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Kashmir unrest: All-party delegation ends visit without any breakthrough
To a query about possibility of 'Track-2' talks on Kashmir, Singh said he did not wish to enter into a debate about "track-one, track-two or track-three."
By: PTI | Srinagar/jammu | Updated: September 5, 2016 8:41:25 pm
Home Minister Rajnath Singh addressing the press conference in Srinagar on September 5 (Express Photo By Shuaib Masoodi).
An all-party delegation seeking to end turbulence in Kashmir concluded its two-day visit with no breakthrough, but Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh saw some positives even as he lashed out at the separatists for their refusal to meet the MPs.
Visibly unhappy at the stubborn refusal of Hurriyat leaders to meet some MPs who had literally knocked at their doors in Srinagar on September 4, Singh said that their conduct was against democracy, humanity or even ‘Kashmiriyat’ (Kashmiri ethos).
Singh led the delegation of 26 MPs from 20 parties which stayed overnight in Srinagar before stopping over in Jammu this afternoon. After spending a few hours in Jammu, it returned to Delhi.
The Home Minister disagreed with the view that the mission was a failure and said the delegation had “very good interactions” with individuals and groups. The delegation would meet in Delhi and discuss the future action plan.
Before winding up the Kashmir leg of the visit, Singh sent out a clear message to separatists, asserting that the state will “always” remain an integral part of India.
“There should be no doubt that Jammu and Kashmir was, is and will always be integral part of India,” he said at a press conference in Srinagar.
“As far as talks are concerned, our doors are open to everyone who wants peace and normalcy. Not only doors, even our ventillators are open for talks,” Singh said.
He said he was aware that Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had written letters to separatist leaders inviting them for talks with the delegation.
“I want to clarify that some members of the delegation had gone to meet Hurriyat leaders yesterday. Neither had we said ‘yes’ nor ‘no’ (to their meetings). Whatever happened you know about it. I do not wish to go into the details.
“But whatever information those friends gave us upon their return, it can be said it was not ‘Kashmiriyat’. It cannot be called as Insaniyat (humanity). When someone goes for talks and they reject it, it is not ‘jamhooriyat’ (democracy) as well,” he said.
Talking about the motive behind the visit, the Home Minister said Parliament, which is the supreme “panchayat” of the country, is very serious about the situation in Kashmir and hence decided to send a delegation of its members for talks.
The entire country and Parliament are pained by the situation in Kashmir and want early restoration of peace, he said.
Asked whether India plans to talk to Pakistan on Kashmir, Singh shot back, “First let us talk to Indians.”
When asked whether the Centre is willing to go the extra mile on the demands of autonomy raised by PDP and National Conference from time to time, he said, “We are not concerned with whatever one had said in the past. We have taken everyone’s view and cooperation to improve the situation in Kashmir in the delegation-level talks.”
To a query about possibility of ‘Track-2’ talks on Kashmir, Singh said he did not wish to enter into a debate about “track-one, track-two or track-three.”
The Minister said during his previous visit last month, concerns had been raised over the use of pellet guns and regarding this, non-lethal PAVA shells have been recommended as a replacement.
“The shells will not take lives. About 1000 shells have arrived in Srinagar,” he said.
More than 30 delegations comprising 300 members from political parties, civil society, University teachers, fruit growers, students and intellectuals have presented their view before the delegation, he said.
“Everyone wants that the situation must improve. The delegation spoke to these people, the Governor and the Chief Minister of state and also officials of the state government. I am fully confident that the situation will improve which people also want,” he said.
He said the Centre is giving full support to the state government which is also trying to bring improvement in the situation.
Meanwhile, justifying the refusal of separatist leaders to hold talks with the all-party delegation, hardline Hurriyat Conference said they were not invited officially as New Delhi is “scared” of any meaningful dialogue with them and Pakistan to address the issue.
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Later while addressing a brief press conference in Jammu, Singh was asked by a reporter whether the visit was a failure. He disagreed, saying it cannot be described as a failure.
The delegation, he said, had “very good interactions” with individuals and groups during its visit to Kashmir and Jammu and heard their views on different issues.
Many members of the delegation had little knowledge about Jammu and Kashmir and the visit helped them to understand the ground situation of the state, the Home Minister added.
“I hope that whenever any discussion on Jammu and Kashmir takes place in Parliament, we will get full cooperation from them,” he said.
Singh said the delegation will meet in New Delhi after its return and will chalk out the future course of action.
“The all-party delegation will meet in Delhi after its return and decide the action plan for the future,” he said.
Singh said the delegation would like to visit Ladakh also in the near future as the region too is a part of Jammu and Kashmir state and it is important to listen to the voice of the people there.
The Minister said to address concerns of Kashmiri youths living in different parts of the country the Ministry has appointed Dr Sanjay Rai as nodal officer who can be approached on phone number 011-23092923, 23092885.
The delegation comprised 26 MPs from 20 parties.
Apart from the Home Minister, the delegation also included Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, his Lok Sabha colleague Mallikarjun Kharge, senior Congress leader Ambika Soni, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan (of LJP), JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI leader D Raja.
NCP’s Tariq Anwar and Trinamool Congress’ Saugata Roy, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut and Anandrao Adsul, TDP’s Thota Narasimham, Shiromani Akali Dal’s Prem Singh Chandumajra, BJD’s Dilip Tirkey, AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi, AIUDF’s Badaruddin Ajmal and Muslim League’s E Ahamed will be party of the delegation.
TRS’ Jitendra Reddy, N K Premchandran (RSP), P Venugopal (AIADMK), Tiruchi Siva (DMK), Y B Subba (YSR-Cong), Jaiprakash Yadav (RJD), Dharamveer Gandhi (AAP) and Dushyant Chautala (RLD) are also in the team.
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Where in the World to Swim with Wild Sea Turtles
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There’s something otherworldly about swimming with sea turtles in the wild. Luckily, you can swim with sea turtles all over the globe as they’re some of the most widespread marine life. Sea turtles are also one of the most ancient species – they’ve existed for over 150 million years.
There are seven species of sea turtles around the world — sadly, all are vulnerable or endangered. They are the green sea turtle, loggerhead turtle, hawksbill turtle, olive ridley turtle, leatherback turtle, flatback turtle and kemp’s ridley turtle.
Ad Daymaniyat – Oman
Ad Daymaniyat is an archipelago of nine low-lying islands off the Batinah coast. The rocky islands have been protected since 1996 and were the first marine reserve in Oman. The Ad Daymaniyat islands are the best place to swim with wild sea turtles in the Middle East.
The uninhabited islands thrive as one of the world’s densest nesting ground for endangered hawksbill sea turtles. Green sea turtles, loggerheads, olive ridleys and leatherbacks also live in Omani waters.
Hurawalhi Island – Maldives
The Maldives has some of the best locales for spotting wild sea turtles year round. Five out of the seven species of marine turtles live in the translucent waters — green sea turtle, loggerhead, olive ridley, leatherback and hawksbill.
More than half of the Maldives’ green sea turtle population lives in the waters surrounding Hurawalhi Island. These green sea turtles are listed as a threatened species. At least seven critically endangered hawksbills also live around Hurawalhi. It’s a real gift to be able to see these sea turtles in the wild. You’ll be able to identify hawksbills from green sea turtles due to their sharp beak.
La Paz – Mexico
There are many places to swim with wild sea turtles in Mexico. The popularity of places such as Akumal has brought in massive crowds that have left the area desolate and downright dangerous for sea turtles. The beach in Akumal where sea turtles used to thrive has been closed for conservation due to over-tourism.
Instead, head to La Paz for ethical sea turtle encounters by visiting theTodos Tortugueros conservation project. Here you can do your part in protecting endangered olive ridley turtles by assisting professionals as they relocate eggs from vulnerable nests.
Tortuguero National Park – Costa Rica
There are many hot spots for sea turtles around the coastline of Costa Rica but the best chance you have at seeing spectacular sea turtles is at Tortuguero National Park on the northern Caribbean coast. Tortuguero literally translates to Land of Turtles.
Costa Rica is home to a very rare sea turtle that’s a member of the sea green turtle family and locally known as tora carey. Hawksbill, loggerhead and olive ridley sea turtles all lay their eggs on the beaches of Tortuguero National Park during the nesting season from March to August. Over 2,000 tora carey green sea turtles lay their eggs at the park each year.
Redang Island – Malaysia
The most incredible place to swim with sea turtles on Earth is Redang Island, Malaysia. Each time you enter the sea you may swim with as many as five sea turtles right off the shore in seafoam waters. Redang Island is home to olive ridley, hawksbill and green sea turtles.
Avoid Turtle Bay, where aggressive sea turtles have become accustomed to humans feeding them and swim right up to snorkelers looking for food. The sea turtles here are three times larger than those around other parts of the island. The contrast in behavior and size is stark between sea turtles that are left to their own natural antics and those that have tampered instincts due to constant human interference.
Maui – Hawaii
No list of the best places to swim with wild sea turtles would be complete without Hawaii. Five of the seven species of sea turtles live in Hawaii’s warm waters. Most sightings occur around the southern side of Maui in Wailea, known as Turtle Town.
Honu, Hawaiian for green sea turtle, are deeply respected by Hawaiians and hold great cultural significance as they’re manifestations of ?aumakua which are ancestral guardian spirits.
The best time to see turtles is in the early morning when winds and waters are calm. Honu and hawksbill sea turtles, ‘ea in Hawaiian, are seen swimming in the shallow waters of Maluaka Beach all year long.
Placencia – Belize
Placencia, Belize is located within the largest living reef in the Western hemisphere — making it one of the most important marine ecosystems in the world. Over 500 species of fish live here as well as three wild sea turtle species — green, hawksbill and loggerhead.
The gigantic Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (BBRRS) is a protected UNESCO World Heritage Marine Site. Conservation efforts have made BBRRS the healthiest reef on the planet. Charles Darwin once declared that it was “the most remarkable reef in the West Indies.”.
Apo Island – The Philippines
There’s a place in the Philippines called “Turtle Island.” The volcanic Apo Island is at the southeastern tip of Negros Oriental and holds the honor of top 100 Best Diving spots in the world.
The amazing biodiversity that can be seen at Apo Island is a direct result of the community-based initiative that launched in 1985 to preserve the island as a sustainable sanctuary. The lush reef has flourished for over 30 years and has been a feeding ground for namesake green and hawksbill sea turtles. If you touch a sea turtle here you’ll receive a $100 fine.
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JACKEL: Romo stays true to roots
In a recent edition of Sports Illustrated, four professional athletes were asked what advice they would give Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
Chance Meyers, defender for the Kansas City Wizards soccer team, offered this: "Keep smiling for the cameras."
Ryan Church, right fielder for the New York Mets, simply said, "Good luck."
Adam Dunn, left fielder for the Cincinnati Reds, curiously advised Romo to "Run, get out of the way."
And Kevin Ingram, wide receiver for the Arena League Los Angeles Avengers, said, "Have Jessica watch his games from home."
Cute stuff, but rather insubstantial, wouldn't you say? You can raise a smile with that kind of advice, but you can't raise a son.
What wasn't in that issue of Sports Illustrated was the advice Racine native Ramiro Romo used to give his only son while spending quality time with him in Burlington back in the 1980s. But then, a society that seems to increasingly value sudden-impact entertainment over substance probably would wave a dismissive hand at Ramiro's 1950s sitcom morality.
"I used to tell him, No. 1, to always maintain who you are - where you came from, who you are, your beliefs and your faith in God," Ramiro said. "And I told him, 'Don't change. Continue to be the same person you are. And whatever endeavor that you take part in in your life, give it your all."
And now his son has arguably the highest-profile position in any sport and has emerged as an "A" list celebrity for the gossip magazines. Whether Tony Romo is throwing passes to Terrell Owens or supposedly making passes on the dance floor of some nightclub, so much of this society needs its Tony fix.
Read what you want. Believe what you will. The reality is Tony still is Ramiro's only son, not just a cover story for some gossip magazine.
Furthermore, he's a loving son. A son who remembers anxiously awaiting for his tired father to return home from another long day at some construction site so they could play catch in the backyard.
Ramiro never forgot his son back then. And his son has never forgotten his father.
"I don't care if he got home from 10 hours of work of 12 hours of work," Tony Romo said. "He'd come home and I would have just been sitting there for four hours, so I would be ready to go. But he would say, 'Yeah, yeah, let's go!' And he'd go out there and get some gloves on.
"I hold a special place in my heart for someone who gives up some of themselves for me."
But then, Ramiro and Joan Romo only passed along to their three children what they remembered from their own childhoods.
Ramiro, a 1975 graduate of the now defunct St. Bonaventure High School, learned those same values while growing up at 410 English Street in Racine. The same goes for the former Joan Jakubowski, a 1974 Park graduate, while she was growing up at 1701 Center Street.
"My father never had much as far as education, but the things he accomplished just encouraged me to go out and be the best I could be at whatever I was doing," Ramiro said. "A lot of the stuff that I have passed on and my wife has passed on to Tony and our other children (daughters Danielle and Jossalyn) and have been able to maintain is just because of the stuff we got from our parents.
"And that's just basically our faith and our hard-work ethic. Those are all the things that we know."
Despite what you may read from publications that might not particularly care to know the whole truth, that's still all Tony knows. Has he had his share of fun? Well, why in the world wouldn't a 28-year-old millionaire celebrity have his share of fun?
But this already tight family bond in the Romo family has only strengthened under the white-hot glare of Tony's celebrity status. Never was that more evident than last September, when Ramiro was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
" 'Tone' was very interested, as were my daughters, with everything going on and how I was going to get this solved," Ramiro said. "I've got to give a shout out to Kenny Kremer, Tony's agent, because he basically did all the footwork to find one of the top doctors in the nation that I was able to go and get treated by."
Ramiro was medically cleared in January and has since turned his attention full-time toward working for his son, for whom he coordinates Tony's business interests on a full-time basis.
Having such a high-profile celebrity for a son can get a little difficult, such as when strangers stop and stare at the Romo's Burlington home or even knock on their door. And it sure can get downright irritating when the Romos come across frequent celebrity gossip about their son which they know isn't true.
Ramiro is about as kind and sweet-tempered as they come. But ask him about all this gossip, especially concerning Jessica Simpson, and you'll hear an edge quickly develop in his voice.
"You know what? All of it is untrue," Ramiro said. "It's just a magazine that is trying to sell their publication and dirt sells. I just want everyone to know that none of the stuff they're writing is true.
"Everything is between Jessica and Tony. We know Jessica, we know her family and they are outstanding people. But we do not comment on their personal lives."
It's been said that great people talk about ideas, ordinary people talk about events and small people talk about other people. And it's a given that love endures.
The Romo family has that love. Take it from someone who knows.
"Oh, I really can't even put it into words sometimes, because I know I wouldn't be in the position I'm in without him," Tony Romo said of his father. "He's been there through everything - the good and the bad times. He's been someone who, if you needed a little bit of pushing, he pushed you and if you needed a little backing off, he backed off.
"He's the perfect dad. He doesn't do anything more than be a dad and that's who you need when you want to get through life a certain way."
Peter Jackel is a reporter for The Journal Times. You can reach him by calling (262) 634-3322, Ext. 323 or by e-mailing him at: peter.jackel@lee.net
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Massachusetts General Hospital's North Shore Medical Center in Salem is seeking a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist to join its growing team. Work at a high-caliber community hospital where culture is beyond compare, and enjoy unparalleled quality of life in the historic, thriving and sophisticated city of Boston.
Synergistic team environment, very stable group with almost zero turnover year to year
Excellent breadth and depth in case load, including OB service
Ideal flexible scheduling, offer 8, 10, 12 and 24 hours shifts-no call/no weekends
Work at top of license with excellent autonomy and a care team model
Open to new graduates
Where You'll Work
North Shore Medical Center, nationally recognized for its superior clinical care, has four new inpatient floors to keep up with growing demand. Featuring multiple ambulatory care sites and an array of specialty providers, North Shore offers a broad spectrum of surgical work, including robotic cases and bariatrics. The center's Department of Anesthesiology is staffed by Massachusetts General physicians and has more than 20 anesthetizing locations, including operating rooms, labor and delivery and interventional radiology.
Where You'll Live
The site of key events in our nation's history, the city of Boston, population 685,000, is a thriving center of medicine, law, business and higher education (including Harvard University, MIT and Tufts). A world leader in innovation and entrepreneurship, Boston contains 2,000 startups. Home to the Boston Red Sox and the Celtics, this East Coast transportation hub is bordered by the beautiful Charles River and the famous Boston Harbor.
Who You'll Work For
Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital is the original and largest (999-bed) teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility. With 25,000 employees, it has one of the world's largest hospital staffs. Mass General is a Magnet hospital ranked by U.S. News & World Report as No. 2 in the country and No. 1 on the East Coast. Nearly all physicians are Harvard Medical School faculty. Its multidisciplinary teams are known for their innovative, state-of-the-art medical care.
Job ID Number: 11061
Facility Name: North Shore Medical Center
Location Name: Boston, MA
Brand Name: Massachusetts General Hospital
Provider Profession: CRNA
Medical Specialty: Anesthesiology
Job Setting: Hospital
Type of Role: Clinical
Email: Marykay.Moreau@psdrecruit.org
Schedule: Full Time
CP: Yes
CB: Yes
NP: Yes
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HC: Yes
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YM: No
If you have questions about this specific job or others, I'm all ears. Send me a note and we'll be one step closer to the right opportunity.
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About Massachusetts General Hospital
Provider Solutions + Development creates healthier communities by forging lasting partnerships between providers and not-for-profit health systems. For 20+ years, we’ve helped thousands of physicians and advanced practice clinicians achieve their practice potential by consulting, mapping and managing their career moves. Founded within Providence Health & Services, we’re now a clinical career navigation group with a purpose-driven culture. Some of the nation’s preeminent health systems entrust us with finding the right providers – not just any providers – for mutual, long-term success. We’re here to help you discover, select and manage the next step in your career journey. Where would you like to go?
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Human Herpesvirus 6 Reactivation Evaluated by Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Its Association With Dynamics of CD134-Positive T Cells After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Hitomi Nakayama, Rie Yamazaki, Jun Kato, Yuya Koda, Masatoshi Sakurai, Ryohei Abe, Shintaro Watanuki, Chieko Sumiya, Kohei Shiroshita, Shinya Fujita, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Shinichiro Okamoto, Takehiko Mori
BACKGROUND: Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) causes life-threatening central nervous system disorders after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). Recent studies implicated CD134 as a specific receptor of HHV-6B and demonstrated that its expression levels in CD4-positive T cells after allo-HSCT could be related to the reactivation of HHV-6. We prospectively evaluated the relationship between HHV-6 reactivation and CD134+ T cells in the recipients of allo-HSCT. METHODS: HHV-6 viral load in plasma was quantitatively measured weekly after allo-HSCT by digital polymerase chain reaction in 34 patients. The ratio of CD134 in CD4+ T cells (CD134/CD4 ratio) was serially measured by flow cytometry before and after transplantation. RESULTS: HHV-6 reactivation was detected in 23 patients (68%). The CD134/CD4 ratio before conditioning was significantly higher in patients with HHV-6 reactivation than in those without (median, 3.8% vs 1.5%, P < .01). In multivariate analysis, a higher CD134/CD4 ratio before conditioning was significantly associated with the incidence of HHV-6 reactivation (odds ratio, 10.5 [95% confidence interval, 1.3-85.1], P = .03). CONCLUSIONS: A higher CD134/CD4 ratio before conditioning was associated with a higher risk of HHV-6 reactivation, suggesting that the rate may be a promising marker for predicting HHV-6 reactivation after allo-HSCT.
The Journal of infectious diseases
https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz237
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allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
digital polymerase chain reaction
Nakayama, H., Yamazaki, R., Kato, J., Koda, Y., Sakurai, M., Abe, R., ... Mori, T. (2019). Human Herpesvirus 6 Reactivation Evaluated by Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Its Association With Dynamics of CD134-Positive T Cells After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. The Journal of infectious diseases, 220(6), 1001-1007. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz237
Human Herpesvirus 6 Reactivation Evaluated by Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Its Association With Dynamics of CD134-Positive T Cells After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. / Nakayama, Hitomi; Yamazaki, Rie; Kato, Jun; Koda, Yuya; Sakurai, Masatoshi; Abe, Ryohei; Watanuki, Shintaro; Sumiya, Chieko; Shiroshita, Kohei; Fujita, Shinya; Yamaguchi, Kentaro; Okamoto, Shinichiro; Mori, Takehiko.
In: The Journal of infectious diseases, Vol. 220, No. 6, 09.08.2019, p. 1001-1007.
Nakayama, H, Yamazaki, R, Kato, J, Koda, Y, Sakurai, M, Abe, R, Watanuki, S, Sumiya, C, Shiroshita, K, Fujita, S, Yamaguchi, K, Okamoto, S & Mori, T 2019, 'Human Herpesvirus 6 Reactivation Evaluated by Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Its Association With Dynamics of CD134-Positive T Cells After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation', The Journal of infectious diseases, vol. 220, no. 6, pp. 1001-1007. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz237
Nakayama H, Yamazaki R, Kato J, Koda Y, Sakurai M, Abe R et al. Human Herpesvirus 6 Reactivation Evaluated by Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Its Association With Dynamics of CD134-Positive T Cells After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. The Journal of infectious diseases. 2019 Aug 9;220(6):1001-1007. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz237
Nakayama, Hitomi ; Yamazaki, Rie ; Kato, Jun ; Koda, Yuya ; Sakurai, Masatoshi ; Abe, Ryohei ; Watanuki, Shintaro ; Sumiya, Chieko ; Shiroshita, Kohei ; Fujita, Shinya ; Yamaguchi, Kentaro ; Okamoto, Shinichiro ; Mori, Takehiko. / Human Herpesvirus 6 Reactivation Evaluated by Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Its Association With Dynamics of CD134-Positive T Cells After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. In: The Journal of infectious diseases. 2019 ; Vol. 220, No. 6. pp. 1001-1007.
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Projection structures of biological cells and organelles
Masayoshi Nakasako
The diffraction apparatus for X-ray diffraction imaging (XDI) and the specimen preparation methods allow us to collect diffraction patterns from frozen-hydrated noncrystalline biological particles, such as cells and organelles, at 66–80 K. From high-quality diffraction patterns, phase retrieval (PR) calculations reconstruct electron density maps of specimen particles projected along the direction of the incident X-rays. Here, the application of XDI to structural studies of cells and cellular components is presented. Topics in synchrotron XDI include structural analyses of the chloroplasts of spinach and the small eukaryote Cyanidioschyzon merolae. In XDI experiments using X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) pulses, the structure of cyanobacteria cells and the chloroplasts of C. merolae are investigated. In addition, because XFEL-XDI experiments can provide a large number of diffraction patterns within a short time, the size distribution of targeted particles can be constructed with statistical significance. As examples, the size distributions of cuprous oxide particles, cyanobacteria cells, and amyloid aggregates are presented.
Springer Series in Optical Sciences
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X ray lasers
Specimen preparation
Synchrotrons
Carrier concentration
Nakasako, M. (2018). Projection structures of biological cells and organelles. In Springer Series in Optical Sciences (pp. 161-180). (Springer Series in Optical Sciences; Vol. 210). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56618-2_8
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Brantley Gilbert Admits He Cries Over Baby Boy Wife Is Expecting
Brantley Gilbert is one of country music's toughest bad boys, but not when it comes to family. The imposing singer freely admits he gets very emotional when it comes to the impending birth of his son.
Gilbert and wife Amber are expecting their first child in November.
"I’m a little bit emotional about this stuff right now. I can’t look at an ultrasound picture without crying," Gilbert admits in an interview with his label, BMLG. "Only about that, that’s it. That is literally the one thing that may get a tear out of my eyes is this baby, man."
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It's a good thing Gilbert isn't having a girl, which he previously admitted was the one thing that terrified him.
"You hear people say that have daughters, 'Oh, I’ll go to jail,'" he says. "But no, I really will — I’ll go to prison. If a dude comes up my driveway that looks, talks, acts anything like me I’m going to stab him as many times as humanly possible."
Gibert has already gotten to spend some quality bonding with his son.
"It’s got to where I can feel him every now and then, like if he moves she’ll call me in there and then I’ll put my hand on her belly and I’ll wait for like 30 minutes and he don’t move at all," he tells BMLG. "But there’s been a couple times when I’ve caught him moving. It’s awesome, man, we’re excited. We can’t wait."
His parents also can't wait -- in fact, they might be even more excited than he and Amber.
"My mom, she’s babies period. My dad the same way," the singer says. "Literally if we have people over at the house and a baby walks in, you can kiss him goodbye for the rest of the night 'cause he’s gonna be talking to it and holding that baby all night."
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Kaptur Sends Letter to President Trump Ahead of Toledo Visit
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), the longest serving woman in the history of the United States House of Representatives and Dean of the Ohio Congressional Delegation, sent the following letter to President Trump ahead of his trip to Toledo, Ohio.
The full text of Congresswoman Kaptur’s letter is available here and below.
The Honorable Donald J. Trump
Dear President Trump,
I write to you ahead of your arrival in the great Heartland city of Toledo, Ohio – my lifelong home. Like all people, you are welcome here.
Toledo is a city of industry on the banks of Lake Erie surrounded by abundant fresh water and world class soils. We are known for our kind, industrious, generous, and patriotic people. They know what it means to work with their hands: to swing a hammer, turn a socket, grow soybeans, and repair a combine. Ours is the city where the mighty ‘Jeep’ has rolled off the assembly line every day since 1941. We are also the City that launched America’s leading solar energy company, First Solar. Our diverse city and people truly make America great.
Toledo reveres and champions the dignity of labor. Our motto is “Laborare est Orare,” To Work Is To Pray. While “work” is the means to a full and prosperous life, “prayer” imbues the worker with sacred dignity. Hardly anyone here was born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Most have had to build the ladder upon which they have advanced their lives.
But Toledo is a far cry from the America you know best, for ours is a community well acquainted with struggle. Your home in Trump Tower sits along Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, among the wealthiest communities in the world where median incomes exceed $133,000 thanks to nearby Wall Street and Big Banks. Mar-a-Lago is similarly very wealthy. On the other hand, Toledo sits along the Maumee River, the largest river flowing into the Great Lakes. Our median household income is but $37,000/year. In fact, Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, gerrymandered to extremes by Republicans in Ohio’s state legislature, ranks 407 out of all 436 Congressional Districts, including Washington, D.C., in terms of household income.
Toledo is a place that has traditionally created wealth, not just traded money. We machine tools, forge America’s steel, manufacture vehicles, refine oil and gas, grow food, ship America’s goods, and research futuristic technologies. Nevertheless, Toledo’s economic struggle is real and ongoing. These industries have been severely challenged in a world created by and for wealthy investors, the beneficiaries of predatory economic practices and unfair trade agreements. Far too much of the wealth our community generates is extracted and traded away on Wall Street. More of our wealth needs to be invested locally.
In fact, Ohio has lost 286,332 manufacturing jobs -- almost one in three -- since NAFTA went into effect in 1994. Contrary to your claims, your tariffs and trade wars have failed to do anything to bring these jobs back. Nothing makes that clearer than the post-USMCA announcements made by U.S. auto companies that they plan to expand production in Mexico. GM is closing numerous U.S. plants, including in Ohio, while making popular models in Mexico. Ford is even making its new electric Mustang in Mexico – the first Mustang not to be made here in the U.S.
Toledoans are practical and expect more than your words, Mr. President. Your “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” has overwhelmingly benefitted the wealthiest Americans and multinational corporations at the expense of working people. Your policies exploded our national debt, further beholding us to overseas financiers like China and Saudi Arabia. You have waged war on affordable health care, hurting our families and medical facilities. You have proposed eliminating critical federal community and economic development funds to towns like Toledo. You unwisely proposed wholesale elimination of the vital Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a proposal Congress rightly rejected. You have contrived trade wars that hurt our businesses, workers and farmers here at home. You have not aided Toledo with emergency federal funds to address the fragile condition of Lake Erie in the wake of its clean water crisis, similar to your behavior toward Flint, Michigan. And, your Department of Energy chose to ignore the nuclear power plant financing crisis at commercial firms across our nation, like Davis-Besse here, while devolving the significant financing burden on States like Ohio that then imposed those heavy costs on local ratepayers.
As America falls deeper into financial debt and our budget and trade deficits soar at your hand, communities like Toledo are forced to sacrifice the most. With our labor and tax dollars, we pay the greater interest payments to foreign lenders who keep our nation financially afloat, even while our bedrock manufacturing jobs are pulled out from under us and sent to penny wage countries. This week, you put our sons and daughters in harm’s way when you abandoned diplomacy, rejected our allies, and escalated conflict in the Middle East and around the world. It causes one to wonder if anyone from the Trump family has ever served in the U.S. military or in a foreign war.
Mr. President, we live in a country whose private and public sectors too often serve the rich and powerful – not the average person, not the worker, certainly not the people of Toledo or communities like it. I wish you could tour our community with me. I could show you the struggle we face each day. It is struggle that cannot be understood from behind a podium in an arena, nor a tower in Manhattan, nor a golf course in West Palm Beach.
I urge you to take substantive action. Amend your tax and budget bills to put America’s financial house in order. Don’t borrow our way to prosperity. Help us earn it. Reward the middle class. Negotiate enforceable trade agreements that actually put workers first. Keep your promises to make health care affordable for everyone and lower the price of medicines. Keep your promise to introduce and pass a federal infrastructure jobs bill. Protect, don’t gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Call on Mitch McConnell to pass the Butch Lewis Act to save the pensions of 60,000 Ohioans. These all are achievable.
As always, I stand ready to work with you and my Congressional colleagues on a bipartisan basis to improve the lives of Toledoans, people throughout Northern Ohio, and in communities across our great nation.
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Long-term changes of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the tropical lowlands of Panama (2006)
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The study provides insights into the dynamic processes of vascular epiphyte vegetation in two host tree species of lowland forest in Panama. Further, a novel approach is presented to examine the possible role of host tree identity in the structuring of vascular epiphyte communities: For three locally common host tree species (Socratea exorrhiza, Marila laxiflora, Perebea xanthochyma) we created null models of the expected epiphyte assemblages assuming that epiphyte colonization reflected random distribution of epiphytes in the forest. In all three tree species, abundances of the majority of epiphyte species (69 – 81 %) were indistinguishable from random, while the remaining species were about equally over- or underrepresented compared to their occurrence in the entire forest plot. Permutations based on the number of colonized trees (reflecting observed spatial patchiness) yielded similar results. Finally, a Canonical Correspondence Analysis also confirmed host-specific differences in epiphyte assemblages. In spite of pronounced preferences of some epiphytes for particular host trees, no epiphyte species was restricted to a single host. We conclude that the epiphytes on a given tree species are not simply a random sample of the local species pool, but there are no indications of host specificity either. To determine the qualitative and quantitative long-term changes in the vascular epiphyte assemblage of the host tree Socratea exorrhiza, in the lowland forest of the San Lorenzo Crane Plot, we followed the fate of the vascular epiphyte assemblage on 99 individuals of this palm species, in three censuses over the course of five years. The composition of the epiphyte assemblage changed little during the course of the study. While the similarity of epiphyte vegetation decreased on single palm individuals through time, the similarity analyzed over all palms increased. Even well-established epiphyte individuals experienced high mortality with only 46 % of the originally mapped individuals surviving the following five years. We found a positive correlation between host tree size and epiphyte richness and detected higher colonization rates of epiphytes per surface area on larger trees. Epiphyte assemblages on single Socratea exorrhiza trees were highly dynamic while the overall composition of the epiphyte vegetation on the host tree species in the study plot was rather stable. We suggest that higher recruitment rates due to localized seed dispersal by already established epiphytes on larger palms promote the colonization of epiphytes on larger palms. Given the known growth rates and mortality rates of the host tree species, the maximum time available for colonization and reproduction of epiphytes on a given Socratea exorrhiza tree is estimated to be about 60 years. Changes in the epiphyte vegetation of c. 1000 individuals of the host tree species Annona glabra at Barro Colorado Island over the course of eight year were documented by means of repeated censuses. Considerable increase in the abundance of the dominating epiphyte species and ongoing colonization of the host tree species suggests that the epiphyte vegetation has not reached a steady state in the maximal 80 years since the establishment of the host tree. Epiphyte species composition as a whole was rather stable. We disentangled the relationship between epiphyte colonization and tree size/available time for colonization with the finding that tree size explained only a low proportion of colonization while other factors like connectivity to dispersal source and time explain may explain a larger part. Epiphyte populations are patchily distributed and examined species exhibit properties of a metapopulation with asynchronous local population growth, high local population turnover, a positive relationship between regional occurrence and patch population size, and negatively correlated relationship between extinction and patch occupancy. The documented metapopulation processes highlight the importance of not colonized suitable habitat for the conservation of epiphytes.
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WASHINGTON — A payment processing firm has agreed to pay a $1.37 million fine for allegedly helping debt settlement companies collect illegal upfront fees from consumers, federal regulators announced on Thursday.
In addition to the civil penalty, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Meracord LLC, a firm based in Tacoma, Wash., and its CEO Linda Remsberg, to stop processing payments for debt-settlement companies and for the mortgage-settlement industry. Meracord must also submit to monitoring and report regularly to regulators.
"By taking a stand against those who facilitate illegal activity, we can root out harmful behavior across the debt-settlement industry and better protect consumers," said the bureau's director, Richard Cordray, in a statement. Meracord is one of the largest payment processors used by debt-settlement companies, which typically offer to help borrowers negotiate settlements with their creditors.
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Ban That Movie!!
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A podcast piqued my curiosity while I was at the gym this morning. It was the latest in a unique on-going NPR series entitled “Stuff You Should Know”. I was a little put off by the format when I first tuned in to it because it was two relatively young guys, Josh and Chuck, just casually discussing topics. But there was much more to it than met the ear. While the co-hosts freely admit that there is no claim to be comprehensive or encyclopedic about topics, a listener quickly learns that these guys work hard at researching their material separately and the ensuing discussions give the listener the pleasure of eavesdropping on an intelligent and informed conversation.
The topics vary widely, but the one this morning on “book banning” made me think of the Islamic world’s anger over the crude anti-Islam “movie” for which Muslim mobs blame America. How can it be that these people don’t know that America believes in freedom of speech, that freedom of expression, even if it is offensive, is enshrined as a fundamental principle of our constitution? After all, this is the age of the Internet, is it not? The Internet, that freeway of information open almost worldwide, was even said to be instrumental in the Arab Spring uprisings. Alas, mere access to information does not equate to learning truth.Even in America efforts to control information, according to Josh and Chuck, are ubiquitous. Here for example is their list of “nine surprisingly banned books” with brief reasons given by the banners in parens:
Farenheit 451 (profanity)
Where’s Waldo (a topless lady on the beach)
The American Heritage Dictionary (out of Wasilla, AK, certain slang usage for words like “bed” and “knockers”)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (blood, violence)
The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank (“a real downer”)
The Harry Potter series (“questionable content”)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (“protagonist of questionable character”)
Steal This Book, by Abbie Hoffman (the title could prompt shoplifting)
Forever, by Judy Blume (premarital sex)
But, back to the furious mobs. It turns out, according to a BBC News item, that about ” . . . 30% of the approximately 300 million people in the Arab World were illiterate”. That would be 90 million people, so it isn’t much of a stretch to imagine that many in the crowds rushing our embassies and consulates might fit that category. Would it be surprising to find enterprising fundamentalists eager to help them construct some protest signs? In English yet?
Jordan and Kuwait, not surprisingly, are listed among the better Arab educational systems while Djibouti, Yemen, Morocco and that shining example of nation-building, Iraq, were ranked lowest in terms of access, efficiency and quality of education. But what about the quality? That’s a big question mark when the mere ability to read the Q’ran can define one as literate.
We Americans live in something of a cultural bubble because actual censorship is alive and well in the Arab world. An article by the Doha Centre For Media Freedom, based in Qatar, says this about journalism there:
“Self-censorship is part of being a journalist in the Middle East,” argues Jo Glanville, editor of the Index on Censorship. “While there are individual journalists who are outspoken and will be courageous and push boundaries, for the majority of journalists, they can only operate by censoring themselves.”
For the authorities, it is a low-cost, yet all-encompassing form of control. “It’s a tactic,” explains Glanville. “The regime will punish someone quite severely to use them as an example to frighten other journalists. Your average journalist is going to be terrorised by seeing what happens to those who stick their necks out.”
And even if they avoid jail, there is the ever-present threat of dismissal for journalists employed by state-owned media. Things aren’t much better in the private sector.
“Even the independent newspapers will be owned by politicians or someone who wants to curry favour with the government,” says Glanville.
Americans grow up being taught about freedom of speech and the free press, so we tend to take it for granted I think. But it should give us pause to consider the educational obstacles presented by nation building, as in Afghanistan for instance. Trying to turn them, or any other third-world country for that matter, into a democracy is, I submit, like trying to build a house by starting on the second floor before the foundation. And if in addition to the educational obstacle one adds religious opposition to the effort, then we have a Sisyphean task. “Allies” shooting us in the back for god’s sake.
Josh and Chuck can amuse their audience with tales of banned books but in the Arab World censorship and manipulation of the truth is no joking matter. Little wonder that Hillary Clinton’s speeches aren’t slowing them down, eh? George Orwell’s 1984, I submit, is still a possible future for the world.
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Christopher De Voss says:
Here I was looking for Waldo in those books…had I know that there was topless ladies in it, I would have looked harder.
You would have looked “harder”? (Snicker.) Sorry, that was a double entendre too good to pass up. 😀
We, as Americans, also have to be careful about what news we do (and most importantly, don’t) get through our outlets. I’m amazed at the number of stories I see on the BBC or CBC that NONE of the American outlets carry. Throw in the political bias of various American news groups (and I don’t just mean Fox News), and suddenly “freedom of speech and information” takes on a disturbing tone.
Jeff Little says:
Probably the most respected news organization in terms of reporting the truth no matter who it offends is Al Jazeera. This is not necessarily a contradiction to the statement that censorship is alive and well in the arab world. It could be the best because it is reacting to the rest. I am just saying that you have to be aware of both sides.
The Arab world has its problems and we do to. In general, I will applaud balanced editorials that highlight the “need to change” while still conveying respect for the society with the issues and without the assumption that we are automatically better.
I will definitely second Al-Jazzera. We first got their broadcasts some years ago, and they were rather biased, strongly pro-Arab. They went through a large shakeup right around the early days of the “Arab Spring” (don’t know if it was co-incidental), and since then have been very good for limiting “spin”.
A site I’ve advocated before seems strange – http://www.buenosairesherald.com. They are great for breaking news, but they do have a strong bias in anything to do with Argentina and Great Britain. Other than that, they’re pretty fair.
And though I am biased towards THEM, I have to advocate the Chicago Tribune, both hardcopy and online. I think they’re pretty good, but I am a Windy City boy, so….. 😀
I too have a general impression that Al-Jazzera attempts unbiased journalism, but I’m skeptical all the same. One also has to consider the confirmation bias of the audience over there as well – two people can hear the same broadcast item and take away different opinions. 🙂
helenofmarlowe says:
Jim, excellent!
I often listen to NPR but I’m not familiar with that program. I like your analogy of the house building. I guess it’s hard for people in some of the more repressive countries to understand that a movie “made in America” does not mean a movie approved for release by our government. Should the producer of that movie, a California Coptic Christian I believe, be charged with “hate speech”? Hold on … I will look up Josh and Chuck. Ah! How Stuff Works! Yes, I remember that. Didn’t know they had a radio program.
As always, I learn from you.
Yes, I’ve found NPR to be such an excellent information source that it’s making me feel a little stereotyped – have I turned into a geeky liberal? In all honesty I find the programming unbiased and very high quality. I’ve lately been recording Story of the Day, Planet Money and Stuff You Should Know as well as Car Talk, a long time very popular humor show that is ending soon. These pod casts make my daily gym visits whisk by at warp speed.
Thanks for dropping in, Helen.
My favorites are Diane Rehm, and Science Friday and This American Life. But, just one fair and balanced comment 🙂 I have a friend who will no longer listen to NPR because they have become too conservative, too right wing. She keeps her radio on our local Pacifica and Free Speech Radio. ( I listen to those as well, sometimes. I learn news from Amy Goodman that i don’t find anywhere else.)
I believe you are all missing a critical point herein.
Absolutely free speech is necessary if FREEDOM or LIBERTY is to remain a bastion of American ideals. But with free speech come absolute responsibility for both the speaker, at least to a degree, and for sure the listener. One that is listening to free speech must be able to distinguish between variour free speakers, some of whom flat out lie, and most of whom in the political areana spin the hell out of what they say.
And then there are those in “civilian life” (people that are not policiticans) that have every right to speak and write freely. But when they do so, well look at the results.
I wonder if free speech demands at least in part a degree of respect as well, for views that counter one’s own. No I am not talking about a “crazy video” in terms of “respecting the video” but I AM talking about the right, absolute right to publish the video. Why for example was that “speaker” later arrested? No it was not on the surface because of his video, but……?
Real freedom of speech, to be effective in a society, demands careful listening and more important THINKING about what has been said or shown. Then a response is appropriate if you thoughts are different and you in turn should show respect and at least an attempt at understanding of the differing views, counter to your own.
The best example I have seen of where such is NOT practiced is when censorship or banning prevails!!! A writer has every right to IGNORE free speech, however despicable, but does he have the right to force others to ignore it?????
As well there is another aspect to such speech, private speech. When something is said “privately” say in an email, is it approrpriate to make such comments public? Yes, in my view if it is a matter of law, but how about in political exchanges between two private individuals??
henrygmorgan says:
Jim: This topic reminds me of one of the most impassioned defenses of free speech and publication that I’ve ever read, John Milton’s “Areoptigitca”, written in 1644, but alluding to Mt. Areopagus in Greece, a famed venue for speech making, where in the 5th Century a famed Greek orator named Isocrates delivered what is thought to be the first defense of freedom of speech and publication. Milton’s work is also remarkable for being written in the midst of the English Civil War, where the sides were as far apart perhaps as they are today. My point in referring to this work is that the battle for freedom is old indeed, and we must always be alert to attacks on it. Bud Morgan.
Your point is well taken, Bud. The freedom to share information will always be in dynamic tension with the quality of that information, so conflict in inevitable. Logically, then, the greatest threat to freedom of speech is its restriction, and the greatest kind of restriction is secrecy. Makes me think of:
1. Romney’s tax returns.
2. The Patriot Act.
3. Military classification of everything in sight.
4. What goes on inside Mormon temples. ?
5. Fraternity initiations.
6. Milton 😀
How about including the hate speech laws in Canada ?
I’m not familiar with them, Alan.
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Evan Paul is the host of Taste of Country Nights, a syndicated radio show heard on more than 100 country radio stations nationwide. Producer Amber co-hosts the show with him every night from 7PM to midnight. Together they play the best new country music and interview today's top stars, like Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, Brantley Gilbert, Lady A, Maren Morris, Miranda Lambert + more!
We made it through every seasonal holiday except one, New Years Eve!
Let's say you find yourself at a huge New Year's Eve party with every country star on the planet. Now, let's also say that every single one of those country stars are single, for this purpose only. Which country artist are you kissing at the stroke of midnight to ring in the new year?
When I asked my co-host, Amber, she said Chris Young and his dog, Porter. She said that would ring in 2020 in the best way possible.
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Free Money = Freedom: Why the Labour Party must support the Universal Basic Income.
I’ve been thinking about Universal Basic Income (UBI) a lot recently…in a good way. What sort of society could we become if each adult citizen was given say £1000 a month each, from the state? There would be no strings attached; that £1000 per month would be a right for each man or woman over the age of 18. A study released by the University of Bath in September suggested that 49% of 18-79 year olds would support a policy of this nature and certainly, in principle at least, UBI tackles poverty in a brave, bold way. It is ‘Tom-Paine-Thinking’ for the Twenty-First Century.
I think to my friends. Most of whom are in their 30s and 40s and what you could politely describe as being stagnantly mid-career. Would being in receipt of UBI change what we were doing with our lives? Would my teacher friends still teach? Would my friends in the NHS still want to work for our struggling health service? Would my banker friends still steal money from the poor to line the pockets of The Man (obviously I’m joking; I don’t have any banker friends – ahem, Sorry Dave). For most they probably wouldn’t change the job, they would change the hours. For some, it would give them the confidence to try a start-up idea, or launch a ‘passion project’ long since shelved for fear of leaving their families without, if and when it failed. UBI could give Britain the chance to be more creative, most aspirational and much, much braver.
It could also help ease Britain’s growing mental health crisis. We are overworked; as Owen Jones detailed in The Guardian yesterday in his calls for a four-day week, nearly half of all people suffering from stress, depression or anxiety, attribute it to workload. UBI could allow all workers the choice to spend more time with their families. It could help liberate the workers; I make no apology if I come over full on Marx here, but UBI is going to be a key part of liberating workers from the oppression of labour. Indeed, economic and industrial development has long been seen as a precondition for Socialism and with Artificial Intelligence potentially rendering many jobs we know today obsolete, it may well be that the industrial developments of the Twenty-First Century actually bring the voices calling for UBI away from the traditional ‘hard’ left and into the centre.
Combined with Labour’s proposed National Education Service, which will offer free education at any point in life, adults could re-enter education, re-train, re-fresh, and ultimately become a more academic, skilled workforce; they would use UBI to facilitate and free-up the hours for part-time study. A more skilled workforce, eventually gives back to the state in increased productivity. Could the policy then pay for itself?
Well there has to be another form of funding UBI, at least initially. Most here on the left, would raise taxes; but a Canadian poll in 2016 showed that support for UBI fell dramatically when such rises in taxation were mentioned. Neo-liberals would fund UBI another way: essentially by stripping away most welfare. It may well be that welfare can have a huge shake-up if UBI were introduced, but there will always be people for whom circumstance requires financial support from the state.
So, it certainly won’t all be plain sailing: some experts warn that UBI could, within a generation, simply reinforce women’s traditional role by encouraging them to return to providing care and household services. It could spell the end of state maternity pay and limit further entitlements to child benefit. In the USA, supporters of UBI see it as allowing women to spend more time at home with new-born babies before returning to work; of course, the USA does not have a Welfare State like ours in the UK. The introduction of UBI would raise other serious questions relating to benefits: Would there be any more need for a state pension? Would there be a sort of ‘UBI-plus’ for a generation who had paid in substantial National Insurance contributions before the transition of arrangements? What about those entitled to Personal Independence Payments (PiP) or many of the benefits being brought under the umbrella of Universal Credit? Could we end up with UBIPIPUC? Would you pay more to people who live in areas with higher rents and associated living costs? Would your UBI amount depend on which postcode you were born into, or where you lived?
So, lots of questions. One thing I am sure of though: it’s time for the discussion. I want a future Labour government to put UBI on the table. In the meantime, let’s get it to Parliament for a full Chamber debate. There’s a parliament.uk petition online. I’ve signed today.
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Vagrancy legal definition of Vagrancy
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Vagrancy
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The condition of an individual who is idle, has no visible means of support, and travels from place to place without working.
At Common Law the term vagrant referred to a person who was idle, refused to work although capable of doing so, and lived on the charity of others. Until the 1970s state vagrancy statutes were used by police to charge persons who were suspected of criminal activity, but whose actions had not gone far enough to constitute a criminal attempt. Court decisions, however, have struck down vagrancy laws as unconstitutionally vague. In addition, the term vagrant has been replaced by Homeless Person as a way of describing a person who is without means or a permanent home.
Traditionally, communities tended to regard vagrants with suspicion and view them either as beggars or as persons likely to commit crimes. In England vagrants were whipped, branded, conscripted into military service, or exiled to penal colonies. In colonial America vagrancy statutes were common. A person who wandered into a town and did not find work was told to leave the community or face criminal prosecution.
After the U.S. Civil War, the defeated Southern states enacted Black Codes, sets of laws that sought to maintain white control over the newly freed African American slaves. The concern that African Americans would leave their communities and deplete the labor supply led to the inclusion of vagrancy laws in these codes. Unemployed African Americans who had no permanent residence could be arrested and fined. Typically, the person could not pay the fine and was therefore either sent for a term of labor with the county or hired out to a private employer.
The abuse of vagrancy laws by the police throughout the United States was common. Such laws were vague and undefined, allowing police to arrest persons merely on the suspicion they were about to do something illegal. In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court addressed this problem in Papachristou v. Jacksonville, 405 U.S. 156, 92 S. Ct. 839, 31 L. Ed. 2d 110. The Court ruled that a Florida vagrancy statute was unconstitutional because it was too vague to be understood. The Court emphasized that members of the public cannot avoid engaging in criminal conduct, if prior to engaging in it, they cannot determine that the conduct is forbidden by law. The Court also concluded that the vagrancy law's vagueness lent itself to Arbitrary enforcement: police, prosecutors, and juries could enforce the law more stringently against one person than against another, even though the two individuals' conduct was similar.
After Papachristou the validity of vagrancy statutes was put in doubt. Prosecutions for vagrancy must now be tied to observable acts, such as public begging. Prosecutions are rare, however, because local governments do not want to spend their financial resources incarcerating persons for such offenses.
Homeless Person; Void for Vagueness Doctrine.
n. moving about without a means to support oneself, without a permanent home, and relying on begging. Until recently it was a considered a minor crime (misdemeanor) in many states. Constitutionally it is evident that being poor is not a crime. The same is true of "loitering."
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Bill Text: NY S04411 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
New York Senate Bill 4411
NY State Legislature page for S04411
Bill Title: Grants a consumer a right to request a business to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that it collects about the consumer, the categories of sources from which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information is shared.
Status: (Introduced) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S04411 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04411-Introduced.html
IN SENATE
Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law and the state finance law, in
relation to allowing consumers the right to request from businesses
the categories of personal information the business has sold or
disclosed to third parties
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The article heading of article 39-F of the general business
2 law, as added by chapter 442 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 [NOTIFICATION OF UNAUTHORIZED] ACQUISITION AND CONTROL
5 OF PRIVATE AND PERSONAL INFORMATION
6 § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 899-
7 bb to read as follows:
8 § 899-bb. Consumer control of personal information. 1. For purposes of
9 this section, the following definitions shall apply:
10 (a) "Biometric data" means an individual's physiological, biological
11 or behavioral characteristics, including an individual's deoxyribonu-
12 cleic acid that can be used, singly or in combination with each other or
13 with other identifying data to establish individual identity. Biometric
14 data includes but is not limited to imagery of the iris, retina, finger-
15 print, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which
16 an identifier template, such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a
17 voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait
18 patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain
19 identifying information.
20 (b) "Business" means:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06756-01-9
S. 4411 2
1 (1) a sole-proprietorship, partnership, limited-liability company,
2 corporation, association, or other legal entity that is organized or
3 operated for the profit or financial benefit of its shareholders or
4 other owners, that collects consumers' personal information, that does
5 business in the state, and that satisfies one or more of the following
6 thresholds: (A) has annual gross revenues in excess of fifty million
7 dollars, as adjusted pursuant to subparagraph five of paragraph (a) of
8 subdivision fifteen of this section; or (B) annually sells, alone or in
9 combination, the personal information of one hundred thousand or more
10 consumers or devices; or (C) derives fifty percent or more of its annual
11 revenues from selling consumers' personal information; and
12 (2) any entity that controls or is controlled by a business, as
13 defined in paragraph one of this subdivision, and that shares common
14 branding with the business. "Control" or "controlled" means ownership
15 of, or the power to vote, more than fifty percent of the outstanding
16 shares of any class of voting security of a business; control in any
17 manner over the election of a majority of the directors, or of individ-
18 uals exercising similar functions; or the power to exercise, directly or
19 indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of a
20 company. "Common branding" means a shared name, servicemark, or trade-
21 mark.
22 (c) "Business purpose" means the use of personal information for the
23 business's operational purposes, provided that the use of personal
24 information shall be reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve
25 the operational purpose for which it is specifically permitted. Unrea-
26 sonable or disproportionate use shall not be considered a "business
27 purpose". Business purposes are:
28 (1) Auditing related to a current interaction with the consumer and
29 concurrent transactions, including but not limited to, counting ad
30 impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad
31 impressions and auditing compliance with this specification and other
32 standards;
33 (2) Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, decep-
34 tive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible
35 for such activity;
36 (3) Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing
37 intended functionality;
38 (4) Short-term, transient use, provided the personal information is
39 not disclosed to another person and is not used to build a profile about
40 a consumer or otherwise alter an individual consumer's experience
41 outside the current interaction, including but not limited to, the
42 contextual customization of ads shown as part of the same interaction;
43 and
44 (5) Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintain-
45 ing or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or
46 fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information,
47 processing payments, providing financing, providing advertising or
48 marketing services, providing analytical services, or providing similar
49 services on behalf of the business.
50 (d) "Clear and conspicuous" means (1) in a color that contrasts with
51 the background color or is otherwise distinguishable; (2) written in
52 larger type than the surrounding text and in a fashion that calls atten-
53 tion to the language; and (3) prominently displayed so that a reasonable
54 viewer would be able to notice, read, and understand it.
55 (e) "Commercial purposes" means to advance a person's commercial or
56 economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent,
1 lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, proper-
2 ty, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or
3 indirectly, a commercial transaction. "Commercial purposes" does not
4 include for the purpose of engaging in speech that state or federal
5 courts have recognized as non-commercial speech, including political
6 speech and journalism.
7 (f) "Collects", "collected" or "collection" means buying, renting,
8 gathering, obtaining, storing, using, monitoring, accessing, or making
9 inferences based upon, any personal information pertaining to a consumer
10 by any means.
11 (g) "Consumer" means a natural person who is a resident of the state.
12 (h) "De-identified" means information that cannot reasonably identify,
13 relate to, describe, reference, be capable of being associated with, or
14 be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer or device,
15 provided that a business that uses de-identified information: (1) has
16 implemented technical safeguards that prohibit re-identification of the
17 consumer or consumers to whom the information may pertain; (2) has
18 implemented business processes that specifically prohibit re-identifica-
19 tion of the information; (3) has implemented business processes to
20 prevent inadvertent release of de-identified information; and (4) makes
21 no attempt to re-identify the information.
22 (i) "Designated methods for submitting requests" means a mailing
23 address, e-mail address, web page, web portal, toll-free telephone
24 number, or other applicable contact information, whereby consumers may
25 submit a request or direction under this act. If the consumer does not
26 maintain an account with the business, the business shall provide an
27 opportunity for the consumer to designate whether the consumer wishes to
28 receive the information required to be disclosed pursuant to subdivi-
29 sions two and three of this section by mail or electronically, at the
30 consumer's option.
31 (j) "Homepage" means the introductory page of a website and any
32 webpage where personal information is collected. In the case of an
33 online service, such as a mobile application, homepage means the appli-
34 cation's platform page, a link within the application, such as from the
35 application configuration, "about", "information", or settings page, and
36 any other location that allows consumers to review the notice required
37 by paragraph (a) of subdivision seven of this section, including but not
38 limited to, before downloading the application.
39 (k) "Infer" or "inference" means the derivation of information, data,
40 assumptions, or conclusions from facts, evidence, or another source of
41 information or data.
42 (l) "Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership,
43 joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited
44 liability company, association, committee, and any other organization or
45 group of persons acting in concert.
46 (m) (1)"Personal information" means information that identifies,
47 relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with,
48 or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular
49 consumer or device, including, but not limited to:
50 (A) any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is
51 capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including,
52 but not limited to, his or her name, alias, signature, social security
53 number, physical characteristics or description, address, electronic
54 mail address, internet protocol address, unique identifier, account
55 name, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state iden-
56 tification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment,
1 employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card
2 number, or any other financial information, medical information, or
3 health insurance information;
4 (B) characteristics of protected classifications under state or feder-
5 al law;
6 (C) commercial information, including records of property, products or
7 services provided, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or
8 consuming histories or tendencies;
9 (D) biometric data;
10 (E) internet or other electronic network activity information, includ-
11 ing but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and informa-
12 tion regarding a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or
13 advertisement;
14 (F) geolocation data;
15 (G) audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar informa-
16 tion;
17 (H) psychometric information;
18 (I) professional or employment-related information;
19 (J) inferences drawn from any of the information identified above; and
20 (K) any of the categories of information set forth in this subdivision
21 as they pertain to the minor children of the consumer.
22 (2) "Personal information" does not include information that is
23 publicly available or that is de-identified.
24 (n) "Probabilistic identifier" means the identification of a consumer
25 or a device to a degree of certainty of more probable than not based on
26 any categories of personal information included in, or similar to, the
27 categories enumerated in subparagraph one of paragraph (m) of this
28 subdivision.
29 (o) "Psychometric information" means information derived or created
30 from the use or application of psychometric theory or psychometrics,
31 whereby through the use of any method, model, tool, or formula, observa-
32 ble phenomena, such as actions or events, are connected, measured,
33 assessed, or related to a consumer's attributes, including, but not
34 limited to, psychological trends, preferences, predispositions, behav-
35 ior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
36 (p) "Publicly available" means information that is lawfully made
37 available from federal, state, or local government records. "Publicly
38 available" does not mean biometric information collected by a business
39 about a consumer without the consumer's knowledge.
40 (q)(1) "Sell", "selling", "sale" or "sold" means: (A) selling, rent-
41 ing, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, trans-
42 ferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic
43 or other means, a consumer's personal information by the business to a
44 third party for valuable consideration; or (B) sharing orally, in writ-
45 ing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer's personal information
46 with a third party, whether for valuable consideration or for no consid-
47 eration, for the third party's commercial purposes.
48 (2) For purposes of this section, a business does not sell personal
49 information when:
50 (A) A consumer uses the business: (i) to intentionally disclose
51 personal information, or (ii) to intentionally interact with a third
52 party. An intentional interaction occurs when the consumer intends to
53 interact with the third party via one or more deliberate interactions.
54 Hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing a given piece of content does
55 not constitute a consumer's intent to interact with a third party; or
1 (B) The business uses an identifier for a consumer who has opted out
2 of the sale of the consumer's personal information for the purposes of
3 alerting third parties that the consumer has opted out of the sale of
4 the consumer's personal information.
5 (r) "Service" or "services" means work, labor, and services, including
6 services furnished in connection with the sale or repair of goods.
7 (s) "Third party" means any person who is not:
8 (1) The business that collects personal information from consumers
9 under this section; or
10 (2) A person to whom the business discloses a consumer's personal
11 information for a business purpose pursuant to a written contract,
12 provided that the contract:
13 (A) Prohibits the person receiving the personal information from: (i)
14 selling the personal information; (ii) retaining, using, or disclosing
15 the personal information for any purpose other than for the specific
16 purpose of performing the services specified in the contract, including
17 retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for a commer-
18 cial purpose other than providing the services specified in the
19 contract; and (iii) retaining, using, or disclosing the information
20 outside of the direct business relationship between the person and the
21 business; and
22 (B) Includes a certification made by the person receiving the personal
23 information that the person understands the restrictions in clause (A)
24 of this subparagraph and will comply with them. A person covered by this
25 subparagraph that violates any of the restrictions set forth in this
26 section shall be liable for such violations under this section. A busi-
27 ness that discloses personal information to a person covered by this
28 subparagraph in compliance with such subparagraph shall not be liable
29 under this section if the person receiving the personal information uses
30 it in violation of the restrictions set forth in this section, provided
31 that, at the time of disclosing the personal information, the business
32 does not have actual knowledge, or reason to believe, that the person
33 intends to commit such a violation.
34 (t) "Unique identifier" means a persistent identifier that can be used
35 to recognize a consumer or a device over time and across different
36 services, including but not limited to, a device identifier; internet
37 protocol address; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers,
38 or similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias;
39 and telephone numbers, or other forms of persistent or probabilistic
40 identifiers that can be used to identify a particular consumer or
41 device.
42 (u) "Verifiable request" means a request that: (1) is made by a
43 consumer, by a consumer on behalf of the consumer's minor child, or by a
44 person authorized by the consumer to act on the consumer's behalf; and
45 (2) the business has verified, pursuant to regulations adopted by the
46 attorney general pursuant to subparagraph seven of paragraph (a) of
47 subdivision fifteen of this section, to be the consumer about whom the
48 business has collected personal information. A business is not obligated
49 to provide information to the consumer pursuant to subdivisions two and
50 three of this section if the business cannot verify, pursuant to this
51 subdivision and regulations adopted by the attorney general pursuant to
52 subparagraph seven of paragraph (a) of subdivision fifteen of this
53 section, that the consumer making the request is the consumer about whom
54 the business has collected information.
55 2. (a) A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that
56 collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consum-
1 er the categories of personal information it has collected about that
2 consumer.
3 (b) A business that collects personal information about a consumer
4 shall disclose to the consumer, pursuant to subparagraph three of para-
5 graph (a) of subdivision six of this section, the information specified
6 in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section upon receipt of a
7 verifiable request from the consumer.
8 (c) A business that collects personal information about consumers
9 shall disclose, pursuant to clause (B) of subparagraph five of paragraph
10 (a) of subdivision six of this section, the categories of personal
11 information it has collected about consumers.
13 sells the consumer's personal information, or that discloses it for a
14 business purpose, disclose to that consumer: (1) the categories of
15 personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the
16 identity of the third parties to whom such personal information was
17 sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third
18 party to whom such personal information was sold; and (2) the categories
19 of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer
20 for a business purpose and the identity of the persons to whom such
21 personal information was disclosed for a business purpose, by category
22 or categories of personal information for each person to whom such
23 personal information was disclosed for a business purpose.
24 (b) A business that sells personal information about a consumer, or
25 that discloses a consumer's personal information for a business purpose,
26 shall disclose, pursuant to subparagraph four of paragraph (a) of subdi-
27 vision six of this section, the information specified in paragraph (a)
28 of this subdivision to the consumer upon receipt of a verifiable request
29 from the consumer.
30 (c) A business that sells consumers' personal information, or that
31 discloses consumers' personal information for a business purpose, shall
32 disclose, pursuant to clause (C) of subparagraph five of paragraph (a)
33 of subdivision six of this section: (1) the category or categories of
34 consumers' personal information it has sold; or if the business has not
35 sold consumers' personal information, it shall disclose that fact; and
36 (2) the category or categories of consumers' personal information it has
37 disclosed for a business purpose; or if the business has not disclosed
38 consumers' personal information for a business purpose, it shall
39 disclose that fact.
40 4. (a) A consumer shall have the right, at any time, to direct a busi-
41 ness that sells personal information about the consumer not to sell the
42 consumer's personal information. This right may be referred to as the
43 right to opt out.
44 (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, a business
45 shall not sell the personal information of consumers if the business has
46 actual knowledge, or willfully disregards, that the consumer is less
47 than sixteen years of age, unless the consumer, in the case of consumers
48 thirteen, fourteen and fifteen years of age, or the consumer's parent or
49 guardian, in the case of consumers who are less than thirteen years of
50 age, has affirmatively authorized the sale of the consumer's personal
51 information. This right may be referred to as the right to opt in.
52 (c) A business that sells consumers' personal information shall
53 provide notice to consumers, pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision
54 seven of this section, that such information may be sold and that
55 consumers have the right to opt out of the sale of their personal infor-
56 mation.
1 (d) A business that has received direction from a consumer not to sell
2 the consumer's personal information, or, in the case of a minor consum-
3 er's personal information, has not received consent to sell the minor
4 consumer's personal information, shall be prohibited, pursuant to
5 subparagraph four of paragraph (a) of subdivision seven of this section,
6 from selling the consumer's personal information after its receipt of
7 the consumer's direction, unless the consumer subsequently provides
8 express authorization for the sale of the consumer's personal informa-
9 tion.
10 5. A business shall be prohibited from discriminating against a
11 consumer because the consumer requested information pursuant to subdivi-
12 sions two and three of this section, or because the consumer directed
13 the business not to sell the consumer's personal information pursuant to
14 subdivision four of this section, or because the consumer otherwise
15 exercised rights under this title, or exercised the consumer's rights to
16 enforce this act, including but not limited to, by: (a) denying goods or
17 services to the consumer; (b) charging different prices or rates for
18 goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other bene-
19 fits or imposing penalties; (c) providing a different level or quality
20 of goods or services to the consumer; or (d) suggesting that the consum-
21 er will receive a different price or rate for goods or services, or a
22 different level or quality of goods or services, if the consumer exer-
23 cises the consumer's rights under this section.
24 6. (a) In order to comply with subdivisions two, three and five of
25 this section, a business shall:
26 (1) Make available to consumers two or more designated methods for
27 submitting requests for information required to be disclosed pursuant to
28 subdivisions two and three of this section, including, at a minimum, a
29 toll-free telephone number, and if the business maintains a website, a
30 website address.
31 (2) Disclose and deliver the required information to a consumer free
32 of charge within forty-five days of receiving a verifiable request from
33 the consumer. The business shall promptly take steps to determine wheth-
34 er the request is a verifiable request, but this shall not extend the
35 business's duty to disclose and deliver the information within forty-
36 five days of receipt of the consumer's request. The disclosure shall
37 cover the twelve-month period preceding the business's receipt of the
38 verifiable request and shall be made in writing and delivered through
39 the consumer's account with the business, if the consumer maintains an
40 account with the business, or by mail or electronically at the consum-
41 er's option if the consumer does not maintain an account with the busi-
42 ness. The business shall not require the consumer to create an account
43 with the business in order to make a verifiable request.
44 (3) For purposes of paragraph (b) of subdivision two of this section:
45 (A) identify the consumer, associate the information provided by the
46 consumer in the verifiable request to any personal information previous-
47 ly collected by the business about the consumer; and (B) identify by
48 category or categories the personal information collected about the
49 consumer in the preceding twelve months by reference to the enumerated
50 category or categories in paragraph (c) of this subdivision that most
51 closely describes the personal information collected.
52 (4) For purposes of paragraph (b) of subdivision three of this
53 section: (A) identify the consumer, associate the information provided
54 by the consumer in the verifiable request to any personal information
55 previously collected by the business about the consumer; (B) identify by
56 category or categories the personal information of the consumer that the
1 business sold in the preceding twelve months by reference to the enumer-
2 ated category or categories in paragraph (c) of this subdivision that
3 most closely describes the personal information, and provide accurate
4 names and contact information for the third parties to whom the consum-
5 er's personal information was sold in the preceding twelve months by
6 reference to the enumerated category or categories in paragraph (c) of
7 this subdivision that most closely describes the personal information
8 sold for each third party; and (C) identify by category or categories
9 the personal information of the consumer that the business disclosed for
10 a business purpose in the preceding twelve months by reference to the
11 enumerated category or categories in paragraph (c) of this subdivision
12 that most closely describes the personal information, and provide accu-
13 rate names and contact information for the persons to whom the consum-
14 er's personal information was disclosed for a business purpose in the
15 preceding twelve months by reference to the enumerated category or cate-
16 gories in paragraph (c) of this subdivision of this section that most
17 closely describes the personal information disclosed for each person.
18 The business shall disclose the information required by clauses (B) and
19 (C) of this subparagraph in two separate lists.
20 (5) Disclose the following information in its online privacy policy or
21 policies if the business has an online privacy policy or policies and in
22 any New York-specific description of consumers' privacy rights, or if
23 the business does not maintain such policies, on its website, and update
24 such information at least once every twelve months:
25 (A) A description of a consumer's rights pursuant to subdivisions two,
26 three and five of this section, and one or more designated methods for
27 submitting requests;
28 (B) For purposes of paragraph (c) of subdivision two of this section,
29 a list of the categories of personal information it has collected about
30 consumers in the preceding twelve months by reference to the enumerated
32 closely describes the personal information collected; and
33 (C) For purposes of subparagraphs one and two of paragraph (c) of
34 subdivision three of this section, two separate lists: (i) a list of the
35 categories of personal information it has sold about consumers in the
37 gories in paragraph (c) of this subdivision that most closely describes
38 the personal information sold, or if the business has not sold consum-
39 ers' personal information in the preceding twelve months, the business
40 shall disclose that fact; and (ii) a list of the categories of personal
41 information it has disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in
42 the preceding twelve months by reference to the enumerated category or
43 categories in paragraph (c) of this subdivision that most closely
44 describes the personal information disclosed, or if the business has not
45 disclosed consumers' personal information for a business purpose in the
46 preceding twelve months, the business shall disclose that fact.
47 (6) Ensure that all individuals responsible for handling consumer
48 inquiries about the business's privacy practices or the business's
49 compliance with this section are informed of all requirements in this
50 subdivision, as well as in subdivisions two, three and five of this
51 section, and how to direct consumers to exercise their rights under
52 those sections; and
53 (7) Use any personal information collected from the consumer in
54 connection with the business's verification of the consumer's request
55 solely for the purposes of verification.
1 (b) A business is not obligated to provide the information required by
2 subdivisions two and three of this section to the same consumer more
3 than once in a twelve-month period.
4 (c) The categories of personal information required to be disclosed
5 pursuant to subdivisions two and three of this section are all of the
6 following:
7 (1) Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique
8 identifier, internet protocol address, electronic mail address, account
9 name, social security number, driver's license number, passport number,
10 or other similar identifiers;
11 (2) All categories of personal information enumerated in paragraph (a)
12 of subdivision one of this section;
13 (3) All categories of personal information relating to characteristics
14 of protected classifications under state or federal law, with specific
15 reference to the category of information that has been collected, such
16 as race, ethnicity, or gender;
17 (4) Commercial information, including records of property, products or
18 services provided, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or
19 consuming histories or tendencies;
20 (5) Biometric data;
21 (6) Internet or other electronic network activity information, includ-
22 ing but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and informa-
23 tion regarding a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or
25 (7) Geolocation data;
26 (8) Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar informa-
28 (9) Psychometric information;
29 (10) Professional or employment-related information;
30 (11) Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above;
32 (12) Any of the categories of information set forth in this paragraph
34 7. (a) A business that is required to comply with subdivision four of
35 this section shall:
36 (1) Provide a clear and conspicuous link on the business's homepage,
37 titled "Do Not Sell My Personal Information", to a webpage that enables
38 a consumer, or a person authorized by the consumer, to opt out of the
39 sale of the consumer's personal information. A business shall not
40 require a consumer to create an account in order to direct the business
41 not to sell the consumer's personal information;
42 (2) Include a description of a consumer's rights pursuant to subdivi-
43 sion four of this section, along with a separate link to the "Do Not
44 Sell My Personal Information" webpage in: (A) its online privacy policy
45 or policies if the business has an online privacy policy or policies,
46 and (B) any state specific description of consumers' privacy rights;
47 (3) Ensure that all individuals responsible for handling consumer
48 inquiries about the business's privacy practices or the business's
49 compliance with this section are informed of all requirements in this
50 subdivision as well as subdivision four of this section, and how to
51 direct consumers to exercise their rights under those sections;
52 (4) For consumers who exercise their right to opt out of the sale of
53 their personal information, refrain from selling personal information
54 collected by the business about the consumer;
55 (5) For a consumer who has opted out of the sale of the consumer's
56 personal information, respect the consumer's decision to opt out for at
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1 least twelve months before requesting that the consumer authorize the
2 sale of the consumer's personal information; and
3 (6) Use any personal information collected from the consumer in
4 connection with the submission of the consumer's opt out request solely
5 for the purposes of complying with the opt out request.
6 (b) A consumer may authorize another person to opt out on the consum-
7 er's behalf, and a business shall comply with an opt out request
8 received from a person authorized by the consumer to act on the consum-
9 er's behalf.
10 8. (a) The obligations imposed on businesses by subdivisions two and
11 seven of this section shall not restrict a business's ability to:
12 (1) comply with federal, state, or local laws;
13 (2) comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory investigation or
14 subpoena or summons by federal, state, or local authorities;
15 (3) cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or
16 activity that the business reasonably and in good faith believes may
17 violate federal, state, or local law; or
18 (4) collect and sell a consumer's personal information if every aspect
19 of such commercial conduct takes place wholly outside of the state. For
20 purposes of this section, commercial conduct takes place wholly outside
21 of the state if the business collected such information while the
22 consumer was outside of the state, no part of the sale of the consumer's
23 personal information occurred in the state, and no personal information
24 collected while the consumer was in the state is sold.
25 (b) The obligations imposed on businesses by subdivisions two and
26 seven of this section shall not apply where compliance by the business
27 with this section would violate an evidentiary privilege under state law
28 and shall not prevent a business from providing the personal information
29 of a consumer to a person covered by an evidentiary privilege under
30 state law as part of a privileged communication.
31 (c) This section shall not apply to protected health information that
32 is collected by a covered entity governed by the medical privacy and
33 security rules issued by the Federal Department of Health and Human
34 Services, Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regu-
35 lations, established pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and
36 Availability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). For purposes of this subdivision, the
37 definitions of "protected health information" and "covered entity" from
38 the federal privacy rule shall apply.
39 (d) This section shall not apply to the sale of personal information
40 to or from a consumer reporting agency if that information is to be
41 reported in, or used to generate, a consumer report as defined by subdi-
42 vision (d) of Section 1681(a) of Title 15 of the United States Code, and
43 use of that information is limited by the federal Fair Credit Reporting
44 Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681, et seq.
45 9. (a) A consumer who has suffered a violation of this section may
46 bring an action for statutory damages. A violation of this section shall
47 be deemed to constitute an injury in fact to the consumer who has
48 suffered the violation, and the consumer need not suffer a loss of money
49 or property as a result of the violation in order to bring an action for
50 a violation of this section.
51 (b)(1) Any consumer who suffers an injury in fact, as described in
52 paragraph (a) of this subdivision, shall recover statutory damages in
53 the amount of one thousand dollars or actual damages, whichever is
54 greater, for each violation from the business or person responsible for
55 the violation, except that in the case of a knowing and willful
56 violation by a business or person, an individual shall recover statutory
1 damages of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than three
2 thousand dollars, or actual damages, whichever is greater, for each
3 violation from the business or person responsible for the violation.
4 (2) In assessing the amount of statutory damages, the court shall
5 consider any one or more of the relevant circumstances presented by any
6 of the parties to the case, including, but not limited to, the follow-
7 ing: the nature and seriousness of the misconduct, the number of
8 violations, the persistence of the misconduct, the length of time over
9 which the misconduct occurred, the willfulness of the defendant's
10 misconduct, and the defendant's assets, liabilities, and net worth.
11 (c) Notwithstanding any other law, whenever a judgment, including any
12 consent judgment, decree, or settlement agreement, is approved by the
13 court in a class action based on a violation of this section, any cy
14 pres award, unpaid cash residue, or unclaimed or abandoned class member
15 funds attributable to a violation of this section shall be distributed
16 exclusively to one or more nonprofit organizations to support projects
17 that will benefit the class or similarly situated persons, further the
18 objectives and purposes of the underlying class action or cause of
19 action, or promote the law consistent with the objectives and purposes
20 of the underlying class action or cause of action, unless for good cause
21 shown the court makes a specific finding that an alternative distrib-
22 ution would better serve the public interest or the interests of the
23 class. If not specified in the judgment, the court shall set a date when
24 the parties shall submit a report to the court regarding a plan for the
25 distribution of any moneys pursuant to this subdivision.
26 (d) The remedies provided by this subdivision are cumulative to each
27 other and to the remedies or penalties available under all other laws of
28 the state.
29 10. (a) Any business or person that violates this section shall be
30 liable for a civil penalty in a civil action brought in the name of the
31 people of the state of New York by the attorney general.
32 (b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any person or busi-
33 ness that intentionally violates this section may be liable for a civil
34 penalty of up to seven thousand five hundred dollars for each violation.
35 (c) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any civil penalty
36 assessed for a violation of this section, and the proceeds of any
37 settlement of an action brought pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdi-
38 vision, shall be allocated as follows:
39 (1) twenty percent to the consumer privacy fund, created pursuant to
40 section ninety-nine-ff of the state finance law, with the intent to
41 fully offset any costs incurred by the state courts and the attorney
42 general in connection with this section; and
43 (2) eighty percent to the jurisdiction on whose behalf the action
44 leading to the civil penalty was brought.
45 (d) The legislature shall adjust the percentages specified in para-
46 graph (c) of this subdivision and in subdivision eleven of this section,
47 as necessary to ensure that any civil penalties assessed for a violation
48 of this section fully offset any costs incurred by the state courts and
49 the attorney general in connection with this section, including a suffi-
50 cient amount to cover any deficit from a prior fiscal year. The legisla-
51 ture shall not direct a greater percentage of assessed civil penalties
52 to the consumer privacy fund than reasonably necessary to fully offset
53 any costs incurred by the state courts and the attorney general in
54 connection with this section.
55 11. (a) Any person who becomes aware, based on non-public information,
56 that a person or business has violated this section may file a civil
1 action for civil penalties pursuant to subdivision ten of this section,
2 if prior to filing such action, the person files with the attorney
3 general a written request for the attorney general to commence the
4 action. The request shall include a clear and concise statement of the
5 grounds for believing a cause of action exists. The person shall make
6 the non-public information available to the attorney general upon
7 request.
8 (1) If the attorney general files suit within ninety days from receipt
9 of the written request to commence the action, no other action may be
10 brought unless the action brought by the attorney general is dismissed
11 without prejudice.
12 (2) If the attorney general does not file suit within ninety days from
13 receipt of the written request to commence the action, the person
14 requesting the action may proceed to file a civil action.
15 (3) The time period within which a civil action shall be commenced
16 shall be tolled from the date of receipt by the attorney general of the
17 written request to either the date that the civil action is dismissed
18 without prejudice, or for one hundred fifty days, whichever is later,
19 but only for a civil action brought by the person who requested the
20 attorney general to commence the action.
21 (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (c) of subdivision ten of this section,
22 if a judgment is entered against the defendant or defendants in an
23 action brought pursuant to this subdivision, or the matter is settled,
24 amounts received as civil penalties or pursuant to a settlement of the
25 action shall be allocated as follows:
26 (1) If the action was brought by the attorney general upon a request
27 made by a person pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the
28 person who made the request shall be entitled to fifteen percent of the
29 civil penalties, and the remaining proceeds shall be deposited in the
30 consumer privacy fund pursuant to section ninety-nine-ff of the state
31 finance law.
32 (2) If the action was brought by the person who made the request
33 pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision, that person shall receive
34 an amount the court determines is reasonable for collecting the civil
35 penalties on behalf of the government. The amount shall be not less than
36 twenty-five percent and not more than fifty percent of the proceeds of
37 the action and shall be paid out of the proceeds. The remaining proceeds
38 shall be deposited in the consumer privacy fund pursuant to section
39 ninety-nine-ff of the state finance law.
40 (c) For purposes of this section, "non-public information" means
41 information that has not been disclosed in a criminal, civil, or admin-
42 istrative proceeding, in a government investigation, report, or audit,
43 or by the news media or other public source of information, and that was
44 not obtained in violation of the law.
45 12. A business that suffers a breach of the security of the system
46 involving consumers' personal information shall be deemed to have
47 violated this section and may be held liable for such violation or
48 violations under subdivisions nine, ten and eleven of this section, if
49 the business has failed to implement and maintain reasonable security
50 procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the information,
51 to protect the personal information from unauthorized disclosure.
52 13. This section is intended to further the constitutional right of
53 privacy and to supplement existing laws relating to consumers' personal
54 information. The provisions of this section are not limited to informa-
55 tion collected electronically or over the internet, but apply to the
56 collection and sale of all personal information collected by a business
1 from consumers. Wherever possible, existing law relating to consumers'
2 personal information should be construed to harmonize with the
3 provisions of this section, but in the event of conflict between exist-
4 ing law and the provisions of this section, the provisions of the law
5 that afford the greatest protection for the right of privacy for consum-
6 ers shall control.
7 14. Nothing in this section shall prevent a city, county, city and
8 county, municipality, or local agency from safeguarding the constitu-
9 tional right of privacy by imposing additional requirements on busi-
10 nesses regarding the collection and sale of consumers' personal informa-
11 tion by businesses provided that the requirement does not prevent a
12 person or business from complying with this section.
13 15. (a) The attorney general shall adopt regulations in the following
14 areas to further the purposes of this section:
15 (1) Adding additional categories to those enumerated in paragraph (c)
16 of subdivision six and paragraph (m) of subdivision one of this section
17 in order to address changes in technology, data collection practices,
18 obstacles to implementation, and privacy concerns. In addition, upon
19 receipt of a request made by a city attorney or district attorney to add
20 a new category or categories, the attorney general shall promulgate a
21 regulation to add such category or categories unless the attorney gener-
22 al concludes, based on factual or legal findings, that there is a
23 compelling reason not to add the category or categories. The attorney
24 general may also add additional categories to those enumerated in para-
25 graph (c) of subdivision six and paragraph (m) of subdivision one of
26 this section in response to a petition filed;
27 (2) Adding additional items to the definition of "unique identifiers"
28 to address changes in technology, data collection, obstacles to imple-
29 mentation, and privacy concerns, and additional categories to the defi-
30 nition of "designated methods for submitting requests" to facilitate a
31 consumer's ability to obtain information from a business pursuant to
32 subdivision six of this section;
33 (3) Establishing any exceptions necessary to comply with state or
34 federal law;
35 (4) Establishing rules and procedures: (A) to facilitate and govern
36 the submission of a request by a consumer, and by an authorized agent of
37 the consumer, to opt out of the sale of personal information pursuant to
38 subparagraph one of paragraph (a) of subdivision seven of this section;
39 (B) to govern a business's compliance with a consumer's opt out request;
40 and (C) for the development and use of a recognizable and uniform opt
41 out logo or button by all businesses to promote consumer awareness of
42 the opportunity to opt out of the sale of personal information;
43 (5) Adjusting the monetary threshold in clause (A) of subparagraph one
44 of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of this section in January of every
45 odd-numbered year to reflect any increase in the Consumer Price Index;
46 (6) Establishing rules, procedures, and any exceptions necessary to
47 ensure that the notices and information that businesses are required to
48 provide pursuant to this section are provided in a manner so as to be
49 easily understood by the average consumer, are accessible to consumers
50 with disabilities, and are available in the language primarily used to
51 interact with the consumer;
52 (7) Establishing rules and procedures to further the purposes of
53 subdivisions two and three of this section and to facilitate a consum-
54 er's or the consumer's authorized agent's ability to obtain information
55 pursuant to subdivision six of this section, with the goal of minimizing
56 the administrative burden on consumers, taking into account available
1 technology, security concerns, and the burden on the business, to govern
2 a business's determination that a request for information received by a
3 consumer is a verifiable request, including treating a request submitted
4 through a password protected account maintained by the consumer with the
5 business while the consumer is logged into the account as a verifiable
6 request and providing a mechanism for a consumer who does not maintain
7 an account with the business to request information through the busi-
8 ness's authentication of the consumer's identity;
9 (8) Defining the term "valuable consideration" as used in subparagraph
10 one of paragraph (q) of subdivision one of this section to ensure that a
11 business that discloses, except as permitted by this section, a consum-
12 er's personal information to a third party, including through a series
13 of transactions involving multiple third parties, in exchange for any
14 economic benefit is subject to this section, and to include business
15 practices involving the disclosure of personal information in exchange
16 for something of value. Valuable consideration does not include the
17 exchange of value in a transaction involving non-commercial speech, such
18 as journalism and political speech; and
19 (9) Further interpret the terms "de-identified", "sell", "third
20 party", and "business purpose" as set forth in subdivision one of this
21 section, to address changes in technology, data collection, obstacles to
22 implementation, and privacy concerns and to ensure compliance with the
23 purposes of this section, provided that such regulations do not reduce
24 consumer privacy or the ability of consumers to stop the sale of their
25 personal information.
26 (b) The attorney general shall be precluded from adopting regulations
27 that limit or reduce the number or scope of categories of personal
28 information enumerated in paragraph (c) of subdivision six and paragraph
29 (m) of subdivision one of this section, or that limit or reduce the
30 number or scope of categories added pursuant to subparagraph one of
31 paragraph (a) of this subdivision, except as necessary to comply with
32 subparagraph three of paragraph (a) of this subdivision. The attorney
33 general shall also be precluded from reducing the scope of the defi-
34 nition of "unique identifiers", except as necessary to comply with
35 subparagraph three of paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
36 (c) To the extent the attorney general determines that it is necessary
37 to adopt certain regulations in order to implement this section, the
38 attorney general shall adopt any such regulations within six months of
39 the date this section is adopted.
40 (d) The attorney general may adopt additional regulations as necessary
41 to further the purposes of this section.
42 16. If a series of steps or transactions were component parts of a
43 single transaction intended from the beginning to be taken with the
44 intention of avoiding the reach of this section, including the disclo-
45 sure of information by a business to a third party in order to avoid the
46 definition of "sell", a court shall disregard the intermediate steps or
47 transactions for purposes of effectuating the purposes of this section.
48 17. Any provision of a contract or agreement of any kind that purports
49 to waive or limit in any way a consumer's rights under this section,
50 including but not limited to any right to a remedy or means of enforce-
51 ment, shall be deemed contrary to public policy and shall be void and
52 unenforceable. This section shall not prevent a consumer from: declin-
53 ing to request information from a business; declining to opt out of a
54 business's sale of the consumer's personal information; or authorizing a
55 business to sell the consumer's personal information after previously
56 opting out.
1 18. If any provision of this section shall be adjudged by any court of
2 competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
3 impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its
4 operation to the provision directly involved in the controversy in which
5 such judgment shall have been rendered.
6 § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ff to
7 read as follows:
8 § 99-ff. Consumer privacy fund. 1. There is hereby established in the
9 joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation
10 and finance an account within the general fund to be known as the
11 "consumer privacy fund".
12 2. Such account shall consist of all penalties received by the depart-
13 ment of state pursuant to section eight hundred ninety-nine-bb of the
14 general business law and any additional monies appropriated, credited or
15 transferred to such account by the legislature. Any interest earned by
16 the investment of monies in such account shall be added to such account,
17 become part of such account, and be used for the purposes of such
18 account.
19 3. Monies in the account shall be available to the office of court
20 administration and the attorney general to offset any costs incurred by
21 the state courts in connection with actions brought to enforce section
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24 such section of law.
25 4. Monies in the account shall be paid out of the account on the audit
26 and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified or approved
27 by the office of court administration and/or the attorney general.
28 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
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30 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
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In Video on September 16, 2015 at 4:51 pm
Former HP executive and US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina rises in the polls in time for the 2nd GOP Presidential Debate in California on September 16.
ATLANTA / PITTSBURGH (September 16, 2015) – (Courtesy HLN) Political analyst and Republican commentator Lenny McAllister (host, “NightTalk: Get To The Point” on PCNC and “The Lenny McAllister Show” on Newsradio 1020 KDKA) talks with HLN’s Robin Meade about possible campaign strategies that the 2016 GOP presidential candidates will be weighing as they get ready for the September 16, 2015 GOP debate at the Ronald Reagan Library.
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In Audio, Video on September 1, 2015 at 3:59 pm
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NEW YORK CITY / PITTSBURGH (August 26, 2015) – Republican strategist Lenny McAllister talks with Al Jazeera America’s John Seigenthaler about the latest with Donald Trump, the immigration debate, and the 2016 GOP White House race during this segment.
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Donald Trump shrugs as he maintains a lead in the polls after the August 6 debate in Cleveland.
PITTSBURGH (August 7, 2015) – Lenny McAllister (host, “NightTalk: Get To the Point”) talks with the Get To The Point Panel (Brad Tupi, Richard Fair, and Katie Jones Goldman) about the first RNC debate in Cleveland on August 6 on this version of “NightTalk: Get To The Point” on the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel.
“NightTalk: Get To The Point” airs live Fridays at 8pm on the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (Comcast channel 35 / Verizon FIOS channel 9) on over 850,000 households in the Pittsburgh television market as the sister station to WPXI, the NBC affiliate in the Pittsburgh market covering 4 states.
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Republican presidential candidates arrive on stage for the Republican presidential debate on August 6, 2015 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo credit:Getty Images)
PITTSBURGH (August 7, 2015) – Republican commentator Lenny McAllister (host, “NightTalk: Get To the Point”) discusses the need and opportunity to “elevate the position of the Presidency of the United States” through the Republican and Democratic primary debates throughout the 2016 White House campaign. McAllister uses this version of this “Starting Point” commentary to address how the candidates must restore “inspiration” by “running for the presidency, not for popularity” as he starts the popular show which airs live Friday nights 8pm on the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel.
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“Yes, #BlackLivesMatter when civil rights are trounced during police interactions. Yet, do #BlackLivesMatter when it comes to educational equality by way of school vouchers, inequalities in careers from boardrooms to courtrooms, or – say – the sanctity of the pro-life movement?”
PITTSBURGH (July 31, 2015) –Political commentator and community advocate Lenny McAllister (Host, NightTalk: Get To The Point (Pittsburgh Cable News Channel)) asks how far should the #BlackLivesMatter sentiment extend for the sake of improving the conditions African-Americans face in the United States in 2015. He uses this “Starting Point” commentary at the beginning of the show to challenge the audience and the GTTP (Get To The Point) Panel on how the activist-led movement is going in the days ahead and how widespread this hashtag-driven agenda will extend as a movement in the coming months and years ahead for equality for Blacks in America.
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With the 2016 White House race heating up with rhetoric addressing illegal immigration, how should America deal with the problem at the border in 2015 and beyond?
PITTSBURGH (July 17, 2015) – Commentator and former congressional candidate Lenny McAllister (Host, “NightTalk: Get To The Point” and “The Lenny McAllister Show” on Newsradio 1020 KDKA) talks with the Get To the Point Panel about the hot-button topic of illegal immigration after Donald Trump’s comments about illegals crossing the southern border of the United States.
The Get To The Point Panel this week includes Pittsburgh-based immigration attorney Kristen Schneck, Micah Rosa (Pittsburgh Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce), and award-winning investigative reporter Carl Prine from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
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What should the RNC and GOP organizations do to prevent candidates like Donald Trump from damaging the GOP brand?
NEW YORK CITY (July 10, 2015) – (Courtesy Huffington Post / HuffPost Live) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has received backlash for his offensive anti-immigration rhetoric. Reports suggest that party leaders have since urged Trump to tone it down. Is he a threat to the GOP’s image? We break it down.
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In Audio, Video on August 2, 2015 at 8:12 pm
Political commentator and former RNC consultant Lenny McAllister discusses Chris Christie’s bid for the 2016 White House during this segment on Canada’s CTV.
TORONTO (June 30, 2015) – Political commentator Lenny McAllister (host, “The Lenny McAllister Show” on Newsradio 1020 KDKA) talks about the entry of New Jersey governor Chris Christie into the 2016 White House race on this segment on CTV, broadcast nationally throughout Canada.
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Lenny McAllister chats with host Joy Behar and Democratic strategist Christopher Hahn on the set of “Say Anything” (December 4, 2012) (photo courtesy Current TV)
NEW YORK CITY (December 4, 2012): “Say Anything!” host Joy Behar, Republican strategist Lenny McAllister and Democratic strategist Chris Hahn talk fiscal cliff negotiations, debate post-election moves for the political parties, and react to the latest speculation regarding whether Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016 on the December 4 edition of “Say Anything” on Current TV.
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Weston-super-Mare… the town where I live
Bits and pieces, Places by Lois June 22, 2012 August 11, 2012
Weston-super-Mare is a large seaside town on the Bristol Channel, and although I actually live in a small village a mile south of Weston, it is technically where I live!
The name comes as you would guess from west+ton (west settlement) and as there are other Westons in the area and it was by the sea it became known as Weston-super-Mare (Latin for ‘on sea’)
Weston was originally a tiny fishing village of not much more than a few fishermen’s cottages. Over two thousand years ago, late Bronze Age people built the hill fort of Worlebury Camp overlooking Weston Bay; the Romans arrived in the area and took over the site and left a cemetery nearby which still yields its residents from time to time as new building takes place.
After the Romans, the area declined back to the small fishing village that stayed much the same until the late eighteenth century. With the popularity of sea bathing and the development of seaside resorts, Weston, as the nearest place to the fashionable Regency town of Bath, and the thriving merchant city of Bristol, became Somerset’s first resort.
The Royal Hotel… opened in 1808, Weston’s first Hotel
The Royal is an attractive and popular hotel, restaurant, bar… originally called the Reeves Hotel
Next to the Royal is Unwined, a really nice place to unwind! In the background is the Knightstone Campus of Weston College where I used to work
An attractive building now housing Barcode Youth Café, opposite the Royal Hotel
The Cabot and the Grosvenor Hotels; the Cabot is now a popular bar, the Grosvenor welcomes visitors and holiday-makers from across the country.
The back of the Winter Gardens
Lilies – the Winter Gardens
Bridge over the untroubled lily pond
Ready for coffee?
Nice sky but a dull picture of a nice place, The Winter Gardens Pavilion
The Victorians loved the idea of seaside holidays but until the railway arrived in Weston in 1841, it was out of reach of anyone but the wealthy. Once the middle classes could travel to the seaside, hotels were built, amusements provided, refreshments were available. In 1867 the first pier was built from Birnbeck Island. In 1904 the Grand Pier was built, and although it was destroyed several times by fire, it is gloriously rebuilt and a great attraction to Weston!
The Grand Pier, Weston
A very continental looking view!
Weston is not such a wild town that the carousel horses have to be caged!
Barcode Youth CaféBathBirnbeck IslandBristolBristol ChannelBronze AgecarouselRegencyRomansSomersetThe Cabot HotelThe Grand PierThe Grosvenor HotelThe Royal HotelThe Winter GardensUnwinedWeston-super-Mare
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jena on June 22, 2012 at 2:57 pm
I love it! Such charming architecture and history. I can hardly wait to see it for myself. You’re a great representative of WSM my dear 😉 One of these days we’re going to have a great play day there!
Lois on June 22, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Indeed!! As soon as you like (but I’ll have to tidy my phenomenally untidy house a bit first!!!)
Jeremy Nathan Marks on June 22, 2012 at 10:13 pm
These are great photos and your description tells a very interesting story.
It is funny to think that the railway restricted visits to the wealthy but that is how it goes with innovation.
Weston has real character that comes through in these photos. I often find that in North America a person has to go looking for buildings that are outside of the cookie-cutter of strip malls, plazas and chain stores/fast food restaurants. You can find character everywhere and it isn’t restricted to what is old, but one thing North American architecture often lacks is a sense of the past.
Lois on June 22, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Thanks… Weston is quite an odd place in many ways; I’m going to write more about it later with more pics. I’d love to know how it would inspire you if you ever visited.. and what p[poems you would write!
Jeremy Nathan Marks on June 23, 2012 at 3:18 am
I have been in England twice but only for brief visits both times. And each time I was in and around London; I’ve never been to the west coast. My parents lived in Leicester just before I was born but we never had an opportunity to go back as a family.
I would like to come back to England (and travel the British Isles and Ireland someday. I am sure it would inspire a great deal of poetry. I’ve also taken an interest in the western ports because of the significant role they played in transatlantic shipping and fishing in the 16th-18th centuries.
Gosh – you have so much to discover if you do manage to come!! There are great regional differences which you could explore.
Is shipping and fishing a particular topic for you? Our nearest city is Bristol which was a major port in previous times… but sadly also heavily associated with the slave-trade. On the east coast where I was born and brought up, there are some very interesting towns… King’s Lynn which has a family connection is a fascinating place and I would really recommend a visit to its little museum to see the sea-henge.
Jeremy Nathan Marks on June 23, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Shipping and fishing are something I’ve developed an interest in because of their role in the exploration of the northeastern sections of North America. I also grew up near the water in Maryland and spent many summers along the Atlantic Coast both in the Mid-Atlantic region and up into New England.
Well, you obviously know of John Cabot – although of Italian origin, he is now adopted as a famous Bristolian and it was from there that he set out in search of Hy-Brazil… there is a replica of his ship the Matthew in Bristol docks and when I was a teacher we took our students for a day out on her!
loonyliterature on June 25, 2012 at 10:03 am
It’s a great place to live.
Lois on June 25, 2012 at 10:37 am
It is… mostly!
kevinashton on November 29, 2017 at 12:29 pm
Being originally from Birmingham, Weston-super-Mare was often a summer day trip destination.
I remember when I was about 9 my parents had long planned such a trip, only to find our early morning start was greeted with torrential rain with a forecast of more of the same all day…..
My parents suggested that perhaps we ought to choose a closer destination given the weather.
From somewhere I gathered my most persuasive 9-year-old argument, pointing out that because we were not taking a proper holiday that year we really ought to see the seaside.
My argument won, I was elated as we boarded our steam train at New Street station, no rain would dampen my spirits. My twin brother and I enjoyed the journey and the sights and sounds as my sister read, all the time the train was being lashed by the unyielding rain.
As the train made its approach into Weston-super-Mare station we gathered our belongings and put our Pac-a-Macs on in preparation. As we left the station the clouds cleared, revealing a hot sunny day and our raincoats were taken off along with our sweaters. The day was filled with laughter, the beach, the pier, ice cream and more, a treasured day.
As we reluctantly arrived back in Birmingham that evening we discovered that just about everywhere else in the United Kingdom had endured heavy rains and even some storm damage, but for some mystical reason and my childish pleadings we had avoided. Over time this trip to Weston-super-Mare became a much loved and retold story in our family.
Lois on November 29, 2017 at 6:13 pm
What a lovely story, Kevin!! I remember similar wonderful seaside days – but we used to live in East Anglia, so our trips were to the Norfolk coast! Thanks for sharing!
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“Herbert West: Reanimator”
July 28, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ 6 Comments
The Lovecraft series continues
Raw Feed (2005): “Herbert West: Reanimator”, H. P. Lovecraft, 1921-1922.
Lovecraft claim to not much like this story regarding it as (which it sort of was) serial hackwork written for a humor magazine Home Brew and that debuted in its first issue.
At the beginning of each of the six sections, Loveccraft has to take some time out to summarize the story thus far, but T. E. D. Klein is right. This story is fun and full of gory wit.
Lovecraft called it “mechanical and unimaginative” and “manifestly inartistic”. However, as Lovecraft biographer S. T. Joshi noted, he protested too much and probably enjoyed it since, by the end, the story has become a conscious parody.
This, like Lovecraft’s “From Beyond“, features a narrator who grows increasingly afraid of the obsessive hero — here the Aryan Herbert West. (Both the narrator and West are graduates of Miskatonic University’s Medical School making this the first reference to that esteemed university.) Lovecraft presents, accounting for the necessary quirks of its serial origins, a good horror story of how 20 years of botched experiments (including one in France with some war dead) come back to haunt Mr. West. Continue reading ““Herbert West: Reanimator”” →
“The Other Gods”
July 25, 2017 July 25, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ Leave a comment
The Lovecraft series continues though a one sentence review seems kind of a violation of book blogger ethics.
Raw Feed (2005): “The Other Gods”, H. P. Lovecraft, 1921.
Another Dunsanian tale set in Lovecraft Dreamlands the same as most of his other Dunsanian type stories.
More reviews (that are much longer than one sentence) related to Lovecraft are on the Lovecraft page.
“The Moon-Bog”
July 24, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ Leave a comment
Picking up the Lovecraft series again with one of his more obscure stories.
Raw Feed (2005): “The Moon-Bog”, H. P. Lovecraft, 1921.
Another early Lovecraft story in which the narrator relates the downfall of his friend. Here the hero’s mistake is insisting on draining the bog, site of an ancient cult, in front of his castle in Ireland. There is none of the hostility and bitterness between the men that shows up in Lovecraft’s “From Beyond“.
More Lovecraft related reviews are indexed on the Lovecraft page.
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R.I.P. Jeff Carlson
July 23, 2017 September 7, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ Leave a comment
Just heard from his wife Diana Gottfried that writer Jeff Carlson is dead at age 47 from lung cancer. The obituary below is from her.
He was one of those transition authors who started out being published in magazines and by traditional publishers and struck off into his own with self-publishing.
He was a writer of talent and ambition who wrote a variety of stories, and I’ve reviewed several of his works though I have not read any of his Frozen Sky novels.
In my few email exchanges, he was a personable sort sometimes was frustrated by the reactions to his work.
Here are the links to his works that I reviewed:
Long Eyes and Other Stories
Plague Year
Plague War
Plague Zone
Jeffrey Gustav Carlson
July 20, 1969 – July 17, 2017
Jeff Carlson was born in Mountain View,
California on the same day as the first
manned moon landing and died in Walnut
Creek, California three days before his 48th
birthday. He was strong and fought hard to
survive, but he could not defeat an
extremely virulent cancer.
Given his birthdate and a love of science fiction by his father, mother,
and maternal grandfather, it’s not surprising that Jeff became an avid
reader and successful science fiction author. He had a fabulous mind
and an infinite imagination. He wrote and published 7 novels and a
collection of short stories. His books have been published in 17
languages. Jeff’s prolific career ended too soon. There were so many
more tales to tell…
Jeff’s biggest pride and joy were his two sons. He loved traveling with
his family and enjoyed many outdoor activities, especially snow skiing
and competitive youth soccer as played by his boys.
Jeff is survived by his beloved wife of 17 years, Diana Gottfried, and
their sons John and Ben. He is also survived by his parents, Gus Carlson
and Patti Kelly, and his brother Derek, niece Kylie, and nephew Sam.
Jeff’s other relatives and friends number in the hundreds, his fans in the
many thousands.
His quick wit, exuberant energy, and loving devotion to his family will
be deeply missed.
Remembrances in Jeff’s name may be made to Lung Cancer Alliance,
www.LungCancerAlliance.org.
A Celebration of Jeff’s Life is planned for Saturday, August 12 at 2 PM at
the Danville Community Center, 420 Front Street, Danville, California
94526, (925-314-3400).
July 23, 2017 July 25, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ 1 Comment
For some reason, this review has disappeared from Amazon and was never posted here though I did it within the lifetime of this blog.
Review: Interrupt, Jeff Carlson, 2013.
Imagine you are going about your business one day and then you just black out and wake up with no memories of what happened. Maybe you wake up wandering in a strange area or with blood on your hands or in the middle of having sex with a complete stranger.
Such is the premise of Carlson’s novel, fresh with speculations and implications from current science, on what would happen if the sun suddenly manifested its variability with massive electromagnetic pulses which scramble communications and the human brain. Carlson draws from genetic anthropology, geology, physics, SETI, astronomy, and neurology to fuel this modern hard science fiction thriller. And, while the science may be current, the speed and shortness of the novel are refreshingly old-fashioned in their tautness. (For those who have read Carlson’s short story “Interrupt” in his Long Eyes, this is not an expansion but a substantial reworking of the premise of that story.)
The novel centers around three characters: Emily Flint, researcher on therapies for autistic disorders; Drew Haldane, Navy flier and also operative for ROMEO, an ultra-secret intelligence agency; and Marcus Wolsinger, a radio astronomer tracking variability in the sun’s output. Their loyalties to their communities and families, lovers and friends, institutions and organizations will be tested not only during the collapse of civilization due to the “interrupt” but also by a war between the US and China. Most ominously of all, not everyone is crippled by the intermittent pulses of the interrupt. A select few become murderously efficient in turning on their fellow humans. Or are these killers really human? Continue reading “Interrupt” →
“The Quest for Iranon”
The Lovecraft series continues.
Raw Feed (2005): “The Quest for Iranon”, H. P. Lovecraft, 1921.
This is one of the most effectively moody of Lovecraft’s Dunsanian stories. That’s Dunsanian as in Lord Dunsany.
Iranon is a dreaming lad who goes wandering in search of his dream city Aira. He finds, with his companion Romnod, many strange and wonderful places and settles for a time in many.
But Romnod looses his child-like innocenceand ages while Iranon does not. Romnod dies, and the singer and dreamer Iranon moves on till he eventually returns to his starting point and meets an old man who turns out to have been a childhood playmate. The latter tells Iranon that Aira never existed except in dreams. Despondent and now old in every way, Iranon walks to his death in quicksand. Another story about the value of childhood wonder realized in dreams.
“The Nameless City”
July 21, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ 1 Comment
Raw Feed (2005): “The Nameless City”, H. P. Lovecraft, 1921.
This story stands as an interesting example of how Lovecraft probably approached most projects from the standpoint of what mood he wanted to create.
In its imagery both this and At the Mountains of Madness” are similar despite the thermal contrasts.
This story is set in the desert. “At the Mountains of Madness” is set in the polar waste.
The plots are similar with the action of both largely taking place underground and both involve the discovery of a horrible, ancient alien civilization via the ruins of one of its cities (and after examining some improbably informative carvings).
The later story is more celebrated because of the details of Antarctica exploration, geography, and the Old Ones; however, both feel much the same.
This also seems to be the first story to mention the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred though his most famous work, the Necronomicon, is not mentioned.
More reviews of Lovecraft related material is indexed at the Lovecraft page.
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Knaanic language
Knaanische languages ( Judenslawisch, Canaanite, proper name " Leshoneynu " - our language, in the Czech Leson Canaan ) are spoken by Jews Slavic languages , which have died out around the end of the Middle Ages.
The word " Knaanisch " is derived from " Canaan " (Heb. כנען ), although no correlation between the Knaanischen language and the biblical land of Canaan is. However, it was by Benjamin of Tudela Kievan Rus referred to as " the land of Canaan ," and one finds few indications to have been that the area east of the Elbe ' Eres called Canaan.
West Slavic Knaanisch
First and foremost, we denote by Knaanisch a West Slavic language that was spoken until the late Middle Ages, Jews in what is now the Czech Republic. Researchers suspect that the spoken on the territory of today's Czech Republic Knaanisch - that should have been closely related to the Old Czech - was gradually displaced by the Yiddish language after the 12th to 14th century Yiddish - speaking Jews from the Rhine area by Bohemia and Moravia migrated.
However, there are conflicting theories on the mutual influence between the Knaanischen, other Slavic languages and Yiddish.
East Slavonic Knaanisch
Occasionally, those Jewish- Slavic idioms outside of Bohemia and Moravia - are detectable until the 15th century, referred to as Knaanisch - even to Russia. In particular, this applies to the Eastern Slavic language that was used by the Khazars after the fall of their empire instead of the then prevalent among them Hebrew. Such Slavic-speaking Jews there were, especially in the Kievan Rus in the 11th to 13th centuries.
West Slavs Old Novgorod dialect Kashubian language Banat Bulgarian dialect Macedonian language Montenegrin language Serbian language Russenorsk Slovianski Slovio Yevanic language Karaim language Krymchak language Zarphatic language
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Secret Cinema presents Stranger Things: 80s extravaganza is a true spectacle for mega fans
Tilly PearceThursday 21 Nov 2019 5:08 pm
We’re not in Hawkins anymore, guys… (Picture: Secret Cinema//lukedyson.com)
Guys…We’re not in Hawkins anymore as Secret Cinema brings Stranger Things straight to London’s doorstep.
Bringing to life some of the show’s most well-loved scenes, the immersive cinema experience tried its luck for the first time with a TV series, rather than a film.
It works brilliantly.
Even if you don’t know the series that well, first off: start watching it immediately, and second off: it doesn’t really matter that much.
After all, who doesn’t want to live in 1985 for an evening?!
Dressing up in your best double denim or neon fantasy is just the beginning for those in attendance, as you’re sent on missions around the show’s July 4th festivities and running into favourite faces that have been captured with almost impossible accuracy.
Find the characters to unravel the mysteries (Picture: Secret Cinema//lukedyson.com)
Stepping into the Starcourt Mall (so don’t worry about dressing for the weather) the show transports you back to the ultimate 1980s fantasy – think a lot of make-up, and a lot of techno music, and a distinct love of Bruce Springsteen and being in the All-American dream us Brits only seein Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
The cast’s commitment to sticking to their roles, even if they’re just hiding behind doors or running around the fun fair setting, is addictive to watch.
Get them to tell you the right things, and you end up in secret rooms away from the fun of the fair…and that’s where the real magic is.
Highly recommend you follow them around or talk to them if you’re given the chance – they’re where the action is over the course of the three-hour show.
Now, there’s only so much we can say because, well, it’s secret, DUH…But what we will say is this: interact with as many people as possible, actors and non-actors.
You’ll find yourself in some weird and wacky places that you weren’t expecting.
The gang are celebrating 4th July the only way they know how (Picture: Secret Cinema//lukedyson.com)
Becoming part of the world of Hawkins, Indiana is a great evening out, culminating in Secret Cinema’s most ambitious project yet.
For the most part, they’ve done a great job, even if there are a couple of bits and pieces that due to the sheer scale of what they’ve imagined just can’t be brought to life.
Dammit, CGI, you won this round.
The show is also maybe not the best for those who feel claustrophobic in any way, though we can’t tell you why, but it’s probably best to note that here while we have your attention.
Starcourt Mall is holding some serious secrets (Picture: Secret Cinema//lukedyson.com)
More than anything though, the event is a true celebration of what Stranger Things is about – the friendships that build the show, the characters and the spectacle.
Strap in, gang, you’re in for one hell of a ride.
Secret Cinema Presents Stranger Things is available now and runs until February 2020.
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Microsoft Bringing AI Dev Platform to Next Windows 10 Release
Microsoft is priming Windows 10 for artificial intelligence (AI) development with a new built-in machine learning platform.
During this week's Windows Developer Day event and in a separate blog post Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it will introduce this new machine learning platform in the "next major update to Windows 10," which is currently code-named "Redstone 4" and is expected to be released sometime this spring.
Microsoft said it is sharing the AI expertise it developed in products like Cortana and Bing Search with Windows app coders.
"With the next major update to Windows 10, we begin to deliver the advances that have been built into our apps and services as part of the Windows 10 platform," Microsoft's blog announcement said. "Every developer that builds apps on Windows 10 will be able to use AI to deliver more powerful and engaging experiences."
Initially, the AI functionality will focus on machine learning, as different partners like Qualcomm Technologies and AMD will help out with the "Windows ML" platform.
[Click on image for larger view.] Windows ML architecture. (Source: Microsoft)
Microsoft said the AI platform in Windows 10 will let developers use pretrained machine learning models in their Windows device apps. Benefits of this to developers, the company said, include:
Low latency, real-time results: Windows can perform AI evaluation tasks using the local processing capabilities of the PC, enabling real-time analysis of large local data such as images and video. Results can be delivered quickly and efficiently for use in performance-intensive workloads like game engines, or background tasks such as indexing for search.
Reduced operational costs: Together with Microsoft's Cloud AI platform, developers can build affordable, end-to-end AI solutions that combine training models in Azure with deployment to Windows devices for evaluation. Significant savings can be realized by reducing or eliminating costs associated with bandwidth due to ingestion of large data sets, such as camera footage or sensor telemetry. Complex workloads can be processed in real-time on the edge, with minimal sample data sent to the cloud for improved training on observations.
Flexibility: Developers can choose to perform AI tasks on a device or in the cloud based on what their customers and scenarios need. AI processing can happen on the device if it becomes disconnected, or in scenarios where data cannot be sent to the cloud due to cost, size, policy or customer preference.
A key component of the initiative is Windows support for the Open Neural Network Exchange Format (ONNX), an open ecosystem for interchangeable AI models that's backed by Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Using Azure Machine Learning Workbench, Windows 10 developers and data science types will be able train and use ONNX models. Also, the company said its Azure Custom Vision Service will support the creation of ONNX models for Windows 10.
The new functionality will soon be available directly within the Visual Studio IDE.
"We've also invested in delivering a great development experience for AI developers on Windows," Microsoft said. "Starting with Visual Studio Preview 15.7, adding an ONNX file to a UWP project will automatically generate a model interfaces in your project. For prior versions of Visual Studio, developers can use the MLGen tool to generate the code interface and then manually add it to their projects. This capability will be coming soon to Visual Studio tools for AI as well."
According to recently published "Windows Machine Learning" documentation, the new platform will leverage device CPUs and GPUs for hardware-accelerated performance to help with computational evaluations for both classical machine learning algorithms and deep learning.
The documentation provides guidance for creating a first Windows machine learning app, training a model and converting a model, along with sample apps that show how to use the new platform.
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IT Company in Toronto
Most Ever Connected Olympics Requires Big Technology Investment
August 3, 2012 by Matthew Held
For companies managing information technology at the London 2012 Olympics, the payoff could be quite big.
Take for instance Atos, a French IT consultancy, one of the companies managing information technology for the games. Their command centre overlooking London’s Docklands will have 450 technicians and support staff on hand, continuously monitoring screens. As the Economist reports, two of the most important tasks are to create a database to handle the accreditation system for all 250,000 athletes, trainers and hangers-on. Secondly, every system must have backups, with some having four for each Olympic event. It helps to be reminded that Olympic events, for instance, like the Men’s 100-metre race, have no room for errors as one-tenth of a second can separate a gold from a silver medalist.
Companies are taking extra precautions to ensure their people are on hand. IT & engineering staff at several data centres monitored by Interxion will not have to worry about leaving work, subway delays and traffic jams during the London Olympics. They will sleep in newly purchased pods at the data centres. According to Wired Magazine, the 4 x 4 x 6.5 foot pods come with lockable doors, a power supply, LED lights and a magazine rack.
London 2012 plans to be the most connected Olympics ever. The numbers behind the huge investment in IT network infrastructure is noteworthy.
According to the Data Center Knowledge website, some of the infrastructure numbers are:
British Telecom installing a fiber network for the 2,818 suites in the Olympic Village
Laying 5,500 kilometres of cables to support the network, which will transmit 60 Gigabits per second
The Olympics network will span 30,000 connections across 94 locations
Network infrastructure for Cisco Systems:
2,200 switches
1,800 wireless access points
7,000 cable TV sockets
16,500 telephones
65,000 active network ports
Nearly 20 percent of UK residents expect to stream some coverage on their PCs, laptops or tablets
The BBC predicts live footage, streamed to computers across Britain, will exceed a terabit per second of traffic at peak times. That equates to 1,500 people downloading a feature-length DVD-quality movie every minute.
With up to 1 million visitors to London, the Wi-Fi network at the Olympic Park will handle an additional 100,000 users.
If the spectacular display of lights, special effects and fireworks on the opening day is evidence of how technology is performing, the 2012 Olympics look to be a great success for the companies working so hard to make it happen.
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17 Godzillas, Pool Monsters, Satanic Country Clubs
Posted in Asian Horror, Asian Sci-Fi, Evil, Giant Monsters, Godzilla, Nature Gone Wild, Science Fiction with tags Asian Horror, Asian Sci-Fi, China, Dark Lord, dinosaur, Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, Drowning Echo, Evil, Giant Monsters, Godzilla, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Hail Satan?, Jesus, kaiju, malevolent, Monsters, mystical, Nature Gone Wild, ninjas, priest, prostitute, Republicans, satanic cult, Satanic Panic, Satanic Temple, Science Fiction, soul, The Velocipastor, titans, Tokyo, unearthly creature on April 23, 2019 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
Another key art treatment for Godzilla: King of the Monsters (May 31, 2019). This would be the ninth one, and I hope they make nine more. I need to cover an entire wall that needs paint. The latest trailer asks the question, how many Titans (embiggened monsters) are there? To which Dr. Ishiro Serizawa replies: “17 — and counting.” I bet one of ‘em is living in the apartment above me, stomping on the floor like it was Tokyo.”
To quell your nervous anticipation for the movie, here are a few upcoming/now available horror movies that may or may not be as horrifying as a paint neglected wall…
DROWNING ECHO (available now)
“During a visit to friends, Sara begins having visions and is attacked by an unearthly creature in her friend’s swimming pool; she soon discovers that anyone who comes into contact with the water is in danger and she is driven to confront the mystical and malevolent creature lurking in the depths.”
When I was a kid and visited local community swimming pools, the unearthly creature at the bottom of the pools was usually a turd. I didn’t do it. But I know who did: Republicans.
THE VELOCIPASTOR (2019)
“After a devastating family tragedy, a priest travels to China to find deeper spirituality, but instead is endowed with an ancient ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first, he is horrified by his newfound superpower, but a local prostitute convinces him to use his newfound gift to fight evil — and ninjas.”
So a priest who can turn into a dinosaur or “Jesus horse.” Now THERE’S a way to make religion way more interesting. Wrote about this back in 2011. Kinda surprised I can remember back that far. It was a trailer for a movie that hadn’t been made yet. Now, all these multiple months later, it’s here. Thank Dino Lord.
HAIL SATAN? (2019)
“The Satanic Temple, a mysterious organization led by Lucien Greaves, has called for a Satanic revolution to save the soul of the US.”
One nation, under Satan, for meanness and evil for all. Isn’t that what’s going on now?
SATANIC PANIC (2019/20120)
“Times are tough for Sam. Already a cancer survivor at 22, she eeks out a meager existence delivering pizza for minimum wage — and minimum tips — while dealing with an exploitative boss and obnoxious coworkers. When the final delivery of the night promises to take her to a wealthy neighborhood with the chance of a healthy tip, she takes the opportunity to make up for an unprofitable shift. What begins as a quest for cash ends up as a quest for survival, though, when it turns out her customers aren’t who she’s used to delivering to. Instead, they’re a Satanic cult of a very different color: high-society elites for whom worshiping the Dark Lord coexists with country clubs and casseroles.”
A high-society Satanic cult that hangs out in country clubs and eats pizza and casseroles instead of chi-tos (heh)? Clearly, there are more perks to being evil than originally assessed.
Evil Dead Christmas, Earth Gone Wild, Sci-Fi Jellyfish
Posted in Asian Sci-Fi, Classic Horror, Evil, Foreign Horror, Nature Gone Wild, Science Fiction, Slashers with tags Asian Sci-Fi, Book of the Dead, Chimera Strain, China, Christmas, Classic Horror, Deadites, Dude, Evil, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn, folktales, Foreign Horror, Fright Rags, Hollywood, Kandarian dagger, myths, Nature Gone Wild, Netflix, Science Fiction, Seattle, Slashers, souls, The Evil Dead, The Haunting of Sharon Tate, The Wandering Earth, The Field Guide to Evil, Where’s My Car? on February 23, 2019 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
It’s a good time to be alive if you’re a fan of The Evil Dead. For instance, there’s an officially sanctioned Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn escape room coming this summer to Seattle (about three miles from where I’m currently escaping) and long hoped for Evil Dead trading cards. It’s like Christmas plus.
The Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn escape room costs $30 to get into and goes like this: “When players enter that all-too-familiar cabin in the woods, they will have until dawn (or sixty minutes, whichever comes first) to find the Kandarian dagger and destroy the Book of the Dead before the evil dead swallows their souls. Fans of the classic film can expect deadites, chainsaws, a very strange deer head, a chained-up cellar door, and plenty of horrifying surprises.” When I go I better wear Depends™.
Up next is The Evil Dead trading cards by Fright Rags. You can get ‘em as a single wax pack (nine cards and a sticker — $5.00), sealed box (two full sets of cards plus a pile of exclusive extras – $35.00) and the coveted factory box (the full 68 base card set and a few extras – $120.00). Time to dip into my 401k and do some impulse buying.
While you do the same, here are a few available now/upcoming horror/sci-fi movies that may or may not cause you to wear Depends™…
THE WANDERING EARTH (in theaters now/Netflix™/2019)
“When the sun dies out, the people of Earth build giant thrusters to move the planet out of orbit and sail to a new star system. After 2,500 years, young people continue the fight for everyone’s survival.”
Man, there’s a lot of e-chatter about this one on the Net. Apparently, the film hit box office gold in China with $603 million…in just two weeks! That’s more than I make in a month. And Netflix™ is betting big on this pony by making it available for the U.S. market. No set date for its premier on the world’s biggest movie streaming channel, but it’s having a limited run in theaters/theatres right now. (It’s on four screens in parts of the city that are too hard for me to get to without cursing out traffic jams in Chinese.) Sounds like The Wandering Earth, in all its epic-ness, should been seen on the big screen. Time to buy a bigger TV.
CHIMERA STRAIN (March 15, 2019)
“A scientist freezes his children alive while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the Turritopsis jellyfish.”
Okay, what?
THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL (March 29, 2019)
“A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.”
Great title. Too bad its an anthology and not an instructional manual.
THE HAUNTING OF SHARON TATE (April 5, 2019)
“The film’s plot is supposedly inspired by a quote from the real Sharon Tate, from an interview published a year before her death, where she revealed ‘having a nightmare’ in which she saw a strange man in her house and then discovered herself and her friend Jay Sebring tied up with their throats cut open.”
You know Hollywood is strapped for ideas when they take a quote and turn it into a movie. I’m looking in your direction, Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000).
Back Into The Zone, Faustian Felines, Soul For Sale
Posted in Classic Horror, Evil, Fantasy, Foreign Horror, Zombies with tags Alvin Schwartz, Brtish, carnage, cassete, CBS All Access, Chevy Camaro Z/28, China, Classic Horror, demonic, Downtown Abbey, Evil, evil incarnate, Fantasy, Foreign Horror, gore, Here Comes Hell, Hunting Evil, Japan, Jordan Peele, Legend of the Demon Cat, Mad TV, paranormal, Pioneer, possessed, Rod Serling, Rondo Awards, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, soul, Stephen Gammell, Tang Dynasty, The Evil Dead, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, The Twilight Zone Podcast, Tom Ellito, Zombies on February 2, 2019 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
In case you forgot, one of the cornerstones of horror and science fiction is the The Twilight Zone anthology TV series, wrote/co-wrote and hosted by Rod Serling, from 1958 to 1964. And now it’s back in the form of the cleverly-named The Twilight Zone, arriving April 1, 2019 on CBS All Access. This re-boot will be hosted by Mad TV’s Jordan Peele, and will air every Thursday until the ratings say otherwise.
Given that The Twilight Zone is regarded as one of the greatest TV series of ALL TIME, this is good news for fans of science fiction, horror, the paranormal and fantasy with a surprise twist. (By comparison, The Outer Limits, a competing, similarly-themed TV series (1963 — 1965), featured a monster-of-the-week and no moral lessons taught by said monster-of-the-week.)
To feed your Twilight Zone monkey until April gets here, check out Tom Elliot’s Rondo Award winning show, The Twilight Zone Podcast. Tom does a respectful job, with interviews, reviews and readings from classic Twilight Zone episodes. Or if you’d rather not do any of the above, here are a few just released/upcoming horror movies that may or may not take you to the outer limits…
HUNTING EVIL (available now)
“A broken man returns to society after serving time but hits dead ends to turn his life around until he meets an enigmatic man who promises him riches. But when the piper calls, it’s in the form of evil incarnate and wants his soul in return.”
Cool — what’s the going rate on selling your soul? If I could get enough to cover rent, sign me up.
LEGEND OF THE DEMON CAT (February 5, 2019)
During the Tang Dynasty, a Chinese poet and a Japanese monk join forces to investigate a demonic cat who has possessed a general’s wife and wreaked havoc on the imperial court. The investigation takes some gruesome and unexpected twists, leading the monk and the poet to unravel the mystery behind the decade’s old death of the legendary, beautiful concubine, Yang Guifei.”
A woman possessed by her cat. Aren’t they all?
SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK (August 9, 2019)
“A group of young teens must solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their small town.”
For those of us who’d rather watch horror movies than read ‘em, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is three children’s books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The series began in 1981, a year when people’s street-wear and haircuts were pretty darn horrifying. So much so, there’s one illustration that looks a heckuva lot like me driving around in my Chevy Camaro Z/28, blasting out “Don’t Stop Believin’” on my after-market installed Pioneer™ cassette deck. That alone qualifies as one of the scariest stories ever.
HERE COMES HELL (March 1, 2019/UK)
“A 1930s dinner party descends into carnage, gore and demonic possession in Here Comes Hell, a genre-clashing horror comedy.”
Early reviews are calling this, Downtown Abbey meets the The Evil Dead. I’ve seen The Evil Dead but not Downtown Abbey, which is apparently a long-running British drama TV series and not the name of a street hooker.
Barnyard Nazi Demon
Posted in Evil, Zombies with tags Blood Creek, China, creature, demon, Evil, German, living dead, Nazi, occult, runestone, U.S., undead, walking dead, Wollners, Zombies on March 11, 2018 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
Evan thought his older brother was dead, something his aging dad seems to hold against him. What a dick. If dad knew that Victor, who disappeared while on a hunting trip in backwoods West Virginia, was still alive, he might not be so hard on the 20-something boy, who carries his brother’s “death” around like a bag of guilt cannonballs.
When Victor unexpectedly turns up a few years later with bloody scars all over his body, well hey — time to celebrate. Except don’t hug him, as the wounds are still kinda fresh.
Victor had been kidnapped by the Wollners, a German family that’s about 75 years old — even the little girl. The Wollners needed Victor’s blood to keep an occult Nazi, now more demon than misguided military man, barely alive and confined in the barn next to a Nazi horse. The Nazi was looking for a runestone that was in the family’s basement and… It factors in, so roll with it.
Victor needs Evan’s help to go back to the farm with hunting rifles for some U.S. styled revenge. And here’s where the aptly-named Blood Creek plows some gloriously gory fields. It’s not enough to shoot the family in the face, No, Victor has a score to settle with the demon in the barn, who, unfortunately gets loose before he can shoot the man-creature in the face.
The Nazi zombie’s horse is also evil and, in one of many classic scenes, gallops into the kitchen and goes all bull in a China shop. Slick carnage, stylized flashbacks, and more split skin than a discount sausage factory. You’ll keep texting yourself “WTF?” as this raw horror unfolds. But don’t text me, as I don’t do texting. I did like Blood Creek (2009), however.
Chinese Beasts, G-Rated Zombies, Halloween Purge
Posted in Asian Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Foreign Horror, Misc. Horror, Nature Gone Wild, Science Fiction, Slashers, Vampires with tags Annihilation, Asian Sci-Fi, Bad Apples, China, demon, Disney Channel, Diverge, Fantasy, Foreign Horror, Halloween, Hanson and the Beast, Misc. Horror, Nature Gone Wild, pandemic, Science Fiction, Slashers, Taco Bell, The Poggie Tavern, Uranus, Vampires, virus, Zombies, Zombietown on January 7, 2018 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
Ever see a sci-fi/fantasy movie trailer that just messes with what’s left of your mind? Give the now-available via limited theatre release Hanson and the Beast (2018) a spin. From China (but now available in the States), HatB just came out several days ago (as of this e-barfing) and might just very well get the WTF award of the month, if not year.
From the press release: “Yuan Shuai, a debt-ridden animal-breeder, tries to get out of his financial predicament by finding a wealthy girlfriend through matchmaking dates. He unexpectedly meets and fall in love with the fox demon, Bai Xianchu, who has arrived to the mortal realm to repay her gratitude. However, the head of the Demon tribe Yun Zhonghe forbids a love relationship between a demon and a human; and takes Bai Xianchu away. To seek his lover, Yuan Shuai bravely crashes the demonic world.”
Human/animal hybrids, pseudo vampires, rom-comedy, possible bestiality power smooching… Man, this sounds like a night out at The Poggie Tavern, besides the fact I didn’t understand a dang thing about it. Watch the trailer and see if you can figure it out. It’s pretty crazy and loaded with WTF. P.S. No one named Hanson in the movie as far as I can tell. Probably not a traditional Chinese name.
While we’re waiting for a non-subtitled version, here are few upcoming horror/sci-fi movies that you probably won’t have to read…
DIVERGE (February 6, 2018)
“In the aftermath of a mysterious pandemic that’s turned cities into wastelands, a man desperately searches for a way to cure his ailing wife as she battles a deadly virus. When he is captured by a cryptic stranger, he is offered the chance to save not only his wife but the world.”
I thought our cities were already wastelands. As for a way to treat the guy’s sick spouse, liquor stores have to the cure to “whatever ALES you.” Heh. If I had a chance to save the world, though, I’d take a pass. But Uranus? I’ve got yer back, man. Okay, that came out all wrong.
ZOMBIES (February 16, 2018/Disney Channel)
“Seabrook is a suburban town obsessed with tradition, conformity, football, and cheerleading, but they’re in for a major shake-up when students from Zombietown transfer to Seabrook High and struggle to coexist alongside human students. When a fierce cheerleader, Addison, and zombie football star, Zed, become friends, they partner to help unite their school and community.”
Warning: This one is gonna show up on the Disney Channel, which means, no graphic gut-ripping rodeos or intestinal roping contests. And if you have the Disney Channel, why the h*ck are you reading this blog?
ANNIHILATION (February 23, 2018)
“A female biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don’t apply.”
Where’s she going — a Taco Bell™ restroom? I don’t care what scientists claim, the only Law of Nature that applies in Taco Bell™ is that what goes in must come out — and that result, paradoxically, is against the ALL the Laws of Nature.
BAD APPLES (February, 2018)
“It’s Halloween night, and two ‘bad apples’ decide to play some wicked tricks on the one house in a suburban cul-de-sac that is not celebrating Halloween. They terrorize a young couple in their home and these tricks become increasingly more sinister as the night progresses, finally ending in a Halloween the entire neighborhood will never forget.”
Sounds like someone is handing out razor-filled avocados instead of the traditional spiked candy treats. That’d p*ss me off, too.
Chinese Spider-Men, Canadian Zombies, Norway Mutants
Posted in Classic Horror, Evil, Foreign Horror, Ghosts, Science Fiction, Slashers, Zombies with tags Carrie, China, Classic Horror, Dementia 13, demonic possession, Dr. Elise Rainier, Evil, Foreign Horror, French-Canadian, Ghosts, Google Translate, haunted house, Insidious, Insidious: The Last Key, Iron Man, Les Affames, living dead, Norway, Oslo, paranormal, parapsychologist, Quebec, Science Fiction, serial killer, Slashers, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Supernatural, Thailand, The Hungry, Thelma, undead, walking dead, Zombies on September 9, 2017 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
Been endlessly fascinated by foreign country poster versions of U.S. made movies, in particular, horror/sci-fi/fantasy/bromance comedies. Came across three Spider-Man: Homecoming key art renditions made in China. Pretty funny stuff, especially the one of Spider-Man riding a horse. I don’t know why, but that cracks me up. Got me thinking — wonder if there’s a foreign movie poster of, say, Iron Man pulling a rikshaw through downtown Thailand?
Whilst I go rummaging through the Internet to find one, here are a few upcoming horror/sci-fi movies with plain old boring graphics…
DEMENTIA 13 (October 6, 2017/Limited — October 10/VOD)
“An old-money family is still dealing with the death of its youngest daughter several years later. While honoring the daughter’s death, a long con, an ax-wielding serial killer, and a vengeful ghost all coalesce in the same night to target the family. Everyone in the family has a secret, nobody wants to face what they did, and for someone to survive, the truth needs to come out — sooner than later.”
This is a re-boot of 1963’s Dementia 13. The actors in the new one are probably wearing more modern footwear, though. Always loved the title. I personally got through the first 12 steps of dementia, but never quite made it one more step. Probably should go on another bender to open that door.
LES AFFAMÉS (2017/2018)
In a small, remote village in upstate Quebec, things have changed. Locals are not the same anymore — their bodies are breaking down and they developed an outlandish attraction for flesh.
A French-Canadian zombie movie. Wonder if the flesh tastes like back bacon? I consulted the Big Book of Word Barf (i.e., Google Translate™) to get the English pronounceable version: The Hungry. Meh.
THELMA (November 10, 2017)
“A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. As it becomes clearer that the seizures are a symptom of inexplicable, often dangerous, supernatural abilities, Thelma is confronted with tragic secrets of her past, and the terrifying implications of her powers.
Sounds like Carrie Goes To College. I wonder if her condition is from eating seizure salads in the school lunch room?
INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY (January 5, 2018)
“Dr. Elise Rainier, the brilliant parapsychologist, faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet: in her own family home.”
I watched the first three Insidious movies, so guess I’ll have to watch this one, too, just to see how they tie things up. As demonic possession ghost stories go, though, they’re all quite bland, or “meh.”
Great Canadian Smoke-out, Poison Sharks, Teddy Bears
Posted in Aliens, Classic Horror, Evil, Foreign Horror, Nature Gone Wild, Science Fiction, Scream Queens, Sharks, Slashers with tags AirNow, Alien, Aliens, Bejing, bowling trophies, Canada, China, Chongqing, Classic Horror, Evil, extratereestrials, Foreign Horror, heavy metal, India, Jaques Costeau, Keep Watching, Kolkata, Los Angeles, Nature Gone Wild, Science Fiction, Scream Queens, Seattle, Seattle Times, serial killers, Shanghai, Sharks, Slashers, Spanish Chainsaw Massacre, Teddy Bears Picnic, Toxic Shark, World Air Quality Index Project, YouTube on August 4, 2017 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
For those not living in Seattle, we’ve been experiencing a heatwave combined with what is being described as having “the worst air quality than Bejing, Kolkata.” We can blame this on Canada as their wildfires, while making for some colorful, hippie sunsets, are sending their smoke across the border — without passports — and into our neighborhoods. Thanks a lot, Canada — just because your coins don’t work in our vending machines is no reason to smoke us out. (Some pranksters are using the photos of the burning haze to say it’s 4:20 in Seattle. That’s pretty funny.)
A recent article in the Seattle Times had this to say about our horror weather: “Seattle’s air quality index was 156 on Thursday afternoon, which is considered unhealthy, according to AirNow. That’s worse than Los Angeles and several cities in China and India. Beijing’s air quality index was 80, Shanghai sat at 78, and Chongqing was ranked 65, all of which are considered moderate, according to the World Air Quality Index Project.”
I’m well prepared for this smokocalypse — I walk around with a designer scuba tank (Jaques Costeau logo on it— limited edition), so up yours World Air Quality Index Project. Speaking of being suffocated to death by a so-called friendly neighboring country, here are a few upcoming horror/sci-fi movies that may or may not make you choke…
TOXIC SHARK (August 4, 2017)
“A tropical singles retreat takes a terrifying turn when guests realize a poisonous shark is infesting the surrounding water. Not only will this toxic shark rip apart its victims, but it also uses projectile acid to hunt…in and out of the water!”
A shark that shoots projectile acid? Sounds like a mash-up of a great white shark and the Alien. Still, gotta like the premise. Set ‘em up, melt ‘em down. I bet the shark could turn ‘em into bowling trophies afterward.
TEDDY BEARS PICNIC (2017)
“Inspired by the 1907 melody of the same name, Teddy Bears Picnic re-envisions the childhood song as a nightmarish fable that twists the concept of childhood innocence.”
That song was written in 1907. You mean I haven’t been able to get that stupid song out of my head for 110 years? No wonder I drink daily.
KEEP WATCHING (December 2017)
“When two deranged serial killers break into their home, a family has to stick together to make it out alive and unbeknown to them there are hidden cameras throughout their home documenting their every move.”
Having cameras everywhere is cheating, especially when one is need of a private, yet relaxing moment in the restroom. Only deranged serial killers would watch such footage. Probably upload it on YouTube™, too. That’s just being mean.
THE SPANISH CHAINSAW MASSACRE (release pending)
“A heavy metal band named The Metal Dicks are touring to promote their first record. While driving to their next concert location their van gets a flat tire so they have to spend the night in a small, local town. The next day the town is having a festival to celebrate their patron saints day and the mayor of the town asks The Metal Dicks to join in with the festival. The band accept the mayor’s offer unaware of the dangers that lie ahead.”
Great band name. I wish to own all their album. I have a feeling, though, they may not be around long to record a second one. Maybe take all their unfinished demos and release ‘em under the title, Bits ‘n Pieces.
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Bobby Sands - 1954 - 1981
**From 9 May 2002
Mo Chara Bobby Sands
--Last Friday, 3 May, former republican POW SEANNA WALSH delivered the annual BOBBY SANDS MEMORIAL LECTURE in the fitting surrounds of the Felon's Club in West Belfast. Seanna was a close personal friend of Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish republican prisoners who died on hunger strike in 1981, and he shared some memories of the man he knew so well.--
"I was surprised but very honoured to come here tonight and speak at this the 20th Bobby Sands lecture. Go raibh maith agaibh don choiste chuimhneacháin as an cuireadh labhairt.
We are at a crucial juncture in the current phase of the Irish struggle for a United Ireland, on the cusp of substantial electoral gains in the Southern elections, but I've decided not to talk about all this.
I'm here to talk about Bobby Sands the man, Bobby Sands the son, the husband, the father - the poet warrior, the self taught Irish language speaker and teacher, the indomitable spirit of the republican prisoner.
I first met Bobby on remand in Cage 8 of Long Kesh before being moved to Crumlin Road Gaol in January '73. What struck me about him was the cocky self-assuredness of his Belfast dander and his spiky Rod Stewart hair cut.
I was a 16-year-old, 'thought he knew it all' child of Short Strand, East Belfast; he was from Twinbrook and before that Rathcoole and was a couple of years older.
We came through remand together but I didn't get to know him well until I doubled up with him in Cage 17 and later then in Cage 11 as we served out our sentences together.
There was a clatter of Short Strand men in Cage 17 and then after the burning of the camp, in Cage 11. We took a bit of stick about being a 'clique' but Bobby and several others would have been part of that group too.
The man behind the icon
What was he like then, this the foremost icon of the last 30 years of republican struggle, the man behind the face that's recognised and venerated by freedom loving people from New York to San Francisco, from Johannesburg to Hebron, right across Europe?
Well he was very much one of 'us', an ordinary guy who loved a bit of craic, kicked a football, had a sleg and a laugh, and lapped up the sing songs and concerts we'd organise as the guitars and mandolins were pulled out to accompany the poitín voices - we'd sing and play away into the early hours.
Bobby read and absorbed books hungrily - political and historical books about British involvement in our country and the resulting resistance to that involvement, as well as novels. He also showed an interest in the plight of 'the ordinary man' throughout the world and the struggle for social justice, fair play and freedom. This was reflected in his writings and poetry while on the blanket. In the early years he was almost like a sponge, soaking in all these different ideas, histories and theories.
As he prepared for release in early '76, he worked hard to prepare himself physically and mentally for his return to the outside and re-involvement in the republican struggle. There was no room for doubt - he was coming out to reorganise the republican base in his area, Twinbrook, and he had a picture in his head, a plan he was determined to make true.
He reorganised the army, the auxies, na Fianna and Sinn Féin, but then he took things a step further. He organised republican involvement in the tenants' associations - until then a fiefdom of the Sticks and SDLP. He pushed republicans to become involved in the everyday battles with the British Direct Rule administration and unionists on Lisburn Council. As far as he was concerned, there was so much to do and not enough time to do it.
He still found time though for his singing and playing the guitar. There was one memorable night when, in the middle of one of Bobby's cabaret sessions, an IRA foot patrol came into the local drinking club and after checking a number of peoples IDs, they approached Bobby on the stage with the intention of asking him to read out a statement from the local unit - he had written it an hour previously! Somehow the Volunteer managed to misplace the statement and had only a bru card in the pocket, Bobby took this from the Volunteer and ad libbed his way through a 15-minute speech.
After six short months, however, he was back inside and I was already there too, waiting on him coming back. The rules were different this time though, with the denial of political status after March 1976.
Bobby was at the forefront of resistance to Britain's criminalisation policies on remand in Crumlin Road Gaol and then once sentenced, in the H-Blocks. He had been involved in writing a local weekly newssheet before recapture and he decided to continue writing for it in gaol. After a while he started writing for Republican News, soon to become An Phoblacht. He was now like a man possessed; it was his job to tell the story of every brutal assault, every sadistic attack on the naked prisoners in the H-Blocks. He also opened up communication with our women comrades in Armagh Women's Gaol and those who retained political status in the Cages of Long Kesh.
The horrendous conditions in which we suffered meant nothing if the world outside of our immediate families knew nothing about them. Bobby was central to getting the word out, first of all to republicans and then to the wider community.
One effect of all this letter and article writing he was engaged in was that he developed a grá for poetry. He began to scribble bits of verse, which he would recite to the wing, interspersing it amongst his song repertoire. Nothing too heavy.
On one particular occasion, while we were in H6 in 1979, we received a collection of poems by the nationalist poet Ethna Carberry. Bobby was really taken with the maternal heartbreak of "An Páistín Fionn" and the blood-curdling tale of "Brian Boy Magee" that he set down and penned a letter. He got to the door that night after screws had left the wing and called to Brendan Hughes - 'Dorcha, get up to your door, wait till you hear this letter, it's a cracker, it's to your woman Ethna Carberry. I had to write to her after reading those poems'. The Dark replied, 'You may get your Ouija board out Bobby, she died 70 years ago!' You can imagine the slegging he got there.
Preparing for Hunger Strike
As the crisis in the H-Blocks dragged on from '79 into '80 and we went through different avenues to move the British on the Political Status issue, it became clear that we would be left with one last option - The Hunger Strike.
We had talked about the final recourse to Hunger Strike since the collapse of the Cardinal Ó Fiaich negotiations with Thatcher. It seemed to us that it didn't matter what the people of Ireland thought or said, the British had but one aim and that was to smash the republican resistance both inside and out of the gaols.
People began to prepare for Hunger Strike in the summer of 1980. We had been involved in a letter-writing campaign since the formation of the National H-Block/Armagh committee in the winter of '79. This was intensified in the run-in to the Hunger Strike in October 1980. We wrote to anyone and everyone of influence in Ireland, in Britain, throughout the world. Bobby was in his element. We were not allowed to receive replies, only personal letters - one per month - were allowed, so to be honest none of us knew what impact, if any, these letters had. We do know that hundreds and hundreds poured out of each block week after week, month after month. I later found out that these tiny letters had a massive impact throughout the world, carrying our message of the horrors of the H-Blocks.
Spinning yarns
Yet somehow or another, at the end of a frenzied day of writing, visits debates and arguments with governors and warders and whoever else, Bobby used to be able to get up to his door after lights out and relate a yarn. Usually, this would be from some obscure novel he had read but the tale he spun would be like nothing less than a movie blockbuster as prisoners sat in the darkness; mattresses propped on the cell pipes, listening to some magical tale of good overcoming evil, the righteous oppressed throwing off the shackles of the oppressor.
The hunger strike of 1980, as we all know, ended with the doublespeak and bad faith that helped the British to conquer and rule half the world. Instead of letting people's heads go down, Bobby and the rest of us on the gaol leadership bent over backwards to come to some sort of comprise with the prison governors and their allies in the NIO. They were not interested. They believed, foolishly, that republicans were beaten, that they had us on the run and it was simply a case of them holding their nerve and watching the gaol protest collapsing. How stupid were they?
It became apparent to a number of us that a second hunger strike was inevitable. With Bobby leading the charge in the face of justified concerns and worries from the army leadership outside, we pressed our case. We were successful. Bobby organised for himself to be the first man on the strike, the first then to die, the two-week gap before Francie Hughes joined him giving the British space to move, to make concessions once Thatcher had her pound of flesh.
At the end of his second week on the strike, he wrote to me telling me that he had put on a fine hopeful face to those around him on the wing, to his clann on the visits. But he told me he had no intention of trying to pretend anything with me. He was determined to do what had to be done and he knew that the British would show no mercy. Yet he was confident that by his actions his comrades coming behind, and a whole generation of young still unborn, would be so inspired as to ensure that his goal, his dream, his Aisling would become a reality. The rest is history. The story of the actual Stailc Ocrais was told and retold so often last year I'm not even going to try to revisit it here.
Tá mé chun chríochnú anseo beidh sibh sásta cluinsint ach
A chairde, we have come a long way since those sad dark days of 1981. We've still got a long way to go but we're steadily making progress. During those leanest of days in the prisons we got by "one day at a time". Out here it is a battle a day too. So:
Ar Aghaidh go bua
Ar Aghaidh don Phoblacht.
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'Marcella' ( marcella32) wrote,
'Marcella'
marcella32
**I have posted this years-old tribute to Bobby by Seanna Walsh before and would like to do so again today. This day always fills me with sadness, and this is all I am going to say.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh as éisteacht liom anocht. Slán abhaile."
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Gavin Murray Wins Bariani Road Race
written by Phil Mooney March 14, 2018
First race of the NCNCA 2018, and I think Dave and I were still reeling from our Dominican Republic adventure, as we had arrived with 15 minutes till the start of the race. Where as, island time would have dictated that there be a mandatory delay to the start by at least 30 minutes. Heart racing at the start, I was obviously super prepared sporting my speed suit and neck gator with no warmers, but hey that’s all you need.
Willie and I went into the race knowing that it normally boils down to sprint from a breakaway. Accordingly, The first big move went only a few miles from the neutral role out. Willie made the break with 3 other riders, and on lap 2 the break was slowly increasing their gap while Sam, Dave, and I monitored the front of the peloton. Some half hearted efforts were made and quickly pulled back until we hit the tail-wind/roller backside of the course. Cooper Rombold (Team California) made an intense effort over the first roller and established a gap. He pulled with him a few other riders including Jeff Bushceck, Rob Schell, Bryan Larsen, Chris Evans, and myself. After a lap we had managed to claw our way back onto the lead group.
After a commendable effort, Willie and his breakaway companions were shelled by the last lap. There were some definite engines in the group, and we managed to increase our gap to 12 minutes by the time we hit the final kilometers.
Coming into the final everyone started playing their cards and it was hard to determine who actually had the legs to take it to the finish. Cooper had been looking strong the whole day and I knew he would be a major threat at the line. Cooper lit it up 50 meters before the final turn that led to a 500 meter straightaway. All I could do was follow his wheel and hope that my legs could carry me to a win. Sprinting seated in the hoods for extra drama I barley managed to get Cooper at the line.
Gavin Murray Wins Bariani Road Race was last modified: March 14th, 2018 by Phil Mooney
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Phil Mooney
I began road racing as an undergraduate after taking a class entitled “The Science of Cycling” as a winter term course at DePauw University. I joined the collegiate cycling team as a freshman, became hooked on cycling, and quickly became a Cat 1 racer on the road and track. I continued to race seriously after moving to northern California for graduate school at UC Davis (Geology). The 2010 season was my first season road racing on a national level at NRC races, riding for the Yahoo! Cycling Team. Immediately after finishing graduate school, I signed my first professional contract and spent the year racing in Europe with Team Raleigh. A few years and many miles later, I made the decision to retire from road racing and start to enjoy more leisurely rides on my mountain bike. In conjunction with this switch, I got married to my wonderful wife, Mandy, and took a more traditional job in the Department of Geology at Sonoma State University. In 2015, I continued to work at Sonoma State while taking over the helm as the owner and manager of Mooney Cycling LLC, the business umbrella that runs the Herbalife p/b Marc Pro - Nature's Bakery Team, and also launching the Bikelangelo brand of custom stem caps with some friends. You can now find me answering emails from my phone as I continue to enjoy riding around beautiful northern California!
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The Last Station
Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren (Best Actress, The Queen, 2006) and Christopher Plummer star in this compelling look at the final days of literary icon Leo Tolstoy. Having renounced his title and property, Tolstoy makes plans to donate his royalties to the Russian people, supported by his trusted disciple Chertkov (Paul Giamatti). Tolstoy’s outraged wife wages a one-woman war to challenge her husband’s outrageous act of idealism. Co-starring Golden Globe® nominee James McAvoy (Atonement) as the novelist’s worshipful assistant whose romance with a free-spirited young woman puts Tolstoy’s notion of ideal love to the ultimate test.
Chris Curling
Jens Meurer
Bonnie Arnold
Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff, Kerry Condon, James McAvoy
© 2009 Egoli Tossell Film Halle GmbH , The Andrei Konchalovsky Production Center and SamFilm GmbH. All Rights Reserved.
Critics Consensus: Michael Hoffman's script doesn't quite live up to its famous subject, but this Tolstoy biopic benefits from a spellbinding tour de force performance by Helen Mirren.
Debbie Lynn Elias
Technically the film is masterful.
Roll Credits
Nikki Baughan
The very definition of a character piece, The Last Station is a stunning example of a group of acc...
Brian D. Johnson
The moral lines are drawn so schematically that the characters become puppets of the script, despi...
Megan Basham
The bulk of The Last Station acts, much like Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, as a cautionary tale about t...
Brandy McDonnell
By turns sorrowful, sardonic and histrionic, Mirren's Sofya is always wonderfully, sloppily human.
With all of its faults, The Last Station will satisfy even those only slightly familiar with the w...
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Mature Tolstoy biopic recounts his conflicted last days.
Quickflix
Simon Miraudo
The Last Station is the kind of adult drama that I'm just thankful is still being made. Therefore,...
Movies for the Masses
Joseph Proimakis
full review at Movies for the Masses
Window to the Movies
Jeffrey Chen
Feels akin to using Tolstoy's life to write a greeting card.
Parents need to know that this period drama recounting Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s last months, while powerful and well acted, isn't too likely to appeal to kids. It has moments of both intense squabbling and gentle loving between the writer and his wife. Many of their fights are loud and painfully honest (though not venomous), and younger teens may find them disturbing. There’s also a sex scene with partial nudity (a woman's breasts) and a little swearing (though "bitch" is about as strong as it gets).
Genre:Drama
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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‘Dinocroc Vs. Supergator’ Roger Corman Commentary Clip [Exclusive]
Dinocroc Vs. Supergator Roger Corman Commentary Clip [Exclusive]
B. Alan Orange
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Dinocroc vs. Supergator Blu-ray and DVD are set to tear things up on July 12th, when this Roger Corman production finally arrives on the home video market. Pitting two favorite monsters from the Syfy Channel, Dinocroc vs. Supergator is a rip-roaring, bloody good time, and a perfect throwback to those Drive-In schlock masterpieces of yesteryear. To celebrate this campy classic, we have an exclusive Blu-ray commentary clip that features Roger Corman talking about how he brought both creatures together for one crazy movie. Check it out below.
They were created deep within the secret island laboratories of an unscrupulous biotech corporation and grown to horrific proportions...until they both escaped. Bullets won't stop them. Explosives only make them meaner. And their ravenous reptile appetites for scientists, tourists, S.W.A.T. teams and swimsuit models have only just begun. Now an undercover investigator, a sexy Fish & Game officer, and a cold-blooded swamp hunter known only as 'The Cajun' are all in pursuit of the scaly beasts that can outrun SUVs, crush buses, and snack on sleazy producers in hot tubs. But when these monster lizards ultimately meet in battle, will mankind be the defeated species? David Carradine - in one of his final performances - stars in this epic Syfy smash about the bone-crunching, body-chomping, earth-trembling smackdown of Dinocroc vs. Supergator!
Audio Commentary with Executive Producer Roger Corman and Director Jay Andrews
Dinocroc vs. Supergator Blu-ray and DVD arrive July 12.
Contributing writer for Movieweb since 2001. Owns a dog who loves watching Milo and Otis on repeat.
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The impact of Connecticut's clean election law: an empirical quick look
Rodriguez, A.E. and DeNardis, Lesley A. (2011): The impact of Connecticut's clean election law: an empirical quick look.
MPRA_paper_37938.pdf
The State of Connecticut’s General Assembly passed a Clean Elections Law in 2005. In this paper we conduct a preliminary appraisal of the law’s performance based on recently published data on the voting results of the 2010 and 2008 state-wide office elections. The Clean Elections Law was considered among the most stringent in the nation at the time of its passage. It established full public financing for all elections to state offices, including the state legislature. The law applied to primaries as well as general elections. It allowed for supplemental monies in unbalanced contests pitting a privately-financed candidate against a publicly-financed one. The law also contained provisions banning campaign donations from lobbyists and state contractors.
Our study is similar to the 2009 one prepared by the Office of Legislative Research but with the benefit of additional data drawn from the 2010 election cycle. Importantly, we conduct our examination using statistical tests with significance thresholds at conventional 95 percent levels. We also add additional performance metrics to provide a wider lens to the appraisal. We use resampling methods to draw multiple simulated samples to calculate statistical significance. Resampling techniques provide a non-parametric determination of a statistic’s distribution and a measure of effectiveness that is not sensitive to deviations from the assumptions underlying most parametric procedures.
Based on the results derived from statistical tests of the assembled metrics it is difficult to conclude that the public funding of elections in the State of Connecticut is an unqualified success, or for that matter, a qualified success. It appear that the one conclusion that we can unambiguously draw is that the effusiveness and optimism of the various commentators supporting clean election laws has not yet come to be realized in the State of Connecticut.
MPRA Paper
clean election laws; voting outcomes; resampling; state elections; campaign finance reform;
H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
A.E. Rodriguez
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General Accounting Office. Campaign Finance Reform: Early Experiences of Two States That Offer Full Public Funding for Political Candidates. U.S. General Accounting Office, 2003.
Good, Phillip I. Resampling Methods. Boston: Birkhauser, 2001.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/37938
All papers reproduced by permission. Reproduction and distribution subject to the approval of the copyright owners.
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The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council offers seven grant programs to fund arts projects or programs and to support the successful infrastructure of arts organizations. Grants range from $2,000 to $10,000 and are ranked by a panel of artists and arts professionals in an open meeting format and then funding recommendations are presented to the MRAC Board of Directors for approval. Please review the eligibility requirements and visit the Guidelines for each of the grant programs to determine if you or your arts organization are a good match for MRAC funding.
These are grant programs available to nonprofit arts organizations and informal arts groups:
MRAC has one grant program that is available to individual artists: Next Step Fund
Download the MRAC FY20 Grant Calendar for an overview of all of MRAC’s Fiscal Year 2020 grants and deadlines and the Lifecycle of a MRAC Grant to see how a grant goes from application to funded at MRAC.
Annually there are two Arts Achievement Awards granted to MRAC eligible groups demonstrating artistic excellence in programming to the community and a Great Beginnings Award presented to groups who have had a strong start to their work serving community.
All of the MRAC grants are reviewed and ranked by a panel of individuals who are connected to the arts community and final awards are approved by the MRAC board of directors.
MRAC Program Directors welcome your questions about eligibility, grant programs and also offer draft support for grant applications. First time applicants are especially encouraged to contact the appropriate Program Director prior to starting an application, after first reviewing eligibility and program guidelines.
As one of 11 regional arts councils in Minnesota, MRAC is funded by an appropriation from the Minnesota Legislature, the Legacy Amendment Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, and by The McKnight Foundation.
In November 2008, Minnesotans passed the Clean Water, Land & Legacy amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, which created the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Proceeds from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund “may be spent only on arts, arts education and arts access and to preserve Minnesota’s history and cultural heritage.”
MRAC funding is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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Home / Episodes / EP 14 - Richie “Vas” Vaculik
EP 14 - Richie “Vas” Vaculik
Richie “Vas” Vaculik is a mixed martial artist who has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight division and also a big wave surfer from Maroubra, Australia. He chats all about how competing in surfing wasn’t for him, instead he just wanted to chase the best waves in the world. He also discusses failures, overcoming them and what failing over the years has taught him. He talks about how he’s feeling about his fighting career and his hopes to get back in the cage this year because his heart, mind and body is still feeling ready for it. He talks to Mets about the quantity of training he does and juggling it with other aspects of life such as work and family because fighting is a selfish sport and the traits that are important for success in your sporting field.
QUOTES & SHOW NOTES
[1.10] Richie gives us a bit of background into his early days as a surfer and how he got into MMA.
[5.05] Richie speaks about fear and his approach to it.
[8.45] “Failures are just learning curves” Richie discusses failures and overcoming them. How hard it was to deal with them at the time but what he has learnt since.
[12.40] Richie is hoping to get back in the cage this year and he speaks about how his current training is going and the importance of recovery for longevity.
[19.05] “Where your head's at, your body is going to follow” He reflects back on advice he should have taken earlier in his career and that it is 90% mental and 10% physical.
[21.50] Richie discusses the traits he feels are most important to be a world class sports person.
[23.20] There were times when Richie was tired, didn’t want to go to the gym and had to cut weight. He discusses how he got through these times.
[25.50] He looks back over the lessons he learnt over both his surfing and fighting career and any advice he would give to anyone looking to pursue a career in either sport.
[28.30] Richie talks about his competitive nature and that he’s always had an “what he can do I can do” attitude and that it was also his speaking before his thinking that made him do things.
[30.10] Richie never in his wildest dreams thought he would release a book. He talks about both his reaction to the offer and his friends reaction and how it happened.
[32.20] Richie has a lot on his plate and he talks about how his focus changes and shifts as things change and opportunities present themselves.
RICHARD VACULIK
PARAS MEDIA
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Keeping Inspiring Music and Pop Culture Memories Alive! — Loreen G
Music Reportage
Legends of Rock
Gem of the Week
Pop Culture Reflection
Gem of the Week: Top Five Albums Turning 20
My tribute to the music of ’94
I got inspired to compile a top five list of great albums from 1994 after reading an article on Stereogum.com about how Green Day’s Dookie album just turned 20 years old.
Here are my top five albums from ’94 (of course I’m including Dookie) that are now 20 years old :
5. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
I was one of those 14-year-old teen girls that loved Trent Reznor. I could care less about him now but this album was in my Walkman all the time. Songs like March of Pigs, Terrible Lie, Hurt and Closer make this album a gem. The Downward Spiral should become a requirement to every grunge music fan’s collection from 1994.
4. The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready To Die
This is a great hip-hop album that came out during the time when west coast rappers like 2Pac dominated the scene. Biggie put the east coast sound into mainstream with his hit single Juicy and then Big Poppa (’95) from this debut album. I have mentioned before that I can’t get into todays hip-hop. When Biggie rapped it was real venting and he delivered with passion. My favorite jam off the album is Gimme The Loot.
3. Live – Throwing Copper
Lead singer Ed Kowalczyk and myself share something in common and that is we both love R.E.M. I listened to this album a lot and the hits from this album were all catchy: Selling the Drama, I Alone, Lightning Crashes and All Over You. Live writes songs that are awesome lyrically as well as musically.
2. Green Day – Dookie
This really was an influential breakthrough album with hits like Longview, Basket Case and When I Come Around. While Green Day has matured and grown so much as a band over the past 20 years, I still carry that first impression of their goofy teen image in the video for Longview. Dookie is pure brilliance and to think of how lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong was only 18 years old at the time is crazy but then again he continues being a true talent.
1. R.E.M – Monster
Aside from them being my favorite band, I felt this venture into a harder sound totally worked out making this a great album. Every single minute of this album rocks with big hits like: Whats The Frequency, Kenneth?, Star 69, Bang and Blame, Strange Currencies and my personal favorite song off the album, I Don’t Sleep, I Dream. I can still listen through Monster over and over again.
I narrowed my top five list to reflect what I listened to the most and I left off a few of my veteran favorites from the ’94 era like: Pear Jam, Nirvana, Sound Garden, Rancid and Tori Amos.
I’m happy those five gems are in my collection because they came from a great defining year in music.
I included a link from Greenday’s You Tube channel for the classic video Longview.
Tags: albums turning twenty, Dookie, Green Day, Live, Monster, music of 1994, Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., ready to die, The Downward Spiral, The Notorious B.I.G., Throwing Copper
Categories Gem of the Week
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One Response to “Gem of the Week: Top Five Albums Turning 20”
Carolyn Cage February 6, 2014 at 11:19 pm #
Can’t believe they are actually all 20 years old now…I am feeling really old, because I knew ALL of those albums & bands!!
Great list Lo!
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Introducing Middelvinger, SA’s newest and dopest Afrikaans rapper who’s here to change the game
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Custard X reviews a local Hip-Hop show, Bottom Rock
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Dine at one of the best Italian restaurants outside of Italy right here in South Africa
Cape Town, Food, Global, Lifestyle, Local, News, Restaurants, Reviews, South Africa
95 Keerom, Cape Town | Image: capetownmylove.co.za
For the first time in history, African establishments have been honoured at the prestigious ’50 Top’ awards in Naples. The award ceremony celebrates and acknowledges outstanding eateries mainly in Italy as well as abroad – with separate lists for outstanding Italian restaurants in Europe, North America, Asia and now Africa.
The 50 Top Pizza awards, which took place in July this year, voted Massimo’s in Hout Bay as the best pizzeria in Africa with other local nominees including 360 Degrees Pizza, Kenya, Col’Cacchio Johannesburg and Pane Vino in Cairo.
Their global ’50 Top Italy’ list, however only featured one African representative – 95 Keerom. Coming in at number 47, this world-class venue located in Cape Town has stood the test of time. Opening its doors back 2003, 95 Keerom serves traditional Italian cuisine and is beautifully situated in Company Gardens, offering an unforgettable local-meets-continental dining experience.
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“We are 16 years old and won many awards but this latest one proves that the standard is very high and we’re still doing the best. It puts us in a league with the best in the world, ” 95 Keerom’s chef-patron Giorgio Nava told TimesLive.
A panel of judges from the Italian haute cuisine congress, ‘Le Strade Della Mozzarella Paestum’, compiled the global list. First place was handed to Restaurant Passerini in Paris, France. Second place was awarded to Don Alfonso 1890 in Toronto, Canada and the second runner up was Heinz Beck in Tokyo, Japan.
Take a look below and follow 95 Keerom on Facebook for more information. Call ahead to make reservations and avoid disappointment.
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myghanalinks - Ghana premier league
“We want to finish in the Top 4” - Emmanuel Lomotey
16 BRIGHT SPOTS OF THE FIRST ROUND OF THE GHANA PREMIER LEAGUE
The sudden renaissance of our local league is a surprise to many. Though it was expected, some of us did not envisage such enthusiastic response from fans of the respective clubs at this time. Perhaps Ghanaians have resolved to hold on to their own regardless of comparative quality of play and professionalism from the flashy European leagues and other foreign competitions. Also, one can say Ghanaians have understood the local adage which holds that ‘irrespective of your mother’s ugliness, she is still your mother’.
2015/16 Ghana Premier League season to kick off December 20
President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi has revealed that the new season of the Ghana Premier League will begin on December 20.
2015/16 Ghana Premier League Season; Pass Mark For Survival
The battle for survival has been on for a while now with several teams falling in out of the drop zone, mathematically only the top four teams are safe. The pass mark for assured survival at this point is 41 points which means 12 teams are at risk, but the relegation pall seem to have bottom Inter Allies and bottommost New Edubiase with their respective 28 and 25points in its grip. The two teams are not sitting pretty and are at this point looking like probable relegation candidates.
2015/16 Premier League Player Registration officially opened
2016/17 Ghana Premier League season launch set for Wednesday
The much-delayed 2016/17 Ghana Premier League season will be launched on Wednesday February 1, 2017 by the Ghana Football Association at the GFA Secretariat in Accra at 11:00am.
2016/17 Ghana Premier League Season; Here we go!
After several months of waiting necessitated in part by the legal tussle between Dreams FC and Tema Youth FC that dates back to the 2014/15 GN Bank Division One Zone 3 league season that the two sides participated in, the start of the 2016/17 Ghana Premier League season is finally upon us after the former accepted their fault and took a demotion to the Division One scene where they rightfully belong. Thus, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Ghana Premier League will roar back to life this weekend, February 11th, 2017.
2017/18 Ghana Premier League season launched
The logo which has a glittering Star clad in the national colours with a football, signifies the passion of the nation.
The 2017/18 Ghana Premier League has officially been launched and is set to commence this weekend (March 3&4) across the respective match venues.
2017/18 Ghana Premier League to start this weekend
Attempts to resolve the case out of court failed between the two organizations, while subsequent legal proceedings taken by the management of Gt. Olympics further stalled the start of the season.
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2019 President Cup: Asante Kotoko rally to beat ten-man Hearts of Oak 2-1 to end year with silverware
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Some of us started following football at the age of 9. Kudos to my father (not biological) Alhaji Sulley Bawah, a man who loves football to bits and a Phobian fan. He introduced me to the game. I must give props to his children, who I call my elder brothers Sulley Bawah and Bawa Mohammed, they also imbibed the spirit of the beautiful game into me some more. Back then their father, Alhaji Bawa, would buy the official hearts newspaper and other sports newspapers together with the dailies. So when he's done reading his kids and I will also get the opportunity to read or glance through. This afforded us the opportunity to know the Hearts players very well and even afforded us the chance to get to know other local players as well.
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The legal tussle has, for the second time, stalled the Ghana Premier Legue and, according to Oloboi Commodore, the General Manager of Olympics, they were not being unnecessarily controversial but merely wanted to ensure that the football governing body implemented its statutes.
The chairman of the Board of Directors of Accra Great Olympics, Mr Amarkai Amarteifio, says the Wonder Club is ready to exhaust all their legal dimensions to ensure that the rules and regulations governing football in Ghana are respected for the sake of sanity in the game.
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The predicament of the 11th placed on 11points Rainbow Club has not been eased a bit by an overall record of 3 wins, 2 ties, and 4 losses that has all Championship talk already thrown out the window.
Supporters of Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak will have their attention focused on Kumasi’s Baba Yara Stadium as the two most storied clubs in the land clash on Match Day 10 of the Ghana Premier League in the first leg of the year’s highly anticipated ‘Super Clash’.
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Graduates of the Police Academy in Liberia. Photo Credit: UN / Christopher Herwig via Africa Renewal Flickr.
Community Policing and Trust in Liberia
Can community policing build confidence in the police and improve community cooperation?
Trust & Accountability
Monrovia, Liberia is plagued by rampant crime and violence. According to the 2015 Afrobarometer survey, 65 percent of the city’s residents reported that they or someone they knew was a victim of theft in the past year, while 35 percent reported that they or someone they knew was physically assaulted. These figures are considerably higher than those for urban, sub-Saharan Africa overall, and place Monrovia among sub-Saharan Africa’s most crime-ridden places to live.
This project aims to address a key factor contributing to urban Liberia’s high rate of crime: the reluctance of citizens to cooperate with the police through activities such as crime reporting, information sharing, and evidence provision. In collaboration with the Liberian National Police (LNP) and Parley Liberia, a local research NGO, the research team will test whether community policing can build confidence in the police, increase crime reporting, improve information sharing, and ultimately reduce the incidence of crime and violence.
Part of the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network’s Metaketa Initiative, which seeks to foster knowledge accumulation by supporting clusters of coordinated studies across multiple countries and contexts, the study will unfold alongside evaluations of similar programs in Brazil, Colombia, Pakistan, Uganda, and the Philippines, with the goal of providing a set of reliable, externally valid findings to inform the practice of community policing.
The research team will work with officers from each of Monrovia’s 10 police precincts to identify high-crime communities that would benefit from improved relations with the police. Following a baseline survey to measure rates of crime, crime reporting, and attitudes toward the police, communities will be randomly assigned to either a community policing group or a comparison group.
Communities in the community policing group will host town-hall style meetings with officers of the LNP on a monthly basis. Designed to build trust, educate residents about police procedures, and solicit information about emerging security concerns, these meetings will be complemented by semi-regular foot patrols in which officers interact with citizens in small groups, solicit additional feedback, and distribute informational flyers designed to reinforce the content communicated during the town hall meetings. The project will also include a problem-oriented policing component in which officers adapt their policing strategies based on the feedback received through community outreach. After a period of approximately one year, an endline survey will be conducted to measure changes in crime, crime reporting, and confidence in the police.
Ben Morse
Research Affiliate
Faculty Director
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Earth’s Heavy Metals Result of Supernova Explosion, U of G Researcher Discovers
Thursday, June 13, 2019 Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Artist’s impression of a collapsar (NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre)
That gold on your ring finger is stellar – and not just in a complimentary way.
In a finding that may overthrow our understanding of where Earth’s heavy elements such as gold and platinum come from, new research by a University of Guelph physicist suggests that most of them were spewed from a largely overlooked kind of star explosion far away in space and time from our planet.
Some 80 per cent of the heavy elements in the universe likely formed in collapsars, a rare but heavy element-rich form of supernova explosion from the gravitational collapse of old, massive stars typically 30 times as weighty as our sun, said physics professor Daniel Siegel.
That finding overturns the widely held belief that these elements mostly come from collisions between neutron stars or between a neutron star and a black hole, said Siegel.
His paper co-authored with Columbia University colleagues appears today in the journal Nature.
The research received coverage on CNET , the Times of India, and The Tribune.
Using supercomputers, the trio simulated the dynamics of collapsars, or old stars whose gravity causes them to implode and form black holes.
Under their model, massive, rapidly spinning collapsars eject heavy elements whose amounts and distribution are “astonishingly similar to what we observe in our solar system,” said Siegel. He joined U of G this month and is also appointed to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Waterloo, Ont.
Most of the elements found in nature were created in nuclear reactions in stars and ultimately expelled in huge stellar explosions.
Heavy elements found on Earth and elsewhere in the universe from long-ago explosions range from gold and platinum, to uranium and plutonium used in nuclear reactors, to more exotic chemical elements such as neodymium found in consumer items such as electronics.
Until now, scientists thought that these elements were cooked up mostly in stellar smashups involving neutron stars or black holes, as in a collision of two neutron stars observed by Earth-bound detectors that made headlines in 2017.
Ironically, said Siegel, his team began working to understand the physics of that merger before their simulations pointed toward collapsars as a heavy element birth chamber. “Our research on neutron star mergers has led us to believe that the birth of black holes in a very different type of stellar explosion might produce even more gold than neutron star mergers.”
What collapsars lack in frequency, they make up for in generation of heavy elements, said Siegel. Collapsars also produce intense flashes of gamma rays.
“Eighty per cent of these heavy elements we see should come from collapsars. Collapsars are fairly rare in occurrences of supernovae, even more rare than neutron star mergers – but the amount of material that they eject into space is much higher than that from neutron star mergers.”
The team now hopes to see its theoretical model validated by observations. Siegel said infrared instruments such as those on the James Webb Space Telescope, set for launch in 2021, should be able to detect telltale radiation pointing to heavy elements from a collapsar in a far-distant galaxy.
“That would be a clear signature,” he said, adding that astronomers might also detect evidence of collapsars by looking at amounts and distribution of heavy element s in other stars across our Milky Way galaxy.
Siegel said this research may yield clues about how our galaxy began.
“Trying to nail down where heavy elements come from may help us understand how the galaxy was chemically assembled and how the galaxy formed. This may actually help solve some big questions in cosmology as heavy elements are a nice tracer.”
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleev’s creation of the periodic table of the chemical elements. Since then, scientists have added many more elements to the periodic table, a staple of science textbooks and classrooms worldwide.
Referring to the Russian chemist, Siegel said, “We know many more elements that he didn’t. What’s fascinating and surprising is that, after 150 years of studying the fundamental building blocks of nature, we still don’t quite understand how the universe creates a big fraction of the elements in the periodic table.”
Prof. Daniel Siegel
dsiegel@uoguelph.ca
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Study: Humanitarian program benefits mental health of Syrian refugee youth
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Legislators grate the State Department and Pentagon over the US role in the Yemeni civil war
April 17, 2018 World 6 Views
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6. (Yahya Arhab / EPA / Shutterstock) On Tuesday, Trump officials in front of the US military had asked Yemen's hard-line support for the Persian Gulf countries as congressional pressure grew to place the American role in conflict rethinking, killing thousands of civilians and causing the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Republicans and Democrats urged representatives of the Pentagon, the State Department and the US Agency for International Development to urge the impact of US aid, primarily in the form of arms sales, aerial refueling and reconnaissance, on a coalition led by Saudi Arabia against Huthi Rebels in Yemen.
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee interrogation of members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee points to growing inconvenience with US support for the campaign, which activists say has caused thousands of civilian deaths due to reckless air strikes and aggravated Yemeni suffering by obstructing the import of basic goods [19659005] [ US Resists the call to end its support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the Yemen war]
Robert Karem, Secretary of State for International Security Affairs, said the United States believed that Saudi Arabia was carrying out its air raids improved. A small number of US military personnel are located in a military command center in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, but do not participate in identifying targets for Saudi fighter aircraft.
Karem admitted that the Pentagon is not following any civilian casualties in Yemen. 19659008] "We do not have a perfect understanding because we do not use all our assets to monitor their aircraft," Karem said. He later suggested that intelligence agencies could track these losses, but did not provide details.
But Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) Said that improved targeted procedures could not be equated with reduced civilian casualties The latest report by a United Nations expert group has revealed that Saudi Arabia has not received adequate support over the last year Took precautions when strikes occurred in the past year that appeared to target civilian protected areas. The Trump administration has also been constantly criticized by aid organizations, as US support for Saudi Arabia and its allies allowed the war to continue.
"Obviously, the evidence in the results and we do not know if the results are there or not," said Cardin. "This is the reputation of the US at stake, and we expect you to know if you report something … Do not make statements that you can not back up."
The hearing comes A bipartisan group of legislators is attempting to propose legislation that would benchmark Saudi Arabia's US aid for certification, including demonstrable attempts to reduce civil damage and alleviate suffering among Yemenis.
These and other recent congressional actions show a growing willingness to dispute continued support for the war led by Saudi Arabia.
Although US officials continue to have deep reservations about the conflict Defense of the current policy of officials reflects the emphasis on the Trump government's loyalty to Saudi Arabia, its main Arab ally, and its desire to crack down on Iran.
Tehran is said to support the Houthis who are militarily and militarily also Shiite Muslims.
While the Obama administration attempted to reduce US support for Saudi Arabia in 2016, the Trump government has restored part of that aid 19659017] Some of the most obvious questions came from Democratic MPs, but Republican ones Senators also expressed concerns about the impact of the conflict on civilians and the lack of an obvious path to a political solution.
The United Nations has Yemen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with millions of people who are diet-related and millions of people suffering from diseases, including a major cholera outbreak. Aid organizations say both the Houthi forces and the coalition led by Saudi Arabia are responsible for the suffering.
The Trump administration claims that political conditions in Yemen have improved since the death of former Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh last year. The country is ready for new attempts to promote peace talks. But lawmakers seem skeptical.
"And yet we sit here today and talk about a peace process flourishing from a reality on the ground that does not look much different than a year or two ago," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)
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Legislators expressed concern that the war, which has lasted for more than three years, is now getting worse as the Gulf Forces carry out an operation to advance the Houthis
David Satterfield, Deputy Secretary of State for the Middle East, said the Trump administration had warned the allied governments against taking measures that could bring more austerity and suffering to Yemenis] "We would not see such an action in line with our own policies on which our support rests ", he said.
Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.) Urged Satterfield to see if such an operation, despite American warnings, would trigger a halt or reduction in US support, a commitment the diplomat refused.
"So our support does not depend on the continued allowance of food, fuel and other humanitarian aid in Yemen's main port," said Young with visible frustration.
Kareem Fahim in Istanbul and Karen DeYoung in Washington contributed to this report.
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Home World Middle East US ‘Deeply Troubled’ as Bahrain Upholds Sentences for Activists
US ‘Deeply Troubled’ as Bahrain Upholds Sentences for Activists
Mina Fabulous
Thu September 6, 2012
As a Bahrain court upheld jail sentences against 20 opposition activists, the United States of America today expressed deep concern over the decision.
Reports say opposition activists were convicted of plotting to oust the government. Eight of the prominent activists are facing life in prison.
In his remarks today in Washington DC, Acting Deputy Spokesperon Patrick Ventrell urged the Government of Bahrain to abide by its commitment to respect detainees’ right to due process and to transparent judicial proceedings, including fair trials and access to attorneys.
Over 100,000 protesters took part in a prodemocracy march on 22 February 2011.
He stressed that it is important that verdicts are based on credible evidence and that judicial proceedings are conducted in full accordance with Bahraini law and Bahrain’s international legal obligations.
“We call on the Government of Bahrain to investigate all reports of torture, including those made by the defendants, as it has pledged to do, and to hold accountable those found responsible.” – Mr. Ventrell
The United States continues to call on all parties, including the government, to contribute constructively to reconciliation, meaningful dialogue and reform that brings about change that is responsive to the aspirations of all Bahrainis.
Mr. Ventrell underlined that Bahrain needs dialogue and negotiation to build a strong national consensus about its political future, strengthen its economic standing, and make it a more prosperous country and a more stable ally of the United States.
Last month, prominent Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to three-years in prison for spearheading and participating in several anti-government rallies.
Reports say Rajab is already serving a three-month sentence for posting anti-government comments on Twitter. He was in court to receive the verdict.
Mr. Rajab is the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
The United States is deeply concerned that a Bahraini court sentenced Nabeel Rajab to three years in prison on charges of leading “illegal gatherings.”
The Unites States has urged the government of Bahrain to consider all available options to resolve this case.
US government believes that all people have a fundamental right to participate in peaceful acts of protest.
The US government repeatedly urged the government of Bahrain to take steps to build confidence across Bahraini society, and to begin a meaningful dialogue with the political opposition and civil society, she stressed.
Nabeel Rajab is the leading human rights activist from Bahrain and the founder of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights. Mr. Rajab was arrested in May this year by the Bahraini government forces.
In February 2011, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed that the United States supports Bahrain’s move to greater reform. Secretary Clinton also emphasized that the Americans wanted to see that the human rights of the people, including right to assemble, right to express themselves be respected in Bahrain.
One year after the Pearl Uprising in Bahrain in February last year, unrest continues amid the ongoing government crackdown against protests. A report said there has been systemic and widespread use of violence in the crackdowns as well as torture of political prisoners.
Despite pledges to reform, the government of Bahrain has made little progress, and continues to deny access to the country to the international media and human rights organizations, including Freedom House.
Bahrain is ranked Not Free in Freedom House’s Freedom in the World 2012 and Freedom of the Press 2012 surveys.
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US Test Fires Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile
April 26, 2017 Niamh Harris News, US 3
The U.S. Air Force test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile from a base in California early on Wednesday amid increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
The nuclear-capable missile was unarmed according to the Air Force and traveled over 4,000 miles before splashing down in the South Pacific
Press TV reports:
The unarmed Minuteman III missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, California, and successfully hit the target near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The test was aimed at assessing the effectiveness, readiness, and accuracy of the missile system, the USAF said.
Colonel John Moss, the commander of the 30th Space Wing, said the Minuteman missiles need to be tested on a regular basis to ensure their reliability and to demonstrate the national nuclear capabilities.
The timing of the test was questioned by peace groups, with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation calling it a “double standard” in the wake of rising tensions with Pyongyang.
“When it comes to missile testing, the US is operating with a clear double standard: It views its own tests as justified and useful, while it views the tests of North Korea as threatening and destabilizing,” the foundation’s president David Krieger said in a statement on Tuesday.
“What is needed is diplomacy rather than military provocations. Threats, whether in the form of tweets, nuclear-capable aircraft carrier groups, or nuclear-capable missile launches, only increase the dangers to us all.”
Washington has warned Pyongyang of a military confrontation if it does not stop its development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
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Watch LivE US Football Game On TV
Posted on November 2, 2019 November 3, 2019 by admin
Colts vs Steelers
Colts vs Steelers : Indianapolis has been a homebody their last two games, but they are heading out on Sunday. They will square off against Pittsburgh at 1 p.m. ET at Heinz Field. Indianapolis is currently enjoying a three-game winning streak and is looking to extend their dominance.
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When: 03 Sunday 2019
TV: NFL Network
The Colts came out on top in a nail-biter against Denver last week, sneaking past 15-13.
Meanwhile, Pittsburgh was able to grind out a solid victory over Miami last Monday, winning 27-14. Among those leading the charge for Pittsburgh was RB James Conner, who rushed for 145 yards and one TD on 23 carries. That nimble footwork stands out as the first time Conner has hit the 100-yard rushing mark this season.
Pittsburgh’s defense was a presence as well, and it made life painful for the QB and got past Miami’s offensive line for a total of four sacks for a loss of 15 yards. Leading the way was OLB T.J. Watt and his two sacks.
This next contest is expected to be close, with Indianapolis going off at just a 1-point favorite. If their 4-2-1 record against the spread is anything to go by, the prospects look good for bets placed on them.
Their wins bumped Indianapolis to 5-2 and Pittsburgh to 3-4. We’ll see which team can carry over their success and which team inevitably falls when the Colts and the Steelers clash.
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For now it is only a short stack, but the Steelers were able to get their second straight win on Monday night against Miami Dolphins. In typical Steelers fashion, they started slow out of the gate coming off of the bye but still ended up with the result many of us had hoped for in a 13-point victory. Yes, the three wins the Steelers have on the season are against teams that have a combined three wins between them. But the Steelers four losses are also to teams which have a combined four losses.
This week, the Steelers may get a better feel for where they stand against the rest of the NFL as they take on the 5–2 Indianapolis Colts who are currently leading the AFC South division. The Colts are as much of a mystery right now as the Steelers but for the opposite reasons. The Colts have notched some wins over quality teams, but also have losses to teams with losing records. Will the Colts drop another game to a team with a losing record? Will the Steelers suffer another loss to a team which has only lost two games on the season? Either way, something is going to have to give.
This Sunday will answer these questions as the Steelers look to give the home fans another victory. Make sure you get all the information you need below so you can enjoy the Week 9 showdown:
The Indianapolis Colts will travel to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers in Week 9. The game time is set for 1:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 3, at Heinz Field.
The contest will mark the 25th all-time regular season meeting between the teams, with the Steelers holding an 18-6 advantage. The last matchup between the teams took place on Nov. 12, 2017, when Pittsburgh won 20-17.
TV coverage: CBS
Play-by-Play: Ian Eagle
Color Analyst: Dan Fouts
Sideline: Evan Washburn
WATCH ON MOBILE
A live stream will be available on the following platforms if the game is available on TV in the local market*:
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We had an OK week. I can live with 2-1. The Colts came up a few points short. The record is 15-11-1 on the season and I finally stayed away from the Thursday night game, which has been my downfall on the Best Bets this year. Here is what I like in Week 9:
Browns (-3.5) at Broncos
Cleveland can play defense. The Browns pushed around the vaunted Pats defense a week ago. Cleveland can run the hell out of the ball and at some point the Browns will protect the football a smidge better. This is their season. A loss here and it’s over. You have to feast on Brandon Allen in his first NFL start. Denver had no offense with Joe Flacco at the helm and it’s only going to get worse. Baker Mayfield seems to be at his best when he is angry. The Browns have way more talent, and in this battle, neither coach has distinguished himself as a rookie head coach. I expect the Browns to win by a touchdown or more.
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Imbalance in multiple sclerosis: A result of slowed spinal somatosensory conduction
Michelle Cameron, Fay Horak, Robert R. Herndon, Dennis Bourdette
Balance problems and falls are common in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) but their cause and nature are not well understood. It is known that MS affects many areas of the central nervous system that can impact postural responses to maintain balance, including the cerebellum and the spinal cord. Cerebellar balance disorders are associated with normal latencies but reduced scaling of postural responses. We therefore examined the latency and scaling of automatic postural responses, and their relationship to somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs), in ten people with MS and imbalance and ten age-, sex-matched, healthy controls. The latency and scaling of postural responses to backward surface translations of five different velocities and amplitudes, and the latency of spinal and supraspinal somatosensory conduction, were examined. Subjects with MS had large, but very delayed automatic postural response latencies compared to controls (161 ± 31 ms vs. 102 ± 21 ms, p <0.01) and these postural response latencies correlated with the latencies of their spinal SSEPs (r = 0.73, p <0.01). Subjects with MS also had normal or excessive scaling of postural response amplitude to perturbation velocity and amplitude. Longer latency postural responses were associated with less velocity scaling and more amplitude scaling. Balance deficits in people with MS appear to be caused by slowed spinal somatosensory conduction and not by cerebellar involvement. People with MS appear to compensate for their slowed spinal somatosensory conduction by increasing the amplitude scaling and the magnitude of their postural responses.
Somatosensory and Motor Research
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials
Cerebellar Diseases
Posturography
Cameron, M., Horak, F., Herndon, R. R., & Bourdette, D. (2008). Imbalance in multiple sclerosis: A result of slowed spinal somatosensory conduction. Somatosensory and Motor Research, 25(2), 113-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/08990220802131127
Imbalance in multiple sclerosis : A result of slowed spinal somatosensory conduction. / Cameron, Michelle; Horak, Fay; Herndon, Robert R.; Bourdette, Dennis.
In: Somatosensory and Motor Research, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2008, p. 113-122.
Cameron, M, Horak, F, Herndon, RR & Bourdette, D 2008, 'Imbalance in multiple sclerosis: A result of slowed spinal somatosensory conduction', Somatosensory and Motor Research, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 113-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/08990220802131127
Cameron M, Horak F, Herndon RR, Bourdette D. Imbalance in multiple sclerosis: A result of slowed spinal somatosensory conduction. Somatosensory and Motor Research. 2008;25(2):113-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/08990220802131127
Cameron, Michelle ; Horak, Fay ; Herndon, Robert R. ; Bourdette, Dennis. / Imbalance in multiple sclerosis : A result of slowed spinal somatosensory conduction. In: Somatosensory and Motor Research. 2008 ; Vol. 25, No. 2. pp. 113-122.
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Physiological and endocrinological mechanisms of sex change in the grouper
Yasuhisa Kobayashi, Ryosuke Murata, Masaru Nakamura
Groupers of the genus Epinephelus are one of the most important aquaculture species in the world. The sexuality of groupers is almost protogynous hermaphrodite. Since the gonadal re-constriction occurred in adult, grouper provide a good experiment model to investigate the sexual differentiation in vertebrate. Due to the economical and biological importance of groupers, physiological and endocrinological data are eagerly needed for improvement aquaculture. However, the endocrinological mechanism of sex change is not clearly understood. This review addresses the physiological and endocrinological mechanisms and also explains the process of sex differentiation in groupers. Key regulatory factors underlying sex change has been identified to date include sex steroids and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
Sexual Plasticity and Gametogenesis in Fishes
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Sex Differentiation
sex reversal
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
sexual development
follicle-stimulating hormone
Gonadotorpin
Protogynous
Kobayashi, Y., Murata, R., & Nakamura, M. (2013). Physiological and endocrinological mechanisms of sex change in the grouper. In Sexual Plasticity and Gametogenesis in Fishes (pp. 221-233). Nova Science Publishers, Inc..
Physiological and endocrinological mechanisms of sex change in the grouper. / Kobayashi, Yasuhisa; Murata, Ryosuke; Nakamura, Masaru.
Sexual Plasticity and Gametogenesis in Fishes. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013. p. 221-233.
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Hawkstone Park Follies Shropshire | Picturesque Day Out Review
April 2, 2019 guest poster Days out - Rest of UK, Days out
Whether you’re an energetic and inquisitive 7-year-old like my son Freddie, or a maturing adult still reluctant to grow up, we all love a good theme park right? But have you ever wondered what one was like over 200 years ago?
Author: Greg Rees
What is Hawkstone Park Follies
Hawkstone Park Follies in Weston-under-Redcastle, near Market Drayton in Shropshire, was one of the first and most original – and following almost a century of neglect, this magical Georgian attraction was lovingly restored and reopened in 1993.
It was originally created as the lavish and indulgent gardens for nearby Hawkstone Hall by the Hill family, but the Grade 1 Listed version of today is some 100 acres of stunning scenery filled with a series of extraordinary monuments, or follies, around every corner and is a fantasy landscape full of bridges, towers, cliffs, crags, caves, walkways and deep woods to explore.
Indeed, it was used to represent parts of mystical Narnia in the BBC’s TV adaptation of C S Lewis’ books The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian.
It takes a solid three hours to see and experience it all (although you can easily do shortened versions) so a reasonable level of physical fitness and mobility is required as there are many steps, ascents and descents – but it is definitely well worth the effort.
Plus, with the new enchanted trail there is a little bit more of an incentive for tired little legs to find the next clue – from den building, giant telephones and trolls hiding behind rocks, youngsters can collect leaves and ingredients for a magical spell that culminates in finding the pot of gold from the end of the rainbow.
Hawkstone Hall view from the Monument
Review of Hawkstone Park Follies
We began at the Visitor Centre (aka The Greenhouse) and strolling past the Grand Valley began our ascent up through the trees to the Gothic-style and octagonal White Tower (originally a summerhouse for the Hill family) which is actually red brick with the original lime wash long since disappeared.
Continuing through the Rhododendron Jungle and the Woodland Walk – including some seriously impressive Californian Redwoods – we then couldn’t fail to be impressed by The Monument, which stands over 100 ft high and was built to commemorate Sir Rowland Hill who was the first Protestant Mayor of London.
The Monument
The shaft of the column contains a narrow, stone spiral staircase (we counted 150 steps) and at the top a circular turret gives access to a square viewing platform. It’s worth the slow climb though, as the views all around are breathtaking and it’s reckoned that on a really clear day they stretch across 13 counties.
Next up is the quaint and enchanting Hermitage, which was once a hut with rubble stone walls, heather thatch and a stable door and the home of a hermit preacher called Father Francis.
This then leads onto the Swiss Bridge – so called because it resembled a little slice of Switzerland – which is a thin (but perfectly stable) rustic wooden structure perched over a rather deep chasm, but maybe not one for the faint hearted.
Swiss Bridge
Approaching the top of the park now – and certainly our favourite section – you pass Gingerbread Hall, which used to be known as the Temple of Patience as it was where visitors would wait for the guide. It’s also where the emergency telephone is located just in case modern mobile signals fail.
Gingerbread Hall
Then you take The Cleft pathway that meanders between two steep cliffs (careful, it can be slippery when wet) and narrows into a dark and mysterious tunnel that leads into Grotto Hill, which is thought to have originated from a 5th-century copper mine.
The Cleft
Grotto Hill
Inside are a series of caves and passages excavated from the soft white sandstone cliffs and the result is a magnificent, ancient Grotto labyrinth that really is a sight to behold. Circular window openings have been cut into the outer face and let light in, but they do recommend you use a torch – your own or available for purchase in the visitor centre.
Grotto Hill View
And, last but not least, the splendid Gothic Arch atop Grotto Hill is another eye catcher, through which can be seen far-reaching views of the golf course directly below plus Cannon Bank, Elysian Hill and The Citadel.
Gothic Arch
We had our lunch here, taking in the spectacular vistas on all sides, but there are picnic tables and seats dotted all over the park where you can stop for a bite to eat, drink, or reflective rest. Suitably refreshed we then headed back, but with Freddie’s legs tiring we took the shorter and lower pathway instead, under Weston Arch, and sauntered down the peaceful Grand Valley route right back to where we started.
Much more than a day out, Hawkstone Park Follies is a picturesque and panoramic land of mystery, suspense and adventure that transports you back in time, but also presents an exhilarating and of-the-minute physical and sensory workout.
Weston Arch
Sensible footwear is essential because parts of the park and the main walking routes contain several flights of steps, some natural ones carved into rock and some man-made wooden ones.
Dogs are welcome, but must be kept on their leads at all times, while due to the hilly terrain wheelchair and pushchair access is limited to the visitor centre and Grand Valley areas. However, Silver Safari trips are available for the less mobile by pre arrangement,
There is free car parking for visitors and although we didn’t use it Caspian’s Tea Rooms is open for refreshments and light snacks and it looked smart, spacious, well stocked and reasonably priced.
2019 opening times: 10am-5pm daily (last admission 3pm), 16th February – 3rd November.
Prices – 3s & Under FREE / Child £5.75 (4-15yrs) / Adult £8.25 / Concessions (Students & 60yr+) £7.50 / Family 4 £25.00 / Family 5 £28.50 / Family 6 £31.50.
Disclaimer: Greg and his son received complimentary entry to Hawkstone Park Follies for the purpose of this review. All words and opinions are his own.
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Ali Fedotowsky The Bachelorette, Episode 4.
Posted on June 15, 2010 by Ben Wilder
So far the least dramatic of the four episodes, but evenso, two guys struck out without a rose. The award for most entertaining goes to Jonathan this episode, impressing me each time he swung his bat and hit a comedy homerun, after all didn’t he say his secret weapon was humor? With a rich arsenal of words and phrases like “dolt,” “shmuck,” “this storm crapped in my face,” and “beehive of knives,” he hit enough homeruns for both teams! Between he and Frank the Smotherer I don’t know who is more desperate. Kasey comes in a close third, his desperation revealed in the first one-on-one date of the episode. The date card clued us in that they’d be doing “what comes natural.” So I guess they’re going to breath and sleep. Maybe, if the date goes well, they’ll poop. After their helicopter takes off from the USS Intrepid, they touch down in a field and have a picnic followed by a trip to the American Museum of Natural History. Oh, that’s what natural meant. Ali doesn’t think Kasey is being genuine and tells him that. Ali throws a curveball by not giving him a rose but! also not sending him home. Steeeerrrrike! The count is no balls and one strike. As referenced in meet the bachelors, Kasey will not last long if Ali doesn’t see a dangerous side. He may be a good man, but is he a bad boy? Back at the Bachelor suite, the group date card arrives with the clue, “let’s play.” This date includes Roberto, Jesse, Craig R., Kirk, Jonathan, Frank, and Ty. They all assume it’s some sort of sports competition, but are disappointed to find out “play” meant “theater.” Another curveball! Low and inside, ball one.
The guys find Ali at a Broadway stage where they’ll be auditioning for The Lion King. The director listens to them perform on stage and has the honor of choosing which bachelor gets the next date with Ali. Roberto wins the director’s vote based on his performance. He’s a baseball player but didn’t expect another curveball when he and Ali were told they’ll also be performing in The Lion King that night. Just a bit outside, ball two! Jealousy ran rampant among the other guys, especially Jonathan who’d love to have two balls thrown at him.
Ali and Roberto rehearse for their debut on Broadway, and of course Roberto does very well, making the guys jealous, again. At the end of the night Ali is “under the weather” and I don’t mean Jonathan the weatherman. He wishes! Or does he? In not-so-dramatic fashion, Ali tells the guys there won’t be a rose given out on this group date. Kirk kindly escorts her to the suite where he helps her drift off to sleep. What a kind and gentle competitor. We haven’t seen much of Justin up to this point, and we’re going to have to wait longer because Chris L. got the next one-on-one date.
Curveball! Ali is too sick to go on the date with Chris L. but she didn’t want to let him down on his birthday, so she invited him to her suite. “Sweet,” thought Chris L. Later Ali felt better so they spent the evening out on the town. Josh(who?)a Radin performs a few songs on a rooftop for them. Chris L. gets to second base and scores a rose at the end of the date.
Adding some overhyped drama, Kasey sneaks off to begin what will be an embarrassing story he’ll tell his grandkids one day, and later Jonathan sings to a girl, an embarrassing story he’ll tell his therapist one day. Highlight of the episode goes to Chris L. when he said about Kasey’s tattoo, “So you’re gonna be the tattooed bachelorette guy for the rest of your life. That’s gonna be probably your nickname.”
In the end roses went to Chris L., Kirk, Frank the Smotherer, Craig R., Chris N., Roberto, Justin, Ty, and Kasey. Sent home were Jonathan and Jesse.
Check back next week for a recap of episode 5!
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Memory and the anti-politics of Anzac
24.Apr.12
Anzac Day celebrates forgetting.
Its revival, the transformation of a ceremony nearly extinct in the 1980s into today’s turbocharged festival, coincides with the excision from national consciousness of the most important aspects of the Great War.
In their book What’s wrong with Anzac?, Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds document the funding that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs pours into resources promoting Anzac Day. Yet despite such educational campaigns, how many Australians can answer the simple question: what was the war about?
Conservatives, and most liberals, tell us that Anzac Day stands above politics. That’s true, in a fashion. But the event’s not apolitical so much as anti-political.
Where Carl von Clausewitz defined war as the continuation of politics by other means, Anzac celebrates the battlefield as a realm entirely removed from political life. The Great War spurred an unprecedented degree of social polarisation in Australia, and yet the obsessive retelling of the Gallipoli landing never corresponds to any equivalent interest in, say, the populace’s remarkable rejection of conscription in two ballots in 1916 and 1917. The Bush/Blair/Howard War on Terror rendered that period more relevant than ever, since obvious parallels can be drawn between the hysterical patriotism of the ‘Freedom Fries’ days and the jingoism during which most Australian cities renamed their streets (if you live in Victoria Street, there’s a pretty good chance it was once called Wilhelm Road), while the state-sanctioned suspicion of Arabs and Muslims after 9/11 corresponds to the widespread persecution of Irish and Catholics in the wake of the Easter Uprising, and the unparalleled freedom granted to security agencies echoes Billy Hughes’ promulgation of the open-ended War Precautions Act.
Yet Anzac Day functions not to celebrate but to prevent that kind of history. It lauds bravery yet allows no room for what Bismarck called ‘civil courage’, a trait that many non-combatants showed in abundance when, against all the newspapers, politicians and mainstream political parties, they opposed the slaughter in Europe.
Again, in these endless discussions about the young men of that time, how often does anyone point out that Australians saw one of the very first anti-war protests anywhere in the world, when the Industrial Workers of the World called a rally on the Domain the weekend the conflict broke out? Everything that the IWW predicted about the war came to pass, just as everything that the official jingoes said proved entirely wrong. But amidst all the Anzac headshaking about the horrors of Gallipoli, there’s no room to mention those who tried to stop the killing taking place.
The anti-politics of Anzac Day not only diminishes the experiences of the millions of Australians who did not fight, it renders entirely monochromatic the experiences of the soldiers themselves. We can tell, for instance, the story of the Christmas truce of 1914 but only because a certain version of the story supports Anzac’s presentation of war as a time out of time, an experience in a realm where normal rules did not apply. The perversity of men shaking hands and wishing each other luck before obediently ducking back into the trenches to commence hostilities supports Anzac’s general depiction of combat as a social anomaly, a mysterious business entirely disconnected from what Archbishop Mannix called ‘a sordid trade war’. That’s why there’s much less emphasis on the context of those unofficial armistices, which were, initially, made possible because so many ordinary Germans had been working in Britain and felt no particular animosity to the men in the opposite trenches, and which were systematically broken up by authorities terrified that if the soldiers fraternised it would be impossible to make them fight. Indeed, even if you only focus on combat (rather than the widespread mutinies that later took place), it’s possible to tell the story of the Great War in terms of measures by officers to force their men to kill. In his fascinating book Trench Warfare, Tony Ashworth documents the regularity in which ordinary soldiers on both sides adopted what he calls the ‘live and let live’ policy, allowing unofficial truces punctuated by ritualistic exchanges of gunfire at certain times and certain places, exchanges specifically designed not to kill anyone and thus avoid retribution. In Ashworth’s argument, the official tactics adopted by commanders were attempts to break down these proto-political refusals, to force the men into contact each other and thus ensure that they would fight.
In other words, even in the most extreme circumstances, the Great War was a social conflict, shaped by internal contradictions. That’s why, if the origins of the war are now never discussed, there’s an equally determined silence about how the slaughter ended, with revolution in Russia and Germany, and near insurrections in many other countries.
At the same time, one of the curious consequences of the anti-politics of Anzac is that the celebrations embrace the literature of disenchantment that emerged from the war, albeit with a distinctive twist. The war is now told, not in the bloodless narratives of contemporary Empire propagandists, but as a compendium of tropes taken from Sassoon and Owen and Remarque and Barbusse. Every schoolkid knows about shell shock and bodies hanging on barbed wire and rats feasting on corpses and the rest of it, yet these details, which in the original texts contrasted what had been promised with what war delivered, are now used to bolster the presentation of combat as an experience entirely divorced from normal social relations.
As William James noted, the ‘possibility of violent death [is] the soul of all romance’, which is why showing war’s horrors does not, in itself, foster antiwar sentiment, since ‘the horrors make the fascination. War is the strong life; it is life in extremis’.
It’s a central part of Anzac’s anti-politics: the hellishness of war separates it from ordinary life, transforming Clausewitz’s ‘politics by other means’ into a transcendental experience at which civilians can only marvel. Whereas for the writers of the twenties and the thirties, the Great War disappointed by representing, in concentrated form, the violent banality of industrial society, today the very bloodiness of the conflict is used to highlight the contrast with our own day-to-day life. The narrative therefore shifts from social critique (why did we allow these atrocities to happen?) to a veneration of sacrifice, the nature of which is largely irrelevant.
The Gallipoli pilgrimage provides the obvious example. The attendees at the dawn service do not ask themselves why Australians died invading a country thousands of miles away. No, that particular issue’s rendered inherently irrelevant, since the backpackers go there not to think about history but to marvel at the height of the cliffs and the sharpness of the rocks, and to feel an awe at people their own age experiencing horrors that they couldn’t imagine. The question arising from the pilgrimage is thus not ‘why did it happen?’ (a query that leads not only into history but into politics) but rather ‘what did it feel like?’, an aestheticisation of the past that’s explicitly anti-political.
Or, rather, it’s anti-political, in one sense. In another, it’s entirely compatible with the trend toward militarisation in the wake of 9/11, not simply because it fits entirely with the new consensus that there’s something inherently underhand in debating the politics of war (recall how long the Afghan conflict had been running before Parliament convened a formal discussion) but because the question ‘what did it feel like?’ always implies a follow-up: ‘I wonder what it would be like.’
Senator Scott Ludlam’s fascinating diary from his visit to Afghanistan illustrates how this plays out in recruits. Speaking of the soldiers he meets, he writes:
All the same, there’s an eagerness to prove themselves. The further forward you get, the happier crew are to be there and the less interested in being pulled back into safety. Having spent years training, most of them really, really want to be in theatre.
“This is a great battle lab for us.”
“I’d do this whether you paid me or not.”
If its horrors make war a transcendental experience, the contrast with the banality of late capitalist life make combat a perpetual source of fascination, in precisely the way James describes.
What are the consequences of this recognition of Anzac as an anti-politics?
Most obviously, it implies a certain futility about debating its meaning, even through posts like this.
Because Anzac’s not an argument so much as an aesthetic event, it’s largely impervious to critique. Everyone knows the newspaper formula: you devote most of your space to praising the diggers and republishing various twenty-first century versions of the ‘old lie’ – and then you give half a column to someone to ponder what it all means. The ritualistic debates about the nature of Anzac are, to a large extent, part of Anzac, a means for keeping the commemoration in the centre of Australian life.
Which is not to suggest that critiques should not be mounted, nor that it’s not important to foster genuine historical debate about the Great War, but simply to suggest that the terrain will not shift substantially without the re-emergence of anti-war movement that offers a different way of thinking about conflicts.
If you look back at the shifting attitudes to Anzac, that’s the real correlation. Alan Seymour’s One Day of the Year, usually cited as evidence of post-war disenchantment, obviously emerged from the anti-Vietnam movement, just as the near collapse of the celebrations in the 1980s stemmed from the rise of the anti-nuclear movement.
Contrary to conservative revisionism, peace activism has never involved an indifference to the plight of soldiers themselves. We’re often told that anti-war activists spat at conscripts returning from Vietnam. What we don’t hear is that huge numbers of the soldiers themselves supported the movement, both once they returned and, sometimes, while they were actually in theatre. In terms of the memory of the Great War, many of the most interesting studies of what was done to the troops have come from writers influenced by the peace movement, precisely because they’re more likely to eschew the top-down approach of reactionary historians.
Some 16 million people died in the First World War. It is an extraordinary statistic. In the face of such overwhelming suffering, such tremendous devastation, the only decent commemoration entails ensuring that nothing comparable ever happens again.
From Ian Syson on 24 April 2012 at 2.55 pm
Good piece Jeff.
I hope you don’t mind me plonking this here: http://sportbizinsider.com.au/features/how-anzac-day-footy-myths-fail-to-tell-the-whole-truth/
It’s a similar-ish piece to yours (though not as well-written or politically intelligent) about what’s wrong with Anzac Day footy.
From diz on 25 April 2012 at 10.21 am
Thanks for putting this link on here. I have always been anti-glorification of wars, but this article and its replies really clarify the argument for me.
From Rick Kuhn on 24 April 2012 at 4.20 pm
A valuable critique.
For a good account of class differences in “the experiences of the soldiers themselves” see Alistair Thomson ‘Passing shots at the ANZAC legend’ in Burgmann, V. and Lee, J. (eds) A Most Valuable Acquisition McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Ringwood 1988 pp. 189-204. It deserves republication.
From Rosie Keely on 25 April 2012 at 1.00 am
you’ve captured succinctly why I’m always uneasy on this day.
Thank you. Rosie
From Michael Rogers on 25 April 2012 at 6.34 am
Looking for an antidote on this Anzac day, I’m grateful to have found this article.
From Kate Habgood on 25 April 2012 at 8.17 am
Excellent piece. Unfortunately history textbooks have moved away from a critical perspective of both WW1 and WW2. Schools are swamped with durable colour resources from DVA. Quite a few teachers I’ve worked with are anxious to ensure students are inculcated with a solemn veneration for Australia’s involvement in these wars.
I think the answer may be more critical thinking in teacher training courses.
From Anonymous on 2 May 2012 at 2.16 am
That’s not going to happen. Teachers are turned out with as much critical thought capacity as you average army private soldier. Don’t question, just regurgitate.
From Anonymous on 30 October 2014 at 3.24 pm
Why am I using here reading this article with my students then? Gross generalisations tend not to indicate a capacity for critical thought.
From Anonymous on 1 May 2018 at 12.10 pm
same here. starting to revile ANZAC day and the adulation it inspires in so many students’ eyes.
Good articles and a powerful antidote to war for this particular teacher as well.
From John Passant on 25 April 2012 at 8.33 am
Well said Jeff. A valuable and informative contribution to the discussion of this day. My own small contribution is here. http://enpassant.com.au/2012/04/24/this-anzac-day-lets-raise-a-glass-to-malalai-joya/
From Chris M on 25 April 2012 at 8.36 am
Great piece Jeff. Articulates some of my thoughts and views in a way I have been unable to and also some new ways to think about it all. Very much agree with the triumph of spectacle over content.
From Paul Copeland on 25 April 2012 at 8.59 am
A great piece Jeff, it articulates my primary discomfort with the Anzac celebration. Thank you.
From jo on 25 April 2012 at 9.17 am
celebrating the political stuffup of getting a shitload of folk killed is plain stupid an wrong…
From Dave Riley on 25 April 2012 at 9.23 am
Alan Seymour’s play premiered in 1958 before the Vietnam War years.
I think of it every Anzac Day.
Standfast’s press release is also very useful: Veterans group condemns hollow ANZAC Day: “You do not honor the dead through mindless flag waving, rewriting history or promoting new wars…Which war gained women the right to vote? Which war gained the 8 hour work day? Which war gave people the right to hold public demonstrations? There isn’t one, our freedom has always been fought and won by the people, civilians, standing up to their own government. The myth that if Australian troops fight they are automatically fighting for our freedom needs to be busted because it lets warmongering politicians off the hook when they slaughter our youth.”
From Jeff Sparrow on 25 April 2012 at 9.35 am
Oops. For some reason, I’d always associated it with Vietnam.
From PM Newton on 25 April 2012 at 11.44 am
Excellent piece, Jeff. How we remember war in this country is increasingly disturbing, and with the centenary of WWI approaching the collective amnesia is only set to get worse.
I have more than a passing interest in the myth-making surrounding war. Last year I was fortunate to share the Asher Literary Award – an award that celebrates women writing in any genre with anti-war message or theme. My novel explored how war is remembered, and the damage involved in misremembering.
In Australia, we have perversely adopted as our national foundation narrative an act of war that occurred nearly a century ago on the other side of the world. Claiming that as our nation’s creation myth allows us to celebrate sacrifice on the beaches of the Turkish peninsula, whilst comforting ourselves that such slaughter has never bloodied our land.
This is dishonest and destructive, elevating tales of heroism and mateship in order to sanctify the brutal truth of an imperial war. By quarantining the bloodshed overseas we allow ourselves to forget the violence of white settlement.
Remembrance without reflection – Lest We Remember a more fitting aphorism.
From Michael Rogers on 25 April 2012 at 12.56 pm
“One Day of the Year” was first performed by an amateur group in Adelaide in 1960. The first professional production was in Sydney in 1961. In 1962 it was produced for television and broadcast on Channel 7.
From Laurie Gaffney on 25 April 2012 at 1.05 pm
One caveat Jeff – re your reference to Seymour’s “One Day Of The Year” – it was written in the 50’s. It didn’t emerge from the anti Vietnam war movement.
From Boris Kelly on 25 April 2012 at 4.25 pm
Excellent piece Jeff. As an aside, Veterans Affairs recently released a study it commissioned examining community attitudes to Anzac Day. The report received scant and mostly negative coverage in the MSM, probably because its findings, based on focus group surveys, revealed a fairly jaundiced view of the commemoration. In particular, it was seen as another national day on which drinking to excess was encouraged. Beer and nationalism go hand-in-hand. Footy is the perfect foil. I couldn’t find the report on the VA website.
From Hudsonen on 25 April 2012 at 5.46 pm
Thanks for the insightful and intelligent commentary. Now that I have lived in Europe for many years, the bizarreness of Australians’ glorification of the futile loss of life at Gallipoli is thrown into even starker contrast.
In Europe the realities of bloody war were a part of day to day life in the form of lost homes and livelihoods as well as dead friends and family members. Throughout much of Europe the memories are still very real and there is nothing to celebrate. The World Wars are remembered with horror and even chagrin by some nations, and people still live with the legacy of their shell-shocked grandparents and psychologically damaged fathers.
While we should remember, regret and respect the misery our troops went through, we should condemn the insanity of telling this as a glorious sacrifice. It was a senseless waste, and Gallipoli in particular was an epic military stuff up that killed people’s fathers and sons.
From Dennis Garvey on 25 April 2012 at 8.53 pm
Red Poppy / Red Carnation? Politically, April 25 means a lot more to the Portuguese than it does to most Australians, as seen in the contrast between the two celebrations.
From Jim Duffield on 25 April 2012 at 9.50 pm
Yes, any objectivity went out the window when we turned mother’s apron stings into a lasoo for any powerful imperialist. As a child conceived in a Nazi camp, and a Vietnam Vet, I see so little critique of the event that is the continuance of national politics as violent foreign policy.
I commend to any and all “Her Privates We” by Frederick Manning, but nothing from the Kremlin of orthodoxy seen as the Australian War Memorial, whose Council of Trustees are but Generals and tools of the system…
From FunkyJ on 26 April 2012 at 7.57 am
OK, so I accept your condemnations of the way modern Australia celebrates ANZAC Day.
But that’s all it is. Condemnation of the young for daring to change. An assault on the society those old men died helping to create because it’s not turned out the way you think it should have.
Instead of lambasting it, how about offering your solution to having your points included in the teaching and remembrance of ANZAC Day?
Of course, you’d argue you’re a critic, and critics aren’t supposed to offer solutions, but what that fallacy fails to recognise is this attitude is precisely why nobody gives a shit about what critics have to say in our modern interconnected world.
So stop simply pointing out problems, because any idiot can do that and they do every day, and instead offer solutions, because that’s the hard part of being intelligent.
From Rowan Cahill on 26 April 2012 at 12.52 pm
An excellent piece Jeff. The resurrection of the Australia martial spirit in recent times has to be seen in the context of our own armed forces’ reorganisation, massive and increased military spending, increased ‘security’ services spending, and the geo-poitics of our national jostling for imperialist status in the Asia-Pacific region. Goverment spending has, over the last couple of decades, specifically targeted schools and schoolkids with war-based teaching aids and martial propaganda to help create a youth sector imbued with the martial spirit. It always bugs me that people can sit around complaining about, and hating, governments for accepting global warming as fact, for trying to implement mining taxes, carbon emission legisation, gambling reforms etc, but when the same governments and the same politicians throw on a war, it’s bust a gut to get in there and ‘do the job’. When it comes to war, it is Governments that create wars, and they are responsible for the killing, maiming, destruction that follow. Part of the ‘magic’ of the Anzac myth and legend is the way it avoids asking who was to blame for the wars it commemorates, and insulates the war-makers from accountabilty. Sadly it also dooms future generations to give their bodies and souls unquestioningly to future martial adventures.
From James Ridley on 26 April 2012 at 8.24 pm
I have been to the dawn service at Anzac Cove and while also putting myself in their shoes etc – i did also ask – why did this happen? As a lover of history I went there informed, as many others do, and learnt a lot more from the Turkish perspective from going there. Have you actually been there, Jeff? Not everyone that goes to Anzac Cove are mindless backpackers looking at awe at the cliffs and sunrise as you have generalised. Give us some credit.
From Kathie on 27 April 2012 at 1.51 pm
Thanks for the piece, Jeff and the many contributors above. My take on Alan Seymour’s One Day of the Year is that it shows the cost of war in the absence of men; physical absences and emotional absences/silences that play out in their families and separate generations. A new element in Darwin this year was the addition of US soldiers to the Anzac Parade, in uniform and under their own banner (but not the flag). The soldiers were from the contingent on permanent rotation that is now based in the Top End and perhaps also the battleship docked in the harbour for R & R. It was in the media the day before, too soon for any kind of response. American sailors and pilots died in the defence of Darwin and the practice of commemorating them is established. But marching on city streets! And we’re still told there isn’t a US base here.
From Sam on 25 April 2014 at 7.05 pm
A very minor point (and an excellent article), but at the end you confuse deaths with casualties – deaths caused by the war were more like 16 million in total, not 35 million (the total dead + wounded). Doesn’t detract from the argument, of course, just worth correcting.
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Don't forget to vote for KJT, please. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/sports-personality/50494490
Thread by: Dickhead, Dec 15, 2019, 10 replies, in forum: Liverpool
[MEDIA] Er, not that I was away for kiddie fiddling like. :bandit: Did we win anything in the last nine months? :emoticon-0138-think
Thread by: Dickhead, Jul 8, 2019, 12 replies, in forum: Liverpool
Please God, don't let it be one of ours.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/19/premier-league-footballer-drugged-and-raped-french-model-7856625/
Thread by: Dickhead, Aug 19, 2018, 17 replies, in forum: Liverpool
Sean Cox appeal
Dunno if this has already been done on here, but can we pin this up until we get it over the line of the appeal target? Cheers....
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Jurgen has spoken
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jurgen-klopp-believes-britain-should-14566624 Debate over. :emoticon-0100-smile
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Off Topic Where's Wally...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5513119/Sisu-new-Scandi-outdoor-craze-worlds-happiest-nation.html :emoticon-0108-speec
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Horrific: all the worst injuries seem to be accidents. I was in the Kop years ago when McAteer just seemed to go under himself running along with...
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Scouse - how did my ma do it?
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If you can
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Mane appeal
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/11/liverpool-appeal-length-mane-ban-red-card Soz if this has been done.
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OT Only six left of the the twelve now.
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Author: Notes On Sounds
The Birds Of Late December is the sound of curling up on the couch, by the fire on a cold October night. Probably whilst watching a Wes Anderson film.
New Zealand’s reigning queen of Goth pop So Below returns with the delightfully dark ‘Far’ and with it she brings this stunning visual.
If ever a band name was the absolute antithesis of the music they create, it’s Bad Sounds. Far from displeasurable dins, this Bath based five-tet make a rather agreeable array of aural pleasure.
You might know Welsh electro-pop artist Violet Skies from her appearance on the BBC Introducing Stage at Glastonbury, or perhaps her mighty late-2013 single ‘How The Mighty.’ Across the past year she’s been working on new material and what she’s emerged with is something a bit more restrained and much like many of her female…
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LA has produced some great musicians who like to toy with the fabric of genres. Yes, Flying Lotus is one of them, mashing together jazz and hip hop into a blend that’s hard to resist. But very few artists from there tackle pure funk and you usually have to look elsewhere to get that fix….
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Image: Derrick Belcham Fans of atmospheric ambient music rejoice! Queen of all things epic Julianna Barwick is back with a new album, Will, which is out soon and it can’t come too soon after the release of her last LP Nepenthe. As most fans of Barwick will know, she spends much of her time touring…
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If you’ve ever heard of Charlie Cunningham before you’ll know that despite looking like an R&B star in the making, he’s actually a dab hand at the Spanish guitar. How? He spent time studying in Seville, which has made him a finger picking master, something he put to great use on his first two EPs….
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Some people complain a bit about the immense amount of genres in the world today. But variety is the spice of life, right? Besides, it means that bands like Enemy Planes can make up their own genre. And they have, kind of. They call their music “tripnotic” and, considering their track ‘Bare Your Teeth’ sounds…
Listen: SOFI TUKKER – ‘Hey Lion’
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College PhysicsProblems & Exercises
Unless otherwise stated, the lens-to-retina distance is 2.00 cm.
What is the power of the eye when viewing an object 50.0 cm away?
Calculate the power of the eye when viewing an object 3.00 m away.
(a) The print in many books averages 3.50 mm in height. How high is the image of the print on the retina when the book is held 30.0 cm from the eye?
(b) Compare the size of the print to the sizes of rods and cones in the fovea and discuss the possible details observable in the letters. (The eye-brain system can perform better because of interconnections and higher order image processing.)
Suppose a certain person’s visual acuity is such that he can see objects clearly that form an image 4.00 μm4.00 μm high on his retina. What is the maximum distance at which he can read the 75.0 cm high letters on the side of an airplane?
People who do very detailed work close up, such as jewellers, often can see objects clearly at much closer distance than the normal 25 cm.
(a) What is the power of the eyes of a woman who can see an object clearly at a distance of only 8.00 cm?
(b) What is the size of an image of a 1.00 mm object, such as lettering inside a ring, held at this distance?
(c) What would the size of the image be if the object were held at the normal 25.0 cm distance?
What is the far point of a person whose eyes have a relaxed power of 50.5 D?
What is the near point of a person whose eyes have an accommodated power of 53.5 D?
(a) A laser vision correction reshaping the cornea of a myopic patient reduces the power of his eye by 9.00 D, with a ±5.0%±5.0% size 12{ +- 5 "." 0%} {} uncertainty in the final correction. What is the range of diopters for spectacle lenses that this person might need after LASIK procedure? (b) Was the person nearsighted or farsighted before the procedure? How do you know?
In a LASIK vision correction, the power of a patient’s eye is increased by 3.00 D. Assuming this produces normal close vision, what was the patient’s near point before the procedure?
What was the previous far point of a patient who had laser vision correction that reduced the power of her eye by 7.00 D, producing normal distant vision for her?
A severely myopic patient has a far point of 5.00 cm. By how many diopters should the power of his eye be reduced in laser vision correction to obtain normal distant vision for him?
A student’s eyes, while reading the blackboard, have a power of 51.0 D. How far is the board from his eyes?
The power of a physician’s eyes is 53.0 D while examining a patient. How far from her eyes is the feature being examined?
A young woman with normal distant vision has a 10.0% ability to accommodate (that is, increase) the power of her eyes. What is the closest object she can see clearly?
The far point of a myopic administrator is 50.0 cm. (a) What is the relaxed power of his eyes? (b) If he has the normal 8.00% ability to accommodate, what is the closest object he can see clearly?
A very myopic man has a far point of 20.0 cm. What power contact lens (when on the eye) will correct his distant vision?
Repeat the previous problem for eyeglasses held 1.50 cm from the eyes.
A myopic person sees that her contact lens prescription is –4.00 D–4.00 D. What is her far point?
Repeat the previous problem for glasses that are 1.75 cm from the eyes.
The contact lens prescription for a mildly farsighted person is 0.750 D, and the person has a near point of 29.0 cm. What is the power of the tear layer between the cornea and the lens if the correction is ideal, taking the tear layer into account?
A nearsighted man cannot see objects clearly beyond 20 cm from his eyes. How close must he stand to a mirror in order to see what he is doing when he shaves?
A mother sees that her child’s contact lens prescription is 0.750 D. What is the child’s near point?
The contact lens prescription for a nearsighted person is –4.00 D–4.00 D and the person has a far point of 22.5 cm. What is the power of the tear layer between the cornea and the lens if the correction is ideal, taking the tear layer into account?
Unreasonable Results
A boy has a near point of 50 cm and a far point of 500 cm. Will a –4.00 D–4.00 D lens correct his far point to infinity?
A microscope with an overall magnification of 800 has an objective that magnifies by 200. (a) What is the magnification of the eyepiece? (b) If there are two other objectives that can be used, having magnifications of 100 and 400, what other total magnifications are possible?
(a) What magnification is produced by a 0.150 cm focal length microscope objective that is 0.155 cm from the object being viewed? (b) What is the overall magnification if an 8×8× eyepiece (one that produces a magnification of 8.00) is used?
(a) Where does an object need to be placed relative to a microscope for its 0.500 cm focal length objective to produce a magnification of –400–400? (b) Where should the 5.00 cm focal length eyepiece be placed to produce a further fourfold (4.00) magnification?
You switch from a 1.40NA60×1.40NA60× oil immersion objective to a 1.40NA60×1.40NA60× oil immersion objective. What are the acceptance angles for each? Compare and comment on the values. Which would you use first to locate the target area on your specimen?
An amoeba is 0.305 cm away from the 0.300 cm focal length objective lens of a microscope. (a) Where is the image formed by the objective lens? (b) What is this image’s magnification? (c) An eyepiece with a 2.00 cm focal length is placed 20.0 cm from the objective. Where is the final image? (d) What magnification is produced by the eyepiece? (e) What is the overall magnification? (See Figure 26.16.)
You are using a standard microscope with a 0.10NA4×0.10NA4× objective and switch to a 0.65NA40×0.65NA40× objective. What are the acceptance angles for each? Compare and comment on the values. Which would you use first to locate the target area on of your specimen? (See Figure 26.17.)
Your friends show you an image through a microscope. They tell you that the microscope has an objective with a 0.500 cm focal length and an eyepiece with a 5.00 cm focal length. The resulting overall magnification is 250,000. Are these viable values for a microscope?
What is the angular magnification of a telescope that has a 100 cm focal length objective and a 2.50 cm focal length eyepiece?
Find the distance between the objective and eyepiece lenses in the telescope in the above problem needed to produce a final image very far from the observer, where vision is most relaxed. Note that a telescope is normally used to view very distant objects.
A large reflecting telescope has an objective mirror with a 10.0 m10.0 m size 12{"10" "." 0`m} {} radius of curvature. What angular magnification does it produce when a 3.00 m3.00 m size 12{3 "." "00"`m} {} focal length eyepiece is used?
A small telescope has a concave mirror with a 2.00 m radius of curvature for its objective. Its eyepiece is a 4.00 cm focal length lens. (a) What is the telescope’s angular magnification? (b) What angle is subtended by a 25,000 km diameter sunspot? (c) What is the angle of its telescopic image?
A 7.5×7.5× size 12{7 "." 5 times } {} binocular produces an angular magnification of −7.50−7.50 size 12{ - 7 "." "50"} {}, acting like a telescope. (Mirrors are used to make the image upright.) If the binoculars have objective lenses with a 75.0 cm focal length, what is the focal length of the eyepiece lenses?
Construct Your Own Problem
Consider a telescope of the type used by Galileo, having a convex objective and a concave eyepiece as illustrated in Figure 26.23(a). Construct a problem in which you calculate the location and size of the image produced. Among the things to be considered are the focal lengths of the lenses and their relative placements as well as the size and location of the object. Verify that the angular magnification is greater than one. That is, the angle subtended at the eye by the image is greater than the angle subtended by the object.
Integrated Concepts
(a) During laser vision correction, a brief burst of 193 nm ultraviolet light is projected onto the cornea of the patient. It makes a spot 1.00 mm in diameter and deposits 0.500 mJ of energy. Calculate the depth of the layer ablated, assuming the corneal tissue has the same properties as water and is initially at 34.0ºC34.0ºC. The tissue’s temperature is increased to 100ºC100ºC and evaporated without further temperature increase.
(b) Does your answer imply that the shape of the cornea can be finely controlled?
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Episode 91 · March 5th, 2016 · 1 hr 14 mins
In a world where a single power controlled the language of justice itself, one man (well, several people and a bunch of students, but anyway) rose up to … produce a free guide to the standardized practices of legal citation. Copyright scholar Chris Sprigman joins us to talk about two of his projects: Baby Blue, the open guide to legal citation, and the Restatement of Copyright. Our conversation: about Baby Blue (0:01:33), what in the Bluebook might be copyrightable (0:10:07), trademark and the two manuals’ names and colors (0:23:44), simplification of citation (0:39:43), and the Restatement of Copyright (0:56:52).
Chris Sprigman’s faculty profile, twitter, and writing
Baby Blue: web page and PDF
Oral Argument 88: The Blue Line
The Bluebook
Links to correspondence between lawyers for The Bluebook and others and the Baby Blue team
Zotero and Papers
The University of Chicago’s Citation Management for Law Students; Georgetown’s Bluebook Citation Resources and Detailed Feature Comparison
Cory Doctorow, Five Years of Being Intimidated by the Harvard Bluebook’s Copyright Policies; FGBR, The Bluebook: A Plot Summary
The Baby Blue public request for comments
Subject matter of copyright: In general (s.102(b))
Lotus v. Borland
The University of Chicago Law Review, The Maroonbook
McNeil Nutritionals v. Heartland Sweeteners (3d Cir. 2007) and later proceedings
American Law Institute, Restatement of Copyright
About secondary liability for copyright infringement
Cartoon Network v. CSC Holdings and Cablevision Systems (whether 1.2 seconds of buffering on a hard drive is a “fixation”)
Christopher Sprigman
law schools copyright ip scholarship administrative law
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Key Takeaways: AWS Summit London 2018
30 May 2018 - OB Insights
This month, the OB Dev team made their way to London for the AWS Summit to dive deeper into the new AWS (Amazon Web Services) features and to learn about how it is accelerating innovation in businesses of all sizes.
AWS is Amazon’s secure cloud services platform which offers features from content delivery to database storage. The software is used by the UK Government, The BBC and other public sector organisations to help them improve innovation.
The event was composed of multiple interactive workshops on topics such as serverless architecture and AI/cognitive services. The keynote speaker of the summit was Amazon’s CTO and Vice President, Werner Vogels, who spoke about the democratisation of AI and how this is Amazon’s focus over the next year.
Machine Learning and AI
Hosted by Julian Simon, the first workshop we attended discovered some of Amazon’s cognitive and AI services.
Some of the features included AWS Rekognition video analysis (streamed via AWS Kinesis video stream pipeline). This feature is used to recognise objects or people and can track them between cut scenes, and can recognise faces from very little pixel data at high speeds.
Rekognition was used in Sky’s coverage of The Royal Wedding on May 19th, which allowed Sky to automatically subtitle celeb and nobility faces from the live coverage. Individuals names also appeared on Sky’s app for viewers to interact and find more details. This is the first use of the feature in a royal wedding broadcast, enhancing the delivery of the event for viewers.
Another feature and driver behind Amazon Alexa, is Polly. Polly creates lifelike text-to-speech conversion, providing the response to any conversational element of an app. AWS Polly also allows users to use SSML (speech synthesis markup language) which lets users modify the way that speech is returned.
For example, when using an abbreviation in normal discourse, this is provided as a markup. Polly is then given the marked up text and returns it in the form of voice.
AWS also provide a service for speech-to-text translation called AWS Transcribe, which is a complimentary service to Polly and is also used to drive Alexa. This is used if you provide an audio stream, it will respond with the corresponding text.
Finally, AWS Deeplens is a local hardware solution which enables the user to play with video learning. This feature is currently online available in the US but we’re watching this space for its deployment in the UK.
Deep Learning for Developers: Apache MXNet & Tensorflow
Again, hosted by Julian Simon, this workshop focused on the move away from the main AWS cognitive services and was aimed at using Amazon Sagemaker, which allows you to write your own deep learning algorithms in Python.
Simon explained how AWS provides an AMI to setup an EC2 with all of the prerequisite libraries and environments to start using the Jupyter Notebook web application. From this, users can gain access to dive into Machine Learning from an easy-to-use interface. Using Jupyter Notebook, he then explained how to use Training Accuracy and Validation Accuracy to train and apply dataset.
The second day was another day full of great insight and the event was packed to full capacity with eagle-eyed developers and Amazon fans.
Head of UK/EMEA at AWS, Gavin Jackson, kicked off the talks explaining how AWS Marketplace attempts to decrease the time required to negotiate a large service contract with a participating vendor, down to nearly zero. Amazon has almost created a plug-and-play contract negotiation function that can be performed between parties to try and replicate commonly used licensing constructs.
Next to take to the stage was Peter Vik from Jaguar Land Rover who outlined how they have implemented AWS to power their connected cards program- embedding Alexa in their cars to drive innovation. He also explained how implementing AWS has helped reduce costs and increase business agility.
Werner Vogels then presented some of the new AWS announcements and gave examples of how SMEs and blue chip organisations are using it. One great example was from Babylon Health who are using AWS in Africa in their medical design technology. The system is used to diagnose a user by aligning terabytes of data to model conditions and helps them tackle lack of medical professionals in rural areas.
Vogels emphasised how data tools can provide businesses the capability to stand out from the crowd - “it’s all about data- the data that you have as a company and the way you use it to engage with customers.”
The “Democritisation of AI” was a fantastic soundbite from Werner Vogels during the Keynote. Services like Polly, Transcribe and Rekognition allow regular developers (rather than Data Scientists and Machine Learning experts), and as a consequence - our clients - to easily integrate broad machine learning into products and projects with little more than calls to Amazon Services. The next year is going to be interesting to see what direction developers take this tech.
Serverless is an amazing leap forward, both in time to build, but also in how we’re able to quickly iterate on projects without the monolithic application sitting in front of us. Prototyping can be done so easily, even with server-side code and database constructs, that our time to Minimum Viable Product is decreasing all the time.
Overall a really interesting Summit, with some technologies that should enable us to do more, in less time, with less resource.
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Pausha is a painter and a multi-media artist who uses pens and brushes to express her unique perspective on the reality surrounding her.
With no formal art training to speak of, Pausha developed her style through a deeply personal process of exploration of various forms of visual expression. The depth of experience and intensity of focus is reflected in faces of her subjects.
With a conceptual approach, Pausha tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned.
Her works are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete relationships and situations, as well as depictions of ideas that can only be realized through painting.
Pausha currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
2019 - "Up Close" Juried Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, Ventura, CA
2018, 2016, 2015 - 100 Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 - Silo South, Silo118 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018, 2016 - Art About Agriculture, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA
2015 - Art in the Mayor’s Office, organized by the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 - Feast Your Eyes, An Art Fund Charity Fundraising Art Auction, Santa Barbara, CA
2010 - Student Exhibit, Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
2010 - Buddha Abides, Caruso Woods Frameworks Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
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A dire situation for Père Lachaise
The following article is a translation of Chaque jour, des œuvres sont volées au Père-Lachaise. Callebaut, Corinne. Le Figaro. Web. 13 June 2012. Translated from French.
Every day, artwork is stolen from Père Lachaise
The cemetery, one of the most visited sites in Paris, has only 12 guards. Not enough to combat looting by funerary art enthusiasts.
Two angels fly out of Père Lachaise. This could be the beginning of a beautiful story if it weren’t based on two bronze cherubs belonging to a grave in the heart of one of the most prestigious Parisians cemeteries. For the last couple of years, the necropolis faces theft of funerary artwork of all shapes and sizes. In 2007, six noteworthy busts disappeared within a couple of days. “There isn’t a day that goes by where we don’t see artwork disappear”, bemoans Régis Dufour Forrestier, president of the Association of Friends and Enthusiasts of Père Lachaise (APPL). “The most common are the medallions, marble plaques, stained glass, even flower stands, and then, all of a sudden, we notice an entire statue was removed!”
With 400 members, the APPL is one of the most invaluable allies of the cemetery curator, Martine Lecuyer. They inform her of significant disappearances, suspicious behavior and loosened bolts. “We have guards, mainly at the entrances and near famous graves, like Jim Morrison’s” explains Ms Lecuyer. “But it is physically impossible to cover the countless alleys in the cemetery. Furthermore, with the thousands of tourists that visit daily, the task is even more difficult. Some don’t hesitate to leave with ‘a small souvenir’ that they take from the graves.”
Thomas Couture, Division 4
2007 (Image credit: Steve Wheeler/fact244/Flickr)
Thomas Couture’s grave, Père Lachaise cemetery. (Paris Mojo, 2012)
Indeed, the largest nature reserve in Paris, and one the most visited sites in the capital for the famous people buried there, has only a maximum of 12 guards at its disposal. When in doubt, for vehicles in particular, the guards don’t have any other alternative but to call the police. For this reason, some thefts take place during the day. Like the life-size bronze statue of the dancer Serge Peretti that was literally ripped of its pedestal. “For this statue, it was easy to act rapidly because the family noticed it very soon”, continues Ms Lecuyer, “but most graves rarely have visitors, and some none at all, because the family has disappeared. We learn about disappearances too late. This makes administrative procedures difficult because legally, only the heirs can press charges.”
Serge Peretti’s grave 2012 © parismojo.fr
No inventory, no database
Moreover, when police investigate, then encounter another problem. “Without a database or photos of the artwork, our course of action is limited”, explains Bernard Bobrowska, police superintendent for the 20th arrondissement. “An inventory would give us the means to identify and find these objects on the market”.
And yet, it doesn’t exist.
In 2007, after a series of signifiant thefts, the Paris city government appointed a chief cultural heritage officer. “It should be my principle task”, agrees Guénola Groud, who holds this position. “But the cemetery has other urgent issues: saturation in terms of space, natural degradation, dilapidating graves. These are also priorities.”
It is also a sign of the times that keeps Père Lachaise alive.
[photo caption, top] Thomas Couture’s grave (above) is located on a main path in Père Lachaise. The two cherubs (below) disappeared last November.
[photo caption, right] Thomas Couture’s grave before the two cherubs were stolen.
The great chestnut trees of Europe are dying (AP via U.S. News and World Report)
J’irai voler sur vos tombes. Renout, Frank. Courrier International. 17 July 2012. In French.
Crisis leidt tot grafroof, Reportage Père Lachaise is een goudmijn voor dieven. Renout, Frank. De Standaard. 11 July 2012. In Dutch.
TwLucyOnTheMoon tweeted yesterday that “Serge Peretti finally has a new statue, but the epitaph has disappeared!”.
La tombe de Serge Peretti a enfin une nouvelle statue #PèreLachaise… mais l'épitaphe a disparu! pic.twitter.com/5tsYZIwewP
— LucyOnTheMoon (@TwLucyOnTheMoon) April 12, 2015
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How book publishing works, the 2016 version
November 29, 2016 charlesfoster
Cosy socks and log fires: the BBC article which kicked off the Hygge trend
Do any book shopping (either online or in a bricks and mortar shop) in the run up to Christmas and you are bound to come across a host of books with the Danish word ‘hygge’ in the title. The reason for this sudden explosion was explained last week in a fascinating Guardian Long Read piece by its culture editor, Charlotte Higgins.
As Higgins says, every first mention of the word requires helpful hints as to how to pronounce it (I found the most useful to be the Sun‘s suggestion that it rhymes with ‘cougar’). The phenomenon started little more than a year ago, and it was carefully planned:
Hygge has not arrived in our midst by accident. Its sudden presence in Britain is a matter of deliberate inducement and persuasion. In its most visible manifestation – the onslaught of books on the subject – it is a trend that has been carefully concocted in the laboratory of London publishing houses, and then disseminated through the ready collaboration of an enthusiastic neophile press.
It is book editors – largely young, female and bright – who created the formula of hygge for a mass British audience. The starting point for these young lifestyle alchemists was an article that appeared on the BBC website in the first autumnal days of October 2015.
Two of these editors actually worked for different imprints of the same global company, Penguin Random House:
In the sleek art deco headquarters of Penguin Random House, Emily Robertson and Fiona Crosby were working, separately, on potential titles for their respective imprints, Penguin Life and Michael Joseph. Each had also spotted the BBC article, they told me, when we met in a room off one of the building’s echoing marble hallways. “I spend an embarrassing amount of my time flicking around the internet,” said Robertson, “looking at what people are reading and sharing on Twitter. Pinterest is big for this. It’s a case of looking at what people are talking about.”
There have been many instances down the years of publishers picking up popular tastes and creating a market for books on the subject. (A similar plethora of books based on the success of the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady in 1977 springs to mind as an example from four decades ago.) But what makes this interesting is the commissioning process that Robertson reveals.
After the hours spent ‘flicking round’ websites, she and the other editors had to find writers: but this was ‘not a straightforward exercise’. Higgins writes: ‘the notion of hygge is so taken for granted in Danish language and culture that there was no readymade cohort of authors or experts to call on. The editors had to either track down a willing Dane, or identify someone with tangentially related knowledge.’ So authors ranging from professional writers, political scientists and (inevitably) actors who had appeared in BBC4 drama series were contracted.
The resulting books will now be piled up in your local bookshop ready for the Christmas rush. They will all have covers featuring either warm socks, log fires or home baked buns — or perhaps all three. Most will sell quite well, and one or two may be outright best sellers, because that is the way in which modern publishing works, especially in a post-Brexit, pre-Trump world which is increasingly un-hyggelig.
At the end of her piece, Higgins notes that, however, hygge can have a dark side:
But it is precisely this sense that it is beyond politics – as well as its ubiquitous, irreducible Danishness (and thus not-foreignness) – that allows it to be mobilised by politicians, particularly those of the xenophobic far right, who have become a rising force in Danish politics over the past decade.
A case in point is Pia Kjærsgaard, the founder of the anti-immigration, anti-Brussels Danish People’s Party, which is currently the second-largest party in parliament. Kjærsgaard has subtly projected herself as the protector of Danish hygge against the unknown forces of the globalised world. According to Nors: “Hygge is part of the whole set-up of the radical right wing in Denmark. Their commercials will have all the emblematic hygge symbols.”
Kjærsgaard, who is now the speaker in Denmark’s parliament, gave an interview last year in which she described, in detail, the importance of making her office hyggelig – with family photos, lamps, porcelain and knick-knacks. “I cannot thrive and work in offices that aren’t hyggelig,” she said.
We should reflect on that, perhaps, as with our credit cards in hand, we shuffle towards the harassed shop assistant. In the immortal words of the New Seekers: ‘Let them all fade away and leave us alone/we can live in a world of our own.’
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Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama
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In which John finds himself talking with former First Lady Michelle Obama about marriage and memoir. You can find more discussion with Michelle Obama over at BookTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tBFW8nw8_o
J: Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday. Greetings from Austin, Texas, where I am surrounded by some very nice camera equipment and about to talk to Michelle Obama. You know what, I'm kind of uncomfortable here, let's just go to my basement for a second.
J (In his basement): Oh look, I'm back in my happy place! So I'm often asked about marriage advice and writing advice, two topics I am very reluctant to talk about, because I don't feel qualified. But I loved the way Michelle Obama wrote about marriage in her book, Becoming, and I also loved her approach to memoir in general. So I thought I would ask her to share some marriage and writing advice with me. Alright, back to Austin.
J: Hi.
Michelle: Hey.
J: It's very nice to see you. I thought the way you wrote about marriage in this book was absolutely astonishing, and brilliant, and it really resonated very deeply with me, uh, because when my book The Fault in Our Stars was published, my life became very different very suddenly. Not on a like- becoming president level-
M: [Laughs]
J: -but different. And so I wondered if you could talk about the challenge of that, and how you found a way to live with it.
M: Barack and I talk about how valuable it was that we were older in it. I chose to share so much about our marriage is because I think about young couples, and how little we know when we get married about what marriage is-
J: Yeah
-I mean, nobody is giving us a guidebook about how to do this thing called building a life with a whole other person. Marriage is inherently unequal, not just gender-wise, it just there's no way that you ever have 50-50. And we talk about it in those terms, like "you do half and I'll do half", life isn't that clean.
People think about me and Barack as "#relationshipgoals", and usually when you have couples like that all you see is the good stuff. You see the fist jabs, and the loving touches, and the, the moments that, you know, make people think, "oh, aren't they great". But to me I felt like, if I'm not telling you how hard it was, I'm not being honest with you about what you need to do to build this thing that we have.
J: Right. Right. And one of the things I really loved about Becoming was the resonant details, especially from your childhood, that reflected larger parts of your story. In second grade, you know, needing an advocate because you were in a class with a bad teacher who was in way over her head. I wanna know how you pick those resonant details, is there a secret?
M: Some of it is 'what do you remember?', and for me there's a reason why I remembered that second grade, why it stuck with me. Why at this age do I still remember that I didn't get a star-
J: [Laughs]
M: -the first time, because I didn't know the word white. It seems like a mundane story, but this is very telling, its, it's a truth about me that has been consistent since I was four or five years old.
J: Mhmm
M: Why did I carry those stories with me all the way to and through the white house. I don't worry about the stuff I don't remember, I try and find the value in what does stand out. We all remember maybe 10 good stories from our childhood and they all have meaning, we just have to value them enough to take time to nurture them and sit with them and understand- why did they stick with us?
J: Yeah. That's super helpful and thank you so much, and it's such a pleasure to meet you, and thank you again for your extraordinary book.
M: Thankyou, thanks so much
J: Great? Good?
M: We did it!
J: So we just finished our chat with Mrs Obama, and wow that was super cool, she was lovely of course, and very generous with her time, and very good at making anxious people feel comfortable which was appreciated.
J (In his basement): Because as you can probably tell I was extremely anxious. Hello, me from the future here.
I've read a lot of political memoirs and I really did think that Becoming was extraordinary because it managed to tell a very big story at a very human scale.
Hank, I'm off to think about the way my childhood memories may resonate with my adult self, I will see you on Friday.
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“[Thutmose III]…was prince upon the throne of his father’s… the royal wife, Hatshepsut, discharged the office of regent of the land.”
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That is how McGill guide to uniform legal citation looks like. Students who study law in Canadian higher educational institutions may face the need to read guide McGill minimum once. A better alternative is to study this mini-guide in the shape of the informative article.
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The initial question to discuss is what McGill guide is. It is a special guide on academic writing format created to generate Canadian legal citation along with the corresponding reference. The guide was established by the Faculty of Law in the corresponding Canadian university. The Canadian guide allows pursuing research goals in the legal field. The format provides the students with standardized, accepted approaches to expressing their thoughts to the target audience.
The 8th edition of the Canadian McGill Guide to uniform legal citation is the final released version. Every student knows what a citation is at the university level. The initial time a student meets citation is a high school when the English Composition 101/Literature teacher assigns an essay. In college, a citation becomes something more complicated as the research paper is introduced to the student. A citation is supported by the corresponding reference, explaining the source’s details.
A citation is a way a writer informs the readers about the “borrowed material.” The words of the field experts help to prove the writer’s arguments, make the reader visualize the picture, and share forecasts for the future. There is no way to prove a statement in the argumentative/persuasive paper without involving a quotation. A legal paper is either an argumentative or a persuasive essay. The citation reveals:
Author’s details
Project’s title
Company’s location
Date a copy was published
It is all about the borrowed materials. The information about the student comes at the beginning of the work. What are the goals of the guide?
If you are a student studying liberal arts or law, it is necessary to start learning the art of creating a Canadian McGill Guide to uniform legal citation ASAP. What about creative aspect? At some point, a creative writing using this style is a phenomenon, which can be present in the world of the legal careers.
Legal citations are made of a couple of goals:
Communication of the significant information regarding the case;
Opportunity for the reader to find a solution.
An accurate legal citation Canada can prove the claim of the author. It should be based on the guide. Take a look at the prompt/grading rubric when referring to non-legal sources that may demand extra quotation formats like APA/CMS (Chicago Manual of Style).
Most of the academic essays in the field of Canadian law require the application of numbered endnotes & footnotes to cite the sources collected during the research. Endnotes appear at the end of work. Footnotes go to the bottom of every page.
Each time a writer refers to a source initially, it is important to provide a whole citation with the limited information on the source like said in the Canadian guide. Use supra or ibid.
Make a difference between these two while creating a legal citation:
Supra – Use it to cite the source that possesses a full citation (preceding citation).
Ibid – Use it to cite the same source.
The Canadian McGill Guide to uniform legal citation mentions that students can come up with a brief form of the source. If the student cites a certain work more than a single time, and the source is lengthy, this rule may save plenty of time. Put the brief form using brackets after the initial citation. Add the author's last name for subsequent citations from articles/books.
Keep away from the repetition working with this guide to legal citation (example: if the case’s title appears in the body text of the paper, stay away from repeating it in the citations).
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It is time to observe some examples of the legal citation Canada. The template looks this way:
Author Forename Author Surname, Title, ed (City: Publisher, Year Published).
In-text citation stands for the quotation/reference to the source in a writer’s work. A corresponding reference with the full source’s information should appear at the end of the paper under the title References Page/Bibliography.
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Legal cases – Case’s Title, (Decision Date), Neutral Quote, [Author’s Year]
Provincial bill – Number, Name, Session, Legislature, Jurisdiction
Federal bill – Number, Bill’s Name, Session, Legislature, Extra Info
Statute – Name of Statute, Volume Jurisdiction, Year, (session/supplement)
Journal article – Writer, “Article’s Name” (Year) Volume: Issue
Newspaper – Author, “Name of Work,” Newspaper (Date)
Non-parliamentary paper – Jurisdiction, Issuing Body, Name, Volume
Book – Author, Work’s Heading (Publication’s place: publisher’s name, date).
Debate – Jurisdiction, Legislature, Title, Session, Volume (Date) at Pinpoint (Speaker’s Name)
It is critical to know the source’s type to arrange referencing entries in the end based on these types: secondary sources, government documents, jurisprudence, legislation, or international docs. Decide which sources to use.
Another thing to add is the role of Canadian McGill guide in professional resume writing. Experts recommend preparing a scholarship essay, CV, resume, and cover letter in this format if you would like to apply for the legal educational institution/job position.
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Adidas Launches the Intelligent Running Shoe
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Adidas has unveiled the most advanced shoe ever. Called "1", the shoe provides “intelligent cushioning” by automatically and continuously adjusting itself. It does so by sensing the cushioning level, using a sensor and a magnet. It then understands whether the cushioning level is too soft or too firm via a small computer and adapts with a motor-driven cable system to provide the correct cushioning throughout the run.
A prime example of the convergence process in which computers are embedded in everyday objects to enable them to play their role more effectively, the adidas shoe is one of a number of intelligent clothing items due for market in 2004 – others include the Solar Powered jacket from SCOTTeVEST, O’Neill’s MP3 snowboarding jacket, and Philips work developing clothing which monitors the health of its wearer.
Adidas can genuinely claim a landmark first with "1" – it will be the first of many innovations in footwear thanks to embedded processors.
"This product will change the entire sporting goods industry. It is a true first and establishes adidas as a clear leader in the field of innovation," said Erich Stamminger, Executive Board Member responsible for Global Marketing and North America. "This is the product that illustrates to us, also when developing products, 'Impossible is Nothing'."
Three years in highly confidential in-house development, the shoe was a secret project, known by only a few people even within adidas-Salomon. It was completely developed by the adidas Innovation team in Portland and Herzogenaurach. An exclusive distribution of shoes will be in select retailers and adidas Sport Performance stores in December 2004. It will retail at around US$250 or 250 Euros.
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Eco Cycle tower stores and retrieves your bike automatically
Eco Cycle tower stores and ret...
Eco Cycle towers are said to take up just six percent of the space required to accommodate the same number of bikes within 2-tier racking
Eco Cycle
The Eco Cycle tower can be installed either above or below ground
Each Eco Cycle machine features a pod section into which bikes are taken before being loaded into a slot within the storage tower
There are two Eco Cycle models, with one providing storage for up to 204 bikes and a smaller version that can store up to 58 bikes
Once a user has swiped their Eco Cycle Card to retrieve their bike, it is returned to them at ground level in less than 13 seconds
A 58-cycle demonstrator model has been installed in the London Borough of Southwark
London is making strides to improve its cycling infrastructure, but still has a lack of safe storage. Eco Cycle is seeking to remedy this. Its automatic machines whisk users bikes into a circular, vertical rack that is secure and dry. Bikes are returned to their owners with the swipe of a card.
The technology for Eco Cycle has been used in Japan since 2002. Having secured the license for deploying the technology in the UK, MD of Eco Cycle Nick Knight tells Gizmag this is the first time it has been installed elsewhere. There are two Eco Cycle models, with one providing storage for up to 204 bikes and a smaller version that can store up to 58 bikes. Both models resemble small towers and can be installed either above or below ground.
To use the larger model, individuals need only wheel their bike up to the door. The machine will recognize a tag on the fork of the bike and will open a small section of the door for the front wheel of the bike to be slotted into. Once the bike is secured, the user is asked to step away and the bike is automatically transported into the tower. Once inside, a cradle lowers or raises the bike to a space in the racks. The smaller model follows a similar process.
To retrieve a bike, the user needs only to approach the machine and swipe their Eco Cycle Card. Their bike is then automatically retrieved from its location within the tower and returned to the user at ground level. The retrieval process is said to take no longer than 13 seconds.
Such is the self-contained design of the Eco Cycle machines that users do not need to use chains or locks. In addition to their security, though, the machines have a number of other benefits.
To begin, they minimize the footprint of bike storage and reduce on-street clutter. Their tower-like design means the units take up just six percent of the space required to accommodate the same number of bikes within 2-tier racking. An accompanying app, meanwhile, lets users find the Eco Cycle machine nearest their destination and check the number of spaces available.
Eco Cycle points out that the Mayor's Vision for Cycling in London is seeking to deliver a network of direct, high-capacity, joined-up cycle tracks. This includes a 15-mi (24-km) route running from east to west across the city, which is dubbed "Crossrail for the bike" in reference to the city's new rail link that will also link east and west.
The vision also seeks to make streets safer for cycling, to double the number of people cycling by 2020 and to make the city a more pleasant place to be, as one dominated by people and not motor traffic. Nick Knight argues that it supports this vision.
"Japan is globally renowned for its technically advanced engineering and ingenious use of space, which are perfectly embodied in the Eco Cycle concept," says Knight. "It was clear to me that this would be an elegant solution to the cycling revolution that London – and the UK as a whole – is experiencing, providing the secure cycle storage that's currently the missing link in the Mayoral Cycling Vision."
A 58-cycle demonstrator model has been installed in the London Borough of Southwark, close to Southwark Underground Station. Knight says this will be used to show the benefits of the technology to potential buyers, which he expects to include the likes of local authorities, universities and private developers.
The video below shows one of the Eco Cycle machines in action.
Source: Eco Cycle
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bergamot69 November 20, 2015 02:42 PM
Excellent concept. However, it probably won't solve the problem of a small number of ignorant cyclists who just lay their bikes down on the pavement in everyone's way. I'm a security guard at a city-centre convenience store, and having piles of bikes around the door is the bane of my life- asking their riders to move them to the bike racks 10 feet from the door usually results in a mouthful of abuse and my having to eject them from the store. This device would also help prevent the idiots who spend £1200 on a bike then turn up at our store demanding that I personally guard it because they don't have a lock... needless to say, I refuse to oblige them. I suspect however that this bike storage system won't be free though, if installed, so won't be taken up by casual cyclists.
duanekemp June 27, 2019 11:44 PM
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ShiftWear sneakers kick futuristic footwear up a notch with animated E Ink displays
ShiftWear sneakers kick futuri...
ShiftWear sneakers are designed with flexible E ink displays that can change images and designs via mobile app
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This rendering of a ShiftWear high top sneaker shows how a static, color graphic image could look
Fashion trends come and go, but a new shoe concept is intended to keep you up to date with the latest style, or let you coordinate your footwear with any outfit, without requiring an Imelda Marcos-sized shoe collection. The ShiftWear sneakers are designed with flexible E Ink color displays that can be customized with images or animations directly from a smartphone or tablet.
Many probably think of Marty McFly's self-lacing Mag high-top sneakers from Back to the Future II when they think of futuristic footwear, but recent developments in flexible electronics may just change all of that. While the ShiftWear sneakers may inconvenience you with lace-tying, their integrated, flexible panels are meant to offer an open canvas so that your feet can match attire, mood or season. To Just power the sneakers on and select a design from the app.
Each pair of ShiftWear sneakers features always-on E Ink displays, similar to those found in e-readers. The built-in batteries are designed to last up to 30 days, depending on the type of visuals set. Static images will consume little-to-no power, while animated graphics would be expected to drain batteries much faster, especially with increased complexity or frequency. But the team creating these kicks plans to incorporate wireless charging capabilities, as well as "Walk-N-Charge" technology that lets the shoes charge up with every step.
While there is no mention of the communication method (yet), the ShiftWear sneakers are designed to pair with a mobile device running the companion app (iOS, Android, Windows), which will let users browse, download, and program designs for the shoes. Art can be created for personal use or offered up to the marketplace for others to purchase. It's also worth noting that the displays aren't front-lit, so images and animations will have limited visibility in low-light conditions.
For those concerned about wear and tear, the ShiftWear sneakers will be waterproof and machine washable. Although there are no plans for the soles to be replaceable, they will be coated with Kevlar fiber in order to last longer.
The ShiftWear sneakers make for a highly ambitious project, but it isn't completely beyond the realms of possibility. We've seen similar concepts with the Tago Arc bracelet, Polyera Wove Band touchscreen wristband, and even E Ink-equipped heels of Volvorii's Timeless smart shoes, which are currently available for preorder despite the crowdfunding campaign falling short of its goal.
ShiftWear sneakers are currently funding on Indiegogo, having raised 389 percent of its US$25,000 goal in 10 days, with another 20 days left to go. The shoes will be available in low, medium, or high top styles in a choice of color, with minimum pledges starting at $150 (excluding shipping).
The funds being raised for ShiftWear are to finish off the prototype before a planned move into mass production. The minimum pledge for a pair of shoes is US$150, but in order to create the full-featured shoes, some pretty hefty stretch goals must be met first. And then, of course, all of the technology has to integrate and manufacture as intended. So if everything goes according to plan, backers may expect shipments of ShiftWear sneakers to start sometime around mid 2016.
The team paints an ambitious picture of the ShiftWear shoes in the video below.
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Alexander Lowe December 3, 2015 10:55 AM
Like the fabric used for Rorschach's mask in 'Watchmen'!
Bob Flint December 3, 2015 03:18 PM
$150 bucks for these shoes is a steal, and the whole thing is a little shifty $25k....Took Nike years and almost 10 million.
christopher December 3, 2015 11:22 PM
Screams "scam" to me. More than half my indigogo pledges took money but delivered nothing... seems like this is the platform of choice for shady dreamers looking to cash in on cool ideas... without actually having to do the idea...
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David Purdy
Citizenship, Basic Income and the State
Proposals for root-and-branch reform of the welfare state are not the prerogative of the radical Right. In recent years, the Left too has been rethinking its approach to social policy. One idea, in particular, has seized the imagination of radical libertarians, liberal socialists, socially minded liberals and communitarian critics of liberal individualism. Under a system of taxes and transfers which has come to be known as Citizens’ Income (ci), the state would issue recurrent cash grants to all its citizens, each in his or her own right, without imposing any means test or work requirement. The debate prompted by this proposal has been stimulating and searching, and in the belief that the issues raised deserve a wider audience, this essay surveys the state of the art.
To set the scene, I comment first on the current crisis of the welfare state and summarize two rival designs for a new social settlement: the neo-liberal vision of individual self-reliance in a residual welfare state; and the idea of reorganizing the work–income nexus around Citizens’ Income.
In any new field of enquiry it takes time to agree on terminology, and many people use the terms ‘Citizens’ Income’, ‘Basic Income’, ‘Universal Grant’ and ‘Social Dividend’ as if they were synonyms. In the interests of clarity, I shall use different words to mean different things. The semantics of social transfers are discussed in section 2, where I distinguish the main general types of social transfer system and clarify the meaning of citizenship. In section 3, I further distinguish between the general principle of unconditional transfer payments and the narrower concept of a Basic Income (bi) linked to some conception of subsistence.
ci is a field of debate, rather than a settled programme. An analogy might be the distinction between the concept of proportional representation as an abstract ideal and the various alternative voting systems which attempt to put it into effect. In section 4, I comment on two open, but vital issues: the appropriate balance between public goods and marketed commodities in meeting any given standard of subsistence; and the finance and management of a ci system. Throughout sections 3 and 4, three questions recur: Is Basic Income morally justifiable? Would it be economically viable? And would it be politically feasible? In section 5, I argue that in practice these three questions are interrelated, and that the transition to a ‘Basic Income Democracy’ is unlikely to succeed, or even begin, without the support of a broad social and political alliance.
No one should underestimate the problems of alliance-building in an age when the labour movement has ceased to be the ‘natural’ motor of social progress. Nevertheless, there are at least two moderately favourable precedents for a project which would end ‘wage-slavery’ without ending capitalism: the development of social insurance schemes; and the rise of Keynesian social democracy. Having examined these precedents, I suggest that the rudiments of an alliance for social citizenship already exist in the advanced capitalist democracies. But if this embryonic consensus is to flourish, supporters of Basic Income must engage with mainstream politics and bring their long-range vision to bear on the pressing problems of the present.
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Delta launches A330-900neo service, bringing premium products and service to more customers in Seattle and beyond
Jul 10, 2019 5:52pm
Delta's newest widebody aircraft – the Airbus A330-900neo – will begin operations today, with flight DL589 flying from Seattle to Shanghai. As the first North American airline to operate this aircraft type, Delta will use its A330-900neo aircraft for flights connecting Seattle with Seoul beginning Oct. 1 and Tokyo-Narita beginning Oct. 27.
The aircraft launch nearly doubles the premium seat offerings from Seattle to top Asian markets and is the latest in a series of investments Delta has made as it marks the five-year anniversary of its Sea-Tac hub.
"We're transforming the airline customer experience on a global scale and this new aircraft is the latest example of our commitment to our international customers," said Steve Sear, Delta's President — International and E.V.P. — Global Sales. "This state-of-the-art aircraft will provide the latest amenities, entertainment and technology to our customers as they journey to destinations worldwide on Delta's expanding global network."
Delta will add a total of 35 A330-900neos to its fleet, featuring the latest-generation Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines that produce a 25 percent lower fuel burn than previous generation aircraft. Delta expects to take delivery of 80 new aircraft in 2019, driving a two percent improvement in fuel efficiency. The airline will continue to improve fuel efficiency with orders that replace about 35 percent of its mainline fleet by 2023 with new, more fuel-efficient aircraft.
This is Delta's first new widebody delivery to feature all four Delta seat experiences, including:
Delta One Suite (29): The award-winning Delta One Suites offer a private, personal experience, with a full-height door at every suite for enhanced privacy and comfort. Each suite features a fully flat-bed seat with direct aisle access, as well as more stowage for personal items, larger in-flight entertainment screens and memory foam enhanced comfort cushions. Using customer feedback, the Delta One suites on the A330-900neo have been redesigned to allow for a larger workspace and more stowage.
Delta Premium Select (28): Designed with comfort in mind, Delta Premium Select offers more personal space with up to 38 inches of pitch, seat width of 18.5 inches, up to seven inches of recline, adjustable leg and head rests and water bottle stowage. Customers will arrive well-rested thanks to additional space, dedicated service and amenity kits with all the all the travel essentials needed to settle in.
Delta Comfort+ (56): An enhanced seating option that features 34 inches of pitch, up to five inches of recline, dedicated overhead bin space and placement just in front of the Main Cabin.
Main Cabin (168): Featuring up to 33 inches of pitch and up to four inches of recline, seating also includes thoughtful attributes like foam memory cushions, complimentary seatback screen entertainment, in addition to world-class service from Delta flight attendants and Delta's unmatched operational reliability.
The aircraft is the first Delta widebody to feature the new wireless IFE system developed by Delta Flight Products, the airline's wholly owned cabin interior start-up. It is equipped with high-speed 2Ku internet connectivity and customers will have access to free mobile messaging while on board through iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
The A330-900neo also features numerous customer-pleasing enhancements available at every seat in every cabin, including memory foam cushions, in-seat power ports, full-spectrum LED ambient lighting, spacious and easy-to-access overhead bins, and thousands of hours of complimentary entertainment via seatback screens throughout the aircraft.
Customers throughout the aircraft will also enjoy outstanding dining options, including a new first-of-its-kind bistro-style main cabin experience launching this November.
In Seattle, Delta has grown by five percent this summer, primarily through the use of larger aircraft on existing routes, and will expand its Seattle service to popular leisure destinations in winter 2019. In April, Delta launched service from Seattle to Osaka, its fifth destination in Asia, and recently received tentative approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation to add service from Seattle to Tokyo's Haneda Airport, with service expected to begin in summer 2020 pending a final decision by the DOT. Delta's popular A220 aircraft was deployed on the Seattle-San Jose route in June and will expand to other destinations this fall.
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A director who quit Deutsche Bank became a managing director at HSBC
by Sarah Butcher 11 September 2019
If you're stuck at director-level in your current bank and are thinking of moving on to escape the impasse then Nicolas Naillon is the role model for you.
Last November we named Naillon as one of the few remaining members of Deutsche Bank's London healthcare investment banking team. As of this month, that same Naillon has resurfaced at HSBC, not as a director but as a managing director, also in the healthcare team.
It's an impressive feat and Naillon seems to have knocked a few years off the average 17 or so that it seems to take to become a managing director in banking. His first job after graduating from HEC Paris was with Credit Suisse. He moved to Deutsche Bank in 2009.
In the circumstances, it seems that Deutsche Bank might have missed a trick in not promoting Naillon quickly itself. Last year, there were suggestions that DB's own healthcare team was bereft of London MDs after the previous exit of head of healthcare Darren Campili to Barclays and various other defections. However, Deutsche subsequently hired Navtej Bhullar from Lazard as global head of healthcare, based in New York, and maybe Naillon wanted a change of scene.
HSBC, meanwhile, has been cutting bankers this year as it tries to save costs, but clearly thought Naillon was talented enough to hire and promote simultaneously.
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ALMA captures explosive star birth
by National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Composite image of the OMC-1 cloud in Orion showing the sometimes explosive nature of star birth, when several young stars were ejected from the region about 500 years ago. The colors in the ALMA data represent the relative Doppler shifting of the millimeter-wavelength light emitted by carbon monoxide gas. The ALMA image is combined with a near infrared image from the Gemini South telescope showing shock waves produced by the explosion. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Gemini Observatory/AURA
Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images.
Around 500 years ago, a pair of adolescent protostars had a perilously close encounter that blasted their stellar nursery apart.
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have examined the widely scattered debris from this explosive event, gaining new insights into the sometimes-fierce relationship among sibling stars.
Shortly after starting to form some 100,000 years ago, several protostars in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), a dense and active star factory about 1,500 light-years from Earth just behind the Orion Nebula, latched onto each other gravitationally and gradually drew closer.
Eventually, two of these stars either grazed each other or collided, triggering a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of giant streamers of dust and gas into interstellar space at speeds greater than 150 kilometers per second. This cataclysmic interaction released as much energy as our Sun emits over the course of 10 million years.
Today, the remains of this spectacular explosion are visible from Earth.
"What we see in this once calm stellar nursery is a cosmic version of a 4th of July fireworks display, with giant streamers rocketing off in all directions," said John Bally with the University of Colorado and lead author on a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal.
ALMA image of the OMC-1 cloud in Orion showing the explosive nature of star birth, when several young stars were ejected from the region about 500 years ago. The colors in the ALMA data represent the relative Doppler shifting of the millimeter-wavelength light emitted by carbon monoxide gas. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally; B. Saxton, (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Groups of stars such as those in OMC-1 are born when a cloud of gas hundreds of times more massive than our Sun begins to collapse under its own gravity. In the densest regions, protostars form and begin to drift about randomly. Over time, this random motion can dampen, which allows some of the stars to fall toward a common center of gravity, usually dominated by a particularly large protostar.
If these stars draw too close to each other before they drift away into the galaxy, violent interactions can occur.
According to the researchers, such explosions are expected to be relatively short lived, with the remnants like those seen by ALMA lasting only centuries.
"Though fleeting, protostellar explosions may be relatively common," said Bally. "By destroying their parent cloud, as we see in OMC-1, such explosions may also help to regulate the pace of star formation in these giant molecular clouds."
Bally and his team observed this feature previously with the Gemini-South telescope in Chile. These earlier images, taken in the near infrared, reveal the remarkable structure of the streamers, which extend nearly a light-year from end to end.
Hints of the explosive nature of this outflow were first uncovered in 2009 with the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii. The new ALMA data, however, provide much greater clarity, unveiling important details about the distribution and high-velocity motion of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas inside the streamers. This helps astronomers understand the underlying force of the blast and the impact such events could have on star formation across the galaxy.
"People most often associate stellar explosions with ancient stars, like a nova eruption on the surface of a decaying star or the even more spectacular supernova death of an extremely massive star," Bally says. "ALMA has given us new insights into explosions on the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth."
Protostar blazes bright, reshaping its stellar nursery
More information: Research paper: www.eso.org/public/archives/re … eso1711/eso1711a.pdf (Bally et al., in the Astrophysical Journal).
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Europe aviationcorp Airbus has planned to shift from Microsoft Office and replace it with Google’s G Suite.
The plane manufacturer’s 130,000 staff will soon shift to Google’s online collaboration tools in a project that will take around 18 months to complete, but which could include leaving Microsoft Office altogether.
Instead of removing Microsoft Office immediately, Airbus will trial Google’s software first. The firm’s chief information Officer, Luc Hennekens, revealed the scoop on LinkedIn last week.
He stated that, as a result of growth, the company needs access to software that allows for “rapid innovation, speed and agility in execution”. His hunch is that Google’s cloud-based tools are the answer.
From his LinkedIn, he said: “Large industrials anywhere in the world these days are working hard to become more agile and customer-centric and use digital technology to help achieve that. Airbus recognised the transformative power of digital years ago and has been achieving real business results by investing in digitalisation.”
Like many businesses, Airbus has used MS Office for years. However in recent times, Google’s G Suite has emerged as a viable rival – as well as, perhaps, a convenient means of forcing Microsoft to cut better licensing deals.
Hennekens branded Google’s enterprise software as “the best digital tools” available for project teams. His view is that the company is looking to shift away from “traditional organisation structures and ways of working”.
This announcement from Airbus is huge news for Google because it has been working hard to get companies to adopt G Suite, which allegedly generates $1 billion every quarter for the firm.
“Our move to G-Suite will drive real transformational change from the grassroots up, enabling connections between employees like never before. It will give our people the tools to work in a way which is more natural, more collaborative and much more enjoyable.”
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Art and Poetry Treasure Hunts: Write Your Own Ekphrastic Poems
Posted by Mimi Herman in Ekphrasis, Genres, Mimi Herman, Open Mic, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing Advice
Happy National Poetry Month! Here’s wishing you a month of inspiration and a year of writing, reading and listening to poetry.
For a chance to write your own poems and read them at an open mic event, join us on one of the Friday Night Art Walks for an Art & Poetry Treasure Hunt this April or May. We’ll eavesdrop on what other people are saying in galleries, write love letters from one piece of art to another and take journeys inside of paintings and photographs to discover what it’s like to live inside a piece of art.
Art & Poetry Treasure Hunts
Friday, April 14, 2017 — The ArtsCenter, 300 G East Main Street, Carrboro, NC 27510
Friday, May 5, 2017 — United Arts Council, 410 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 170
Friday, May 26 — Margaret Lane Gallery, 121 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC 27278
6:00 to 7:30 pm — Art & Poetry Treasure Hunt
Drop by the galleries above during this time to pick up your treasure map, notepad and pen, and the secret directions to create your poems.
8:00 to 9:00 pm — Open Mic Reading
Return to the gallery to read some of the poems you’ve created in your gallery wanderings.
Ekphrasis. It sounds like something that calls for a heavy dose of antibiotics, doesn’t it? Actually, it’s just a fancy Greek word for poetry about art, though it may well become contagious this April and May on the Friday night art walks in Chapel Hill/Carrboro, Raleigh and Hillsborough.
As you might imagine, poets have been writing about art for a good long time. It started with Homer painting a word picture of Achilles’ shield in the Iliad. Later, Plato went on to describe the “bedness” of a bed in The Republic, and Socrates had a chat with Phaedrus about writing and painting:
“You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting.
The painter’s products stand before us as though they were alive,
but if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence.
It is the same with written words; they seem to talk
to you as if they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything
about what they say, from a desire to be instructed,
they go on telling you just the same thing forever.
Plato, Phaedrus 275d
Long before the Internet, before we could even create reproductions of art in books and on posters, ekphrastic poems offered art lovers a virtual museum, where they could “see” art from the comfort of their own armchairs. In the Italian Renaissance, Ekphrasis became popular again, and in 1819, John Keats wrote one of the most famous ekphrastic poems in history, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” which you can find here, at The Poetry Foundation website.
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In more recent times, W. H. Auden described Bruegel’s painting, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus in this ekphrastic poem:
Musee des Beaux Art
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
http://english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/auden.html
In 1960, William Carlos Williams had his own take on the same painting:
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings’ wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning
from http://english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/williams.html
You can discover links to more ekphrastic poems here and here.
I hope you’ll join us for one or all of the Art and Poetry Treasure Hunts, where you’ll be inspired by local art to write your own ekphrastic poems. Whether you’ve been writing poems all your life, or your poetry career came to an abrupt halt at “Roses are red,” we’d love to have you. Bring your family. All ages are welcome.
3 thoughts on “Art and Poetry Treasure Hunts: Write Your Own Ekphrastic Poems”
Tricia Parish said:
Can you email me privately MiMi?
This brought back memories from junior high. My biology teaches practically quoted the “Grecian Urn” poem nearly every day. Funny how the art piece of the urn inspired Keats, and then became inspiration for a science teacher!
dpetteway said:
Mimi, you inspire me to write more, to see more, to drink more fully from the richness of poetry around me. I’m gonna trek over to the NC Museum of Art and get some ekphrastism happening!
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Oakland Zoo a creative outlet for fans
By Chris Puzia / Assistant Sports Editor
When I first enrolled at Pitt, I considered how I would try to “make my mark” at the University. Would I get involved in Greek life, try and hold my own with the Ultimate team or something else?
The route I ended up choosing resulted from a $75 costume that I bought from a Halloween store near my New Jersey home during my junior year of high school. While I didn’t know it then, it was the most authentic gorilla costume I could find without completely breaking the bank, and did it ever pay dividends.
I had known that the Oakland Zoo, Pitt basketball’s renowned student section, was raucous, but having never experienced it firsthand coming out of high school, I was not sure exactly what to expect. The Zoo jumps relentlessly when Pitt plays defense, has creative and synchronized chants and always tries to get the rest of the people in the arena on their feet.
But after attending a few games my freshman year and seeing how wild some of my fellow students got when the Panthers took the floor, I put two and two together and decided to add my own flair to the Zoo by wearing the gorilla costume at games.
Keeping with its name, members of the “Zoo” often bring costume horse heads, chicken heads and other animal attire. But it was rare that I saw a full animal suit worn at games, so I decided to give it a go.
I have poor visibility with the mask on, nearly pass out from overheating and catch some funny looks from elderly fans on my way into the arena, but it has still been one of my favorite experiences at Pitt thus far. And despite going through those difficulties every time I don the suit, I continue to do so. While joking with friends from home and school that the gorilla is my legacy, I exaggerate, claiming that nothing I do for the rest of my life will be a bigger accomplishment.
The first time I wore the suit was an early-season home game versus Detroit-Mercy during my freshman year in 2012. Some friends convinced me to wear it as I was, at that point, still unsure whether it would “fit in.” A brief, split-second moment during that game convinced me to continue wearing it.
For this particular game, we sat a couple rows behind one of the baskets. As an opposing player prepared to shoot a free throw attempt, everyone in our section yelled and waved.
I remember the player peering past the basket at me for an instant before continuing his windup for the shot. He made a strange, confused face, as he was probably not prepared to glance up and see a gorilla standing in his line of sight.
He continued his motion and proceeded to miss the shot. It was in that moment that I resolved to wear the costume to every game I could, and it encouraged me when I saw dozens of other people finding other creative ways to distract visiting teams.
Although I never donned the costume for attention and always just wanted an outlet to go extra-wild at a game, an experience I had with two fans outside the Petersen Events Center once really flattered me.
I was waiting outside the arena for some friends to catch up before we went in for the game versus Wake Forest in January. A young boy and his father approached me. The boy looked to be about eight years old, ready to cheer on the Panthers in his navy Pitt shirt and hat.
“We’ve been to almost every game this year, and my son always tries to look for the gorilla somewhere among the students,” the father said to me with his son right at his leg. “It may be strange, but could I get a picture of him with you?”
So after he took the picture, I high-fived the boy, and they went on their way into the arena. I won’t let the experience go to my head, but for me personally, that moment solidified what I had wanted to do ever since I put my deposit down for Pitt in high school: make my mark.
The boy didn’t care who was behind the mask, and that was the point. They didn’t ask for my name, and I didn’t expect them to. During games, My gorilla character is more important than my identity, and the atmosphere of the Oakland Zoo is more important than the gorilla. I just wanted to find a way to contribute to that, and I think I did.
There are so many amazing and unique ways to support the Zoo that I have seen on display the last two seasons: a giant cutout of Steven Adams, the 7-foot New Zealander who is now a rookie with the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder,with moving arms; more people in morph suits than I could count; a giant “Dalai Zanna” sign in homage to former player Talib Zanna. A personal favorite of mine is the “Pitt Basketball Shouting” Twitter account. The list goes on and on, and I just wanted to try and add to that list.
I made my mark in a way I would never have expected. I even put, “Wears gorilla suit at basketball games,” under special skills on my current resumé. I’m not the first one to wear an extreme costume to a game, and I definitely will not be the last. But the memories that have come from it are still special and are ones that anyone can have, not just those who are inside of a gorilla costume.
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The unarmed Palestinian protestors who were killed on the Gaza border include an 8 month old baby
The United States blocked the adoption of a UN Security Council statement that called for an “independent and transparent investigation” into Israel’s killing of Palestinian protestors on the Gaza border.
The statement, drafted by Kuwait ahead of a meeting on Tuesday, expressed “outrage and sorrow” at the deaths of at least 58 people during demonstrations over the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.
It also demanded all countries comply with a decades-old Security Council resolution calling on them not to station diplomatic missions in the contested holy city.
“The Security Council expresses its outrage and sorrow at the killing of Palestinian civilians exercising their right to peaceful protest,” the draft text reads.
“The Security Council calls for an independent and transparent investigation into these actions to ensure accountability.”
The statement also called on “all sides to exercise restraint with a view to averting further escalation and establishing calm”.
Most UN member states say the status of Jerusalem – a sacred city to Jews, Muslims and Christians – should be determined in a final peace settlement and that the relocation of the US embassy has prejudiced any such deal. France, one of the council’s five permanent members, has condemned “the violence of Israeli armed forces against demonstrators” and said president Emmanuel Macron would speak to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.
On Monday, 10 of the council’s 15 members wrote to UN secretary-general to express profound concern” that a 2016 resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building on land that Palestinians want for an independent state was not being implemented. UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov reported last year that Israel was continuing to flout the demand for an end to settlements, which is prohibited by international law.
Back in January, Trump threatened in a tweet to cut millions in funding support contributions in order to force Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas into coming to the negotiating table to hash out a peace deal with Israel.
In cutting the aid package, the administration appeared to be in line with Trump’s tweet in which he wrote that Palestinians were receiving “hundreds of millions of dollars” but gave the US “no appreciation or respect.”
✔@realDonaldTrump
It’s not only Pakistan that we pay billions of dollars to for nothing, but also many other countries, and others. As an example, we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect. They don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue…
…peace treaty with Israel. We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest part of the negotiation, off the table, but Israel, for that, would have had to pay more. But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?
11:37 PM – Jan 2, 2018
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One of the sticking points in the peace process has been the control of Jerusalem. Trump broke with 70 years of diplomatic procedure and announced the US would recognise the holy city as the capital of Israel.
US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, had originally advocated for cutting off funds going to UNRWA completely, echoing her sentiments that the world body had an “anti-Israel bias.”
She was talked down after Defence Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson indicated that if the relief agency’s efforts are severely hampered it could cause further unrest in Jordan, an ally which hosts several million Palestinian refugees.
Nikki Haley walked out of an emergency Security Council meeting yesterday when the Palestinian envoy began to speak, just hours after she praised Israel for acting with “restraint” in handling the protests in Gaza. The meeting was held to discuss the violence in Gaza. Haley told the Security Council that Hamas, with the help of Iran, was to blame for the violence and pointed to “Molotov cocktails being flown into Israel via kites.”
Israeli forces dropped drones with tear gas and shot at Palestinian protesters in Gaza on Monday, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner called the protesters “part of the problem and not part of the solution.” Kushner’s family has longtime ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and previously failed to disclose that he once led a group that funded West Bank settlements, which are illegal under international law.
Hours after Kushner’s speech, White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah also claimed that the Palestinian deaths on Monday were “an unfortunate propaganda attempt” by Hamas.
The United States unveiled its new embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, the same day as Israel’s independence day, after having moved its location from Tel Aviv. The move has been roundly condemned by Palestinian leadership and other world leaders, as East Jerusalem — under Israeli occupation since 1967 — has been recognised as the capital of a future Palestinian state by the international community.
But the protests in Gaza were about more than the embassy. Many of those involved were participating in the “March of Return” protests, which began on March 30, and involved tens of thousands of Palestinians marching to the Gaza border fence to demand the right to return to family homes lost in 1948.
Riots in the region had already broken out in the wake of Trump’s “recognition of Jerusalem” and cutting off all aid is likely to have have escalated protests and violence.
UK policy should reflect the asymmetry of the two parties (occupier and occupied), the importance of international law and human rights treaties as a reference point, and accountability for violations of that body of law and of those treaties.
The British Government must suspend the granting of arms export licenses to the Israeli military, produce, and formulate tougher rules for charities regarding support for settlements, building on the recent Charity Commission warning.
The UK should condition bilateral ties with the Israeli government, including in relation to trade arrangements, in respect for international law and human rights.
British Palestinian scholar-activist Yara Hawari wrote “The past is not in the past. Britain continues to be complicit in the suffering of the Palestinians through its diplomatic and trade relations with Israel”.
Ending that complicity would be the best form of apology.
Israel claims that its troops were “defending its border” and accused Hamas militants of using the protests as a cover for attacks. It said 40,000 Palestinians had taken part in “violent riots” along the border and that some had tried to breach security fences. However, no Jewish people were killed. It’s not clear what danger Israel faced from unarmed protestors, nor is it explained why the response from the military was so absolutely disproportionate.
The unarmed Palestinian people who were atrociously murdered
Medics and journalists were among the injured in what the Palestinian Authority condemned as a “massacre”. The Israeli military, however, claim they were defending the state borders.
The following was published on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, by Middle East Eye.
The Gaza Ministry of Health has released the names of 58 unarmed Palestinians killed. They were protesting for their freedom and dignity.
From left: Ahmed Alrantisi, Laila Anwar Al-Ghandoor, Ahmed Altetr, Alaa Alkhatib Ezz el-din Alsamaak, Motassem Abu Louley (Photo: Screengrab)
Editor’s note: Middle East Eye has live coverage of protests in Palestine and Israel here.
Sixty-one people were either killed or died of wounds inflicted by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday and Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated across the occupied territory to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba.
The youngest victim was just 8 months old. Laila Anwar Al-Ghandoor’s family told media that the baby’s mother had left the child at home to join the demonstrations. When the infant began crying her uncle took her towards the protest area in order to locate his sister.
Reports on Palestinian social media said Laila had been in a tent away from the security fence when a tear gas canister was dropped by a drone.
Fresh protests are expected. Tensions are running high as many families bury their dead.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Gaza Ministry of Health released the names of 58 Palestinians killed:
1. Laila Anwar Al-Ghandoor, 8 months old
2. Ezz el-din Musa Mohamed Alsamaak, 14 years old
3. Wisaal Fadl Ezzat Alsheikh Khalil, 15 years old
4. Ahmed Adel Musa Alshaer, 16 years old
5. Saeed Mohamed Abu Alkheir, 16 years old
6. Ibrahim Ahmed Alzarqa, 18 years old
7. Eman Ali Sadiq Alsheikh, 19 years old
8. Zayid Mohamed Hasan Omar, 19 years old
9. Motassem Fawzy Abu Louley, 20 years old
10. Anas Hamdan Salim Qadeeh, 21 years old
11. Mohamed Abd Alsalam Harz, 21 years old
From left: Fadi Abu Salah, Motaz Al-Nunu, Jihad Mohammed Othman Mousa, Mousa Jabr Abdulsalam Abu Hasnayn, Ezz Eldeen Nahid Aloyutey, Anas Hamdan Salim Qadeeh
12. Yehia Ismail Rajab Aldaqoor, 22 years old
13. Mustafa Mohamed Samir Mahmoud Almasry, 22 years old
14. Ezz Eldeen Nahid Aloyutey, 23 years old
15. Mahmoud Mustafa Ahmed Assaf, 23 years old
16. Ahmed Fayez Harb Shahadah, 23 years old
17. Ahmed Awad Allah, 24 years old
18. Khalil Ismail Khalil Mansor, 25 years old
19. Mohamed Ashraf Abu Sitta, 26 years old
20. Bilal Ahmed Abu Diqah, 26 years old
21. Ahmed Majed Qaasim Ata Allah, 27 years old
From left: Mahmoud Wael Mahmoud Jundeyah, Ibrahim Ahmed Alzarqa, Musab Yousef Abu Leilah, Jihad Mufid Al-Farra, Saeed Mohamed Abu Alkheir, Mohamed Hasan Mustafa Alabadilah (screengrab)
22. Mahmoud Rabah Abu Maamar, 28 years old
23. Musab Yousef Abu Leilah, 28 years old
24. Ahmed Fawzy Altetr, 28 years old
25. Mohamed Abdelrahman Meqdad, 28 years old
26. Obaidah Salim Farhan, 30 years old
27. Jihad Mufid Al-Farra, 30 years old
28. Fadi Hassan Abu Salah, 30 years old
29. Motaz Bassam Kamil Al-Nunu, 31 years old
30. Mohammed Riyad Abdulrahman Alamudi, 31 years old
31. Jihad Mohammed Othman Mousa, 31 years old
32. Shahir Mahmoud Mohammed Almadhoon, 32 years old
33. Mousa Jabr Abdulsalam Abu Hasnayn, 35 years old
From left: Shahir Mahmoud Mohammed Almadhoon, Khalil Ismail Khalil Mansor, Mahmoud Saber Hamad Abu Taeemah, Mohamed Ashraf Abu Sitta, Mustafa Mohamed Samir Mahmoud Almasry, Obaidah Salim Farhan (screengrab)
34. Mohammed Mahmoud Abdulmoti Abdal’al, 39 years old
35. Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim Hamdan, 27 years old
36. Ismail Khalil Ramadhan Aldaahuk, 30 years old
37. Ahmed Mahmoud Mohammed Alrantisi, 27 years old
38. Alaa Alnoor Ahmed Alkhatib, 28 years old
39. Mahmoud Yahya Abdawahab Hussain, 24 years old
40. Ahmed Abdullah Aladini, 30 years old
41. Saadi Said Fahmi Abu Salah, 16 years old
42. Ahmed Zahir Hamid Alshawa, 24 years old
43. Mohammed Hani Hosni Alnajjar, 33 years old
44. Fadl Mohamed Ata Habshy, 34 years old
45. Mokhtar Kaamil Salim Abu Khamash, 23 years old
46. Mahmoud Wael Mahmoud Jundeyah, 21 years old
47. Abdulrahman Sami Abu Mattar, 18 years old
48. Ahmed Salim Alyaan Aljarf, 26 years old
From left: Mohammed Hani Hosni Alnajjar, Yehia Ismail Rajab Aldaqoor, Mohammed Riyad Abdulrahman Alamudi, Ahmed Adel Musa Alshaer, Fadl Mohamed Ata Habshy, Ismail Khalil Ramadhan Aldaahuk (screengrab)
49. Mahmoud Sulayman Ibrahim Aql, 32 years old
50. Mohamed Hasan Mustafa Alabadilah, 25 years old
51. Kamil Jihad Kamil Mihna, 19 years old
52. Mahmoud Saber Hamad Abu Taeemah, 23 years old
53. Ali Mohamed Ahmed Khafajah, 21 years old
54. Abdelsalam Yousef Abdelwahab, 39 years old
55. Mohamed Samir Duwedar, 27 years old
56. Talal Adel Ibrahim Mattar, 16 years old
57. Omar Jomaa Abu Ful, 30 years old
58. Nasser Ahmed Mahmoud Ghrab, 51 years old
59 – 61: Unidentified
The UN tweeted this response:
UN Human Rights
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“Shocking killing of dozens, injury of hundreds by Israeli live fire in #Gaza must stop now. The right to life must be respected. Those responsible for outrageous human rights violations must be held to account. The int’l community needs to ensure justice for victims” – #Zeid.
4:09 PM – May 14, 2018
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28 thoughts on “The unarmed Palestinian protestors who were killed on the Gaza border include an 8 month old baby”
Georgvon1 says:
What is Israel’s side in the story?
They say they were “defending the borders”
So what are they suppose to do?
This was a protest of unarmed Palestinians, and so opening fire on them was disproportionate, and in breach of UN protocols regarding military defence of a state. No Jewish people were killed, no-one opened fire on them
I am not sure it’s a breach of an U.N. protocol. I would like to see the precise part in the protocol please.
I saw that Israel claims that the demonstration was armed.
Then go do some research
The U.N allowes states to defend themselves. It does not have to be like that, but that’s the fact. Also Israel would say that they where in danger.
They weren’t. There are no Jewish deaths or injuries
That’s not a condition that allows you to defend.
There has to be a threat in order for the “defence” argument to stand, and also, the defence has to be proportionate.
Israel would say that there is a threat.
Oh they have, always do. But noone except the US believe them. There is footage and evidence of what happened, and they were not under threat. None of the Jewish people were injured or killed, nor were they in imminent danger
This is unbearably sad.
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There will be no peace in the region whilst the occupying force of Israel continues to practice illegal acts, including the illegal occupying of Palestinian territory and war crimes including mass murder against defenceless civilians.
tomiejones says:
Reblogged this on circusbuoy and commented:
i d f killing 8month old babies now, just protecting the israelis
hugosmum70 says:
WHY WOULD THEY TAKE AN 8 MONTH OLD BABY WITH THEM ON EVEN A PEACEFUL PROTEST WHEN THEY KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST? THIS ISNT THE FIRST TIME ISRAEL HAVE OPENED FIRE ON UNHARMED PROTESTERS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT BORDER. OR ANY CHILDREN COME TO THAT…. COS I KNOW OTHER KIDS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND INJURED BEFORE THIS
The baby was in a tent away from the protest. As were four children on a cart that the Israelis opened fire on. A 12 year old boy is now fighting for his life as they shot him in the head. It doesn’t look hopeful for him. The children’s father was at the protest, he was also shot.
The Israeli military fired a tear gas missile into the tent where Laila – the 8 month old baby – was. The Palestinians are refugees. They have lost their homes and their land. Many shelter in UN school buildings because they have no home. However, those schools have also been shelled by the Israelis, killing children and adults alike. Nowhere is safe for them.
READING THE ACCOUNT IT SEEMS THAT AFTER THE TEAR GAS WAS FIRED INTO THE TENT AN UNCLE OF THE CHILD RAN WITH HER (SHE WAS CRYING) TO GO FIND HIS SISTER, THE CHILD’S MOTHER. OBVIOUSLY WASN’T FAR ENOUGH AWAY THOUGH WAS IT? OR DID THEY LIVE IN THAT TENT? IT ALSO SAID THE MOTHER LEFT HER AT HOME.(THE BABY)
They are refugees…..
There is no justification at all for Israeli soldiers firing tear gas into the tent, that was away from the protest. Nor was there any justification for soldiers shooting a 12 year old in the head, with his siblings on a cart, away from the protest. There is no justificatio for soldiers shooting unarmed protesters either. That’s regardless of where the child’s mother was. That is why these actions have been condemned by most of the global community, and the UN. There can be NO justification for killing children
mohandeer says:
Reblogged this on Worldtruth.
Many thanks Kitty Sue, for this article, more people should be appalled at the seventy year illegal expulsion of over 5 million Palestinians and the 700,000 deaths under an illegal occupation.When France was occupied by the German, the French resistance were deemed freedom fighters against the Third Reich, but we in the western imperialist regimes have always held double standards – one for those we support and another we don’t give a **** about. It’s time to right the wrong.
Jenniferriaz says:
Reblogged this on Human Rights & Activism and commented:
The UK is one of the nation’s complicit with the human rights violations and murders in Israel against the Palestinians. Included in the 58 peaceful protestors that Israel murdered was an 8 month old baby. No one is safe in Palestine, not even babies. What an atrocity. I highly recommend reading the article I am reblogging. It is well researched and I learned alot from it. Kudos to the writer of it.
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'Teen Mom 2' Alum Jenelle Evans Reveals Playtime Photo of Her Daughter Ensley Amid David Eason Split
By John Connor Coulston - December 7, 2019 03:24 pm EST
Former Teen Mom 2 cast member Jenelle Evans has posted a few new photos of her daughter Ensley. Evans chose not to upload the pictures to her main Instagram account and instead posted them on the account she manages on the 2-year-old's behalf. In the pictures, the toddlers is shown in the middle of playtime, sitting on a rug as she plays with blocks. Evans captioned the snap with a quote from her daughter about how much she loves her blocks.
“Blocks are my favorite.” 💁🏻♀️
A post shared by Ensley Eason (@ensleyjolie_) on Dec 6, 2019 at 9:24pm PST
The picture gallery has been liked more than 800 times since it was posted late Friday night.
Evans previously shared a series of Christmas photos on Ensley's account, showing the toddler playing with an ornament in front of a Christmas tree. The former Teen Mom 2 personality wrote that her daughter was helping decorate for the yuletide season.
“Helping Mommy with #Christmas stuff” 🎄✨
A post shared by Ensley Eason (@ensleyjolie_) on Dec 5, 2019 at 7:05am PST
These photos come as Evans is in the process of divorcing Ensley's father, David Eason. The mother-daughter duo has moved out of the family's North Carolina home and reportedly moved somewhere near Nashville, Tennessee.
Evans first revealed she was leaving Eason in an Oct. 31 Instagram post.
"I've mostly kept off social media these past few days because I've been focused on making some big life decisions," Evans wrote. "I've lived my life on camera since I was 17 years old. And a lot of it hasn't been pretty. But its been my life. Like anyone else I want what's best for my kids and I want to be happy. With time away from Teen Mom I've started to look at my life differently and I know I need to make changes. I'm starting that now.
"The kids and I have moved away from David. Nobody gets into a marriage expecting it to end but I know what is best for me, and for my kids. Today I've filed papers to start that process. I appreciate the support from everybody who has asked me how I am. Me and the kids are doing great. We need some time to be together. But you'll hear from us again soon."
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'Teen Mom' Fans Console Mackenzie McKee's Family After Death of Mom Angie Douthit
By Anna Rumer - December 10, 2019 12:47 pm EST
Teen Mom fans from all over are sending their condolences and kind messages to Mackenzie McKee and her family after her mother, Angie Douthit, passed away Monday amid a lengthy battle with cancer. Douthit's family broke the news Tuesday on her Instagram account, which she used to chronicle her cancer journey and inspired countless people with her strong faith and positive attitude.
"On Monday, December 9 at 11:37pm, Angie finished her race," they captioned photos of her crossing the finish line in other races from throughout her lifelong love of running and a selection from 1 Corinthians 11:1. "Her last days were spent lovingly surrounded by family and friends as they prayed, sang, and shared funny Angie stories."
After being diagnosed with cancer in January 2018, the message revealed Douthit found joy in sharing her "brightest light" through her Instagram posts.
"We watched her get up everyday in the darkest hours of the night to spread the brightest light that she knew of, her Savior Jesus Christ," the family wrote. "There were times when she wrote her posts through pain and confusion. There were times at the end when she couldn’t type and would ask her daughters to type for her but she would not give up spreading the gospel message of hope. In nearly two years, she never missed her daily post...tomorrow she will."
Douthit's followers and Teen Mom fans alike made sure to send well-wishes her family's way.
"Omg my heart is absolutely shattered for this family!! Love and prayers sent your way!!" one person wrote, as another chimed in, "Thank you, Angie, for all you have done. You were a light, bright beyond words. So sorry for your loss."
"May God bless and surround you all with peace that only he can give.. well done thou good and faithful servant!" another user wrote.
Still others celebrated that Douthit's faith had carried her through a difficult time: "This time it was into the arms of Jesus! Way to go Angie! So happy for you!" one person wrote. "I will be praying for your family my God's overwhelming peace be with them and help them through this hard time for them and that they would be reminded everyday of how you are now in a perfect body walking alongside Jesus."
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This paper contributes to the growing social science scholarship on organic agriculture in the global South. A “boundary” framework is used to understand how negotiation among socially and geographically disparate social worlds (e.g., non-governmental organizations (NGOs), foreign donors, agricultural researchers, and small-scale farmers) has resulted in the diffusion of non-certified organic agriculture in Kenya. National and local NGOs dedicated to organic agriculture promotion, training, research, and outreach are conceptualized as “boundary organizations.” Situated at the (...) intersection of multiple social worlds, these NGOs engage in “strategic bridge building” and “strategic boundary-work.” Strategic bridge building involves the creation and use of “boundary objects” and “hybrid forms” that serve as meeting grounds for otherwise disconnected social worlds. Strategic boundary-work involves efforts to “scientize,” and thereby legitimize, organic agriculture in the eyes of foreign donors, potential research collaborators, the Kenyan state, and farmers. Examples of strategic bridge building and boundary-work are presented in the paper. The Kenyan case illustrates that different social actors can unite around a shared objective – namely, the promotion and legitimization of organic agriculture as an alternative to the Green Revolution (GR) technological package. (shrink)
Confronting Coexistence in the United States: Organic Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, and the Case of Roundup Ready® Alfalfa. [REVIEW]Kristina Hubbard & Neva Hassanein - 2013 - Agriculture and Human Values 30 (3):325-335.details
In agriculture, the principle of coexistence refers to a condition where different primary production systems can exist in the vicinity of each other, and can be managed in such a way that they affect each other as little as possible. Coexistence policies aim to ensure that farmers are able to freely grow the crops they choose—be they genetically engineered (GE), non-GE conventional, or organic. In the United States (US), the issue of coexistence has very recently come into sharp (...) relief with the introduction of Roundup Ready® (RR) alfalfa, a landmark court decision in 2007 (Geertson v. Johanns), and subsequent governmental actions, including the first Environmental Impact Statement on a GE crop. By contrast, in 2003 the European Union (EU) created a policy to manage coexistence and to address economic harms that may be caused by contamination. We briefly review the EU framework as an instructive resource. This policy analysis then looks at the US organic industry and its standards with respect to GE before turning to the case of RR alfalfa. With a focus on the field trial stage and on environmental assessments prior to market approval, the case reveals numerous problems in the existing regulatory framework as it pertains to coexistence and prevention of contamination of organic products with GE material. The paper concludes with specific policy recommendations for creating a more robust coexistence policy in the US. (shrink)
Genetic Engineering in Applied Ethics
Critical Impact Assessment of Organic Agriculture.Xie Biao, Wang Xiaorong, Ding Zhuhong & Yang Yaping - 2003 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 16 (3):297-311.details
Based on its productionguideline, organic agriculture has set foritself the goals of minimizing all forms ofpollution and maintaining sustainability of thefarming system. By striving for these goals,organic farming meets the demands of anincreasing number of consumers who are criticalof conventional production methods. This papergives an overview of the present state of theart in the different issues. Possibilities ofand limitations in performing the self-aimedgoals under the basic standards of organicagriculture are discussed. Concerningenvironmental protection, in general, the riskof adverse (...) environmental effects is lower withorganic than with conventional farming methods,though not necessarily so; with reference tosoil fertility and nutrient management, organicfarming is suited to improve soil fertility andnutrient management markedly on the farm level;regarding biodiversity, comparison studies showthat organic farming has more positive effectson biodiversity conservation; in relation toproduct quality, under the basic standards oforganic farming, there is no sufficientevidence for a system-related effect on productquality due to the production method. (shrink)
Environmental Ethics in Applied Ethics
A Gender Sensitive Analysis Towards Organic Agriculture: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach. [REVIEW]Maryam Omidi Najafabadi - 2014 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 27 (2):225-240.details
This study integrates the motivating and challenging elements impacting on the implementation of organic farming practice in Iran. Analysis was based on the results of two surveys; one from organic farmers to determine motivating factors and the other from experts in organic farming to identify challenging factors. These surveys incorporated a gender perspective to enable gender comparison and analysis of the results presents a practical model to support program developers in Iranian organic agriculture. Gender comparison (...) indicated that attitudes among farmers to organic agriculture were slightly variable according to gender; while experts’ attitudes to organic agriculture remained constant and were not influenced by gender. The practical model ranked motivating factors as husbandry, financial, health-quality of life, general and personal; and challenging factors as financial, legal, educational, and technical. Finally, several suggestions are made according to these findings. (shrink)
Organic Agriculture’s Approach Towards Sustainability; Its Relationship with the Agro-Industrial Complex, A Case Study in Central Macedonia, Greece.Thodoris Dantsis, Angeliki Loumou & Christina Giourga - 2009 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 22 (3):197-216.details
Up to now, several scientific works have noted that the organic sector resembles more and more conventional farming’s structures, what is widely known as the “conventionalization” thesis. This phenomenon constitutes an area of conflict between organic farming’s original vision and its current reality and raises ethical and social questions concerning the structure of agricultural systems of production and their interactions with the socio-economic and natural environment. The main issue of this dialogue is the concept of sustainable agriculture, (...) which for scientists and policymakers is a means to express their vision of a better agriculture. In this article we focus on agricultural sustainability in the context of capitalist production as conducted by the two subsystems of agro-industrial system. As we have proposed in this article, the relationship between organic agriculture, defined by two essential components (prevention and direct marketing), and the agro-industrial complex, defined by two subsystems, indicates the degree of agricultural sustainability. The investigation of this relationship can be extremely useful as it may lead those involved in the discussion of sustainability to identify the key aspects of sustainable agriculture. In order to investigate the interaction of organic farming with the agro-industrial complex, a survey was conducted in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece, involving local organic farms. The results of our study indicate that a large proportion of organic producers did not differ substantially from their counterparts in conventional agriculture in so far as their relationship with the agro-industrial complex is concerned. Finally, this research highlights two scenarios for the evolution of organic farming. The first is the full absorption of organic farming to the existing economic system and the second one is the development of organic farming in a radically opposite direction to conventional farming. (shrink)
Do Inspection Practices in Organic Agriculture Serve Organic Values? A Case Study From Finland.Laura Seppänen & Juha Helenius - 2004 - Agriculture and Human Values 21 (1):1-13.details
Re-Embedding Global Agriculture: The International Organic and Fair Trade Movements. [REVIEW]Laura T. Raynolds - 2000 - Agriculture and Human Values 17 (3):297-309.details
The international organic agricultureand fair trade movements represent importantchallenges to the ecologically and sociallydestructive relations that characterize the globalagro-food system. Both movements critique conventionalagricultural production and consumption patterns andseek to create a more sustainable world agro-foodsystem. The international organic movement focuses onre-embedding crop and livestock production in ``naturalprocesses,'' encouraging trade in agriculturalcommodities produced under certified organicconditions and processed goods derived from thesecommodities. For its part, the fair trade movementfosters the re-embedding of international commodityproduction and distribution in ``equitable socialrelations,'' (...) developing a more stable and advantageoussystem of trade for agricultural and non-agriculturalgoods produced under favorable social andenvironmental conditions. The international market forboth organic and fair trade products has grownimpressively in recent years. Yet the success of thesemovements is perhaps better judged by their ability tochallenge the abstract capitalist relations that fuelexploitation in the global agro-food system. While theorganic movement currently goes further in revealingthe ecological conditions of production and the fairtrade movement goes further in revealing the socialconditions of production, there are signs that the twomovements are forging a common ground in definingminimum social and environmental requirements. I arguefrom a theoretical and empirical basis that what makesfair trade a more effective oppositional movement isits focus on the relations of agro-food trade anddistribution. By demystifying global relations ofexchange and challenging market competitiveness basedsolely on price, the fair trade movement creates aprogressive opening for bridging the wideningNorth/South divide and for wresting control of theagro-food system away from oligopolistic transnationalcorporations infamous for their socially andenvironmentally destructive business practices. (shrink)
Nature and Nature Values in Organic Agriculture. An Analysis of Contested Concepts and Values Among Different Actors in Organic Farming.Lene Hansen, Egon Noe & Katrine Højring - 2005 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 19 (2):147-168.details
The relationship between agriculture and nature is a central issue in the current agricultural debate. Organic Farming has ambitions and a special potential in relation to nature. Consideration for nature is part of the guiding principals of organic farming and many organic farmers are committed to protecting natural qualities. However, the issue of nature, landscape, and land use is not straightforward. Nature is an ambiguous concept that involves multiple interests and actors reaching far beyond farmers. The (...) Danish research project Nature Quality in Organic Farming has investigated the relationship between nature and organic farming. This article will focus on an expert workshop held in connection with the project that investigates the way different actors conceptualize nature. Farmers, scientists, and non-governmental organizations came together to discuss their experiences of nature and expectations of organic agriculture. From this interaction, it was clear that nature is a contested notion. Different understandings of nature exist within the three groups and there is disagreement as to whether emphasis should be given to biological qualities, production values, or experiential and aesthetic perspectives. This complexity provides a challenge to organic farming as well as to the implementation of nature considerations in general. It illustrates an underlying battle for the right to define nature and nature quality and essentially decide what organic farmers should work towards. We argue that successful implementation requires organic farmers to carefully consider what expectations they wish to meet. Optimally it is dependent on a dialog between stakeholder interest groups that allows for multivocality and pluralism. (shrink)
Voluntary Standards, Certification, and Accreditation in the Global Organic Agriculture Field: A Tripartite Model of Techno-Politics.Eve Fouilleux & Allison Loconto - 2017 - Agriculture and Human Values 34 (1):1-14.details
This article analyzes the institutionalization of the global organic agriculture field and sheds new light on the conventionalization debate. The institutions that shape the field form a tripartite standards regime of governance that links standard-setting, certification, and accreditation activities, in a layering of markets for services that are additional to the market for certified organic products. At each of the three poles of the TSR, i.e., for standard-setting, certification, and accreditation, we describe how the corresponding markets were (...) constructed over time and the role of the different actors in their evolution. We analyze the politics at stake among the actors at each pole, their competing or cooperative interests and visions, and the tensions between them in the promotion of markets. Through the lens of the TSR heuristic, we show that the institutionalization of the organic field beginning in the 1990s and its de facto inclusion in the broader sustainability field beginning in the 2000s contribute to a progressive distancing between the organic movement and its initial political project of alterity, to which public and private actors both contribute actively. As a set of interlinked market institutions, the TSR orients and narrows the scope of debate, which becomes restricted to “market-compatible” dimensions and objects. We conclude that the TSR is a promising heuristic for analyzing contemporary global regulation. (shrink)
“Loyals” and “Optimizers”: Shedding Light on the Decision for or Against Organic Agriculture Among Swiss Farmers. [REVIEW]Stefan Mann & Miriam Gairing - 2012 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 25 (3):365-376.details
The choice between organic and conventional agriculture for farmers is modeled as an ethical decision. Farmers are either loyal to one of the systems or they optimize between systems. This model is empirically validated through a survey among Swiss farmers. A cluster analysis separates farmers into loyal organic, loyal conventional, and optimizing farmers. However, the three resulting clusters bore some, but not all the necessary characteristics of optimizers and loyals. A probit analysis shows that loyal farmers have (...) larger farms than optimizers. Loyal organic farmers receive less direct payments than optimizers, which confirms the utility-maximizing pattern of the latter group. (shrink)
An Integral Analysis of the National Standard of Canada for Organic Agriculture.Wade Prpich - 2005 - World Futures 61 (1 & 2):138 – 150.details
This article integrally analyzes the National Standard of Canada for Organic Agriculture (NSCOA) through the application of philosopher Ken Wilber's Integral model. The results of the analysis determined that the NSCOA is predominantly a one-dimensional (exterior), two quadrant (behaviors and systems) policy. The NSCOA neglects the subjective and intersubjective elements of the Integral model and at best achieves physical sustainability and the physiological/behavioral treatment of livestock. Finally, recommendations are made to incorporate the principles of the Integral model into (...) the workings of the NSCOA. (shrink)
Public Agricultural Researchers: Reactions to Organic, Low Input and Sustainable Agriculture. [REVIEW]Aaron Harp & Carolyn Sachs - 1992 - Agriculture and Human Values 9 (4):58-63.details
This paper offers a preliminary assessment of the reactions of public agricultural researchers to three terms used currently in the debate surrounding reduced input farming systems: organic, alternative, and sustainable agriculture. It is argued that these terms have been appropriated by the land grant system and their critical content removed to make them palatable to more mainstream agricultural researchers. A national sample of agricultural production researchers is explored, and disciplinary differences in attitudes toward the three terms are assessed. (...) We conclude that sustainable and alternative agriculture do appear acceptable to the mainstream of production researchers, consistent with the hypothesis that they have been appropriated by the land grant system. Moreover, reasons why organic agriculture remains unacceptable are suggested. (shrink)
Artificial or Biological? Nature, Fertilizer, and the German Origins of Organic Agriculture.Corinna Treitel - 2015 - In Sharon Kingsland & Denise Phillips (eds.), New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture. Springer Verlag.details
Facing Food Insecurity in Africa: Why, After 30 Years of Work in Organic Agriculture, I Am Promoting the Use of Synthetic Fertilizers and Herbicides in Small-Scale Staple Crop Production.Don Lotter - 2015 - Agriculture and Human Values 32 (1):111-118.details
Food and Deliberation - Industrial Agriculture Vs Organic Agriculture -.Kim Myungsik - 2016 - Environmental Philosophy 21:35-61.details
Environmental Philosophy in Philosophy of Biology
Thomas R. DeGregori. Origins of the Organic Agriculture Debate. Xviii + 211 Pp., Refs., Index. Ames: Iowa State Press, 2004. $56.99. [REVIEW]Sheldon Krimsky - 2006 - Isis 97 (2):378-379.details
Origins of the Organic Agriculture Debate. [REVIEW]Sheldon Krimsky - 2006 - Isis: A Journal of the History of Science 97:378-379.details
History of Science in General Philosophy of Science
Organic and Conventional Agriculture: Materializing Discourse and Agro-Ecological Managerialism. [REVIEW]David Goodman - 2000 - Agriculture and Human Values 17 (3):215-219.details
This introduction situates key themesfound in papers given at a recent workshop on thechanging material practices, meanings, and regulationof US organic food production. The context is theemergence of an international bio-politics ofagriculture and food and, more particularly in the US,the contradictions of sustainable agriculturemovements catalyzed by the rapid scaling up of organicagriculture from a niche activity to nascentindustry.
The Social Construction of Production Externalities in Contemporary Agriculture: Process Versus Product Standards as the Basis for Defining “Organic”. [REVIEW]B. James Deaton & John P. Hoehn - 2005 - Agriculture and Human Values 22 (1):31-38.details
The analysis distinguishes two types of standards for defining organic produce; process standards and product standards. Process standards define organic products by the method and means of production. Product standards define organic by the physical quality of the end product. The National Organic Program (NOP) uses process standards as the basis for defining organic. However, the situation is complicated by agricultural production practices, which sometimes result in the migration of NOP prohibited substances from conventional to (...) organic fields. When this interaction alters the value of the product or the costs of production, a production externality is said to exist. Defining organic using process, rather than product standards, influences the burden and character of production externalities. The NOP’s emphasis on process standards reduces the likelihood that production externalities will emerge. (shrink)
Alternative Modes of Governance: Organic as Civic Engagement. [REVIEW]E. Melanie DuPuis & Sean Gillon - 2009 - Agriculture and Human Values 26 (1-2):43-56.details
A major strategy in the creation of sustainable economies is the establishment of alternative market institutions, such as fair trade and local market systems. However, the dynamics of these alternative markets are poorly understood. What are the rules of behavior by which these markets function? How do these markets maintain their separate identity as “alternative”: apart from the conventional (“free”) market system? Building on Lyson’s notion of civic agriculture, we argue that alternative markets maintain themselves through civic engagement. However, (...) we argue that the civically-engaged practices of alternative markets are poorly understood. We seek, therefore, to begin a conversation about the everyday forms of civic engagement in alternative practice and to do this we introduce a few useful conceptual tools. Building upon ideas in science studies about the collaboration of scientists (Hess, Alternative pathways in science and industry, 2007) we argue that civic markets have their own “market fields” and “modes of governance” (Bulkeley et al., Environment and Planning A 39:2733–2753, 2007), their own fields of social interaction in which rules of behavior become stabilized and determine how the market works. The creation of a social field also requires the demarcation of boundaries, referred to in the science studies literature as “boundary work” (Gieryn, Cultural boundaries of science: Credibility on the line, 1999). We apply the idea of boundary work to understand how alternative market actors maintain boundaries between alternative and conventional markets. Finally, studies of collaboration in science have often centered on the object created through these interactions, an object that is partially material and partially a product of knowledge, what (Rheinberger, Toward a history of epistemic things: Synthesizing proteins in the test tube, 1997) calls an “epistemic object.” We use this idea to understand that the creation of alternative objects of exchange, such as organic food, are epistemic objects in that they combine both particular materialities and particular ways of knowing. Using these concepts, we will carry out a close analysis of the mode of governance in the national organic market, looking specifically a recent governance crisis in organic agriculture known as the Harvey lawsuit. (shrink)
Buying Local Organic Food: A Pathway to Transformative Learning. [REVIEW]Sarah Kerton & A. John Sinclair - 2010 - Agriculture and Human Values 27 (4):401-413.details
Food is a powerful symbol in the struggle to transition to a more sustainable pathway since the food choices citizens make have deep environmental and social impacts within their communities and around the world. Using transformative learning theory, this research explored the learning that took place among individual adults who consumed goods directly from local organic producers, and how this behavior affected their worldview. Learning was classified as instrumental, communicative, or transformative. Ultimately, we considered if the learning created lasting (...) change, directed toward a more sustainable society, among learners. Three different models of producer/consumer interfaces located in Atlantic Canada were considered: a market-garden operation, an education and outreach center, and a community shared agriculture project. It was found that all participants experienced some form of learning, either instrumental or communicative, through their participation in organic agriculture. Closing the gap between producer and consumer through direct contact with the farmer at a market, visiting the farm, or participating in food production oneself is both a desirable step in reaching a more sustainable lifestyle and a powerful learning tool in linking the consumer to a host of other environmental and social issues. (shrink)
Forces Impacting the Production of Organic Foods.Karen Klonsky - 2000 - Agriculture and Human Values 17 (3):233-243.details
Roughly 20 percent of organic cropland wasdevoted to produce compared to only 3 percent forconventional agriculture in 1995. At the otherextreme, only 6 percent of organic cropland was incorn production while 25 percent of all croplandproduced corn. Only 30 percent of all organicfarmland was in pasture and rangeland compared to 66percent of all farmland. Clearly, these differencesreflect the greater importance of meat and dairyproduction in agriculture overall than in the organicsubsector. In recent years, the organic (...) industry hasgrown not only in volume but in products offered,moving well beyond fresh produce into dairy, snacks,and frozen foods. The estimated growth in retail salesof organic foods averaged over 20 percent a year forthe last eight years compared to only two percent inthe food industry overall, reaching an estimated $4.5billion in 1998. The mix of commodities produced atthe farm level have and will continue to change inresponse to several dynamic forces, including consumerdemand, regulation, and consolidations, mergers, andmainstream entrants at the farm, manufacturing, andretail levels. Consumer demand for organic foods hasbeen spurred by a number of factors including concernsover pesticide residues on foods, food produced usinggenetically modified organisms (GMOs), and hormones indairy and meat products. These concerns coupled withthe overall increase in demand for convenience foodsexplain the phenomenal recent growth of over 70 percent in sales of organic snacks, candy, and frozenfoods. The result has been increased demand forGMO-free grains for snacks, cereals, soy products, andfeed for dairy cows. The recent allowance by USDA forthe labeling of meat and poultry as organic willaccelerate already heightened demand for organic grainand feed from the organic dairy industry. Although thefastest growth in organic foods has been in categoriesother than produce, clearly produce plays an importantrole in the consumers decision on where to shop, anddemand should increase with the overall increase inthe number of organic consumers. Market outlets nowinclude sophisticated natural food store chains,gourmet specialty stores, and e-commerce, allowing fora broadened array of products. Mainstream agriculturalproducers, manufacturers, and supermarket chains haveentered the organic marketplace at a time of lowprices for commodities at the farm gate, fiercecompetition for retail shelf space, and increasinglysophisticated targeting of consumers. Inevitably,these changes in food products offered and in retailoutlets will lead to an organic agriculture thatincreasingly resembles the conventional foodindustry. (shrink)
Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: A Collision of Two Spaces in Sustainable Agriculture.A. Deville, S. Wearing & M. McDonald - forthcoming - .details
The purpose of this paper is to offer a conceptual analysis of the space created by the Willing Workers on Organic Farms host as a part of the organic farming movement and how that space now collides with the idea of tourism heterotopias as the changing market sees WWOOFers who may be less motivated by organic farming and more by a cheaper form of holiday. The resulting contested space is explored looking at the role and delicate balance (...) of WWOOFing as a form of sustainable tourism in the context of socially constructed understandings of space. Poststructural concepts of space suggest that it is impermanent, fragile and under constant threat of change. Space is constantly produced and reproduced in the process, spaces become sites where struggle and contestation occur, in this instance as one discourse or discursive practice, namely WWOOFing, intersects with and is influenced by the more dominant capital centric discourse of mass tourism. (shrink)
The Role of the Concept of the Natural (Naturalness) in Organic Farming.Henk Verhoog, Mirjam Matze, Edith Lammerts van Bueren & Ton Baars - 2003 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 16 (1):29-49.details
Producers, traders, and consumers oforganic food regularly use the concept of thenatural (naturalness) to characterize organicagriculture and or organic food, in contrast tothe unnaturalness of conventional agriculture.Critics sometimes argue that such use lacks anyrational (scientific) basis and only refers tosentiment. In our project, we made an attemptto clarify the content and the use of theconcepts of nature and naturalness in organicagriculture, to relate this conception todiscussions within bioethical literature, andto draw the implications for agriculturalpractice and policy.Qualitative interviews were (...) executed with arange of people in the field of organicagriculture and with consumers of organicproducts, on the basis of a list of statementsabout the meaning of the concept of naturalnessformulated by the authors. Based on the resultsof the interviews, we distinguished 3 aspectsof the concept of naturalness: natural as theorganic (life processes), natural as theecological, and natural as referring to thecharacteristic nature of an entity. We relatedthese conceptual aspects to three mainapproaches within the field of organicagriculture: the no chemicals approach, theagro-ecological approach, and the integrityapproach. It became clear that these approachescan also be recognized in the change ofattitude of farmers as they convert fromconventional to organic agriculture, and in theattitudes of consumers of organic foodproducts. (shrink)
Ecology and Conservation Biology in Philosophy of Biology
Constructing “Green” Foods: Corporate Capital, Risk, and Organic Farming in Australia and New Zealand. [REVIEW]Stewart Lockie, Kristen Lyons & Geoffrey Lawrence - 2000 - Agriculture and Human Values 17 (4):315-322.details
Public concern over environmentalquality and food safety has culminated in thedevelopment of markets for “green” foods – foodsthat are variously construed as fresh, chemical-free,nutritious, natural, or produced in anenvironmentally-sustainable manner. Understanding theemergence of “green” foods is dependent on analysisboth of the ways in which foods are produced andprocessed, and of the meanings that are attached tothem at each stage of their production,transformation, and consumption. The notion of “green”foods is thereby understood here as a fluid andcontestable signifier that myriad actors involved (...) inthe production/consumption cycle may attempt to shapefor their own purposes. This paper explores corporate capital's recent attempts, through certification logosand advertising, to signify the “healthiness” andenvironmental virtues of organically-produced foods inAustralia and New Zealand. These attempts have not,however, been universally successful either in termsof gaining consumer interest, or in gaining agreementsbetween farmers, certifying organizations, andcapitalist firms over the meaning of “organic” and thepractice of “sustainable” agriculture. The experienceof corporate involvement in the organics industry isillustrative of yet-to-be-resolved processes ofreflexive modernization. As food production andtransformation continues to produce environmental andsocial risks, the question of just what makes food“green” will continue to be a source of social conflict. (shrink)
Bias in Peer Review of Organic Farming Grant Applications.Jesper Rasmussen, Vibeke Langer & Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe - 2006 - Agriculture and Human Values 23 (2):181-188.details
Peer reviews of 84 organic farming grant applications from Sweden were analyzed to determine whether the reviewers’ affiliation to one of two types of agriculture (i.e., organic and conventional) influenced their reviews. Fifteen reviewers were divided into three groups: (1) scientists with experience in organic farming research; (2) scientists with no experience in organic farming research; and (3) users of organic farming research. The two groups of scientists assessed the societal relevance and scientific quality (...) of the grant applications based on three criteria (i.e., presentation, methodology, qualifications), whereas the user group only assessed societal relevance. The analysis showed that the two groups of scientists provided very different reviews. Scientist reviewers with experience in organic farming research agreed more with the user group on research relevance than did scientist reviewers without such experience, and the assessment of relevance was closely correlated to the assessment of scientific quality within both scientific groups. As both scientific groups did not clearly distinguish between societal relevance and scientific quality, the idea of an objective science is challenged. The contextual values associated with the norms of good agriculture were not clearly distinguished from the constitutive values of science associated with the traditional norms of good science. This raises the question of whether organic and conventional grant applications should be mixed for review regardless of the reviewers. (shrink)
Cultivating Greater Well-Being: The Benefits Thai Organic Farmers Experience From Adopting Buddhist Eco-Spirituality.Alexander Harrow Kaufman & Jeremiah Mock - 2014 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 27 (6):871-893.details
Organic farming is spreading throughout Asia, including in Thailand. Little is known about whether farmers’ values change as they make the shift from conventional farming to organic farming. The benefits farmers perceive from making the shift have also scarcely been studied. We investigated these factors in Northeastern Thailand by conducting observations, key informant interviews, semi-structured interviews and questionnaire interviews. We found that as Thai farmers adopted organic methods, they developed an eco-consciousness. In comparing members of a Buddhist (...) temple-based organic farmer support group with members of a non-profit organic agriculture support group, we found that the temple-based group adopted deeper Buddhist eco-spiritual values while the non-profit group remained more commercially oriented. Farmers who adopted Buddhist eco-spiritual values enjoyed greater financial and health benefits from making the organic shift. A higher proportion of the temple-based group eliminated their debts after making the shift . Additionally, a higher proportion of members in the temple-based group felt that their physical health improved after becoming an organic farmer . Interestingly, the less debt farmers carried, the healthier they felt . Participants believed that eliminating the use of agro-chemicals, using organic fertilizers, consuming organic food, and increasing biodiversity on their farms also contributed to improving their health. We conclude that for Thai farmers who are devoutly committed to Buddhism, temple-based organic support programs provided an effective pathway to improving their finances, health and well-being. For Thai farmers generally, a fundamental adoption of eco-conscious values is integral to experiencing deeper non-commercial benefits from organic farming. Findings suggest that the expansion of organic farming systems depends on changing perspectives about well-being. (shrink)
Organic Farming-an Environmentally Sound Agriculture.Veena Gandotra, Promila Sharma & Meeta Agrawal - 2008 - In Kuruvila Pandikattu (ed.), Dancing to Diversity: Science-Religion Dialogue in India. Serials Publications. pp. 272.details
Milk in the Multiple: The Making of Organic Milk in Norway. [REVIEW]Stig Larssæther - 2011 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 24 (4):409-425.details
The current article looks into the development of an organic market segment in Norway by following organic milk and the controversies that have emerged in the trail of this morally infused artefact. In particular focus is the reformatting of organic milk around the turn of the millennium and the following attempts by various actors to make this product more accessible for a larger group of consumers. The approach favored in this undertaking is actor-network theory (ANT), which stresses (...) the distributed nature of moral agency and that human and non-human elements of actor networks should be given equal attention when accounting for societal practices. Economic narratives such as the sovereign consumer are also used to shed light on the constitution of organic milk as a moral object and the positioning of this product relative to products stemming from conventional agriculture. (shrink)
Foundations of Production and Consumption of Organic Food in Norway: Common Attitudes Among Farmers and Consumers? [REVIEW]Oddveig Storstad & Hilde Bjørkhaug - 2003 - Agriculture and Human Values 20 (2):151-163.details
In Norway, the production andconsumption of organic food is still small-scale. Research on attitudes towards organic farming in Norway has shown that most consumers find conventionally produced food to be “good enough.” The level of industrialization of agriculture and the existence of food scandals in a country will affect consumer demand for organically produced foods. Norway is an interesting case because of its small-scale agriculture, few problems with food-borne diseases, and low market share for organic (...) food. Similarities between groups of consumers and producers of food, organic and conventional, when it comes to attitudes concerning environment, use of gene technology, and animal welfare have implications for understanding market conditions for organically produced food. The results of our study indicate that organic farmers and organic consumers in Norway have common attitudes towards environmental questions and animal welfare in Norwegian agriculture. Conventional farmers have a higher degree of agreement with the way agriculture is carried out today. Unlike organic farmers and consumers, conventional farmers do not see major environmental problems and problems with animal welfare in today's farming system. But like the organic farmers and consumers, and to a stronger degree than conventional consumers, conventional farmers renounce gene technology as a solution to environmental problems in agriculture. These results are discussed in relation to their importance for the market situation for organically produced foods. (shrink)
Participatory Organic Certification in Mexico: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Integrity of the Organic Label. [REVIEW]Erin Nelson, Laura Gómez Tovar, Rita Schwentesius Rindermann & Manuel Ángel Gómez Cruz - 2010 - Agriculture and Human Values 27 (2):227-237.details
Over the past two decades the growth of the organic sector has been accompanied by a shift away from first party, or peer review, systems of certification and towards third party certification, in which a disinterested party is responsible for the development of organic standards and the verification of producer compliance. This paper explores some of the limitations of the third party certification model and presents the case of Mexico as an example of how an alternative form of (...) participatory certification has emerged. The paper suggests that participatory guarantee systems (PGS) are reflective of the growing “beyond organic” movement, which focuses on reconstructing the local and re-embedding food systems into their socio-ecological contexts. It argues that PGS offers a number of benefits for producers and consumers, particularly in the South, but that it faces a number of challenges as well, such as a lack of formal recognition, social conflicts and dependence on donated resources. (shrink)
Raising Organic: An Agro-Ecological Assessment of Grower Practices in California. [REVIEW]Julie Guthman - 2000 - Agriculture and Human Values 17 (3):257-266.details
As the organic food sector has grownand changed to become more mainstream, large-scaleconventional growers have entered into organicproduction. While it is increasingly clear that notall organic farms are self-sufficient small scaleunits that practice poly-cultural agronomy and sell inlocal marketing venues, there still exists apresumption that there are clear lines between thesmall scale ``movement'' farmers who followagro-ecological agronomic ideals and the relativelylarger and partly conventional newcomers who do not.This paper addresses a specific empirical issue, whichis the extent to which (...) California organic farmerspractice the techniques of ecological farming. Itillustrates that while there are some distinctdifferences in practices between larger and/orpart-conventional (i.e., mixed) growers and smallerand/or all-organic growers, it also shows that inalmost all cases, practices fall quite short ofagro-ecological ideals. By examining in more depth howgrowers follow particular agro-ecological principles,the paper also demonstrates that key variations arerelated to variables separate from scale. Some ofthese variables are geographic, ranging frombiophysical and climatic opportunities andconstraints, to regional norms and institutionalsupport. Mostly, however, variation is related to cropspecificities and the availability of efficacioustechnologies to deal with crop-specific problems. Thisso-called technology barrier crucially depends on howorganic is defined, and thus suggests the importanceof organic rules and regulations in shaping thepractices of organic production. (shrink)
Producing the Natural Fiber Naturally: Technological Change and the US Organic Cotton Industry. [REVIEW]Mrill Ingram - 2002 - Agriculture and Human Values 19 (4):325-336.details
Organic cotton productionboomed in the early 1990s only to fall steeplymid-decade. Production is currently rising, butslowly, and has yet to reach previous levels.This is in marked contrast to the steady growthin organic food production during the 1990s.Why, when other areas of organic productionexperienced steady growth, did organic cottonexperience a boom and bust? A study of thecotton production and processing industryreveals a long and heavily industrializedproduction chain that has presented numerouschallenges to growers and processors trying tointroduce an (...) organic product. In addition, muchof the surge in demand for organic cotton clothoriginated with clothing manufacturersresponding to increased consumer environmentalconcern and interest in improving theirenvironmental reputations. This demandevaporated when clothing companies encountereda lack of consumer awareness of theenvironmental costs of conventional cottonproduction and the benefits of organic cotton.Organic clothing lines were abandoned and manycotton farmers, left with no market for theirorganic bales, were forced to either store thebales or sell them on the conventional marketfor a loss. An examination of the social andtechnical aspects of organic cotton productionidentifies some of the critical variables, suchas the risks farmers face in agriculturalproduction, the organic standards, sources ofinnovation in technological change, and the roleof consumer demand in supporting moresustainable technology, all of which shape thecontinuing development of organic products. (shrink)
Social and Environmental Attributes of Food Products in an Emerging Mass Market: Challenges of Signaling and Consumer Perception, with European Illustrations. [REVIEW]Jean-Marie Codron, Lucie Siriex & Thomas Reardon - 2006 - Agriculture and Human Values 23 (3):283-297.details
This paper focuses on the environmental and ethical attributes of food products and their production processes. These two aspects have been recently recognized and are becoming increasingly important in terms of signaling and of consumer perception. There are two relevant thematic domains: environmental and social. Within each domain there are two movements. Hence the paper first presents the four movements that have brought to the fore new aspects of food product quality, to wit: (1) aspects of environmental ethics (organic (...) agriculture and integrated agriculture), and (2) social ethics (fair trade and ethical trade). Next, it describes how the actors in the movements (producers, retailers, NGOs, and governments) are organized and how consumers perceive each of the movements. From the perspective of the actors in the movements themselves, the movements are grouped into two “actors’ philosophies.” The first is a “radical” philosophy (the organic production and fair trade movements that arose in radical opposition to conventional agriculture or unfair trade relations), and the second is a “reformist” philosophy (the integrated agriculture and ethical trade movements that arose as efforts to modify but not radically change conventional agriculture). From the point of view of consumers, the classification of the movements is based on perceptions of the “domain” of the movements. That is, consumers tend to perceive the organic production movement and the integrated agricultural movement as a single group because they both deal with the environment. By contrast, consumers tend to group the fair trade movement and the ethical trade movement together because they both deal essentially with social ethics. Recently, key players such as large retailers and agribusinesses have adopted as part of their overall quality assurance programs both environmental and ethical attributes. Their involvement in and adoption of the goals of the movements have, however, generated tensions and conflicts. This is particularly true within the radical movements, because of concerns of cooptation. Finally, the paper identifies challenges faced by those promoting food products with environmental and social/ethical attributes as they attempt to communicate coherent signals to consumers at this crucial moment in the emergence of a mass market for these products. (shrink)
Using Global Organic Markets to Pay for Ecologically Based Agricultural Development in China.Paul Thiers - 2005 - Agriculture and Human Values 22 (1):3-15.details
Between Ideals and Reality: Development and Implementation of Fairness Standards in the Organic Food Sector. [REVIEW]Melanie Kröger & Martina Schäfer - 2014 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 27 (1):43-63.details
The organic sector is in an ongoing, but somewhat ambiguous, process of differentiation. Continuing growth has also entailed intensified competition and the emergence of conventional structures within the sector. Producers are under pressure to adapt their terms of production to these developments, bearing the risk that the original values and principles of organic farming may become irrelevant. To confront these tendencies and maintain their position on the market, organic producers and processors have launched a number of (...) class='Hi'>organic–fair initiatives. As some consumers attach importance to ethical aspects of consumption, these actors sense market opportunities in such quality differentiation. This article presents results of a study on current organic–fair criteria, as formulated by such initiatives. All of them define standards of distributive, procedural and informational fairness, with fair prices for producers and processors and long-term agreements being core standards. We show that distributive and procedural fairness are closely linked. Although organic–fair initiatives and their main protagonists focus on external fairness, such as fair prices for farmers, thus far internal concerns, such as minimum wages or employee involvement, are of less importance. The initiatives exemplify the differentiation of quality-oriented organic food producers in highly competitive markets. They have the potential to revitalise the original values of the sector and contribute significantly to ethical standardization therein. In order to make a substantial contribution to future development of the sector, a critical examination of aspects of internal fairness as well as the formulation of appropriate standards in this field is recommended. (shrink)
Agents' Perceptions of Structure: How Illinois Organic Farmers View Political, Economic, Social, and Ecological Factors. [REVIEW]Leslie A. Duram - 2000 - Agriculture and Human Values 17 (1):35-48.details
Various structural factors influenceorganic farmer decision-making. Analyses that combinestructure and agency provide an opportunity forunderstanding farmers' perceptions of the political,economic, and social ``world'' in which they operate.Rich conversational interviews, conducted with twentycertified organic farmers in Illinois and analyzedwith multiple qualitative methods, show how farmersmediate structural concerns. In addition to political,economic, and social structures, a fourth structure isneeded. Indeed these organic farmers emphasize theimportance of ecological factors in theirdecision-making. Within the perceived economic,political, social, and ecological structures, numeroustopics (i.e., marketing, (...) policy, family, ecosystems)and subtopics (i.e., diversification, farm programs,traditions, soils) exist. Farmers' quotations providedetailed information of how they view and mediatestructures in their daily on-farm decision-making. (shrink)
Economics and Energetics of Organic and Conventional Farming.David Pimentel - 1993 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 6 (1):53-60.details
The use of organic farming technologies has certain advantages in some situations and for certain crops such as maize; however, with other crops such as vegetables and fruits, yields under organic production may be substantially reduced compared with conventional production. In most cases, the use of organic technologies requires higher labor inputs than conventional technologies. Some major advantages of organic production are the conservation of soil and water resources and the effective recycling of livestock wastes when (...) they are available. (shrink)
Farm and Market Structure, Industrial Regulation and Rural Community Welfare: Conceptual and Methodological Issues. [REVIEW]Rick Welsh - 2009 - Agriculture and Human Values 26 (1-2):21-28.details
The Goldschmidt Hypothesis posits that rural community welfare is negatively associated with the scale of farms surrounding them. The intervening mechanism that links a farm structure dominated by larger farms to negative rural community welfare outcomes is polarized class structure. There have been a number of studies that have found support for the basic relationship between increasing farm scale and negative rural community outcomes. However, since Walter Goldschmidt’s original study was completed in the 1940s, the agricultural market and farming structures (...) have changed dramatically. Market structure is now more differentiated than in previous decades. Vertical and horizontal integration, contract production, organic and other specialty markets, and direct marketing are examples of new marketing forms that have emerged over the past few decades. In addition, as farm and market structure have shifted, some states have enacted public policy to forestall negative outcomes related to the industrialization of agriculture. Previous studies which measured the effects on rural community welfare from the structure of the surrounding farming sector have been valuable contributions to the development of the sociology of agriculture and have led to increased understanding of agriculture and rural development. However, a new generation of studies should be undertaken to address the impacts of changing market structure as well as assess public policy attempts to mitigate negative impacts of agricultural industrialization. To that end I present a discussion of conceptual and methodological issues related to such a research program. And I offer a conceptual model intended to be useful in guiding future research in this area. (shrink)
Organic Food Demand: A Focus Group Study Involving Caucasian and African-American Shoppers. [REVIEW]Lydia Zepeda, Hui-Shung Chang & Catherine Leviten-Reid - 2006 - Agriculture and Human Values 23 (3):385-394.details
A focus group study using four groups of food shoppers provides insights into consumers’ knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors regarding organic foods. Two focus groups consisted of shoppers who regularly bought organic foods and two focus groups of shoppers who predominantly purchased conventional foods. Participants in one of the conventional groups were all Caucasian; in the other they were all African-American. While familiarity with organic foods was much lower in the African-American group, its members were more receptive and (...) positive towards organic foods. Likewise, the African-American shoppers were more accepting of price premiums for organics foods. In comparing the two organic shopper groups with the two conventional shopper groups, it was found that the former were generally more knowledgeable about organic foods. They were also more likely to follow a special diet than conventional Caucasian shoppers. However, the behavior of organic shoppers varied widely. The research supports examining social justice and access as motivations for changing policies to support organic agriculture. (shrink)
How Organic Farmers View Their Own Practice: Results From the Czech Republic. [REVIEW]Lukas Zagata - 2010 - Agriculture and Human Values 27 (3):277-290.details
This paper addresses the development of organic agriculture in the Czech Republic, which is seen as a success story among post-communist countries. The relatively short history of organic farming and specific contextual factors raises questions about the nature and meaning of Czech organic farming. The goal of this study was to find out how farmers view their own practice, interpret its symbolic value, and construct its content. This empirical study uses Q methodology aimed at the identification (...) of the collectively-shared perspectives belonging engaged actors. Data were gathered through semi-standardized interviews with Czech farmers registered in official organic scheme. The analysis emphasized three components, which are considered as three distinct perspectives possessed by organic farmers; that is, (1) organic farming as a way of life, (2) as an occupation, and (3) as a production of food of an alternative quality compared to conventional food. Each viewpoint entails a different understanding of what organic farming means; each then—when considered together—comprises the meaning of organic agriculture in the Czech Republic. The presented classification of the farmers holding the viewpoints contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion regarding the nature of the current organic sector, its development and potential conventionalization. (shrink)
Conventionalization of the Organic Sesame Network From Burkina Faso: Shrinking Into Mainstream. [REVIEW]Laurent C. Glin, Arthur P. J. Mol & Peter Oosterveer - 2013 - Agriculture and Human Values 30 (4):539-554.details
This research examines the structure and development of the organic sesame network from Burkina Faso to explain the declining trend in organic sesame export. The paper addresses particularly the question whether the organic sesame network is structurally (re)shaped as a conventional mainstream market or whether it still presents a real alternative to conventional sesame production and trade. It is found that over the last decade organic sesame is increasingly incorporated into mainstream market channels. But contrary to (...) the well-known case of conventionalization in California, where organic agriculture grew into mainstream agro-food arrangements, this study illustrates a case where organic sesame agriculture shrank into mainstream agro-food arrangements. The weak coherence between the production and marketing nodes in the organic sesame chain resulted in failures to vertically mediate information, balance power relationships in and across sesame chains, build trust, and limit price volatility and speculation, resulting in a shrinking organic sesame market. For developing a viable alternative to conventional sesame trading, relations between production and trading nodes in the organic networks need to be strengthened through public–private partnerships, combined with other public and legal reinforcement. (shrink)
Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture a Course of Lectures Held at Koberwitz, Silesia, June 7 to June 16, 1924. [REVIEW]Rudolf Steiner & Malcolm Gardner - 1993details
Farming Alone? What’s Up with the “C” in Community Supported Agriculture.Antoinette Pole & Margaret Gray - 2013 - Agriculture and Human Values 30 (1):85-100.details
This study reconsiders the purported benefits of community found in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Using an online survey of members who belong to CSAs in New York, between November and December 2010, we assess members’ reasons for joining a CSA, and their perceptions of community within their CSA and beyond. A total of 565 CSA members responded to the survey. Results show an overwhelming majority of members joined their CSA for fresh, local, organic produce, while few respondents joined (...) their CSA to build community, meet like-minded individuals or share financial risk with farmers. Members reported that they do not derive a strong sense of community from either their CSA or other forms of community, yet they volunteered at their CSA and appear to be engaged in activities within their communities, though the frequency of the latter is unknown. These data suggest New York CSAs are oriented toward the instrumental and functional models, which emphasize the economic aspects of farming rather than collaborative models, which foster community (Feagan and Henderson 2009). (shrink)
Food Security and Biodiversity: Can We Have Both? An Agroecological Analysis. [REVIEW]Michael Jahi Chappell & Liliana A. LaValle - 2011 - Agriculture and Human Values 28 (1):3-26.details
We present an extensive literature review exploring the relationships between food insecurity and rapid biodiversity loss, and the competing methods proposed to address each of these serious problems. Given a large and growing human population, the persistence of widespread malnutrition, and the direct and significant threats the expanding agricultural system poses to biodiversity, the goals of providing universal food security and protecting biodiversity seem incompatible. Examining the literature shows that the current agricultural system already provides sufficient food on a worldwide (...) basis, but in doing so methodically undermines the capacity of agroecosystems to preserve biodiversity. However, the available evidence emphasizes the interdependence of biodiversity and agriculture, and the important role each plays in the maintenance of the other. Thus, our review supports the claim that the solutions to the problems of widespread food insecurity and biodiversity loss need not be mutually exclusive, and that it may be possible to address both using appropriate alternative agricultural practices. (shrink)
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The Power of Food.Philip McMichael - 2000 - Agriculture and Human Values 17 (1):21-33.details
In the developmentalist era,industrialization has simultaneously transformedagriculture and degraded its natural and culturalbase. Food production and consumption embodies thecontradictory aspects of this transformation. Thispaper argues that the crisis of development hasgenerated two basic responses: (1) the attempt toredefine development as a global project, includingharnessing biotechnology to resolve the food securityquestion, and (2) a series of countermovementsattempting to simultaneously reassert the value oflocal, organic foods, and challenge the attempt on thepart of food corporations and national and globalinstitutions to subject the (...) food question to marketsolutions. It is proposed that the power of food liesin its material and symbolic functions of linkingnature, human survival, health, culture and livelihoodas a focus of resistance to corporate takeover of lifeitself. (shrink)
Visions of the Middle Landscape: Organic Farming and the Politics of Nature. [REVIEW]Timothy Vos - 2000 - Agriculture and Human Values 17 (3):245-256.details
The proposed federal regulation oforganic agriculture in the United States raisesquestions both about the nature and character oforganic farming, as well as its relation to theagro-food system at large. The regulatory process hasengendered a public debate about conventional andalternative approaches to agricultural production,which in turn raises issues of environmental politicsand society-nature relations. An analysis oftranscripts from public hearings, organic farmingmovement literature, and interviews with organicpractitioners and advocates reveals the broaderecological, social, and political ramifications. Inexamining the proposed federal rule (...) and its criticalopposition, we encounter two different worldviews; twoconflicting visions of agriculture, rural life, andnature itself. Whether this is a fundamental impasse,or a controversy that can be fruitfully resolved,remains an open question. But organic farming hasarrived at a critical juncture, both fraught withperil, and full of opportunity. The enormous publicresponse to this issue indicates the renewed potentialon the part of civil society to participate ingrassroots environmental social movements in supportof alternative agriculture. (shrink)
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New Nephrology Care Alliance empowers physicians to Deliver Value-Based Care to Patients with Kidney Disease
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Leslie Wong, to Join Alliance as Clinical Leader
DENVER, Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The recently announced Nephrology Care Alliance (NCA), a platform seeking to empower more physicians to succeed in integrated kidney care, is excited to be joined by Dr. Leslie Wong as its first chief medical officer.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients are a complex patient population and caring for the needs of these patients requires putting the nephrologist at the center of any value-based care model. "Nephrologists are essential players in managing kidney disease throughout the continuum of care, starting with CKD. Through NCA, we hope to develop new specialty care models to treat the unique needs of these patients," said Leslie Wong, M.D.
Most recently, Dr. Wong was a practicing physician at the Cleveland Clinic, holding several leadership positions including associate medical director of the Medicare Accountable Care Organization, vice chairman of nephrology, with emphasis on clinical transformation and director of the ESRD Program and Center of Dialysis.
Dr. Wong will be working closely with the NCA physician advisory board, and other NCA sub-committees to engage the community of over 600 nephrologists nationally, up from 500 following the announcement of NCA on Oct. 31. "We are excited to have Dr. Wong, a widely recognized leader in nephrology care and practice, join Nephrology Care Alliance as its chief medical officer," said Allen R. Nissenson, M.D., FACP, chief medical officer for DaVita Kidney Care. "Dr. Wong brings extensive experience and expertise in physician leadership, value-based care, care model transformation, quality improvement and cost management."
About Nephrology Care Alliance
Nephrology Care Alliance is a physician-provider partnership that seeks to empower nephrologists through new payment models, data and tools to engage patients and better manage chronic kidney disease. NCA aims to ensure that physician partners succeed in new value-based kidney care models. A primary goal for the group is to reduce high-cost and high-risk incidences for patients. To learn more about Nephrology Care Alliance, visit nephrologycarealliance.com and follow @NephAlliance on Twitter.
Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding future plans or performance of the Company, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations. Various important factors could cause actual results to differ materially, including the risks identified in our SEC filings. The Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement contained in this press release.
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news August 3, 2019
Waste-Based Power Plant Putri Cempo Solo Funded by PT SMI
The financing of the Waste-Based Power Plant (PLTSa) project at the Putri Cempo Final Disposal Site (TPA) in Jebres District, Solo, met a bright spot. From the offer of three prospective creditors, the Management of PT Solo Citra Metro Plasma Power (SCMPP) as the manager of Putri Cempo PLTSa chose domestic investment to finance the project.
PT SCMPP’s Managing Director, Erlan Syuherlan, said that he had already received three proposals. The three potential investors are PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI), China Construction Bank, and Korea Development Bank. The three are targeted to provide funding for the first phase of PLTSa construction. From the three proposals, the offer is almost the same.
“But based on several considerations, PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI) was finally chosen,” he said, to reporters after the Financial Close PLTSa coordination meeting at Solo City Hall, Thursday (1/8).
Erlan explained, some of these considerations included, the size of the loan, the period of installments and the percentage of interest. One of the reasons PT SMI was chosen because of its status as a State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN). “So it’s only natural that SMI participates in developing the country,” he added.
PT SCMPP projects that the construction of Putri Cempo PLTSa requires a budget of around 58 million US dollars. The deadline for seeking financing (financial close) ends in March 2020.
PLTSa construction is planned to take place in two stages. The first phase PLTSa is projected to be able to produce electricity at 5 megawatts (MW) per hour. The first phase of construction requires a capital injection of around US$ 23 million or around IDR 330 billion.
“Later the investment value is approximately 70 percent of the total budget needs,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Mayor of Solo, FX Hadi Rudyatmo, said that the City Government had submitted a request for waste processing fees (BPLS) for the operation of Putri Cempo PLTSa to the central government. The City Government asked for BPLS assistance of IDR 400 thousand per ton of waste.
Based on Presidential Regulation No. 35 Year 2018 concerning the Acceleration of the Construction of Waste Processing Installation into Electric Energy Based on Environment-Friendly Technology, the central government can help a maximum of IDR 500 thousand per ton of garbage per day. “Well, we ask that this is smaller than the maximum limit,” he said.
SMI Will Issue Bonds and Sukuk with a Total IDR 5.096 Trillion
Strengthen SDGs, PT SMI Collaborates With Bloomberg Philanthropies
One Decade, SMI Spend Fund Rp1,151.8 Trillion for Infrastructure Projects
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Malaria genus
plasmodium
Malaria species
P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. Olvae, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi
Malaria spread through...
malaria is spread through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito
Malaria cases
80% in Africa, 12% in Southeast Asia, and 5% in the Eastern Mediterranean region of WHO Africa. 90% of malaria deaths are in Africa. Pregnant women who contract malaria are at high risk of giving birth to low birthweight children.
Addressing Burden of Malaria
-Prompt treatment of those infected, based on confirmed diagnosis
-Long-lasting insecticide-treated bednets for people living in malarial zones
-Indoor residual spraying of the homes of people in malarial zones
-Artemisnin based combination therapies (ACT) for treating uncomplicated malaria caused by P. falciparum and for treating P. vivax infections that are not responsive to chloroquine.
Diarrheal Disease
-Diarrheal diseases most significantly impact the poor, especially children in low- and middle-income countries.
-Diarrheal disease mortality has decreased significantly in the past 30 years. Largely due to improved nutrition of infants better disease recognition by families and healthcare providers, improved care seeking, appropriate use of oral rehydration therapy, increasing rates of coverage of the measles vaccine
-Diarrheal diseases are the cause of the 10% of all deaths of children under 5 in low- middle- income countries, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Addressing the Burden of Diarrhea
-exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months
-improved complementary feeding
-rotavirus immunization
-increased measles immunizations
-prevention strategy is improving access to safe water supply and sanitation
-proper hand washing
-oral rehydration therapy
-zinc supplementation
-antibiotics can be given for bloody diarrhea
-relatively little financial support was provided until recently to address NTDs
-affect about one in six people in the world and about 500 million children
-NTDs are diseases of poverty
-prevalent in subtropical and climates
-women and children who live in unhygienic environments limited access to clean water and sanitary methods of waste disposal face the biggest threat of NTDs
-people engaged in farming
-harbor many of the parasites and worms that cause NTDs
-people who rely on rivers for drinking and bathing are more likely to be affected
-individuals whose labor or domestic shores are centered on freshwater sources are more likely to contract NTDs
-Children of preschool age have the greatest number of worms
Consequences of the Neglected Tropical Diseases
-helminthic infections are generally associated with ab pain, loss of appetite, malnutrition, diarrhea and anemia.
-worsen then effects of other major infectious disease
-social stigma
-productivity
Policy: Chikungunya Fever
-mosquito-borne disease
-Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes
-2004 major outbreaks in Kenya and spread
-Clinical presentation of the disease has remained consistent, symptoms include headaches, back pain, nausea, vomiting, rash, high fever, and severe joint pain, fatigue, and depression
-the groups most at risk for developing a severe form of the disease are newborns and people over 65
-transmitting it during pregnancy is rare, fetuses that develop of are typically asymptomatic at birth and then develop fever, pain, rash, and swelling
-transmitting between onset and childbirth is high
-Individuals over the age of 65 have a 50x higher mortality rate
-two main vectors: Aedes albopticus and aedes aegypti, both use water-filled breeding sites to reproduce and thrive in areas lacking piped water
-Dramatically spreading its geographical range because it can establish itself in places far from original site of infection because it can be maintained locally in a mosquito-human-mosquito cycle. Aedes mosquitos, principle vectors of the disease are present all over the world. Once exposed to virus individuals will develop long lasting immunity that will protect them against rain reinfection
-Antibiotics are ineffective against the virus
-Most important prevention technique is to stop mosquito bites. Sleeping under insecticide-treated bednet, staying away artificial light at night, using insect repellant, long pants and shirt.
-Triage system to facilitate the flow of patients
Policy: The Ebola Outbreak of 2014 and 2015
-Flu like symptoms, diarrhea, vomiting, and massive hemorrhaging
-DRC, Uganda, South Sudan, ROC, Gabon
-risks factor- exposure to dead animals
-West African Outbreak 2014: Largest outbreak of the disease, viral strain is Zaire ebolavirus
-Community education about safe home care and burial practices, proper hospital safety and sanitation procedures, case management and isolation, laboratory confirmation of cases, and active disease surveillance.
-Four challenges: poor public health surveillance and border control, lack of regional experience and education about the disease. International response was late and initially insufficient
-High border permeability
-Healthcare staff was affected: Inadequate supplies
-Burial ceremonies (Guinea)
-Ebola response roadmap: WHO plan for the end of the outbreak in 6-9 months.
Policy: Cryptococcosis
-Caused by fungus Cryptococcus that results in respiratory illness or meningitis
-Fungus is present in soil types across the world and generally enters body by being inhaled and infecting lungs or brain
-Growing incidence worldwide especially in HIV positive adults in low income countries where there is limited access to antiretroviral medication
-WHO and South African cryptococcal disease testing guidelines are only a few years old
-Countries must quickly scale up implementation of testing and treatment guidelines in order to avoid significant deaths due to opportunistic infection in HIV/AIDS patients
Policy: A comprehensive approach to Tuberculosis: Operation ASHA and the Last-Mile Pipeline
-For many years India has had the largest number of TB cases of any country in the world.
-Operation ASHA launched in 2006
-Each treatment center consists of two primary points of contact: a community DOTS provider (CDP) and a provider
-Counselors are local community members trained to recognize the symptoms of TB and implement DOTS
-If a patient is found to be positive, a local hospital physician gives patient a prescription. Counselors then revisit the homes of those diagnosed with TB and seek to sign with the patient an agreement that they will take the drugs for 6 months
-Death rate for TB decreased
-Emphasis on community
Policy: Public-Private Partnerships for Addressing Drug-Resistant TB
-Lilly flagship CSR program-public private partnership
-Partnership launched to support WHO's goal of treating 20,000 MDR-TB patients annually by 2010, a goal that was met 3 years earlier
-TB can not be conquered by medication alone. Implemented community level programs in over 80 countries to raise awareness about MDR-TB, increase access to treatment, ensure correct completion of treatment, and empower patients by eliminating the stigma of the disease
-Trains healthcare workers to recognize, treat, monitor, and prevent the further spread of MDR-TB
-Distribution of TB workplace toolkits to help organizations rapidly implement TB control programs to thousands of companies worldwide
-providing valuable input and support into the devlopment and implementation of regional and national TB programs in CHINA, INDIA, RUSSIA, and SOUTH AFRICA
-Lower death rates, raise cure rates, better adherence to treatment, and increased TB and MDR-TB awareness
Policy: Long-Term Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS
-An international consortium of partners, called aids2031 was established to examine the future of HIV/AIDS
-Nine international and multidisciplinary working groups established to carry out work of aids2031
-Working Group on costs and Financing carried out its work on three levels: prepared a global estimate of costs and financing broadly across a number of countries, working group examined the long term costs and financing of HIV/AIDS efforts in greater detail in each of those countries, and apply and validate at the national level the costing, priority setting, and financial mobilization tools developed by aids2031
Long-Term Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS: Global view
-aids 2031 project estimated that globally (between 2009-2031) HIV?AIDS will cost 397 billion and 722 billion
-Four different scenarios to project costs: current trends, rapid scale-up, hard choices, and structural change
Long-Term Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS: Cambodia Case Study
-Low prevalence, low income country
-made enormous progress against epidemic
-90% dependent on Cambodia's devlopment partners, and it appeared that these partners would not sustain this level of financing much longer
-Study team developed six scenarios to explore epidemiological challenges
-analysis indicated that current HIV/AIDS program in Cambodia is likely to lead to further declines in HIV prevalence and incidence over the next two decades
-Only worst case scenario did not have downward trend
-Cambodia needs to invest in most cost effective methods- could face challenges if developing partners back out
Long-Term Costs and Financing of HIV/AIDS: South Africa Case Study
-Exceptionally high rate of prevalence of HIV the large number of new infections annually (as a middle income country), the enormous costs of treating all those infected, the need to understand how the costs will be financed
-Cost effectiveness studies of prevention interventions are needed to pursue the most cost-effective approaches and to inform key policy decisions
Case Study: Preventing HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Thailand
-Director of a regional office for communicable disease control sought to curb AIDS by making sex brothels safe
-No condom, no sex
-Pilot program brought down STIs in Ratchaburi in just a few months
-Condom use in brothels increased, did little to encourage condom use in noncommercial sex
Case Study: Controlling TB in China
-Although China established national TB program in 1981, inadequate financial support hindered its success
-10 year infectious and endemic disease control project. Project adopted DOTS (directly observed therapy, short course) strategy
-Individuals demonstrating TB symptoms were referred to county dispensaries, where they received free diagnosis and treatment
-Village doctors were given financial incentives for enrolling patients and completing their treatment
-Quarterly reports were submitted by each county to the province, the central government, and the National TB project office
-success can be attributed to strong political commitment, leadership, funding, and a technical approach
-overall rate of case detection proved disappointing
Case Study: Controlling Chagas Disease in the Southern Cone of South America
-Chagus disease (American trypanosomiasis) was Latin America's most serious parasitic infection in the early 1990s
-Parasites are found in the feces of "kissing bugs" that live within in poor, rural areas and emerge at night to suck human blood
-Control program in 1991 called INCOSUR was launched to bolster national resolve and precent cross-border infestations
-Homes were sprayed
-screening of blood donors is universal in 10 south american countries
-number of deaths from the disease halved
Case Study: Controlling Trachoma in Morocco
-Second leading cause of blindness after cataracts
-Caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis
-Highly contagious, spreading mainly among children through direct contact with eye and nose secretions, infected clothing, and fluid seeking flies.
-In 1991 Morocco formed National Blindness
Control Program to eliminate trachoma by 2005
-SAFE emphasized behavioral and environmental change, in addition to medication
-Four part surgery was provided to many patients
-Antibiotics used to treat illness and prevent scarring
-In mid 1990s Pfizer discovered medication and donated the drug for morocco
What is the percentage of preventable diseases in low-middle income countries?
31% death 40% DALYS
Directly observed therapy, short course. Cost effective
Addressing Malaria
Prompt diagnosis and treatment, intermittent treatment of pregnant women, use of insecticide and bednets, and indoor residual spraying
Reducing burden of diarrhea
-immunization against rotavirus and measles supplementation with zinc
-Oral rehydration therapy is a cost effective way of managing diarrhea in infants and children.
-Best approach would be to avoid it through improved hygiene
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A Day in the Life of Hank the Therapy Dog
August 26, 2016 | Patient Care, Patient Stories, Pediatric Surgery
Author: Anna Altavas 5 Comments
Ever wonder what it’s like to walk in the ‘shoes’, or rather the ‘paw prints’, of a furry friend? In honor of National Dog Day, On the Pulse is featuring one of the incredible canine and human companion pairs that bring joy and comfort to the hospital each week through Seattle Children’s Visiting Dog Program.
Hank, the 5-year-old, 78-pound Old English sheepdog, may seem like an unlikely visitor strolling through the colorful halls of Seattle Children’s, but he’s there for one important reason — to put as many smiles on the faces of young patients as possible.
The shaggy canine with a slow strut makes his rounds visiting patients in different units of the hospital every other Thursday of the month alongside his trusty human companion, Tom Whalen.
During their visits, the “Tom Hanks” duo carry a celebrity-like status, frequently being stopped in the hallways by patients, parents and staff for a quick pet on the head or simple greeting.
From his calm demeanor, soulful stare and wag of the tail each time he encounters someone, it’s clear that Hank, a registered therapy dog who has been visiting the hospital for two years, is skilled in comforting those that he meets.
Whalen said he understands that for some kids, the stress of a hospital stay can be overwhelming; especially for those whose stays last weeks or even months due to the need for significant medical care. But, he believes a visit from a therapy dog like Hank can help patients experience joy, even in the midst of challenging circumstances, and provide them with energy and motivation to aid in their healing process.
“The fuzzy feeling Hank provides reaches far beyond the surface of these kids’ hands,” said Whalen. “We are able to give them a new focus aside from what they are currently feeling. It’s amazing to see the positive shift in energy for both the patient and their family after Hank walks in.”
An unbreakable bond leads to a healing paw
Hank and his human companion, Tom Whalen, visit the hospital every other Thursday.
This dynamic duo is just one of nine six-legged teams that Christi Dudzik, Visiting Dog Program Coordinator in Seattle Children’s Child Life Department, leads. She and her yellow Labrador, Paddy, make frequent visits to the hospital as well.
“Teamwork is key in the relationship between a therapy dog and its owner,” said Dudzik. “It’s not just about the dog — there needs to be a strong connection between both ends of the leash.”
This connection was immediate the very first day Whalen laid eyes on Hank as a bushy 9-pound puppy. With his laid-back, loving temperament, Whalen felt like he couldn’t have been luckier in finding the perfect dog.
Hank soon became Whalen’s travel and sightseeing companion, driving thousands of miles across the country to visit friends and family and making pit stops along the way to famous landmarks like Mount Rushmore.
It was not long until Hank’s relentless patience and gentle nature sparked the idea for Whalen that he should become a therapy dog so he could spread joy to those who needed it most.
Whalen also understood the challenges of spending time in a hospital. When he was just 9-years-old, his brother was diagnosed with leukemia. He spent several years visiting his brother at a children’s hospital in Southern California where he grew up.
Hank makes a pit stop to see Mount Rushmore.
“I remember how my brother loved having visitors,” recalls Whalen. “This is part of the reason why I love visiting kids at Seattle Children’s. I’m able to see the amazing affect Hank and I can have. I’ve even seen patients whose parents have told me that their child had not smiled or laughed in days or weeks, but as soon as Hank walked in, they lit up with sheer joy.”
In ‘puparation’ for a visit
The hospital requires a therapy dog to be bathed 24-48 hours prior to a visit due to infection control. Luckily, Hank enjoys bath time and perks up the minute he sees Whalen spread out towels on his bathroom floor meant to soak up the expected overflow of water.
After the bath and brushing his long luxurious locks, Whalen carefully places a bright orange Seattle Children’s bandana around Hank’s neck, which indicates it’s go-time.
Once at the hospital, the duo receives a list of patients who are awaiting a visit from a furry friend. Then they’re off to do what they do best.
On this particular evening, the pair is stopped by a mom walking down the hall who is taken by Hank’s irresistible charm. As she bends down to pet Hank with a grin from ear-to-ear, she said, “He’s such a cutie! You have to visit my daughter — it would make her day!”
Never turning down a visit, the pair was on their way.
A ‘fur-ever’ friend, the ‘pawsitive’ effect of a therapy dog
Isabella Antoun, 13, glows during her visit with Hank.
Jo-Anne Antoun’s 13-year-old daughter, Isabella, was admitted to the hospital after she felt an uncomfortable pain in her abdomen. It turned out that she had appendicitis and developed a large abscess, which needed to be treated by pediatric surgeons immediately.
After the surgery, Isabella needed to stay at the hospital for a few days to fully recover. Antoun said that Isabelle was feeling down and was anxious to go home.
However, as soon as Whalen knocked on the door and Hank trotted in, Isabella’s eyes widened and her face glowed with pure joy.
Hank gently walked over to her and laid his large head on the side of her bed as an invitation to pet his freshly-groomed mane.
Isabella cheerfully uttered, “Wow, he’s so fluffy and friendly!”
Antoun was ecstatic to see the change in her daughter’s mood during and after Hank’s visit.
“Hank was adorable — he lifted our family’s mood and took the time to interact with all of us in the room. Hank is amazing.”
Whalen said this type of reaction is common and is why they do what they do.
“Some of the reactions I’ve witnessed are remarkable,” said Whalen. “We once visited a patient that had been unresponsive, but a gentle stroke of Hank’s hair encouraged movement and interaction that their family hadn’t seen in days. Hank has also consoled families in distress, and on occasion, has transformed tears of sadness to tears of joy. I am just in awe of Hanks ability to help heal and I am honored to be on the other end of his leash, helping to brighten these kids’ day.”
To see Tom and Hank talk about their experience volunteering as one of Seattle Children’s visiting dog teams on KING 5’s New Day Northwest, watch A Day in the Life of a Therapy Dog.
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Duanette Collins says:
I adore Hank. God put animals on this earth to help us and he is doing just that. Keep it up Hank.
Cecile Manalo says:
Thanks for bringing Hank to this hospital he’s adorable and it makes them smile every time they see him! Love you Hank from Alaska!
Trista Vanderveeer says:
Hank was a great dog! He loved everyone! WAY TO GO HANK!!!
Hank loved everyone, he was so kind. WAY TO GO HANK!!!
Jillian Hay says:
Hank was so kind to many kids. my family lived right next to him. he wanted every one to be happy. my dog was his best friend. we knew that he was some thing special to all of us. in third grade he came to my class for my birth day. he is some thing that every one will love. we miss you hank.
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SWAT 1: what effects do site visits by the principal investigator have on recruitment in a multicentre randomized trial?
Valerie Smith, Mike Clarke, Declan Devane, Cecily Begley, Gillian W Shorter, Lisa Maguire
The SWAT (Study Within A Trial) programme has been established to develop a series of studies that would embed research within research, so as to resolve uncertainties about the effects of different ways of designing, conducting, analyzing and interpreting evaluations of health and social care. It was described in an Education piece in the Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine in 2012. We have now prepared the first example of the design summary for a SWAT, using the template that will be used for other SWAT. This is presented in this article.
Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine
Smith, V., Clarke, M., Devane, D., Begley, C., Shorter, G. W., & Maguire, L. (2013). SWAT 1: what effects do site visits by the principal investigator have on recruitment in a multicentre randomized trial? Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 6, 136-137.
Smith, Valerie ; Clarke, Mike ; Devane, Declan ; Begley, Cecily ; Shorter, Gillian W ; Maguire, Lisa. / SWAT 1: what effects do site visits by the principal investigator have on recruitment in a multicentre randomized trial?. In: Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. 2013 ; Vol. 6. pp. 136-137.
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PEEK: Electrical Characteristics of the Suspension Insulator — II
Publication: American Institute Of Electrical Engineers
vol. 39, no. 7, p. 623-630, col. 1-2
Electrical Characteristics of the Suspension Insulator--II.
The Line Insulator at the Higher Voltages
BY F. W. PEEK, Jr.
General Electric Co., Pittsfield, Mass.
IT is the purpose of this paper to review the duties of the line insulator at voltages above 100 kv. and compare them with the duties imposed by the lower voltages. It seems desirable to do this at the present time in order to predict the reliability of future high-voltage lines as compared with those at present in operation, and to point out what changes, if any, are necessary in present practise. The discussion is based in general upon data and operating experiences of many investigations and, in particular, upon extensive investigations made by the author during the last few years. Quite complete data on that phase of the author's investigation dealing with voltage distribution will be given.
At the present voltages the problem is primarily a mechanical one. Mechanically, porcelain would never be selected as a line support. It is unreliable in tension, subject to cracking, and if made in large pieces subject to porosity. The greatest care is necessary in manufacture to secure a uniform, tough, non-brittle material, free from porosity. Unfortunately it is the only material that we know of at the present time that will withstand the weather without the carbonization and deterioration of organic compounds under the electrical stress.
Generally after three to five years of more or less successful operation, insulators selected by the most careful electrical tests begin to fail rapidly. There are of course exceptions, but the experience is quite general and most operating companies anticipate breakdown by periodic tests designed to weed out faulty units.
The apparent deterioration of porcelain is generally due to one of the following causes:
1. Gradual mechanical cracking, due to expansion of cement or tight-fitting metal parts, or to internal firing strains or brittle porcelain.
2. Gradual absorption of moisture due to porosity.
The greater part of the trouble has been due to cracking under stresses caused by expansion of cement or of tight-fitting or cemented-in metal parts. Cracking may also be caused by uneven expansion in very thick porcelain parts of different shapes.
The foregoing causes of deterioration are well verified in practise, because the type of insulator in which the porcelain units are strung together by loose fitting metal parts or cables shows no deterioration after ten years or more of service. This was found to be so even when some of the earlier units were made of poor material. The absorption of moisture seems to be due to a considerable extent to breathing. The presence of a damp sponge of cement is thus also undesirable from this standpoint as it keeps moist the air breathed by the porcelain.
The solution of the deterioration problem seems to be to start with a design as free as possible from expansion troubles and the selection of a tough, non-porous porcelain. Years of service have been the best criterion of design. Regarding the selection of material, no present, practical electrical test will anticipate future cracking due to internal strains or brittle porcelain or will indicate porosity in dry porcelain. The desired results can probably best be attained by testing a small percentage of the product to destruction from day to day after the usual electrical and inspection tests have been made, the object being to determine if the product is up to the standard and of uniform quality. This idea is not new, but is used in the manufacture of lamps and in other industries. Electrical, mechanical and porosity uniformity tests are necessary. Extremely accurate tests are not necessary, but it is necessary to have tests that can be quickly made so that any fault can be at once detected and remedied.
In our investigation we made first the electrical tests, followed by mechanical impact tests to destruction. Samples were then taken from the head and thick parts of the units and subjected to a porosity test. In this test the samples were placed in a dye solution under pressure, after which the depth of penetration was noted. The porcelain was placed in three arbitrary mechanical and porosity grades and a graphical chart made indicating the percentage in each grade as shown in Fig. 1. We found this method of great use not only in checking the product and comparing different materials, but also in studying deterioration of insulators in service.
INSULATORS FOR THE HIGHER VOLTAGES
The problem of deterioration discussed above is independent of the voltage. Its effect on operation should be less at the higher voltages because of the greater number of units used in a string. There are, however, certain factors unimportant at the lower voltages, which become of increasing importance as the voltage is increased.
Fig. 1 — Sample Sheet Showing Method of Plotting Electrical Mechanical and Porosity Tests.
Uneven Voltage Distribution,. It has long been known that when insulators are placed in series in a string the arc-over voltage is not the sum of the arc-over voltages of the individual units, but less. This is due to the uneven division of voltage on the different units. A very high percentage is across the unit nearest the line. Typical curves are given in Fig. 2. Fig. 3 shows the percentage of the total voltage across each unit of a string of ten. Even distribution would put 10 per cent on each unit as indicated by the dotted line. It will be noted on examination of Fig. 2 that for strings over five units in length, there is always about 30 per cent of the total voltage across the insulator nearest the line. This will vary from 20 to 30 per cent with different types of insulators and with different hardware on the same type. The importance of a consideration of this factor at the higher voltage is at once seen since the maximum unit stress increases directly with the voltage. At 100 kv. the operating stress on the line unit is 17.4 kv.; at 220 kv. it is 38 kv., which is higher than is desirable. It is desirable to lower the operating stress on the units near the line.
Fig. 2. — Typical Voltage Distribution Curves on Strings of Suspension Insulators.
Fig. 3. — Voltage Distribution on String of Ten Insulators
A mathematical analysis of the cause of uneven distribution has already been given. It seems best, however, to give here an elementary review of the causes of uneven distribution in order better to discuss the methods of remedying it.
A string of line insulators may be considered as being made up of a number of capacities in series. There is also capacity from the hardware and fittings of each unit to ground. The capacity may be represented diagramatically by Fig. 4. This arrangement is approximate, but suitable for the purpose of illustration.
Fig. 4. — Cause of Uneven Distribution. the Capacities to Ground C1 Cause An Uneven Distribution of Current Through the Insulator Capacity C2.
It is at once apparent that the capacity currents cause unequal voltage distribution. If i is the total current through the first insulator, the capacity current through the second one from the line is i — i1 is the capacity current to ground; and third from the line i — 2 il; the fourth i — 3i1 etc. The current and, therefore, the drop is greatest on the line unit; the current decreases successively on each unit from the line by the current to ground of one unit. Correction of voltage distribution may be made by eliminating the effect of the ground current or the capacities to ground, C1.
Fig. 5. — Grading by Making Internal Capacity of Insulator Units C2 Large Compared to the Capacity to Ground C1.
Fig. 6. — Grading by Changing the C2 Capacities in Proportion to Their Respective Currents.
This may be done by any one of the following methods:
1. Increasing all of the C2 capacities without increasing the C1 capacities so that the effect of the current to ground is relatively less. See Fig. 5.
2. Increasing the C2 capacities of the insulators along the string in proportion to the currents flowing through them. This means highest C2 capacity on the however, to give here an elementary review of the causes of uneven distribution in order better to discuss the methods of remedying it.
It is at once apparent that the capacity currents cause unequal voltage distribution. If i is the total current through the first insulator, the capacity current through the second one from the line is i — iI where is the capacity current to ground; and third from the line i — 2 il; the fourth i — 3 etc. The current and, therefore, the drop is greatest on the line unit; the current decreases successively on each unit from the line by the current to ground of one unit. Correction of voltage distribution may be made by eliminating the effect of the ground current or the capacities to ground, C1.
2. Increasing the C2 capacities of the insulators along the string in proportion to the currents flowing through them. This means highest C2 capacity on the line unit, less on the next unit, etc. See Fig. 6 — This is generally called grading.
3. Elimination of the ground capacities by means of an antenna shield from the line. See Fig. 7. This may be called shielding.
Fig. 7. — Grading or Sheilding by Eliminating the Effect of the Capacities to Ground.
Fig. 8. — Voltage Distribution on String of Ten Insulators.
In order to get appreciable results by method 1, it is necessary to add capacities with solid insulation, or plates in intimate contact with the porcelain. Plates along the string will not help materially, as the percentage increase in the C2 capacities will generally be smaller than the percentage increase in the C1, capacities.
Method 2 is practical but it must be accomplished by adding capacities with solid insulations. In practise it means the addition of metal caps or plates in intimate contact with the units, or varying the wall thickness of units, or placing a varying number of units in multiple along the string, or using different sizes of units. Very good results can be obtained by this method. Its undesirable feature is that it requires different kinds or sizes of units in the same string. Figs. 8 and 9 show the voltage distribution in a string graded by placing different sizes of caps along the string.
Fig. 9. — Grading by Metal Caps.
Fig. 10. — Shielding by Eliminating the Effect of the Capacity to Ground.
Very good voltage distribution can be easily obtained by method 3. The ground capacities may be thought of as being due to grounded antenna extending along the string. The effect of this antenna may be eliminated by a similar antenna connected to the line and extending along the string as in Fig. 10. In practise the antenna is the very simple shield shown in Fig. 11. The hardware shown in Fig. 11 is not standard but was selected for laboratory purposes to give the worst distribution. The shield readily corrects it. The maximum unit stress would be less on a 220-kv. shielded string than on present non-shielded strings operating sucessfully at 100 kv. and less. The distribution with and without the shield is shown in Fig. 12. A standard hardware giving better distribution with and without the shield is shown in Fig. 13.
Fig. 11. — Antenna Shield for Equalizing Voltage on Insulators. (Laboratory Hardware)
Fig. 12. — Voltage Distribution on A String of Twelve Insulators. (See Fig. 11 — Laboratory Hardware.)
This method requires no special units. The antenna has an additional advantage of acting as a corona shield, eliminating corona from the string and tending to keep the power arc from the insulators and from burning the conductors. Even if the voltage were evenly distributed a corona eliminating shield would be advisable at the higher, voltages.
Heretofore the main argument given for equalizing voltage distribution has been to reduce the string length by increasing the arc-over voltage for a given number of units. It is much more important to reduce the operating stress on the line-end units.
Fig. 13. — Antenna Shield. Insulators Strung With Standard Hardware.
With certain types of units the wet arc-over voltage may be higher than the dry arc-over voltage for long strings. This is because rain may assist in grading a badly unbalanced string. As a general rule, a string cannot be very greatly shortened in practise by grading because of the effects of rain, dirt, etc. on the perfectly graded string. There would be little gain in increasing the dry arc-over voltage if the wet arc-over voltage were decreased. Rain would not increase the wet arc-over voltage of a graded string. The wet arc-over voltage would generally be lower if the string length were decreased.
There is an additional reason why grading will generally not make possible an increase in the arc-over voltage or a decrease in the string length. For any unbalanced string there is more or less complete automatic grading as the arc-over voltage is approached. Near arc-over excessive corona forms on the line unit, to a less extent on the next unit, etc. These sheets of corona act as capacity plates and grade the string, thus automatically raising the arc-over voltage. If this were not so, it would be expected that the arc-over voltage for the non-graded string above could for five or more units, never be higher than 1/0.30 = 3.3 times the arc-over voltage of a single unit. As a matter of fact, it is much higher, due to the automatic grading of corona.
The wet and dry arc-over voltage of insulators decreases almost directly with barometric pressure. The insulator problem for the higher voltages is therefore more difficult at higher altitudes.
It has been found that the wet lightning arc-over voltage is usually as high as the dry lightning arc-over voltage. The lightning arc-over voltage is, to a great extent, a question of string length. If the string length is decreased due to grading the lightning arc-over voltage will also be decreased.
Fig. 14. — Method of Making Distribution Measurements.
It may be of interest to describe the method of making tests. A water resistance with 50 taps was placed across the line in parallel with the insulators as shown in the illustration, Fig. 14. Each tap had a fixed and known potential above ground, i. e., a given percentage of the applied voltage. Connection was made between the particular unit, the potential of which was being investigated and various taps on the resistance until a tap was found of the same potential. In making this measurement a wire was fastened to a tap and the other end of the wire fastened to a steel point at the end of a fibre rod. When the rod was brought up to the cap a spark would indicate a difference of potential. The connection on the tap was then changed, or the operation was repeated until no spark occurred when the point touched the insulator cap. It was found that the steel point, because of the color of the spark, indicated the smallest difference of potential. In making measurements it is necessary to prevent as far as possible any distortion of the field by the wire and point. A distortion is indicated by different potential readings when measurements are made at different points around the insulator. A stream of water was kept running through the tube in order to keep the temperature constant. Approximate potential readings can be obtained by placing a very small gap shunting a forked stick across the units. This method gives fairly accurate results on the two or three units near the line, but quite inaccurate results on the others.
Fig. 15. — the Effect of Proximity to Walls. Voltage Distribution on String of Five Insulators.
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The effect of proximity to tower, etc., is given in Fig. 15. It will be seen that it is not great. The effect of corona on distribution is not great at the operating voltage. For instance there is very little difference in the voltage distribution between 30 and 130 kv. 130 kv. is approximately the voltage to neutral of a 220-kv. system. Fig. 16 shows the distribution at 30, 50 and 125 kv. The 50 and 125-kv. curves were made with a spark gap and are accurate for the three units near the line only. Fig. 17 shows the shield used on a double string. The distribution is very good as shown in Fig. 18.
Fig. 17. — Antenna Shield on A Double String. Laboratory Hardware — See Fig. 18.
Figs. 19 and 20 show the shield and distribution on other types of units. A corona shield is also desirable on this type at 220 kv. The effect on voltage distribution of placing a shielded string in a horizontal position was investigated and found to be negligible. See Fig. 21.
Fig. 19. — Antenna Shield. (See Fig. 20.)
Fig. 20. — Voltage Distribution on String of Twelve Insulators. (See Fig. 19.)
Fig. 21. — Antenna Shield for Equalizing Voltage on Insulators.
The method of grading shown in Fig. 22 was not found to be very satisfactory.
Fig. 23 shows a form of shield that gave fairly good results.
Fig. 22. — Two and Three Units in Parallel at Line End of String of 12 Units As A Means of Improving Voltage Distribution on the String.
Distribution tests were made to see if there would be any disturbing effect due to the proximity of other insulator strings as in operation on a three-phase line. There was found to be no appreciable effect.
It is not possible to show all of the various shields tried, but it is believed that the above fairly well covers the field.
From the above discussion it may be concluded that:
Insulator troubles have been due mainly to cracking caused by expansion of metal parts, cement, etc. and to porosity.
Certain designs with loose-fitting parts have been free from deterioration. Other designs should be so modified as to relieve them as far as possible from expansion troubles.
Tough non-porous porcelain is desirable.
The old method of basing everything on electrical tests should be abandoned. Severe electrical tests are often harmful. The electrical strength is often secondary to other characteristics. An electrical, mechanical and porosity uniformity test should be established, in which a small percentage of the product is tested to destruction from day to day to ascertain if it is running brittle or porous or is weakened by firing strains.
For the very high voltages that are at present being considered, greater reliability may in many respects be anticipated than for the lower voltage lines. The lightning arc-over voltage and dielectric strength will be relatively higher and induced lightning voltages, sufficient to cause arc-over, will be less than on low? voltage lines. Increasing the number of units in series decreases the probability of complete string failure.
Uneven distribution of voltage on the string becomes more serious at the higher voltages because of the high stress on the unit near the line. For strings of more than four or five units the stress is practically a constant percentage of the operating voltage independent of the string length.
Uneven distribution can be corrected by shielding, shielding prevents excessive corona on the line end units and tends to direct the power arc away from the string. The maximum unit stress on a 220-kv. shield string can be made less than on a 100-kv. non-shielded string.
Briefly, outages due to insulator troubles will probably be less frequent at the higher voltages than at present.
The author acknowledges the assistance of Mr. W. L. Lloyd, Jr. in making this investigation.
Keywords: Suspension : Hewlett
Researcher: Elton Gish
Date completed: December 19, 2009 by: Elton Gish;
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Intussusception following rotavirus vaccine administration: Post-marketing surveillance in the National Immunization Program in Australia
James Buttery, Margie Danchin, Katherine Lee, John Carlin, P McIntyre, Elizabeth Elliott, Robert Booy, Julie Bines
Paediatrics Monash Health
In Australia, post-marketing surveillance for intussusception following vaccination commenced with funding of RotaTeq and Rotarix vaccines under the National Immunization Program (NIP) in July 2007
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.01.088
Buttery, J., Danchin, M., Lee, K., Carlin, J., McIntyre, P., Elliott, E., ... Bines, J. (2011). Intussusception following rotavirus vaccine administration: Post-marketing surveillance in the National Immunization Program in Australia. Vaccine, 29(16), 3061 - 3066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.01.088
Buttery, James ; Danchin, Margie ; Lee, Katherine ; Carlin, John ; McIntyre, P ; Elliott, Elizabeth ; Booy, Robert ; Bines, Julie. / Intussusception following rotavirus vaccine administration: Post-marketing surveillance in the National Immunization Program in Australia. In: Vaccine. 2011 ; Vol. 29, No. 16. pp. 3061 - 3066.
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Home » Learning Curve » Red Hat Diaries
Microsoft Windows Security is an Afterthought
And security afterthoughts have never worked.
So we're sitting at our Macs and getting maximum benefit from our Internet connection. (This is significantly more than if we'd be running Linux - no maintenance time to speak of with OS X.)
And we wander into a mainstream Swedish site and learn there's a new fright about. (And as per usual, especially in the Duckpond, when there's a fright about, Microsoft are right around the corner.)
This time it concerns a programmer running Internet Explorer online. (Hello? What kind of programmer is that?) And this genius is using Windows and Internet Explorer to access his bank's website. (Is this guy on drugs?) And the site tells him his security information must be checked again. And then it asks him to reenter his PIN. Which this brilliant programmer does. And as an afterthought he rings his bank, only to discover $287,000 has just been transferred to an account in Poland. The programmer is shocked. (He must be the only one outside the Duckpond.)
A 'Privileged' Position
Sweden has long had a privileged position with Microsoft. Swedes are raised on välling and Windows and cannot easily conceive of anything else. They go through severe logical contortions to explain away all those woes that befall them. Time after time. Year after year.
Use an alternative safe operating system? Are there any? Professional course catalogues with hundreds of pages of courses in hundreds of abortive Microsoft technologies are offset by perhaps one page (or two at most) offering rudimentary skills in Unix.
Returning to Sweden to visit former colleagues is like taking a trip in a George Carlin phone box. Back to an era one can't really believe still exists. With so much water under the bridge since the first big calamities hit twelve years ago (and with so much having changed for the 'enlightened' of this world) one would assume even the Swedes would have caught on by now. But no. They haven't.
The latest attack to now hit Swedish shores is called 'Zeus/SpyEye'. And a quick perusal of Google News reveals this thing hasn't just hit Sweden. It's all over the place, with damage estimates in the billions. How can people still use that wretched system after all these years? How many times have security gurus warned about Windows, stated that this latest Attack To End All Attacks will finally be the wakeup call people need. Several European governments have gone out actively and told their citizenries to not use Windows or other Microsoft products. Every security guru - every last one - advises against using Microsoft Windows. Yet what happens?
Amongst those hit by Zeus: US Department of Transportation, Bank of America, NASA, Monster.com, ABC, Oracle, Cisco, Amazon, BusinessWeek, Facebook - and according to several authorities, more than 2,400 corporations around the world.
Battleships crippled at sea. Airline booking systems knocked out. Always Microsoft Windows.
But It'll Get to You Too!!1!
For years the smart people have had their ears bleeding listening to all the childish sidesteps by the retards on Windows. And it's truly amazing how so many of them - from your common Joe Blogs to some of the most renowned virus experts in the world - simply don't get security and the difference between Windows and a 'real' operating system.
People wonder if a site like this can hold a grudge against Microsoft for some reason. People are always looking for an excuse. They simply don't want to accept the truth. People read things at Rixstep and write to ask if things are as bad on OS X as they are on Windows. Unbelievable.
Almost every major malware outbreak since 2000 is directly related to (and directly caused by) Microsoft and Windows. The Sadmind worm attacked Solaris. But it also attacked Windows. (Who wouldn't?)
Why Windows?
The classic retard argument about why it's safer on Windows is that this fate happens to whatever system has the greatest marketshare. Which is of course utter nonsense. Of course the black hats like the Windows marketshare. But that would be for naught without Microsoft's classic track record when it comes to security.
You can't build security into a system as an afterthought. Windows started as MS-DOS - the MicroSoft Disk Operating System. A disk operating system is not an operating system. All it does is operate the disks.
David Neil Cutler came to Microsoft to save them, but they refused to be saved. They took his stellar work and force-fitted it back on their own defenceless standalone model. So much for security.
Microsoft have spent billions, have spent far more trying to create spin to keep their bruised customers, than they've spent fixing (or replacing) their excuse for an 'operating system'. Microsoft could have done the right thing fifteen years ago, twenty years ago, twenty five years ago. They could have done the right thing when they first acquired their Unix source code licence sin the early 1980s.
Are they evil to the core or just downright stupid?
The Zeus botnet targets only Microsoft Windows machines. The botnet does not work on Mac OS X, Linux, or any other operating system.
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FROM THE GREGORY FILES: BAMBOOZLED AGAIN, CRACK HEAD CONFESSIONS & THE SHOW TRIAL OF YUSUF BEY VI AND ANTOINE MACKEY FOR THE POLITICAL ASSASSINATION OF CHAUNCEY BAILEY
Well, the public has been bamboozled again by COINTELPO, OPD and the Alameda County Mafia in the political assassination of Chauncey Bailey.
Boss, we don’t know anything but eating watermelons, fried chicken, farting, grinning, watching TV and dancing. Let the NWO run the world for us. Boss, I am really stupid, but please tell me one thing, “where is Chauncey’s briefcase?” I am not a genius like all ah folks, but don’t you think the real killers got Chauncey’s briefcase?
The Oscar Grant Murder & the MATRIX Narrative: White Knight Under Fire
“The evidence that this was an accidental shooting and Mehserle did not intend to shoot Grant is simply overwhelming…” L.A. Superior Court Judge, Robert J. Perry[1]
In the City of Oakland, original case theories (strategic vision) often become official secret MATRIX storylines. In the Oscar Grant Murder, John Burris, Johnny Come Lately in absolute conceit admitted that there was a secret (FOR YOUR EYES ONLY) agreement and gag order between BART [2] to maintain the storyline that the white knight, Johannes Mehserle, confronted with the sudden threat from hostile “Big Black Brutes” pulled his gun instead of his taser and accidentally shot Oscar Grant in the back.[3]
Don’t believe it; revisit the case of 37-year old Michael Joseph Gibson. On Saturday, November 21, 2009, BART Gestapo caught the world’s eye again on video senselessly brutalizing a non resisting bipolar schizophrenic man by hurling him into a glass plate window. Gibson’s only crime had been annoying BART patrons with a public exhibition of his mental suffering.
Johnny Come Lately was on the case within days representing Gibson. It’s been almost two years since the outrageous incident and the public right to know the disposition of the case, even the name of the officer, has been suppressed. From the sheer repression of public disclosure and trust in the matter of Michael Joseph Gibson, I called the officer by the name that most fit his image and public demeanor, Ernst Julius Röhm, the infamous Nazi Storm Trooper.
The outcome could have been different with a dissimilar strategic vision if it had been established that Mehserle and Tony Pirone formed a white racist “Bitch-Assed N****r” beat down mob on the night of Grant’s murder in which things turned to its expected outcome.
Whatever “unprofessional relationship” (Aryan Brotherhood, John Birch Society, Minutemen, Neo-Nazis?) that existed between Mehserle and Pirone that Burris had privity to has been suppressed and hidden from public view due to the secret gag order and MATRIX storyline.
I wasn’t very far off the mark when I asked had he been born of the BEAST, Nazi Germany. It was later revealed that Mehserle was in fact born in Germany. He was a German National.[4]
In sentencing Mehserle to the lightless sentence possible, Judge Perry simply followed the official MATRIX storyline that the white knight, Johannes Mehserle, confronted under the stress and threats of hostile “Big Black Brutes” and Grant resisting arrest, Mehserle accidentally pulled his gun instead of his Taser and shot and killed Grant.[5]
In the Oscar Grant Murder, we had been bamboozled again. Mehserle is expected to be a free man in a matter of days.
The Chauncey Bailey Murder & the MATRIX Narrative: Black Knight Under Fire
On August 2, 2007, the MATRIX storyline is the black knight, Chauncey Bailey, was working on a story to expose the “Big Black Brutes” of Your Black Muslim Bakery (YBMB) and they murdered him to suppress the story. Devaughndre Broussard of YBMB was some type of black ninja that killed Chauncey Bailey.
Broussard denied shooting Bailey. He said that he had been drugged the morning of the shooting. He confessed to the murder and later recanted that confession on CBS’s nationally televised 60 minutes. He said that he had confessed to the crime because Oakland police beat him while he was in custody.
LeRue Grim, Of Dogs and Men
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”-The Great Beast 666
Enter old wirily trickster Republican Attorney LeRue Grim. He is/was the Chairperson of American Legion War Memorial Commission in San Francisco.[6] Grim is a U.S. Air Force veteran that says he left military service at 22 years old in 1950 at the beginning of the Korean Conflict.[7] I do not believe that such a short and remote splint in the military could generally quality Grim to run the multi-million dollar War Memorial Complex and Commission. Grim had to have been career military-intelligence since the Korean Aggression.
Grim is affiliated with American Humanist Association and the Humanist Church. Grim is a signer of the Humanist Manifesto II and president of the Fellowship of Humanity on 28th Street of Oakland. [I]n “1933, the Humanist Manifesto was written as a direct challenge to all religions of the world. It asserted that man has the power to be god-like. It promoted atheism, evolution (rather than creation), communism and moral relativity. Thus we are told that there is no God, that the Bible and the Ten Commandments are meaningless hoaxes and that anything we do – even murder – is okay, as long as it is for a “good reason”.[8] Grim is a very treacherous man that operates within Aleister Crowley’s Luciferian Law of Thelema, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”[9]
Grim was instrumental in setting up paranoid Broussard for the MATRIX storyline that he killed Bailey under the compulsion of “Big Black Brutes” from YBMB and under mind control of Yusuf Bey IV.
Above, Grim with one of his award winning little dogs. Grim’s psychological approach to people is like training dogs as if he was of Mount Olympia.[10]
Crack Heads and Puppet Masters
It is extremely difficult to call my dear brother, Devaughndre Broussard, a “crack head” as if it was badge of condemnation and constriction, and as if it was his choice and his choice alone to self destruct as a crack addict. Crack is one of the most troublesome and problematic drugs in world history. “Crack” or “rock” cocaine is a more powerful form of cocaine created by “cooking” the powder form of the drug to extract its pure oil form. New research shows that chronic cocaine abuse is directly related to dysfunction in areas of the brain involved in higher thought and decision-making
Even after months of abstaining, people who have used cocaine for a long time can have problems thinking, such as memory, attention, problem solving, and use of words. They can also have problems with hand-eye coordination. Cocaine use can cause people to be paranoid and to hallucinate. Some will have flashbacks for years. Scans of the brain have shown decreases in size and loss of cells and loss of connections between cells even after abstinence.[11] It is a mind and body snatcher.
During Broussard’s testimony, he displayed all the classic symbols of crack addiction; use; problems thinking, such as memory, attention, problem solving, and use of words.
On the witness stand, he struggled through his testimony throughout the days, and minutes after taking the stand. He asked for questions to be repeated, and seemed to find it difficult to formulate answers. Superior Court Judge Reardon tried to clarify and simplify the prosecutors direct examination questions. Broussard struggled for words, sometimes laughing to himself. He labored through the answers.[12]
The prosecution asked him the color of a Cadillac owned by another bakery member, Broussard burst into laughter before saying, “Yellow.” They asked him what was funny. “I am thinking of a yellow Cadillac,” he replied. “That’s why I am laughing.” [13]
Other times he said that he didn’t understand questions or that he didn’t know the right words to articulate answers. When the prosecution asked him why men unrelated to each other called each other brothers at the bakery, he struggled. “I can’t find the words to answer the question,” he said.[14]
Broussard said that Bey IV defined being at the bakery as “more than a job.” When the prosecutor asked for details, he said Bey IV would order his followers to “do stuff you couldn’t ask other people to do. Whatever would come to his mind.” Did Broussard mean committing crimes, the prosecutor asked. “I may have to be more direct,” Broussard said. “I don’t say the word crimes. That’s the way I talk.”[15]
The prosecution asked Broussard, “what agenda (Bey IV) had,” Broussard said, “I am not understanding.” While at the bakery, Broussard testified that he broke bakery rules by using drugs while living and working there. [16]
LeRue Grim, Trickster and Olympian, watched the show from the front row. “That’s just him,” the attorney said outside of court about Broussard’s labored answers. “He’s a little bit meticulous.” [17] Thorough, careful and scrupulous, he says!
CIA, the Body Snatchers, Crack Heads & Puppet Masters
A series of expose articles in the San Jose Mercury-News by late reporter Gary Webb found a mass drug dealing triangle during the 1980s that linked CIA officials in Central Americaas Drug Dealing Mind and Body Snatchers. According to the stories, the CIA and its operatives used crack cocaine–sold via theLos Angelesand San Francisco Bay Area African-American communities to raise millions to support the agency’s clandestine operations inCentral America. Crack cocaine targeted poor black urban areas as a form of genocide.
I call him a “crack head” for shock effect and because we are too easily deceived by smoked mirrors, looking glasses and illusions. We far too often blame the puppets without looking for the puppet masters. The puppet masters deliberately sent Broussard into YBMB on a zombie mission to destabilize and neutralize it.
I can blame Broussard for his addiction and paranoia as much as I would blame the victims ofBuchenwald,Auschwitz,Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Trebinka for their own demise. The body snatchers created Broussard and hundred of thousands of our loved ones with crippled minds, Zombies, to grow among us as a fungus, a form of genocide, to eat away at the foundations of family, church, society and democracy. Like a plague of locusts, it has caused the death, destruction and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of African-Americans for decades to come.
Broussard spent most of his formative young life in and out of a matrix of foster homes and psychiatric wards. Even the yellow journalist Chauncey Bailey Project (CBP) admitted Broussard life was like “…jigsaw puzzle with many missing pieces.” [18]
Broussard came out of the foster care matrix a drug fiend adaptive to a fearful and paranoid way of life. He was lonely, institutionalized, psychological abused and traumatized. Broussard was an individual with very little close family ties. He told police that he had smoked cocaine (crack) before gunning down Chauncey.[19]
Drugs and psychological tricks can be used to modify attitudes. In fact, it is common MK ULTRA mind control practice to use drugs for the purpose of obtaining hypnotic control.[20] Broussard mentally is not at all unlike Sirhan Sirhan, a person “extraordinarily receptive” to influence and hypnotic suggestion.[21]
If you can accept the logic that Broussard was so mentally unstable that Young Bey could influence him to admit to committing murder, what more could an old powerful influential trickster lawyer do to a hapless “extraordinarily receptive” crack head.
In February 2009, LeRue Grim said that Broussard falsely confessed at the prompting of bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV.[22] By May 2009, the old trickster had Brossard plead guilty to two counts of voluntary manslaughter for shooting Chauncey Bailey and marched him before a grand jury for the Oakland MATRIX to indict Yusuf Bey IV and Antoine Mackey for Triple murders.[23]
In August 2009, Grim raised his head as an attorney for Prince Michael Malachi Jet Jackson, a 24 year old man that claimed to be Michael Jackson’s son and an heir to his multi-million dollar estate.[24] Quid Pro Quo? I believe so.
THE CRACK HEAD CONFESSION, I AM THE LONE NUT BLACK NINJA ASSASSIN
“Sometimes you have to make a deal with a demon to get the devil.” – Deputy District Attorney Melissa Krum, Alameda County Mafia referring to its Star Witness, Devaughndre Broussard
Broussard initially told police that he got high by smoking a cigar stuffed with powder cocaine, and then went looking for Bailey at the apartment building on First Avenue. He said he had intentions to be a soldier because Bailey had written bad stories about the bakery. So he borrowed a white van from someone at the bakery named Ricco and drove — alone — by the Oakland Post offices in search of Bailey. Then he drove up and down 14th Street looking for him. He finally spotted Bailey leaving a McDonalds.[25]
Broussard said when he saw Bailey; he got out of the van and crossed the street. He said he intended only to scare Bailey. “He swung at me. He had a briefcase.”
“I shot him,” he said. “I shot him again and again. I shot him three times with a charcoal-black Mossberg.”
OPD notes said Broussard also described how he killed Bailey and smoked powder after the killing. “I hit him in the chest and the head. Chest first; second head. Third time in the chest,” the notes record Broussard as saying. “I think I threw the mask away. I had a powder cocaine blunt. I smoked it.”[26]
The Yusuf Bey IV and Antoine Mackey show trial and one man “crack head” star witness circus is over. At its end, the Alameda County Mafia DA tolled the MATRIX storyline in collusion with the defense that Devaughndre Broussard was the lone nut black ninja assassin. I want us to believe that Broussard killed Chauncey Bailey out of his own, so to say, crack head obsession.
The prosecution showed that the murder weapon (Mossberg Shotgun) without fingerprints was found conveniently just outside of Broussard’s bedroom window during a police raid led by Sgt. Derwin Longmire.
It seems rather conveniently odd that Broussard found the cunning and intelligence in a crack cocaine stupor to avoid capture in a thunderous shotgun blast murder of a popular and well known journalist concealed as a black ninja with a ski mask in a big white unregistered van with no license plates in broad daylight on a busy street; conceal the ski mask and his blood scattered and gun powdered ninja outfit; and not dispose of the murder weapon.
Shells matching the ballistics reports of shell castings and fragments from Chauncey Bailey’s body were found conveniently in and about the bedroom floor of Yusuf Bey IV during a police raid led by Sgt. Derwin Longmire.
The prosecution proved the chain of possession of the Mossberg Shotgun by a previous out of court statement of a friendly Saudi asset, Ehab Taha, that Yusuf Bey IV stole the gun during a raid that was video recorded which showed no such theft of a gun or a bloody assault against anyone at the Oakland New York Liquor Store. All of his prior lying statements came in without questions or cross examination.
When called to testify by the prosecution, Taha conveniently lost all memory of the gun theft which allowed the prosecution to enter into evidence his prior consistent statement without cross examination. Later, the prosecution showed a convenient recording of Taha telling police how he was beaten bloody during the attack and how the assailants stole a sawed-off shotgun from the store.[27]
The prosecution showed by the testimony of a Mexican national, Rigoberto Magana, that linked Bey to a white van seen leaving the murder scene with the black ninja. Magana gave the van keys to Bey.[28] Incidentally, Magana is again conveniently tucked away somewhere in Mexico with trace evidence, the unregistered white van with no license plates.[29]
It seem rather conveniently odd that a pair of assailants who pull off a high profile murder in rush hour morning in downtown Oakland could escape in an unregistered BIG white van with no license plates. Where was the OPD? I gather that it can only happen inOakland in a high profile political assassination!
You would like to think that if a possible suspect in a high profile political assassination told you that he smoked a cigar full of crack that “I AM THE LONE NUT BLACK NINJA ASSASSIN” that murdered Chauncey Bailey that the police would have collaborated that statement with paraffin (gun powder residue) test evidence. Wouldn’t you? Well, there is conveniently no such evidence that Broussard ever fired a weapon.
SGT. DERWIN LONGMIRE, COINTELPRO & YOUR BLACK MUSLIM BAKERY
“Now, no one is suggesting or implying the department [OPD] intended to kill Chauncey Bailey!”
San Francisco Attorney John Scott, representing Sgt. Derwin Longmire slipped and said,
“The department, I believe, had its own sense of guilt or believed it had its own sense of guilt or responsibility for the murder because the department was supposed to execute a warrant on the Black Muslim Bakery on August 1st, the day before the murder.” Scott said. “Now, no one is suggesting or implying the department intended to kill Chauncey Bailey.”[30]
According to documents reviewed by KTVU, Channel 2 investigative journalist showed that “… as early as five years before Bailey was shot Sgt. Longmire warned the police command staff that the bakery was a criminal enterprise and needed to be cleaned up.”[31]
Who is Sgt. Derwin Longmire?
Sgt. Longmire is/was an OPD intelligence unit supervisor. [32] In other words, he was a leader of a specialized trained “Red Squad” unit. Red Squads are police intelligence units that specialize in infiltrating, conducting counter-measures and gathering intelligence on political and social groups. [33] It other words, Sgt. Longmire was involved in illegal COINTELPRO activities.
COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.[34]
COINTELPRO ran in secret tandem wth the CIA’s Project CHAOS. Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was the code name for a domestic espionage project conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency. A department within the CIA was established in 1967 on orders from President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson and later expanded under President Richard Nixon. The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms, by chief of counter-intelligence, James Jesus Angleton, and headed by Richard Ober.[35]
Oakland has a long history of COINTELPRO and Project CHAOS clandestine illegal activities against citizens. OPD had the infamous COINTELPRO “Panther Squad”, a secret specialized Red Squad led by black officer Ray Brown of the OPD.[36]
OPD Police Chief Charles Gain and William Chohendet led the FBI’s San Francisco office’s “Panther Squad” (a subpart of its COINTELPRO Section). All along during the illegal harassment and deadly assault aginst the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the OPD Chief had secretly been one of J. Edgar Hoover’s top COINTELPRO FBI agents.[37]
According to the KTVU special investigative report, Sgt. Longmire and the OPD Red Squad targeted YBMB in 2002 for a COINTELPRO neutralization five years before Chauncey’s murder.[38]
Five years ago, Sgt. Longmire most likely then not got the go from OPD top brass for surveillance, infiltration, discrediting, and disruption of YBMB. YBMB had been one of the few remaining successful and truly independent Black Nationalist (Self Determination) enterprise in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area.
YBMB, Brother Minister Derwin Longmire
Sgt. Longmire’s operation to infiltrate YBMB to discredit, disrupt and neutralize the bakery was so clandestine that most of the OPD rank and file didn’t know it was a counterintelligence operation. OPD Assistant Chief Howard Jordan didn’t know. They thought Longmire had actually joined YBMB.
Attorney: “Did you believe that Sgt. Longmire had compromised the investigation because of that relationship with either the Black Muslims or the bakery?”
Howard Jordan: “Yes.”
Attorney: “At the time of the Chauncey Bailey murder, did you believe that Sergeant Longmire was associated with the Black Muslim Bakery?”
Howard Jordan: “Yes.”[39]
Below, check the timeline of the fall of YBMB that is consistent with Sgt. Longmire and the OPD Red Squad targeting them in 2002 for an illegal and clandestine COINTELPRO neutralization campaign.
On September 19, 2002, Yusuf Bey, Sr. founder of YBMB turned himself in when a warrant was issued for his arrest, charged with 27 counts in the alleged rapes of four girls under the age of 14.
September 2003: Yusuf Bey Sr. dies pending trial on charges of statutory rape.
February 2004: Waajid Aljawwaad, Yusuf Bey’s chosen successor, disappears.
March 2004: Antar Bey, son of Yusuf Bey, declares he was elected bakery CEO at a board meeting. Dissention arises when family members allege that Antar “hijacked” the corporation and squandered its assets.
July 2004: Aljawwaad’s body is found in a shallow grave in theEast Oaklandhills. No arrests are made. Most likely no OPD investigation either. Sgt. Longmire.
June 2005: John Bey, who protested Antar Bey’s takeover, is wounded by three gunmen outside hisMontclairhome.
October 2005: Antar Bey is shot and killed at a gas station in what police said was a robbery targeting his $80,000 BMW. Sgt. Longmire is lead investigator of the case. Yusuf Bey IV, 19, becomes CEO with Sgt. Longmire as his mentor.
November 2005: Bey IV allegedly directs the trashing of two Muslim owned liquor stores inWest Oaklandthat sell alcohol to the black community. A Mossberg shotgun is alleged to have been stolen.
December 2005: Bey IV is arrested inVallejousing a false ID to buy a $55,000 Mercedes Benz with no money down. He is charged in January with felony grand theft. He pleaded no contest but has not been sentenced.
April 28, 2006: Bey IV is arrested after he allegedly used his BMW to run down a bouncer outside the New Century Theater strip club onLarkin Street in Oakland. The case is pending.
August 2006:Vallejo police arrest Bey IV on a gun charge after they recover an unregistered 9mm pistol from the center console of his car. He pleaded no contest but has not been sentenced. Why? Sgt. Longmire.
October 2006: YBMB files for a public record bankruptcy.
December 2006: Bey IV pleads no contest to charges stemming from his arrest in August inVallejo, but sentencing is delayed. I wonder why? Sgt. Longmire.
January 2007: Bey IV is arrested and cited for shoplifting condoms from a Walgreens inOakland’s Temescal district. His brother, Yusuf Bey V, is arrested for possession of a machine pistol. He gets probation. I wonder why? Sgt. Longmire.
May 2007: Bey IV allegedly orchestrates the kidnapping of a mother and daughter as they drive home from a night of bingo. Police say the younger woman is tortured, apparently because her abductors think she knows where a drug dealer keeps his money. The masked men flee when a police officer drives up.
June 2007: Bey IV fails to appear for a court hearing in theSan Franciscoassault case, and a judge issues a $375,000 warrant for his arrest. Wonder why the warrant was not executed? Sgt. Longmire.
July 2007: Two men are shot in separate slayings with the same weapon, an AK-47 police say was already tied to earlier bakery-related crimes. Most likely no OPD investigation either. Sgt. Longmire.
Aug. 1, 2007, OPD and multi-agency raid on YBMB is suddenly postponed.
Aug. 2, 2007: Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey is slaughtered by a ninja assassin with a ski mask on an Oaklandbusy main thoroughfare during morning rush hour and escape in an unregistered big WHITE van with no license plates.
Aug. 3, 2007: A multi-agency police commando and task force raid YBMB. They seize the Mossberg shotgun as it is being allegedly tossed out a window by Devaughndre Broussard. Bey IV, arrested for alleged May kidnapping and torture. I wonder why? Sgt. Longmire.
Bey tells police that Broussard told him he killed Bailey. Sgt. Longmire allows Bey to meet with Broussard without tape or video. Bey tells Broussard to admit to killing Chauncey. Paranoid and confused, Broussard admits he killed Bailey.
During the trial, Sgt. Longmire and the OPD COINTELPRO Red Squad got a free pass from any type of inquiry. Nevertheless, a state justice department official, John Porbanic, led a 2009 OPD-Longmire-YBMB investigation. The justice department found that Sgt. Longmire had “intentionally compromised” the investigation because he was friends with Bey IV. An OPD internal affairs investigation reached the same conclusion.[40]
Yet, neither defense attorneys Gene Peretti (Bey) nor Gary Sirbu (Mackey) asked Longmire any questions about his intelligence background; handling of the case, infiltration of YBMB, or the OPD Red Squad. They tolled the MATRIX storyline.
COINTELPRO, LONGMIRE & YBMB BODY COUNT SINCE 2002
Yusuf Bey Sr., 67 years old;
Waajid Aljawwaad Bey, 51 years old;
Antar Bey, 23 years old;
Chauncey Bailey, 58 years old;
Mike Wills Jr., 36 years old;
Odell Robinson, Jr., 31 years old.
The Imprisoned
Devaughndre Broussard, 19 years old (25 years imprisonment);
Richard Lewis, 26 years old (10 to Life Imprisonment).
Alfonza Phillips, 20 years old (Life Imprisonment);
Joshua Bey, 23 years old (3 years imprisonment);
Tamon Oshun Halfin, 24 years old (? imprisonment);
Yusef Bey V, 23 years old, (10 years Imprisonment)
Yusef Bey VI,
Antoine Mackey
COINTELPRO, Sgt. Longmire and the OPD Red Squad also got a free pass from the yellow journalist CBP as if it was Project MOCKINGBIRD journalists. CBP didn’t touch COINTELPRO, Sgt. Longmire’s counterintelligence background or its connections with targeting YBMB like Huey P. Newton, the Panthers, Judi Bari- Darryl Cherney (Earth First), and the White Radical Left for clandestine infiltration and neutralization.[41]
CBP, KNIGHT FOUNDATION, THE ASPEN INSTITUTE & GENOCID
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are a major sponsor and one of the puppet masters behind the Chauncey Bailey Project.[42] The Knight Foundation is a major funding source and collaborator of the ultra conservative Aspen Institute.[43]
The Aspen Institute is an asset of the Committee of 300, and the Club of Rome.[44] The “Committee of 300” now call themselves “World Government Founders for the NWO”.[45]
“There is no need to use ‘they’ or ‘the enemy’ except as shorthand. We know who ‘they,’ the enemy, is. The Committee of 300 with its Eastern Liberal Establishment ‘aristocracy,’ its banks, insurance companies, giant corporations, foundations, communications networks, presided over by a hierarchy of conspirators – this is the enemy.” – John Coleman, “Conspirators Hierarchy”[46]
The Committee of 300 aka The Olympians is a group allegedly founded by the British aristocracy in 1727. It is alleged to be an international council which organizes politics, commerce, banking, media, and the military for centralized global efforts. The figure of 300 is derived from the 1909 article Geschäftlicher Nachwuchs by Walter Rathenau.[47]
This elite group, the Olympians and Luciferians, truly believe they are equal in power and stature to the legendary gods of Olympus, who have, like Lucifer their god, set themselves above God. They absolutely believe they have been charged with implementing divine rights upon the earth as if from the gods.[48]
The Club of Rome (CoR) is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues. Founded in 1968 at David Rockefeller’s estate in Bellagio, Italy, the CoR describes itself as “a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity.”[49] One of the major goals of the Club of Rome is to reduce the world’s population by 2 billion people through war, famine, disease and any other means necessary.[50] Genocide!
“The CIA is a creature of the Committee of 300 and not of the American people or of the U.S. Government. The CIA is the instrument through which “300” missions are carried out.”[51]
THE NEWSPAPERS FIRE, THE CIA HIRES[52]
In May 2009, The National Association of Black Journalist (NABJ) named the Chauncey Bailey Project winner of its annual Community Service award, in recognition of the Project’s work in blindly and single-mindedly campaigning for a mass media lynching of the defenseless “Big Black Brutes” of YBMB as the patsies in Bailey’s death.[53]
NABJ is another major highly publicized sponsor or cover for the CBP.[54] It is a major conflict of interest and major breach of public faith to give a group that they sponsor and collaborate with one of their major awards.
Frank WISNER, Sr. who ran the CIA Mockingbird Project in its earliest days once boasted that the operation was like a “‘mighty Wurlitzer’ … I can play any tune I want on it and Americawill follow along.’”[55] The handkerchief heads of NABJ will follow any tune the CIA and NWO plays. They’ll also grin with big white pearly teeth and dance for them. The public have been bamboozled by NABJ.
OPD & ASSASSINATION GAMES, PATSIES AND LONE NUTS
CIA Assassination Games
I’m just a patsy!” –Lee Harvey Oswald
Just as in any high profile political assassination games, false leads and a lone nut or patsy (ies) come gift wrapped for the public within hours to allow the real assassins a window to escape. Oswald was identified as the lone nut communist assassin within minutes of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.[56]
Within minutes of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a bundle with a rifle was dropped near the scene of the shooting identifying James Earl Ray as the racist lone nut assassin.[57]
Sirhan Sirhan was apprehended within seconds after the assassination of Senator and Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy as the lone nut radical Palestinian assassin even though he couldn’t have possibly killed RFK.[58]
Within minutes of the assassination of Dr. Marcus A. Foster, Deputy Superintendent Robert Blackburn intentionally gave police a false lead to allow the real assassins a window to escape. Blackburntold police the assassins were Black Panthers.[59]
Within moments of the assassination of Chauncey Bailey, it was the radical Black Muslims of YBMB identified as the patsies and Broussard as the lone nut assassin, the perfect assassination game.
My Closing Argument
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury:
I will be brief. If I learned anything, it is that “Physical Evidence” does not lie. I ask you to keep that in mind during my closing argument. You’re heard two months of testimony and evidence against our clients. The prosecution says that Devaughndre Broussard shot and killed Chauncey Bailey. Broussard’s confession is the only direct evidence to tie the killing of Chauncey Bailey to our clients at YBMB. If I create a doubt in your mind that Broussard was the triggerman, you must acquit my clients.
The witnesses were consistent that Chauncey Bailey’s killer wore a ski mask and black clothing. Where’s the physical evidence, ski mask and black clothing? What did Broussard have to say about the ski mask, he said “I think I threw the mask away?” What about the black clothing that had to have had Chauncey’s blood, bone and tissue scatter matter on it? OPD didn’t seem to care to ask him. But, I am sure the answer could have been the same because according to Broussard after the assault, he told them, “I had a powder cocaine blunt. I smoked it.”
Well, you don’t smoke cocaine per se. You smoke “crack cocaine” and their evidence shows that Broussard was in some sort of a crack cocaine stupor before and after Chauncey’s death. He doesn’t have any idea where the ski mask and black clothing is because he never had it. If he had it, I pretty sure that the ever vigilant OPD would have found it. Particularly if he was in a crack cocaine stupor, and that particular drug (crack cocaine) negatively impacted his problem solving capabilities.
Plus, OPD and a number of other law enforcement agencies had the members of YBMB under surveillance. They would have known his whereabouts and had some idea where he disposed of the ski mask and bloody black clothing if he ever had it. We contend again that he never had it, because he wasn’t the triggerman.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let’s practice some common sense in this case. You can use common sense when you evaluate and weight the evidence. Here, the prosecution star witness is an admitted crack cocaine abuser. He admits to being under the influence the day of the murder. The prosecution won’t dispute that because if they believe he’s hallucinating and fantasizing about that, then he is most likely fantasizing about shooting Chauncey Bailey in a drug stupor. They have a real problem in this case. Please, this is not a matter of going to a “demon” to get the “devil” as the prosecution would like you to conceive as an illusion.
Broussard is not a demon. He is a poor weak defenseless sick individual created by the state’s foster care system. In this case, it is a matter of slitting through the recollections of a hapless crack addict’s brain for facts. Crack is not just any drug. It’s a terrible drug. It’s one of the most destructive and addictive substances devised by man in the 20th Century.
Science has shown that people who have used crack cocaine for a long time can have problems thinking, such as memory, attention, problem solving, and use of words. They can also have problems with hand-eye coordination. They suffer long term paranoia. They have been found to hallucinate and can easily be manipulated and influenced. During Broussard’s testimony, you witnessed it for yourselves. He had major problems with thinking, memory, use of words, and problem solving. You saw that!
Well, if that’s the cards the prosecution has been dealt with in this case. We have to look for facts that collaborate that Broussard killed Chauncey as he confessed that he did. Now, let’s use that common sense. It is established that he was suffering under the influence of drugs when he said that he shot Chauncey three times at close range with a sawed-off shotgun.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are 11 years into the 21st century. The OPD is a 21st century police department with the latest technology available to solve crimes. That’s what they do- solve crimes. How do you collaborate a crack addict’s statement that he killed someone with a shotgun especially in a high profile assassination of national and international interest such as this? Well, you conduct a gun powder residue test on the subject’s hands, face, clothing and shoes. It’s called a paraffin test.
It’s real simple stuff. That makes sense, 21st century crime solving technology common sense. That’s physical evidence that just don’t lie. In this case, would you be surprised if there is no such physical evidence to collaborate that Broussard ever fired a weapon. Well, there isn’t.
They didn’t test the assailant’s clothing, because it wasn’t recovered. The OPD wasn’t particularly interested in recovering Broussard’s blood and tissue scattered clothing. Because, the defense contents that it didn’t exist. It didn’t exist because Broussard wasn’t the triggerman.
They didn’t test Broussard’s hands, face or shoes for gun powder residue. Because, the defense contents there wasn’t any gun powder residue on him. It didn’t exist because Broussard wasn’t the triggerman.
There is no physical evidence that Broussard ever fired a shotgun. Then there is the Mossberg shotgun. Broussard’s fingerprints weren’t found on that weapon. That’s important physical evidence. The OPD said that they found a shotgun shell case on our client’s carpet matching the ballistics’ report at the crime scene. Well, there are no finger prints found on either the weapon or shell case that conclusively tie those pieces of evidence to our clients or the confessed killer. That’s odd.
Finally, Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s look at the crime scene. This picture was taken not too long after the murder. Chauncey Bailey’s body is underneath the plastic coverings. Notice how the officers are walking through the crime scene.
How, look at the standing position of the male black officer with notepad.
Now, look at a Bailey crime diagram exhibit. Pay close attention to No. 3 where the assailant’s spent shotgun shell casting was recovered. Now, look at where the black officer is standing again. He is standing on top of the crime scene No. 3.
Let’s recall what Broussard confessed to. He said that he wanted to make sure Chauncey was dead so he returned and shot Bailey in the chest. On the crime scene diagram, spent shell castings No. 1 and No. 2 is consistent with an assailant approaching Chauncey from 14th street to the sidewalk to confront Chauncey. No 3 spent shell is consistent with an assailant’s approach out of the parking lot in front of the post office on 13th Street. Physical evidence doesn’t lie.
Why is that extremely significant for a second assailant? Recall what the witness said from McDonald’s that Chauncey exited McDonald’s headed up 14th Street carrying his briefcase. How let’s revisit Broussard’s statement, “He swung at me. He had a briefcase.” “I shot him.”
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, where’s the briefcase? It’s not on the crime scene diagram. It wasn’t recovered from the crime scene. The defense contends that an assailant consistent with moving from within the parking lot from 13th Street delivered Chauncey’s head shot and removed the briefcase.
It shows that Broussard had been implanted with the Chauncey Bailey murder storyline that included details about the briefcase. Whoever killed Chauncey either forgot to leave an empty briefcase at the scene or didn’t have a window of opportunity to empty it prior to escaping. It is clear. A window closed to rifle Chauncey’s briefcase and plant it. The killers ran with the briefcase and the person(s) charged with implanting the patsies with details of the murder missed that little small detail about the briefcase. So, the details about Chauncey’s briefcase disappeared from news accounts and this case. But, Broussard didn’t forget that small but important detail given to him and repeated it over and over again.
Now let’s revisit the police raid on YBMB on August 3, 2007 when Broussard and our clients were arrested. The multi-task force police raid had been scheduled for August 1, but OPD postponed the date. Why, it didn’t fit the window of opportunity to setup YBMB as the patsies for Chauncey Bailey’s murder.
Now, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, let’s recall what Sgt. Longmire’s attorney, John Scott, slipped and said, Now, no one is suggesting or implying the department [OPD] intended to kill Chauncey Bailey!”
It’s crystal clear now. Isn’t it. If the police raid took place on August 1, the window closed to use Broussard and our clients as pasties for murder. Someone or some entity very powerful wanted Chauncey Bailey dead. Whether that someone or entity was in the OPD I can’t say, but someone in the OPD was complicit in extending that window of opportunity to kill Chauncey and have gift wrapped pasties. That someone or entity wanted what was in Chauncey’s briefcase. You see the real killers have the briefcase, the ski mask and bloody clothing.
The real killers pulled off that brazen morning rush hour assassination of a popular and well liked journalist and escaped in a big white unregistered van without license plates because the OPD allowed them a window and opportunity to escape with an arranged set of literally defenseless poor pasties.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, neither Broussard nor my clients have that type of power, cunning or opportunity to pull off a brazen assassination in broad daylight on a busy street; and under 24-hr police surveillance. They didn’t have the power to make Chauncey’s Briefcase disappear from the physical evidence of this case. Find Chauncey’s briefcase and you’ll find the real killers.
DON’T LET THE OPD AND THE ALAMEDA COUNTY MAFIA BAMBOOZLED YOU.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I beg you to consider what the U.S. Supreme Court had to say about “Confessions.”
No other class of evidence is so profoundly prejudicial… triers of fact accord confessions such heavy weight in their determinations that the introduction of a confession makes the other aspects of a trial in court superfluous, and the real trial, for all practical purposes, occurs when the confession is obtained.
–Colorado vs. Connelly- United States Supreme Court 49 U.S. 157, 182 (1986)
I ask you to give Broussard’s “Crack Head{ Confession without any substantial collaborating PHYSICAL EVIDENCE its proper value and weight to convict my clients of murder. That is, very little or no weight or probative value in this case. Acquit my clients of the murder of Chauncey Bailey.
[1] http://www.lacp.org/2010-Articles-Main/110610-BARTofficerGets2years-Riots.htm
[2] http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-02-06/bay-area/17847932_1_oscar-grant-grant-s-family-officer-johannes-mehserle
[3] http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/05/18637119.php
[4]http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7518678
[5]Id. At footnote 1
[6] http://sfwmpac.org/topnav/board_pdfs/agendas/08/08_10_09agn.pdf
[7] http://leruegrim-atty.com/
[8] http://www.knowfree.com/beating.htm
[9] http://www.thelema101.com/crowley.html
[10]http://leruegrim-atty.com/
[11] http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/35653.htm
[12]http://willibys-corruptjustice.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
[13]Id.
[18] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2008/06/22/bailey-killing-figure-had-troubled-youth/
[19] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2007/12/09/police-tapes-reveal-suspects-confession-to-bailey-slaying/
[20] http://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol10pg
[21] http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government-lies/manchurian-candidate/sirhan-chapman-ray.html
[22] http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-02-21/bay-area/17189806_1_devaughndre-broussard-yusuf-bey-iv-black-muslim-bakery
[23] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2009/04/21/2433/
[24] http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/08/exclusive-michael-jacksons-alleged-son-not-motivated-money-says-lawyer
[26] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2007/09/27/i-shot-him-again-and-again/
[27] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2011/05/03/another-bailey-slaying-trial-witness-has-memory-problems/
[28] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2008/06/18/van-owner-i-gave-the-keys-to-bey-iv/
[30] http://www.ktvu.com/news/27946138/detail.html
[32] http://www.prisonplanet.com/state_monitored_war_protestors.html
[33] http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Red_squad
[34] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
[35] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS
[36] http://mdcbowen.org/p1/cobb/kwanzaa/Cointelpro%20Papers%20-%20Chruchill%20&%20Vander%20Wall.pdf
[37] http://propagandhi.com/wp-content/empires/Ward_Churchill.pdf
[38]Id. At footnote 22
[40] http://willibys-corruptjustice.blogspot.com/2008/10/investigator-interfered-in-police.html
[41] http://www.judibari.org/COINTELPRO-OOP_020514.pdf
[42] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/?s=sponsors
[43] http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/grant_detail.dot?id=357317
[44] Coleman, John, Conspirators Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300,America West Publishers (1992) pgs. 31, 50
[45] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_committee300.htm
[46] http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/club-of-rome.html
[47] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_300
[48] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_committee300_01.htm
[49] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome
[51] http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_World_Order/Committee_of_300.html
[52] http://reason.com/blog/2008/07/28/newspapers-fire-the-cia-hires
[53] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2009/05/07/nabj-recognizes-chauncey-bailey-project-with-community-service-award/
[55] http://www.blazingtrailers.com/show/441/
[56]http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Last%20Words%20of%20Lee%20Oswald.html
[57] http://articles.cnn.com/2008-03-28/us/mlk.ray.case_1_james-earl-ray-jerry-ray-missouri-state-prison?_s=PM:US
[58] http://homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/iblog/C177199123/E20060831210408/index.html
[59] People v. Remiro (1979) 89 Cal App 3rd 809 [153 Cal.Rptr. 89]
[60] http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2011/05/19/prosecutions-case-is-built-on-lies-defense-attorneys-argue/
[61] http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/drugs/cocaine.pdf
[62] http://willibys-corruptjustice.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
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BREAKING NEWS: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE UNKNOWN BART POLICE OFFICER CAUGHT ON VIDEO RAMMING A BART PATRON’S HEAD THROUGH A PLATE GLASS WINDOW
Unknown BART Officer Involved in the Michael Joseph Gibson Affair. I Promised to Keep His Identity Secret
On Saturday, November 21, 2009, a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Officer was caught on video hurling a non resisting and helpless bipolar schizophrenic 37-year old Michael Joseph Gibson into an industrial sized plate glass window on a Oakland, California BART train platform. Just before the incident, Gibson had been annoying BART patrons with a public exhibition of schizophrenia.
Frankly, the Michael Joseph Gibson Affair could not have come at a worst time for Oakland BART’s Public Relations (PR) campaign and national reputation, which is in the middle of an international spotlight involving the videotaped homicide of 23 year old Oscar Grant III with his hands behind his back by BART Officer Johannes Mehserle, who is on trial in Los Angeles for criminal homicide.
The Michael Joseph Gibson Affair video was watched on CNN by millions around the nation and world. After that, the matter just mysteriously dropped from the public airways. The BART officer involved in the incident wasn’t identified, and he too just dropped out of sight until now with this exclusive frank and unnerving interview.
Princeray: First let me thank you for agreeing to this interview. I have signed a confidential agreement with BART and an agency called here as RSHA, Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt IV Gehelme Staatsolizei (Gestapo) located in Berlin, Germany marked “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY” to keep your identity secret. Sorry, is this the same one that Johnny signed in the Mehserle case?
Unknown BART Officer: xq##***rsx##!!!!//qsq#####!!!!**** Bitch Ass N’r!
Princeray: Ah-Ah –. Aright. This is surely an exclusive interview. I assume that you had been vigorously pursued for an interview to get your side on the story from the Bay Area’s award winning and ever vigilant investigative press corps like the Chauncey Bailey Project, National Association of Black Journalists, East Bay Express, KPFA, etc., that ensures the people’s right to know. You’re shaking your head indicating. No!
Princeray: Oh-Oh-O.K. I can’t help to say that you bear a striking uncanny resemblance to Ernst Rohm. Nevertheless, your salary is paid by the taxpayers, and I see that you began your public service with BART in May 2009 before that you were with Contra Costa County; and before that you were “Resurrected.”
Princeray: Aright. Let’s talk about the incident caught on video on November 21, 2009 with a hapless bipolar schizophrenic gentleman by the name of Michael Joseph Gibson. Excuse me. Would you like another beer? Oh, I see. You brought your own 12-pk.
Princeray: Watching the video. I understand that your first police officer command to Mr. Gibson before you attacked him garbing him around the neck from the rear was like, “Get the F##! off the train!” Is that part of your BART police procedure and training manual?
Princeray: Watching the video, I was struck with the fact that Mr. Gibson offered you no resistance, and that it appears that you deliberately drove Mr. Gibson by force several yards across the platform, and then deliberately tried to drive him head face first into a plate glass window. Is that part of your BART police procedure and training manual?
Princeray: Watching the video, at any time prior to you driving Mr. Gibson from the train, forcing his head into the window, and then force him to the ground, did you tell Mr. Gibson that he was under arrest? Excuse me. It was an old fashion Stormtrooper Bitch Ass N’r beat down and ass whopping. Is that part of your BART police procedure and training manual?
Princeray: I understand that after your old fashion Stormtrooper beat down and ass whopping that you tried to charge Mr. Gibson with felonies for resisting arrest and assault against an officer. I see you’re laughing. Did you write a police report falsely alleging that Mr. Gibson had resisted arrest and assaulted you? Is that part of your BART police procedure and training manual?
Princeray: Would it have made any difference to you if you had known that Mr. Gibson was bipolar and schizophrenic? Useless eater! Wait. You murmured useless eater.
Princeray: On January 1, 2009, Oscar Grant III was tragically shot to death by your fellow officer Mehserle. You indicate, Comrade Mehserle. Sorry. Were you there that evening with Tony Pirone, Marysol Domenici, Jon Woffinden, and Emery Knudtson when Mr. Grant was murdered. No. You indicate, “Spiritually.”
Princeray: I notice that you like using a racially offensive term, Bitch Ass N’r, to describe people of color. I believe that Officer Pirone. Sorry, Comrade Pirone used that same term as some sort of ancient Aryan rallying cry just prior to Oscar Grant’s life being extinguished and the run of mock Stormtrooper beat down of young men of color on the BART platform that night. I suspect that is part of some sort of collective BART Police Department mindset inspired by you and your kind?
1933 Ernst Rohm German Press Caricature From Alexander Verlag's The Hidden Hitler, Basic Books, NY (2001)
Princeray: I notice you have on a Nazi Stormtrooper uniform. I understand that you have the freedom to wear whatever you want as a matter of free speech. I understand that you’re not on duty due to the injuries that you sustained in that old fashion Stormtrooper beat down of Mr. Gibson. I see you’re laughing. Do you believe that’s funny?
Unknown BART Officer: xq##***rsx##!!!!//qsq#####!!!!**** Bitch Ass N’r.
Princeray: Finally, I read here from your prepared statement that, “The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.” Excuse me. You say it’s for the Bitch Ass N’rs. Is that part of your BART police procedure and training manual?
Princeray: By watching that video and what you did to unarmed citizens Oscar Grant, Jerrold Hall, and Bruce Stewart, I believe you made your point very plain.
Princeray: By the way, where did you get your police training from? Who? Excuse me. I don’t believe that I’ am familiar with anyone called the “BLOND BEAST.”
Princeray: In conclusion, I want to thank you for your rather frank and chilling interview. Wait a minute! What did you say? Don’t get on BART Bitch Ass N’r! This concludes this interview. I concluded my role as a journalist. What? I not sure how you’re going to get out all of here in one piece? The N’s just came out of the walls.
Obviously, no such interview took place and you should not rely on the representation above as true. At the time of this posting, the BART officer seen worldwide attacking Mr. Gibson like a Nazi Stormtrooper OUT OF HELL and deliberately trying to ram his head through an industrial sized plate glass window has not been identified as if he is some type of private citizen carrying out his private affairs.
It is crystal clear from BART’s recent vicious personal attacks against the family and friends of Oscar Grant, BART somehow believe that we are soon to forget what another BART officer have wrongfully and shamefully done to our families, brothers and sisters, loved ones and the least among us.
Until BART identifies this offending officer; and the legal profession stop entering into secret deals with mega powerful corporations to shield them from public scrutiny and oversight; and the local Bay Area investigative press bring to a close UNJUSTLY partitioning out worthiness, I will continue to expose them of what they really are.
Tags: BART, BART Gestapo, bipolar disease, Blond Beast, Bruce Stewart, Charles Alex Gregory, CNN, East Bay Express, Emery Knudtson, Ernst Rohm, Jerrold Hall, Johannes Mehserle, John Burris, Jon Woffinden, Knights of the Black Sun, KPFA, Marysol Domenici, Michael Joseph Gibson, National Association of Black Journalists, Oakland, Oscar Grant III, schizophrenia, Stormtroopers, The Chauncey Bailey Project, Tony Pirone
Categories : Adolf Hitler, BART Police Department, Bay Area Rapid Transit, black genocide, Chauncey Bailey Project, East Bay Express, fascism, governmental abuse, Henrich Himmler, human rights, Johannes Mehserle, KPFA, Lucifer's Servants, Luciferian Seed, nazis, nazism, Oakland, Oscar Grant, Oscar Grant III, Stanford Research Institutute, Stanford University, the Beast, the SS, Yellow Journalism
The Gregory File: JOHNNY COME LATELY’S SECRET PACT WITH THE MATRIX & THE BART GESTAPO GOING HARD!
BART Gestapo- Hard on Inferior Class of Beings, Bitch Assed N'rs, Useless Eaters & Liberals
-Matrix- something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization as Nazism (National Socialism) is the matrix for an apartheid U.S police state.- Princeray-
BART GESTAPO GOING HARD ON “BITCH ASSED N’ERS”
Since the racial extermination of Oscar Grant on January 1, 2009 by BART Gestapo and Officer Tony Pirone’s explosive racist battle cry heard around the World against Oakland’s people of color, “Bitch Assed N’ers” and other racially explosive offenses against society, instead of developing humane policies and guarantees, BART has decided to be aggressive, play low-down dirty and lynch even Good Ole Boy Attorney John Burris. It has decided to strike first against the people as psychological warfare tactics.
After BART issued a recent public statement disclosing a $1.5 million settlement for Grant’s 5-year-old daughter, Tatiana, Dale Allen, BART’s attorney, took the initiative against John Burris’ clients, Grant’s five friends, who were brutalized and terrorized by BART Gestapo the night Grant was murdered. He offensively boasted that he would vigorously defend BART against a civil rights lawsuit by Grant’s friends because four of the five men had admitted in depositions that they had “significant police contacts” and were trying to evade police officers during the incident. [1][2] Dale Allen’s law firm is appropriately entitled “Low, Ball & Lynch”.
Allen alleged that the men acted “aggressively” toward officers, were “interfering in a police investigation,” tried to evade police and “created a stressful environment” that led to Grant’s death. [3]
Allen said the men also said in their depositions that Grant was involved in a fight with another passenger on a train before it stopped at the Fruitvale BART station.[4]
In addition to chest beating, Allen also exposed some very explosive news that may have a bearing on Mehserle’s upcoming murder trial. Allen bragged that Grant’s five friends corroborated statements in depositions by other witnesses that Mehserle was “shocked, dazed and stunned” after the shooting, backing up Mehserle’s defense that the shooting was an accident.[5]
Due to Allen’s public news leak seriously attacking his clients’ creditability and standing in the community in violation of some type of covert confidentiality agreement with BART, Burris said at a February 5, 2010 news conference that BART’s boastings may crater the settlement with Tatiana. However, Allen blasted back that Burris had entered a stipulation of dismissal accepting the settlement on behalf of Grant’s daughter “and we fully intend to enforce the terms of the settlement if he attempts to withdraw.” [6]
THE OSCAR GRANT AFFAIR “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY”
Well, this is all very interesting. Wasn’t John Burris the legal representative for Grant’s five friends, Nigel Bryson, 19, his brother, Jackie Bryson, 21, Michael Greer, 22, Carlos Reyes, 21, and Fernando “June” Anicete, 20? On October 13, 2009, Burris filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against BART for the five young brothers. [7]
It would seem to reason that Burris was at the Low Ball & Lynch depositions of the five brothers. Did he deliberately standby under a shroud of confidentiality and allow the BART Gestapo to coerce and further terrorize the five young men to make paradoxical statements to set the stage to undermine Mehserle’s upcoming first degree murder trial?
During the solo press conference Burris called in response to BART’s public posturing in the Oscar Grant affair, Burris exposed publicly for the first time that he had voluntarily entered into some type of secret collective CIA/James Bond type “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY” protective gag order with Oakland’s Secret Matrix that even his clients didn’t know about.
I suppose that Burris would be upset with BART for dissing him, particularly, in lieu of what have I done for you lately. Burris said that he had been a good House Negro keeping the secrets and protecting the Oakland Secret Matrix. Burris’ press conference was more like Malcolm’s reference to House Negroes’ cry about the master’s house fire, “our house is on fire.” It seems that Burris was more concerned about being dissed by occupants of the house (legal system) than the injustices and crimes perpetrated against the community. During the press conference, Burris kept referring to Oscar Grant’s friends as “Boys.” What was that all about? Coded?
In Johnny Come Lately & the Alameda County Mafia, I was puzzled why Burris directed a letter to BART Police Chief Gary Gee to look into and investigate the existence of an “unprofessional relationship” between BART Officers Tony Pirone and Johannes Mehserle that had been confidentially offered to him from some source. By the revelations in his press conference, I am quite now certain why.
To be foretold is to be forewarned. I maintained that that information was important and involved public safety whether or not these officers were secretly acting in concert as neo-Nazis, Klansmen, Minutemen, Birchers or the like.[8] Note the names of other officers involved in the officer involved mayhem and murder that night, Marysol Domenici, Jon Woffinden, and Emery Knudtson. [9] It sounds like members of the “Axis Forces” of World War II, the Gestapo.
What about 37-year old Michael Joseph Gibson? On Saturday, November 21, 2009, BART Gestapo caught the world’s eye again on video senselessly brutalizing a non resisting bipolar schizophrenic Gibson by hurling him into a glass plate window. Gibson’s only crime had been annoying BART patrons with a public exhibition of his mental suffering.
The Michael Joseph Gibson Affair could not have come at a worst time for BART’s PR campaign and national reputation, which was in the middle of an international spotlight involving the videotaped cold blood and senseless execution of Grant with his hands behind his back by BART Gestapo.
In the Gibson affair, BART decided to strike first as a psychological warfare PR tactic. They called a rare Sunday press conference to get ahead of the story to control once the video was exposed to the World. BART refused to identify the officer.
By Monday, “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY” good ole House Negro John Burris was on the case representing Gibson guarding and covering-up Matrix secrets; and absolutely nothing has been publicly released further about the Michael Joseph Gibson-BART Affair. Subsequently, the D.A. found no justified grounds to charge Gibson with felonies for resisting arrest and assaulting BART Gestapo. At the time of this posting, the name of the Gestapo officer is still shockingly SECRET!
The Michael Joseph Gibson Affair was obviously important to the public, the Oscar Grant Case and Mehserle’s upcoming murder trial as evidence of a custom, pattern and routine habit of senselessly brutalizing people of color.
It would also have a bearing on civil rights lawsuits under 42 U.S.C.A. §1983 against BART by developing and maintaining policies and customs which exhibited deliberate indifference to the constitutional rights of people of color in Oakland, namely, inadequate/improper investigation of citizen complaints of police misconduct; inadequate/improper recruitment, training of police officers; inadequate disciplining, sanctioning, and shielding of police officers who engage in unlawful conduct; and, inadequate training against a code of silence or” blue code” within the police department.
I maintain that BART is the product of Stanford Research Institute (SRI). SRI is the archetype of the BEAST Nazi War Criminal Obergruppenfuhrer SS Hans Kammler’s Sonderkommando (Special Unit) “think tank.” SS Kammler was secretly disappeared by the OSS out of Germany in May 1945 in Operation Paperclip. [10] The BART Police Force is a private army of the Sonderkommando, a reflection of the BEAST, the SS and the Gestapo.
Along with Fayedine Coulter, John Grigsby, G. William (Billy) Hunter, Earl Warren, D. Lowell Jensen, Edwin Meese; Thomas Jensen, and DA Thomas Orloff, John Burris is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall and Alameda County D.A’s “Good Ole Boys Club” forever loyal and a silent partner to Oakland’s Murder Inc. Secret Matrix; the Alameda County Mafia, the Military-Industrial-Medical-Congressional Complex, the BEAST, and Lucifer’s servants and its seeds. [11]
[1] http://cbs5.com/local/bart.shooting.settlement.2.1474180.html
[7] Bryson el. al. v. Gee, US District Court, Case No. 4:2009cv04835(10-13-2010)
[8] http://princeraystore.com/about/johnny-come-lately-the-alameda-county-mafia/
[9] http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-candce/case_no-4:2009cv04835/case_id-220372/
[10] http://princeraystore.com/category/obergruppenfuhrer-ss-hans-kammler/
Tags: 42 U.S.C.A. §1983, Ball & Lynch, BART, BART Gestapo, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Bitch Assed Niggers, blue code, Carlos Reyes, Charles Alex Gregory, D. Lowell Jensen, Dale Allen, Earl Warren, Edwin Meese; Thomas Jensen, Emery Knudtson, Fayedine Coulter, Fernando "June" Anicete, G. William (Billy) Hunter, House Negroes, Jackie Bryson, John Birchers, John Burris, John Gigsby, Jon Woffinden, Klansmen, Low, Lucifer's Servants, Marysol Domenici, Michael Greer, Michael Joseph Gibson, Minutemen, neo-Nazis, Nigel Bryson, Oakland’s Murder Inc., Obergruppenfuhrer SS Hans Kammler, Oscar Grant, police misconduct, Sonderkommando, SRI, Stanford Research Institute, Tatiana Grant, the Beast, Thomas Orloff, Tony Pirone
Categories : Agent Provocateurs, BART Chief Gary Gee, BART Police Department, Bechtel International Group, black genocide, Boalt Hall, Boalt Hall School of Law, Charles Alex Gregory, Edwin Meese III, eugenics, fascism, governmental abuse, Henrich Himmler, human rights, Johannes Mehserle, John Burris, Knights of the Black Sun, Lucifer's Servants, Luciferian Seed, nazis, nazism, Negro Removal, Obergruppenfuhrer SS Hans Kammler, Oscar Grant, Oscar Grant III, Stanford Research Institutute, Stanford University, Stephan Bechtel, the Beast, the SS, Uncategorized, Urban Redevelopment
The Gregory Files: THE MEETING: NIGHT OF THE BLACK LUMPEN & THE PRINCE
THE PRINCE OF THE LUMPEN & MAYOR OF BLACK LOS ANGELES, ALPRENTICE BUNCHY CARTER, DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE OF THE BPPSD
I had been taken by surprise when I discovered that one of the reasons that ex Bay Area Rapid Transit Officer Johannes Mehserle’s murder trial for killing Oscar Grant was justified to be moved out of Oakland was that it had been “Home of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense” (BPPSD).
It is ironic that after the Military-Industry-Congressional Complex committed so much money, resources, brain matter and technology, the BPPSD and its formation still strikes fear in their hearts. As a Manchild, I had no idea that a small band of struggling brothers and sisters from Oakland would win the hearts and minds of the people of the World. The BPPSD was the product of the ingenious and revolutionary courage and spirit of Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.
The organization that they formed in October 1966 was incredibly ingenious in that it provided a platform and vehicle for some of most misplaced, disenfranchised and marginalized members of the community that Bobby often defined as “The Lumpen” to make a direct revolutionary constructive contribution to the struggle for freedom and justice in this country.
The feared BPPSD was the victim of the some of the most secret coordinated vicious, costly and illegal domestic Human Rights Violations in the history of the United States. The road to destroy and neutralize the Black Lumpen of the BPPSD and its Shining Prince ran right through Oakland.
THE NIGHT OF THE LUMPEN
On one night in Oakland, the Black Lumpen would gather to make a revolutionary contribution to an international movement to free the Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton.
It was between November 13 and December 1967, Bobby Seale, Chairman of the BPPSD, called a meeting at a small church at 32nd and Grove in Oakland. It was just after Huey had been indicted for the October 29, 1967 homicide of Oakland Police Officer John Frey, and the wounding of Officer Hearne during an alleged random traffic patrol stop in West Oakland.
Before the meeting, an extremely humble appearing man with a weak handshake was circulating around introducing himself as the new BPPSD Minister of Information. A brother turned to me and asked, “Who was that?” I didn’t know at the time. It was Eldridge Cleaver.
There was something magical and spiritual about the meeting. The charismatic and fiery spirit of the gathering burned the air with exhilaration and anticipation. My young heart was beating fast as we assembled to order. My mind was racing full speed ahead as I seemed to have been in the mist of giants. I was filed with anxiety and excitement. This was a gathering of about 100 of the most charismatic and bad-assed brothers and sisters on the face of the planet, The Black Lumpen. One of the brothers exhuming with spirituality, magic and charisma was ALprentice Bunchy Carter out of Los Angeles. Among Bunchy’s contingent from L.A. was an impressive Herculean figure that stood out among the crowd, Baby-D. Baby-D was one of biggest and most muscular men that I had ever seen. He was a lumpen gladiator.
Brother Malcolm, a poet from Soul Students Advisory Council at Merritt Jr. College, took the center stage. He was a sharp contrast to the room full of battle-worthy hard-core soldiers in black leather coats, berets and revolutionary African attire.
Malcolm was tall and thin as a rail with a bushy black mustache and eyebrows. He wore round metal rimmed glasses. He was dressed in perfectly ceased wool slacks with a dark brown tweed sports coat with a sweater and shirt underneath with a wool scarf warped around his neck. He had on penny loafers with a pair pennies in the slots.
He read a poem dedicated to Huey accompanied by flute player. His poem trumpeted Huey as: “Warrior” “Bold Warrior” “Black warrior.” It was well suited for the atmosphere. Brother Malcolm was well received by the brothers and sisters. I was impressed with his poem, and how with his words he was able to quiet our spirits and compliment the tone of the meeting.
If I recall correctly, it was the brothers and sisters of the San Francisco Black Arts West Theatre that preformed an inspiring and powerful short skit dramatizing the October 28, 1967 incident with Huey, Gene McKinney, OPD Officers Frey and Hearne. After seeing the skit, we could visualize Gene and Huey’s revolutionary acts that night. I learned the power of the art of revolutionary drama.
THE PRINCE OF THE LUMPEN
Bobby introduced Alprentice Bunchy Carter, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Southern California Chapter of the BPPSD. Bunchy’s reputation had preceded him. The buzz among the crowd had mostly been about Bunchy, the former gang leader of the 5,000 strong Slausons, a Lumpen Army.
On that night, Bunchy, the Mayor of Black Los Angeles, was “The Prince of the Lumpen.” Huey had realized the great potential and magnitude of Bunchy as a panther leader and named him as one of his chief deputies. Bunchy’s spirituality and persona was powerfully high upon the night and burned the air. He seemed to glow in the mellow and gentle lights of the room. He seemed magnificent in coolness, character and pose as he stood and delivered a powerful message of love for Huey and vision for the vanguard, the BPPSD.
Bobby was a brilliant organizer, and a dynamic and an extremely articulate personality. He was electrifying and held us spellbound as he talked about the hero, Huey P. Newton. Bobby also undated us on Huey’s condition and his upcoming trial strategy.
He also introduced a potent national “Free Huey” campaign beginning in Oakland on Huey’s birthday on February 17, 1968. He implored us to use our imagination, creativity, arts and will to aspire to people, win their hearts and the minds in a victorious fight to “Free Huey.”
The brothers and sisters of the Lumpen that met that night was actually a close- knit group. Most of the individuals were known, respected and had a proven character within the community. The Black Community maintained a very viable boundless intelligence grapevine. It wasn’t just happenstance that Bunchy’s reputation would precede him, and he could shine, by consensus, above the ranks. We had so much hope.
The Black Lumpen was for real. It was a nucleus of enormous potential and importance to the movement. Huey’s vision had been if each man in the Black Community with a common cause picked up a gun it constitutes an army. By the very nature of an army, it takes political and economy power over its community. The Black Lumpen and its Shining Prince and its great potential to the Black Community and the Black Liberation Struggle did not go without notice of the U.S. military-intelligence fascist apparatus.
A little more than the year after the meeting of the Black Lumpen of BPPSD, the Prince would be dead at the age of 26. Less than 15 days later, most of the Lumpen would be purged from the BPPSD. Who benefited from death of the Prince and Great Purge of the Lumpen from the BPPSD?
COINTELPRO & THE ASSASSINATION OF THE LUMPEN PRINCE
On January 17, 1969, John Jerome Huggins, 23 and Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter of the BPPSD, were shot in the back and executed at UCLA’s Campbell Hall by Ron Karenga’s US (United Slaves) Simba paramilitary unit; accessories: George P. and Larry Joseph Stiner, Harold Jones, Donald Hawkins; the triggerman: Claude “Chuchessa” Hubert.
According to Huey, the Stiner brothers were intelligence gatherers for the FBI, while the triggerman Chuchessa Hubert was an undercover FBI agent, who after the assassinations was transferred into the New York office or Guyana. [1] Hubert has never been charged or pursued for the assassinations.
Bunchy and Huggins’ assassinations were arranged by COINTELPRO. The notorious FBI Los Angeles Special Agent in Charge, Richard W. Held, took credit for the killings.[2] The assassin and his accessories escaped in a waiting getaway car driven by FBI agent Brandon Clearly. [3] Undoubtedly, the assassinations had been planned
In the political assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, CIA and military intelligence operatives and assets were on the ground as accessories, intelligence controls, and observers. [4] If the FBI had prearranged the assassinations of Bunchy and Huggins as the evidence indisputably indicates, just as in the case of RFK, CIA and military intelligence operatives and assets would have been on the ground as well.
NSA Bloodline: Toni Cook
According to Larry Joseph (Watani) Stiner, just before the execution of Bunchy and Huggins he had been talking to or taking directions from Toni Cook. [5]
Toni Cook was a National Security Agency (NSA) bloodline. Cook was the daughter of a dentist and a linguist with the Top Secret NSA. [6] In military intelligence circles, the NSA means central, main, clearing house, central intelligence, and security agency. The CIA and NSA are direct English translations of the Reichsichethauptamt, the notorious R.S.H.A of Nazi Germany.
The R.S.H.A or Reichsichethauptamt (Reich Main Security Office or Reich Security Main Office) was an organization subordinate to Reichsfurhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler in his capacity as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police) and Chief of the SS. The organization’s stated duty was to fight all “enemies of the Reich” inside and outside the borders of Nazi Germany. [7]
At the time of Bunchy and Huggins executions, Lt. Gen. Marshall Sylvester Carter, former deputy director of the CIA under Allen Dulles, was the director of the NSA. The NSA is the largest of the US intelligence agencies and is top secret; and exempt from domestic spying and of the Freedom of Information Act (FOLA).
From 1968 to the 70’s, the NSA joined the CIA/MK-ULTRA operations; and the COINTELPRO “racial matters” pacification programs along with Project CHAOS; Nixon’s Huston Plan; and the Public Disorder Intelligence Unit of the CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section of the Los Angeles Police Department) to attack, expose, and neutralize an enemy list of “black extremists” just like Reichsfurhrer Himmler’s Reichsichethauptamt. Bunchy, the dynamic Deputy Minister of Defense of BPPSD and the Prince of the Lumpen would have been at the top of U.S. military intelligence domestic enemy list for neutralization.
According to Stiner, Toni Cook and Muminia Azizi of US managed to make their way to a small room at the back of the cafeteria and disappeared behind a closed door after Bunchy and Huggins were executed.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Club Pink Pussycat & Jay Richard Kennedy: Elaine Brown
Elaine Brown, a woman with an absolutely bizarre background and history was there, too. According to Geronimo (Pratt) Ji Jada, Elaine Brown setup and incited the commotion at UCLA that led to the executions of Bunchy and Huggins. Ji Jada had succeeded Bunchy as the Chairman of the Southern California Chapter of the BPPSD. Ji Jada spent 27 years behind bars on murder charges trumped up by FBI SA Richard W. Held, and COINTELPRO.
Ji Jada maintains that she slapped one of the Simba Wachanga brothers (US paramilitary unit) whom she also had sexual relations with to trigger the assault. She ran to Huggins screaming that “She’d” been assaulted. Elaine as the agent provocateur of the UCLA incident is supported by Larry “Watani” Stiner. [8]
Additionally, Ji Jaga maintains that Elaine Brown was the BPPSD clandestine contact with a super mind-control CIA chief of psychology-war operations, Jay Richard Kennedy. [9]
Jay Richard Kennedy A.K.A Samuel Richard Solomonick was a white wealthy Hollywood author, composer, publisher and record executive. Undercover, Kennedy was an old school espionage agent. Kennedy had apparently been the eyes and ears of American military intelligence during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. Back in the United States in 1939, he was rewarded by his services with a U.S. State Department contract to make U.S. propaganda films for Central and South America. [10]
During the civil rights movement, he was again the eyes and ears of American military intelligence, this time for the CIA and FBI. For the FBI, he ran a surveillance and counterintelligence operation called, Solo Project, to fund some covert “Racial Matters” operations related to the surveillance and assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of his civil rights contacts was James Leonard Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.). [11]
In 1969, President Richard M. Nixon and his fascist administration appointed Farmer as an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, a CIA/MK ULTRA institution. Farmer met regularly with COINTELPRO’s Associated Director of the FBI and Justice Department Public Information Chief, Cartha D. “Deke” DeLoach. [12]
Kennedy recruited Brown as a “honey-pot” out of Club Pink Pussycat in Hollywood where she worked as a cocktail waitress. A honey-pot is a term used to describe an intelligence agency operative (usually opposite sex but could be same sex) who is used to sexually attract and then ensnare a predetermined targeted individual into an affair in order to gain information, and or to lure the target in a way that he or she could be set-up, framed, arrested or assassinated. [13]
She claims that Jay R. Kennedy taught her to begin to appreciate myself as a black woman. Jay had taught her how to think of black people. Jay determined where Elaine lived and how she lived. Jay s ideas and rhetoric was hers. Her replies reflect Jay s voice, not her own. Jay Kennedy’s influence followed Elaine to UCLA. She was powerless to do anything to stop anything from going on in a relationship with Jay Richard Kennedy. It sounds like CIA-MK ULTRA mind control.
Ji Jada also insists that Brown had been an UCLA psychiatric subject. [14] Dr. Louis Jolyon West’s UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute was carrying out CIA-MK ULTRA mind control experiments out of UCLA. Dr. West was the CIA’s “Maestro of the Mind Control.”
Fromer U.S. Army Ranger Robert Singleton, 1961 C.O.R.E. Freedom Ride Arrest
A man named Robert Singleton was also there. Singleton was a former Special Forces Army Ranger trained at Fort Benning, Georgia. Fort Benning is home to the army rangers. Army rangers are taught to be silent killers, assassins, snipers, ambushers, and torturers for the New World Order.
Fort Benning is the home to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), which was known as the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (Assassins). At the School of Assassins, Central and South American trainees were encouraged to torture and mass murder political dissidents just like the Nazis.
Allegedly, Singleton was in an office adjoining Campbell Hall with Dr. Beverlee Bruce, the head of UCLA’s high potential program that Bunchy had been a student of. Both Bunchy and Huggins were shot in the back and then reportedly Hubert repeatedly shot them in the head to make sure that they were dead. Singleton may have been the first at the foot of the bodies of Bunchy and Huggins in Campbell Hall. [15] .
Dr. Bruce reportedly had been Elaine Brown’s inside contact to the BPPSD. [16] Singleton had a civil rights movement relationship with Jay Richard Kennedy’s CIA contact, James Farmer of C.O.R.E. [17]
How Elaine Brown with her utterly strange and bizarre background was able to move into the top ranks as deputy minister of the Southern Chapter of the BPPSD has yet to be explained.
THE ROAD BACK TO OAKLAND & CIA CRACK COCAINE CONNECTION
After the Southern Chapter of the BPPSD was neutralized with the FBI frame-up of Geronimo Pratt in 1972, Elaine Brown moved into Oakland, Home of the BPPSD. She became editor the Black Panther newspaper, and Panther candidate for the Oakland City Council in 1973 on the coattail of Bobby Seale running for mayor. In 1974, she became the chairman of the Oakland BBPSD Headquarters after Huey went into exile to escape (homicide) criminal charges in Oakland.
In 1977, Brown was a central figure in the election of the Alameda County Mafia Superior Court Judge Lionel Wilson as Oakland’s first Black Mayor. Wilson’s tenure as mayor began the CIA/Iran-Contra Cocaine Crisis Epidemic with his son “Mr. Steve” as the drug kingpin. “Mr. Steve” as he was known in the underworld was directly connected to the New York Spatola-Inzerillo-Gambino Mafia Mob drug distribution ring.
How Elaine Brown with her utterly strange and bizarre background was able to move into the top rank of the BPPSD as its Chairman has yet to be satisfactorily explained by Bobby Seale or anyone else.
The NSA
In 1986, the DEA discovered that two hangers in IIopango, Costa Rica, owned by the CIA and NSA, were used by the Lt. Co. Oliver North and CIA contract agent, Felix Rodriguez to fly cocaine into the hangers as part and parcel of the CIA/Iran-Contra Crack Cocaine U.S. domestic operations. [18]
In 1985, during the CIA/Iran-Contra Cocaine Crisis Epidemic in Oakland, Toni Cook, NSA bloodline, moved into Oakland with the Bay Area Black Unified Fund. From 1989 to 1990, she was the senior policy advisor for Oakland Mayor Elihu M. Harris that succeeded Lionel Wilson in office.
The crack epidemic refers to the surge of crack houses and crack cocaine use in major cities in the United States between 1984 and 1990. Fallout from the crack epidemic included a huge surge in addiction, homelessness, murder, theft, robbery, gang warfare, and long-term imprisonment among the Lumpen. The first effects of the epidemic started in the early 1980s, but the DEA officially classifies the time of the epidemic starting in 1984 and ending in 1990, in what can be considered to be the height of the epidemic. [19]
Between 1984 and 1994, the homicide rate among the Lumpen aged 14 to 17 more than doubled, and the homicide rate for black males aged 18 to 24 increased nearly as much. During this period, the black community also experienced an increase in fetal death rates, low birth-weight babies, weapons arrests, and the number of children in foster care. [20]
The epidemic affected all major American cities that had significant chapters of the BPPSD. Among the cities most severely impacted were Philadelphia, New York City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Detroit, St. Louis, New Orleans, Miami and particularly Oakland, Home of the BPPSD. [21]
In August 1996, the late Gary Webb had begun his explosive San Jose Mercury Newspaper series exposing CIA Crack Cocaine domestic operations dumping tons of crack among the Lumpen in Oakland, San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles.
On December 1996, Cook was the infamous Oakland Board of Education Director that initiated the Ebonics’ resolution debacle as a diversion to Webb’s volatile CIA/Iran-Contra Crack Cocaine domestic operations public exposure. [22]
On December 10, 2004, Webb was found dead in Sacramento. Webb had planned to continue to publicly expose CIA/NSA operatives involved in illegal crack cocaine trafficking. The coroner found that Webb had committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head. That’s right; he shot himself TWICE in the head. That dog don’t hunt.[23]
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: ASSASSINATIONS & DISINTEGRATION OF THE BPPSD
Bunchy and Huggins assassinations at UCLA mirrors the February 21, 1965 assassination of Malcolm X when pandemonium broke out among the 400 n the Audubon Ballroom at 166th Street and Broadway in New York. After the shootings began in Campbell Hall, a similar pandemonium broke out among the students in Campbell Hall. The stories still differ as to who and whom had executed Bunchy and Huggins.
Claude “Chuchessa” Hubert has not been called to answer if he or someone else executed Bunchy and Huggins, and who and whom directed him to murder them. And who and what government agency, agencies and officials armed, abetted and aided him or them.
Oakland has an ugly history and dark secret regarding the persecution and conspiring to disintegration the BPPSD; and the setup, prosecution, and assassinations of Little Bobby Hutton, Alprentice Bunchy Carter, John Huggins, Huey P. Newton, and hundreds of other brothers and sisters for solely political purposes.
One thing is clear, the military-industrial complex wanted to stuff Bunchy’s revolutionary promise and persona among the Lumpen of the World. It was a political assassination.
The fear and promise of a revolutionary Lumpen arising upon the people was so great that it caused the military-industrial complex to seek a narco-pharmacrological solution. The mass drugging of the Lumpen with psychoactive drugs (crack cocaine) was designed to force them to cope with the inequities and injustices of society in altered states of consciousness instead of organized confrontations with grievances.
Oakland has an ugly history and dark secret regarding the persecution and conspiring to disintegrate the BPPSD; and the setup, prosecution; assassinating and neutralizing prominent and independent men and women of color like Little Bobby Hutton, Huey P. Newton, Charles Alex Gregory, Dr. Marcus Foster, Dorothy King; and the CIA Crack Cocaine domestic operation that has shaken the very core essence of the Black Community. Oakland has an ugly history and dark secret regarding the persecution and conspiring to disintegrate the BPPSD; and the setup, prosecution, and assassinations of our people has to be to driven to the “Light of Day” with an International Human Rights Opinion Tribunal.
[1] http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/FBI_War_LA_Chapter.html
[4] http://www.rfkmustdie.com/
[5] http://sixties-l.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-wrong-we-were-bunchy-carter-john.html
[6] http://www.answers.com/topic/toni-cook
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt
[10] Garrow, David J. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. From “Solo” to Memphis, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London, 1981
[12] http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/DeLoach/Deloach1-san.PDF
[13] http://www.rense.com/general69/webb1b.htm
[14] Id. At Footnote 8
[15] http://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/about/board/853-tribute-bbruce
[16] http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Elaine_Brown
[17] http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/Freedom_Riders/Resources/Singleton_Robert.doc
[18] http://www.akha.org/content/drugwar/ciacocaineelsalvador.html
[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_(United_States)
[22] http://www.dandrake.com/ebonics.html
[23] Id. Footnote 10
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Bloodless Coup d’ etat, B.A.R.T & The Fall of John C. Houlihan, Mayor of Oakland
The late prominent Attorney John C. Houlihan was the mayor of Oakland during the formative years of mass “Negro removal” federally funded under the veil of urban redevelopment.
Since 1964, the mass Negro removal in Oakland was masterminded, designed and developed by the military intelligence handmaiden, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) at Stanford University.
In 1964, the Oakland Redevelopment Agency (ORA) funded by the SRI’s collaborator Ford Foundation came under instant suspicion and exposed for its deception and hidden agenda in regards to the multi-million dollar mass redevelopment of West Oakland in the Oak Center Mass Redevelopment Project. Kaiser was the leading engineering firm for the money-spinning project.
The ORA executive director, Thomas C. Bell, and his top aide, Arthur Hoff, resigned following criticism by Robert McCabe, the regional federal urban renewal administrator. McCade charged that ORA was using “subterfuge” in its dealings with the government. McCade complained that the agency was telling the public, Black residents of West Oakland, that the project was to be mainly rehabilitation and at the same time was adopting standards that would make this impossible. They conspired secretly with SRI and the Ford Foundation to level most of West Oakland. At that time, West Oakland was densely populated with predominately Black, about 90%, homeowners.
McCabe charged that all of the members of the “Lilly-White” ORA should have been aware of the deception and misrepresentations made to the Federal Government to obtain federal redevelopment funding. Kenneth F. Smith was the agency chairman. Mrs. Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr., Lloyd V. Lindquist, Nat Frankel and Leslie K. Moore were the remaining body of ORA.
The resignations came after a series of meetings involving the Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal (OCCUR), Mayor Houlihan and the regional federal urban renewal administrator.
Sol Gilbert, head of OCCUR, met with McCabe, Mayor Houlihan, ORA to save the project. OCCUR was an advisory group required by the Federal government as part of the city’s workable redevelopment program.
Mayor Houlihan was not exactly excited by SRI’s federal redevelopment scheme. Mayor Houlihan publicly considered abandoning the Negro Removal Oak Center Project, entirely.
At the same time, SRI was developing the lucrative Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) the major bay area mass rapid transportation project. Again, Houlihan was not exactly excited and happy with SRI’s BART project, and its impact on residents of Oakland, in particular.
Mayor Houlihan firmly believed that SRI’s mass transit system wouldn’t benefit the citizens of Oakland. He saw the mass transit system as an unwarranted and expensive thoroughfare into San Francisco for people living outside of Oakland. Houlihan’s very vocal campaign slogan was “Oakland for Oaklanders”. He argued that SRI’s mass transit system and West Oakland’s Oak Center Project would destroy Oakland’s tax base by unnecessarily displacing thousandths of businesses, home owners and taxpayers.
BART from the beginning had been a special interest and lush project for the Bechtel International Group, and Kaiser, Inc. founded by the Bechtel and Kaiser Families of Oakland. The Bay Area Council (BAC), a group of San Francisco area fascist businessmen and industrialist, had begun as early as 1945 crusading for a subway system to make San Francisco the gateway to the Pacific Basin.
Bechtel family members, Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., and Henry J. Kaiser, and his son Edgar Kaiser dominated BAC. Stephen Bechtel, Sr. was a member of the board of directors. Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. bankrolled the campaign to finance BART.
In 1957, BAC hired its handmaiden SRI to prepare a study detailing the benefits that would accrue to the bay area from mass transit. On the basis of the study and a lavish public relations campaign heavily financed by Bechtel and its corporate confederates, a $792 million bond issue was narrowly approved.
The project had been delayed, and was just getting underway in 1966 when Mayor Houlihan began to rally against it. Bechtel was the leading engineering firm for BART project. Bechtel was set to collect at least $150 million for the job, and underhandedly displace thousands more of Oakland’s Black residents.
On January 30, 1966, Mayor Houlihan made it known publicly that he opposed BART, “Freeways have cut wide swarts through Oakland and rapid transit is taking more property. The devil with the suburbanite…Many cities and mayors are disenchanted with freeways. They are made for the convenience of the suburbanite, not the city. Official Oakland is deeply concerned whether it should continue with rapid transit program.” The mayor stated most firmly, “We may well kick out the rapid transit system.”
Unwittingly or wittingly Mayor Houlihan, a devout catholic Irishman, stood in the way of one of the most hidden fascist, vicious, powerful, and dangerous clan of New World Order businessmen, and medical-military-industrialist and war profiteers on the planet. They were also collaborators with the world greatness racial mass murderers, the Nazis.
By itself, SRI was a major CIA and pentagon contractor similar to SS Obergruppenfuhrer Dr. Ing Hans Kammler’s Sonderkommando (Special Unit) “think tank” of Nazi Germany.
SRI was founded in 1946 by the same group of fascist West Coast businessmen and war profiteers headed by Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr. and Henry J. Kaiser. SRI grew to be the second-largest corporate-government “think tank” in the United States. Its business was supplying government and industry with the latest in applied research, economic analysis and management techniques.
Among its many programs, SRI evaluated the U.S. strategic systems and played a leading role in developing the U.S. response to the launching of the Soviet Sputnik satellite. Its multimillion-dollar involvement in defense work, combined with its work for the Defense Department during the Vietnam War, provoked violent student demonstrations on the Stanford University campus, and led the university to sever its connections with the institute in 1969.
In 1921, the business partnership of Warren A. Bechtel, and Henry J. Kaiser, both of German descent, developed in Oakland to build major roads throughout California. Bechtel in concert with the Kaisers and other firms built the Hoover Dam, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Alaskan pipeline and the mass transit system in Washington D.C. Bechtel and Kaiser constructed major oil pipelines for Rockefeller’s Standard Oil of California in Saudi Arabia.
Bechtel was principal purveyor of nuclear power since the birth of commercial nuclear power industrial in the late 1950’s. Bechtel had a hand in the design and construction of 45 nuclear power plants in 22 states.
A list of Bechtel alumni and associates reads like a fascist Who’s Who of the CIA, Pentagon, and Washington: OSS veteran, John McCone, Atomic Energy Commission, CIA (Kennedy, Eisenhower), Bay of Pigs, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Iran-Contra Affair, George Schultz, former Secretary of State, Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense, Richard Helms, CIA, UK-Ultra, UK-Search Mind Control Programs, William Casey, CIA, “The Phoenix Operation”, Phillip Habib, Middle East Envoy, Iran-Contra Affair.
President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, was ousted in 1966 by a military council subsidized by the CIA when Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanism ideas threatened Edgar Kaiser’s Volta Aluminum Company, and his Volta River Dam Project in Ghana. Bechtel have been directly involved in ousting governments by covert military operations in Indonesia and Iran.
On April 30, 1966, the City of Oakland was taken by surprise when Mayor Houlihan suddenly announced his resignation amidst allegations of embezzlement. The Alameda County Grand jury had produced and issued indictments against him. The grand jury complaint flimsy alleged that there was “reason to suspect” that Houlihan “may have embezzled, concealed, smuggled or fraudulently disposed of” some of Mrs. Whitlock’s assets or “misappropriated” assets under her estate.
Germanic clan collaborator, the villainous and fascist Edwin Meese III of Inslaw and Iran-Contra fame, was the chief deputy district attorney assigned to the grand jury and the moving force behind the indictment of Houlihan.
The complaint had been fabricated and planted on behalf of an Eva Velpel of Peoria, Ill.; Ms. Whitlock was a wealthy elderly heir to the Safeway Food Store chain. Velpal was Whitlock’s sister and sole beneficiary under her will. Velpel was represented by Alameda attorney Thomas Ferro. Ferro had his secretary, a Mrs. Novak, appointed administratrix to the estate.
The Alameda County District Attorney and Houlihan’s fellow Irishman, J. Frank Coakley, infamous Port Chicago Mutiny Trial Prosecutor, was obviously shaken, intimidated and fearful of the powerful and traitorous clan and said uncharacteristly, “Nobody made any complaint to me,” adding, “I’m not making any observation at all.” Coakley abandoned the rule of law, and left Houlihan to the wrath of the clan.
In his defense, Mayor Houlihan responded, “there’s a question of whether there was actually $96,000 in bonds” in the estate when he became conservator. That figure came from Mrs. Whitlock who was then 70 years old.” Houlihan further added, “the actual amount of the bonds can be verified by a check of registration information.”
On October 11, 1966, almost five months after he resigned, Houlihan was charged before Superior Court Judge Redmon C. Staats, Jr. that he systematically plundered the estate of the late Sarilla Whitlock, widow of Safeway Stores executive, James Whitlock. She died in 1965 at the age of 74. Extraordinarily, Judge Staats had Houlihan seized, taken away and jailed immediately.
On about October 24, 1966, the once bold, fiery, outspoken and domineering Irishman submissively pleaded guilty to the grand jury indictment. Amazingly, there were no bail hearings, no pretrial conferences, or discovery proceedings before Houlihan was indefinitely detained and jailed.
Houlihan was represented by attorney Stanley P. Golde. Houlihan had been publicly humiliated. He was jailed for approximately (thirteen) 13 days before he was succumbed and pleaded guilty to the charges.
At his hearing, the once prominent attorney and mayor of Oakland was described as appearing “wan” and “tired”. The former mayor had been huddled in a holding cell with six other prisoners awaiting hearings on charges ranging from assault with a deadly weapon to bail jumping. When his case was called, Houlihan conferred briefly with Golde and then the court ordered Houlihan committed immediately to the prison of horrors and mind control, Vacaville Men’s Medical Facility.
Judge Staats had Houlihan’s commitment papers and orders already opened, sealed and delivered. Judge Staats immediately signed commitment orders sending Houlihan to Vacaville Medical Facility for 85 days after he read a letter into the record from E. J. Reimer, chief of the Vacaville medical facility, who said that Houlihan was a “fit subject” for the diagnostic study, brainwashing and maybe one of Vacaville’s infamous psychosurgery procedures, a brain lobotomy mind flush for his insolence to the New World Order.
Houlihan left Alameda County jail with two other prisoners, Riley Bibray and James E. Martinez, also enroute to Vacaville for burglary convictions. Houlihan was dressed in white overalls with a large red “P” on the back and he wore shower clogs.
Houlihan shielded his eyes from the TV lights as a sheriff’s department placed a green airline type bag in the rear of the station wagon which had emblazoned on the side, “Irish Airplanes”, a final veiled humiliating insult by Oakland’s ruling fascist Germanic Clan also known as the Alameda County Mafia.
The medical military industrial medical complex and its handmaiden had removed the Mayor of Oakland in a power bloodless coup d’ etat. It destroyed John Charles Houlihan, because of his public opposition to their veiled plans to clandestinely destroy and level the Black communities of Oakland and handsomely profit from it.
Houlihan was swiped away to SRI’s covert CIA/NASA mind control and behavior modification projects at Vacaville Men’s Medical Facility headed by CIA MK Ultra Station chief, Stanford Psychiatrist Dr. James Alexander Hamilton , and Black collaborator Dr. Isaac Slaughter.
During the CIA’s covert MK-ULTRA program, Vacaville Men’s Medical Facility was used extensively as a secret virtual human guinea pig experimentation lab for the SS-Nazis, and the U.S. medical-military-industrial complex.
In 1963, Dr. William C. Keating, superintendent of Vacaville, reported that over 50 covert experimental programs were ongoing at Vacaville including National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) programs. NASA was a federal agency created, gift wrapped and presented to SS Stumbannfuhrer (Major) Wernher von Braun of Nazi Germany by the United States government. Dr. Keating and Dr. Ralph Urbino, a retired Air Force officer formed a nonprofit and shadowy Solano Institute for Medical and Psychiatric Research as a front for the CIA’s and von Braun’s human experimentation, behavior modification and drug testing projects at Vacaville.
The rest is history. BART became the New World Order lucrative autocratic mass transit system rip-off with its own intelligence and police force, and thousands of businesses and Black residents were displaced, and hundred of miles of Black West Oakland was leveled and destroyed.
Houlihan spent his entire term at the prison of horror and mind control. Houlihan must have been turned into a completely tamed brain flushed zombie. The California Adult Authority granted Houlihan’s release from prison, 2 1/2 months ahead of schedule.
Houlihan’s early release was granted so that he would accept a $15,000 a year position as a special assistant to the late CIA operative and spook, Edward J. Daly, president of Oakland’s World Airways, and the New (World Order) Oakland Committee.
The infamous South Korean Airlines 007 shot down on September 1, 1983 by Soviet fighter planes over the Sea of Japan was one of Daly’s rented planes allegedly loaded secretly with sophisticated CIA spy equipment.
It also carried to death along with 269 passengers, Dr. Lawrence Patton (Larry) McDonald. McDonald was a powerful and controversial 5-term U.S. Congressman, Democrat, from Georgia. He was also simultaneously Chairman of the John Birch Society and President of Western Goals Foundation.
McDonald was also the cousin of infamous General George S. Patton; and an alleged Nazi spy collaborator. According to the research of the late Mae Brussell, McDonald was a national leader of the John Birch Society, which was exceedingly active in Dallas preceding the Kennedy assassination. Western Goals has offices in Germany run by Eugene Wigner that fed data to the Reinhard Gehlen’s BND, Germany’s CIA. On Western Goals board were Cold War Warriors Edward Teller, Admiral Thomas Moorer and Dr. Hans Senholt, once a Nazi Luftwaffe pilot under the notorious SA-Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Wilhelm Goring.
Daly said that he intended to use Houlihan as a flunky and assign him to docile duties involving governmental and community relations, and said the former Oakland mayor would represent him at meetings of public service organizations Daly is unable to attend in person.
Oakland’s bloodless coup d’ etat was engineered, synchronized and arranged by a symphony of the Alameda County Mafia.
Judge Redmond Staats was one of them. He had been a longtime confederate of the political machine of Leland Stanford’s “Southern Pacific Republican Party” led by Oakland’s fascist old guard confederates, Joseph Knowland and Mike Kelly.
Houlihan’s attorney had also been one of them. Stanley P. Golde went on to represent Dr. Marcus Foster, Oakland’s Superintendent of Schools, for a February 1973 drunken driving case in South San Francisco. Dr. Foster had also defied Oakland’s ruling clans, and the Alameda County Mafia.
It is most likely that Marcus Foster was CIA Artichoked and drugged. Dr. Foster’s drugging was timed so that he should have been involved in a deadly freeway crash, but it so happened that he was caught on a freeway onramp traffic jam when the drug overtook and disabled him. Dr. Foster was assassinated before the case was resolved.
Also in 1973, Golde was appointed to Alameda Superior Court by the Nazi collaborating former California Governor Ronald Reagan.
In 1976, as a judge, Golde controlled and covered-up and veiled evidence in the criminal proceedings and cases to shield the cover of Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) members, Emily and Bill Harris, which were covert CIA-FBI collaborators and provocateurs.
Before Judge Golde died in 1999, he had sent more poor Oakland Black defendants to death row than any other judge in the state.
The 1966 secret bloodless coup of Oakland’s Mayor, the late John Charles Houlihan, is another one of Oakland’s Family Jewels that set the backdrop for the blowback, the continuing acts of murder, repression and oppression by the BART Police Department against people of color, and the cold-blooded extermination of the precious life of 22-year Oscar Grant III on January 1, 2009 .
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VIDEO SHOW BART OFFICERS’ WILD MONSTER BASH AT FRUITVALE BART STATION IN OAKLAND, WHAT’S GOING ON?
The other day KTVU Channel 2 aired a recently discovered cell phone video that showed BART Officers on a Monster Bash just moments prior to Oscar Grant III’s life being literally exterminated by Johannes Mehserle. The video showed BART Officer Tony Pirone wildly and arbitrarily attack, Monster Bash Grant to the floor, and then recklessly banish and waive his stun gun around at Grant and other young men that were capriciously seized from a passenger car.
Why didn’t Attorney John Burris disclose information to the public that this group of BART officers had been running amok bashing patrons and wantonly banishing their weapons terrorizing BART patrons? Aren’t these officers, all of them, a threat to public safety? Early on, a reporter asked Burris if he thought that there might be some type of BART cover up as to what really transpired on that platform. Burris jested as if he was exasperated that the question was even asked. Of course not, Burris couldn’t and wouldn’t envision a BART cover up or conspiracy of silence. Why has he controlled and gagged all of the young witnesses to Grant’s murder that were also seized, beaten and terrorized by BART Police on the Fruitvale platform that frightful night? The City of Oakland is inundated with secret FBI, CIA, military intelligence and police handkerchief head collaborators and informers. Is Burris really a gatekeeper to the truth?
Did the BART officers commit perjury and falsify statements of their Monster Bash on the Fruitvale BART Station that evening? Did cell phone videos seized by BART Police show Pirone maliciously monster bash and assault Grant, and BART covered it up? Did they tell the truth and BART Police Chief Gary Gee covered it up?
Was it a full moon the Wolf Bain bloomed that turned them into monsters? Are they neo-Nazis, Klansmen, Satanist or just sick racist individual monsters? What is it? What’s really going on and who is actively involved in the cover up of these monsters running amok on BART patrons. And what about BART’s Nazi-SS type Terror Dogs? Is the entire BART Police Department dysfunctional and running amok on the taxpayers’ payroll!
The public deserves answers and solutions, now. This is a matter of grave public concern and safety.
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Inheritance is the engine of survival with Aston Martin
We can take automotive inspiration from the ennobling effects of design, architecture and the art we’ve seen throughout our lives, writes Richard Webb, as he watches the Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato literally being hand-built by craftsmen.
In many ways, our modern lives are a continuation of our heritage. Like a thread through a needle, our influences are stitched with the form and colours of our experiences in a reverie of textures, aromas and sounds from around the world.
Cherished textures, materials, places and even memories have all served as a starting point to create a design vision for cars across the Aston Martin model range past and present. It all started here, in the outwardly unassuming cluster of buildings – some truly historic and some modern – in the village of Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, England. This is where the people of Aston Martin Works translate some of these influences into the world’s super-bespoke cars.
I find it absolutely fascinating how you can honour such heritage and history while being compelled by a fervent interest in the future, and was eager to meet Paul Spires, the president of Aston Martin Works, to find out how they take inspiration from the past and make it thoroughly modern.
‘Life is about connection, and how people find ways of connecting that are meaningful to them. Aston Martins are a lifestyle, not just cars. And your lifestyle needs to reflect the things you hold dear to your heart,’ says Spires, as he took me on a personal tour around this celebrated workshop and sales epicentre.
The Bond bond
We wandered over to a DB4 GT Continuation in the workshop. A hand-built gem created at the same site where the 75 original forebears were produced from 1959 to 1963. ‘It was a true supercar of its day and is probably the most revered of all Aston Martins,’ says Spires, as he feathers his hand over the perfect panel gaps on this automotive work of art.
Fusing a blend of almost forgotten craftsmanship and ultra-modern techniques, these Continuation cars have marked improvements in performance, handling, braking and safety, while reflecting the original’s exceptional qualities and character. ‘To guarantee an unbroken bloodline through the Newport Pagnell-built pedigree, the Vehicle Identification Numbers of Continuation cars carry on from the last original DB4 GT,’ he adds.
They are all presold, but soon, 25 well-heeled clients will apply to buy a perfect Continuation of James Bond’s Goldfinger DB5 instead. Handmade in association with the producers of the 007 films, the car bridges the over half-century connection between Aston Martin and James Bond. ‘This is something truly unique and everyone involved here at Aston Martin Works believes it’s been a real privilege to be involved,’ Spires says proudly.
I was one of an entire generation of children in the ’60s who pestered their parents for a Corgi die-cast model of the 007 DB5 and in a heartbeat, like Spires, became one of a generation of aspirant Aston Martin owners.
A life’s work
In a sure sign that a name alone cannot keep a heritage alive, the company has also pioneered a bold new plan to future-proof the increasingly valuable 13 000 remaining heritage Aston Martins in existence by creating the world’s first reversible EV powertrain conversion. ‘By future-proofing customer’s classic cars against any upcoming restrictive legislation, our zero-emissions conversion can protect our customers’ long-term enjoyment of their cars,’ Squires explains.
‘Driving a classic Aston Martin on pure EV power is a unique experience and one that will be very attractive to many owners, not just those who live in city centres.’ Thanks in part to Aston Martin’s development of the new Rapide E and the future all-new range of Lagondas, the firm has pioneered a radical new Electric Vehicle ‘cassette’ that sits within its own self-contained cell, mounted on the original engine mountings of a classic Aston Martin.
‘I drove the “proof of concept” DB6 Volante extensively, and it’s totally a unique experience,’ Spires enthused. It’s a rare ability for a car brand to manage conformity and change. But Aston Martin Works seems to be practising a consciously practical approach in ensuring that the gift of heritage is passed on just as much as it is newly created.
The DB4 GT Zagato is a track-only car, dressed in thin-gauge hand-rolled aluminium body panels, while the road-legal, modern DBS Zagato is based on the 533kW turbocharged 5.2-litre V12 DBS Superleggera and will feature the similar pert tail, and modern take on the famous ‘double-bubble’ roof of previous Zagato Astons.
Sold only as a pair, the Aston Martin DBZ Century Collection will cost a cool £6 million plus taxes, Aston Martin CEO Dr Andy Palmer says. ‘With Zagato celebrating its centenary this year, what better way to celebrate this landmark, and the long-standing bond between our two great companies, than creating these 19 pairs of cars.’
For more information visit Aston Martin’s website.
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Legal NFP Set to Deliver ‘Queensland First’
Thursday, 17th April 2014 at 10:33 am
A legal Not for Profit specialising in older people’s welfare will deliver a Queensland Government program providing free legal advice for residents of retirement villages and manufactured home parks in what the Government claims is a first for the State.
Thursday, 17th April 2014
The Park and Village Information Link (PAVIL) program will provide free legal advice on rights and responsibilities under the Retirement Villages Act 1999 and the Manufactured Homes (Residential Parks) Act 2003. The services will be provided by Not for Profit Caxton Legal Centre.
“Caxton Legal Centre is well placed to deliver this service – they are a Queensland-based Not for Profit which specialises in legal matters relating to older people’s welfare,” Minister for Housing and Public Works Tim Mander said.
Caxton Legal Centre’s Director Scott McDougall said the PAVIL program aimed to address the large demand for advice and assistance from residents of parks and retirement villages throughout Queensland.
“Prevention is always better than cure, so the service is also available to people who are considering moving into a park or village,” he said.
“Access to the service is primarily by phone, and depending on their location, residents may be able to receive face to face assistance.”
Minister Mander said the new service was part of the Queensland Government’s election promise to revitalise frontline services.
“Recent reviews of both Acts had made it clear that laws around retirement and manufactured home living can be complex and difficult to understand,” Mander said.
“There are already more than 40,000 people living in retirement village units and around 21,000 people living in manufactured homes across Queensland.
“Given many residents are retired and may not be in a strong financial position – the last thing they need is to be involved in expensive, protracted disputes.”
Further information is available from Caxton Legal Centre on (07) 3214 6333 or by clicking here.
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For a few years now, the Shale Revolution has been opening up development opportunities hardly anyone would have thought possible in the Pre-Shale Era. For example, new crude oil, natural gas and NGL pipelines from the Permian to the Gulf Coast, lots of new fractionators and steam crackers, as well as export terminals for crude, LNG, LPG, ethane and, most recently, ethylene. And here’s another. Thanks to the combination of NGL production growth and new ethylene supply — plus increasing demand for alkylate, an octane-boosting gasoline blendstock — the developer of a novel ethylene-to-alkylate project along the Houston Ship Channel has reached a Final Investment Decision (FID). Today, we discuss how the FID is driven by both supply-side and demand-side trends in the NGL and fuels markets.
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Express Yourself - Tallgrass/Rockies Express's Recontracting Efforts for Rockies Gas Flows
Tallgrass Energy’s Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) has been through a lot in its 10-plus years of operation. Since its first eastbound-only segments started moving natural gas out of the Rockies in 2008, flows on the pipeline have evolved due to market events, primarily the onset of the Shale Revolution, which has resulted in a surge of gas supplies in the Eastern U.S. and increasing gas-on-gas competition across North America. Rising to the challenge, REX has undergone a number of transformations to adapt to the shifting gas flow patterns and price relationships, including reversing flows on the eastern zone of the pipe to move gas west from Ohio. In 2019, REX was again put to the test, this time on the western end of the pipe, where the bulk of its legacy long-term contracts for eastbound flows out of the Rockies expired, with the last of them rolling off on November 11, 2019. Some of that has since been recontracted, and the in-service of the REX Cheyenne Hub Enhancement and Cheyenne Connector projects could further shore up REX mainline flows. Today, we begin a short series providing an update on REX’s eastbound gas flows and contract changes.
Pipeline - The New and Expanded Refined Products Pipes Criss-Crossing Texas
Texas consumes far more diesel fuel than any other state and almost as much gasoline as car-crazy California, which also has 10 million more people. The long-distance distribution of refined products within the Lone Star State is handled largely by tanker trucks, but in the past couple of years, midstream companies have been adding a lot of new refined products pipeline capacity, not just to help deliver diesel and gasoline within Texas — including the diesel-hungry Permian Basin — but also to move motor fuels to the Mexican border for export. And more diesel and gasoline pipe capacity is on the way. Today, we discuss the new and expanded refined products pipelines criss-crossing Texas.
40 Miles from Denver, Part 5 - Western Midstream's D-J Basin Crude Gathering Systems
Occidental Petroleum’s recent acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum made Oxy the #1 producer in the Denver-Julesburg (D-J) Basin and gave it a majority stake in Western Midstream Partners, which owns crude-gathering and other midstream assets in the D-J, the Permian and the Marcellus. While Western Midstream’s gathering focus had been on helping Anadarko meet its own midstream needs, Oxy sees the partnership taking on a broader role as a provider of gathering services to third parties as well. Toward that end, Oxy and Western Midstream a few days ago announced a series of agreements designed to allow Western Midstream to operate as an independent company. Today, we continue a series on crude-related infrastructure in the D-J with a look at Western Midstream’s gathering and related assets owned in part by the basin’s largest oil, natural gas and NGL producer.
Don't Stop - Western Canada 2020 Gas Supplies to Expand on TC Energy's Nova System
This year looks like it could be a better one for many Canadian natural gas producers. Like their brethren in the U.S., they have been forced in recent years to increasingly spend within — and even less than — cash flow as other sources of financing have dried up and investors have prioritized better returns over production volume growth. With Canadian gas producers having also faced some of the worst natural gas pricing conditions on record in 2019, far worse than those in the U.S., it is no wonder that Canadian natural gas supplies pulled back in 2019, marking the first down year for overall gas supplies since 2012. Despite what is likely still to be a cash flow and spending constrained environment in 2020, there is the potential for real upside for Western Canadian natural gas supplies this year, especially for the supply that flows into TC Energy’s Nova pipeline system. Today, we consider what may be setting the stage for gas supply gains on the Nova system in 2020 after a somewhat dismal 2019.
Los Angeles, I'm Yours - Southern California Gas Constraints Ease
Southern California is poised to have greater natural gas supply flexibility this winter, buoyed by improved access to local storage and the completion of repairs on an important inbound pipeline. Ongoing pipeline outages and maintenance had limited flows over the past few years, creating supply constraints that were then compounded by restricted access to the Aliso Canyon storage field. This led to major volatility in gas prices, which spiked as high as $39/MMBtu in July 2018. Recent repairs and regulatory changes aim to alleviate the situation and limit the likelihood of dramatic pricing moves during the 2019-20 winter season. Today, we provide an overview of recent developments in the SoCal gas market.
Steady as She Goes, Part 5 - How Global Prices Drive U.S. LNG Cargo Destinations
After showing relative strength through most of the fall, prices at the UK’s National Balancing Point (NBP) natural gas benchmark collapsed by more than $1/MMBtu in December and have kept falling, and Asia’s Japan-Korea Marker (JKM) index followed suit to some degree. Nevertheless, U.S. LNG export cargoes were at record highs in December as additional liquefaction and export capacity came online last month, including the first LNG export cargoes from the Elba Liquefaction project as well as Freeport LNG’s Train 2. Moreover, U.S. shipments are expected to climb further in the New Year as still more liquefaction trains are completed. While the global price spreads haven’t deterred U.S. exports, they, along with shipping costs, do influence export economics and cargo destinations. Today, we wrap up this series with a look at how LNG export costs interact with global price spreads and impact cargo destinations.
Farther Up the Road - As the Infrastructure Build-Out Wanes, What's Ahead for Midstreamers?
For much of the 2010s, the U.S. midstream sector has been on a development spree. New or expanded everything — pipelines, gas processing plants, fractionators, storage facilities, liquefaction trains, export terminals and more — all to keep pace with the production gains of the Shale Era. But now, at the start of the 2020s, the build-out frenzy appears to be fizzling and flickering. Midstreamers’ capital spending plans are on the decline, at least for now, as most of the infrastructure needed to handle current and expected volumes for the next few years is either in place or under construction. But that doesn’t mean things won’t stay interesting — far from it. This new decade brings with it a period of midstream-sector strategizing and portfolio rejiggering. Today, we discuss highlights from East Daley Capital’s newly released “Dirty Little Secrets” report about the next phase of midstream strategy.
Thinking Out Loud - The 2020 Outlook for Permian Oil and Gas Markets
With 2020 already in full swing, some things in the Permian Basin’s oil and natural gas markets have changed dramatically since this time last year, others not so much. When it comes to crude oil, new pipelines that came online during 2019 had a huge impact on differentials: Permian barrels are now pricing very close to other regional hubs, versus massive discounts a year ago. That has enabled Permian producers to fully benefit from the recent run-up in global oil prices. On the gas side of things, the start of the new decade won’t look much different than the end of the last one. There is still way too much supply and not enough takeaway capacity. That means that regardless of what happens at Henry Hub, the U.S. benchmark for natural gas prices, Permian producers should expect dismal values for their natural gas in 2020. Today, we take a look at the year ahead for Permian producers.
Ratio Ga Ga? Crude-to-Gas Ratio Hits Six-Year High of 30X - Ramifications for Oil, Gas and NGLs
For the first time since late September 2013, the ratio of crude oil to natural gas (CME/NYMEX) futures on Friday hit 30X. That means the price of crude oil in $/bbl was 30 times the price of natural gas in $/MMBtu. Such a wide disparity in the value of the liquid hydrocarbon versus the gaseous hydrocarbon has huge implications for where producers will be drilling, the proportion of associated and wet gas that will be produced, the outlook for NGL production, and a host of other energy market developments. The ratio has been moving higher for the past couple of years, and recently has been boosted by the combined impact of increased tension in the Middle East (higher oil prices) and a warm winter so far in many of the largest gas-burning population centers in the U.S (lower gas prices). But it’s pretty likely that the trend will be with us for the long term. So today, we’ll begin a series that looks at the implications of this price relationship.
Things Have Changed - New Terminals Boost Corpus Christi Crude Oil Exports
Crude oil trading dynamics in West Texas and along the Texas Gulf Coast have experienced a whirlwind of change. Permian production was skyrocketing in 2018, but has now started to slow. It seemed for a time that crude takeaway pipeline capacity wouldn’t get built fast enough; now it looks like we’ll have far too much too soon. And along the coast, the once-overlooked Port of Corpus Christi is quickly becoming the epicenter of export activity, overtaking Houston, Beaumont and Louisiana — sometimes all three combined — for most volume moved on a monthly basis. With new export terminals coming online and increased connectivity, Corpus appears poised to continue its recent string of record-setting export numbers. In today’s blog, we review some recent breakthroughs in Corpus cargoes and shine a light on the new terminals in the area.
The Top 10 RBN Energy Prognostications for 2020 - Year of the Rat: Abandoning the Sinking Ship?
Negative Permian gas prices. Wall Street sours on all things energy. E&Ps and midstreamers forced by capital markets to tighten their belts. Infrastructure coming online just as production growth is slowing. Oil, gas and NGLs totally dependent on export markets to balance. The list goes on. Just as producers and midstreamers came to terms with a new normal for oil and gas prices, this new round of challenges hit the market in 2019. And it is going to get a lot more complicated as we enter the new decade. There is just no way to predict what is going to happen next, right? Nah. All we need to do is stick our collective RBN necks out one more time, peer into our crystal ball, and see what 2020 has in store for us.
It's All Too Much - The Top 10 RBN Blogs of 2019: Supply, Exports and Low Prices
December 2019 U.S. crude oil production soared 1.1 MMb/d above this time last year to 12.8 MMb/d. It’s a similar story for natural gas, with Lower-48 production climbing to 95 Bcf/d, up 6 Bcf/d over the year. That’s a little off the breakneck growth rate of 2018, but still quite healthy, even in the context of Shale Era increases. And it all happened in the face of continued infrastructure constraints, crude prices that fell from the mid-$60s/bbl in April to average $55/bbl from May through October, and gas prices that in several months were crushed to the lowest level in 20 years. It’s all too much supply to be absorbed by the U.S. domestic market. And that means more pipes to get the supply to the Gulf Coast and more export facilities to get the volumes on the water. What has all this meant for the market’s response to these developments? Well, at RBN we have a way to track that. We scrupulously monitor the website “hit rate” of the RBN blogs fired off to about 28,000 people each day and, at the end of each year, we look back to see which topics generated the most interest from you, our readers. That hit rate reveals a lot about major market trends. So, once again, we look into the rearview mirror to check out the top blogs of the year based on the number of rbnenergy.com website hits.
Takeaway, Part 2 - Plains All American's Cactus II Ramps Up Corpus Deliveries
It’s safe to say that Permian producers had a good Christmas. Sure, their stock prices may be off a bit and their rig counts are down. But the absolute prices they are paid for their crude oil are up by almost $20/bbl versus this time in December 2018, and the price spreads between the Permian and neighboring markets have significantly narrowed as a result. What’s driving this change? There are a variety of factors at play, but chief among them is the new pipeline infrastructure that has helped lift Permian producers’ oil price realizations. Today, we check in on the status of one of the major new pipelines that have contributed to the seismic shift in the Permian oil market this year.
Friends (and NGL Storage) in Low-Lying Places, Part 4 - MPLX's BANGL, Fracs and Exports Plan
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Over the past two years, MPLX has been ramping up its midstream development activity in the Lone Star State, or more specifically in the “Permian-to-Gulf” market, where it’s been building or buying into gathering systems, gas processing plants, and crude and natural gas takeaway pipelines, among other things. Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s midstream-focused master limited partnership also has been in hot pursuit of a number of possible NGL-related projects, including MPLX’s proposed Belvieu Alternative NGL (BANGL) Pipeline and three big fractionation plants in the Sweeny, TX, area, and a planned LPG export terminal in Texas City, TX. As a group, these projects would require millions of barrels of underground salt-cavern storage capacity for y-grade and NGL purity products along the Texas coast, as well as multiple pipeline connections to move the stuff to where it needs to be. Today, we continue our series on Gulf Coast NGL storage with a look at the NGL side of the MLP’s Permian-to-Gulf strategy.
All Around the World - IMO 2020 Finally Arrives, Not With a Bang But a Whimper
It’s been more than three years since the International Maritime Organization (IMO) fully committed to the January 1, 2020, implementation of IMO 2020, a rule that slashes the allowable sulfur content in bunker fuel used in the open seas around most of the world from 3.5% to only 0.5%. There’s been a lot of angst in the interim, most of it regarding the changes in crude slates, refinery operations and fuel blending needed to meet a flip-of-a-switch spike in global demand for low-sulfur bunker. Also, shippers worried that prices for rule-compliant fuel would go through the roof. Well, it turns out that the transition period in the months leading up to the IMO 2020 era has been largely drama-free. Supplies of very low-sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) and marine gasoil (MGO) — the bunker most ships will now use — have been building in most places, prices are up but moderating, and while there may be a few hiccups as ships shift to new, cleaner fuels, life will go on. Heck, life will likely be even better for most complex U.S. refineries, which can churn out large volumes of low-sulfur refined products and which will have access to price-discounted high-sulfur “resid” as an intermediate feedstock. Today, we take a big-picture look at the global bunker market as IMO 2020’s implementation day approaches.
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Television that Home Video Forgot: Crossballs: The Debate Show (2004)
by Jean Pierre Diez
SoundOnSight
Crossballs: The Debate Show
Showcase Inventory
Created by Matt Besser, Charlie Siskel
Produced by Charlie Siskel Productions
Aired on Comedy Central for 1 season (23 episodes, 1 unaired) from July 5, 2004 – August 27, 2004
Chris Tallman as Host/Moderator
Matt Besser as Various characters
Mary Birdsong as Various characters
Andrew Daly as Various characters
Jerry Minor as Various characters
Show Premise
“Out of the Crossfire, beyond Hardball, this is Crossballs!”
A parody of political debate shows, Crossballs has comedians pose as experts in their field to discuss the issue of the day and pits them against real life experts who are not aware of the farce debate they are participating in. The comedians argue both sides of an issue, be it ridiculous or not, and mine comedy from taking the issue to absurd lengths and goading reactions from the real experts.
Each episode is moderated by Chris Tallman (as a Chris Matthews type), who introduces
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Own Plans a Michael Sam Docu-Series, FX Cancels “Chozen” and John Oliver’s Search for “Representative Old Man Penis”
by Lyle Masaki
The Backlot
CBS announced its fall schedule which is both a big shake-up and a return to CBS’ conservative scheduling. The network is moving away from serialized shows like Hostages but every night’s line-up will be changed. Probably the biggest move is dropping the two-hour comedy block on Mondays. The last time CBS aired a drama on Monday it was Scarecrow & Mrs. King in 1986.
CBS joined the networks promising year-round programming, noting that one of the season’s biggest new dramas was the summer show Under the Dome. There’s a good number of new and returning shows not on CBS’ announced schedule, they’ll be used to limit the number of repeats throughout the year.
At least Under the Dome had Mike Vogel to look at.
Vulture breaks down why CBS passed on How I Met Your Dad. Explanations include that CBS didn’t like two actors (though reports
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HBO Greenlights Comedy Pilot From Lorne Michaels, Diallo Riddle & Bashir Salahuddin
by NELLIE ANDREEVA
Exclusive: HBO has given the green light to a half-hour comedy pilot from former Late Night With Jimmy Fallon writers/performers Diallo Riddle & Bashir Salahuddin, which is executive produced by Late Night exec producer Lorne Michaels. Written by Riddle and Salahuddin, the untitled project stars the duo as Bashir and Diallo, two 30-year old-reporters, as they try to make it big in the burgeoning black mecca of contemporary Atlanta, aka the New South. Riddle, Salahuddin and Michaels executive produce the pilot with Dave Flebotte who serves as showrunner. Andrew Singer co-executive produces. This marks Riddle and Salahuddin’s return to HBO, which gave the two their start in the business with the Web series The Message. They went on to write for Comedy Central’s Chocolate News With David Alan Grier and, most notably, for NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where they also regularly appeared in skits, especially Salahuddin.
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Breaking In's Bret Harrison: New Fox Comedy Is Equal Parts The Office, The A-Team
by Matt Webb Mitovich
Hopefully American Idol will do that kingmaking thing it does this Wednesday and set up Fox’s Breaking In with a boffo audience come 9:30/8:30c. The caper comedy stars film vet Christian Slater as Oz, the head of a company that gives top-shelf security systems a firm kick in the tires. Oz recruits slacker hacker Cameron (Reaper’s Bret Harrison) to join his team, working alongside Odette Yustman (Brothers & Sisters), Alphonso McAuley (Chocolate News) and Trevor Moore (The Whitest Kids U’Know, channeling Dwight Schrute).
Harrison gave TVLine a look at what to expect from Breaking In, its requisite “Will they/Wont they?
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Listen Now – Black Writers Rountable On The Shadow & Act Livecast
by Tambay
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Back by popular demand… or maybe I should say black by popular demand… probably one of our most downloaded podcasts, and asked about. I’ll be reposting these older shows, because, quite frankly, they’re all still very relevant… so if you missed it the first time, here it is…
Click the player above to listen. Or download the recording via iTunes.
The one-hour discussion included the following guests:
Courtney Lilly. His resumé includes writing for Chris Rock’s Everybody Hates Chris, Arrested Development, and is currently working on the upcoming Family Guy spin-off, The Cleveland Show. Kriss Turner. Kriss wrote the screenplay for Something New, a film which has been mentioned once or twice on this site, which starred Sanaa Lathan. She also previously wrote for The Bernie mac Show, Living Single, and is currently working on Sherri Shepherd’s new sitcom for Lifetime, aptly titled Sherri. Kenya Barris.
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Christian Slater will be 'Breaking In' to his first comedy series on Fox
by Mandi Bierly
EW.com - Inside TV
Fox has ordered seven episodes of the half-hour comedy Breaking In, starring Christian Slater and Reaper’s Bret Harrison, the network confirms. It will premiere Wednesday, April 6. The show, created by Adam F. Goldberg (Fanboys) and Seth Gordon (Four Christmases), is set at a high-tech security firm that takes extreme — and often questionable — measures to sell their protection services. As the logline explains, Contra Security, corporate America’s answer to The A-Team, gives clients a sense of security by first ripping it away. Hence the title, Breaking In. Slater stars as Oz, the mastermind described as a man of mystery and a master of manipulation.
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Sneak Peeks – Bones 6.04 “The Body in the Bounty”
by Clarissa
TVovermind.com
David Alan Grier will be making a guest appearance on Bones on October 14. We previously posted a few promo photos for this upcoming episode and now Fox has released four sneak peeks.
The Team Sets Out On A Crime Hunt On An All-new “Bones” On Thursday, October 14, On Fox
David Alan Grier (“Chocolate News”) Guest-Stars
After a skull and decomposing hands are found in a dumpster, the team must not only solve the crime but also search for the rest of the victim’s remains. Identified as Ray Raminsky, the victim turns out to be a bounty hunter in search of Charles Braverman, a man indicted for the murder of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Brennan is asked by Professor Bunsen Jude “The Science Dude” (guest star Grier) if he can shoot an episode of his children’s show from The Jeffersonian Lab with Brennan as his special guest. Brennan initially turns him down,
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Photos – Bones 6.04 “The Body in the Bounty”
A children’s science show is filmed in the Jeffersonian during the October 14 new episode of Bones. View promo photos and a synopsis for the episode from Fox below.
After a skull and decomposing hands are found in a dumpster, the team must not only solve the crime but also search for the rest of the victim’s remains. Identified as Ray Raminsky, the victim turns out to be a bounty hunter in search of Charles Braverman, a man indicted for the murder of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Brennan is asked by Professor Bunsen Jude “The Science Dude” (guest star Grier) if he can shoot an episode of his children’s show from The Jeffersonian Lab with Brennan as his special guest. Brennan initially turns him down, but
"The Gossip Queens" Will Premiere On Logo On September 26
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MTV's Logo channel and Entertainment Studios cable network Comedy.TV will start airing its newest TV show "The Gossip Queens," a daily half-hour talk show featuring four American comedians. These "queens" will talk about pop culture, entertainment news and celebrity gossip, of course, starting on the show's premiere on September 26.
On each show, the hosts, Loni Love, Alec Mapa, Michelle Collins and Bernadette Pauley, are joined by guests: magazine editors, celebrity gossip bloggers or reporters who can also dish and tell the latest gossip.
For those who don't know, each comedian has guest starred on various TV shows: Love just starred in her own one-hour comedy special on Comedy Central, and has appeared on "Chocolate News," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn," and "Chelsea Lately;" Mapa has co-hosted "The View," guest-starred on "Seinfeld," "Roseanne" and "Friends," and had a stand-up comedy special on
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Jamie Foxx Lands New Sketch Comedy Show At The Fox Network!
by noreply@blogger.com (The Humor Mill Magazine)
Humor Mill Magazine
According to the Hollywood Reporter, we just discovered that Jamie Foxx has teamed up with comedic actor Affion Crockett for a new urban-flavored sketch-comedy show, which will air on the Fox network.
Fox has ordered a pilot for an untitled project executive produced by Foxx and fellow "In Living Color" scribes, "MadTV" creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small, with "Wild 'N Out" alum Crockett attached.
According to the report, the pilot is the result of merging two projects. Foxx was looking to do a sketch-comedy series with an urban twist and paired with Bahr and Small to pitch the idea to Fox.
Separately, Sony TV-based Tantamount was working on a sketch-comedy project starring Crockett, probably best known for his spoofs of Russell Simmons, Kanye West, Chris Brown, Drake and Jay-z. Crockett also was attached to co-write with Carl Jones, a producer on Sony's animated comedy "The Boondocks," on which Jones
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The Comedian With The Next Reality Show- Luenell?!
We just discovered that the comedian known as Luenell may be the next comedian to be tapped for her own reality show and star in another new film. You may remember her from touring on the Katt Williams comedy tour several years ago and in last year’s comedy filmBorat.
Well, we discovered that Luenell is also going to be in the new film titled All About Steve starring Sandra Bullock which opens in theatres everywhere on September 4th. If you remember, Luenell was also seen in Californication, VH1's I Love The New Millennium, Reality Bites Back, performing on Martin Lawrence 1st Amendment Standup, Chocolate News, Spring Breakdown and Head Case, just to name a select few.
No word yet on which network the reality show will be broadcast on but as soon as we find out we will let you know.
Questions or comments? Please email thehumormill.info@gmail.
Chocolate News: David Alan Grier TV show Cancelled, No Season Two
by TVSeriesFinale.com
It seems that David Alan Grier's Chocolate News is following in the footsteps of D.L. Hughley's CNN news show, D.L. Hughley Breaks the News. After a 10-episode run, the Comedy Central show has been cancelled.
Chocolate News features comedian Grier performing satirical commentary and sketches centered around current events and news stories. The episodes are said to reflect the comic's view of world events, and one of the network's press releases even went so far as to call it a show with an “African-American take on the news."
In truth, the series focuses more on sketch comedy than news stories, with the host playing a variety of characters -- from fictitious rappers to poet Maya Angelou. Series supporting players include Chris Tallman, Tangie Ambrose, Alphonso McAuley, Jordan Peele, Troy Curvey Jr., Paige Diaz, Luenell, Windell Middlebrooks, Janet Varney, and Gary Anthony Williams.
The un-pc comedy program debuted
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Dancing With The Stars Season Eight Premiere
by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
It's that time of year again when unpolished dancers hit the stage to perform in front of millions of viewers on ABC's hit show Dancing With The Stars. This season we get to see Wild Things Denise Richards, Sex And The City's Gilles Marini, end even NFL pro Lawrence Taylor. Find out what country singer and rodeo star couple will be dancing together and what MTV bad boy is cleaning up his act for Dwts. Dancing with the Stars Season Eight Cast Belinda Carlisle Belinda, 50, led the all-female new wave sound of The Go-Go's to great heights in the 1980's before going solo in the early 1990's. Chuck Wicks Country singer, Chuck Wicks, 29, will be dancing with his girlfriend and professional dancer Julianne Hough. David Alan Grier Actor/comedian, David Alan Grier, 53, worked on In Living Color and currently host Chocolate News on Comedy Central. Denise Richards Seasoned actress and reality star,
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Dancing With The Stars Season Eight Primer
It's that time of year again when unpolished dancers hit the stage to perform in front of millions of viewers on ABC's hit show Dancing With The Stars. This season we get to see Wild Things Denise Richards, Sex And The City's Gilles Marini, end even NFL pro Lawrence Taylor. Find out what country singer and rodeo star couple will be dancing together and what MTV bad boy is cleaning up his act for Dwts. Dancing with the Stars Season Eight CastBelinda CarlisleBelinda, 50, led the all-female new wave sound of The Go-Go's to great heights in the 1980's before going solo in the early 1990's. Chuck WicksCountry singer, Chuck Wicks, 29, will be dancing with his girlfriend and professional dancer Julianne Hough. David Alan GrierActor/comedian, David Alan Grier, 53, worked on In Living Color and currently host Chocolate News on
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David Alan Grier Chocolate News No Child Left Behind Clip
by Brian Corder
ShockYa
Watch a funny new clip entitled “No Child Left Behind” from David Alan Grier’s “Chocolate News” from Comedy Central. “In Living Color” alum and Tony Award-nominee David Alan Grier adds a new flavor to Comedy Central with “Chocolate News,” an outrageous, character-driven sketch magazine series with an hilarious take on pop culture events that makes no apologies for its biased approach. The series will take on a variety of contemporary topics from a decidedly African-American perspective and everyone and everything is fair game. The series stars David Alan Grier who, in addition to serving as the acerbic, all-knowing, in-studio host, will also portray multiple characters within the series’ investigative reports, which will be presented by a cast of three correspondents. Stay tuned [...]
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David Alan Grier Chocolate News Porn 101 Clip
Watch a funny new clip entitled “Porn 101″ from David Alan Grier’s “Chocolate News” from Comedy Central. “In Living Color” alum and Tony Award-nominee David Alan Grier adds a new flavor to Comedy Central with “Chocolate News,” an outrageous, character-driven sketch magazine series with an hilarious take on pop culture events that makes no apologies for its biased approach. The series will take on a variety of contemporary topics from a decidedly African-American perspective and everyone and everything is fair game. The series stars David Alan Grier who, in addition to serving as the acerbic, all-knowing, in-studio host, will also portray multiple characters within the series’ investigative reports, which will be presented by a cast of three correspondents. Stay tuned to Toxic [...]
David Alan Grier Chocolate News Extended Trailer
Watch a brand new extended trailer from David Alan Grier’s “Chocolate News” from Comedy Central. “In Living Color” alum and Tony Award-nominee David Alan Grier adds a new flavor to Comedy Central with “Chocolate News,” an outrageous, character-driven sketch magazine series with an hilarious take on pop culture events that makes no apologies for its biased approach. The series will take on a variety of contemporary topics from a decidedly African-American perspective and everyone and everything is fair game. The series stars David Alan Grier who, in addition to serving as the acerbic, all-knowing, in-studio host, will also portray multiple characters within the series’ investigative reports, which will be presented by a cast of three correspondents. Stay tuned to Toxic Shock for [...]
David Alan Grier's "Chocolate News": Ain't that a bitch
by Aaron Barnhart
TV Barn
David Alan Grier is the fake news anchor for this at-times hilarious hodgepodge of "The Daily Show," "Colbert Report" and "Chappelle's Show." He also appears in fake news bits as other characters. In particular, his impersonation of **Maya Angelou** saying "Ain't that a bitch!" is not to be missed. However, Comedy Central didn't supply a clip of that. This rant from the opening monologue is pretty good, too, though be warned that the hit-to-miss ratio of "Chocolate News" doesn't approach that of "Chappelle."
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SEECA Region Embraces Global Migration Film Festival
December 18th will mark International Migrants Day, first proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 to recognize the scale of the global migration phenomenon.
Public HIV Tests in Yerevan for European Testing Week
During European Testing Week (23-30 November), public events were held in Yerevan, capital of Armenia, aimed at promoting HIV testing, informing the public about, developing motivation, and changing stereotypes.
Drilling Down into the Data at RO Vienna
On 21 and 22 of November the Europe Regional Information Management Working Group held a technical workshop in Vienna focused on inter-agency coordination and collaboration in data management activities between IOM, UNHCR and UNICEF. The workshop provided a platform for common planning of data management activities and support to data collection and data analysis practices, as well as identifing areas for future collaboration.
Regional FAO meeting with Regional IOM in Vienna
The Deputy Regional Director and Senior Staff from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) based in Budapest met in Vienna with the Regional Office’s Director and Senior Staff on Tuesday.
“Migration Policy Increasingly Important” RO Vienna Regional Director Tells European Migration Network
Migration policy is expected to become an increasingly important economic – as well as social – issue for the Eastern European and Eastern EU countries.
Tackling Trafficking in Turkmenistan
IOM, the Government of Turkmenistan and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe are organizing a regional workshop entitled “Labour Migrants and Trafficking in Persons for Labour Exploitation” in the capital Ashgabat from August 27-30.
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges for HIV+ Migrants in Tajikistan
The recent 22nd International AIDS Conference in The Netherlands, which brought together more than 16,000 researchers, policy makers and community leaders from more than 160 countries, presented IOM with the chance to discuss HIV/AIDS among migrants in Central Asia.
"Invisible in Plain Sight" Campaign Comes to Tbilisi
“We lived in a cold house and my younger sister and I slept on an old blanket instead of a bed. Mother went away to earn money leaving us with our stepfather. He soon bought another woman home and they drove us onto the street to beg.
World Anti-Trafficking Day Across the Region
July 30 is World Day against Trafficking in Persons and IOM Missions across the SEEECA region are hosting events to raise awareness of this form of modern-day slavery.
In Georgia, 20 silhouettes of trafficked persons will appear in one of Tbilisi’s main underground stations, as part of the “Invisible in plain sight” campaign. A kickoff meeting involving Georgian officials, US embassy staff and NGOs will also be held.
In neighbouring Azerbaijan, the UN Migration agency is bringing together bring together government officials, diplomats, and international and civil society organizations to discuss and publicize trafficking in persons in Azerbaijan and worldwide.
IOM Belarus has chosen the day to launch an exciting partnership with the Minsk-based global messaging system, Viber. It will involve promotion of safe migration and decreasing risks of human trafficking through the creation, support and promotion of the IOM Belarus Viber community among target audience. More than a half of Belarusians use Viber and the IOM Viber community will become an innovative addition to the existing hotline on safe migration, with the information available 24/7.
Mazes will be set up all across Ukraine as part of a national interactive awareness raising event. Visitors will have to find their way out, and, in doing so, find ways to how to avoid situations of trafficking in persons. All scenarios are based on real recruitment stories. The project is aimed at developing a critical attitude to dubious job offers, training people to think calm in situations of emotional pressure, and testing visitors’ knowledge of safe migration and employment abroad.
If all the answers and decisions are correct, the visitors leave the maze without being trafficked, and at the exit meet a representative of an IOM partner NGO, who delivers a brief information session and answers questions. If the visitors make a mistake, they will leave the maze through another exit, where a public commissioner will declare them a victim of trafficking, and provide information on their rights and opportunities, such as assistance from the state, international organizations and civil society.
IOM Uzbekistanhas taken part in a National TV debate on WDATIP to be aired on July 30. They are also co-organizing a public info-action to be held in the Mirzo Ulughbek Central Park in the capital Tashkent.
Senior staff from the Reginal Office will attend a screening of the IOM-funded film “Sisters” at the UN in Vienna , with remarks from H.E. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UNODC, and from the permanent representatives of Belarus, France and Serbia.
Discussing the Diaspora in Sarajevo
“Building trust and enhancing dialogue between the government and diaspora associations is a critical element in building further collaboration be it in trade, investment, skills exchange, or even return to Bosnia. Through this project and this conference, we are helping to establish this trust between different institutions, but also looking forward and discussing concrete ideas on what can be achieved together”.
Cooperation Continues on People Smuggling
IOM figures form a central part of a new UN global report issued today (13 June) on the smuggling of migrants.
Candlelight Memorial Campaign for AIDS Awareness in Armenia
About 0.2 per cent of the total population aged 15-49 of Armenia is HIV positive. Migrants are a highly vulnerable group, with the majority (57 per cent) of the cases between 2011 and 2015 becoming infected while abroad.
Participatory Migration Exhibition to Tour Region
Following the onset of the European migration crisis in 2015 there has been a marked increase in xenophobia and anti-migrant sentiment in many European countries.
IOM Vienna Office to Brief Silk Routes Countries on Return and Reintegration
Knowledge gained in the field of voluntary return and reintegration of migrants who are unable to stay in destination countries will be presented by IOM’s Vienna Regional Office at the upcoming meeting of the Budapest Process Joint meeting of the Silk Routes to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Her
Long Night of Research in Vienna
IOM staff from the Vienna Regional Office and the Austria country office joined scientists from all over the world at the Long Night of Research at the Vienna International Centre, one of the Unit
Joint Platform on Migrant Smuggling: Q and A with Regional Director
Yesterday (28/3) in Vienna, IOM, the United Nations Migration Agency and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched a joint platform on countering migrant smuggling.
MigApp for Western Balkans on the Way
“Migrants use mobile phones and internet to inform themselves during their journey, this is why it is crucial that we make use of those same tools to convey quality and reliable information on safe migration”, said Chiara Tognetti, from the Migration Protection and Assistance department at IOM’s
IOM/UNODC Hold Joint Counter Migrant Smuggling Event
IOM and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are co-hosting an event on March 28 at the Vienna International Centre.
Directors Discuss Displacement and Data in Istanbul
IOM’s Regional Director Argentina Szabados is in Istanbul this week at a meeting of senior directors to discuss the global use of IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM).
IOM Shares Expertise At Regional SDG Forum In Minsk
More than 40 European and Central Asian countries are participating in the first high-level regional Sustainable Development Goals Coordination Leaders Forum in Minsk this week.
Addressing Labour Loss in Eastern Europe
Several Eastern European countries are seeing a significant loss of their labour force as large numbers migrate in search of work. The subject was discussed at a recent meeting of Euronest in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
Discussing Migration with Media in Albania
IOM in Albania has been running a dynamic national information campaign as part of its project to prevent unsafe migration from Albania towards the European Union. Its main partners include the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Department of Border and Migration Police, local government authorities, representatives of an anti-trafficking committee, as well as members of education institutions, civil society and media.
IOM and OSCE Lead Discussions on a New Narrative for Migration
Special Advisor to the Secretary General, Gervais Appave, made a keynote speech at a joint IOM/OSCE event entitled “Perception is not reality: Towards a new narrative of migration” which took place at OSCE’s headquarters in Vienna on International Migrant’s Day (18 December).
Together in Vienna for Global Migration Film Festival
The Vienna Regional Office screened "Amerika Square", Greece’s entry for the Oscars, directed by Yannis Sakardis to mark International Migrants Day on 18 December, as part of the Global Migration Film Festival.
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Case Studies of Clinical Preparation in Teacher Education
An Examination of Three Teacher Preparation Partnerships
Edited by Ryan Flessner and Debra R. Lecklider
Preparing teachers to work in our nation’s classrooms presents an array of challenges for teacher educators. Recently, organizations such as the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released reports calling for change, supporting clinical teacher preparation, and encouraging links between university faculty, clinical faculty (P-12 educators), and pre-service teachers. This book (as well as its companion text, The Power of Clinical Preparation in Teacher Education: Embedding Teacher Preparation within P-12 School Contexts) responds to calls for change in teacher education. Sponsored by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) and its Commission on Clinically-Based Teacher Preparation, the book includes program descriptions, theoretical frameworks, and research studies. Initiated in response to Dr. Nancy Zimpher’s keynote speech at ATE’s 2011 Annual Meeting, the Commission on Clinically-Based Teacher Preparation set out to identify exemplary programs of teacher education, promising practices within those programs, and research related to the programs’ clinical practices. This text represents the Commission’s findings.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Association of Teacher Educators
Pages: 196 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4758-3947-0 • Hardback • October 2017 • $74.00 • (£49.95)
978-1-4758-3948-7 • Paperback • October 2017 • $37.00 • (£24.95)
978-1-4758-3949-4 • eBook • October 2017 • $35.00 • (£23.95)
Subjects: Education / Professional Development, Education / Evaluation & Assessment, Education / Teacher & Student Mentoring
Ryan Flessner is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. His teaching and research interests include teacher education, mathematics education, practitioner inquiry, and issues of equity, diversity, and social justice.
Debra R. Lecklider is a Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Education at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her interests include educational leadership and innovative practices that lead to collaborative and inspired change in education.
Foreword – James L. Alouf
Introduction - Ryan Flessner & Debra R. Lecklider
Section I: Georgia State University & the Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School
Chapter 1: The New Teacher Residency Project: Motivation, Partnership History, and Residency Plan – Stephanie Behm Cross, Matt Underwood, & Elizabeth Hearn
Chapter 2: The New Teacher Residency Project: Multiple Layers of Support and Collaboration – Elizabeth Hearn, Stephanie Behm Cross, Susan Taylor, & Connie Zimmerman Parrish
Chapter 3: It’s Time for a “Reboot”: Shifting Preservice Teacher Education from Business Capital to Professional Capital – Stephanie Behm Cross, Carla Tanguay, Susan Cannon, Morgin Jones Williams, & Jessica James Hale
Section II: Rhode Island College & Central Falls Schools
Chapter 4: Context Matters – Julie R. Horwitz, Gerri August, Frances Gallo, Kimberly Cataldo, & Joshua Laplante
Chapter 5: The Integration of Emergence and Infrastructure in a Clinical Preparation Model – Julie R. Horwitz, Gerri August, Frances Gallo, Kimberly Cataldo, & Joshua Laplante
Chapter 6: What We Learned – Gerri August, Julie R. Horwitz, Frances Gallo, & Joshua Laplante
Section III: George Mason University & Fairfax County Public Schools
Chapter 7: Elementary Teacher Preparation at George Mason University: The Evolution of Our Program – Seth A. Parsons, Lois A. Groth, Audra K. Parker, Elizabeth Levine Brown, Corey R. Sell, & Debra Sprague
Chapter 8: George Mason University’s Elementary PDS Program: Teacher Education Built on Principles – Stephanie L. Dodman, Lois A. Groth, Kerri Fulginiti, Brian Hull, Audra K. Parker, & Seth A. Parsons
Chapter 9: Developing Teacher Candidates’ Ability to Analyze Mathematics Quality of Instruction Using Collaborative Instructional Rounds – Jennifer M. Suh, Andrea Weiss, Kerri Fulginiti, Molly Rawding, Lesley King, & Seth A. Parsons
Chapter 10: The Case for Powerful Clinical Practice in Teacher Education – D. John McIntyre
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I've been doing 'Untranslatables October' on Twitter for the second time (made slightly easier this year by the fact that I've given up tweeting on weekends). I'll do a summary at the end of the month.
An American 'Untranslatable' was visit with, which had been suggested by Ros Clarke. I defined it as 'to pay a social call and chat with someone, esp. if you're having a good catch-up.'
Ros then asked "do you think that paying the social call is an important part of visit with?" No and yes, I would say. For instance, one could say
We visited with each other for a while after we met on the pathway.
But if there is a social call, it is the caller who is doing the visiting. At least, that's my intuition:
He came over and visited with me. Sounds normal to me.
He came over and I visited with him. Sounds weird to me.
I went over and he visited with me. Sounds really weird to me.
But one could also say:
He came over and we visited with each other.
It's always worth mentioning when things that Americans say are actually British in origin, and the 'pay a social call' sense of visit with is one of them. The OED marks it as Now U.S. Interestingly, it's apparently not from the days before the British settled in the 'new world'. In other words, it's evidence that Americans didn't just start importing newfangled Britishisms (see my last post!) in the 21st century. The first example is from a letter in 1850, the second is from a major piece of British literature:
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. i. 8 The small group of gentry with whom he visited.
Besides visiting with there's also with-less intransitive visit, which is 100% American and just about chatting. In that sense, you and your friend could visit for hours, meaning that you talked with each other for a long time. If the subject of this 'chat' visit is just one of the chatting parties, then you can have a with in order to identify who you're talking with.
I searched for examples of visited with in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. There are 282 of them, though some are not this visited with, but things like the town he visited with his mother or visited with great interest. I looked at the first page of them (100). Most of the examples do involve someone coming to where someone else is and talking with them:
And the White House made a surprise stop for barbecue in Washington, but left the restaurant a surprise when lunch finished on Wednesday, an unpaid tab. President Obama visited with service members and local barbers...
There's only one example in the 282 with a reciprocal pronoun (each other; no cases of one another).
But there's one case where the visited-with person is the one who moved:
We're speaking with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe. We visited with him on his visit to the United States.
...though in this case, it may very well be that the radio people (we) visited the place where Tsvangirai was staying, and therefore were the 'movers'. They area also the 'movers' in that they are the ones who sought the interview. The sentence certainly gives me the image that the NPR reporter went to Tsvangirai's hotel or the Zimbabwean embassy or something, though it could be the case that they talked on the phone. In other words, when visit with is used non-reciprocally, I do get the image that the subject of the sentence acted in order to get the conversation started--either by moving to where the other person is or by setting up the meeting. Perhaps I've got that connotation more strongly than other Americans do.
Finally, a note on the noun visit. Most uses of the noun visit are general English (i.e. not UK- or US- or anywhere-specific). But one can shift the 'chat' verb visit into a noun, and get things like We had a nice visit over dinner/the phone/coffee. This is not something one would hear in the UK. Instead you might (informally) have a good natter (which Collins English Dictionary defines as 'prolonged idle chatter or gossip').
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Just One Boomer (Suzanne) 29 October, 2012 00:56
The only American I've ever heard use "natter" was Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's disgraced Vice President who was forced to resign the vice presidency in 1973 after pleading guilty to corruption for tax evasion--a plea deal that also allowed him to avoid criminal prosecution for taking bribes. Actually, he used "nattering". He accused the media of being "nattering nabobs of negativism". The quote is widely attributed to his speechwriter, William Saffire.
I always associate "visit with" as small town US, maybe rural as well, and not necessarily contemporary in usage, because I have not heard it in quite a while, though I did while growing up in upstate NY, US.
Krista 29 October, 2012 02:30
In my experience (western US), those who still talk about "visiting" or "visiting with" are usually grandparents and preachers.
I wouldn't make a distinction between the arriver and the arrivee, either could "visit with" the other.
Untranslatable into British maybe, but there's a lovely Afrikaans word meaning the same thing - kuier. I wonder how many other languages share this?
Unfairly, for me missing the word "kuier" goes along with missing the experience. Life in London isn't conducive to the kind of relaxed, spontaneous visit I'd call by that name. So it feels like the word doesn't exist because people just don't do that... Though I realise that's not the case.
Do Americans ever "pay a visit" as we do in the UK? Or used to - these days it is more often a euphemism for going to the loo/bathroom.
For me (Southern BrE), visiting is the physical thing - I would say that I am visiting my parents this weekend, for instance. If I were to have a long chat with my father, that would not be visiting with him, although it would have happened during the visit.
All very confusing, especially if the US sense was once British - it is now so very obsolete as to have dropped out of memory, I think.
I'm interested to hear that some people think of 'visit with' as old-fashioned. The time I spent in the US was 2006-7 in Philadelphia - and I heard it from people in their 20's to 80's.
Yulia 29 October, 2012 14:26
That's interesting, I guess I haven't heard enough English during my career as an ESL teacher (I am a Russian) - this is the first time I've come across 'visit with'!
@Ros I'd agree with Krista (I'm also from the Western US - coastal California) and would say that 'visit with' would definitely be something heard from an older generation or perhaps non-native to the west. As Roger said, it does sound more small town US/rural though much of California could be classed this. To me it is the same sense of 'to call' in the UK where this generally means going around to someone's house ('calling in') versus making a phone call as it typically does in the US. Whenever I hear someone say they will 'call in' I think it sounds really old-fashioned and something my grandmother might've said. It sounds very formal.
Is the AmE 'visit with' related to 'meet with' in the sense of having a conversation, compared with meeting on the pathway(above)? I don't think BrE uses 'meet with' at all comfortably, except perhaps to arrange an appointment to meet someone.
In N America I heard of 'telephone visiting' which seemed bizarre to me until I understood the usage described here. I also agree that 'call' is ambiguous - if Bob called last night, did he drop in for a chat or did he phone?
I don't know that I can say that anything's related to anything else, but I have written about meet with.
I've been listening a lot lately to British folk complaining about Americans 'leaving off' prepositions ('debate' and 'protest' come to mind), where I've been asked if Americans don't like verb+preposition combinations. Clearly not, since we have all these 'with's that the British don't have...
I am not sure why debate or protest would need a preposition... Could you explain that for this AmE?
See: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/protesting-prepositions.html
ahhh, Got it thanks :)
For this Brit, visit, visiting, visitor are essentially to do with place. Yes I can speak of visiting somebody — but only at the place where they are normally found.
This is like Lynne's constraint against speaking of visiting with someone at one's own home. It goes further — I can't speak of visiting somebody at a temporary location such as a hotel.
Needless to say, I can visit somebody in complete silence — in a hospital bed, for example.
(A hospital is different from a hotel. It's a place with arrangements for visitors. If you meet someone in a hotel where they're staying, the location is irrelevant to the purpose of meeting.)
Moreover, I 'visit' places far more often than I 'visit' people (I'd rather say 'go to see' or 'look up'). And I don't chat to places.
In my speech visit with is impossible because the notion of visit involves an intentional agent moving to a place, which by nature lacks intention. There may be people at the place, but their intentions are irrelevant.
marek 29 October, 2012 21:19
I am not sure that the George Eliot quotation is quite an instance of the usage being described. Here it is clearly a description of a social circle, the people acknowledged as being sufficiently close in social status to be recognised as acquaintances, and thus with whom visits are paid and received. I would be very surprised to see 'visit with' being used to describe a specific actual visit (still less a conversation), rather than in that more general sense.
This BritE is very accustomed to visiting people or places, but 'visit with' is certainly much more AmE to my ears, although I have heard Americans of of all ages use it when referring to visits they made or received, the latter sounding decidedly odd to me.
I think a possible, rather old-fashioned, BritE equivalent might be 'call on' - when I was much younger I was given printed 'calling cards' (I'm not THAT old, I'm talking about the early 1970s) - these just had one's name printed on them in raised print - they did not have an address and it was definitely 'infradig' for them to have a telephone number printed on them; the person you were 'calling on' or who was calling on you might not be known personally, but would be known by name (as belonging to the same social circle) and the visit/call may even have been pre-arranged, or it might not. They were used mainly for first visits of a social nature where the person who answered the door, a butler or other similar staff, would convey the card to the person whom one was calling on, usually on a salver. I haven't made such visits, or indeed received them, using the 'calling card' system for at least 25 years, but before that in my circles it was used pretty regularly.
Here it is clearly a description of a social circle, the people acknowledged as being sufficiently close in social status to be recognised as acquaintances, and thus with whom visits are paid and received
Surely the poorer residents of Middlemarch and the surrounding villages would have a number of people — relatives, friends, acquaintances, business associates — outside the inner circle of neighbours but with whom they were on visiting terms. The difference between them and social élite is that they would go to see these people irregularly, perhaps very seldom indeed. So they wouldn't speak of 'visiting (with) '— although that's effectively what they would be doing.
I would be very surprised to see 'visit with' being used to describe a specific actual visit... rather than in that more general sense.
I think we're in the realm of grammar here. The Past Simple can denote habitual activity as in
the small group of gentry with whom he visited.
But it can also denote one or more event as in the later (1927) quotation:
Perryville, Missouri, where we visited with some of Klink's friends.
Prior to that there's a 1902 quotation:
Almost every evening nowadays the Dearborn girls came..to visit with the Cresslers.
They didn't come each time in order to be in the habit of visiting; they came in order to visit that one time.
All the subsequent quotes in the OED for visit with denote one-off visits, mostly with Past Simple visited. A nice quote from a Malcolm Lowry letter makes the British~American contrast explicit:
Margerie is flying..to visit—to visit with, I believe I should say— her family for a week..
I think the calling card system that Bill describes killed off the use identified by marek of visit with in 'polite society' after the time of Ruskin (the earliest quote is from a letter by Effie Ruskin) and Elliot. There was no need for both visit with and call on and fashion, for no discernible reason, favoured the latter.
However, an analogous with survived in the expression dine with which could denote a social relationship. As Lady Bracknell said of the Liberal Unionists:
Oh, they count as Tories. They dine with us. Or come in the evening, at any rate.
As others have said, I would agree that 'visit with' doesn't exist in modern UK English. It sounds odd.
In American English, can one visit a place as David Crosbie and Bill have pointed out that we normally do in English English?
Also, can one visit a person, without a 'with'? If so, what is the context, and what difference does it make to the sense whether the 'with' is there or not?
If in the US, you go to see someone who is in hospital, what do you say?
Ben in Bénin 30 October, 2012 21:29
@Krista and @srobalino - I agree with both of you about the old-fashioned nature of "visiting (with)". It's something I would use (30-year-old Texas transplant in Virginia who's spent a lot of time in North Carolina "visiting" family), but I wouldn't talk about "visiting with" friends as much as I would elders or people of a higher status. "Visiting" implies, to me, more polite conversation, rather than catching up with someone close - so no overly personal information, sarcasm, etc. that would feature prominently in conversation with friends. For that, I would use "talk" or "chat."
"Visiting" also brings to mind how relatives and friends would stop by Granny's house in North Carolina regularly whenever my family was staying there. In that case, there's no difference between "visiting" and "calling on." Of course, they would be "visiting" while they were "visiting"...
Lynn 31 October, 2012 00:27
@Dru, we either say we're going to "see someone in the hospital" or we're going to "visit someone in the hospital". While we're there, we'll no doubt "visit with them" or "have a nice visit with them".
Since I have access to a concordance of Blues lyrics, I thought I'd look up visit. In a pretty representative sample of prewar record lyrics, there are four uses. I wonder how these composed utterances by Southern Blacks seventy or eighty years ago compare with current speech.
Seven times you hear the seven sisters : will visit me [all] in my sleep
And they said I won't have no more trouble : and said I'll live twelve days in a week
Now if you're ever in Dallas boy : please visit old Elm Street
You can see the snuff-sniffing women : like a police on his beat
Lord I lost my papa : and my dear mama too
Lord I'm going to quit my bad way of living : and visit the Sunday school
Now my bluebird left me the other day : people and I ain't seen her since
Now then I believe she gone to Washington : you know to visit the president
I make that one visitation, two places (one of them perhaps for habitual attendance), and one person (possibly for a chat).
@Dru - Yes, in the US we can visit a place. For visit vs. visit with: Visit would probably refer more to the occaision, visit with to the conversation. (Simplification, of course.) As to hospitals, I could say either visit or see someone in the hospital. My husband says he would probably use visit.
Dru, as I understand it, the Americans do go visiting, like we do, but they also use the term in the sense of having a private conversation with someone, perhaps in a wider context - for instance, if I visited my aunt's family and had a long chat to a cousin while there, I would, were I American, probably think that I had had a nice visit with my cousin. I think - perhaps my American friends will correct me if I am mistaken here.
I've just received a circular from Waitrose which brings out another factor in the meaning of visit.
P.S. We know that you don't usually shop in a store that serves hot drinks, but we thought you'd like to know in case you visit a store that does.
So, you 'visit' a place that you don't usually go to. Which reminds me that we make a similar distinction for places where you're usually located: I don't live here, I'm just visiting.
I do not visit stores. I shop in them. (American)
Example : I am going to the Coffee Shop.
I am not visiting the Coffee shop.
But I might visit with my Friend over coffee at the Coffee Shop.
I do not visit stores. I shop in them.
OK, but how would you translate the message?
We know that you don't usually shop in a store that serves hot drinks, but we thought you'd like to know in case you visit a store that does.
Mindy: I might visit with my Friend over coffee at the Coffee Shop.
Whereas I might visit the coffee shop to catch up with my friend!
David says,
I would probably just say "in case you go to a store that does." But I could possibly use the term visit in that sense.
Mrs. Redboots, I might say catch up with my friend also, especially if it is a friend I have not seen in a long while.
It gets better. In another part of the circular, Waitrose write:
Next time you visit us in store, keep your eyes peeled for your exclusive Waitrose savings - available on top of our existing promotions.
And, come to think of it, it's commonplace for British stores to write about offers on your next visit.
Yes I would hear that in advertisements here in America also. But I would not typically use visit in my speech.
I would say trip to the store, or shopping trip.
But mostly I would just say I went to such in such store, or I am going to such in such store (or the store).
But I understand it when someone says they visited a store. There would not be a misunderstanding. I would get what they were saying.
I would not typically use visit in my speech.
That's because you wouldn't be seeing it from the store's point of view.
In British English entirely and in American English partly, the notion of visiting is asymmetrical.
This may reflect
• comparative importance of visitor and visited
We don't usually say
The store was visited by me last week.
But it's quite easy to say
The store was visited by Queen Victoria in 1899.
From the stores point of view, Queen Victoria is more important.
• comparative importance of visit to visitor and visited
ME: I went to that Waitrose. I could have gone to Sainsbury's — it wouldn't have mattered.
WAITROSE: He visited our Morningside store. He could have gone to a Sainsbury's or a Tesco, but he didn't. That matters.
I think the reason that visit with sound so bizarre to my ears is denotes a symmetrical act. Two agents of (possibly) equal importance engaged in something of (possibly) equal importance to both of them. It just doesn't sound right.
I've just realised that the place notion may a third asymmetry in visit that may be absent in visit with.
In the BrE notion of visit, the visitor moves to the location of the act of visiting; the visited doesn't.
I'm not sure I understand what happens with the AmE not ion of visit with. I get the impression that both parties may move to the location of the visit. If so, that makes the notion even more alien.
There's considerable historical depth to this. The first listed senses of visit in the OED all begin with the word come.
The very first use is of God coming to give comfort. And, because it happens in the Bible, we're familiar with God or an angel visiting someone in a dream. Hence the blues singer Funny Paper Smith recounting how seven voodoo priestesses visited him in a dream.
David: the point I was trying to make (in my meandering way) was that there is an asymmetry in the 'social call' meaning of visit with, but that that's much weaker in the 'chat with' version--which is why you can get a reciprocal pronoun (each other) with it in the description of a single event.
Sorry, Lynne, I read you post once and remembered only some of the subtleties. Then I read a succession of narrowly focussed postings which brought home to me that my reaction to visit with is unusually strong. It's n the nature of a blog like this, I suppose — the recent and narrow obscures one's recall of the broad but distant.
I also find that the utter alien-ness of visit with made it hard to read with proper appreciation your analysis of the different AmE uses. The fact that it can mean 'chat' was such amazing news that I didn't see how you were fitting it into the general picture.
If I were still a practising teacher, I'd be wondering whether visit and visit with should be taught as two distinct verbs. Certainly, there's a real problem for the writers of dictionaries for learners of English.
Every time I pass a church
I pay a little visit,
So when at last I reach heaven's gates
The Lord won't say, "Who is it?"
So when at last I reach heaven's gates,
Mindy 02 November, 2012 13:26
So if I said I went to visit a Friend. Would the BrE speakers think I just went to their house, but just sat there and did not talk with that friend? If so that seem strange to me.
If I said that I was going to visit a friend, and then the friend was not there, then I would say something like
Well, I went to visit my Friend, but she was not home.
But if she had been home, I would have said,
I went and visited my Friend today.
woops left this part off,
on the last example,
I visited my Friend today.
The fact that we "chated", talked and got caught up, is implied.
I went to visit a Friend. Would the BrE speakers think I just went to their house, but just sat there and did not talk with that friend?
We'd simply think that you went to their house. Whether you talked or sat in silence is immaterial.
The only reason we'd have for assuming that you talked is our non-linguistic knowledge that conversation during visits is the norm. The expectation is easily dispelled:
I visited him yesterday, but we didn't have anything to say to each other. We just sat in embarrassed silence.
David said-The only reason we'd have for assuming that you talked is our non-linguistic knowledge that conversation during visits is the norm.
thats what Isaid, it is implied by the meaning of the word visit.
1 go to see and spend time with (someone) socially.
I do not think I have ever spent time socially with someone and not had a conversation. (unless they were in a coma) There for the word visit implies that a conversation takes place.
Indeed it does, but I believe that in US English it is the conversation itself that is implied by the word "visit", whereas in British English it is the fact that you got up off your chair and actually went somewhere. If you came round to mine and we had a long chat, *I* didn't have a nice visit, although you might have done! Whereas as I understand it, in American English I would have had a pleasant visit, no?
our non-linguistic knowledge that conversation during visits is the norm.
thats what I said, it is implied by the meaning of the word visit.
No, Mindy, what I said is not not what you said. You said that it IS implied. I said that it is NOT implied. The only reason I'd be a teeny bit surprised if the visit passed in silence is nothing to do with language and the meaning of words. That's why I called it 'nonlinguistic knowledge'.
That's an American dictionary, Mindy. To the vast majority of British readers, it's out-and-out nonsense.
OK, we all conceded that you have this different meaning in American English. Please accept that for us it's very strange indeed.
One purpose of Lynne's Blog is to make us aware of differences on either side of the Atlantic. Not much chance if you disbelieve what we tell you about British English.
PS Not all BrE/AmE differences make us excited. Very few bother me at all. This visit difference, believe me, is a spectacularly contrast, an hard-to-credit shock to the system.
The oxford Dictionary I got that definition from was A British English Dictionary.
Mrs. Redboots, yes both! :)
David, I do accept that we have different meanings and understandings.
I meant no offense. I was just trying to understand your meaning better, and explain ours a little better to you.
I am sorry for the misunderstanding of this conversation.
From reading the comments, I've come to the conclusion that I am in the minority among American English speakers in that I think of "visit" as only meaning "going to see (someone/something)", but I think I'm with most others in that I tend to see "visit with" as having a slightly different meaning.
A question Mrs Redboots asked Mindy caught my eye, though:
If you came round to mine and we had a long chat, *I* didn't have a nice visit, although you might have done! Whereas as I understand it, in American English I would have had a pleasant visit, no?
My answer would have been, "No. You didn't have a nice visit, but we might have had one and I definitely had one." I would have explained a very fuzzy idea that Mrs Redboots enjoyed my visit, and so I could say that we had a nice visit (we both enjoyed my visit to her home), but that she didn't visit anyone, so it couldn't be said that she alone had a nice visit.
Does anyone else make this sort of distinction?
Anonymous in NJ
flatlander 05 November, 2012 17:06
Yes to what Anonymous in NJ said. The physical movement visit is undertaken by the nonresident party, whereas the conversational visited is undertaken by both/all party in unison. My mother (AmE, in her 60s, raised in a major city in Texas) says things like, "You kids go play now; the adults are going to visit" in the course of a multi-day family gathering. My sister in law (40-ish, raised in upstate New York) says it too but I think she got it from Mom.
Sorry for the typos. The mobile version makes it very difficult to edit.
Richard Hartzell 06 November, 2012 19:53
As an American who isn't quite sure whether he ever uses "visited with" (but is certain his 91-year-old mother once did, when she was younger and got out and about more often), I confess I've been reading these comments with astonishment.
It appears that not only does this expression not exist in BrE, but that it's very meaning utterly mystifies Britons. Thus I've been treated to analyses involving asymmetry and intentional agents and other such highfalutin terms that seem intended to discredit the term as illogical and thus somehow without merit. To those Britons I'd like to mention that the French have no word for “eighty” and have hobbled along for centuries using “four twenties” as a crutch. To my way of thinking it makes as much sense to pick apart the illogic or nonsensicality of “visit with” as it does the linguistic inadequacy of “four twenties”.
OK: Let me pause for a moment to apologize/apologise to Britons everywhere for being so cantankerous.
But I’ll try, perhaps fruitlessly, to communicate the merit and meaning of "visit with" as opposed to "visit" alone—though as flatlander just pointed out, in the American south one might say "You kids go play now; the adults are going to visit", for which usage I’ll assert “visit” and “visit with” convey essentially identical meanings.
The all-important preposition “with”, when added to “visit”, carries two important understandings: informality and intimacy. Thus one does not “visit with” strangers, disaffected ex-spouses, bosses, or those with whom one has made an appointment, such as a tax accountant or psychiatrist. It’s an expression reserved for friends, relatives, and neighbors. It implies familiarity if not tenderness, though one might use it politely to refer to a visit to spend time with someone, as a neighbor or hospital patient, with whom you’re not in truth especially close.
On the other hand it’s entirely possible to use it in the past tense to convey retrospectively that what began as a nonintimate encounter—say, with a store clerk—became unexpectedly warm and friendly. Example: “I bought this sweater at the corner store and ended up visiting with the sales clerk for half an hour. Turns out we both grew up in the same neighborhood in St. Louis and she also used to go out hunting for fireflies on warm Summer evenings.”
If there’s no functional equivalent in BrE, we can all be bemused or puzzled but it surely won’t help to parse the verb “visit” nine ways from Sunday in hopes of prying/prising loose, like a gem locked in a box, a meaning that will somehow serve as a bridge to universal understanding.
Apparently not all discrepancies between AmE or BrE can be resolved with a glossary that tells us that “hood” means “bonnet” or “elevator” means “lift” or “visit with” kind of means “visit”, sort of.
It’s really quite an exquisite conundrum, these unexpected differences. In this case I guess I'm lucky to have a native speaker's understanding of this otherwise opaque and untranslatable term. Next time I visit I'm sure I won't be so lucky.
Nicely Put Richard!
Thanks for that. I am in the St. Louis Area. I must admit, I do not usually put the with on it, but it is not unheard of.
I am baffled by the Idea that if I visit someone, I am the only one who visited. It is a shared experience. Both people are visiting, it makes no difference who went to who's house.
To add another (possibly odd) dimension to the American use of the word "visit," I have to mention that, as an elementary school teacher, I frequently used the word "visiting" as a euphemism for "talking to/with another student during class," and I don't think I was the only teacher to ever do so! (For example, I might have written in the comments section on a chatty child's report card (or said during a parent/teacher conference) that a child "visits a lot during class." I clearly didn't mean to imply that the child was getting up and going anywhere; I simply meant there was a lot of chatting going on, and saying "visiting" was a lot nicer than "Your kid just can't seem to shut up!"
Mindy - The British find it equally baffling that you can visit without leaving home. To us, the visitee has "received a visit from X".
Richard - Actually the French do have a perfectly good word for 80, octante, they just choose not to use it, although French-speaking Belgians and Swiss do.
Richard Harzell
It appears that not only does this expression not exist in BrE, but that it's very meaning utterly mystifies Britons.
Yes, I think we've finally all accepted that. I find it an interesting fact. Of all the hundred of words and expressions discussed on Lynne's blog, visit stands out in the stark differences in some meanings between the two varieties.
This alone suggests to me that there's something worth analysing. What (for me) cries out even louder for analysis is that the view on the opposite side of the Atlantic seems so disturbingly alien.
Whether one view or the other is objectively valid is (for me) a meaningless question. Both are valid. Each has its own rationale. Those rationales are interestig.
Thus I've been treated to analyses involving asymmetry and intentional agents and other such highfalutin terms that seem intended to discredit the term as illogical and thus somehow without merit.
I'm sorry it seems that way to you Richard. Actually, that isn't the intention at all. There's nothing illogical in your American use of visit — it's just that it's based on a premise which we don't recognise in Britain. The premise is by definition valid for American speakers — at least it is if you base your premises on what speakers actually say, not on what pundits claim they should say.
The reciprocal visit with existed for a brief while in British English, as Lynne pointed out. But then we lost it. There's no trace of it in popular speech and not even a memory of it.
Because visiting is a non-reciprocal concept, we've not been open to the shift in American usage from 'go and see' to 'meet up with' to 'chat with'.
When we hear these American uses explained, it's a shock to the system. Nothing more. Yes, there are people in Britain, especially in England, who do believe that it's 'our' language, and so 'you' should leave it alone, but — unless Lynne needs something to argue against — you won't find that sort of thing on this Blog
Gragh, I just posted a comment and Blogger ate it!
For example, I might have written in the comments section on a chatty child's report card (or said during a parent/teacher conference) that a child "visits a lot during class."
My instinctive understanding of that would be that the child in question has a small bladder and has to pay frequent visits to the cloakroom!
Do Americans "pay a visit" the way we do - not just to the loo/bathroom, although that, too. "I must pay a visit to the supermarket" (slightly ironic, I think, and probably obsolescent in a non-ironic context).
ros 08 November, 2012 01:14
Well, I'm happy to have sparked such debate and also to see that I'm not the only Brit to have found this American usage confusing! I think the confusion is because there is so much overlap in the meaning of 'visit' (BrE) and 'visit with' (AmE), made all the more confusing when some Americans apparently use 'visit' rather than 'visit with', so there's no distinction at all.
Prepositions are powerful things.
"oxford dictionary
That's an American dictionary, Mindy. To the vast majority of British readers, it's out-and-out nonsense."
That is perfectly normal British English. I visit my grandmother: I go to see her and spend time with her socially. That meaning is common to UK and US.
BUT that is not the meaning of 'visit with' in the US, and it is not the meaning under discussion in Lynne's post.
biochemist 08 November, 2012 10:19
Ros, I think David Crosbie summarised it very well in his most recent post (see above).
The Brits who have posted above do appreciate the AmE use of 'visit with' to signify social occasions ranging from a formal 'call' to a chat on the footpath or around the barbeque, and I have experienced a 'telephone visit' (in Canada). We are just astonished that this usage seems to have remained uniquely North American, unlike 'meet with', which some Brits occasionally use, even though it doesn't have a special additional meaning.
I Hope you got my apology message. I am sincerely sorry for the misunderstanding in our back in forth. I was just trying to bring more understanding of each others use of the word Visit.
Risking sounding too needy :) I would appreciate an acknowledgement of my apology, even if it is not accepted by you. Though I really hope it is, as it is Sincerely meant.
Thanks, Mindy
As someone who is neither old nor rural (though certainly not a west coaster) I would definitely say visit with. Actually this post came at the perfect time since I was taking note of people saying visit with and caught this gem from last week. You finish visiting with Judy then come visit with me about your vol calls. The person who said this to me was a Michigander in her mid 20s.
I do think there's some social asymmetry element visit with. I be more inclined to use it for a pleasant chat with someone older than me than I would a peer. But I'd also use it as a mild command to come talk to me with someone of any age.
No need for you to apologise. I never thought for a moment that you were being aggressive or disrespectful.I f I gave that impression, I'm very sorry.
The moral is that differences in usage aren't always trivial and amusing. Just occasionally a word like visit comes up and seems to challenge our personal ideas of what is English.
I did get the impression that I had upset you somehow. And I did not intend to at all.
I do not feel like either one's usage is more correct then the others, just different. It was a head scratcher for me :), That's all.
Thanks for replying. I really appreciate it.
whoops, should have said,
I do not feel like either one's usage is more correct than the others
Thinking of 'meet with', we (England) don't normally say that. It's not totally unknown, but we normally just say 'meet' with a direct object, or 'meet up with', which is slightly slangy but a bit more purposeful than 'meet'. You can either arrange to 'meet' or bump into someone by chance and 'meet' them, but if you 'meet up with', you've arranged it.
My question. In US English, is 'meet with' more planned, intended, than just 'meet'? Or does 'meet' always take 'with'? And does US English use 'meet up with'? If so, how does it differ in meaning from 'meet' and 'meet with'? Or is 'meet up with' British only?
May I suggest having the 'meet with' discussion at the 'meet with' blog post?
1. On that meet with thread, there are two observations that it's not as strange to British speakers as visit with.
2. It's just occurred to me what happens if you turn them into nouns.
• a meeting with Fred is fine in BrE
• a visit with Fred is weird in BrE — unless the speaker and Fred made a visit somewhere together
• a visit to Fred would be normal in BrE
I can also say
• a meeting at Fred's
This would usually mean a formal/planned meeting of an unstated number of people at Fred's house. But in the right context, it could mean what you Americans seems to call a visit. Thus:
I haven't seen Fred since our last meeting at his place.
rachel 12 November, 2012 15:58
Referrring to the Eliot /Austen class meanings of visit, I would still claim that it has the UK English meaning of pay a visit to their location. There was a social hierarchy of whether you called or were called upon. And in such a context, there is no requirement to have any conversation with the person you visited at all.....
Referrring to the Eliot /Austen class meanings of visit, I would still claim that it has the UK English meaning of pay a visit to their location.
I'm sure all British speakers agree with you about the meaning. What's so very different from present-day British English is the form — not the one-word verb visit but the two-word verb visit with.
Well this one has run and run and run so surely there's not much left to say. I can only observe that while in common with all(?) the other BrE speakers here I am completely flabbergasted by this hitherto unanticipated usage of such an innocent and apparently well-understood verb, one reason for this surprise (so much greater than with many other AmE-isms) is, I suggest, simple lack of prior exposure, and that in itself is quite unusual given the normal degree of exposure (both ways). In my long-winded way I'm saying that I don't think I've ever heard the expression "visit with" (or indeed "visit" used to mean "chat") on any US TV show, which is, let's face it, where we get most of our exposure from. Maybe I should watch more TV and/or pay closer attention. What we need is the televisual equivalent of BNC and COCA :-)
one reason for this surprise (so much greater than with many other AmE-isms) is, I suggest, simple lack of prior exposure
Perhaps we have been exposed without realising it. I can imagine hearing I visited with her on a TV show and automatically translating it into BrE I visited her. The character and the American viewers would know that the TV characters had a chat, but I wouldn't. There would be nothing to make me suspect that I hadn't perfectly understood.
@DavidCrosbie: I believe that the "with" in this case is required because it represents a social connection to a group. Mutual visiting took place. So it was not a case of I visit a, b and c, but I am in a network of a, b,c and myself, who all visit one another...
Hence the strange construction of "with whom"
But I am willing to be overruled.
the "with" in this case is required because it represents a social connection to a group. Mutual visiting took place. So it was not a case of I visit a, b and c, but I am in a network of a, b,c and myself, who all visit one another...
That is the concept I ineptly attempted to convey in my earlier comment.
Not by me, Rachel. That's what I assumed too — the equivalent of on visiting terms.
But that leaves a puzzle. The practice of making semi-formal visits to social peers did not die out until long after the term visit with was lost. Why lose the label when the practice labelled was still current among a social class which included many published writers?
I have a hunch that speakers of that class developed a distinction between visiting places and calling on people.
I may be wrong about the place constraint of visit. But I'm pretty sure the with was dropped because it would be grotesque to speak of people we call on with or people with whom we call on.
I would like to flag in the possibility of it being skewed by technology. The nineteenth/twentieth century rules about "At Home" days etc assumed communication. So I wonder if the earlier usage pre-dated the Penny Post. Visit then was the only form of communication, whereas after that, you could communicate your intent to call/visit. And telephony enabled an alternate form of calling (though not visitation).
This is true, although here in the UK we have never said "calling" about using the phone; we ring people up or telephone them.
And do people not visit, or visit with, people over the telephone in the USA?
Before and after the invention of the post, the class of people we're taking about would have visiting cards aka calling cards. The (would be) visitor would present a card to a servant in the residence of the (intended) visitee.
I believe the visit or call served primarily as a consolidation of social relationships. If one of the social circle had something serious to convey to another, they would simply send a written message with a servant — no need for the technology of postage or telephony.
Mrs Redboots, I would not say visit or visit with for anything over the phone. (St. Louis)
I've lived in the US for the last 15 years, and until now I have never heard, or heard of, this usage of "visit with".
Do you think it might be something said mostly by or to women?
Mrs. Redboots, despite being a relatively regular reader of British books, I needed context to realize that you meant anything other than the closet/coat-hanging area when you said "cloakroom," and you can imagine that it would be completely inappropriate to "pay a visit" in that way there! ;)
Whereas here it is the normal euphemism for the downstairs room containing loo and basin, that I understand Americans refer to as a "Half bath". It is, or was in my day, not only the normal euphemism in schools, but where you would expect to find them.
Valerie 22 November, 2012 15:31
Interesting post and comments! My aunt (81) from Minnesota will say, "I'm glad we had a nice visit." when we've finished speaking by phone (I'm in the UK), or "I had a long visit with Sarah." (my sister, who's in Australia). My sister and I have commented on this to each other, as definitely find this usage baffling, although we are used to many Americanisms, as our father is from the US. So it can definitely be used when speaking by phone.
We had a good visit - phrase my Scottish relations would use. British English has variations from different areas.
Deucharman 28 January, 2015 16:51
I have come across the "visit with" usage in a contemporary play, "Outside Mullingar" about rural Ireland, written by the Irish American playwright John Patrick Shanley. I am English, and wondered if "visit with" is really used in Ireland, or is an anomaly. Can any anyone advise?
Steve Dunham 11 April, 2016 15:35
What we call a half bath is more of a real estate description of a room: it really signifies no bath: just a toilet and sink. I don't think people would refer to a half bath except to describe the rooms in a house. As for "visit with," I don't recall hearing it during the 30 years I lived in New Jersey or the 6 I lived in Massachusetts, only the past 25 in Virginia. And the first time I remember hearing it was from a native of Canada, though he may have picked it up while living in the USA.
Paddybee 20 July, 2016 10:05
As a Colonial I grew up in the British English environment of South Africa, and I too find the AmE 'Visit with' baffling. As I was taught, one could visit someone else by paying a call on them ( for social or even business purposes. The actual physical location of the visitor has to change to the premises or location of the visited party. Therefore to "visit with" someone means to be accompanied by that someone on a call to a third party's location for social or business purposes.
What the AmE usage implies is that the participants had a good talk.
The earlier exanple "You kids go play now; the adults are going to visit" has the implication that the children will be left at home while the adults will go together to call on an unnamed person/s at an unnamed location.
Divided by a commn language indeed!
KeithD 31 January, 2017 15:13
My British mother described to me with amused astonishment an occasion when her Mississippi cousin invited her to go (and) talk to someone across the room by saying "Why don't you visit with Becky?" The physical 'going-to' element of 'visit' necessary to her BrE ears involved a couple (of) yards!
woolythinker waxed nostalgic about South African 'kuier' - a "kind of relaxed, spontaneous visit" - and said that in Britain "it feels like the word doesn't exist because people just don't do that". I suggest 'drop in (on)': 'I dropped in on X yesterday.' 'X dropped in yesterday for coffee and a chat.' 'Why don't you drop in when you're in the area'. Shorter such visits are often 'just passing by' or 'just popping in for a minute'. A drop in is longer than a pop in for me. (Irrelevant but funny: a Milton Jones one-liner: "My father said 'I'm just going to pop upstairs'. So he went upstairs, and he popped!")
'Kuier', 'drop in', 'pop in' and 'visit' all have the essential BrE element of visitor physically moving to visitee's customary location. 'Customary' is important because it allows the customary resident to be used without mentioning the place: you can visit your doctor (at her unstated BrE surgery) but not your MP at his surgery; you can visit your aunt (at her own unstated home) but not when she is staying at your grandmother's.
I suspect David Crosbie put his finger mainly on it when he suggested BrE dropped the label 'visit with' for people and began 'calling on' them instead, reserving 'visiting' for places. I say 'mainly' because 'calling on' was a short formal visit, so a different term would still have been needed for a longer stay. I wonder what that was: 'stay with', maybe, or 'be their house guest'. Prior to this divergence it seems that BrE 'visit with' still involved a journey plus socialising rather than indicating simply a good chat - David's "place constraint".
Makes me wonder whether in George Eliot's time people would have distinguished between a short 'visit' (maybe just paying respects) and a longer (typical for the class and time) 'visit with' including probably more than one overnight stay. Just wondering.
Paddybee 27 November, 2017 07:42
To my mind 'visiting with John' implies that John accompanied me to call on a third party/parties. In AmE it would mean I called on John and we interacted socially, the social interaction being labelled 'visiting'. In BrE the act of calling on another at the second party's location is 'visiting', social interaction merely being implied as a possibility and not a necessity, as in 'an unpleasant visit to the office' or a 'visit to the loo'. Also 'visit upon' has the same meaning as 'to inflict upon' which is hardly social....
Re the Eliot example above: In the 1800s, if you "visited with" a small group of gentry, that means that you made reciprocal formal social calls on one another. It's a way of saying that the group consists of people whom you consider socially acceptable. Jane Austen also uses "visit" in this sense when she says that the residents of the little market town near Pemberley regard the Darcy family as proud because they don't "visit" there - i.e. there are no families in that town whom the Darcy family regard as being socially equal to them.
"Visit with", in the American sense, has a different meaning. It implies focused social connection - what we might call "quality time". However, when I hear my sister use it (she picked it up from her husband's family), it registers with me as very outmoded and sort of grandmotherly, at least in the northeastern US where I live. (My sister is only in her mid-40s so it seems particularly incongruous to me - it's a speech pattern that I think should belong to a much older person. It strikes my ear as being of the same era as "gal", "fellow", "gee", and "swell".) I find it particularly grating for some reason when my sister uses it to refer to spending time with her husband's parents, who live with her. Somehow when one lives in the same house with another person, it seems - to me - inappropriate to say one is "visiting with" that person. It feels kind of saccharine or precious. "Hanging out with them" would sound much more contemporary and authentic to me, and would still capture the sense that the time spent together is more focused and high-quality than simple daily functional conversations about chores or whatever. Perhaps that's just a regional usage/prejudice, though.
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CAP warns against Malaysian developers’ promotion drive in Hong Kong
PropertyGuru 11 September 2019
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) warns that the local developers’ zeal to entice Hong Kong investors to purchase Malaysian properties could push home prices beyond the reach of ordinary citizens.
“Encouraging foreigners to acquire properties here have undesired impacts such as causing property prices to skyrocket because of demand, aggravating the current shortage of land, and causing an increase in the cost of living,” said CAP.
Related: 7 Factors Impacting Property Prices in Malaysia
The concern comes amid reports of Malaysian developers planning a promotion drive in Hong Kong.
CAP president Mohideen Abdul Kader believes the floor price set in Selangor, Penang and Johor for foreign property buyers will not discourage them.
In Penang, foreigners cannot buy landed houses and high-rise units valued at less than RM3 million and RM1 million respectively.
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In Johor and Selangor, the minimum price for foreigners to purchase residential units is set at RM2 million.
Mohideen said these prices are still affordable for foreigners, especially compared to average home prices in Hong Kong which could reach more than $1.2 million (RM5 million).
“For those with US dollars or Singapore dollars to spare, our RM3 million is equivalent to US$718,787 or S$995,405 respectively,” he said.
“With RM3 million, a Hong Kong resident is able to buy an almost 2,000 sq ft luxurious bungalow in Tanjung Bungah and that is almost 11 times the size of Hong Kong’s 178 sq ft micro-home.”
It was reported by FMT last month that rich property buyers from Hong Kong were eyeing Malaysia as a possible second home, as China’s special administrative region struggled with political protests.
“In the next one to two months, many developers are expected to go to Hong Kong to sell Malaysian properties,” said Toh Chin Leong, Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (REHDA) Penang chapter chairman.
Mohideen noted that the move could turn Penang into “another Hong Kong”, with the poor being pushed to live in small flats and slums.
He added that this is reminiscent of the time George Town was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2008.
Penang property prices skyrocketed then as Singaporeans went on a “shopping spree for pre-war houses”.
“As a result the prices of houses in the inner city of George Town soared beyond the affordability of most locals to rent or buy,” he said.
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Clean Energy Federalism
Felix Mormann, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow
Florida Law Review
Legal scholarship tends to approach the law and policy of clean energy from an environmental law perspective. As hydraulic fracturing, renewable energy integration, nuclear reactor (re)licensing, transport biofuel mandates, and other energy issues have pushed to the forefront of the environmental law debate, clean energy law has begun to emancipate itself. The emerging literature on clean energy federalism is a symptom of this emancipation. This Article adds to that literature by offering two case studies, a novel model for policy integration, and theoretical insights to elucidate the relationship between environmental federalism and clean energy federalism.
Renewable portfolio standards and feed-in tariffs both seek to mitigate global climate change by promoting low-carbon, renewable energy. Despite their shared objective, subtle differences in the design characteristics and regulatory requirements of both policies point to different policy innovation pathways, recommending renewable portfolio standards for implementation at the federal level and feed-in tariffs for implementation at the state level.
Contrary to the literature’s traditional view that renewable portfolio standards and feed-in tariffs are mutually exclusive policy alternatives, this Article proposes a model for closely integrating both policies toward a better, more efficient allocation of investor and regulatory risk. Properly integrated, such a joint policy regime could harness the competitive market forces inherent in portfolio standards and redirect them to optimize overall risk allocation. With aggregate risk mitigation greater than the sum of its parts, an integrated policy regime could leverage higher private-sector investment in renewables while requiring lower returns than necessary under less coordinated current policy approaches.
From a theoretical perspective, this Article illustrates how clean energy federalism both draws on and advances the theories shaping today’s environmental federalism discourse. Specifically, this Article calls for a more nuanced, multidimensional application of environmental federalism’s matching principle, offers support for a more open-ended, institutionally agnostic public choice narrative, and operationalizes dynamic federalism theory in the clean energy arena.
Felix Mormann, Clean Energy Federalism, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 1621 (2015).
Environmental Law Commons, Law and Politics Commons
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