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Home » Browse » Academic journals » General Humanities Journals » Cultural Studies Review » Article details, "Relationscapes: How Contemporary Aboriginal Art..."
Academic journal article Cultural Studies Review
Relationscapes: How Contemporary Aboriginal Art Moves beyond the Map
By Manning, Erin
- THREE EXAMPLES
Mina Mina (Dorothy Napangardi Robinson, 2005) measures almost two metres in height (198 × 122 cm). Black on white, its white emergent through the black dots, it encourages us to look-across, to move-with the fragile dotted lines that compose its labyrinths. 'Looking at' is too stable for this shifting landscape that moves, already, in many directions at once. This movement-across is not a symmetrical one that would obediently follow a horizontal or vertical perspective: it is a vibrating movement, a resonance that forces itself upon our vision, transforming it into a politics of touch. This is a politics of touch because what the painting compels is not a static viewing but an activity of reaching-toward that alters the relation between body and painting, creating a moving world that becomes a touching of the not-yet touchable. This touching is rhythmic. It occurs not on the lines or with the points but across the vista the painting elaborates, an experiential vista that is already more-than the space of the canvas can convey. These are more than traces, they are material becomings toward a worlding immanent to the experience of viewing. The becoming-world called forth by this black and white painting is a creation of an event of which I am part. It takes me not somewhere else, but right where I can become, to a force-field that is an eventness in the making, an exfoliation of experience.
The painting envelops space, creating new spacetimes of experience, new viewing bodies. It literally quivers with its dissonant becomings. This is not a metaphor. Spacetime is ontogenetically re-created through the process. The painting has incited me to move, and with the movement I have altered the dynamic of viewing initially set forth by this viewing experience. I become part of the composition, part of the activity of relation through which the painting achieves its morphing form. I feel its limits, its openings, its diagram.
Deleuze writes: 'We do not listen closely enough to what painters have to say. They say that the painter is already in the canvas, where he or she encounters all the figurative and probabilistic givens that occupy and preoccupy the canvas'.1 A painting's diagram is expressed in this already-thereness, in the virtual event out of which the painting emanates. James calls this a terminus, by which he means the end-point that virtually envelops the beginning, creating the potential for the event to take place. Mina Mina's diagram comes together through the dotted black line on the upper right side of the canvas, a line that almost cuts off the comer from die rest yet embraces the painting as a whole. This self-embracing gesture is not only a compositional device, it is the painting's imminent force, a tension that constrains the experience to the singularity of its own eventness, a shapeshifting process.
Mina Mina speaks of salt lines, a mapping not of a territory but its passages, the traces it leaves in the landscapes it uncovers. A map is discovered here, not uncovered. This is a durational event, an activity of mapping that directs our bodies not toward its representation but toward its liveliness. This mapping is a creative vector of experience: it maps the future, not the past, leading us toward a recomposition of experience, a collaborative striation that smoothes the space of encounter.
Alhalkere (Emily Kame Kngwarreye, 1991) covers the whole wall. Three metres wide, it is powerful in its vivid evocation of the land, dancing with both grace and force. A-signifying traits merge to create a nonrepresentational, nonillustrative and nonnarrative field: 'marks that no longer depend on our will or our sight'.2 The diagram can be felt emerging from the deep reddish burgundy spilling from the top left-hand comer of the painting. It is as though the rest of the painting overflows from this dark comer, merging into a transformative activity of dot-painting, overpowered, finally, by yellow dots that transfuse with the surface, becoming surface, dense and airy at once. …
Publication: Cultural Studies Review
Manning, Erin
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Gleason: To keep kids involved, make sports fun
KEVIN GLEASON
We need to take a hard look at the culture of youth sports. The more experience I gain in this area — as a coach, parent and journalist — the more I wonder if we are doing the right thing by kids.
Are we turning them off in being so quick to separate them by ability at younger and younger ages? We do it with travel leagues, where only the best players are allowed and others turned away. We do it in other youth leagues by focusing on winning over development and keeping kids interested.
How many potential late bloomers quit at young ages after a year or two of seeing most of the playing time and attention heaped upon the best players?
Maybe my perceptions were skewed. So I checked out the latest National Sporting Goods Association study on youth participation. It would stand to reason that a country with a 10 percent population surge the past decade would include a general rise in youth sports participation.
But that is not the case. In fact, participation in our most popular youth team sports has either declined or remained about the same in the past decade.
According to the NSGA, participation in baseball — judged by kids 7-and-older who played the sport more than once — has declined by 2.6 million kids from 2001 to 2011. Basketball has lost 2 million kids during the same period. Softball has lost 2.8 million. Football participation has risen slightly, from 8.6 million-9 million, but down 3 percent from 2010-2011, perhaps an offshoot of studies indicating potential long-term dangers of concussions.
Why are we losing so many kids in youth sports?
I'm sure there are many reasons, namely the video craze and a watering-down effect with increased sporting options. But I think we are part of the problem, as well. Now we need to be part of the solution.
There is a great website called 80percentmental.com that includes blogs on keeping kids interested in sports. One blog focuses on how coaches should reward a kid's effort more than his or her skill. It notes the tendency to put better kids on better teams with better coaching. It stressed the importance of teaching kids to believe in themselves as it is teaching them fundamentals. Young kids will start to believe in themselves and improve substantially when they are rewarded for their effort.
I was talking about this topic with Warwick resident Tony Abbatine, founder and national director of instruction for Frozen Ropes, a baseball and softball training center franchise with its corporate office at the Rock Sports Park in Chester. Abbatine believes strongly in teaching the mental side of sport.
He recently returned from the Middle East to conduct an international baseball and softball skills camp for kids ages 9-16 in Dubai. He called the theme of the camp "The Power of Me,'' focusing on kids experiencing maximum effort, enjoyment and managing their emotions.
He taught them to focus on what they can control — their thoughts, actions and behavior — as opposed to what they can't control, such as the umpires, previous at-bats and other distractions. Abbatine called the focus "non-results based thinking.''
He said the kids, 148 strong from different parts of the world, quickly embraced the methods.
"Why aren't we doing more of this" in the U.S.? he said.
Abbatine figures the answer lies largely in our fascination, as parents and youth coaches, with playing the maximum number of games without focusing heavily on instruction, incorporating the proper mental approach and keeping kids interested through positive reinforcement. He has had parents react quizzically to teaching methods focused on the mental side of the game.
"I thought they were going to play the game,'' is a common reaction.
Well, they are going to play the game. But they also have to learn how to play the game in their minds, no different than kids in the classroom focusing on learning school subjects before applying them.
And youth coaches must focus on making the experience enjoyable for all. If not, we risk seeing more and more kids taking their ball and going home.
kgleason@th-record.com;
Twitter: @th_KevinGleason
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7 Blow Job Tricks You're Still Not Trying
Yep, even after all these years.
By Kayla Keegan
No matter how many times you've given your husband a BJ, sexpert Dr. Jane Greer and sexologist Dr. Jill McDevitt, who offers in-home Fellatio 101 classes, say that these tips are just what you need to make your already-stellar BJ even more fun and pleasurable for you both. Get ready for the "Woah, where did that come from?" reaction:
1. Fake the deep throat.Many women, despite their age or the number of years they've been married, aren't into deep throating because it can trigger a not-so-fun gag reflex. If this is you, Dr. Greer suggests a slower approach to deep throating, which involves sticking the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth when bobbing on his penis. She says this movement, coupled with the warm and wet feeling of your tongue, will make you feel like you're deeper in then you actually are. Once you get used to the sensation, you can more easily put his penis further down your throat when you're ready.
2. Get to know his "meatus" and "frenulum."In other words, focus more of your attention on "the tiny hole of his penis where he ejaculates from" and "the small flap of tissue that connects the tip of the penis to the base." These two areas are loaded with nerve endings and are often overlooked by even the best blow job givers, according to Dr. Greer and Dr. McDevitt. Plus, the meatus and frenulum are located near the top of his penis, so you'll get a nice little break if your jaw is getting tired.
3. Spank him hard when coming up for air.If you're used to him spanking you all the time, switch it up and give him a nice slap on the ass—he will be pleasantly surprised by your sudden urge to show off your inner Anastasia Steele. And we aren't talking little taps here and there, either. Dr. Greer says the more force, the better...that is, of course, within reason.
4. Suck him with an ice cube in your mouth.It's one of the most classic Cosmo tips ever that you've probably been hearing about since your college days, but trust us on this one: you'll love watching the cool sensation shock him and please him in a way that he's never been before. If you are curious about exploring with different temps, but are worried an ice cube will be a bit too cold for his downstairs region, try using a cooling lubricant on a condom for starters and ease into playing around with ice.
5. Get household items involved.Hand massage action during a BJ is the oldest trick in the book, and can get *yawn* a bit boring. So instead, put your hands to good use and grab a spatula for spanking, a feather for tickling his balls, or even a grapefruit if you're feeling extra daring. Dr. Greer says using anything in your house that is really soft, hard, cold, or hot will create an element of surprise which, in the bedroom, translates to ten times more "wow" factor for you both.
6. Use a different speed in the beginning than the end.Most men secretly love when you build up anticipation by taking things slow at the beginning, says Dr. Greer. By controlling the tempo, he is forced to relinquish control over to you. Then, when you can feel his excitement building, Dr. McDevitt says that is the absolute best time to start going faster. The pent up frustration and unexpected teasing will make his release that much more intense.
7. Nibble more on his head.You've already got the up-and-down motion down to a science after all these years, so Dr. Greer suggests challenging yourself by incorporating more strategic bites on the head of his penis in between licks when the timing feels right. The idea of using teeth down there can be pretty darn daunting for him if you've never done it before, so Dr. Greer advises to ease into it by taking things slow and talking to him about what kind of pressure feels good and where he would like to be bitten.
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Apple Shows Support For Anti-Bullying Campaign With New iOS 9.1 Eye Emoji
By Paul Morris | October 23rd, 2015
Notifications popping up on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches around the world will have no doubt given the game away that Apple has officially released iOS 9.1 to the public. After five betas, and more than a month of continuous improvement, the Cupertino-based company finally deemed the platform ready to make available on a large scale. A number of improvements have managed to find their way into iOS 9.1, but it seems that Apple has also thrown its weight behind an extremely worthwhile anti-bullying campaign with the introduction of a new eye themed emoji.
The availability of new emoji characters within iOS 9.1 was accompanied by improvements to Apple’s new Live Photos feature on iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, as well as the general obligatory bug fixes and stability improvements throughout. Things like a new taco, a wedge of cheese, and a middle finger, aren’t exactly mind blowing, but it’s the availability of that eye inside of a speech bubble-emoji in support of the “#IAmAWitness” anti-bullying campaign that is the most exciting part of these new characters.
The #IAmAWitness campaign, which has recently been developed and launched by the Ad Council in protest against bullying and as an attempt to help the victims, aims to give teenagers a voice and the courage that they so often require to speak out against acts of intimidation or bullying. This could be if they have witnessed bullying happening against another individual in college or the school, or even if the bullying has been aimed directly at the teenager in question. The Ad Council is hoping that the inclusion of the anti-bullying emoji in iOS 9.1 will help raise awareness for the campaign.
As part of an effort to get the new emoji into iOS 9.1 as fast as possible, Apple made the decision to combine two existing emoji characters together as part of a plan to get the new character approved under Unicode, and implemented into the iOS platform. The existing eye and left speech bubble emojis were chosen as the two existing offerings to use to create this new emoji. Apple isn’t the only big company lending support to this campaign, with large tech entities like Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat are also supporting this campaign.
(Source: Wired)
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codylem
I won’t hear you in my #safeplace.
Boycott 9.1 apple has turned cowardice blocking Pangu 9 so early RIP Apple
cromwelld
Yes, blocking exploits is cowardice. SMH… You and that vagina person are nothing but trolls. And I’m more than willing to bet that both of you are working for some Android site in some capacity… If not, why would you constantly troll Apple posts…
I’m dying to swing a sledgehammer in your head
Kingcharming
What if they actually work for Redmondpie to generate traffic? It may seem counterintuitive, but it works…
We all read a post, and expect to read some invective from either or both of these two respectfully said, dunderheads.
Patrick Gina
What a stupid fucking idea… remove the only way to turn pussies, fags, and niggers into real men… way to go, be like this stupid fuck Crook the fagget.
baker_tony
You’ve earned a golf clap for that comment.
What you said. I come hear just to read the incredible amount of homophobic dribble from those two. Pretty amazing to see.
John Gina
Only would Apple “support” anti-bullying by adding another stupid fucking emoji that no one will ever use. What else can that dumb fuck Crook think of next? Besides more shit that smells and looks like fucking shit
Great. I’m sure you have something else to say. Let’s hear it.
m0tm4t
I’m actually bullied because I have one eye. What now
Jayme Burke
Isn’t this site for comments about the article not being hitler and a racist loser. If you have nothing good to say don’t say anything. If it’s about the topic say something about the topic. Smh
Caca Maca
Hahahaha.. It seems to me you are the only fagot with issue… Let me guess … Daddy issues ?!?! You fucking fuck
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Kahlil McKenzie Gives “Orange Swarm” Preview
by Daniel Lewis - Jan 17, 2015
Tennessee’s defense, particularly the front seven, of the future has been a big point of excitement over the past few months with the emergence of star freshman Derek Barnett and an incoming class of defensive linemen that many are considering the best in the nation at that position.
Five-star defensive tackle Kahlil McKenzie, who Scout.com ranks as the No. 1 overall player in the nation, gave Tennessee fans a small preview of what the “Orange Swarm” defense of the future could look like via a picture from his official visit that he posted Friday night.
This picture features McKenzie, who is in on his visit, and newly-enrolled four-star defensive tackle Shy Tuttle and five-star defensive end Kyle Phillips on the defensive line. Enrollee Darrin Kirkland Jr. and official visitor Austin Smith are behind them at linebacker and freshman enrollee Stephen Griffin is lined up at safety.
Obviously these guys are just having some fun with their future teammates in this picture, but it’s also a reminder of what the Vols are building for the next few years on that side of the ball. The Vols’ front seven of the future is shaping up to be one of the most talented and deepest in the nation over the next few years, and a look that includes McKenzie, Tuttle, Barnett, Phillips, Kirkland Jr., Dillon Bates, Jalen Reeves-Maybin and/or many other talented veteran and incoming players is the type of lineup the Vols could put together around 2016, though all of those guys could start making an impact as soon as next year as well.
So while it’s all smiles for the guys in that picture, there are probably some concerned SEC offensive coordinators looking on as well.
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Daniel Lewis is the Managing Editor and Director of Communications for Rocky Top Insider. He also co-hosts The Swain Event every weekday from 7-10 am ET on 1180 AM WVLZ in Knoxville.
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Name: Rofaxan 2089 A.D.
Format: PC / Xbox360
Genre: Side Scrolling Shooter
Developer: Angry Gam3rs
Highway to the danger zone...
A face of death!
Don't get stuck!!
Debris! DEBRIS EVERYWHERE!
Under da sea...
It’s games like this that make you feel great, games that feel old even when new. This is why we love retro.
The term old school is over used to the extreme, it really is, however everything about Rofaxan fits this statement perfectly sure it has lots of things that make it easily stand out as a modern game however scratch between the obvious surface and even those things scream retro heaven.
The concept of the game in itself is classic retro beyond the extreme, if you ever bought Master System or Mega Drive games and read the actual manuals then you will know where I’m coming from here as the story is short, to the point and decidedly cheesy. It tells of an alien armada finding earth and proceeding to wipe out all the military elements then conquering it’s population (those evil alien douchebag’s) The good news however is that some of the tech survived and now one ship will fight against all odds and a massively overwhelming, more advanced force and save the day, cue American flags and shouts of F**K YEAH! Love it!!!
Before you even get to any of this though the stand out element is going to smack you in the face and that’s the music, it is quite frankly awesome! The creator of this game has liaised with a German Metal band to produce some killer and above all else loud music and it fit’s like a glove. I know what you are thinking right now, how is this retro? Well if you remember a lot of early SNES games tried this approach for shooters and even racing games (Rock n' Roll Racing 2, peeps?) there is something about heavy metal that sits so well with scrolling shooters, can’t explain why but it just works so shhhh..
Back to the game itself and the presentation screens are also of a very high standard, think Amiga screens from companies like Psygnosis and you won’t go far wrong, everything looks very deluxe paint 3 and I flat out love it. When you get to the options screen you will be treated to some of this work plus again a proper song, it’s just so high quality. Somewhere on the options screen is another nod to the old school ways, a debug menu which yet again is another reason this fit’s the new old reference and it’s here that any problems with the game can be easily rectified as in extra lives, etc, etc.
Starting the game treats you to another moment of classic arcade throwback moments, the level introduction animation. Your ship flies down a tunnel of sorts whilst a get ready message appears and a thumping intro piece of music gets you ready for the fight, brilliant nod to games like R-Type. The first level is everything you have seen and done before but that’s not a lazy thing it’s deliberate, the classic flying in a blue sky background opening stage is something we have all come to expect, people it’s a damn standard so again tick this box.
I noticed the level itself was quite short however that was put to the back of my mind as after about a minute my ship was sending out beams of mass destruction and death rained down on the alien scumbags’s as I handed out true earth justice, feelings of epic washed over me, who cares if this ship completely destroys the main story of the game, old games never made any sense at all, they were all silly and this just adds to the nostalgic trip im having, this is a plus point and not a minus
The game itself (for now) consists of 5 levels and even somebody with real skill in this genre will take a while to get through it but every step of the way it is a great experience, it really is. The enemies are very colourful, the power ups are good to the point of effective without filling the screen so you can’t see stuff and the backgrounds look great, especially level 5 which is just lovely, there’s some great parallax scrolling here for sure. Once again though it’s the sound that carries everything through and makes you finish the game, you really want to kill alien’s whilst rocking out to some killer metal tracks however the sound effects are also very meaty, especially the explosions which give a real sense of massive destruction, they almost give the game another depth level and I can honestly say this would look and sound and feel fantastic in 3D. The intro scene, the boss approaching parts are all backed up by audio treats that will absolutely trigger memories of better days huddling around arcade cabinets.
There are of course negative points, all games have them and Rofaxan’s biggest flaw is just how hard it gets from level 3, the power up’s needed to be better spaced out here so that you won’t have to quit back to level 1 and stay alive in order to get through as power ups carry over into the next level, it’s a shame that this was missed during testing however and I stress this it may just be me, others I showed this to didn’t see it as a problem at all so it may be me and my lack of skill, although this in itself could put off shoot em up novices so it should be mentioned in the review I feel.
From start to finish however I loved it, almost to the point where the memories it triggered at times clouded my opinion of what the guys at Angry Gamers had produced themselves, you can easily get carried away on a massive nostalgia trip playing this and allow your mind to romantically compare it to the classics but here’s the thing…. That’s got to be a good point surely??? That’s an indication to me at least that the feeling they were going for and the vibe is spot on and people let me tell you it really is, when a guy who likes side scrolling shooters loves something that he is quite bad at you know it has to be good. I can easily see a real core shooter fan loving this because I’m not one of those people and I do.
With a stage pack due to appear in January 2014 that includes a total of 6 new levels and a co-op mode to allow upto 4 players to help/compete against each other the value of the overall package is also raised however that won’t affect my score, also the shortness and at times over hardness won’t be used against it, this game like anything else I review will be judged on how much fun I had playing it, the result of which was loads, this is just a real blast (pardon the pun) that perfectly sums up the past whilst keeping it fresh and new, a real solid game and considering it’s the developers first attempt you have to be excited for their future, it looks bright.
The Xbox 360 version has now been submitted to me and this is where that smile get's even bigger because it's only gone and got even better. All of the updates from the PC edition are in this version including the balancing of certain levels and boss battles meaning my original Stage 3 gripes have now gone away forever, sure it's still hard however the addition of the invincibility power-up if you can find it really helps get you through to the end fight against a boss that how has vastly better A.I.
Stage 2 no longer repeats the first stage boss either, instead paying supreme homage to classic shooters of old by introducing the boss in a clever way at the start, reminded me so much of classic Konami scrolling shooters such as Cybernator that I may possibly have wet my pants a little. The sound effects that accompany the collecting of the power-ups are straight out of the arcades of old and really help pack that audio punch even more, like I said everything is better now. On top of all this are the introductions to Boss Attack mode and a hardcore difficulty option for those who rekon they are the shizzle at these kind of games both of which add huge replay value to the title and further convince us that it's time this got it's reward of upping to the number 9. The main score below will also be changed as all of the X360 elements are to be found in the newest version of the PC game as well so to rate this a 9 and the PC version an 8 would make no sense at all.
The bottom line here is that this is one of those games you need to go and play, if this game as it stands right now had been around during the early 90's even without it's killer soundtrack it would have easily scored high, it's so good it makes you wish you had played it as a kid with your mates just like you did with R-Type, Gradius and Hellfire. This may sound like something weird to say but it feels old in all the right ways and new at the same time, it's a perfect mixture and it's games like this that make you know for a fact that retro gaming will always be relevant, somebody who didn't grow up wth the classics could not make this, it would not look, sound or feel this way.
Stop reading this and go and buy it or don't call yourself a retro fan, these are your options. X
Sound 10
Playability 9
Lastability 8
Overall 9 out of 10
Verdict:- It’s bright, it’s colourful, loud and in your face. At times its far too easy at other times it’s over the top hard however I promise you when one level finishes you will want another one to begin and that’s always a sign of class.
The sound and music is simply out of this world and the presentation is first class, this could have easily belonged on a mega drive back in the day gameplay wise and that alone is the best recommendation I could ever hope to give, seriously play this game people it reminds you why we all love the past whilst still playing in the now.
Second Opinion:- No one knows shooters like Transbot knows shooters...That's just a fact of life!
It, too, is a fact that Rofaxan 2089 AD remains one of the best titles available for old school video game fans on the Xbox Live service and PC. An utter gem in every true sense of the word, even if it does have more than two looping levels.
For that last bit, Transbot lets this slide and gives a heart metallic salute. Bzzt. Good job.
As I approached the end of the level I was treated to yet another retro memory lane nod and again it’s a standard but you would be surprised how many other games, triple A arcade ports no less miss this out, yup that’s right the Boss approaching warning moment! The screen flashes red and a loud siren sounds letting you know it’s time for pain, brilliant. The boss itself is nicely drawn if far too easy to kill and lacking real AI in the fight but I honestly don’t give a damn at this point, the music, the art style the touches are all washing over me taking me back to times standing in dark rooms in arcades whilst a wall of sound fills my ears and I keep pumping in the 10p’s!
The boss is despatched quickly and I’m off to Level 2, get ready screen again makes me smile and now I’m in an asteroid field...WIN! It’s another old school standard and I’m happy, the enemies begin their attack and im back to blasting their buts to oblivion, Megatron is indeed a happy chap at this point, this feeling is backed up by the more relaxed tune in the background that fit’s the level perfectly and everything is rosey until the boss battle which turns out to be the same one again only this time he is red and moves more erratically, I have to admit I was slightly let down at this point but I still carried on anyway and it did move differently so I won’t complain too much.
Level 3 begins in a real R-Type/Gradius way and it’s here that the easy nature of the game ups and goes on holiday because now Rofaxan decides it will own your soul, but also test your skills and where I’m concerned patience levels. If you die on this level in all honesty it’s best to restart the game itself from level one because you will not get enough power ups to carry you through it, it’s just too hard and I have to admit it is annoying however I’m mindful that it may be more the fact that I’m just not that great at games in general let alone side scrolling shooters so I persevere and eventually after quite a while get to the boss who this time round is much better and a real pain to kill but in the end I despatch his evil butt to the world of the dead, humanity will not be destroyed…Not on my watch!
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Name: Sonic Spinball
Format: Megadrive
Genre: Pinball
Year of Release: 1993 (uk)
Reviewer: Jamalais
Gotta get those points...
ooooh shiny!
Hey! Where's my bumper car?
Bustin' out the screen
Quick! Hit the button... Now!!!
Yes it's a Sonic review. It is nothing new and probably something most of you lovely retro readers are very familiar with. This game holds a special place in my retro heart as it was one of the first that was ever brought for me as a present. This was very significant for me as a youngster, generally I had to earn money to afford every game that I wanted to play and It would take me weeks and weeks of chores to be able to rustle up enough coin to afford a pre-owned copy of a game. So to be given a game, and a brand new one at that, was huge for me. When I played this back in the day I loved it to bits in fact, Sonic Spinball got me into pinball in general. Leading to a long lasting love affair with searching for and playing real pinball tables even though they are pretty hard to find in the South of England. I replayed this recently so lets see if it still holds the same charm as it did back in the day.
Sonic Spinball to many gamers is considered the first lazy entry in the game series as most gamers were eagerly awaiting the release of Sonic 3 and to receive this instead back in 1993 seemed a bit of a slap to the face of the fans. This game however does have a hardcore fan base even today and it's definitely worth mentioning that this was released in Europe first even before it came out in America or Japan.
Sonic Spinball's story is pretty straight forward. You are Sonic flying on top of a plane that your buddy Tails is controlling when uh oh old Robonik shoots you down from his giant fortress and Sonic falls into the watery abyss. This is shown in a very cool cutscene telling you all you need to know about the game, no text subtitles required here. Then the awesome title screen loads which is Sonic bouncing around followed by an awesome tune. After pressing start Sonic emerges at the bottom of the fortress ready to hunt down the fat man and once again take him down.
The game is a platforming pinball hybrid set across four long levels. The core of the game is pinball. Sonic acts as the ball and pressing the C button on the Mega Drive controller will flip both flippers at once, which, I found the easiest way to play. If you choose, A and B will flip the left and right flippers individually. The controls are pretty solid and fans of video game pinball ports should be happy with the translation of Sonic into a game of this genre. If your a hardcore pinball player with real tables the mechanics in this will will not feel like the real thing, due to this game running a lot slower than an actual table. The speed can be adjusted from normal to fast but I didn't feel this made much difference to the games difficulty, if any at all.
In the occasional scenes where you are on platforms Sonic controls similar to previous games in the series just a lot slower. Any button on the controller will make him jump and pressing down and mashing the button will cause Sonic to super spin. The platforming segments feel rather clunky and awkward though they do give the game a little personality making it stand out from other pinball games and of course remind you that you are playing as Sonic, face time people.
The problem with the gameplay mechanics is the game is stuck between two very different audiences, the Sonic fans will probably dislike this game as it is not like the other platform games and the pinball fans will probably dislike this game because its not as mechanically similar. This may explain why this really only has a niche fan base.
Music is great, the tunes of each level and the bonus levels leave a lasting impression and feel well suited to the pinball vibe. Sound effects are solid from the sound of the flippers to the joyous noise of the score bar lighting up when you get a chaos emerald.
The level designs are pretty unique. You essentially have four massive area's and your aim in each is to find the blue chaos emeralds, which are obtained by fulfilling certain tasks such as swinging round loops a number of times, busting barrels and hitting targets. This design is very similar to real pinball tables just obviously dressed up more since your playing a video game. The problem with this though, is that those who are not familiar with pinball will find these tasks incredibly frustrating as it can take you several minutes and possibly cost you lives to try and achieve these goals, causing many to possibly rage quit. The levels themselves though are vibrant with colour and the character sprites for enemies and Sonic look great.
At the end of each level is a pretty epic boss battle which usually requires you to hit a target multiple times using the flippers. After the boss makes a satisfying boom you are treated to a fun little bonus level which is a mini pinball table that uses a real ball instead of Sonic for a change. There is just one goal on each mini table release the animals and knock Robotniks teeth out. I found these bonus parts to be my favourite aspect of the game though they are quite challenging.
This game is difficult from level one and like real pinball you only have three lives but if you get 20 million points you will obtain another life. There are no continues, many newbies will be lucky to get to the third level of this game. The persistent players will soon learn the route and technique of each table and fly through the game. Unlike how I usually recommend games like this for a quick bash, in this case unless you have invested a lot of time already into it this really isn't a pick up and play experience. It is worth mentioning that you can play this with up to four players much like real pinball you pass the controller to each player once a ball is lost. You are essentially going for a high score but it's unlikely you will be busting this out any time soon to play with buddies unless they all have experience playing the game.
If you do manage to complete this and yes there is an ending it probably means you enjoyed it and your drive to play through again will be to get high scores or show off to friends. Dedicated players to Sonic Spinball can actually complete it in less than a hour.
Verdict:- Sonic Spinball was an interesting experiment in trying something new with Sonic. The problem is it is stuck in a very fragile place that will unlikely please Sonic fans or pinball fans. To this day I still love this game for the nostalgic memories I have for it and anyone who invests a lot of time into the game will get a buzz from flying through each level quicker with each playthrough. This game will always have its little fan base but its unlikely it will ever grow any larger than it already has.
The game is still to this day a unique pinball game that successfully mixes platforming with pinball. The obvious criticism is both elements are slower than what is expected of pinball and Sonic. Die hard Sonic fans will own this game already but my advice is to give it a shot and see if it sticks. It's only a average game today but like me maybe this will be the start of a long love affair with real pinball tables. (Sidenote: still waiting for a real Sonic Spinball pinball table to be released)
Second Opinion:- This is one of those let's take our character and put him in everything moment for Sega, something Nintendo have done a million times with Mario and even Sony have done with Crash Bandicoot.
In this instance however it kinda worked, a fast moving pinball makes sense if it's Sonic as he spends most of his life in a curled up dash spin anyway, i'm not saying I love the game, far from it as for me it's incredibly meh however the concept worked, controls were tight and as a game in itself it was alright.
I have to disagree with the sound which for this robot blows but that's the only really bad thing about it as the rest is perfectly fine, average was a word created for games like this.
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Letter to SAMPRA Members
News, Print News, SABC Dispute
Dear SAMPRA Members,
We thank you for remaining steadfast and refusing to be used as fair game during the current battle that we are facing as an organisation. Some of you have made us aware of the fact that you’ve been contacted by IMPRA urging you to apply for membership. This is a desperate act by IMPRA to gain you as members, since they have already claimed to be representing you. The SABC also knew that they were donating artists’ royalties to the wrong organisation. Now that there’s a huge backlash against their shenanigans, they want you to help them get out of the mess they find themselves in.
The following are facts IMPRA and the SABC have not disputed:
SAMPRA has provided all necessary documentation to the SABC to prove its ownership of 93% repertoire. The SABC has refused to give SAMPRA any documentation to support its decision of allocating 75% of royalties to IMPRA;
SAMPRA has proposed, to the SABC and IMPRA, that independent auditors should be appointed to audit the SABC’s playlists to determine ownership of repertoire. The SABC has ignored SAMPRA’s offer. Why is the SABC not willing to subject itself to independent auditing to verify repertoire ownership if the SABC is doing the right thing?
SAMPRA has been very transparent in negotiations with the SABC, but the SABC’s transparency has been as clear as mud;
SABC has shown complete disregard of copyright legislation;
SAMPRA appealed to the Department of Communications (“the DoC”) to intervene in the saga. The DoC notified the SABC at the end of May 2018 that the DoC would have a meeting with the SABC to discuss this issue. The SABC decided, two days before the meeting with the DoC, to make an announcement and pay IMPRA. Why did the SABC rush to make an announcement two days before the SABC was scheduled to meet with the DoC on this matter? What was the rush? Was the SABC trying to frustrate the DoC’s intervention?
All other broadcasters have been licensed and have paid SAMPRA on the basis of the requirements of copyright legislation and the verification of repertoire ownership. The SABC, the public broadcaster, is the only one that has refused to do things the right way. Why?
SAMPRA is the only Needltime Rights society that has been processing and distributing royalties to record companies and recording artists since 2014. So far, more than R200m has been distributed. The SABC is the only broadcaster whose royalties have not been received because they refuse to abide by the law and regulations. Does the SABC believe they would solve the problem by donating money to an organisation that represents less than 5% of artists, and is now begging artists to join them?
SAMPRA is the only Needletime Rights society that has licensed all broadcasters (except the SABC because they refuse to be licensed) and thousands of retail shops, restaurants, bars, buses, etc.;
SAMPRA is the only Needletime Rights society that has the necessary infrastructure, knowledge and experience to process and pay royalties to deserving record companies and artists. We do not pay only the featured artist. We pay all artists that made a recorded contribution to a track that earned royalties;
SAMPRA’s royalty statements, per earner, are readily available on request to rightholders who have earned royalties in distributions done thus far.
This matter is far from over, and IMPRA’s celebrations are hollow. We are doing things according to the prescripts of the relevant legislation and regulations. That is why we are taking the SABC to court. At the end, the SABC will have to pay us the full amount owed to us.
We urge you to stay true to the course with us, as we continue to fight for what is right and to ensure that we get what is due to all of us. Should you have any queries or concerns, you are more than welcome to reach out to us.
Pfanani Lishivha
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UK Walks
UK Hiking Locations
Hiking, Trekking and Camping Across The UK Countryside
UK Walks: Point of Sleat – Isle of Skye
by Sam Thompson
Distance – 4.8 Miles
Ascent– 900ft / 274 Meters
Highest Point – N/A
Time Taken – Three Hours
Difficulty – Easy
The Isle of Skye is a fantastic place to visit and has some of the best walking, camping and mountaineering, the UK has to offer. The Isle of Skye is commonly referred to as the “the garden of the Skye” as it has forest-covered mountains that drop quickly and sharply down to the ocean.
The Island is not only home to some of the best walking in the UK, but also to some fantastic restaurants, hotels and beaches with rocky shorelines meaning that if the weather plays it’s part, then you can have a lot of fun.
If you’re going to plan a trip to the Isle of Skye, make sure you book early. Accommodation fills up quickly across Scotland and especially so, across the Isle of Skye. There is the possibility to pitch your tent both directly in the countryside and at more formal camping sites across Skye.
The plan was to have a leisurely walk from the Car Park (which is just to the right of Aird Old Church Gallery) to the very southernmost point of Skye. The walk is about five miles long, and because it’s relatively flat (there is less than 100 feet in height difference), it’s straightforward and takes around an hour and a half each way.
While there is a marked path, two-thirds of the walk is on a wide, stony track and the remainder on a dirt and grass footpath that’s quite uneven and boggy in places. There is one steep section that only lasts for 50-meters (there was a five-year-old child that ran up it without problems) but offers fantastic views of the Aird crofting township, then out over the sea to the mainland town of Mallaig.
After about two miles, the route split in two directions. To the south, the path takes you to a fantastic, white sandy beach called ‘Camas Daraich‘. When the tide is out white sand is revealed, and there are lots of small rock pools and beautiful rock formations.
If you carry onwards to the southwest, you after a little while, you reach the lighthouse at Point of Sleat. This is the most southern point of the Isle of Skye and offers some breathtaking views out to sea. You can see the small isles of Rum, Canna and Eigg.
The Walk Home
The lighthouse dates back to 1938 when it was first established as a manned lighthouse. Sadly the old lighthouse has been replaced in 2003 with a modern, unmanned and completely automatic version. It might do the job, but it doesn’t look great. When I first heard about the lighthouse, I had images of a huge, century-old lighthouse that would be a fantastic picture.
If the tide is out, it’s possible to walk from the lighthouse back to the beach which offers some great views. If you’re brave, you could always take a swim in the ocean, however only in the summer. It’s freezing cold in the winter.
This Drone Footage courtesy of JagerScot, shows the entire route to include both the white sandy beach called ‘Camas Daraich’, and the unmanned and completely automatic lighthouse at the southern most tip of the The Isle of Skye, Point Of Sleat.
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INSPIRED BY ART The Art Flogger was inspired by the Old Okanagan Homestead, a painting by Summerland artist Evelyn Briscall. The painting was one of the art pieces in Mixed and Merged at the Summerland Art Gallery in 2019. (John Arendt/Summerland Review)
Summerland novelist’s book inspired by art show
Mixed and Merged exhibit at Summerland Art Gallery led to C. Edgar North’s novel
John Arendt
A Summerland novelist’s sixth story had its start at a 2019 art exhibit at the Summerland Art Gallery.
Glen Witter, who writes espionage/action/thriller novels under the pen name of C. Edgar North, participated in the Mixed and Merged exhibit at the art gallery.
This exhibit pairs artists and writers, who then create new works which are inspired by the writing or artwork they are shown.
READ ALSO: Summerland author’s books examine international espionage and smuggling
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Witter was matched with painter Evelyn Briscall, who painted the Old Okanagan Homestead, which was later used as the cover of the novel.
The Art Flogger is the story of Linda DuPont, a fine art auctioneer, who moves to Bellingham, Wash. after the death of her husband.
She is then approached by a Texas billionaire to help sell some of his art collection, unaware he is a kingpin in a Colombian drug cartel.
READ ALSO: Summerland exhibit features works by 35 artists
The story features art sales linked to cocaine dealers.
Copies of the book are available at the Summerland Art Gallery as well as through Amazon and iTunes.
An audio version of the book will be released in May.
Witter is the author of five previous books under the C. Edgar North pen name. His books are available in more than 170 countries.
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Press release dated 12.07.2012
The Austrian Television Fund (FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA) - a major player in the German-speaking TV funding environment
Press release dated 12 July 2012
“With an annual endowment of EUR 13.5 million available for the promotion of television film projects, the Austrian Television Fund (FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA) is the biggest promoting institution in the German-speaking world”, said Mr Alfred Grinschgl, managing director of RTR’s Media Division and person in charge of the fund’s management, stressing the significance of the fund. “This year alone we have supported 41 film projects with more than EUR 12 million. Experts tend to forget that in contrast to other promoting institutions, the Austrian Television Fund is exclusively government-financed, making it independent from television broadcasters in its grant approvals. By contrast, German TV broadcasters finance substantial parts of German promoting institutions.
Guidelines for grants: Television broadcasters’ ‘high-level complaining’
Since 1 January 2012, a revised version of the fund’s grant guidelines, which contain important provisions for TV producers applying for grants, has been in force. Even though television broadcasters and producers share the common goal of designing successful programs and are mutually dependent on each other, their interests diverge. “Of course our guidelines are fiercely criticised by television broadcasters: They want to invest less money in film projects but - in our view - want to claim more rights. From this perspective, one could say that they ‘complain on a high level’. What is overlooked is that we protect producers’ rights and even extended them, and that we can award grants for up to 30% of production budgets”, said Mr Grinschgl, commenting on the new provisions. Unlike in Germany, the promotion of television productions of the Austrian Television Fund (FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA) is awarded in the form of non-repayable subsidies and not in the form of conditionally repayable loans. For the producer this means that he or she doesn’t have to refund the grants even if the film brings in money.
In the last few weeks, the Austrian Television Fund (FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA) together with the review board and producers held many discussions with television broadcasters and agreed on a number of crucial points:
Primacy clause
First offer obligation and rules regarding the purchase of additional phases of use
Protection for producers against excessive utilisation restrictions
An issue that is still open is the involvement of distributing companies. Further talks are to follow in the near future.
In order to subject the new grant guidelines as well as the framework conditions to a scientific analysis, the Austrian Television Fund (FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA) has assigned Mr Oliver Castendyk (Hamburg) with the preparation of an expert report, which is planned to be presented to the public in autumn 2012.
Further information about the Austrian Television Fund (FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA) as well as about supported television film projects is available on RTR’s website at:
Austrian Television Fund (FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA)
Positive award decisions dated 20 March 2012 (in German only)
Positive award decisions dated 19 June 2012 (in German only)
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Goodyear outlines 2008 advertising plans
GRAPEVINE, Texas (Feb. 4, 2008) — Goodyear´s advertising plans for 2008 include providing aerial coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
The Akron-based tire maker also had provided coverage for the Winter Olympics in 2006. The company will offer animated product messages during the programs, officials said at the tire maker´s annual dealer meeting in Grapevine.
Goodyear also will serve as the presenting sponsor of Fox TV´s pre-race show to the Daytona 500´s 50th anniversary race Feb. 17. The tire maker has prepared a race leadership-themed ad featuring its blimp and "Get There" campaign. The company is the sole tire supplier to NASCAR.
For its Assurance line, Goodyear plans to run rain- and snow-themed commercials this fall for the Assurance TripleTred tire. For the ComforTred, the tire maker said it will run mass media ads this spring. Goodyear also is introducing seven new sizes for that tire.
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Admete nodosa was reported from 1 countries/islands
Table 1: the species is currently present in 1 of them (endemic, native, introduced);
Table 2: possible in 0 of them (stray, questionable);
Table 3: absent from 0 of them (extirpated, not established, misidentification, error).
Table 4: all reports listed together.
Distribution: Atlantic Ocean.
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How to read the map
The literature species report in a country is represented by an icon (a circle) in the middle of the country polygon.
Important: a report in the literature does not necessarily mean that the species is currently present in the country! There are errors in literature, misidentifications, and some species have been locally or globally extirpated or eradicated.
The patterns and colours of the icon give 4 additional indications (see the legend under the map for the signification of the different colours and patterns):
Presence status: the colour of the ring (green: Present; orange: Possible; red: Absent)
Introduction status: a white 'i' in the middle of the circle indicates that the species has been introduced, if the presence ring is green it means that the species established itself or that we don't know the current presence status, if the presence ring is red it means that the species did not established itself.
Threat status: the pattern of the ring (not dashed: not threatened or no information; dashed: any status indicating that the species has a national threatened).
Important: This is the national threatened status, not the global IUCN one.
Salinity status = milieu: the colours in the middle circle (blue: Marine; green: Brackish; light blue: freshwater; dark green: Land).
How to interpret the map
The icon in a country polygon indicates that the species has been reported at least once in the country, BUT NOT NECESSARILY that it is present IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
It is particularly the case for large country such as Brazil, USA, Canada, Russia, China, India, Indonesia, Australia, etc.
For example, a number of freshwater species present in western European countries are also present in the western part of Russia, but not beyond the Ural mountains. Still the icon for Russia is placed in its Asian part.
The icon is placed approximately in the middle of the country, even for the species that are marine only.
For marine species, it does not mean either that the species is present in all oceanic coasts of the countries (e.g., Altlantic and Pacific for USA and Canada).
So the map needs to be interpreted carefully, but we think it helps to give a quick view of the distribution by country, in a better way than the textual list of countries when it is over a dozen countries.
Table 1: Present in 1 country/island (endemic, native, introduced)
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Table 4: Reported from 1 countries/islands.
The map in this page was supported by BioFresh that has received funding from the
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Postby CookieB » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 4:54 am
Jeff from Perth ".... re thread... I do know you, I also played football in the Maisonettes, remember Ralph ( mostly in goal, thought he was Lev Yashin !!! ) , and lo and behold, I am one of the 3 Newton brothers, I am Jeff, brother Jim lives here in Perth , Australia, where as the youngest , Dave, is still in LeedsI remember the old place up past the Grange, last time in Leeds, took a walk past there and asked my mam (rip) about it, but she couldn't throw any light on it. He's an 'um backed ...bassa that I used to know from Leeds, but down under ...had a brother Jim... so hopin he's the same just trying to find 'ur kid...
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Postby Dalehelms » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 5:10 pm
CookieB, I'll tell Jeff's sister-in-law, wife of Dave, about your post.
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Postby frisbee » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 7:14 pm
I used to walk to school at Braim Wood via the bridge. On the other side of Easterly Road from the bottom end of Dibb Lane, where Asket Hill joins with Easterly Road, there is a stone wall which is about 5ft high. Behind this wall is the wyke beck and a footpath that leads through woodland, emerging at the farm on Wetherby Road. Also, The Rein in Seacroft was a piece of wasteland that ran between Boggart Hill Drive at the top end and Kentmere Approach on the south end, opposite the Adventure Playground. Before the the council estate was built, I think there was a small stream that was a tributary of the wyke beck that originated in The Rein. Back in the '70's, whenever it rained heavily for a few days, the rainfall would create huge lakes between the hillocks of The Rein. As kids we would create rafts out of of empty oil drums and wooden pallets. Invariably they'd sink and I wen home soaked from head to foot to get a bollocking off my parents.In the late 70's or early 80's, The Rein was landscaped by the council, and as I last remember it, it was a small park or recreation ground with proper pathways and football pitches.
Postby CookieB » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 7:50 pm
Dale helmscheers for that - greatly appreciated...Tell her it's Emmet class of '79-80 wee bit of waters gone under the bridge since then.....had a family & kids have left home ...doh! makes me sound older than I feel..Jeff-ski & ELO... those were the days (I thought I saw the mayor there but I wasn't really sure.....but it's all right.....)...glory glory Leeds United...ah the memories
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Postby jeffn » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 1:03 am
CookieB wrote: Dale helmscheers for that - greatly appreciated...Tell her it's Emmet class of '79-80 wee bit of waters gone under the bridge since then.....had a family & kids have left home ...doh! makes me sound older than I feel..Jeff-ski & ELO... those were the days (I thought I saw the mayor there but I wasn't really sure.....but it's all right.....)...glory glory Leeds United...ah the memories Well I never - Emmet !!!!
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Postby raveydavey » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 4:38 pm
frisbee wrote: I used to walk to school at Braim Wood via the bridge. On the other side of Easterly Road from the bottom end of Dibb Lane, where Asket Hill joins with Easterly Road, there is a stone wall which is about 5ft high. Behind this wall is the wyke beck and a footpath that leads through woodland, emerging at the farm on Wetherby Road. How spooky is that - so did I! There was a large hole in the wall by Easterly Road back then - I wonder if it's still there? It always puzzled me that such a bridge was tucked away in there.When you got to the Roundhay Park end you had the choice of traversing a tiny concrete "bridge" (think it was probably some way of carrying a pipe or cables across the beck and not actually intended as a bridge) and going through the bottom of the Bulls Field and climbing over the wall onto Wetherby Road, or if you carried on you came to a padlocked 5-bar gate which you could climb over into one of the residential streets and walk down Wetherby Road from there. We used to call that area "The Mansion" - now I know why!I might have an explore along there once the weather is better, although I seem to remember the patch along the beck was treacherous in places. Still, as 11 year olds we were indestructible, weren't we? frisbee wrote: Also, The Rein in Seacroft was a piece of wasteland that ran between Boggart Hill Drive at the top end and Kentmere Approach on the south end, opposite the Adventure Playground. Before the the council estate was built, I think there was a small stream that was a tributary of the wyke beck that originated in The Rein. Back in the '70's, whenever it rained heavily for a few days, the rainfall would create huge lakes between the hillocks of The Rein. As kids we would create rafts out of of empty oil drums and wooden pallets. Invariably they'd sink and I wen home soaked from head to foot to get a bollocking off my parents.In the late 70's or early 80's, The Rein was landscaped by the council, and as I last remember it, it was a small park or recreation ground with proper pathways and football pitches. I can remember that area being a little wilderness criss-crossed with lots of little paths and tall grass in the summer, but I don't remember any lakes when it rained.
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Postby frisbee » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 6:51 pm
raveydavey wrote: I can remember that area being a little wilderness criss-crossed with lots of little paths and tall grass in the summer, but I don't remember any lakes when it rained. I think it happened during the summer of 77 which I remember being a summer of intense rainfall, much like last summer. The main area of lake was at the bottom of the ridge in the gap between house about halfway up the street called The Rein. As I recall, there was a hollow dip here which is where the water accumulated. I think the area must have been levelled out when the wasteland was transformed.I certainly remember during most years summer months the grass grew very high and there were natural footpaths that had been trodden down over the years. It was quite a scary place to go in there on your own.
frisbee wrote: raveydavey wrote: I can remember that area being a little wilderness criss-crossed with lots of little paths and tall grass in the summer, but I don't remember any lakes when it rained. I think it happened during the summer of 77 which I remember being a summer of intense rainfall, much like last summer. The main area of lake was at the bottom of the ridge in the gap between house about halfway up the street called The Rein. As I recall, there was a hollow dip here which is where the water accumulated. I think the area must have been levelled out when the wasteland was transformed.I certainly remember during most years summer months the grass grew very high and there were natural footpaths that had been trodden down over the years. It was quite a scary place to go in there on your own. That would be why I don't remember it - I didn't get that far on my explorations until 1979 when I started Braim Wood.
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Postby The Parksider » Wed 23 Apr, 2008 9:01 am
frisbee wrote: raveydavey wrote: I can remember that area being a little wilderness criss-crossed with lots of little paths and tall grass in the summer, but I don't remember any lakes when it rained. I think it happened during the summer of 77 which I remember being a summer of intense rainfall, much like last summer. The main area of lake was at the bottom of the ridge in the gap between house about halfway up the street called The Rein. I certainly remember during most years summer months the grass grew very high and there were natural footpaths that had been trodden down over the years. It was quite a scary place to go in there on your own. We took those footpaths every day to school at Foxwood.the Rein was a piece of ground which was a catchment area that a stream originated from.The stream starts down on asket crescent coming out of a culvert.The word Rein in very old dictionaries means an area of ground where water collects and is the start of a stream (this also has a name? Is it watershed??)You can find the name in use elsewhere. In dib lane there was "Arthurs Rein"The oxford english dictionary does not recognise this word, nor "goit" as a mill stream.
Postby chameleon » Wed 23 Apr, 2008 8:15 pm
'We took those footpaths every day to school at Foxwood'When were you there Parksider?
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About Sardinia
Sardinia, almost a continent
A continent in miniature, Sardinia certainly is as diverse as countries ten times its size, but crystallised into an island as old as time. An island brushed by sea breezes, herb-scented mountains and unhurried Sards, always ready to show their generous and warm hospitality to new visitors.
Very few places are as magnificently unspoilt and undiscovered as this enormous island; the second largest in the Mediterranean, with a history dating back 5,000 years. This is a land that still remains largely untouched by mass tourism, a land where you can still escape to the interior, explore mysterious ruins, or ride narrow gauge trains into the mountains..
Although part of Italy for more than a century, Sardinia retains its ancient, unique culture and language.
The coastline is one of endless variety: secluded rocky coves, soft, white sandy beaches, lonely wild beaches and towering cliffs. Hundreds of miles of beautiful scenery await you.
Inland, Sardinia is mountainous and rugged and boasts countless archaeological sites, the most enigmatic of which are the 7,000 prehistoric nuraghi – massive stone structures built entirely without mortar. Then there are the many fascinating Roman and Phoenician remains, and the enchanting Romanesque churches, scattered throughout the countryside.
For most visitors however, the main attraction is almost guaranteed sunshine, amazingly coloured seas and beautiful beaches. Sardinia is perfect for a relaxing beach holiday, with friendly and welcoming people and delicious food.
The Sardinian climate is typically Mediterranean, with mild winters and hot summers. The prevailing wind, the “Maestrale” blows from the northwest, whilst the hot winds from the south are known as the “Scirocco”. Sardinia has a long summer usually throughout May until October, with temperatures reaching as high as 38 C in July and August. Sea breezes influence the weather and swimming in the sea is fairly comfortable from May to October. Most of the rainfall is in autumn and spring and the weather can be warm and pleasant.
South West Sardinia
The south west of Sardinia boasts some of the island’s most beautiful beaches, together with two of its most fascinating offshore islands.
Cagliari is the capital of Sardinia. Often bypassed by arriving tourists heading for the beaches, Cagliari is a fascinating city, with an old city centre, cathedral, museums, a smart Marina quarter and long beach.
Pula and Santa Margherita di Pula sit just 35 minute’s drive from Cagliari. Santa Margherita di Pula occupies a beautiful long sandy stretch of coastline, backed by pinewoods and the majestic Sulcis mountain range. Here you will find the world-renowned Forte Village Resort. The town of Pula sits 3km inland and is a lively place especially in summer, when locals and visitors alike stroll around its central piazza, or dine in one of the many cafes and restaurants. For those interested in history, the archaeological remains of Nora are close by.
Continuing west, the dazzling white sand dunes of Chia are some of the best on the island. Set in a transparent sea of greens and blues, this is definitely an area for beach lovers.
The offshore islands of Sant’ Antioco and San Pietro provide a fascinating contrast to the larger island. Joined to the Sardinian mainland by a three-kilometre causeway, Sant’ Antioco is a sparsely populated island, and home to some lovely beaches Its principle town is Sant’ Antioco, which has a good choice of restaurants and cafes. Its neighbouring island is the charming San Pietro, those only town is Carloforte, a delightful place, where the Genoan style of architecture, cuisine and dialect, date back to its first settlers; a Ligurian colony from the north of Italy.
Sardinia North & North East
Originally a sparsely populated area of rocky, impregnable Mediterranean scrub and 55 kilometres of virgin shoreline, the coast is a continuous succession of islets, rocky promontories and bays, with beaches of fine white sand, all bathed by a clear, emerald-coloured sea, from which the area takes its name. The potential of this natural paradise in north east Sardinia was first spotted by the Aga Khan, who began to develop the area in the 1960's, transforming it into one of the world's most exclusive resorts. Porto Cervo, with its natural harbour, is the hub of the Costa Smeralda and the centre of its social life. There are designer boutiques, chic bars and renowned restaurants including The Grill, Il Pescatore and Il Pomodoro, plus famous discotheques such as Billionaire, Sopravento, Pepero, and Il Ritual. One of the best-equipped marinas in the Mediterranean, it attracts many world famous yachting events and tournaments. For golfers, the Pevero Golf Club offers an 18-hole, 72-par course, designed by Robert Trent Jones.
Just across the bay from the Costa Smeralda, the small town of Porto Rotondo owes much of its Venetian influence to its major developer, the Count Dona Delle Rose. Although less well known in the UK than the Aga Khan's famous Porto Cervo development, Porto Rotondo attracts its own "jet setters" and celebrity spotting is still a popular pastime. Situated in the heart of town is the small Piazzetta San Marco, from which narrow cobbled streets, lined with shops, radiate outwards. Shopping, however, is not the town's main attraction, but rather the ancient round harbour, from which the town gets its name and which is now a bustling modern marina.
Situated at the northern tip of the Costa Smeralda, facing the Maddalena archipelago, Baia Sardinia has more than its fair share of glamour and style. This lively resort, only 10 minutes drive from Porto Cervo, boasts prestigious villas, hotels, restaurants, bars, discotheques and boutiques. The combination of white sandy beaches, clear, turquoise waters and a wild, rugged interior, make this the perfect location for a memorable holiday.
Cannigione is a little town situated on the shore of a sheltered inlet which forms the Gulf of Arzachena. The town has a selection of shops, supermarkets, restaurants and bars, plus a busy marina during the summer season. The perfect base for boat excursions to the archipelago of La Maddalena, Cannigione is just a short car drive to Baja Sardinia and Porto Cervo.
PALAU & LA MADDALENA
Palau is situated along the north-eastern tip of Sardinia, facing the archipelago of La Maddalena. Palau is the gateway to La Maddalena with regular daily ferries to the islands. It has a busy marina and a selection of restaurants, shops, cafes and bars. La Maddalena has a picturesque seafront promenade with cafés, bars and restaurants and has a somewhat Ligurian flavour. It has beautiful coves and beaches with amazing crystal clear waters. A bridge connects La Maddalena to its sister island of Caprera, home of Garibaldi (now a museum)
BADESI MARE & ISOLA ROSSA
Badesi Mare is located on the north coast of Sardinia between Castelsardo and S. Teresa di Gallura some 80km from Olbia airport. A long sandy beach stretches for 8km with a few beach shops, snack bars and water-sport facilities. Nearby is the market town of Badesi.
Isola Rossa is a little picturesque fishing village with a pretty harbour. The village has a few restaurants, bars and pizzerias and some excellent beaches nearby.
Sardinia Central
ORISTANO (West Coast)
Oristano may be Sardinia's smallest province, but it boasts some of the most dramatic and untouched scenery on the island. Natural oasis, vast lagoons with flocks of pink flamingos, imposing Roman ruins, magnificent medieval buildings and ancient Romanesque churches, await you in this remarkably unexplored corner of Sardinia. At the same time, you are never far from its enchanting coast, whose highlights include the spectacular cliffs of Sinis, the pristine waters of the white quartz beach at Mari Ermi, the unspoilt beaches of Putzu Idu and the untouched beaches of the isle of Mal di Ventre, which with the Sinis coastline formes a Marine protected zone and a diver's paradise. Oristano is the provincial capital, with a picturesque medieval town centre.
OLIENA (central), CALA GONONE & ARBATAX (east coast)
Oliena lies on the slopes of Monte Corrasi, overlooking the Cedrino valley. Nestling amongst vineyards, almond trees and olive groves, it has a picturesque old town and market square; the traditional houses typically built in unfired brick and straw. The surrounding area produces olives, excellent wines and exquisite cheeses. Oliena is also well known for handicrafts, including embroidery and jewellery. Beautifully situated in the Golfo di Orosei, the former fishing village of Cala Gonone huddles around its small port, and despite recently improved access, has still not entirely lost its sense of isolation. With its imposing mountain range, wooded hillsides and hidden beaches, this is an area for explorers; for those who wish to experience simple pleasures in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The small town of Arbatax lies on Cape Bellavista situated on the east coast. A commercial port and seaside resort, Arbatax is also the terminus of the narrow gauge railway.
The surrounding area offers spectacular cliffs,amazing sandy beaches with pristine waters, unspoilt inland forests, caves and picturesque villages scattered amongst the mountains.
Sardinia South East
TORRE DELLE STELLE, VILLASIMIUS & COSTA REI
The south east coast of Sardinia is an area of exceptional natural beauty. This will soon become apparent as you begin the tortuous coastal road, just after the salt lagoons on the outskirts of Cagliari towards Villasimius/Costa Rei. Rugged mountain ranges, partially covered by Mediterranean flora, drop precipitously into a clear sea. The resort of Torre delle Stelle is situated some 30km from Cagliari; a cluster of villas, scattered around a rugged promontory covered with Mediterranean flora, leading to two white sandy beaches with crystal-clear turquoise waters. Torre delle Stelle has its own supermarket, shops, restaurant and pizzerias, bars and additional facilities nearby. Further south you reach the resort and town of Villasimius some 50km from Cagliari. Coastline around Villasimius is dotted with small salt-water lagoons and islets, where white sandy beaches and coves, flanked by smooth granite boulders, face an emerald sea. Considered by many to offer some of the best beaches on the island. To cater for guests, the town has bars, pizzerias, restaurants, supermarkets, shops, a bank, discotheques and a leisure marina. West of Villasimius, the road curves and dips, following the contours of this beautiful coast and affording wonderful views of the islands of Isola dei Cavoli and Serpentara. Approximately 15km from Villasimius, and some 65km from Cagliari, begins the ribbon of beaches known as the Costa Rei. This 8km stretch of coastline is renowned for its golden sands and transparent waters; the luminous hues varying from turquoise blue to emerald green.
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September 6, 2018 — Although the Pacific bluefin tuna numbers continue to be low, there are signs the population is recovering and rebuilding targets set forth by international agreement are on track to be met. In July 2018, The International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-Like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISC) released the most recent assessment of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) and evaluated the likelihood of reaching internationally established rebuilding targets. The bluefin spawning stock biomass (SSB) was estimated to be 3.3% in 2016 relative to their unfished SSB, up from 3.0% in 2014. Unfished spawning stock biomass is the theoretical amount of fish there would be had there never been fishing. The amount and rate of bluefin harvested continues to be high with the greatest catches (and thus impact) on juveniles in the western Pacific Ocean. NOAA Fisheries scientists participate in these assessments and since 2013 the agency has listed Pacific bluefin tuna as overfished and subject to overfishing.
The assessment also projected the stock’s performance based on its status in 2016, management measures in place now, as well as other harvest scenarios. Overall, the analyses indicate that the stock biomass is expected to reach the initial biomass rebuilding target adopted by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) by 2024 with a 98% probability, and the second biomass rebuilding target by 10 years after reaching the initial rebuilding target or by 2034, whichever is earlier, with a 96% probability. Experts have not yet determined the amount of biomass that would indicate the population is recovered or rebuilt.
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The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission is expected to adopt catch limits for 2019 and possibly beyond at its annual meeting in August 2018. Given the projections for achieving the rebuilding targets are optimistic, the WCPFC may consider increasing catches when it meets in December 2018.
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ISC also assessed the shortfin mako shark and Western and Central Pacific swordfish populations this year and noted no concerns about these stocks.
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Lorry driver escapes serious injury after vehicle overturned on M6
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Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 9:41am
Picture courtesy of West Midlands Ambulance Service
A lorry driver has been taken to hospital as a precaution after the lorry he was driving overturned and caught fire on the M6 in Staffordshire earlier this morning.
An ambulance crew came across the overturned lorry which was on fire on the southbound carriageway of the M6 between junctions 13 and 12 in Stafford at 0.36am (Wednesday).
They quickly alerted emergency service colleagues and the highways agency whilst a paramedic officer was responded to the scene to assist.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “The driver of the lorry, a man, was already out of the vehicle when the ambulance crew stopped to render aid. He was assessed on scene and treated for relatively minor injuries before being taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital as a precaution.
“Considering what happened, it’s incredibly lucky that no one suffered serious injuries.”
Teams from Highways England, Staffordshire Police and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue, as well as specialist contractors, are working as fast as they can to get the scene cleared and the carriageway repaired and open as soon as it is safe to do so.
The diversion routes are as follows:
The northbound diversion route is signed by the hollow triangle diversion symbol. At junction 12 take the exit to the A5 westbound. Continue along the A5 west to its junction with the A449, Gailey. Take the exit to the A449 northbound and continue to re-join the M6 at junction 13.
The southbound diversion is signed by the hollow circle diversion symbol exiting the M6 at junction 13. Take the exit onto the A449 south continuing along this road to its junction the A5 at Galley. Take the exit to the A5 eastbound and continue to re-join the M6 at junction 12.
The southbound is expected to open later this morning, with the northbound staying closed until later today due to the extent of the damage to the carriageway.
For traffic approaching the delays locally, drivers are advised to expect disruption with extra journey time and may wish to re-route or delay their journeys.
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Does your grief process look anything like this?
Natalia Lusinski 2017-10-02
Natalia Lusinski · October 2, 2017
Grief is mostly unavoidable over the course of a life, and everyone handles it in a different way. However, there are certain universal feelings associated with it, too, and one woman has illustrated the grief process perfectly.
That woman is artist Mari Andrew. After her father died, she looked for an outlet to help her grieve. Naturally, her talent for drawing—and conveying emotions through it—came into play. We can definitely relate to the images she came up with, and you probably will, too. Check out some of the images below.
Here’s a to-the-point illustration about how the meanings of things shift after a loss:
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Aug 5, 2017 at 5:03am PDT
Here, Andrew addresses memories, and what happens to them after the person you shared them with passes:
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Feb 8, 2017 at 12:17am PST
And while moving on is essential, it’s much easier said than done:
The ambivalence of feeling better
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Jun 7, 2017 at 3:27am PDT
More than one person—especially our therapist—will stress the importance of self-care in the wake of a loss:
Take your wallet to support your local woman-owned + POC-owned shop this Small Business Saturday! My fave in DC is @lettiegooch 💃🏽
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Nov 26, 2016 at 3:34am PST
Though chances are, this is all we’ll be able to feel or think about:
Movement to replace the 5 Stages of Grief with this scientific chart in psychology textbooks
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Nov 5, 2016 at 3:45am PDT
And healing will be challenging, to say the least:
When I hear "Glad to see you're on the up-and-up!" I think "Well I'm more like on the up and down and down and up and down and up."
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on May 16, 2017 at 3:55am PDT
People will think we’re fine, but we’re usually far from fine:
I'm still recovering from Guillain-Barré syndrome, a very rude disease that paralyzed my hands and legs last month while I was working on a book in Spain. • Now I'm back home and walking (and drawing!!) again, so to the outside world I seem perfectly fine. But what the outside world doesn't know is how frustrating it is for me to do pretty much everything, and how steep the mental toll of physical recovery is turning out to be. • I normally use exercise as a stress relief, but my body has gone haywire so I can't run or do yoga or dance or even pick up my cat! (Is that exercise?) I can't enjoy a nice long walk, which is how I used to fuel my creativity. I'm normally a verbal processor, but it's so hard to explain what I'm going through to other people so I usually don't bother. • Then I feel even more lonely and frustrated, and I feel a strain on my treasured relationships. I try to keep a sense of humor during these tough seasons of life, but lately it feels more healing to just let myself be really sad. • I'm getting the mental and physical and spiritual help I need (plus reading @optionb and listening to a lot of @onbeing), but it helps me to be open about what I'm going through here as well. • Surely some of you can relate, at least to the feeling of isolation, and–I'll say it again and again–you're not alone. I know loneliness so well. I'm taking it day by day and, as always, I'm very grateful to you for being here through the process.
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on May 2, 2017 at 3:28am PDT
But along the way, we may find some things to help us out:
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Apr 21, 2017 at 4:14am PDT
Finally, Andrew reminds us to focus on the positives…
A variation on a recent theme because I keep seeing this around me: the quick reaction "You're strong," "You're so inspiring" to the announcement of a personal bummer. • Going through misfortune doesn't automatically make you strong. Being in a wheelchair doesn't make you instantly inspiring. This kind of immediate reaction to bad luck is patronizing at best, and doesn't give room to feel disappointed, scared, or like a total mess. I know the intentions are so good, which is why I'm talking about the possible effect. • I like being told I'm strong for other reasons though! Like, being persistent in growing out a pixie cut. Sitting through a horror movie. "Putting myself out there." Dating an artist. You know, make me work for it.
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Aug 17, 2017 at 4:49am PDT
…and to have hope:
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Jul 27, 2017 at 4:19am PDT
We don’t know about you, but Andrew’s drawings were not only super relatable for us, but also made us feel better and less alone in our grief. For me in particular. I lost my grandma last year—she’d raised me and was my best friend—and it was the hardest thing I’d ever experienced. For me, writing about her, keeping her essence alive, going on nightly walks and mourning via a Coldplay concert in Chicago all helped me grieve. But I know everyone has their own grieving process. Still, Andrew’s drawings about grief could not be more spot on.
To check out more of Andrew’s Instagram drawings—poignant and comical and everything in between—on grief and other topics, you can do so here. I know we will.
[h/t: Huffington Post]
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Home Views Article Mayawati: Kanshi Ram Protégé-Turned-Exploiter
Mayawati: Kanshi Ram Protégé-Turned-Exploiter
It is stupefying that someone who had taken the cudgel of improving the lot of the deprived sections, should herself turn to be an ace exploiter of the society
Satya Pal Singh
Reading the success and failure stories of BSP leader Mayawati, one is reminded of Saul Bellow’s argument, who said, “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” Going a little deeper into Mayawati’s alleged obnoxious runs into the wonderland of illegal gratification, anyone would feel convinced that she marched into politics as an intelligent player, but chose to afflict herself with a deadly mix of ignorance and delusion. Did she ever think that the way she went ahead allegedly making illegal money for herself and her family, all in the name of fraudulent ‘small contributions’, will sooner or later recoil on her? Obviously, she felt tempted like thousands of others in Indian politics and bureaucracy, that she should also make hay while the sun shines. She forgot in the process that her brief from her Dalit mentor Kanshi Ram was to work for the uplift and amelioration of the deprived sections and not for stashing illegal wealth for herself and her family.
Brother of Mayawati had 400 crore worth benami property
As the media flashed news that the income tax department has attached a “benami” commercial plot worth Rs 400 crore in Noida, belonging to her brother Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata, four-time Uttar Pradesh chief minister and BSP leader Mayawati, is rattled fearing that the dragnet may be reaching for more assets allegedly piled up by her and her close relatives by dishonest means. Among the many alleged scandalous, money-laundering runs by her kin, companies run by Anand Kumar made abnormal profits up to 18,000 per cent over a period of seven years under probe. During this period, Mayawati served as Uttar Pradesh chief minister for five years from 2007 onwards. One company, named Dia Realtors Pvt Ltd, incredibly made a whopping 45257 per cent profit in the seven-year period. Kumar’s exponential profits have now come under the I-Tax department scanner and may well be taken to a logical conclusion.
Mayawati wriggled out of Taj Heritage Corridor ordeal
Even though there was material evidence of corruption in the 175 crore Taj Heritage Corridor Project case, Mayawati who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister at the time and faced the charge escaped punishment on technical grounds. The case was registered on the orders of the Supreme Court in 2003 after Ajay Agrawal, a former standing counsel for Uttar Pradesh, filed a public interest petition alleging corruption in the Rs 175-crore project to develop land along the Yamuna in the vicinity of the Taj Mahal. Mayawati was then the chief minister of UP.
Modi govt’s resolve to fight corruption
The crackdown on the BSP leader came just a few weeks after the CBI started probing Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. Statues built by Mayawati are also under ED scanner. It is alleged that the construction of memorials resulted in the loss of over 111.44 crore to the exchequer. It may be noted that the Narendra Modi government’s manifesto declaration of zero tolerance of corruption is real and functional to the point of the rule book. Many corrupt, inefficient and lethargic people have been thrown out the system and many more are waiting to be eased out. The electorate that voted the Modi government to power with a massive mandate, expects it to proceed strongly against all corrupt people, irrespective of their party affiliations. Let’s see how effectively the government is able to fight the tough war against corruption, particularly against the powerful political sharks who have the power and wherewithal to manage any oddities by hook or by crook.
45,257% profit in 7 years!
Cases of corruption against Mayawati’s family have increasingly led to her political isolation in Uttar Pradesh, which was well reflected in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh election and subsequently in the recent Lok Sabha poll. According to media reports, Kumar’s assets worth Rs 1,316 crore, being part of a big scandal, and now under probe, including Rs 440 crore cash, Rs 870 in fixed assets and some landed properties. He owns at least 12 big ghost companies. It is incredible that a company of Anand, named Dia RealtorsPvt Ltd, made a whopping 45257 per cent profit during the period Mayawati was chief minister.
Kanshi Ram had fielded her as the messiah of poor
It is strange, as well as stupefying, that someone who had taken the cudgel of improving the lot of the deprived sections, should herself turn to be an ace exploiter of the society. Years back, Mayawati had merrily set upon a political course the cantors of which Kanshi Ram had spiritedly drawn for her, specifically to see her, in course of time, as the chosen messiah of the country’s downtrodden Dalits who, for centuries, suffered the ignominy of low birth and dead-end menial jobs, earmarked for them, merrily called the plebeian entities by the British. Visualizing in her some early flashes of basic intelligence, sharpness, strong willpower and equanimity of mind, no-so-educated, but politically foresighted Kanshi Ram believed that this aspiring Dalit girl could ably present her ‘gleaming’ persona to the country’s impoverished masses and walk off as a commanding winner within the existing status and expanse of Indian polity. And she could achieve that mark in a very short period, brilliantly practising her political format of social engineering almost on the Nehruvian pattern.
Graft put her back in reverse gear
Giving his initial lessons to this reasonably forward-looking Dalit girl with tips on how to go up fast in a country like India, Kashi Ram made it clear to her that she could not become a ‘ruler’ merely on the strength of Dalits who roughly formed only 16.6 per cent of the country’s population. She picked up the lesson well, invited people of all castes and communities, especially of the higher strata, to be part of her political team, and managed to rise as Chief Minster four times of the largest state of India that sends 80 MPs to Lok Sabha. In the process, she effectively demolished all the well-settled traditional ruling parties of UP, from Congress, BJP to Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party. But mercifully, she failed to protect the tempo of her success and went down in elections that followed when her real face of an exploiter emerged in the public domain.
‘Miracle of democracy’ turned upside down
The recent poll results have been a big disappointment for this four-time chief minister. Impressed by her incredible feat, former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao had called it a “miracle of democracy” when this Dalit woman became chief minister the first time in 1995. Not only that, the BSP supremo even threw hints during the Lok Sabha election campaign that she considered herself in the race for the prime minister’s post, should the opposition manage to contain the BJP. The result, however, turned out to be a great disappointment for her soaring ambitions.
Swagger, conceit bedevilled Mayawati
And why not? Her conceit, narcissism and unbridled swagger had gone past the periphery of shame when she allegedly stashed big money after repeatedly turning to hold chief minister’s lofty position in UP, with the people coming to grasp her shocking priorities and concerns in a better, more informed perspective. It came to the public domain that functioning as chief minister, she allegedly got involved in multiple money-making scandals. In course of her steep ascendance to power, pitifully, she lost the passage of political self-growth, progress and natural blooming. Arrogance and self-righteousness overtook her basic persona that she had sold out to the masses for immediate consumption with the intent to capture power, ignorant of the fact that democracy has substantially matured in India and that the masses could not be taken for a ride every time, especially when a leader in question had turned corrupt, haughty and hubristic.
Vichiter Lata
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811 N Augusta Ave
-- Beds, 1 Baths, 1,400 sqft
Get information on these properties from a local real estate agent.
811 N Augusta Ave is a single family residence located in Baltimore, MD 21229. Built in 1939, this property features 1 bathroom, 1,800 sq ft lot, and 1,400 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 811 N Augusta Ave is $111,000.
For the surrounding community of Baltimore, MD 21229, the average sale price for similar homes to 811 N Augusta Ave is $131,167. The nearby schools are below average and include Lyndhurst Elementary, Edmondson Westside High and Forest Park High. The overall crime risk for this area is very high with 39 criminal and sex offenders residing within 1 mile. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, high tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
Property Details: 811 N Augusta Ave
Lot Size: 1,800 sqft
Parcel Number: 2512 006
County: Baltimore City
Heating Type: RADIANT
Cooling Type: YES
BASEMENT Garage
BuiltUp (Layered Asphalt) Roof
2017 $2,083 (+2.15%) $25,000 $71,600 $96,600
2016 $2,007 (+2.17%) $0 $0 $92,500
2011 $2,457 $0 $0 $103,270
809 N Augusta Ave, Baltimore, MD 21229
4104 Cranston Ave, Baltimore, MD 21229
The average sales price of homes similar to 811 N Augusta Ave is $131,167 ($101/sq.ft.)
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The property at 811 N Augusta Ave is located in Baltimore in Baltimore City County, Maryland. With interior space of 1,400 square feet, and a lot that has 1,800 square feet, 811 N Augusta Ave, Baltimore, MD 21229 is a Single Family Residence
In the area where 811 N Augusta Ave, Baltimore, MD 21229 is located there were 39 new foreclosure filings in 12/2019. The foreclosure rate in the 21229 zip code was one in every 523 housing units. The number of active properties in some stage of foreclosure in the 21229 zip code is 124.
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2018 Harley-Davidson Softail Range: Tails from the hard side
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By motorcycletrader - 15 December 2019
If you’ve ever been attracted to a Harley-Davidson big-twin cruiser but were put off by their dynamic shortcomings, umm, it’s time to take another look.
It’s as if a fire has been lit under the iconic Milwaukee brand’s lazy, old arse because these all-new Softails, which mark the largest R&D project in Harley- Davidson’s development history, are far from being slow, fat and cumbersome. Quite the opposite, actually.
The eight cruisers also have more distinctive personalities to help set them apart from their siblings and their predecessors, punctuated by striking daytime-running LED headlights that are unique to each model. There’s also a higher attention to detail, which means exposed wiring and feeble sidestands be gone. And that’s just for starters.
Due in showrooms from October, the range comprises the Fat Boy, Heritage Classic, Softail Slim, Deluxe and the strong-selling Breakout as well as the Fat Bob, Street Bob and Low Rider, which used to be based on the outgoing Dyna platform. Rideaway prices range between $23,495 and $34,750 for the Low Rider and Heritage Classic 114 Anniversary respectively.
Even Harley admits it needed to offer more. “Historically, we’ve leaned on ‘look’, ‘sound’ and ‘feel’, but we recognise that we needed to raise the bar,” Harley-Davidson Softail styling manager Kirk Rasmussen says.
As such, the 2018 Softails mark a turning point for the 114-year-old motorcycle company because they’re deceivingly sharp and capable when the road turns twisty. How? Because over the old Softail and Dyna, they feature an all-new chassis that’s lighter and stiffer; they roll on more controlled and compliant suspension; they have more cornering clearance and, last but not least, they’re powered by a revised version of the outstanding Milwaukee- Eight 107 engine that debuted in the Touring range last year. In isolation, each of the above changes represents a huge leap for the company. As a package, they’ve created bikes unlike any that have rolled out of Milwaukee.
But there’s another important question regarding the seismic shift: Why now? As in, why not five, 10 or 20 years ago? The answer, with all due respect, could be because baby boomers, who currently represent the lion’s share of Harley’s customer base, are starting to hang their helmets.
The company knows it can’t wait up to 30 years for the next generation of devout Harley riders to progress from the Street and Sportster families – it needs to get them hooked on its Big Twin bikes now. For proof, look no further than the Fat Bob’s overt zombie apocalypse treatment to appeal to younger, style-conscious riders. And is it a coincidence that this 37-year-old rider was invited to attend the international launch?
Harley-Davidson has announced a 10-year plan to engage the next generation of faithful riders. That includes attracting two million new riders to the brand in the US plus two million more globally. It also aims to grow international business to 50 per cent of annual production and launch “100 high-impact models”, some of which we’ve already seen.
Part of that strategy involved consolidating the Dyna and Softail cruiser platforms into one diverse line-up. And just like that, no more confusion in the showroom.
The company says the best-of-both-worlds approach meant combining the harder-riding nature of the Dynas, with their exposed shocks, and melding their much-loved characteristics with the cleaner-looking Softails, which are easily identified by their hidden shocks for an old-school rigid look. But the move to retire the Dyna hasn’t been an easy pill to swallow for the ‘Dyna guys’ we spoke to including renowned custom bike builder Roland Sands. Harley, however, is confident that once they ride the all-new bikes they won’t look back. With a lighter, stiffer chassis, a more powerful engine and sharper styling – and far more engaging and dynamic ride experience – we’ve no reason to suggest otherwise.
The retirement of the Dyna platform consolidates the Harley-Davidson family to six ranges: Street, Sportster, Softail, Touring, Trike and CVO. It also spells the end of the Dyna-based Wide Glide.
The 2018 Softail’s new carbon-steel tubular frame is said to be 65 per cent stiffer than the outgoing Softail design (and a whopping 91% stiffer than the Dyna), which leads to a 34 per cent increase in overall chassis stiffness. Its simplified design also allows a 50 per cent reduction in component parts and a 22 per cent reduction in welds. Mind you, such improvements surely couldn’t be too difficult to obtain compared with a 33-year-old frame.
Two swingarms are on offer to accommodate narrow and wide rear tyres and are said to be 8.16kg and 5.89kg lighter respectively. Overall, the Softails are up to 17kg, or around 20 per cent, lighter than before thanks also to the use of more aluminium. The Jenny Craig program obviously not only improves acceleration but also makes for better braking and handling. This is complemented by increased cornering clearance on several models, sharper turn-in response and easier sidestand lift. They’re still cruisers, however – not razor-sharp sportsbikes – but they’re a helluva lot better than before with enough engagement to impress the herd of Aussie scribes.
The new Softail is a better-looking frame, too, with a more triangulated, uninterrupted backbone from steering head to rear axle while the old Softail’s underslung twin shocks have been replaced with a single one under the seat. The preload-adjustable, coil-over shock preserves the classic hardtail look while the geometry, with three steering-head angles (28, 30 and 34 degrees) depending on the model, has been revamped to “improve ride quality, traction and control”.
Up front, the bikes receive Showa forks with ‘dual-bending valve’ technology from the 2017 Touring models, which is claimed to deliver damping performance similar to a cartridge fork but with better damping characteristics. One bike, the Fat Bob, is distinguished by an upside-down cartridge fork and the steepest steering head angle of the range, at 28 degrees.
The form and function changes also include an oil cooler that’s neatly integrated between the downtubes and engine oiling by a new wet sump system, which eliminates the traditional separate oil tank under the seat. That helps improve the bike’s centre of gravity while making room for the electrics and battery, which are accessed via the removable side panels.
MILWAUKEE SPRAWL
The Softail range is powered by the nowfamiliar air-/oil-cooled Milwaukee-Eight 107 V-twin (107ci/1750cc) that produces 145Nm at 3250rpm – 5Nm down compared with the tourers. The other change to the eight-valve unit is the addition of a second gear-driven balancer to reduce the rocking that can be transmitted to the rider in solidmounted engine applications.
Meanwhile, a new Milwaukee-Eight 114 (114ci/1868cc) unit is available on four models including Fat Bob 114, Fat Boy 114, Breakout 114 and Heritage Classic 114. It’s not to be confused with the 165Nm liquid cooled Milwaukee-Eight 114 unit found in the performance-oriented CVO Touring models. Instead, this 114 unit is air-/oil cooled and delivers 155Nm at 3000rpm, for around 13 per cent faster acceleration than the 107. Pricing for the larger Softail engine varies between $2245 and $3000 depending on the model.
The company’s ninth Big Twin is more adept in snail-pace traffic, with better heat management (as we found out in the traffic of 40-degree LA) and far less jerky thanks to crisp fuelling. The slip-assist clutch is the lightest it’s ever been, too, which is welcome in stop-start situations.
But it’s really in the acceleration where this air/oil-cooled 107ci (1750cc) engine shines. Similar to the Road King Special we tested in the last edition, the Milwaukee-Eight provides a real sense of urgency during quick overtaking manoeuvres at highway speeds or when gunning out of corners. And that’s now without needing to drop down a cog or two for convincing propulsion, unlike the old Twin Cam 103. If you do, it happily responds in the higher revs with a grunty snarl and impressive momentum. Alternatively, you can let it drop in engine speed then give it a handful at 2000rpm. The real-world performance difference between a heavier bike such as the Road King and any of the lighter Softails is considerable.
Yep, the broadness of the new engine’s torque curve is bleedingly obvious, and there are a few reasons for that. Apart from four valves per cylinder (instead of two), the 45-degree V-twin has a higher compression ratio (from 9.7:1 to 10:1), dual-plug heads and a whopping 50 per cent more intake and exhaust flow capacity. It’s noticeably smoother – much smoother – than the 103, too, and it’s accompanied by a proper, rich rumble minus the undesirable intake and mechanical noise of yore. Three exhausts and air intakes across the range help provide distinctive notes, too.
We rode all eight models almost 500 kilometres in two days of stifling heat through the wide and winding canyon roads of California’s Angeles National Forest and the San Bernardino National Forest. Apart from experiencing fantastic roads and breath-taking vistas, it was a pleasure to take in each of the models and their distinct personalities. We sampled the 114 just once, in Heritage Classic 114 guise, and the extra cubes are noticeable, particularly when shooting out of corners. It sounds a bit meaner off the throttle, too.
So what didn’t we like? Niggles mainly.
The USB input would be better served up near the steering head (not a third of the way along the downtube) to use while on the move. The new sidestands, while sturdier, require you to overbalance the bike to clear the ground, and braking power could still do with more bite. Cruise control ought to be standard on most models (not just the Heritage), and it’s about time all lighting is LED, too, not just the headlights.
Here is a model-by-model breakdown and ride impressions.
LOW RIDER (FXLR) $A24,250 (+$755)/$NZ25,495 WET WEIGHT: 300kg (-11kg) TANK CAPACITY: 18.9L (+1.1L) IN SHORT: Fun to ride, but a bit of a visual yawn.
I’M LIVIN’ IN THE ’70s
Our first cab off the rank was subjected to LA traffic and engine heat in 40-degree temperatures en route to fast flowing canyon roads. The Low Rider’s low, pullback ’bars, relaxed riding position and traditional, heavy-chrome styling are probably a bit too vanilla for this youngish rider. Hey, diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks is a good thing because it means there’s something for everyone. If you’re thinking, “Hey, isn’t that a Super Glide from, like, the early ’70s?” Err, yep, you’re pretty much on the money, except this doesn’t have spoked wheels and a secret drug compartment. Okay, I might’ve made that up.
The major difference between Low Riders old and new is the latest iteration doesn’t offer the near-infinite ergonomic adjustability as the outgoing model, which means fixed ’bar risers and seat. That seat is still nice and low, at 665mm, which is perfect for shorter riders. But its perch isn’t the lowest in the Harley range. That mantle goes to the Softail Slim and Sportster-based Superlow, at 648mm. Still, the Low Rider gets cool AMF-inspired graphics, dual analogue gauges with a more modern digital interface, and a modern twist on classically styled cast alloys.
So what’s it like to ride? In three words: easy, classic and inoffensive. It’s among the majority of narrow-frame Softail models to accommodate a conventional-width rear tyre, which means handling and cornering (thanks to its mid-mounted foot controls) is deceptively good – even when you ride it hard.
STREET BOB (FXBB) $A23,495 (+$1000)/$NZ24,495 WET WEIGHT: 297kg (-7kg) TANK CAPACITY: 13.2L (-4.6L) IN SHORT: A Street Bob named desire.
FISTS TO THE WIND, MOFO
When you mess with the muchloved Street Bob, you’re gonna upset the ‘Dyna guys’ because, in the Harley world, this once-Dyna-based bike has always been one hard-riding bad-ass. Now a Softail, it bangs even harder. We were fortunate to let rip on fantastic curves on the Street Bob, and its athleticism, despite a 19-inch front wheel, was up for anything. A few complaints were heard about its cramped riding position, but the only bugbear we found is a firm seat that gives you a numb bum after solid saddle time – something most Street Bob riders aren’t likely to experience.
With a rideaway price of $23,295, the bare-bone bobber is the entry point to the Big Twin family and it distinguishes itself with a ‘less is more’ styling approach. Harley designers have actually stripped the minimalist machine even further by binning its speedo and replacing it with a new digital mini gauge that’s neatly integrated into the handlebar top clamp. Noice. The mini ape hangers have a rough, spray-on black finish now, and no longer a Dyna means no exposed shocks. Try it, Dyna guys, you’ll love it.
SOFTAIL SLIM (FLSL) $A26,250 (+$755)/$NZ27,250 WET WEIGHT: 304kg (-17kg) TANK CAPACITY: 18.9L (same) IN SHORT: Didn’t see that coming.
LOW EXPECTATIONS, MINIMAL DISAPPOINT BE GONE
I must confess to having low expectations with the Slim. My last experience, in Slim S 110 guise, was pretty underwhelming due it abysmal cornering clearance and, err, abysmal cornering clearance. Despite its same-same appearance, however, the Slim, dear friends, is abysmal no more. Instead, it offers vastly more cornering clearance for a bit of wolf in sheep’s clothing, dynamics-wise. How? Narrower, thinner and higher footboards (duh!), plus it’s 17 kilograms lighter than the outgoing model. Its steering is lovely and light relatively speaking, and its roadholding surefooted. Fantastic.
The fact that it’s only available in 107 guise feels irrelevant – you’re rarely left wanting. The Slim is in an elite company on solo Softails, alongside the Deluxe and Street Bob. Plus it has the lowest seat height, at 648mm.
The post WWII bobber styling is very much alive and well, with a tuck-and-roll seat, ‘Hollywood’ handlebars and black laced wheels with chubby balloon tyres. As with a few models, however, there’s a sizeable – if unsightly – gap between the rear guard and tyre. In fairness, though, that gap is exaggerated when the bike is unladen, but fine when it squats with the rider’s weight.
DELUXE (FLDE) $A29,495 (+$500)/$NZ30,995 (-$755) WET WEIGHT: 316kg (-17kg) TANK CAPACITY: 18.9L (same) IN SHORT: Did somebody say Art Deco?
CAN’T GET ENOUGH CHROME?
I shouldn’t like the Deluxe based on what I said about the Low Rider, but this has unashamedly loud, vintage styling. Hydra-Glide anybody? Elvis? Perhaps I was accustomed to the range by the time I threw a leg over the only whitewalled Softail. The Deluxe is a rolling example of not to judge a book by its cover because, despite its chromey, olde-worlde styling, it damn-well hooks along like you wouldn’t expect, straight or curvy road. Now a solo-seated offering, with a mid-way 30-degree steering angle and full LED lighting, the “Art Deco” Deluxe is as adept at comfortably sitting back and posing as it is hustling.
Similar to the Softail Slim, the Deluxe is 17kg lighter than its predecessor and a far more convincing proposition – if chrome’s your jam. The darling of America’s low rider set, the latest Deluxe will soon be wearing long fishtail pipes, a bigger front wheel, a lowered rear and exaggerated apes. Mucho muchacho, esse!
FAT BOB (FXFB) 107: $A27,495 (+$2000)/$NZ28,750 (+$1000) 114: $A30,250/$NZ31,750 WET WEIGHT: 317kg (-14kg) TANK CAPACITY: 18.9L (-5.3L) IN SHORT: Well done, Harley.
LOOK OUT DIAVEL
This is the bike everybody’s been talking about and dead-keen to ride. The Fat Bob has always had subtle hints of zombie apocalypse about it, but now it’s ready for armageddon. Or Mad Max.
Harley designers say the Fat Bob is a modern, radical stretch of the Softail range. We say it represents the biggest departure from its predecessor. No chrome, no twin headlights, no derivative BS, and sportier than it’s ever been. In fact, it’s almost cruel to call it a cruiser. All that’s missing is the optional Gatling guns and a bucket of acid thrown over its matte-finished tank and minimalist Bar and Shield logo. Folks, this is no longer another grey-haired offering. Cue Jesus built my hotrod by Ministry.
Roland Sands says the Fat Bob blew him away for its dynamic ability and we’d have to agree. It’s unique in having the steepest steering head angle at 28 degrees, twin front discs and an inverted cartridge front end, as opposed to the Showa ‘dual-bending valve’ setup, and is the quickest steerer of the bunch. Its chunky 150-section front tyre – fractionally narrower than the Fat Boy’s – steals some quickness but, with a 180-section rear, it carves corners like no Harley cruiser ought to. Backed by wide drag ’bars, sensible mid-mounted ’pegs for good cornering clearance, a 14kg weight loss and a narrow tank between your legs, the Fat Bob is the zombie-slaying athlete of the 2018 Softail range. Drop in the bigger Milwaukee- Eight 114 and some tasteful pipes and you’ve got a Harley-Davidson cruiser that’s sure to woo many non-believers.
FAT BOY (FLFB, FLFBS) 107: $A30,995 (+$1745)/$NZ32,495 (+$745) 114: $A33,995/$NZ35,750 WET WEIGHT: 317kg (-16kg) TANK CAPACITY: 18.9L (no change) IN SHORT: Now that’s how you make an entrance.
THE CHUBBY FELLA’S GOT A CRUSH ON YOU
Even my mother-in-law knows what a Fat Boy is – and it’s got nothing to do with her cooking and her obliging son-in-law.
Many manufacturers would kill for a brand identity as strong as the Fat Boy’s, and it’s no secret that it’s one of Harley’s most successful and enduring models. To say it’s one of the most copied motorcycles of all time wouldn’t be an exaggeration.
Designed by Willie G. and Louie Netz in the late 1980s, distinguished by its unique solid-disc wheels, sold since the early 1990s and immortalised by Arnie in Terminator II, the Fat Boy allegedly takes its name from the ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy’ atomic bombs that were detonated on Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the US during WWII.
When it came to designing an all-new model, Harley wasn’t going to risk messing with its icon. Instead, the design team has reimagined and remastered an original. In the metal, the Fat Boy is more solid and imposing than ever, yet classical and carefully futuristic, which supports Harley’s statement that it’s gone from a relaxed classic to an all-purpose power cruiser.
The solid-disc ‘Lakester’ wheels have been reinterpreted with streamliner influences and are kind of similar in design to those on Ford’s AU Fairlane Ghia from 1999. Kind of. The Fat Boy looks like a concept bike from the early 1990s that looked a tad too futuristic, just the way Willie and Louie originally intended. Fantastic.
As far as the ride experience goes, the Fat Boy is the least dynamic of the range due to its unashamedly fat rubber, front and rear. How fat? A 240-section at the rear and a 160 up front – that’s fatter than the rear of its 150-section siblings. Harley calls it a “menacing steamroller stance”, which is exactly how it takes corners. Then again, nobody poo-poo’d Batman’s conceptually similar ‘Batpod’ in The Dark Knight...
BREAKOUT (FXBR, FXBRS) 107: $A31,250 (+$1500)/$NZ32,750 114: $A33,995/$NZ35,750 WET WEIGHT: 305kg (-15kg) TANK CAPACITY: 13.2L (-5.7L) IN SHORT: The cash cow is in the moo’d.
The Breakout has been a perennial favourite in Australia and New Zealand since its 2013 release. Even the top-selling Street 500 learner bike can’t consistently outrun it in the sales race. Perhaps the Breakout perfectly depicts what a Harley-Davidson represents for so many buyers Down Under: it’s a long, lean and raked-out drag bike with a big, fat rear. “To hell with cornering, it looks tough!”
The Breakout is one of four new Softail models available with the Milwaukee-Eight 114, and how many buyers aren’t going to opt for it? None. Harley is laughing all the way to the bank with this bike, and nobody will give a fat rat’s that its tank capacity has unapologetically shrunk to 13.2L (down from 18.9L) in the name of aesthetics or that the bike is 15kg lighter. They’re sold at 240-section.
I happened to be aboard the Breakout through what I’m certain was the twistiest road in California. The result? Crrrrrrkkkkk! “F*ck!” Crrrrrrkkkkk! “F*ck!” That’s the shrieking sound of scraping metal and me cursing. That 34-degree front end and 21-inch front wheel slows steering, too, so lots of hanging off the bike is needed to convince it to get around a corner if you’re upping it for the rent. But once you work out how to ride around its dynamic compromises, the Breakout can be hustled along surprisingly well.
HERITAGE CLASSIC (FLHC, FLHCS) 107: $A31,750 (+$1500)/$NZ33,250 (-$245) 114: $A33,995/$NZ36,495 WET WEIGHT: 330kg (-17kg) TANK CAPACITY: 18.9L (same) IN SHORT: Sure you still want the Road King?
AMBITION IS A DREAM WITH A V8 ENGINE
The Heritage isn’t meant to be a inspired by the military WLA, but it isn’t hard to imagine a coat of matte green paint, US Army star logo adorning the tank and tan-leather rifle bag down the fork. Instead, Harley’s internal project name for the Heritage Classic was “Young Elvis”, as in the svelte, black leather Elvis from the 1960s, not the white-sequin-wearing, fried chicken and pill devouring Elvis from the ’70s. By that the designers mean a more youthful look to a classic.
“It was ripe for a refreshed, more youthful look”, Harley-Davidson Softail styling manager Kirk Rasmussen says.
The bike features a lot more attitude and a lot more blacked-out finishes than before, punctuated by its detachable, two-tone windshield, which works a treat on the open road. In fact, the Heritage proved to be a very competent tourer, or Road King rival, also helped by the cruise control (the only Softail to get it) and leather panniers as standard. It was also our only taste of the bigger Milwaukee-Eight 114 engine, which has a noticeably superior low- and midrange response to assert its authority out of corners, and a raspier rumble off the throttle.
Compared with the 107-powered Road King, the Heritage Classic is almost 50kg lighter, has a slightly longer wheelbase, but a 3.8-litre smaller tank. And it’s $3000 cheaper.
Protect your Harley-Davidson. Call Shannons Insurance on 13 46 46 to get a quote today.
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Annalise Keating's Struggle With Sobriety Humanizes Women Who Battle Alcoholism
For writer Shayla Martin, Annalise's fight to stay sober on "How to Get Away With Murder" is not only relatable, but it's also necessary to see.
By Shayla Martin
Eric McCandless
I slowly open my eyes and feel a searing pain in my head. The room gradually comes into focus, and I wonder: What the hell am I doing in the hospital? I do an internal body check, but nothing seems to cause me any pain, except my head and face. Was I attacked or did I fall? I frantically ask a nurse what happened and he glares at me, obviously annoyed.
“You don’t remember anything?”
I start to hyperventilate. “No, can you please tell me what happened?”
“We don’t know. The ambulance found you on the sidewalk last night. You were alone.”
The last thing I remember is going to happy hour with a friend the evening before. There were frozen drinks and shots — I was celebrating a new job. Then everything went black.
As a loyal viewer of the show, I've been able to relate to Annalise’s journey through the highs and lows of alcoholism, while also seeing my own story reflected on the screen.
For fans of How to Get Away with Murder, this scene may sound familiar. In the premiere episode of the final season, Annalise Keating wakes up in the hospital with a head injury after a night of binge drinking and yet another relapse. Bonnie, ever the soldier, assures Annalise that she will handle everything and cover this incident up as best she can, but Annalise cuts her off and says what many are unable to put into words: “I need help.”
As a loyal viewer of the show, I've been able to relate to Annalise’s journey through the highs and lows of alcoholism, while also seeing my own story reflected on the screen. Like me, Annalise is a highly functional black woman who looks like she has everything together — for Annalise that means two prestigious jobs, a fire wardrobe, and the respect (and sometimes fear) of her colleagues. We are two women who could not process our traumas and pressures and instead turned to alcohol for an escape. Still, Annalise and I were what I'd call “good on paper drunks,” and this experience is not as uncommon for black women as we may think.
'HTGAWM' Helped Viola Davis Redefine Her Career
According to a 2017 study published in JAMA Psychiatry, nearly one in eight Americans struggle with alcohol abuse. And it's hitting women, African Americans, and people over the age of 65 particularly hard.
Research suggests alcohol disorders have doubled (106.7 percent) in adults over 65, while the numbers have increased by over 90 percent for Black Americans and 84 percent for women. Couple these increases with the enduring stigma against asking for help, and many people — especially black women — are struggling, making it harder for them to recover and rebuild their lives.
“From a historical standpoint, there’s this thought that black women can’t show signs of weakness to people outside the home,” says Melonie Pinder, a licensed mental health counselor and owner of Pinder Counseling. “We must always hold our head up, uphold our career and not be too mean or angry. There’s also what I call the Superwoman Syndrome: the feeling that we have to be everything, do everything and always go the extra step to get the same amount of respect as our white counterparts. Those external and internal pressures can lead Black women to substance abuse, especially alcohol because it’s a socially acceptable addiction in our modern culture.”
As much as I wish I could say my alcoholism materialized from nowhere, nearly seven years into recovery, I know that’s not true.
But as is the case with many women, I thought asking for help meant I was weak. My favorite phrase when I was in active alcoholism was, “I’m fine,” only to prove to everyone around me that I was, in fact, not fine the second I started drinking. That daily half bottle of wine after work to ease my anxiety, or weekend turn up with friends to drown my depression quickly went from relaxing and fun to isolating and dangerous.
I never once thought that my drinking was a problem until I was hospitalized for it. Even Annalise had to nearly lose her job and attend court-ordered meetings before she began to take her sobriety seriously and open up about the trauma she experienced, both in childhood and as an adult. Within the Keating family, there is an unspoken rule that issues like infidelity, sexual abuse and the loss of a child are things you simply don’t talk about — and sadly, sucking up your problems and suffering in silence is what many black folks are taught to do.
“The stigma surrounding mental illness in the black community is still there. If I go seek help then there's an admission I have a problem. Additionally, Black women aren’t offered the same grace when it comes to seeking help for their addictions,” says Pinder. “It’s a societal challenge that has to change.”
Another barrier to recovery for black women is that if we do seek help, actually finding it can be hard. Because the mental health industry is still overwhelmingly white it can feel incredibly intimidating to share your deepest and darkest fears with someone who may not understand what it feels like to walk in your shoes. Again, How to Get Away with Murder nailed this reality perfectly. Once Annalise decided to seek help at an inpatient treatment facility after an especially bad night of drinking, she's seemingly the only black woman in the facility and is initially hesitant to open up. It's not until her roommate — who's also trying to get clean — tells her, "I see you and I love you," that she feels comfortable enough to share some of her truths.
I will forever be grateful to Annalise Keating and the writers of How to Get Away with Murder for accurately portraying how tragic and beautiful a life touched by addiction and recovery can be.
Annalise was able to begin getting help for her alcoholism, and thankfully, black women seeking sobriety and recovery from mental health issues have more treatment options as well. Popular podcast and support group Therapy for Black Girls offers a directory of mental health professionals specifically serving black women and girls, and last year, actress Taraji P. Henson founded the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation to change the perception of mental illness in the black community. The foundation’s website also offers a directory of mental health providers and programs that offer culturally responsive therapy.
As the hit ABC show comes to an end, I will forever be grateful to Annalise Keating and the writers of How to Get Away with Murder for accurately portraying how tragic and beautiful a life touched by addiction and recovery can be, especially for a black woman.
As Viola Davis told Shondaland earlier this year, black women aren't often given the space to "embrace our mess," especially on screen. But HTGAWM did just that.
The series chronicled the temptations, relapses, and triumphs of addiction. And while black women aren't often allowed to be complex, nuanced, and even messy characters, Annalise was never demonized — no matter how many outlandish things she did.
Her ability to recognize and acknowledge her self-destructive behavior and attempt to turn things around by facing her demons and putting her self-care first showed women that it’s possible for us to do the same.
Shayla Martin is a Washington, D.C. based writer with bylines in New York Magazine, Delta Sky, CNN Travel, and The Daily Beast. Follow her on Twitter at @Shayla_Martin_
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Finger-lickin' bad: $73,000 fine for filth
By Kelly Burke Consumer Affairs Reporter
March 13, 2009 — 12.00am
KFC outlets in Miranda and West Hurstville have been prosecuted by food authorities for filthy premises and pest infestation, after a 10-month investigation.
Collectively, the two franchises owned by QSR, which lists the prominent Victorian businessman Peter Copulos and his son Stephen as its two directors, were convicted of 11 offences, attracting a fine of more than $73,000.
QSR, which has also been ordered to pay $14,000 in court and legal costs, operates more than 50 food businesses.
The fine is a record in the restaurant category, the Primary Industries Minister, Ian Macdonald, said yesterday, although the amount does not come close to the $132,000 fine imposed on the Obo Fresh Chicken chain of poultry suppliers in June last year for offences dating back to 2005.
Mr Macdonald said the fine on the KFC franchises had been imposed by the court after the operators repeatedly ignored warnings to rectify poor hygiene practices in food handling and storage, and evidence of pests.
In June 2007, the NSW Food Authority had ordered the Miranda KFC store on The Kingsway to close, after the operators ignored a formal improvement notice.
A spokeswoman for KFC said the giant fast food chain was taking the conviction very seriously, and that QSR had taken full responsibility for the "temporary breakdown in meeting the rigorous food safety and hygiene standards that all KFC stores must comply with".
QSR has replaced its management teams at both outlets and was embarking on a full retraining of all store staff, the spokeswoman said.
The conviction marks the first time a fast food chain has been prosecuted under food safety laws, although KFC outlets in Lakemba and Riverwood have both had two penalty notices recorded on the authority's "name and shame" register.
The chain's rival chicken retailer, Red Rooster, has had five penalty notices against three outlets, in Smithfield, Jamisontown and Belmont North. In comparison, Domino's Pizza has had 14 penalty notices against six of its outlets, Hungry Jack's has had six notices against three outlets and McDonald's five notices against four outlets.
Since the beginning of last year 11 food outlets have been prosecuted for breaching food safety laws, most for unclean premises or illegal food handling and storage. Sadik Brothers Butchery in Lakemba has been prosecuted twice for adding sulphur dioxide to mince products.
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USA-Canada: Men's Concacaf Nations League Player Ratings
by Paul Kennedy @pkedit, Nov 15, 2019
USA-CANADA EXPRESS:
Nov. 15 in Orlando, Fla.
USA 4 Canada 1. Goals: Morris 2, Zardes 23, 89, Long 34; Vitoria 72.
Att.: 13,103.
The USA put itself in a position to win its group and advance to the semifinals in the Concacaf Nations League thanks to a 4-1 win over Canada in Orlando.
After the 2-0 loss to Canada in Toronto, one of the USA's worst performances in a competitive Concacaf match, the USA needed to respond and it did with three goals in the first 34 minutes. But the USA was again sloppy for much of the match and benefited from a Canadian showing in Orlando that was even worse than the U.S. performance a month earlier on the road.
The USA will win Group A if it beats Cuba on Tuesday in the Cayman Islands. The loss might have dropped Canada out of the Concacaf top six in the FIFA rankings. The top six teams in the June 2020 rankings will advance to the Hexagonal, Concacaf's main competition for 2022 World Cup qualifying.
USA PLAYER RATINGS
(1=low; 5=middle; 10=high.)
Brad Guzan did not have a lot to do as the USA built a 3-0 cushion, but he had to dive to stop Alphonso Davies' shot in the 84th minute after the Bayern teenager weaved through the U.S. defense with a chance to reduce the U.S. lead to 3-2.
Player (Club) caps/goals (age)
6 Brad Guzan (Atlanta United) 63/0 (35)
In his debut in a competitive match that officially tied him permanently to the USA, Sergino Dest demonstrated why he attracted so much interest from the USA and his native Netherlands. He was involved in the first two U.S. goals, playing on Sebastian Lletget's corner kick that was deflected to Jordan Morris in the 2nd minute, and playing a simple header to Paul Arriola that started the counterattack that led to the second goal in the 23rd minute. Dest consistently attacked and was the best U.S. player at finding his teammates. John Brooks lived dangerously with two early fouls and a no-call for which the Canadians wanted a penalty kick in the 22nd minute, but he also cleaned up a lot of balls played into the U.S. area and started the third goal by playing out of pressure in the back, no small feat on a backline that has struggled with the ball. Tim Ream fed Aaron Long for the third U.S. goal in the 34th minute when his out-swinging free kick was easily headed into the goal, but he was later beaten by Steven Vitoria at the far post on the Canada goal in the 72nd minute.
7 Sergino Dest (Ajax/NED) 3/0 (19)
7 John Brooks (Wolfsburg/GER) 38/3 (26)
6 Aaron Long (NY Red Bulls) 15/3 (27)
5 Tim Ream (Fulham/ENG) 39/1 (32)
Sebastian Lletget's corner kick set up the first goal, and he was fouled on the play that led to the third goal. He created the most problems for Canada other than Dest, pupping up at different positions in midfield. Jackson Yueill and Weston McKennie struggled to dictate the rhythm of the game, especially after the USA opened up a three-goal lead in the first half, but the three midfielders did a good job of limiting Canada's opportunities.
5 Jackson Yueill (San Jose Earthquakes) 5/0 (22)
5 Weston McKennie (Schalke 04/GER) 18/6 (21)
7 Sebastian Lletget (LA Galaxy) 13/2 (27)
Five days after winning MLS Cup in Seattle, Jordan Morris had a big game against Canada, scoring the first goal, setting up Gyasi Zardes for the second goal and winning the ball in midfield that started the counterattack on the play that ended with Long's headed goal. Zardes got open to put away Morris' cross for the second goal and added a second goal of his own in the 89th minute with a driven shot on target. Paul Arriola's lofted ball over the Canadian backline found Morris, who was wide open to feed Zardes.
7 Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders) 38/8 (25)
7 Gyasi Zardes (Columbus Crew) 55/12 (28)
6 Paul Arriola (D.C. United) 31/5 (24)
Alfredo Morales came on for Lletget but couldn't put his stamp on the game. Tyler Boyd and DeAndre Yedlin, who fed Zardes for his second goal, were late subs.
4 Alfredo Morales (Fortuna Duesseldorf/GER) 15/0 (29)
NR Tyler Boyd (Besiktas/TUR) 9/2 (24)
NR DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United/ENG) 61/0 (26)
TRIVIA. The USA hasn't lost to Canada at home in 62 years. In all, its record against Canada at home is 12-1-9 in a series that began in 1925.
USA -- Guzan; Dest (Boyd 90), Long, Brooks, Ream; Yueill, McKennie, Lletget (Morales 69); Arriola, Zardes, Morris (Yedlin 86).
Canada -- Borjan; Laryea, Vitoria, Henry (Cornelius 49), Davies; Kaye (Eustaquio 63), Piette; Arfield, Osorio, David, Cavallini (Hoillet 62).
Yellow cards: USA -- none; Canada -- Cavallini 8, Borjan 45, Hoillet 67. Red cards: none.
Referee: Cesar Ramos (Mexico).
Shots: 12/11
Shots on Goal: 5/3
Saves: 2/1
Corner Kicks: 3/6
Fouls: 20/11
Offside: 2/0
Possession: 36%/64%
15 comments about "USA-Canada: Men's Concacaf Nations League Player Ratings".
Bob Ashpole, November 16, 2019 at 12:07 a.m.
Morris dominated the first half on both sides of the ball. This was the best I have seen him play.
He and Lletget were impressive on the left flank.
Kent James replied, November 16, 2019 at 1:11 a.m.
Jordan's use of the outside of his right foot on the cross finished by Zardes (who had two very nice goals) was brilliant. Usually I get annoyed with players who use the outside of their foot to cross the ball because it's often (not always, but often) a way to avoid using their weaker foot (which I think is a surprising weakness at the professional level), but sometimes there is a good reason to use it, with Morris's cross being the perfect example. The defender was ready to block the left-footed cross but by striking it with the outside of his right, the defender was not ready (I'm sure he expected his right foot to be his plant foot).
Seth Vieux replied, November 16, 2019 at 7:17 a.m.
Kent late in the game Morris absolutely scuffed a very simple left footed cross that almost surely wild have scored another. While I agree his assist was nice, contrasting these two plays tells a not great story about his technical ability.
John Munnell replied, November 16, 2019 at 7:29 a.m.
Seth ---- I took that to be fatigue, so I give Morris a break on that one. He did a ton of work in the MLS championship and was just as energetic in the first half of this match. I think his play has improved a lot in the last year, but it is the end of a long season for the MLS guys.
Just watched this again and the cross that Zardes headed in was with the left foot, a close range clip/chip backwards as the keeper made the ill-advised break off his line. Definitely no outside of the right boot there.
John I also give some leeway for fatigue on the scuffed left footer at the end, expected Beehalter to have a sub on for him immediately after.
frank schoon replied, November 16, 2019 at 1:31 p.m.
Kent , you're right about so few players able to use their left or weak foot, which can be worked on but it is not done. This is one thing if a youth once leaves the DA program he should be able to do what was able to do at 14. Cruyff stated by the age of 14 he was able to pass and kick and dribble 6 different ways: outside of either foot as well inside and instep. He stated that today's pros are unable to come even close to what he can do as a youth...Cruyff always employed over 90% of the time his outside of his foot to pass the ball. He stated that it is much faster. Notice how hard and FAST Lleget hit that ball...it was unexpected for if he employed his left foot , he would have needed an extra step; and this is why Cruyff uses the outside of dribble foot to pass with the outside of the foot for it throws off the defender's timing as well...
Kent James replied, November 16, 2019 at 2:39 p.m.
Seth, you're right. Morris's outside of the foot cross was not on Zardes goal. It was a different play (one where a field player was covering him, and looked to have him covered). But it does exist! (I don't think I imagined it...).
Seth Vieux replied, November 16, 2019 at 4:03 p.m.
Kent I know you didn't imagine it! That's why I replied and compared it to his woeful left foot try at the end of the game. Happy for Morris that he's playing well for club and country lately, but just like when he 'burst' on the scene years ago I still see him as a pretty limited player. Think he deserves a starting spot at RW, just hope Weah or someone younger with a far better level of play one day (sooner than later) forces him into a solid sub on the USMNT.
Philip Carragher replied, November 16, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.
Using the outside of the foot is also useful for fast-break dribbling. The player can keep his/her body moving forward at a higher pace since the player's hips don't need to open up while dribbling. If the player instead uses the inside of the foot the hip needs to open and energy that can be devoted to moving forward goes flying off to the side. Loss of speed. And in some instances, loss of control as well because, by using the outside of the foot (or laces), the player is able to employ a touch of backspin that can help keep the ball closer if needed.
Santiago 1314 replied, November 17, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.
Morris is way out of Position...Berhalter needs to look at video of Karl Heinz Rumminnege... Another Only RIGHT Footed Player... Not a Flank Player... A Poacher Finisher... Go back and watch 86 WC Final in Azteca.
John Munnell, November 16, 2019 at 7:33 a.m.
Paul, I think you are very generous with McKennie. That may be the worst I've ever seen him play anywhere. He didn't seem nearly as effective defensively as usual, gave the ball away time after time, and had no presence going forward.
E Velazquez, November 16, 2019 at 7:49 a.m.
POOR SOCCER from our team in the second half. Some players appeared to be phjysically tired. The coach made changes TOO late. Mr GB has shown thus far to be the coach we need to replace but, appears to be protected by somebody, may be by Mr. E. Steward ?.
Try his Brother. Jay. Chief Operating Officer for USSF... Leading candidate to be Replace outgoing CEO Dan Flynn.
Kevin Leahy, November 16, 2019 at 8:41 a.m.
When Canada has possession for almost 2/3 of the match it, isn't as good as the score line looks. The US put away most of their chances but, the signals are still not good. Not a fan of 3 midfielders or zonal defending on corners. Zonal defending on corners takes away the responsibility. This team needs Tyler Adams healthy not, too mention Pulisic!
Santiago 1314, November 17, 2019 at 4:31 p.m.
Oh, and shall I Repeat... when Arriola plays, USA is Much Better.... And, HoHumm, it's Canada,,, this is what we Expect.!!!
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B.C. First Nation ordered to pay $30,000 for ex-chief’s ‘vulgar’ remark
Former Nee Tahi Buhn councillor had filed complaint
Rod Link
The Nee Tahi Buhn First Nation in the Burns Lake area must pay a former band councillor $30,000 after its one-time long-standing chief councillor described her as a “white bastard” in several emails.
The award to Hayley Nielsen was ordered by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal following a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission regarding the conduct of Raymond Morris.
After two days of hearings in November, the tribunal found that Nielsen, whose mother is a member of the First Nation and whose father is Caucasian, was discriminated against because of her racial origin.
Morris used the term “white bastard” in two 2016 emails, with one stating “I resign f—-en white bastards run it.”
Nielsen was elected in 2014, the same time Morris was re-elected as chief. He was defeated in 2018.
Her position of not practising a religion appears to have been the start of a deteriorating relationship with Morris, said a tribunal ruling recently posted online.
At a band assembly in 2016, Morris “loudly proclaimed that since Ms. Nielsen does not practise religion, she should not serve as councillor,” the ruling said.
Nielsen remained in her post, but resigned in 2017 citing a developing toxic environment.
Another councillor, Charity Morris, also resigned because of Morris’ harassment, according to the document, as did Nielsen’s son, deputy chief Cody Reid.
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A representative from The Nee Tahi Buhn First Nation attended some of the hearings, but the nation did not enter any evidence nor offer a defence.
“Ms. Nielsen felt directly targeted by these vulgar words, which refer directly to her Caucasian origins,” the tribunal wrote in a decision recently posted online.
“Similarly, Mr. Raymond Morris’s vulgar comments, specifically the terms ‘white bastard,’ are outrageous.”
The $30,000 award was divided into two parts — $5,000 for pain and suffering and $25,000 in lost wages from the time of her resignation in 2017 to the election date the following year. She was also awarded interest of $500.
Nielsen had also asked for a letter of apology to be published on the First Nation’s Facebook page and in the Lakes District News, but the tribunal ruled that was not within its authority to order.
It did, however, order the nation to develop human rights and anti-harassment policies in consultation with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and hire an expert to train employees and councillors.
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Fire crews had to spend time cleaning up the road following the crash on Wednesday night, after one of the vehicles involved radiator discharged all over the road. (Michelle Cabana/News Staff)
Cyclist will ride again despite being hit in crash near Sooke and Kelly roads
The crash involved two vehicles and caused traffic delays during Wednesday evening commute
Kendra Crighton
Christian Elsing woke “very sore” Thursday, after being struck by a vehicle in a collision on Sooke Road on Wednesday evening.
“I don’t really know what happened,” says Elsing, as he was hit from behind. “All I heard was a lot of crunching and crashing and then something crashed into me. According to the police I was collateral damage.”
While the details of the crash are still unclear, Elsing believes a car was hit from behind by another vehicle which then somehow hit him from behind on the left. Luckily, he was left with soft tissue damage, but everything is “hurting like heck.”
“I don’t know what car actually struck me, but I was on the ground and the next thing I knew was the ambulance was there.”
No official information has been released on the condition of the two drivers, but Esling believes one of the drivers was in severe condition, at least by the looks of it.
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A silver lining of the crash is the number of people who stopped to help. Esling says he couldn’t believe how many people were there, ready to call 911, give first aid and even to take his bike home, which was dropped off for him earlier on Thursday.
Esling uses Sooke Road to get to and from work and doesn’t think bike lanes would have helped in this case.
“I was riding as far to the right as humanly possible. I ride that road every day and I know where to ride to not be in traffic,” he says. “This has something to do with the cars getting tossed around.”
Colwood Fire Rescue chief John Cassidy says that he’s not sure what happened either, adding that fire crew’s main concern in that crash was the safety of the drivers and the cyclist along with redirecting traffic, which was down to one lane for about two hours.
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Cassidy says there was also major clean up that had to happen after the crash due to one of the car’s radiators “totally discharg[ing]” all over the road.
While Cassidy says the drivers who were stuck in traffic due to the crash were “cool and calm,” he would like to remind everyone to slow down when they see traffic controllers.
“We’re there to provide emergency services to help and make sure no one gets hurt,” says Cassidy. “I don’t want any of my people getting tagged because [driver] are getting frustrated.”
During the crash, two other emergency vehicles needed to get through which caused even more of a headache, but Cassidy appreciates the help of the general public in this case.
As for Esling, this crash isn’t going to stop him from cycling to and from work. All he wants now is some money back from ICBC to purchase a new bike, which was “completely destroyed” in the crash.
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Employement Law
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The First Copyright Legislation Originated in England
By David A Coleman on November 29, 2012 0
The author did not become a formal legal subject until a passing of a statute which is known as the first and literary property law, the Statute of Anne of 1710. However, prior to the act of a number of practical methods of securing exclusive publication rights are developed. These premodern rights were primarily exclusive rights claimed by printers, publishers and booksellers.
Crown patterns were granted in a range of subject matter including books from the 15th century, but it was not until the 17th century to the conditions of these grants came under review, with the complaint that they were unfair monopolies and restraint on liberty and free trade. Despite the review process, throughout the 17th and 18th century patterns and literary works from a lucrative. Rights are granted in essential titles such as Bibles, prayer books and alphabet books, and valuable interests were divided up and often traded as shares. The time, these patent rights were relatively secure forms of guaranteed future income and interest was assumed to be perpetual.
It also rights granted to the members of the stationers Company in London. Originally printing presses were licensed by the Crown to restrain the circulation of politically dangerous ideas. The station is company was established by Royal Charter in 1557. In exchange for exclusive right to print books in England, the station as company provided the crown with assistance in censoring difficult works. As part of this process, the printers registered their sole right to a copy of the manuscript in an official register referred to as the copyright or station is copyright. Once the political climate around since she changed in the late 17th century and laws requiring licensing of presses lapsed, the stationers monopolies remained useful and valued economic tool for regulation of the English book trade. A small group of London printers could control book supply distribution prices free England as a market for its continued to expand and the book trade in town and the provinces grew.
Private contracts between printers and publishers are less commonly between publishers and authors recognising exclusive rights are also utilise. These contracts could be enforced in Chancery with records to equity and conscience as well is in the common-law courts in accordance with broader notions of natural justice at the time enforcement did not necessitate legal enquiry into the precise legal original status of the exclusive right literary property claim by the plaintiff. Despite ongoing concerted efforts to stamp out piracy as printing industry and book trade expanded and transportation across England improved works came to be distributed from further afield. The remainder large legitimate and although hard to ascertain, clearly significant unlicensed books trade. This led to education to reform and arguably the modern impetus for what we now know as copyright law.
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Rosemary Kennedy: Inspiration and Revelation
In 2018, we are honoring the 100th anniversary of Rosemary Kennedy’s birth. Born with intellectual disabilities, Rosemary was an inspiration to her sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who spent her life fighting for justice and inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities.
Togetherness: From left, young Eunice, John, Joe, Rosemary and Kathleen Kennedy.
PLAYING UNIFIED
When Eunice Kennedy Shriver was growing up, her sister Rosemary didn’t seem any different from her other siblings. Rosemary loved to play and swim and sail, enjoying and excelling at all the outdoor sports Eunice also loved.
But, in the outside world, Rosemary’s diagnosis was met with prejudice and stigma. When Rosemary’s parents tried to find the right school for her, they found closed hearts and closed doors. People saw no future for someone with intellectual disabilities; “experts” advised that attempts at education would be a waste of time—and bring only disappointment.
Eunice witnessed her mother’s struggles and heartbreak on behalf of Rosemary. This would fuel Eunice’s crusade for acceptance and inclusion of people with ID.
With Rosemary as her inspiration, Eunice later created Camp Shriver—an “experimental” backyard day camp where young people with intellectual disabilities could explore their strengths and talents. Eunice also invited local volunteers without intellectual disabilities, knowing how sports can unite people of all abilities.
This was the first step toward creating an inclusive world through sports. Whose inspired this? Rosemary.
Eunice and Rosemary, right, were close companions all through childhood—and even traveled together on their first tour of Europe.
ROSEMARY’S CENTENNIAL YEAR
In 2018, Special Olympics is honoring the 100th anniversary of Rosemary's birth, Sept. 13, 1918. The third child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, Rosemary was raised and included among her family, even at a time when children with intellectual disabilities were routinely institutionalized.
"Rosemary was born September 13 at home—a normal delivery. She was a beautiful child, resembling my mother in physical appearance,” recalled Eunice in a ground-breaking article for the Saturday Evening Post. “But Rosemary was different. She was slower to crawl, slower to walk and speak..."
Rosemary’s nephew, Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver, says his aunt taught their family an important lesson—a lesson that seems simple today, but was shocking during a time when people who were “different” like Rosemary were dismissed as “unworthy.” The lesson was that “people with intellectual disabilities are human beings, deserving of love, opportunity, and acceptance just as as they are.”
Rosemary’s life was also both an inspiration and revelation. If the well-connected Kennedy family couldn’t find a welcoming place for Rosemary, what about families with fewer resources? When Eunice later learned of other families struggling just to find their “special needs” children a place to play, she had to take action—and Camp Shriver was born.
The first 1962 Camp Shriver "experiment" was a huge success—and inspired similar day camps around the country. This led to more Camp Shrivers the next year—and every year through the late 1960s. Then came the founding of Special Olympics in 1968.
“For my mother, this was activism wrapped up with sports, faith, and social justice—her way of attacking the pain and rejection that had marred Rosemary’s life and hers,” writes Tim Shriver in his book, "Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most." "She was a camp director on a mission, and somewhere within her was Rosemary—a sister calling out for a chance."
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SPIN to Webcast Smashing Pumpkins, Flaming Lips & More
Shows from the National, Black Keys, Spiritualized also part of nightly, high-quality 25th-anniversary broadcast July 26-30.
Peter Gaston // July 20, 2010
It’s SPIN’s 25th anniversary year, and to celebrate, we’re throwing a week-long party in New York City, with five consecutive nights of shows, presented by ZYNC from American Express and headlined by the Smashing Pumpkins, the Flaming Lips, the Black Keys, the National, and Spiritualized. But you don’t have to be in NYC to see these amazing gigs — each night will be webcast, live, right here on SPIN.com!
Visit SPIN.com each night, from Monday, July 26, through Friday, July 30, at 8 P.M. EST for a live broadcast of the concert, shot in high-quality video from nine different camera angles! See below for the full schedule.
Click here for the live stream page.
The concerts, produced by the Bowery Presents, will also be streamed live on the ZYNC Facebook page. Fans will be able to interact during the live stream through Facebook and Twitter.
“This concert series is the best of both the old and the new world,” says Malcolm Campbell, SPIN’s Publisher. “Not only are we helping to produce incredible live music, the cornerstone of SPIN since its inception, but we’re able to broadcast it to fans all over the world with our partners at American Express on the web.”
SPIN25 Webcast Schedule.
All shows begin around 8 P.M. EST (except Wednesday, which begins at !0 PM EST) and are powered by Livestream.com:
Monday, July 26:
with special guests Kill Hannah and the Jim Jones Revue
Tuesday, July 27:
with special guests Fang Island
Wednesday, July 28:
with special guests the Whigs and Lee Fields & the Expressions
Thursday, July 28:
with special guests Kurt Vile and Suckers
Friday, July 30:
performing their classic album, Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space
Peter Gaston
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ŠUMARSKI LIST 7-8/2010 str. 68 <-- 68 --> PDF
A. Mešić, T. Gotlin Čuljak, T. Miličević: DINAMIKAPOPULACIJE INVAZIVNE VRSTE ... Šumarski list br. 7–8, CXXXIV (2010), 387-394
SUMMARY: The paper deals with the biology of horse chestnut lefminer in
central Croatia in three different towns within a circle of 150 km – Sisak, Zagreb
and Čakovec. The data were collected by using pheromone traps and visual
examinations of horse chestnut leves during the period of 2001–2008.
Opposite to earlier assumptions, the horse chestnut leaf miner moth develops
four and more seldom three generations annually in central Croatia. This is
clearly presented in graphs 1–3, that show the horse chestnut male moth’s
flight dynamics. The first generation moth’s flight starts in the last decade of
April and lasts until the end of May; the second generation’s moths fly during
June and the first two decades of July. Third generation of moths appear from
the end of July until the end of August, and fourth generation from the middle
to the end of September. During the eight years research, the fourth generation
wasn’t recorded only in one year in two of three towns. Average duration of
each developing period of horse chestnut leaf miner in Zagreb is presented in
table 2. The second generation of horse chesnut monts is more numerous thent
the first and the third one, while the fourth generation is even smaller. It was
observed that the first generation’s females lay their eggs mainly on the upper
sides of leaves of the lower third of the horse chestnut tree crown. Females of
the second, third and fourth generation laid eggs on higher parts of the crowns,
although their eggs can also be found on lower levels of the foliage.
Key words:horse chestnut, flight dynamics, duration of development
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Q&A: Vaping and e-cigarettes
U.S. health officials are investigating what might be causing hundreds of serious breathing illnesses in people who use e-cigarettes and other vaping devices. Read more
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U.S. health officials are investigating what might be causing hundreds of serious breathing illnesses in people who use e-cigarettes and other vaping devices. They have identified about 450 possible cases in 33 states, including six deaths. A look at what we know so far about the outbreak as the investigation continues:
Patients are coming into hospitals with cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue and vomiting.
How serious are these illnesses?
Many of the reports involve severe, life-threatening illnesses in previously healthy people. Many patients received oxygen. Some needed to be put on breathing machines before they recovered. Antibiotics didn’t work, and it’s not clear yet whether steroid drugs helped.
What vaping products are involved?
No single device, ingredient or additive has been identified. Most of the patients say they vaped products containing THC, the high-producing ingredient in marijuana. Others say they vaped only nicotine, and others say they vaped both THC and nicotine.
Is there a common thread?
Doctors think this isn’t caused by a germ. Instead, they suspect chemical exposure. And vape juice contains many possible culprits.
After testing products, New York has focused its investigation on vitamin E acetate, which recently has been used as a thickener, particularly in black-market vape cartridges. Suppliers say it dilutes vape oils without making them look watery. Vitamin E is safe as a vitamin pill or to use on the skin, but inhaling oily vitamin E droplets into the lungs can trigger pneumonia.
Immune cells containing oily droplets have been found in the lungs of some patients. These large cells, called macrophages, are the cleanup crew of the immune system. University of Utah doctors think this could be a marker for vaping injury. They wrote up their findings about six patients in the New England Journal of Medicine.
What else is in vape liquids?
Most e-cigarettes contain colorless, flavorless chemicals such as propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin, which create an inhalable vapor when heated. The chemicals are considered safe as food additives, but their long-term effects when inhaled have not been studied.
Researchers have found cancer-causing chemicals in e-cigarette vapor, such as formaldehyde. However, it’s not yet clear whether those chemicals are present in high enough amounts to cause harm.
E-cigarette vapor contains tiny particles that carry flavorings. Some early-stage laboratory and animal studies suggest these flavor particles can damage the lungs, airways and blood vessels, but more research is needed to better understand how human bodies react to them.
Much less is known about the contents of THC oils and how those chemicals behave when heated.
“I wouldn’t rule anything out at this point because we know so little,” said Dr. David Christiani of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Is this brand new?
There have been occasional reports of similar illnesses, including one from 2000 that was tied to inhaling homemade marijuana-infused oil vapor. The large number of cases is new and alarming to public health officials.
Who is investigating and what are they doing?
State and federal health officials are testing products and analyzing cases for clues.
New York is issuing subpoenas to three companies that sell vaping additives made from vitamin E acetate. The state wants to know more about the ingredients, the quality of the raw materials, any safety testing performed, sales of the products during the past three years and what other additives the companies sell.
Are products from state-licensed dispensaries safe?
Most of the cases involve products purchased on the street, not in dispensaries in states with legal sales of medical or recreational cannabis. One person who died in Oregon had used an e-cigarette containing marijuana oil purchased from a dispensary. Health officials there don’t know whether the product was contaminated or whether the victim may have added something to the liquid in the device after buying it.
What’s the best advice right now?
Health officials are urging people to stop vaping and to get medical care if they have trouble breathing or chest pain after vaping.
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Luke Currie steers Away Game to victory the Magic Millions 2YO Classic at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Picture: Albert Perez/AAP
by Mark Oberhardt, AAP
11th Jan 2020 6:23 PM | Updated: 6:28 PM
VICTORIAN Co-trainer Ciaron Maher struggled to think of a more satisfying victory in his career after Away Game won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on the Gold Coast on Saturday.
Maher, who co-trains with David Eustace, had been predicting all week that Away Game was ready to fire on the big stage, but his claims were ignored by most.
Despite starting at $41, Away Game won like an odds-on favourite beating Stellar Pauline ($17) by 13/4 lengths with a half length to Conceited ($9) in third in the $2 million race over 1200m.
Away Game cost $425,000 and is yet another daughter of super sire Snitzel to win a major race.
Not only did Away Game earn $1.16 million in prize money, she also picked up $325,000 in a women's owner bonus.
Maher said it was a thrill as the filly seemed to be ignored in Millions discussions despite her comprehensive win in the Listed Calaway Gal at her previous start.
"I really believed on her trackwork she was ready to fire in this race," Maher said.
"I am a bit lost for words, which is unusual for me. I feel a bit weird and don't really know how to describe it.
"It is certainly one of the most satisfying moments of my career."
Maher said Away Game might press on to the autumn for the Golden Slipper but a decision wouldn't be made until he had time to assess the win.
"She has already won a Listed race and now she is a Magic Millions winner," he said.
Melbourne jockey Luke Currie notched his second Millions Classic win, after Sunlight in 2018.
"She is different to Sunlight but she has a similar explosive burst when she lets down," Currie said.
"Both times I have won on her she really put them away quickly."
Brenton Avdulla rode Stellar Pauline and said it was a gutsy effort.
"I followed the winner the whole way but she was a bit too good for us," he said.
Damian Lane said he got further back than he wanted but he was proud of the effort of Conceited.
"I had to go a pair further back than I wanted but I was very proud of his effort," he said.
Wisdom of Water did the best of the Queensland horses, finishing fourth. Away Game shortened from $26 into $11 for the Blue Diamond Stakes and $15 for the Golden Slipper.
Aim has drifted from $15 to $26 for the Slipper after he finished only eighth when backed from $5.50 into $4.60 favourite.
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Kramer Electronics Honored for Innovation at ISE 2017
jamiek@kramerus.com ⋅ Feb 21, 2017
Kramer Electronics, Ltd., a leading innovator in the field of AV/IT solutions, took home three industry awards at ISE 2017. Kramer Video Content Overlay (VCO) won Best of Show from AV Technology magazine, Kramer AOCH/60 fiber optic HDMI cables won Best of Show from Installation Magazine and Kramer VIA GO won the 2017 InAVation award for “Small Group Presentation (less than 20 people).”
“We are thrilled and honored to have received industry recognition this year at ISE for three of our newest and most innovative products,” said David Margolin, Director of Corporate Marketing at Kramer,” Each of these products is designed to not only support state-of-the-art display or AV distribution solutions, but they are also specifically aimed at the needs of IT professionals,” he added.
AOCH/60
, an
Installation Magazine 2017 Best of Show winner
, is an Active Optical UHD Pluggable HDMI cable for 4K60 4:4:4 signals up to 328 ft. This hybrid-fiber cable is designed to maximize signal integrity for long distance AV installations. Its innovative design features micro-HDMI ends with detachable HDMI connectors, making it easy to run through a conduit or other tight spaces. AOCH/60 cables are thinner, lighter and more flexible than copper or even standard optical cables while still providing transparent EDID, HDCP and HBR support without signal attenuation.
Video Content Overlay (VCO)
, a
2017 Best of Show winner
from AV Technology Magazine, is a highly scalable modular solution for video content overlay and digital signage complete with user-friendly software and easy-to-install hardware. In a single click, users can display targeted promotional or sales campaigns, timely information, emergency alerts, and more in full HD over live HDMI video to multiple screens in venues such as hotels, bars, restaurants, and TV showrooms. The solution helps enhance sales activity; and in TV showrooms in particular, it can automatically overlay engaging content such as electronic price tags, push notification campaigns, product specs, logos, and more to any or all screens in any-size showroom.
Kramer VCO can be integrated with any retail management system and used with existing display network infrastructure. The solution can be operated and controlled from a centralized corporate database or a single PC in a single store.
VIA GO
2017 InAVation award winner
, is an advanced wireless plug-and-present solution that lets meeting participants easily and instantly present from any tablet, phone or laptop. With a built-in Wi-Fi access point and wireless LAN capability, it can turn any projector or display into a state-of-the-art, BYOD wireless-enabled device. The solution also includes wired LAN connectivity, making it extremely flexible to install.
Learn about other key Kramer Solutions:
Kramer Network
Kramer Control
Kramer@Work
Kramer Collaborative Classroom
For information on all Kramer products and solutions, including Sierra Video and Kramer Powered by Calibre, please visit:
www.KramerAV.com
Clint Hoffman COO
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About Kramer
Since 1981, Kramer Electronics has been a leading player and pioneer in the Pro AV industry. With customers in over 90 countries across six continents, Kramer offers an extensive and innovative pro AV portfolio of products and solutions for Corporate, Education, Houses of Worship, Government, Live Events, Healthcare, and more. For over three decades, Kramer has built its reputation on strong personal relationships with its customers and providing the highest level of service and support in the industry.
Kramer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Pioneer of AV Award at InfoComm in honor of its Founder, President & Chairman, Dr. Joseph Kramer. Kramer’s award winning analog and IP-driven solutions for collaboration, streaming and control are at the forefront of an ever-evolving Pro AV industry. Kramer’s consistent sales growth and expansion into new markets is a testament to the company’s commitment to R&D and reliance on customer feedback.
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Search - Carmen Lundy: Jazz & The New Songbook - Live at the Madrid on DVD
Carmen Lundy Jazz The New Songbook - Live at the Madrid
Actor: Carmen Lundy
Director: Carmen Lundy
Genres: Music Video & Concerts
Featured Artists: Robert Glasper, Billy Childs, David Roitstein, Steve Turre, Bobby Watson, Mark Shim, Nathan East, Curtis Lundy, Kenny Davis, Phil Upchurch, Victor Lewis, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Mayra Casales, Krystal Davi... more »s Williams, LA String Quartet Recorded Live at The Madrid Theatre, Los Angeles, CA February 18, 2005 Songs: 1. In Love Again 2. One More River To Cross 3. Something To Believe In 4. Better Days 5. Where'd It Go 6. Wild Child 7. Afrasia! 8. Happy New Year 9. Long Journey Home 10. You're Not In Love 11. All Day, All Night 12. Walking Code Blue 13. Send Me Somebody to Love 14. Old Friend 15. (I Dream) In Living Color Bonus Material includes:
"The Art, The Night and The Music" Documentary;
"The Lost Tracks" - 2 Live Bonus Tracks;
Photo Gallery. « less
Sub-Genres: Pop, Jazz
Studio: Afrasia Prod.
Format: DVD - Color
Run Time: 1hr 55min
Screens: Color
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Visual and Musical Masterpiece
JazzLoveLive | 04/12/2006
"I have watched other musical DVDs in the past but, this DVD was so captivating. The visual sets and the musical compositions are outstanding. Carmen has such great presence and great vocal artistry. The supporting musicians are fantastic and work very well together. The only thing that could have been better was to have attended the live concert in 02/05. Luckily, with this DVD, we can relive those moments. There should be an award for best musical DVD, I am sure that this one would win "Hands-Down"."
Mesmerizing Jazz Diva In Concert!!!!!
Beverly Praiswater | 02/14/2006
"This is the jazz concert to end them all! From the visual production, the musical production, and the editing, this dvd concert deserves an award. The spectrum of talent on the stage is brilliantly evident from the opening number and believe me, it only gets better with each song.
Each composition is rich like a fine tapestry as ballads and up-tempo numbers are interwoven into a masterpiece. If you are already familiar with Ms. Carmen Lundy then you are in store for a wonderful journey that far exceeds any of her studio recordings, as only a visual performance can bring. If you are not familiar with Carmen, get ready to be impressed!
Ms. Lundy's stage presence is sweetly seasoned. She feels the music so thoroughly in her soul. There are deeply passionate moments as well as light comic ones. All of these songs are composed and arranged by Ms. Lundy. She brings unique freshness to her songs each time she sings them.
Now for some highlights: Carmen's vocal on her composition of "One More River To Cross" is sublime with Billy Childs on piano. "Where'd It Go" has some complex vocal arrangements and an awesome piano solo/accompaniment from Robert Glasper. The performance of "Afrasia!" has the most glorious interpretation of any song I think I have ever heard. It is at once complex, raw, yet delicate. "Long Journey Home" is a gripping jazz number which showcases many of the talented musicians on stage. Bobby Watson in particular is an accomplished artist. "You're Not In Love" highlights the highs and lows found in Carmen's sophisticated voice. "All Day, All Night" is an intense up-tempo thrill. "Old Friend" is the most poignant song in Carmen's repertoire. Her delicate vocal can touch you deeply to tears. And the finale "In Living Color" is dynamic as it showcases each musician.
One cannot talk about the musicians without mentioning Curtis Lundy. Carmen's brother Curtis is a musical genius whose strength and sensitivity tends to remain in the background. He is a serious bassist and has several amazing recordings of his own. And you can find excellent vocals from Carmen on his cds also.
The visual production includes marvelous close-ups of Ms. Lundy as well as creative images of the musicians. You immediately have the feeling of being on the stage next to the artists. Do not miss the bonus cuts which are stunning. And don't miss the documentary or the photo gallery. Even the credits at the end of the concert are phenomenal! Check out the videos of this concert on You Tube.
There is no doubt that Ms. Carmen Lundy is the best female jazz singer/composer of our time. This dvd is spellbinding proof of her talents. Do NOT allow yourself to miss this one!!!!! Definitely the best jazz dvd of 2005. (maybe ever!!!!)"
Fantastic Package.
Jazz Analyst | Los Angeles, CA USA | 03/26/2006
"This a great concert DVD. Carmen Lundy is a wonderful singer and composer. She is fantastic is this live concert performance in a small theatre in Los Angeles. She is supported by a group of outstanding musicians in performances of her own compositions. The musicians include Bobby Watson, Steve Turre, Victor Lewis, Smitty Smith, Nathan East, Billy Childs, Robert Glasper, Phil Upchurch and Mark Shim. The photography and sound are first rate. At times, there are two drummers and three bassists on stage, but the music supports the numbers of musicians, and things stay organized. The band looks and sounds like they are having a great time. Ms. Lundy displays her wonderful vocal range and dynamite personality. There are many fine female jazz singers at this time, but Carmen Lundy stands apart because she also such a wonderful songwriter. She is deserving of a larger audience and much wider recognition."
Old friend...
songba | bronx, ny USA | 08/29/2006
"this is an eminent jazz singer and composer in outstanding form! carmen is absolutely wonderful and the music she dresses herself in is supreme. a love supreme, this one is. a love supreme..."
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Search - Oldboy [UMD for PSP] on UMD for PSP
UMD for PSP
Actors: Choi Min-Sik, Yu Ji-tae, Gang Hye-jeong, Yoo Ji-Tae
Directors: Park Chan-wook, Park Can-wook
Genres: Indie & Art House
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is abducted and locked up in a strange, private "prison." No one will tell him why he?s there and who his ... more »jailer is. His fury builds to a single-minded focus of revenge. 15 years later, he is unexpectedly freed, given a new suit, a cell-phone and 5 days to discover the mysterious enemy who had him imprisoned. Seeking vengeance on all those involved, he soon finds that his enemy?s tortures are just beginning. « less
Sub-Genres: Indie & Art House
Studio: TLA Releasing
Format: UMD for PSP - Color,Widescreen - Closed-captioned,Dubbed,Subtitled
Run Time: 2hr 0min
Screens: Color,Widescreen
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Languages: Korean, English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Oldboy [Blu-ray]
Oldboy (Three-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
Oldboy (Single Disc) Ultimate Revenge Edition
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
R 2006 1hr 52min
UR 2005 2hr 4min
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UR 2005 1hr 55min
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Director: Lee Jeong-beom
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Chad B. (abrnt1) from CABERY, IL
Reviewed on 4/8/2011...
Amazing film. Brutal beyond belief and very very disturbing.
Brutally Raw & Brilliantly Inspiring Revenge Film...
Kim Anehall | Chicago, IL USA | 04/10/2005
"Oldboy has a Shakespearian tone as it depicts the tale of Oh Dae-su (Min-sik Choi), whose name means "he who can get along with people". Oh Dae-su is on his way home after having been arrested for public drunkenness to celebrate his daughters birthday. However, Oh Dae-su never arrives to his home as he is kidnapped and imprisoned in a small room where his only contact with the human world is a television. During the time Oh Dae-su is caged someone murders his wife and he becomes the prime suspect for the murder. The questions that Oh Dae-su unsuccessfully attempts to answer while locked up is why revenge is being taken on him and who is seeking this cruel revenge. After 15 years Oh Dae-su is released from his torturous imprisonment, which leaves him confused and ragingly vengeful.
Chan-wook Park directs a brilliant cinematic experience that is full of well-written conspiring intrigues that will keep the audience in suspense. The suspense is initiated in the opening shot where a man is hanging over the edge of a roof top causing the audience to asks themselves--why is this happening? The suspense continues as new and mysterious clues appears, but apprehension does not leave the audience even after the end of the film as the final line echos in the minds of the audience. Park's vision of revenge in Oldboy often depicts exaggerated violence that is well balanced with story as it is related to the themes of the film. However, this should serve as a warning to squeamish folks as the film is occasionally brutal and bizarre. Furthermore, the cinematography used in Oldboy vividly projects the emotional tone of the cinematic themes and characters. The characters are also superbly performed by an excellent cast, which will help the audience to experience a first class cinematic event."
Do I deserve life?
Daitokuji31 | Black Glass | 04/23/2005
Some films just do not allow themselves to fall into generalizations and these films pose conundrums when one tries to explain them. I've owned _Old Boy_ for a number of months now, but for some reason or another I had been able to make myself sit down and watch the film. For some reason I thought it was a horror film and being that I generally do not care for horror films I let this one sit on the sidelines while I watched other films. However, I was finally inspired to watch this film when my Korean office partner told me how much she enjoyed the film, been amazed by Choi Min Sik's acting, and how long the film stuck in her head after watching it. Trusting my friend's taste in film, last night I finally settled down to watch the film and similar to my reaction with other films that I had underestimated, I wondered: Why the heck had I had not watched this film earlier?
The film begins with a drunken Oh Daesu, Choi Min Sik, sitting in the police office. He is a noisy drunk heaping abuse on the police officers and constantly trying to urinate on the floor. He tells the police to let him go because it is his daughter' birthday, but when his pleas fall on death ears, he becomes even more recalcitrant to remain calm in the police office. Eventually Daesu's friend comes to pick up his inebriated friend. However, while talking to Daesu's daughter on the phone, the friend notices that Daesu is missing.
Daesu finds himself imprisoned in a room that resembles a cheap motel room. Fed a diet of dumplings and with a television as his only companion, Daesu will live for fifteen years inside of that small room. Occupying his time watching television, punching the walls, writing the names of all who might have had him imprisoned in that room, watching television, and carving a hole in the wall with a metal chopstick, Daesu grows older his youth withered away within that room. However, one day, he finds himself on top of a building finally free to hunt the individual who had imprisoned him. Daesu eventually makes a new friend in the personage of the young sushi chef Mido, Gang Hye Jeong, who for some reason seems to fall for Daesu as he consumes a live squid, who accompanies him on his search for the individual who ruined his life.
This is an extraordinary film. Choi Min Sik's acting is top notch and one can really feel his anger and frustration inside of his prison. I won't go into details here, but his performance during the final minutes of the film must be witnessed to be believed. The music is grand and the special effects are nicely done. The ant poking through Daesu's skin is very creepy.
I've never had more mixed feelings about a film.
Miles D. Moore | Alexandria, VA USA | 09/03/2006
"The consensus of critical opinion is that Chan-wook Park's "Oldboy" is one of the true cinematic masterpieces of the past decade. In both plot and technique, it is, indeed, incredibly brilliant; on those points alone it deserves four stars out of five. I understand why "Oldboy" has so many ardent admirers (chief among them Quentin Tarantino, for whom Park could be suspected of tailoring this film). Yet, though I have a reasonably strong stomach for cinematic gore, I found "Oldboy" to be a little TOO sadistic. When you compare "Oldboy" with Tarantino's own work--"Pulp Fiction" and the "Kill Bill" movies--you realize that Tarantino's movies have a cartoonishness about them, a hip and ironic remove, that reminds audiences they're just watching a movie after all. There is no such remove in "Oldboy." I have nothing but praise for the performance of Min-sik Choi as Oh Dae-su, the heedless, obnoxious but not really so bad guy who is imprisoned, tortured and toyed with for 15 years. I have never seen such a realistic, heartrending cinematic portrayal of abject grief as Choi's at the end of this film, when Oh Dae-su discovers both his torturer's identity and the full extent of his treachery. And this is precisely my problem: the film's emotions are too real. Obviously I'm in a tiny minority about this, but I simply felt too sorry for Oh Dae-su to get the requisite thrills from this thriller. Vincent Vega and Beatrix Kiddo are, as Tarantino intended, pulp fiction; Oh Dae-su is flesh and blood--and BOY, do we get to see that demonstrated, very graphically indeed. Reviewers have equally high praise for the other films in Park's trilogy, "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance." I think I'm going to wait a while before I check them out, however. The DVD transfer of "Oldboy" is sharp and excellent, but the film has been dubbed rather than subtitled (not really a problem, except for the annoyingly chirpy voice of the actress who dubs the character of Miko). A bigger disappointment is that the deleted scenes and the bonus interview with Chan-wook Park are in undubbed, unsubtitled Korean."
A mind-bending, disturbing revenge flick
Adam Craig | Columbus, OH | 09/05/2006
"Oldboy's beginning had me excited for the rest of the film. I mean it is a great beginning. Oh Dae-su is kidnapped from the middle of the street one night, and we then learn through his narration that he will be in his cell for the next 15 years. We go through the journey with him, seeing the time pass by as he finds ways to get himself through each day. Then, miraculously, he is released one day for what appears to be no reason whatsoever. Once he is released, he sets out to find his captors. The only clue he has is the food that he ate on every single day for the past 15 years, so he goes to every restaurant named Blue Dragon until he tastes the food he knows so well. Once he finds out where he was kept, he has to find out who and why, and that is where the film goes crazy.
The twists at the end of this film are some of the best I can think of from recent film history. Not only is the subject matter hard to handle, but the film also features some horrible scenes of violence, and one scene where a live octopus was definitely harmed in the making of the film. While I'm not in love with this movie (it definitely slows down after the beginning), it is more interesting and original than a lot of stuff that our country has put out recently. And it was definitely good enough for me to check out the other two parts of Park's vengeance trilogy."
This Oldboy's Life
Terrence Aybar | New York City | 11/23/2006
"I'm surprised to see that no one else has written about this collector's edition DVD package because it's so cool that it needs to be spoken about in some form or other. It comes in a metal box which is exactly the same dimensions as the box that the HBO series "Band of Brothers" came in. There's that which is already pretty nice but inside is where you find the real treasure. The film comes in a three disc set, each one in an individual slipcase with one of the three main characters in the film on the cover. The presentationof the film is on par with, if not above the quality of the previous Tartan video release in terms of picture and sound. This set has a 6.1 DTS mix which is nice, clear and loud. The picture is very nice as it should be, since this film is beautifully shot. There are plenty of bonus features like commentary and featurettes but the third disc has the best supplementary feature which is a production diary from the entire shoot. I think this is one of the shining examples of a behind the scenes documentary done right as it really shows you what goes in to making a film and how much hard work it can be. It's lengthy, it's detailed and thankfully, it has English subtitles because I don't speak a lick of Korean. Just for this documentary alone, this set is worth picking up.
Finally, you get not only a 35mm film strip encased in a nice cardboard sleeve, you get a miniaturized graphic novel of the original similarly titled Japanese Manga that the film was based off of. If you've seen the special edition of Sin City that came with the Hard Goodbye graphic novel, it's just like that except its printed in reverse and you have to read it from back cover to front like you would with an actual Japanese book! (Don't worry, the language is in English so you can still read it)
This is easily one of the best recommendations I can make. If you love the movie, this is a no-brainer. If you know someone else who loves this movie, this would make a great gift. Either way, this is one of the coolest all around DVD packages I've ever picked up and believe me, I've picked up plenty."
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What to Do If Someone Blocks You on Facebook
By: Robert Schrader
Facebook permits users to communicate freely with one another, but also allows individuals to limit access to their profiles on an as-needed basis. Namely, if another Facebook user decides he or she doesn't want you to view his or her profile and uploads or contact him or her, that user blocks you. You can take any of several courses of action in the event someone blocks you.
What Blocking Entails
Blocking someone on Facebook completely prohibits that person from contacting you -- or accessing any of your content -- on Facebook. For example, if someone you've blocked searches your name, it will not appear in results. If that user attempts to access your Facebook URL directly, that user will receive an error message. This being said, Facebook doesn't give users explicit notification of having been blocked. If you believe someone has blocked you, try visiting that person's profile or searching by name.
Other Possibilities
Before you take action to contact or question someone who's blocked you, you need to make sure that person's actually done it. If you can't access a person's profile or find him or her in search results, it's also possible that user's deleted his or her profile altogether. To confirm or deny this, ask a mutual friend to attempt viewing the person's Facebook profile. If the friend also can't see the profile, it's most likely the person in question has deleted his or her Facebook profile.
If you've been blocked because of a personal or professional disagreement with someone, the best way to resolves your Facebook woes is similar to what would be most effective offline: contact him or her directly. Since you can't contact via Facebook, send an email or make a phone call. Be concise and specific in your questioning and ask what steps you can take to restore your Facebook friendship -- and if your real-life friendship has also been compromised, that relationship as well.
When someone gets blocked from another person on Facebook, one action that could be taken is creating another profile as a means to contact that person and view his or her Facebook profile again. Whatever you do, avoid involving Facebook in your dispute resolution process, which could result in your privileges being suspended or revoked altogether. Additionally, if time passes and you don't receive a response, don't contact that person repeatedly. Harassing someone who's already made a decision does little more than aggravate.
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 465.6: 45 Years of Little House on the Prairie is now available online for listening on demand
45 Years of Little House on the Prairie Original Airdates: Sept. 27-29, 2019 TVC 465.6: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the career of Michael Landon and how the Little House on the Prairie series (NBC, 1974-1983) differed considerably from the … Continue reading →
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 462.6: How Barbara Eden Became Jeannie is now available online for listening on demand
How Barbara Eden Became Jeannie Original Airdates: Sept. 6-8, 2019 TVC 462.6: Ed plays more highlights from the Aug. 21 unveiling of the Hollywood Museum’s new lobby exhibit honoring Barbara Eden and the legacy of I Dream of Jeannie, including … Continue reading →
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Dawn Wells, plus The Bolivian Sammy Hagar and A Tribute to Valerie Harper: Next on TVC
Actors Dawn Wells and Michael Irby will join us this weekend for a brand new edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Sept. 6-8 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco Bay Area Friday 9/6 7pm ET, 4pm PT … Continue reading →
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The Hollywood Museum blinks up a new exhibit honoring screen legend Barbara Eden that features the original costume that the actress wore on her iconic TV series, I Dream of Jeannie. The latest addition to the Museum’s popular Lobby Series, the Jeannie exhibit is now open to the public and includes the original bottle from the I Dream of Jeannie pilot, plus five screen accurate bottles by Mario Della Cassa
[HOLLYWOOD, Calif.] Aug. 23, 2019 — The Hollywood Museum honored TV icon Barbara Eden by unveiling a new lobby exhibit featuring the original costume that the actress wore on her classic series, I Dream of Jeannie, plus the original bottle featured … Continue reading →
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 459 with guest Susan McCray is now available online for listening on demand
Susan McCray on How Michael Landon Embodied Family TV Original Airdates: Aug. 9-11, 2019 TVC 459.2: Ed welcomes Susan McCray, one of the first female casting directors in network television, and a longtime collaborator of iconic actor and producer Michael … Continue reading →
Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Next Show, Podcasts, Television Star | Tagged About Lauren Levian, Bob Hope Show, Bonanza, Buick-Berle Show, Cameron Mitchell, Colgate Comedy Hour, David Dortort, Dodie McLean, Don Collier, Father Murphy, Happy Days, Harry Sukman, Harry Sukman Song Without End, Harrys Piano, Hawaii Five-O, Henry Darrow, High Chapparal, Highway to Heaven, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope radio show, Kaleidoscope radio show KSAV, Kent McCray, Kent McCray Love Life and Television, Kent McCray NBC, KSAV, Kung Fu, Lauren Levian, Little House on the Prairie, Marion Dougherty, Michael Landon, Monument Records, Music News KC, Ponderosa, production manager, Rachel Cail, Rachels MakeUp Moment, Red Skelton Show, Say a Prayer for Michael, Share-a-Vision Radio, Susan McCray, Susan McCray casting director, Susan McCray Getting to Know You, Susan McCray Hollywood Hotline, Susan McCray Kaleidoscope, Susan Sands, The Man Behind the Most Beloved Television Shows, The Miracle Worker, USO specials, Victor French, You Bet Your Life | Leave a comment
Dee Wallace’s Acting Milestone, plus a Pioneering Casting Director: Next on TVC
Actress, teacher, and radio host Dee Wallace and radio host and longtime TV casting director Susan McCray will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Aug. 9-11 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco Bay Area … Continue reading →
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Coming next week to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Radio host and renaissance woman Susan McCray on being one of the first female casting directors in television; working alongside Michael Landon for many years and how Landon stood for family-oriented programming; and how Cameron Mitchell always kept himself cool while filming The High Chapparal. Susan is the anchor of KALEIDOSCOPE, a colorful new Sunday morning magazine show that premieres Sunday 8/4 on our affiliate station, KSAV.org Share-a-Vision Radio. Susan is also the producer of KENT McCRAY: LOVE, LIFE AND TELEVISION, a new documentary about the life and career of her late husband, Kent McCray, producer of Bonanza, The High Chapparal, Little House on the Prairie and other TV series, and a longtime friend and collaborator of Michael Landon. KENT McCRAY: LOVE, LIVE AND TELEVISION is due out in December 2019
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 443, Segment 1 is now available online for listening on demand
Segment 1: The Last Days of Little House and How the Iran Hostage Crisis Led to Nightline Original Airdates: Mar. 22-24, 2019 Listen to “Show No. 443, Segment 1: The Last Days of Little House and How the Iran Hostage … Continue reading →
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via KSAV and Susan McCray: Kent McCray, producer of Little House on the Prairie, dies at age 89. Also the husband of network TV casting director (and, later, KSAV Radio personality) Susan McCray, Kent McCray also partnered with Michael Landon on Bonanza, Highway to Heaven and Father Murphy
Kent McCray, a producer and production manager who collaborated with the late Michael Landon on the NBC dramas Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven and Father Murphy, has died. He was 89. McCray died Sunday June 3rd in Los Angeles of natural … Continue reading →
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Iran detains British ambassador in Tehran for hours on charges of "incitement"
The Iranian authorities arrested the British ambassador in Tehran, Rob Macker, for the hours before yesterday, on charges of "being in the Saturday protests in the Iranian capital."
The Iranian authorities arrested the British ambassador in Tehran, Rob MacAir, yesterday, for hours, on charges of "being in the Saturday protests in the Iranian capital."
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed that his country briefly arrested British Ambassador Rob MacAir after he was suspected of being a foreigner participating in an "illegal gathering" and was released after he was identified.
Araghchi wrote on Twitter: “He was not detained. He was arrested as an unknown foreigner in an illegal gathering. ”
For its part, the Iranian News Agency said that Tehran summoned the British ambassador about his presence against the government.
According to what Tasnim, a source close to Iranian security, was quoted by sources, the British ambassador was arrested for several hours and then released.
Tasnim confirmed that the detention of the British envoy in Iran was for "incitement."
A report by the agency said that the ambassador was present during the Saturday protests in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, and he was arrested at that time and released after mediation efforts by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
For his part, the British ambassador to Tehran denied yesterday his participation in any demonstration against the authorities, as reported by Iranian media. Rob Macer wrote on Twitter: "I can confirm that I did not participate in any demonstration." He added, "I went to an event that was presented as a pause to honor the victims of the tragedy (Flight 759) BS752," of the Ukrainian Airlines that was shot down near Tehran on Wednesday by an Iranian missile.
"I left (the pause) five minutes after some people started shouting" against the authorities, he confirmed in tweets in both English and Persian. He indicated that he was arrested half an hour after leaving the scene. He explained, “I was detained for half an hour.” In return, Britain considered Tehran’s arrest of its ambassador a violation of international law.
"The arrest of our ambassador in Tehran without justification or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law," British Foreign Secretary Dominic Rapp said in a statement. In turn, Washington demanded that Iran apologize for the arrest of the British ambassador in Tehran.
In connection with the Iranian demonstrators burned the British flag in front of the United Kingdom embassy in Tehran yesterday, after the arrest of the British ambassador on charges of participating in an illegal demonstration, according to journalists told AFP.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Rap:
"The arrest of our ambassador in Tehran without justification or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law."
Source: emara
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Rheumatoid|Psoriatic Arthritis In Next 60 Seconds
FITNESSGET RIGHT!HEALTH & FITNESSLifeStyleStraight Official by dcowens on November 3, 2019 add comment arthritis auto-immune nutrition plant based diet Rheumatoid|Psoriatic Arthritis 169 views
How does a plant based diet help with Rheumatoid|Psoriatic Arthritis
This article will focus on how a plant based diet can help ease and even reverse the symptoms of Rheumatoid|Psoriatic Arthritis. Dr. Gregor points out several studies that show just how effective a change in diet can be for Rheumatoid|Psoriatic Arthritis. The importance in having the desired results is to implement a direct lifestyle change that correlates to the results one is seeking. The evidence is based on scientific research and clinical trials with sources cited on the original post on Nutritionfacts.org. The research and application of this new knowledge will be an important factor in fighting the auto immune disease and the different arthritis types that linger in the world. I hope you enjoy the information and look for other health articles written for your benefit on Straightofficial.com
What did the studies reveal?
“Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease affecting millions, characterized by persistent pain and stiffness, and progressive joint destruction—particularly in the hands and feet, leading to crippling deformities. What can we do to prevent it and treat it?
In a famous 13-month long randomized controlled trial of plant-based diets for rheumatoid arthritis, patients were put on a vegan diet for three and a half months, and then switched to an egg-free lactovegetarian diet for the remainder of the study. Compared to the control group, who didn’t change their diet at all, the plant-based group had a significant improvement in morning stiffness within the first month, cutting the number of hours they suffered from joint stiffness in half.
Pain dropped from five out of ten down to less than three out of ten. A drop in disability; they reported subjectively feeling better, significant improvement in their grip strength, fewer tender joints, less tenderness per joint, and less swelling, with the added benefit of losing about 13 pounds and keeping most of that weight off throughout the year. They also had a drop in inflammatory markers in their blood, sed rate, C-reactive protein, and white count. The question is why. What does diet have to do with inflammatory joint disease?
What is the importance of knowing the sympotms of Rheumatoid|Psoriatic Arthritis?
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which your body attacks the lining of your own joints. Why would it do that? Well, there’s a different autoimmune disease called rheumatic fever, in which your body attacks your own heart. Again, why would your body do that? It appears to be a matter of friendly fire.
Rheumatic fever is caused by strep throat, which is caused by a bacteria that has a protein that looks an awful lot like a protein in our heart. So when our immune system attacks the strep bacteria, it also attacks our heart valves, triggering an autoimmune attack by “molecular mimicry.”
The protein on the strep bacteria is mimicking a protein in our heart, so our body gets confused and attacks both. That’s why it’s critical to treat strep throat early to prevent our heart from getting caught in the crossfire.
So researchers thought maybe rheumatoid arthritis might be triggered by an infection as well. A clue to where to start looking was the fact that women seem to get rheumatoid arthritis three times more frequently than men. What type of infection do women get more than men? Urinary tract infections, so researchers started testing the urine of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, and lo and behold found this bacteria called Proteus mirabilis.
Is the key to Rheumatoid|Psoriatic found in our Urinary Tract?
Not enough to cause symptoms of a UTI, but enough to trigger an immune response. And indeed, there’s a molecule in the bacteria that looks an awful lot like one of our own molecules in our joints, so anti-Proteus antibodies against the bacteria may inadvertently damage our own joint tissues, leading eventually to the joint destruction.
Therefore, therapeutic interventions aimed at the removal of this bacteria from the bodies of patients, with consequent reduction of antibodies against the organism, should lead to a decrease in inflammation.
Well, as we saw before, urinary tract infections originate from the fecal flora; the bugs crawl up from the rectum into the bladder. And so, how might one change the bugs in one’s colon? By changing our diet. Some of the first studies over 20 years ago on trying to fundamentally shift people’s gut flora were done using raw vegan diets, figuring that’s about as fundamental a shift from the standard Western diet as there is.
And indeed, within days one could significantly change someone’s gut flora. Put rheumatoid arthritis sufferers on that kind of diet, and they experienced relief, and the greater improvements were linked to greater changes in their gut flora.
But the diet was considered so intolerable that half the patients couldn’t take it and dropped out–perhaps because they were trying to feed people things like buckwheat-beetroot cutlets buttered with a spread made out of almonds and fermented cucumber juice.
Does is matter if your Vegan or Vegetarian or will both be effective?
Thankfully, regular vegetarian and vegan diets work too, changing the intestinal flora and improving rheumatoid arthritis, but we didn’t specifically have confirmation that plant-based diets brought down anti-Proteus antibodies, until now. Those who responded to the plant-based diet showed a significant drop in anti-Proteus mirabilis antibodies compared to the control group. Maybe it just dropped immune responses across the board? No, antibody levels against other bugs remained the same, the assumption is the veg diet reduced urinary or gut levels of the bug.
A shift from an omnivorous to a vegetarian diet has a profound influence on the composition of the urine–for example, higher levels of lignans in the urine of those eating vegetarian.
Up until now, it was just thought that lignans protected people eating more plant-based from getting cancer, but now we know lignans can also have antimicrobial properties as well, so may be helping to clear Proteus from the system. Either way, this suggests a new type of therapy for the management of rheumatoid arthritis. This new treatment includes anti-Proteus measures such as dietary manipulations in the forms of vegetarian diet.”
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Where is Aristoteles Masoka? Papuans call on UN to take action
A delegation of Papuan human rights defenders this week met the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in Geneva to follow up the case of Aristotelses Masoka. Mr Masoka has not been seen since the murder on 10 November 2001 of Papuan leader Theys Eluay for whom he was working as a driver. The Indonesian government has previously failed to respond to a request from the Working Group for information about the case.
Tagged: Enforced Disappearances, Impunity, Kopassus, West Papua
EU concerned about freedom of expression in Papua
The EU's Foreign Affairs Chief, Catherine Ashton, has expressed concern about the excessive use of force by security forces in West Papua and restrictions on access to the territory. Ms Ashton, was responding to a Parliamentary Question by Liberal Democrat MEP, Fiona Hall, which cited TAPOL’s report, 'No Political Prisoners?' and asked what action the EU intended to take to curb political arrests and support freedom of speech in West Papua.
Tagged: Democracy, Demonstrations, Freedom of Expression, Political Prisoners, West Papua
Parliament challenges UK Government over rights abuses in West Papua
Members of the House of Lords held a debate on West Papua on 24 July. They raised serious concerns about the human rights situation and called on the British government to take a stronger stand on issues such as the targeting of political activists, freedom of expression and access by foreign journalists and NGOs.
Tagged: Act of Free Choice, BP Tangguh, Densus 88, Dialogue, Freedom of Expression, West Papua
Indonesia and the 1965 massacres: Where's the justice?
A year ago today, Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights published a landmark report on the 1965/66 mass killings. It found evidence of crimes against humanity, but none of its recommendations been acted upon. On the back of the heightened attention to the kilings generated by the award-winning film, THE ACT OF KILLING, TAPOL's Carmel Budiardjo reflects on what happened and who was to blame.
Tagged: 1965 massacres, Crimes Against Humanity, Enforced Disappearances, Extrajudicial Execution, Impunity, Massacre, Political Prisoners, Suharto
Solidarity action for Wamena-Wasior
Jakarta-based Papua solidarity group NAPAS announces a solidarity action to highlight the continued silence over the Wamena and Wasior cases of gross human rights violations, which have never been resolved. Join them and show your support!
Tagged: Impunity, West Papua
Indonesia affirms restrictions on free expression in Papua to UN
TAPOL highlights freedom of expression in West Papua at the UN Human Rights Committee's review of Indonesia, but the Indonesian Government claims that the right is not absolute.
Tagged: Demonstrations, Extrajudicial Execution, Freedom of Expression, Impunity, Political Prisoners, West Papua
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claudia abboud
Spanish, East Lake Elementary School
Project: A Flare of Hispanic Culture
Through ‘A Flare of Hispanic Culture’, Mrs. Abboud improved the foreign language experience for all of the students at East Lake Elementary School, from pre-kindergarten to 5th grade. By coordinating in-school field trips, Mrs. Abboud created direct connections to the content standards by exposing students to cultural events that included folkloric dance and musical groups. Students also created maracas, piñatas and other artifacts that are representative of Hispanic countries. The project provided real-life, educational connections that enriched the curriculum and increased the students’ knowledge of various Spanish-speaking countries.
Cathy carter
3rd Grade, West Manor Elementary School
Project: Outdoor Classroom
With help from community stakeholders, Ms. Carter moved teaching and learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom with an ‘Outdoor Classroom’ that included an edible garden, butterfly garden, pond, and study area for West Manor Elementary School students. The goal of West Manor’s ‘Outdoor Classroom’ was to establish a sustainable, student-centered learning venue that supported state standards and enhanced the science curriculum. Furthermore, by providing a natural setting for interdisciplinary, inquiry-based instruction, the ‘Outdoor Classroom’ promoted physical health, social growth and environmental stewardship.
Gregory coleman
3rd Grade Instructional Coach, Parkside Elementary School
Project: The Savannah Exploration Tour
After considering the various learning styles of his students, Mr. Coleman decided to bring teaching alive with ‘The Savannah Exploration Tour’. The one-day trip turned into a “living laboratory,” where students could connect previously learned material with new concepts while simultaneously deepening their understanding of Georgia Performance Standards. Mr. Coleman’s students of two years became photojournalists and had the opportunity to photograph, explore and record their journey through the streets, squares, monuments and buildings of Savannah. Using experiential learning and discovery, the project aimed to increase knowledge in the areas of science, social studies, math and writing.
Lyndsey Collins
Life Science, Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy
Project: Going Green Task Force
Ms. Collins created a student-led ‘Going Green Task Force’ (GGTF) at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy. Comprised of students from the three middle school grades, the GGTF encouraged the practice of recycling and was responsible for the dissemination of educational facts about environmentally friendly initiatives. In addition, GGTF students maintained vegetable and flower gardens, created and promoted dialogue about current events such as air pollution and also published bimonthly Podcasts linked to going green.
deirdre denis
3rd-5th Grades Science, Whiteford Elementary School
Project: Whiteford Science Scholars
In an effort to engage students in hands-on science activities while increasing their content knowledge at the same time, Ms. Denis organized a club called the ‘Whiteford Science Scholars’. During club meetings, students worked collaboratively on tasks designed to promote problem solving skills and enhance their interests, experiences and awareness of scientific processes. The team participated in the statewide Science Olympiad competition for the first time and successfully made connections between scientific concepts and their immediate world. Ms. Denis’s project helped close the achievement gap, strengthen academic performance and increase student interest in the area of science.
Anthony Dorsey
Principal, Richard Nathaniel Fickett Elementary School
Project: Autism Sensory Lab
In an effort to enhance R.N. Fickett Elementary School’s Program for Exceptional Children, Dr. Dorsey designed a 21st Century Interactive Lab. This interactive lab housed the latest technological, visual, tactile and sensory equipment for a population of students who often do not receive the same amount of resources as their mainstream peers. As a result, the lab inspired students with special needs to actively participate in their surrounding environment. The 21st Century Interactive Lab promoted experiential learning and cognitive growth, particularly among Fickett’s autistic population.
Rendell jackson
Health & P.E., Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School
Project: Swim Team
Mr. Jackson implemented an aquatics program, which included the first Atlanta Public Schools’ middle school swim team meet at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School. His project exposed students to the benefits of swimming beyond recreation, as they learned fundamental skills and safety techniques. The project was based on ‘GuardStart: Lifeguarding Tomorrow’, which is a program designed to prepare 11- to 14-year-olds for Red Cross Lifeguarding certification. With the rest of his project award, Mr. Jackson provided the school and students with swimsuits, swim caps, goggles and towels.
kenya greer
4th Grade, Cascade Elementary School
Project: Growing and Planting Young Minds
Students at Cascade Elementary work in conjunction with Seeds of Nutrition and Georgia Organics (Farm to School) to improve their eating habits. In an effort to provide all students with the opportunity to plant and harvest, Ms. Greer enhanced the school’s gardening program through the use of indoor GrowLabs. GrowLabs not only enabled teachers to plan creative lessons, they also allowed students from each grade level to garden year-round. Specifically targeting and improving scientific knowledge, concepts and processes by providing hands-on experiences, the mobile GrowLabs also increased understanding of math, social studies and writing standards.
Cassandra Miller-Ashley
Principal, John Hope - Charles Walter Hill Elementary School
Project: Preparing Future Professionals Today
After realizing a large number of her students had limited college exposure, Dr. Miller-Ashley sprang into action planning a college tour for her fifth-grade students. Students visited Emory University, Clayton State University, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse College, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University. After compiling research, interviews and pictures, students documented and shared their experiences by creating Podcasts as a culminating project. Dr. Miller-Ashley believes that college bound experiences support the need for children to see themselves as future professionals.
tiarra moore
Science, Crawford Williamson Long Middle School
Project: Choosing Health and Experiencing Wellness (C.H.E.W.)
Ms. Moore’s goal was to take a bite out of childhood obesity by implementing Project C.H.E.W. Project C.H.E.W. gave students access to an aerobics program while introducing them to a 12-week garden-based nutrition program. The program had several components including nutrition education, nutrition marketing and physical fitness. By supporting student wellness through increased physical activity, gardening and convenient access to healthy foods, Ms. Moore improved academic performance and student behaviors surrounding nutrition significantly.
melody morgan
Principal, Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy
Project: Project Pen Pal
Ms. Morgan initiated a Pen Pal program that connected students from Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy with female students from two African countries (Ethiopia and South Africa). With a focus on history, current issues, customs and cultural practices, students created multi-media presentations using the latest technology (including podcasts, videoconferences, email and Facebook) to document their interactions and discussions. The project aimed to provide students with a rich, relevant experience that increased their literacy skills and deepened their understanding of African culture.
erin quackenbush
1st Grade, William J. Scott Elementary School
Project: College Bound Academic Incentive & Recognition Program
With the desire to prepare William J. Scott Elementary students for college, Mrs. Quackenbush rewarded children from all grade levels who strived for academic excellence. To honor students for their positive actions and behavior (such as high attendance, hard work and homework completion), Mrs. Quackenbush encouraged their continued success with monthly and quarterly awards. Students received college paraphernalia and incentives for their achievements. Culminating with a college fair and field trip to a local university, students were exposed to the idea and experiences of preparing for later educational opportunities.
sergio rodriguez
Orchestra, Henry W. Grady High School
Project: Electronic Chamber Orchestra
To combat the notion that many students consider orchestra to be old-fashioned and boring, Mr. Rodriguez purchased electric instruments so that he could have a stronger appeal to his young audience. The first of its kind at Grady High School, the Electric Orchestra performed in outdoor venues and recorded their own music. By attracting students who were looking for an innovative sound that corresponded with the technological world around them, Mr. Rodriguez brought a new twist to classical music.
E. Vincent Martinez
Fashion Design, Henry W. Grady High School
Project: The UrbanCouture Collection
Mr. Martinez directed Henry W. Grady High School’s UrbanCouture program, which transformed high school students into Atlanta’s hottest young fashion designers. Mr. Martinez increased the quality of his students’ garments by incorporating industrial sewing machines and a sewing serger into his classroom. This equipment allowed students to construct garments made of heavier fabrics, like denim and leather. His students were honored and recognized for their creativity in annual fashion shows
Nza Willingham-branton
3rd Grade, Morris Brandon Elementary School
Project: Traveling Book Club
For students at Morris Brandon Elementary who are in need of additional reading comprehension strategies, Mrs. Branton started an after-school traveling book club. Mrs. Branton utilized literature circles to explore reading concepts through the use of comprehension activities, text analyses, questioning strategies and in-depth discussions. After reading award-winning literature, which supported state standards in various content areas, the traveling book club participated in field trips that highlighted each novel’s themes or events.
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Premier, put some meat on your housing policy!
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Premier Mike Baird will today be asked to put some meat on his plans for affordable housing.
A group of young Sydney Alliance members will be setting up a pop-up deli in Martin Place to highlight the lack of detail in the State Government’s social housing policy.
Sydney Alliance spokesperson Rad Sappany said city workers would be asked to show their support for affordable housing by taking a selfie with a walking, talking rasher of bacon.
“The State Government has announced a fund to invest in affordable and social housing, and claimed that it could inject up to $1 billion into the sector.
“But there are no details as to how much public money will be involved, how it will be spent, or even a timeline.
“We all want to see new ways to invest in affordable housing, but we also want to know that this announcement is more than just smoke and mirrors.”
Ms Sappany said that without any details, the State Government’s affordable housing policy lacked credibility.
“The cost of housing is salami-ng, but the State Government has put forward a Baird-bones policy. That’s why we want the State Government need to put some meat on their plans.
Ms Sappany said that NSW needs a real housing affordability plan with targets and a timeline, as well as money invested in it.
“Now that we've finally managed to put housing on the agenda, we need to keep the conversation going so that it stays on the agenda - because so far no party has announced a comprehensive solution.
“Mike, don't be the wurst with affordable housing! It’s time to bring home the bacon with a real plan that can make a genuine difference to people’s lives.”
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There is evidence of early human settlement on this continent dating back at least 25,000 B.C., long before recorded history. Most scholars believe Indians entered the continental United States from Asia, traveling across the Bering Strait and through Canada, between 25,000 and 8,000 B.C., when the land bridge existed. Much of our knowledge of the first American Indians is based on their clay work, since fired clay is the only material on earth that does not change with time.
About two thousand years ago, the beginning of agriculture in North America caused the previously nomadic Indian peoples to settle down. Soon, pottery shapes developed according to various customs and techniques of gathering water, storing grains and liquids, and preserving seeds for the next planting. The craft culminated in the development of cooking pots that were made to sit on rocks in open fires, water jars with indented bases so they could sit comfortably on the heads of water gatherers, and large storage vessels for grains and water. Indian villages all over the United States became known for their different pot shapes and decorative styles.
Sometime during the early period of formalized agricultural practice, storage vessels for seeds and grains were needed. Hierarchies developed for the size, shape, and decoration of the pots for storing the best seeds, for different varieties of seeds, and so forth. Other hierarchical shapes developed historically for other practical reasons. Women were probably the gatherers (as men were the hunters), and women became the chief pottery makers.
Initially, hand fashioned vessels were made solely for utilitarian purposes, with little consideration for artistry. Most very early containers were unadorned, except for the texture of the coils and pinches, or indented textures from pointed sticks. Not much attention was paid to symmetry.
Later, decorative designs began to appear on Indian pots. Anglos have long struggled to find meaning in these designs, but Indians are reluctant to verbalize their meanings. If the symbols are important rather than mere embellishment, outsiders are not likely to be privy to the potter’s intent. Indians do not divulge sacred traditions, ceremonial rituals, or symbols. From the earliest times, Indian tribes have venerated life, nature, birds and other animals, humans, and gods. Realistic and abstracted interpretations of these mentors probably form the basic elements of Indian designs for all utilitarian and ritual objects.
No one knows why pottery became so important to all North and South American Indians for ceremonial use during rituals and burials. The use of pottery can be recognized in a religious and social context long before Columbus’ arrival in America in 1492 and the Spanish conquest in 1540. These years, however, mark the end of the prehistoric period of Indian art, and the beginning of what is called the historic period.
From 1000 to 1300 AD, the Toltecs and Chichimecs pushed the Mixtecs southward. They eventually got to the Oaxaca valley, where they clashed with the Zapotecs who abandoned Monte Alban and moved to centers farther south, such as Yagul and Lambityeco. A semi-alliance was brought about between the two groups when the Zapotec king married a Mixtec princess in 1280, but Monte Alban was in a decadent period. Not even the combined Mixtec and Zapotec forces could hold back the Aztecs who invaded under Axayacatl in the middle of the fifteenth century. They did succeed in turning back the Aztecs under Ahuitzotl at Guiengola, and the last Zaachila king, Cocijo-eza, married Ahuitzotl’s daughter, thereby bringing about a lasting alliance and peace. The son of this marriage, Cocijo-pij, was the last Zapotec ruler. He died in 1563, long after the Spaniards had taken over the Oaxaca region.
As of 1995 there were 7.8 million speakers of native languages in Mexico, 8% of the total population. The state of Oaxaca is the most native state of the Mexican republic, in terms of both the total number of indigenous inhabitants as well as the number of aboriginal cultures represented within its borders. There are 289 living aboriginal languages in Mexico; Aztecan, Mayan and Zapotecan are the most widely spoken.
The most widely spoken native language in today’s Oaxaca is Zapotec, with approximately 423,000 speakers. The Zapotec language belongs to the greater Otomanguean language group. Of the 173 living Otomanguean tongues, 64 are Zapotecan. These are subsequently divided into three geographic subgroups within the state of Oaxaca: Northern, Southern and Isthmus Zapotec, with a slight overlap into the neighboring states of Chiapas and Veracruz.
Zapotec is a tonal language rich in sound and pronunciation. Because the set of sounds used to speak Zapotec is greater than for European languages, it is difficult to capture it accurately with the standard roman alphabet. This was a problem for Spanish friars in the 16th century, when they began writing zapotec catechisms and composing grammars and vocabularies of the language.
Current theories suggest that 10,000 years before the present, Paleo-Indian inhabitants of the region shared a single language. As population groups began to settle and differentiate along regional lines, likewise their speech began to diverge. Sometime between 10 and 7 thousand past, three great language families had differentiated: the northern Uto-Aztecan group, the southern Mayan group, and the central proto-Otomanguean group. The central proto-Otomanguean group extended from the present Mexican state of Hidalgo to the southern extent of today’s Oaxaca.
In succeeding millennia, various branches continued to diverge within each language group, and within Otomanguean the most important branches were the Otomí-Pame, Chocho-Popoloca-Mazateco, Mixe-Zoque and Mixtec-Zapotec. A key linguistic fission seems to have occurred around 5,700 ago, when Mixtec and Zapotec began to diverge. These glotochronological estimates are corroborated by the available archaeological data for each of these peoples. For example, glotochronological analyses indicate, and archaeology corroborates, a great atomization of Zapotec culture following the initiation of the long period of decay of the great capital at Monte Albán. Simultaneously with this event, which began in the eighth century of the common era, a number of dialectical variants of Zapotec appeared in the mountain regions surrounding the central valley of Oaxaca.
While it is clear that today’s Zapotecan languages share commonalities with one another and with an ancestral language; as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Roman and Romanian with Latin, the Zapotec languages are largely unintelligible to native speakers of the other tongues. However, in Zapotec languages, as in Romance languages, one of the most highly preserved areas of commonality is the numbering system. Although an Isthmus and a Mountain Zapotec could hardly converse with one another in their own dialects, since their languages diverged from Valley Zapotec 8 centuries ago and have not interacted significantly since, they would each recognize one another’s numbers.
Pot shard traces left behind by potters over the centuries have enabled archaeologists to determine the probable origins of excavated pot remains, since all potters prospected clay and made pots near their dwelling places. Of course, pots may have been traded among Indian villages, but when many similar pots are found in one place, they were no doubt created there.
From the beginning, Indian pots have been thinly fabricated and fragile before and during firing. Many thousands of pots were made over the centuries; thousands broke in the firing and many broke from use. To help protect the vessels from thermal shock during the sudden heating of the bonfire, some potters used ground-up, fired shards as temper in the raw clay. Other potters used volcanic ash, which they called sand, an inert mineral that is resistant to the shock of instant flame.
Historians generally believe that fired clay pottery developed because ancient people lined their woven baskets with mud-clay. When the baskets were subjected to fire so that corn or other foodstuffs could be dried, the basket burned, leaving hard, durable clay intact. It is true that many primitive pots bear texture marks indicating that they might have been made in baskets.
Still, there can only be guesswork about the origins of baskets. Did woven containers really come before clay pots? Excavations in some parts of the United States have yielded unfired clay pots that could not have been pressed in baskets. Vessels may have been fashioned for storage or for uses other than cooking food, unrelated to the basket-pot theory. The fact that fire could harden clay may have been discovered accidentally, not necessarily in mudded-up cooking baskets.
Astonishingly, the potter’s wheel was never used anywhere in either
North or South America. The wheel was used for transportation and for tools, but was never adapted for clay. It may be that Indians just relished the experience of building a clay pot slowly by hand, using the painstaking method of coiling and pinching.
Over the centuries, tribal groups from different regions have developed their pottery traditions in a variety of ways.
Southwestern Indian culture has changed little over the centuries, unlike anywhere else in Indian America; it is vital and timeless. The Southwest can boast the oldest continuous record of habitation on the continent, outside of Mexico. By the beginning of the Christian era, three primary southwestern cultures were forming: Hohokam (probably the antecedents of today’s Pima and Papago Indians in Arizona), Mogollon (of which the Mimbres culture was the highest achievement), and Pueblo (which climaxed in the eleventh century in the Four Corners area of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico). Most of these ancient cultures vanished by the twelfth century, but the Pueblo and Navajo cultures continue today.
Today, Southwestern pottery made in the existing twenty pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, and by the Navajos in Arizona, remains one of the greatest expressions of ceramic art in the world. The continuity of these Indian cultures is assured as long as their belief systems remain intact.
Clay vessels have been made for storage and household use in these stationary societies for at least two thousand years. Each pueblo has developed a style of form and decoration indigenous to its needs and beliefs. These varying styles have been historically documented and attributed to particular pueblos since the Spanish conquest.
Traditionally, Pueblo Indians prospected clays from their own secret ancestral clay sources. Most pots were smoothed to create burnished backgrounds for designs, which were painted with pigments made from residues of boiled plants or finely ground metallic rocks. Brushes were cut and shaped from the chewed ends of twigs or yucca fronds. Glaze was almost never used for a vitreous coating, nor was the potter’s wheel ever used for fabrication. The pots were hardened in an open outdoor bonfire reaching 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit. These antique methods are preserved today.
The railroad greatly affected Pueblo pottery culture, bringing curious and inquisitive tourists within reach of the artists. Soon, a great deal of Pueblo pottery was being made for sale as souvenirs. Traders were the middlemen; some settled near the reservations and set up trading posts that became famous. Fairs and markets, especially at Gallup and Santa Fe, promoted Indian pottery. Shops selling only pottery sprung up all over the Southwest. Among the most important merchants was the Fred Harvey Company, which sold Indian pottery in its chain of lodges, shops, and restaurants at railroad stations, national parks, and other key tourist locations throughout the West.
Within the boundaries of the somewhat nomadic Navajo nation lays the more settled Hopi Pueblo, a contradiction that has caused problems for many years. The relationship between the Hopi and the Navajo is tense. Although most Indian groups (even outside the United States) have similar myths of origin, rituals, good and bad gods, and rules of behavior, different groups of Indians are not at all alike. Differences between the Hopi and the Navajo tribes have caused some political and social confrontations.
Unlike the Hopi, the Navajo were not traditionally artistic potters, although Navajo women have been making pottery for hundreds of years for their own household and ceremonial use. A few of them turned into artist potters when the railroad crossed America, and have begun to be a force in the Indian pottery market much like Hopi artists, who have long been successful. In this century, Navajos have achieved renown in weaving of Navajo rugs, silversmithing and jewelry making, basketry, and painting; probably more than in any other Indian culture, Navajo potters are enveloped in surrounding aesthetic inspirations.
Navajo potters often mix several clays together, for varying physical and chemical as well as aesthetic qualities. Unlike many other tribes, Navajos do not grind up old potshards to mix into the raw clay powder for temper, lessening the shrinkage and breakage during firing. Navajos feel that old pottery shards belong to the Anasazi, their forefathers, and should not be removed from the ground.
The style of early Navajo pottery is in contrast to most pots made in other Indian villages in the United States. Fabricated in the coil and pinch manner of old societies, the work was bonfired – but then a unique treatment was used. Before the pot had cooled, hot melted pitch from piñon trees was poured or rubbed in a thin coating over the vessel, inside and out. This unusual technique distinguished the look and aroma of Navajo pottery.
Traditional pots were otherwise undecorated for centuries, except for textures that occurred in the fabrication, or the application of small symbols made of the same clay. Navajo tribal society was tightly controlled, and medicine men imposed restrictive behavior regulations upon the women making pottery. Possibly, the discipline imposed on Navajo women shows in the conservative nature of their pots.
In the 1880s, the railroad crossed America and the first Anglo-run trading posts came to the Navajo reservation. Use of cash money instead of the barter system brought the Indians access to Anglo cooking products made of metal and plastic, diminishing the need for utilitarian pottery and undermining native tradition. Navajo women still made pottery for ceremonial use, but the lack of production reduced the stimulus for making any kind of pottery. At the same time – while artistic pottery from the southwestern pueblos was reaching a high degree of popularity – traders rejected the traditional Navajo pottery, calling the dark-brown, pitch-coated, utilitarian wares “mud pots.” Tourist markets for Navajo rugs, blankets and jewelry were more profitable than the market for this kind of pottery.
For the most part, the Navajo Nation is comprised of high desert where temperatures can shift from very hot to very cold over the course of a few hours. There are canyons and plateaus, mesas and washes. The action of wind and water over the land has created rich and varied deposits of clay all over the reservation. This natural material has been well used for making pottery. The effects of weather on the land over eons have produced rich deposits of clays that are collected and used by the people for making their pottery. Potters learn to recognize good clay from looking at it, touching it, smelling it, and even from tasting it.
A change occurred when curators from nearby museums began to notice a few emerging clay artists, who were taking traditional Navajo techniques to new levels. In the 1960s, as new markets for traditional crafts expanded, Navajo potters began to produce pots for the tourists and collectors of Indian art. Though potters were traditionally women, many men now make pottery as well.
Navajo pottery does not have the refinement of the pottery of some other tribes of the Southwest, but it plays an important role in Navajo culture, and the processes used to make it are common to the hand building techniques used by potters all over the world.
Clay is a natural material. It is found all over the world on river and lake banks and, in fact, anywhere that the ancient action of wind, water, ice and the movement of earth’s surface have crushed rock and mixed it with silica and alumina along with a variety of minerals and organic materials. Long ago people found that soft damp clay could be shaped by hand into a variety of useful forms that became permanent when placed in a fire for a period of time. This process of turning clay into a permanent ceramic object is called firing. Clays found in different locations may have very different characteristics. They may be different colors, have more or less sand or other gritty material in them, which makes them smoother or rougher textured and can affect the temperature at which they fire. Some clay is sticky and some barely holds together as it is shaped.
Today ceramic supply companies make clay from raw chemical materials. These clays are mixed to provide predictable temperatures for firing and predictable colors and textures. Contemporary potters buy their clay from companies that specialize in mixing clays of different kinds for specific purposes.
Clay often has trapped air bubbles. The air in these bubbles will expand when the clay is exposed to heat, and cause the pot to explode. Additionally, there may be wetter or dryer spots in the clay. These must be mixed to develop a uniform consistency throughout the clay.
Clay is kneaded on a hard smooth surface like a tabletop covered with a piece of canvas to prevent the clay from sticking to the table. The process resembles kneading bread or cookie dough, until the clay feels uniform in texture and wetness and forms a smooth ball.
From the kneaded clay, a piece the size of a baseball is twisted off, and patted into a smooth sphere. The thumb is pushed into the center of the ball, and the clay is gently pinched between the thumb and forefinger as the ball is rotated in the palm of the hand, and slowly stretched into the desired shape. To prevent cracking, the surface of the clay pot is kept moist by dipping fingers into a container of water and smoothing the surface. Too much water, however, will cause the clay to get too soft and the pot to lose shape. The pot is continually turned and shaped until the walls of the pot are even in thickness, about 1/4 inch thick, and the desired shape is achieved.
To make a coil pot, several coils of clay must be prepared by gently rolling clay back and forth on a canvas covered surface, stretching it outward, until a coil of 1 to 1 1/2 inches and uniform thickness is achieved. The length of the coils need not be uniform.
The base is made by pressing the sides of one coil closely together, smoothing inside and out to make a smooth base or spiral of uniform thickness. The vertical walls of the pot are added one coil at a time, carefully joining each coil to the one below it by smoothing with the thumb. Coils should become invisible as a smooth and uniform pot with a pleasing shape forms. Some potters leave the coil design visible on the outside of their pot as a design element; however, the inside of the pot is smooth and the coils are securely joined.
A slab pot, is fashioned with a rolling pin and two flat sticks 3/8 to 1/2 inches in thickness, such as rulers or yardsticks. The sticks are placed apart the width of the rolling pin and clay is rolled between the sticks. The sticks determine the thickness of the clay slabs.
Slab construction is useful for making box shapes, or a circular base. From the slabs the base of the pot is cut. The base and sides are joined with a process of scoring, or scratched lines into the edges to be joined. Very wet clay is used, smearing the clay into the scored surface and then edges are pressed together securely. This wet clay is called slip. The extra slip is smoothed away, making sure pieces are securely joined.
After shaping, pots are put aside to dry. When the clay is leather hard, designs can be added to the surface. When the pot is thoroughly dry or no longer feels cold, it is called greenware, and is ready to fire.
Today Navajo pots are usually fired outdoors, one pot at a time in an open pit, with juniper wood both under and over the pot. The fires are allowed to burn hard for several hours. The pitch for coating the pots is gathered by children or families from piñon trees in an arduous process. Of course, everything about this process is arduous: digging the clay, grinding it to powder, coiling and pinching the clay into shape, gathering wood for the fire, tending the fire, and applying the hot liquid sap to the finished pot.
The Navajo tradition of making illustrative symbolic sand paintings for healing ceremonies has given inspiration to some pottery decorations, although it is against traditional rules to use them. It is difficult for Indians to use sacred symbols for design; feelings of reverence and ancestral respect impose strong limitations. Still, tribal background is inevitably an important decorative resource. The Yeibichai, representing the mythical Holy People, are particularly prominent subjects in Navajo art.
Today, most Navajo potters live in the Shonto-Cow Springs area of Arizona, where there is still a good clay source. Many of the potters in this and other areas are related directly, by marriage, or by clan. Traditional ways are handed down or handed sideways, still the best methods of passing on customs. Some of the women potters have actually conducted classes for other Navajo women. The revival of interest, spurred by the success of some Navajo potters, has gradually increased pottery production both for the market and for ceremonials.
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Ubuntu: An African Jurisprudence, 1st Edition
Ubuntu: An African Jurisprudence examines how and why South African courts and law-makers have been using the concept of ubuntu over the last thirty years, reflecting the views of judges and scholars, and above all proclaiming the importance of this new idea for South African legal thinking. Although ubuntu is the product of relations in and between the close-knit groups of a precolonial society, its basic aims – social harmony and caring for others – give it an inherently inclusive scope. This principle is therefore quite capable of embracing all those who constitute the heterogeneous populations of modern states.
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Title: Ubuntu: An African Jurisprudence, 1st Edition
Editors: T W Bennett, assisted by A R Munro and P J Jacobs
Publisher: Juta
ISBN: 9781485126 713
Format: Hard cover
Included in this work are discussions of two traditional institutions that provide model settings for the realisation of ubuntu: imbizo, national gatherings consulted by traditional rulers to decide matters of general concern, and indaba, a typically African process of making decisions based on the consensus of the group. Courts and law-makers have used imbizo to give effect to the constitutional requirement of participatory democracy, and indaba to suggest an alternative method of decision-making to systems of majority voting.
Ubuntu offers something extraordinarily valuable to South Africa and, in fact, to the wider world. Its emphasis on our responsibility for the welfare of our fellow beings acts as a timely antidote not only to the typically rationalist, disinterested system of justice in Western law, but also to the sense of anomie so prevalent in today’s society.
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About Bosnia
Bosnia is located on the Balkan Peninsula. With a population of more than 3 million people, it is one of the most frequently visited countries in the region. Bosnia is an enchanting destination where East-meets-West. Mountain landscapes afford visitors a dream vacation in this idyllic location. Popular attractions include Baščaršija in Sarajevo and Monument Stone Sleeper in Zenica.
Cheap flights to Bosnia are now available for a limited period of time, so prepare to be amazed by this natural wonder of a destination! The capital city, Sarajevo, is the home of Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ), which is a 20-minute drive from the city centre.
Why visit Bosnia
Bosnia boasts the most magnificent waterfalls to be gazed upon, it is truly a remarkable sight accompanied by the tranquil sounds of the cascading water.
Old Bazaar
Located in the city of Mostar, lies the Kujundziluk (Old Bazaar), where visitors can shop for traditional crafts and street snacks. This historic place consists of intricate alleyways and pink-painted houses.
Enjoy a blend of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine influences, with a strong Austrian touch as well, due to their years of rule over the country. Traditional meals include burek, sahan, ražnjići and baklava.
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Bosnia has two distinct climates which is seen in summer and winter. Peak season is between mid-May and August, this is when the most crowds are present and prices are extremely high. The city of Mostar has a Mediterranean climate, while temperatures get colder and more continental in cities such as Sarajevo due to its altitude. Winter is extremely cold with beautiful snow to be encountered. Sarajevo has an average of 53 snow days per year, tourists should visit between October and April to experience the heart of the snow season. Ideally, spring and autumn is the best time to visit for pleasant weather conditions, it is also an amazing time to sight incredible natural attractions such as Skakavac (waterfall) in Sarajevo and Vrelo Bune in Mostar.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina lives up to the Balkan dream. Informally known as Bosnia, its offbeat nature is certainly one of its drawing cards as tourism is increasing. Stunning landscapes thrills all who frequent this miraculous region. Located on the Balkan Peninsula, Bosnia and Herzegovina possesses majestic natural attractions, including stunning mountains, rafting rivers, and several glorious waterfalls. Remnants of the Bosnian War still exist throughout the country, adding to its unique identity in the Balkan region, and making the journey more profound! This destination is ideal for outdoor fanatics, explore the countries natural attractions by river rafting. It is a great way to get your adrenaline pumping and basking in the magnitude of Bosnia’s spellbinding beauty.
Sarajevo is the capital city which has been the grounds for many of Bosnia’s historic events. The city is home to a diverse range of religions, including Islam, Christianity and Judaism all with moving stories of their lives when the city was under siege. Sarajevo has contrasting imagery from dilapidated buildings to aesthetically charming mosques and natural wonders. Popular attractions include Baščaršija, Gazi Husrev Bey’s Mosque, Cathedral of Jesus’ Heart and Sarajevo Tunnel.
Through your tour of the country, be sure to pay a visit to the profoundly beautiful city of Mostar. There are many incredible attractions to visit such as the *Stari Most which is a 16th-century Ottoman bridge, it demands your attention! Mostar will reward you with unrivalled natural beauty, incredible architecture and scrumptious cuisine.
Brčko town is located in north-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, situated on the river Sava. It is surrounded by fertile fields orchard hills. If you stand along the Sava River, you will be able to see Croatia across the water.
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All travellers going to Bosnia and Herzegovnia should be up-to-date with their routine immunisations. Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella and polio are amongst the vaccinations that should be updated if necessary. Travellers are also encouraged to obtain vaccinations for hepatitis A, hepatitis B and rabies.
You are encouraged to be cautious when travelling through Bosnia and Herzegovnia, as with any new destination you visit. Staying safe in Bosnia and Herzegovnia:
• You should be aware that there are still landmines which are unaccounted for: these can be found in minefields and derelict buildings. For more information visit the website of the Bosnia and Herzegovnia Mine Action Centre
• Soccer matches can become quite rowdy with conflict rising between rival teams
. • Avoid stray dogs – attacks can occur in urban and rural areas.
• Be cautious of pickpocketing and vehicle break-ins, especially in Sarajevo.
• Do not carry large sums of money.
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Ransomware Recap: Old Dogs Locky, SAMSAM, HiddenTear Learn New Tricks
On August 16, LG Electronics’ service centers were reportedly hit by WannaCry ransomware. The company shut down the affected self-service kiosks to mitigate the malware’s spread and shared threat intelligence to South Korea’s Internet and Security Agency. In late June, WannaCry also made its way down to Victoria, Australia, affecting traffic lights and speed cameras.
The previous weeks showed that old dogs Locky, SAMSAM/Samas, Cerber, HDDCryptor, and HiddenTear learned new tricks to attack businesses and end users.
Locky gets new variants, its large-scale spam campaign in progress
Security researchers uncovered several iterations of the notorious Locky ransomware (detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_LOCKY family), with one variant, rebranded as IKARUSdilapidated, actively pushed by a widespread spam campaign. First spotted on August 9, the campaigns are powered by over 11,600 unique IP addresses from 133 countries, with more than 62,000 spammed messages sent in one day alone.
The spam emails contain a malicious Visual Basic script masquerading as either a Word document (.doc), archive (.zip), Portable Document Format (.pdf), or image file (.jpg, .tiff). When executed, it downloads and runs IKARUSdilapidated on the system. It uses typical social engineering lures: urging users to enable macros and obfuscating file attachments to evade detection. The ransom note demands a payment ranging between 0.5 and 1 bitcoin (US$2,145 to $4,290, as of August 18, 2017).
Several other Locky variants appeared in the previous weeks. A version that appends a .lukitus extension (which translates to “locking” in Finnish) to the files it encrypts employs a malicious JavaScript file, and demands a payment of 0.49 bitcoin ($2,102). Another Locky variety also surfaced last week, this time appending the encrypted files with .diablo6. Both iterations employ spam emails as infection vectors.
Ransom note of a Locky version that appends .diablo6 to encrypted files
Sample encrypted files appended with .diablo6 extension
SAMSAM ransomware demands a ransom of up to $51,000
SAMSAM/SAMAS (RANSOM_SAMAS) made headlines in April 2016 when it hit healthcare and education sectors in the US. SAMSAM used a hacking tool to exploit vulnerabilities in servers running JBoss, an open-source application server that runs Java, and used worldwide by K-12 schools. The compromised server is then used as an entry point from which attackers can spread the ransomware to the machines.
Security researchers noted the recent spikes of SamSam distribution, but this time its operators seem to be more fastidious and can now check the scope of infection. If a single machine was infected, SAMSAM demands 1.7 BTC ($7,267). If more systems were taken hostage, the ransom goes up to 6 BTC ($25,650) to decrypt half of them. The ransom for getting all infected systems back online is 12 BTC, or $51,000. Last May, SamSam infected the computer systems of Erie County Medical Center in New York and demanded a $44,000 ransom, which the hospital refused to pay.
Magnitude exploit kit delivers Cerber
Cerber (RANSOM_CERBER) is one of the most prolific ransomware families. And given that it’s peddled as a service in the cybercriminal underground, it has no shortage in variety. A more recent version is now capable of further monetizing their operations by stealing from bitcoin wallets, for instance, along with credentials saved in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox.
Attack chain of Cerber version 6
More recently, security researchers found that Cerber was actively delivered by the Magnitude exploit kit. Magnitude came to prominence last 2014 when its malvertisements made their way into Yahoo!’s advertising network, redirecting site visitors to a malicious domain hosting a cryptocurrency-mining malware. Magnitude is one of Cerber’s long-time partners in crime, leveraging security flaws in Adobe Flash Player as doorways into the system. Since the demise of Angler and the arrest of its operators, Magnitude—like other exploit kits—kept a low profile to avoid law enforcement. It has since become a private exploit kit used by a select group of cybercriminals. Magnitude was noted for its latest evasion and payload delivery technique: binary padding. This entails adding data to the payload to increase the file size beyond what detection technologies (i.e., static AV signatures) can handle and analyze.
Disk-encrypting HDDCryptor comes back
HDDCryptor (RANSOM_HDDCRYPTOR.AUSE), also known as Mamba, also reemerged in Brazil and Saudi Arabia. This time it misuses PsExec, a legitimate system administration utility, to hack into the targeted network shares and encrypt the files and hard disk.
It employs free and commercially available tools, particularly DiskCryptor, to lock the hard drive by overwriting the system’s Master Boot Record. When the machine reboots, it displays the ransom note instead of the login screen.
HDDCryptor’s ransom note
HDDCryptor drops various components needed to encrypt the local hard drive and file shares
This is a variant of the same ransomware family that scrambled the workstations of San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and demanded a ransom of $73,000 in bitcoins. The agency had to open their turnstiles, offer train rides for free, and resort to handwriting bus routes—all to avoid disrupting San Francisco’s transportation system.
More HiddenTear spawns crop up
Two more ransomware variants were spotted in the wild, both of which were derived from the publicly disclosed source code of Hidden Tear: InfiniteTear (RANSOM_INFINITETEAR.A) and 3301 (RANSOM_HIDDENTEARTHREE.A).
InfiniteTear is capable of encrypting 444 file types, including databases, document files, and multimedia, and appends the infected files with a .JezRoz extension. It demands $320 in bitcoin, and gives an ultimatum of seven days before the decrypt key is deleted from their server.
InfiniteTear's ransom note
3301 appends the encrypted file with the same extension name, and is capable of encrypting 2,783 file types. Its payment site is hosted in Tor’s hidden service. However, unlike other ransomware, victims had to first input their location and the 3301-generated victim ID to know the amount they had to pay. Victims are also given a week before the decryption key is deleted. The ransom note also sports seven other languages, which indicates that 3301 is distributed at least in countries that use those languages.
3301 ransomware's payment pages
The previous weeks’ ransomware made use of multifarious attack vectors, which makes a multilayered approach all the more significant. Follow best practices for defending against ransomware, and implement defense in depth in your cybersecurity—from the gateways, endpoints, networks, and servers.
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Enterprises can benefit from a multi-layered, step-by-step approach in order to best mitigate the risks brought by ransomware. Email and web gateway solutions such as Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Email Inspector and InterScan™ Web Security prevent ransomware from ever reaching end users. At the endpoint level, Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Suites deliver several capabilities like high-fidelity machine learning, behavior monitoring and application control, and vulnerability shielding that minimize the impact of this threat. Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery Inspector™ detects and blocks ransomware on networks, while Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ stops ransomware from reaching enterprise servers–whether physical, virtual or in the cloud.
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Users can likewise take advantage of our free tools such as the Trend Micro™ Lock Screen Ransomware Tool, which is designed to detect and remove screen-locker ransomware; as well as Trend Micro Crypto-Ransomware File Decryptor Tool, which can decrypt certain variants of crypto-ransomware without paying the ransom or the use of the decryption key.
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Sundance Announced Its 2020 Lineup and It’s Super Queer
Check out 10 LGBTQ-inclusive films on the festival's slate to get excited about.
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Yesterday, Sundance Institute announced the full lineup of independent feature films set to be showcased at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival (January 23 through February 2), and LGBTQ+ representation throughout its 118 selections was strong, with many either directed by a queer director, written by a queer screenwriter, featuring a queer actor, or including a queer storyline. According to a press release, 15% of this year’s films were directed by one or more people who identify as LGBTQ+, a slight increase from last year’s 13%.
Highlights at this year’s festival include LGBTQ+ focused documentaries, a new comedy written by Carrie Brownstein and St. Vincent, and Georgia’s first queer film in the form of a dancer’s coming-of-age story. Keep reading for our round-up of films we’re most excited to see at Sundance this winter.
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Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen (World Premiere)
Executive produced by Laverne Cox, this documentary investigates transgender representation in Hollywood and how it has affected how Americans view trans people. Directed by queer filmmaker Sam Feder, it features appearances and interviews by Cox, Mj Rodriguez, Lilly Wachowski, Chaz Bono, Trace Lysette, and others. Writer and activist Amy Scholder serves as producer.
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Welcome to Chechnya (World Premiere)
This investigative documentary shadows a group of activists as they seek to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ purge inside the Russian republic. It’s directed by gay writer and filmmaker David France, who has previously produced the 2017 documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, as well as the 2012 AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague.
Walter Mercado appears in Mucho Mucho Amor by Cristina Costantini and Kareem TabschCourtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Giovan Cordero
Mucho Mucho Amor (World Premiere)
This documentary follows the life of legendary late astrologist Walter Mercado, who passed away this November at the age of 87. Directed by Cristina Costantini and Kareen Tabsch, it follows the Puerto Rican star’s life as he grows up to be a famed psychic whose televised horoscopes reached 120 million viewers a day for decades. Though Mercado never explicitly came out, he is recognized as a queer icon for his gender non-conforming worldview and fantastically bejeweled outfits.
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The Nowhere Inn (World Premiere)
Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, wrote and stars this “satirical concert film” alongside Carrie Brownstein. The longtime friends, collaborators, and rumored former girlfriends will play “heightened versions of themselves,” as St. Vincent enlists Brownstein to make a music documentary about her life and work, according to Collider. Bill Benz, an editor and director of Portlandia and The Kroll Show, is set to direct.
Bachi Valishvili and Levan Gelbakhiani appear in And Then We Danced by Levan AkinCourtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Anka Gujabidze
When Swedish-Georgian queer film debuted in Tbilisi earlier this year, it was met with furious right-wing protestors. Considered the first LGBTQ+ film of Georgia, And Then We Danced follows the story of a traditional Georgian dancer who begins to uncover his sexuality when he encounters a rival dancer. It’s directed and written by Levan Akin.
Anne Hathaway appears in The Last Thing He Wanted by Dee ReesCourtesy of Sundance Institute
The Last Thing He Wanted (World Premiere)
Dee Rees, the queer filmmaker who made history with her 2019 Oscar nominations for Mudbound, directs an adaptation of a Joan Didion novel of the same name. The star-studded political thriller features a cast that includes Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe, and Rosie Perez.
Elisabeth Moss and Odessa Young appear in Shirley by Josephine DeckerCourtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Thatcher Keat
Shirley (World Premiere)
In this psycho-drama, Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg play the roles of the famed horror author Shirley Jackson and Stanley Hyman. Josephine Decker (Thou Wast Mild and Lovely) is set to direct the adaptation of Susan Scarf Merrell's novel of the same name, based on a screenplay by queer playwright Sarah Gubbins (I Love Dick).
Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger appear in Kajillionaire by Miranda JulyCourtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Matt Kennedy
Kajillionaire (World Premiere)
This highly-anticipated heist film, written and directed by the bisexual writer Miranda July, marks the third film she’s helmed but not appeared in. Instead, queer actress Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins, and Gina Rodriguez are set to star.
A still from The Go-Go’s by Alison EllwoodCourtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Lynn Goldsmith
The Go-Go’s (World Premiere)
Queer icons the Go-Go’s get a documentary following their rise to fame, starting from the late ‘70s LA punk scene to pop stardom. Directed by Alison Ellwood, the film features testimonies from the band’s members Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, and Jane Wiedlin.
Mariana DiGirolamo appears in Ema by Pablo LarraínCourtesy of Sundance Institute
Prominent Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín’s new experimental dance film sees its U.S. debut, after showing at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year. It follows the story of Ema, a reggaeton dancer played by Mariana Di Girolamo, who “[grives] the collapse of her family and then… [seduces] and [decieves] both men and women in the hopes of creating a new kind of family unit in the old one’s stead,” according to The Wrap.
A previous version of this story incorrectly said that Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein directed The Nowhere Inn.
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Russia Says Oil-for-Goods Deal Not Started Yet
An official at Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia's food safety regulator, said on Monday that grain sales to Iran had begun, according to the RIA news agency.
GELENDZHIK — Russian officials said on Monday it was too soon to say when an oil-for-goods deal with Iran would start, contradicting a report that Moscow had already begun delivering grain under such an arrangement.
The deal could help Moscow, which faces Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, strengthen its foothold in Iran. But an agreement between Tehran and world powers on Iran's nuclear program that relaxes sanctions on the Islamic republic has not yet been agreed.
An official at Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia's food safety regulator, said on Monday that grain sales to Iran had begun, according to the RIA news agency. But the regulators later said that did not mean the barter deal was already being implemented.
"Of course not," a Rosselkhoznadzor spokesman said when asked whether he knew that the deal had already started, adding that "we are dealing only with phytosanitary security."
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency, citing a report by Bloomberg, quoted Iran's oil minister on Saturday as saying Russia would begin oil imports from Tehran this week.
But the Kremlin declined comment and the Russian Energy Ministry said it was too early to talk about the start of the arrangement.
Energy Minister Alexander Novak later explained that Russia would not physically import Iranian oil under the deal.
"Within our memorandum on expanding trade and economic cooperation, Iran will sell us oil, and that money will go on buying goods from Russia. Our traders if possible will help to find a buyer," the Interfax news agency quoted Novak as saying.
Talks are now in their final stages on a deal to end the dispute between Iran and the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany on the nuclear program, which the West suspects has military aims. Tehran says the program is for peaceful purposes.
Russia has acted quickly to cement ties with Iran after an interim deal was reached in April on curbing the nuclear program in exchange for removing economic sanctions. The negotiators hope for a final accord by the end of this month.
The oil-for-goods swap between Russia and Iran is worth $70 billion, Iran's ambassador to Moscow told the Russian newspaper Kommersant in an interview published last week.
Mehdi Sanaei said it included a $1 billion deal already signed with state-run Russian Railways on building rail tracks, as well as six thermal power stations in Iran.
Russia has also said it is ready separately to deliver S-300 missile systems to Iran, the sale of which was scrapped in 2010 under Western pressure.
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Movies starring David Dencik
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
127 mins Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Gary Oldman stars as George Smiley who is tasked in uncovering a mole within British Intelligence...
Serena (2014)
109 mins Drama, Romance
The first thing which struck me about "Serena" is that I reckon Jennifer Lawrence must have been taken lessons from an actor in the adult movie industry as when it comes to the love making scenes in this romantic drama she is...
122 mins Drama, Western
Whilst I like Tommy Lee Jones as an actor I can't say that I have the same feeling when it comes to his work as a director. Now in fairness before watching "The Homesman" the only other movie which I have watched of his as a ...
* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name David Dencik as one of the principle cast members.
Simple list of David Dencik movies
Scenes of the Crime (2001)
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Posts Tagged‘speed’
Netflix to Come to Australia in March 2015.
by David Klemke on November 20, 2014
The age of the Internet has broke down the barriers that once existed between Australia and the rest of the world. We’re keenly aware that there are vast numbers of products and services available overseas that we want to take advantage of but either can’t, because they don’t want to bring it to us, or won’t because it’s far too expensive. We’re a resourceful bunch though and whilst companies will try their darnedest to make us pay the dreaded Australia Tax we’ll find a way around it, legitimately or otherwise. Probably the most popular of services like this is Netflix which, even though it’s not available here, attracts some 200,000 subscribers here in Australia. That number could soon rocket skywards as Netflix has finally announced that they’ll be coming to our shores early next year.
Australia will be the 16th country to receive the Netflix service, 7 years after they originally launched in the USA. Whilst there’s been demand for them to come Australia for some time now the critical mass of semi-legitimate users, plus the maturity of the cloud infrastructure they will need to deliver it here (Netflix uses AWS), has finally reached a point where an actual presence is warranted. Details are scant on exactly what they’ll be offering in Australia but looking at the other 14 non-US countries to get Netflix we can get a pretty good idea of what to expect when they finally hit the go live button for the Australian service.
For starters the full catalogue of shows that the USA service has will likely not be available to Netflix Australia subscribers. Whilst original content, like House of Cards or Orange is the New Black, will be available the content deals inked by rights holders with other companies in Australia will unfortunately take precedent over Netflix. This doesn’t mean that this won’t change over time as it’s highly likely that rights holders will look to move onto Netflix as old contracts expire but it might put a damper on the initial uptake rate. Considering that there are numerous services to change your Netflix region to get the full catalogue though I’m sure the restriction won’t have too much of an effect.
The DVD service probably won’t be making it here either, although I don’t think anyone really cares about that anyway.
Probably the biggest issue that Netflix will face coming to Australia is the dismal state of the Internet infrastructure here. Whilst most of us have enough speed to support some level of streaming the numbers of us that can do anything above 720p is a much more limited market. As long time readers will know I have little faith in the MTM NBN to provide the speeds required to support services like Netflix so I don’t think this is a problem that will be going away any time soon. Well, unless everyone realises their mistake at the next election.
Overall this is good news for Australia as it has the potential to break the iron grip that many of the pay TV providers have on the content that Australians want. It might not be the service that many are lusting after for but over time I can see Netflix becoming the dominant content platform in Australia. Hopefully other content providers will follow suit not long after this and Australia will finally get all the services it’s been lusting after for far too long. Maybe then people will realise the benefits of a properly implemented FTTP NBN and I’ll finally be able to stop ranting about it.
australia, content, nbn, netflix, rights holders, speed, streaming
Why Australia Needs The FTTP NBN.
by David Klemke on April 4, 2013
The state of broadband Internet in Australia is one of incredible inconsistency. I lived without it for the better part of my youth, being stuck behind a dial up connection because my local exchange simply didn’t have the required number of people interested in getting broadband to warrant any telco installing the required infrastructure there. I was elated when we were provided a directional wireless connection that gave me speeds that were comparable to that of my city dwelling friends but to call it reliable was being kind as strong winds would often see it disconnect at the most inconvenient of times.
The situation didn’t improve much when I moved into the city though as whilst I was pretty much guaranteed ADSL wherever I lived the speed at which it was delivered varied drastically. In my first home, which was in an affluent and established suburb, usually capped out at well below half of its maximum speed. The second home fared much better despite being about as far away from the closest exchange as the other house was. My current residence is on par with the first, even with the technological jump from ADSL to ADSL2+. As to the reason behind this I can not be completely sure but there is no doubt that the aging copper infrastructure is likely to blame.
I say this because my parents, who still live out in the house that I grew up in, were able to acquire an ADSL2+ connection and have been on it for a couple years. They’re not big Internet users though and I’d never really had the need to use it much when I’m out there visiting but downloading a file over their connection last week revealed that their connection speeds were almost triple mine, despite their long line of sight distance to their exchange. Their connection is likely newer than most in Canberra thanks to their rural neighbourhood being a somewhat recent development (~30 years or so). You can then imagine my frustration with the current copper infrastructure as it simply can not be relied upon to provide consistent speeds, even in places where you’d expect it to be better.
There’s a solution on the horizon however in the form of the National Broadband Network. The current plan of rolling out fibre to 93% of Australian households (commonly referred to as Fibre to the Premises/Home, or FTTP/H) elminates the traditional instability that plagues the current copper infrastructure along with providing an order of magnitude higher speeds. Whilst this is all well and good from a consumer perspective it will also have incredible benefits for Australia economically. There’s no denying that the cost is quite high, on the order of $37 billion, but not only will it pay itself back in real terms long before its useful life has elapsed it will also provide benefits far exceeding that cost shortly after its completion.
Should this year’s election go the way everyone is thinking it will though the glorious NBN future will look decidedly grim if the Coalition has their way with it. They’ve been opponents of it from the get go, criticising it as a wasteful use of government resources. Whilst their plan might not sound that much different on the surface, choosing to only run Fibre to the Node (FTTN) rather than the premises, it is a decidedly inferior solution that will not deliver the same level of benefits as the currently envisioned NBN. The reason behind this is simple: it still uses the same copper infrastructure that has caused so many issues for current broadband users in Australia.
You don’t have to look much further than Canberra’s own FTTN network TransACT to know just how horrific such a solution is. After a decade of providing lackluster service, one that provided almost no benefit over ADSL2+, TransACT wrote down their capital investment and sold it to iiNet. If FTTN can’t survive in a region that is arguably one of the most affluent and tech savvy in Australia then it has absolutely no chance of surviving elsewhere, especially when current ADSL services can still be seen as competitive. You could make the argument that the copper could be upgraded/remediated but then you’re basically just building a FTTP solution using copper, so why not just go for optic fibre instead?
What really puts it in perspective is that the International Space Station, you know that thing whizzing 300KM above earth at Mach 26, has faster Internet than the average Australian does. Considering your average satellite connection isn’t much faster than dial up the fact that the ISS can beat the majority of Australians speed wise shows just how bad staying on copper will be. FTTN won’t remedy those last mile runs where all the attenuation happens and that means that you can’t guarantee minimum speeds like you can with FTTP.
The NBN represents a great opportunity to turn Australia into a technological leader, transforming us from something of an Internet backwater to a highly interconnected nation with infrastructure that will last us centuries. It will mean far more for Australia than faster loading web pages but failing to go the whole for the whole FTTP will make it an irrelevant boondoggle. Whilst we only have party lines to go on at the moment with the “fully detailed” plan still forthcoming it’s still safe to say that the Coalition are bad news for it, no matter which angle you view their plan from.
coalition, copper, fibre, ftth, fttp, internet, nbn, speed
Crysis 2: A Gorgeous Feast For The Eyes.
by David Klemke on March 28, 2011
Ah Crysis, one of the few games that basically dared anyone with a top of the line PC to try and run it max settings only to have it bring it down in a screaming mess. I remember the experiences fondly with many machines coming up against the Crysis beast only to fall when things were turned up to the nth degree. To it’s credit though it aged quite well, meaning that unlike other games like Far Cry 2 that chugged for seemingly no reason Crysis was really a generation ahead of itself. I only managed to get a full play through of it done after I upgraded in mid-2008 and I can remember it being quite a beautiful game even then. It’s been a long time between drinks for the Crysis series but last week, after over 3 years since its first release, Crysis 2 debuted to much fanfare and the lament of those who had not upgraded.
I was amongst those who had upgraded just after the original Crysis came out and haven’t done so since. Apart from upgrading the graphics card once my machine is still a Core 2 Duo E8400 with 4GB RAM and a Radeon HD4970 graphics card. You can then imagine my anxiety as I booted up the game for the first time and seeing the game choosing a somewhat less than optimal display resolution for my widescreen monitors. Still I figured I should at least give it a go at native resolution before turning it down again, figuring it would be fun to see my beast struggle under the load of the next generation of Crysis, something which I haven’t really seen in years.
You can then imagine my surprise when everything ran, for want of a better phrase, fucking brilliantly.
Whilst the first 15 minutes of the game aren’t much more than a glorified movie quite a lot of it is done in game. Whilst I was first taken a back by how smooth it was running I figured it was because of the limited scenery and effects, thinking that once I was out in the urban jungle of New York my PC would begin crying under the load. But still the whole way through the game from wide open scenes with explosions going off everywhere to the various underground passages I spelunked the game ran incredibly smooth with the only signs of the framerate dropping when my PC decided it really needed to do something on my games drive.
It’s at this point that I’d usually make some quip about how all games run well on old hardware since they’ve all been primarily designed for consoles first but looking at Crysis 2, even though it’s on all major platforms, I couldn’t really pick any areas that suffered because of this. The graphics are phenomenal, easily trouncing everything I’ve played through this year. This is even after they’ve included all the goodies like volumetric lighting, realistic fog and awesome effects like the cloaking transparency. Truly Crytek have outdone themselves with CryEngine 3 bringing great graphics to the masses.
After all that gushing about the graphics, I suppose I should say something about the game 😉
Crysis 2 is set entirely in New York City where the Ceph, an alien race that players of the original Crysis will be familiar with, have begun their invasion of earth. It appears to be a 2 pronged invasion with them releasing a virus that seems to be randomly striking down all of the burrow’s denizens as well as flooding the streets with their cyborg warriors. You play as Alcatraz a marine who’s being sent into New York to extract Dr. Gould, a scientist who may have information regarding the alien invasion. Unfortunately your submarine is taken out by a Ceph ship and you’re seemingly left to die until Prophet (again a familiar face for original Crysis players) rescues you and bestows his nanosuit upon you.
Game play has been refined and streamlined from the original Crysis. Instead of picking a particular mode for your suit (speed, strength, cloak, armor) most abilities will automatically engage when you do something that requires it (like sprinting or holding down the jump to do a super jump). You still have cloak and armor modes which have to be actively enabled but thankfully they’re mapped by default to E and Q respectively, making the transition quite easy. Additionally the suit can be upgraded through a very similar interface to the gun modification menu, requiring you to collect Nano Catalyst which drops from Ceph enemies when you defeat them. This allows you to change the way you play the game quite significantly, giving you the choice between your typical run and gun FPS to an entirely stealth game with only smatterings of toe-to-toe combat.
Indeed unlike many of the more recent cinematic shooters we’ve seen released over the past year or so Crysis 2 doesn’t have that feeling of being totally locked to the one path the game designer had in mind. Nearly every encounter can be completed through the use of stealth or just as easily by jumping into the thick of battle and blasting your way through the waves of enemies that come at you. This is also complemented by the range of weapons the game throws at you, leaving you the choice to take the most appropriate one for your particular play style. Of course there are some encounters where doing it in a particular way with a certain weapon will be an order of magnitude easier than the other choices but it’s still much better than have no choice at all, like we’ve become accustomed to with the recent influx of AAA FPS titles.
The game is unfortunately not without its faults however, as the screenshot above would allude to. Whilst this particular incident of tearing was isolated to a 30 minute section of game play (and no it was not overheating since it went away in the next scene) there were a couple other non-breaking issues that plagued my game time. Often I’d find a weapon I’d like to swap my current one for after seeing what’s coming up ahead only for the game to not register the gun’s existence, rendering me unable to pick it up. Reloading would usually fix this but since there’s no option to manually save your game this could sometimes send me quite far back in the game so most of the time I just went wanting. Additionally some of the scene geometry’s hit boxes would be bigger than they appeared on screen, getting my character stuck on invisible boxes. All these problems pale in comparison to the games biggest flaw: the multi-player.
Now I don’t do a whole lot of multi-player gaming unless it’s with friends but I really enjoyed the multi-player in Crysis and Crysis: Warhead so I figured I’d give it a go, thinking it would make good blog fodder. Hitting the multi-player link on the main screen I was prompted to enter in my game key again, strange since I was pretty sure I had to do that to play the game. Thankfully it came up with my pre-order bonuses so I figured it must’ve just needed it for the initial multi-player set up. After looking around the server list for a while I found one with some spots spare and clicked join, only to receive the error “Serial code currently in use”. Unphased I restarted Crysis 2 to attempt it again, only to be asked yet again for my serial key and receiving the exact same error upon attempting to join a server.
Strangely enough I could join empty games no problem so I figured it might be something to do with the way I was trying to join games. I hit up the quick match and chose Instant Action (everyone for themselves) and managed to get 2 games in. Those brief moments were quite fun as the games were chaotic with people appearing and disappearing everywhere. Satisfied that I wasn’t doing something wrong I tried yet again to join a server only to be greeted with the same errors. My frustrations were compounded by the fact that there’s no auto-retry function to attempt to join a server that’s full, leaving me the option of trying to find one that’s partially full (which doesn’t seem to happen very often) or waiting in an empty room for people to join (which also doesn’t happen). I tried in vain for another 30 minutes to get in one more game before giving up entirely and tweeting my frustrations at the Crysis team.
Like nearly all AAA titles Crysis 2’s ending also screams “OMG THERE WILL BE A SEQUEL” so loudly at the end that you’d have to leave the room not to know about it. Sure they made it clear at the start that Crysis was a trilogy so 2 sequels were a given but this almost felt like Crytek saying “Hey guys, guess who’s going to be the next Call of Duty franchise?”. I’m a fan of solid FPS action as much as the next guy but leaving the ending deliberately open just gives me the shits, even if the current story was wrapped up well enough.
Despite these problems the core of the game is good, extending on the success that Crysis enjoyed whilst showing off the capabilities of the CryEngine 3 magnificently. I’ve had several on the fence friends see me playing through the game on Steam ask me if it was worth the purchase and I’ve told them, even if you negate the multi-player (which in all honesty where the true replay value of games like this lie), the game is still good value for money. Whilst I haven’t been at a LAN in over a year I can still see Crysis 2 being a LAN favorite for some time to come with the extensive variety of multiplayer modes available along with numerous smaller maps to cater for smaller groups. Whilst the game ran incredibly smooth on my current rig I’m still excited at the prospect of upgrading yet again just to see how capable the game is when everything is driven to its absolute max as it was unabashedly gorgeous on my now 3 year old rig.
Rating: 9.0/10 (I’m being kind an excluding the multi-player snafu since I don’t usually include multi, but if you want to know I’d rate it 8 with it in).
Crysis 2 is available right now on PC, Xbox360 and Playstation 3 right now for $69.99, $108 and $108 respectively. Game was played entirely on the PC version on Hard difficulty with around 10 hours of game time total. Multiplayer was attempted on the 28th of March 2011 with 2 Instant Action games played totaling about 30 minutes.
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Medical Examiner Confirms Remains Found in Arkansas Are Those of 4-Year-Old Maleah Davis
Filed to:Maleah Davis
Derion Vence in photo provided by Houston police
Photo: Associated Press
Decomposed remains found in Arkansas late last week have been confirmed to be those of 4-year-old Maleah Davis, the Houston child reported missing from Texas in early May by her mother’s then-fiance, who was subsequently arrested in connection to the case.
As KTRK ABC 13 reports, police in Fulton, Ark., Friday said a road crew found a bag from which a foul odor emanated. Inside, were bones and blood.
“We are all saddened by the confirmation of the identification of the remains brought home to Houston by members of the Houston Police Department as Maleah Davis,” the Houston Police Department said Monday in a statement. “However, we are heartened by the fact this sweet child can now receive the proper burial she deserved and that those who knew and loved her most desired.”
Derion Vence, the fiance of Maleah’s mother at the time of the child’s disappearance, has been in jail since May 11 on charges of suspicion of tampering with a human corpse.
Vence initially told police May 4 that he had been attacked by “three Hispanic men” who had abducted him, his own 1-year-old son and Maleah, before finally taking off with just Maleah.
Vence also claimed amnesia due to having been hit in the head. But about 10 days after the child disappeared, police found his story to have too many holes, and he was arrested and jailed on the tampering charge.
This past weekend while still in jail on $45,000 bail, Vence allegedly confessed to Houston community activist Quanell X that he had killed Maleah “by accident” and revealed where to find her body.
Derion Vence Allegedly Confesses to Dumping Body of Maleah Davis; Police Find Human Remains [Corrected]...
Houston-based activist Quanell X, leader of the New Black Panther Nation, claims in a report by…
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, which identified Maleah’s remains, says it hasn’t yet determined “the cause and manner of the girl’s death,” the Washington Post reports.
Harris County prosecutors say Vence will likely face charges in addition to those of tampering with a corpse, which on its own carries a sentence of up to 20 years, according to KTRK.
MALEAH DAVIS: Remains found in Arkansas those of missing 4-year-old girl
The 4-year-old, whose remains found in Arkansas were confirmed as hers, is being remembered as…
Maleah Davis Likely Dead While Cooperation Wanes, According to Houston Law Enforcement
Derion Vence Arrested in Connection with Maleah Davis’ Disappearance
Mother of Maleah Davis Now Believes Ex-Fiancé Bears Responsibility for Disappearance, Police Say His Story Doesn't Add Up
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H2K re-sign Odoamne and Jankos
by theScore Staff Nov 22 2016
Thumbnail image courtesy of Worlds / lolesports flickr
H2k-Gaming have announced that both Andrei "Odoamne" Pascu and Marcin "Jankos" Jankowski have re-signed contracts with the team for 2017.
First portion of big news coming right in :) ! #H2KFAM pic.twitter.com/8J4BRL85uk
— H2K (@H2KGG) November 22, 2016
Odoamne has been with H2K since June 2014, when the team was competing in the Challenger series. He helped the team earn their place in the LCS and the team has been a part of the EU LCS ever since.
Jankos joined the team in the offseason last year, in December 2015. The ensuing year has been a great one for H2K, taking fourth in the EU LCS spring playoffs and third in the summer playoffs. They made it to Worlds as the second seed from EU, topped Group C and came 3rd-4th overall after a 3-0 loss to Samsung Galaxy in the semifinals.
Earlier today, Aleš "Freeze" Kněžínek announced his free agency. It remains to be seen whether H2K will renew the contracts of either Oskar "VandeR" Bogdan or Yoo "Ryu" Sang-ook, whose contracts expired on Nov. 20 and 21 respectively, according to Riot's contract database.
Konstantinos-Napoleon "FORG1VEN" Tzortziou played for H2K at the EU LCS summer playoffs and Worlds as a replacement for Freeze, who was suffering from a hand injury at the time. He recently announced that he was fielding offers from other teams and regions, but returning to H2K was a possibility.
Annabelle "Abelle" Fischer is a writer for theScore esports with a love for Dota 2, birds and cheese. You can follow her on Twitter.
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Daniel Archuleta, Editor in Chief|October 25, 2019
It has been more than two years since the United States men’s soccer team had its worst disappointment, failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Yet in the team’s most recent match, a road shutout loss against the Canadians shows that the entire men’s team starting with the U.S. Soccer Federation down to the U.S. coaching staff, led by Gregg Berhalter, have displayed zero improvement along with a lack of identity on the pitch.
These problems began as soon as former manager Bruce Arena was let go following 2018 World Cup Qualifying. At the hands of the U.S. Soccer Federation, they were in no rush to name a new permanent manager, even when it seemed they needed to make a move in the right direction. Instead, they force the hands of Dave Sarachan to be a transitional interim coach and never committed to him full-time. This move was made even after Berhalter was looked at to take the job following the end of the qualification.
The process to hire Berhalter was barely even a process. Earnie Stewart, former General Manager of the Men’s team who now oversees both the Men and Women of U.S. soccer, interviewed only two candidates, Berhalter and Óscar Pareja. Gerardo “Tata” Martino, who now is the Mexican coach, showed interest in taking the job but was excluded from an interview due to his lack of English. Jesse Marsch, who has become the first American to coach in the UEFA Champions League, was never contacted by U.S. Soccer.
2018 saw 23 new players brought in to represent the Stars and Stripes yet they were never learning a system since Sarachan wasn’t being even consider keeping his job. This is the reason to the team’s recent struggle with Berhalter at the helm. Under Berhalter, he is looking to instill his system of play where the defenders play the ball forward instead of giving players the freedom to attack. It was what Berhalter did while managing Columbus Crew SC yet he was able to succeed as he dealt with his players on a daily basis during the Major League Soccer season.
His style is not working with the United States players. Even with the talented roster at his disposal, the time he has to make them adapt to a new style of play while they come from their club teams, hasn’t given results. Before the Gold Cup back in June, the U.S. suffered shutout defeats at the hands of Jamaica and Venezuela. In a friendly against Mexico, the U.S. was shutout again giving up three goals in the process.
The likes of Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, and Josh Sargent are talented enough to take over games at the international level. Yet, the supporting cast that is joining these players also seem to not be fit for this team. Berhalter has been accused for calling up his “favorites” from the MLS compared to testing out the players who are playing their club ball internationally.
The team now faces a very daunting path in the new CONCACAF Nations League, as it must defeated Cuba and Canada in order to move on into the semifinals. If the U.S. doesn’t win these next two games, it is all but time to fire Gregg Berhalter and have a bigger look in the mirror seeing exactly what is making this team such a disaster right now.
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Boulder County denies ballot request by opponents of Twin Lakes affordable-housing plan
Dave Rachberger, chairman of the Twin Lakes Action Group, speaks to the media before heading to the Boulder County commissioners' open comments session at the Boulder County Courthouse on Tuesday. Holding the sign in the background is Dinah McKay, right, and Kristen Bjornsen. Paul Aiken Staff Photographer Sept 6 2016
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An open space area near Twin Lakes in the Gunbarrel area of Boulder County.
The Boulder County commissioners rejected a request Tuesday from the Twin Lakes Action Group to ask voters this fall to prohibit the use of county open space as a path for Boulder’s potential annexation of a proposed affordable-housing site in Gunbarrel.
The group, which opposes a controversial plan to develop affordable housing on two now-unincorporated properties along Twin Lakes Road, made a last-minute proposal to have the Board of County Commissioners place the question on this fall’s ballot.
Group chairman Dave Rechberger presented the request during the commissioners’ monthly opportunity for the public to comment on county government issues.
Commissioners Elise Jones, Deb Gardner and Cindy Domenico didn’t formally vote to reject the organization’s ballot proposal.
But they indicated in comments at the end of the public-comment meeting that it’s not needed and wouldn’t actually apply to possible county plans to ask Boulder to annex a trail corridor on the south side of the Twin Lakes Open Space Area.
Such an annexation wouldn’t close the trail, but it could be used to achieve contiguity with Boulder’s existing city boundary. That’s something that would be needed before the Boulder County Housing Authority and the Boulder Valley School District, the two properties’ owners, could seek Boulder’s eventual annexation, zoning and permission to develop medium- or mixed-density housing on their 20 acres of property south of that trail corridor.
The Twin Lakes Action Group, which opposes such housing developments on that now-vacant housing authority and school district land, on Tuesday proposed the ballot question that — in addition to asking voters to deny letting the county seek Boulder’s annexation of the trail corridor — would also prohibit cities or towns from annexing any county-owned open space anywhere else in Boulder County, without voters’ prior approval in countywide elections.
Without such voter approval, “Boulder County open space properties face an imminent threat,” Rechberger said. He said the ballot proposal would give the public a voice in protecting public lands for future generations.
Trail vs. open space
Domenico, however, said, “The land in discussion is a trail corridor” that a developer of a nearby subdivision dedicated to the county for that specific purpose, and it is not technically a part of the Twin Lakes Open Space area.
The prohibition the Twin Lakes Action Group wants against allowing annexations of open space “doesn’t even apply, in this case,” Domenico said, since the land in question is a trail, and not open space.
“This maybe is a distinction we should have made clear in the beginning,” Gardner said, since the city’s possible annexation of a trail corridor “is a completely different situation” than annexation of any county-designated open space.
Nor was the trail corridor purchased with tax dollars earmarked for open-space acquisitions, Gardner said.
Said Jones: “There is absolutely zero intention” for the county to seek municipal annexations of county-owned-and-designated open space areas, which she noted often serve as development-prohibited buffers outside cities’ and towns’ boundaries.
Jones also said that no final decisions have been made about how to achieve contiguity with Boulder insofar as having the city annex the potential housing sites. She indicated that other ways might still be possible.
Land-use changes
Still under consideration by the county commissioners, the county Planning Commission, the Boulder City Council and the Boulder Planning Board is the Twin Lakes Action Group’s request that the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan be amended to designate the 20 acres on Twin Lakes Road — land that’s not now officially a county-owned open space area — as open space, precluding any future development there.
The housing authority and the school district, though, are requesting that the properties’ current comprehensive-plan land-use designations be changed to allow the affordable housing developments they’ve been proposing for their properties.
During a news conference before Tuesday’s meeting, Rechberger said that while “I would hope they would” put the open annexation question on the ballot, he wouldn’t be surprised if the commissioners didn’t.
“We’ve already seen that there doesn’t seem to be a willingness to listen to their constituents,” Rechberger said.
Boulder County, along with other local governments, face a Friday deadline for certifying the content of their 2016 general-election ballot questions.
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Lafayette Ballot Question 2B: Filling vacancies in elective offices
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PUBLISHED: October 10, 2019 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: October 10, 2019 at 6:03 am
What it asks: “Shall the existing timelines in Section 5.7 of the Lafayette Home Rule Charter be amended to provide that any vacancies in the City Council occurring more than 180 days before the next regular city election shall be filled by City Council within 45 days?”
What it means: Currently, if a vacancy occurs more than 90 days before the next election, City Council has 30 days to fill that vacancy. This would extend those timelines.
What supporters say: Lafayette council members have found themselves forced to fill three sudden vacancies in little more than a year, and have expressed that having more time in which to complete that process would likely enable them to do so more effectively.
What opponents say: There is no known opposition.
How they voted: Longmont-area congressional votes for Jan. 10-16
Rep. Joe Neguse to address “State of the District” in Boulder
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Blue and White says Netanyahu copied party on Jordan Valley annexation
PM draws fire from political rivals after rockets disrupt his campaign event
Parties on left and right pan premier’s Gaza strategy after he is taken off stage; Bennett calls it a ‘national humiliation’; Lapid: ‘Netanyahu is done and can leave the stage’
By TOI staff 10 September 2019, 2:10 pm 3 Edit
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, being moved away from a campaign event stage while surrounded by security as rockets are shot at Ashdod on September 10, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)
The Times of Israel liveblogged Tuesday’s events as they unfolded.
48,000 new voters added to the rolls since April elections
The Central Bureau of Statistics releases the official voter figures ahead of the September 17 election.
Some 5.8 million resident Israelis are eligible to vote.
Of those 5.8 million, 14 percent are aged 18-24, 30% age 25-39, 31% age 40-59, and 25% are 60 or older.
The voter rolls grew by some 48,000 people since the April 9 race, the committee says, or 0.8% of the total.
Of those eligible voters, 79% are Jews, 16% are Arabs and 5% are from other minorities, including non-Arab Christians and non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
The Arab portion of the electorate is likely to grow, the figures reveals, as the Arab population is younger: 38% of Arab Israelis are under 18, compared to 32% among Jews.
The CBS figures do not include some 570,000 Israelis who are also technically eligible to vote, but have lived overseas for many years and are thought unlikely to travel to Israel to vote in next week’s race. Israel has no absentee ballots, except for some 5,000 diplomats and other officially recognized emissaries and their families.
Man moderately wounded in Haifa shooting
A 47-year-old man is shot and moderately wounded on Kibbutz Galuyot Street in the northern city of Haifa.
He is taken to Rambam Hospital in the city.
The incident marks the second shooting in the city in three days, after a local physician was shot on Sunday on Allenby Street.
Police have said there are no immediate indications linking the shootings to terror groups, and are treating the cases as criminal.
North Korea fires 2 projectiles after offering talks with US
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launches two projectiles toward the sea, South Korea’s military says, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its dealings with Washington may end without new US proposals.
The launches and demand for new proposals are apparently aimed at pressuring the United States to make concessions when the North Korea-US talks restart. North Korea is widely believed to want the United States to provide security guarantees and extensive relief from US-led sanctions in return for limited denuclearization steps.
The North Korean projectiles fired from its South Phyongan province, which surrounds its capital city of Pyongyang, fly about 330 kilometers (205 miles) across the country and in the direction of the waters off its east coast, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Ministry.
The military says South Korea will monitor possible additional launches. The JCS doesn’t immediately say whether the weapons are ballistic missiles or rocket artillery. “More detailed analysis is needed to determine the exact specifications,” JCS spokesman Kim Joon-rak says.
Tuesday’s launches are the eighth round of launches since late July and the first since August 24. The previous seven launches have revealed short-range missile and rocket artillery systems that experts say would potentially expand Pyongyang’s capabilities to strike targets throughout South Korea, including US military bases.
Two women take IDF to court for excluding women from combat roles
Two prospective young IDF recruits are dragging the army to the High Court of Justice over its refusal to draft women as combat troops in the Armored Corps.
Or Avramson and Ma’ayan Halberstat, both 19, file the petition today against the army and Defense Ministry ahead of their slated draft in March 2020.
In their petition, the two note that the IDF experimented with a coed tank unit, and concluded in June 2018 that the experiment was a success. Women have served as combat instructors in the corps since 1976, they note, suggesting that the only factor preventing their service in combat roles is their gender.
EU slams Iran’s new nuclear centrifuge research
A European Union spokesman in Brussels expresses “great concern” today over Iran’s announcement over the weekend it is launching a new effort to expand its research and development into centrifuges for enriching uranium, part of the country’s nuclear program.
“We note with great concern the announcement made by Iran about the expansion of centrifuge R&D activities. This is a further reduction of its commitments under the JCPOA,” the official acronym of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
“We are also particularly concerned about developments reported by the IAEA in its extraordinary report of 8 September with regard to Iran’s centrifuge R&D activities. The recent installation of centrifuges is inconsistent with the JCPOA, and the intended installation of more centrifuges is extremely worrisome as it could significantly increase Iran’s enrichment capacity,” the spokesman says.
“We have been clear and consistent that our commitment to the nuclear deal depends on full compliance by Iran. We urge Iran to reverse all activities inconsistent with its commitments under the JCPOA and to refrain from any further measures that undermine the preservation and full implementation of the nuclear deal. We reiterate our unwavering support to the IAEA and the impartial and technical manner with which it implements nuclear safeguards.”
— Raphael Ahren
Democratic Camp says PM’s 5 p.m. press conference oversteps campaign advertising laws
The Democratic Camp party appeals to the Central Elections Committee to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled 5 p.m. press conference from being broadcast live by television outlets.
The Likud party has said the announcement will be “dramatic,” but has not offered any indication of its subject.
Netanyahu is expected to use the opportunity to further his election campaign, Democratic Camp says, in violation of campaign advertising laws.
In past campaigns, broadcasts of live statements by the prime minister were delayed by 10 minutes in order to give elections officials time to cut parts deemed to violate advertising rules.
Will Netanyahu announce annexation, Pollard’s release or Otzma’s withdrawal?
There are now at least three rumors about what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to announce in the 5 p.m. press conference billed by his party as a “dramatic” announcement.
Channel 13’s Barak Ravid says a “senior Israeli official” is telling him the prime minister is going to announce plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
Another source close to the PM says he may be announcing an election “gift” from US President Donald Trump: the release of former spy Jonathan Pollard from the requirement that he remain in the US, and his triumphant arrival in the Jewish state.
Yet another rumor says Netanyahu has finally convinced the extremist Otzma Yehudit party to drop out of the race in a bid to up the number of right-wing votes that go to Likud.
The third rumor, it should be noted, has been denied by Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir.
Past rumors have suggested Netanyahu was trying to broker a US-Israel defense pact ahead of the election.
Dorian death toll rises to 50 in the Bahamas
NASSAU, Bahamas — The government in the Bahamas says the death toll from Hurricane Dorian has risen to at least 50.
Authorities say they expect to find more bodies as they search through debris in devastated areas of the northern Bahamas.
Members of the Gainesville, Florida, fire department found five bodies Monday in the destroyed neighborhood known as The Mudd, the Bahamas’ largest Haitian immigrant community.
Dorian is blamed for at least seven other deaths in the Southeast US and Puerto Rico.
Blue and White petitions against live broadcast of Netanyahu press conference
Blue and White is also appealing against the live broadcast of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 5 p.m. press conference.
The party says in a petition to Central Elections Committee chair Hanan Melcer that Netanyahu will use the opportunity for electioneering, violating election advertising laws.
Mayim Bialik to write and direct her first feature film
Popular Jewish actress Mayim Bialik will write and direct a feature film based on her own experiences.
The comedy-drama titled “As Sick As They Made Us,” which will deal with mental illness, will be Bialik’s screenwriting and directing debut. The news is first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
The film tells the story of a divorced mother who struggles to help her estranged brother visit their father on his deathbed. His death throws the family into disarray as she finds new love and while dealing with her difficult mother and brother, according to the website.
“Growing up surrounded by mental illness is not something that is easy to write about, nor is it easy to live through,” Bialik told Deadline Hollywood. “The challenges ripple out into the lives of children immersed in these families even as they try to make their own lives apart from the challenges they grew up with. After my father’s passing four and a half years ago, I decided to explore the complexity of mental illness and familial responsibility — especially as it falls on women — as well as to highlight the redemptive nature of a family’s love as they navigate death and continue to live life on their own terms.”
Mayim Bialik at The Paley Center For Media’s Paleyfest at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, March 16, 2016. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images/via JTA)
Bialik is best known as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler from the hit show “The Big Bang Theory,” which concluded in May. She was launched into stardom at the age of 15 as the title character in the television series “Blossom.”
— JTA
Iran to probe suicide of female soccer fan amid uproar
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s judiciary has been asked to investigate the death of a woman soccer fan, state media says, after she reportedly self-immolated because she feared imprisonment for trying to enter a stadium.
The country’s vice president for women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, asked the judiciary chief to look into the case in a letter, the state-run Iran newspaper reports.
Sahar Khodayari, 30, was arrested last year when she tried to go into a stadium dressed as a man to watch her favorite team, Esteghlal FC, the Varzesh 3 sports news outlet said, citing her sister.
Dubbed “blue girl” because of Esteghlal’s colors, she set herself on fire outside the court last week upon hearing from someone there that she would be going to prison for six months, it said.
The judiciary’s Mizan Online website says no sentence had been issued since there had been no trial and the judge was away on holiday.
The death of Khodayari sparked an outcry online, with many calling on world soccer’s governing body FIFA to ban Iran from international competitions and for fans to boycott matches. Pictures said to be of her in hospital covered in heavy bandages have been shared widely on social media.
Iranian soccer legend Ali Karimi urged his 4.5 million Instagram followers to boycott stadiums until further notice.
“The women of our land are better than men,” he wrote alongside an image of a woman with a soccer ball for a heart and flames over her head.
Mandelblit denies investigators pressured witnesses in Netanyahu probes
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit denies investigators pressured state’s witnesses to give false testimony in a series of corruption cases involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mandelblit also rejects accusations that untoward pressure was applied on suspects in the probes to turn state’s witnesses.
“There is no basis to claims about pressure being applied on state’s witnesses to give versions [of testimony] that are not the truth,” Mandelblit writes in a letter to Avi Himi, the head of the Israel Bar Association.
The attorney general says based on his review of the investigatory materials, “police investigators thoroughly clarified to state’s witnesses, and on a number of occasions, that they are required to tell only the truth.” He also says their testimony was recorded and that the witnesses cooperated with police of their own free will.
Mandelblit also addresses a television report from the weekend that police used the son of Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of the Bezeq telecom giant, to convince him to fire his lawyer as part of a bid to turn him state’s witness.
“As for the claim that Or Elovitch was sent on behalf of police to influence his father to fire his lawyer, this claim is based on a quote from a recording that was made for Or Elovitich and his father during the investigation. However, this quote is a fragment that does not correctly reflect the events,” he says.
“A reading of all the relevant investigatory materials leads to a completely different picture,” Mandelblit adds.
Elections chief allows PM announcement, warns Likud against a campaign ad
Central Elections Committee chair Hanan Melcer rejects petitions by Blue and White and the Democratic Camp to delay the broadcast of a purportedly “dramatic” announcement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The expected announcement “has a clear news value, which naturally will draw broad media coverage and public attention,” Melcer says.
“It does not constitute prohibited election advertising, and therefore there is no cause for issuing the requested order.”
Melcer says media outlets will nevertheless watch the announcement, and switch from a live broadcast to a delayed one if they conclude it constitutes election propaganda.
Melcer says his decision is “based on statements from Likud and on the assumption that there won’t be Likud campaign literature alongside Netanyahu’s appearance. I am certain that Netanyahu and Likud are aware of the ramifications if it turns out these assurances given to me were inaccurate.”
Netanyahu announcement delayed by an hour
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s purportedly “dramatic” announcement, originally scheduled for seven minutes ago, is delayed by an hour, to 6 p.m., Likud says.
Hezbollah leader warns against new US mediator with Israel
BEIRUT — A US official visiting Beirut to mediate between Lebanon and Israel over a maritime border dispute is a “friend of Israel,” keen to defend its interests, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group warns.
Hassan Nasrallah urges Lebanese officials to negotiate from a point of strength with US Assistant Secretary of State David Schenker over the nearly 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) of the Mediterranean Sea claimed by both countries.
Schenker met with Prime Minister Saad Hariri after arrival on Monday. On Tuesday, he met with President Michel Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri who complained about new American sanctions that targeted Jammal Trust Bank for, as the US Treasury Department said, “knowingly facilitating banking activities for Hezbollah.”
The US considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has been imposing sanctions on the group for years. In July, the Treasury for the first time imposed sanctions on two Hezbollah legislators.
US accuses Iran of ‘possible undeclared nuclear activities’
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accuses Iran of “possible undeclared nuclear activities,” as the UN’s nuclear watchdog presses Tehran for answers on its atomic safeguards.
“The Iranian regime’s lack of full cooperation with @iaeaorg raises questions about possible undeclared nuclear material or activities,” Pompeo tweets.
“The world won’t fall for it. We will deny the regime all paths to a nuclear weapon.”
Pompeo’s warning comes a day after the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) urged Iran to respond quickly to its concerns, as the troubled 2015 deal with world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program threatens to fall apart.
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group adopts ‘human rights policy’
An Israeli spyware company that has been accused of helping authoritarian governments stifle dissent says it has adopted “a new human rights policy” to ensure its software is not misused.
The NSO Group says it will institute a series of oversight measures to ensure adherence and would henceforth evaluate potential clients’ “past human rights performance.”
NSO has come under fire in the past year for selling its surveillance software to repressive governments who use it against dissidents. It does not disclose clients, but they are believed to include Middle Eastern and Latin American states. A Saudi dissident has accused NSO of making software used by Saudi officials in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year.
The company says its product is used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to fight “crime and terrorism.”
Jordan Valley leader jumps the gun, thanks Netanyahu for annexation
A public relations company working for Jordan Valley Regional Council chair David Elhayani, Pe’er & Levin PR, may have jumped the gun on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s expected “dramatic” announcement this evening, releasing a statement quoting Elhayani lavishing praise on Netanyahu for apparently taking steps toward annexation of the Jordan Valley.
“After 11 years of serving [as council head], which were filled with fear for the future of the Valley, this is one of the most important and exciting moments I have experienced,” Elhayani is quoted as saying.
“I thank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the depths of my soul for transforming this time into a historic moment for Israel. Let us not forget how he stood strong in the face of the Obama administration’s pressure to surrender the Jordan Valley — and in his first opportunity, Netanyahu now shows his leadership, determination and courage as a statesman and true patriot, fulfillling the dream of the Valley’s residents, and of most of Israel’s citizens.”
He goes on: “To the cynics who say this was for the election, don’t worry about them.”
Jordan summons Israeli envoy over arrest of two nationals
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry summons Israeli Ambassador to Amman Amir Weissbrod over arrests Israel made of two Jordanian citizens, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sufyan Qudah says.
In the meeting, the ministry calls for the immediate release of the Jordanians citizens and demands that it be informed of all the details of the arrests and accusations against them, Qudah adds.
Israel detained Abdelrahman Maree and Heba Abdelbaqi after they crossed the Allenby border crossing, Quda says, without stating when they were nabbed.
A Jordanian diplomat in Israel visited Maree and Abdelbaqi on Tuesday “to provide support” to them, according to the spokesman.
— Adam Rasgon
Barak slams Netanyahu ‘fake news’
Democratic Camp candidate and former prime minister Ehud Barak slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s expected announcement about the Jordan Valley as a hollow election ploy.
“Netanyahu is good at talking, less good at doing,” he tells Channel 12. “This is all fake news.”
He lists other purported Netanyahu achievements that he considers similarly “fake.”
“I don’t know if Ramat Trump will ever be founded. I don’t know what the legal value is of the [Trump administration’s] Golan recognition. Did the embassy move to Jerusalem, or was a plaque placed on a building?”
Netanyahu: I’ll annex West Bank settlements if re-elected
In a campaign pitch, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises to “apply Israeli sovereignty” — effectively annexing — to all the Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
But he adds he’ll only take the step “after the elections,” out of respect for the Trump administration and its expected peace plan.
“I want from you a clear mandate to apply Israeli sovereignty to all the settlements,” he says.
Netanyahu: I’ll immediately annex the Jordan Valley, if I get voters’ mandate
While he promises to annex all settlements after he’s re-elected, Netanyahu makes another one:
“One place that can have sovereignty immediately applied to it after the elections is the Jordan Valley. The next government will apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley.”
A map presented by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 10, 2019, showing areas of the Jordan Valley he promises to annex immediately after the September 17 elections. (Courtesy)
He then asks for Israelis’ votes.
“This is a democracy. I won’t do anything without a clear mandate. So I’m asking for a mandate, to do this thing that enjoys a broad consensus, to define at long last Israel’s permanent borders, promising that Judea and Samaria don’t turn into Gaza.
“This map defines our eastern frontier. We haven’t had this kind of opportunity since the [1967] Six Day War, and may not have it against for another 50 years.”
Netanyahu’s announcement draws laughing emojis from Liberman
Reactions are starting to pour in to Netanyahu’s campaign promise to annex the Jordan Valley “immediately” after the elections.
Former defense minister Avigdor Liberman mocks Netanyahu’s claim it was a “dramatic” announcement, posting a short tweet with the words “dramatic announcement” and two laughing emojis.
הצהרה דרמטית😂😂
— אביגדור ליברמן (@AvigdorLiberman) September 10, 2019
Peace Now dismisses ‘delusional’ annexation as ‘selling out our future’
Peace Now, which backs Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, mocks Netanyahu’s “delusional” promise to annex the Jordan Valley.
“Netanyahu’s delusional post-election annexation is further evidence of the limitless cynicism of a prime minister buried neck deep in serious corruption cases.”
The group notes he’s “opposed annexation for years. This is an election ploy by the head of a caretaker government who, evening after evening, puts on ever more delusional demonstrations of his irresponsibility. What won’t the allegedly corrupt suspect from Balfour [the PM’s official Jerusalem residence] do to scrape more votes from [Otzma Yehudit head Itamar] Ben Gvir and [Yamina candidate Betzalel] Smotrich, in a desperate attempt to ensure his immunity in the next Knesset?”
Unilateral annexation, the group adds, “is bad for Israeli diplomacy, defense and international standing” and “will bring us closer to an apartheid state.” Netanyahu, it says, “is willing to sell out all our futures, and send a message to Israel’s citizens, to the Palestinians, and to the whole world that his political survival means continued bloody conflict and the collapse of our democracy and any chance for peace.”
Poll: 48% of Jewish Israelis support applying sovereignty over Area C
The Israel Democracy Institute, a Jerusalem think tank, says it recently polled Israelis on the question of annexing parts of the West Bank. Here are its findings:
“According to the Israel Democracy Institute’s Israeli Voice Index, 48% of Jewish Israelis and 11% of Arab Israelis would favor [applying Israeli sovereignty over Area C of the West Bank] if it were supported by US President Donald Trump and his administration.
“This compares to 28% of Jewish Israelis and 56% of Arab Israelis who oppose this idea. Almost a quarter [of] Jewish Israelis and one third of Arab Israelis remain undecided on this matter.
“In the case of possible annexation of Area C, Jewish Israelis are divided on whether or not a Palestinian state should be established in the remaining parts of the West Bank. 40% would oppose this, while 37% would support it. Among Arab Israelis – 51% of Arab Israelis support this idea – while 20% oppose it.”
Gantz mocks Netanyahu as ‘spinner’
Blue and White chief Benny Gantz mocks Netanyahu’s promise to annex the Jordan Valley, calling the prime minister a “spinner” in a Twitter post featuring a fidget spinner toy.
“In a word — a spinner,” he writes.
במילה אחת – ספינר. pic.twitter.com/BvhrXWhEbd
— בני גנץ – Benny Gantz (@gantzbe) September 10, 2019
Trump abruptly fires John Bolton
US President Donald Trump announces on Twitter he had fired his national security adviser John Bolton.
“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore….”
“….I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.”
Yamina, too, slams Netanyahu annexation promise as ‘spin’
Netanyahu’s promise to immediately annex the Jordan Valley after the election isn’t going down well with Israeli political parties on right or left. After being slammed as “delusional” and a “spinner” by the left and center, rightist Yamina goes after him, calling his announcement “spin.”
“Netanyahu explained this evening why voters must vote Yamina and not Likud,” the party says in a statement, explaining that Netanyahu’s annexation doesn’t go far enough. “The Bibi-Trump plan will only allow for sovereignty to be applied over the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, leaving out the surrounding areas.”
“Only a big and strong Yamina will ensure that Area C [the roughly 60% of the West Bank under full Israeli control] will not be abandoned.
“As for the Jordan Valley, we call on Netanyahu to pass a cabinet decision already this evening, as was done when sovereignty was applied to Jerusalem. There is no need for legislation. We will stand behind him immediately and vote in favor [of such a decision].
Otherwise, the entire nation of Israel will know that this was a cheap political spin meant to nab votes, and nothing more.”
— Jacob Magid
Bolton indicates he found out about his firing on Twitter
Minutes after US President Donald Trump announces the firing of his national security adviser John Bolton on Twitter, Bolton takes to the social network to suggest Trump may have deliberately tried to humiliate him.
“I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, ‘Let’s talk about it tomorrow,'” he writes.
I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) September 10, 2019
Binyamin regional head calls on Netanyahu to annex entire West Bank
Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz lauds Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to annex the Jordan Valley if he wins next week’s election, but asserts that the move must be immediately followed by the annexation of the remaining settlements in the West Bank.
“There is no reason in the world why Judea and Samaria residents should continue to live as second class citizens of the State of Israel. The move must be complete, applying sovereignty to the Binyamin area and throughout all of Judea and Samaria,” he says.
Blue and White responds to Netanyahu’s promise to annex the Jordan Valley with derision, saying it was an election ploy that copied the party’s own vow to ensure the area remained Israeli “forever.”
The statement reads: “The residents of the Jordan Valley are not Netanyahu’s propaganda props. Blue and White has declared that the Jordan Valley will be part of Israel forever. It was Netanyahu who concocted a plan to surrender the Jordan Valley in [peace talks in] 2014.
“We’re glad Netanyahu came to his senses and adopted Blue and White’s plan for recognition of the Jordan Valley.
“The relationship between Israel and the United States is based on shared interests and values, and is stronger than any prime minister. Netanyahu’s spinning of Israel’s citizens will end on September 17.”
Palestinian official: Netanyahu annexation bid ‘destroys chances of peace’
A senior Palestinian official says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to annex the Jordan Valley if re-elected destroys all chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
“He is not only destroying the two-state solution, he is destroying all chances of peace,” senior official Hanan Ashrawi tells AFP. “This is a total game changer.”
In a tweet, Ashrawi adds: “Netanyahu’s cheap pandering to his extremist racist base exposes his real political agenda of superimposing ‘greater Israel’ on all of historical Palestine & carrying out an ethnic cleansing agenda. All bets are off! Dangerous aggression. Perpetual conflict.”
Netanyahu’s cheap pandering to his extremist racist base exposes his real political agenda of superimposing “greater Israel” on all of historical Palestine & carrying out an ethnic cleansing agenda. All bets are off! Dangerous aggression. Perpetual conflict.
— Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) September 10, 2019
Top Arab lawmaker: Annexation move part of right’s ‘apartheid vision’
Israel’s top Arab lawmaker, MK Ayman Odeh, slams Netanyahu’s promise to annex the Jordan Valley, but at least doesn’t call it “spin.”
“This isn’t just election spin,” he says, apparently responding to nearly every other faction on left and right that’s already called it that.
“The right’s apartheid vision is composed of two parallel processes — erasing the civil status of Arabs in Israel as well as annexing the territories. They don’t want to turn the West Bank into part of Israel, they want to turn Israel into an appendage of the West Bank.”
That vision, he warned, will lead to “a minority of Jewish citizens [who] will control a majority of Palestinian subjects denied their rights.”
Settlement advocacy group ‘fully anticipates’ annexations beyond Jordan Valley
Regavim, a pro-settlement advocacy group, is one of the few bodies congratulating Netanyahu for his promise to annex the Jordan Valley.
“More than five decades after the return of the Jewish People to Judea and Samaria, we congratulate Prime Minister Netanyahu for taking a historic step toward the sovereignty of the State of Israel and the Jewish People in their ancestral homeland,” the group says.
“The Prime Minister’s announcement that immediately following the elections he intends to extend Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and all Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is a historic moment in the history of the Jewish People, which took its first steps as a nation when it crossed into the Promised Land in the Jordan Valley. We fully anticipate that Israeli sovereignty in the Jordan Valley will be the first step toward a much broader extension of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.”
A Regavim spokesperson adds: “The first step toward sovereignty is law enforcement and establishing facts on the ground. Prime Minister Netanyahu: The true test will be in actions, not announcements – and it is your hands. We expect the State of Israel to take concrete steps to halt the Palestinian Authority’s takeover of the Jordan Valley in order to make Israeli sovereignty a reality.”
Erekat on Netanyahu annexation: ‘Israelis and the world must stop this insanity’
Senior Palestinian official and former top peace negotiator Saeb Erekat, who lives in Jericho in the Jordan Valley, slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to apply Israeli sovereignty over most of the area.
“Netanyahu announced his plan to annex the Jordan Valley and Palestine’s 37.2 kilometer shore along the Dead Sea,” Erekat tweets.
“If he succeeds, he will have buried any chance for peace for the next 100 years. Israelis and the international community must stop this insanity. Annexation is a crime. It means reinforcing apartheid, violence, extremism and the spilling of blood.”
Trump administration sees ‘no change in policy’ after Netanyahu annexation bid
A Trump administration official says “there is no change in United States policy at this time. We will release our Vision for Peace after the Israeli election and work to determine the best path forward to bring long sought security, opportunity and stability to the region.”
Lapid slams ‘election stunt,’ says PM ‘had 13 years’ to annex Jordan Valley
Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid slams Netanyahu’s “election stunt.”
In a statement, he says: “Netanyahu has had 13 years as prime minister and no one stopped him from applying sovereignty to the Jordan Valley. It’s an election stunt and not a very impressive one because it’s so transparent. He doesn’t want to annex territory, he wants to annex votes from [Yamina’s] Smotrich.”
Jordan Valley council head praises Netanyahu’s ‘courage and leadership’
Netanyahu speaks to Jordan Valley Regional Council head David Elhayani, who praises his “courage and leadership” in promising to apply Israeli sovereignty to the area.
“Thank you for your courage and leadership,” Elhayani says, according to a transcript of the conversation from Netanyahu’s office. “You made history! I’m proud that you’re the first prime minister who did this.”
Netanyahu replies: “The Jordan Valley is our iron wall toward the east. Thank you for the support. With God’s help we will win [the election] and do this.”
J Street calls on Congress to respond to Netanyahu annexation promise
The left-wing Washington advocacy group J Street, which backs a two-state solution and opposes Israeli annexation in the West Bank, calls on members of the US Congress to respond to Netanyahu’s annexation promise.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu made absolutely clear today that, if re-elected next week, he plans to annex large portions of the West Bank, make the occupation permanent and condemn millions of Palestinians to a future of living under unending Israeli rule, without basic civil rights or self-determination. These actions would destroy Israeli democracy and constitute a flagrant violation of international law,” the group’s head Jeremy Ben-Ami says in a statement.
“The Prime Minister also made clear his intention to secure President Trump’s full approval for these steps. Given that the administration’s clear embrace of settlement expansion, opposition to the two-state solution and contempt for Palestinian aspirations has helped to bring us to this point, there’s every reason to believe that the White House could soon give Netanyahu the green light. An official presidential endorsement of annexation could come at any minute in the next few days or weeks.
“To respond to this unprecedented threat, House leadership must immediately bring to the floor a vote on House Resolution 326, which clearly opposes annexation and affirms US support for the two-state solution — and already has the support of over 180 Members of Congress. Responsible lawmakers and presidential candidates must also make clear that they will not give the Israeli government a blank check to violate US interests and democratic values. They must make clear that annexation of any portion of the West Bank will lead to major consequences for the future of the US-Israel relationship.”
White House knew about Netanyahu annexation announcement — report
A source familiar with the Trump administration’s thinking says the White House was told about the Netanyahu annexation announcement before it was made, and does not think it precludes the possibility of a political settlement in the future.
Newest poll finds Blue and White ahead, and Otzma Yehudit in the Knesset
Channel 12’s newest poll sees the two most significant recent trends continue, with Blue and White pushing slightly ahead of Likud, while the extremist Kahanist party Otzma Yehudit squeaks into the Knesset with four seats.
The poll gives Blue and White 32 seats, Likud 31, the Arab Joint List 9, Yamina 9, Yisrael Beytenu 9, United Torah Judaism 7, Shas 7, the Democratic Camp 6, Labor 6 and Otzma Yehudit 4.
Asked who they thought was a better fit for prime minister, 40 percent say Benjamin Netanyahu, 32% say Benny Gantz.
Yamina’s Bennett slams Netanyahu as serial breaker of campaign promises
Yamina candidate Naftali Bennett slams Netanyahu’s annexation promise as “just words.”
He says in a statement: “I welcome Netanyahu’s string of promises, but these are just words. You can implement them immediately. I call on the prime minister to pass the ‘Jordan Valley Law’ by tomorrow in three readings, instead of the cameras law” pushed by Likud this week.
“[Former premier Menachem] Begin did it. He didn’t promise, he passed a law through all three [Knesset plenum] readings, in a single day, 14 December 1981.”
He noted a list of similar campaign promises Netanyahu has failed to implement in the past.
“Ahead of the last elections, Netanyahu promised to build in Ma’ale Adumim and the E1 area [east of Jerusalem], after the elections it didn’t happen.”
“Ahead of the last elections, Netanyahu promised a death penalty for terrorists, after the elections it didn’t happen.”
“Ahead of the last elections, Netanyahu promised to destroy Hamas, after the elections it didn’t happen.”
He concludes: “Since I’m still convinced in the prime minister’s honest intentions, I commit to make sure that all the lawmakers of Yamina will show up in any place and at any time to ensure the immediate passage of the Jordan Valley Law” annexing the area.
Jordan slams Netanyahu annexation vow as ‘dangerous escalation’
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi slams Netanyahu’s annexation promise.
In the Arabic statement, Safadi says: “We condemn Israel’s prime minister’s announcement — his intention to annex illegitimate Israeli settlements and apply sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the northern parts of the Dead Sea — as a dangerous escalation that undermines the foundations of the peace process, and [constitutes] an election move whose price will be the collapse of opportunities to solve the conflict, and will move the region towards more violence and crisis.”
ندين إعلان رئيس وزراء إسرائيل عزمه ضم المستوطنات الإسرائيلية اللاشرعية وفرض السيادة على منطقة غور الاْردن وشمال البحر الميت تصعيدا خطيرا ينسف الأسس التي قامت عليها العملية السلمية وتوظيفا انتخابيا سيكون ثمنه تقويض فرص حل الصراع ودفع المنطقة نحو المزيد من العنف والتأزيم
— Ayman Safadi (@AymanHsafadi) September 10, 2019
US announces new sanctions against Hamas, Islamic State
The US says it is imposing new sanctions on a “wide range of terrorists and their supporters,” including Hamas and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters reports.
The statement comes on the eve of the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
“The sanctions targeted 15 leaders, individuals and entities affiliated with groups including Hamas, al-Qaeda, Islamic State and Iran’s IRGC,” Reuters says, citing a US Treasury Department statement.
Rocket sirens sound in Ashdod, Ashkelon
Rocket alarm sirens are sounding in Ashdod and in Ashkelon’s industrial zone.
Gaza rocket reportedly intercepted by Iron Dome
At least one Gazan rocket is intercepted by Iron Dome, according to initial reports.
No one is reported hurt in the attacks as residents race to their bomb shelters.
Five rockets shot at Ashdod, Ashkelon
At least five rockets are fired from Gaza toward Ashdod and Ashkelon.
Gaza rocket fire interrupts Netanyahu campaign event in Ashdod
The rocket fire from Gaza interrupts Netanyahu’s campaign speech in Ashdod, as it is carried live on Likud’s Facebook page.
Blue and White campaign event also disrupted by Gaza rockets
A Blue and White campaign event in Ashkelon is also interrupted by Gaza rocket fire tonight. The party’s no. 4 Gabi Ashkenazi headlined the event.
Officials say just two rockets fired from Gaza
Security forces are still searching for more fallen rockets, but report that just two rockets appear to have been fired from Gaza a short time ago — and not five as first reported.
One rocket headed toward the southern coastal city of Ashdod and was intercepted by an Iron Dome missile.
The second landed in an open area near Ashkelon.
After rocket siren sounds, Netanyahu urges audience to ‘quietly, quietly leave’
When the rocket siren sounds during Netanyahu’s speech at a campaign rally in Ashdod, the prime minister urges his audience to “quietly, quietly leave the area,” footage of the event shows.
He is then led away from the area by his security detail.
Ashkelon mayor orders city’s bomb shelters opened for residents
Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam orders bomb shelters opened in the city.
“Our residents are experienced, unfortunately. They know they need to listen to instructions by the [military’s] Homefront Command,” he tells Channel 12.
Woman, 46, suffers anxiety attack during rocket siren
One woman, 46, suffers an anxiety attack in Ashdod due to the rocket alert siren. She is taken to Asuta hospital in the city.
Hamas forces evacuating facilities in expectation of Israeli retaliation
Hamas forces are reportedly evacuating facilities throughout Gaza in expectation of Israeli retaliatory strikes following the rocket fire tonight.
Netanyahu returns to stage in Ashdod, continues campaign speech
Minutes after he was spirited away from an Ashdod campaign event amid rocket fire from Gaza at the southern city, Netanyahu returns to the stage to continue his speech.
IDF confirms rocket fire, interceptions
The IDF confirms that two rockets were shot from Gaza. Both were intercepted by Iron Dome batteries, the army says.
UN warns Israel over West Bank annexation plans
The United Nations warns Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his plan to annex the Jordan Valley in the West Bank if reelected would have no “international legal effect.”
Netanyahu issued the pledge today as he gears up for the September 17 elections. He also said Israel would move to annex settlements throughout the West Bank.
“The secretary-general’s position has always been clear: unilateral actions are not helpful in the peace process,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says.
“Any Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdictions and administration in the occupied West Bank is without any international legal effect,” the spokesman adds.
“Such a prospect would be devastating to the potential of reviving negotiations, regional peace, and the very essence of a two-state solution.”
Palestinians report IDF fire toward boats off Gaza coast
Palestinian media is claiming Israeli fire directed at boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
No injuries are reported.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
Israeli occupation navys open heavy fire at the Palestinian boats during their working in the sea, west of Gaza Strip.
*No injuries were reported pic.twitter.com/mX1NtUkw1T
— Shehab News (@ShehabAgencyEn) September 10, 2019
Iran calls Bolton ouster a ‘clear sign of defeat’ of US sanctions campaign
An aide to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the sacking of US National Security Adviser John Bolton is a sign Washington’s campaign of sanctions against Tehran is failing.
“Bolton’s marginalization and his subsequent removal isn’t an accident but a clear sign of the defeat of America’s maximum pressure strategy” against Iran, Hesameddin Ashena tweets.
Political rivals tear into Netanyahu’s Gaza policy after rockets disrupt event
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election rivals tear into his strategy regarding the Gaza Strip after the premier is spirited away during a campaign event in Ashdod due to incoming rocket sirens.
Yair Lapid, co-leader of the Blue and White party, tweets: “a red alert this evening in Ashdod while Netanyahu is onstage is a red flag for the citizens of Israel. Netanyahu is done and can leave the stage.”
Labor leader Amir Peretz says: “Nothing is new. Unfortunately, Netanyahu again disappears while neglecting residents of the south. Real leadership requires dealing with the root of the problem, rather than hiding under Iron Dome’s shield.”
Right-wing figures also slam the premier. Yamina party member Naftali Bennett calls the incident “a national humiliation. Hamas has stopped fearing Israel. Israel’s security will be reinstated by assassinating Hamas chiefs, not press conferences.”
“Today’s event proves that Netanyahu’s policy, which is an effective surrender to terror, has gone bankrupt,” Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman says in a statement, adding that he, too, was in Ashdod for a campaign event when the sirens sounded.
In milestone, Israel starts exporting natural gas to Egypt
Jerusalem’s and Cairo’s energy ministries issue rare joint statement announcing implementation of estimated $19.5 billion deal to pump gas from 2 massive offshore gas fields
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Mel Swanson Day
Lt Col Melvin G. “Mel” Swanson passed away Sunday, March 12, 2017. Mel was a Firefly in early 1970 before being assigned to command 56th SOW Operating Location Alpha Alpha (OLAA) at Danang AB, RVN. Known to many as the “Spad Dad”, Mel led the small unit in highly classified missions supporting Special Forces reconnaissance teams as well as USAF Search and Rescue missions in the late summer of 1970.
Over the last 4 years, Mel had become like a family member to the Tennessee Museum of Aviation. Our staff and volunteers will certainly miss his stories, his smile and his laughter. We salute you Sir.
The Museum will open to the general public at 10:00am. Soon after opening, and weather permitting, our Douglas A-1H Skyraider will perform a brief flight demonstration to begin the day. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the “Heroes” who bravely served during the Vietnam War. Join us in the Exhibit Gallery at 1:30pm, where we will begin an informal panel discussion leading to a Q&A session centered around Mel Swanson and Operating Location Alpha Alpha in general.
**The OLAA reunion group will hold a private ceremony honoring their Commander. The museum will close at 5:00pm on April 22.**
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Lt Col Mel Swanson standing next to his A-1 Skyraider “Sweet Betty Lou”
Lt Col Mel Swanson – second from the left
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This one is located just near the Buccoo Reef and is a very exciting place, since the pool is naturally formed. The pool is enclosed by an ocean and got its name due to its clear water.
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Among various sections of the Indian film industry, the Tollywood aka the Telugu Film industry is also one of the most crucial and famous industry of our society which produced numbers of successful movies in years to years of different genres from horror, suspense, comedy, thrilling, Masala movies, actions, comedy, creative, thought provoking and so on. Literally like the Bollywood industry, the Tollywood industry is also loaded with some of the most talented actors who are known wide across the country.
These top 10 Tollywood Actors produced great performances in their respective movies which are also quality based movies. Apart from delivers mesmerizing performances in their respective movies the Tollywood stars are also giving complex to the bandwagons of the tinsel towns in the matter of looks, fashion, attitude and style.
They actors set their own style statement which is enough to woo audiences no wonder why the stars are having huge fan following from all across the globe.
Anyway, let’s have looked on the list of “Top 10 Stylish Actors Of Telugu Cinema”:
Allu Arjun: The 33-years-old Telugu actor Allu Arjun is known for his massive performances in his blockbuster movies like “Julayi”, “Rudhramadevi”, “Race Gurram” and so on. With the gigantic fan following the movie-artist fondly address as Bunny by his fans. He is a great dancer too and everybody literally smitten by his dancing skills and always managed to look jagged in his every outfits.
Rana Daggubati: The actor known in the country for his amazing acting skills. And currently he is ridding success with his epic and blockbuster movie “Bahubali”. Rana has his own style statement; literally he is having an effortless sense of style. He is known for films like “Dum Maaro Dum”, “Leader”, “Rudhramadevi” and so on.
Sidharth Narayan: Siddharth is a multi-talented celebrity who has proficiency in acting, playback singing and also as a screenplay writer. Apart from dazzles in Southern movies, he showcases his acting skills in epic Bollywood movie “Rang De Basanti”. Siddharth Narayan managed to look extreme handsome even in casual as well in the formal dress.
Akhil Akkineni: The 23-years-old young lad just makes his acting debut in the T-Town with movie “Akhil”, indeed his presence has been felt. Apart from having female fan following, the actor even managed to receive compliment in terms of looks from the entire film fraternity. Whether it is formal or casual get-up he looks perfects, in all attire.
Nithin Reddy: Nithin Reddy is most handsome actor of the Telugu cinema literally with his simple but mesmerizing look. He worked in Bollywood movie “Agyaat” too with dozen of the Tollywood movies. His style statement is very simple, indeed dignified. His pleasant personality is literally par apart.
Prabhas: Prabhas one of the most sorted Tollywood actor in his own league on the choices of his films. Currently he is enjoying much success after the release of his highly acclaimed movie “Bahubali”. Apart from a fantastic acting, Prabhas is blessed with most magnified look.
Nandamuri Kalyan Ram: With his extremely dashing and handsome look he successfully woos audiences with massive female fan following, he is doing very well in the Telugu film industry. He is known for movies like “Patas”. Last year he also produced the Telugu movie like “Kick 2” with Tollywood superstar Ravi Teja and the young actress Rakul Preet Singh.
Akkineni Nagarjuna: If you see the latest fashion trends and if you have to give challenge to the young heroes regarding looks is never so easy, still if you are over 50. But the legendary actor Akkineni Nagarjuna does it with full on style. It would be hard to believe that he is 56; he looks much younger than his age.
The actor is ruling Tollywood from 3 decades; still he is doing the same. The 56-years-old cine-artist is counted as the one of the most versatile actor of the Telugu cinema. Nagarjuna looks spiffy in anything he wears.
Mahesh Babu: Chennai-Born Telugu actor Mahesh Babu comes from the renowned celebrity family but he is known for his performances not for his background. Honored with extremely handsome personality, Mahesh Babu is touted as the best actor of Tollywood. He is always received thumbs up when it comes to looking good.
Pawan Kalyan: Among the most popular actor of Tollywood Pawan Kalyan is always about donning different roles and aiming for success at all times. He is also role model of mass but he proved impressive for class also.
His style statement is simple but unique and special. No wonder why his gestures and mannerisms are adopted strongly by the fans. Indeed Power Star Pawan Kalyan is treated as demigod status among the fans and the star carved a niche of his own and this was mainly due to his mannerisms and style.
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Would You Pay $262,000 for Carbon Fiber Windscreen Wipers? Look Into the Bugatti Chiron Sport [News]
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The new, lighter Bugatti Chiron Sport. [Photo: Bugatti]
The ‘regular’ Bugatti Chiron costs $2.99 million. Now, you can get a lighter version with carbon fiber windshield wipers, for only $262,000 more!
The Bugatti Chiron is already known as one of the ultimate expressions of automotive performance. With 1,479 horsepower and 1,180 lb-ft of torque, you’re on a whole new level of performance, even against most supercars. But what if that’s not enough? Mind you, the Chiron does weigh more than two tons (4,400 pounds). Ah, but now there’s a lighter version, for the princely sum of $3.26 million. That’s a $262,000 premium on the original Chiron’s $2,998,000 asking price. Bugatti just unveiled this Chiron Superleggera at this year’s Geneva Auto Show.
The Chiron Sport, as Bugatti calls it, puts out the same amount of power from its quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 engine. So what do you get for your money, if not extra power? In exchange for that extra quarter-million dollars, Bugatti’s shaved 18 kilograms – or 39.7 pounds – off the car’s weight. How did they achieve that? In addition to some lightweight wheels, they have another trick up their sleeve. Carbon fiber windshield wipers. Bugatti touts the Chiron Sport as the first production car with carbon fiber windshield wipers.
That all sounds great, but would you pay what amounts to $6,600 per pound for a Bugatti Chiron Sport? How about $131,000 per wiper? Hey, they’re 77 percent (1.4 kilograms or 3 pounds) lighter than they were before!
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Digging into the real differences in the Bugatti Chiron Sport
All right, so you do get more for your money than some carbon fiber windshield wipers. You also get a wide array of color and trim options for your Chiron Sport, as you should for well north of $3 million. Bugatti also bestowed greater handling prowess upon the Chiron Sport by way of 10 percent stiffer shock absorbers and modifying the steering. However, drivers can only access these new features in the Chiron Sport’s Handling mode. Going beyond just the suspension, Bugatti’s now featured Dynamic Torque Vectoring in the Chiron Sport
Bugatti hasn’t mentioned any more details on pricing, such as options, other than to say it’s “probably the the most expensive production car on display at this year’s show”. We’d reckon they’re correct in that assumption. The car is on display in Geneva now, where the show runs from the 8th through the 18th of March.
Fun fact: the Bugatti Chiron Sport gets 6 City/ 15.5 Highway / 10.5 Combined MPG, according to Bugatti’s release. Well, if you can afford to buy a Chiron Sport…
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Caitlyn Jenner Talks ‘I Am Cait’ Season 2, Kardashians & Being an LGBT Spokesperson
January 14, 2016 by The Ashley
“Watch my new season!”
She may be one of the most recognizable transgender icons of all time, but Caitlyn Jenner says she doesn’t consider herself to be a spokesperson for the LGBT community.
“I am not a spokesperson for this community. I am only a spokesman for me and my story. … I have so much to learn about womanhood,” Caitlyn told The Ashley and other reporters today during a panel at the Television Critics Association press tour. “I have so much more to learn about trans issues and about being a woman. I’m only nine months out.”
The second season of ‘I Am Cait’ will see Caitlyn and her transgender friends Chandi Moore, Candis Cayne, Jennifer Finney Boylan and newcomer Ella Giselle as they go on an RV roadtrip. The Ashley and other reporters at the panel were given a sneak peek at the new season, which will continue to cover Caitlyn’s transition.
“I want to change people’s thinking on the issue,” Caitlyn “These are fun…people to be around and they needed to be represented positively. It’s really easy for reporters to dwell on the negative issues…But with this show I want people to know that these are normal people. I would love to take the show global. I want to see what trans issues are all around the world.
Caitlyn stated that, in her previous life as a man, she was somewhat of a loner, something that has changed since her transition.
“I really enjoy having a social life,” she said.
“Transitioning is not easy, especially if you do it in the public eye,” Caitlyn added. “I really had no choice and I was getting destroyed in the tabloids for years. I really had to address it at some point.”
The Season 2 roadtrip included stops at the Grand Canyon, Tulsa, New York, New Mexico, Iowa, Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans. Caitlyn and her friends stated that, overall, they were treated well throughout the country.
“Along the way we were meeting members of the LGBT community who are in smaller towns,” executive producer Andrea Metz stated.
“We went to some of the greatest truck stops in America!” Caitlyn added.
In addition to the roadtrip, Season 2 of ‘I Am Cait’ will cover Caitlyn receiving her first driver’s license as a woman, as well as Caitlyn’s decisions about whether she will date males or females.
When asked why she chose to make ‘I Am Cait’ very different from Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Caitlyn stated that she wanted her show to address something deeper than clothes, boyfriends and fame, which are frequent topics on her family’s reality show.
“It was a conscious decision that I wanted this show to be about the issues,” Caitlyn said. “Sure we all love good clothes and all that kind of stuff but I really wanted people to get to know all of my girls. I love my kids, I have a great relationship with all my children. But this is a different show…I wanted to somehow keep that distance.
Caitlyn stated that she still shoots occasionally for ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians,’ which was one of the reasons she decided to do ‘I Am Cait’ on E!
“This season you will see a lot more of the Kardashians and of Caitlyn’s ever-changing relationship with all the [Kardashian/Jenner] girls and with Kris,” executive producer Andrea Metz told reporters.
When asked for a tip on keeping her skin and body looking good, Caitlyn offered some hilarious advice, obviously a nod to her days as a former cereal box cover star.
“Eat your Wheaties.”
(Photo: E!)
Tags: Caitlyn Jenner, E!, I Am Cait, I Am Cait Season 2, Interviews, Kardashian, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, TCA
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EBkitty says:
Bruce was a dick and Caitlyn is worse! He’s against gay marriage!! What a poser! Go away Caitlyn!
Pat Brown says:
Bruce Jenner is a fraud. He finally admitted that he won’t be dating women ever again. On the Diane Sawyer interview he said that gender had nothing to do with who you’re attracted to. He said he was always attracted to women. He’s such a fraud, he was always attracted to men, I think in his case it’s all about him being gay, and being very conservative and not wanting to come out as gay, so now he can be a woman and like men like he always did. I always caught the gay vibe off of him years before the K’s were on the air. His show just that a
TV show for entertainment. He would never be riding around in a bus with other trans people if he weren’t being filmed and getting paid, he’s such a fraud a liar. If you want to see a great show on this subject, watch ‘I am Jazz’ who is an awesome young girl and has the most amazing family, it’s coming back on for another season on TLC. I won’t watch anything with Bruce or the K’s in it!
I don’t watch either show, so I don’t really have an opinion about him personally, but I really doubt he went trough all these surgeries and took all these risks Just because he was afraid to come out as a gay
Oh it’s possible, nothing would be surprise me, he’s a card carrying conservative Republican. He’s very conservative, and whould have never come out as gay as a man, you don’t know what’s in his head. If you go by what he himself said, that gender has nothing to do with who you’re attracted to. He said to Diane Sawyer “I always considered himself a hetro man, attracted to women, and just because I’m transition that will not change.” Now he just said he will never date women again, he is a fraud and a liar.
Micropn4 says:
When you undergo a transition many people’s sexual it changes. IT might be hormonal. I don’t think it means she always liked men. But I agree she is out of touch and spoiled, and she is not a good rep for her community.
Lexii says:
And another thing….remember that time Bruce killed a woman?! Everyone seems to forget about that…I guess since Bruce did it, that makes Caitlyn innocent since they’re not the same person and all. I’m sure if anyone else killed somebody they wouldn’t get a reality show, or awards. UGHHHHHHH. Wynona Ryder shop lifted and her career got ruined. Bruce killed somebody but Caitlyn gets a reality show and all this praise. LIKE I CAN’T WITH OUR SOCIETY!!!
Young Buck says:
My feelings are thank god for another season. Bruce, I mean Cait, is an inspiration to all Trans people as well as representing the “Woman of the year”. What a true patriot. My only question is did he chop off the pork sword yet? It just seems a little awkward being that fashionable as a women with a Calm Hammer in your panties. I’m I alone here?
Starla says:
I had such high hopes for this show. I mean, how many transgender people get the opportunity to show truth and struggle to a wide audience? To perhaps get people to understand? And what did Caitlyn do? Turned it into yet another outlet for the never-ending long arms of Kardashian. I swear, one episode was almost a commercial for terrible Kylie’s hair extension line. If they had to be involved, it should have been only as family members learning to understand, and learning to have a new relationship, not “Kim gets mad about something stupid”, “Khloe has more nonsense to spout”, and “Oh look, there’s Kris being an asshole again”. The one real moment I saw was between Caitlyn, her mother and her sister, as they actually discussed this and showed some actual emotion. I was over it quickly, and so so disappointed. What a waste of an opportunity!
I can’t believe they gave this dickhead another season. I stopped watching the 1st season after the 2nd episode. This person is so self absorbed and just all around shitty. And constantly winks. UGH.
I watch a view episodes of i am Cate and it is totally boring.I am not gonna watch again.
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Zambia: First Cyber Security Lab Unveiled
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VISITING International Telecommunications Union (ITU) deputy secretary-general Houlin Zhao has launched the first-ever cyber security laboratory in Zambia, which will enable law-enforcement agencies to combat Information Communication Technology (ICT)-related crimes.
The laboratory is based at the Zambia Police Service headquarters in Lusaka, whose refurbishment and procurement of equipment was done by the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) at a cost of K700,000.
Mr Zhao said that cyber crime was a fast-growing phenomenon as more and more criminals were exploiting connectivity, convenience and anonymity of the Internet to commit various crimes that had no borders.
Amid cyber attacks on Israel, security agency wins a battle fighting back
From: Haaretz
The Shin Bet says it thwarted a foray against both government and nongovernment websites.
By Jonathan Lis and Oded Yaron
Cyber attacks on Israeli Internet infrastructure and websites continued on Sunday, the 20th day of the Gaza offensive, but the Shin Bet security service said it had thwarted a major attack.
“In recent hours Israeli Internet service providers have been dealing with a massive DDoS [distributed denial-of-service] cyber attack,” wrote Gabi Cohen, the deputy head of the Finance Ministry department responsible for government websites. As a result, disruptions are possible on the Internet, Cohen said in an email to undisclosed recipients obtained by Haaretz.
Australian Federal Police foil Russian crime gang’s $570m cyber theft bid as nation loses $4.6 billion-a-year to computer crime
From: Herald Sun
Keith Moor
POLICE have foiled an elaborate bid by a Russian organised crime gang to steal $570 million from Australian companies it hacked into.
Australian Federal Police are expecting arrests to be made overseas in what is an ongoing investigation by it and Russian authorities into the massive attempted theft.
Had it been successful it would have boosted what the AFP estimates to be the $4.6 billion a year cost of cyber crime in Australia to above the $5 billion mark.
Israeli hi-tech firm to launch Energy Cyber Security Center
From: Jerusalem Post
Aiming to tackle threats to infrastructure around the globe, the company plans to launch its Energy Cyber Security Center in Hadera on September 15.
By SHARON UDASIN
In a world where web-based hacker attacks have reached far beyond lifting personal credit card information, a Herzliya- based firm is preparing to launch a first-of-its-kind Energy Cyber Security Center this fall.
“We are now in the position to help every country, every utility – whether it’s gas, water, or energy – to secure their digital network, to integrate today with electric cars, with energy infrastructure, with storage devices,” Daniel Jammer, founder and CEO of energy cyber security firm Nation-E told The Jerusalem Post.
Cybersecurity is a Top Priority for Governors
From: HSToday
A joint action plan for cybersecurity was approved last week by the Council of Governors, Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during the National Governors Association (NGA) 2014 Summer Meeting.
The Joint Action Plan for State-Federal Unity of Effort on Cybersecurity “is a commitment by states, DHS and DoD to work together to improve the nation’s cybersecurity posture. It establishes a framework to guide state-federal discussions in areas such as information sharing, operational coordination and incident response,” NGA said in an announcement.
The action plan incorporates several of governors’ key priorities, including:
Group Wants Energy Regulators to be Tougher on Cybersecurity
Fron: WSJ/CIO Journal
By Rachael King
One nonprofit group says that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hasn’t done enough to protect the bulk power grid. The New Hampshire-based group, called the Foundation for Resilient Societies, wants utilities to protect industrial control systems from cybersecurity threats over the Internet.
On Friday, that group sent a letter to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee urging it to secure commitments from nominees Norman Bay and Cheryl LaFleur that they’ll be tough on cybersecurity, reports Politico. The Senate will vote Tuesday to confirm the nominees, who are currently serving on the commission.
Hackers disrupt Tunisian voter registration
From: HackSurfer
Hackers briefly disrupted the online voter registration for Tunisia’s parliamentary and presidential elections. The organization charged with holding the vote said that hackers launched an attack, disrupting the registration process. However, later the organization said registration had restarted, despite continued attacks. http://goo.gl/YtHrBj
Hackers may have breached the federal government’s personnel office, DHS official says
From: The Washington Post
By Fred Barbash and Ellen Nakashima
Hackers may have breached the Office of Personnel Management’s network, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed Thursday.
According to the DHS official, who asked not to be identified, the agency’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center became aware of a “potential intrusion” of the network, and has been working with OPM and other agencies to assess and mitigate risks. So far, they have not found “any loss of personally identifiable information,” the official said.
Skill shortage alert: Banks in Singapore struggle to source cyber security staff
From: efinancialcareers
by Simon Mortlock
Cyber-security experts are urgently needed at banks in Singapore, but recruiters in the city state say there’s not enough talent to meet demand.
The buoyant job market in cyber security is being partly fuelled by pronouncements from Singapore’s government and financial regulator.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore issued new Technology Risk Management Guidelines in June, advising financial institutions to “deepen their technology risk management capabilities and be ready to handle IT security incidents and system failures”. And last year the government released a long-term policy agenda, the National Cyber Security Masterplan 2018.
Big dreams for Rwanda’s ICT sector – Success story is grabbing global attention
From: Bulawayo24.com
by Nirit Ben-Ari
“The Internet is a needed public utility as much as water and electricity,” declared President Paul Kagame at the Transform Africa summit, held in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city, last October to discuss the future of broadband in Africa.
The choice of Kigali as host did not surprise Information Communication Technology (ICT) experts; Mr. Kagame’s government takes ICT so seriously that it aims to creating an ICT infrastructure comparable to any in the developed world. The choice was also not surprising since Rwanda hosted the Connect Africa summit in 2007 that championed broadband connectivity for the continent.
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Australia's central bank holds rates as it weighs past cuts
December 03, 2019 15:46 pm +08
SYDNEY (Dec 3): Australia's central bank left interest rates at record lows on Tuesday as it waits for the three cuts already delivered to gain traction in a sluggish economy, though markets are wagering more easing will ultimately be needed.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) ended its last board meeting of the year by leaving the door open to another cut in its 0.75% cash rate.
"The Board is prepared to ease monetary policy further if needed to support sustainable growth in the economy," said RBA Governor Philip Lowe in a brief statement.
"The Board also agreed that due to both global and domestic factors, it was reasonable to expect that an extended period of low interest rates will be required in Australia."
Markets are almost fully priced for a move to 0.5% by April , with a real chance of reaching 0.25% or even a drastic shift to quantitative easing via buying government bonds.
The decision comes a day before government data is expected to show the economy expanded by 0.5% in the September quarter, the third straight quarter of middling outcomes.
Annual growth is forecast to pick up to 1.7% from a decade low of 1.4%, which, while pedestrian by past performances, would still support the RBA's hopes for a gradual turnaround.
Lower borrowing costs have certainly worked to reignite home prices, which enjoyed their strongest month in 16 years in November, led by boom-like gains in Sydney and Melbourne.
Yet they have had far less luck in reviving consumers struggling with stagnant wage growth and sky-high debts. A weekly survey from ANZ showed confidence near four-year lows with the rate cuts themselves blamed for spooking consumers.
"Annual GDP growth may accelerate a touch, but this hardly points to an economy that is undergoing more than a gentle turn, one that is unlikely to be enough to stop unemployment moving higher," said ANZ head of Australian economics David Plank.
"Sentiment looks set to be challenged for a while yet."
Some sectors of the economy were doing well, notably exports. Data out Tuesday showed the country's current account surplus swelled to a record A$7.9 billion (US$5.36 billion) in the September quarter, only the second surplus since 1975.
It's an influx of cash that fattens company profits and boosts the government's tax take, but fails to percolate down to households.
The major resource companies are majority owned by foreigners, so much of the profits they earn flows offshore. Neither are miners splashing out on their staff, with annual wage growth in the sector stuck at a miserly 2%.
Government spending was helping, having added around 0.3 percentage points to growth in the third quarter.
Yet the conservative government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison has so far rebuffed calls for a major injection of fiscal stimulus, choosing instead to stay wedded to a political pledge to return the budget to surplus.
(US$1 = 1.4736 Australian dollars)
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Skyrocketing medical cannabis patient numbers outpacing physician support, supply: doctor
The legalization of recreational pot has created a spike in Canadians registering as medical marijuana patients
By Bill Kaufmann
The rapidly swelling number of medical cannabis patients is outstripping Canadian health care’s ability to handle them, a Calgary physician who prescribes the substance said Friday.
The legalization of recreational pot has lessened the drug’s stigma, sparking a huge boom in the number of Canadians registering as medical marijuana patients with the federal government, said Dr. Sana-Ara Ahmed, an anesthesiologist and chronic pain specialist.
A year ago, there were 250,000 people registered and by last December there were 350,000, she said.
“I think the number now is more like 400,000 — it’s a startling increase,” she said.
“The challenge I’m facing as a physician is the industry is focused on a market that’s no longer medical. They do not think cannabis is a medication.”
That number’s expected to hit one million patients by 2025, added Ahmed, who addressed the Canadian Cannabis summit in downtown Calgary on Friday.
But she said only five per cent of physicians are prescribing cannabis as a medicine.
“That discrepancy bothers me … physicians need to understand the cannabinoid system and its interactions,” said Ahmed.
“So many years of drug prohibition made it hard to have those discussions.”
Since legalization last October, she said, there’s been a misguided mindset that medical users can simply help themselves with readily available cannabis products without medical guidance.
And even then, there’s been a shortage of prescribe-able product like CBDs, or non-psychoactive cannabidiol that’s used widely for medical purposes.
“Shortages of CBD oil and dried flower are frustrating for a physician who knows better,” said Ahmed, who advises provincial health-care officials on pain reduction.
A syringe loaded with a dose of CBD oil is shown in a research laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. David Zalubowski / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
That problem extends to a frequent inability to prescribe sufficient amounts of cannabis products to patients, who often can’t afford it, said Ahmed.
“The majority of my patients are on disability and are not working … if they can’t afford it at the level they need, my hands are very limited in taking care of them.”
In one way, Ahmed said she understands the medical community’s reluctance to sanction medicinal cannabis due to major gaps in research, which she’s hopeful will change under legalization.
But in the meantime, that lack of data could lead to opportunities being missed to use pot more to reduce dependence on and overdoses from opioids suggested by some studies.
A Calgary man who operates a black market dial-a-delivery operation said he’s long served medical patients who have nowhere else to turn and has even provided cannabis for those who can’t afford it.
“We’re getting seniors reaching out, they want us to come out to the old folks’ home to provide for them,” said Greg, who operates an outfit called Medi Man.
“Until the government catches up with what the medical community has known for decades, we will try to ease the burden for someone and their family.”
A lack of research into cannabis’s health-care merits has understandably prevented most Canadian physicians from embracing it as medicine, said Dr. Gigi Osler, president of the Canadian Medical Association.
“Therefore, we continue to urge the government to invest resources and funding in independent research to assess the impact of cannabis in health and health care,” Osler said in a statement.
“As more scientific evidence becomes available, we will work with the government and physicians to better understand how this might fit into current medical practice.”
BKaufmann@postmedia.com
on Twitter: @BillKaufmannjrn
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Cyclone Bulbul likely to bring heavy rain to Odisha
Bhubaneswar:, November 07, 2019 20:08 IST
Cyclone Fani that hit Odisha caused 64 deaths despite evacuation of more than 10 lakh people. File
Three districts, Jagatsinghpur, Balasore and Puri, announced closure of schools on Friday and schools would remain close in nine districts on Saturday.
The cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ over east-central Bay of Bengal may skip Odisha coast, but the State government has taken no chance and kept its coastal districts in readiness for the storm which is likely bring heavy rainfall.
“We have sent two units of Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force each to nine districts and units of National Disaster Response Force have moved to six coastal districts,” said P. K. Jena, Special Relief Commissioner on Thursday.
“The cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ over the east-central Bay of Bengal moved northwestwards with a speed of 21 kmph during past six hours and lay centred about 560 km south-southeast of Paradip (Odisha), 680 km south-southeast of Sagar Islands (West Bengal) and 740 km south-southwest of Khepupara (Bangladesh),” says IMD bulletin.
‘Maha’ spares Gujarat
In a major relief to the people of Gujarat, cyclone ‘Maha’ fizzled out into the Arabian sea as a ‘depression’ without making a landfall, the IMD said on Thursday, adding that the cyclone is likely to weaken into a well-marked low pressure area off the south Gujarat coast during next 12 hours,” it said.
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Tripura HC says social media posting is a ‘fundamental right’
Remarking broadly, Chief Justice quashes case against arrested youth
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The Significance of Status
The employment status of an individual is important for determining their treatment, both for taxation purposes, and in respect of any applicable rights under UK employment law.
Broadly speaking, an individual will fall into one of three categories;
The question of whether an individual works under a contract of service (and is therefore an employee or worker) will involve consideration of both the facts and the law. An individual who is self-employed will be operating under a contract for services.
The definition of a worker, the lowest benchmark for employment rights, was considered in the case of Byrne Brothers (Formwork) Limited –v- Baird (and others) [2002]. The Employment Appeal Tribunal recognised three core considerations:
Personal service: Did the individual undertake to provide their services personally? An unfettered right to provide a substitute will be fundamental to demonstrating that an individual was not required to provide their services personally.
Business undertaking: Was the individual carrying on a business undertaking? Relevant factors will include the exclusivity of the arrangement and the degree of control exercised.
Mutuality of obligation: Was there mutuality of obligations between the “employer” and the individual?
If the contractual right to substitute exists, it does not matter that it is not exercised provided it is a genuine right. A contractual term that is not enforced does not fail to form part of the agreement.
An employment tribunal will decide status as a preliminary issue, in order to determine whether it has jurisdiction to hear an individual’s claim. If the individual is deemed to be neither a worker nor an employee then the correct forum for any contractual dispute will be the County Court.
Recently, in Autoclenz Ltd –v- Belcher, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that where the true underlying agreement was not as expressed in the written terms, the Courts and Tribunals should have regard to the true agreement, and not to the inconsistent written terms.
The Court will often have regard to the relative bargaining powers of the parties which is why it is imperative that you understand any documentation that you sign.
Whilst the Employment Tribunal and HMRC will not necessarily come to the same conclusion regarding status, Employment Tribunal’s will often take into consideration how the individual represented his or her tax position. If an individual registers as a Subcontractor under the Construction Industry Scheme, this indicates an intention to provide services on a self-employed basis. In order for an individual to be paid by a Contractor under CIS, they must believe that they are genuinely self-employed to fall within the rules of the Scheme.
It is apparent that the issue as to employment status, save in the most clear of cases, remains a troubled one. Without properly constructed written agreements and systems in place to support and re-enforce their terms individuals who want to be treated as self-employed risk a contrary finding in law.
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HOTI HOTÉIS PRIVACY POLICY
THE HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP had adopted the best privacy practices and shall only use the Personal Data of its customers (physical and online, whether actual or potential customers) for clearly identified purposes and if permission is obtained to do so through an act that clearly expresses free, specific, informed and unequivocal permission to process the Personal Data in question.
the entities that are part of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP, are hereby represented by the HOTI – HOTÉIS, SGPS, S.A. holding, with head office at Avenida D. João II, lote 1.16.02.B, 1990-083 Lisbon, and registered at Lisbon Commercial Registry Office under the single registration and tax identification No. 504.762.982, and operate in the hotel industry as hotel proprietors, operators or managers, using their own brands or others for the purpose.
Currently, the HOTI HOTÉIS Group operates and manages the following hotels:
• MELIÁ MADEIRA MARE *****
• MELIÁ BRAGA *****
• MELIÁ RIA ****
• MELIÁ SETÚBAL ****
• MELIÁ MAPUTO SKY ****
• TRYP LISBOA ORIENTE ****
• TRYP LISBOA AEROPORTO ****
• TRYP LISBOA CAPARICA MAR ****
• TRYP PORTO EXPO ****
• TRYP PORTO CENTRO ***
• TRYP COLINA DO CASTELO ****
• TRYP LEIRIA ****
• STAR INN LISBON ***
• STAR INN PORTO ***
• STAR INN PENICHE ***
• HOTEL DA MÚSICA ****
• MADEIRA GOLDEN RESIDENCE ****
This Privacy Policy defines how the Hoti Hotéis Group uses its customers’ Personal Data.
Personal Data is all information, of any nature and regardless of its form, about an individual who is directly or indirectly identified or identifiable (owner of the Personal Data).
3. DATA COLLECTION
in undertaking its business, the hoti hotéis group requests its customers, whether actual or potential customers, for the following personal data by telephone, e-mail or through its websites:
• Number, Issuer and Expiry Date of the Civil Identification Document
• Mobile phone
• Tax Identification Number (for invoicing)
• Credit Card Details (for charging)
The aforementioned Personal Data may be obtained through partners, associated companies or official entities, and to obtain them the respective owners must give permission for the transfer of such data.
4. DATA PROCESSING
The Personal Data collected by the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP is processed in compliance with the applicable laws in an honest and transparent manner to guarantee the privacy of the data for the respective owners.
The data shall be processed for clearly identified, objective and legitimate purposes for which the owners of the Personal Data have given their permission through an act that clearly expresses their free, specific, informed and unequivocal permission to process their Personal Data. These data shall not be processed at a later date for any other purposes.
The owners of the Personal Data may withdraw their permission, although this does not compromise the legality of the processing based on the permission initially given.
The Personal Data may be processed without the need for permission from the respective owners if if the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP has to comply with legal obligations to fulfil a contract when the owners are one of the parties, for pre-contractual procedures requested by the owners or to defend other essential rights of the owners or third parties.
The processing of Personal Data includes its:
• Collection
• Organisation
• Consultation
• Utilisation
• Adaptation
• Alteration
• Registration
• Recovery
• Provision
The Personal Data requested from customers shall be processed for the purpose of:
• Complying with the hoti hotéis group’s legal obligations as a business supplying hotel services, including the supply of information to the relevant authorities(Foreigners and Borders Service, Tax Authority and National Statistics Institute, among others);
• Fulfilling pre-contractual procedures requested by the customers;
• Establishing contractual relationships;
• Providing a range of hotel services such as accommodation, restaurant, laundry, car parking, health club, SPA treatment and tourist services, among others that are commonly provided by hotels;
• Guiding the services on offer to match the customer preferences;
• Invoicing and charging the customers for the services provided;
• Contacting customers by telephone, post, e-mail or another means of communication;
• Informing the customers about new products and services, offers, campaigns, promotions, updated information or other content, including newsletters and opinion surveys, as well as general marketing initiatives of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP and its hotels;
• Improving the navigation experience of the websites of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP;
• Registering the user on websites of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP'S domain;
• Allowing access to the restricted areas of the websites of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP;
• Managing customer membership or loyalty clubs or cards;
• Recording telephone calls for any of the purposes listed above.
In websites with its own domain, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP also collects information about the users’ hardware device and their browser/software, and information about the pages of the websites visited.
The users of these websites will be asked for permission to create and save a text file (Cookie) in their respective computers to allow easier and faster access to the websites, as well as the customisation in accordance with the user preferences.
Most browsers accept Cookies, but the users may delete them or define their settings to block them. Check the “Help” menu of your respective browser to define these settings.
If the users do not allow Cookies to be used, some of the functionalities of the websites may not be available.
6. DATA STORAGE TERM
The time period during which the Personal Data is stored varies depending on the purpose for which the information is processed, with legal requirements making it mandatory to store the data for a minimum time period.
Whenever there is no specific legal obligation, the Personal Data shall be stored only for the minimum period necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or are being processed, and shall then be deleted.
7. DATA TRANSFER
The Personal Data collected by the Hoti Hotéis Group are not shared with third parties without the permission of the respective owners, unless:
• Such is necessary to comply with a legal obligation the HOTI HOTÉIS Group is subject to;
• It becomes necessary to defend other essential interests of the owners of the Personal Data or third parties;
• the owners acquire services through HOTI HOTÉIS provided by other entities responsible for processing the Personal Data, whereby these entities may consult or access such data insofar as necessary for the provision of the aforementioned services;
• With the due applicable legal limits, the communication or transmission of Personal Data is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract established between the respective owners and the Hoti Hotéis Group or for pre-contractual procedures requested by the owners.
If Personal Data is transmitted to third parties, every reasonable effort will be made to ensure they are transmitted using appropriate means in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
The personal data collected and used by the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP are not supplied to third parties outside the European Union. However, if in the future such a transfer occurs for any reason, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP undertakes to ensure it complies with the applicable legal stipulations, namely as regards ascertaining that the country in question provides suitable protection of Personal Data and has requirements in place concerning such transfers, in addition to making sure the entity or subcontractor responsible for the data processing complies with the General Data Protection Regulation.
8. SUBCONTRACTED ENTITIES
The HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP may hire subcontractors to process the personal data on behalf of the HOTI HOTÉIS Group. In this case, in accordance with the instructions given, the subcontractors shall process the Personal Data in compliance with the laws in force and this Privacy Policy.
These subcontractors may not transmit the Personal Data to other entities without the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP first giving its written permission to do so, and they are also forbidden from outsourcing this task to other entities without prior permission from the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP.
THE HOTI HOTÉIS Group undertakes to subcontract only the entities who provide maximum security in terms of their technical and organisational resources, to guarantee the rights of the owners of the Personal Data are safeguarded.
All the entities subcontracted by the HOTI HOTÉIS Group are legally bound to the Group through a written contract that regulates the object, duration, nature and purpose of the processing, the kind of Personal Data in question, the categories of the owners of the data and the rights and obligations of the parties.
After collecting the Personal Data, the Hoti Hotéis Group will provide the owners of the Personal Data with information about the categories of entities subcontracted which, in this specific case, may affect the processing of data in the name of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP.
In the case of individuals or companies, public authorities, agencies or other entities that process Personal Data on behalf of THE HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP, the entities subcontracted have been assessed and the respective contracts reviewed, and the prior assessment of new subcontractors will be carried out, whereby a regime of joint liability specifically stipulated in the contract shall be implemented.
9. RIGHTS OF THE DATA OWNERS
The owners of the Personal Data have the following rights:
The owners of the Personal Data are entitled to be informed about:
• The identity and contacts of the hoti hotéis group, the entity/person responsible for processing the personal data, and if applicable, its representative;;
• The contacts of the Data Protection Officer or confirmation that the company does not employ a DPO,
• The purposes of processing the Personal Data, and if applicable the legal reasons for this processing;
• If the processing of the Personal Data is based on the legitimate interests of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP or a third party, what these interests are;
• If applicable, the receivers or categories of receivers of the Personal Data;
• If applicable, an indication that the Personal Data will be transferred to a third country or an international organisation and whether or not the European Commission has issued an opinion about its suitability, or reference to guarantees of appropriate or suitable transfer methods;
• The Personal Data storage term;
• The right to request the hoti hotéis group for permission to the personal data, as well as their rectification, deletion or limitation, the right to oppose their processing and the right to access to the data;
• If the processing of the Personal Data is based on permission granted by the owner, the right to withdraw this permission at any time, without compromising the legality of the processing based on the permission given beforehand;
• The right to make a complaint to the National Data Protection Commission or regulatory authority;
• Indication of whether the communication of Personal Data comprises a legal or contractual obligation or not, or is a requirement needed to sign a contract, as well as whether the owner is obliged to supply the Personal Data and any consequences of not supplying these data;
• If applicable, the existence of automatic decisions, including the definition of profiles, and basic concept information, as well as the importance and consequences of such processing for the owner of the Personal Data;
• If the Personal Data are not being collected directly by the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP from the respective owner, as well as the information mentioned above, the owner must be informed about the categories of Personal Data that will be processed, and about the origin of the data, and possibly if the sources are accessible to the public;
• if the hoti hotéis group intends to process the personal data subsequently for a purpose different to the purpose for which the data were collected, before doing so the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP shall inform the owner about this purpose and any other information of interest, under the terms outlined above.
• Right of Access
THE HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP guarantees it has the resources to allow the owner of the Personal Data to check the data.
The owners are entitled to obtain confirmation from the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP about whether their Personal Data is being processed, and if so the owners have the right to access their Personal Data and to have the following information:
• The purposes of processing the data;
• The categories of the Personal Data in question;
• The receivers or categories of receivers the Personal Data have been or will be disclosed to, especially the receivers based in third countries or belonging to international organisations;
• If the data have not be collected from the owner, the information available about the origin of these data;
• The existence of automatic decisions, including the definition of profiles, information relative to the underlying logic, as well as the importance and consequences of such processing for the data owner;
• Suitable guarantees regarding the transfer of data to third countries or international organisations;
Upon request, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP will supply the owners with a copy of their Personal Data that is being processed free of charge.
The supply of extra copies requested by the owner may require the payment of administrative costs.
• Right to Rectification
The owners are entitled to request rectification of their Personal Data at any time, as well as completion of their incomplete Personal Data, including through an additional declaration.
In the case of rectification of the data, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP will communicate the rectified data to each receiver of the data, unless such communication is deemed impossible or implies an unreasonable effort for the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP.
• Right to Deletion
The owners are entitled to request the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP to delete their Personal Data in any of the following cases:
• The Personal Data are no longer needed for the purpose that led to their collection or processing;
• The owner withdraws permission to process the Personal Data and there are no other legal grounds to justify the data processing;
• The owners exercise their right to oppose the processing of the data and there are no prevailing legitimate interests that justify the processing;
• If the Personal Data are processed illegally;
• If the Personal Data have to be deleted to comply with a legal obligation the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP is subject to;
Under the applicable legal terms, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP has no obligation to eliminate the personal data if this processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation that the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP is subject to or for the purposes of declaring, exercising or defending a right of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP in a judicial action.
In the case of deletion of the data, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP will communicate that the data has been eliminated to each receiver of the data, unless such communication is deemed impossible or implies an unreasonable effort for the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP.
when the hoti hotéis group has made the personal data public and is required to delete them in fulfilment of the owner’s right to delete the data, the hoti hotéis group undertakes to ensure reasonable measures are implemented, including of a technical nature, taking into consideration the technology available and the cost of its application, to inform the entities responsible for processing the Personal Data that the owner requested the elimination of the links to these Personal Data, as well as any copies or reproductions.
• Right to Limitation
Limitation comprises inserting a mark in the Personal Data stored to limit its processing in the future.
The owners are entitled to request the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP to limit the processing of their Personal Data in any of the following instances:
• If the owners dispute the preciseness of the Personal Data for a period that allows the Hoti Hotéis Group to check its preciseness;
• If the processing is illicit and the owner opposes the elimination of the data, requesting instead limitation to its use;
• If the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP no longer need to process the Personal Data, but these data are required by the owner for the purpose of declaring, exercising or defending a right in a judicial action;
• If the owner has opposed the processing, until the legitimate reasons of the Hoti Hotéis Group prevail over the owner's reasons;
• When the owner’s Personal Data is limited, the data may only, apart from the storage, be processed after permission is granted by the owner or for the purposes of declaring, exercising or defending a right in a judicial action, defending the rights of another individual or company, or for legally stipulated reasons of public interest.
Owners who have stipulated limitation in the processing of their Personal Data in the aforementioned cases will be informed by the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP before the limitation is lifted.
In the case of limitation of the Personal Data, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP will communicate the respective limitation to each receiver of the data, unless such communication is deemed impossible or implies an unreasonable effort for the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP.
• Right to Opposition
Owners of the Personal Data have the right to oppose the processing of their Personal Data by the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP based on the legitimate interests of the Group, or when the data is processed for purposes other than those for which the Personal Data was collected, including the definition of profiles, or when the Personal Data is processed for statistical purposes.
In this case, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP will stop processing the Personal Data, unless it presents urgent and legitimate reasons for why this data processing prevails over the interests, rights and liberties of the owner, or for the purposes of declaring, exercising or defending a right of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP in a judicial action.
When the Personal Data is processed for the purposes of direct marketing (Marketing or Telemarketing), the owners are entitled to oppose the processing of their data at any time, which includes the definition of profiles related to direct marketing.
If the owners oppose the processing of their Personal Data for direct marketing, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP will stop processing the data for this purpose.
The owners also have the right not to be subject to any decision taken exclusively based on automatic processing, including the definition of profiles, which has legal effects or which significantly affects the owners in a similar way, unless such decision:
• Is necessary to sign or fulfil a contract between the owner and the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP;
• Is authorised by the law that the Hoti Hotéis Group is subject to;
• Is based on the explicit permission of the owner.
• Right to Portability
The owners have the right to receive the Personal Data which they have supplied to the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP in a structured, currently used and automatically readable format, as well as the right to transmit these data to another entity responsible for processing the data if this processing is based on the permission granted or on a contract that the owner has signed or if the processing is automatic.
The right to portability does not include inferred data or derived data, i.e. Personal Data generated by the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP as a consequence of or resulting from analysis of the data that is being processed.
The owners have the right for their Personal Data to be directly transmitted between entities responsible for the processing, whenever it is technically possible to do so.
• Right to Make a Complaint
The owners of the Personal Data have the right to make a complaint to the Regulatory Authority (National Data Protection Commission), through the site www.cnpd.pt.
The right to access, right to rectification, right to deletion, right to limitation, right to portability and right to opposition may be exercised by the owner by contacting the Data Protection Officer of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP using the following e-mail dadospessoais@hotihoteis.com.
THE HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP will respond in writing (including through electronic means) upon request from the owner within a maximum deadline of one month counting from when the request is received, apart from especially complex cases, in which this deadline may be extended to two months.
If the requests made by the owners are manifestly unjustified or excessive, especially owing to their repetitive nature, the Hoti Hotéis Group reserves the right to charge administrative costs or to refuse the request.
10. TECHNICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL SECURITY MEASURES IMPLEMENTED
To guarantee the security of the Personal Data and its maximum confidentiality, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP processes the information in a strictly confidential manner, in line with its internal security and confidentiality policies and procedures, which are updated regularly whenever needed, and in compliance with the legal terms and conditions.
In line with the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing of the Personal Data, as well as the risks deriving from processing them in terms of the owners’ rights and liberties, THE HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP undertakes to apply the necessary and appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the Personal Data and comply with the legal regulations when defining the processing methods and when actually processing the data.
It also undertakes to ensure, through default, that only the data needed for each specific purpose is processed and that these data are not available without human intervention to unauthorised people.
Communication between the owners of the Personal Data and the websites of the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP takes place through secure and communication channels that use the HTTPS protocol and SSL security standard.
With a view to guaranteeing the privacy and security of its customers and staff’s Personal Data, the HOTI HOTÉIS GROUP has implemented the following technical and organisational security measures:
• The Personal Data collected are appropriate, justified and limited to what is strictly necessary for the purposes for which they are processed;
• The Personal Data are exact and updated whenever necessary, implementing all the measures necessary to ensure the data are exact, taking into account the purposes for which they are processed, and are deleted and rectified immediately;
• The Personal Data are stored in a way that allows the identification of the owners only for the period needed for the purposes for which the data are processed;
• The Personal Data are processed using methods that guarantee their security, including protection against their unauthorised or illegal processing and against their unexpected loss, destruction or damage;
• Carry out the risk assessment by mapping the data flows and carrying out impact assessments;
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Trump's Presidency: Is this the next domino to fall?
Started by Uncle Nick, 21 Jul 2017
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fraufruit 29,813
Schwabing, Munich
An interesting article -
On Thursday night at his rally in Texas, Donald Trump finally admitted why he greenlit the Turkish military to cross the border into northern Syria to attack the Kurds: He wanted these two groups of Muslims to slaughter each other. As Trump declared to his adoring fans, without even a hint of humanity about the suffering this would cause to civilians, “Sometimes you have to let them fight like two kids. Then you pull them apart.”
This follows Trump’s comments on Wednesday, when he did his best to callously dispel humanitarian concerns many have voiced for the Kurds. First, Trump dismissively stated that the Kurds were “no angels.” He then did his best to dehumanize both sides in the battle, declaring that the Kurds and Turks have been fighting for “hundreds of years,” which he explained in essence is just who these people are. I’m not exaggerating, Trump stated that “warring” and killing is “unnatural for us, but its sorta natural for them.”
Many were stunned by Trump’s comments, but not me. The why behind Trump’s comments is simple. He was simply updating the old concept of “Kill them all, let God sort it out” to “let the Muslims slaughter each other and let Allah sort it out....
the rest here
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), chairman of the House committee that oversees federal buildings, threatened today to subpoena the General Services Administration if the agency does not hand over documents related to the Trump Hotel by next week.
DeFazio's committee, the House Transportation Committee, has been investigating the federal government's lease of the Old Post Office Building for the Trump International Hotel.
In a letter to GSA, DeFazio and Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction, say the agency has failed to provide certain financial documents and made false claims of attorney client and deliberative process privileges for legal records.
"If your agency does not produce all of these records by Wednesday, October 23, 2019 to the committee, I will be forced to use the compulsory process and issue a subpoena soon after," the letter says.
DeFazio has argued that because the lease prohibits elected officials from benefiting, and President Donald Trump has not separated himself from his investments, he has breached the lease's terms and may be violating the emoluments clauses of the Constitution.
GSA has already handed over more than 10,000 pages of documents, the committee said last month.
In a separate separate letter, DeFazio gave notice to committee ranking member Sam Graves (R-MO) that he may subpoena the GSA. Graves has called the investigation into the lease a "desperate attempt to attack the President and sideline the good work of our committee."
Lavender Rain 7,842
In the weeks since Congress launched an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, current and former officials have come forward to testify against the president.
Their revelations show how Trump employed his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other cabinet officials to bend federal agencies to suit his needs.
Chief among those is the US State Department which, according to testimony from current and former officials, was used to circumvent career diplomats and carry out a shadow foreign-policy agenda with respect to Ukraine.
At least eight officials have testified or are scheduled to testify about the extent to which Trump and Giuliani gutted and politicized the State Department.
In the weeks since House Democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry into whether President Donald Trump used his public office for private gain, current and former officials have come out of the woodwork to testify against the president.
At times defying orders from the White House itself, these officials' revelations paint a stark portrait of a concerted effort from the highest levels of the Trump administration to leverage US foreign policy for the president's political benefit.
They also show how he employed his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and top cabinet officials to bend federal agencies to suit his needs. Chief among those is the US State Department which, according to testimony from current and former officials, was used as part of an effort to circumvent career diplomats and policy experts and carry out a shadow foreign-policy agenda with respect to Ukraine.
At least eight current and former officials have so far testified, or are planning to testify, about how the State Department was used as a vehicle for Trump and Giuliani's political goals:
Marie Yovanovitch, the US's former ambassador to Ukraine.
Fiona Hill, the former White House senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs.
Michael McKinley, a former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Kurt Volker, the US's former special representative to Ukraine.
Gordon Sondland, the US's ambassador to the European Union.
Bill Taylor, the chargé d'affaires at the US's embassy in Ukraine.
George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
Steve Linick, the State Department's inspector general.
What each of them said
Women have been walking in space for decades, but there had never been a spacewalk involving more than one female astronaut at a time until this past week. On Oct. 18, NASA’s Christina Koch and Jessica Meir teamed up on an historic walk, performing maintenance work on the International Space Station.
As might be expected, the two were congratulated over the phone by the president of the United States. But the president, awkwardly, mischaracterized their achievement.
“This is the first time for a woman outside of the space station,” Donald Trump said incorrectly, ignoring the work of Svetlana Savitskaya, a Russian astronaut who spacewalked in 1984, and the 14 women (including ones from NASA) who followed her.
Koch, in fact, participated in a spacewalk in March, when she was supposed to be accompanied by Anne McClain. McClain didn’t join, possibly—although not officially—because her ex-wife accused her of what appeared to be the first space cybercrime. NASA denied that the allegations forced the cancellation, saying it simply didn’t have two appropriately sized spacesuits for the women astronauts.
In any case, Koch didn’t correct the president’s error. Instead it was Meir who schooled the president over the phone when he tried to compliment the astronauts and again got the import of their work and the event wrong. “You are amazing people,” he said. “They’re conducting the first-ever female spacewalk to replace an exterior part of the space station. They’re doing some work, and they’re doing it in a very high altitude—an altitude that very few people will ever see.”
Meir gently deflected the compliment, telling Trump, “We don’t want to take too much credit because there have been many other female spacewalkers before. This is the first time that there’s been two women outside at the same time.”
But it was not the first time that a female astronaut had to school the president on space, a topic he claims to hold near and dear. As The Verge notes, in 2017, Trump asked NASA’s Peggy Whitson when she thought astronauts would be on Mars following the signing of a new bill outlining such a project. Having signed the legislation, Trump should have had some idea, but he did not. “Well I think as your bill directed, it’ll be approximately in the 2030s,” Whitson replied.
Arguably, it may be harder to figure out the timeline for Mars travel set out in legislation than it is to recall the simple fact that Trump got wrong on his recent space call. Certainly, the latest mistake is more egregious for its ignorance. The difference between an “all-female” spacewalk and a “female” spacewalk may seem small, but it’s actually a huge detail that reveals the depths of Trump’s indifference to history and his profound inability to grasp critically important details.
El Jeffo 33,633
31 minutes ago, fraufruit said:
At which point the Very Stable Genius Predisent flipped her off on live television.
Clip from C-Span
(skip to 0:25 to see for yourself).
AlexTr 10,836
@El Jeffo Your link didn't work. That was fucking egregious.
Here is a workable link: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4823553/trump-flips-women-astronauts
I just noticed that and fixed it. Apparently there was a tracking link in there that expired rather quickly.
Wulfrun 11,728
3 hours ago, El Jeffo said:
Still divine.
President Trump has boasted he’s “getting a lot of praise” for his abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops out of northern Syria, abandoning the Kurds—America’s longstanding allies—to Turkey’s incursion. On the home front, the controversial move has been met with criticism on both sides of the political aisle, but the reaction in Moscow was far from mixed. As Trump uncorked chaos in the Middle East, champagne tops were likely popping at the Kremlin.
“Putin won the lottery! Russia’s unexpected triumph in the Middle East,” raved Mikhail Rostovsky in his article for the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. “Those who were convinced of Trump’s uselessness for Russia ought to think again...What Washington got out of this strange move is completely unclear. To the contrary, what Moscow gained from this is self-evident...Trump’s mistake in Syria is the unexpected ‘lottery win’ that further strengthened Moscow’s position in the Middle East and undermined America’s prestige as a rational political player and a reliable partner.”
Maksim Yusin, the editor of international politics at the leading Russian business daily Kommersant, was amazed by the ongoing stream of inexplicable actions by the American president that benefit the Kremlin. “All of this benefits the Russian Federation,” Yusin marveled. “You know, I’ve been watching Trump’s behavior lately and get seditious thoughts: maybe he really is a Russian agent? He is laboring so hard to strengthen the international image of Russia in general—and Putin in particular...In this situation, Americans—to their chagrin and our enjoyment—are the only losers in this situation.”
“This is such a pleasure,” grinned Olga Skabeeva, the host of Russia’s state television program 60 Minutes. “Russian soldiers have taken an American base under our complete control, without a fight!” Skabeeva’s co-host Evgeny Popov added: “Suddenly, we have defeated everyone.” Incredulously, Skabeeva pointed out: “This is an American base—and they just ran away! Trump ran away!”...
...and it just goes on and on and...
hooperski 28,563
So ... ... ... Trump is the clever one, who knew.
He's gone from "Democrat Coup" to "lynching".
How fucking tone-deaf can this guy get?
Here's an article on it that I just read along with the backlash.
(Reminds me of one of our own.)
He's as tone deaf as jeremytwo who made the same reprehensible reference to lynching just a few days ago on the climate change thread.
On 10/11/2019, 11:16:12, jeremytwo said:
Apparently methane is one of the worst causes of climate change. If so these guys need hanging from trees:
On 10/12/2019, 12:36:24, Lavender Rain said:
J2 reference here to lynching is offensive and reprehensible and just another indication he's a very sick person with a hole in his soul. He simply doesn't care how offensive the stuff he posts is becoming more outrageous and vile in his rhetoric. He knows how much pain the stained legacy of lynching of mostly blacks in the U.S. has inflicted and lynching was done as racial terror.
There is nothing amusing about this post and this sick individual should seek help.
Lynching is an act of terror to spread fear among black people. It served the broad social purpose of maintaining white supremacy in economic, social, and political spheres.
Basically, what J2 saying with this post is these white guys should suffer the same horrible fate of 4085 black people.
Kommentarlos 972
I think you are being too generous here. Seems more of an active call to arms to me - old school style.
There is nothing about this statement that is acceptable.
balticus 741
14 hours ago, El Jeffo said:
Now Joe Biden is forced to explain why his use of the word lynching to describe the Clinton impeachment process more than 20 years ago was somehow different.
CNN described the Benghazi hearings as a high rech lynching of Hillary Clinton.
You're outraged as usual.
Entertaining. ?
jeremytwo 2,325
11 hours ago, Lavender Rain said:
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/23/opinions/nelson-benghazi-hillary-clinton/index.html
Benghazi hearing: The high-tech lynching of Hillary Clinton
This is a turkey shoot...
Bigoted Joe in action...
DJT -> Lynch -> Loretta Lynch -> Tarmac meeting with BC. Trolling at its finest.
Trump's Ukraine quid pro quo confirmed by acting Ukraine ambassador.
In a riveting 15-page written statement to Congress, Chief of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv William Taylor provided a birds-eye view of the scandal that has spawned an impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
Taylor described a growing sense of dismay since he agreed to take the post in Kyiv in May that the U.S.’s longtime bipartisan support for Ukraine was being undermined by Trump’s personal political considerations surrounding his re-election campaign.
In painstaking detail, reportedly gleaned from his extensive contemporaneous notes, Taylor recounted texts, phone calls, and meetings that laid bare the quid pro quo that President Trump has been vehemently denying.
Taylor testified that military aid to Ukraine and an in-person meeting between U.S. President Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky were contingent on Zelensky publicly announcing two investigations: one into Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s board seat at a Ukrainian gas company called Burisma, and another into allegations of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 elections. Both cases rely on unsubstantiated allegations and have been boosted by right-wing fever swamps in the U.S.
The testimony is a torpedo in Trump’s hull, coming after weeks of damaging revelations against which the President’s Republican allies have struggled to defend the administration. Taylor’s potentially historic testimony documents in meticulous detail how President Trump — abetted by political appointees — withheld military aid to Ukraine in a bid to pressure it into manufacturing political information that would be helpful to him in the 2020 elections.
Now I'm entertained. How's that fizzle working out for you, Loretta? You pay Alex her money yet?
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If We Controlled Your Remote… 3/9/11
Posted on March 9, 2011 by Jenny, Megan and Jamie
(Lisa is sick, so her sister, Jamie (@NotYerAvgChick on Twitter) is substituting for Lisa today! Welcome, Jamie!) If you’re like me, it’s been a long week! We’re half way home, so we have earned a much needed TV break! Whether you are a fan of comedy or drama, escape into a world of television for at least a short bit of relaxation. – Jamie
Jamie’s Choice
Have you not been tuning in to see Mr. Sunshine? Well, you’ve been missing out! Matthew Perry, writer and star of the show, continues his infamous sarcastic wit that you loved on Friends and added to it within the confines of a sports arena. Dash in a bit of wacky humor from the effortless Allison Janney, and you’ve got yourself a show worthy of kudos!
On tonight’s episode of Mr. Sunshine, Ben (Matthew Perry) agrees to take in Roman (Nate Torrence), you know who happens to be Crystal’s (Allison Janney) son. Gasp! We all know that whenever you allow a coworker to stay at your home, hijinx is bound to ensue. Meanwhile, Alice (Andrea Anders) starts feeling down, because she’s unable to keep up with boyfriend, Alonzo (James Lesure). Add in an on-ice battle between Crystal and a Smurf…and you’ve got comedy gold!
Mr. Sunshine airs at 9:30/8:30c. Learn where to find episodes online of Mr. Sunshine @ Clicker.
Jump with us to see what Jenny & Megan recommend.
I will most definitely be watching the new episode of Survivor tonight, to see if Russell can compete one on one to keep himself in the game on Redemption Island. But while that will be a great episode (this season is already SO much better than last!), my pick tonight is the new episode of Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. I’m enjoying the show, and hope to begin learning more and more about each member of the team every episode. Tonight’s ep focuses on Mick, played by the adorable Matt Ryan, and that’s not a bad thing, in my book!
On tonight’s episode, a sniper, who had been targeting the residents of Chicago, suddenly sets his sights on Mick, as he finds himself being taunted by the deadly serial sniper who the Red Cell team are charged with tracking down before it’s too late.
The new episode airs tonight on CBS at 10/9c. Learn where to find episodes online of Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior @ Clicker.
There are a lot of great choices tonight, so my choice might seem boring to some, but I think you should be watching the Top 13 take the stage on American Idol. This season has been a little odd so far, and I’m not sure how I feel about the new judges yet, except that Jennifer Lopez is starting to annoy me with her opinions. All that aside, there are some good voices this season, and if nothing else, there are a lot of amusing people to entertain us.
On tonight’s episode, the Top 13 perform songs by their personal idols. There will songs from LeAnn Rhimes, Diana Ross and Rhianna.
Tune into FOX at 8/7c to see how this odd group of finalists do this week. Learn where to find episodes online of American Idol @ Clicker.
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• Hanover: Upper Valley Memory Cafe, usually first Saturday of the month, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Howe Library’s Mayer Room, 13 South St. Registration requested. Includes breakfast, activities and entertainment. For information or to sign up: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Aging Resource Center at 653-3460 or AgingCenter@hitchcock.org. Next: Dec. 7.
• Manchester: Alzheimer’s Cafe, second Wednesday of the month, 2-4 p.m., Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St. Free. No RSVP required. For information: Lynn Thomson at 669-6144 ext. 151, or lthomson@currier.org. Next: Dec. 11.
• Manchester: Memory Lane Cafe, usually the fourth Wednesday of the month, except for December, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Easterseals NH, 555 Auburn St. Reservations suggested, but drop-ins welcome. For reservations: Shirley Gordon at 621-3569 or sagordon@eastersealsnh.org. Next: Dec. 18.
• Milford: Memory Lane Cafe, third Wednesday of the month, 10-11:30 a.m., Milton Town Hall, Route 125. Sponsored by Easterseals NH. For information or reservations: caregiver coach Rebecca Hafner at rhafner@eastersealsnh.org or 335-1770 ext. 103. Next: Dec. 18.
• Peterborough: Memory Cafe, usually the first Thursday of the month, 2-3, p.m., Summerhill Assisted Living pub, 183 Old Dublin Road. Free. Reservations appreciated. Call 924-6238. Next. Dec. 5.
AARP Smart Driver class offered at 3 locations
The AARP Smart Driver course is scheduled at three locations in December. The classroom refresher is designed for drivers 50 and older, but open to licensed drivers of any age.
The class does not involve driving or tests; the focus is on learning about adjustments in driving techniques that can be made as people get older. It will also explore how issues ranging from medication to the newest auto technology can affect driving ability.
The cost is $15 for AARP members; $20 for nonmembers. Preregistration is required.
• Henniker: Tuesday, Dec. 3, 8:15 a.m.-3 p.m., White Birch Community Center, 51 Hall Ave. A light lunch will be provided, or bring your own. To register, call 428-3077.
• Londonderry: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Londonderry Senior Center, 535 Mammoth Road. Prepayment is required. Lunch will be provided at no cost. Class size is limited. To register, call 432-8554.
• Manchester: Monday, Dec. 9, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Catholic Medical Center’s Community Health Services, 195 McGregor St., lower level, Suite LL 22. Bring lunch or visit the CMC cafe. To register, call 626-2626.
Newport center invites public to Santa brunch
NEWPORT — The Newport Senior Center, 76 S. Main St., is sponsoring its first Brunch with Santa from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7.
The menu will include pancakes, sausage, milk, juice, coffee and fruit. The cost is $5 per person. All children 8 and younger will receive a gift from Santa and a candy cane.
The public also is invited to sponsor a twinkling clear light for the evergreen tree that will sit in the center of the gazebo in Newport during the holidays. Sponsoring is done in the memory of a deceased loved one or to honor a living loved one.
The cost is $3 per name or four names for $10. "Elves" will be at Bar Harbor Bank and Sugar River Bank on Dec. 5, 6, 12 and 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to accept sponsorships. An elf or two will be at the Newport Senior Center as well. Anyone available to volunteer for two hours at the center is asked to see Larry Eaton.
Tuesday, Dec. 3, is meeting day at the center. The board of directors will meet at 10 a.m. A senior meeting for members only is scheduled from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.
The Lake Sunapee Visiting Nurse Association also will be at the center Dec. 3 to conduct a blood pressure and blood sugar clinic from 10:45 a.m. to noon on the lower level.
The center is offering two classes for the holiday season. A snowman painting class will begin at 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9. The cost is $10. An ornament-making class will begin at 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16. The cost is a $5. Both fees are nonrefundable and are due at the time of registration. Both classes are limited to 12 people. Samples of each of the projects are on display at the center's front desk.
The center says many unique gifts can be found at Alice’s Gift Shop for the holidays. The gift shop is located in the center and is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays. Donations also are always welcome.
For more information about the center's activities, call 863-3177.
Housing is the focus of Chapin center discussion
NEW LONDON — During a program on the “Keys to the Valley Housing Initiative,” seniors will be asked to share stories about their homes and how aging has affected their experience.
The session will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Chapin Senior Center, 37 Pleasant St.
Three regional planning commissions have joined together to help address the critical issue of housing in 2019 and 2020. “Ensuring that those who want to stay here, or come here, have safe and affordable places to live is key to the long-term sustainability and success of our region,” the center noted in its newsletter. To learn more about the initiative, go to at www.keystothevalley.com.
A walk-in blood pressure clinic is planned at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 2.
Appointments are being taken for a VNA foot care clinic set for 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays, Dec. 6 and 13. The cost is $25. To sign up, call the Kearsarge Area Council on Aging at 526-6368.
The Parkinson’s Support Group will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3. This is a walk-in program.
The Morning Book Group will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, to discuss “I Will Always Write Back” by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda. The book chronicles the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from Zimbabwe. To obtain the book, call the COA at 526-6368.
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Devious Standards
Book by Jamy Ian Swiss
$35.00 Possibly discontinued.
Preserving Mystery
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Book by Jamy Ian Swiss ($35.00)
Devious Standards is the second essay collection from Jamy Ian Swiss, and it contains twenty of the most acclaimed essays from one of magic’s most distinguished and celebrated authors. When it was first published, Devious Standards received rave reviews in Magic, Genii, and Linking Ring, and it continues to garner praise from magic’s brightest lights. Vanishing Inc. Magic is proud to offer Devious Standards in a new edition, with brand-new typeset, layout, and cover design. This volume now matches Shattering Illusions and the brand-new Preserving Mystery in size and style.
Upon its release, Eric Mead praised Devious Standards in Genii magazine, declaring that, “The finished book is as beautiful as it is challenging, informative, stimulating and a genuine pleasure to read."
Some highlights from Devious Standards include:
"The Method Is Not the Trick,” ”Discovering Importance,” and "Empathy," as well as tributes to Billy McComb, Bob Read, and Martin Nash. The book also includes "A Dissertation on the Double Lift," Jamy’s thoughtful approach to this essential move, and a roadmap to improving your own double lift. ”The JS Rules of Magic” is a satire on the rules we follow in magic, and how to break them. And "The Last Layman,” one of Jamy’s most beautiful essays, is a cautionary, artistic parable about the future of magic.
Praise for Devious Standards:
Calling Devious Standards a book on magical performance theory is hard, because what Jamy Ian Swiss writes in its pages are is based on real, tested, workable concepts and strategies. Great books on the subject have been written by Dariel Fitzkee, Henning Nelms, Darwin Ortiz, and Ken Weber, all of which fail to impact a performance the way Devious Standards is bound to. … The title is perfect, because if you take what Swiss lays out for you in its pages and make his suggestions standard operating procedure every time you are building a new routine or show, your magic will be better, stronger, and more enjoyable for your audiences. … Books like Devious Standards are, to coin a phrase "six month books." Every six months they are worth revisiting—not because you've forgotten the information inside, but as a personal reminder of the things you should be doing with your magic but never quite get around to. … Whether you are a strolling performer or a stage illusionist, reading Devious Standards will help raise your magic and performance to a new level, a huge bargain at $40. Highly recommended." Farrell Dillon, MAGIC
I regard Swiss as a cross between Tom Bowyer, the witty, insightful but often acerbic critic in the early days of The Linking Ring, and S.H. Sharpe, the British magic essayist and polemicist. Swiss surpasses Bowyer and Sharpe, however, with the quality of his ideas, his ability as a performer and his gift as a writer. … collectors and magic historians should consider reading this work to learn about four modern masters who are no longer with us … [in] profiles and appreciations of the post-Houdini, post-Cardini, post-Vernon world of magic. They reminded me of Maurice Zolotow's profile of Cardini that appeared originally in The Saturday Evening Post. The difference is that Swiss's are more insightful because he had a better understanding of the work involved than Zolotow did of Cardini, and he knew his subjects on a more personal level. David Ben, Magicol
"…will set you on a road to ponder your own magic, and the way in which you perform it, and make you a better magician because of it. I highly recommend it." Matthew Field, The Magic Circular
“Jamy Ian Swiss takes himself seriously, and I am sure he wants us to take him seriously. But for all the serious work that he put into Devious Standards, his latest book of opinion, scholarship, and reminiscences, the main thing that I take away from it is that this book is just plain fun to read. It's hard to wipe the smile off my face. … "The Last Layman" is a satire worthy of Jonathan Swift in which only one layman is left on the planet.” Steve Bryant, Little Egypt Gazette
"Mr. Swiss is an astute observer of character, a passionate lover of good magic, and the kind of friend that good people value. … The finished book is as beautiful as it is challenging, informative, stimulating and a genuine pleasure to read." Eric Mead, Genii
Contents of Devious Standards
Foreword by Roberto Giobbi
The Method is Not the Trick
Martin Nash
Discovering Importance
Derek Dingle: Times Remembered, Times Past
A Dissertation on the Double Lift
The JS Rules of Magic
The Last Layman
Billy McComb: The Hippest Guy in the Room
184 pages, hardbound with gold foil engraving.
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The Pat Cronin Foundation: Working with the VCAA to Be Wise
On 16 April 2016, Melbourne student Pat Cronin was killed by a single punch as he went to assist a mate who was being attacked. The punch didn't knock out Pat, and he didn't hit the ground, but it was enough to fracture his skull and cause an inoperable bleed in his brain.
The Pat Cronin Foundation honours Pat by providing a positive voice to awareness, education and research about the so-called coward punch. The foundation has prepared the Be Wise Educational Program for delivery to Year 10–12 students. The program focuses on harm prevention and awareness, and encourages young men and women to use their voice to educate others about bystander action and stopping the coward punch.
The VCAA has been working with the Pat Cronin Foundation to provide feedback on aligning Be Wise to the Victorian Curriculum: F–10 Personal and Social Capability. The curriculum includes two strands: self-awareness and management, and social awareness and management. The self-awareness and management stand includes a sub-strand on recognising and expressing emotions, helping students to develop the knowledge and skills to regulate, manage and monitor their emotions. The social awareness and management strand includes sub-strand on collaboration and a sequence of learning on conflict resolution.
Geoff Smith from the Pat Cronin Foundation said, 'We recognise that Pat's story resonates with so many people. We believe that violence is a community problem that requires a community solution.
'We need to teach respect and resilience. Violence is not an issue for just boys and men or just girls and women – we all have a role to play.'
The Be Wise presentation is available to schools and reflects teacher and student feedback. For further information, go to the Pat Cronin Foundation website or email info@patcroninfoundation.org.au. For further information about F–10 Personal and Social Capability, contact Monica Bini, Curriculum Manager: Bini.Monica.M@edumail.vic.gov.au or (03) 9032 1693.
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The Word Is Murder Lib/E (Compact Disc)
By Anthony Horowitz, Rory Kinnear (Read by)
June 2018 Indie Next List
“When a healthy 60-year-old woman is found strangled in her London home the very day she had organized and paid for her own funeral, former police detective—now consultant—Daniel Hawthorne convinces author Anthony Horowitz to shadow his investigation to eventually publish this very story. Imagine sitting in a darkened English pub listening to Horowitz bemoaning his involvement as he tells the story of the unlikeable but captivating Hawthorne. Readers will quickly join in playing detective as characters, plot twists, clues, and red herrings escalate while enjoying the old-fashioned feel of Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes in a modern setting. Delicious!”
— Jennifer Gwydir, Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston, TX
SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?
New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service.
Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home.
Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz.
Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.
A masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises, The Word is Murder is Anthony Horowitz at his very best.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth
Mystery & Detective - Traditional
Thrillers - Crime
Kobo eBook (June 5th, 2018): $11.99
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Customer: National Grid
Value: £6.6 million
The remediation of a former gas works site for redevelopment for commercial, industrial, housing and leisure uses. The site had complex logistical issues and significant constraints: it was bounded by the Grand Union Canal, Ladbroke Grove Rail Facility, live Transco apparatus, a food retail store and a canal basin. Access to the site required careful liaison with adjoining stakeholders to ensure continuity of working with minimal disruption to the public.
The works included:
Removal of 130,000 tonnes of contaminated material.
The import of 40,000 m3 of fill material.
Bioremediation of 8,000m3 of material
The removal of tar tanks buried structures.
The processing of 20,000 m3 of hard material for re-use on site.
Treatment of contaminated groundwater using carbon filters, settlement tanks, and oil/water separators, treating a total of 18,000m3.
Screening of 30,000 m3 of soils to minimise waste disposal and maximise re-use on site.
Installation of clay walls and associated temporary works.
As part of the project the access to the Grand Union Canal had to be sealed to allow the removal of the existing canal basin and its reconstruction in a new location within the development. A double-skin sheet piled wall was installed at the entrance using the Gikon method to minimise noise disruption and potential damage by vibration to the surrounding area and facilities.
Once the entrance had been sealed the new pile walls to the basin were installed. A pre-boring operation had to be carried out to ensure any obstructions were removed prior to installation. The value of the piling works was approximately £200,000.
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Long way Home (TEMPORADA)
NAME OF FILM: LONG WAY HOME (TEMPORADA)
DIRECTOR(S): André Novais Oliveira
STARRING: Grace Passô
GENRE: Drama Film
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Porlock Hill Climb
More than a hundred cyclists will be competing for the £3,100 prize list in the main race at next weekend’s (Sunday 20 September) hill climb up the Porlock Toll road with people expected to come from far and wide to enjoy the spectacle.
The main race will be followed by a series of Go-Ride races by age group for the children at 1pm and then the traditional Porlock Pedal Fun Ride for families, friends and anybody from the local community on a bike at 2.30pm.
Competition for the ladies prizes looks set to be tough as Maryka Sennema, the current ladies National Hill Climb Champion is riding in addition to Crystal Spearman who took the bronze medal at the recent National 12 hour Championship plus 24 other ladies will result in a hotly contested race.
The men’s field is no less impressive with former National Champion and the winner for the last 2 years Tejvan Pettinger returning to defend his title but this year he will face his toughest opposition yet in the form of Dan Evans current National Hill Climb Champion. Dan will be travelling down from North Wales to test himself on the iconic Porlock Toll road as part of his preparation for the defence of his National Hill climb title in a few weeks’ time.
These two will themselves have to be on top form as there are at least another 10 riders who could upset the form book in a field of over 90 men. Local hopes lie on the shoulders of Graham (Conker) Collins who lives in Porlock and could well upset the expectations of some of the top riders.
Organiser Ian Piper says: “This year is a first in that we are working together with the Exeter Wheelers in promoting what we are calling the South West Hill Climb Festival, their event is on Stoke Hill, Exeter on the Saturday and as with our own event they have the main race, a series of children’s races and, in their case, a team event in place of our Porlock Pedal Fun Ride.
“Combining the two events on the same weekend has encouraged people from as far afield as Yorkshire, North Wales and Kent to come for the weekend. Porlock has been promoted as the place to stay for the weekend to give those people new to the National Park a real taste of Exmoor hospitality. Linking up with the Exeter Wheelers will also hopefully draw some of the children from that area up to ride in the Go-Ride children’s races up the Toll Road and act as an introduction to Exmoor.”
On the Saturday 19 September a strong team of riders from Minehead Merlins, the club for local children, will be taking part in the Go-Ride races at Exeter before putting their local knowledge to good effect on the Sunday for the Minehead Go-Ride races.
A pound per rider will be donated to CareMoor for Exmoor, the Authority’s donation scheme for the Exmoor National Park which offers everyone who has been inspired by Exmoor to contribute to the upkeep of the environment.
For more information visit: http://www.visit-exmoor.co.uk/point-of-interest/porlock-hill-climb
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Classic Films of Lone Pine
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Explore the rugged terrain that has served as a backdrop from B films to classics
The area around Lone Pine—including the Alabama Hills Recreational Area—has some of the most recognisable piles of rock in the history of cinema. The terrain here provided the settings for hundreds of B westerns and several classic films, such as 1939’s Gunga Din, 1957’s The Tall T, and 1962’s How the West Was Won. The Bureau of Land Management offers a self-guided tour of Alabama Hills movie locations, while the website of Lone Pine’s Museum of Western Film History helpfully contrasts the sites along the road with stills from the films shot there.
The Museum also keeps the memories alive with its Lone Pine Film Festival, held every October over Columbus Day weekend. The festival is enlivened by real and faux cowboys, film stars, extras, and experts. What’s more, since location work at Lone Pine is ongoing, visitors might witness a new classic: The area was recently used for scenes in Iron Man and Django Unchained.
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Yosemite Valley…is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and gold and wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” --photographer Ansel Adams
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Wearable brands report card 2015: Apple for the teacher, resits for Fitbit
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By Dan Sung @dansung
By Dan Sung
@dansung
And so to the end of another Wareable academic year. It's been a fascinating 12 months. Many of our students have flourished. A few have foundered. And we've also had the pleasure of adding a few new faces to our number.
But, new or old, all have been judged evenly under pedagogical gaze. As such, these are our end of year reports for each here at our school of wearable technology. This is how they've fared.
Better attendance than last year. How very kind of Apple to grace Wareable with its presence.
Tidy if unspectacular; Apple finally handed in its single, and admittedly impressive, project in the Spring term. We rather enjoyed the choice of styles even if the cartoon character watch face proved our suspicions of childish behaviour correct. Apparently, indeed, one cannot account for taste. However, it quickly embarrassing those in the common room here by outselling all the other students. A
We continue to be astounded by the spell that Apple seems to hold over the rest of the school but this student has not pulled the wool over our eyes. Aside an interesting touchscreen and some expensive straps, we're not overly impressed - although we do have to admit that we've never seen anything like the Digital Crown before. What irks is that a little more application and Apple could really come out with something astounding. We can only trust that recent classroom boasts of a new watch next Spring will come to an impressive fruition. B+
Late, not wildly inventive and yet, frankly, outstanding sales. We trust that Apple isn't getting too much help with its work outside of school. We've had few progressive partnerships to speak of but the large range of price points - from the luxury to the affordable - has been well observed. A-
Who? Oh, yes the one with the round watch.
This year in the classroom has been one of careful consolidation from Motorola if we're to be generous. A second edition of its smartwatch has been well created with more customisation as well as some thought for the female half of the population. No tittering, at the back. Sadly, we've barely had a chance to look at the 360 Sport work given its rather tardy deadline. B
There's been really nothing new from Motorola; nothing to convince us that it has the potential to be top of the class. Our suspicions have been raised by yet another Moto Hint edition that seems to have gone largely ignored. D
The addition of the Moto 360 Sport complete with all-important GPS is a welcome member of the Android Wear sports team. Let's hope that positioning itself as one of the few Android Wear devices that can properly track runs pays off. We shall see. B+
Ah, Google. Definitely down a peg or two this year.
Nest Cam and Brillo, eh? One, product conveniently acquired from a former student and the other more of a promise than anything we've actually seen. This has not been the best 12 months for Google. At least there's been some good work on Android Wear. More will be required to stay out of summer school next year. C-
Google's been on time with its homework all year, and handed in all of it's updates for Android Wear on time. The superb work with gesture control, Wi-Fi connectivity and eSIM for untethered smartwatches has been welcome even if other students in Google's group haven't backed it up, with the failed launch of the LG Watch Urbane Second Edition. B
A good year for Google, it's cemented its place at the top table of wearable tech. We hesitate to add Life Sciences (or is it Verily? Do make up your mind, Google) to the innovation section given that it's all been hot air so far, but it's certainly a sensible idea to create a project around biotechnology. On the more commercial front, it's hard to argue with Google's nouse of placing Tony Fadell in charge of Project Aura given the utter debacle of the Google Glass Explorer homework which fell to pieces during show and tell. B-
Had hoped for more. We might be due 'a little chat' to avoid further slipping down the class.
There's been some good bits and pieces from Garmin this year but a little focus on one or two key projects might have been a better approach. The Vivoactive fitness watch has been the best received by far and really the only creation up to standard. The Garmin Forerunner 630 has been, well, what we expected, although it's done a good job at learning some smartwatch skills from its classmates. Standing still only loses ground at this school. C+
Stutters and stammers do not best get Garmin's message across at school. Incorporating the wrist-based optical heart-rate monitoring from former student Mio was certainly a reasonable idea with the Forerunner 225 but it's now flip-flopped to its own technology. C-
Pairing up with Strava shows that Garmin can share nicely in class, but a lack of confidence is perhaps why we've not seen it really take any risks in 2015. It's losing ground to Fitbit in terms of growth, and momentum seems to be with the latter. C
Quite the teacher's pet, aren't we?
Well, we'll have to eat our mortarboard. Samsung has listened to last year's criticism, gone away over the summer, worked its little socks off and utterly impressed. Well done. The Gear S2 has been fabulous - even if we suspect a little peering over Apple's shoulder in the creation of the digital bezel. It's the first smartwatch we've seen from Samsung that's been more than simply derivative. Actual creativity, Samsung; we are impressed. A
That bezel has been a dream but, perhaps more telling and progressive has been Samsung's focus on virtual reality. Gear VR is more than just another viewer and, more importantly, has the opportunity to quickly establish itself as a viable and available alternative to Oculus Rift. Clever, clever, Samsung. A
Strong work in three major wearable discipline has made Samsung something of a complete student in 2015. Smartthings, Gear S2 and Gear VR are smart homes, smartwatches and virtual reality at some of their best. With all modules completed to a very high standard, it gives us pleasure to afford Samsung a top grade here. A
A lot of hot air.
With not a single piece of work handed in all year, Fitbit only has itself to blame for a non-passing mark in this class. A repeat of the year required. U
After sleeping its way through my classes over last 12 months, Fitbit only woke up in December to make the kind of promises of new sensors and new technology that may just have saved its career at this school. N
While a lack of new tech has held Fitbit back, we can't overlook its strong exam scores. Great sales figures and a mega IPO show that Fitbit is still top of the class. We're expecting some new products straight off the bat in 2016. B
Interesting and industrious if not entirely impressive.
Hardly ground-breaking in product design but Sony has at least been busy this year. The SmartWatch 3 Steel is, physically, a very complete and attractive project and the new PlayStation VR also looks great. Bonus marks for the looks of the FES e-paper watch, even if Sony has not been generous enough to share it with our class. B
Again, lots of good effort here although there have been one or two dubious moments along with the inspired strokes. Mechanical and e-paper based smartwatches scored well, and its focus on VR is admirable. However, the less impressive B-Trainer headphones and SmartBand weren't highlights. B
The fantastic SmartWatch 3 and PlayStation VR make it hard to criticise Sony in 2016, but let's not forget its . C
Microsoft shows promise, even if it's at the second bite of the cherry.
There's been a distinct lack of effort from Microsoft when it comes to handing in the required coursework. The reworking of the activity tracker helped matters, but it's still only marginally less ugly than its predecessor. C-
Full marks for innovation when it comes to HoloLens platform, but with precious little actually revealed about the user experience, it's hard to mark Microsoft's homework. The Microsoft Band was more evolutionary than revolutionary, and murmurs of Cortana hearable are little more than just playground tittle tattle. C+
A partnership with Valve is a decent token deal but there's been little else of business since. D-
A solid year for the company saw it graduate to fashion school.
Neither the Shine 2, Speedo Shine nor the Flash Cyclist were particularly bold departures from what Misfit had already achieved in 2014 – and we feel that Misfit's constant reinvention of the same product was a little lazy. C-
While trotting out the same product for different markets is hardly innovative, we can't ignore Misfit's school prize for creating the first entirely solar powered wearable tracker back at CES in January. The reinvention of the Flash as a smart home button was also a neat piece of work. B+
Misfit's had a solid 2015, but its scholarship from Fossil at the end of the year means we expect big things next term. A-
Splitting Jawbone and Fitbit up in class might have stopped them from copying one another but the fighting has continued. Jawbone could do with bucking up its ideas up in 2016.
Jawbone had a tough start to the year with the debacle over its release of the UP3, and when it did arrive it failed to cut the mustard. However, it got back to basics with the UP3 and after its resits managed to push out a huge update to the UP3s software that addressed a lot of its failings. Solid. B
Usually it's me who has to tell the students off for falling asleep in class but Jawbone's UP2 and UP24 fitness trackers this year have been the best cure for insomnia I've ever seen. Designs are competent and the updates well made but surely there was something else learned over the year to show? C
It was a startling start to the year with Jawbone rumoured to be unable to afford its tuition fees but a $300m investment from elsewhere seems to have done the trick. We'll have to see how long it keeps this now comparative class minnow in our number. Playground alliances with American Express for payments in the UP4, Huawei for baked-in tracking technology and Runtastic's data platform have all been good moves. B+
A good start from our new Chinese student. Classmates should be concerned for 2016.
Sadly, Xiaomi's most interesting design it neglected to bring to class from Asia. We'd love to have seen those smart trainers. Otherwise, it's all been fairly cheap looking but then that's the USP, so we're told. C
While less than impressive in the electronics class, Xiaomi excelled in maths. Managing to release the original Mi Band and the new Mi Band Pulse for just $15 is a fine body of work B-
Xiaomi's march into our mark books has been most astute. With a stack them high and sell them cheap model to its machinations, it's shaken up the rest of the class with something altogether unexpected. We had never before considered that wearables could be so democratic, and why not indeed? A
Some new strings to the bow. Good groundwork for next year.
All of TomTom's homework ends up looking rather similar. We did think it was trying to pull the wool over our eyes to begin with. Ultimately, we'd like to see a little more attention paid to aesthetics but it's hard to argue with functionality which, as ever, has been accurate and thorough this year. B+
Spark by name but perhaps not such a spark by nature; TomTom would agree that this year's performance has been about keeping things simple and making the best of existing technology. Peter-Frans Pauwels told us as much himself at parents' evening. However, we'd like to see something in the way of flair for the coming months. C-
It's been a quiet and confident shift from sat navs to sports and fitness but TomTom has navigated those waters with great aplomb probably thanks to the guidance of that solid GPS. With golf, fitness, running, cycling and swimming all now represented - complete with heart-rate tracking and music - we look forward to seeing how this student will build on its 2015 achievements. A-
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Group of VB shooting surviviors, first responders to receive new tattoos to cover up scars from tragedy
by: Geena Arevalo
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A group of survivors and first responders from the Virginia Beach shooting on May 31 are turning tragedy into healing though ink.
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10 On Your Side has been told 30 people will be receiving tattoos.
The organization, named Artists of Israel, has given tattoos for people affected by the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. They’re coming together with Virginia Beach artists this weekend to help those affected by the mass shooting.
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“It’s really a wonderful thing that they’re doing by creating something beautiful from hate and something violent and something so tragic,” said Betty Ann Levin, CEO of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater.
UJFT is partnering up with Artists of Israel to give free tattoos through a program called Healing Ink.
The group of Israeli tattoo artists are skilled in covering injuries from terrorism and combat.
“Each time we do this program, we have a different reaction from someone. We learn something new, we realize just how powerful a tattoo can be, also how much people have suffered and how resilient they are to come out of it,” said Craig Dershowitz, CEO of Artists of Israel.
Dershowitz said 15 tattoo artists are donating their services for the cause. The artists worked with each recipient to create a design special to them.
He said it’s a moving experience.
“There’s just so much diversity of emotion and feeling that goes on that I just consider myself humbled to be around such strong people,” Dershowitz said.
Levin said more tattoo artists stepped in to help once word of the mission spread.
WAVY.com was told it’s a bittersweet moment that they’re humbled to be a part of.
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Suspected 'Spice' seized at 2 Hancock County stores
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Narcotics officers with the Hancock County Sheriff's Office say they have confiscated thousands of packets believed to be synthetic narcotics known as "Spice" from stores in Bay St. Louis and Waveland.Capt. Jeremy Skinner, commander of the sheriff's narcotics division, said no arrests were made after the seizures on Friday. However, samples of the substances were to be tested at a crime lab.Chief Deputy Don Bass said charges will be filed if the tests show that the substances were indeed spice.
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Capt. Jeremy Skinner, commander of the sheriff's narcotics division, said no arrests were made after the seizures on Friday. However, samples of the substances were to be tested at a crime lab.
Chief Deputy Don Bass said charges will be filed if the tests show that the substances were indeed spice.
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theshadow45 Well-Known Member
RIP Sandy Morden, I'm glad that you now have your own name back.
theshadow45, Oct 29, 2019
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Here is another report about the developments in this case:
DNA Uncovers Identity In 39 Year Old Homicide | News Radio 1190 KEX
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cvaldez1975 said: ↑
there was some talk it was the green river killer, Gary ridgeway, I thought.
why was she not reported? Both parents were alive. Makes me suspicious. Also it was not common for fathers to take custody in that era. Lots of questions. RIP Sandy
I feel stupid for asking, but how old was Sandy (approx) when she went missing? I couldn't figure it out.
Anyway, I thought about why it may appear she wasn't reported missing. Here's what I think *may* have happened.
She may have been reported missing and it went no where and her loved one lost track of who was checking in with LE, something similar like with what happened with Tammy Jo Alexander.
Her parents were divorced and her mother moved around a lot, per one article. If Sandy went back and forth between her parents, as often happens, it's possible her parents lost track of whose residence she belonged to at the time, esp. if the parents were estranged and didn't talk to each other. Given the possible miscommunication, they might not have known she was missing, each assuming Sandy was with the other.
Hopefully we'll find out more in the days to come.
Alleykins, Oct 30, 2019
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Gardener1850 Timeline Guru (Still Remembering Cupcake)
Alleykins said: ↑
Sandy was born in 1962 and last known location by investigators was in May 1977. I think they may be basing that May 1977 date on her school records since her parents are deceased now:
"She went to Binnesmead Middle School (now called Harrison Park) from 1974 to 1975 and Gaiser Middle School from 1975 to 1976, then Wilson High School in Portland in 1976 and 1977"
DNA testing helps ID Jane Doe found murdered in 1980
That makes Sandy about 15 years old when last seen. She could have been 16, depending on when her birthday falls in the year. That could be another way LE could verify when she was last seen-- if her birthday was in May (I don't know when it is just giving that as an example) or if some other important event fell in May 1977, then there might be a labeled photo of Sandy from that day.
There is a gap between 1977 when she was last known to be alive and 1980 when her remains were found. I'm not sure how accurate they can be on the dating of how long her remains were in the river, but they had to be there a while since they were skeletal. Theoretically, Sandy could have been 17 or 18 and already out of her parents home when she died. She could have gotten lost in the shuffle of her parent's divorce, like you said, and her family may have thought she was off living her own life.
We also know that back in the 1970's even if her parents had reported her missing at age 15 or 16 it might not have been taken seriously by LE. If LE thought she was a runaway teen very little was done back then. And if a report was filed it might have been purged after a certain amount of time passed. How many cases have we seen where the family thought their loved one had been reported missing only to find out that the case was never officially filed as a missing person or the case file was destroyed? It seems like we see it over and over again.
MOO.
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I didn't believe my eyes, saw it on FB, so I had to check and double check. Yes, the person we are all looking for in this thread is identified after such a long time of not knowing. Sad and glad. RIP sweet Sandy Morden. Godspeed. Condolences to the family and friends.
Sandy Morden
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Here’s a timeline of events I put together, I will update them as information comes along to the public:
1962 - Sandy is born in San Francisco.
1960-73 - Sandy moves to Vancouver.
1972-74 - Sandy’s parents divorce.
1973-74 - Sandy attends 6th grade in Vancouver, unknown school.
1974 - Sandy moves to Portland, Oregon from Vancouver, Washington
1974-75 - Sandy attends 7th grade in Portland, Oregon, Binnesmead Middle School, now Harrison Park Middle School.
1975 - Sandy moves back to Vancouver, Washington from Portland, Oregon.
1975 - 1976 - Sandy attends 8th grade in Vancouver, Washington, Gaiser Middle School.
1976 - Sandy moves back to Portland, Oregon from Vancouver, Washington.
1976-1977 - Sandy attends 9th grade in Portland, Oregon, Wilson High School.
1977-78 - Sandy is murdered.
1980 - Sandy’s remains are found in Clark County, Washington.
TmmEye, Oct 30, 2019
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Now that Sandy has been identified, I want to work on a few questions, it might lead us in a good direction on new information.
How did Sandy end up in Clark County? We know she had lived there a year prior to her disappearance.
What was going on in Sandy's personal life? What were her relationships like?
I will begin researching ASAP.
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I’ve looked through my timeline so far and the custody issues between Sandy’s parents; it seems she bounced from home to home. It goes as follows;
1973 - Kathryn’s Custody; Vancouver
1974- Kathryn’s Custody; Portland
1975- Andy’s Custody; Vancouver
1976- Andy’s Custody; Portland
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Gardener1850 said: ↑
According to this article- ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ identified after 40 years, opening up potential new clues that could lead to teen girl’s murderer
Her mom put out a birthday announcement in the paper on April 29th 1977.
“Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always -- Mom.”
Lindsay Schultz, a cold-case detective for the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, has spent a lot of time thinking about that simple message.
“Was it just a mom who loved her daughter -- or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz says. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, What does it mean?”
The birthday greeting was published in The Oregonian’s classified-advertising section on April 29, 1977.
Which was right about the time the teenager disappeared -- forever.
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Just found out about her identification today! Was intrigued by the lack of missing circumstances or details. In the article-https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2019/10/fly-creek-jane-doe-identified-after-40-years-opening-up-potential-new-clues-that-could-lead-to-teen-girls-murderer.html?outputType=amp it states her family believes her parents (divorced and not communicating) may have thought she was with the other. I personally wonder about any significant others they may have had. She apparently was unsupervised often and a 'latchkey' kid since her dad was away working on tugboats.
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aThousandYearsWide said: ↑
Wow. That could be nothing. But it really makes me wonder if Sandy was already "missing" in April 1977. Was her mom was hoping she would see the Birthday ad and call home? But if that is the case, then where did the confirmation that she was seen in May 1977 come from? I'm thinking there must be a birthday photo or someone else in the family who says they saw her on her 15th birthday. MOO.
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UPDATE-
Based on timing, I was able to date better custody timings.
1973 - Kathryn’s Custody in Vancouver, Washington.
1974 - Kathryn’s Custody in Portland, Oregon.
1975 - (CUSTODY CHANGE) Andy’s Custody in Vancouver, Washington from January to June
1975 - (CUSTODY CHANGE) Kathryn’s Custody in Vancouver, Washington.
1976 - (CUSTODY CHANGE) Andy obtains Sandy’s Custody in the Summer of 1976.
1977 - Andy’s Custody in Portland, Oregon.
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The girl's estimated date of birth is 1964 to 1967 (actually it was 1962) and the estimated date of death is between November 1978 and April 1979, Hogman said. If this is accurate what happened between 1977 (In dad's custody) and the estimated date of death. She knew Vancouver from her youth and her mother lived there, so it's not that strange she was found in Clark County. Although Fly Creek doesn't seem logical to me in this story....Is it a place you go for camping/holiday?
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Kathy is short for Kathryn, Katherine, and Kathleen. I would suspect it is her mother, but she went by Irene a lot.
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Fly Creek is the region for where she was found - it is actually called Canyon Creek
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Thanks to @JasonFutchLakeCityFL, this is a photo of Canyon Creek.
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Speaking of custody battle and my question of her personal life, I would like to use the analogy of Chewing Gum.
Chewing Gum loses its flavor after you chew it.
So, think of every custody change as a chew, and think of Sandy’s emotions as flavor. Losing flavor = change in emotions.
You're right. I am just assuming she was "seen" or that there was some other evidence of her whereabouts in May 1977. I was going by this statement:
"Investigators don’t know where Sandy was between May 1977 and when her remains were found in February 1980."
I was drawing a conclusion from that statement that they knew where she was in May 1977, but not after that.
I wonder what kind of school records they have that make it "not clear" if she was in school in May 1977? I can't imagine that the school still had things like attendance records or report cards from 1977 in their files.
wild horses couldn't drag me if i couldn't locate one of mine though, even as adults!!
LE says thy want to know where she was after 1977 that thy cant track her from 77-80. she would have been 15 then.
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Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone
By: Janice N. Harrington; foreword by Elizabeth Spires
Reviewed by: Bruce Alford
BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007
$15.50, Paperback
The entrails of a slaughtered sow, the child born with a goat’s face, the cousin laid on a railroad track: such images make up the core of Janice Harrington’s Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone. These images weave in and out of her poems but never appear the same as the poet plays with theme and variations.
This is apparent in “What There Was” which acts as a poetic index for the rest of the book. Here, the speaker mentions her great-grandmother’s clothes “passed down, passed down.”
The poem that follows, “Killed in Childbirth,” picks up the reference to clothes folded away in a cardboard box: “...down and down into a room of sand / in search of a box....”
In addition to a “quilted” poetic core, the book is framed by poems that are antipodal.
The opening poem, “The Thief’s Tabernacle,” ends with the line, “I build a house for us. Rejoice.” The poet is presented as thief, godlike, bold enough to climb the heights of Olympus.
In contrast, “Shaking the Grass,” the book’s concluding poem, closes with dreaming verses that contradict the romantic ideal of the poet, powerful—capable of lifting “rifle-crack riffs and calving icebergs.”
The speaker here is no powerful thief in black-folded veil; instead, she is uncertain, swaddled in a hollow: “The air smelled green, and wands of windy green, a-sway, / a-sway, swayed over me. I lay on green sod / like a prairie snake letting the sun warm me.”
That wind, gusting to the south, turning to the north, turning, turning and returning in its cycles is a source of both delight and despair. The poet echoes the writer of Ecclesiastes: All is vanity.
In traditional Judaism, Ecclesiastes is read on the Shabbat, in or near the rush of festivities. It is a reminder of eternal calm and a warning not to place ego over that which abides. Here again, Harrington sings after the fields the sorrow of life and echoes Ecclesiastes: “I lay in a field of grass once, and then went on. / Even the hollow my body made is gone.”
Despite the somber theme, the music strikes a hopeful tone. The poet’s lips may fail and her name be forgotten, but the ground from which her poetry arose will hold and be in abundance. This book, chosen by poet Elizabeth Spires as winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, acts as one long, exquisite poem with its depth of layering and colloquialisms that are (especially for southerners) nostalgic and musically fresh.
Bruce Alford is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.
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Dance the Moon Down by R.L. Bartram / Excerpt
Title: Dance the Moon Down
Author: R.L. Bartram
Publisher: Authors OnLine
In 1910, no one believed there would ever be a war with Germany. Safe in her affluent middle-class life, the rumours held no significance for Victoria either. It was her father’s decision to enrol her at university that began to change all that. There she befriends the rebellious and outspoken Beryl Whittaker, an emergent suffragette, but it was her love for Gerald Avery, a talented young poet from a neighbouring university that sets the seal on her future.
After a clandestine romance, they marry in January 1914, but with the outbreak of the First World War, Gerald volunteers and within months has gone missing in France. Convinced that he is still alive, Victoria’s initial attempts to discover what has become of him, implicate her in a murderous assault on Lord Kitchener resulting in her being interrogated as a spy, and later tempted to adultery.
Now virtually destitute, Victoria is reduced to finding work as a common labourer on a rundown farm, where she discovers a world of unimaginable ignorance and poverty. It is only her conviction that Gerald will some day return that sustains her through the dark days of hardship and privation as her life becomes a battle of faith against adversity.
BOOK LINKS:
Amazon US / Amazon UK / Goodreads
Victoria heard someone pass close by, approach the desk and stop. After a moment, not having felt a hand on her shoulder, she opened her eyes to see a young officer standing in front of her. He bore such a striking resemblance to Gerald that for a moment she thought that it was actually he.
‘This is Lieutenant Fairchild,’ Colonel Bass informed her bluntly, ‘temporarily assigned to this department. I’ve put him in charge of investigating your husband’s case. In future, you’ll direct all your questions to him.’ Closing the file, he handed it to the lieutenant.
‘Carry on, Fairchild.’
The lieutenant took the file, turned to her, smiled and gestured that she should follow him.
Victoria was only too glad to do so, but as she rose to leave, Colonel Bass had one last word of warning.
‘In future, young woman, I suggest that you confine your activities to the appropriate channels. If you persist in pursuing your original course, you may discover that this department is no longer disposed to offer you the leniency it’s shown today.‘ With that, he looked down and began writing again.
With an outstretched hand, Lieutenant Fairchild reaffirmed his invitation for her to follow him. Victoria couldn’t wait to get out of the room. She was shaking from head to toe and in such a state that, by the time she reached the corridor, she was desperate to confide her feelings to just about anyone.
‘That man,’ she told the lieutenant, her voice wavering with emotion, ‘that awful man is overbearing, rude and insensitive!’
‘He’s a colonel in the British army,’ Lieutenant Fairchild pointed out. ‘He’s supposed to be.’
His candour did nothing to alleviate her distress. ‘Do you know, he accused me of being a spy?’
The gravity of her statement merely seemed to amuse him. ‘My dear Mrs Avery, if he’d ever once thought that you were actually a spy, then you’d never have been allowed into this building. At this moment, you’d be languishing in His Majesty’s Prison Holloway, awaiting execution.’ Victoria drew a huge gasp, her eyes widening with incredulity; she could hardly believe her ears. ‘You mean to say that he put me through all that, knowing all the time that I wasn’t a spy?’
‘Believe it or not, he did you a favour,’ Lieutenant Fairchild told her. ‘It could have been far more serious had he wished to make it so.’ Victoria was incensed. She felt completely humiliated.
Disregarding his remarks, her agitation began to boil over. ‘That’s despicable!’ she fumed. ‘I don’t think the corridor is the best place for this conversation,’ he advised. ‘I’m certain we’ll be much more comfortable in my office.’
The lieutenant’s office was tiny in comparison to the baronial hall occupied by Colonel Bass, but it was far more inviting. It was hardly bigger than a cupboard, lined with filing cabinets and cluttered with stacks of paper that further reduced its size.
‘Sorry about the mess,’ he apologised, ‘but lowly lieutenants don’t rate a lot of space.’ He paused, studying her for a moment. ‘May I offer you some tea?’ he asked. ‘You look as though you need it.’
When the tea arrived, Victoria was grateful to receive a cup. Her ordeal had left her parched, and it was all she could do to stop herself from gulping it. Nevertheless, to her acute embarrassment, each time she tried to replace the cup back onto the saucer, her trembling hand made it rattle conspicuously, and in spite of trying not to, she slurped when she drank.
Lieutenant Fairchild waited patiently for her to recover enough to continue. Eventually, Victoria put the cup down and eyed him warily. Despite his good looks and easy charm, she was still paranoid about military conspiracies. ‘It won’t work, you know,’ she told him.
The lieutenant folded his hands on the desk top and smiled indulgently. ‘What won’t work?’ he asked.
She was certain that he knew exactly what she was talking about, but if he insisted on continuing this silly charade, then she would tell him anyway. ‘I’ve made a nuisance of myself, and after frightening the life out of me, that colonel of yours thinks to distract me by putting a pretty face in my way.’
It took him some moments to comprehend what she was alluding to. Then suddenly, his eyes widened in surprise. ‘Oh, I see. You mean me. I can honestly say that I’ve never thought of myself in quite those terms before,’ he admitted, still somewhat bemused by her remark. ‘Do you suppose Colonel Bass sees me that way?’
Victoria was only too well aware that his amusement was entirely at her expense, and was determined not to be the butt of the joke.
‘You know precisely what I mean, Lieutenant,’ she remarked coldly.
‘Please, call me Alan,’ he invited, taking her by surprise, ‘and may I call you Victoria?’
He had a beguiling way about him that easily disarmed her caution, and after an appropriate pause required by formality, she nodded her consent.
‘Excellent,’ he beamed. ‘I’m sure we’re going to be great friends.’
Under any other circumstances, his remark might have been considered presumptuous. Perhaps the harrowing events of the last few hours had tired her, wearing down her resistance, making her susceptible to his overtures. In any event, Victoria found the suggestion not altogether unattractive. Maybe Colonel Bass was a better judge of character than she’d given him credit for.
Born in Edmonton, London in 1951, Robert spent several of his formative years living in Cornwall where he began to develop a life long love of nature and the rural way of life. He began writing in his early teens and much of his short romantic fiction was subsequently published in various national periodicals including “Secrets”, “Red Letter” and “The People’s Friend”.
Never one to let the necessity of making a living get in the way of his writing, Robert has continued to write for the best part of his life whilst holding down a succession of jobs which have included Health food shop manager, Typewriter mechanic and Taxidermist. Yes- you read that correctly.
His passion for the history of the early twentieth centaury is second only to his love of writing. It was whilst researching in this area that he came across the letters and diaries of some women who had lived through the trauma of the First World War. What he read in them inspired him to write his debut novel “Dance The Moon Down” and the rest, as they say, is history.
Robert is single and lives and writes in Hertfordshire.
QUESTIONS: Do you like historical dramas? What did you think of the excerpt for Dance the Moon Down?
Labels: Authors OnLine, Book Blast, Dance the Moon Down by R.L. Bartram, Historical Drama
I enjoy historical fiction and novels based on historical fact.
The above excerpt from Dance the Moon Down (an intriguing title!) causes me to want to read this book!
Chrys Fey March 21, 2014 at 4:29 PM
Lynna, that's great to hear. Or I should say . . . read. ;)
DAVID WALSTON March 21, 2014 at 1:00 PM
I do enjoy period pieces. This sound intriguing.
I like to think of what I would do if I was alive during the settings of different books or movies.
I just read Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson and I was doing the same thing; trying to imagine what I would've done and how I would've fared during the time of yellow fever.
Gina Stoneheart March 23, 2014 at 7:58 PM
I've always been captivated by historical fiction novels and this one sounds intriguing. I might even have to add it to my TBR list. Victoria sounds like she is a very complex character since she becomes faced with such a different lifestyle and situation filled with hardship and turmoil. And I love the title! It's very different and definitely sticks out in my mind. Thanks for sharing, Chrys!
Historical fiction novels are a lot of fun. It's so easy to get transported back to their time periods. I also love the title of this one. It's romantic and unique. Thanks for commenting, Gina!
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Ready for the hunt? YT, one of the world’s hottest mountain bike brands, is entering the eMTB segment, and they’ve brought out the big guns in the hunt for the top spot: with potent numbers and clever detailed solutions, the brand new YT DECOY promises a whole new level of electronically-assisted endorphin binges. We were in the south of France to test ride the new YT DECOY. South of France, March 2019. Rumours about YT’s first eMTB have been going around for some time. Accordingly, we were very curious to see what one of the most popular mountain bike brands currently around would conjure up for the eMTB sector. We already knew before the official presentation in southern France that YT would rely on a Shimano STEPS motor: so a bike like any other Shimano eMTB? Far from it – as we quickly realised in the presentation given by CEO Markus Flossmann and CTO Stefan Willared. YT DECOY CF Pro Race | Shimano STEPS E8000 | 540 Wh custom battery | 160/165 mm (f/r) | 29”/27,5” (f/r) | 22.3 kg (in size L) | € 6,599 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1408638783102-0'); }); In contrast to brands such as Haibike, Husqvarna or Greyp Bikes, with the new DECOY, YT deliberately aimed to create an eMTB that looks and rides like a regular mountain bike. Meaning: maximum integration and minimal evidence that it’s an ebike. The YT DECOY, according to chief developer Stefan Willared, is meant to “be a true YT”: fast, with extremely potent, downhill orientated handling. And of course, the look and feel of the design should also speak for itself: look, I’m hot, I’m a YT. To achieve that, the German brand reached deep into their bag of tricks and went at it very professionally, coming up with a lot of clever solutions in developing the YT DECOY: the electrified version of the YT CAPRA. The YT DECOY’s namesake: A duck as a decoy…let the hunt begin! Even before the official release, the brand new YT DECOY eMTB has been through a lot: chasing through Scottish woodland with the movie star Vinnie Jones, the first eMTB double backflip, and a name that might be a little confusing at first: what’s the YT DECOY got to do with an actual decoy? Watch the video to find out: .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } The YT DECOY in detail: custom YT battery and other highlights The YT DECOY features a carbon frame, fitted with a Shimano STEPS E8000 motor, and an E7000 display and remote on the handlebar. The motor is fed by a removable 540 Wh battery, specifically developed for YT by SIMPLO, one of the biggest battery manufacturers that also produce for Apple. With 160 mm travel at the front and 165 mm at the rear and mixed wheel sizes – 29″ front, 27.5″ rear – the key data of the YT DECOY sounds like it promises to be a monster on the trails. Before we get to the first ride review, let us take a look at the technical details and features of the DECOY. Balanced proportions: YT has designed the proportions of the carbon frame in such a way that the oversized downtube doesn’t immediately stand out. Everything in the design that could point to this being an eMTB is deliberately dialled down and hidden, the entire frame is oversized to help the large downtube, which contains the battery, inconspicuously blend in with the rest of the bike. YT’s custom 540 Wh battery is kept in place with two Allan bolts, while an elastomer on the lower mount helps isolate the battery from shocks and vibrations. One of the recurring problems we’ve encountered on many eMTBs is the battery coming loose and rattling, which YT has tried to solve with the elastomer. Besides being beautifully and neatly integrated into the downtube, YT tried to keep the centre of gravity as low as possible. Although the battery is 460 mm long, about 140 mm longer than current Shimano or Bosch external batteries (albeit with 40 Wh more capacity) it has a height of only 65 mm (including the cover) keeping it 25 mm lower than said external batteries. According to Stefan Willared, every centimetre drop in the height of the battery makes a noticeable difference in the bike’s handling. You’ll have to take the increased length into account if you’re considering carrying a spare in your backpack for long rides. The complete dimensions of the battery are as follows: 460 mm x 65 mm x 80 mm, and it weighs 3.17 kg. The 540 Wh battery is the same for all five frame sizes (S, M, L, XL, XXL). Beyond that, YT is planning to release a 700 Wh battery, which will also fit into DECOY. As soon as it becomes available, the bigger battery is said to be offered to all existing DECOY owners at a discounted price. Due to patent issues, YT couldn’t implement a quick-release system, but once you’ve gotten used to it, removing the two bolts to get to the battery is quick and easy. YT decided against the option of a lock for the battery. The ON switch of the bike is hidden on the underside of the top tube, while still being easily accessible. The haptic is nice! The charging port for the battery is covered by a rubber plug on the underside of the downtube Typical ebike cockpit: all the cables need to be properly fastened and tidied up. An easily accessible channel for the cables on the inside of the downtube is supposed to keep everything quiet and facilitate easy servicing, which is particularly important for a direct-to-consumer brand! Thanks to the cable duct, fitting a Lupine SL F e-bike lamp should be very easy. The StVZO-compliant (German road traffic regulations) headlight will be directly available from YT in the near future. With a sensor regulated daytime light, a glare-free 900 Lumen night light, and 1100 Lumen high-beam, it’s definitely an option we can recommend! The cable inlets are fitted with rubber lugs. Unfortunately, they came loose on our test bike and didn’t stay put. According to YT, the production model won’t have this issue. The special aluminium derailleur hanger covers a large portion of the dropout to protect the carbon frame in case of chainsuck To further quieten the bike on the trail, the chainstay protector on the drive side features special knobs to reduce the noise of the chain slapping Safe and hidden: the sensor of the motor is hidden in the rear linkage and the magnet is integrated into the brake rotor. Losing spoke magnets is a thing of the past. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1408638783102-1'); }); The kinematics of the rear end have been adapted to the unique aspects of the electric motor in the YT DECOY. Compared to the pure muscle power driving a non-motorised mountain bike, the electric motor provides a much more constant flow of power. Pedal kickback has been reduced by about 30% compared to the CAPRA 29, as it is an unwanted counterforce to the motor. The ACROS AZX-260 headset has an integral stopper to prevent the fork crown from contacting the down tube, especially on the smaller frame sizes. Unfortunately, it’s not yet available, but YT has plans for a 500 ml bottle that will fit into the front triangle. YT DECOY: geometry and sizes The YT DECOY is available in five frame sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL. In terms of geometry, the YT DECOY is based on the YT CAPRA 29. Overall, however, the DECOY is a bit more upright and more compact than the CAPRA 29, meaning the reach in size L is 10 mm shorter (455mm) than the CAPRA. Noteworthy is the almost 10 mm lower bottom bracket of the YT DECOY compared to the CAPRA 29: on the one hand, this is because the DECOY has 5 mm less travel at the rear, and on the other hand, because the short 165 mm cranks offer more ground clearance! Size S M L XL XXL Seat tube 400 mm 420 mm 445 mm 470 mm 495 mm Top tube 568 mm 589 mm 611 mm 634 mm 657 mm Head tube 95 mm 100 mm 105 mm 115 mm 125 mm Head angle 65°/65.5° 65°/65.5° 65°/65.5° 65°/65.5° 65°/65.5° Seat angle 76°/76.5° 76°/76.5° 76°/76.5° 76°/76.5° 76°/76.5° Chainstay 442 mm 442 mm 442 mm 442 mm 442 mm BB height 36/20 mm 36/20 mm 36/20 mm 36/20 mm 36/20 mm Wheelbase 1,178 mm 1,200 mm 1,222 mm 1,247 mm 1,271 mm Reach 415 mm 435 mm 455 mm 475 mm 495 mm Stack 620 mm 625 mm 629 mm 638 mm 647 mm The geometry of the YT DECOY can be adjusted via a flip chip in the shock mount: the seat tube and head angles vary by 0.5° (76°/76.5° seat tube angle, 65°/65.5° head angle), the bottom bracket height by 7 mm (340 mm/347 mm). At 442 mm, the chainstays are not particularly short, and it’s meant to be that way! According to chief developer Stefan Willared, the goal is not to make the shortest possible chainstays, but to achieve a good balance between agility, composure and climbing prowess. A unique aspect with YT is that most riders can choose between at least two frame sizes due to the low standover height. If you like your bike to be agile and prefer a much more upright sitting position, you’re better off reaching for the smaller size, for maximum composure, go for the larger frame size. For our 178 cm tall test rider we went for the size L YT DECOY. We also tried the bike in size medium for a short while, which had a significantly more compact and upright sitting position and was more agile on the trail, but at the cost of composure and high-speed stability on the fast and technical singletrack around Nice. Der Beitrag First Ride Review: YT DECOY – the new Specialized Levo Killer? erschien zuerst auf E-MOUNTAINBIKE Magazine.
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Visiting POC – Where Swedish traditions meet achingly modern R&D
POC is synonymous in our circles with images of Scandi-style cycling kit and helmets. Almost no one would associate it with Maui, Volvo Cars or emancipation. We headed to POC’s HQ in Stockholm to find out exactly what links these terms as inextricably as meatballs and lingonberry jam. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1408638783102-0'); }); The fact that ‘POC is a Swedish company’ is a phrase that was repeated multiple times during my visit. But what does that actually mean? If I’m honest, my previous understanding of ‘Swedishness’ amounted to the contents of this video. Unlike in Germany, the topic of emancipation and equal rights doesn’t even feature in Sweden. Not to have them is positively barbarian and an archaic concept that’s banished to the history books. Stood by the coffee machine, I’m listening to a handful of POC employees chat about everything from how their partner’s paternity leave is going to whether they should mountain bike or road ride after work. I note that there are remarkably few people in the POC office on this particular day, and assume that this is what flexible working hours and family-oriented work schedules look like. I’m right. As I walk down a hallway with my coffee I bump into a tall man, laden down with a tin of paint and a ladder, who greets me warmly: “Hi, I’m Jan Woxing, co-founder and creative director. It’s great to have you here.” So casual, without any hint of pretence. Could there be any more textbook-worthy hints to Sweden’s identity? POC is a Swedish company with a strong mission to do the best we can to save lives and to reduce the consequences of accidents for gravity sports athletes and cyclists. From Swedish ski expertise to international big hitter POC was founded in 2005 by Stefan Ytterborn with its focus predominantly fixed on the ski racing market. The accumulated know-how from winter-based gravity sports eventually found its way over to mountain biking, and the company launched an initial off-road collection. For POC, this was a logical step as it was able to borrow technology from its proprietary production methods to create products that would appeal to a partially overlapping market. In 2012, the specialist outdoor brand Black Diamond bought POC and adopted a strategic direction towards road riding. Two years later POC partnered up with Swedish car brand Volvo in order to jointly explore innovative safety solutions. In 2015 POC was sold to Investcorp, a global investment company. These days POC is spread across 25 countries, with more than 100 employees around the world. The laidback HQ in Sweden counts just 35 smart brains on its books, which makes it feel a long way removed from big business and corporate strategies. Speaking of history and evolution processes, Sweden has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize annually since 1901, hasn’t been active in active combat for 200 years, and it was only in 2009 that Swedish became its official recognised main language. #randomknowledge How does POC define safety? The Swedes’ ambitions go beyond simply ensuring the greatest protection in the moment of impact. It’s also about accident prevention and those potentially life-saving moments after the crash. A three-pronged approach, if you like. Look at POC’s product line-up and you’ll see that it attempts to tackle at least one element, if not all three. The AVIP series, which stands for Attention, Visibility, Interaction, Protection, utilizes specific bright colours to enhance visibility while training – with the added goal of prompting drivers to not only spot the rider, but also recognise that he or she is a cyclist. Visibility alone isn’t sufficient. When it comes to crashing, POC deploys various systems, including the well-documented SPIN technology in its helmets and printed ceramic particles in strategic locations on its jerseys to limit road rash and grazes from rough surfaces – much like motorbike riders wear leather. Right now POC is considering all options to integrate alarm systems or even crash sensors into their helmets. It’s more than just hitting your head. Design for safety In the conceptual phase of all its products, POC starts from the idea of ‘maximum safety.’ It’s something that it won’t compromise on, and claims that the design and all further aspects are subordinate to this idea. But that’s not to say that it doesn’t place a huge emphasis on aesthetics too – in fact, it’s POC’s distinctive design language that has garnered it so many fans. A good design should do more than just be easy on the eye; the more comfortable you feel wearing a helmet, the more you’ll understand that it’s a valuable piece of equipment rather than just a necessary evil to be worn on the bike. Research and Development Considering the size of the company and its available resources, it’s surprising just how heavily POC invests in research. The Stockholm location for the HQ is an inspired one, I learn, putting the brand in close contact with specialists from the worlds of automobiles, sports medicine and neurology. Like most of its competitors, POC’s production takes place in the Far East, and it’s just research, development and administration that’s housed in the Stockholm HQ. There are also two ‘labs’ here: the POC Lab, which investigates the most up-to-date neurological and spinal research; and the POC WATTS Lab that explores aerodynamics. It goes without saying that certain helmets and apparel shouldn’t just provide the ultimate safety for the athlete, but also make them faster – especially for the road side of things this is a mayor topic. Then there’s the brand’s current collaboration with the Swedish car manufacturer Volvo. This particular project takes the name POC AID, seeing the two companies jointly develop intelligent products that will integrate digital technologies in order to prevent accidents. POC’s aim here is that the cyclist will soon become part of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication protocols – it’s definitely exciting to see this progress! Volvo and POC have also jointly developed a test protocol that analyses the injuries to a cyclist of a crash into the A, B or C pillars of a car. It was surprising to hear that this move by Volvo Cars and POC was a first in the industry, and that such test procedures didn’t already exist as standard for helmet manufacturers. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1408638783102-1'); }); But as technical and abstract as all this product development sounds, it’s all implemented into the product range in a very accessible manner. Fredrik Hallander, development and engineering expert, stands watchfully over an armada of sewing machines and clay moulders that bring the CFD simulations to life. As Fredrik guides me through the prototype workshop he tells me about developing the POC Octal helmet and how he put the final touches on the design while sat on a beach in Maui. That flexible approach to work locations and hours clearly pays off, I think to myself, and he agrees. “A 13-hour day on Maui is pretty long, too.” he adds. I like this guy, and that feeling grows when he shows me a photo of a kitchen and chairs that he designed and built in his free time. Charles Eames and Walter Knoll eat your heart out. Oh yeah, and Fredrik isn’t just a surfer, he’s also a damn good cyclist. Back to the airport from the workshop, I was exhilarated at all the new faces I’d met, impressed by the insider look I’d had at POC’s day-to-day business, and excited about Stockholm’s beautiful trails. I opened my notebox and scribbled inside it. It read: POC is a brand that wants to make the future zero-carbon-society faster and above all safer. Innovative products emerge from a flexible environment with a timeless, Scandinavian design. And there’s a chair-building surfer dude with five sewing machines who works there. POC is such a Swedish company. Tack så mycket, POC! For more info head to: pocsports.com This article is from ENDURO issue #036ENDURO Mountainbike Magazine is published in a digital app format in both English and German. Download the app for iOS or Android to read all articles on your tablet or smartphone. 100% free! The post Visiting POC – Where Swedish traditions meet achingly modern R&D appeared first on ENDURO Mountainbike Magazine.
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Exactly what it says on the tin – How TQ plan to take the e-bike world by storm
TQ – a cryptic acronym that stands for something downright simple: Technology in Quality. The Bavarian brand has already sent their eponymous principle into space (quite literally), and are now pursuing the ambition to become a major player on the e-bike scene. Having paid a visit to TQ, we can testify that there’s a whole lot more to this brand than just their powerful motor. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1408638783102-0'); }); Up until now, most e-mountain bikers may only have heard the name TQ in passing. Their incredibly powerful motor has spread the name TQ in certain circles, but most riders won’t yet have had the opportunity to try it out. Having created such a stir, we wondered what exactly is behind TQ and where did they get such know-how? For those who are expecting your standard motor manufacturing company, think again. TQ has a far broader focus on technology, including electronic control systems for passenger planes and components for medical robots. If you needed any more convincing, the Bavarian company’s motors are often sent into space. If that isn’t high flying, we don’t know what is. The company is broadly positioned and now aim to channel their extensive knowledge into the eMTB sector. The most recent piece of evidence is the all-new Haibike FLYON bike, which utilizes a legion of TQ technology. But how did TQ even get this far into the world of e-bikes? The TQ Group’s story first began in 1994, when Detlef Schneider and Rüdiger Stahl set out making circuit boards in a small room in postcard-perfect Upper Bavaria’s Gut Delling. Circuit boards are those green things in every computer; that thing that most humans wouldn’t even know its top from its bottom. TQ still make these today, although there are now 1,600 members of staff (not just two), and they’re spread across 13 locations. Both of the founders are still active in managerial roles now, with Detlef Schneider’s son Stefan working alongside them. One of the TQ’s biggest strengths has always been their ability to recognise potential – really early on, whether this applies to acquiring new locations or breaking into new lines of business. Back in 2008, they essentially ‘fell into’ the e-bike world with the chance development of their own e-bike motor. Back then, they had a part-time developer on their books – a certain Toni Rossberger, who is a motocross stuntman and appeared regularly on national television with stunts including daredevil ski jumping on his bike. Toni was contacted by the start-up Clean Mobile, who wanted his assistance in creating a powerful drive unit for e-bikes. TQ were keen, firstly sharing their development know-how and then injecting the necessary capital when the start-up went bust. They eventually bought Clean Mobile, including all of the patents and most of the employees. As a result, TQ also got their hands on an e-bike motor – which, interestingly, they’d largely developed anyway. What’s special about the HPR 120S motor is its enormous power with 120 Nm of constant torque and its compact size. Having so much performance in a package that takes up so little space isn’t standard fare for e-bikes and it was achieved through Toni Rossberger’s pin ring transmission design. For TQ, the concept of compactly packaged, high-efficiency design is something of their hallmark – especially in robotics, and it’s the approach that retains their standing as a high-end company focusing on quality over quantity. Since the HPR 120S motor entered the market in 2012, it has kept a relatively low profile – something that TQ actively wanted. The Bavarians deliberately opted for a low-key entrance rather than hammer the motor onto the market, as this gave them the flexibility to monitor its quality and step in should any teething problems occur. As a result, the motor has so far only been used on bikes from M1 Sporttechnik, and when it does go mainstream and up its production numbers, TQ can be confident that there won’t be any unwelcome surprises. Yet the motor is just one part of a system that TQ has developed. Like in other industries, the brand takes on the role of being a development partner too. The eMTB segment has existed with two types of motor suppliers: those offering a completely closed system that doesn’t allow any freedom to the bike brands to customise the system; or those that are completely open allowing the bike brand to configure everything from the display to the motor or the battery. The downside to these systems is the confusion when something goes wrong: just who is responsible? With such haziness, the customer is usually left waiting with an indeterminate time for repairs or replacement parts. The company is working collaboratively on a robot known as Franka Emika, which has already won the German Future Prize, as well as money counting machines for banks, and ticket machines for train stations. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1408638783102-1'); }); This is where TQ cover all the bases by working closely in their partnerships, ensuring joint development, production, assembly and – ultimately – accepting responsibility. Right now, the company is working collaboratively on a robot known as Franka Emika, which has already won the German Future Prize, as well as money counting machines for banks, and ticket machines for train stations. For the bike industry, TQ will do the same: from the display to the controls, from the battery management system to the motor, TQ will develop, produce and supply the parts. When the company is aware of a gap in its know-how, they know exactly where to turn, seeking out reliable partners – each time, knowing that the liability will always fall on their shoulders. Most recently they outsourced support for the development of their own app. The Haibike FLYON models represent the first bikes sporting TQ’s know-how, and it’s the first chance for the public to really try the system out. These bikes, however, are engineered to be more than just a frame with a powerful motor. With input from TQ, Haibike have revised their approach to integration, design and usability and the Flyon range represents the fruits of that labour. At EUROBIKE the sight of these models caused a stir, prompting other bike brands to reach out to TQ in the hope of future collaborations. Naturally, such a positive reception could have resulted in a huge number of orders for TQ, but they take a more conservative approach, only accepting projects that they are confident can be successfully carried out. For the Bavarian-based team, it’s the Technology and the Quality that truly count. Der Beitrag Exactly what it says on the tin – How TQ plan to take the e-bike world by storm erschien zuerst auf E-MOUNTAINBIKE Magazine.
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Taking The Cake
As much as the e-bike market continues to grow with new pedal-assist bikes, it looks like the e-moto world is expanding as well. The newest name in the realm is the Cake Kalk, an e-moto entry designed by Stefan Ytterborn, the Swedish product designer already famous for creating the POC line of helmets and soft goods. The aluminum-framed Cake is said to weigh 150 pounds with a range of up to 50 miles for a single charge using an IPM motor. Built for “light” (whatever that means) off-road use, the first batch of 50 limited-edition models (at a price of $17,000) was sold out, with production models slated for delivery in late 2018. www.ridecake.com THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS TO GET ELECTRIC BIKE ACTION In print, from the Apple newsstand, or on your Android device, from Google. Available from the Apple Newsstand for reading on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Subscribe Here For more subscription information contact (800) 767-0345 Got something on your mind? Let us know at hi-torque.com ____________________________________ The post Taking The Cake appeared first on Electric Bike Action.
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Tue 26, Jan 10 | By Pamela Tanner Boll
It’s been a while, I know but I am still here. This week, we screened Who Does She Think She Is? at the University of Utah. I had the wonderful opportunity to visit some of the Art Departments’ Graduate Students’ Studios.
I am always in awe of people who have the courage to persevere as artists in Grad school–most of the students are already parents, and in some cases, working a paying job. They will leave Grad school with upwards of $20,000 of student loans and no firm possibility of making a living at their craft–yet, there they are making gorgeous, intriguing and thought provoking work.
My sister, Chris is with me again. I am so grateful to have her with me on these expeditions around the country. She’s great company, meets everybody with grace and DRIVES! Love that!
Before the screening, we met with an old friend from High School back in Parkersburg, West Virginia–Fred Gottlieb.Fred is a Doctor affiliated with the University of Utah, now. He also has spent, most of his adult life traveling the world, doctoring to people in small villages in Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia (during the tsunami), and many other places. What an amazing life and he’s still at it! I recall talking to Fred, back in High School about all the places we planned to travel to and explore when we left Parkersburg. I would say Fred has done this and more.
Speaking of West Virginia, my sister Chris just woke up and told me that, “yes, she did meet Morgan Spurlock, last night.” She had gone to the Sundance Opening Night Party while I went back to the Condo with a headache!!
Morgan Spurlock is another West Virginian who has done some amazing work–he is a filmmaker–Super Size Me and more recently, he’s finished a film on The Simpson’s Twenty Year Anniversary.
I love meeting up with people from my home state who are out in the world, doing great work. Of course, I also always love overturning assumptions about people and places. So West Virginia think: Hillbillies, rafting the New River, Coal mining and poverty. So, Fred Gottlieb out doctoring to the world; Morgan Spurlock making great movies; my old friend Pam Lotshaw also out here in Salt Lake City, as an ob-gyn nurse; Amy Whitlatch who is a renowned portrait painter in Virginia. The list could go on and on….and not a hillbilly among them!
So, Sundance just started and I am grateful forever to my ANGEL, Geralyn White Dreyfous. She has arranged all kinds of tickets to films for me and my family this week. Geralyn and I are also Co-Producing another film–this one by Tiffany Shlain about how everything is intertwined called, CONNECTED: A Declaration of Interdepence. More on Sundance as the week progresses!
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Celebrating Female Artists on this International Women's Day
A day that celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women, the International Women’s Day commemorates women’s struggle for equality, belonging to all who care about human rights.
On this day, we should take a moment to remember the acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in history, earning women all around the world rights that we today take for granted. At the same time, it is a time when we should call for change, aiming to accelerate gender equality and the empowerment of women everywhere.
We celebrate this day by compiling a list of powerful contemporary artworks created by female artists which you can own right now!
Featured image: Marion Jdanoff – Bravades (detail), 2018. All images courtesy of their respective galleries.
Julia Benz - Shine On
An acclaimed German artist, Julia Benz combines contemporary painting and urban art in a very specific way, by using a highly colored palette. Working mainly on canvases, her painting style ranges from figurative to conceptual art, overlapping layers with unconstrained freedom.
In the work Shine One, layers upon layers of color and pattern weave together, perfectly driven by impulse, experience and intuition. Colorful, energetic and loud, it blends figurative and abstract imagery in a perfect and effortless way.
Find more info about the work here.
Babeth Montagnier - Offrande 5490B
A French photographer, Babeth Montagnier attempts to recreate harmony, beauty, gentleness and cheerfulness in her work. Focusing on things that no one ever notices, the artist aims to bring them to the forefront. She is also celebrated for a variety of reflections and experiments around photography.
Montagnier’s work is always characterized by frontal framing and a square format. As she explains, this format is incontestably stable and carries a perfect homothety. Depicting cotton interwoven between fingers, the piece Offrande 5490B recalls a childish play.
Julie De Bleeckere - Fading Memories
The work of the Belgian artist Julie De Bleeckere cannot be classified in a single direction or name. It is made up of many ramifications, which never depart from a recurring theme. The artist transports the viewers through her works swept by her own reflections on time and memory, the artist transports the viewers.
The work Fading Memories is in line with her visual language, where she applies successive layers of painting and paste to photographs, giving way to a feeling of strange concern. The work takes us into a world that is at once scary and curious.
Marion Jdanoff - Bravades
A French contemporary artist, Marion Jdanoff is a member of the collective Palefroi together with Damien Tran. The duo works at the crossroads of printmaking, illustration, publishing and applied arts. Clever, bold and consistently engaging, their work often evokes sinister and the surreal.
The work of Jdanoff is narrative and figurative, ranging in subject matter from mountain peaks and battles to mythological creatures. Featuring animal and human figures, the work Bravades is wrapped up in a palette which appears extremely considered.
Gemma Compton - Forever Lucky
A Bristol-based artist, illustrator and fashion designer, Gemma Compton combines classic wildlife imagery with perfectly painted celebrities. She draws influence from popular culture, the natural world and religious iconography, developing a strong illustrative style.
The work Forever Lucky is a collaboration with her husband, Copyright. Blending their two different artistic practices, this piece explores the “two sides” of a relationship.
Jasmine Wallace - Grinder Painting 10 (Black)
Inspired by a sense of place, material exploration and the built environment, the Canadian artist Jasmine Wallace has a diverse studio practice which includes painting, sculpture and ceramics. Focusing on the awareness and understanding of the creation of space, both real and imagined, she creates pieces which evoke a sense of wonder about the built environment.
The work Grinder Painting 10 (Black) reflects on the progression of acts in building, construction and deconstruction while being informed by the design processes that develop and form architecture.
Alexia Tailleur - Marseille le Panier 13
Artist and photographer living and working in Toulouse, Alexia Tailleur is known for the unique use of the gold leaf technique that she studied in an Italian monastery. In her works, she enhances private stories where subjects, who are treated in the style of icons, reflect her personal universe.
The work Marseille le Panier 13 generates a special feeling, like an aura. Taken in the streets of Marseille, this action shot is printed on thick tracing papers and partially enhanced with gold.
Alexandra Levasseur - Lightwaves
Alexandra Levasseur is a Canadian artist known for creating surreal and vivid landscapes surrounding dreamy women. Working in the classic colored pencils on paper and experimenting with oil painting on wood panel, mixed with crayons, Levasseur draws upon the ever-changing spectrum of human emotions.
Delicate and beautifully executed, the work Lightwaves is filled with emotions and drama that captivate the viewer. This stunning portrait of a female subject is juxtaposed with crushing flora, exploring the relationship between mankind and the nature that surrounds us.
Olga De Amaral - Poblado i
A Colombian textile artist, Olga de Amaral uses an evolving technique, which incorporates fiber, paint, gesso and precious metals, to transform two-dimensional textiles into sculptural works that seamlessly integrate art, craft, and design. She is best known for her large tapestries covered with gold or silver leaf which she thinks of as “golden surfaces of light.”
The shimmering abstract work Poblado i evokes the natural and vernacular landscapes of Colombia, the artist’s native country while recalling pre-Columbian gold artifacts. With each passing year, de Amaral’s work acquires greater historical resonance.
Aya Toshikawa - sana3
Integrating animation into the world of fine arts, Japanese painter Aya Toshikawa is known for depicting beautiful manga characters. Relying on hand drawings and using the oil on canvas technique, she depicts Lolita manga and lascivious girls, seducing the viewer’s imagination.
Titled sana3, this work features her distinct babyface female character with large eyes and long hair. The subject’s provocative features and pose invite the viewer to enter into her playful world.
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Previous Edition ISBN: 0406037701
This is a Print On Demand Title.
The publisher will print a copy to fulfill your order. Books can take between 1 to 3 weeks. Looseleaf titles between 1 to 2 weeks.
This book examines environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world from which environmental law is drawn and nourished. Those working within the discipline of environmental law need to engage with concepts and methods employed by disciplines other than law. The authors analyse the ways in which legal activities are supported and legitimated by work in traditional scientific or technical domains, as well as by certain more obscure but also influential cultural or philosophical assumptions.
A range of regulatory techniques is explored in this book, through a close examination of both pollution control and land use. The highly complex nature of current environmental problems, demanding sophisticated and responsive legal controls, is illustrated by several in-depth case studies, including legal and policy analysis of the highly contested issues of genetically modified organisms and renewable energy projects.
Contextual approach provides a broader view of the law and its influences than is provided by more conventional textbooks
Focuses on environmental policy as an influence on and product of environmental law, which is a departure from most law textbooks
Text supported by dedicated companion website
Part I. Introduction: 1. Environmental law in context
2. Genetically modified organisms: introducing a dilemma
3. Public participation in environmental decision making
Part II. EU Context: 4. The development and state of EU law
5. Multi-level decision making: the EU and GMOs
Part III. International Context: 6. Sustainable development: quality of life and the future
7. 'Globalisation' and international trade
Part IV. Mechanisms of Regulation I - Pollution Control: 8. The institutional architecture of pollution control
9. Licensing as a regulatory technique: the example of integrated pollution prevention and control
10. Enforcement and implementation of direct regulation
11. Regulatory techniques beyond licensing
Part V. Mechanisms of Regulation II - Land Use: 12. Historical context of land use and development controls
13. Planning and environmental protection
14. Environmental assessment
15. Nature conservation and biodiversity: the technique of designation
16. Nature conservation and biodiversity: beyond designation
17. Wind farm development and environmental conflicts.
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