. Faust was a self-styled philosopher and fortune-teller thought to have lived sometime in the late 1400s. He studied natural science, alchemy and magic, and received at least one degree from the University at Heidelberg. An early published account of his life appeared in 1587, claiming that when he died his soul was carried off by the devil. Supposedly he'd been dabbling in the dark arts, and got exactly what he deserved. The libretto of Gounod's Faust is based on a play by Michel Carré called Faust and Marguerite -- and the opera's insights lie as much in her story as in his. Faust makes his bargain knowing full well that he'll likely face dire consequences. Marguerite is taken unawares. Her aspirations are commonplace and defensible -- she longs for meaningful love and a rewarding life. When she accepts both and finds that the price is a nearly unimaginable anguish, she refuses the easy way out, relying instead on faith that her true innocence will also be her salvation. On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents Gounod's Faust from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London. Opera aficionados may recall the production from arts columns and insider gossip. It's the show that was to have featured superstar soprano Anna Netrebko, who withdrew at the last minute. As you'll hear, the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva was a more than able replacement as Marguerite, alongside bass-baritone Bryn Terfel as Méphilsophélès and tenor Joseph Calleja in the title role. Check This Out... Carolina Live: Greensboro Symphony: A Season of Winners World of Opera: Deaths in the Family: Strauss's 'Elektra' World of Opera: Devilish Extravagance: Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' World of Opera: One-Upping the Bard: Verdi's 'Otello' Carolina Live: South Carolina Philharmonic: A Concert for Columbia RadioChopin.org • Box 8990 • 423 N. Main Street • Davidson, N.C. 28035-8990 • (877) 333-8990 • Fax: (704) 894-2997 RadioChopoin.org is a service of WDAV.org, ClassicalPublicRadio.org, and Davidson College. ©2009 - 2010 WDAV
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Evraz prepares North American assets for IPO Finance Metals and mining Russia Evraz IPO Russia Metals and Mining Steel The Mining and metallurgical company Evraz may announce IPO of its North American division Evraz North America in the coming days,Bloomberg reported, referred to sources familiar with the situation. Two more interlocutors of the Vedomosti - an employee of a bank, which works with Evraz, and a source, close to his counterpart - confirmed that the company intended to conduct a public offering of shares. One of them notes that the IPO is the highest priority option, but in this case it is necessary to take into account the risk that investors may not want to buy shares of the company because it has Russian beneficiaries. A representative of Evraz declined to comment. TMK is going to hold an IPO of its North-American subsidiary Severstal announces about closure of the transactions for the sales of its American assets New Enhancements to Rusmininfo,full story selector available in Russian Evraz places bonds in North America at 7.5% per annum EVRAZ KGOK has prepared the site for the construction of the primary open pit at the Sobstvenno-Kachkanarskoye deposit TMK to free its American subsidiary from the obligations for $500 million American enterprises of NLMK attracts a loan for $250 mln Translation, News
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1601 North Tennessee Boulevard, Murfreesboro, TN 37130 (615) 893-1843 • (615) 895-1150 (fax) Hours | M-F 8:00 - 12:00 & 1:00 - 4:00 Are you new to St. Rose? Learn how to get involved in learning and serving opportunities. About Us / Mission Mass Times & Office Hours Individual Confession Adult Preparation Adult Requirements Marriage Overview Información sobre sacramentos Bautizos - Irma Ramos Matrimonio - Lupita y Jesus Cruz Office of Catechesis Office of Catechesis Staff PSR (Sunday School) Summer Religious Education About Youth Ministry Middle School (Fides) High School (Ratio) RCIA Team The Office of Catechesis cultivates intimate communion with Christ through systematic and organic instruction in Christian doctrine and Christ-centered community. Overview & Upcoming Events Altar Care Society Bridge Ministry Haiti Mission Ministry Hospital / Homebound Visitation Parish Sports Coach Saint Rose Women's Ministry Youth Sports Participant Información sobre servicios Ministerios - Luis Adonay Lopez Adult Bible Study / Formation Pre-K - 6 Grade Faith Formation 7 - 8 Grade Faith Formation RCIA 'Becoming Catholic' Saint Rose Radio St. Rose of Lima Catholic School Spiritual Library Diocesan Program Safe Environment Forms Bereavement Committee Coffee & Donuts Ministry About Eucharistic Adoration Adoration Sign Up Form Pre-Lent 02-24-2019Pastor's LetterFr. John Sims Baker The Church used to have a mini-season called "Pre-Lent." It was three Sundays to get ready for Lent. I think it was a good idea because most effective changes are step by step. If we try to change too radically and too fast, we often fail and lose heart. But we must change, unless we are already perfect. Blessed John Henry Newman, who will soon be canonized a saint, said, "To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often." Other words for this sort of positive change in our lives are conversion and repentance. I mention this because we have just one more week before Lent begins. Start to prepare yourself now. Decide what your Lenten discipline will be. Why not go ahead and start? You have nothing to lose by starting early! Jesus calls us, "Repent and believe the Gospel." Faithfully, Fr. Baker Death and Taxes! After a successful year last year, the Bishop's Annual Appeal for Ministry is about to launch for a new year. I would like to get in front of the appeals from the diocese with some instruction about Christian stewardship. One of the important truths of our Catholic faith is that everything matters. The various parts of our lives are not supposed to pull us apart and drive us crazy but rather are to be integrated into our discipleship of the Lord Jesus. Work, prayer, recreation, health, family, politics, etc. are not supposed to be separated in our lives but rather integrated under the lordship of Jesus Christ. He alone can hold us and all the aspects of ourselves together in a meaningful whole. I think that we deeply desire for our lives to have meaning - to make sense, and yet so often I fear that we feel trapped in meaningless activity. More on Change Some changes simply happen, and we adjust accordingly. This is the sort of change we have been dealing with for the last couple of weeks, and I think we are managing our new situation well. There are also planned changes, and I want to talk about one of these today. In the current building, St. Rose has never had a designated place for confessions. Our confessional now, if you can call it that, is really our parish library, which is also a pass-through from the church to the meeting room wing. It is far from an ideal situation for the privacy needed for this sacrament. The space is also hot in the summer and cold in the winter. When more than one priest is hearing confessions, the situation is even more of a stretch. Last weekend, for example, I set up an additional confessional in the cry room, which is "sub-optimal," to say the least! As far as sacred space goes, we need designated confessionals more than anything else. I want to reiterate in writing the verbal announcement made at all the Masses last weekend regarding Fr. Joe's medical leave in order to communicate to the parish in as transparent and timely a manner as possible. When Fr. Joe returned from his vacation, he went, after consultation with the diocese, for an evaluation of his psychological, spiritual, and physical health. This evaluation was scheduled just before he left on his vacation. The conclusion reached was that Fr. Joe is taking a medical leave in order to focus on the issues identified in the evaluation without distraction. This decision was made in coordination with Fr. Joe and the diocese. Fr. Joe will be participating in a clinical program and fully intends to return to active ministry at its conclusion, taking into account its recommendations. The time-frame of the program is projected to be a matter of months. I ask for the support of your prayers for Fr. Joe during this time, turning your concern for him into prayer. If any of you has any pastoral matter that involved Fr. Joe, I ask that you contact the office so that Fr. Michael or I or one of the deacons can be of service to you. Finally, I want to add the assurance of prayers from Bishop Spalding. In particular, he emphasizes the gift of the priesthood in the life of the parish. His words were: "the priesthood is always a gift." I appreciate very much the concern and support of the bishop for the parish and for Fr. Joe. As always, count on my prayers. 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Salem Junior High School (SaJHS) SPARTAN STRONG BODY HEART MIND Our mission is to prepare young people to be strong in all aspects of their lives. We strive to cultivate an atmosphere of academic excellence, respect, and sense of community. We value innovative ideas and make decisions that help ensure student's learning and success. We provide multiple opportunities for students to be actively engaged both in and out of the classroom. Salem Junior High Spartans are strong in Body, Heart, and Mind. Our Bodies are actively engaged in school sports, extracurricular activities, and keeping ourselves physically healthy. Our Hearts advocate for respect and loyalty among our peers, teachers, staff, and administrators. Our Minds are innovative, open, and driven to strive for academic excellence and critical thinking. 598 North Main Salem, UT 84653 | (801) 423-6550 (801) 423-6558 (fax) (801) 423-6559 (counseling fax) "I Can" Statements Safe UT Legacy Wall at Salem Jr High Submitted by neely.mcewan on Thu, 01/05/2017 - 09:49 Legacy Wall.jpg Our new Legacy Wall, which highlights "Liberty's Story," was installed over the Christmas Break in the 300 Hall by the Cafeteria. It looks awesome! Thanks to all those who contributed money to bring it to our school. We raised nearly $4000 through community donations. Come by the school some time and see it. You can also learn more by using the interactive features online by scanning the QR code located on the first plaque of the wall. Thank you so much for your support of Salem Junior High School. Send a Tip image/svg+xml Nebo School District Digital Library Inclement Weather Parent Information Guide YouTube (School) YouTube (Student) District Policy & Non-Discrimination Notice
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Screen Crime American Eye Criminal Acts About Us - the Shots Team Home > Authors Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She is the author of the novels Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet and Station Eleven and is a staff writer for The Millions. Privacy Policy | Contact Shots Editor THIS WEBSITE IS © SHOTS COLLECTIVE. NOT TO BE REPRODUCED ELECTRONICALLY EITHER WHOLLY OR IN PART WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION OF THE EDITOR.
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Norm Needleman Representing Chester, Clinton, Colchester, Deep River, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Haddam, Lyme, Old Saybrook, Portland and Westbrook Follow Senator Needleman: HARTFORD – Today, in light of continuing concerns over the spread of the virus Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a coalition of legislators led by State Senators Norm Needleman (D-Essex) and Paul Formica (R-East Lyme) addressed a letter to Governor Ned Lamont, requesting for his administration to review and consider selective use of mosquito pesticides in areas with high EEE activity. This week, a second Shoreline resident passed away after contracting EEE; the elected officials believe more could be done to protect the public before the threat fully subsides. “I am heartened by this bipartisan effort to help protect Connecticut residents,” said Sen. Needleman. “While we are grateful for the efforts the Governor’s administration has taken to address this crisis, we believe that selective use of pesticides within reason could help prevent future infections among the public. With weeks until the first frost, it’s not enough to simply ask people to stay indoors. If this effort could save even a single life, especially in our more vulnerable populations, it would be worthwhile.” Legislators who signed the letter include State Senators Cathy Osten (D-Sprague) and Heather Somers (R-Groton) and State Representatives Tim Ackert (R-Coventry), Devin Carney (R-Old Saybrook), Christie Carpino (R-Cromwell), Holly Cheeseman (R-Niantic), Christine Conley (D-Groton), Joe de la Cruz (D-Groton), Mike France (R-Ledyard), Robin Green (R-Marlborough), Irene Haines (R-East Hampton), Jesse MacLachlan (R-Westbrook), Kathleen McCarty (R-Waterford), Anthony Nolan (D-New London), Linda Orange (D-Colchester), Emmett Riley (D-Norwich), Kate Rotella (D-North Stonington) and Kevin Ryan (D-Montville). Recognizing the administration’s efforts so far to inform and educate the public about the virus, including releasing information about preventing exposure to the disease, the lawmakers feel the recent fatalities make a more urgent response necessary. While the threat will subside naturally upon the approach of the first frost, officials note that statewide low temperatures are not likely to drop below 40 degrees through mid-October, leaving individuals at risk. Citing a Hartford Courant article noting the state previously sprayed during a concerning outbreak in 1996, the officials asked Governor Lamont to review the potential effectiveness of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection using aerial insecticide to reduce mosquito populations. At the same time, legislators recognize that they do not wish to create unnecessary panic, simply stating that if such an effort saves a single life, it would be worth undertaking. The text of the full letter follows: ____________ Dear Governor Lamont, We are appreciative of your administration’s efforts to far to inform and educate the public about the dangers of Eastern Equine Encephalitis and how they can best protect themselves from mosquitos. The virus itself, while normally rare, appears to be spreading at a faster and further rate than normally seen; being cautious and letting our state’s residents know what practices to avoid is a key step toward preventing its further spread. While we recognize that prevention is an important step of keeping the public safe, we are also concerned about the volatility of the virus. With two constituents on the Shoreline having already passed away after contracting EEE, we feel that it may not be enough to simply advise the public to avoid times when mosquitos are most active. Weather reports indicate that statewide low temperatures are not expected to drop below 40 degrees through at least the next two weeks; waiting for a first frost to naturally kill mosquitos is a luxury we may not be able to afford. In that time, more individuals will be at risk of contracting the virus. We hearby would like to request that the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection review the potential effectiveness of selective aerial insecticide spraying in areas of the state with high concentrations of EEE. According to the Hartford Courant, in 1996, the last time the state experienced a significant outbreak of the virus, aerial spraying was deployed in impacted regions of the state. With several weeks remaining until the outbreak will naturally end, we believe this spraying would give additional peace of mind to families across Connecticut. In saying this, we recognize that we do not wish to cause unnecessary panic. The risk of EEE remains low and we understand that numbers are declining. At the same time, if further prevention efforts can save even one more life or prevent even one individual from becoming sick, we believe they would be valuable and worthwhile. Every one of our constituents deserves security in light of this public health risk. State Senator Norm Needleman State Senator Paul Formica State Senator Cathy Osten State Senator Heather Somers Stare Representative Devin Carney Stare Representative Holly Cheeseman Stare Representative Linda Orange Stare Representative Kevin Ryan Stare Representative Irene Haines Stare Representative Christie Carpino Stare Representative Anthony Nolan Stare Representative Jesse MacLachlan Stare Representative Kathleen McCarty Stare Representative Joe de la Cruz Stare Representative Christine Conley Stare Representative Kate Rotella Stare Representative Mike France Stare Representative Emmett Riley Stare Representative Robin Green Stare Representative Tim Ackert
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Show All | Week 141 | Week 142 | Week 143 | Week 144 | Week 145 | Week 146 | Week 147 | Week 148 | Week 149 Neopia's Fill in the Blank News Source | 17th day of Sleeping, Yr 22 The Neopian Times Week 145 > Continuing Series > Darkness Binding: Part Three Darkness Binding: Part Three by nomad2 Standing in front of the school, Cray and Yorvick catch their breath from the run. Ten feet from the door, they seem reluctant to head inside right away. Cray keeps the bottle clenched in his hand. Yorvick looks to Cray and says, "Do you think it’s inside?" Cray nods, "I’m sure of it. If I were it, I would head straight for the body holding a piece of me." Yorvick takes a step forward. "We might as well get this over with," he says, as if he were fully confident. "Let’s not be hasty," says Cray. "This thing won’t be any happier seeing us than we will be seeing it. You have to keep in mind that not only is it frightened being in an unknown plane, but it doesn’t know if we pose a threat." Yorvick turns to Cray, "Well what do you suggest we do? It’s not like I’m going to just sit here and wait for morning. Who knows what else its doing in there. Others stay in that building." "I know," replies Cray, "but running in isn’t the best plan. We should go in quietly, throw the bottle at it, and hope this works. That’s all we can do." Yorvick doesn’t truly like that plan, but he doesn’t know of any better plans. His only assurance is the fact that Cray knows more about what they’re up against. He doesn’t find that to be absolutely assuring, but there aren’t any other options presenting themselves. The two walk into the front entrance, being careful not to make much noise when opening the doors. The small room is very dark, but they can’t hear anything, so they figure it’s not hanging around the door. Yorvick softly whispers, "I can’t see anything. Can I raise an aura for some sight?" Cray shakes his head rather pointlessly. Just after doing so, he realizes how futile that is and whispers back, "I can see everything in the dark. Just leave it to me. If I desperately need your help, I’ll yell. Hopefully I won’t have to." Cray slowly creeps down the hallway, nearing the door containing the Kougra. Light from the moon illuminates the hallway from the window in that room, but not by much. It is, however, enough to allow Yorvick to follow behind Cray. Cray stops just short of the doorway and rests his back against the wall. Yorvick does the same beside Cray. The two can both feel their hearts pounding against their chests. They both take in a deep breath at the same time. Cray peeks his head around the corner for just a second and pulls it back. He turns his head towards Yorvick and whispers, "Okay, this isn’t good. Someone apparently found the Kougra in the room." Yorvick replies, "If it’s empty, then were should we check?" Cray slowly shakes his head. "No, the shadow and the Kougra are still in there, but so is someone else. And from the looks of it, they got on the shadow’s bad side." Yorvick’s eyes widen and he rushes to save the person. He jumps in front of the door and darts in with his arms extended. His hands shine with an aura of light immediately after moving through the doorway. In the room is the Kougra where they left him in the middle of the mat. Against the wall to the right of Yorvick is the shadow. Rather than two-dimensional as it was before, it is a pitch-black creature of three-dimensional form. Its arms and legs bend without joints, much like tendrils. Overall, it stands ten feet tall, almost touching the ceiling. At its feet rests Ryshu. He is unconscious, and the shadow has its arms extended into Ryshu’s chest. In response to the light, the shadow pulls its tendrils out of Ryshu, leaving his body undamaged, and throws out its arms towards Yorvick. He lands on the ground and rolls forward, dodging the tendrils as they pass over him. After the tendrils hit the ground, the shadow pulls them back and whips down at the ground. Yorvick jumps back and brightens the aura around his hands, keeping the shadow at bay for the moment. Cray jumps in the doorway and yells to Yorvick sarcastically, "Good thinking! Just run in and hope for the best! Do you even know what will happen if you get hit by that thing?" Yorvick sidesteps over to Cray as the shadow gives off a hiss. He says to Cray, "I’m sorry, I wasn’t thinking clearly. The whole point of me coming to you was to keep it from hurting anyone else." Cray sighs and says, "I hope you can hold it long enough to let me use the bottle." Just after finishing those words, the shadow side-swipes with both arms, swinging from both sides. Cray jumps above it while Yorvick ducks below. The shadow’s arms clap together and are brought back to its sides. Cray and Yorvick both run to their left to have more room to work with. Yorvick keeps his eyes on the shadow while he asks, "By the way, what happens if we get hit by it?" Cray keeps in a defensive stance as he answers, "We become the same as the Kougra and Ryshu." The shadow spawns its legs across the floor, engulfing it in shadow. The only place not covered in darkness is the area around Yorvick. Cray slowly steps closer to Yorvick in response to this. The shadow then shoots off four tendrils from the ground. The front and left ones heading for Yorvick while the back and right ones move towards Cray. Yorvick flaps his wings as he jumps up. The tendrils shoot past his feet and tail while he digs his claws into the ceiling. Cray, on the other hand, jumps back to dodge the tendril coming from the right. Not seeing the one behind him, he gets hit in the back. The tendril burrows into him without breaking the skin. His eyes widen as the darkness of them fade, revealing green eyes. A deep breath is taken and he stands idle for a moment, gazing blindly into nothing. His grip loosens, and the bottle drops on the ground beside him, but doesn’t break. He releases his breath and falls limp to the ground. Yorvick stares down at Cray with his teeth clenched tight. His pupils dilate and glow with white energy. He jumps at the ground, radiating light all around him as he moves down. As he hits the floor, the shadows flinch back from around him. He leaps over Cray and grabs the bottle of darkness as he lands. Narrowing his eyes, he looks at the shadow beast with the bottle held behind him. The shadow takes three steps closer. A hiss comes from its form as the tendrils making up its arms split into three one each side. The six appendages extend and curve around Yorvick, stopping at different lengths. The only thing keeping them back is its fear of the light. Yorvick moves his eyes to the sides. The bottle is being gripped tightly in his hand. Placing his right leg back, he sends his right arm forward, releasing the bottle with a forceful throw. The bottle hits the floor in front of the feet of the shadow and shatters. Hardly seeming possible, the shadows on the ground grow darker in a circle. Though the shadow flinched from the breaking of the bottle, it looked at the darkness for a second before pulling back its arms. A sense of joy emits from the shadow, and it dives into the abyss without delay. Following behind it is the rest of its form, which is covering the room. In a quick wave, the shadows vanish into the tear between planes, and the planes then mend themselves as quickly as they tore. Yorvick stands still for a moment, staring at the spot where it left. Rather suddenly, his thoughts reorganize and he kneels down to Cray’s side. Shaking his shoulder, he says, "Hey, you alright?" Cray slowly opens his eyes, the darkness once again covering them. He jumps up in shock and looks around the room very quickly. Not seeing the shadow, he looks at Yorvick and says, "What just happened? I remember dodging a strike from the side, then I saw the room, but differently." Yorvick grabs Cray by the hand and helps him back on his feet. After giving a sigh on relief, he says, "It’s done. It left back to its plane. I assume that since you woke up after failing to watch your back that the others should be alright." Cray walks over to the Kougra and kneels down beside him. "Well, his body seems a little lighter than before, even in the moonlight," he says. After checking the Kougra’s eye again, seeing his pupil and no other darkness around the retina, he continues to say, "Yeah, he’s fine. Of course, he won’t wake up so quickly. Give him a day or so." Near the corner of the room, Ryshu gives off a weak moan as he pushes himself up. One hand gets placed on his forehead as he says, "Why do I have such a headache?" Yorvick walks over to Ryshu and offers a hand to him. Ryshu’s only response is looking up at him in confusion, so Yorvick says, "I know, you want to know what happened." Pushing himself to his feet, Ryshu responds, "You certainly know I do. What is going on? I was walking around the school, found a Kougra on the floor in this room, and then I felt a sting throughout my body. Now, all of a sudden, I wake up and you’re here." Yorvick says, "Well, I could give you the long story, but I’ll tell you the essentials. The thing I was worried about was a shadow creature. Cray, knowing about these things, helped me to figure it out by examining the Kougra affected by it. Then, for safety, we took the Kougra from the Battledome and brought it here. Then we got something to send it back home, but then night came and the shadow returned to its chosen host, and that’s when we came here, found you, fought the shadow, and sent it home." Cray stands up and walks over to Yorvick. Resting a hand Yorvick’s shoulder, Cray says, "Good job with keeping the story short." Ryshu looks at them both with discontent. Still looking at Yorvick, he asks, "You took the Kougra, brought him here without telling anyone, and left him alone?" Cray takes a small step forward and says, "Actually, I brought him here. Yorvick didn’t like it, but I didn’t listen to him." Ryshu says to them both, "This is unacceptable of you two. There were ways to keep the Kougra safer. There were those of us you could have and should have told. I shall speak with the Master about your punishment. Now take the Kougra to a bed and return to your quarters, the both of you. We shall continue this in the morning." The two bow their heads as Ryshu leaves the room. After rising, they walk over to the Kougra and lift him onto Cray’s back. Cray says, "Well, at least we got the job done. So, what do you think will happen to us?" Yorvick replies, "Well, if it’s like any other punishment, it’ll be chores. I guess we should get ready to clean the building." Cray and Yorvick leave the room with the Kougra. As they walk out the doorway, they laugh together for the first time. Darkness Binding: Part One Darkness Binding: Part Two Merogan, Lupe Warrior: Part Seven "Go back in and tell Illyne to go back down and give the order they need to get ready for battle," he whispered in her ear. by shadyy15 Spooky Food and a Spooky Mood: Part One Today was not a random stroll through the Haunted Woods. Jacob came here for a purpose, yet Metonot felt that it was not going to have a positive outcome. by jacob133 The Rebellion of the Alien Aishas II: Part One "So, Xelqued," the Minister began. "Report from INTELLICOM say that your mission did not turn out too good…" by nindail Not a Dream: Part One It was a sunny day with a few shreds of cloud dotting the blue sky. 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San Diego Automotive Museum Like cars? Go to Balboa Park’s Automotive Museum for cool cars and car history. $6 Seniors (65+), Military $5 Students $4 Children (6-15) Free Children Under 6 4th Tuesday of the Month: Residents Free Tuesday. Free for San Diego City and County Residents and Active Military and their Dependents. Daily 10am-5pm Last Admission 4:30pm Free Tuesday Special Hours: 10am-4pm, last admission 3:45pm www.sdautomuseum.org 2080 Pan American Plaza, San Diego CA 92101 The San Diego Automotive Museum has a passion for cars and motorcycles throughout history. It was founded in 1988 and has one of the best collections of automobiles on the West Coast. The collection consists of celebrity cars like Frank Sinatra’s 1967 Austin Petrol Hire Car and Louie Mattar’s world-famous Fabulous $75,000 Car (it holds the driving distance endurance record), along with other rare cars. If you like motorcycles, the Museum holds a great collection with brands such as Harley Davidson, Moto Guzzi and Indian. *Tip: The Museum always looks closed because of its layout/door shades. It’s open daily! *Hours, prices, etc all subject to change. Check the location’s website to confirm.
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prairiecommunity Big Bluestem Rapid Responders Visit Senators' Offices: No to Jeff Sessions! Betsy Roe delivers statements opposing Jeff Sessions to the Topeka office of Senator Pat Roberts. (The statement from the group follows Carl Reed's letter below). The Big Blue-stem Rapid Responders are a group of 38 Kansans from 7 zip codes who have banded together to speak up for human rights in response to the election of Donald Trump. On Jan. 24, they visited the offices of Kansas senators to urge that the senators vote No on the nomination of Jeff Sessions. Carl Reed delivers his letter to the Manhattan office of Senator Jerry Moran (Letter below) CARL REED'S LETTER Senator Moran: You have an opportunity to show integrity and honesty. You do not have to be swept up in the wave of bigotry and anti-democracy that is the Trump agenda. The men and women who founded Kansas stood against Jeff Davis and would have stood just as strongly against Jeff Sessions. You do not have to continue to produce a voting record identical to senators from the states that blocked Kansas from the union. You can make us proud! I am sure you are familiar with the letter that President Abraham Lincoln sent to a friend in Springfield, Illinois in March of 1865. “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.” Within a month the president was killed. His prayer, however, was answered for one hundred and fifty-one years. Then, on November 8, 2016, Lincoln’s fears were realized. On January 20, 2017, the United States government passed from a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” to a government of the rich and white for the rich and white. President grab’embythepussy has selected Jeff Sessions to enforce that change. Refuse to be a party to the destruction of your democracy. Carl Reed 1418 Leavenworth STATEMENT OF THE BIG BLUESTEM RAPID RESPONDERS Dear Senator Roberts: Please protect ALL Kansans—vote NO on Jeff Sessions! There is so much evidence of Mr. Session’s bias! But today we would like to present to you just two documents: 1) A letter from Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., opposing Jeff Sessions’ confirmation to the federal bench in 1986; and 2) A letter from Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, beaten to death in Laramie, Wyoming by anti-gay attackers, opposing Jeff Sessions’ confirmation now. Mrs. King writes, “Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts.” She is referring to Session’s prosecutions of black organizers in Alabama, during which rural African-American first-time voters were repeatedly interrogated, threatened, and harassed. (For more, see Lift Every Voice and Sing, pp. 183-219.) She goes on, “Mr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters.” She concludes that in trying to suppress the black vote, Sessions attempted to achieve “with a federal prosecution what the local sheriffs accomplished twenty years ago with clubs and cattle prods.” We could add, with truth, that suppressing the black vote is what the KKK did for 100 years with beatings, torture, and murder. We Kansans do not want our senator to elevate a practitioner of racist voter suppression to be attorney general! Mrs. Shepard writes that Republicans and Democrats came together to pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, but that Senator Sessions was not among them. Instead, she writes, “Senator Sessions strongly opposed the hate crimes bill—characterizing hate crimes as mere “thought crimes.” “My son was not killed by ‘thoughts’ or because his murderers said hateful things,” she says. “My son was brutally beaten with the butt of a .357 magnum pistol, tied to a fence, and left to die in freezing temperatures because he was gay.” She concludes, “Senator Sessions’ very public record of hostility towards the LGBTQ community and federal legislation designed to protect vulnerable Americans, including the Voting Rights Act [and the Violence against Women Act], makes it nearly impossible to believe that he will vigorously enforce statutes and ideas that he worked so hard to defeat.” We Kansans do not want our senator to elevate to the position of chief law enforcement officer of the US someone who is hostile to the LGBTQ community and unwilling to protect vulnerable Americans. We are a group of 38 Kansans from 7 different zip codes. We expect our senator to protect ALL Kansans. We expect you to refuse to vote for someone who would make some Kansans more vulnerable and leave them without the equal protection of the law. Please let us know one way or the other whether or not you can fulfill our expectations. Margy Stewart, Coordinator 11003 Lower McDowell Rd. Junction City, Kansas 66441 Margystewart785@gmail.com Posted by Margy Stewart at 6:40 PM 1 comment: Deci, Mac, Betsy, & Margy on the Beaver Dam: New Year's Eve, 2016! Can this be only 2 weeks+ in the past? On New Year's Eve Day, Betsy and I took our dogs and went hiking along McDowell Creek. We found a beaver dam that had been constructed around a chunk of earth that had broken loose from the bank and somehow migrated to the middle of the creek. The beavers then connected it to both banks with sticks and rocks. Betsy and I walked on those sticks and rocks, teetering precariously, until we reached that chunk of earth. There we sat in the sun and listened to the creek ripple as it broke through tiny breaks in the dam on either side of us. Little Mac sat between Betsy's feet and looked at everything wide-eyed. Deci was sure we were in Fun Land. So many sticks! and so close together! And right by the creek!! We delighted in Deci's delight! Sitting by a splashing creek in the sun is akin to sitting by a camp fire in the dark. You can't help but speculate and wonder and probe the mysteries all around. Our thoughts and talk flowed just like the creek. Happy, happy new year, everyone! Posted by Margy Stewart at 9:48 PM No comments: Margy Stewart Big Bluestem Rapid Responders Visit Senators' Offi... Deci, Mac, Betsy, & Margy on the Beaver Dam: New ...
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Space Shuttle Memorial LAUREL BLAIR SALTON CLARK, M.D. (COMMANDER, USN) NASA ASTRONAUT "We're incredibly lucky to be able to be working where we are up above the Earth and being able to see our planet from that vantage point." - Laurel Clark, STS-107 Interview PERSONAL DATA: Born in Iowa, but considers Racine, Wisconsin, to be her hometown. Survived by husband and one child. She enjoyed scuba diving, hiking, camping, biking, parachuting, flying, traveling. Her parents reside in New Mexico. Died February 1, 2003. EDUCATION: Graduated from William Horlick High School, Racine Wisconsin in 1979; received bachelor of science degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and doctorate in medicine from the same school in 1987. ORGANIZATIONS: Aerospace Medical Association, Society of U.S. Naval Flight Surgeons. AWARDS: Navy Commendation Medals (3); National Defense Medal, and Overseas Service Ribbon EXPERIENCE: During medical school she did active duty training with the Diving Medicine Department at the Naval Experimental Diving Unit in March 1987. After completing medical school, Dr. Clark underwent postgraduate Medical education in Pediatrics from 1987-1988 at Naval Hospital Bethesda, Maryland. The following year she completed Navy undersea medical officer training at the Naval Undersea Medical Institute in Groton Connecticut and diving medical officer training at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida, and was designated a Radiation Health Officer and Undersea Medical Officer. She was then assigned as the Submarine Squadron Fourteen Medical Department Head in Holy Loch Scotland. During that assignment she dove with US Navy divers and Naval Special Warfare Unit Two Seals and performed numerous medical evacuations from US submarines. After two years of operational experience she was designated as a Naval Submarine Medical Officer and Diving Medical Officer. She underwent 6 months of aeromedical training at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Florida and was designated as a Naval Flight Surgeon. She was stationed at MCAS Yuma, Arizona and assigned as Flight Surgeon for a Marine Corps AV-8B Night Attack Harrier Squadron (VMA 211). She made numerous deployments, including one overseas to the Western Pacific, practiced medicine in austere environments, and flew on multiple aircraft. Her squadron won the Marine Attack Squadron of the year for its successful deployment. She was then assigned as the Group Flight Surgeon for the Marine Aircraft Group (MAG 13). Prior to her selection as an astronaut candidate she served as a Flight Surgeon for the Naval Flight Officer advanced training squadron (VT-86) in Pensacola, Florida. LCDR Clark is Board Certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and holds a Wisconsin Medical License. Her military qualifications include Radiation Health Officer, Undersea Medical Officer, Diving Medical Officer, Submarine Medical Officer, and Naval Flight Surgeon. She is a Basic Life Support Instructor, Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider, Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider, and Hyperbaric Chamber Advisor. NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Clark reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. After completing two years of training and evaluation, she was qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. From July 1997 to August 2000 Dr. Clark worked in the Astronaut Office Payloads/Habitability Branch. She was last assigned to the crew of STS-107 scheduled for launch in 2003. The STS-107 crew died on February 1, 2003 when Columbia exploded on re-entry. Target launch date/time period - January 16, 2003, 10:39 a.m. EST Cdr - Rick Husband Plt - Willie McCool PC - Michael Anderson MS - Kalpana Chawla MS - David Brown MS - Laurel Clark PS - Ilan Ramon (ISA) •Orbiter - Columbia (OV-102) •Mission Number - Shuttle flight #113; Columbia flight #28 •Estimated launch window - 2 hours, 30 minutes •Pad - 39A •Landing - KSC, February 1, 9:16 a.m. EST •Mission duration - 16 days •Inclination/orbital insertion altitude - 39 degrees/150 nautical miles •Primary payloads - Research Mission, FREESTAR, SPACEHAB •Number of Crew Members - 7 STS-51-L Target launch date/time period - February 28, 1986, 11:38 a.m. EST Cdr - Francis Scobee Plt - Michael Smith MS - Judith Resnik MS - Ellison Onizuka MS - Ronald McNair PS - Gregory Jarvis PS - Christa McAuliffe (TISP) •Orbiter - Challenger •Mission Number - 25th Shuttle mission, 10th liftoff OV-099 1st Shuttle from LC-39B •Landing - None. KSC •Mission duration - Landing planned after a 6 day, 34 minute mission •Primary payloads - TDRS-B, SPARTAN/HALLEY, MPESS, CHAMP, FDE, RME, TISP, SSIP(x3) | Hosted by Cannon Host | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
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Okess Shs Kumasi News, MHM, CSR. At the Junior High School level, O. knust senior high school 16. According to the Deputy Education Ministe. The Free Dictionary. It is a publicly supported Coeducational senior high school in Kumasi, Ghana. 218 membros. PATRICK has 7 jobs listed on their profile. KASS will be proud of their team as they stayed competitive in a lot of the events but Okess also disappointed their admirers. Education Website. ahmadiyya snr high school 13. This is the official page of Osei Tutu Senior High School. According to what CelebritiesBuzz. Kumasi High School Holds SRC Handing Over Ceremony as 2019/2020 SRC Executives Assume Office Photos: Local SRC of St. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is a university located in Kumasi, Ghana. Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS), the first second cycle to be established in the Ashanti Region, in 1937, has celebrated its 75th Anniversary in Kumasi with a call on Otumfuo Osei Tutu. The Committee is chaired by the Headmaster of. KUMASI POLYTECHNIC; 1. Having been nominated and won several awards , Ghpage. Primetime Ghana Limited Organisers of the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), Primetime Ghana Limited, have issued a communique, labelling accusations. Visualizza i profili delle persone di nome Oware Benjamin. Barekese Senior High School - P. High School. Kumasi MCBS is a school which undertake students from nursery, kindergarten, primary to junior high school. jacobu snr high/tech. Asem, Kumasi. The victory came only in the last second of the game; a true definition of a derby. As usual of Ghanaian, the response to the invitation sent for the event was very slow. Kwame Nkrumah. 2019 National Science & Maths Quiz - AM Show on JoyNews (26-6-19) Opoku Ware SHS beats KASS and OKESS in Kumasi derby. The former Ghana U17 head coach who recently ended his love story with the Porcupine Warriors left Kumasi around 10am on Thursday and is expected to arrive […]. Winneba SHS can heave a sigh of relief after they were held to a nerve-wracking preliminary contest by Osei Kyeretwie SHS in the 2018 National Science & Maths Quiz and Science Festival. 2 arrested over grisly murder of OKESS student 1 year ago News Editor Two persons have been arrested by the Kumasi police in connection with the gruesome murder of a final year student of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School, Wednesday night. St Ignatius of Loyola SHS from the Upper West Region booked a quarterfinal spot […]. Afia Kobi Ampem Girls S. juliana has 2 jobs listed on their profile. Asanteman Senior High School (ASASS) - Asanteman Senior High School. Eyfa- Yaa Asantewaa. Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School is 80 years old. It is a publicly supported Coeducational senior high school in Kumasi, Ghana. Fast forward 2017, the charges might go up and really, the former OKESS and now Serwaa Nyarko Senior High school student has done well for herself as an actress and her life in general. Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS) Manchester, United Kingdom Kumasi, Ghana Saahene Adomako - a. com for all latest news about ghana soccer and football. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. Live coverage from Osei Kyeretwie Senior High, Kumasi Anglican, Platinum Awards 2017. The deceased. 97 and Alhassan Razak of Okess claiming the third position in 11. Golgi Decoolboy Kofi Gyawu 正在使用 Facebook。加入 Facebook，与 Golgi Decoolboy Kofi Gyawu 和其他可能认识的用户互动。Facebook 让人们相互分享，让世界更开放、联系更紧密。. 5FM, a subsidiary of Global Media Alliance on Saturday September 29, 2018 got Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS) 'turnt' up as they hit the school with the maiden edition of the Y High School Crush. Get all latest updates and headlines here. The Football Team(OKESS) placed 3rd in ARSRC Top 8 Competition March 17, 2017 OKESS Wins Inter-School Athletics Competition (Zone 2) February 27, 2017 OKESS Sports Donates To Missionaries Of Charity (New Life Home) February 15, 2017. O Facebook. Osei Kyeretwie senior high school is 80 years this year's 2017. To connect with Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School, join Facebook today. ANUANOM Konongo Odumasi Senior High George - 0245993958. Having been nominated and won several awards , Ghpage. Kumasi High School is known to have made it to the final stage of the Milo Soccer Games Competition 2 times with Adu Gyamfi SHS beating them consistently- perhaps they always exhibit a high level of performance in this competition yearly. There were four top schools that were all very close. yaa asantewaa snr high school 15. The former Ghana U17 head coach who recently ended his love story with the Porcupine Warriors left Kumasi around 10am on Thursday and is expected to arrive […]. She's studying General Arts and her class number is General Arts 1A1. Unity, Truth and Service. A 19-year-old student of the Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School in the Tafo-Pankrono Municipality of the Ashanti Region Godfred Arthur has been stabbed to death by a suspected former student of the school during prep time. knust senior high school 16. Asafo, Kumasi 0244270540 DESIGN SOLUTIONS LTD. Kumasi Technical Institute ''Training For Industry''. Tritt Facebook bei, um dich mit Kumasi Mall und anderen Personen, die du kennen könntest, zu. It is a publicly supported Coeducational senior high school in Kumasi, Ghana. Yusuf, 60, passed on in Kumasi in the early hours of Tuesday – 20th November, 2018 – after a short illness and was buried per Islamic law on the same day. we hope this website will be useful to you and provide you the information you seek about the school. It is a publicly supported Coeducational senior high school in Kumasi, Ghana. 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OWASS finished what they began from Round One and have eliminated Kumasi city rivals, Anglican SHS, Kumasi (KASS) and Osei Kyeretwie SHS (OKESS). The draw for the round of 32 of the Ashanti Regional Inter-schools Soccer competition is scheduled for Tuesday 22nd November at the Regional Education Office. Visualizza i profili delle persone di nome Oware Benjamin. Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (known as OKESS) was established in July 1937 as the first secondary school in the Ashanti region. Nana Kwame Boakye-Dankwa died on 1st January, 2002 in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. this was a great hoot against super kass. Kumasi, June 20, GNA - Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance has observed that sport, which serves as means of entertainment, social cohesion, health promotion, and political unifying force. At the Junior High School level, O. Kumasi High School Holds SRC Handing Over Ceremony as 2019/2020 SRC Executives Assume Office Photos: Local SRC of St. This is the official page of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School. This was established in July, 1935 by the late Rev J. Joe Frazier - OKESS. collins senior high school 14. Nyarko Abronoma is on Facebook. Amegashie Auditorium at the University of Ghana Business School, after the Opoku Ware School picked the last riddle of the final round to regain their lead and the game! OWASS finished what they began from Round One and have eliminated Kumasi city rivals, Anglican SHS, Kumasi and […]. check index number for novdec and centers of invoice number F0210080897. 2019 Ashanti Regional Beta Malt Inter School and College Athletics Competition Zone Three (3) Results (Inter-Co). The victory came only in the last second of the game; a true definition of a derby. Disciples! No size!!! Est° 1973. Discover GHANAsoccernet. yaa asantewaa snr high school 15. Toase senior high. 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Ahmadiyya Senior High School (AMASS), Kumasi Anglican Senior High School (KASS), Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS), Prempeh College, Opoku Ware Schhol (OWASS), Kumasi Academy among others, which also recorded high turnout of parents and their wards seeking registration and admission. It is a publicly supported Coeducational senior high school in Kumasi, Ghana. Toase senior high. Michael Adu Gyamfi est sur Facebook. OKESS LEAKS. Kwame Boateng November 8, 2017 Campus, News, Sports Comments Off on ASHANTI SHS 'MILO' QUALIFIERS; GROUPS, DATES & VENUES 4,667 Views The draw for the 2017/2018 Ashanti Regional Inter-schools soccer competition is out with some mouth-watering clashes as schools bid to qualify for the round of 32 to be staged at the Baba Yara Stadium. Maame Serwah has rather gained admission into Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School popularly known as OKESS in Kumasi. Asafo, Kumasi 0244270540 DESIGN SOLUTIONS LTD. 1,849 likes · 7 talking about this. 218 membros. 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April 19 (page 29) Story: George Ernest Asare, Kumasi Old Students of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (Ahenemma) have expressed concern about the continuous encroachment on the school's land, saying such activities are seriously undermining the expansion of the school as well as effective and efficient teaching and learning. 51secs, followed by Gifty Yawson and Peace Akoh of Shama SHS in 13. M aame Serwaa ,well known in the movie circles completed JHS last two years and is now at senior high school form 2(level 2) According to our close and reliable source ,she is now at Serwaa Nyarko secondary school in Kumasi (Okess) because of the pregnancy. Kumasi, Aug 4, GNA - The Old Students Association of the Osei Kyeretwie Secondary School (OKESS), in Kumasi has expressed concern about rampant disturbances and continued poor academic performance of students of the school. ahmadiyya snr high school 13. 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But for my unsurprised disappointment in the management of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS), I write to condemn the flimsy decision made by the Headmistress of the School for chasing Old Students (who committed no crime) out of the School premise and even some part of Tafo Compound with Policemen during the 80th Anniversary […]. Posted by Hapaweb Solutions at 6:40 pm Tagged with: Kofi Agyei Senior High Technical School, Kumasi Academy, Kumasi Anglican Senior High School, Kumasi Secondary High Technical School, Kumasi Technical Institute, Kumasi Wesley Girls Senior High School, Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School, Prempeh College, St Louis Girls' Senior High School, Yaa. check index number for novdec and centers of invoice number F0210080897. Kumasi Senior High Technical School. KASS will be proud of their team as they stayed competitive in a lot of the events but Okess also disappointed their admirers. 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The Carolina Panthers are in Spartanburg, SC for yet another training camp session. The coaching staff will be taking a closer look at players fighting for a change to make the 53-man roster. A player could be on the fence for a number of reasons. Perhaps the Panthers could not afford them last year. Maybe they suffered an injury last year. Perhaps they were unprepared when the arrived in Spartanburg last year. What is done, is done. All players participating in training camp sessions this summer will have equal opportunities to showcase their talent. Players that did not make the 53-man roster in previous years will have another opportunity to impress their coaches. Here is a list of three players that are fighting for a change to make the 53-man roster this year. Their performances at training camp will determine if they suit up week one or spend another year on the practice squad. Wes Horton Defensive end Wes Horton is working towards his sixth season with the Panthers. He has recorded 69 combined tackles (solo and assisted) and 14 sacks in five seasons with the team. Horton was released in 2015 halfway through the season after he was sidelined the first four games for failing a drug test. In 2016, the team brought him back. This year he will be finishing out the second year of his two-year contract with the Panthers. Julius Peppers is locked in as the starting left defensive end and Mario Addison is locked in as the starting right defensive end. The team could choose to keep five defensive ends on the 53-man roster. If that ends up being true, the Panthers would have to pick three guys out of the five possible player options (Horton, Bryan Cox Jr., Daeshon Hall, Marquis Haynes and Drew Iddings). Cameron-Artis Payne (CAP) Fans have been anxiously waiting for Cameron-Artis Payne to get more touches on the ball. In three seasons with the Panthers he has appeared in 23 games. He has carried the ball 99 times for 422 yards. CAP is the same height as former Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart and 25 pounds lighter. Both players have averaged 4.3 yards per attempt thus far. Over the offseason the Panthers lost their No. 1 running back, added Fozzy Whittaker to the injury reserved list and signed two running backs. Coming off of a 1007-yard season, Anderson will likely replace Stewart. Also, Elijah Hood and Kenjon Barner will both have a chance to make the 53-man roster. The problem is that CAP has a similar running style to Anderson. If the Panthers choose to pick three running backs each with a different play style, that would potentially move CAP to the No. 4 running back, which is borderline practice squad. Austin Duke The Panthers will likely keep five or six receivers on the 53-man roster this season. Coming off of his best season, Funchess will likely the No. 1 wide receiver. But after Funchess, the depth chart is unclear. The Panthers will have to pick four or five players from the following list of wide receivers: Torrey Smith, D.J. Moore, Curtis Samuel, Jarius Wright, Damiere Byrd, Jamaal Jones, Fred Ross and Austin Duke. Smith brings veteran experience to the locker room and speed. He will likely play opposite of Funchess or in the slot. Wright doesn’t get hyped up as much as some of the other receivers recently signed by the Panthers, but he knows offensive coordinator Norv Turner well, and he has mastered Turner’s system. His relationship with Turner and his ability to move the chains on third down is very valuable. Rookie D.J. Moore has quickly become one of quarterback Cam Newton’s favorite weapons. He has excellent hands for winning 50-50 balls in the red zone, fast feet, and a stellar work ethic. If they can stay healthy, Damiere Byrd and Curtis Samuel will likely share slot responsibilities. Byrd has shown enormous potential for the short amount of time he has appeared on the field. At age 25, his vertical speed is very valuable. Austin Duke was placed on the practice squad last season. As a slot receiver, he has the toughest battle ahead of him. On the bright side, he has shown enough potential to warrant a second look. Related TopicsAustin DukeCam NewtonCameron Artis-PayneCarolina PanthersDJ MooreElijah HoodFozzy WhittakerHPJonathan StewartKenjon BarnerNFLNTWes Horton More in NFL Owner David Tepper has his biggest decision as owner to make...now Associated Press 12/22/19 INDIANAPOLIS — Nyheim Hines blew one chance to win Indianapolis’ punt... 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Fiji, a country in the South Pacific, is an archipelago of more than 300 islands. It's famed for its rugged landscape of blue lagoons and palm-lined beaches, and eco-activities from mountain climbing and surfing to soft-coral diving and zip-lining. Here are 70 Reasons to Visit Fiji. Castaway Island Resort in the Mamanuca Islands. Source: www.familyholiday.net Source: www.fijisfinesttours.com Fiji's lagoons are brilliant for sea kayaking and the waterways through its mangroves let you explore these mysterious ecosystems. The enchanting and inspiring beaches Source: fotoworkshops.com.au First of all, they're everywhere. Second, any picture you take could easily be distributed as a "Wish You Were Here" postcard to make everyone on Facebook jealous. The 3,000 square miles of coral reef Source: guim.co.uk Home to the world’s richest soft coral and over 3,000 square miles of other brightly colored and uniquely shaped coral, these islands are a scuba divers and snorkelers dream. World-class surfing Source: www.surfertoday.com Most surfers head for the Mamanuca islands to hit the waves. The fact that 80% of the island of Taveuni is covered in rain forests Source: lightgalleries.net The people of Fiji are ridiculously nice, big smiles, all the time no matter what the weather Source: photoshelter.com It is only a four 1/2 hour flight from the east coast of Australia Source: www.worldatlas.com Island-hopping Charter a private yacht and choose your course or join a cruise. The world-class food scene Source: mantarayisland.com You can fill your belly with cuisine unlike any other in the world, inspired by the local Indo-Fijian community. Southeast Asian and Indian flavors heavily influence the food, so many curries and Indian and Thai spices are found in most recipes. Learn to say Bula! The only Fijian word you'll ever need Feel free to relax in the Pacific's most lavish spas Source: www.hiltonevents.com.au Real ecotourism Source: www.bluewaterjon.com JUNGLE TREKS Source: www.worldchallenge.com.au Sri Siva Subramaniya Temple Source: www.templefolks.com It is at the southern end of the main road through Nadi. It is the largest Hindu temple in the Southern hemisphere. Of the 322 islands in Fiji, half of them are uninhabited, and as a result there are extensive stretches of beautiful, untouched white sand beaches. Tourists will be able to visit a great many of these beaches. Fiji enjoys a sunny, breezy and mild climate and even the ocean is at an ideal temperature for swimming and surfing. Dinner by the beach Source: clevents.com Whether you’re traveling with your significant other, a group of girlfriends or even your family, plan to have at least one dinner by the beach during your Fiji vacay. Try some Kava Source: www.realkava.com The taste leaves little to be desired, but don’t let this stop you from enjoying this once in a lifetime experience. Sigatoka Dunes Source: www.traveller.com.au The prehistoric sites excavated at Sigatoka Sand Dunes give a glimpse into Fijian history without having to trek through a museum. The diversity and abundant activities of Suva will surprise you The overwater bungalows at LikuLiku Lagoon Resort Source: www.expedia.com.au The cascading waterfalls & history in Bouma National Heritage Park Source: www.island-spirit.org Best. Coconuts. Ever. Source: scontent.cdninstagram.com The water (at the beach) is crystal clear Source: www.travelweekly.co.uk The sunsets over the water Source: nice-cool-pics.com The seafood Source: www.fiji.travel Source: realpasifik.com A helicopter tour over the Mamanuca Islands will give you a wonderful view of Fiji’s islands, including Monuriki. You can pick up a souvenir and hand-made Fijian crafts at Nadi’s open market The Privacy Of Fiji’s Islands Source: blog.paradizo.com One of Fiji’s most attractive qualities is the unique private feel of the islands and of its accommodations. Many resort areas cater to small groups of people instead of trying to have mass appeal. Fiji’s World Class Golf Courses Adventures Are Abundant For Adrenaline Lovers Source: riversfiji.com With myriad greens in the landscapes, yellows and chartreuse mingling as palm trees rustle in the breeze and the bright oranges of ripe mangos and papayas, Fiji flaunts all the feel-good colors. Source: wwwhouse.wordpress.com Get up close and personal with Fiji's rare and endangered animals in this environmental haven near Sigatoka. The Mamanucas Source: www.pacificdestinations.com.fj Yasawa flyer Source: www.statravel.co.uk Don't look down....just jump. Fiji is all about what’s natural, and one particularly messy way to embrace that is by taking a dip in the natural mud pools and hot springs. Attend a traditional Kava ceremony to get a taste of Fijian culture Hammocks on Every Beach Source: www.travelonline.com Fiji has a very tight-knit society that is mostly village based. Even the cities feel small and aunts, uncles and cousins are likely to live in the same neighborhood. Source: buuteeq.com Source: www.rugbynews.net.au Rugby is Fiji's third religion and the locals are obsessed. Almost every village has a team. Fire-walking Source: www.messersmith.name Sigatoka river and cave safaris The hiking is like nowhere else in the world. Source: www.happytellus.com Takashi suzuki garden Source: www.flickr.com Source: travelpulse.com Fiji Airways, formerly Air Pacific is the flag carrier airline of Fiji. Denarau Island Source: www.wyndhamap.com Denarau Island is a small private island in Fiji northwest of the main island of Viti Levu. Fiji Museum The Fiji Museum is a museum in Suva, Fiji located in the capital city's botanical gardens, Thurston Gardens. The museum houses an extensive archaeological collection dating back 3,700 years and relics of Fiji's indigenous cultural history. Sigatoka Sand Dunes Nananu-i-Ra Source: www.flickriver.com Navua River Source: www.riversfiji.com The Navua River is located in the island of Viti Levu and has its source on the south east slope of Mount Gordon and flows for 65 kilometers to the south coast. Thurston Gardens Source: fijisun.com.fj They used to be known as the Suva Botanical Gardens but its name was changed in honour of the fifth Governor of Fiji, Sir John Bates Thurston, who was Governor from February 1888 to March 1897. Vuda Point Source: www.asia-pacificboating.com Vuda Point is a location in Fiji's Ba Province, between Nadi and Lautoka. By tradition, it was the landing site of the canoes that brought the Melanesian ancestors of the Fijian people to the country. Source: upload.wikimedia.org Albert Park can hold two rugby matches at one time. There’s also a hockey pitch located in the middle of the ground with a grandstand and a cafeteria. Colo-i-Suva Forest Reserve Source: www.fiji-budget-vacations.com Mount Tomanivi Source: www.paxgaea.com Mount Tomanivi, previously named Mount Victoria, is an extinct volcano located in the northern highlands of Viti Levu. At 1,324 metres, Mount Tomanivi is the highest mountain in Fiji. Yasawa Source: fijiaccommodation.me Yasawa, also called Assawa and Ysava, is the main island of the Yasawa Group, an archipelago in Fiji's Western Division ANZ National Stadium Source: fijione.tv The ANZ National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Suva Nukulau Source: photos.travelblog.org Nukulau Island is a small islet belonging to Fiji. Garden of the Sleeping Giant Subar maniya Mt korobobo Suva Point Denerau Beach Fiji Spice Gardens Navala Bures Fiji Water is a brand of bottled water derived, bottled, and shipped from Fiji. It is available in 330ml, 500ml, 1 liter and 1.5 liter bottles.. According to marketing materials, the water comes from an artesian aquifer in Viti Levu. Sabeto Hot Springs and Mud Pool Natural mud pool, local staff to help and a small handcraft market to spend time while mid dries. Coral Cats - Day Trips 100 Reasons To Visit Fiji
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The Ghostly Funeral Procession In March 1979, a strange spectacle was witnessed by many on the streets of Liverpool - a ghostly funeral procession from the Edwardian or Victorian eras. Around one in the afternoon, people enjoying window seats at Kirkland's Café on Hardman Street noticed a tall gaunt looking man in a long black coat walking up the road outside. He wore a tall top hat with long ribbons streaming from it in the cold March breeze. In his hand he held a staff with a black ribbon attached to it. About twenty feet behind the old fashioned jaywalking undertaker, or 'featherman' as they were called, there followed two large muscular dark horses, and they were pulling an elegant four-wheeled hearse. Large black feathery plumes bobbed from their head harnesses. The coffin in the hearse was barely visible because of the rose-wreaths and floral tributes that decked the carriage. Three four-wheeled carriages formed the rest of the cortege, all horse drawn of course, presumably taking the mourners to the funeral service. The horses, carriages and undertaker in his suit of mourning sable, all seemed real enough, and bystanders assumed that someone was merely being sent off in style. Some said that the cortege had been seen earlier on Rodney Street, and that when it moved off it proceeded through a red light, almost causing a fatal crash. Well, it seems that the hearse-driver continued to show a total disregard for traffic lights as he steered his horses across the junction into Myrtle Street. A Mini screeched to a halt, and the driver wound down his window to vent a mouthful of swear-words to the featherman and the hearse-driver. He beeped his horn in a moment of thoughtlessness - but the horses of the cortege never responded. Later that day, the horse-drawn mourners were seen going up Gorsey Lane, coming from the direction of the Ford Cemetery. Again the cortege caused mayhem with the traffic, but when the police turned up in the area, they could find no trace of the mourners. The featherman, the drivers and the bereaved alike had seemingly vanished into thin air. Police made enquiries at the cemetery but no old-fashioned hearse and carriages had even been seen in the vicinity. People in the neighbourhood of Ford had seen the very same ghostly funeral procession years before in the 1950s, and some thought the eerie vision preceded death and bad luck to those who beheld it. ©Tom Slemen 2004.
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