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AME B2B RODHAD, AMELIE LENS & DIXON ANNOUNCED FOR JUNCTION 2 AT TOBACCO DOCK
It was always going to be big, and Junction 2 haven’t disappointed with the first wave of acts confirmed for their 2019 Launch Party. Taking place at Tobacco Dock on Saturday 29th December, in the absence of LWE NYD on 1st January this is the last opportunity to dance at London’s most celebrated venue until later in the new year.
Having established itself as the UK’s premier techno one-dayer in its first three years, Junction 2 is gearing up to be bigger, better, faster and stronger for its fourth edition. Past installments have seen the likes of Tale Of Us, Maceo Plex, Mano Le Tough, Len Faki and Nina Kraviz storm Boston Manor Park - so the bar has already set incredibly high.
For 2019’s launch, J2 calls on stars of the past and - we’re sure - some stars of the future.
After wowing fans this past week at the Royal Albert Hall for the most ambitious Innervisions show to date, label heads Dixon and Âme return to the capital. Who can forget their epic 6-hour B2B at this year’s festival. Dixon will be making his long-awaited debut at Tobacco Dock, playing an extended set, while his co-owner Kristian Beyer swaps his B2B partner for the techno viking, Rødhåd. Kristian is one of the few DJs who is capable of playing alongside anybody. After a few spars behind the booth in Europe, the pair lock-horns for the first time on UK soil for what is set to be a massive event.
Finally, the first artist announcement is completed with the addition of Amelie Lens. 2017 and 2018 have been giant years for the Belgian export, who just keeps getting bigger. Having found a home on Pan-Pot’s Second State and recently releasing on Drumcode for the first time, Lens’ uptempo floor-filling selections underline her soaring popularity. She’ll seduce you with a mesmerising whisper, before blowing you away with unrelenting drums and throbbing bass. She graced Tobacco Dock at Halloween last year, and did more than enough to warrant a return invite.
Four mega artists - and four more reasons to attend Junction 2 at Tobacco Dock in December.
Third release tickets are on sale now.
Click here for event info & tickets
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Analysis / Shiny New Australia
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There are a lot of reasons for Australia in particular to take such a prominent role in this trope. It has the qualities already mentioned in the main article, not to mention most of the capital cities are naturally defended by terrain, which is very useful for a supervillain. (Take Melbourne: the only way in by sea, Port Phillip Bay, requires a map or you hit rocks in the shallows; by air you have to travel a few thousand kilometers from anywhere; and by land you have to put up with lots of forests and distant homes.) Plus, they have great beaches.
Add to that the fact that the first British settlements in Australia were penal colonies, and that Australia's greatest national hero was a criminal , and you can see where the Australian people could be inclined to welcome most supervillains with open arms. Funnily enough there are reports stating the Australian army is the second best trained in the world, and there's 75,000 ADF (Australian Defence Force) members to boot. When you factor in that this force reinforces with two additional regiments per turn compared to most other militaries, you begin to see why The Starscream would consider Australia an ideal location to begin pursuing his own agenda.
On the other hand, it's the single most infertile continent save for Antarctica (which, ironically enough, has led to a booming wine industry, since grapevines grow best when made to suffer), precisely because Australia has had little tectonic activity during the past 30 million years, its soils are amongst the oldest in the world, and rainfalls are scarce except in the cyclone-ridden tropical northern parts and in coastal areas, which are subject to heavy floods. Oh, and there are a lot of thunderstorms and lightning note (very very frightening).
In fact the Northern Territory and Western Coast of Australia is one of the most lightning prone areas on Earth. And bushfires. Don't forget the bushfires, especially since they can lead to exploding trees. Eucalyptus trees have very hard wood and highly flammable oil. Add extreme heat to them and they tend to pop like giant popcorn kernels. And spiders so big, they have health bars. In fact, why stop at spiders? A huge percentage of Australian animals are venomous and/or homicidal, and a ridiculously huge percentage of deadly animals are Australian (last count was six of the top ten deadliest of the world). What can I say - it's a land of weird differences - we here enjoy warm Decembers and frigid Augusts. The entire continent can be certifiably considered a deathtrap .
So it's the perfect place to set up a lab if you're a Mad Scientist and need a thunderstorm to zap your Frankenstein's Monster with lightning or to power your flux capacitor. Not so much if your plans include an active volcano Supervillain Lair with Lava Pit. But at least you can get the Shark Pool filled with sharp-toothed predators even on a low budget.
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21 Best Things That You May Want to Do in Singapore
by Flatoue Jenny February 17, 2019
1. Gardens by the bay:
2. Singapore Botanic Gardens:
3. Orchard Road:
4. Chinatown:
5. Geylang:
6.Clarke Quay:
7. Shopping in Haji Lane:
8.Ride the Singapore Flyer:
9. At Universal Studios:
10. S.E.A. Aquarium:
11. At Singapore Zoo:
12. Take a River Safari:
13. Take a Night Safari:
14. Day out in Jurong Bird Park:
15. Eat your way around a hawker centre:
16. Walking tour of Little India:
17. Hike around Mt Faber Park & the Southern Ridges
18. Take a Singapore River Cruise by night
19. Visit National Gallery Singapore
20. Explore the Marina Bay Sands
21. Walk around Marina Bay
Here is a list of the 21 Best Things to do in Singapore
This futuristic botanic garden with super-trees and biodomes is one of Singapore’s noteworthy green spaces. This place is built on 101 hectares of land across a pedestrian walkway from the Marina. Huge biodomes rise out of the viridity which has about 800 species of plants from different climate zone. You can see giant cacti in the Desert Dome and a waterfall coming out from a 35-meter mountain in the Cloud forest Dome. Here, with an ancient olive garden, the Flower Dome originates a Mediterranean climate. Around the garden, there are various grotesque sculptures.
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Among them, Planet by Mark Quinn- a gigantic sleeping baby that appears to hover in mid-air is mentionable. There are 18 super trees rising above the garden that seems something out of Avatar especially when they’re lit up at every night (7:45-8:45 pm). You can use the OCBC Skyway walk, 22 m above the Gardens that joints six of the Supertrees. Here, entry to the Gardens is totally free. You have to pay $28 to visit the biodomes.
One of Singapore’s biggest green spaces, enriched with the most comprehensive orchid garden, Singapore Botanic Gardens have well-tended lawns, themed gardens, and calm and quiet lakes. Located on the west of Orchard Road, this place houses 314 species of plants. Half of the plants are very rare. A boardwalk goes through a thick patch of ancient rainforest. There are 3 lakes in the garden. Among them, Swan Lake is the most beautiful one.
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The lake got its name from the mute swans imported from Amsterdam. National orchid garden is the main attraction here for the visitors. Since 1928, tropical orchids have been bred here. There are 1000 species and 2000 hybrids orchids here. Among them, many species are named after various heads of state as well as politicians. You can find Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher orchid here. There is a ginger garden next door to the orchids where you can see250 species of the ginger family. You can also enjoy opera performances at Symphony Lake.
This main shopping street is especially important for its fashion stores. Though the name is Orchard Road, there isn’t any orchard in sight. There you will see only gleaming malls, departmental stores, and designer shops. You can enjoy shopping here and satisfy your hunger by the food from the malls’ superb food courts. ION Orchard is well known for high street fashion, 313Somersetstocks priced high street brands. It’s popular with younger shoppers. Rockstar is home to both independent and major labels with clothing and accessories for boys and girls. Ngee Ann City houses international luxury brands and the excellent Rakashimaya Food Village- a food court that’s part of the eponymous Japanese department store. If you look for Asian art, jewelry, and carving, Tanglin Shopping Centre is for you.
Vessels of cramped stalls, tacky souvenir shops, and ancient temples crowded between slender streets strung with red lanterns: Yes, this is Chinatown located at the heart of Singapore. This is undoubtedly one of the world’s most fascinating places for tourists. Stop halfway along at the Chinatown Heritage Center- You’ll see inside Chinatown’s colorful past- from artistic photos to replica of living quarters of opium addicts. Here is located The Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore’s oldest Hindu temple. To the south of the Chinatown Complex, there is a popular hawker stall. From there, go through the Keong Saik Road that bends south past the captivating Sri Layan Sithi Vinayagar Hindu Temple. Turn left into Kreta Ayer Road and again left into Neil Road.
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Where the Neil Road meets South Bridge Road and Tanjong Pagar Road is the Jinriksha Station, once the depot for hand-pulled rickshaws. At the end of the Ann Siang Road, turn left into South Bridge Road where you will see the epic five-story Buddha Tooth Relic Temple where you will find Buddha’s left canine nesting in a solid gold stupa. Go through the Ann Siang Road east past the Art Deco buildings that once housed Chinese guilds and clubs and see the dragon ‘wishing well’ at the Siang Cho Keong Temple on Amoy street.
Take Telok Ayer St to reach Ying Fo Fui Kun, a two-story building built in 1822 for the Ying Fo Clan Association but now used by the Chinese Hakka Community.
These historic shop-houses are located in Singapore’s red light district. Here the streets and buildings are not as gleaming and futuristic as just a few kilometers west. During the day time, the streets here are stunning for walking. The architectures here are dated back to the turn of the 20th century. When the city expanded westward, it pulled industry to this locality and as a result, immigrant people who arrived to work in factories came here. To meet the peoples spiritual need mosques, temples and churches originated here. That’s why Geylang is called Singapore’s spiritual hubs.
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The narrow lanes (Lorong) coming from Geylang Road are especially magnificent to stroll. Two rows of stunning and well-maintained two-story shop-houses are located on the two sides of Lorong 24A. Slender houses constructed in a row with a sheltered front corridor and courtyard inside are the representative of Singapore’s mixed tradition. Their style blends Chinese porcelain-chip friezes, French windows, Malay wooden fretwork and shutters from Portugal. More unornamented late 1930s shop-houses are located between Lorong 30 and Lorong 28. The ornamented colorful shop houses sit along Lorong 25.
Clarke Quay is enriched with numerous bars, clubs, and restaurants that are located on both banks of the Singapore river. This place comes into its own after sunset. After long days of tiring work, professionals come from nearby Central Business District to join the tourists and enjoy. First go to Beer Market where the stock market idea is applied to the beer: the less popular is cheaper. Crazy Elephant is one of the cheapest places on the Quay for beer. For an adrenaline rush, you can get fired out of the G-Max Reverse Bungee Catapult or dangle above the river on the GX5 swing.
If you want to continue the party into the wee hours, Attica is the best club with varied zones: pick up from hip-hop, house and electronica; international DJs play the occasional set here. Trace Lounge is also good for hip hop with a loud sound system and first-class lighting effects. If you want to enjoy your dance music, then you must visit Zouk, Singapore’s first Ibiza-style super club.
Haji Lane is one of the narrowest streets in Singapore. This best street for independent designers in Kampong Glam is lined with historic shophouses. Most of the shops are domestic, quirky. They contain the vendible of hip, independent designers- mostly local, but a few international ones as well. Shop Wonderland is such a store lit by funky vintage lights, with garments and identical household things upstairs and café at downstairs serving freshly baked cakes. For a long time at no. 62 is a cute little vintage shop with a good mix of vintage garments, hats, and accessories.
You can also find vintage garments in the Craft Assembly at no. 61. At no.74 Spoilmarket contains colorful women’s dresses, quirky bags, watches, and other things. At no. 76, Mondays Off carries fun stationery, homewares, and nice gift items. You can find skilled tailoring for women at no. 73, Soon Lee. Here you will find beautiful pieces of clothing from local designers, as well as designers from Hong Kong and Korea.
This 165m high wheel is an indispensable part of Singapore’s skyline. Overlooking the water near Marina Bay, the Singapore Flyer is one of the world’s biggest observation wheels. This thing looks most impressive when it is lit up colorfully in the evening. Actually, it is the second biggest observation wheel after the High Roller in Las Vegas. The Singapore Flyer offers you to enjoy the magnificent view high above the city including the Marina Bay, the river, the historic edifices of the Colonial District, the skyscrapers of CBD, and ships on the South China Sea. You can get a discount if you buy tickets online.
It is the branch of the most popular Hollywood movie theme park. This theme park is separated into seven worlds and is the key attraction of Resorts World on Sentosa Island, at the south end of Singapore. This park has attractions suitable for younger children, for instance, Puss in Boots, Giant journey in Far Far Away, Dino-Soarin in The Lost World and singing and dancing Sesame Street Show in Hollywood. Who likes thrill should ride on Battlestar Galactica- the world’s tallest dueling rollercoaster.
You can choose to ride among the suspended CYLON or the seated HUMAN as they wriggle, spin and roll. In Sci-Fi City, the Transformers Ride will take you on a 3D thrill ride into a future world where Transformers fight and take part in speeding chasing. The Revenge of the Mummy rollercoaster will provide you with fiery encounters with the undead and forces you through the darkness. You can enjoy the Lost World’s Waterworld show based on the Kevin Costner movie. You can look forward to plenty of explosions, dangerous stunts, and a thorough soaking if you sit in the front.
It is the world’s biggest aquarium. It has about 49 marine habitats and more than 100,000 sea life. This aquarium is a part of the Sentosa Island attractions. Visiting this aquarium is an awesome journey through the world’s wonderful marine habitats. If you go through the shark tunnel you will see the different species of sharks including hammerheads, silvertip and sandbar sharks swimming above your head.
Find Nemo and see wriggling eels in the Bay of Bengal, wonder at the reef fish of the Caribbean Sea, marvel at the fire shrimp and yellow boxfish of the Red Sea, watch the lobsters and the lionfish of the South China Sea and creep into a cave for a close encounter with moray eels. You will get information about the watery ecosystems of Lake Malawi, kelp forests and coastal mangroves here.
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In Ocean journey, you will experience eerily lit jellyfish, enormous deep-sea octopus and monster spider crabs. The giant, 36 m long, 8.3 m high Open Ocean tank is *an ultimate show-stopper. It brings you close to stingrays, sharks, barracuda, and other huge open water fishes. Feeding the animals and the Discovery Touch Pool is fun for children. In the second underwater tunnel, you will see fish dashing in and out of the shipwreck. Here you can learn about Asia’s Maritime Heritage at the On-site Maritime Experiential Museum.
This 28 hectares zoo is beautifully designed and located on a peninsula in the Upper Seletar Reservoir. With a good number of animals roaming large, natural habitats like enclosure, this zoo is one of the world’s best zoos. At the Great Rift Valley, you will see Nubian ibexes, baboons, and mongooses. In the Fragile Forest Biodome, you can climb up to the forest canopy to see two-toed sloths and wonder at lemurs and flying foxes. Polar bears, wolverines, and raccoons can be seen at the Denizens of the Frozen Tundra.
At the Primate Kingdom, you’ll watch all types of monkeys – from the colobus to the crested macaque. During the daily 11 am and 1.30 pm feeding sessions you can get a good look at the zoo’s orangutans. Go to Head for Wild Africa and Cat Country to watch lions, cheetahs, leopards, giraffes, and zebras. You can see the rare white tiger at the Forest Lodge. The kid zone named Rainforest Kidzworld is great for young children. Here children can enjoy pony rides and waterslides.
The River Safari houses the habitats of seven of the world’s rivers. Find out the alligator gar and the bizarre looking Mississippi paddlefish in the Mississippi River aquarium, in the Nile the African dwarf crocodile, in the Ganges the Indian gharial, the giant catfish and Yangtze alligator in the Mekong. Children can enjoy a splash-tastic Amazon River Quest boat ride. On the way, they can see monkeys, giant anteaters, tapir, jaguars, and capybara. Another key attraction of this safari is the Giant Panda Forest where you will find Singapore favorite Kai Kai, as well as rare red pandas. The Amazon Flooded Forest aquarium is magnificent. Here You can see electric eels, manatees, piranhas, and the huge aparaima and pacu fish. You will get a discount if you buy the ticket online.
If you want a close encounter with the wild animals at night then you can go to this wildlife park at Singapore’s northern reaches. This park is only open in the evening (7:30 pm-midnight). Strolling the footpaths and bridges of the redolent nighttime woodland and watching 120 species of nocturnal animals closely for instance: tigers, alligators, and fishing cats, to name a few. Kids enjoy the 20-minute Creatures of the Night show. You can stroll through the fruit bat enclosure, where you can see face to face a giant fruit bat hanging upside down. It’s a matter of sorrow that no flash photography is allowed in this park.
Located into the western part of Singapore Jurong Bird Park is a sanctuary that houses over 400 bird species. It’s particularly very enjoyable with families. The park is separated into different zones that reflect the birds’ natural habitats. Here visitors can either choose walking paths or ride the tram that surrounds the park and halt at three stations on the way. Close to the entrance you can see several penguin species from Antarctica at the Penguin Coast. Here you will see them gambol and dip. Outside visitors can feed the African penguins.
You can see owls and other denizens of the night at the World of Darkness. In the wetlands, ibises and spoonbills splash about thousands of flamingos stroll around Flamingo Lake. A huge aviary named Lory Loft houses numerous small colorful birds that you can attract with cupfuls of nectar. In Waterfall Aviary you can spot shyer birds such as the turaco and guinea fowl. The park is devoted in breeding and conservation of imperiled species. You can see their success in the Toucan and Hornbill Aviary.
Here the food chains provide you with Singapore’s best street food. The people of Singapore are serious about food. Large food courts serve here food from snacks to full meals. As this place tends to get packed, just keep a packet of tissue to secure your seat at canteen style table. One of the popular food courts here is Lau Pa Sat (24 hours; 18 Raffles Quay, Raffles Place MRT). They serve dishes from all over the world in a wonderful 19th -century cast-iron edifice. Next, to the Lau Pa Sat, the Satay Street Stalls come to life after sunset, with smoky satay skewers on the grill and drink sellers peddling cold beer.
You can also choose Satay By the Bay (11am-10pm, Bayfront MRT) in the Gardens by the Bay. You can go there for Hokkien noodles and halal seafood. For a local experience, go to Old Airport Road Food Center (8am-11 pm, Dakota MRT) where you can enjoy stir-fried rice noodles, noodle soup, seafood dishes, and many other local items. Chinatown Complex is also a famous local scene where you can get clay pot rice, congee (savory rice porridge) and noodle dishes. On Smith Street, you will get roast duck with rice and noodles in food stalls.
This is Singapore’s one of the most resonant place with its resin-scented streets, splendid temples and mouth-watering smells coming from its food courts. In the mid-19th-century, cattle trading took off here. As a result, a large number of immigrants came here from India and to meet their spiritual demands many mosques and temples were built here. The cattle trading has been replaced long ago with stores selling sari, flower garlands; Indian restaurants and goldsmith shops. Have a look at the Buddha image inside the Sakya Muni Buddha GayaGhafoore here.
Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple
See the devotees come to offer thanks to Lord Vishnu at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple. Here you can shop for cheap electronics a the Mustafa Center on the corner of Syed Alwi Rd. Find out the stunning Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple, the main Hindu temple of Little India. At Dunlop St you will see the intricately decorated Abdul Gofoor Mosque.
The oldest park of Singapore is the second tallest hill covered with a secondary rainforest. A part of the Southern Ridges, it comprises some other parks and 9 km of sober walking trails. If you ride on a cable car from Sentosa Island or Harbour Front, you will get a stunning view of southern Singapore and the southern islands as well as Faber Peak itself. You can eat at the peak at Faber Bistro and take a walk to Kent Ridge Park, 4 km west. First go to Henderson Waves, a wavy canopy walkway 36 m above the jungle floor that joints Mt Faber to Telok Bangah Hill Park.
Stop at the terrace garden for its magnificent 360-degree views of Singapore. From here you can choose the Elevated Walkway that lets you spot birds and butterflies in the jungle canopy. Or you can take the rugged Earth Trail before you reach the Alexandra Arch that will lead you to Hort Park where one of the last battle for Singapore was fought in WWII.
At night, when Singapore’s skyline is beautifully lit up these 40-minute cruises through the iconic structures of Marina Bay and the resonant nightlife of Clarke Quay with ongoing commentary providing you with some magnificent background history. You can halt at different locations but you better catch the boat at the Promenade Jetty, in front of the Singapore flyer-from here you can enjoy the lit up Gardens by the Bay. You must watch the three tallest buildings: UOB Plaza One, Republic Plaza and One Raffles Place. Against the backdrop of the CBD, there are touristy bars and restaurants of Boat Quay. From here you can head to Clarke Quay to experience the more authentic nightlife of Singapore. The slightly expensive cruises that depart at 7:30 pm and 9:00 pm provide laser shown on the Marina Bay and a Singapore sling or juice for every passenger.
The National Gallery of Singapore houses the biggest collecting of modern art in Singapore and Southeast Asia. this new gallery was inaugurated in the beautifully renovated former Supreme Court building. Exhibitions mirror Singapore’s unparalleled cultural heritage and geographical position. Here you will see the best of the city’s art from the 19th century to the present day, even art from all over Southeast Asia. The permanent DBS Singapore Gallery investigates the changing relationship among art, artist and people with chronologically organized Singaporean art reverberating various artistic trends- from the European style landscapes of early colonial Singapore to the 21st century’s abstract art.
The other permanent galleries between Declaration and Dreams reflect the main artistic movements: local traditions, colonialism, artistic trends from the West and key political changes; the anti-establishment art of the 1970s; and their consequences across Southeast Asia. Past temporary displays have comprised sculpture by Vietnamese-born Danish artist Ng Teg Fong, and landscape paintings by Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong.
From its building date, the magnificent Marina Bay Sands dominates Singapore’s skyline. It was designed by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie. This huge hotel complex is one of the city’s most popular attractions. Spectators can shop here at the ritzy mall beneath the hotel, eat in the mall’s many restaurants, and enjoy a popular musical at the MasterCard Theatre see cutting edge temporary exhibitions. If you have no vertigo problem, then you can enjoy cantilevered Sky Park at the top of the hotel- the dramatic overhand high above Marina Bay.
The infinity pool
The hotel offers the infinity pool (for overnight guests only) and nice restaurants and bars. From the Observation Deck, you can enjoy the stunning view of the city, especially in the evenings. In the evening the hotel stages Wonder Full, a 13 minute sound and light show that make the Bay into color changing fountains where the water acts as a screen for projected images.
Start your journey from the Marina Bay Sands hotel, shopping, and restaurant complex. Go north alongside the Marina, cross the Helix Bridge from where you’ll get the stunning view of the Singapore skyline. Head west along the Marina Promenade, you’ll reach Gluttons Corner, one of Singapore’s best open-air food courts, and the sparkling Esplanade-Theaters on the Bay- a performing arts center that resembles metal golf balls. Head west to the south bank of the Singapore River and walk past the 19th century Cavenagh Bridge. Continue your journey along Boat Quay, where bars and restaurants are located along the lines of the river.
Flatoue Jenny
Hi, I’m Flatoue Jenny, a freelance travel blogger, nature lover and content writer, currently living in North Carolina, USA. I am 27 and in the midst of a perpetual romance with traveling the whole world. I have completed my Graduation from New York University. With a passion to explore the planet, I spent half my life globetrotting. I inherited this travel gene from my parents who also loved to travel. During my childhood days I travelled several European countries with them but I started travelling independently at the age of 19 and in past 8 years I have visited more than 100 countries and all seven continents. At first I only loved to visit different countries but in recent past a strong passion for writing grew in me. I started to write travel blog about the new and exotic destination that I've been. First travelling was my passion but later it turned into profession. I made the transition from hobby blogger to full-time freelance travel blogger who loves to inform people about our gorgeous planet and to help them figure out where to go to enjoy their dream vacation. This is what I do now. During my journey I’ve experienced so many wonderful things including seeing whales somersaulting, African safaris, the Arctic, snow. I enjoyed scuba diving, bungee jumping, skating, and surfing and many other interesting activities. I have a strong passion to sample the local street food. So, if you want to know about my traveling details stay with my blog
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Remapping cities
2011-08-16 | David Levinson
SmartPlanet: Video: How ‘augmented reality’ will make boring cities beautiful
I imagine a new art form, recoding existing cities with more beautiful ones. As I walk down the streets of Minneapolis with my new Augmented Reality glasses, it looks like Paris or Venice, as someone has carefully remapped Parisian buildings to Minneapolitan ones. It will be much cheaper to draw nice buildings digitally than to actually build them. We can now have a new way to avoid the negative externality of ugliness. We can further subscribe to the city of our choice, I want to be in Tokyo today, I just download the Tokyo skin ($0.99 at the Apple AugmentedRealityStore) and I feel like I am in Tokyo. Even the plants are Japanese, all the Maple Trees are now Japanese Maples.
We could just let our cities crumble, since all that matters is their virtuality.
(Via Kurzweil.)
Google-Motorola and Land Value Capture
Value Capture
The analyst Horace Dediu writes in Harvard Business Review: Google’s Strategic Mistakes Drove Motorola Buy:
It’s an innovative, if not convoluted, business model: Building and giving away the plumbing so that homes are granted unhindered access to free Google utility services (whose meter readings are sold to the highest bidder). But it comes with more complications.
Instead, with Motorola, Google got a hold of the vehicle through which it can create and sell integrated products. The company is thus no longer just a plumber but also a house builder and real estate developer. It can now build showcases that demonstrate the value of its services. The challenge then is how it will sell plumbing to contractors while it also competes with them by building houses. Android’s big bet has yet to pay off and Google just doubled down.
This is a really interesting metaphor. Replace plumbing with roads, Google with transportation agencies, and Motorola with land development, and you have the model of Land Value Capture we have been talking about. Like Google giving away the OS plumbing and make it back in advertising, states give away roads and transit lines to users, hoping to make it back (somehow) in tax revenue (maybe?). Google, following Apple’s lead, has decided it needs to internalize the value chain to avoid the convolutedness of the market model they had created, which gave them large share, but few profits in mobile. We need to come to the same realization in transportation, in favor of more direct vertical integration of transportation and land use.
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Accessibility Futures Transit Network Scenario Maps
Working paper:
Anderson, Paul, David Levinson, and Pavithra Parthasarathi (2011) Accessibility Futures. (working paper)
This study uses accessibility as a performance measure to evaluate a matrix of future land use and network scenarios for planning purposes. Previous research has established the coevolution of transportation and land use, demonstrated the dependence of accessibility on both, and made the case for the use of accessibility measures as a planning tool. This study builds off of these findings by demonstrating the use of accessibility-based performance measures on the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. This choice of performance measure also allows for transit and highway networks to be compared side-by-side. A zone to zone travel time matrix was computed using SUE assignment with travel time feedback to trip distribution. A database of schedules was used on the transit networks to assign transit routes. This travel time data was joined with the land use data from each scenario to obtain the employment, population, and labor accessibility from each TAZ within specified time ranges. Tables of person- weighed accessibility were computed for 20 minutes with zone population as the weight for employment accessibility and zone employment as the weight for population and labor accessibility. The person-weighted accessibility results were then used to evaluate the planning scenarios. The results show that centralized population and employment produce the highest accessibility across all networks.
Linklist: August 16, 2011
High-fives all around for another leg of Hwy. 610: “State and local officials will hold a party Wednesday that’s been nearly 50 years in the planning: They’ll be celebrating completion of a new stretch of Hwy. 610, heading west from Brooklyn Park into Maple Grove. Plans from the 1960s called for 610 to connect U.S. Hwy. 10 in the north metro to Interstate Hwy. 94, a link intended to ease frustration for commuters and make the area more easily accessible. The newest extension brings the roadway 2.74 miles closer to the goal, and also has local officials seeing strong prospects for development.”
Glasgow Evening TimesTransport Museum hits the half-a-millon mark : “Bosses of the [Glasgow] transport museum expected it would attract around 800,000 people in its first year. But the stunning attraction on the banks of the Clyde has reached the half million mark in just seven weeks.” [I went to the previous incarnation of the museum which was quite nice, and had a huge collection of cars. Would be nice to have one as good in Minnesota. – dml]
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Singaporean utility SP Group launches blockchain-based renewable energy certificate marketplace
Mon, 29 Oct 2018, 09:18 am UTC
Singaporean utility giant SP Group has announced the launch of a blockchain-powered renewable energy certificate (REC) marketplace.
The company made the announcement at the ASEAN Energy Business Forum (AEBF) today, October 29. The blockchain-based SP REC marketplace has been designed and built in-house by SP’s team of digital energy experts.
The marketplace was first announced in April this year when SP Group demonstrated the platform for renewable energy transactions with DBS Bank (DBS).
“Through blockchain technology, we enable companies to trade in renewable energy certificates conveniently, seamlessly and securely, helping them achieve greener business operations and meet their sustainability targets,” SP’s Chief Digital Officer, Samuel Tan, said.
According to the official release, the marketplace supports local and international organisations – regardless of size, business or location – to trade in RECs. It also supports different supply options including types of sellers and renewable energy sources.
SP Group, a member of the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), announced that City Developments Limited (CDL) and DBS have signed on as buyers and displayed the screenshots of the first purchases made by them at the launch event. Solar developers Cleantech Solar Asia and LYS Energy Solutions have collaborated with SP to place their solar assets on the marketplace for sale of RECs. In addition, chemical logistics company Katoen Natie Singapore has come onboard as a REC seller.
“When companies purchase RECs, they are consuming electricity from renewable sources, sold to them by other companies that produce green energy. With SP’s blockchain-powered marketplace, buyers are automatically matched with sellers, around the globe, according to their preferences,” SP explained adding that this helps big and small organisations to achieve their green targets and “contributes to Singapore’s low carbon targets, as part of its Paris COP-21 agreement.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 19, 2016) – Indiana’s most-watched business television news program and a technology startup with a unique approach to digital marketing are partnering to reach a growing social media-savvy audience – in real-time.
Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick is teaming up with Torchlite Marketing™ to deliver personalized television experiences and respond to the growing demand for real-time content and audience engagement across social channels.
“With the right formula of strategy, creativity and execution, Torchlite is not only going to help us reach new audiences, but reach our existing audience in new places,” said Gerry Dick, president of Grow INdiana Media Ventures, LLC and host of Inside INdiana Business. “Torchlite is primed for rapid growth, and we’re thrilled to partner with an exciting company that’s redefining the digital marketing space right here in our backyard.”
To maximize reach, audience engagement and online traffic, Torchlite will work closely with the IIB editorial team to promote news across multiple social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Linkedin. The robust sharing of video content will also include applications like Periscope, which will be used for live streaming of “behind the scenes” interviews and audience interaction.
Indianapolis-based Torchlite recently surpassed $1 million in annual recurring revenue, and has grown its on-demand network to more than 200 digital marketing specialists.
Founded by Apple, Adobe and Salesforce Marketing Cloud alum Susan Marshall, Torchlite enables businesses to tap a vast marketplace of individual marketing specialists (called “Torchliters™”) to plan and execute digital campaigns. The Torchliter™ network includes experts with writing, design, search engine optimization, social media, blogging and development skills that can connect to a wide range of industry needs.
“With its premier brand as Indiana’s leading destination for statewide business news, Inside INdiana Business is well-positioned to capitalize on new and expanding opportunities in digital marketing,” said Marshall. “We’re also excited for the opportunity to connect with the Inside INdiana Business audience to share insights on how they too can expand the reach of their businesses across the digital ecosystem.”
As part of the partnership, Torchlite will also provide digital marketing insights for Hoosier businesses that will be featured across the IIB portfolio of television, online and email business news products. Torchlite’s digital marketing experts will provide viewers helpful tips in regular segments featured on Inside INdiana Business TV, offer in-depth commentary in the popular INside Edge e-newsletters and more.
Torchlite gives businesses access to a team of highly-trained digital marketing specialists. Each client is also assigned a project manager to coordinate campaigns and help business owners track marketing goals through Torchlite’s proprietary online dashboard.
The company, which recently completed a seed-stage round of capital, is continuing to recruit marketing experts to add to its Torchliter™ network.
To learn more and apply to become a Torchliter™, visit http://torchlite.com/torchliter
About Torchlite
Torchlite is evolving the way businesses go to market. By seamlessly connecting digital marketing experts and business owners through our application, we make building effective digital marketing campaigns easy – driving leads, online traffic, customers and revenue. For more information, visit http://torchlite.com/
About Inside INdiana Business and Grow INdiana Media Ventures, LLC
Inside INdiana Business is Indiana’s Business News Leader. Grow INdiana Media Ventures, parent company of the powerful Inside INdiana Business brand of multi-media business news products, was created in 2000 by broadcast news veteran Gerry Dick and technology entrepreneur and visionary Scott Jones. Today, more people access the Inside INdiana Business brand for Indiana business news than any other source. With a fully-integrated portfolio of television, radio, Internet, permission-based email and on-demand business news products, Inside INdiana Business delivers content that is trusted by an educated and affluent audience. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Inside INdiana Business delivers daily content that can be watched, heard and read in Indiana, Michigan, Illinois (including Chicagoland), Ohio, Kentucky and markets around the globe.
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November 18, 2011 November 18, 2011 BlueJay MEDIA
Happy Friday Everyone! I pray your day will be great today and an even better weekend. 🙂
Peace and Blessings, ThatKellieGirl
The National Gallery of Art ice-skating rink in the Sculpture Garden opens this weekend and remains open through mid-March, weather permitting. The ice rink, a popular recreational destination in Washington, attracts approximately 50,000 visitors each season.
7th St. and Constitution Ave. NW
Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
7 bucks
A world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the contemporary drama Pariah is the feature-length expansion of writer/director Dee Rees’ award-winning 2007 short film Pariah. Spike Lee is among the feature’s executive producers. At Sundance, cinematographer Bradford Young was honored with the [U.S. Dramatic Competition] Excellence in Cinematography Award.
Lincoln Theater
The Blues and Other Colors assembles photographs and paintings by nine artists in an attempt to visually express and interpret The Blues. A musical form and genre originating in African-American communities at the end of the 19th century, The Blues have permeated jazz, rock and roll as well as multiple other music genres. Yet, the word blue also connotes the primary color perceived from light of wavelength 440–490 nm and may represent happiness, optimism, or, conversely, sadness. The artists in this exhibition interpret the blues as a color, musical form, and emotional state. Work by Cedric Baker, Magruder Murray, Adjoa J. Burrowes, Gloria C. Kirk, Bruce McNeil, Hubert Jackson, J’Nell Jordon, Carolyn Goodridge, and Jarvis Grant will be presented. Curated by Tim Davis.
D.C. Arts Center
Opening Reception- 7-9PM
Exhibition from November 18-January 8
Jimmy Choo and Hela Salon & Spa at The Collection present the launch of the Cruise 2012 Collection, featuring CHOO 24:7 and Icons. Enjoy an evening of cute couture and classy cocktails with Jimmy Choo and Hela Salon & Spa hosted by the lovely and talented Miss Sinergy 2012 crown-holder Lydia Hu. A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Libby Ross Foundation.
For more information, please call 301.951.4445 or email info@helabeauty.com
DC’s only party dedicated to Hip Hop music & culture goes down every 3rd Friday of the month. Hosted by the one and only Grap Luva. Pull out your dopest throwback Hip Hop gear and come out and celebrate the golden era of Hip Hop
Come dance the night away at AXÉ (ah-SHAY), a magical night of music and movement from across the Afro-Brazilian World.
Axum Bar & Lounge
1934 9th St NW
FREE Ethiopian Food Buffet @ 8pm
The Fannie Mae Foundation is sponsoring a Help the Homeless Walk on the National Mall on November 19. The walk is designed to raise awareness and funds for Washington, DC area organizations that are working to prevent and end homelessness, with an emphasis on programs that help homeless people return to independent living.
National Mall between 9th and 12th Streets,
Pre-register here or register at the event
Check in at 7AM
Walk begins at 9AM
Some of the most exciting public art in the District of Columbia is on view east of the Potomac River. The artworks make bold statements and reflect the diversity and craftsmanship of artists through mosaics, paint, and a variety of sculptural materials. Mixed-media artist Deidra Bell serves as your guide on this bus tour as we travel to select sites and view art by Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Roderick Turner, Uzikee Nelson, and others. A surprise gift is in store for one lucky participant.
1901 Fort Place,SE
For registration, call 202-633-4844
LiL SoSo Productions presents Master of The Mix Season 2 Brunch Preview Party. Join us to preview the 3rd episode of the new season before it airs later that night! Featuring DJ Sets, Food, Drinks and more!
Tabaq Bistro
1336 U St. NW
A Saturday night of funk and soul served up by DJ 2-Tone Jones going down at Boundary Stone, a Public House of Note in the Bloomingdale/LeDroit Park neighborhood of Northwest DC. Come thru, have a bite, throw some back, make a friend and catch a groove.
Boundary Stone
116 Rhode Island Ave NW
10PM-2AM
The Howard University Jazz Ensemble plays with the acclaimed jazz vocal ensemble, Afro Blue currently appearing on NBC’s reality TV competition series The Sing-Off. A dance floor will be installed. Part of the Swing, Swing, Swing series.
Millenium Stage
2700 F St NW
Navasha Daya, founding member and former lead singer of Fertile Ground, will be debuting new music from her upcoming solo album along with a few Fertile Ground favorites. A Baltimore transplant by way of Cleveland, Ohio, this singer, songwriter, and producer, is no stranger to the ears of many.
Bohemian Caverns
Shows at 7PM & 9PM
Best in classic dance- r&b, rarities, house, soul… heavy d tribute RIP
Community Service/ Volunteerism
Afro Blue
AXÉ (ah-SHAY)
DJ 2-Tone Jones
Grap Luva
Hela Salon & Spa
Help the Homeless Walk
Libby Ross Foundation
Lil Soso Productions
Master of The Mix Season
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Navasha Daya
The Blues and Other Colors
The Howard University Jazz Ensemble
The Lincoln Theater
Previous MidWeek Mixx
Next Music Monday
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University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University confer honorary degrees on Mawlana Hazar Imam
In an historic joint ceremony in Vancouver, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU) each conferred Mawlana Hazar Imam with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in recognition of his lifelong service to humanity.
Video: Mawlana Hazar Imam honoured by University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University
On 19 October, Mawlana Hazar Imam was conferred with honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University at a joint ceremony, the first of its kind.
Mawlana Hazar Imam arrives in Vancouver to accept two honorary degrees at historic ceremony
Mawlana Hazar Imam arrived in Vancouver today, accompanied by Prince Aly Muhammad, for the final leg of his visit to Canada. President of the Ismaili Council for British Columbia Samir Manji and Zulie Sachedina, Chair, International Conciliation and Arbitration Board (ICAB) greeted Hazar Imam and Prince Aly upon their arrival.
Video: Mawlana Hazar Imam's Diamond Jubilee visit to the UAE
If you missed the showings in Jamatkhana, the film of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s Diamond Jubilee visit to the United Arab Emirates is now available online. This 25-minute film recounts the preparations by the UAE Jamat, and the programme undertaken by Mawlana Hazar Imam during his four-day visit.
Video: Mawlana Hazar Imam arrives in the UAE
Mawlana Hazar Imam arrived in Dubai on the evening of 22nd of January, 2018 on an official visit at the invitation of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai.
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Meeting Dmitry – Part 2
After the exhausting VDNKh experience – vodka, borsh, ice-skating and cosmos exploration -, we needed to recover and try something else that would help us feel better. Dmitry booked a Russian Spa, a banya, a “special one in the middle of a park, a true one heated by real wood”, he said. Called Par – which means “stream”-. So off we went – the seven of us – on the 2nd of January. It was like being sent in a wooden house in the country side with an inside sauna and an outside pool. The whole wooden house was for us. There was a huge “living room” with sofas and a big square coffee table. The house also had a first storey with a billiard and bedrooms, should someone of us want a little rest.
Before any drink, Dmitry told us we had to go to the sauna, a proper woodfired one. Once inside, we got hit by the heat, the temperature was between 105 and 110 degrees Celsius. I thought it was Fahrenheit but I was far from right.
So we were told not to stay inside more than 15 minutes and then to get outside and jump into the cold swimming pool. What a shock! Imagine a difference of 100 degrees in a few seconds but we did it a few times, especially after Dmitry had ‘beaten’ us with the traditional Venik leaves.
What an experience! we went four or five times in the sauna and the same number of times in the pool. We had drinks, food in between, and lots of fun. We exchanged jokes. Dmitry showed us a funny video of Russian guys laughing at different English accents in the world. I followed up with the Scottish blokes on the lift trying to get the “eleven” right for the lift voice recognition but inevitably failed.
Time just flew… We left the place and Dmitry and Maria were obviously up for more drinks and food. Instead of going back to the hotel, the taxis were directed to their flat…
We were only half way through the night. Dmitry and Maria live in a nice flat in a new apartments complex, a sort of gated community. On one of the living room’s wall, a huge painting of a peaceful field full of poppies and a house in the middle on top of a hill is one of Uncle Yakov’s art piece. He is the photographer, the one who took Dmitry’s pictures 27 years ago, on his first day at school. He prefered fine art to photography and Dmitry’s film was the last one he shot… Maria invited us to have a look at their family albums. There was a big pile of them, of their six years together: wedding, business trips, family holidays, kids. They love photography too, obviously. Dmitry got us more drinks: vodka for men, wine for women.
And we had some of Maria’s wonderful salad, called “Olivier” – a sort of Macédoine salade with beef -, then some cake and more drinks. With alcohol and the relaxing and wellbeing effect of the banya, everybody was in a jolly mood. Dmitry talked more about his family, his childhood, how the school and the area where he grew up was: “We are only two from my age who survived really. All the other ones are on drugs, alcoholic or prostitutes. Some are even dead”, he said. He added that his mum saved him when she took him out of school and sent him to a boarding school in Switzerland. “Anyway, the headmaster was about to expell me because I was doing too many bad things…’ he admitted. When you see him now and his pictures when he was 6 years old, it’s difficult to imagine Dmitry could have been a bad boy.
We also talked about Russia, Armenia “where people take so much time before they drink” and of Novyi Urengoy, a city in the far north where people mainly work in gas industries. Dmitry seems to be fascinated by this place and absolutely wants to take me there next time I am in Russia. Why not? This is the kind of weird place I have always been interested in. Then Marion took over. She seemed to have recovered from the Banya experience. She looked so funny there in her dressing gown and her hat – yes, you must wear a wooden hat in a Russian sauna, otherewise the heat might burn your hair! -, when she took the Venik leaves in her hands and started playing with them, she really looked like the guru of the sauna. We had such a laugh.
Anyway, here she was at the table, suddenly more serious, asking Dmitry questions about the photos, about how he felt when he saw them. He answered he didn’t feel anything really, he was on a business trip in Germany and had a plane to catch. “I thought it was a joke because I only saw one photo, then I saw the whole link with the 16 pictures so I thought it wasn’t and wondered who that Elisabeth Blanchet was. What did she want?” Nothing really, except for bringing back these photos to him, as they were his not mine. And I thought it would be a nice surprise as he wouldn’t have seen them or even known their existence…
At 4am we were still sitting around the table. We had the banya after effect mixed with the alcohol. It was time to go. Dmitry had a last word who touched everyone saying: “I think our meeting is a small thing that will make the world more happy. For example, seven people are more happy but two people only meet!” I tried to film what Dmitry was saying but could hear a strange recurrent noise. It was Marion chewing a gerkin. What an unforgetable night!
Categories: art, documentary, entertainment, Family, film, People, photography, Russia, The Russian Boy, Travel Diaries
Tagged as: Banya, documentary, film, lookingfortherussianboy, memory, Moscow, Par, photography, Russia, russian boy
Rencontre avec Dmitry – 1
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Characters, Minor Characters, Male,
Dog (prototype)
Mr. Kreese (coach), Troy
Gumball (Formerly), Darwin (Formerly), Sarah (Formerly)
Troy (brother) an unnamed father
Carlton is a minor character in The Amazing World of Gumball. He made his first appearance in "The Sweaters."
Carlton is a blond human boy teenager. He wears a pale blue sweater with a pink sweater tied around his neck, and white shorts with a green sweater tied around his waist.
Carlton thinks he is very hardcore, more hardcore than Gumball and Darwin (and possibly than all of Elmore). He is very boastful, and can be a real bully along with Troy. Along with this, he is very ignorant as shown when he insists on fighting with Gumball and Darwin (even after admitting that they are not hardcore many times) and becoming friends with them when the Watterson brothers did nothing at all to earn his respect. He also seems to be not so smart, and this may have been hinted when Mr. Kreese reminds him and Troy that they "don't think," but rather they "do what they're told." As shown in "The Spinoffs," he is more logical and intelligent than Troy, as he alone seems confused by the nonsensical show they are a part of. This seems to display that he has matured somewhat.
"The Sweaters": He and Troy challenge Gumball and Darwin to a tennis match.
"The Name": He and Troy appear in Gumball's memories, getting attacked by Zach.
"The Society": He gets his pig mascot costume painted to look as if he has been roasted, gets dragged to Elmore Junior High by Gumball, and laments how he has been made fun of.
"The Spinoffs": He and Troy summon several giant action figures to fight a monster at their stadium.
Click here to view the gallery.
Along with Troy, he is styled after human characters from the 70's/80's, mainly ones from Filmation produced shows.
He, Troy, Santa Claus, Mr. Kreese, the Human, the Richwood High students, and Maria are the only animated humans to appear on the show.
Troy, Mr. Kreese, and Carlton were originally going to be animals, according to their earlier character models.
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The Value of Vermin Control - Russell Day
I took my hat off and cleared my throat. The young man behind the armour glass and the steel bars didn’t look up, even though I was his only customer. I wasn’t especially surprised. In my experience, pawnbrokers come in two stripes; rat-faced bags of bone or pig-faced barrels of lard.
Neither one looks you in the eye.
This particular one was a skin and gristle rodent. The sort of thing you set traps for in the larder, especially if you don’t have much in there. If the sign above the shop door was to be believed, this one’s name was Micky.
I told it, “Good morning,” and waited for a response.
“Want something?” The words were addressed to the tiny screen of his mobile phone.
“I’m interested in the gold locket, if it’s genuine.”
His nose didn’t actually twitch but the tilt of his head showed he was sniffing the air.
It had been years, decades, since I’d set foot in a pawnbrokers. Things had changed. Even the name. Mickey’s Exchange Centre was fitted out like a supermarket and lit-up like Blackpool Illuminations. There were bright lights for all the goods, spot-lights for some.
When I was growing up – back in what people with bad memories call the good old days – you’d turn your collar up and duck your head if you went into a pawn shop. You might not have been able to keep hold of your pride but at least you could acknowledge you had some shame. Back then the lighting would be dim, sombre even. The goods for sale weren’t so much on display as offering penance.
Even the nature of the goods themselves had changed. In my day, when people had less, pawning it had been an act of desperation. They’d hock the family silver, or their grandmother’s wedding ring. Things of worth, things people might have risked their lives to bring from wherever they’d run.
Things you’d hang onto until even the traps in the larder were empty.
Now, it was consumer durables that had outlasted their appeal. I doubted anything on the shelves I passed would be reclaimed or remembered even. Bought on a whim they were sold off merely to finance the next bad decision.
Mickey was at the back of the shop, locked behind a sheet of armour glass and a row of steel bars.
Along with his cash box and safe.
That hadn’t changed. Some things don’t.
The better items of jewellery were in a dedicated counter. Most of them held their value in weight alone. Little on display had any merit, either historic or aesthetic.
“The Victorian one?” The speaker on the customer’s side of the security glass was small and tinny. It gave his voice an appropriately metallic ring. “There’s still a week on the ticket.”
There were half a dozen lockets in the cabinet. ‘The Victorian one’ was obviously the oldest. Also, it was obviously the only article of any consequence. Consequence, in Mickey’s little world, meaning pounds sterling.
“Week on the ticket?”
Mickey sighed deeply to let me know I was taking up his valuable time.
“Old biddy came in needing cash. I make a loan and she leaves the locket. It stays with me until she pays back the loan. Time’s about up on that one. Come back next week.”
I went back to the display counter and bent over to take a better look. The arthritis in my hip let me know I wasn’t getting younger.
The locket was small, not a lot bigger than a die from a Monopoly board. Heart shaped, it was wrought in eighteen karat gold and set with an old mine cut diamond.
Dealers who knew their trade would have placed it somewhere between 1900 and 1910. Knowing the piece’s history, I could pin it down to 1903. An honest valuation would be somewhere in the region of a thousand pounds.
I happened to know reclaiming it was going to cost the ‘old biddy’ just over four hundred.
Also, I happened to know she wasn’t in any position to reclaim it.
I told Mickey coming back wasn’t possible.
“I’ll be out of town next week.” He didn’t bother answering. “What will you be asking for it? Assuming it isn’t reclaimed of course.”
He stood up with an impatient sigh and pushed the mobile phone deep into his hip pocket.
After he slid into the shop he carefully locked the door of the teller’s cage behind him. Positioned opposite me with the display counter between us, he sighed again.
“We talking about this one, yeah?” He tapped the glass top of the counter and added another finger print to its finish. The cuff of his shirt slipped forward hiding most of his hand, he was smaller when he was out of his cage. “The Victorian one?”
It was Edwardian. I didn’t bother educating him.
Mickey took an overpopulated key-ring from his belt and opened a panel on his side of the counter. When he’d extracted the locket, he held it up to the light pretending to consider its worth. I could see a tiny flat spot on its surface where he’d had scraped it, with a file or wet stone, before applying a drop of nitric acid. It wouldn’t have reacted. Real gold doesn’t
“We’d be talking at least six hundred for a piece like this.” He paused and, for the first time since I’d come into his shop, he looked at me. It was barely a glance.
“Would that price include the chain?”
He answered without hesitation, “No.”
“With the chain?”
Another glance that felt like an audit.
“With the chain, seven hundred.”
“But there’s still a week to go on the ticket?”
“That’s what I said. There’s a good chance she won’t pick it up.”
I nodded and shrugged.
“I won’t be here next week.” I let the loss of the sale sink in for a while. He was putting the locket back in the cabinet. “Suppose I offered you eight hundred, cash. Could that week be … brought forward just a little?”
He paused, arm stretched awkwardly under the glass of the display counter. Finally, he dropped the locket back in its place and shook his head.
“Contract,” he said. “All signed and legal.”
“That is a shame.” I carefully placed the canvas bag I was holding on the display counter then put my hat next to it, so both my hands were free. “But really I came here to sell this.”
I undid the top of the bag and folded its sides down to display the gleaming machine inside.
He switched back to pestilent indifference.
“What’s that then?”
“A miniature printing press, German made. The very finest quality.”
It’s a strange thing with small mechanisms but people can’t resist fiddling with them. He took hold of the crank and turned it a few times, watching the finely-machined parts move. The precision, the beauty, of what he saw was wasted on him. He left greasy fingers marks on the polished brass handle.
“It works,” I told him. “I don’t have any inks for it, but any serious collector would already have those. There are plates for it also, different patterns and fonts.” I pointed at a linen wrapped package in the bottom of the bag. “Would you mind?” I held my hand out for him to see the tremor. “They’re rather delicate. I’d hate to drop them.”
He took the package and unwrapped it. I told him to be careful because of the residue ink. Still, he managed to smear his thumb with blue-green and then leave his mark on the rear of the plates. He squinted at the engravings on their faces.
“Who are these meant to be?”
“Historical figures,” I explained. “Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Churchill. I think there’s one of Charles Darwin in there too.”
Maybe because none of them were film stars or television personalities he didn’t look impressed.
I shrugged elaborately. “I don’t know. If it makes any difference I won’t be needing a ticket. I’m just selling.”
He pulled him lips thinly across his teeth and sucked in a breath like he was about to do himself harm. It made him look even more rat-like. Now we were talking about money he’d stopped looking at the press and his interest was taken up by the display of indifferent jewellery.
“I can go to twenty-five.” When I didn’t reply his bright little eyes flitted back to the machine. “Cash.”
“The scrap value of the brass alone is worth more than that,” I told him. I shook my head and began putting the press away.
“Fifty. That’s as high as I can go.”
I told him a hundred and he looked appalled. We batted numbers back and forth in the usual way. The final settlement was eighty-five. Cash.
Rather than unlock the teller’s cage he produced a wallet from the depths of his jeans and counted out five-pound notes. They were the newer, polymer type. He lifted the press from the bag and it vanished behind the display counter. I had to remind him to take the package of plates.
When I’d returned to the shop an hour later Mickey was locked away in his teller’s cage again. Again, he’d been engrossed with his mobile phone, until I’d started counting out fifty-pound notes.
“I’m offering a more than fair price,” I spoke carefully, posting the words through the grill in the security glass.
Mickey looked at the pile of notes I’d put on the teller cage’s narrow counter. I could tell he was sniffing the scent of money again.
“I’ve already told you: there’s a week to go on the ticket.”
I added another pair of fifties to the pile, making it a round thousand. Mickey’s attention stayed with my fingers as I slid the money from my wallet. He was trying to gauge how many more notes there were, but the orange rubber thimbles I was wearing distracted him. Without the little thimbles the money would have escaped my trembling grip.
“I won’t be in the country a week from now,” I told him this after leaving a pause, so he’d have time to digest the number of notes on the counter.
“There’s the contract. If the old dear comes back next week…”
He finished the sentence with a cartoon expression of helplessness. I could tell it was a performance, an attempt to draw more bank notes into the open. I pulled two more into the light and added them to the pile.
“Your contract will have a clause to cover such an event, I’m sure.”
He was having trouble not looking at the money.
“It’s in the contract that I’m liable for the agreed value of the item and I’ll forfeit repayment of any sum loaned against its value. That means I’d have to pay her the full ticket price and she’d get to keep the money I’d advanced her.” He pulled himself up straight and tried to look dignified. “And, of course, it wouldn’t do my reputation any good. That could be bad for business.”
I peeled two more notes from my wallet held them in front of me. The tremor made them flutter slightly, the paper made a rasping sound. I found it vaguely unpleasant.
“How much would you need to pay out in total?”
He made a show of trying to remember but we both knew he was calculating. Calculating how much he could inflate the figures.
“I loaned her four hundred pounds and the ticket is set at eight hundred.” I wasn’t surprised at how smoothly he lied. Practise, they say, makes perfect.
I put the notes I was holding onto the pile, drew out another six, added them also.
“That covers the loan.” Another sixteen notes after that. “That covers the ticket. And this…” I pulled out a single note “… should more than cover the loss of reputation.”
If he picked up on the slight he didn’t let me know. The money trap in the counter snapped open. Before I pushed the stack into it I peeled another three notes from my wallet and held them up for him to see. He looked confused. There might have been a hint of caution but greed overwrote it. Even so, he realised the nature of the transaction had altered. He finally met my eye.
“And this ensures I leave this shop not only with the locket but with all paperwork relating to it. I won’t be requiring a receipt.” He opened his mouth to say something but I told him, “Don’t even blink.”
When he nodded I topped off the pile of notes and dropped it into the money trap. It vanished with a clang and reappeared inside the teller’s cage.
“I believe the grand total is two thousand five hundred. You agree?” When he said he did, I nodded. “Then count it, I insist. I want there to be no problems.”
He counted without the aid of rubber thimbles and I noticed his fingertips were smudged with colour. He’d obviously been fiddling with the printing press and its plates.
That was good.
The young woman in the phone shop was kind enough to insert the SIM card for me. I’d held up my trembling hands as evidence of my inability. Then, as if I’d held up a sign reading mentally deficient, she’d explained how to press the buttons and talk when somebody answered.
“I don’t know how to thank you, Solomon.”
Sadie poured tea until the bone china cup was brimming. She’d known me when my hands were as steady as rock and she seldom remembered to take account of their new tremor.
I held the cup over the saucer for a moment before trying to drink from it. That way the ornate table cloth would be spared from whatever slopped over the rim.
adie served what my father, God rest his soul, had called old ladies’ tea. Bone china cups and saucers, cubes of sugar with silver tongs, a plate for biscuits. And tea so weak you could barely taste it.
I told her there was no need for thanks. “Just promise me you won’t be doing that again.” She blushed and, to my eye at least, looked young again for a second.
You need a little money to tide you over, you come and see me. You understand?”
She told me she did.
Mickey’s contract had been less a legal document than a licence to steal. The original “loan” on the locket was only for seventy-five pounds. The interest rates were huge but Mickey had managed to hide them behind small print.
Sadie took a supermarket digestive from the plate. The plate, like the cups, had seen better days, but then haven’t we all? She chewed for a little while and we sat in silence. I was surprised to see her mother’s locket around her neck. Normally she kept it hidden away in a tiny jewel box. I suspected that after so nearly losing it she wanted to keep it close for a while. Maybe she followed my eye.
“You didn’t have to pay to get this back, did you?” she asked, suddenly.
“No,” I assured her, “I traded it for one of Abba’s printing presses.” Mickey wasn’t the only one who practised. I could lie smoothly also.
For a second it looked as if she might cry.
“Oh, Solomon, not your father’s tools.”
I held up a hand to stop her protests.
“I’ve plenty of Abba’s tools to remember him by. Anyway, these days they make me think less of what I had and more of about what I’ve lost.” We both watched the hand shudder as I tried to hold it still.
The printing press had been one of the last my father had made. Though not his finest piece it was still built with an exactness few could match. But, with the introduction of more and more polymer notes, it was rapidly becoming little more than a curiosity.
In some ways I was glad Abba had died before the age of laser printers and digital reproduction. For him the focus had been the artistry, the joy was in the doing rather than the finished product. That was a legacy of far more importance to me than the workshop full of tools he’d left behind.
I could have still plied the trade had I wished. Computers and cameras could be coaxed to work by my shaking hands, but their use lacked the satisfaction of wielding an engraver’s pen. I could understand Mickey’s simple pleasure in turning the hand crank on the miniature press.
Through I’d always been more careful about leaving fingerprints.
Sadie and I sat in silence again. It was a comfortable silence particular to old age.
When I next walked past the shop, Micky was being helped into the back of an unmarked car. I wondered if he’d think to tell the Fraud Squad about the little rubber thimbles I’d worn to count out the money. It wasn’t a detail many people would consider. It isn’t widely known that fingerprints can be lifted from paper. I suspected it was something Micky would be learning shortly.
The only prints on the pile of fake fifties — and the press that had produced them — were going to be his.
Using the pay-as-you-go mobile just once, before throwing it away, made the tip-off an expensive call. I considered it money well spent.
If you grow up with little in the larder, you learn the value of vermin control.
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Information published on 26 March 2019 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 639.
Iran: Mr Saeid Rasouli appointed new Chairman of the Board and President of RAI
News from UIC members
Mr Saeid Rasouli has been appointed the new Vice-Minister for Roads and Urban Development, Chairman of the Board and President of RAI as of March 2019.
Mr Rasouli has been Member of the Board at the Railways of the Islamic Republic of Iran (RAI) since 22 January 2017. Ha was formerly Vice-President for Planning and Transport Economy at RAI and held various high-level roles at Iran’s President Office and within the Management and Planning Organisation.
UIC Director General Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux is pleased to acknowledge the appointment of Mr Rasouli by congratulating him on his new role at the head of Iranian Railways. He said that Iran has significant railway projects in the pipeline and UIC will be delighted to pursue its cooperation to support Iranian Railways in their development. The UIC office in Tehran will remain for its part very active by working in conjunction with the Middle-East region and fostering links with all its members.
Mr Saeid Rasouli was born in 1968 in Malayer. He graduated from Shahid Chamran
University in Ahvaz in the field of Water Engineering and is a graduate in Structural
Engineering from the same university at PhD level. He has been working at different
positions the most important of which are as follows:
Member of the Board at the Railways of the Islamic Republic of Iran (RAI)
Vice-President for Planning and Transport Economy (RAI)
Advisor to Iran President’s Deputy for Strategic Planning and Supervision
Chairman of Iran’s Coordination and Integration of Planning and Budget
Chairman of Coordination, Integration, and Allocation of the Iran’s Budget,
Director General for “Parliament Affairs Coordination Office” of Management
and Planning Organisation of Iran
Deputy for Iran first Vice- President’s Office
Deputy Director General for Human Resource Development of Management,
(Source: RAI)
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» This Changed My Practice » The risks of worklessness
By Dr. Taryl Felhaber on September 20, 2017
By Dr. Taryl Felhaber (biography and disclosures) Disclosures: Given talks for UBC and BCCA, for which honoraria were received. Medical advisor for WorkSafeBC. Mitigating Potential Bias: Treatments or recommendations in this article are unrelated to products/services/treatments involved in disclosure statements. Recommendations are consistent with current practice patterns.
Every day family doctors are faced with patients who have gone off work for injury or illness of some kind. Focus groups with family doctors have shown that the doctors often do not consider determining a patient’s ability to work is within their role [1]. Although they do the best they can with limited information, and often with only a cursory understanding of what a person’s job duties entail, concerns remain that discussions about returning to work can cause friction in the doctor-patient relationship. When should a family doctor’s care extend beyond providing support and management for health-related issues only to the management of long-term effects of worklessness?
Discovering the research on worklessness, and the fact that the relative risk of increased mortality for being unemployed (2.79) is greater that that of diabetes (1.85), hypertension (1.75), smoking (1.80), obesity (1.29), or poverty (1.75) was a revelation. Worklessness is associated with increased rates of death, suicide, obesity, heart attack, depression, alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, accidents, poverty, alienation and criminality. Once a person has been off work for 6 months, they have a less than 50% chance of EVER returning to work, and the longer they are off the lower their chances of returning. Few people return to any form of work after a one to two year absence. [2]
There are a number of studies from several countries that evaluate the risks of being off work. A study by Duke University researchers found that unemployment status, multiple job losses, and short periods without work are all significant risk factors for cardiovascular events [3]. An NHS review from the UK also found an association between unemployment and mortality due to health conditions such as cardiovascular disease. This study further noted that the rate of hospital admissions doubles and heart disease and hypertension increase during the anticipation and termination phase of factory closure. This NHS study revealed a strong relationship between unemployment and psychiatric morbidity, stating that while the direction of causality is difficult to determine, unemployment itself is a significant cause of psychological distress [4].
A systematic review by Lynge in 1997 showed unemployed men had an excess mortality of close to 25% (mainly from lung cancer) compared with all men in the labour force; the risk persisted long after the start of unemployment and did not disappear after controlling for social class, smoking, alcohol intake and previous sick leave. [5]
Public health analyses of unemployment rates and mortality in 15 western European countries and the USA since the Second World War have shown the higher the unemployment rate in a given year, the higher the mortality rate over the following 10 to15 years. Suicide increases within a year of job loss and cardiovascular mortality accelerates after 2 or 3 years and continues for the next 10-15 years [6].
A study by Lucinda Platt in the UK found that children growing up in households where no adult member is in paid work are not only likely to be growing up in poverty, but are at risk of that worklessness being handed down to their generation [7].
Studies have also looked at the hours of work and health, as well as the effects of early retirement. A systematic review meta-analysis found that working more than 48 hours per week is detrimental to physiological and psychological health [8]. After adjusting for socioeconomic status, employees who retired early at 55 had greater mortality than those who retired at 65 – the mortality was about twice as high in the first 10 years after retirement. Early retirees who survived to 65 had higher post-65 mortality than those who had continued working. Mortality was similar in those who retired at 60 and 65. Mortality did not differ for the first 5 years after retirement at 60 compared with continuing work [9].
Why should physicians encourage early and ultimate return to work whenever they can? In a nutshell, because it is usually in the patient’s best interest to remain in the workforce [10].
Productive activity has a role in determining both short-term and long-term health. The negative consequences of economic inactivity, unemployment, and/or underemployment include:
Physical health – elevated risk of specific diseases, suppressed immunological function or early death;
Psychological health – elevated risk of general distress or specific disorders including depression, anxiety, somatisation, or suicidal behaviour; and
Health behaviours – elevated risk of commencing tobacco smoking, increased use of health services [11].
The Canadian Medical Association’s Policy Statement from 1997 stated “prolonged absence from one’s normal roles, including absence from the workplace, is detrimental to a person’s mental, physical and social well-being. Physician should therefore encourage a patient’s return to function and work as soon as possible after an illness or injury, provided that return to work does not endanger the patient, his or her co-workers or society. A safe and timely return to work benefits the patient and his or her family by enhancing recovery and reducing disability.” [12] This was echoed in the Consensus opinion statement from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in 2002 [13] and a recent ACOEM Position Statement [14].
The principles of best clinical practice should include:
Avoiding the assumption that the workplace is a harmful environment when a person has an illness or injury
An ill or injured person should not automatically be advised time off work (unless there is a significant safety factor or public health issue such as infection).
Clinicians should be encouraged to assume a safe and sustainable return to productive activity will result in the best health benefit to their patient, rather than assuming that absence from work will enhance outcomes [11].
Retention of existing employment is preferable to either unemployment or seeking work with a different employer. Using the existing workplace as an integral part of the rehabilitation process is more effective than viewing it as a place to return an injured or sick employee to following completion of (medical) rehabilitation [11, 16].
Rehabilitation for common health problems is about identifying and addressing obstacles to recovery. The best “window of opportunity” for effective rehabilitation is between 1 and 6+ months off work. Every health professional that treats patients with common health problems should be interested in and take responsibility for rehabilitation and occupational outcomes – the heart of what good clinical management is about [15].
A U.K. pamphlet for GPs on advising patients about work notes several topics that doctors may discuss with their patients: view full document or a one page leaflet. These include: the health benefits of work, the ill effects of prolonged periods out of work, work as therapy and rehabilitation, the risk of drifting into long-term sickness, what is preventing their returning to work, what could be done to overcome their obstacles to returning to work, modified duties and the workplace duty to accommodate, and discussion about what patients are able to do rather than what they cannot [17]. Treatment that includes early emphasis on functional ability in rehabilitation of patients, be it from injury, illness or chronic pain, is recommended [18, 19].
Cohen D, Marfell N, Webb K, Robling M, Aylward M. Managing long-term worklessness in primary care: a focus group study. Med. 2010;60:121-126. (Request with CPSBC or view UBC) DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqp169
Department for Work and Pension. Patients, their Employment and their Health – How to Help your Patients Stay in Work. London, UK: Department for Work and Pensions; 2003.
Dupre ME, George LK, Liu G, Peterson ED. The cumulative effect of unemployment on risks for acute myocardial infarction. Intern. Med. 2012;172:1731-1737. (Request with CPSBC or view UBC) DOI: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.447
McLean C, Carmona C, Francis S, Wohlgemuth C. and Mulcihill C. Worklessness and Health – What do we Know about the Causal Relationship? London, UK: Health Development Agency; 2005. (View)
Lynge E. Unemployment and Cancer: A Literature Review. IARC Scientific Publications; 1997:343.
Brenner MH. Employment and Public Health. Final Report to the European Commission Directorate General Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs. Volume I-III. Brussels, Belgium. European Commission; 2002.
Platt L. Ten year transitions in children’s experience of living in a workless household: variations by ethnic group. Population Trends. 2010;139:70-90. (View)
Sparks K, Faragher B, Cooper C. Well-being and occupational health in the 21st century workplace. Occup. Organ. Psychol. 2001;74:489-509. (Request with CPSBC or view UBC) DOI: 10.1348/096317901167497
Tsai SP, Wendt JK, Donnelly RP, Jong Gd, Ahmed FS. Age at retirement and long term survival of an industrial population: Prospective cohort study. BMJ. 2005;331:995-997. (View) DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38586.448704.E0
Talmage JB, Melhorn JM. A Physician’s Guide to Return to Work. Chicago, Ill: AMA Press; 2005. (Request with UBC)
Kendall N. Evidence Review: Raising the Awareness of Key Frontline Health Professionals about the Importance of Work, Job Retention, and Rehabilitation for their Patients (DWP internal document). London, UK: Department for Work and Pensions; 2003.
Kazimirski J. Helping patients return to work. CMAJ. 1997;156:680-680. (View)
ACOEM. ACOEM Consensus Opinion Statement. The Attending Physician’s Role in Helping Patient Return to Work after an Illness or Injury. USA: American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; 2002
Jurisic M, Bean M, Harbaugh J, et al. The personal physicianʼs role in helping patients with medical conditions stay at work or return to work. J. Occup. Env. Med. 2017;59:e125-e131. (View with CPSBC or UBC) DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001055
Waddell, G. and Burton, AK. Is Work Good For Your Health and Well-Being? London, UK: The Stationery Office; 2006. (View)
Waddell G, Burton AK. Concepts of Rehabilitation for the Management of Common Health Problems. London, UK: The Stationery Office; 2004. (View)
Waddell G et al. Advising Patients About Work: An Evidence-based Approach for General Practitioners and other Healthcare Professionals. London: The Stationery Office; 2007. Available at: https://www.tsoshop.co.uk/gempdf/Advising_Patients_About_Work.pdf. Accessed August 29, 2017. (View)
Frank A, Chamberlain M. Rehabilitation: an integral part of clinical practice. Med. 2006;56:289-291. doi:10.1093/occmed/kq1027 (View)
Schneiderhan J, Clauw D, Schwenk TL. Primary Care of Patients with Chronic Pain. JAMA. 2017;317:2367-2368. (View) doi:10.1001/jama.2017.5787
Fit for work: Guidance for GPs. Gov.uk. Published January 2, 2015. Accessed August 29, 2017. (View)
Work capability assessment handbook: For healthcare professionals. Gov.uk. Published March 19, 2013. Accessed August 29, 2017. (View)
Health, work and wellbeing – evidence and research. Gov.uk. Published June 25, 2013. Accessed August 29, 2017. (View)
Work and health: Changing how we think about health problems. Gov.uk. Published July 8, 2013. Accessed August 29, 2017. (View)
Fit note: guidance for GPs. Gov.uk Published March 1, 2013. Accessed August 29, 2017. (View)
I will definitely change my practice
I already do this
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6 responses to “The risks of worklessness”
john maile September 20, 2017 at 12:20 pm Permalink
Paid sick days at work appear to be contrary to best health practices, particularly when they are taken off regularly as extra holiday time.
Brenda Muselius September 20, 2017 at 4:40 pm Permalink
My mother always talked about the therapeutic value of work.
Douglas MacIntosh September 21, 2017 at 4:33 pm Permalink
This is important knowledge for all primary care physicians and nurses — and not just primary care, specialties too. Embrace it and we will really be helping our patents. Work imparts value and meaning to lives.
At the same time, making workplaces more humane and collegial is equally important. Many cases of resistance returning to work are aggravated by defects in this regard that employers must address.
Anish Chari September 22, 2017 at 9:09 am Permalink
Let us cultivate our garden. Idle hands and all that.
Ric Arseneau September 24, 2017 at 10:50 am Permalink
Interesting correlations. I wonder if they are sick because they are off work, if the are off work because they are sick, or if some other factor(s) increases both the risk of being off work and being sick. Thanks.
Nathalie Tessier November 6, 2017 at 5:28 pm Permalink
I am a rehabilitation professional…one of the factor to point out ( at least here in Canada) is the short term disability insurance dont allow payment into a external private rehabilitation services (Occupational Therapy or physical, or kinesiology) until the client is transitioned to long term disability, which means more than 6 months of sick leave, worse sometime waiting to 22 month, and than allow only 8 weeks of rehabilitation, knowing that employers have to keep the employee position for minimum 24 months…So it is not only the doctor mistake…and in a way, functional assessment and work coaching are the main skills of occupational therapist…but obviously been one, I am bias….
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Iceland Lowers Alert for Volcanic Eruptions a Day After Raising It
A general view of a road closure to the Vattnajokull glacier the site of the Bardarbunga volcano under the Dyngjujokull ice cap in Iceland, Aug. 24, 2014.
Vilhelm Gunnarsson—Fretabladid/EPA
Updated Sunday, August 24 at 10:00 a.m.
A subglacial eruption is underway at Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano, where there have been thousands of earthquakes in the past week, Iceland’s Meteorological Office said Saturday.
Seismic data suggests that volcanic lava is melting ice beneath the Vatnajokull glacier, said seismic vulcanologist Melissa Pfeffer, Reuters reports. It’s unclear whether the eruption will break through the ice and shoot steam and ash into the atmosphere. The amount of ash produced in a larger eruption would depend on how thick the ice is, Pfeffer said, with thicker ice likely to cause a more explosive and ash-rich eruption.
On Sunday, Iceland lowered its aviation alert level to orange from red, saying there is no sign of an eruption at the Bardarbunga volcano. Iceland had said the day before that an eruption could cause “significant emission of ash into the atmosphere” and set its alert level for the volcano to the highest degree, red.
Ash clouds can cause a massive headache for international airlines, as aircraft have to be rerouted to avoid them. More than 100,000 flights were cancelled in 2010 after the eruption of Eyjafjallajokul, an Icelandic volcano that produced a cloud so large it obstructed air travel.
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ALL-IRELAND SENIOR HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP
A new dawn in the life of Páirc Uí Chaoimh rises on Saturday, July 22nd, as the Tipperary senior hurlers head to the revamped arena to take on Clare in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Quarter-Final. By the time the sun is high in the afternoon sky for the 3pm throw-in many thousands of Tipperary faithful will also have made the pilgrimage to the impressive new citadel as it opens its doors once more to host our native games.
After coming up short against Cork in the opening round in Munster, successive victories over Westmeath and Dublin on the qualifier path have reinvigorated Tipperary’s campaign and has transported them to the next juncture of the All-Ireland series. However, in Clare, Tipp will find a severe test and one no doubt management will have been addressing since the opposition was confirmed.
As indicated last week, Tipperary last played Clare in the Munster Championship Semi-Final in 2011 with Tipp winning that one 4-19 to 1-19. In total there have been 50 previous championship meetings between Tipperary and Clare. The Premier County leads the way with 35 wins to Clare’s 11 and there has been 4 draws. Clare’s ‘wins’ in the 1889 and 1938 semi-finals, were claimed via objections, after Tipperary had achieved on field victory. In 1889, the issue concerned the legality of a Tipperary goal, while in 1938 it was the Jimmy Cooney case and Rule 27 – attending ‘foreign games’.
Of the last ten championship meetings Tipp are 7 to 2 up on the head to head with 1 draw, with a quick summary as follows; 1999 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Clare 2-12 Tipperary 0-18 (S/F Draw); 1999 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Clare 1-21 Tipperary 1-11 (S/F Replay); 2000 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Tipperary 2-19 Clare 1-14 (S/F); 2001 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Tipperary 0-15 Clare 0-14 (S/F); 2002 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Tipperary 1-18 Clare 2-13 (Round 1); 2003 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Clare 2-17 Tipperary 0-14 ( Round 1); 2005 at The Gaelic Grounds, Tipperary 2-14 Clare 0-14 (S/F); 2008 at The Gaelic Grounds, Tipperary 2-21 Clare 0-19 (Final); 2009 at The Gaelic Grounds, Tipperary 3-18 Clare 1-22 (S/F) and as above 2011 at The Gaelic Grounds, Tipperary 4-19 Clare 1-19 (S/F).
Fifty years ago on July30th, 1967 in the Munster Final at Limerick, Tipperary got the better of Clare 4-12 to 2-6, with Michael ‘Babs’ Keating scoring 3-2 for Tipp, who were captained on the day by the late Mick Roche.
The last time Tipp played Clare on a Saturday in Cork, was in the June 1999 Replay. Tipp minus Declan Ryan from the starting team on that day lost by 10 points, Clare would later lose that year’s Munster final to Cork, at Thurles, by 4 points.
We send best wishes to the team led by Captain Padraic Maher and also to their management as they prepare to line out on the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh surface on what we hope will be a positive result for the Premier County on this historic day.
The referee will be Colm Lyons (Corcaigh).
Adult stand tickets, depending on what availability is left are €30 in advance or €35 on the day; Juveniles €5 (family); Student/OAP €30 Stand (No on the day concessions). Terrace €20 Adult and €5 Juveniles.
ALL-IRELAND SENIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
This year’s All-Ireland football journey came to a halt for the Tipperary senior footballers last Saturday, following their two point loss to Armagh in Round 3B of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship at Semple Stadium on a score-line of 1-17 to 1-15. Commiserations to the team led by captain Brian Fox and their management team led by Liam Kearns in what was a tough finish to what has been another hugely impressive year for them.
With huge Tipperary support in Semple Stadium to cheer on the side, a half time lead was not enough to see Tipp through as Armagh held the second half edge to grind out a win. Michael Quinlivan (Clonmel Commercials) still struggling with an ankle injury was the Tipperary goal scorer as he continued his impressive goal scoring feat. Alas, though it wasn’t enough for his side which has certainly lived up to expectations by maintaining their progression into the upper tiers of inter-county football this year.
Success in winning the Division 3 league title and earlier promotion to Division 2 for next season will no doubt have the added incentive for all to push on so that the Tipperary senior football panel continues to build and more importantly contest for provincial and national titles in the years ahead. Tremendous work has been done in the past number of years and the goodwill harnessed needs the support of all to ensure this highly talented group of players and those coming through the ranks get the rewards their talents so richly deserve.
Sincere thanks to all involved for your efforts this year both on and off the field and behind the scenes.
Best wishes to Fergal Horgan (Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams) on Sunday next July 23rd, as he takes charge of the second All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Quarter-Final between Wexford and Waterford in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
There are no County fixtures this weekend with Tipperary playing Clare in Cork, but rounds will be played the following weekend and after that fixtures will be dependent on the progress of our senior hurlers in the All-Ireland campaign.
Outside of that intermediate and junior divisional fixtures go ahead over the weekend and for a full round up on fixtures and recent results in Round 5 of the Tipperary Water County Hurling League last weekend, please check the Tipperary GAA website https://tipperary.gaa.ie/ or the fixtures/results section in your local newspaper.
We express sympathy to the Keane family on the passing of Tipperary and Thurles Sarsfields stalwart, Larry Keane RIP. Winner of an All-Ireland Senior Hurling medal with Tipperary in 1958 and 2 National Leagues, Larry also won an All-Ireland Minor medal in 1949. A dual player of note, Larry lined out in both codes for the county.
During the glory years of Thurles Sarsfields, Larry won 9 County Senior Hurling medals (captain 1957 team). He also won a County Senior Football medal with Thurles Crokes in 1960.
A son of the late Con Keane who played Railway Cup hurling and football with Munster in the late 1920’s, Larry also had the distinction of lining out in championship hurling for Tipperary with his brothers Michael ‘Blackie’ and Connie.
Tipperary Co. Board extends condolences to his wife Carmel, daughter Carol and the extended Keane family on their sad loss.
TEAM TIPPERARAY GAA RACE DAY
Next up on the fundraising agenda is the Team Tipperary GAA Race Day at the Galway Races on Monday, July 31st next. This is our third Galway Races venture continuing very successful opening days in 2015 and 2016. The Galway Races Summer Festival is renowned as a premier and most colourful racing festival. While it is a major sporting event, it also appeals to a much wider audience than just the racing fans. With the Killanin Stand Suites, there is something for everyone whether you are entertaining family, friends or business clients. This is the ideal format for mixing business with pleasure, whilst surrounded by the atmosphere and excitement that is the Galway Races.
If you or anyone you know is interested in racing, or just a good day out and who might take a seat or two or a table, please contact Tim Floyd, County Secretary, 087 2591747 secretary.tipperary@gaa.ie for bookings and further details.
By contributing to this wonderful day out you are providing invaluable support for Team Tipperary. Tipperary Co. Board is very fortunate to have a big pool of people who are willing to invest in the future of Tipperary GAA and support it so selflessly. It is an honour for Co. Board officers to carry out this work on behalf of these people and we together with our patrons are totally committed to the success of Tipperary GAA and our teams.
If you would like to be part of it, talk to us, we’d be honoured if you’d share the journey with us.
FAIR OF SPORTING MEORABILIA
The South Tipperary G.A.A Centre, Clonmel, home to South Tipperary GAA Board, will hold a ‘Fair of Sporting Memorabilia’ from 12 noon to 4pm on Bank Holiday Monday, August 7th next.
Collectors and sellers are cordially invited to get in touch in relation to sales positions which are free of charge (to be booked prior to the event) contact Sean Nugent 087-2669304 or email sean.nugent.cb@gaa.ie or Derek Williams 052 6138802. Bar facilities, tea and coffee will also be available.
Enjoy the biggest Fair to date with many new items including a huge range of GAA paraphernalia plus other material from across the sporting spectrum.
Admission is free and all proceeds go to South Tipperary G.A.A Centre.
Tipperary GAA has recently launched a loyalty CashBack Card which as a Tipperary supporter each individual that registers is doing their small bit in support of the county cause. Loyalty cards were sent out with club draw receipts to all members and as there is no charge in registering you can opt in immediately. If anyone who doesn’t have a loyalty card and flyer please call to Lár na Páirce to pick up one. Register as per details on the CashBack flyer. To activate the card, holders must complete the registration and then please email, post or drop off your registration details to Lar na Páirce, Slievenamon Road, Thurles or secretary.tipperary@gaa.ie
TIPPERARY SUPPORTERS CLUB
Supporters can join on line now on tippsupportersclub.com/join by credit card or debit/laser card. Membership is €40 per person. Also on the website details are available of the direct debit facility; as the Club is run on a completely voluntary basis it would be a great help if members could join by direct debit.
The Supporters Club are encouraging members to switch to Direct Debit payment by offering a reduced charge of €30 for all Direct Debit members in 2017. It’s easy to sign up for Direct Debit, just download the two-page form from the Tipperary Supporters Club website at http://www.tippsupportersclub.com/join/ fill it out and send it to Jim Reidy at the address below.
If joining by post please send a cheque or postal order for €40 payable to Tipperary Supporters Club to Jim Reidy, 13 Castleknock Close, Dublin 15 (086-3580718, email: info@tippsupportersclub.com ) All proceeds from membership go towards the preparation and training of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Team.
Information concerning all areas in the GAA will appear in this section in the future. If you wish to include any item of interest in future articles, please e-mailpro.tipperary@gaa.ie on or before 3.00pm on Monday. Visit the Tipperary GAA web site at http://tipperary.gaa.ie to keep up to date with all the latest news in Tipperary GAA circles.
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Gavin & Stacey: Smithy and Nessa’s son played by one of the original babies
By Sherna Noah, PA Senior Entertainment Correspondent
PA Media: Entertainment 23 December 2019
The actor who plays Smithy and Nessa’s son in the new Gavin & Stacey is one of the original babies from the show, the cast have revealed.
Smithy (James Corden) and Nessa (Ruth Jones) had a child, known as Neil The Baby, before the sitcom came to an end.
Neil will be 12 years old in the hotly-anticipated Christmas special.
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Corden told The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show: “When we shot the last series, Nessa and Smithy had had their baby.
“So, on the set, we had two babies who would be Neil The Baby. If one of them was crying we would switch it out for the other one.
“The actor who is playing Neil The Baby is one of those babies.
“Oscar Hartland is absolutely fantastic. He is one of the babies that was the baby in series three.”
Listen to all the Gavin and Stacey cast! We’re going on @BBCRadio2 this morning at 8am!! @ZoeTheBall pic.twitter.com/Eke3usEf6T
— Joanna Page (@jopage_) December 23, 2019
Another of the former babies, Ewan Kennedy, was also involved as he “came to the set to say hello as well,” Corden said.
Co-star Rob Brydon, who plays Uncle Bryn, quipped of Hartland’s appearance now: “When you see him you’ll totally accept that he’s the child of Ruth and James…”
He teased Corden and Jones: “I don’t know what you were doing 12 years ago… but there is nobody more (like you). ”
Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special stars Ruth Jones and James Corden (Tom Jackson/TV Productions Ltd/BBC)
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Corden said of the return of the BBC One show: “It feels incredibly emotional for all of us.
“I hope they (viewers) receive it in the manner that it’s always been made, an absolute labour of love about friends and family.”
But he was less effusive about the Cats movie, in which he also stars.
“I haven’t seen it but I’ve heard it’s terrible!” he said of the reviews.
“I’ll catch it one day I’ll imagine.”
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Mindfulness Meditation Enhances Sexual Desire in Women, Study Shows
May 23, 2014 by Andrei Burke Leave a Comment
A new study shows that mindfulness meditation dramatically enhances sexual desire in women—yet another reason to start meditating!
Is mindfulness meditation going to be the new pillow talk?
A recent study found that mindfulness meditation practices positively effect sexual desire in women. This study—the first of its kind—looked at the effects of mindfulness practices on a group of 117 women in a range of ages, from 20s to 60s. The study employed exercises derived from cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as meditation in four 90-minute sessions, in addition to nightly homework assignments for participants.
The study is the first to utilize a control group to evaluate the effects of mindfulness for low female sexual desire. Compared to the control group, treatment significantly improved sexual desire, sexual arousal, sexual satisfaction and overall sexual functioning. Sex-related distress significantly decreased as well, along with orgasmic difficulties and depressive symptoms.
Low sexual desire is experienced by a majority of older women, 39% of women aged 45-64, and 22% of younger women. Research shows that these numbers are influenced by a woman’s relationship satisfaction, mood, self-esteem, body image and age. Desire and arousal are minimally impacted by genital blood flow and genital congestion. This has turned any search for a “female Viagra” in the last decade into a fruitless endeavor, as it is difficult to measure female sexual arousal and desire in a traditional laboratory setting.
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The findings of this study can lead to a windfall of treatment options for women experiencing mood fluctuation or dissatisfaction with life due to low sexual desire.
“Sexual health is an integral component of quality of life and sexual dysfunction impacts mood, well-being, relationship satisfaction, and many domains of quality of life. Improvements in sexual functioning can positively impact each of these domains,” said Dr. Lori Brotto, one of the authors of the study.
Dr. Brotto has been studying the link between mindfulness and improved sexual desire in women for nearly a decade. She heads the Sexual Health Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, where she conducts much of her research on a wide range of sexual disorders affecting women.
In 2008, she published a study on the effects of Eastern techniques like mediation, yoga and acupuncture in treating low sexual desire in women. Dr. Brotto says that the next step for research on the subject is to look at brain imaging in patients following treatment.
While we’ve truly come a long way from outmoded diagnoses like “hysteria” and “penis envy” in clinically responding to sexual disorders in women thanks to the efforts of Dr. Brotto and colleagues, we probably still have a long ways to go.
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8 Things You Need To Know About Programmatic Video
Programmatic video is the fastest-growing category of programmatic buying, but a lot of marketers are still struggling to get to grips with the basics.
According to a recent study by Unruly, which polled 1,000 senior marketers in the UK and US, around half rate their programmatic video knowledge as ‘Average’, ‘Poor’ or ‘Very Poor’.
There’s clearly a knowledge gap between the programmatic front lines and everyday marketers, making 2015 a key year for programmatic education. As with any burgeoning new trend, one of the main causes of confusion is vocabulary.
Any discussion of the topic produces a web of jargon and acronyms that’s enough to send anyone running to Google. But fear not, this is easily solved.
For the next two weeks, we will be serving up handy guides to the most important programmatic video terms, courtesy of Unruly co-founder and CTO, Matthew Cooke.
Stick around and master the art of programmatic.
8. What is Cookie-less Targeting?
A cookie is a small piece of data downloaded and either held temporarily or stored on your computer/device by your web browser when you visit a website. Cookies are one way a website or online advertising company can give each user a unique identifier so they can be recognised and targeted if they are seen again.
Advertising companies use what is known as a “third party” cookie. This is because the cookie is not set by the website owner but by another technology company or advertiser. The unique IDs put in these cookies are stored in Data Management Platforms and are used to create Audience Segments, they are then used to perform online behavioural advertising and for frequency capping (deciding how many times a user should see an ad).
7. What is Programmatic Direct?
Programmatic Direct is the term used when a buyer negotiates media deals with sellers up-front, usually for a guaranteed price, but executes the deal using programmatic technology instead of a manual IO and fully managed service. The term is often used interchangeably with “Programmatic Guaranteed” or “Programmatic Premium” but there seems to have been some standardisation on the term “Programmatic Direct”.
In auction (RTB) environments there are usually no volume/price guarantees from individual publishers. This auction model doesn’t suit all buyers many of whom would like to be able to directly broker fixed volume deals with the same efficiency, control and targeting that is offered via RTB systems for auctioned inventory.
6. What is a Deal ID?
A Deal ID is a unique identifier given to a pre-agreed deal between a media buyer and seller that can then be used in an RTB environment. Deal IDs are used for a wide range of pre-agreed deals, such as unique ad slots or impressions, fixed price deals and first look deals etc.
In some respects, a Deal ID is a little like a programmatic version of an IO (Insertion Order) as it outlines the unique deal terms between a buyer and a seller – although it doesn’t need to be limited to a single campaign.
5. What are First Look Deals?
First Look is a type of special deal arranged between a buyer on the demand side and a seller on the supply side. It is offered by sellers who are willing to offer prioritized access to select advertisers.
Instead of the winning impression going to the highest bid, First Look affords first right of refusal for an impression within an ad exchange or SSP based on a pre-negotiated fixed price. If the buyer with first look bids, they are guaranteed to win the impression.
4. What is Online Behavioural Advertising?
Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) is the term used to describe the collection of information about users’ online activities and the use of that information to better target ads. Examples of the kinds of data that can be either directly collected or inferred from data collection are user age, gender & income bracket and online interests. There are literally thousands of different types of data available for targeting from third parties like Bluekai, Lotame, Exelate etc.
When Unruly talks about audience targeting using data collected at the user level, whether using third party or first party data, we are talking about online behavioural advertising. Using OBA techniques, we can target users classified in particular ways based on data previously collected. We don’t know who those people really are at a personal level, such as their name or other personally identifiable information, they are identified and targeted via a unique identifier.
3. What are Lookalike Models?
The easiest way to understand lookalike modelling is to compare re-targeting with and without lookalike modelling.
Normal re-targeting involves targeting ads at people that performed a particular action or viewed a particular web page. For example, a tracking pixel is placed on a car review site that allows users visiting the site to be identified again later. Advertisers can then target car ads at those users when they are spotted browsing other sites. This is done because a user who visited a car review site is more likely to buy a car than a random user who sees a car ad.
2. What is Dayparting?
Dayparting is a feature of programmatic platforms such as DSPs and SSPs that allows you to set particular ads to run only at certain times of the day.
The word comes from the radio and TV industries, where the day is split into time intervals when different types of content would run. For example, breakfast shows in the morning slot, soaps in the daytime slot etc. There are often also rules as to what kind of TV content and advertising is allowed to run in at different times to avoid targeting inappropriate content at children.
1. What is VAST?
VAST is a format designed by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) for trafficking in-stream videos ads. The acronym stands for “Video Ad Serving Template“. By creating a common template, it enables ad servers from different companies to use a standard tag across multiple publishers/video players enabling any ad server to deliver a video ad into any compatible player.
A typical VAST tag will contain all the details needed to run an in-stream ad, including any video files and tracking URLs needed.
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Blasters of the Universe Review: One Bullet Hell Of A Shooter
At this point, if you’re going to release yet another wave shooter in VR, you better have a darn good reason for it. Granted Secret Location’s Blasters of the Universe has been around longer than most, beginning life as an Early Access title all the way back in July 2016, but even by today’s standards, it holds up as one of the most distinctive and enjoyable gun games on any headset out there right now.
That’s because Blasters of the Universe is a love letter to a lot of things. As its name implies, it’s got the cartoonish visuals and charm of a Saturday morning cartoon, with a story that pays tribute to gaming’s arcade origins. More importantly, though, it smartly adapts one of the arcades best-loved genres, the bullet hell shooter, into VR whilst also providing an expansive weapon customization option that allows you to fine-tune how you play.
Taking a cue from Tron, Blasters of the Universe is set inside an arcade game ruled over by a — no other word for it — dick-ish tyrant. Across four campaign levels you’ll survive his onslaught of minions and bosses and then, should you so choose, you can go high-score hunting in an Endless Mode.
What separates the game from the rest of the pack is the focus on dodging incoming bullets. Enemies fire bright orange spheres in intricate patterns and you’ll have to duck and weave around them, or block them with a rechargeable shield. Secret Location has wisely opted to make your head the only vulnerable part of your body in the game, so you won’t have to worry about your virtual torso nor your hands.
In any levels’ opening moments you’ll be dodging like a pro; bullets come at you with little urgency and it’s easy to side-step them when they arrive. But Blasters soon heats up and you’ll find tens of bullets all vying to chip off your five-heart health bar. The game becomes a hectic balancing act of thinning out the enemy’s numbers whilst also being aware of incoming attacks at all times.
It’s largely so much fun because it’s fair; you’re given plenty of time to step out of the way of attacks and, even when the odds are overwhelming, there’s usually enough of a gap somewhere to give you space to evade. Blasters had me moving faster than any VR game I’ve played in some time: I was often throwing myself to the floor or diving onto the couch next to me to avoid bullets and at one point I even narrowly dodged an attack with a well-timed hop. Suffice to say it’s a hearty workout that you’ll need to make space for, but if you have the energy and the room it can be a pulse-pounding good time.
Frustration can rear its head from time to time, though. Secret Location has done its best to telegraph enemy locations with spatial audio but there are times when they’re just a little too far out of sight for you to properly register their presence, and little spider-bots that crawl up to you then pounce can often be obscured by your gun. These instances aren’t anywhere near common enough to be a significant problem, though, and there’s a new casual mode on PSVR for anyone that wants to take it easier.
It speaks to the strength of the game that you can make it this far into the review without detailing one of its key aspects: the weapon customization system. Refreshingly, Blasters is not a dual-wielding shooter, but instead gives you one gun that you can customize in various ways. You can alter the ammo type, magazine size, shot speed, shield type, special ability and more from an armory that provides new options the further you progress through levels. A handy shooting range built into the menu even allows you to test modifications out the moment you pick them up.
Many of the interchangeable parts provide meaningful differences depending on how you want to play. Often you’ll be trading off damage for the speed of a shot and vice versa, and special abilities allow you to select between dealing damage to groups of enemies for effective crowd control or enhancing your single shot to take care of the strongest foes first. I largely found that focusing on the latter got me through levels with much less trouble.
The system isn’t without its redundancies, though. The game’s base shield, for example, is perfectly capable of providing all your protection needs without customization, while some of the cooldown-based magazine types are so slow they’re practically impossible to use. Reloading with standard magazines can also be a little too finicky in the heat of battle no matter how intentional that is.
Blasters’ biggest flaw, though, is that there isn’t more of it. The four campaign levels are a joy to play through but each take less than ten minutes to complete meaning, depending on how many times you fail, you could see the thing through in just over half an hour. There are interchanging challenges for you to compete in and the Endless Mode does provide some great high score chasing for those that want it, but I would have loved to have seen at least double the level count here, especially with the inventive boss design.
A short running time doesn’t stop Blasters of the Universe from being one of VR’s most delightful wave shooters. The hectic bullet-dodging action hurls you into a deadly ballet that feels fun far more often than it is frustrating. This is a finely-tuned and charming game that stands out from the sea of survival shooters out there right now.
Blasters of the Universe is now available on PlayStation VR via the PSN Store as well as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for $14.99. Check out these official review guidelines to find out more about our process.
Entertaining bullet-dodging action
Deep weapon customization
Charming Saturday morning cartoon appeals
Occasionally unfair hitches
Some weapon parts not very useful
Just four levels long
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Jamie has been covering the VR industry since 2014 having come from a gaming and technology background. While he loves games, he's most interested in experiential VR that explores narrative, human connection and other such themes. He's also the host of Upload's VR Showcases, which you should definitely watch.
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A GUEST’S GUIDE TO NEW DEMOCRACIES
I’ll never forget the experience of visiting Cambodia during its first ever democratic election. It was a formative experience for the beautiful nation of Cambodia, and represented a seismic leap away from the authoritarian shadow that’s loomed over it for almost half a century. The atmosphere was electrified, the people emboldened and optimistic… and tense. Very tense. Despite democracy gaining a foothold, corruption was – and remains – an issue in Cambodia, making election season a captivating – if highly strung – time to visit Phnom-Penh. Of course, Cambodia isn’t the only country where the system is flawed, so here’s a very brief rundown of your place as a guest during times of civil unrest: it's important knowledge wherever you go, not just Cambodia and not just now.
1) BE SENSITIVE - witnessing the development of a country in real time can be an exhilarating, humbling & informative experience, but don't treat protests or marches as photo ops or tourist attractions (see number 5).
2) BE CAUTIOUS - in developing democracies, political dissent can get ugly, and there's often very little warning. Ask locals whether it's wise to stick around: your instincts are a good start, but if you don't speak the local language you may not recognise escalating rhetoric or alarming announcements.
3) BE RESPECTFUL - we have what appears to be a glut of information on election processes around the world, but YOU AREN'T AN EXPERT. When speaking to locals about the situation, don't weigh in with critical comparisons to your own country: see yourself as an impartial observer/journalist. It's not your fight!
4) KNOW THE LAW - no matter how flawed a country's legal system is, you are still subject to it!! I can't stress this enough - if you're caught up in a protest or demonstration, your passport won't exempt you from crowd-control methods, whether you think they're okay or not.
5) KNOW WHAT YOU CAN & CAN'T FILM: sort of an extension of number 4... some governments (and even locals) are extremely wary of their political process being documented. Openly filming demonstrations & unrest can be seen as disrespectful at best, and illegal at worst: you might have your camera/phone confiscated, be forced to delete photos/footage, be fined... or in extreme cases even detained under suspicion of being a foreign agent. That's a label you want to avoid: It goes without saying that suspected spies are rarely offered tea and biscuits. Communist & formerly communist countries in particular are NOT friendly in these situations.
6) THE FOREIGN OFFICE AREN'T AS HELPFUL AS YOU THINK. The FCO is overstretched, and the UK's consular resources are extremely limited - if you wind up in trouble with the law, DON'T expect Teresa May to parachute in with MI6 to extract you. Look up our extradition status with any country you visit, and remember that as a tourist you're not a "high value asset" and, as such, will probably not be the FCO's top priority.
If you’re ever in doubt about the safety of an area, always err on the side of caution: if a local says there's even the slightest chance of violence in a certain area, AVOID IT. Unrest in flawed/fledgling democracies is a whole lot more full-on than what we get here: tear-gas, water cannons, batons and rubber bullets DO exist, and your first-world passport – frankly – doesn't mean shit.
Democracy and dissent are amazing things - if you're privy to its formative days, consider yourself among the most privileged travellers on Earth: you're witnessing something incredible and rare, so treat the process with the deference it deserves.
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Who is this Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
Posted by Pointman on July 31, 2014 · 38 Comments
This is another guest article by one of our regular commenters, Blackswan. As you might be aware, the new administration in Australia has abolished the Carbon Tax and is currently engaged in the arduous task of cutting off the heads of the green Hydra that is government spending on climate alarmism. The climate gravy train is derailing in Australia.
While the article covers political and union corruption, an important thing to note is that most of it was unearthed by a handful of investigative bloggers, citizen researchers and refugee journalists who’d decamped to the blogosphere. None of this would ever have come to light without their tireless and mostly unpaid efforts, because the mainstream media there is a compliant and whipped cur, that long ago had its investigative teeth pulled.
Australia, which not too long ago I thought was doomed to turn into the People’s Democratic Republic of Australistan, is now leading the fight back.
If you’ve ever wondered whether the blogosphere can have an effect, ask Julia Gillard and the Union thieves now desperately scurrying for cover from a Royal Commission’s investigations.
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In 2011 Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard introduced a Carbon Dioxide Tax, despite a pre-election promise of … “There’ll be no carbon tax under the government I lead.” She was hailed around the world as being at the forefront of saving the planet from certain destruction. The world’s biggest and most expensive Energy tax, with a fixed price initially of $AU23.00 per tonne of emitted Co2 (when the EU was trading Emission Trading Scheme or ETS certificates at less than €2 per tonne) was inevitably passed on by manufacturers and primary producers, and consumers ultimately paid more – for everything, from a haircut to a cup of coffee.
As part of the Green Deal $AU10 Billion (or 10% of the carbon loot) is duly handed over to the UN each year. In July 2014 the tax was due to increase to $25 per tonne and be expanded onto transport fuel, and in 2015 to be linked to the European ETS, but still the CAGW devotees hailed the move as ground-breaking and necessary.
Meanwhile, as aluminium smelters, oil refineries and manufacturing closed down or fled offshore, the new Prime Minister Tony Abbott, elected on a promise to repeal the crippling Carbon Tax, has found it impossible to pass the Budget Bill through the Senate where a voting bloc from the Labor Party and the Greens stands in the way of our economic recovery, but on July 17 2014 the Carbon Tax Repeal Bill finally passed the Senate, though the deals done with the cross benches and any implications of those deals are still unknown.
During the last election campaign the Greens smugly gloated that Abbott would never be able to untangle their Green Gordian Knot and it seems they were right – Gillard’s toxic legacy lives on in the complex bureaucratic and financial juggernaut of Climate Alarmism.
Just who is Julia Gillard and why did she lie to the electorate about her intentions on the tax? Why did she yield to Green pressures when the environment had not been at the forefront of her election agenda?
Ms Gillard once declared in a magazine interview that she wished to become a “global philanthropist” – she just forgot to say that she intended to use Australian taxpayers’ money to do it. In the dying days of her Prime Ministership, before she was dumped by her own Labor Party as Leader and ignominiously consigned to the Back Bench, she sniffed the winds of change in her fortunes and systematically set about laying the groundwork to feather her post-political nest, using other people’s money.
In raising her international profile, an unprecedented record $AU100 million grant was made to the University of Adelaide in her home state of South Australia in the last weeks of her administration, and the grateful university Dons accorded her an honorary PhD, inviting her to join the faculty lecturing political science students, though her expertise remains suspect.
After all, it took her nine years to complete a four-year law degree and she never did her Articles, though to be fair, she did spend a number of those years working for the Socialist Forum, an exercise in re-badging the Australian Communist Party after it fragmented. She acted as its public officer, secretary, and legal adviser on the drafting of its constitution, as well as selling the membership on incorporating the association to absolve all office bearers of legal liability.
According to Gillard in a 2007 ABC interview, the Socialist Forum “ultimately amalgamated with the Fabian society” – most of its principals being members of the Labor Party, Gillard having been a member since the age of sixteen. The Socialist Forum adhered to the strategy “that power transformation could be facilitated through communists gaining control of the levers of power: i.e. Marxist infiltration of trade unions, educational facilities, cultural associations and political parties.”
Professor Gillard was also granted an honorary doctorate by Victoria University “for her outstanding contribution to Australian society”. That university needs to upgrade its research skills.
In October 2013, weeks after her Labor Government was annihilated at the Federal election (in which she declined to re-contest her seat), and with a lifetime parliamentary pension and benefits in excess of $300,000 per year, Prof Dr Gillard joined the Washington DC based Brookings Institute as a non-resident senior fellow, and a slew of highly lucrative speaking engagements around the world swiftly followed, including an address to Middle East leaders in Dubai where the word “misogynist” was never uttered despite her vow to “call out misogyny and sexism wherever I see it…”
But Brookings wasn’t her main goal in garnering further access to other people’s money.
As Prime Minister she unaccountably contributed $US303 million Australian taxpayer dollars to Global Partnerships for Education (GPE), the Washington DC based World Bank public-private organisation, making Australia the world’s most generous donor equivalent to the combined sum from the USA + Russia + France + Italy + Ireland + Japan + Switzerland – and all from a country with a population of only 23 million people.
This subsequently assured her appointment as Chair of the GPE Committee, announced by Alice Albright (daughter of Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright) and Gillard now leads a Board of Directors representing 18 different constituencies from developing country governments, donors, civil society organisations, private sector foundations, and multilateral agencies and regional banks, this year controlling distribution of a record $US28.5 billion donated dollars.
It was recently announced that publisher Random House has paid a six-figure advance for Gillard’s autobiography ‘My Story” to be released in October 2014, enthusiastically promoted by her ‘friends’ Hilary Clinton who sings Gillard’s praises in her own recent book, and a YouTube plug by Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s Managing Director, herself in court charged with embezzlement and fraud.
We can only wonder if Gillard’s tome will include any of her own possible charges by the Victorian Serious Fraud and Extortion Squad, who currently have her under active investigation after executing search warrants at her old law firm Slater & Gordon while she was Prime Minister. The evidence seized has been subject to a series of court hearings and appeal on the issue of ‘legal professional privilege’ and is ongoing.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced a Royal Commission into corruption within the Union Movement and it has now been sitting for some weeks. The sworn evidence to the Commissioner, Justice Dyson Heydon, has been explosive to say the least, and riveting to watch unfold via live-streaming on the internet.
Be in no doubt – this Royal Commission lifting the lid on a cesspit of corruption would never have happened without the groundswell of outrage born and fostered on internet blogs where citizen researchers, lawyers, businessmen and women, and investigative journalists of every stripe, found the only forum for their voices. Denigrated as irrelevant “internet nutjobs” by Gillard and her sycophantic Media lapdogs, blogosphere journalists are set to change the future of our nation, and the nature of our public administration. The Commission will hear evidence till the end of the year.
People are going to prison.
Gillard’s industrial law client-turned-lover in the 1990s, Australian Workers Union (AWU) heavyweight Bruce Wilson (now a short-order cook in a provincial seaside town), has been a font of information disclosing to the Commission that Gillard’s personal intervention was pivotal in the setting-up of the illegal incorporation of a phoney non-existent association in the AWU’s name, which would launder secret commissions from major construction companies, all concealed as services never rendered by phantom AWU employees who never existed.
At one point he tried to implicate a dead man as the fall-guy in his scheme, only to be left floundering when it was revealed the deceased colleague had provided police with a sworn statement to the contrary almost twenty years earlier.
While Gillard always protested that she had paid for extensive renovations to her home in the 1990s (and had receipts to prove it), she has never disclosed the source of those tens of thousands of dollars – or explained why several builders working on her renovations turned up at the Union’s head office demanding payment owing for work on her house.
In her own words, in transcripts of interviews recorded by her law firm partners when they discovered her nefarious activities, she had borrowed the deposit for her old run-down cottage and mortgaged the balance; was so far in debt her law firm Slater & Gordon were paying her salary months in advance, so she had zero equity in the property and no collateral. She was asked for receipts for all the renovation work done, but there is no evidence she ever produced them. Where did her purported $20,000 renovation loan come from? She wasn’t asked – so she didn’t say.
Now a string of tradesmen and others have given sworn evidence to the Commissioner that they had seen Wilson handing over huge wads of cash, either to her or to the builders, whereupon she gave them bank cheques for any invoices rendered. Of course such cheques don’t disclose the source of the funds and any receipts were in her name.
In Law & Order circles, that’s called money-laundering. It’s also called benefiting from the proceeds of crime and covering it up for twenty years is perverting the course of justice. Let’s toss in conspiracy to commit fraud, just for good measure.
One of Wilson’s go-pher underlings testified that he had been given thousands of dollars in cash by Wilson with all Gillard’s personal bank details and told to deposit it in her account.
Gillard’s earlier response to that revelation was … “So what? It’s not unusual for a man to give his girlfriend money.” Really? Five thousand dollars at a time? From a working man with a wife, a mortgage and two young children at home.
Was it the lawyer or the girlfriend who accompanied Wilson to a house auction in Melbourne where he bought the property in an underling’s name using cash from his illegal stash and a Specific Power of Attorney (SPoA) to do so, as well as raising a $150,000 mortgage on the property through Gillard’s law firm, but the donor of that SPoA swears under oath that Gillard was not present when she ‘witnessed’ his signature on the document.
In that $230,000 transaction she prepared the SPoA document (which authorised any purchase of any property in the state of Victoria), acted as legal representative for both the donor and her lover the recipient, as well as being the sole witness to the document. The source of the sale’s funds were falsely recorded in Slater & Gordon’s Trust Account Ledger thereby concealing the true origins of the cash. It was an extraordinary example of her ethics and her tenuous grasp of the law.
It seems that the sudsy Wilson/Gillard duo put hundreds of thousands of dollars through the rinse-cycle during the lucrative four years of their relationship. Despite being a salaried partner in the industrial unit of her law firm and an Officer of the Court, she dismissed her culpability by saying “I was young and naïve”.
She claims to have ended the relationship when she ‘discovered’ what he was up to, but at no time did she go to police or to her law firm partners or to her Union client officials to aid them in their fight to recover stolen Union money. She told nobody – and the secret accounts, still receiving funds, remained secret till the following year; her silence enabling the house purchased with the laundered money to be quietly sold, the proceeds of the sale so far unaccounted for.
In fact, the innovative Wilson/Gillard scheme for channelling oceans of excess cash has since become the template for other Union slush funds milked from workers and employers alike. For example, the long-serving National President of the Australian Labor Party and National Secretary of the Health Services Union, Michael Williamson, was recently convicted after pleading guilty to a mere $1 million theft and is currently serving a five-year prison term.
Investigators found he had misappropriated over $20 million during his long career, but the guilty plea to the lesser amount meant there was no trial, no witnesses, no prosecution of others who aided and abetted his criminal behaviour and his plea bargain assured immunity from prosecution for his family members and certain others involved in his schemes.
The Royal Commission continues, dealing with one Union at a time and revealing the heartbreaking stories of the treatment of corruption whistle-blowers, men and women alike, at the hands of their union ‘comrades’. Everything from being condemned to the intimidating silence of ‘coventry’, to having their office desks turned to the wall, or their offices ransacked and files and records stolen, being shoulder-charged in office hallways, their union mobile phones switched off, their union business credit cards cancelled, pursued and harassed in car chases on highways when terrified wives and children were passengers, shovels left on the doorstep of their family home, bullets in their mailboxes, threatening letters in the post, and obscene calls to their home phones.
Australian Workers Union (AWU) state president Bob Kernohan had already been pre-selected for a “safe” Labor seat in Parliament and was warned by an AWU Organiser to keep silent about the Wilson/Gillard 1990s corruption but he refused. He was then bashed in the street by several booted Union assailants, his head kicked in and told to keep his mouth shut. He hasn’t worked a day for almost twenty years, his health precarious, and his termination pay was withheld by that same organiser-turned-secretary for nine long years.
The AWU secretary in question was Kernohan’s own protégé, a young industrial lawyer he recruited to the Union over twenty years ago, and today that man is Julia Gillard/Kevin Rudd’s successor as Leader of the Labor Party; Bill Shorten is now Opposition Leader in the Federal Parliament.
Shorten himself is no stranger to controversy and dubious morals. He has had allegations made against him on many fronts, while his penchant for ogling attractive young colleagues and workers is legendary. Today he’s not smiling (or leering) so much because police currently have him under active investigation for claims he raped a 16-year-old girl twenty years ago at a Young Labor gathering, after cornering her in a bathroom. The Media refuses to name him, simply referring to a “senior Labor Party figure.”
Shorten is a union brawler and mauler, a Mr Fix-it, famous for declaring he proudly carries his union card into Parliament every day, declaring his only allegiance is to the Union Movement.
Despite ongoing revelations of Organised Crime, Shorten continues to dismiss the Commission as a “political witch hunt”.
The Royal Commission is due to report to the Abbott Government at the end of the year. Commissioner Dyson Heydon cannot bring criminal prosecutions – he can only make recommendations to Government and, through the Attorney General, to Directors of Public Prosecutions in various jurisdictions, and it remains to be seen who will be summonsed to testify under oath at the Commission, and who will subsequently face criminal prosecution, either for perjury or their previous crimes.
The level of corruption revealed so far, perpetrated by Union bosses, politicians, party apparatchiks, Union-controlled superannuation funds and major construction companies in paying bribes and secret commissions has astonished even those who expected the worst, but the Commission’s sworn evidence so far remains largely unreported by the Media – the most glaring omissions being from our national broadcaster, the taxpayer-funded ABC (whose $1.2 billion dollar funding had almost doubled while Labor was in office), being an enclave of defiant Left-wing apologists and gatekeepers for the Labor Party.
The majority of reports that have made it into print or onto our commercial television networks (whose licensing fees had been slashed by $300 million per year by the Labor government) has largely been to further denigrate whistle-blowers with spurious allegations of their own corruption, and though such claims have been refuted by a number of auditors, accountants and bookkeepers, that detail rarely makes it into the news – just the mud-slinging media releases from the Unions and their high-priced lawyers, aimed at discrediting and intimidating witnesses.
On 19th June 2014, Gillard was interviewed on Washington’s Diane Rehm Radio Show, with an earlier invitation on her website for pre-interview questions from listeners. Every week over 2.6 million people tune in, and with that in mind, many Australians warned Rehm to research the background of her guest a little more closely. Rehm obviously has her own priorities and obligations as Gillard duly went to air without challenge.
The comments thread on that site is worth a look because you’ll hear the outraged ‘voices’ of Australians incensed at the international promotion of our first female Prime Minister who is also the most compromised individual ever to hold the reins of government, shoe-horned into the job by her corrupt Union puppet-masters.
Her claims of “misogynist persecution” are totally spurious (considering most of her critics are women), covering the real reason for her abject failure in Australian politics – her incompetence, her pathological lying, her immoral lifestyle centred on a string of other women’s husbands (including a Cabinet colleague) and her corrupt background as a lawyer, forced to resign by the only law firm that ever employed her, and never to practise law again.
As evidence of Union/Labor corruption continues to mount, we anticipate that Gillard and the rest of the Organised Crime cabal will be brought to account and answerable to the Australian People, she for her abject betrayal of the trust that once was hers, but which she threw in the face of a nation which afforded her and her Welsh immigrant family every opportunity for a productive and honourable life. As a rabid Marxist/Socialist/Fabian, Gillard’s raison d’être has been self aggrandisement and personal wealth, a betrayal even of her own kind.
The Fabian logo, the image they concede to be their hallmark, is a fanged wolf draped in a sheep’s hide.
The fact remains; she was never democratically elected as Prime Minister of Australia at all. In 2007 she was appointed Deputy PM to Kevin Rudd by the Union Czars controlling the Labor Party and its Caucus vote, while in 2010 she ousted the chaotic Rudd in a late-night coup to seize the helm of government for herself, endorsed by those same Union heavyweights.
In the subsequent 2010 Federal election, the majority popular vote went to the Opposition Liberal Party, but Gillard refused to concede defeat for weeks before signing an agreement with the Greens and three Independents to form a pork-barrelling Coalition that bled billions of dollars from the Treasury and held the slim majority of a single seat.
Held to ransom by the Greens she introduced the economy-crippling Carbon Tax. It was a coup d’état that defied the democratic will of the People, and she relentlessly wielded power and abuse of her Office to destroy the careers and the lives of all who opposed her, whether they be senior Labor stalwart MPs, Labor Senators or journalists seeking to publish disclosure of her highly questionable legal background.
Her Slater & Gordon mentor and boss, Bernard Murphy, whom she and Wilson consulted in their schemes and who left the law firm when Gillard did, was given lifetime tenure as a judge in the Federal Court despite never having been a barrister, while others she wished to silence or reward found other highly lucrative judicial appointments, or on Boards, appointed to her Front Bench or in diplomatic postings to prime locations around the world.
This woman, by any measure, has been an abject failure in any aspect of her professional life as she continues to play the gender card in deflecting any criticism of her incompetent tenure in Australian government. Gillard has defamed and slandered her accusers under Parliamentary privilege and repeatedly challenged those accusers to prove her “state of knowledge” on the Wilson corruption matters – perhaps she’s hoping for a Rebekah Brookes-style verdict.
She is a fraud (claiming to have an Economics Degree of which no record can be found) and is demonstrably a liar in claiming to have only worked “in a part-time job as a typist” for the Socialist Forum (SF) in her “student days”. She was the SF public officer, a signatory to its bank accounts, an elected office bearer and appointed an SF spokesperson, drafting its Articles of Association and remained a driving force on the management committee or as an organiser until 2002 when it merged with a revamped Fabian Society. In 2007 she gave the Inaugural Fabian Society Annual Dinner key-note speech in Melbourne.
She lied repeatedly to conceal her Marxist background from the Australian people, just as she denies any accountability for her questionable activities in her short-lived legal career.
Those who continue to fête her with honorary academic degrees and prestigious appointments in education will rue their haste, as the most cursory examination of her record in Office will show that (true to her Marxist credo), as she changed the national education curriculum and lowered the bar to the lowest common denominator, Australia’s education ratings in the OECD steadily declined since she was Education Minister. As Industrial Relations Minister her Legislation and subsequent Regulation paved the way for her Union puppet-masters to snatch billions of dollars from workers and their employers.
Lay down with dogs (or wolves), you get up with fleas.
It must be getting itchy under those sheepskin coats. You scratching yet Ms Clinton, Ms Lagrande, Ms Albright, Ms Rehm?
On second thoughts … they run in packs … the Sisterhood looks after its own.
©Blackswan
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38 Responses to “Who is this Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?”
flyingtigercomics says:
Reblogged this on Flying Tiger Comics and commented:
Who is Michael Smith? asked lowdown lying bitch julia gillard the #fabian
jdseanjd says:
A cesspit.
I follow Michael Smith’s and Andrew Bolt’s blogs among others so I’m familiar with the monster that is Juliar. This may be the best summery I have ever read about her.
On another topic I have a notion for a post on Pointman. If you could please have him E-mail me I will send him a short Query to see if he is interested. I can’t write as well as he (and you), but I have some chops and I believe nowhere else would be interested or have the guts to post, at least where I would be willing to post.
Retired Dave says:
Heavens above!!! It is worse than we thought (as they say).
An amazing post Blackswan. Thank you for such a detailed and sobering article.
The Union Czars admired Gillard’s chutzpah and her innovative thinking – she didn’t bitch, whine or complain – she kept schtum and walked away from her legal career circumventing any inquiry that might have revealed the scheme of things.
It took them 10 years to put her in a place where she could wield the most power and deliver them the Industrial Relations laws AND the Regulatory Authority (Fair Work Australia) which would put them in control of Australian industry and construction, not to mention the trillions of all workers’ dollars invested in Labor’s compulsory retirement funds.
Union heavyweights sit on the Boards of all Industry Superannuation Funds where they direct investments that pay them huge commissions – especially Renewable Energy.
Thanks Blackswan for clarifying the dirty saga.
You mention that “forced to resign by the only law firm that ever employed her, and never to practice law again”.
Just the lawyers covering up the mess she had made, and delaying any investigation by years.
Gillard had a fiduciary duty to her partners at Slater & Gordon – they were all jointly and severally liable for her actions – that’s why they transcribed their interviews with her… just in case. They had their professional indemnity insurance to consider.
Today S&G is the only law firm listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, their shares worth millions, and they’ve expanded into the UK where they’ve mounted class actions for those abused by the likes of Rolf Harris as they pursue ‘compensation’ from his estate. They are now so ‘grateful’ to their former partner that they’ve named a boardroom after her.
There are no cleanskins in this sorry saga.
PaleoSapiens says:
A couple of quotes:
“[Fight] them any way you can.” – Original Star Trek, Season 3, Episode – ‘Spectre of the Gun’
“….the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Sir Issac Newton
Internet blogs, such as this one, are of great public service in exposing bureaucrat malfeasance. The good people behind them are heroes fighting injustice in their own way. You have my appreciation and respect.
Your article and comment above, “….law firm listed on the Australian Stock Exchange…,” inspired and provided evidence for the second quote of Sir Issac Newton.
A part of the great ocean of truth before us is our (Common Wealth Countries & the U.S.) Common Law heritage. Administrative or Roman Civil Law (complex) is superseding Common Law (simple) as established hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. WE, individually and as a society, have and are allowing this erosion of our inherent freedoms. One way to stay vigilant and protect our fundamental freedoms are through knowledge, along with application of said knowledge.
A prime function of government[s] are to protect ‘property’ (property = tangible AND intangible belongings). When “We The People” realize that we are the creators [Are not ‘creator’ powers virtually unlimited?] of ‘dead’/fictional corporate entities and act accordingly, “…this sorry saga” can be relegated to the dustbin of history.
see: Karl Lentz – broadmind.org, Lentz at youtube.com, and private-person.com
As with other worth while endeavors, considerable time and toil will be required…
hillbilly33 says:
Hi Graeme. The extraordinary thing is that two of Gillard’s former equity parnership employers have admitted they deliberately kept secret fo 17 years the details of Gillard’s pivotal role and details of her departure from the firm! The critical Gillard AWUWRA file has never been produced for any of the police fraud squad or AWU investigations and the current CEO of Slater & Gordon now says the file has been “lost”. It joins the Corporate Affairs File, and other Court files and documents which have also mysteriously ‘disappeared’ !
Old Rooster says:
There inaction at the time requires that they suffer specific consequences at the hands of the legal profession disciplinary bodies as well as the criminal law IMO.
Rooster – the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner dismissed a formal complaint by blogger Michael Smith without disclosing that his own wife worked for Slater & Gordon. When this obvious ‘conflict of interest’ was pointed out to him, he excused himself from the case.
However, his Office then advised Smith that they were suspending their investigation until the Victoria Police Fraud and Extortion Sqad had completed their inquiries into the Gillard matter.
Alas and alack – the documents seized in the police raid on S&G offices have been tied up for over a year by the lover Wilson’s continuing legal appeals that the material is subject to ‘legal professional privilege’ even though the Chief Magistrate ruled that ALL of the documentation re the matter “was in furtherance of a fraud” and thereby NOT subject to such privilege.
Wilson, now a short-order cook, suddenly has access to the mega-bucks necessary to continue to drag the matter out in appeals ad infinitum, as well as to engage a top barrister and her team to represent him at the Royal Commission.
Flipping burgers in a country sports club at Nelsons Bay must be paying really well these days.
hoppers says:
Jeez Blackswan. I was just beginning to consign the trash to the old memory vault, and you had to do this to me!
Sorry Hoppers, but you know what they say about recycling trash – it just pops up somewhere else in another guise.
In all seriousness, great article and entirely accurate. Congratulations on it. How is it that bad people so often reach the top? There is a whole ‘nother article in there as they say.
Count Repugsive says:
Excellent post, Blackswan, and thanks to Pointman for publishing it. This wretched episode in Australian history must never be forgotten and I so do hope that due punishment is meted out. I used to think Australian politics was pretty clean – more fool me – but Gillard and Rudd were so appalling I started to take an interest where I never had before, and what I learned about Labor, the unions and the Australian media’s rush to look the other way when it’s someone from the Left shocked me. I’ve hardened into a conservative as a result of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd + Greens debacle, and lost confidence in so many things … Not that I have any great trust in the Liberals, either, but if there was any serious dirt there it would have come out by now, surely?
Steve C says:
@Hoppers – You ask “How is it that bad people so often reach the top?”. Well, it’s a rather short article, I’m afraid, it fits in a comment …
Chapter 1: The very word “top” implies some form of hierarchy.
Chapter 2: The mantra for success in a hierarchy is, “If you wanna get ahead, you gotta cut a throat.”
Chapter 3: So, by definition, any hierarchy will tend towards a state where it is run by the most evil, cut-throat b###ard present, and staffed by the only-slightly-less-successfully-evil, who are plotting their own plots and sharpening their knives.
Postscript: Run a society, or a world, on interlocking hierarchies, and … “Welcome to Planet Earth, ladies and gentlemen. Remember to guard your valuables at all times …”
But seriously, what a nest of vipers this is! I thought the repellent “Tony” Blair represented a new low in human quality, but it looks as though Australia was inspired to produce a whole tribe of lookalikes. Country compromised? Check. Personal nest feathered? Check. Time to move on … I shall be keeping an interested eye open for word of those numerous investigations.
[Pointman: Thanks for a well-written blog which has given me a fair few belly laughs (thanks, too, to Eco Annie!) and much to reflect on since I first followed one of your links on WUWT. Bless your pointed little head, and may it impale the unworthy for as long as you get some fun out of it. – Steve]
Magnum says:
Perhaps your writer Blackswan would be interested in this story too.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140729/17501228048/wikileaks-reveals-sup
er-injunuction-blocking-reporting-massive-australian-corruption-case-involvi
ng-leaders-malaysia-indonesia.shtml
Magnum – the Reserve Bank’s Securency corruption scandal has been sloshing around for years, and not only Asian nations were involved. African countries have also figured prominently in the “inducements” industry. The State of Victoria has the country’s highest number of ‘suppression orders’ on all manner of criminal cases and it’s rarely a matter of ‘national security’ – more like ‘saving face’ for some high profile entity, either foreign or domestic.
For people out there reading this article who find their jaw dropping at some of the tawdry and basically criminal activities detailed in it, I feel I should inform you that Blackswan applied their own self-imposed rule of only covering the murky stuff for which a definite paper trail had been established or sworn witness statements to police had alleged.
Either all the paper trails have been forged by some grand conspiracy and the witnesses are running the risk of perjury, or something is indeed rotten in the state of Australia.
Not a word of this is reported by the Australian MSM.
All the unproven but even more lurid allegations have scrupulously been left out.
Thanks Pointman – as you say, all of the claims made in this article are a matter of record and I resolved to steer clear of the more salacious aspects in the life and times of the infamous Julia.
For example, when in the Opposition Cabinet, in an interview with a national women’s magazine, Gillard boasted about her affair with a married Cabinet colleague, Craig Emerson, saying that in a hotel room a hot and bothered Emerson had gulped down a glass of water – problem being it contained Gillard’s contact lenses. Oh dear – amid lots of oo-ahs Gillard had to give an important speech next day and said she was “blind as a bat” and couldn’t read it. At the time there was much ribald commentary about Emerson “keeping an eye on things” etc.
When she got to be PM Emerson featured prominently on her Front Bench as Minister for Trade and remains one of her most vocal supporters.
There’s another whole article of back-story to the Gillard saga that has left most of Australia slack-jawed and bewildered. Where did this woman come from and how did she ever seize the helm of Government?
There has been less than a handful of MSM journalists who have ever challenged the Gillard propaganda machine and not lost their careers over it, namely Andrew Bolt and Hedley Thomas, and the Canberra Press Gallery has long agreed to keep a tight lid on the Gillard story. Today there are a lot of bare-arsed plucked chickens coming home to roost.
We are indebted to Black Swan for this comprehensive summary covering most aspects of the Gillard story. It’s a saga of lies, treachery and unbelievable corruption of political, legal and union processes aided and abetted by many sections of the MSM. There has been a massive conspiracy to pervert the course of justice which will no doubt be the subject of many books in the future.
It began when Gillard, as an engagement solicitor for her firm’s AWU client, deliberately chose to place her political ambitions above everything else and commenced an adulterous relationship with AWU employee Bruce Wilson, undisclosed to her equity partnership employers or their AWU client.
In doing so, Gillard breached every relevant rule, obligation and/or fiduciary duty to which she was subject under the Solicitor’s Oath; the Victorian Legal Profession Practice Act 1958 and the relevant Partnership Act, That conflict of interest of her own creation, was at the heart of the ensuing frauds. .
The only ‘defence’ Gillard has ever advanced is to keep repeating ‘I did nothing wrong’!
Three legal opinions worthy of note
McHugh J – .’When the lawyer goes beyond advice and draws documents for the purpose of enabling a client to achieve an objective, it is, I think, almost impossible to contend that the adviser does not aid the commission of any offence which results.”;
(Jeopardy of lawyers and accountants in acting on commercial transactions’ delivered to the Perth Summer School 1988, published in Australian Bar Review, vol 5 No 1 March 1989)
Anthony Morris QC – Brisbane barrister
‘Given the AWU retained Gillard’s firm, how could any lawyer have convinced herself there was no conflict of interest when her boyfriend asked her to set up a ‘slush fund’ under the name of her firm’s existing client?
Gillard admits she was asked by Wilson for ‘legal advice to incorporate this association’. Precisely what advice was given regarding the adoption of a misleading name, and the fraudulent statement of false objects for the intended ‘slush fund’?
How could Gillard conscionably vouch for the legitimacy of an association which, to her knowledge, was being registered with a deceptive name and specious objects?’
http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/australia-features/8747081/the-worst-form-of-defence/ .
Terry O’Connor QC – former head of Western Australia’s anti-corruption watchdog
‘Julia Gillard may have breached two sections of the state’s law through her role in providing legal advice for the incorporation of an association her then boyfriend later used as cover for a fraud.’
‘Section 170 of the Criminal Code WA provides that “any person who, being required under a written law to give information to another person, knowingly gives information to the other person, that is false in a material particular is guilty of a crime and is liable to imprisonment for three years”.
‘Section 43 of the Associations Incorporations Act also makes it an offence for a person to lodge a document with the commissioner which the person knows is false or misleading in any material respect.’
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/investigations/gillard-has-maintained-she-did-nothing-wrong-but-has-not-explained-why-she-says-that-qc/story-fng5kxvh-1226539987018
A big thank you to Black Swan and Pointy!
Thank you H/B for the wealth of information you’ve shared on all things ‘Gillard’ – your formidable research is eye-wateringly detailed and you’ve been very generous with the information you’ve supplied. It’s a huge body of work and does you great credit.
Sorry my finger hit the down thumb but I meant to get the up
tom dundas says:
With the closure of aluminium smelters, cement manufacturers, oil refineries, carmakers & the building of de-sal plants & windmills , Australia has managed to kill or export a hell of a lot of jobs while exposing our standard of living to the shipping cycle.
The Reserve Bank of Australia conveniently crunches the Australian Bureau of Statistics figures to provide some valuable info:-
http://www.rba.gov.au/chart-pack/balance-payments.html
You do not need a degree in economics ( but you would hope at least some of our masters did) to see that if you take the rural & add it to the resources, ¾ of what is “paying the rent” is coming from less than 5% of the people engaged in economic activity in Australia.
Yet even though this is what underpins our standard of living in Australia, ( balance payments – exchange rates – interest rates etc.) the resources industry in particular is the most harassed & vilified by Left, the Greens & the ignorant, sycophantic MSM.
The Rudd/Gillard/Greens have vandalised Australia & sold out our sovereignty.
Proud little Aussie not.
Thanks Black Swan. You have encapsulated the story succinctly.
Tom – when we actually bother to think about it, the Socialist/Marxists have been in power for twenty out of the past thirty years, beginning with Hawke and followed by Keating, both card-carrying Fabians.
That has been more than enough time for them to “have vandalised Australia & sold out our sovereignty”. More than enough time to have loaded the Judiciary, the Tax Office, Immigration, the ABC and much of the Public Service with their “useful idiot footsoldiers”. They knew what was expected of them and they’ve delivered – in spades.
Since Whitlam was elected in 1972 Labor’s history has been a litany of murder (Donald Mackay, Michael McGurk, Caroline Byrne), political assassination (John Newman), bashings (Peter Baldwin, Bob Kernohan), arson, insurance fraud (Alpine Printing), repeated convictions for electoral fraud – there’s been adultery, betrayal, Cayman Island and Swiss bank accounts sprouting like weeds – men who have only ever worked for the Unions or been Labor apparatchiks have left high office as multi-millionaires.
It isn’t rocket science and you don’t need a university degree of any stripe to know that a sovereign nation has been taken over by Organised Crime.
Did it begin with Whitlam’s little Mafioso (Mr Multiculturalism) Al Grasby who has had a statue erected in his honour, or the other bloke whose prints are ‘writ large’ over most of the above but who ends up with his own pay TV show, is a syndicated columnist and who is consulted at every election as a Labor ‘elder statesman’?
They have crafted a captive constituency by fostering the Welfare classes, the grateful Immigration community, the Aboriginal industry, the Mainstream Media and by hijacking the Education system that indoctrinates our children.
Is it too late? Have the horses disappeared over the horizon while the stable doors are left banging in the wind? I guess it’s up to us to answer that for ourselves.
Indeed it was the Hawke/Keating era which gave us the Accord & industry superannuation.
( dancing in Bibs & Braces & hardhats etc.)
Given the unfolding revelations in the current RC, it is hard not to suspect that the “corporatization” of the union movements relationship to business & finance was a carefully planned scheme to fund the movement & entrench/virally infect the system with a culture & attitude which self justifies/legitimises its power. The Thiess/AWUWRA deal is not by any means
an isolated example.
Nor are high profile legal & accounting firms the only the only institutions who would appear to enjoy the fruits of “short circut feedback”*& patronage.
It will be interesting to see how history records all of this if the balance of payments blows out while we are buying iPhones & not selling rerources. Western Sydney, Brisbane- Ipswich-Logan -Coomera & Northern Melbourne will have a lot of mortgage defaults & social problems.
Gee thanks Julia! I hope you get every thing you deserve.
Dear Cygnus atratus
Your succinct summary of the Life of Gillard (salacious detail omission notwithstanding) should form the basis of her official Who’s Who hagiography. (Note to the editors of the Macquarie Dictionary—’hagiography’ should now be defined as the biography of a hag)
The really shocking thing is that she was not an aberration but an enevitable product of the efforts of so many criminals who, under the guise of political struggle on behalf of the sheep, not only fleece them but slit their throats and dress them for feasting on.
So much of our guardian institutions of democracy and Western culture have now been compromised by the infiltration of these criminals. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes indeed. The answer it seems can only be the Information Age citizen journalists not of the Ancien Regime Fourth Estate. Whether there is time to overcome these evils only history can tell, but not if they don’t win.
You’re right Rooster – the Fourth Estate is now so compromised it’s become part of the problem; the propaganda arm of the Marxists.
The blogosphere has become the Fifth Estate where a moral compass for the average citizen still holds true.
“Who will watch the watchmen”? We will. It’s just a shame that most of us have been asleep at the wheel for decades. Comatose is more like it.
I’d thought I’d stood my watch defending my country and guarding its finances but I fear I failed. I’d neglected to consider the Fifth Column. Maybe the Fifth Estate can take up that fight and win. I worry though that as we of the Old and Middle Guards retire the field there will be no Young Guard to catch the Lamp.
oebele bruinsma says:
Excellent and shocking story Blackswan. I’m afraid there are more Gillards around in the various boardrooms you indicated.
I would like to pass my appreciation at the best summation of the Gillard legacy, that has been withheld from the Australian public for many years. Absolutely brilliant writing, my hat goes off to you.
The clear point that can be made here is that virtually all socialists who actually achieve power do what every other person in power do, that is make as much wealth for themselves, help to prosperity their friends and allies and destroy their enemies. (I say this because in our society past, present and future, being nice does not lead you to the top. You must be willing to do whatever it takes and as you succumb to this your lust for power (and all it’s benefits) grows and consumes you like a drug addict).
Because socialist leaders know that you can gain popularity to the commoners by promising them other peoples money. This should be a story in itself. Apart from socialist “leaders” which other socialists follower live in multimillion dollar homes, fly around the world first class, stay in the best hotels, only dine in the best restaurants, dress in designer labels, have the big back accounts,and have the high paying jobs. In essence they basically are what they preach their followers to hate in their enemies.
Thanks a again for a brilliant article.
Thank you George – why would any wolf hide under a sheep skin? Obviously so that it can walk among the sheep, in plain sight, and wreak the most havoc. Native Americans used to cover themselves in a bison’s hide so as not to cause alarm, to change their shape and smell, to pick out the most vulnerable in the herd and to deliver a killing blow at close quarters – all in plain sight.
As you’ve so aptly described, this is how the Marxist/Fabians have changed Western society in a couple of generations – an astonishing feat in itself. They exploit the most base aspects of human nature and ‘democracy’ does the rest. When the ‘numbers’ always win the day, the game is over in a corrupt and easily exploited electoral system such as ours.
We need a new Constitution and a new Electoral system for the 21st century. As a wise man once said; “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
So very true.
It does remind me of a something I read from a French author years ago who stated that democracy does have a limited life span. This is because eventually people will eventually start voting for governments who will always give them something, and how long can that last?
The ironic thing is that the modern western society is slowly destroying all the fundamental aspects that made them successful.
Excellent post, Blackswan, and thank you Pointman for publishing it.
Now if we could only get an HONEST probe into Gillard’s Corrupt Twins in the USA, Clinton and Obummer.
This is a start. That right there is enough for charges of treason and the death penalty but don’t hold your breath.
UPDATE: It was announced this week that Gillard has been summonsed to give evidence under oath at the Royal Commission from September 9th 2014. So too will her boss, mentor and law firm partner Bernard Murphy be called. Murphy, the industrial unit solicitor, was appointed a Federal Court judge during Gillard’s term as Prime Minister.
Proceedings will be live-streamed from 10am Aust. Eastern Standard Time on this link …..
http://commcast.com.au/turc/
Fingers crossed that the link isn’t swamped and doesn’t crash – it promises to be the best show in town. Popcorn and beer sales have rocketed.
So far the Royal Commission has exposed extraordinary levels of collusion and corruption, with the toughest cross-examination of witnesses (by Labor/Union lawyers) being reserved for the whistleblowers.
The credibility of this Royal Commission rests upon whether Counsel Assisting the Commissioner is wearing kid gloves when questioning the witnesses, leaving them snugly wrapped in their sheep skins, or will he expose them for what they are and herald a new era of justice for the Australian people?
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Be a Global Citizen: Take the Knee – Headlined on OpEdNews.com
The honest and true patriot is not a nationalist America First supremacist stealing taxpayer dollars for personal convenience, power or profit. True patriotism is being the living and breathing embodiment of the best of what our National Anthem, American flag and Statue of Liberty represent.
The patriot’s finest hour and greatest expression, is the potential of, Let Freedom Ring — not just hail to the symbols, but individually sharing and collectively being the actuality of a global Golden Rule’s Good Samaritans.
Those who can’t distinguish Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan or a Wall Street purchased Russian infiltrated administration from non-violent expressions of our First Amendment Rights, are cowards mocking the Home of the Brave.
Despite the freedom afforded a thieving treasury secretary to freely express, the expression of freedom of speech must be barred from sports events, while Supremely Blessed Corporatism Puppeteers Red Map America and Gerrymander our electoral process — non-violent, silent kneeling in protest of anything in America, is guaranteed by: to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Bill of Rights may be Exceptionalism created exclusively by America’s Founding Fathers, but its guarantees are not limited within American borders, despite, Weapons of Mass Destruction Bush/Cheney covertly implanting Protest Zones to fence in Free Speech.
Having a president who fails to comprehend the legal responsibilities of his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend our Constitutional freedoms – guaranteed any and everywhere in America – is as much a definition of anti-American, as Russian hacking.
Nonetheless, Freedom of Speech is not carte blanche protection for bully pulpit attacks, white supremacists, hate speech, spitting on nationalist blogger Jason Kessler, advocating vehicular murder, Tiki-torch parades proclaiming, Jews will not replace us, beating clergy with pool cues sharpened into spears — or even granting collectivism’s international money changers, a Citizens United human equivalency.
In a world of followers mesmerized by political TV ads & Fox News, Ted Cruz & Tom Price, Smart Phones & Social Media — goose-stepping for Kim Jong-un and genuflecting to Donald Trump — prioritizing human equality with Justice for All, requires the enormous courage to petition for a viable solution for survival of the planet, by turning the other cheek.
When I was a child, I resented TV sports ignoring the TV Guide schedule and pre-empting scheduled movies, as if movies were second class entertainment. But when I became a man, Ken Burns documentaries enlightened me – indeed, there are more things in Heaven and earth than are dreamt of in an executive travel ban philosophy.
Continually inspired by Dave, The West Wing and The American President I’m an Italian-American who loves all Americans — and when it’s recognizable, weep during the National Anthem, both in appreciation for what it represents, and somewhat leery of how entrenched our school daze pledge of allegiance to the flag has indoctrinated adults with unadulterated flag-waving.
Beware, global empires, like Persian, Roman and Ottoman began erosion process when, after 250 years, the populace allowed economic imbalance, wars for wealth and expansionism, to tip imperial scales toward decline and fall.
The United States of America, in its 241st year, largely deserting united in favor of, dysfunctional — aided and abetted by K & Wall Streets, has replaced, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with an abnormal Executive who is a colossal threat to, and forever in peace may you wave.
Is humankind willing to gather at the rivers of racism, sexism, Climate or nuclear extinction, because bully twins, Kim & Don, have wrested the global pulpit from wisdom, maturity, civility and rational behavior?
An American president denying Russian Cyber-attacks on our 2016 elections, Putin’s attacks on Morgan Freeman and Rob Reiner, video plea for a Commission to investigate same, and, in concert with corporate media and like-minded politicians — all but relegating American life in Puerto Rico, to a post-Maria footnote — is far more damaging to American Security, and symbolism than, bending a knee.
Get that SOB out of here, is repugnant to American ideals, but a bent knee, or two, for the right of the people peaceably to assemble, to snatch peace on earth from the jaws of the world’s demagogue duo, symbolizes what is best about America.
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The Situation of Choice
From the APS Monitor (excerpts from a terrific primer on “The Mechanics of Choice”):
The prediction of social behavior significantly involves the way people make decisions about resources and wealth, so the science of decision making historically was the province of economists. And the basic assumption of economists was always that, when it comes to money, people are essentially rational. It was largely inconceivable that people would make decisions that go against their own interests. Although successive refinements of expected-utility theory made room for individual differences in how probabilities were estimated, the on-the-surface irrational economic behavior of groups and individuals could always be forced to fit some rigid, rational calculation.The problem is — and everything from fluctuations in the stock market to decisions between saving for retirement or purchasing a lottery ticket or a shirt on the sale rack shows it — people just aren’t rational. They systematically make choices that go against what an economist would predict or advocate.Enter a pair of psychological scientists — Daniel Kahneman (currently a professor emeritus at Princeton) and Amos Tversky — who in the 1970s turned the economists’ rational theories on their heads. Kahneman and Tversky’s research on heuristics and biases and their Nobel Prize winning contribution, prospect theory, poured real, irrational, only-human behavior into the calculations, enabling much more powerful prediction of how individuals really choose between risky options.
Univ. of Toronto psychologist Keith E. Stanovich and James Madison Univ. psychologist Richard F. West refer to these experiential and analytical modes as “System 1” and “System 2,” respectively. Both systems may be involved in making any particular choice — the second system may monitor the quality of the snap, System-1 judgment and adjust a decision accordingly.7 But System 1 will win out when the decider is under time pressure or when his or her System-2 processes are already taxed.
This is not to entirely disparage System-1 thinking, however. Rules of thumb are handy, after all, and for experts in high-stakes domains, it may be the quicker form of risk processing that leads to better real-world choices. In a study by Cornell University psychologist Valerie Reyna and Mayo Clinic physician Farrell J. Lloyd, expert cardiologists took less relevant information into account than younger doctors and medical students did when making decisions to admit or not admit patients with chest pain to the hospital. Experts also tended to process that information in an all-or-none fashion (a patient was either at risk of a heart attack or not) rather than expending time and effort dealing with shades of gray. In other words, the more expertise a doctor has, the more that his or her intuitive sense of the gist of a situation was used as a guide.8
In Reyna’s variant of the dual-system account, fuzzy-trace theory, the quick-decision system focuses on the gist or overall meaning of a problem instead of rationally deliberating on facts and odds of alternative outcomes.9 Because it relies on the late-developing ventromedial and dorsolateral parts of the frontal lobe, this intuitive (but informed) system is the more mature of the two systems used to make decisions involving risks.
A 2004 study by Vassar biopsychologist Abigail A. Baird and Univ. of Waterloo cognitive psychologist Jonathan A. Fugelsang showed that this gist-based system matures later than do other systems. People of different ages were asked to respond quickly to easy, risk-related questions such as “Is it a good idea to set your hair on fire?”, “Is it a good idea to drink Drano?”, and “Is it a good idea to swim with sharks?” They found that young people took about a sixth of a second longer than adults to arrive at the obvious answers (it’s “no” in all three cases, in case you were having trouble deciding).10 The fact that our gist-processing centers don’t fully mature until the 20s in most people may help explain the poor, risky choices younger, less experienced decision makers commonly make.
Adolescents decide to drive fast, have unprotected sex, use drugs, drink, or smoke not simply on impulse but also because their young brains get bogged down in calculating odds. Youth are bombarded by warning statistics intended to set them straight, yet risks of undesirable outcomes from risky activities remain objectively small — smaller than teens may have initially estimated, even — and this may actually encourage young people to take those risks rather than avoid them. Adults, in contrast, make their choices more like expert doctors: going with their guts and making an immediate black/white judgment. They just say no to risky activities because, however objectively unlikely the risks are, there’s too much at stake to warrant even considering them.11
Making Better Choices
The gist of the matter is, though, that none of us, no matter how grown up our frontal lobes, make optimal decisions; if we did, the world would be a better place. So the future of decision science is to take what we’ve learned about heuristics, biases, and System-1 versus System-2 thinking and apply it to the problem of actually improving people’s real-world choices.
One obvious approach is to get people to increase their use of System 2 to temper their emotional, snap judgments. Giving people more time to make decisions and reducing taxing demands on deliberative processing are obvious ways of bringing System 2 more into the act. Katherine L. Milkman (U. Penn.), Dolly Chugh (NYU), and Max H. Bazerman (Harvard) identify several other ways of facilitating System-2 thinking.12 One example is encouraging decision makers to replace their intuitions with formal analysis — taking into account data on all known variables, providing weights to variables, and quantifying the different choices. This method has been shown to significantly improve decisions in contexts like school admissions and hiring.
Having decision makers take an outsider’s perspective on a decision can reduce overconfidence in their knowledge, in their odds of success, and in their time to complete tasks. Encouraging decision makers to consider the opposite of their preferred choice can reduce judgment errors and biases, as can training them in statistical reasoning. Considering multiple options simultaneously rather than separately can optimize outcomes and increase an individual’s willpower in carrying out a choice. Analogical reasoning can reduce System-1 errors by highlighting how a particular task shares underlying principles with another unrelated one, thereby helping people to see past distracting surface details to more fully understand a problem. And decision making by committee rather than individually can improve decisions in group contexts, as can making individuals more accountable for their decisions.13
In some domains, however, a better approach may be to work with, rather than against, our tendency to make decisions based on visceral reactions. In the health arena, this may involve appealing to people’s gist-based thinking. Doctors and the media bombard health consumers with numerical facts and data, yet according to Reyna, patients — like teenagers — tend initially to overestimate their risks; when they learn their risk for a particular disease is actually objectively lower than they thought, they become more complacent — for instance by forgoing screening. Instead, communicating the gist, “You’re at (some) risk, you should get screened because it detects disease early” may be a more powerful motivator to make the right decision than the raw numbers. And when statistics are presented, doing so in easy-to-grasp graphic formats rather than numerically can help patients (as well as physicians, who can be as statistically challenged as most laypeople) extract their own gists from the facts.14
Complacency is a problem when decisions involve issues that feel more remote from our daily lives — problems like global warming. The biggest obstacle to changing people’s individual behavior and collectively changing environmental policy, according to Columbia University decision scientist Elke Weber, is that people just aren’t scared of climate change. Being bombarded by facts and data about perils to come is not the same as having it affect us directly and immediately; in the absence of direct personal experience, our visceral decision system does not kick in to spur us to make better environmental choices such as buying more fuel-efficient vehicles.15
How should scientists and policymakers make climate change more immediate to people? Partly, it involves shifting from facts and data to experiential button-pressing. Powerful images of global warming and its effects can help. Unfortunately, according to research conducted by Yale environmental scientist Anthony A. Leisurowitz, the dominant images of global warming in Americans’ current consciousness are of melting ice and effects on nonhuman nature, not consequences that hit closer to home; as a result, people still think of global warming as only a moderate concern.16
Reframing options in terms that connect tangibly with people’s more immediate priorities, such as the social rules and norms they want to follow, is a way to encourage environmentally sound choices even in the absence of fear.17 For example, a study by Noah J. Goldstein (Univ. of Chicago), Robert B. Cialdini (Arizona State), and Vladas Griskevicius (Univ. of Minnesota) compared the effectiveness of different types of messages in getting hotel guests to reuse their towels rather than send them to the laundry. Messages framed in terms of social norms — “the majority of guests in this room reuse their towels” — were more effective than messages simply emphasizing the environmental benefits of reuse.18
Yet another approach to getting us to make the most beneficial decisions is to appeal to our natural laziness. If there is a default option, most people will accept it because it is easiest to do so — and because they may assume that the default is the best. University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler suggests using policy changes to shift default choices in areas like retirement planning. Because it is expressed as normal, most people begin claiming their Social Security benefits as soon as they are eligible, in their early to mid 60s — a symbolic retirement age but not the age at which most people these days are actually retiring. Moving up the “normal” retirement age to 70 — a higher anchor — would encourage people to let their money grow longer untouched.19
Making Decisions About the Environment
APS Fellow Elke Weber recently had the opportunity to discuss her research with others who share her concern about climate change, including scientists, activists, and the Dalai Lama. Weber . . . shared her research on why people fail to act on environmental problems. According to her, both cognitive and emotional barriers prevent us from acting on environmental problems. Cognitively, for example, a person’s attention is naturally focused on the present to allow for their immediate survival in dangerous surroundings. This present-focused attitude can discourage someone from taking action on long-term challenges such as climate change. Similarly, emotions such as fear can motivate people to act, but fear is more effective for responding to immediate threats. In spite of these challenges, Weber said that there are ways to encourage people to change their behavior. Because people often fail to act when they feel powerless, it’s important to share good as well as bad environmental news and to set measurable goals for the public to pursue. Also, said Weber, simply portraying reduced consumption as a gain rather than a loss in pleasure could inspire people to act.
7. Stanovich, K.E., & West, R.F. (2000). Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate.
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 23, 645–665.
8. Reyna, V.F., & Lloyd, F. (2006). Physician decision making and cardiac risk: Effects of knowledge, risk perception, risk
tolerance, and fuzzy processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12, 179–195.
9. Reyna, V.F. (2004). How people make decisions that involve risk: A dual-processes approach. Current Directions in
Psychological Science, 13, 60–66.
10. Baird, A.A., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2004). The emergence of consequential thought: Evidence from neuroscience.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 359, 1797–1804.
11. Reyna, VF., & Farley, F. (2006). Risk and rationality in adolescent decision making. Psychological Science in the Public
Interest, 7, 1–44.
12. Milkman, K.L., Chugh, D., & Bazerman, M.H. (2009). How can decision making be improved? Perspectives on
Psychological Science, 4, 379–383.
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not scare us (yet). Climatic Change, 77, 103–120.
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Climatic Change, 77, 45–72.
17. Weber, E.U. (2010). What shapes perceptions of climate change? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1,
18. Goldstein, N.J., Cialdini, R.B., & Griskevicius, V. (2008). A room with a viewpoint: Using social norms to motivate
environmental conservation in hotels. Journal of Consumer Research, 35. Downloaded from http://www.csom.umn.edu/assets/118359.pdf
19. Thaler, R.H. (2011, July 16). Getting the Most Out of Social Security. The New York Times. Downloaded from
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The Situation of “Opting Out”
Dan Kahneman on Fast and Slow Thinking
Dan Kahneman on the Situation of Experience and Memory
Dan Kahneman on the Situation of Well-Being,
Dan Kahneman on the Situation of Intuition,
Dan Kahneman’s Situation,
The Situation of Financial Risk-Taking,
Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part I,
Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part II.
Nicole Stephens on “Choice, Social Class, and Agency”
Sheena Iyengar on the Art of Choosing
Just Choose It!
Sheena Iyengar on the Situation of Choice,
The Blame Frame – Abstract,
Sheena Iyengar’s Situation and the Situation of Choosing,
Sheena Iyengar on ‘The Multiple Choice Problem,’
‘Situation’ Trumps ‘Disposition’- Part II
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The Ultimate Answer
Create your happiness formula
by polyachka in Happiness Tags: Siberia
I was 8 years old, when my whole family moved to spend one year in the depth of Siberia by the biggest lake on Earth – Baikal. I was very excited about the change, because everything was drastically different. Moss covered giant rocks, massive fir trees, toilet outside, cross country skiing for physical exercise at school and my first very warm black astrakhan fur coat.
If you looked at our settlement from above you would see a bunch of small houses scattered along the river and surrounded by the mountains, that seemed green and friendly in the summer when we arrived but were deadly in the winter for a stranger lost in taiga without compass. We had school, kindergarten, club where they showed movies and the store where you can buy food and some clothes but not very much as everything was brought from somewhere else. We also had an athletics club. One day I went to gymnastics session, they told me to do split and bridge. I faltered and hurt myself, they sent me home. But my mom arranged musical lessons for me at the club house, where I had access to an old piano. Musical teacher gave me private lessons twice a week and I was very proud I was learning to play piano. I made friends and we spent evenings running around the settlement and playing games, mainly spy games. One day at school we had a gathering with all classes standing straight in front of the flag and the teaching staff, the school director told us that our schoolmate wrote a letter to the president of the United States, asking him to stop war, as all children in the world don’t want war, they want peace. What was really shocking is that the president replied saying that adults don’t want war either and that they will do all they can to live in peace. I couldn’t believe bravery of that small boy, who was my age and who wrote a letter like that and send it! I couldn’t even imagine how many months it takes for that letter to travel through all the mountains and oceans, other countries all the way to America, find the president and go back, six months?
In that one year, there were other unreal things that happened to me and around me. Getting lost in the woods short enough just to feel the thrill of adventure and be found, going cedar nuts gathering and fighting off squirrels, finding my mom sinking in marshes during blueberry crusade, spending hours at swings in white nights, playing in the ice castles created by Mother Nature on the river and skipping school when snow was above the roof. Bu the most unreal of all was Maslenitsa or Butter Week. It was a holiday like no other.
Before that year my family never celebrated it, because we were from the place with mild rainy winters and palm trees around. Maslennitsa is a sun festival, celebrating the imminent end of the winter. Happening right before Lent, it is a fest for your stomach and whole body.
Our parents took us with them to the main square by the club house. Tables were set up so that you could find pirogis, blinis and pancakes with sour cream, jam and butter. What clearly imprinted in my memory is a tall wooden pillar in the middle of the square. Brave men had to climb it in order to get the prize, a TV set in a box hanging at the top of it! If you climb up high enough and touch the TV set, it is yours. There was a rumor among us children that to make it harder organizers covered the stem of the pillar with wax, which makes contestants slide down. I was watching two men climbing the pillar breathlessly with admiration. What if they fall? They may kill themselves! But now we all know how brave they are! My family didn’t have a TV set then and I secretly wished that my dad climbed too and won, then all would know that he is the best! But he said it was impossible and at the end no one got the TV.
It was very cold, maybe -4F, but you didn’t feel it, as everyone was busy taking to the neighbors, laughing, dancing, eating, playing other games, like snowball fights, or pancake speed eating, and finally burning of the Maslenitsa doll. I ate some blinis too but mainly watched adults around us, who looked like beautiful women and strong brave men from a Russian folk tale. It was their holiday, their faces were red and glowing. Boring and serious adults disappeared, just like children adults were happy and having fun.
The year after we returned home, because my dad finished building his part of the railway. Looking at the black and white photos taken that year, my sister doesn’t remember anything, she was only 4 years old, but I remember it all.
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“What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!” ~ Kurt Vonnegut 7 years ago
"What is essential is invisible to the eyes, it only looks good with the heart" ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 7 years ago
RT @SMNewTech: New #SMNT6 event is scheduled in January meetu.ps/qLJcW! :) 7 years ago
"Only strong men have the power to transform adversity into an opportunity to capture what they dream of" ~Beatriz Diez Canseco 7 years ago
"You can only be happy when you know to always be happy with everything" ~Confucius 7 years ago
Great article about #SMNT4 @CrossCampus by @crush_the_box 7 years ago
"Do not ask for things to happen as we wish. Accept events as they happen in reality. So get peace" ~Epictetus 7 years ago
Create your happiness formula and other cool stuff by Heather Martin bit.ly/XwHmQJ 7 years ago
"... blind trust is unnerving but when you are true to yourself ...you also set yourself free" ~Lala 7 years ago
"God has a purpose for all us, we don't have to figure it out, we just have to trust him or her..." 7 years ago
"Overcome fear and be amazed how your world is transformed" ~Aeschylus 7 years ago
"The most important degree you possess is Human University" ~ @hunterwalk linkd.in/SIVXWl 7 years ago
"Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end" ~ Sonny, "The best exotic Marigold Hotel" 7 years ago
"Not enough to acquire wisdom, one must still know how to use it" ~Cicero 7 years ago
Why some people are more resilient than others? qr.ae/8Loot 7 years ago
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Combat at Sea
Follow the course of 20th century rescue missions, and reveals the strategies that keep fighting forces alive. Witness the largest rescue mission in history when a volunteer armada rescues trapped soldiers at Dunkirk in WWII.
Military, Documentary, Series, History
The Gunboats
The Admirals
Carrier Victory
Great Carrier Battles Of WWII
Amphibious Assault
WWII Pacific Heroes
The Battleships
Naval Aviators
Shows from Beyond
Air Combat covers the history of military aviation from World War I to the present day, focusing on famous aerial engagements, heroic pilots and a dramatic array of aircraft from Harrier Jump Jets to B-52 Bombers.
All For One with Debbie Travis
Canada's beloved home renovating icon and best-selling author Debbie Travis travels across the country attempting to bring communities together.
Buy Me follows the behind-the-scenes drama of real people trying to sell their homes in North America.
Combat at Sea combines exciting archival and modern footage with superior reporting to relive great sea battles, explore naval strategy and counter-strategy, and tell the stories of mighty warships and the men who commanded them.
Out In The Cold
When it's -37 Celsius outside and the wind is howling, most of us would do anything to avoid leaving our cozy homes and going to work. But for a handful of individuals living in the extremes of the Arctic, going out in those conditions is their work.
The Stagers
Follow Canada's home stagers - transforming drab homes that just won't sell into luxurious living spaces that have the potential to spark all-out bidding wars.
Beyond Episodes
Hear the dramatic stories of the ships that go where the large ones can't. Witness the daring, dramatic rescue of General MacArthur by a squadron of PT boats in WWII. Relive the dangerous gunboat patrols through the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
Mother-and-daughter staging team Maureen and Bridget have four days to transform a dated two-bedroom apartment in Vancouver's West End.
Home and Garden, Series, Reality, Lifestyle
Design team Bridget and Maureen must stage a small 1920's-era house that is located in a desirable neighborhood, but that has an awkward lay out.
Cold Wheels
Barry Kennedy is about to do something that no sane driving instructor would ever advise... jumping on the brakes at high speed on sheer glare ice.
Society and Culture, Documentary, Series
Matthew must stage an opulent, two-story penthouse suite that belongs to a wealthy entrepreneur.
The story of two of history's greatest admirals, Japan's Isoroku Yamamoto and the United States' Chester Nimitz, and how they led their fleets in the battle for the Pacific in World War II.
Fish Bowl In The Sky
Outspoken stager Matthew Finlason has only four days to turn to sterile 800 square-foot condo - that is still under construction - into a warm living space.
Two Teddy Bears in a Gingerbread House
After running a little B&B out of their century-old home for years, Ephraim and Yves want a change: a bigger place, more rooms, and parking!! Their agent's stuck with a double-whammy - a high price and only 90 days to sell.
Iceberg Cowboys
Barry Kennedy travels to the remote reaches of Newfoundland's Iceberg Alley and goes on a hunt with a very special group of mariners known as Iceberg Cowboys.
Society and Culture, Series, Documentary
Barry Kennedy gets his hands dirty (really dirty) when he assists Dr. Michelle Oakley as she does a full bison autopsy out in the wild. Watch them meet the challenges of handling big game and big chills at the same time.
Ice Pilots
Barry Kennedy heads north with the bush pilots whose skill and fearlessness makes survival possible for countless others living in the remote north. Landing on frozen lakes and rivers, pilots fly in supplies and fly out the injured.
Rancher Revival
Bridget and Brent team up to stage a house in desperate need of an update. With '70s-style wood paneling, mauve carpets and embossed floral wallpaper, the stagers certainly have their work cut out for them
A Tale Of Two Condos
Mother and daughter duo Maureen and Bridget are challenged to stage not one, but two cramped condos simultaneously! At 465 and 797 square feet respectively, prospective buyers are going to have a difficult time imagining how to live there.
The Viagra Generation
An up-to-the-minute investigation into Viagra, its clones and other sex-enhancing products that are changing sexual behaviour.
Zen and Now
Three years ago, Yvonne and Milo sold their "tropical jungle" condo on Buy Me. They planned to build the house of their dreams. We meet up with them as they put their customized two million dollar Zen palace on the market. What went wrong?
In the wake of the Asian Tsunami this powerful documentary explores the science of compassion.
Society and Culture, Documentary
The story of the strategic change in the aircraft carrier's role as support vessel prior to World War II. Watch as the Japanese and Americans race for supremacy of this new offensive weapon.
Dog Musher
We go to the dogs when we visit Frank Turner of Muktuk Adventures to learn what dog mushing is all about. In addition to the dog mushing, Barry gets a taste of what it's like to care for over 100 irrepressible snow-loving sled dogs.
Watch the aircraft carrier's rise to dominance during crucial engagements of WWII. From the attack on Italian battleships anchored at Taranto to Pearl Harbour to the Doolittle Raids.
Military, Documentary, History, Series
Pharma Sutra
This is the story of the search for the female equivalent of Viagra. Meet the strong characters, the women, the schemers, radicals, and brainiacs behind one of the biggest drug stories of the century.
The greatest triumphs of these ships in 20th century naval battles. See the destroyer used in every theatre in WWII, from shore bombardment at the beaches in Normandy on D-Day to fending off Kamikaze attacks at Okinawa.
Recount dramatic shore assaults from the disaster of Gallipoli to the massive D-Day invasion of WWII.
Empty Nest Syndrome
If Bonnie really wanted to sell her house, it would be sold. Instead, she fired her first two agents, and then tried selling it herself. With her daughter away at university, maybe this time she'll be able to let go.
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Dialogue Volume 14 Issue 3 2018 - Page 38
DISCIPLINE SUMMARIES ORDER The Discipline Committee ordered: immediate revo- cation of Dr. Ghabbour’s certificate of registration; a reprimand; and payment to the College for costs in the amount of $11,000. For complete details of the Order, please see the full decision at www.cpso.on.ca. Select Find a Doctor and enter the doctor’s name. At the conclusion of the hearing, Dr. Ghabbour waived his right to an appeal and the Committee administered the public reprimand. DR. MORY MAYER GUTMAN PRACTICE LOCATION: Toronto AREA OF PRACTICE: General Practice HEARING INFORMATION: Admission, Agreed Statement of Facts, Contested Penalty On August 24, 2017, the Discipline Committee found that Dr. Gutman committed an act of profes- sional misconduct in that he has engaged in conduct or an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as dis- graceful, dishonourable or unprofessional. Previous Discipline History with the College In 2011, an Order of the Discipline Committee pro- hibited Dr. Gutman from prescribing narcotic drugs/ preparations, controlled drugs, benzodiazepines and other targeted substances and he was prohibited from engaging in professional encounters with any female patients. Prescribing Contrary to the Discipline Committee’s Restrictions In January of 2013, the College received information from a pharmacist that Dr. Gutman had prescribed testosterone gel, which is a controlled substance, to a male patient in 2012 and 2013, contrary to the terms of his prescribing restriction. In May 2014, the Inquiries, Complaints and Re- 38 DIALOGUE ISSUE 3, 2018 ports Committee (ICRC) advised Dr. Gutman to be vigilant to ensure that he does not breach the terms of his certificate of registration. In 2016, information from the Narcotics Moni- toring System (NMS) for the time period of April 1, 2013 to August 13, 2015, was received by the College, raising concerns that Dr. Gutman had prescribed contrary to the terms of the Discipline Committee Order. The College commenced an investigation, which found that Dr. Gutman prescribed the following con- trolled substances: • Dr. Gutman prescribed ten repeats of testosterone gel to Patient A in October 2012. He was unaware that testosterone was a controlled substance and therefore a medication he was prohibited from prescribing. • Dr. Gutman prescribed Sublinox to: atient B on two occasions in October 2014; – P atient C on three occasions in September 2014; – P atient D on two occasions (with 8 refills on a – P second occasion) in October 2014; – P atient E on two occasions in February 2014 and in April 2016; – P atient F on two occasions in October 2014 and April 2016. D r. Gutman was unaware that Sublinox was a controlled substance and therefore a medication that he was prohibited from prescribing. The prescrib- ing occurred prior to a pharmacist bringing to his attention that this substance was designated as a controlled drug. • Dr. Gutman authorized eight refills of phenobarbi- tal to an elderly patient who suffers from intellec- tual impairment and seizures in March 2014. Dr. Gutman was aware that phenobarbital is a con- trolled substance at the time he prescribed it. The prescribing occurred in error when Dr. Gutman was renewing batch prescriptions of medication prescribed by the patient’s previous physician. • Dr. Gutman prescribed Clobazam to a young man with recurrent seizures, on one occasion in Febru-
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So you might have heard of this 'Trade War' thing going on between the US and China. Regardless of what you think of it, the Trump tariffs are a consumption tax that most heavily affects middle class American consumers. Last month, an existing 10% tax on Chinese imports were raised to 25%. Nationwide, the currently imposed tariffs are expected to increase consumer costs by $69 billion annually in the US.
The Good News:
Rare earth magnets and minerals have luckily been on the exemption list for these tariffs. Hurray! Being that rare earth magnets are critical to high tech and green energy products and there's basically no rare earth magnet production in the US except for military purposes, applying a tariff would not spurr local production, it would only be America shooting itself in the foot.
The Bad News:
Even though import taxes have not been raised on our magnets, China controls 95% of the world's rare earth supplies. Beijing thus far has only faintly suggested that it will use rare earth limitations in retaliation. Though it's unlikely there will be an outright ban of high powered magnet exports, even the threat of limiting exports of rare earth magnets from China has caused a massive spike in both demand and price.
What's does this mean for the future of Zen Magnets? In the extremely unlikely even that China does ban rare earth magnet exports, the end of Zen Magnets will be a small blip in a global economic devastation. But more likely than a ban, rare earth metal prices will rise. Hopefully though, people chill out, neodymium prices stabilize, and we won't need to raise prices or drastically change our business model.
Golden Tickets
There are two Golden Tickets already out in the wild, yet neither have been redeemed for Mandala Sets! Unless someone is hoarding them for aesthetic value (they look really pretty), two of you need to investigate your Mystery Box V3 contents closer. (Hint: It's hidden between magnets and and a metal plate ;-) See if Golden Tickets have been redeemed by checking the #mandalawinner hashtag on Twitter or Instagram.
By the way, we've released another batch of Mystery Sets after the first 200 sold out within 12 hours of release, which does mean a third Golden Ticket released to the wild.
Mystery Box V3
In addition to the daily Zen gallery rewards, feel free to participate in the contests. Last month's contest had 23 entries, but the one before that lured only 4 entries. All entries for the current pen-holder contest are due this upcoming Sunday, and the prize pool is $300.
Lastly, the bounty is soon to be $400 on the homopolar motor contest. Give it a shot if you think you can wrangle both magnetism and route electricity using only magnet spheres of various coating.
Contests.ZenMagnets.com
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Changes in Right Ventricular Structure and Function Assessed Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Bosentan-Treated Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Kelly M Chin, Martha Kingman, James A de Lemos, John J Warner, Sharon C Reimold, Ronald M Peshock, Fernando Torres
Pulmonary & Critical Care Med
Radiology - Informatics - Administration
Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) usually show improvements in symptoms, exercise capacity, and hemodynamics after treatment with approved medical therapies. This study sought to determine whether improvement in right-sided cardiac function measured using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging would also be seen and whether these changes would correlate with improvement in exercise capacity. Sixteen patients with PAH underwent evaluation at baseline and after 12 months of treatment with bosentan. After treatment, cardiac index, pulmonary vascular resistance, and 6-minute walk distance improved, and there was a trend toward improvement in right ventricular (RV) stroke volume (70 ± 27 to 81 ± 30 ml; p = 0.08), but no change in RV ejection fraction (RVEF) or RV end-diastolic volume. Six-minute walk distance improved by 59 m (p <0.05) in the overall cohort and improved more in patients in whom RVEF increased compared with those with stable or decreased RVEF (+98 vs -37 m, respectively; p = 0.01). Three patients died during follow-up, and these patients had significantly lower RVEF and left ventricular end-diastolic volume indexes than surviving patients. In conclusion, these results suggest that cardiac magnetic resonance imaging may have value in determining response to therapy and prognosis in patients with PAH.
American Journal of Cardiology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.01.055
Right Ventricular Function
Chin, K. M., Kingman, M., de Lemos, J. A., Warner, J. J., Reimold, S. C., Peshock, R. M., & Torres, F. (2008). Changes in Right Ventricular Structure and Function Assessed Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Bosentan-Treated Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Cardiology, 101(11), 1669-1672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.01.055
Changes in Right Ventricular Structure and Function Assessed Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Bosentan-Treated Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. / Chin, Kelly M; Kingman, Martha; de Lemos, James A; Warner, John J; Reimold, Sharon C; Peshock, Ronald M; Torres, Fernando.
In: American Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 101, No. 11, 01.06.2008, p. 1669-1672.
Chin, KM, Kingman, M, de Lemos, JA, Warner, JJ, Reimold, SC, Peshock, RM & Torres, F 2008, 'Changes in Right Ventricular Structure and Function Assessed Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Bosentan-Treated Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension', American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 101, no. 11, pp. 1669-1672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.01.055
Chin KM, Kingman M, de Lemos JA, Warner JJ, Reimold SC, Peshock RM et al. Changes in Right Ventricular Structure and Function Assessed Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Bosentan-Treated Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Cardiology. 2008 Jun 1;101(11):1669-1672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.01.055
Chin, Kelly M ; Kingman, Martha ; de Lemos, James A ; Warner, John J ; Reimold, Sharon C ; Peshock, Ronald M ; Torres, Fernando. / Changes in Right Ventricular Structure and Function Assessed Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Bosentan-Treated Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. In: American Journal of Cardiology. 2008 ; Vol. 101, No. 11. pp. 1669-1672.
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Santa Ana City Council Set to Vote Today on Controversial Apartments Proposal
JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
Lawn signs in Park Santiago neighborhood in Santa Ana.
By Brandon Pho | November 19, 2019
Santa Ana City Council members today will decide the fate of a controversial apartment complex proposal, one that’s mobilized the opposition of nearby homeowners, who say the project is still too large to move forward despite much downscaling by the developer.
Today’s vote comes after more than two years of protests and uncertainty among city officials and residents surrounding the project, which prompted numerous revisions to it by developer Ryan Ogulnick and his team at Vineyards Development Corp.
Over the last two years, Ogulnick has shrunk the scale of the planned building at 2525 N. Main St. — located in the city’s Park Santiago neighborhood — from an early iteration of more than 500 proposed apartments to now 256 apartments. Ogulnick at community meetings and in previous statements to Voice of OC has said his company has never downsized a project to this extent before.
“The developer has made some concessions,” said City Councilwoman Ceci Iglesias in a phone interview. “The concerns residents have expressed, according to the information we received from staff, have been addressed.”
But residents in the nearby area remain worried the project’s density would still be one of the highest in the city next to single-family homes, on top of a current plan for 511 parking spaces — an average of two parking spaces per apartment.
Since Vineyards submitted its initial proposal in October 2017, the City Council has sent the project back to the Planning Commission, which in turn has rejected the project on three different occasions.
“It’s wrong in so many ways, this project.”said resident Dale Helvig, who helped organize the neighborhood’s opposition to the project.
Helvig’s group, known as the North Santa Ana Preservation Alliance, has mobilized the project’s critics to turn up to City Council meetings in large numbers. He said members of his group and residents from all over the city will be at tonight’s meeting.
Throughout the process, Ogulnick has attempted to appease homeowners with promises to spend over $1 million on improvements and maintenance of the neighborhood’s park, as well as hiring 24-hour security to patrol around the building and the entire Park Santiago area.
It remains to be seen how the Council will vote.
Today’s meeting will be the first one for newly-elected candidate Phil Bacerra, who previously ran for and lost the seat in the 2018 election cycle. That year saw around $320,000 in dark money spent in the election — part of which was in opposition of Bacerra.
Bacerra over the phone declined to say which way he was leaning on the project.
Voice of OC previously reported that the campaign committee that handled the dark money spent against Bacerra was managed by a Northern California resident with family connections to a Santa Ana lobbyist for the 2525 N. Main St. project.
Ogulnick has repeatedly denied any involvement with the dark money group.
Bacerra — who has since been elected to the seat in this year’s special election following the resignation of his former opponent Roman Reyna — has in the past said he wouldn’t have supported the project for its location in Park Santiago, while indicating there would be better sites for it in other parts of the city in this YouTube video from his campaign page.
He also in this year’s special election got the endorsement of Park Santiago resident and former council member Rob Richardson, as well as former council members Tom Lutz and Alberta Christy, who are all opposed to the project.
Richardson, Lutz and Christy — along with fellow former council members Dan Griset, Lisa Mills, and Brett Franklin — sent a letter this week to Mayor Miguel Pulido and the rest of the City Council urging them to strike down the apartments plan.
“In our experience, the number of development issues that have had this level of opposition and consistent advocacy over the past 30 years can be numbered on perhaps one hand,” the council members’ letter reads.
It goes on to describe the potential precedence the project’s approval could set: “Should you decide to approve an unwanted project after all that has transpired over two years … The larger consequence of putting the corrupting campaign money ahead of the quality of our neighborhoods is significant.”
It continues: “Who among you will stand up for Logan, Sandpointe, Santa Anita, Wilshire Square, French Park, Saddleback View, Memorial Park, Washington Square or any other neighborhood you could name when their turn comes to battle an unwanted development backed by corrupting campaign money from dark sources and out of town interests?”
Now that Bacerra’s filled the vacant Ward 4 seat, Helvig said “it removes the possibility of a tied vote and sending it back to the Planning Commission a fourth time.”
Helvig said the project — on top of its controversial nature — has “turned heavily into Santa Ana politics,” adding that the Council’s upcoming decision on the project could determine “how we’re going to deal with these situations going forward.”
“If it comes down to how much money a developer has to throw at issues,” he added, Santa Ana neighborhoods “are going to lose.”
Brandon Pho is a Voice of OC intern. Contact him at bpho@voiceofoc.org or on Twitter @photherecord.
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Councilman Juan Villegas, who also works as a special officer at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, is publicly alleging that one the key people behind the controversial 2525 N. Main St. project admitted to him their involvement in a dark money campaign to influence the 2018 Santa Ana city council elections – which involved hiding $320,000 in campaign money through a shell company.
Helvig: Vineyard Development Continues to Force Its Will on Santa Ana
Long time Santa Ana resident Dale Helvig argues that the developer of 2525 Main Street must seek a zone change in order to build high density units. Residents of the North Santa Ana Preservation Alliance have been protesting this development.
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Tarot Productions' Albano deck boxes - House of White Tarot Museum & Research Library
House of White Tarot Museum & Research Library / Decks / Tarot Productions’ Albano deck boxes
Tarot Productions’ Albano deck boxes
Dusty White 30.03.2016 Decks, Frankie Albano decks
Tarot Productions, Inc. (aka Frankie Albano et. cie) created and published one (and only one) tarot deck in a variety of sizes and boxes. Frank’s passion was the correction of University Book’s (and essentially Art’s—or Pam’s) color scheme. One deck was created in various sizes and formats to best distribute this new vision of the tarot: “a correct one.” Then these various sizes and formats were printed in an “Accurate Color Tone” and later a “New Color Deluxe Edition.” This necessitated various boxes. While they all look the same for the most part, it is small details on the front, backs, and flaps of the boxes that help us determine which boxes came earlier or later than others, and thus decipher the order Tarot Productions, Inc. published their decks.
To find out what decks, and boxes, were printed in what order we have had to enlist the aid of collectors and researchers all over the world, and do some old fashioned detective work on Frankie Albano and tarot Productions, Inc. A more thorough search of old business records in Hollywood California might help, but what has been most enlightening are the various addresses on the boxes and years of hands-on experience in cottage industry retail, manufacturing, and design. There are certain “facts of life” at this level of enterprise that corporations and consumers never have to encounter, and thus never understand. Piecing this puzzle together armed with this knowledge helps our research team create a most-likely case scenario. If we get better intel we will update our findings here. Until then, this is what we know:
The term “Tarot Press” is found on an anti-war poster made in Hollywood (at 716 N. Fairfax, just a block north of Melrose) in 1967, and in the instruction booklet for Frankie Albano’s Tarot Wheel which was also made in 1967, even though the booklet gives a date of January 30th, 1968. This gives us the oldest known address and gives argument that the original name of Frankie’s business was “Tarot Press.” The switch to “Tarot Productions” seems to occur in the 1967/1968 area, with both operations running simultaneously, or one business going by both names before Frankie incorporated and gave the whole thing the name “Tarot Productions, Inc.”
The first run by all accounts appears to be the “Accurate Color Tone” version of the standard sized deck with the address 8006 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. 90046. Note the term “Cal” for California. When I was growing up in Los Angeles (circa 1968 onward) it was always confusing whether we were supposed to use “Cal.” or “Calif.” Eventually the state settled on “Ca.” or “CA,” but that was years later. In later deck printings the boxes will say “Calif.”
Two other things stand out on this box. The front (with the image of The Sun on the cover) has no words printed on it other than those found in the card itself. In later decks this will change. The other anomaly is that the top flap is printed upside down. If the deck is laying face up the words on the top flap are face up. This also means that if the deck is standing up on a shelf, facing out (in a store for example), the words on the top flap are “upside down” to the customer. This changes in all other decks. This leads me to believe that this “Accurate Color tone” version of the regular sized deck was the first appearance of Albano’s vision of the tarot. This deck came with an “ivory”, or “beige,” covered LWB. Later editions would have the goldenrod cover.
From here the next printing seems to be the “Miniature Tarot Cards®.” Okay, this brings up a problematic point . . . The title (Miniature Tarot Cards) has an ® next to it. I should point out that the first run of the Albano — Waite tarot deck also has an ® next to it, making it look like this on the box: “Albano — Waite®” meaning that Frankie spent the time and money registering the trademarks with the U.S. government. This means that the term “Albano — Waite” (when used to describe a style of deck) is owned by Frankie Albano, and Tarot Productions, as well as the term “miniature tarot cards.” The ® next to the words “Albano — Waite” appears only on the first run of the standard deck (see above), the first run of the “Miniature Tarot Cards®,” and the (soon to come) giant 22-card deck. On other (later) decks this ® does not appear.
This brings up my years (of experience) in design and manufacturing. You don’t run (print die cut, separate, stack, glue together, fold, and stuff) packaging boxes for your product ten at a time, or even a hundred at a time. You do them a thousand at a time, and if you want to seriously cut your manufacturing costs you run five or ten thousand at a time. The cost of printing just 5,000 boxes is almost the same as printing 2,000, because of the massive price discounts you get in volume. Boxes are a specialty item that requires accurate color registration and precise die cutting. “This ain’t cheap folks,” even if you (or Frankie) farm out the printing to companies that specialize in playing cards and boxes. Your deck has a specific thickness (unlike generic playing cards), and you also have to take into account the thickness of the LWB. So, the rrrrreallly short version of this nerdy analysis goes like this: Frankie had to run at least 500 to 1,000 boxes per design, at an absolute minimum, if he ever expected to escape the red and find his way into the black. This goes for decks as well. With these (savagely conservative) numbers we can see that this shows several print runs over the course of a few years, showing that “not every deck came out in 1968.”
So, where were we?
The first “Albano — Waite®” “Miniature Tarot Cards®” (with “Accurate Color Tone”) did not list an address, but the later (“New Color Deluxe edition”) deck did. That deck listed an address of P.O. Box 46265, Los Angeles, Calif. 90046. This address would appear on all subsequent boxes.
One caveat that could usurp the idea that the first “deck” address was at 8006 Melrose is a deck that sold on Etsy in 2015 with no address printed on the box (just like the first run of the miniature cards), but has a gold address label sticker that reads “Tarot Productions, Inc. 579 North Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, Calif. 90004. The problem with that address is that it simply no longer exists (it is currently a bush). So, what if this was the second address (Tarot Press on Fairfax being the first), and then 8006 Melrose, and then the P.O. Box? It is enough to make your head spin.
All of the future decks are labeled “New Color Deluxe Edition,” and have the P.O. Box address on them. Other than the “Miniature Tarot Cards®” each box now has a caption telling you what is inside the box. This is especially helpful when buying a deck on eBay, as you can tell that this is a later printing. The standard deck now says “* With Instructions” unless it has no LWB, in which case the back cover will have the words “THIS BOX DOES NOT INCLUDE INSTRUCTIONS” (in caps of course). Other boxes will have the words “THIS BOX INCLUDES FULLY ILLUSTRATED INSTRUCTION BOOK” on the back, and still others will not have any words on the back at all indicating whether or not your deck comes with a toy surprise. It gets confusing, so there are pictures below. The current hypothesis for “the order of the Albano product addresses” are (all in Hollywood by the way):
716 N. Fairfax (Posters)
P.O. Box 265 (Tarot Wheel)
(?) 579 North Vermont Ave. (Decks: Accurate Color Tone editions)
8006 Melrose Ave. (Decks: Accurate Color Tone editions)
P.O. Box 46265 (Decks: Deluxe editions)
Other Frankie Albano creations
Frank R. Albano (a.k.a. Tarot Productions, Inc. of Hollywood circa 1968) created a few things we know of with certainty, and some things we are still researching. Facts first, then fun stuff (links lead to item-specific pages):
1967 Tarot Wheel
1968-ish Trumps only 22-card deck
1968-ish Trumps only 22-card GIANT deck
1968-ish Tarot Productions miniature deck
1968 Tarot Productions PKTT/*LWB
Then there are the records . . .
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Developing and evaluation of an advanced electric micro bus transportation system: Part 2: Advanced on-demand bus system
Morimasa Hayashida, Takeshi Mizuma, Hiroyuki Ohno, Kazuyuki Narusawa, Yasuhiro Sato, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Daisho, Yushi Kamiya, Kaori Takahashi
Research Organization for Next Generation Vehicles
Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering
An advanced on-demand bus system was developed as a part of the project of the "Advanced Electric Micro Bus Transportation System". The on-demand system for buses utilizes an advanced ITS and associated technologies, and it consists of three subsystems. One is the subsystem of wireless communication and navigation in which GPS and limited low-power wireless are applied for flexible operation of bus according to the demands from passengers' mobile phones. Another is the subsystem of traffic simulation to predict the driving condition of buses and other motor vehicles on road for managing the time schedule of the bus operation and estimating energy consumption. The other is the subsystem of estimation of the number of passengers in the model area. Some instruments of the on-demand system were set on the WEB, and the proving tests with actual bus operations were carried out at the model area in Honjo city of Saitama prefecture. For the tests, four normal bus stops and three on-demand bus stops were set in the city area. With this advanced on-demand bus system, the most appropriate route was selected out from the prescribed eight routes in accordance with the passengers' requests. As a result, the designed performances of the on-demand system were confirmed, and the conveniences for passengers' mobility were evaluated.
22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, EVS 2006
22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, EVS 2006 - Yokohama
Duration: 2006 Oct 23 → 2006 Oct 28
Hayashida, M., Mizuma, T., Ohno, H., Narusawa, K., Sato, Y., Yamaguchi, T., ... Takahashi, K. (2006). Developing and evaluation of an advanced electric micro bus transportation system: Part 2: Advanced on-demand bus system. In 22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, EVS 2006 (pp. 115-126)
Developing and evaluation of an advanced electric micro bus transportation system : Part 2: Advanced on-demand bus system. / Hayashida, Morimasa; Mizuma, Takeshi; Ohno, Hiroyuki; Narusawa, Kazuyuki; Sato, Yasuhiro; Yamaguchi, Tomohiro; Daisho, Yasuhiro; Kamiya, Yushi; Takahashi, Kaori.
22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, EVS 2006. 2006. p. 115-126.
Hayashida, M, Mizuma, T, Ohno, H, Narusawa, K, Sato, Y, Yamaguchi, T, Daisho, Y, Kamiya, Y & Takahashi, K 2006, Developing and evaluation of an advanced electric micro bus transportation system: Part 2: Advanced on-demand bus system. in 22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, EVS 2006. pp. 115-126, 22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, EVS 2006, Yokohama, 06/10/23.
Hayashida M, Mizuma T, Ohno H, Narusawa K, Sato Y, Yamaguchi T et al. Developing and evaluation of an advanced electric micro bus transportation system: Part 2: Advanced on-demand bus system. In 22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, EVS 2006. 2006. p. 115-126
Hayashida, Morimasa ; Mizuma, Takeshi ; Ohno, Hiroyuki ; Narusawa, Kazuyuki ; Sato, Yasuhiro ; Yamaguchi, Tomohiro ; Daisho, Yasuhiro ; Kamiya, Yushi ; Takahashi, Kaori. / Developing and evaluation of an advanced electric micro bus transportation system : Part 2: Advanced on-demand bus system. 22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, EVS 2006. 2006. pp. 115-126
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Microsoft Agreement Pushes E-Book Standards
By John Makulowich, Senior Writer
Microsoft Corp. officials seized the occasion of the first federally sponsored meeting on electronic books to reveal that the software giant is pushing technical standards for the still evolving industry.
Referred to as eBook by Microsoft but E-Book by organizers of the conference this month in Gaithersburg, Md., electronic books are digital versions of printed books and are displayed on customized reading devices or PCs and laptops.
Sponsored by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Video Electronic Standards Association, "Electronic Book '98: Turning a New Page in Knowledge Management," attracted nearly 350 attendees, a veritable who's who in the developing field.
A major goal of the Oct. 8-9 conference was to identify issues relating to standards and interoperability for the emerging technology.
But in a quickly convened news conference at the event, Microsoft officials said the company is joining publishing firms, electronics manufacturers and pioneers in the market for electronic books "to establish an important set of open technical standards and help strengthen this emerging industry."
The Microsoft agreement amounts to the willingness of a small number of companies to collaborate on a common set of file specifications. This should let users view a title on any machine conforming to these standards.
Also, it will allow publishers to reach a wider audience since they will not have to reformat their titles for each machine on which they are viewed.
"The goal is to create as many titles as possible and win as many customers as possible as fast as possible," said Dick Brass, vice president for technology development at Microsoft Corp. and the person who leads its electronic book efforts.
Brass said the standard that the group would release in the coming weeks would be used to help develop the next generation of electronic books.
Working with Microsoft are publishers Bertelsmann, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., Microsoft Press, Penguin Putnam Inc., Simon & Schuster and Time-Warner Books; the online book seller barnesandnoble.com; the manufacturer Hitachi Ltd.; Audible Inc., a leading distributor of audiobooks on the World Wide Web; and electronic book firms Everybook Inc., Glassbook Inc., Librius Inc., NuvoMedia Inc. and SoftBook Press Inc.
Microsoft officials said more firms will be joining the standards effort in the near future.
Part of the interest in the electronic book market stems from the potential revenue it could generate for major players.
According to data gathered by the Association of American Publishers, U.S. book sales amounted to more than $21 billion in 1997. That was a 2.4 percent increase over 1996. One firm, Veronis, Suhler, and Associates estimated the potential market for electronic books at $70 billion a year.
Brass stressed that the Microsoft strategy for an open electronic book standard involved moving quickly to create a critical mass of titles and readers.
He said the key questions are: how fast can the industry turn this into reality, and how to convince hardware manufacturers to come on board with products.
Brass told the attendees to expect a firm specification from the Microsoft-led standards group by the first quarter of 1999.
According to Brass, the specification for eBook file and format structure is based on the HTML and XML languages used to format Web documents.
The specification will be free when it is released. It will allow many different types of electronic book devices to be compatible.
Such devices would include standard PCs and laptops and specialized reading appliances which are just now starting to come on the market.
The Microsoft announcement on the standards group fit well with the theme set in the keynote address delivered by Ray Kammer, director of NIST.
Kammer alerted attendees to the downside of failing to come to consensus on standards.
"Right now, [the International Organization for Standardization] and [the International Electrotechnical Commission] consider themselves to be the nearly exclusive guardians for international standards. In too many instances and in too many ways, U.S. firms are losing ground in the increasingly market-critical world of standards," said Kammer.
He warned: "If you don't act soon, U.S. electronic book developers could find themselves in the difficult position of having great technology that is blocked from overseas markets. That could be the case, especially if there are no consensus standards for electronic publishing formats, security and retrieval."
"Standards are more and more important for this industry," said Victor McCrary, symposium organizer and technical manager of the Information Storage and Interconnect Systems Team in the Information Technology Laboratory at NIST.
McCrary holds provisional patents on particular aspects of electronic books and heads up an electronic book test bed project named Janus that was started in January 1997.
"There are a range of features to consider for E-Books that will need to be compatible on different systems and platforms," McCrary said. "For example, font resolution, annotation, voice activation and dictionary lookup."
Such features would include the ability:
- to change the size of the viewable text.
- to add personal comments to specific fields.
- to activate the device by using your voice.
- to look up words by pressing the screen with your finger or other pointing device.
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Wireless Operator
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Uncle Ronnie Oscar R GOODALL, painter, was a rear gunner (due to his small stature) on Lancaster bombers during the war – he was called up as soon as he left school. He thought he would be doing good for humanity as he was a pacifist but soon discovered the horror of what they were doing, bombing civilians in Germany. He was haunted by terrible nightmares until he met his darling wife Jen (recently deceased) who took it upon herself to dispel them, which she did. He adored her until her death and beyond. They were recently treated to a visit to Bomber Command and treated like VIPs with the greatest respect, all expenses paid and travel arranged. It may have been York or further south – I can’t remember. He was thrilled to have done it but still weeps for the innocent people they killed.
I’m sorry that I can’t tell you more. I must say that Ronnie (family name) never talked about it and didn’t see his part in the war as glorious. He did what he was ordered to. He returned to Dundee and studied painting and became a noted Scottish artist. He has never stopped painting and is in his nineties. He will never get over the death of his darling Jen who he nursed for years.
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Wednesday Wishlist: Our dream Eurovision 2019 contestants — Albania to Bulgaria
Off-season is tough for Eurovision fans. The PED (Post Eurovision Depression) cloud is just beginning to lift, but the contest is still the guts of a year away. The nearest national final is in December and the junior equivalent won’t be for months.
Despite the sunshine, summer can be bleak. It would be easy to mope until November, but the wiwibloggs team has a better plan. It’s time to dream!
For the next few Wednesdays our correspondents from across the world will bring you their ultimate wishlist for Israel 2019. And as this is all fantasy, we’ll also be taking a look at absentee countries, both long and short term. Because in our ideal contest everyone comes to the party.
To make sure that no one gets left out, we’ll be going through countries in alphabetical order, so this week we’re starting with Albania and working through to Bulgaria.
Albania: Anxhela Peristeri
Erdi: She is one of Albania’s best known singer songwriters. And like so many artists from the country, Anxhela Peristeri has Festivali i Kenges experience, taking part in the 40th edition in 2001. Yet, despite enjoying an award-winning music career, Anxhela went on hiatus in 2007. Thankfully, her retirement proved to be temporary and she returned in 2014. Besides her one foray into FiK, Anxhela has also competed in Kenga Magjike and Top Fest. She won last year’s edition of the former, beating out Albania’s Eurovision 2015 representative Elhaida Dani. Earlier this summer, she published an Italian reworking of her winning song “E Cmendur”. This new version was entitled “Insanely In Love” and became a duet with Kastriot Tusha. Outside of Albania, Anxhela is also somewhat known in Greece, where she went after completing her studies in Tirana. While there, she entered the local edition of The X Factor.
Past wishes: Bleona, Bebe Rexha, Era Istrefi, and Elvana
Andorra: Marta Knight
Luis: Born near Barcelona, 19 year-old Marta Knight moved to Andorra at a young age. And it’s in the tiny principality where she has developed her music career. She’s the girl next door, your friend who learnt how to play the guitar and you’ve always thought she should become a star. Marta serves moody pop and folk tracks, delivering them with maturity in her smooth and slightly raspy voice. Her first EP Peterloo Heroes is proof of that. Think of her as Andorra’s answer to Molly Sterling (Ireland 2015). This rising star could bring Andorra their most suitable representative ever: why would a tiny landlocked country in the mountains go for an over the top show? When you visit Andorra, the feelings you get are serenity, simplicity and cosiness. And that’s exactly what Marta conveys through her music.
Past wishes: Patxi Leiva, Madretomasa, Nami, and Lluís Cartes
Armenia: Iskuhi Hovhannisyan
Antranig: After debuting in 2006, Armenia recorded five consecutive top ten finishes at Eurovision. But, despite the memorable efforts of Aram MP3 and Iveta Mukuchyan, their results this decade have been less than stellar. In 2018, Armenia failed to qualify for the grand final for only the second time. If Armenia want to find fresh success, they need to return to what they do best — good old Armenian ethno-pop. With the creation of the Depi Evratesil national final, Armenia have a huge pool of talent to draw upon in search of securing its first win — from the likes of Egine in 2017 to Asmik Shiroyan and Tamar Kaprelian in 2018. However, there are plenty of smaller names in the Armenian music industry capable of delivering a respectable result. One such individual is Iskuhi Hovhannisyan, who came fourth on the first season of The Voice of Armenia in 2012-13. With fierce vocals and plenty of sass, she could be starting a fuego in Israel. Her 2016 single “Hima Herte Imna” (It’s My Turn Now) demonstrates her repertoire well and would be a great way to change the formula for Armenia at Eurovision.
Past wishes: Iveta Mukuchyan (wish granted), Christine Pepelyan, Lilit Hovhannisyan, and Srbuk
Australia: Anthony Callea
Sebastian: Australia’s recent entries in Eurovision have taught Australia an important lesson — a strong vocal gets you to the top. Someone who could give Dami Im a run for her money (vocally-speaking) is veteran and Idol alumni Anthony Callea. Australians and Italian-Australians have been singing his praises since 2004 with good reason (as did we in 2015). He holds several music records under his belt, with his cover of “The Prayer” being the fastest ever selling single in Australian music history. Let’s not fool ourselves — Anthony doesn’t boast the same recent chart success of previous Eurovision alumni like Guy Sebastian and Jessica Mauboy. But he’s on their music label, and his current Australian tour is getting rave reviews as he covers number one songs from the Australian music charts. Pair the singer with a carefully crafted Zeljko Joksimovic-esque ballad and Australia might just have their prayers answered.
Past wishes: Delta Goodrem, The Veronicas, and Tkay Maidza
Austria: Poptracker and ArianA
Patrick: It was the big summer hit of 2017. And 12 months on, Austria is still in love with ArianA and Poptracker’s “Hold”. The song charted in the Ö3 Austria Charts for weeks. Peaking at number two, it turned everyone’s summer into a rhythmic adventure. Ariana Schirasi-Fard is a trained stage singer and well known for playing roles in musicals like Mama Mia and West Side Story. Originally, ArianA was only recruited by Martin, one half of Poptracker, to do a demo version of “Hold”. But in the end, the demo became the single. And ArianA isn’t just a demo-singer anymore. After the success of Cesár Sampson this year, another Poptracker and ArianA collab would be the perfect entry to keep up Austria’s streak. Poptracker proved it already, when working together with Nathan Trent on his single “Won’t Let You Go”.
Past wishes: Andreas Gabalier, Hannah, Denise Beiler, and Anna F
Azerbaijan: Manana
Chris: After their first non-qualification, Azerbaijan could look towards an experienced hand for their future participation. And there’s not many people with more experience than Manana. Born in Georgia, Manana moved to Azerbaijan in 1999 and has made a huge name for herself in the country. She’s won countless awards over her career, and also took a starring role as a judge on The Voice Azerbaijan — where she coached Azerbaijan’s 2016 entrant, Samra. More importantly for Eurovision, Manana’s music has evolved constantly throughout the years; she’d certainly be well suited to whatever style she wanted to throw at the contest.
Past wishes: Emin, Aygun Kazimova, Latifa Soyuoz, and Vugarixx
Belarus: IOWA
Mikhail: They’re a band that started off in Belarus, but it was too small for them. So IOWA set their sights on somewhere bigger — Russia. They went on to have huge success reaching the top spot in the Russian charts and winning many regional music awards, including New Wave in 2012. Their music is simple but memorable. A current electronic sound mixed with guitar. Their tracks tell stories based on the band’s own experiences, but everyone can relate to them. All their songs are insanely hummable — “Ulibaysya”, “Mama“, “Prostaya Pesnya“, “Marshrutka” and “Byot Bit” — and they are definitely capable of taking Belarus to Eurovision victory.
Past wishes: Nuteki, Vintage, Shuma, and Max Korzh
Belgium: Emma Bale
Padraig: As any Eurovision fan worth their salt knows, the French-language broadcaster RTBF will pick Belgium’s entry for 2019. And if the network’s recent form is anything to go by, they’ll pick a young up-and-coming former Voice singer with indie leanings. Step forward Emma Bale. Aged just 18, Emma ticks all these boxes and more. She first found fame aged 15 with her cover of Kodaline’s “All I Want”. In the short few years since then, she’s matured into a multi-layered artist with a sound that belies her age. She’s reached the top of the charts with “Run” and “Fortune Cookie”, while “Worth It” and “Curaçao” also cracked the top 30. Her most recent single “Cut Loose” landed in May. But there’s one hitch… Emma is from Flanders. Maybe 2020 might be a more realistic possibility?
Past wishes: Stromae, Gabriel Rios, Lost Frequencies, and Lea Rue
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Armin Malikić
Jovana: Armin Malikić first made a name for himself back in 2013 when he auditioned for the series one of The X Factor Adria. His audition with James Morrison’s “Wonderful World” remains one of the most memorable from the show. Armin did not proceed to the live shows as a solo act, instead reaching the final as a member of the short-lived boy band Doktori. He has since released several solo singles, which have been well-received. With his vocal abilities, onstage presence and with a good song, Armin could be the next Mikolas Josef.
Past wishes: Neda Ukraden, Magdalena Bogic, Dubioza Kolektiv, and Amel Curcic
Bulgaria: Nadia
Cinan: Bulgaria has become one of the most successful countries in the competition, consistently sending quality songs since 2016. After three years of success, maybe it’s time for a victory? This could become a possibility if they send Nadia — a former vocalist with Deep Zone Project, Bulgaria’s Eurovision 2008 act. Born in the seaside resort of Varna, Nadia studied at the local music school. In 2008, while participating in the music reality show called Sing With Me, she met DesiSlava (a famous Bulgarian pop-folk singer and Eurovision Bulgaria 2012 finalist) and started working with her. Her first single was called “Virtual Game“. She joined Deep Zone Project in 2011. She spent four years with the group, making hits such as “Made For Loving You”, “Niama Ne“, “Zig-Zag“, and “I Love My DJ“. She re-started her solo career in 2016 with “Samo Teb” (Only You). A year ago, she took part in the country’s most popular music show Your Face Sounds Familiar. Her take on Loreen’s “Euphoria” (Eurovision 2012 winner song) became one of the most memorable performances from the entire series
Past wishes: Preslava, Mihaela Fileva, Gery-Nikol, and Mihaela Marinova
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Anane
There wishlists are usually just a “look what my music taste is” jerk offs. While this list has more diversity in music than 90% of the other wish lists it would still be one hella boring Eurovision.
Lilit Hovhannisyan can shake things up for Armenia. She’s got the same quality and charm, as Sirusho and Iveta Mukuchyan. She will be a strong contender. However, it will be down to the song which she may choose for Depi Evratesil.
Although it will never come true, my wishlist would be as follows:
Albania – Elina Duni & Rob Luft
Austria – Albin Julius
Australia – Megan Washington
Belgium – An Pierlé
Azerbaijan: Rauf
Albania: LYNX
Australia: Meg Mac
Polegend Godgarina
Why do all and I mean ALL new Bulgarian pop girls look and sound like lame Gery-Nikol wannabes? Just send the original one at this point lmao
No. Australia needs to mix things up. They should not send the standard Pop Singer. Instead try a change of genre. How about the RnB feels of someone like William Singe or the Indie mainstay Lisa Mitchell?
You’re right. Aussie shouldn’t be keeping it safe. They need to take more risks.
Juan Cena
Belgium needs to either send Stan Van Samang to Eurovision, or at least have him write its song entry. His song “Little Moon Rises” was the best song I heard all of last year. It felt like something straight that could have been on REM’s “Automatic for the People” album, which is very high praise.
He recorded the song with the lead singer of K’s Choice, but this version he performed with Blanche last year is drop dead perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAJiz6NkV-k
https://youtu.be/oAJiz6NkV-k
Emma Bale has already said she doesn’t want to do Eurovision
Ay Jo
Rauf -40′ for Azerbaijan. He knows how to entertain audience and his entire career is dedicated to the mainstream music.
yes, he’s great.
Josh Kennon
On board with NADIA, Armin, Emma, and Marta!
my top 4 from this list:
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Armin Maliki?
my wishlist:
Albania – Besa
Armenia – Lilit Hovhannisyan
Australia – Sia ??
Belarua – so many… ill go with Nyusha or Nuteki
Belgium – Billie Bentein
Bosnia – Kristina Denic
Out of curiosity, do you rule out past ESC participants in the wishlist?
Yes. We restrict it to non-Eurovision artists. That way we get the opportunity to discover some new music from outside the bubble.
Albania : Arilena ara
Armenia: Asmik Shiroyan
Australia: The veronicas
Azerbaijan: Aisel with her own song
Bulgaria: Gery-Nikol
My picks for Eurovision 2019
Albania – Butrint Imeri
Armenia – Asmik Shiroyan
Australia – Sam Perry
Austria – Rose May Alaba
Azerbaijan – DiHaj
Belarus – Angelika Pushnova
Belgium – Alice On The Roof
Bulgaria – Kristian Kostov
Gergana
I would love seeing Rose May Alaba at Eurovision!
Zolipop
I’ve just been doing some research on Bulgarian music a few day ago, and discovered quite a few gems! How about Bears And Hunters, Hayes & Y or JEREMY? ? 🙂
I would love seeing JEREMY? representing my country but I am afraid they might end like AWS (Hungary 2018) or even worse. 🙁
I believe if your country keeps on with its way to search whole plans rather than just songs, it’s unlikely to fall off top 20 – and I also think that with an emotional kind of rock song, like Hope from JEREMY? – which gives me chills and has a nice nostalgic feeling to it – another great placing is executable.
(But I must add that it’s not a custom for songs that I like to have a good placing, and usually 5-6 songs of my top 10 remain in the semis xd)
Been looking forward to this starting up again! If I was to swap Emma Bale out for a Wallonian of a similar nature, I’d go with Charlotte. She’s only got a few songs out but they’re all dreamy wonders, especially Ta Peau (https://youtu.be/8-Q6muSWT6E) Looking forward to seeing the rest of the list. If I was to make one suggestion for the other countries, it’d be MNEK for the UK. He’s been songwriting and producing for a while and collaborated with the likes of BTS, Stormzy and Zara Larsson. What I really love however is the stuff he’s been dropping from… Read more »
I am confusion
Bosnia already confirmed non participation
Did you even read the article?
“And as this is all fantasy, we’ll also be taking a look at absentee countries, both long and short term. Because in our ideal contest everyone comes to the party.”
TVR just revealed the Cerbul De Aur 2018 (Golden Deer 2018) participants! Its not the full list but there are Eurovision singers and NF participants among
Inis Zeziri (Albania Fik 57)
Amalyia Margaryan (Armenia Depi Evratesil 2018)
Ryan O’Shaugnessy (Ireland 2018)
Lidia Isac (Moldova 2016)
Ovidiu Anton (Romania 2016)
Dora Gaitanovici (Romania NF 2018)
Tiziana Camelin (Romania NF 2018)
Sebastian Schmidt (San Marino 1in360)
Giannis (John) Karagiannis, Cyprus 2015, will take part as well.
Oh I forgot about him.
Here’s my wish list:
* Albania: Mishela Rapo
* Armenia: Lidushik
* Australia: Bella Paige
* Austria: Lisa Aberer
* Azerbaijan: Suada Alakbarova or Dilara Kazimova
* Belgium: Blanche AGAIN!!! 😀
* Belarus: Ruslan Aslanov
* Bulgaria: Tiffany Todorova
Didn’t Andorra and Bosnia and Herzegovina already confirm they weren’t returning in 2019? Are you gonna do Turkey and Slovakia too? Cuz they also said they’re not coming back.
As stated at the very top of the article:
So yes, we’ll have Turkey and Slovakia, along with Morocco and Monaco too.
My mistake! I missed that part.
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More Together (Germany)
Celebrating the power of community within Facebook Groups
Facebook, 2019
Following the debut of the More Together campaign in the US, we’ve launched an integrated German campaign which also stars real Facebook Groups and their members. With four films, out-of-home and print executions this campaign invites people to find the Group that’s right for them.
The ‘More Together’ film features a range of Facebook Groups that reflect modern Germany, from Vegan Bodybuilders to hands-on Dads and practitioners of Filipino Martial Arts. We followed the Groups deep into Bavarian caves and high up to the rooftop beehives of Berlin to capture people coming together for the activities they are passionate about. To emphasize the idea that together we can do more, we combined sounds from the different Groups to create the track for the film: a recreation of Depeche Mode’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’.
In ‘Mechanic’ we hero a vintage car Group whose advice and support helps a woman to restore a classic Audi Quattro that has a special significance to her. Our track is of a similar vintage to the car: ‘Ohne Dich‘ by German rockers Münchener Freiheit.
The Mechanic – 1 / 3
The Date – 2 / 3
A Perfect Christmas – 3 / 3
‘The Date’ is the story of Bella, a one-eyed pug who learns to swim with help from a Hamburg-based dog-lovers Group. But in a twist, rather than featuring the Group members, the posts and messages throughout the spot look like they come from the dogs themselves.
Christmastime in Germany is soaked in tradition and nostalgia. But to avoid the clichés and stand out visually, we took our Christmas story 8,000 miles away from Deutschland. Based on real stories from Facebook Group members, in ‘A Perfect Christmas’ we meet a homesick family in South Korea, who reach out to a local Expat Group for help in baking up a taste of home. The film sees a father and daughter follow tips from Group members on their quest to find the ingredients for a classic German Christmas stollen cake in the backstreet markets of 21st century Seoul.
The films were accompanied by out-of-home executions underlining that whatever you’re into, there’s a Facebook Group out there for you. It was shot by a German-speaking duo renowned for their group portraits: Ursula Sprecher and Andi Cortellini. Each execution featured actual Facebook Group members (and their actual bikes, dogs and bumps) in their natural habitat across locations from Hamburg to the Alps.
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Suspect in Johnson City Shooting Investigation in Custody
SPENCER CHAPMAN (Photo: Johnson City Police Department)
Johnson City police say a man who was wanted in connection with a shooting incident in the village has been arrested.
Authorities say 20-year-old Spencer Chapman of Johnson City is now in custody.
Village police Tuesday evening announced that Chapman has been charged with second-degree attempted murder, a felony.
Investigators last Friday released a "Wanted" poster as they sought help from the public in locating Chapman. They said he was wanted in connection with an April 9 attack on a 37-year-old man who lived on Grand Avenue.
Detectives had previously arrested three other suspects they believed were involved in a dispute that ended with the man being beaten, stabbed and shot. The attack occurred on Grand Avenue near Boland Drive.
Those suspects - 17-year-old Tacoma Chapman, 18-year-old Jonathan Chapman and 18-year-old Caleb Casteline - also have been charged with second-degree attempted murder.
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2018 – Cathy Lumpkin
Cathy Lumpkin has advice to give about painting: It’s never too late to start.
They’re sage words from a woman who began to paint her oil-on-canvas pieces at age 50, and whose art is now featured on the 2018 Georgetown Wooden Boat Show poster. Her painting depicts a colorful and impressionistic recreation of a photo taken during the show’s popular (and often hilarious) boat race, when teams of two each receive identical materials and time spans to build wooden water crafts, and then race them on the Sampit River.
2017 – Jef Sturm
A love for and mastery of landscapes and light shine through in the 2017 Georgetown Wooden Boat Show painting by this year’s artist, Jef Sturm.
Anyone who has seen the shrimp boats in the Tom Hanks movie “Forrest Gump” will recognize the historic era from which this year’s featured boat was launched. The Prodigal Son, a familiar sight in Georgetown Harbor and Winyah Bay with Captain Ronnie Campbell at the helm, is typical of wooden shrimp boats from about 50 years ago except for one major deviation: Its rigging was removed.
2016 – Judy Maring
If someone wanted an accurate portrait of Judy Maring, the 2016 Georgetown Wooden Boat Show Poster Artist, imagine the famous self-portrait of Norman Rockwell.
Not that Maring paints in the style of Rockwell, but she would be in her spattered work clothes, in the second story studio at her circa 1882 home at the corner of Prince and Cannon streets, just two blocks from the South Carolina Maritime Museum. Although Maring is in her sixties, it’s easy to see a young girl in her eyes, which are full of life and good humor. It was as a youngster that she was first exposed to an artist’s passion.
2015 – Pat Puckett
Pat Puckett painted a master craftsman in her artwork titled Lowcountry Oysterman for the 2015 Wooden Boat Show poster, and the image is homage to renowned boat builder Willie Dereef.
The viewer can tell his legs, hidden behind a small wooden boat, are planted knee-deep in the pluff mud of Oyster Bay in North Inlet. He is gathering oysters from nearby banks, and the fading-yet-brilliant colors of fall are in the surrounding reeds, grasses and trees.
Those measured splashes of color and intricate plays of shadow and light, especially ones resulting from the cool and fleeting brilliance of early mornings or the soft warmth of late afternoons, are part of the joys of painting that Puckett has embraced.
2014 – Johnnie Cowan
Johnnie Hare Cowan’s life and career are a perfect mesh with her role as 2014 Georgetown Wooden Boat Show poster artist. Cowan’s father was a colonel in the U.S. Army, so she traveled in her childhood. Six years of that time was spent in Europe where she visited many museums while living in Orleans, France, which is a river town with a fine arts museum. Cowan’s grandfather, Frank Creighton Hare, was an artist and college professor, and it seems his talents were passed on to his granddaughter.
She says she can’t remember a time when she didn’t paint and draw, but it wasn’t until Cowan attended the University of South Carolina that her talent bloomed. “I majored in history,” she says, “and I took an art course for fun. The teacher convinced me I should be in art. Her major was changed to studio art, and art history and architecture classes filled her schedules.
2013 – Susan Tiller
Susan Tiller recreated and enhanced a valuable piece of Georgetown history with her painting titled “Dressed for the Occasion,”. Her husband, Hank, suggested painting a pilot boat. Pilot boats help guide ships into harbors, either by leading them or by bringing a harbor captain who boards the ship and pilots it to the dock. “They’d never done a pilot boat before for this event,” she said, “and shipping was an important industry here.”
Tiller contacted Georgetown harbor pilot Edwin Jayroe and asked if he had any vintage pilot boat photos. He owns a black and white photo of the W.D. Morgan taken on Dec. 19, 1905, when Georgetown celebrated its incorporation centennial with a street parade and a boat parade. Its namesake owner, W.D. Morgan, was a much beloved mayor of Georgetown from 1892-1906, and he used the pilot boat as a yacht.
2012 – Keels Culberson Swinney
Keels Culberson Swinnie is an artist, a savvy business woman, daughter, wife, sister and friend. A Pawleys Island native, she was born with an artistic temperament, an eye for beauty and a proclivity for tree-climbing, boat-building and mischief-making.
Somewhere along the way, perhaps one of many falls from the many trees Keels climbed, she damaged her hip. Simultaneously child and warrior woman, she toughed it out so that her injury went undetected for some time. Then she was forced to undergo major hip surgery – at the tender age of six. All her considerable energy was trapped in a full body cast for nine very long weeks. That’s when she discovered an innate love of art.
No one in-the-know will deny Keels came by her talent honestly. Her father, Henry Culberson, is well known and loved throughout the Lowcountry for building surfboards, crafting exquisite boats, masterminding woodworking projects, raising bees and other uncommon endeavors. He is also a former Georgetown Wooden Boat Challenge competitor – and winner.
2011 – Angela Askins Tiller
“Headin’ Home” portrays a South Carolina Flat Bottom Oyster Sloop – circa early 1900’s – heading across Winyah Bay laden with the day’s catch.
Everyone who views “Headin’ Home,” the painting created by artist Angela Tiller for use in the 2011 Wooden Boat Show poster, is amazed to learn Tiller has been painting for only eight years. “My first medium was cake decorating,” Tiller said. “My mom would bake the cakes, and then Dad and I would mess around decorating them.”
After a long career in the healthcare field, Tiller retired in 2003. While at a family get-together her sister-in-law suggested an activity to keep her occupied; painting was the result.
During her eight years as an artist, Tiller has immersed herself in the craft by attending many workshops held by artists such as Michael Shane Neal and Everett Raymond Kintsler, and for four years a major part of Tiller’s development was spent studying with Elizabeth Bronson of McClellanville.
Angela’s painting is from an original by Gilbert Maggioni in Tidecraft: the Boats of South Carolina, Georgia and Northeastern Florida, 1550-1950, c 1995, by William C. Fleetwood, Jr. May not be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the author.
2010 – Jim Calk
Many boats are docked along the river, but the boat Calk chose to paint for the Wooden Boat Show poster has sat on stilts at nearby Hazard Marina for a decade. The boat is called Fugacity. “I looked it up,” Calk says. “Fugacity means fleeting, transitory, fading early, like the bloom of a flower falling off before it’s ready.
When we started coming to Georgetown one of the first things I saw was that boat. For some reason it didn’t jump up on the canvas, but I always wanted to paint it. But when the boat show poster opportunity came along, I knew immediately what it was going to be, and the boat almost hopped right up on the canvas. It didn’t give me a bit of trouble.”
Jim Calk paints in oil, watercolor, and pastel in an impressionistic poetic style. He has studied under international master painters.
Jim has won many awards, exhibited widely and is collected by private and corporate collectors. He has won awards and exhibited in many shows such as Greenwood Festival of Flowers (second place award), South Carolina Watercolor Society Traveling Show (top 30 paintings), Anderson Art Council Show (juried), South Carolina State Fair many times, received First Place and Best in Show in the Winyah Art Association Show, two man show Rice Museum, Georgetown, S.C. and National Steeplechase Museum Show, Camden, S.C.
Calk received his formal education at Newberry College where he had his first one-man art show in 1963. A classically trained pianist, Calk has performed in many states, is married to artist Betsy Havens and lives in Georgetown, South Carolina. Learn more at www.calkhavensgallery.com
2009 – Betsy Boyle Harper
Betsy Boyle Harper has enjoyed drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. Her mother Deloris Boyle is a well-known portrait artist and encouraged her interest in art from an early age.
“As a teenager, I sketched portraits of my friends and received my first ‘commission’ to sketch a portrait of my English teacher’s daughter.”
Instead of pursuing a future in art at that time, Betsy ventured down other paths, majoring in math in college and then pursuing careers in banking and real estate.However, at 30 years of age she finally began to study art seriously and decided to specialize in portrait painting. “It was not my plan – but God’s. I studied with my mother for months and soon began receiving commissions. It has been a wonderful adventure that continues to this day.”
Betsy has completed more than 400 commissioned portraits. She has enjoyed the opportunities to travel and meet so many interesting people. In recent years, Betsy has invested more time in her landscape painting. “The beauty of the wildlife and low country almost demands that I paint it. For instance, I was kayaking one day and had the opportunity to get up close and personal with a beautiful blue heron who posed for at least 10 minutes. How could I not honor his patience by painting his portrait?”
Betsy loves to delight visitors to her gallery with stories of the places and birds she has painted. “I am absolutely amazed by the beauty of the area in which I am blessed to live. I never tire of painting it.”Betsy is a member of the Portrait Society of America. She resides in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.
Learn more at www.theboylegallery.com
2008 – Betsy Havens
Betsy Havens began her artistic studies at age 12 and studied art throughout her school career. Educated at the University of Georgia and the University of South Carolina, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Design and did graduate work in the History of Architecture and Southern Literature.
Ms. Havens has received many awards for her work, which is collected widely by private and corporate collectors. She paints the American lowcountry – shrimpers, basket weavers, and street scenes – with great emotion and color.
Betsy and her husband, artist Jim Calk, live and paint on the waterfront in Georgetown, South Carolina.
Learn more at www.calkhavensgallery.com About the Rock and Roll
For many years the Rock and Roll hailed from the port of Georgetown, South Carolina. She is a stalwart wooden shrimp boat built in 1958 in Supply, North Carolina. While working out of Georgetown, the captain and owner was Allen Miller, who, with his wife, Gail, cared for her as she glided in and out of the harbor to the seas beyond in search of the “pink gold”. The Millers sold her in 2004 and she now fishes out of McClellanville under the new name, Shirley Mae.
The Rock and Roll weighed 43 tons, was 53.3 feet long and 17.4 feet wide. Her crew took great care in maintaining the diesel engine and the wood which was constantly in need of painting and repainting. The refueling, repairs, maintenance, cleaning and washing of decks were required every evening during the season in preparation for work the next morning beginning at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. as she headed back out to sea.
For generations watermen have harvested shrimp from our coastal waters. This way of earning a living is seriously threatened now. Shrimping is a fading part of low country history. Shrimp farming in ponds and imports from other countries are competition difficult to match. Ever rising fuel costs are an added threat to this industry in which many shrimpers have worked their entire lives in order to support their families. This painting of the The Rock and Roll by Betsy Havens pays homage to the few lovely “ladies” remaining in our beloved southern waters.
2007 – Betsy Brabson
Artist Betsy Brabson’s oil painting of Georgetown shrimp boats was selected as the artistic centerpiece for the 2007 Wooden Boat Show.
The 16″x20″ original work depicts shrimpers docked in the bay near Independence Seafood in Georgetown. Brabson, who has been a t-shirt design artist for more than 22 years, came across the scene that inspired this painting as she and her husband enjoyed an afternoon on the water in their jon boat.
Betsy Brabson was born and raised in Charlotte, NC. She moved to Georgetown County, SC, in 1991 with her husband Bill and two children. Brabson’s son Wylie is now 23 and attended the Nascar Technical Institute near Charlotte; daughter Tyler attends the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Brabson takes painting lessons from several noted local instructors and studies the works of others. She often likes to work in the Impressionistic style and admires the paintings of Charleston artist Shannon Smith, among others.
In addition to her fine art painting and t-shirt design business, Brabson is active in the SCUTE (South Carolina United Turtle Enthusiast) organization which supports the protection of loggerhead turtles.
2006 – Joseph Cave
Artist Joseph Cave’s original oil painting, “Sailboat on the Sampit River”, was photographed to create this year’s Wooden Boat Show poster and T-shirt design.The original oil on linen was auctioned at the Big Blow Auction to benefit Georgetown’s Maritime Museum.
Born in Columbia, SC in 1936, Joseph Cave attended the University of Georgia (Athens, GA) where he studied painting from 1954-58. He went on to attend the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA) and received a BFA in Fine Arts in painting in 1962, and a Master of Arts in 1964 from San Francisco State University.
Cave has taught at several institutions including the Memphis Academy of Art, Southwestern at Memphis, San Francisco Art Institute, and San Francisco State University.
Joseph Cave’s landscapes and still life’s have been in numerous one-man exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. He is inspired by early landscape artists, American scene painters, and French Impressionists.
To view more paintings by Joseph Cave visit the Cheryl Newby Gallery in Pawleys Island, South Carolina or online at www.cherylnewbygallery.com.
2005 – Kaytee Esser
Artist Kaytee Esser was commissioned to create the art used for this year’s Wooden Boat Showposter and t-shirt design.
Esser’s original watercolor captures the fun and excitement of the final segment of the Wooden Boat Challenge boatbuilding competition – the rowing relay. This race across the Sampit river determines the seaworthiness of the finished boats as well as the rowing ability of the boatbuilders.
Esser, a Hilton Head resident who lives and works on her boat, describes her style as “colorful and impressionistic with a splash of the erotic.”
Kaytee paints mainly boats, people and animals. She enjoys working in pastel, watercolor, gouache and acrylic, but has a preference for oil because she is able to paint in all weather,” cold or hot, windy or not.”
Esser is a member of the Portrait Society of America, American Society of Marine Artists and the Hilton Head Artist League. Her paintings can be seen at shows throughout the southeast.
Learn more at www.kayteeesser.com.
2004 – Pat Schirtzinger
By Jason Lesley, GEORGETOWN TIMES
When Litchfield Beach photographer Pat Shirtzinger saw the rowboats tied up along the Harborwalk in Georgetown, he knew he had the elements of a good photograph. There was the art of the boats themselves and the sense of place provided by the town’s clock tower in the background. He leaned as far back on the floating dock as he dared and clicked the shutter on his Olympus digital camera.
He had a winner. Shirtzinger’s photo was selected for the 15th annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show’s poster.
Pat and his wife Susie moved to the Litchfield Country Club area a little over five years ago after he retired from Lucent Technology in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. They had been vacationing in the Litchfield area for 35 years and bought a lot in 1987. We fell in love with the place, Pat says. He spent many vacation hours shooting Litchfield scenes that are long gone from view these days.
As his children began to excel in sports, Pat got more interested in photography. Today, each of his three children and their families have their own wall of photos in the Shirtzinger home. There’s daughter Stephanie and her husband, Duncan Puffer, with sons Luke and Lance of Duluth, Minn. And son Patrick and wife Susan with children Patrick, Ashley and Loren of Mansfield, Ohio. And daughter Natalie and husband, Steve Fox, with son Zachary in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Pat even shot his daughters’ weddings.
The Shirtzingers have other hobbies. She paints and he does some he does some woodworking. He just finished a rocking moose for one of his grandsons.
2003 – Bob Likes
When artist Bob Likes of Surfside Beach visited Georgetown about a year ago, he admired a model of the Brown’s Ferry Vessel [a flatbottomed sailboat used on rivers during the 1700’s] in the front window of the Rice Museum on Front Street. “That would make a great painting,” he remarked to a friend.
Likes, a retired technical illustrator and engineer, combined the old wooden boat and a live oak he had admired at Brookgreen Gardens into a river scene oil painting he called “Slower Times.” That painting was selected for the Fourteenth Annual Wooden Boat Show poster.
Likes has been painting since his childhood, spent in the northern Kentucky town of Erlanger, just seven miles south of Cincinnati. He studied at the Central Academy of Commercial Art under artist Pop Storey in the days before photography was widely used in commercial art. He married childhood sweetheart Janet while he was in military service in Aiken, oddly enough, and they moved to southern California in 1961.
For an artist, Likes says, “The West is a beautiful place to live. That’s where I developed the techniques and the pallet of colors I prefer.” The Sierra Mountains were particularly fascinating for Likes, and he wrote and illustrated a book on silver mining around Cerro Gordo, Calif., and the Owens Valley.
In 1991, Bob and Janet decided to move east to be near their children and settled in the Myrtle Beach area.
2002 – Nancy Bracken
Nancy Bracken’s painting titled “Rearview of the Underdog” was created with water based paints applied to a slick plastic surface called yupo- the result is a melange of color effected by the artist’s limited control over the flow of paint on the shiny, textureless surface.
Nancy was born in Jamestown, N.Y. She attended Jamestown Community College, Fredonia State University, and earned a masters degree from New York State University. She and her husband, John, moved to North Litchfield six years ago.
She is a member of Low Country Artists, the Georgetown County Watercolor Society, and the Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild.
Her work ranges from painting and collage, to quilting and dollmaking. Nancy’s creations can be found at the following area galleries: Art Works in the Litchfield Exchange, South Wind Gallery and the Gray Man Gallery in Pawleys Island, Burroughs and Chapin Gallery Gift Shop in Myrtle Beach, The Original Hammock Shop in Pawleys Island, and the Bath and Etc. Shop in Pawleys Island.
2001 – Kathy Amspacher
Kathy Amspacher, a nurse and social worker by profession, has been painting since she was a child.
She and her husband settled in Pawleys Island two years ago after having lived in a log cabin in the mountains, then on their 37′ sailboat for 10 years while cruising the Intracoastal Waterway. She has fond memories of anchoring in Georgetown’s harbor.
Although she has a special affinity for boats and life on the water, she found it difficult to pursue her art while living aboard the boat. She says, “It was just time to become land-lubbers.”
Kathy is now a full time artist. She has exhibited her paintings at the Georgetown Art Gallery and at Southwinds Gallery in Pawleys Island. She also paints commissioned works.
2000 – Charles Walker
Artist Charles Walker is originally from New York and made the move to the South Carolina coast eight years ago.
He graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts. He worked for over 40 years as an illustrator and advertising artist before his retirement and subsequent move south.
He is the father of five children and has been married for 55 years.Walker’s artwork was originally a sketch for a painting he planned to do. After completing the preliminary drawing he started playing with color splashes creating the award-winning work of art.
Charles says that he has always had ” a love of the sea. I think there must be saltwater in my veins.”
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I haven't been to the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show in over ten years - but this year I was determined to go after a fire destroyed historic buildings along Front Street in Georgetown's historic district. I arrived mid-morning - and was thrilled to see that the place was packed! Boy, there were some beautiful (and much loved) boats there.
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This show, in spite of the flooding in your county, was one of the best. Over the years I have attended this show as a spectator and as an exhibitor with my 39' Sharpie, "Leah Gent" (2004) and this year with my Goat Island Skiff, "Mountain Goat". The quality of this show is always great! To feed 500 people Saturday evening and not run out of food is a feat in itself. I had the pleasure of talking to more than a few people who wanted to build their own boats. One or two who even implicated me for being responsible for boats they built after seeing Leah Gent in 2004. Hopefully I inspired a few more this weekend to get building and bring them to a future show. So, again....to the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show crew....THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU and hopefully I'll see the lovely Georgetown again next year!
Brad Indicott, Lenoir, NC
We had such a fun time! Thanks so much for inviting us back. What a hoot! If you ever need a band up in Georgetown, please keep us in mind.
Noodle + V-Tones, Charleston, SC
Thanks for another great WBS! They get better every year .We had a great time & I was able to sail "Piccaroon" off the riverfront. Best Wishes.
Randall Swann, Mt Pleasant, SC
A great event- I drive 600 miles every year to attend.
Mike Fossler, Elkton Maryland
Upon arrival Saturday morning we were greeted and helped by a number of fine folks that made everything easy for us. The gentleman who directed us to our space went above and beyond to help us... Breaking down and exiting the show was easy considering the number of participants...I think your show is wonderful, I love Georgetown (we used to bring our 28' Carver there and anchor overnight) and if all goes well, I plan on attending again next year.
Larry J. Emanuelson, Pop's Woodworking, Chas., SC
The 2013 Wooden Boat Show was a godsend for Georgetown. Reeling from the devastating fire 24 days earlier, the people of Georgetown desperately needed an event to bring us together and start the healing process. The optimism of the organizers and the upbeat attitude of the attendees gave all of us the promise for a better future that we needed.
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I want to thank you and everyone up there in Georgetown for all of your efforts in putting on such a great show. We had a great time and I can't wait for next year! Highest regards.
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Thank you for a very great show. I'm from Raleigh and did not know about the fire until I saw the "pile" yesterday morning. People did amazing things to make this show happen. Until next year...
Glenn Holland, Raleigh, NC
It was a huge day. Thanks again for having us. This is one of the best events we do for sure! What a great time.
Aaron Gdoviak, The Blue Plantation Band
What a great crowd and what a great selection of boats! I have never been to a boat show where the community as a whole comes out and supports the event, which really makes the exhibitors feel appreciated. It’s well run. It’s just an amazing show. Will be back again next year for sure!
Tom Hesselink, Marshallberg, NC
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This poster encourage the men of the United states during the first World war to join and fight the war with the US Tank corps, witch was a quite new unit by this time in the History.
The first Tank training camp in the United States was formed 6th of March 1918 on the old battlefield of Gettysburg. 11th November 1918, it had opened a further two training camps in the U.S., one in Tobyhanna in Pensylvania and one in Camp Polk, Oregon. The entire United States Tank Corps now consisted of 483 officers and 7,700 enlisted men.
U.S. tank corps rolled up under the infantry and consisted in the First World War by two heavy brigades and four light, all was under the leadership of the command of Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach.
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One of the first officers who was assigned to the unit was the now famous General George S. Patton (back then Captain George S. Patton). Some parts of his unit was practiced in French Bourg others in Camp Meade, Maryland, USA and then shipped over to Bovington Tank Academy in England.
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February 29, 2016 Worth Packing In 2 Comments
People keep asking me how I like LA. Or how I came to be here. Or if I think I’m staying.
I, myself, barely remember that I am here lately. This is the first weekend in 7 weeks that I’ve slept in my own zip code, and between those weekends, I’ve been working a good number of 11- and 12-hour days at the office. In weeks like that, does it matter where one lives?
And yet it does. Because where else but LA could you take four pieces of art that have been sitting in your apartment, patiently awaiting frames for a year, to finally get the love they deserve, and end up taking the dog for a walk in that ultimate commitment to never leaving LA: Hollywood Forever Cemetery?
Tucked between the Paramount lot and Santa Monica Blvd, with a clear view of the infamous Hollywood sign on most days, Hollywood Forever Cemetery has a little of something to love from every corner of this city. There are Russian Orthodox here, and Russian Jews, and German Jews, and just plain Jewish Jews. I would imagine there are some just plain Russians and Germans and Chinese and Japanese and Vietnamese and Italians and maybe some Brits and people of other sorts, but I didn’t happen upon their individual ‘neighborhoods.’ There’s a Jewish mausoleum and a Catholic mausoleum and a giant empty space of mausoleum waiting to be filled with anyone ready to commit to whatever Hollywood brings on.
On a sunny Saturday that threatened to heat up, numerous palm trees and other deciduous arboreal delights provided ample shade and some wandering space for the dog. Like the rest of LA, the cemetery is absurdly dog-friendly. Of course it is – it’s the eternal home of Toto.
The grass is pleasingly unkempt; the cemetery (unlike LA) is not overly-coiffed. Its natural irregularity is inviting, and I was tempted to wander through the crowded rows of tombstones on a plush offroad journey. But I was informed by a friendly but firm security guard that dogs must stay off the grass. The reason, he pointed out from his seat on an official golf cart, is because the graves and some of their stones ride right up against the curb in a significant portion of the park.
The stones are worthy of their own rolling credits. It’s not the people who lie within or beneath them – though there is a Golden Age of Hollywood Who’s Who list buried here – it’s the pure variety of the stones themselves. They are stones the size of ledger paper. There are stones flush to the ground. There are stones the size of coffins, and stones that are sarcophagi; stones engraved with the symbols of Masons and Oddfellows, Stars of David and Coptic crosses, and things I’ve never seen before. There are family plots that are monuments themselves; there are crypts and obelisks and something that looks like a cross between a real pyramid and a pyramid you’d find on the Vegas Strip, but of course, this is Hollywood, and what is Vegas but a variation on that theme?
There are homages here. To mothers, and sons, to brothers and daughters and great grandparents ‘united in eternity’ side by side, their portraits etched in granite above them.
There are artists and actors and singers and writers and producers and directors and normal Joe’s. There are granddaughters now walking with canes and aided by great granddaughters carrying picnics to visit family members on a sunny afternoon. There are mourners gathered, and empty chairs set up awaiting more. And there are tourists – foreign and domestic, and local, like myself, wandering through a local past and wondering about the future. It’s a village of passed souls breathing a little life to those of us still walking above them, looking up at the palm trees and blue sky, and wondering how we got to this incredible place.
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Why Next Year, I’m Celebrating Purim
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I’ve never been much of one for Halloween. But next year, I’m celebrating Purim.
I know they are totally unrelated holidays, one about paganism and the other the triumph of a people over oppression. But they are celebrated in very similar ways: costumes and candy. Let me leave my sugar addiction out of this and focus on the costumes.
I’ve never been much of one for dressing up in a costume. Maybe it’s the pressure of creating the complete alter persona, when my personal persona already felt like an act. Maybe it’s the act of acting, which seemed disingenuous. It could be the subtle but persistent undercurrent that “slut” was the way to go – was it the easy way out? Was it a latent desire to be slutty? Maybe it was the tension between my inner feminist and my inner fun-lover that never liked looking that one in the eye. Maybe it’s nothing more than a simple lack of creativity.
I took a break of more than a decade between Halloween costumes. Between my first year in grad school – when I hastily ironed glitter letters spelling “Princess” on a black t-shirt and donned it with a tiara to hit 6th Street in Austin:
– and my last year in Dallas when I got caught up in the infectious spirit of friends who live for Halloween and Mardi-Gras, and told me I wasn’t allowed to their annual party without a costume, which sent me on a spiral of craftivity that resulted in a “Toddlers in Tiaras” getup
(a failed one, I confess – most people thought I was just trying to be a beauty queen), I spent most Halloweens pretending not to be home.
I marvel at pictures of my friends who go all out for these occasions, and I can’t get there. Is it competition? Is it confidence? Whatever it is, Purim is sucking me in.
I live in Hancock Park, a neighborhood of Los Angeles that is predominately Jewish. Very Jewish. Forelocks and overcoats and wigs on the women Jewish. Families walking to temple on Fridays and kosher grocery closed on Saturday Jewish. Last night, the world erupted in firecrackers that sent my dog running under the couch, trembling. And this morning, the world is alive in costumes.
In the two miles I just walked, I must have passed 100 people in costume. Only one was dressed like a cheerleader. None was dressed as a slutty nurse. Many were clowns with rainbow hair. One young boy was dressed as a fat yuppie, stuffing overflowing around his belly so that his plaid shirt bulged above the belt holding up khaki pants, and a false butt bugged out beneath them. I saw an astronaut, a ninja, a baker, and an Haredi who had rainbow-striped his shtreimel (his big, round, fur hat, disrespectfully analogized to a lampshade – see below), so that it looked as if he wore a circus tent on his head. The award-winner, to me, was a group of five multi-aged siblings dressed as newsboys from the 30s, complete with knickers and caps. That is, not counting the Mustang convertible of young men in kippas that I saw pulling out of a temple parking lot – but I think that just happened to be how they were rolling this morning.
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Because today is a holiday, all these young people were out in the neighborhood, many going between two bounce houses set up on the front yards of their apartment complexes. Remnants of confetti lie on the sidewalk, sparkling in the morning sun, and boys run around blowing plastic horns. It is a holiday about joy, and creativity, and perseverance. It is a holiday that celebrates one woman, her honesty and her bravery. And maybe some revenge.
I’m not sure whether it’s the creativity, the community, or the history of Purim that has me intrigued, but I’m already contemplating outfits for next year. And French maid is not among them.
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A 5-Step Plan to Protect and Restore Indonesia's Forests
by Sonny Mumbunan and Edward Davey (WRI) - 11 June 2019
Indonesia has shown promising results in forest conservation, with temporary bans on expansion of oil palm into forests and peatlands yielding notable reductions in forest loss. Here's how to double down on that success.
Indonesia's Last Forest Frontier: 3 Facts to Know About Papua
by Muhamad Nafi Andriansyah, Rizky Firmansyah, Arief Wijaya and Josefhine Chitra - 13 November 2018
Papua and West Papua provinces contain some of the world's most biodiverse forests. Recent reforms have pulled forests back from peak tree cover loss in 2015. Here's how they can keep up the conservation while developing sustainably.
3 Charts Explain One of the Most Overlooked Opportunities to Address Climate Change and Poverty
by Katherine Ross (WRI) - 08 October 2018
Short-lived climate pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons, black carbon and methane aren't as well-known as carbon dioxide. But they have a powerful impact on the climate and on human health, and more countries need to develop plans to cut their emissions.
7 Reasons We're Facing a Global Water Crisis
by Leah Schleifer (WRI) - 29 March 2018
The global water crisis can be summed up in these "seven deadly sins," from climate change to leaky infrastructure, that water researchers and officials will try to tackle during the 2017 World Water Week.
Tackling Climate Change is Part of Many Countries’ Sustainable Development Plans
by David O'Connor (WRI) and Hana Biru (WRI) - 19 February 2018
A new WRI examination of 44 countries' national reviews of progress on the SDGs shows that most recognize the powerful links between building sustainable development and tackling climate change.
Green vs. Gray Infrastructure: When Nature Is Better than Concrete
by John Talberth (WRI) and Craig Hanson (WRI) - 19 February 2018
People often don’t think of forests, wetlands, coral reefs, and other natural ecosystems as forms of infrastructure. But they are. Infrastructure is essential for economic growth. But as governments debate the future of sustainable development at the Rio+20 conference, there is one infrastructure solution that can provide a good return on investment: nature.
3 Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future
by Helen Mountford (WRI) - 19 February 2018
The decisions each country, business and investor makes today will directly impact global climate and development goals. Do it right and we can feed 9 billion people, provide clean electricity for all and grow the economy while protecting the environment.
3 New Ways to Explore Links Between Climate and Sustainable Development
by Eliza Northrop (WRI) and Alexander Tankou (WRI) - 11 December 2017
Initial WRI research found that climate actions in the NDCs align with 154 of the 169 targets of the SDGs. Climate Watch puts that research into the user’s hands, enabling the exploration of the thousands of links between individual NDCs and SDG targets.
Forests and SDGs: Taking a Second Look
by Frances Seymour (WRI) and Jonah Busch (CGD) - 11 September 2017
Forests contribute to a broad range of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and deforestation can undermine their achievement. With development strategies on the agenda at this week's UN General Assembly, the authors of Why Forests? Why Now? offer points to ponder.
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Netflix added record number of subscribers, but stock dips after weak guidance
Posted 4:21 am, April 17, 2019, by CNN Wire
Netflix is on the brink of 150 million subscribers.
The streaming company added a record 9.6 million new subscribers in the first quarter of 2019, 1.74 million of whom are from the US, according to its latest earnings report, which was released Tuesday. Netflix and analysts predicted that it would bring in roughly 9 million new subscribers. Netflix now has 148.8 million subscribers globally, 60.2 million of whom are from the US.
Profit in the first quarter of 2019 rose to $344 million from $290 million in the first quarter of last year. Revenue went up 22% to $4.52 billion.
The service said it expects to add another 5 million subscribers in the next quarter, which ends in June.
Netflix’s growth could take a hit as Apple and Disney‘s streaming services enter the market later in the year. Both companies unveiled their streaming plans recently, touting lineups of exclusive content that they hope will rival what Netflix offers.
The company’s stock was slightly down in after hours trading Thursday following the report. The drop is likely due to weak guidance for the next quarter as its subscriber growth slows and as its pricing increases. But the company’s record numbers this quarter show just how much of a global powerhouse it is, and what competitors like Disney and Apple are up against.
“Netflix has such a huge head start and it’s a beloved brand in streaming,” Jill Rosengard Hill, an executive vice president at Magid, a research-based media firm, told CNN Business. “Think about how ‘Netflix and Chill’ is such a part of vernacular today. Consumers associate Netflix with streaming.”
Netflix (NFLX) is on the brink of 150 million subscribers.
Netflix said in its letter to shareholders that it doesn’t “anticipate that these new entrants will materially affect our growth” because transitioning from “linear to on demand entertainment is so massive” and “because of the differing nature of our content offerings.”
“We believe we’ll all continue to grow as we each invest more in content and improve our service and as consumers continue to migrate away from linear viewing,” the company said.
“Great competition makes you better,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said on the earnings call. “We’re thrilled to have Disney and Apple in. They’re awesome companies. Just to be in the same league as them is very exciting for us.”
Disney’s service, Disney+, which will launch on November 12, 2019 in North America, comes loaded new and existing content from the company’s most popular brands, including multiple shows coming from Marvel Studios, an original “Star Wars” series called “The Mandalorian,” Pixar films and shorts, documentaries from National Geographic, and Disney animated classics like “Aladdin” and “Bambi.” The service will also be the exclusive home to 30 seasons of “The Simpsons” — TV’s longest running prime time scripted series.
But the biggest selling point of Disney+ may be its price. It’ll cost $6.99 a month — or half of what Netflix charges for its standard plan.
“I think Disney is going to come out with an extremely compelling product because of those huge beloved franchises,” Hill said. “That price is affordable, lower than a price of a movie ticket, for a library that’s deep and diverse. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that subscribers will cancel Netflix.”
Magid’s data shows that consumers are willing to subscribe to an average of six streaming services and that Netflix “continues to increase its value to consumers through delivering new original series weekly,” Hill added.
“As much as people love nostalgia, consumers are also looking for new, original storytelling and Netflix is spending billions on content to give them that,” she said.
The company burned through $3 billion in 2018 to pay for hit originals such as “Birdbox” and “Ozark.” Negative free cash flow in the first quarter of 2019 grew to $460 million, compared to $237 million a year ago.
Apple, which put together a star-studded event last month to showcase its streaming video offering, is reportedly spending $1 billion to pay for its own slate of original content. The company is working on projects with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Steven Spielberg.
Apple’s offering will launch this fall, but it has not yet revealed a price for the service or said exactly how many shows it will have at launch.
AT&T’s WarnerMedia, which is CNN’s parent company, and NBCUniversal, are both also launching services this year.
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Idaho resort looks for skier after avalanche; 2 others die
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KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — Officials were searching Wednesday for a missing skier at an Idaho resort where a series of avalanches killed two skiers and injured five others the day before.
The Silver Mountain Resort was closed Wednesday “to focus all available resources on the search,” the resort said on Facebook.
The resort said it received a telephone call Wednesday morning from a concerned family member of the missing skier.
“This person has been confirmed to be skiing yesterday at Silver during the time of the avalanche,” the resort posted on Facebook. “An intense search is currently underway with Silver Mountain Ski Patrol as well as multiple teams and dog units from various agencies.”
The resort said what appeared to be a series of three avalanches occurred about 11 a.m. Tuesday on Wardner Peak, an area of the resort where the ski runs are rated at the highest difficulty level.
The runs had just been opened for a short period after crews performed avalanche control blasting in the area Tuesday morning, using explosives to trigger avalanches in hopes of leaving only the stable snow layers on the runs, officials said.
Rescue crews and volunteers searched the avalanche area Tuesday with dogs and probes. Five people with minor injuries were found during the day, a sixth skier was discovered under about 10 feet (3 meters) of snow and did not survive. The final skier was found after dark. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.
Names of the victims have not been released.
Silver Mountain Resort is located about 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of Spokane, Washington, along Interstate 90 in the Idaho Panhandle.
Skiers flocked to the area on Tuesday morning after reports of 13 inches (33 centimeters) inches of new snow. The snow was heavy and wet, causing some skiers to worry about avalanche conditions, The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported.
“I thought conditions were kind of sketchy,” Bruce Rosenoff, 72, told the newspaper. He remembered an avalanche on the same peak in 1980.
Wardner Peak had been open less than an hour when officials described a series of avalanches.
Experts say most avalanche survivors are dug out within 30 minutes.
Wardner Peak is an area that is not served by a chairlift, but is still patrolled and managed by the resort. Skiers ride a chair to its terminus and then traverse along a ridge to the peak, which offers expert runs.
During the 2018-19 winter, 25 people died in avalanches in the United States, the newspaper reported.
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Featured Album: Pianist Eric Huebner
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Before being named pianist of the New York Philharmonic in 2012, Eric Huebner maintained a busy career playing and recording new music. Just take a look at his discography here.
His latest album skews a little older, with Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana, inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s character Johannes Kreisler; and Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petroushka, a solo piano adaptation of the larger ballet’s more memorable moments. Night Fantasies, the most recently composed work on the album, was composed by Elliott Carter (for Paul Jacobs, a former NYPO pianist) and inspired by the solo piano music of Robert Schumann.
Here’s an excerpt from Messiaen’s Oiseaux Exotiques performed by the New York Philharmonic, with a prominent role for pianist Eric Huebner.
By Daniel Gilliam @danielgilliam
Daniel Gilliam is the weekday afternoon host (1-3pm) on 90.5 WUOL Classical Louisville, and director of radio for Louisville Public Media.
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Pan-African e-tailer Jumia grows 3Q revenue, e-payments, and losses – TechCrunch
By admin on November 12, 2019
Pan-African e-commerce startup Jumia released its third-quarter financial results today.
The numbers and presentation reflected some of the same past trends, with a dash of new, and nary a mention of a declining share-price.
Jumia — with online goods and service verticals in 14 countries — posted third-quarter revenue growth of 19% (€40 million) and increased its active customer base 56% to 5.5 million from 3.5 million over the same period a year ago.
Jumia’s Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) — the total amount of goods sold over the period — grew by 39% to €275 million. The online retailer nearly doubled its orders from 3.6 million in Q3 2018 to 7 million in Q3 2019.
Jumia also saw growth in its JumiaPay digital finance product, with total payment volume growing 95% to €32 million in Q3 2019 from €16.4 million in Q3 2018.
This is significant, as the company has committed to generate more revenues from digital payment products and offer JumiaPay as a standalone service across Africa.
The overall pattern of growing revenues and customers YoY has been consistent for Jumia.
But so too have the company’s losses, which widened 34% in 3Q 2019 to €54.6 million, compared to €40.6 million. Negative EBITDA increased 26% to €45.4 million from €35.8 over the same period in 2018.
Jumia pegged a large part of the spike in losses to an increase in fulfillment expenses due to more cross-border goods transactions (with higher shipping costs) on its platform in 3Q 2019.
Jumia introduced some new methodologies and measures for its results. “We believe the most relevant monetization metrics for us are market-based revenue and gross profit,” Jumia Group CFO Antoine Maillet-Mezerey explained on the call.
“We don’t see revenue as a meaningful metric to assess the monetization of our business as it is impacted by shifts in the revenue mix between first party and marketplace,” he said.
If and when Jumia does get into the black, I suspect revenue will shift back as key.
On its path to profitability, Jumia CEO Sacha Poignonnec reaffirmed the company’s commitment to generate more revenue from higher margin (straight through) products, such as JumiaPay and Jumia’s classified business, over cost intensive (and logistically complicated) online goods sales.
“We are focused on driving the adoption and penetration of Jumia pay within our own ecosystem,” he said — meaning across Jumia’s existing buyer-seller universe.
Since its founding in 2012, the company has been forced to adapt to slower digital payments integration in its core Nigeria and allow cash-on-delivery payments, which are costly and more problematic than digital processing.
Poignonnec highlighted Jumia’s commitment to build a financial services marketplace (and revenues) from consumers and partners using JumiaPay and JumiaLending for products such as loans, third-party credit-scoring and insurance, he explained. This has led to Jumia moving into working-capital services for vendors on its platform.
On the movement of online goods, Jumia highlighted the expansion of its JumiaMall service, which offers brands — such as L’Oreal, Samsung, and Unliver — more tailored selling options on its website around shipping, product positioning and consumer data-analytics.
Jumia also shared info on product mix and diversification, which showed strong upward trends in digital services, the sale of consumer electronics, and beauty products.
Share-price
Surprisingly absent from Jumia’s earnings call and the subsequent Q&A was any discussion of the company’s share-price.
Today’s reporting was slightly more anticipated, given Jumia has faced a short-seller assault, sales-scandal and significant market-cap drop since its April IPO on the NYSE.
The online retailer gained investor confidence out of the gate, more than doubling its $14.50 opening share price after the IPO.
That lasted until May, when Jumia’s stock came under attack from short-seller Andrew Left, whose firm Citron Research issued a report accusing the company of fraud. That prompted several securities-related lawsuits against Jumia.
The company’s share price plummeted 43% — from $49 to $26 — the week Left released his short-sell claims, .
Then on its 2nd quarter earnings call in August, Jumia offered greater detail on the fraud perpetrated by some employees and agents of its JForce sales program.
The company declared the matter closed, but Jumia’s stock price plummeted more after the August earnings call (and sales-fraud disclosure), and has lingered in the $6 range for weeks.
That’s 50% below the company’s IPO opening in April and 80% below its high.
Jumia can offer new metrics to evaluate its performance, but the simplest measure — the ability to generate revenues in excess of costs to turn a profit — will still apply.
The sooner Jumia can go in that direction the faster it can revive its share-price and investor confidence.
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How to avoid tweeting yourself out of a job
By Dominic Knight
Updated March 16, 2016 10:20:57
Photo: Twitter is the premier platform for laying social media landmines. (ABC News: Nic MacBean)
Social media has the ability to make careers, but for every success story (see: Donald Trump) there's a cautionary tale of an employee who would have been better off keeping their phone in their pocket, writes Dominic Knight.
Free speech is a fine thing. Unfettered self-expression is a precious gift. Some might say that in a democracy such as ours, it should have no limits whatsoever.
But in this era where we all carry portable publishing devices in our pockets, it should definitely have limits, and even if your employer doesn't impose them on you the way the ABC does on people like me, it makes good sense to impose similar rules on yourself.
So, with that in mind, here's some advice about how not to screw up on Twitter, the premier platform for laying social media landmines that explode beneath you at the most inopportune moments.
Now that I've published this advice, it's 100 per cent likely that I'll get into trouble on Twitter in the next 24 to 48 hours, because we live in a deeply ironic universe. But I'm prepared to risk that inevitability, just so that others may learn. Think of that before you post your own scathing tweet about whatever I'm about to say...
Choose your username carefully
The golden rule here is - don't include your job, or anything else that's subject to change. After Kevin Rudd was deposed as Prime Minister, he remained @kevinruddpm on Twitter for more than a week, which seemed extremely poignant, and also ill-advised. And yet his ex-pal Wayne Swan didn't learn from that, and registered @SwannyDPM shortly afterwards. Now he's @SwannyQLD, which isn't likely to change.
Not only is it humiliating to have to change your name when you lose your job involuntarily, but the earlier you can grab a good username, the better. The ABC's managing director was able to take over a disused @mscott account a few years back when he switched from @abcmarkscott, but not all of us have those kinds of contacts in Twitter HQ.
Tweet for the job you want, not the job you have
That advice is often given in terms of how you dress, but for how you tweet it's even more important. Last year, a relatively unknown comedian called Trevor Noah was given the enormous challenge of taking over The Daily Show after Jon Stewart's departure. Shortly after he was announced, a wonderful moment for him was overwhelmed by the discovery that he had tweeted some extremely off-colour jokes a few years earlier.
They're indefensible jokes, but most comedians push the envelope when they're trying to get noticed. Nowadays, they should probably stay in the comedy cellars. He got through it, but I'm sure it's still one of the first things that comes to mind when some non-regular viewers hear his name. Perhaps if he'd imagined how well things might go for him career-wise, he'd have been more careful...
To clarify - tweet for the job you want, always remembering that the universe is unpredictable.
In today's news, there are a couple of examples of the same kind of thing. The incoming Senator for Victoria, James Paterson, was scathing about the prospect of Malcolm Turnbull returning as leader, calling him "ineffective" in 2012. Perhaps he thought then that there was no way a comeback would happen, or that he himself would be offered a Senate spot so soon - but sometimes unlikely scenarios come to pass, especially in politics, and especially recently. If we learn nothing from the rise of potential-president Donald Trump and former-holder-of-the-balance-of-power Clive Palmer, we should learn this.
Similarly implausible, or so he may have thought, was the idea of the Greens and Liberals ever working together - and yet Jim Casey, who is trying to unseat Anthony Albanese in Grayndler, has been criticised for a series of tweets using strong language to refer to "Tory" parties - those very same people whose preferences he may find himself seeking before the election.
Don't try to use a hashtag for marketing
I call this the #qantasluxury effect. Some social media 'guru' at the airline created a competition back in 2011 - to enter, you had to post something using the hashtag #qantasluxury. Cue lots of jokes about terrible food and scheduling problems that quickly overwhelmed any legitimate entries.
And yet social marketers keep trying to do this. Just search for "hashtag backfires" like I did and you'll see there are stacks of examples. #AskTrump, #myNYPD, #NameAHorseRace, even #RespectMyPM in Malaysia. Closer to home, #YourTaxis created the opposite effect to the Victorian Taxi Association's hopes of rallying fans to counter Uber.
So it shouldn't have been all that difficult to predict that many, if not most, of the tweets under the Federal Government's own #ideasboom hashtag would be sarcastic in nature. Never forget that social media is a seething viper's nest of smartarses. (That's why we love it.)
There's too much risk in seeding self-serving hashtags, but if you cater to Twitter users' love of bizarre, timewasting inanity, things can still go viral in moments. That's what a few Australian comedians discovered when mucking around the other day with a deliberately stupid topic called #celebrityhousehats - before long, @Mashable had tweeted about it to their seven million followers.
Imagine your boss reading every tweet
Getting this wrong is one of the fastest ways to lose your job - here's a list of no fewer than 16 people who did, with former Age columnist Catherine Deveny being a well-known example. So is when you tweet a personal comment from a work account - I'm so terrified of doing that that I use a whole different app for work. Which leads me to…
Don't drink and tweet
Same goes for other substances too, of course. To see why, simply refer to any of the dozens of times @KanyeWest has found himself with a few hours to spare and unleashed a highly entertaining stream of consciousness. Recently, he hit Mark Zuckerberg for a billion dollars for "Kanye West ideas" and admitted to being deeply in debt. Kanye's tweets are like he's interrupting Taylor Swift's speech right on your smartphone screen.
Note - I'm not suggesting that Kanye was in any way intoxicated when he did this. As he'll tell you, he's pretty special. I just think that certain substances have been shown to, shall we say, bring out the Kanye in all of us. Take for instance the Australian cricket team.
Understand direct messages
Famous people send each other direct messages. They send them to fans, too. (At least so I've read - obviously I'm not famous enough ever to have been involved in anything like this.) But the problem is, in most Twitter apps, one tab is for totally private messages, while just next to it is the tab for the ones that are 100 per cent public. The risk should be obvious, right?
I'm going to try and be charitable by pointing out that we are all fallible when it comes to technology, but let's just say that former New York congressman Anthony Weiner is more fallible than most. When trying to mount a comeback from Scandal #1, some might have ensured that aides did all the tweeting on their behalf. But, well, let's just say that Weiner - or should I say Carlos Danger - is an enthusiastic, but not proficient, adopter of new technology.
You can't assume you'll remain anonymous
Refer to @RealMarkLatham.
Finally, when things go wrong, remember… deleting won't save you
The internet is like the North in Game of Thrones - it remembers. (And can be utterly brutal.) It's worth being aware of places like the Sunlight Foundation, an archive of US politicians' deleted tweets. If you stuff up, deleting isn't necessarily a bad idea - but you still need to apologise, because someone will have screencapped it. Like life, Twitter doesn't come with an undo button.
So, why would anyone use Twitter at all? It can make careers, too. It and Facebook have enabled Donald Trump to become the Republican frontrunner without spending much money (here's an interesting analysis from a marketing perspective). And comedians like Rob Delaney have built careers on consistently excellent (and edgy, as a word of warning) Twitter accounts.
Social media is a potent maker and destroyer of careers - so go out and do your worst, remembering that if you ever get anywhere, you'll definitely have to front a press conference and apologise for it.
Dominic Knight is a presenter on 702 ABC Sydney.
Topics: social-media, work
First posted March 16, 2016 10:02:32
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FormerFormerGuardianReader:
16 Mar 2016 10:24:25am
How about just don't Tweet?
Or if you do Tweet, don't expect to say anything remotely intelligent in under 140 characters? (Is this less than 140 characters?).
gaznazdiak:
Exactly. Don't be a fashion victim following every new trend like a drone.
The usage of the # to start a statement seems to be the new air-quotes, and several orders of magnitude more annoying.
16 Mar 2016 1:22:32pm
We live in a time where we are facing increasingly complex problems but one of the main vehicles for debate is limited to 140 characters.
It's so easy to undermine a point in 140 characters but it's very difficult to make one.
For example, it's very easy to write: "LOL AGW What about the second law of thermodynamics SMILEY FACE ANGRY CAT UPSIDE DOWN TIGER....." or "Scientists banging on about climate change, check out the floods in England....CRYING FACE UNDER AN UMBRELLA" or "The leftie marxist fascist technocratic Greenies want to send us back to the Stone Age GUN POINTED AT THE HEAD OF A FORMER SMILEY FACE EMOTICON ". It's much harder to explain why this is all nonsense.
Leroy:
I'm always amazed that people bring up the character limit when criticising Twitter, as though it is impossible to formulate and express a cogent idea in 140 characters. The ability to express ideas succinctly used to be considered a virtue, but apparently now we think that the mark of distinction in written expression is prolixity and long-windedness.
Explain climate change to me in 140 characters.
Explain how we deal with the global refugee crisis in 140 characters.
Explain how we deal with budget deficit in 140 characters.
Explain how we solve the Syrian crisis in 140 characters.
You'd want to be pretty cogent.
Zing:
"Explain climate change to me in 140 characters." - Human activity is starting to affect the weather.
"Explain how we deal with the global refugee crisis in 140 characters." - Give them a reason to walk in the opposite direction.
"Explain how we deal with budget deficit in 140 characters." - Stop electing cross benchers who block the budget.
"Explain how we solve the Syrian crisis in 140 characters." - Drop a bomb on Assad. Tell the Russians he died while on vacation in the Crimea.
John O'Nokes:
"Explain climate change to me in 140 characters."
The Earth is warming. People are still trying to figure out if it?s because of humans or not. Much debate.
"Explain how we deal with the global refugee crisis in 140 characters."
Stop sending Aid to Africa as it doesn't work. Use money to fund global space program. Colonise the moon.
"Explain how we deal with budget deficit in 140 characters."
Stop funding remote communities, start producing items again, invade New Zealand.
"Explain how we solve the Syrian crisis in 140 characters."
Nuke Saudi Arabia. Syria stops being a crisis and turns into 'a minor disagreement'.
World problems = solved.
Interesting ideas, John. But I'd have to disagree with invading New Zealand.
With our luck, they'd surrender and demand annexation. And with their current GDP and population, conquering them would be the equivalent of a recession.
I didn't realise that wholesale explanations of the vast, intractable problems facing the human race were the only utterances that humans were permitted to make. Thanks for letting me know.
Big M:
A person with whom I had worked some years back posted on FB that she was doing a shift with us after two years absence. Her son stuck his foot in her mouth by posting, 'Not that sh&^hole, you always said they were a pack of c#^%s.'
HPH:
You make it sound as if the left is being irrational in their self censorship of public discourse, but the social rules they set out and enforce with an iron fist are actually quite reasonable:
1. Don't say anything that might offend anyone, unless that anyone is someone I personally disagree with.
2. Don't say anything which challenges the political and ideological opinions of others, unless those others are people I personally disagree with.
3. Don't make threats of violence or intimidate others, unless they are people I personally disagree with.
4. Don't bring facts and logic into debates and potentially discredit the 'life experiences' of others.
Pretty simple really!
Culex:
That is very true, sadly. I should point out that the "right" has the same set of rules, but they don't quite have the same presence in things like Twitter.
Right now the "regressive left" are one of the biggest threats to the freedom of speech online.
Son of Zaky:
That's quite true.
The "regressive left" tend to operate more grassroots, community-based (some might say 'trivial') regression, whereas the "regressive right" are more big-picture, expansive regressives who tend to run variations around a theme of marching into Poland.
It's the great thing about politically-flavoured regression; it embraces "choice" and doesn't impose a strict, one-size-fits-all set of rules that anyone wishing to dabble in it needs to adhere to. In that respect, it's quite progressive.
Oh for god sake quit with this ridiculous left v right dichotomy. It's childish.
The biggest threat to freedom of speech are governments imposing restrictions on various people reporting or disclosing "sensitive information" in circumstances where nobody seems to know what qualifies as "sensitive information".
It's here you see that the Left v Right dichotomy is just useless and a major distraction.
You get people who think they are on the right (but don't seem to get the idea of personal freedom) who think that anyone who raises concerns about the over-reach of government power (or indeed the treatment of vulnerable people in government controlled facilities) are just a bunch of tree hugging lefties. In doing so they dismiss out of hand and without any thought encroachments on their own freedom and the freedom of others.
The freedom to say something insulting to someone and be called on it (and possibly face the consequences of that insult) is the very definition of freedom of speech. Don't pretend you can be offensive and then criticise the magical regressive left for not getting racist or sexist jokes.
The comedian, Stewart Lee, does a funny joke about how is granny used to get confused between political correctness and health and safety.
17 Mar 2016 8:09:44am
There is a big difference between simply disagreeing with someone/something like the right often does and going out of your way to censor someone like the left often does.
Are you kidding? Twitter is absolutely heaving with right-wing nut cases, most of them with an egg for an avatar, flying the flag for the anti-immigration, anti-halal, anti-political correctness etc etc agenda. You can't take a step on Twitter without tripping over some ignorant, spelling-challenged goose telling you to love Straya or leave it.
You forgot:
And divide everything ever into a neat pile of Left and Right to save you the trouble of independent thought.
KittyKat:
Thing is, you can say completely reasonable things and still offend people. You can state scientific fact and people will be sending lynch mobs after you. God forbid you tell a joke and people misinterpret it as well.
I find the regressive left have redefined language quite a lot and refer to words as "violence" now, even if it's for something like agreeing with free speech. We've seen it this year already with that Gregory Alan Elliot guy who was taken to court in Canada (and luckily acquitted) for disagreeing with a woman online who wanted to ruin another person's life.
I usually recommend reasonable people avoid twitter altogether. Likely you'll end up on a blocklist anyway simply for following the "wrong" person or tweeting a hashtag, even if it was in criticism of it.
Grant :
Who gets to decide if the tweet breaks those rules? Especially online many people have different versions of something that may be offensive or a threat etc the minute Twitter comes down hard with slot of censorship they'll lose their business as people will be moving on to the new social media
Regionalgranny:
Rule of thumb is to not send any text, email, tweet or similar which you would not want read by your employer, fellow workers, clients or customers. Murphy's law, being what it is, at some time, you are almost guaranteed to send something, to an unintended recipient. My personal experience was onsending an instruction from my employer to a fellow employee, which of course was sent unintentionally to my employer with my remarks added to the original message.
I have good cause to thank my Mother who advised me as a child to always speak and write with civility and respect regardless of how undeserved this was to the recipient. Another pearl of wisdom was the tried and true, to always be decent to everyone on the way up, as you surely will meet them on the way down. A brief unwise spray of someone may give you a feeling of euphoria but at some time you will probably live to regret it.
DannyS:
Rg,
I've always abided by the golden rule, well ever since I've been able to send emails, is that if you're writing one in an emotional state then DO NOT send it straight away. Save it, have another think about it and then if you still agree with what you wrote then send it by all means.
Not being a Twitteratti I wonder if this method of proper self reflection is available.
gjr:
Once upon a time twittering was a term for mindless chatter... basing my opinion on what i've read and not having visited or used twitter, this seems to be the case!
bobtonnor:
Close gjr, but you could have started with 'I', it would have got you one step closer
Don't let not knowing anything about it or having any actual experience with it stop you from firmly expressing a negative opinion. That's the modern way.
Done Now:
True, but in this case blind guesswork has still landed us on the correct conclusion. Being one of those damn millenials (or am I Y generation? The difference is meaningless semantics, really) and having ample experience with social media...
...yeah, it's mindless chatter. Inane, emotive, addictive dreck. Choosing to leave it (the Drum is one of two social media platforms I still go near) was one of the better decisions of my life. Things are much better now without it.
The people that you follow and/or chat to on Twitter are determined by you. If you got mindless, inane dreck in your feed, then maybe you only know or chose to follow mindless, inane people.
dan pink:
This is quite funny. I didn't know there were so many lunatics out there on social media. The photos of the cricketers deserve a special award.
Robertf:
My rule is, never Tweet (or post to Facebook) anything I couldn't let my son read - he's now 13, I've been posting to social media for 5 years or so. That doesn't mean I dumb down my Tweets, but it does mean I think about them before I post them! :)
I'm led to believe the numbers of jobs available for humans will continue to follow the trend line and drop away to zero in coming years.
I assume Twitter is a very clever way to ensure the numbers of suitable applicants who apply for them will be kept to manageable levels.
Twitter is sold as "convenient". It's certainly a convenient way to give yourself the 21st century equivalent of a criminal record - and these days there are no more far-flung colonies where people with criminal records can go and start again.
It's nice that a youngish man is taking on the role of agony aunt here (wonderful irony in that), but I feel this is more of a young person's topic with them gnashing their teeth about the mess they've created for themselves rather than old, wise, morally-superior smart-arsed tossers like me hogging the limelight with annoying "I told you so" sanctimony.
#tweetinhaste/repentatleisure
GRAYAM:
You are a very misguided person Dominic; you cannot see the forest for the trees.
Look at the positive.
Why would anyone want to suppress such an excellent implement of natural selection?
Jack II:
Extolling the virtues of natural selection? Hmmm.
That's a good argument for a digital anthrax.
The problem is it kills everything it touches. Whereas social media only soils it's own inbox.
Leanne Butner:
Tweeting is the only way to match the voice that is otherwise denied to non politically aligned persons. Fast paced strategic abilities to shut down unwanted truths in the work place has been well facilitated. Therefore the need and requirement to tweet as a expressive construct has been forced upon Humanity by the mentoring in place to silence any person who sought and deserved truth in Human Services delivery. The Insurers in fact enabled a required void for Political "correctness"
Posting comments, however bad, is not really the issue.
It's choosing to reply to them in the first place.
( whoops ).
MrB:
Twiiter is the best thing humanity ever invented. If by best you mean things like chemical warfare, credit card debt, carbon pollution, plastic disposal and obesity. Ahhh the wonders of modern society.
"If by best you mean things like chemical warfare"
Chemical warfare and Biological warfare existed long before modern society (Quicklime, rotting cow carcasses, ect).
Same goes for obesity (Romans, Henry the VIII), and debt to some extent (I want my pound of flesh!). And, if we want to get pedantic, mass forest and bushland burnings could count as carbon pollution...
But yeah, that damn plastic disposal problem!
The whole point about Henry VIII's massive corpulence was that it was relatively rare. He stood out as a big fat bloke because there were far fewer big fat blokes around. Take a look at the contemporary portraits - no fatties. If Henry came back to life now and went to the footy, he probably wouldn't be in the top 5 fattest people in his row of seats.
Kevin Rudd had lots to say it seems... It is not always a bad thing. At times it would've been nice to ackwoledge Julia Gillard when what he did say made any concrete sense that delivered concrete outcomes.
annnonn:
If you are in receipt of any sort of Centrelink benefit, never tweet and never ever sign up to Facebook.
Connie41:
Apart from the dangers of making a fool of oneself, loosing or failing to get a job or falling foul of Centrelink, I find social media a crashing bore. I would rather be out gardening and it is better exercise too. That's all for now. I am off to do some pruning.
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Republicans brace for CBO report of health care coverage
Posted: 3:21 AM, Mar 13, 2017
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<p>Senate Republicans are poised to take the first step to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law by approving a budget blueprint that they've dubbed the Obamacare "repeal resolution."</p>
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans may soon get a preview of the political price of health reform.
Washington is braced for the expected release as soon as Monday of a Congressional Budget Office analysis set to reveal the cost and projected reach -- and limits -- of coverage for the GOP's bill to repeal and replace major parts of Obamacare.
If, as expected, the report warns that millions of people currently insured thanks to the Affordable Care Act could lose that coverage, it could rock the debate over the bill -- already facing problems due to Republican infighting.
Democrats will be certain to frame attacks on the GOP bill, the American Health Care Act, as taking away health care from those who have it, putting the onus on Republicans to argue why people should back their efforts.
That could prove a millstone for Republican lawmakers -- including in blue-collar areas that President Donald Trump won on a promise to provide better and more affordable coverage than Obamacare -- in the run-up to midterm elections in 2018.
The White House and congressional Republicans argue that the CBO projections won't tell the full story, that people who have insurance under Obamacare are hammered by high deductibles and rising premiums and need relief. In such cases, they might have care, but it is hardly affordable, they say.
"The one thing I'm certain will happen is CBO will say, 'Well, gosh, not as many people will get coverage.' You know why? Because this isn't a government mandate,'" House Speaker Paul Ryan said on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday.
Pressed to say how many people might lose coverage, Ryan said, "It's up to people."
"We're not going to make an American do what they don't want to do," Ryan said. "You get it if you want it."
Therefore, it's not surprising leading GOP figures are downplaying the CBO's assessment of their plan, which does away with the Obamacare mandate that everyone must have health insurance, offers tax breaks based mainly on age instead of income and cost of coverage, and rolls back an expansion of Medicaid.
"Nobody will be worse off financially in the process that we're going through," Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
"What we want to do is to put in place a system that will allow for folks to select the coverage that they want," Price said -- an answer Breitbart News labeled a possible "Lie of the year."
Republicans attack CBO
Not only does the CBO score miss the point, Republicans say, the agency itself often gets it wrong.
White House Chief Economic adviser Gary Cohn on Sunday argued that millions of people who now get health care through Obamacare would still have access under the GOP plan -- whatever the CBO says.
"In the past, the CBO score has really been meaningless," Cohn said on "Fox News Sunday." "They have said that many more people will be insured than are actually insured."
There is ammunition for both Democrats and Republicans in previous CBO assessments of Obamacare.
When the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, the agency estimated 21 million would gain coverage through health care exchanges in 2016. Three years later, just before the exchanges opened, the agency upped the figure to 22 million.
For various reasons, the estimate was off: About 10.4 million were enrolled last year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
However, the CBO was closer on Obamacare's overall impact on coverage. In 2010, CBO said the insured rate for non-elderly adults would rise to 92% in 2016. It later revised its forecast to 89%. In the end, 89.7% of Americans under age 65 had insurance last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Any suggestion endorsed by a nonpartisan body like the CBO that millions could lose coverage could be uncomfortable reading for Trump, however, given the guarantees he offered during the campaign.
"I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now," Trump told "60 Minutes" in September 2015.
Backlash against Republicans?
Democrats know from bitter experience during the first term of the Obama administration that taking on a project as vast and polarizing as health care reform can have painful political consequences. They are now increasingly convinced that Republicans will face a political backlash if millions of Americans lose health insurance or if the Trump-backed reform causes chaos in the insurance markets next year.
It's a reading of the situation that makes it less likely that sufficient Democrats will eventually agree to join Republicans to beat back a Senate filibuster in the final stage of the legislative drive to remake the health insurance industry -- on the replace component of the repeal and replace strategy.
They have their arguments ready for a CBO report that they believe could transform the debate.
"The reality is that Donald Trump promised voters that they would keep their coverage," said Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.
"And now we have estimates from this plan that he endorsed that 15 million people would lose it," she said.
"The reality is here, people relied on him, they voted for him for who've got the Affordable Care Act to saying they would keep their coverage and it would get better. And the Ryan plan is less coverage at a highest cost, worse all around."
The 15 million figure came from a Brookings Institution report on the likely CBO conclusions issued last week, which assesses the number of people expected to lose coverage under the 10-year scoring window for the bill.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich -- who has been critical of the bid to narrow the Medicaid expansion that he fears could impact 700,000 people in his state -- tried to refocus the debate on Sunday.
"All of this consumption with who gains politically. You know, life is short. And if all you focus in life is what's in it for me, you're a loser. You are a big-time loser," Kasich said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"And this country better be careful we're not losing the soul of our country because we play politics and we forget people who are in need," he added.
Movement continues in House
The political tempest likely to be unleashed by the CBO report will further obscure the progress made by Republicans last week, when their bill passed two key House committees after marathon hearings.
It will also fuel the controversy over the pace with which GOP leaders are trying to ram the measure through Congress, which is opening fault lines inside the Republican Party.
House conservatives are balking at what they see as the slow rollback of the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, which the bill would complete by 2020.
Confusion over the President's position may also be exacerbating the tumult in Republican ranks. Last week, Trump publicly backed the Ryan bill. Yet in a meeting with conservative critics of the legislation, he appeared to signal he was willing to be flexible about the pace of the Medicaid expansion rollback.
That position might reflect Trump's desire to come across as the ultimate deal maker, and it could help bring conservatives on board in the House. But it might also alienate more moderate Republicans in the Senate, and disrupt the delicate political equation needed to pilot the bill toward Trump's desk.
On Friday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the President did not, in fact, support speeding up the timeline for rolling back the Medicaid expansion.
"Right now, the date that's in the bill is what the President supports," he said.
But conflicting signals from Trump are giving Republican critics of the bill an opening to undermine Ryan's effort to build quick momentum to get the bill -- the first stage of a GOP process to repeal and replace Obamacare -- through Congress before it attracts prohibitive opposition.
"You know what I hear from Paul Ryan? 'It's a binary choice, young man,'" Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said on CBS "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "But what does a binary choice mean? His way or the highway."
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Stopping bad ads in their tracks: an interview with Confiant
January 14, 2020 by Shobha Doshi
Bad and malicious ads are a rampant issue across the advertising industry, but it’s one we’re successfully battling every single day for AdThrive publishers thanks to our partnership with Confiant.
Confiant is a cybersecurity company that works to protect the digital ad ecosystem from bad actors, and we’ve been partnering with them for several years now to protect our publishers’ ads in real-time.
In the past, combatting things like redirects (where an ad hijacks a reader from your site) and malvertising (ads with built-in malware injections) involved significantly more trial and error.
First, publishers had to report the issue. Sometimes they caught it themselves on their site, but often it was after reports came pouring in from readers who were experiencing a sudden surge of bad ad behavior. Next, our team worked to replicate the issue to acquire all the information needed to contact our advertising partners to report the misbehaving ad and work with them to shut it down.
Done this way, it’s a very manual process that can take a while for resolution since many bad ad attacks occur on weekends and holidays outside of our ad partners’ business hours.
But across the AdThrive community, we’ve been able to largely eradicate many of these issues that still plague the industry, thanks to Confiant’s technology that identifies and blocks bad ads at the source.
Today, we’re chatting with Louis-David Mangin, co-founder and CEO of Confiant, about how Confiant helps you show safe ads to your readers!
Can you tell us about how Confiant got started and about your mission?
Jerome, my co-founder, and I teamed up together in September 2013 to specifically tackle malvertising and low-quality ads. The problem with malware and malvertising is not new; it’s been around since the very beginning of digital advertising. But it has gotten worse as the years have gone on, and that’s what attracted Jerome and me to solve this problem.
Initially, we looked at how the industry was dealing with the problem of Flash-based malware. Vendors and major industry platforms alike were using a scanning approach, where an ad tag or site would be loaded in a server-side test environment to identify whether any malicious behavior loaded.
We started off building something similar and detected a variety of Flash-based exploits (ransomware, trojans, botnets), but soon realized that any scanning-based solutions would never accurately reflect real-world conditions and were vulnerable to evasion by malvertisers.
Security is ultimately an arms race, and data quality is paramount. This was the moment that Jerome and I came to the conclusion that we needed to reinvent how the industry tackled these problems.
In May 2017, we launched the industry’s first real-time verification system that sits client-side to deliver protection to publishers, putting them in control of what programmatic ads were doing on their sites.
With the roll-out of a more effective malware detection system, our mission is clear. We strive to make the digital world safe for everyone by uncovering malvertising campaigns and the bad actors involved. We are working with publishers, platforms, and large technology providers to more quickly detect and stop those threats before they spread.
We strive to make the digital world safe for everyone by uncovering malvertising campaigns and the bad actors involved.
Louis-David Mangin, co-founder and CEO of Confiant
What are some of the trends in bad/malicious ads you’ve seen come and go?
Before real-time verification existed, attacks had a tendency to use very crude targeting and obfuscation, but now, bad actors know that the industry is paying close attention so they have been taking extra steps to hide their payloads and not fire them on “wasted” opportunities.
Three years ago it was good enough for an attacker to register a convincing domain name, position it as an ad server, and fire their payload every time an ad was loaded.
If we look at the landscape now, most attackers will leverage multiple environment analysis techniques as a decision factor before their malicious domain is ever even revealed, much less the payload executed.
How did you adapt to combat those?
We have positioned our core competency on the security side of the business around browser internals and Javascript expertise.
This enables us to effectively track our malvertiser adversaries as they pivot strategies. We collect data points that uniquely identify attackers and their techniques, and we use dynamic analysis to see through the veil of obfuscation, but the landscape is always evolving.
What are some current trends?
Current malvertising trends are largely two-fold.
We have seen an increase in what we call “bombardment”-based attacks. These usually involve the attacker doing a tremendous amount of minor pivots in a short period of time. They understand that their efforts will get blocked sooner or later, but the hope is to overwhelm any security mechanisms in place so that enough bad stuff can leak through in order for them to produce an ROI.
We have also seen a shift towards more subtle code obfuscation and an increase in geo-targeting with these attacks.
How does Confiant’s monitoring work?
AdThrive uses Confiant’s tech to identify and block bad ads in real-time across millions of impressions each day.
Confiant’s client-side integrations with publishers and server-side integrations with SSPs and DSPs allow us to see billions of impressions and bid responses a day, giving us unmatched insight into the ad ecosystem.
We use this data to maintain visibility on every ad at any given time and identify unsafe behavior at scale.
We apply a risk assessment based on a multitude of factors. Code may be deemed suspicious because it accesses certain APIs, triggers certain behaviors, or is built outside the norm of acceptable ad standard.
Our assessments are continuously updated when new data is collected, and we act to block both the bad ads AND the bad actors.
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About Shobha Doshi
Shobha is the VP of Programmatic Strategy and Operations at AdThrive. Her team is responsible for managing all relationships with our advertising technology partners and other platforms. She works to ensure that we have the best deals with our partners and always have access to the most cutting-edge offerings. With over 10 years of experience in digital advertising, she's worked across all parts of the industry. Shobha lives in Atlanta with her husband and two boys.
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Topic: Mage's Initiation - To Be Released January 30th, 2019
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Mage's Initiation - To Be Released January 30th, 2019
« on: 05 Dec 2012, 14:33 »
UPDATE: November 28th, 2018: Mage's Initiation To Be Released January 30th 2019
After a decade of hard work, Mage's Initiation finally has a release date!
Set your calendars for January 30th, 2019.
We also have a new preview teaser video to whet your appetite for what's to come.
The game now has a page on Steam and you can start wish-listing it. So be sure to do that and help us spread the word!
We're also (still) in talks with GOG.com about releasing on their platform.
Last but not least, we are currently working on native Mac OSX and Linux ports and hope to have them ready for release day. Fingers crossed.
Here are a few up-to-date screenshots:
UPDATE June 4th, 2013: Contest - Win a prize pack worth over $450 USD!
We're running a giveaway to help promote Mage's Initiation on Steam Greenlight.
For the chance to win a huge bundle of collectible items valued at over $450 USD, just follow these simple steps:
1) Visit the Mage's Initiation Greenlight page and click the "Yes" button to upvote the game.
2) Click the "Favorite" and "Follow" buttons (under the screenshots).
3) Leave a comment (This step is necessary so that we can choose winners from the list of usernames assigned to the comments).
And that's it! Three entries will be randomly chosen when Mage's Initiation gets greenlit and this contest will remain open until that time. Comments/votes that existed before the contest was announced will also be eligible to win.
Second Prize: Two runners-up will each be gifted one game of their choice (of any value) to their Steam account.
First Prize: One lucky winner will receive all if the items below:
- 4 Game boxes (Fire, Earth, Air, and Water) containing game and soundtrack CDs
- 1 Standard DVD Case/copy of the “Mages Initiation" game
- 4 D'arc Polyresin figures - Fire, Earth, Air, and Water (4" x 3" x 3")
- 3 Digital Copies of the "Mage's Initiation" game
- 1 Digital Copy of the "Al Emmo & the Lost Dutchman's Mine" game
- 1 Digital "Al Emmo & the Lost Dutchman's Mine" soundtrack (53 Tracks)
- 1 "Mage's Initiation" Poster (18" x 24")
- 1 "Mage's Initiation" 50-page Hardcover Art book
- 2 Bronze "Severed Circle" Pendants
- 3 Complete sets of character trading cards (15 foil packs, 120 cards total)
- 1 Art Lithograph, Signed by JP Selwood (8.5" x 11")
- 2 Cloth Maps of the Land of Iginor (11" x 17")
- 2 T-shirts (Mens or Ladies sizes)
UPDATE March 15th, 2013: Playable Demo Released!
Download the Mage's Initiation Demo here
UPDATE February 26th, 2013: The Kickstarter is live right now!
Hello! This game has been in development for a few years now, so it seemed like a good time to post it here on the AGS forums!
Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements by Himalaya Studios is a Point & Click adventure game which includes RPG and character-building elements. It will be similar in style to Sierra's Quest for Glory series with a set of unique spells for each of the 4 character classes. The game will also feature a Diablo-esque battle system with loot drops.
D'Arc is sixteen years old. He has trained extensively in elemental magic for the past decade of his young life under the discerning eyes of the Mage Masters of Iginor. Confined to an existence of academics and magical mastery in their mystical tower, the inquisitive student often wonders what it would be like to set foot outside into the world that he has been secluded from; a world that his Masters deeply shun.
As with all young Mages in training, D'Arc's moment of initiation arrives and he is summoned to the Hallowed Hall, where the four Mage Masters put him to the test. D'Arc is instructed to complete three tasks which will test his magical and mental strength to full capacity. He must return to the Mage's Hall bearing a symbol of proof that he has conquered each task: a lock of hair from banished priestess, the unspoiled shell of griffon's egg, and the horn of a trinicorn. On his quest, D'Arc inadvertently stumbles upon a sinister political scheme that threatens the very existence of sleepy land. A faceless fiend conspires to shatter the order and tranquility that the Mage Masters have long held at equilibrium, bringing chaos and tyranny in their place.
Join D'Arc on a perilous journey across the fantasy-medieval land of Igninor. Brave the ominous forest where redcap goblins stalk. Trek across a barren and lawless wasteland. Navigate vast bodies of water where evil masquerades as beauty. And ascend beyond the lofty mountain peaks where the hostile Flyterians dwell. It is time for D'arc to prove himself. Succeed and he shall join the ranks as a fully-fledged Mage, gaining the respect of his Masters and peers. Fail and nobody shall remember his name. Do you have what it takes to become a Mage?
Exploring the blood-spattered kitchen of the Redcap Goblins.
This enchanted palace is not all that it seems.
Goblins, and Manifestations, and Demons... Oh my!
The ever-watchful Mage Masters have selected 3 tasks for D'Arc. Don't disappoint them!
Is this lake as placid as its appearance suggests?
Round 1... Fight!
All the Magical literature a Mage could ever dream about is contained within the Reading Hall.
Are the mountain-dwelling Flyterians fierce fearsome foes or flighty feathered friends?
Development Team:
Written & Designed by: Daniel Stacey (Cadbury Wookie)
Programming by: Chris Warren, Jason Mearls, Morgan Busch, Stijn van Empel (AGD2, Gargin, Antipus, Erpy)
Background artwork by: John Paul Selwood & Emily Selwood (KQArtist & rosel1)
2D cutscene movies: Jess Bebe (Akril)
Character Sprites & Lead Animation by: Shane Stevens (ProgZMax)
Animators: Carlos Hoyos Barcelo, Jeremy Kitchen, Johan Botes (Dr Jones, Jerminator, Gronagor)
Dialogue Portraits by: Britney Brimhall (AGD1)
Music by: Brandon Blume (MusicallyInspired)
Website, Collectibles, & Promo design by: Eriq Chang
-A full-length adventure game title.
-Beautifully illustrated Hi-Res character & background artwork.
-No dead-ends or over-reliance on trial & error puzzle solutions.
-Multiple interfaces. Play the game in intuitive LucasArts style or in Sierra style for added challenge.
-Look, Use, Talk and inventory speech and descriptions for absolutely EVERYTHING.
-Play as one of four Mage classes based on the elements (Water, Air, Fire, and Earth).
-Each class has specialist spells and a unique personality to help negotiate puzzles and overcome adversities.
-A refined stat-building system that doesn't rely on the monotony of skill-grinding.
-Class-based solutions to nearly every game puzzle and multiple game endings.
-Learn powerful combat spells and duel with magical foes to gain wealth, valuable items, and experience.
-Full Voice Acting, Lip-syncing, and Digital Music Soundtrack
We're currently reserving pre-orders for Limited Edition copies of "Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements". This is a Collector's Edition that contains high-quality boxed packaging, an artistically designed game disc, a printed cloth map of the land of Iginor, an archaic spell book page, character trading cards, and a Mage's Initiation poster.
The Collector's Edition packaging and bonuses will no longer be available after the promotional period ends. At the present time, no advance payment is required to reserve a pre-order of Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements. (Notification of when to make payment for pre-orders will be announced only when the game is nearing its release date.)
Please note that pricing is To Be Announced. (We request that only customers who genuinely intend to pre-order the Limited Edition put their name on this list. Note that the pre-order list is opt-in, so after putting your name down, you'll need to confirm your pre-order by clicking on the link in the e-mail you're sent. You can also remove your name from the pre-order list at any time. For general information on the game when it becomes available, please join the Himalaya Newsletter instead).
To learn more about Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements and this special announcement offer, visit The Mages Promo page.
Remember to Like the Himalaya Studios Facebook page and Twitter for ongoing updates about the game.
« Last Edit: 29 Nov 2018, 12:38 by AGD2 »
Mati256
Re: Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements
« Reply #1 on: 05 Dec 2012, 21:24 »
Looks great. Is this game made with AGS?
One thing I noticed in games like this and Quest for Infamy is that the characters look really tiny compared to the environment.
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"And the 2013 AGS Award for Best Graphics goes tooo..." Seriously, looks really nice -- even if the characters do appear kinda small compared to the backgrounds.
Thanks! Yeah, the game is certainly being developed with AGS.
In regards to the character sprites, if you suggest making them even larger I think ProgZ might have a fit! Actually, these sprites contain about 4x the detail of a standard 320x200 game character sprite, so the process of creating them has been incredibly time-consuming. Making the characters larger than the current size would have been unfeasible, so we had to determine a reasonable a trade-off. We also didn't want to scale the sprites over 100% because then it introduces uneven pixelization and just looks bad. When the game is played at full-screen mode, however, the characters look good and are large enough to click on without any problems. It's something you adapt to pretty quickly.
Yeah, don't worry about it. As players, we adapted to all sorts of things that look different in real life -- or wouldn't even be possible (such as collectable items instantly disappearing when walked into in platform games). Your game looks so gorgeous you could probably get away with a lot worse
« Last Edit: 06 Dec 2012, 09:28 by Fitz »
cianty
Good to see this up here now. I think I have signed up to this a long time ago already. I'll keep my fingers crossed that you manage to keep the estimated release date.
ca. 70% completed
Haha that's unlikely at this juncture, cianty. There's still a ways to go on the development front!
Hmmm, that reminds me I'll have to remember to update that website graphic...
Squinky
I am Tom Selleck's Love Child.
I want this game, this is what is all about here. I played Hero quest so much, this just makes my day.
Eat lead, Frantenelli.
Aesthetically, this game looks beyond amazing. Have to say I agree with Fitz though, the sprites could be a teeny-weeny bit bigger.
Sounds great. Cool graphics
« Reply #10 on: 07 Dec 2012, 08:32 »
This is one of the games I've been eagerly waiting for, and it's good to hear some more news.
Things look great! All of the art is very well done, and the concept is awesome too.
I'm certainly looking forward to its release in late 2013.
Very VERY nice looking!!! Oh and did i mention that it's very nice looking?
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Quote from: AGD2 on 06 Dec 2012, 23:12
Really? From what I remember there's been a single-plage-website for the game for .. dunno two years or something and it had an email sign up funcionality then too. Anyways, good to see this is still going strong. It looks very promising.
Thanks, guys. Glad you're digging it.
cianty: That's right. The Mage's Initiation webpage has been online since February 2011. Progress has been constant, but we experienced a bout of Development Hell due to unforeseen circumstances and a high-turnover rate, the likes of which I've never encountered on any game project I've worked on before. Also, being a hi-res,full-length game with RPG aspects and 4 playable character classes, it tends to increase the scope for issues and bugs, so we need to spend time scripting everything very carefully and thoroughly.
We've actually decided to run a Kickstarter campaign for this game in early 2013 so that we can finish and release it as quickly as funding permits. If the campaign succeeds, we'll also re-include some neat class-specific quests that had to be cut due to budget constraints. Plus, it will also provide the perfect means to distribute the Collector's Editions and swag which I'd always intended to offer as a pre-order anyway. So, stay tuned for that.
Motivation... Rising...
Holy crud! this looks amazing! This sort of thing motivates me (Also makes me die a little inside) because this and so many other games are such quality coming through this site. I have about 4 project which I'm very slow working on, whenever I get some free time and not drained from work. But I'll slug away and hopefully one of these will be release first/second for everyone to enjoy/despise. Keep up the good work guys! I'll be sure to throw some cash into the Kickstarter when it's up and running! Keeping a close eye on this one for sure!
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WOW!! It looks great (but for sure IT IS!).
Really really really great job!
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Even though I'm not a huge RPG fan, I would totally support a Kickstarter for this project to help support you guys and girl(s). I love the detail in the artwork. Keep up the good work!
« Reply #17 on: 19 Feb 2013, 21:46 »
Hey, hey, hey! Just wanted to give you incredibly good-looking people a heads-up that Mage's Initiation is now up and humming on Kickstarter.
If you're super quick, you can still nab a digital download copy for $6. We have some other nice collectibles and swag on offer too at higher levels. Feel free to check it out and thanks for looking!
http://kck.st/mages
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The artwork is beautiful.
I look forward to updates.
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AdventureConnect Montpellier May Change the Face of Adventure Travel in Southern France
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Thoughts of southern France and the Mediterranean Sea generally conjure up images of the Riviera, Nice and Cannes — playgrounds for the rich and famous. But there’s much more to the region than that. Long branded as the place to go for sun, sand and the sea, mass beach tourism has traditionally been Montpellier’s principal tourism sector.
Languedoc-Roussillon is not short on nature or beauty and with the modern traveller’s renewed demand for authentic, memorable and exciting trips, Languedoc has jumped to meet these needs. Building on what already exists in the region, Languedoc-Roussillon is steadily invigorating its brand as a high-quality adventure travel destination in the south of France. Languedoc’s investment in using the emerging trend of adventure travel to reinvent their region became the central theme of the recent Sud de France-sponsored AdventureConnect event held in Montpellier on April 16, 2015.
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“Languedoc Roussillon is known for mass beach tourism and we want to change that. We think that adventure tourism is one way to change that image,” says Frédéric Ledent of Sud de France Développement. “We consider adventure tourism a priority.”
From the arresting Cevennes Mountains in the north (elevation 1,702 meters) and Port-Camargue — one of the largest marinas in Europe — to majestic cities such as Montpellier and Uzès and adorable villages such as Saint–Guilhem–le–Désert, from amazing Medieval castles like Carcassonne all the way to the Gardon River and the breath-taking Roman aqueduct, the Pont du Gard, Languedoc has much to offer. Add to those sites globally competitive wine and gastronomy, diversity in culture due to its location between Spain and Italy, and “Voila!”, Languedoc already has the makings of a world-class adventure destination. And, it’s no stranger to adventure, as among the many outdoor activities the region offers, it is also the birthplace of kite surfing.
And it’s about to become a larger “department” due to France’s recent decisions to merge two regions — Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées, which will add even more to the already bountiful adventure offering. Nestled in the heart of the beautiful Pyrenees Mountains, it will add 30,000 km of footpaths including the famous St. James’ Way — one of the routes to Santiago del Compostela — as well as more than twenty ski resorts, fantastic cycling routes inspired by the Tour de France, cliff-top medieval villages such as Rocamadour and the beautiful city of Toulouse.
“I think Languedoc-Roussillon has a lot to offer, but it’s not known for it,” says Marion Bavonneau of VTR Voyages, which specializes in holiday packages featuring sports such as skiing, kitesurfing, canoeing and others. “You can go canoeing and then have a glass of wine on the river—and it’s so easy to do both!”
Also discussed at the AdventureConnect was France’s emergent classification as a top-quality adventure tourism destination. In the most recent Adventure Tourism Development Index, France climbed onto the top-ten list of globally competitive adventure tourism destinations. As more tourism operators and companies invest in adventure tourism, this collective effort can push France even higher up the list.
There are challenges of course. One particular issue is language. France is not known for high English proficiency and this was one area that the nation as a whole and the tourism industry in particular will need to improve on in order to welcome more international tourists. Most of Languedoc-Roussillon’s tour operators at the ATTA event indicated that they wanted to expand their international markets farther into Europe, North America, and Oceania, which makes English proficiency a priority.
During AdventureConnect, French suppliers sought solutions for how to deal with the language issue, which admittedly, may take a generation to remedy. One solution that was discussed had to do with securing technical, English-speaking guides from outside of France carrying both technical and “soft skills” to work alongside their French counterparts: the cost of doing so arose as the most significant barrier to such a solution. However, it may be the only effective temporary solution until the language barrier is broken.
Along with improving language proficiency, enhancing the “soft skills” side of of the traveller experience is viewed as a key to success in the region – this includes interpretation skills, commitment to responsible tourism practices, managing groups, and so on. Parallel to soft skills development, safety and risk management is another challenge.
One operator, Camille Salgues of Natu’Rando, which organizes kayak and bike tours around the famous Pont du Gard, summed the delicate balance between adventure and risk management quite well: “Tourists always want an authentic, exciting experience, but at the same time, we don’t want to do anything too dangerous or extreme because we are concerned about their safety.”
To provide experiences that meet the client’s demand for compelling adventures while ensuring their safety, tour operators must find a balance where the client feels (s)he is getting a quality adventure while managing and mitigating risk. And, while France is often recognized globally as having some of the world’s best technically certified guides (e.g., for climbing, kayaking, mountaineering, kite surfing, etc.), complexities remain in accepting international guides in France who may carry “universal” certifications for various activities, which won’t yet be accepted in France.
Regarding authentic experiences in Languedoc-Roussillon, tour operators are working together in order to continue raising awareness of France in the eyes of international adventure travel enthusiasts. They’re increasingly using local products and partnering with local artisans, restaurants, wineries, entertainers and musicians to create unforgettable itineraries. Throughout the ATTA team’s week in the region (which included road cycling, stand up paddling, canoeing, kayaking, kite surfing, wake boarding, caving and a bevy of culinary experiences thanks to Discover France, Natu’Rando, Club30Kite, La Grotte des Demoiselles, and Gout d’Aventure), it is clear that a new climate of cooperation is emerging. And judging by Sud de France’s investment and expressed interest in future regional and potentially global adventure tourism events, it’s likely they will succeed in their quest.
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Monica Price on April 23, 2015 00:26:42
We have a great biking tour in this region–but for a few years called it Biking Languedoc, we have now changed the name to Bicycling the South of France and it has already received more interest! glad to see that the region is starting to become popular and beginning to advertise its adventure potential–our travelers and tour leaders love this region!
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I have a client who moved to another EU country a few years ago and now generates all of his company's income in that country.
He currently uses his UK Ltd company to declare income/pay tax. (No PAYE involved)
Am I right in saying that he should now regsiter in that country and that his UK company should be closed?
Might be a simplistic question but happy to provide any other details
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By Tim Vane
There is no immediate need to close the company although it may make things simpler in the long run, but your real issue is that he may well have been incorrectly declaring and paying UK tax when the company is not resident for UK tax purposes. Although there is not enough information in your post to be definitive on this, you may need to amend his past CT returns to nil returns since it is very likely that the company is taxable in his country of residence and not the UK. When the tax authorities from that other country come calling for their dues it would be a shame if he had already given the money to the UK by mistake, as they are unlikely to accept any tax credit under a DTA where tax has been incorrectly levied.
By jaffe123
Tax will not be an issue because the company has accumulated losses and no tax paid for the past 4 years
Replying to jaffe123:
jaffe123 wrote:
Are you sure the historic accumulated losses are allowable against the trade under the tax rules of his country of residence? Tell him to get local advice before making that assumption.
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By Tax Dragon
Why did you mention the tax if it's not an issue? Why didn't you mention Brexit if that's what you were asking about?
FYI, folk in here know about tax - the rules get written down and then applied. (Or not, apparently, in your client's case... not yet, anyway.) None of us knows what Brexit will do.
Replying to Tax Dragon:
Absolutely nothing to do with Brexit. Just my lack of knowledge of someone having a UK company but working and generating the income in a different country.
Can you can see why I made the link?
Your client moved a few years ago. You should have been concerned about your lack of knowledge at the time.
I hope you at least advised your client when they moved that you would not be able to provide tax and accounts services for (or advice on other obligations in) their adopted country of residence and that they should take advice locally; I seriously hope you did not advise them to the contrary.
I am very comfortable with what has happened in the past and my knowledge of the circumstances at that time but circumstances have now changed hence my question.
By Matrix
I thought they changed a few years ago so you should have advised the client to seek local tax advice at that time.
By Richard Grant
The company is registered in the UK so It's UK resident and liable to UK taxes. If your client is using it to trade (from anywhere in the world) then the profits generated are liable to UK tax.
Don't confuse your clients tax status with that of the Ltd Company, they are separate legal entities.
The question is this, does he appear to be sheltering his income in a relatively low tax regime to avoid local taxes and will the local tax authorities get a bit worked up if they find out?
It's like someone registering their company on BVI and trading through it, HMRC will be upset, the same goes for the country he is in.
Replying to Richard Grant:
If the company is also resident where it's run (quite a common rule) and there's a DTA between there and the UK... have a look at TIOPA. (And s18 CTA2009, for CT.)
Many thanks for your reply. Based on the tax structure where he now lives there is no tax to pay for the past few years (same as UK) but my concern is that all his income for this current year is in the new country and none from UK. I suspect the company will also start to make a profit this year.
Based on some of the more sensible answers on here I have now advised him to find a local accountant
Just to make sure he isn't exposed to anything in the UK, I'd suggest he should engage a competent adviser over here too.
By accountantccole
UK Limited company isn't the issue, no problem with non residents still having a UK co. (can be useful for tax planning, particularly if they go to the UK from time to time). The problem is that the client has probably created a branch.
Getting a branch set up properly overseas can be more complicated than you expect.
We're in France and deal with lots of UK/French clients. There are horrible local rules for building trades/artists/transport companies etc. Your client definitely needs local advice.
If they are on UK passports and haven't got themselves into the local system properly, they may well need to back track and declare properly to Brexit proof themselves. Quickly!
Oh, god. As if the OP isn't bad enough. Then the idiots turn up, and make the whole situation worse. Yes, I mean you. You know who I'm talking about.
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Day three in Australia begins with rain outside and Magnolia running a fever. We stop for oysters on our way out of town, since we had been foiled in our earlier effort. These Clyde River oysters were the perfect balance of briny and sweet, and had come right out of the river just hours before. We made a pledge to eat as many fresh local oysters as possible. Bonus: they were not crazy expensive.
We stopped at Mystery Bay, just south of Narooma, where in 1880 a ship carrying a gold-field surveyor and his crew washed ashore not long after its departure, completely empty of supplies, and with four holes in the hull that appeared to have been made from the inside. For us, it was a sweet spot for a picnic and a quick dip in the crystal clear water. The girls did not join us in the swim, though. We’ve all been reading Bill Bryson’s book, Down Under, which includes in it’s first chapters a litany of all the deadly creatures living in Australia and its waters, so they choose the relative safety of the swing set.
The drive was full of signs for kangaroo crossings, and the eucalyptus forests are home to koalas. We passed the Genoa River, which is said to be home to platypus. But we have yet to see any of those things. We were thrilled, though, to hang out with these pelicans for a while.
Spent the night in the town of Lakes Entrance. According to Aboriginal legend, the lakes were formed by a mystical spit take, when a frog who had swallowed the ocean was surprised by an eel who was standing upright. I think I need to read more Aboriginal legends.
We stopped by several motels before we found one with wifi. The very pleasant Comfort Inn Emmanuel fit the bill, and had a cute googie style that I forgot to photograph.
Before we left in the morning, we crossed the footbridge over to Ninety Mile Beach. Yes. Ninety Mile Beach. We were about to declare it the greatest beach ever, when we almost stepped on a tiny bluebottle jellyfish. And then another. And another. Bluebottle stings are notoriously painful, and can leave permanent scars. We decided to put our shoes back on and head back to the car.
Before going to our friend Nicole’s house near Melbourne, we thought we’d aim for one more beach along the way. Or, sort of along the way. Or, “a four-hour detour to a total sh*thole on the most dangerous road in all of Australia,” as Nicole would call it. She tried to talk us out of it, but I could tell that the more she discouraged us, the more John dug in his heels. This place he had read a paragraph about in a tourist office publication this morning was now an essential must-do on our trip.
I’m happy to say that it was a very cool place. The Bununrong Marine National Park had an amazing rocky beach with tide pools full of sea life we’d never seen before, surrounded by dramatic sandstone cliffs. We even saw some penguin-like birds.
But indeed we did see our first cool Australian critter – a wombat – sadly dead on the side of the road. Those things are huge! I always thought they were like large guinea pigs, but this was closer in size to a small bear. Even legs up and clearly dead, it was adorable, and reminded me of Mr. Danders, the misunderstood guinea pig in Cul de Sac. I did not photograph it, but here’s a photo of a wombat by Phil Whitehouse for your viewing pleasure.
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Company News: Curetis Announces Financial Results for the First Six Months of 2018
– Successful U.S. launch of Unyvero System and LRT Application Cartridge, with strong pipeline of sales opportunities
– Unyvero UTI Application Cartridge launched as CE-IVD product,
BCU and HPN Application Cartridges approved in Singapore
– Commercial reach expanded to Latin America and Northern Africa
Curetis N.V. (the “Company” and, together with its subsidiaries, “Curetis“), a developer of next-level molecular diagnostic solutions, today reported its financial results for the first six months ended June 30, 2018, and provided a business update for 2018 year-to-date and its outlook for the future.
Operational and Business Highlights 2018 Year-to-Date
Successful U.S. Launch of Unyvero System and LRT Cartridge
Following the U.S.-FDA clearance in April 2018, Curetis launched the Unyvero System and the Unyvero LRT Application Cartridge for lower respiratory tract infections in the U.S. market at the ASM Microbe 2018 Congress in Atlanta, GA, USA on June 7, 2018.
Since the launch, the U.S. commercial team has initially qualified more than 125 accounts as potential first buyers of Unyvero out of a total of about 1,000 hospitals considered by Curetis to be initial targets for Unyvero LRT. Of those qualified accounts, more than 50 have been thoroughly vetted and many are expected to be converted to commercial accounts over the next several quarters with approximately ten accounts constituting near-term opportunities currently at the contract negotiation stage. These initial ten accounts on average are expected to have LRT cartridge volumes of 700 to 800 annually once they become commercial customers. The estimated LRT cartridge volume potentials for the more than 50 accounts in advanced stages of qualification range from around 250 to over 1,600 p.a.
In all EMEA direct markets, combined revenues from cartridges and instruments grew by more than 257% comparing the first half 2018 with the first half of 2017. Total revenue was up by 36% compared to the first half of 2017.
In August 2018, Curetis expanded its geographic presence into the Northern African and Latin American markets signing exclusive distribution partnerships with Future Horizon Scientific for Egypt, with Quimica Valaner S.A. for Mexico and with Biko S.A. for Uruguay. Each of the three new distribution partners intends to commercialize all five Unyvero Application Cartridges that are currently CE-IVD-marked, namely HPN, ITI, BCU, IAI and UTI. These partners in total have committed to purchasing a minimum of 45 instrument systems at Curetis’ typical distributor transfer prices over the respective three-year contractual terms. In addition, they have committed to minimum purchases of several thousand Unyvero application cartridges over the terms of the agreements.
With these additional distribution partnerships in place, Curetis to-date has 16 distribution partners covering 29 countries and believes to have a strong pipeline of further potential distribution partners covering additional markets that may lead to further near-term distribution agreements.
Installed Base
Upon completion of a pharmaceutical partner’s phase III clinical trial, Curetis in Q1-2018 exercised an option to buy back multiple Unyvero Systems deployed in this clinical trial and has concurrently taken a stronger focus on higher priority accounts and conversion efficiency throughout H1-2018, which has led to a re-deployment of Unyvero Analyzers resulting in a temporary decrease in the installed base of Unyvero Analyzers to 162 Analyzers as of the end of the first half-year 2018, down by a net of 13 Analyzers compared to 175 Analyzers at year-end 2017. The Company expects to offset this decrease through future U.S. sales and the entry into additional distribution partnerships and has also identified a significant number of EMEA direct market opportunities for new Unyvero placements. Overall, the Company’s more selective placement of Unyvero Systems has resulted in improved working capital management in H1-2018.
Product Launches and Regulatory Approvals
In April 2018, Curetis launched the CE-IVD marked Unyvero Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Application Cartridge at ECCMID 2018. The UTI panel covers 103 diagnostic targets, including 88 pathogens and 15 resistance markers. Unyvero UTI primarily targets urinary tract infections in patients with complicated and severe UTIs.
In April 2018, the Unyvero HPN and BCU Application Cartridges were approved by the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) and fully registered as Class C IVD medical devices with the Singapore Medical Device Register. The approval allows Curetis’ Singaporean distribution partner Acumen Research Laboratories Ltd. to initiate a more comprehensive roll-out in Singapore.
In January 2018, Curetis and MGI (a BGI Group Company, Shenzhen, China) signed R&D collaboration and supply agreements focused on the Unyvero Lysator technology and instruments. Under the agreement, MGI can utilize Curetis’ Lysator technology to develop and commercialize a universal automated solution for next generation sequencing (NGS)-based molecular microbiology that can process any sample type commonly obtained from patients for microbiological analysis. With the feasibility phase completed and with all pre-defined performance criteria met, the collaboration has entered the development phase for a first integrated product. Results from the collaboration are expected to be presented at the ICG-13 Conference in Shenzhen, China, on October 24-28, 2018.
Going forward, Curetis aims to expand existing collaborations and enter into further value-adding R&D and commercial partnerships around the Unyvero Platform with well-known diagnostic industry players.
To expand the label claim of its recently U.S.-FDA cleared Unyvero LRT Application Cartridge for lower respiratory tract infections, Curetis plans to file for the clearance of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) as a second sample type. To this end, Curetis will have a pre-submission meeting with the U.S.-FDA at the end of September 2018 to discuss submission requirements and details for a Unyvero LRT Application Cartridge optimized for BAL samples and including a further diagnostic target as compared to the LRT Application Cartridge currently marketed in the U.S.
To rapidly expand its Unyvero Application Cartridge portfolio in the U.S., Curetis has started an FDA trial for its next U.S. Product, the Unyvero IJI Application Cartridge for severe invasive joint infections, a variant of its Unyvero ITI Cartridge specifically designed and developed for the U.S. market. The collection of retrospective samples to augment the prospective arm of the trial is ongoing and Curetis aims to finalize the U.S. clinical trial for Unyvero IJI in 2019.
Working towards a China market clearance by the Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), analytical testing of the Unyvero HPN Application Cartridge by Curetis’ partner in China, Beijing Clear Biotech (BCB), was initiated in Q4-2017 under the auspices of the Beijing Institute of Medical Device Testing and finalized in Q2-2018 with Unyvero HPN meeting all performance requirements for the entire panel. Analytical testing is a key requirement and precondition for BCB to initiate the prospective CFDA clinical trial later in 2018. Based on recently published new guidance by the Chinese State Council, Curetis together with BCB is currently exploring how the substantial clinical data available from the CE-IVD and U.S.-FDA studies could help accelerate the CFDA approval process.
All other R&D programs and product development projects remain on track and in line with previous guidance. In particular, Curetis has advanced the development of its new analyzer module, Unyvero A30 RQ, and expects CE-IVD-marking of the instrument as well as a first A30 RQ Application Cartridge in late 2019.
Ares Genetics
Curetis’ subsidiary Ares Genetics received a funding commitment for its project “The Digital Microbe” with a total project volume of EUR 1.6 million by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).
Further, Ares Genetics has been selected as a winner of the “GoSiliconValley” competition of the Austrian Economic Chambers (WKO). The award includes an incubator stay in Silicon Valley, CA, USA, which is aimed at facilitating U.S. market entry and access to U.S. venture and growth capital. In addition, Ares Genetics won the PerMediCon Award 2018 as runner-up.
In July 2018, Ares Genetics launched the ARES & CO (Antibiotic REsistance Solutions by COoperative R&D) pharma partnering program. The program is supported and largely funded by the Vienna Business Agency and aims to establish an alliance for antibiotic stewardship with pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations. The goal of the program is to counteract antibiotic resistance and to foster antibiotic stewardship by applying advanced data-driven solutions to antimicrobial drug development and life cycle management of existing antimicrobial drugs.
All R&D Programs related to the further development, expansion and antibiotic resistance marker mining of ARESdb and the further development of the ARES Technology Platform utilizing Artificial Intelligence approaches are on track.
Going forward, ARES aims to expand existing and enter into further value-adding R&D and commercial partnerships with well-known industry players around ARESdb and the ARES Technology Platform.
In April 2018, Curetis established a dedicated U.S. Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), expanding its scientific network and clinical expertise to support U.S. adoption of the recently FDA-cleared Unyvero System and LRT Cartridge. Five renowned U.S. infectious disease experts have been appointed to the SAB. The newly formed U.S. Scientific Advisory Board complements the Curetis Medical Advisory Board, which has been renamed the EU Scientific Advisory Board.
Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Supervisory Board
All items on the agenda of the AGM held in Amsterdam on June 21, 2018, were approved by shareholders. Oliver Schacht, Ph.D. and Dr. Achim Plum have been re-appointed as Managing Directors. Furthermore, Dr. Rudy Dekeyser and Dr. Werner Schaefer have been re-elected to the Supervisory Board. Further, the shareholders approved three authorized capital to increase the Company’s share capital (two authorizations of up to 10% and one of up to 50%) providing the management with strategic flexibility in further commercially growing the Company.
Holger Reithinger, General Partner at venture capital company Forbion Capital Partners, resigned from Curetis’ Supervisory Board effective April 30, 2018. After Dr. Reithinger’s resignation, the Supervisory Board now consists of six members.
Financial Highlights H1-2018, Financing
Revenues: EUR 807k (growing by about 36% compared to EUR 595k in the first half-year 2017). EMEA direct sales have grown 257% year over year.
Expenses: EUR 12,443k total cost of sales, distribution costs, administrative expenses and research & development expenses (vs. EUR 9,907k in the first half-year 2017). The increase is in line with the operational and organizational growth and driven by higher distribution costs, higher research & development expenses as well as G&A costs.
Operating loss: EUR -11,365k (vs. EUR -9,262k in the first half-year 2017).
Net loss of the period: EUR -11,561k (vs. EUR -9,662k in the half-year 2017).
Cash and cash equivalents: EUR 11,646k as of June 30, 2018 (vs. EUR 16,311k as of December 31, 2017).
Net cash burn in the first half-year 2018 was EUR -4,912k. In April 2018, Curetis raised EUR 4.1 million in a private equity placement and issued 854,166 new shares and secured access to an additional USD 10 million equity facility offered by Global Corporate Finance (GCF) in New York allowing the Company solely at its request to raise additional capital over a period of up to 36 months subject to certain pre-agreed floor pricing. Cash outflow from operations and investments totaled EUR 11,692k in H1-2018.
Curetis in H1-2018 has continued to assess all tactical and strategic financing options in the debt and equity capital markets globally and aims to raise additional growth capital as either equity or debt in 2018 to secure appropriate funding and cash for its continued operations for at least the next 12 months and to ensure it has the financial resources to continue as a going concern.
Going forward, Curetis expects to:
Convert U.S. and EMEA pipeline of commercial opportunities for Unyvero into near-term deal closures and revenue contribution.
Expand its global Unyvero distribution network and commercial reach through further partnerships with suitably positioned distributors.
Continue to work with BCB to finalize the CFDA study and regulatory submission for Unyvero HPN to gain market access in China.
Execute on and expand the partnership with MGI / BGI to develop and commercialize solutions for NGS-based Molecular Microbiology.
Execute on all R&D programs including a Unyvero LRT Cartridge label claim extension for BAL, IJI clinical studies in the U.S., Unyvero A30 RQ development expected for CE-IVD launch in late 2019, and further development of ARESdb and the ARES Technology Platform.
Enter into further value-adding R&D and commercial partnerships with well-known industry players around ARESdb and the ARES Technology Platform as well as the Unyvero Platform.
Continue to assess all tactical and strategic financing options in the debt and equity capital markets globally to raise additional growth capital as either equity or debt in 2018 in order to fund continued operations for at least the next 12 months.
“We achieved a key corporate milestone in the first half of 2018 with the FDA clearance and commercial launch of the Unyvero System and Unyvero LRT Application Cartridge in the U.S.,” said Oliver Schacht, Chief Executive Officer of Curetis. “As the largest molecular diagnostics market in the world, the U.S. is crucial not only for Curetis, but for all diagnostics companies, and our U.S. launch has been a major value inflection point for Curetis. To broaden our U.S. product offering, we are currently conducting an FDA trial for our second U.S. product, Unyvero IJI for invasive joint infections, and are seeking U.S. FDA input on the most efficient regulatory approach to extend the label claim for the Unyvero LRT Application Cartridge to BAL samples. In addition, we have significantly broadened our global commercial reach by closing exclusive distribution partnerships for Mexico, Uruguay and Egypt, and have significantly advanced in our efforts to gain market access in China.”
Curetis will host a public conference call and webcast on August 14, 2018, at 12:30 pm CEST / 06:30 am EDT to present the H1-2018 financial results, highlight the most important events and provide an outlook for the second half of 2018 and beyond.
The conference call will be supplemented by a presentation, which can be accessed during the call at:
http://www.curetis.com/en/investors/financial-reports-and-conferences/financial-reports.html
For participating in the earnings conference call, please access the presentation at https://webcasts.eqs.com/curetis20180814
To access the call, please dial the following numbers using the passcode 93120684#:
NL: +31 107137273
BE: +32 11500307
DE: +49 6922 222 9043
US: +1 855 4027766
China: +86 4006815483
Further country-specific dial-in numbers can be found at: http://events.arkadin.com/ev/docs/International Access Numbers_ UKFELBRI1_SU7.pdf
The full H1-2018 Report will be available as of 14 August 2018, at: http://www.curetis.com/en/investors/financial-reports-and-conferences/financial-reports.html
The live webcast and a replay will be available at: https://webcasts.eqs.com/curetis20180814
Company News: Curetis Announces Change in Curetis USA Inc. Management
Company News: Curetis’ Subsidiary Ares Genetics Initiates Development of AI-Powered Infectious Disease Test
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Monday, 28. October 2019
Company News: Curetis Group Company Ares Genetics Launches AI-powered Molecular Antibiotic Susceptibility Test
— Blinded evaluation study with leading global IVD player demonstrated diagnostic performance in line with FDA requirements for antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST)
— Already received orders for more than1,000 molecular AST tests offered under the brand name ARESupa – Universal Pathogenome Assay
— Total contractual order volume received in 2019 for next-generation sequencing tests as well as advanced bioinformatics, AI services and certain rights amounts to over EUR 2 million
Curetis N.V. (the “Company” and, together with its subsidiaries, “Curetis”), a developer of next-level molecular diagnostic solutions, today announced that its fully-owned subsidiary Ares Genetics has launched an early access program for its novel, artificial intelligence (AI) powered, next-generation sequencing (NGS) based molecular antibiotic susceptibility test (AST).
Information on antibiotic susceptibility of pathogens is of utmost importance for clinical practice, epidemiology and public health purposes as well as for the development of pharmaceutical products in the infectious disease sector. Ares Genetics therefore has developed a molecular AST that will be marketed under the brand name ARESupa – Universal Pathogenome Assay. It is an expanded version of the NGS-based ARESupa initially launched in August 2019 for the identification of pathogens and resistance genes. The new version of the ARESupa is now capable of also accurately predicting antibiotic susceptibility via AI-powered interpretation of high-throughput DNA sequencing data.
ARESupa is based on whole-genome sequencing of bacterial strains isolated from clinical specimens, combined with data analysis and interpretation powered by ARESdb, Ares Genetics’ unique, proprietary reference database on genetic antimicrobial resistance markers. ARESdb covers genomes of about 40,000 bacterial strains and associated susceptibility data for more than 100 different antibiotics.
Already, Ares Genetics has received commercial orders for more than 1,000 ARESupa tests, an order volume exceeding EUR 500,000. Together with advanced bioinformatics and AI services leveraging ARESdb for the diagnostics and pharma industry, as well as access to certain rights, Ares Genetics has contracted for and received orders amounting to more than EUR 2 million in 2019 to date.
A blinded evaluation study with a leading global IVD player recently demonstrated a predictive performance of the AI-powered ARESupa in line with FDA requirements for over 50 drug/pathogen combinations. Further blinded evaluation studies with leading academic medical centers are anticipated for Q4/2019.
With the early access program gaining momentum, broader commercialization of the AI-powered antibiotic susceptibility test is anticipated to begin in early 2020. The test will be initially offered for non-diagnostic applications in epidemiology, infection control, and outbreak analysis for customers in the public health sector and the pharmaceutical industry. A laboratory-developed test (LDT) on native patient samples for human diagnostic use in indications in which current culture-based diagnostic practice is inherently challenging is planned. Furthermore, Ares Genetics has recently entered into a multi-phase strategic partnership with an undisclosed leading global in vitro diagnostics corporation to jointly develop diagnostic solutions for infectious disease testing based on the ARESupa.
Ares Genetics’ R&D programs for the development of ARESupa are co-funded by non-dilutive public grants provided by the Vienna Business Agency, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), and other institutions with a total co-funded volume of up to more than EUR 3 million. In addition to the ARESupa, Ares Genetics provides advanced bioinformatics and AI services to customers in the pharmaceutical industry and in public health, and in September 2019, QIAGEN, in a strategic partnership and under a license from Ares Genetics, launched ARESdb as part of its CLC Microbial Genomics Module for general explorative antibiotic research by the life science community.
Ares Genetics, which recently was recognized as a leading AI start-up in the DACH region by Forbes (https://www.forbesdach.com/artikel/top-30-start-ups-aus-dem-dach-raum.html), has been invited to present its AI-powered approach to molecular AST at various scientific and public health conferences in Q4/2019:
EIT Health German-French Bilateral Meeting 4-5 November, Mannheim, Germany
European Summit of Industrial Biotechnology 18-20 November, Graz, Austria
3rd Congress Immunotherapies & Innovations for Infectious Diseases 3-4 December, Lyon, France
13. Nationaler Qualitätskongress Gesundheit, 12-13 December, Berlin, Germany
Company News: Motion Capture Group Retains Biotech Alliances International to Raise Series A $15 Million Financing Round
Company News: Curetis To Attend Key Conferences in the Fourth Quarter of 2019
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Day 2 from APE — Data, Open Science, and the Future
The second day of the 2020 APE Meeting brings some surprising problems to the fore
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Day 2 from APE — Data, Open Science, and the FutureThe second day of the 2020 APE Meeting brings some surprising problems to the fore
Kent Anderson
Like the first day, Day 2 of the 2020 Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) meeting was jam-packed. It started with a strong session covering some of the implications of the rise of China, and the purchase of EDP Sciences by the Chinese publisher Science Press. (The head of Science Press spoke yesterday, and was well-received.) This China-focused “wake up session” consisted of an energizing give-and-take between Eefke Smit and Ed Gerstner of Nature. The conversation centered on whether Chinese publishers will become more Western in their norms and ethics, and whether Chinese publishers can participate in Open Science when their cell lines and other research variables are prohibited from leaving China.
The next section was about research data, and included the announcement of the 2020 STM Research Data Year. Smit was joined by Chris Graf (Wiley), Grace Baynes (Springer Nature), Joris van Rossum (STM Association), and Niamh O’Connor (PLOS). There was a roughly rehearsed discussion of the positive effects of requiring data availability statements (DAS), and how authors respond better to requirements than to requests (no surprise).
The panel repeatedly cited a 25% citation advantage for papers featuring a DAS, and claimed this incentive should drive publishers to require DAS for authors, and incentivize authors to comply. In other words, they hung a lot of laundry on this line.
I finally asked for a citation to the paper substantiating this claim, as bibliographic research is notorious for being both unreliable and hypothesis-friendly (i.e., massage the data hard enough, and it will say whatever you want).
It turns out the citation advantage claim hasn’t yet made it into a peer-reviewed paper, but is a preprint, and one that’s been kicking around a while. I didn’t get a chance to ask the panelists if any of them had actually read the preprint with a critical eye. Missed opportunity, I suppose.
I have given this manuscript more than a cursory look, and it looks like a bit of a letdown if you’re looking for evidence of a major citation benefit from DAS inclusion. Methodologically, the authors’ approach is a bit odd in that the authors used word-matching to identify the candidate publishers’ journals rather than DOIs. I don’t know how that affected reliability, but it can’t have helped.
The authors also, to their credit, downplay the citation effect, writing:
Turning our attention to the effect of DAS on citation advantage, we note that the . . . policies play a somewhat minor role.
Bottom line? The 25% citation advantage at best increases citations 22-25% above from 1.xx, so is very slight on an absolute basis. This all seems likely to be confounded by things most papers like this don’t account for — authors from high-prestige institutions, more interesting topics that generally garner more citations, or both.
In any event, the statistic this panel pointed to repeatedly comes from a preprint (un-peer-reviewed claim), has potentially consequential confounders the authors didn’t account for, and to me trumpeting this preprint as evidence of a generalizable claim seems like hanging your hat on a toothpick.
Later, there were more discussions of open data and Open Science, this time by a panel of librarians. Listening to them was comforting, as it felt like the world of Putin, Facebook, surveillance capitalism, measles outbreaks, misinformation, polarized politics, Brexit, Trump, Burisma, Biden, and Iran doesn’t exist, and that we’re operating in 1998, when data and scientific claims could frolic across the dial-up modems connecting the World Wide Web, free of worry.
During this, two questions came to mind, which I posed to the group:
How do Open Science and open data account for having to exist in a world of surveillance capitalism, where sensational information or misinformation is preferred by the distribution and discovery services of Facebook, Google, and others? How does good science avoid the “tree falling in the woods” phenomenon?
What if a data-centric equivalent of Sci-Hub emerges? That is, an entity immune from prosecution, harvesting data from studies and recombining it into profiles and surveillance packages it then gives away or sells, in essence weaponizing open data and Open Science? (I’m sure this and more already exists on the Dark Web, but to have it out in the “open” would be a whole different ballgame.)
No good answers were forthcoming, which brings me back to the morning session, where what’s called “surveillance research” was discussed. This type of research includes facial recognition, gait recognition, genotype profiling to generate phenotypic dopplegangers (yes, computers are being programmed to look at your DNA and now extrapolate your face with good reliability), fingerprints at a distance, and general machine learning and AI applications utilizing data without consent. Based on the discussion, the ethical dimensions for IRBs, editors, and publishers are not clear at all, and the path to rapidly evolve and develop appropriate policies is unclear.
One example given was of how photos uploaded to Flickr or the like and given by default a CC-BY license can be used by companies to train facial recognition software. Because the photos aren’t republished, there’s no requirement to acknowledge their source. But kids and others in vulnerable populations can be included in these, for benign or nefarious purposes. Should an editor publish a paper about a machine learning algorithm that uses such data? Should an IRB approve such human subject research in the first place? What kind of training dataset is possible for Big Tech now based on CC-BY articles? Is it being used for good? Wouldn’t licensing it — receiving revenues, requiring disclosure of purpose — be better?
There was also a fascinating story about researchers consciously falsifying data to obscure identities and protect privacy — if they didn’t, they felt human subjects could be identified too easily.
I came away thinking once again that we haven’t thought hard enough about Open Science — not only along the dimensions I recounted last week, but in an age of information manipulation, powerful computer media companies, aggressive nation-state actors seeking power and societal discord, and so forth. We’re in the midst of some combination of an information war and an information crime spree, yet behaving as if it’s not happening. We need to become more trusted ourselves, and perhaps a path to this is to trust Big Tech, nation-states, and others less.
We need to take a lot into account as we move into the future. It’s complicated. Our solutions will be better for taking a breath and doing some scenario planning.
The day wrapped up with a number of announcements about the future of APE, which I won’t recount here, but they are good for the meeting and for its founder.
Finally, the future more broadly was also addressed in a presentation from Michael Mabe, who served as the CEO of the International Association of STM Publishers from 2006 until late 2019. Mabe gave his predictions for what publishing may look like in 2030.
Not surprisingly, we came back around to China, with Mabe wondering if 2030 will see China participating in a US-Euro-centric publishing world, or the US and Europe participating in a China-centric publishing world. The audience suggested that a multi-center world is just as likely, and the history of European and US publishing exchanges suggest this is viable. However, the question around China’s willingness to be as open (culturally, economically, politically) as the West remains the big unknown.
Mabe also predicted that subscriptions and copyright will become irrelevant by 2030. I later caught up with him, and we began to discuss this last point with a small group from an empirical perspective. Now, owing to stringent copyright protections and the subscription model inherent to streaming services, the piracy-damaged music industry is resurgent economically and creatively. Subscriptions also are driving cell phone plans, streaming movies and television, and delivery service levels (Amazon Prime). Even content subscriptions (see bottom) are resurgent. Of all his predictions, this one seems the hardest to pin down — when money’s involved, people get clever, after all. It’s worth noting that Mabe’s 2010 predictions for 2020 were strikingly accurate.
At its 15th iteration, the best news to come out is that APE is set up to continue for years to come. Look for announcements on this. Plan accordingly.
That’s it from Berlin this year. Thanks for reading.
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Essay: Hope in a Jar
Posted on April 8, 2012 by Sandi Sonnenfeld
Sandi Sonnenfeld ’85 is the author of the memoir This is How I Speak (Impassio Press) for which she was named a 2002 Celebration Author by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than 30 literary magazines and anthologies. “Hope in a Jar” was originally published in 2008 by the literary zine: Mr. Bellers’ Neighborhood. Sandi is the Managing Editor of The Lyon Review.
I’ve become obsessed by wrinkles. Particularly the ones surrounding my eyes and across the map of my forehead that extend like arid rivers across my skin’s terrain. About a year ago, I purchased my first wrinkle cream, Oil of Olay Anti-Aging Eye Gel ($12.99) from the local Duane Reade. This was followed by Olay’s Regenerist Microdermabrasion Treatment and Peel Activator Serum with Lactic Acid ($26.99) which I had to apply twice a week to my face and neck.
Next I turned to Lush’s Sacred Truth, a green mud mask made of Kaolin, Ginkgo Biloba, Linseed Extract, Talc, Papaya, Yogurt and Free Range Eggs, which required refrigeration, and at $32.99, had a shelf life of just ten days. According to the saleswoman, for maximum effectiveness Sacred Truth was to be used in conjunction with Lush’s Breath of Fresh Air Toner ($14.99) and Skin Drink Rehydrating Moisturizer ($22.99) that smelled slightly like wet cement.
When the gingery freckles that playfully dotted my cheeks and my sunkissed arms and legs evolved into age spots (and you can be sure that some Madison Avenue hack in the 1960s looking to score it big with Avon or Elizabeth Arden decided that “age spots” would sell far more skin care products than “liver spots,” “lentigos” or “hyperpigmentation”), I tried Missha’s Illuminating XL 100 ($33.95), which involved my placing opaque latex-thin circles treated with a transparent gel directly on to the spots and letting the gel absorb into my skin for twenty minutes each evening before bed.
After one particularly hard day at the office, I made an appointment at the Antoinette Boudoir Spa in mid-town Manhattan for a rehydrating facial. For the privilege of one hundred dollars, I listened to a Russian cosmetologist berate me for a full ten minutes about how my decision to use face powder instead of a liquid foundation was responsible for my desert-like complexion. I never returned to the Boudoir again, but nonetheless, and with more than a small amount of shame, I did switch to L’Oreal’s Age Perfect Liquid Makeup.
Desperate, I finally consulted a Chinese herbalist on Grand Street who promised that with a specially prepared emollient at ninety-nine dollars per ounce, I would see immediate results, particularly as she said with those “bruised brown rings” underneath my eyes. Without hesitation, I plunked down my American Express card and reached for the magic potion. Only when I got home and read the label did I notice that this legendary elixir supposedly refined after three hundred years’ knowledge of ancient Chinese medicine was actually made in Japan.
All told I’ve probably spent close to a thousand dollars in my attempts to eradicate wrinkles, discolorations and puffiness. After a 20-year skin care regimen that consisted of nothing more than washing my face with Noxzema followed by a thin application of pale pink gloss to my lips each morning, I’ve suddenly become Madison Avenue’s ideal sucker.
And I guess it goes almost without saying that while my skin very often feels softer, even looks brighter, upon the immediate use of these products, any physical benefits I may realize rapidly dissipate.
I am no longer twenty-one. Each morning I wake up and rush to the bathroom mirror expecting to see the same face and body I had then. Each morning I’m disappointed and shocked anew to discover I’m middle-aged. (When pressed I confess to forty-two, though I’m actually a few months shy of forty-four.) Each morning, the shock is fresh, palpable, raw. The wrinkles have now spread to my neck and forehead, and the flesh under my upper arms has begun to sag despite my three-day a week workout at the local gym.
Don’t get me wrong. I know this obsession with wrinkles and my sagging flesh is a symptom of deeper fears. I slather on the moisturizers, toners, day and night creams because it’s simpler than confronting the larger issues, that time is moving swiftly, that it’s been five years since my last book has been published, that despite my working fifty-five hours a week managing a PR department for a national law firm, I still can’t afford my own home, that the time for making the decision about whether to have a child has come and gone. Now when I go to my Ob/Gyn instead of her asking me about birth control, she wants to know if I’m taking my calcium tablets. When I get my vision checked at the eye doctor, she begins speaking to me about bifocal contact lenses. A close friend’s mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. My ex-boss’s fifteen-year old son is being treated for heroin addiction. My seventy-five-year-old father recently survived a quadruple coronary bypass. When the HR manager at my office sent me a brochure about selecting a long-term care facility plan for my husband and me last month, it sent me reeling into a tailspin from which I’m still trying to recover.
Gone are the days when I was called “promising, aspiring, up and coming.” Gone too is the belief that I will ever be in a financial situation where I can just stay home and write full-time. As for my dream about being deeply talented, and being recognized for that talent, even someday winning the Pulitzer Prize, for which I wrote a draft acceptance speech while in college after learning that Annie Dillard won her own at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, it now seems more than foolish and grandiose—indeed the dream, and the grandiosity, belong to someone with whom I am no longer acquainted. Perhaps that in itself explains why I stare so hard in the mirror every morning, looking for the youthful features of the person I once was.
Instead, I celebrate the smaller successes—being able to turn out an essay in a single weekend after months of not writing, losing the first three of the twenty pounds I promised myself I would take off, drawing satisfaction from knowing I’m respected and valued at work.
Despite all the jokes about shyster lawyers, law firms by their very nature are inherently ethical and rarely face a true PR crisis—unlike some of the litigation clients whom we represent. I struggle sometimes with a few of the corporations my firm advises, knowing that though most of them have not broken any laws, many still wreck havoc on our forests or oceans, or outsource hundreds of American jobs overseas, or simply, as they have grown bigger or gone public, put profitability before innovation, squelch individualism in favor of commercialization, and sell the notion that mass consumption can cure anything that ails us, be it bad breath, loneliness, or aging. Still on any given day, I speak to journalists about some of the most important issues impacting society—from questions about personal privacy, unfair taxation, or sexual harassment to regulations relating to global warming or pension funds for working class people—matters that are all shaped and governed by laws.
A few weeks ago, I visited one of our West Coast offices which had been experiencing fairly high turnover, and where I had been sent to see if we could generate some local positive press coverage to assist with our recruiting efforts. Compared to our headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, this office was rather small and the attorneys there felt isolated and cut off. Though I had yet to make any recommendations or launch a proactive media campaign, the lawyers made me feel something of a hero just by showing up. They simply wanted to know that they mattered to management, were valued as part of the larger firm, and my being there showed they did.
On the plane ride home, I felt I had accomplished enough that I could eschew the work waiting for me on my laptop and take a break by reading a magazine. As I idly flipped through the pages of the publication, there was a brief story about which daily skin creams were the best. According to the reporter who tested ten of the latest anti-aging products, the most effective for “decreasing the look and appearance of wrinkles and fine lines” was Philosophy’s Hope in a Jar available from the manufacturer’s website for $38.00 for two ounces.
Though I live on email and do tons of internet research, I rarely order products online, worried about hucksterism in the anonymous ether world where no one ever looks directly into a customer’s eyes or has to show you their product beyond a one inch by one inch pixilated photo in 72 dpi. But how could I resist, particularly as the price seemed low in comparison to some of the other lotions and elixirs I had bought. After all, plenty of women, many much older than me, had plump, dewy complexions—I saw them walking on the streets of Manhattan every day, well-dressed, well-coiffed, and largely age spot and wrinkle free. Certainly they had a secret formula, some key to skin care—and maybe finally after all my searching and disappointments, this was it.
Hope in a Jar.
I tore out the story from the magazine and when I got home, ordered it immediately. Our Brooklyn apartment building lacks individual mailboxes, only a small slot by the front door into which the postman slides all of the residents’ bills and correspondence, so I requested the package be sent to my office wrapped confidentially in plain brown paper.
It showed up six days later, a round no-nonsense white plastic container with “Hope in a Jar” printed in large black lettering on the front and directions for use on the back. I unscrewed the lid and looked inside. A thick, very white cream with a faint, clean smell. I scooped a small amount onto my right forefinger and daubed the cream over my forehead and cheeks. I drew a quick breath, put the jar back down my desk and returned to editing the press release one of my staff had emailed me.
My assistant Bailey came in to my office. She is twenty-three, a year out of the Ivy League, model thin, ambitious, and set on a stellar career in public relations. When I hired her I told her that while some of the tasks given to her would not be that exciting, I would nonetheless teach her everything that I had learned about strategic PR over the past fifteen years. She took me at my word, and was always asking questions about why I took a certain approach with a campaign or how come I chose the journalist at BusinessWeek rather than the one at Forbes to pitch a specific topic or lawyer.
I watched Bailey and reconnected with my old self, the one I thought I no longer knew. She’s hard-working, intelligent, eager to please and ridiculously overconfident as only the young can be.
I signed the paperwork she needed me to approve. She eyed the jar of cream on my desk and picked it up. Embarrassed at my weakness (oh vanity!), I began to explain that I had read an article saying the product was supposed to be very good.
“I don’t normally buy products online,” I said. “But I figured why not give it a try.”
Bailey nodded. “Yes. My mother uses it.”
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About Sandi Sonnenfeld
Sandi Sonnenfeld is a fiction writer and essayist. Her memoir, This Is How I Speak (2002: Impassio Press), which recounts how her views about what it means to be a woman in contemporary America changed after suffering a dangerous sexual assault, was a Booksense 76 finalist. With the memoir’s publication, she was named a 2002 Celebration Author by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, which recognizes writers whose work merits special notice. Sandi has published more than two-dozen short stories and essays in Sojourner, Voices West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, ACM, Raven Chronicles, Necessary Fiction, Perigee, Revolution House and The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review among others. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Sandi holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Washington, where she won the Loren D. Milliman Writing Fellowship. She currently resides in New York's glorious Hudson Valley with her husband and the two of the world's most playful cats.
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5 thoughts on “Essay: Hope in a Jar”
Tiffany Eddy '92 on May 28, 2012 at 9:03 pm said:
Hi Sandi,
Thanks for the thoughtful article. I loved it! What a great honest read!
As a broadcast journalist in her 40’s, I completely empathize with the whole looking in the mirror and wondering who’s reflection is staring back….and worrying. I too remember the young energetic version of myself that was eagerly charging ahead to change the world (I still think I do to a small degree)
It’s comforting to know there is a sisterhood out there, shuffling through the creams and the crow’s feet.
Tiffany ’92
isobear on April 16, 2012 at 1:50 am said:
Hi Sandi — I love your writing — it’s so honest. Thanks,
Sandi Sonnenfeld on April 16, 2012 at 7:22 pm said:
Amy on April 8, 2012 at 2:33 pm said:
Dear Sandi,
What a fascinating contrast between the amazing real woman who is doing great things, and the fearful woman who seeks the “plump, dewy complexions” of others. I completely connected with the fluctuation in confidence. I really like the pacing of this piece; I get to feel the vulnerability and sadness but also move on to the perspective of humorous, wonderful life that only comes with age. I get why the employees at the other office felt like “they mattered” because of you. That is how you made me feel about my short story. Getting feedback from you is joyful and empowering.
Thank you for your lovely, thoughtful insights.
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OPP Looking For Assistance Identifying Driver & Vehicle in Meaford
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Grey Bruce Ontario Provincial Police are seeking the public's help with identifying a driver and motor vehicle involved in an ongoing fail to remain investigation in the Municipality of Meaford.
On October 7, 2019 Grey Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were advised of a fail to remain motor vehicle collision in Meaford, between a motor vehicle and a pedestrian. The collision occurred on October 4th at St Vincent Street and Bridge Street, during the Scarecrow Parade. The pedestrian received an injury to their knee that will require surgery.
The following is a description of the driver and vehicle:
Driver - Caucasian male, late 20's or early 30's years of age, broad shoulders, shaggy (brown) hair and (green) eyes. He was wearing a (grey) shirt.
Vehicle - 2005 (silver) Chevrolet Malibu, no licence plate was obtained.
Anyone with information that can assist Grey Bruce OPP with this investigation, call 1-888-310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a secure web-tip at www.cstip.ca, where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.
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The Play begins
Posted on 19 January 2016 by theorbo1
Pray for the hero Dr. Abu Zaid Dorda because he presently is quite unwell.
IMAGE ABOVE: the Puppet Western Government assigned to Libya.
(Moved from Jamal al-Kafali)
Urgent:
Ali Qatrani announced his suspension from the ‘Presidential Council of the Government of reconciliation’ announcing that he and a group of deputies were decided in a desolution of the puppet (so-termed) ‘government’. Under the puppet-state, Ali Qatrani would have headed Eastern Libya.
Fayez OS up suddenly after Algeria that left yesterday Abdul Hakim Belhaj.
Minister of State Omar Black statement on the suspension of his membership of the ‘Presidential Council on National Reconciliation Government’.
Thazirmugeh message to the crow flies:
EU puts Libyan file under the agenda of the foreign ministers for tomorrow in Brussels.
The severity of congestion Libyans traveling to Tunisia …
Tunisian gate being asked: treatment and only Siraj? .
Tunisian security intervened to stop a group from the corner tried to storm the hotel’s Presidential Council meeting in order to claim the Foreign Ministry for a candidate corner of the city …
Break into the Residence Hotel, which meets its customers by the ‘OS’ government to show Tunisian demonstrators and security intervenes.
The ‘OS’ puppet Libyan government will pay compensation to the text million Movenpick Hotel Tunisian against the destruction of the video recorded by surveillance cameras in the hotel that appears clashes Libyan activists fist and tearing clothes Aallfez Bkalamat obscene.
The hotel Ghemari Ramadan‘s lawyer said: “We do not Neptz Libyan government but we feel that this is a good compensation for what happened to our hotel by this Acharazm” ..
(* desert Lion *)
Scandals inventories against Tunisia Hotels.
“yesterday in Residence Gammarth hotel in Tunis gathering militia leaders in the hotel lobby waiting for an OS and daughters of the night waiting for tourists living in the hotel, was the image that combines national loss and loss of manhood and honor and chastity.”
(‘MUSICIAN’)
‘Room Zintan operations’ a ajouté 2 new photos.
Are you aware of this and what to do in the government hotel?
And what it relates to the Brotherhood and the fighter?
And what is the reason they burned his home in Tripoli and stole all of the contents of his house?
And why is he wanted by the Brotherhood and the fighter?
His name is trading between the militias?
Is Brotherhood scheming to liquidate their children !!!
‘Room Zintan operations’
‘Rusaifa News’:
‘OS’ is opersting out of TUNISIA !!!
Winner OS (puppet Western Government imposed upon Libya by UNO /NATO) Prime Minister al-Toaafikh being threatened by militias of CORNER and even Misurata !!!
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الرصيفة الاخبارية
#تونس
فائز السراج رئيس الحكومة التوافيقة يتعرض للتهديد من قبل مليشيات الزاوية ومصراته
#اخر_اخبار_ليبيا
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EXPRESS IMMORALITY MEDIA:
‘Rouge Valley directly’, reporting:
Climbing title
Ahdhiro client Fawzia Ferjany it is a new project Huda Ben Amer, one of the characters that you configure its own recently rounded up and the raid or arrest anyone who opposes its dirt.
She and her husband “Faraj Mahdoa” where recently giving orders to capture the media ‘Badr al-Ralake al-Akora’.
Image includes Fawzia Ferjany Bzaivh girl Humaid.
الوادي الحمر مباشر
للتسلق عنوان
احذرو العميلة فوزية الفرجاني فهي مشروع هدى بن عامر جديد وهي من الشخصيات التي تقوم مؤخرا بتكوين ميليشية خاصة بها وتقوم بالقبض او مداهمة كل من يعارض سياستها القذرة هي وزوجها “فرج المهدوي” حيث قامت مؤخرا باعطاء اوامر للقبض علي الاعلامي بدر الرابحي العقوري
الصورة تضم فوزية الفرجاني بضايفة بنت احميد
ILLEGAL MIGRANTS:
Number of illegal immigrants and expatriate without probative exceeded the possibilities of illegal immigration device leaves the employment of all citizens, we hope to provide humanitarian aid to the crumbs to the pending deportation to their home countries.
Ali power outages in several areas of the capital Tripoli. Continued power cuts to most areas of the capital. Interruption of electricity to the city of Tripoli lasted for more than five hours.
Citizen has been kidnapped, ‘Hamed Saleh Garin’, after Friday prayers. He is from Sabha and had a friend with him also from the south.They found his car and his cell after the bridge of Sawani.
‘Zintan operations room’ a partagé la publication de force supporting the security directorates of the western region and South Committee for the “200”.
‘Directorates support the security of the western region and the southern power of the Commission, “the 200” ‘ a ajouté 4 new photos.
Delivery of a stolen car from the ocean company, type (Miche Knot-weaving) dated 03/04/2014 / Tripoli, ‘Omar Ahmed Abolkasem.
The militias of Alklla Gianni Gneoh (el-MAHDI HARATINE) B.Mayormat kidnapping and Islamic identity neighborhood area.
ABU SALIM:
Melcaat on alert in the capital, especially Abu Salim.
An explosion in one of the generators in the neighborhood area of ABU SALIM ‘victory’.
FRIDAY MARKET:
Vote lead hear a little while ago in the ‘Friday Market 11 July’.
AIN ZARA:
Found dead commander Mlessxia deterrence client Colonel Nas al-Ssahela’ in ‘Ain Zara’ area. He was been missing for more than two months.
SABRIYAH:
Sabriyah clashes area and news of the death of the offender al-Guendh.
‘Room Zintan operations’ a partagé la vidéo de Jamal al-Kafali.
-2: 13
A Zintan Men //
Martyr, Allah willing, ‘Riyad Mansour Mohiuddin al-Cavala’ ..
I could not find the words and the position of non-lived Khoi Obouhvevh Aìal-Zintani Martyr Day with martyrdom and this short video for a serious poet words heartened in the right Habib was always a man ..
This is what the deployment Khoi Obouhvevh al-Zintani and his testimony 777
The reality is still in front of me, as if happening now //
Saying Martyr (Riad al-Cavala) Nansabh and God Hassiba
Before the battle of the intersection (hamlet), who was martyred in Allah’s mercy ..
We were standing together by side each clinic strengthens teeth and we decided it was pulling and say
“O Khota certification in Zintan Ali Khater Aardna our money and my friends, my testimony in the mouth of monsters Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar”
And we went and cited ‘Riad’, Allah’s mercy and captured his spirit and is mentioned certificates and tells us to defend the Zintan and its people without any penalty and no thanks.
Take some rifles and say it to my uncle or my uncle Khalifa spears al-Sakali I do not recall the name identifying it as the secretariat Amana Zintan in Arkabkm ..
Blessed are those who Nansabhm our death when Allah of the martyrs and to Allah the blood of these men Manbzl King of the whole world.
https://www.facebook.com/100004784328924/videos/571361776366628/?theater
Access internal interim government minister to the city of ZINTAN.
Ministers P.al-Magueth in Zintan
We arrived to the city of Zintan Friday, Minister of Interior and Labour and Social Affairs and the President of the Transportation Authority in the interim government.
Members of the campaign (us hope) are visiting the city of Zintan and lecture awareness of male and female students in the Faculty of Science.
Arab Women Libyan After that enabled First of September Great Torre from the site of Assistant Secretary of the General People’s Congress, and secretariats of Information and Culture and the administrative control of the General People’s Committee, and site Assistant Secretary and Women’s Affairs in all the Basic People’s Congresses and Balhobeiat popular committees, and other sites decision and implementation.
“even if our assumption that the Zintan tribe has been reversed its agreement with the system because of the betrayal Barrani forms of locusts after bombardment by rockets by MISURATA,
but this does not give justification to disassociate itself from the historical ties with the tribe Warfalla in Bani Walid.”
YAFRAN (IFRANE):
‘Zintan operations room’ a ajouté 3 new photos.
Opened yesterday the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Municipal apparent Yafran (Aghannaimh) the efforts of the sons of the security establishment and the people of the region to park them after assigning an official commissioned by the interim government hailed existing ‘Bhdh Foundation special forces’ to storm the destructive phenomenas and foil any terrorist attempts.
There is the power of arrest and investigate and there are anti-terrorism forces.
Saluting downloaded bids around the intrusion and capture, and also cars from martial arts.
(Ahmed Akrout)
al-RAJABAN:
Visit the ‘interior minister in the interim government’ to the Municipality of al-Rajaban.
arrest of an armed group broke into the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital GHARYAN.
Passports branch manager kidnapping Captain Rua al-Msagheri in Gharyan
KIKLA:
Zintan & Kklhalcil al-Askara al-Zintan..
seetm signing tomorrow or the day after tomorrow between Zintan and Kikla and the exchange of detainees between the two parties agreed on a neutral force, a force of steady until the establishment of security.
Strength neutral steady receive their locations within Kikla, in preparation for the Implementation final agreement, and the signing of Zintan and Kikla items, followed by the withdrawal of all troops from the city of Kikla, and the exchange of detainees between the two parties;
and pledge not to capture identity and respect for the rights of the neighborhood and the return of residents to their homes and their property.
“Thank Allah my father thanks to him is righteous
Thanks to Allah Almighty
Today was the final signing between the towns of Zintan and Kikla.
In a good sign of good and righteous people about the fact that a comprehensive reconciliation to pervade the whole of the mountain and back, God willing, as was best.
The last will not be until all the displaced return to his home and his livelihood and his home.
If you do not have what you are saying, then say good or Feltsamt.
It was revived as one who has saved all mankind
And sedition dormant cursed God of Oiqdha.
We ask Allah to security and safety prevail over the country and to end the suffering of the people Walibi.
There is no good in the word you say is not received her pal you receive in hell seventy autumns.”
(Media spokesman for the city of Zintan: ‘Mahmoud al-Htoah’)
After finishing problematic Kikla and resolve
I hope all young people Zintan and youth and Rishvana and youth al-Rajaban and youth Chiaan and youth al-Noael and Mahamid and Tabou and al-Mgarhh, and Anyone who supported us from the tribes of youth, non-military, that Adao arms on the side and Aqahmo themselves, in the most prestigious universities and institutes:
Vhbabikm worth what is better than war and fighting.
‘Room Zintan operations’ a ajouté 2 nouvelles photos.
(If they incline to peace, incline, and trust in Allah, He is the Hearing, the Knowing)
The withdrawal of the joint force of Kikla last night Tida to the terms of the agreement with the elders Kikla.
SURMAN:
‘Melcaat al-Nmra’ arrested 20 people in front of a car market at a resort area.
Groups affiliated to ‘al-Qaeda’ and ‘Daash’, are trying to control the farm team which was for our deceased Kawaldi Hamidi, in the al-Hachan area;
and the ‘region’s youth Asdonhm’ and the exchange of heavy fire between the two parties Lord Lester.
SABRATHA:
Close dirt road barriers Khatatba in area Sabratha.
‘Sowahilli militia’ movement of 25 prisoners from the city jail of Khalil
To an unknown destination.
This morning in a military plane landed at Misurata airport, coming from Turkey.
The withdrawal of militias from the gates after receiving news of the entry elements with members of the city’s potential for explosions within the city.
TAWERGHA of ‘THORGHAE’
‘MUSICIAN‘ writes:
“Tawergha children and the elderly do not sleep the night from the cold in the camps is nothing wrong days will revolve against tyranny and the day will not remain alive to say one word to the intercession of the amnesty for militia of Misurata.”
BADR:
The ChiaanTribe
The death of a citizen of the Republic
within the bank and the bank was heavily crowded, where the police beat one bullet inside the bank to High bullet slammed against the wall, causing the re-entry to settle at the top of one of the citizens.
Yankee bomber takes-off from carrier in Gulf of Sidra
starting bearer of ‘U.S. aircraft’ stationed within the territorial waters of the Libyan bombing of sites in the city of Sirte in preparation for the landing ground forces.
(” desert Lion “)
‘Daash’ terrorist organization in Sirte, being limited to the population of public buildings in order to claim apartment owners to pay a premium and only be pulled and allocated to another citizen.
‘Daash’ terrorist organization has to suspend ‘Mamed Amr al-Razali’ for 3 three hours in the city square with the words and wrote false witness against him. Attention guy sitting neighborhood.
IBN SINA HOSPITAL GATE:
‘Daash’ terrorist organization to evacuate the gate Ibn Sina hospital urgently of terrorist elements to see three armed vehicles of ‘DAASH’ give up the gate and heading towards Halls complex and Acadouko.
BATON:
‘Daash’ arrested 4 young people in the ‘BATON’ suburb city:
1__Mustefa Mohammed Hoail
2__Adnan M’Barek Zadamh
3__Asamh Abdul-Rahman al-Shaibani
4__Mbbah Rahman to equinus.
Elements ‘Daash’ terrorist organization waging a campaign of raids and arrests of sync last night in the cities of Sirte, the suburb of BATON, and Bin Jawad; and abducted many of the young people mentioned areas.
The raids began at 2 campaign after midnight and the terrorist elements broke into the houses suddenly without asking the permission of its population, in the anxiety of children and women as they slept.
PORT SIDRA
‘Rouge Valley directly’
SUICIDE Explosive belts which were in Hozat Kharijites in front Port Sidra ..
Elements of ‘Daash’ displays the 3 Zawawi bodies they executed
1__ Khalid Abdul Bari Agherin
2__ Adam Saad Younis
3__ Osman senile key
The death of a child ‘Mamed Munir Zwaoa’
morning in Egypt,
The Child ‘Mohammed Zawawi’, was wounded by shrapnel as a result of the suicide bombing carried out by the terrorist organization ‘Daash’ during his attack on the eastern gate of Ras Lanauf.
Selfie red Hamada gathering rat-informers.
This morning, SNOW in CASABLANCA:
TOBRUK / CASABLANCA:
URGENT !!
Ncov my first time more powerful than the rats’ Prime Minister’s Council.
(rats ‘Municipal Council’ under orders from NATO, expelled the CASABLANCA / TOBRUK government).
Giving the TOBRUK government 24 hours to leave!!!
Dr. Abdul Salam al-Badri, Deputy Prime Minister of the ‘OS’ interim government leaves CASABLANCA, after threatening to kill him ….
The Dean of CASABLANCA Municipality:, tells us that the new ‘OS’ puppet-government expelled Abdullah al-Thani due to a lack of basic commodities and severe congestion in the city
‘Black Libyan resistance’, reporting:
To storm the headquarters of the body drafting the constitution in CASABLANCA (under Ali Tarhouni) of the central support and force residents and city employees stripped of their cars and personal purposes.
CASABLANCA protests against OS NATO insisting TOBRUK employees leave:
Again the ‘National Commercial Bank branch in Tobruk’ experiences congestion; because, Arabism Street shut by protesters in CASABLANCA protest against the deterioration of the situation and demands by NATO clients for employees to leave the TOBRUK government, because it did not provide liquidity in banks.
The escape of members of the Tobruk ‘Majlis al-Nuwaab’ interim government to Qrnadh area last night and slept in dormitories inside the mobile camp next to the prison after being expelled from CASABLANCA.
The killing of a leading rat ‘Shura Council Tawar’ of Benghazi ‘Daash’, ‘Yousef al-Jml, by the hands of the Libyan Army under General Hftar.
Hvevh al-Sartaoa, one rebel of ‘Nakba 17 February’, was killed today in the city of Benghazi.
Today the market of the Republic Bank branch clouds LD 300 ceiling and of course the whole dinars and who arranged Manzlh plotting his head.
Talat great old age crying is suspended Shi into account.
She said: Ray and rent expense Girls.
Suffice God and yes, the agent in of the reason.
GARYOUNES:
Leaflets found at the al-Fateh University.
DAASH’ ORGANIZAION of KILLERS
https://www.facebook.com/Warada.Elena/videos/vb.207708145988590/1024298440996219/?type=2&theater
‘Word Us Now’
Two hours and Bnmsha !!!
The organization of the Islamic state of ‘DAASH’ issues a video of what they term the ‘new Benghazi’:
shrugged their chilling training of suicide bombers and sending messages to their camps to seek-out and destroy the Libyan Army, and renew their allegiance to ‘Baghdadi’ (Simon Elliott).
I think that this version by ‘Daash’ today, is the best gift given to us by the organization. It is clear-cut, and removes all doubt and proves that there is a fight in all axes in Benghazi. The video explains to us that DAASH uses Kharijites (foreigners) to carry out suicide operations.
Bearing all those who say that the Libyan Army fights (so-termed) ‘rebels’ in Benghazi, are less described as a tragic error of judgement.
Let’s stand today, following the news bulletins channel and panorama, and advising them how ‘Sasmon’ in Benghazi are fighters from ‘Ansar al-Baghdadi’ (‘ANSAR al-SHARIA’), according to the ‘Islamic State’ of this release.
‘Rana organization’ says his fighters were ‘assassinated martyrs’ (rather, ‘Salem demons’) and by section, they are found in all of:
– Laithi
– Bo Atunai
– Rulrhh
– al-Sabri
– St. al-Bulad.
The question here, is where they are ? if Thoarkm in Benghazi !!!
QUICHE:
The fall of the shell deliberate before sunset prayers at a ‘mosque Qur’anic Center, Ms. Hafsa’ popular.
little material damage,
The arrival of a relief convoy to the headquarters of the Libyan Relief Commission Thursday evening loaded with Hawally 1,000 tons of food based on the agreement between the Libyan Authority and the Food of the United Nations .seetm on Monday the distribution of these substances under the food basket for each family of the prisoners displaced, according to the data in the body Base.
TOBRUK:
great ambience Tobruk.
A fire in one of the stores al-Decharh militias Sufyan Abbas and locusts rockets and artillery launched on trends in the city;
and all the people out of their homes, especially in the vicinity of the blast site areas.
al-Afia Hospital in Hun, al-Jufra:
ALLOD:
Cut columns and theft of electricity cables brass on the road in the al-Jufra area of Allod.
Killing one person and injuring seven others, including a child because of renewed clashes… Dead and wounded in the clashes taking place in the city since dawn today between tribes Tuareg and Tabou.
Greetings from the depths to the masses of popular ‘Languages’ that came out on Sunday evening en masse, carrying pictures of our LIVING commander
VALLEY OF LIFE:
Statement Valley are free life demand the release of prisoners in the prisons of darkness
And to declare their support for the formation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya and calls on all honest it home Palanzmam.
‘General Conference honorable Libyan tribes and cities 09/14/2015’
The first out and announce the political legitimacy of the green body and mind Saif Gaddafi, Secretary-General of the Conference of the Valley Life
When other objects political manufactured and promoted in the name of Saif such as the taller of the ‘Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya’, this messes and greed for power and charm and split the ranks of Light are free for this warn you of poison in the honey.
Ankanwa loving homeland if Olthmwa under the shadow of the conference as the first national achievement Great calculated p Light supporters and who was first assigned in Dr. Saif Islam, ‘Secretary General of the Conference’ when they ignore the fact this means that you are in fantasy and wish yourself in the inauguration of the Championships and several of greed unfortunately.
(Obn al-Mquaomh al-Libya)
MANSHAYYYA:
Has composed a gang of four people from thieves evil-doers Sons of the Sacred entering cars exhibition Mounhah proximity Clips Island, next to the cemetery Manshayya where entered the gang claimed that they want to buy a car and rode one of the gang to run the car
and escape the Astadmt car fence the cemetery, after he was shot, where the gang, by pointing his gun at the owner of the show; but he bravely and Vrsenh heroes to defend his money, rather be shot, and killed one of the gang members and the rest escape like escape mice cornered.
Tlat brother suffered from Ubari residents of an armed robbery in the broad street after the withdrawal of salaries of Sabha were shooting them one of the brothers was wounded in the leg and his condition is serious: cut off the artery needs urgent surgery might lose his leg.
The second wounded in the thigh and the third his condition is good.
Lord saves our brothers in the south.
“Misurata militias sow strife in the south, at the instigation of Mali-Tuareg to fight the Libyans or incitement Tabou. Tabou-Chadians to fight the Tuareg Libyans and this ensures that the tribes of the south will not agree on expulsion from sites controlled.”
Copy to Persian community in Libya
Mohammed el-Daif
Saddam Hussein when he was rebuking Iran
If he were alive with him, it’s Galo ‘Wahhabi’ and ‘Daash’
And an agent of the Americans because they are fighting Iran!
‘Room Zintan operations’ a partagé la vidéo de Mohamed el-Daif.
Lockerbie Lawyer Ibrahim Ghwell: The West and NATO want to impose a government on Libya to carry-out their demands only.
‘Wanted by Interpol’ Lawyer Ibrahim Ghwell through the life of the Egyptian program today calls for Egypt to benefit from the two million displaced Libyans who are on Egyptian territory and their support in the fight against terrorism that has swept Libya.
A 26 December 2015 clarification on the INTERPOL RED NOTICES: There seems to be confusion as to the Red Notices. It is an example of a Minister of Justice overstepping his portfolio with respect to the Libyan Prosecutor’s office and INTERPOL Red Notices. In April 2015, Mr. Ghwell noted that with an unverified document in a Libya Al Mostakbal article that ”Libya asks the Interpol officially to suspend all red notices against Libyan nationals.”
Two points need to be clarified. First, under Libyan Law, the Minister of Justice DOES NOT SUPERVISE the Libyan Judiciary or the Prosecutor’s office whether they are in Tripoli or Tobruk. The Libyan Judiciary and Prosecutor’s office are separate, equal, distinct entities from the Ministry of Justice. Secondly, under Libyan law, the Minister of Justice’s portfolio does NOT cover the INTERPOL red notices. Rather, the INTERPOL Red Notices are under the purview or the portfolio of the Investigation Department for the Libyan General Prosecutors Office – NOT the Minister of Justice’s office. Therefore, the Minister of Justice did generate a letter – but per Libyan law – he is not allowed to suspend or cancel the Interpol Red Notices without the request of the Investigation Department for the Libyan General Prosecutors Office. We note that the Minister of Justice did not have this request. (See insert)
We note that Mr. Al Ghwell’s article makes no reference to these nuances of Libyan law in this respect.
RED NOTICES Chief Prosecutor Al Sur «Libya Al-Mostakbal»’ – www_libya-al-mostakbal_org_news_clicked_75982
RED NOTICES Chief Prosecutor Al Sur «Libya Al-Mostakbal»’ – www_libya-al-mostakbal_org_news_clicked_75982 HERE
As such we have noted that that Ibrahim Al-Ghwel’s Red Notice was still on the INTERPOL site as of 5 June 2015. Seemingly suspended but not canceled. Confirming this on the 20th of May 2015 on Al Nabaa television channel, Siddek Al Sour, the Head of the Investigation Department for the Libyan General Prosecutors Office in Tripoli said of the Libya’s INTERPOL Red Notices, The Red Notices were not canceled, they are still in effect. Tobruk just froze them. On 24th of July 2015, we questioned if all Interpol notices had been cancelled. On the 27 July 2015, Libya Al Mostakbal reported that it was NOT officially suspended/cancelled – meaning as per Libyan law and within THEIR PORTFOLIO, the Prosecutor’s office had NOT requested their suspension/cancellation. Rather, Mr. Al Sour suggested that non-payment may have removed the INTERPOL RED NOTICES.
Finally, we reiterate again under Libyan Law the Minister of Justice does not supervise the Libyan Judiciary or the Prosecutor’s office and the INTERPOL red notices are not within his portfolio. Rather, the INTERPOL Red Notices –per Libyan Law – were within the portfolio of the Investigation Department for Libyan General Prosecutor’s office. Therefore, without the Investigation Department for Libyan General Prosecutor’s office request to suspend or cancel the Red Notices – which Mr. Al Sour did not give – the Minister of Justice’s letter is just a letter – as per Libyan Law.
As such we leave the original article as is when the INTERPOL Red Notices were suspended but not cancelled as noted in April 2015 by Mr. AL Ghwell. The rest of the article…
Finally, the relevant update to this article is that it seems that Mr. al- Ghwell has left The World Bank and Mr. al-Ghwell’s 31 May 2015 tweet. We think this says it all.
#Libya needs to issue a general #amnesty to all those who supported #Gaddafi & needs it NOW …..
— Hafed al-Ghwell (@HafedAlGhwell) 31 May 2015
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaddafi?src=hash
#gaddafi hashtag on Twitter
19h ago @LibyanNewsBotEn tweeted: “A Terror State in Libya https://t.co/fK2..” – read what…
HAFED, the son of Ibrahim:
https://twitter.com/HafedAlGhwell/status/605063213026263040
https://thenewlibyareport.files.wordpress.com/…/red…
FILE – A French air force soldier on guard near a Hartford drone, at the Niamey military base, in Niger.
02 October 2014 4:08 PM
PARIS—France is setting up a base in northern Niger as part of an operation aimed at stopping al-Qaida-linked militants from crisscrossing the Sahel-Sahara region between southern Libya and Mauritania, officials said.
Paris, which has led efforts to push back Islamists in the region since intervening in its former colony Mali last year, redeployed troops across West Africa earlier this year to form a counter-terrorism force.
Under the new plan, about 3,000 French troops are now operating out of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad – countries straddling the vast arid Sahel band – with the aim of stamping out Islamist fighters across the region. Another 1,000 soldiers are providing logistical support in Gabon and Senegal.
“A base is being set up in northern Niger with the throbbing headache of Libya in mind,” a French diplomat said.
Neither France nor Niger has said where the base will be but military sources in Niger said it was likely to be around Madama, a remote desert outpost in the northeast, where Niger already has some troops based.
French officials have repeated for several months they are concerned by events in Libya, warning that the political void in the north is creating favourable conditions for Islamist groups to regroup in the barren south of the country.
Diplomatic sources estimate about 300 fighters linked to al-Qaida’s North African arm AQIM, including a splinter group formed by veteran Islamist commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar, are operating in southern Libya, a key point on smuggling and trafficking routes across the region.
French and American drones are already operating out of Niger’s capital Niamey.
Echoing the French push to get assets closer to Libya, U.S. officials said last month that the United States was preparing to possibly redeploy its drones to Agadez, some 750 km (460 miles) to the northeast.
Three years after they launched airstrikes to help topple the Great Jamahiriya, Western powers including France have ruled out military intervention in Libya, fearing that it could further destabilize the situation given that countries across the region are backing different political and armed groups in Libya.
However, with France particularly exposed in the Sahel-Sahara region and its forces now engaged in a support role against Islamic State militants in Iraq, Paris is stepping up efforts to squeeze militants in the area.
The murder of a French citizen last week in neighboring Algeria by former AQIM militants who pledged allegiance to Islamic State also appears to have toughened Paris’ resolve.
“The approach to [fighting terrorism] is global,” army spokesman Gilles Jaron said on Thursday. “We are on the frontline in the Sahel-Sahara region and supporting in Iraq.”
The French operation, dubbed Barkhane after the name of a kind of sand dune formed by desert winds, has set up its headquarters in the Chadian capital N’Djamena, but also placed an outpost in northern Chad about 200 km from the Libyan border.
Jaron said the new Niger base was still being finalized, but would have capacity for as many as 200 soldiers with aerial support.
“The aim is to bring together areas that interest us. The transit points which terrorists are likely to use,” he said.
There have been some successes in recent weeks. Two diplomatic sources said Abou Aassim El-Mouhajir, a spokesman for Belmokhtar’s “Those Who Sign in Blood” brigade, was captured by French troops in August.
French media said he had been taken in Niger. Niger intelligence sources said French troops had passed through Madama around the time of the operation.
Jaron said four suspected militants were also captured on Sept. 24 near Gao in northern Mali, where France has handed the bulk of security control to U.N. MINUSMA peacekeeping forces.
At the same time there has been an increase in attacks on foreign troops in Mali, including the death of 10 Chadian soldiers in September.
The U.N.’s peacekeeping chief, Herve Ladsous, said last week that with many French troops leaving the north of Mali, U.N. forces were being targeted and finding it difficult to respond due to a lack of helicopters and special forces.
“It’s a problem that is being resolved. We want the MINUSMA to be up to scratch so we can focus on our number one job: getting rid of AQIM,” said a French defence ministry source.
France in early OCTOBER 2014 created a French base on the ground directly upon the Libyan border with Niger.
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And we move on…
General Hftar addresses a letter to us:
Free LIBYA !
THE TRUTH CONCERNING CHAD and GENERAL HFTAR*:
DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT WAS WIDELY PUBLISHED AND PUBLICISED BY “THE NEW YORKER” SPREAD by JON LEE ANDERSON (23 FEBR. 2015).*2
THE FOLLOWING IS THE REAL TRUTH:
–Most of the interest centers on a piece of land in Northern Chad called the Aouzou Strip which is rich in uranium and other rare minerals. the GREAT JAMAHIRIYA formed an alliance with the government of Goukouni Wedeye who allowed some Libyans to occupy the strip; but in 1982 Wedeye was overthrown by Hissene Habre who was backed by the CIA and by French troops.
Hebre’s was a extremely brutal regime. During the eight years of his leadership some 40,000 people were estimated to have died in detention or executed. Human Rights Watch observed:
“Under President Reagan, the United States gave covert CIA paramilitary support to help install Habre in order, according to secretary of state, Alexander Haig, to ‘bloody Gadafi’s nose’”.
Bob Woodward wrote in Veil that the Chadian coup was William Casey’s first covert operation as head of the CIA.
During the years following Habre’s coup, the People’s Army of the Great Jamahiriya (seeing what was happening just below their border) decided they could not just stand-by and watch the slaughter continue by the forces of the Chad government, the Yankees’ intervention and support of Habre, the evil CIA and French intelligence.
Repeated clashes with Chad/American Forces were inevitable.
In March 1987, a volunteer force of some 600-700 Libyan soldiers, under the command of General Khalifa Hftar was captured and imprisoned.
In 1990 French troops helped to oust Habre and installed Idriss Debry to replace him, after François Mitterend had Mu’ammar al-Qathafi negotiate a treaty with Chad. According to one account, the French had grown weary of Habre’s genocidal policies while the new resident in the White House, George H W Bush did not have the same interest as Reagan had in using Chad as a proxy to damage Mu’ammar al-Qathafi (even though the Libyan leader formed an alliance and sound treaty with Debry).
Following the fall of Habre, Mu’ammar al-Qathafi, in his treaty, firmly demanded that the new government hand over Hftar’s men… But, instead Debry allowed the Americans to fly them to Zaire. There Libyan officials were given access to the men and about half agreed to return to Libya.
When US financial aid offered to Zaire for giving ‘the rebels’ refuge failed to materialise, they were expelled and sent to Kenya.
Eventually the Kenyans said the men were no longer welcome and the United States agreed to bring them to America where they were admitted to the US refugee programme.
A State Department spokesman said the men would have “access to normal resettlement assistance, including English-language and vocational training and, if necessary, financial and medical assistance.” According to one report the remnants of Hftar’s Army were dispersed to all fifty states.
These remaining ‘Libyans’ were ‘conditioned’ by American personel (brainwashed) and bribed into working for the USA, where they would be trained to overthrow the GREAT JAMHIRIYA.
Details of what happened are scant; but, the Washington Post reported from Egypt on 26 March 1991, that travelers from Libya had spoken of “unrest today in Jabal Akhdar mountains of eastern Libya and said armed rebels may have joined escaped prisoners in an uprising against the government….and that its leader is Col. Khalifa Hftar, of a contra-style group based in the United States called the Libyan National Army, the travelers said.”
The report continued: “The travelers, whose accounts could not be confirmed independently, said they heard that the death toll had risen to 23 in five days of fighting between security forces and rebels, including men who escaped from Benghazi prison thursday and then fled into the eastern mountains.”
What part the CIA played in the failed uprising and whether the then US president, Bill Clinton had given the operation his approval are not known. By coincidence or not, three months later, the lie was spread that ‘al-Qathafi’s forces killed some 1200 political prisoners being held in Tripoli’s Abu Salim jail.’
It was the arrest of the lawyer representing many of the prisoners’ families that the CIA used to spark the ’17 February /CIA / NATO uprising against the GREAT JAMAHIRIYA, and in particular, AGAINST Mu’ammar al-Qathafi, and with it, the return of Khalifa Hftar, [whom the CIA did not know, had already reconciled with Mu’ammar al-Qathafi…and who was happy to work (undercover) with General al-Fateh Younis, to help stop the West’s immoral plans against the Great Jamahiriya].
*2: the following is heavily edited from JON LEE ANDERSON (23 FEBR. 2015).
Hftar, who is a mild-looking man in his early seventies, has fought with and against nearly every significant faction in the country’s conflicts, leading to a reputation for unrivalled military experience and for a highly flexible sense of personal allegiance. In the Green Mountains of Cyrenaica, the country’s traditional hideout for ‘rebels’ (extremist Wahhabi factions) and insurgents, he established a military headquarters, inside an old airbase surrounded by red-earth farmland and groves of hazelnut and olive trees. Hftar’s force, which is the Libyan National Army, has successfully taken much of the eastern half of the country, in a defensive move, as well as an ‘offensive’, known as ‘Operation Dignity’. Hftar’s army is composed mainly of ‘Great Jamahiriya’-era soldiers and federalists seeking greater autonomy for the eastern region of Cyrenaica, mixed with tribal fighters from the west and the south.
… Much as (Egypt’s President) General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has boasted of doing in Egypt, General Hftar proposes to destroy the Islamist forces and bring peace and stability—enforced by the new Libyan Army and its supporters.
When I visited Hftar’s base, earlier this winter, I passed a Russian-made helicopter gunship and was greeted by a group of fighters unloading ammo. The base was in a state of constant alert. Hftar is a top-priority assassination target for ‘Dawn Libya’s militias’.
‘Dawn Libya’, is a loose coalition of the MISURATA ‘Brotherhood’ militias, many of them working in a tactical alliance with Wahhabi extremists.
The USA has boasted a price upon his head, and last June, a suicide bomber exploded a Jeep outside his home near Benghazi, killing four guards but missing the primary target. Now there is heavy security around Haftar at all times. At his base, soldiers frisk visitors and confiscate weapons. A few months ago, someone reportedly attempted to kill him with an explosive device concealed in a phone, and so his men collect phones, too.
Hftar greeted me in a spotless office with a set of beige sofas and a matching carpet. Wearing an old-fashioned regimental mustache and a crisp khaki uniform, he looks more like a retired schoolteacher…
In a deliberate voice, he told me why he had gone back to war. Hftar tried to find a place for himself in the ‘new’ Libya. All the while, he watched as Libya floundered under a succession of weak governments, and the country’s militias grew more powerful. Last summer, Wahhabi extremists moved to seize Benghazi; in a merciless campaign aimed at the remains of civil society, assassins killed some two hundred and seventy lawyers, judges, activists, military officers, and policemen—including some of Hftar’s old friends and military colleagues.
“There was no justice and no protection,” he said. “People no longer left their houses at night. All of this upset me greatly….”
Hftar reached out to contacts in what remained of Libya’s old Jamahiriya armed forces, in civil society, in tribal groups, and, finally, in Tripoli. “Everyone told me the same thing,” he said. “ ‘We are looking for a savior. Where are you?’ I told them, ‘If I have the approval of the people, I will act.’ After popular demonstrations took place all over Libya asking me to step in, I knew I was being pushed toward death, but I willingly accepted.”
Like many self-appointed saviors, Hftar spoke with a certain self-admiring fatalism. But his history is much more complex than he cares to acknowledge. As an Army cadet in 1969, he participated in the ‘al-Fateh 1969 Revolution’ against the Western puppet-Libyan monarchy, and eventually became one of the Glorious Revolution of Light‘s top officers. “He was my son,” al-Qathafi once told an interviewer, “and I was like his spiritual father.”
*:(READ THE ABOVE CHAD REPORT)
…By 2003, the C.I.A. had evidently broke, released, and totally loosened its ties with Hftar, and, when he returned to Libya (for the love of his native land), in March, 2011, he was on his own. Nevertheless, Hftar’s enemies accuse him of being a C.I.A. plant, a traitor, and a vicious killer, and of seeking to install himself as a ‘latter-day al-Qathafi’. (NOTHING AN BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH !)
There is no overstating the chaos of post-GREAT JAMAHITRIYA Libya. Two competing governments claim ‘legitimacy’. Armed militias roam the streets. The electricity is frequently out of service, and most business is at a standstill; revenues from oil, the country’s greatest asset, have dwindled by more than ninety per cent. Some three thousand people have been killed by fighting in the past year, and nearly a third of the country’s population has fled across the border to Tunisia. The downfall was encouraged by NATO air strikes—and has become a tyranny of ‘a dangerous and pervasive instability’.
For Hftar, the east was the obvious place to begin his offensive. “Benghazi was the main stronghold of terrorism in Libya, so we started there,” he said. An old Libyan maxim holds that everything of importance happens in Benghazi. In 1937, Benito Mussolini came there to solidify his colonial power. In 1951, the newly crowned Western puppet-King Idris I, broadcast a radio address from the city to proclaim ‘Libya independent’ (HOW HYPOCRITICAL !!). When the ‘Young Libyan Officer’s Movement’ began their REVOLUTION against the monarchy, he was a young officer based in Benghazi.
America’s allies in Europe, particularly the British and the French, were already convinced to destroy the ‘GREAT JAMAHIRIYA’. In March, 2011, the well-connected radical Algerian born philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy arrived in the city and took it upon himself to make sure that the (so-termed) ‘rebels’ (WAHHABI extremists) got aid. In Paris recently, I asked Lévy why he’d adopted the Libyan cause. “Why? I don’t know!” he said. “Of course, it was human rights, for a massacre to be prevented, and blah blah blah—but I also wanted them to see a Jew defending ‘the liberators against a dictatorship’ (you mean the world’s sole ‘DIRECT DEMOCRACY’), to show fraternity. I wanted the Muslims to see that a Frenchman—a Westerner and a Jew—could be on their side.”
Lévy said that he returned to Paris and told President Nicolas Sarkozy that (so-called) ‘humanitarian intervention’ wasn’t enough. “The real objective had to be to topple Qaddafi,” he told me. Sarkozy agreed, and Lévy became his emissary. Lévy accompanied a Libyan opposition leader to meet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to lobby for U.S. involvement.* “It was hard to convince the Americans,” he said. “Robert Gates was totally opposed…. But Hillary got it,” [as she was pressing for a Western-Zionist Bank controlled North African corridor, of which (she) pre-conceived the success of such, with the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood ruling the region, through a CIA-MI6 sponsored ‘Arab Spring’].
French warplanes began bombing. The U.K. and the U.S. followed, in an arm’s-length operation that the Obama Administration described as “leading from behind.” From warships in the Mediterranean, they launched a withering strike of a hundred and twelve Tomahawk missiles, but within days Gates had announced that the French and the British would take the lead. The coalition kept fighting for seven months, with American forces in a lower-profile role. In the end, Lévy was pleased with the intervention. “The NATO mission, as far as I am concerned, was as it had to be.”
A senior U.S. Administration official told me, “We had a pilot training program, for instance,” he said. “Suddenly, we were being accused of supporting terrorism.”
On 20 October 2011, after nine months of fighting, a group of ‘thuwar—battle-hardened ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood Wahhabi ‘militiamen’—from the port city of Misurata, and another group of Misurati militiamen, massacred sixty-six of The Great Jamahirya‘s last military loyalists in the garden of a Sirte hotel, after they video-taped themselves tormenting their green captives.
It had been clear from the start that the militias were going to be a deeply troublesome feature of post-Great Jamahiriya Libya. The ‘rebel alliance’ was hastily thrown together from many disparate groups—some friendly to Western ideals and others driven by Wahhabi dreams of a new caliphate. Even as Western governments deliberated over whether to support the (so-termed) ‘rebels’, Wahhabi from the eastern city of Derna emerged as a force on the battlefield. In an ugly episode in July, 2011, the (so-called) ‘rebel coalition’ ’s military commander, General Abdel Fattah Younes, was abducted, tortured and grizzley-murdered, through the orders of the infiltrated CIA-agent (who was the Great Jamhiriya’s last chief Justice), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, seeking revenge for Younes’s persecution of them when Younes was the Great Jamahiriya’s interior minister, and also the revelation that Younes was a double-Agent, working for the Great Jamahiriya with a secret contract with Mu’ammar al-Qathafi.
YOUNIS is cleared of treason:
The MISURATA militias raced to occupy key positions in Tripoli. The militias ransacked the Great Jamahiriya’s well-stocked armories, and the Misurati made off with hundreds of Russian-made tanks. The Zintani, who always were the Security force for the TRIPOLI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, re-took over the international airport, under supervision and blessings of General Khamis Gaddafi. But other armed WAHHABI groups also seized positions for themselves.
The profusion of young men with guns alarmed Rory Stewart, a British M.P. who had come to Libya to gather information for Parliament. I was in Libya at the time, and Stewart joined me for a couple of days in Tripoli; after one confrontation with armed men at a roadblock, he asked, “What I want to know is, who is going to disarm these militias?”
In July, 2012, the Western ‘Friends of Libya’ met in Paris and created for Libya, a national assembly called the General National Congress: A loose consortium of (so-termed) ‘liberal and centrist parties’ affiliated with the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood. The GNC backed the militias. Indeed, Libya’s tens of thousands of thuwar became increasingly powerful: rather than finding the fighters jobs and forcing them to disarm, the government put them on the state payroll.
Frederic Wehrey, a Libya analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told me, “Probably only about a third of the militiamen actually fought in the war. The problem is that when the government started funding them it created more and more of them. No records were ever kept, so people were double- and triple-dipping.” Westerners started to come under attack with troubling frequency. In January, 2013, gunmen in Benghazi fired on an Italian diplomat’s car, but he emerged unharmed. In April, a car bomb, claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, severely damaged the French Embassy in Tripoli.
Although the Wahhabi-Brotherhood had lost at the polls, they found a way to assert political power. In May, they urged the G.N.C. to pass a law banning virtually everyone who had participated in The Great Jamahiriya from holding public office. During the vote, armed militiamen stormed government ministries to demand the law’s passage. The immediate effect was to neutralize several of the Wahhabiis’ key rivals, mostly political ‘moderates and technocrats’ who had served at the end of the final years of the GREAT JAMAHIRIYA. The speaker of the G.N.C. was obliged to resign. In December, 2013, the G.N.C. endorsed a Wahhabi corrupted version of ‘Sharia law’ as the source of all legislation and voted to extend its mandate for an additional year.
(This act was highly illegal, and the Zintani battalions moved against it.)
(above showing Zintani martyrs, JAMAL NOAH, and the Lightning /Civil 32 Xantan Brigades declaring the GNC illegal)
Hftar watched the country’s decline with growing anger. On 14 February 2014, he appeared on television to announce the unilateral dissolution of their (so-called) ‘parliament’ and the creation of a “Presidential committee” and cabinet, which would govern until new elections could be held. His move had the hallmarks of a coup, yet Hftar had no apparent way to enforce it, and he was publicly taunted for his hubris.
But Hftar had a strategy. He had embarked on a series of “town hall” meetings around the country, while he secretly built-up an army, with the support of old Great Jamahiriya comrades from the military and the Xanthan forces of Zintan.. In May, he launched ‘Operation Dignity’, with attacks against the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood Wahhabi militias in Benghazi, which he said were intended to “eliminate extremist terrorist groups” in Libya. Not long afterward, his forces in alliance with Zintan, occupied and smothered the Allaotunai Conference (of the GNC)‘s al-RIXOS building in Tripoli.
Hftar’s offensive resonated with many Libyans, who had grown frustrated with the G.N.C. and thecorruption, thievery and violence that had flourished during its rule.
Then came a minority election, and there appeared a new legislative body, the ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’ (‘COUNCIL of DEPUTIES’) who rejected the Misurata ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood rule. Te ‘Misurata ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood performed poorly in the elections, in June, but, before the new parliament could take office, the Wahhabi, strengthened by militiamen from Misurata (inder Salah Badi), attacked and destroyed a good portion of the residences in Tripoli, and to boot, Tripoli’s international airport was taken by trickery (of a false agreement, immediately broken by ‘Dawn Libya’), in their horrendous attempt to seize it from the Zintani Security who backed General Hftar. The airport, including one and a half billion dollars’ worth of aircraft, was destroyed, and hundreds of Zintani fighters were killed. With Tripoli a battlefield, the U.S. pulled out of Libya entirely, moving its Embassy to Malta, separated from the besieged capital by two hundred miles of water.
Libyans gradually learned to navigate the violence. A young Tripoli businessman who asked to be called Mohamed told me of getting a call last July, telling him that two militias were fighting on the road to the airport. “The morning it started, my partner tried to drive to our office and got turned back,” he said. Mohamed headed to the office anyway; their employees’ payroll money was held in a safe there, and he wanted to retrieve it before it was destroyed or looted. “There were literally bullets flying right overhead,” he said. He managed to get the money and leave the city, negotiating the militia roadblocks using a credential that a highly placed friend had given him. “All along the airport road, there were no-go zones, with separate battles going on, and the Misurati ransacking people’s houses.”
With the fighting in Tripoli, two opposing armies took shape. The group aligned against Hftar, under Salah Badi, called themselves ‘Dawn Libya’. ‘Dawn Libya’ is an uneasy coalition; it includes former al-Qaeda terrorists who fought against the Great Jamahiriya in the nineties, Amazigh ethnic militias, members of Libya’s branch of the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood, and a network of Zionist merchants from Misurata, whose fighters make up the largest block of Dawn Libya’s forces, and were reponsible for the November 2013 Massacre at Gharghour (TRIPOLI).
Finally, in late last August 2014,’Dawn Libya’ took control of Tripoli, effectively dividing the country into east and west. The Wahhabi-Brotherhood who had lost power to the newly created ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’ (Council of Deputies) insisted that the G.N.C. was the country’s only legitimate government. With the country increasingly unstable, the H.O.R. established itself in the city of Tobruk, eight hundred miles to the east. There, the ‘elected’ members proclaimed themselves Libya’s “true government”—even as they retreated for a time to a Greek car ferry moored offshore.
As the standoff worsens, regional powers have stepped in. Hftar’s ‘Libyan Army and airforce’ (recognised by the offiial state ‘Majlis al-Nuwaab’) reportedly receives weapons and financing from Egypt, led by the vehemently anti-Wahhabi / Brotherhood, president General Sisi and from Russia. ‘Dawn Libya’ is backed by Qatar, Sudan and Turkey, which support the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood. Their involvement has given the conflict the dimensions of a proxy war.
The regional implications of Libya’s breakdown are vast. The southern desert offers unguarded crossings into Algeria, Niger, Chad, and Sudan, where armed bands—including human traffickers and (so-called) ‘jihadists’ from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb—roam freely in four-wheel-drive convoys.
Huge numbers of migrants, mostly Africans but also some Middle Easterners, are being smuggled through Libya. At the Mediterranean coast, they are placed in overcrowded boats and pointed toward Italy, where the fortunate ones are picked up by the coast guard or by passing cargo ships. Last year, the number of migrants reaching Italy in this fashion rose to a hundred and seventy thousand; more than three thousand are believed to have drowned at sea. In early February, another three hundred died.
Many of the young Libyans I met during the revolution are now in Tunisia, Egypt, Bulgaria, London—anywhere but Libya. The exiles who came back to build a new country have largely left. The people who have remained are those who can’t get out, and they mostly stay close to home. In any case, there’s little to do. Many shops are closed during the day, opening for a few hours after evening prayers; there are no women to be seen on the streets. There are sporadic bursts of gunfire and explosions, and it is impossible to tell whether someone is being shot or someone is cleaning a gun on a rooftop. Nobody asks; Libyans have become inured to war, and, in any case, decades of secret-police surveillance have conditioned them not to inquire into the causes of violence.
The ‘rebel’ Wahhabi extremists have bulldozed al-Qathafi home at Bab Azizaya, and smashed many icons of his regime, and extremists are despoiling the rest. In Tripoli, there was a statue of a bare-breasted woman nuzzling a gazelle; extremists blew a hole through her belly and hauled the statue away. At the Greco-Roman ruins of Cyrene, almost all the statues of gods have been disfigured. Under a line of vandalized bas-reliefs, I saw a spray-painted message in Arabic script: “Destroy the stone idols, no to restoration.”
The ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ and the Misratan leaders support the growing extremist elements which remains active on the battlefield. They send bulldozers to Benghazi loaded with weaponry and ammunition and mercenaries. In Benghazi, where Hftar’s soldiers have been fighting the Wahhabi groups for control, the combat has caused widespread destruction and a steady stream of casualties. Hftar claims to hold most of the city, though he says that snipers have slowed his advance. The main enemy is ‘Ansar al-Sharia’, the group implicated in Stevens’s death and widely suspected of leading the assassination campaign that devastated civil society in Benghazi. In late January, Mohamed al-Zahawi, the leader of Ansar, died from wounds suffered in battle, but his forces have kept fighting.
After the overthrow of the ‘Great Jamahiriya’, hundreds of fighters from Derna, a city long associated with Wahhabi extremism, travelled to Syria to join the war against President Bashar al-Assad. Many fought alongside ‘Jabhat al-Nusra’, the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda, and some joined DAASH. In recent months, a sizable number have reportedly returned ‘home’ (along with many world mercenaries) in order to fight against Hftar’s forces. In October, a Derna-based (so-called9 ‘jihadist group’ declared its allegiance to DAASH, and, a few months later, another DAASH unit claimed responsibility for the execution of a dozen Libyan soldiers. In an audacious daylight assault in late January, a third group of DAASH gunmen raided the Corinthia, a five-star hotel in downtown Tripoli, killing at least eight people. A few weeks later, DAASH took over a village near the coastal town of ‘Bin Jawad’.
Hftar says that he intends to take on Derna’s extremists once he has conquered Benghazi. “We will use all the means at our disposal to exterminate them,” he assured me. Hftar’s Libyan Army possesses a small air force—an advantage he holds over ‘Dawn Libya’, which has only a few Sudanese and Turkish aircraft—and every few days his fleet of vintage MIGs carries out bombing sorties over Benghazi, or, farther afield, in Ajdabiya, Misurata, Sirte, and Tripoli.
Hftar said that he planned to bring the war to Tripoli, and to Misurata, but dismissed the possibility of widespread carnage.
“Tripoli will be overrun quickly, because the people will rise up, and we have forces inside the city,” he said.
“What about dialogue?” I asked.
“There will be no dialogue with terrorism,” Hftar replied. “The only thing to say about terrorism is that we will fight it until it’s defeated, and we have purified the country.”
In Washington (USA), Hftar’s absolutist tactics have caused discomfort to the point of putting a bounty upon his head! The senior Administration official told me emphatically, “The U.S. government has nothing to do with General Khalifa Hftar. Hftar is killing people (RIGHT, the USA’s ground-troops of al-Qaeda & DAASH), and he says he is targeting terrorists, but his definition is way too broad. Hftar is a vigilante. And the predictable result of his vigilantism is to unite the others”—giving common cause to extremists and non-extremists within ‘Dawn Libya’. “It is almost as if one part of Libya were controlled by White Russians—that’s Hftar—and another part were controlled by Bolsheviks.” (REALLY? )
Benjamin Rhodes, the U.S. deputy national-security adviser and a close confidant of Obama, noted that there has also been occasional military action. Last June, Delta Force operatives abducted Ahmed Abu Khattala, an ‘Ansar’ member who is suspected of leading the attack that killed Ambassador Stevens. Khattala is now (deceased) was awaiting trial in the U.S.
Rhodes was one of the aides who, along with Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power, helped persuade Obama to join the intervention. In spite of the chaos that followed, Obama stands by that decision.
Vast numbers of people came to Libya to look for contracts, but nobody got any money, so they went away.NATO tried to design a national-defense system, but the Libyans refused to engage with them (after they bombed all the infrastructure and schools, and killed or mamed almost a million citizens). The French were going to train three thousand police. Instead, they trained thirty. Then some GNC cadets were sent to Jordan for training, but the Jordanians kicked them out after they burned down a sports facility, because they were angry about a flight delay.” In November, the official noted, three hundred GNC-Allaotunai affiliated young soldiers being trained in the U.K. were expelled after half a dozen of them ran amok in an English village, sexually assaulting several women and raping a man. “The Libyans defeated everyone,” he said. “It didn’t matter whether you were Gandhi or Stalin. It didn’t matter how hard we tried, they defeated us all.”
I spent two weeks in Libya, crossing it from east to west, and the only other Westerners I encountered were a few British security consultants and two German journalists. Everywhere I went, Libyans stared at me. Occasionally, young men asked where I was from. When I said that I was American, some joked about jihadists and the possibility of my being abducted and beheaded. At the entrance to the town of Sousa, near Derna, officials admonished my Libyan companions for bringing a Westerner there, asking, “What if something happens to him?”
Unlike many other cities and towns in Libya, Tripoli presented an image of normality. Traffic flowed, and groups of young men wearing Italian sportswear hung out drinking coffee from paper cups. Here and there, at government ministry compounds, I saw groups of bearded men with guns, but none of the tanks and battlewagons that had traversed the capital after Tripoli’s 23 August 2011 ‘fall’. Yet Tripoli’s air of calm belied an underlying tension that was evident as soon as I came into contact with the men who were running things.
THE FOLLOWING ARE the ‘al-JAZEERA’ – ‘ANSAR al-SHARIA’ / ‘MUSLIM’ BROTHERHOOD / ‘DAWN LIBYA‘ PROPAGANDA LIES:
Just as Haftar insists, all his opponents are terrorists, the leaders of ‘Dawn Libya’ insist that there isn’t a single extremist in their ranks. Jamal Zubia, the director of the foreign-media department, assured me that, ‘until Hftar began attacking, “Ansar al-Sharia” was closer to a mutual-aid society than to a terrorist organization (HAH, HAH ! remember all the Thunderbolt SF and benghazi citizenry who died through their hands.) A large, white-bearded man who returned to Libya after sixteen years in England, Zubia speaks excellent English, with a Manchester accent. “If you ask the people of Benghazi about Ansar al-Sharia, they will tell you it always does charity, it secures the hospitals, the roads,” he said. “If they want a place to be secure, they will ask Ansar al-Sharia to be there.”…
Zubia said, “If Hftar says he wants to fight terrorism, logic says he should go to Derna, not Benghazi. In Benghazi, they have never belonged to Al Qaeda, while in Derna, anyway, there are fifty people who say they are with ISIS.” Zubia wore a derisory expression. “As for the hundreds of people Hftar says were killed in Benghazi, where is the proof? You will find that Hftar is responsible for all those killings.”
Until 2005, he claimed, Hftar’s family had received an annual stipend of two hundred thousand dollars from the GREAT JAMAHIRIYA—“You can go on YouTube.” (Hftar has acknowledged that, as a former P.O.W., he got a stipend from the GREAT JAMAHIRIYA, but says that it ended in 1993.) More recently, Zubia said, Hftar had “come to Tripoli and tried to form a Brigade, but failed.” And, he added, one of Haftar’s sons had been wounded. (In fact, Hftar’s son, Saddam, was said to have been shot by a Zintani Bank Security Forceman.) Zubia described Hftar and his family as a kind of criminal enterprise. [all propaganda LIES] “I ask you to use your intelligence,” he said.
Indisputable information is difficult to come by in Libya. Everyone feverishly monitors Web sites where pictures are posted and things proclaimed and discussed, but most of what passes for news is political propaganda, pure and simple. ‘Dignity’ has a TV station, which broadcasts footage of Hftar on inspection tours of the Benghazi battlefield, set to martial music, along with gruesome clips showing the victims of the other side’s violence.
‘Dawn Libya’ has a similar channel, presenting the opposite view of the conflict. Each side discounts the other’s reporting, and, in the absence of news, outrageous gossip is quickly accepted as fact. In a meeting near Benghazi, an economist soberly relayed to me the preposterous claim that Bernard-Henri Lévy had been paid forty million dollars to lobby for the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood’s interests in Libya.
Most of Hftar’s supporters in eastern Libya believe that the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood is engaged in an international conspiracy, backed by the U.S., to take over the Middle East; when I asked for evidence, the answers tended to start with Obama’s June, 2009, speech in Cairo, in which he announced a “new beginning” for relations between America and the Muslim world. Hftar, in his office, speculated that this was the real reason that the U.S. was not supporting him. “Maybe it’s because of the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood,” he said. “They have a lot of clout, and a factory for producing lies.”
Perhaps the only point of agreement between ‘Dignity’ and ‘Dawn Libya’ is the primacy of oil in the country’s future.
A couple of days before I met Hftar, his jets had bombed an armored column from Misurata as it advanced on facilities held by his proxies, and he described the advance as a kind of moral affront. “You will hear of our response in a few days,” he promised. Two weeks later, his MIGs carried out air strikes against Misurata’s airport. Of the Misrati, he added, “If they do anything more than they have already done, they will pay a heavy price.” …Afterward, I spoke with General Mohamed al-Ashtar, a high-ranking ‘Dawn Libya’ commander, who told me that his men were advancing on the oil terminal of Ras Lanuf when they were hit by Hftar’s jets. In order to avoid damage to the facilities, he claimed, he had ordered his troops to withdraw, but now they had Hftar’s men surrounded. “We are waiting for them to answer our conditions so they can withdraw and hand over the facilities,” he said.
In the following weeks, according to the analyst Frederic Wehrey, the fight devolved into a stalemate: “fixed lines of static warfare, with both sides lobbing rockets.”
When I asked Ashtar how Libya’s conflict would end, he suggested that there was no choice but total victory. “There is no chance the country will split,” he said. “The country is one.”
“What about Hftar?” I asked.
“He will suffer the same fate as al-Qathafi.”
Ashtar smiled, and so did his men.
As the fighting goes on, the country’s remaining oil money flows through the Central Bank now stationed in MISURATA headquarters, where it is disbursed without discrimination to the MISURATA militias and criminal gangs.
ALI TARHOUNI:
Tarhouni spoke matter-of-factly about the events that were reshaping the country, but he smiled rapturously as he told of visiting his home town of Marj (PRAIRIE CITY), not far from Hftar’s base. He had forgotten how ‘green’ it was, he said.
When I visited Tarhouni at his al-Beyda apartment one evening, he reflected on what had happened in Libya. “I still can’t figure out what brought us to this,” he said. “We thought with this (so-called) (CIA-led) ‘revolution’ we had brought about new green spring shoots, but what we came up with is thorns.” Like Hftar, when things started falling apart, he felt that he “had to do something,”
After seeing the appalling-results of the puppet-GNC, Ali Tarhouni RESIGNED from his appointment as ‘head of the Assembly’.
As the U.N. diplomat, Bernardino León’s ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood-sided talks stalled, Léon announced a round in Geneva, but neither Hftar nor his foes agreed to take part. At the ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’, Abubakr Buera, a senior parliamentarian, ticked off a list of unacceptable interlocutors: the Tripoli government, the G.N.C., and anyone from the terrorist group of ‘Dawn Libya’. “If any of them come, we won’t go,” he said. “We don’t want the international community to intervene,” he added. “Now is not the right time to stop fighting. It’s the solution.”
Even the level-headed Ali Tarhouni reluctantly favored a resolution through combat. “A lot of people are waiting for Hftar,” he said. “The only moderates in this country are the ones who are forced to be. The military situation has to mature more before the conditions are ripe for a dialogue.”
In early February 2015, representatives of the G.N.C. and the U.N. began new talks in Libya, but Hftar and his military opponents didn’t join them. Many of Hftar’s men welcome the chance for more fighting. I spoke to Colonel Abdul Raziq al-Nadzawi, Haftar’s rough-hewn chief of staff, at a sprawling base outside Tobruk.
“Dignity started because our soldiers were being slaughtered and beheaded,” he said. “We had no intention of fighting our brother revolutionaries, but they joined those terrorists, so we had no choice.” Like Hftar, Nadzawi believed that the war would have to be won in Tripoli, but he hoped that civilian casualties could be kept to a minimum, if people fled the city.
“…But the U.S. sees the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood as a moderate force. We see them as snakes with smooth skin.” Nadzawi had been trying, without success, to schedule a meeting with David Rodriguez, the head of the U.S. Army’s Africa command. “There are DAASH training camps here in Libya—Rodriguez himself has said so,” he told me. “So what are you waiting for? We’re not asking you to bomb them. We’ll do it. Just give us the military equipment and backup support we need to do the job, like you’re doing in Iraq.”
In a country full of militias and increasingly hospitable to Wahhabi extremists, the LIBYAN ARMY’s offensive may yet provide a small hope for stability.
Many Libyans told me, if Hftar does not prevail over the (so-termed) ‘jihadists’ in Benghazi and Derna, the country will lurch closer to being what the British special envoy Jonathan Powell described to me as a “Somalia on the Mediterranean.”
On 22 January 2015, Hftar’s men made a sudden advance in Benghazi, taking over the city’s central-bank branch and most of the port from the Wahhabi insurgents. When I saw Hftar at his base, he had spoken confidently about his plan to “purify the country.” But there was more fighting ahead.
The aid from Egypt and Russia has been modest, and, as the LIBYAN ARMY grows, its demands are outstripping supplies. “We are a very rich country,” he reminded me. “We want our people to have good homes, good schools. We had hoped for Libya to be God’s heaven on earth. But we need infrastructure, new buildings, factories. We have oil, gold, uranium, and seas of sand….
It is impossible for Libya to stay on this planet alone,” Hftar added, pointedly, “There are great benefits to those who stand by us in our time of need.”
When I asked about his personal ambitions, he said, “My ambitions are the people’s needs.”
“Once you’ve purified the country and it’s at peace, if the people asked you to run for President would you agree?”
“I would have no problem with that,” Hftar said, and smiled. ♦
The Zarh al-Foreigh al-Bannanah
The Lebanese al-Mokhttefan in Libya kidnapped a month ago for financial reasons, has nothing to do with their holding our son Hannibal Gaddafi.
Clashes between rival al-Melcaat al-Hanih and al-Khaddaroh on Jamal Street. Howitzer in the fall of random street obstacle launched by rival militias in the CORNER.
Praise be to God, who is righteous thanks to him, a picture of a meeting of reconciliation and love between Zintan and epiphyseal and reconciliation agreement was hurt in a giant step on the road to peace between the country and the interest of our people ..
Greetings to everyone from the Sahel in this blessed agreement.
(Moved beauty al-Cavala)
The city is Free !
Here they are distributing leaflets calling for Dr. Saif al-Islam
A tribute to the free of the CITY of FIVE honorable.
The death of the offender ‘Aasy Aasy’, after a battle with cancer,
a Contact Person for the torture and killing of many of the prisoners in the prison of Tmanh.
Soul goneTo hell
Poll plane flying over the city of Sirte…
‘Daash’ terrorist organization based anti-aircraft gunnery-firing from inside the farm research center, after the air strike that targeted one of their camps in the area west of the city (back a little while ago).
Libyan Airforce Warplanes bombed unidentified child-training sites of the organization ‘Daash’ at Farouq camp, in back area west of the city of Sirte.
A convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles carrying over medium-caliber weapons and vehicles carried heavy weapons belonging to the terrorist organization of ‘Daash’, coming-out of the area west of Sirte N° B17km, back and is heading westward…
passable Triv al-Ssahela
‘Daash’ organization closes desert road, who graduated from the families of the area from Bin Jawad through to Ras Lanauf area.
‘Daash’ terrorist organization set off a feeder line to the oil tanks Harouj company (‘al-Phippa’) south of the city of Ras Lanauf (30 km).
‘Daash terrorist organization in Libya’ is seeking to recruit engineers / Libyan specialists in the oil sector and other followers loyal to them
and they will bring in others from abroad for the operation of the oil fields and refineries after their controling plan is feated.
https://www.facebook.com/tHe.ReD.vAlLy/videos/vb.368265363237742/1005503659513906/?type=2&theater
‘Rouge Valley directly’:
Mhamh Sidra
Backups guard oil installations:
B.Ozhaban and assign the Bilal and Col. Nice Bouchmadh
‘Daash’ is taught a lesson in the art of war ..
“Jaboha reduce pocket defect”
Show good ..
On this day, the monarchy forces engaged in Libya during 1964, of the uprising in the city of Benghazi;
and cited on the track many live ammunition and alive to this uprising Mu’ammar al-Qathafi launched a name-plaque for each of the ‘martyrs of January ’64’ (having their) names upon one of the educational institutions in Benghazi.
al-Qathafi said, on this day each year, shoulòd be an official holiday to honor the blood of the Benghazi martyrs
ZAWAWI / EATS:
Daash terrorist organization Blhjum on the ‘Turkish headquarters of the company’ in charge of the establishment of the road between the city and town Eats her wanted Aqeelah and the kidnapping of four workers from Eats her wanted.The names of the four Zawawi hostages, in the hands of the elements of the terrorist organization ‘Daash’, when we attacked on their Turkish headquarters of their company are:
1__ Nabi Mohammed Nasr al-Cadekke
2__khald Bari Agherin
al-Atoraly three members of the City of Misurata with their throats slit on the road link between al-Jufra and Shati after scholars gate 100 km from the city of al-Jufra.
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What will Be
On ‘channel al-Jamahiriya’ bone you see soon:
Facts presented for the first time to meet with the Commander and officers of the ‘Liberal Unionists’ on the tenth anniversary of the Revolution
Preliminary reports indicate that the International Criminal Court closed file “Abdallah al-Senussi Sev al-Aslamu” because it does not have to represent the Libyan state; and automatically dropped the names from the list from the ‘international prosecution of Interpol’.
NEVER FORGET ! PUTIN HAS NOT…
Moscow Libyan Embassy 01 July 2011
‘Nedal Nedal’, posts:
US studying exotic on ‘al-Qathafi’s hidden treasure’
“Information” is the first of its kind, but it has already raised controversy, leaving deep skepticism among experts. Possible that there is a secret behind former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to intervene militarily in March 2011 against the GREAT JAMAHIRIYA: the punishment imposed upon Mu’ammar al-Qathafi, who designed to launch the African currency (to replace the franc CFA), and thus it was threatening the French influence.
Telecom is just one of the information contained in the messages sent in the spring of 2011 Sidney Blumenthal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that time used this former press adviser in an unofficial to her. This “information” about the hidden springs to Paris in Libya is another in a series of e-mail messages, which was unveiled late December as part of what was known scandal “Emile Gate” scandal-mail or emails to Hillary Clinton.
Doubts Experts:
The message dating back to light in April 2011 when the North Atlantic strikes against the Libyan regime began Pact. And it indicates the presence of a stock of gold (143 tons) and silver (143 tons also) – worth about 6.51€ billion -, accumulated by auspices of the GREAT JAMAHIRIYA, in order to launch al-Qathafi’s dream-project for an African currency.
It was in late March, which is six weeks from the beginning of the Libyan uprising after, to send these goods to Sabha in the south-west.
Mr. Blumenthal offers anonymous sources, as of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s entourage. It reveals that these sources captivated him that “the French intelligence discovered the existence of the project” African currency, “shortly after the start of the Aarh.” This discovery was “one of the factors that influenced the Sarkozy’s decision to involve France in the war on Libya.”
But these data sends experts puzzling. Patrick Himesadh, a former diplomat in Libya between 2001 and 2004, and the author of a reference book entitled “In the heart of al-Qathafi’s Libya”, said:
“I am very cautious, and I have a lot of doubts about that.” Himesadh goes on to say:
“Sarkozy‘s decision to intervene was taken on February 21, four days after the outbreak of the intifada, which means that it did not wait for the alleged discovery of the Plan of anti-French in Africa. Remained the central motivation for Sarkozy”
(above) IMAGE: France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy attends a meeting with regional authorities and unemployed people in Chateauroux, central France, 27 January 2009. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE)
to restore France’s place among the Arab peoples “after slips by Michele Alliot-Marie in Tunisia”.
Hey folks redemption homeland brave unknown
What show Zim Iaotun if Pena alive
Ehna Dhanak and Ehna Fdak and ready Ehna
Libyan artist Mohamed Hassan has a new longing 2016.
al-Anbh leader Ba Khoi Mutasim reputation for last.
al-Ash (WESTERN REGION) demonstrations taking place in regions, and Ztun (NAFUSA) and Beautiful City (WESTERN REGION) in order to activate the ‘General Amnesty Law’.
(WESTERN OCCUPIED) LIBYA RAT NEWS:
Today issued Resolution No. 1 for the ‘Presidential Council on the formation of a committee to conduct the implementation of the security arrangements under the Libyan political agreement.’
The Commission, headed by ‘Dean Corner / Abdul Rahman Imran long’, includes the following memberships:
1. Colonel – Ahmed Hammad Mohammed Abboud
2. Colonel – Omar Abdel-Salam Ahmed al-Hasnawi
3. Colonel – Younis Mohammed Fadhil al-Abdali
4. Colonel technician – the birth of Mohammed Mokhtar Anakash
5. colonel – Omar Mohammed Omar Zawehr
6. colonel – Abu Ali Belkacem Secretary hematoma
7. colonel – Mohammed Ibrahim Omar Chabon
8. colonel – Aouhadh Abdullah Aouhadh star
9. colonel – Mohammed Ibrahim Moussa Salem
10. Colonel – Ibrahim Masoud Mahfouz Abdullah
11. Police colonel – Khalid Mohammad Omar Seer
12. Police colonel – Hossein Nasr al-Wani
13. Submitted – just Mansoor Mohiuddin Ulkipala
14. Mekdm- Abdul Hakim M’Hamed Warfali key
15. Retired police colonel – Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif Daou
16. Colonel retired sailor – M’Hamed Ali Mohamed al-Okha
17. legal adviser – Omar Abdel-Rahman al-Bahlul al-Jtalaoa
[the puppet ‘Presidential Council of the Government of National Reconciliation’, led by winner OS (‘MUSLIM’ BROTHERHOOD RATS who think they ‘rule’ LIBYA) ]
Inspection campaign and the spread of Melcaat at the entrances and exits of Tripoli.
Mahmoud al-Misrati published at his own expense
‘Nawasi militia force’ (led by ABDUL RAOUF CARTE) of dozens of Libyan families in Tripoli to cancel the joys of their daughters for having a lock tell-tale ‘Mosque Alsqa lounge’ and why ..
Nebo money Battalion bankrupt otherwise Nskroha ..ataaoh means
Win your men .. Aatrabuls of these tramps deter thieves war
[To N Evlhawwa]
Kidnapping ‘Mamed Amran Mamed Hlgom’, a student at the ‘Faculty of Economics’.
CORNER / SABRIYAH:
Unidentified gunmen targeted ‘Ali al-Hamdi’ mafia-style with a hail of bullets, outside his home, in the area ‘Sabriyah’ which killed him.
Shooting and sound of shooting in front of the ‘corner Street Hospital’.
Republic Bank branch of the University of stealing corner
The arrival of the Prince of the Daash terrorist organization into Tripoli. He is a person of Palestinian citizenship, claiming the name again of “Abu Obeida”; and he is currently in school at Bosa-Limo-Gariba. He will give orders to start his phony call of Tripoli ‘Jihadi operations’, in order to declare ‘The Tripoli Declaration Emirate’ (of which he will coordinate as laison, between him and the Inventory of Gianni Gneoh Alkkla /el-Mahdi Haratine), who gave him in ‘hospitality’ a corse to enter Libya, and will provide a place for him and his ‘DAASH’ entourage, to be located mainly in Tripoli.
A freak accident on the highway this morning between House Thamer area and city dome crossroads (at the pinworm specifically).
al-FURNAJ:
The death of Sharif family of al-Furnaj area, resulting from the storage of gas cylinders.
The blast, which was heard in downtown due to launch powerful fireworks in the Omar al-Mukhtar Street, and improperly traded the news about the car bomb or a bag of explosives.
Cut power to several areas in Tripoli lasted for more than 3 hours.
GHARGHARESH:
Found the body of a young man from Ghargharesh, ‘Abd Amalik Ohamd’, of the age of 18. His place of residence was in ‘Got al-Shall’.
‘Abd al-Mlk Ohamd Abdallah Qrbaj’ , was a 17-year-old. His body was lying on the side of the road in Gargaresh area.
and a medical source confirmed from ‘Tripoli Medical Center’, that he was killed using white weapon (knife), digging on his chest phrase (Daash) using the tool sharp.
The release of the citizen ‘Hasin Alloh al-Faragana’ of the city of Sirte, who was kidnapped on Thursday, from the center of the city of Tripoli.
Stop the study at the Higher Institute of Medical Professions “Ibn Al-Nafees” as a result of deteriorating security.
headless body foung in Ain Zara.
Terrorist threats make it militias b Souk al-Jmah mobilize and activate the gate of the entrance area.
Tripoli militia tremble with fear now, after threatening them by Amir of Daash Islamic-State terrorists in ‘Trabulus’ (TRIPOLI as they call it). Q categorize Twitter account in what he called an earthquake.
al-HILL al-CHERQAH:
al-Ator been the Hafez al-Misurati inside his house with his throat cut in al-Hill al-Cherqah area
(al-Sourh Paul Taliq)
SAL-UH-DIN:
The release of Dr. Mfattah al-Fragana, owner of ‘Hope Clinic’ of the area of Sal-Uh-Din after paying a ransom of 50 thousand dinars to his captors.
Road and rail Dahra completely encircled by militias after the death of deterrence ‘Misurati Plumntqh’.
The spread of intensive militias of deterrence in Dahra area.
‘Npil Mamed al-Buaha’ killed by Misurata Brotherhood militias stationed in the railroad’s headquarters in the (former) ‘Islamic Call Society’ building complex.
They Launch Qadf Or Ba Ja in the air behind the Moulay Mohammed Mosque.
An armed group kidnapped a number of University students from ‘Tripoli University’, who were:
1. Samir Gammoudi of City CORNER.
2. Salem Madhoun of Jadu city (NAFUSA).
3. Mohammed Abu sound of Nalut city (NAFUSA).
4. Ashraf Baccouche from the city of Misurata (CENTRAL REGION).
5. Islam bulldozer from the city of Zuwarah (WESTERN REGION).
al-QRH BOLLI:
Melcat Tripoli impose a curfew in the area al-Qrh Bolli.
ASBI’A:
Beautiful demonstrations in activating the demands of the amnesty law and specifically directed toward our green prisoners.
Asbi’a the beginning of the supervision of the starting point for the march on the application of the amnesty law and the launch of gathering all the green prisoners from detention centers.
Asbi’a embarrass the supervision of the city in a demonstration for the release of green prisoners.
Demonstrations in the beautiful condemning terrorism and calling for activating the amnesty law and the release of green prisoners.
The closure of all banks in the city of Gharyan after receiving a threat to blow up the banks.
Yes for the implementation of the ‘General Amnesty Law’.
Yes for the return of the displaced.
Yes to reconciliation.
Salah Mohammed:
“I hope with all my heart to be Zintan lesson and a byword for all Libyans and Arabs in the peace and amnesty …”
نعم لتنفيذ قانون العفو العام
نعم لعودة المهجرين
نعم للمصالحة
Large congestion within the City drawer because people throw shot by one of the sons of Zintan.
A great tribute to all military, police and security men and young volunteers in the city of Zintan now in Albobat to secure the city in light of this cold and difficult weather ..
A great tribute to you and my Lord bless you and Araakm Aobtal Libya.
(Imad Offinek)
‘Zintan operations room’ a partagé la publication de ‘force supporting the security directorates of the western region and South Committee for the “200” ‘.
‘Directorates support the security of the western region and the southern power of the Commission, “the 200” ‘ a ajouté 10 nouvelles photos.
‘Directorates of security force support for the western and southern region’, HAVING the support of the ‘Military council of Zintan’, last night, began their campaign for detecting the violation of employment and counted.
Moved ‘regions Libya’:
Know Your Country
Village layer:
Village land of Zintan in the middle of the desert western mountain located west of the West Village about 45 km south of Mizdah about 157 km, and at the end of the navigation Ghadames from the east, located on a high hill in the head knoll Mnkorp angle in the rock, and the rooms for residential students of the Holy Qur’an. Where many books in a separate compartment. The task of teaching the Holy Qur’an corner of the village and pilgrimage destination of the population of the desert, along the corner of the room. Built building good, Not buried where Mr. Mohamed Azhari, a well-known and Zintan Ofadilhm scientists.
He founded the corner, and so his name was written on the door of the room: –
Not my house admits not sorrow
Nor betray Besahbk time
Yes you Dar for each guest
If the place is fed Guest.
Population (2013): Total 2800 people
And the inhabitants of this village of Zintan tribe, and some homes Mnkorp in stone at the foot of the knoll in her head and her story mentioned in the book (Sheikh Tahir angular) “Jihad heroes”.
The new layer was built or what is known as popular in the early eighties on the right side of the valley opposite Steering angle, and the village hospital and clinic and a cultural center, a post office and the Faculty of Sharia and Law with the Western Mountain University; and a gas station in addition to the market complex “markets precedent” and a primary school and junior high school and high school and a mosque.
Founder layer angle:
Founder layer angle is Mr. Mohamed Azhari of Jeroh tribe of Zintan, did not come to al-Azhar, but the abundance of his knowledge nickname Mr. Mohammed Sanusi B.al-Ozahra; because, it was his contemporaries Vlzimh title, and it hits his knowledge. Proverb is said (world class), that he has taken the flag on Mr. Mohammed Bin impervious in the corner of the world, and he became the Fatwa on the mountain for a long time.
God’s mercy, Azhari died about a year almost 1315 e.
Truffles market “mushroom truffles”
Mushroom truffles.
There is the largest market for Tervas in Libya layer at all, the main market for Tervas red Hamada high-quality and distinctive taste. Where collectors truffles sell their harvest to the traders at the crossroads layer and which are distributed over the entire regions of Libya and even beyond.
(Source \ Wikipedia)
Delegation from the Sabha tribes ‘Qadhadhfa’ have gone up to Zintan.
al-Rajaban youth meeting in support of ‘the Commission on the fight against crime’.
The adoption of the ‘Federation of Youth al-Rajaban’, in a meeting of a large group of young people from al-Rajaban to support the ‘Fight Crime Committee’, which in turn are doing a great job for the fight against crime and drug dealers and hashish and ecstasy.
(FM Radio al-Rajaban)
Has also been gathring in a protest in the city of al-Azizia demanding the return of displaced persons and the release of green prisoners.
‘Khalid Abuamad’ fighter called the expulsion of ‘Mamed Mahasn’ platform of popular demonstration, which was organized today in al-Azizia on the application of the amnesty law and the launch of all the green prisoners from Libya.
Demonstrations roam the cities and villages of Rishvana and demand the return of displaced persons and the release of prisoners and the activation of the amnesty law …
In today’s demonstration was including Maj. Gen.Amr Tntosh and fighter Khald Abuamad.
ZTUN:
RACDALIN:
Channel Great Jamahiriya
Out mass demonstrations in several regions demand the release of our green prisoners and the return of displaced persons at home and abroad
Nafusa Areas of Ztun, Rishvana; and RACDALIN (in the WESTERN REGION)
Clashes path of coastal and cultural complex in the city of Surman.
Killing “Abdallah al-Hzlol” and wounding eight others, in the clashes in the path of coastal city of Surman.
Most shops shut down as a result of the clashes. On the background of madinah kidnapped sons of Sharari.
36 Victims recovering in Tunisia
Visit wound terrorist bombing of Zliten ..
The former member of the National Conference for the city of Zliten Abdullah Joan accompanied by the Consul General of Libya, Tunisia Abdul Razzaq Obosninh and Ahmed Amari from the Libyan embassy in Tunis to visit the wounded from the terrorist bombing that targeted a training center for the Coast al-Soakhl in the city of Zliten
and has been providing the necessary treatment to them and the 36 of the number of wounded whom arrived to Tunisia .
We ask God to them a speedy recovery;
and Ntrahm Ali was martyred at the hands of the terrorist killers who invaded our country.
as the year-gate, the western entrance to the city of Zliten is closed; and they are now closing gate Dafniya east of Zliten.
An armed group close Gate Dafniya east of Zliten in protest at what they called ‘the passage of a convoy of the (puppet) government of National Reconciliation.’
‘MUSICIAN’ explains: “OS (puppet) government was looking for legitimacy in tents solace in Zliten !
O see how enough of blood and body parts to complete the quorum has the legitimacy of free blood and death without reason.”
There has turned traitor to Ahamada sons in Zliten.
Misurata militias were clashing with ‘the private convoy protection Sarraj district of al-Davnihotina’, as they were returning from the city of Zliten.
The Western Puppet ‘Customers’ are besieged in the city of Zliten, where the OS has been shut .
The news is Maaaaakd Misratah militias after asking for million, compared to the release of the OS.
“Those that are not released on the of OS Mhabarh we will intervene rapidly and submitting the band.”
(This is one of the Council of State and the protection of civilians and civilian OS just protect Libyan)
Directed helicopter to Misurata from Zliten to evacuate OS officials
(Haya de own the band said on France).
Rishvana has sent some aid and medical supplies to our people in the city of Zliten:
Statement tribes Zliten Association regarding the terrorist bombing Tuesday Market area:
Truck Bomb At Libyan Security Training Camp Kills Dozens
By Merrit Kennedy • 07 January 2016
Security officers and other people walk next to damaged cars at the site where a truck bomb exploded at a security training camp on Thursday in the northwestern coastal city of Zliten, Libya.
EPA/Landov
Originally published on 07 January 2016 3:46 pm
A truck bomb exploded Thursday at a security training camp in the western Libyan city of Zliten, killing dozens of people and injuring more than 100 others.
The U.N. special representative to Libya, Martin Kobler, described the bombing as a suicide attack.
It’s one of the deadliest attacks in Libya. Local and international news reports on the death toll varied, with some saying at least 47 people were killed and others putting the number at 65.
“Hours after the blast, rescue crews at the scene had only managed to extract 60 bodies out of the wreckage, said a hospital spokesman, Moamar Kaddi. Libyan officials said they believed there might be dozens more dead,” The Associated Press says.
Two nearby hospitals put out urgent requests for blood donations, Libya’s LANA news wire reports.
‘DAASH’ immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, though AP says that “a local Islamic State affiliate has been trying to gain a foothold in Zliten, spreading westward from its central stronghold of Sirte along the North African country’s coast.”
NPR’s Leila Fadel reports that the explosion occurred amid intensified fighting at two oil terminals hundreds of miles to the east, “as the Islamic State extremist group tries to take control of the area. At least seven oil tanks have been set on fire in the fighting.”
Displaced policeman from the city of Sirte recognized Ai sleeper cells in the ‘Market Tuesday’ in B. Zliten.
Most shops shut down in solidarity with the victims of the
terrorist bombing in Zliten:
Found the body of a decapitated-man, in Sekka area, Mane of ‘Aan Zarh Ai’, as was written by the victim of ‘Abd Arahman al-Osea’ of Zliten.
Dismantlisation of a car bomb, found in front of the ‘Faculty of Science’.
Close the coastal road near the ‘Clinic al-Chuirv’ in City of Five.
A car bomb at the gate al-Karem in Misurata:
Anfhar a picture of the car bomb in the city of Misurata.
Access ‘Mujahid Ahma Mamed Anbeh Aaboguenidh’ to the city of Bani Walid after being detained for two months by the militias of Daash, in the area of Nofaliya (by SIRTE).
Thank God for safety.
Yesterday was the release of the captive Mfattah Akaddava al-Kmiei after five years of captivity in the prison of ‘Misurata al-Cramah’.
al-CHIURV:
Dozens of protesters in front of ‘Libya company Municipality Branch al-Chuirv’, threatening to lock the industrial river system (GMMR) if they do not deliver Internet services for the region, within ten days.
RABAT MOSQUE:
‘Rabat mosque’ yesterday in Sirte, preaching one of the leaders of the ‘Daash’ terrorist organization, in a statement, said terrorism must be tyrants soldiers, according to the recipe, and threatening massive bombings inside the largest Libyan cities of Tripoli, and also Misurata and Zliten and City of Five.
An ‘Armed convoy belonging to the terrorist organization Daash’ has come out of Sirte and is spreading down the south coastal road in ‘Buerat’ area, west of the city of Sirte (by 80 km).
Today did not move any armed vehicle belonging to a terrorist organization of ‘Daash’ in Sirte and the organization did not establish any gate or immobilization in the three entrances to the city of Sirte East and West and South as usual and terrorists disappeared from the streets and closed the headquarters of the so-called calculation and doors as well as the headquarters of the so-called Islamic Court. Daash terrorist organization transferred its headquarters compound of the halls and into the Gulf of Sirte Acadouko complex for conferences and short-known hospitality and for fear of the bombing halls complex and Acadouko.
LIBYAN AIRFORCE Warplanes bombed DAASH locations near the ‘Man-Made River Project’.
Center bombing and thoroughly by LIBYAN AIRFORCE warplanes to SIRTE, where armed vehicles exist to regulate Daash terrorist bombed specific targets within the research complex adjacent rooms, Acadouko farm and loud explosions shake the region. And dozens of wounded and dead were taken to the ‘Ibn Sina hospital’ and a state of panic and fear dominate the present camps organization ‘Daash terrorist’ in the back west of Sirte area of 17 km and the evacuation of most of the individuals and armed mechanisms and moving south towards the valley of sweeping and arches and ambulatory.
4 LIBYAN AIRFORCE warplanes launched an attack on a DAASH research farm and the port of Sirte armed, and destroyed the place and the arrival of dead and wounded mechanisms to Ibn Sina Hospital and a state of chaos and confusion permeated Who’s hospital. A large spread of the elements in the vicinity of ‘Daash’ Ibn Sina Hospital and the establishment of the first 3 Astaagafat near the commercial bank and the second at the main gate of the hospital and the third in front of the entrance to the Faculty of Human Medicine.
The site that the LIBYAN AIRFORCE bombed:
From research, this is a proven major farm operations used by the terrorist organization ‘Daash’, as a room link between them in Sirte, and to Bin Jawad . They used it as a communications center in the last attack on the oil ports, and also the second strike which hit the boats in the port of Sirte.
(Merfi)
‘DAASH’ Sniper Abdallatif Ohamd Abdalhadi, nicknamed “Abu Anas immigrant” was exterminated by the young people of Sirte, after sunset prayers, in front of the sanatorium life.
A little while ago in front of a clinic and life in the same place where the ‘DAASH’-Sudanese sniper, a group of armed ‘DAASH’ congregate with their cars, and say “what Jinakm only slaughter and booby apostates…
O O slaves of tyrants and shouting loudly will take revenge for our brother Abu Anas immigrant.”
(Right to mesh them right on the Jardan to come out against the mass system !!!)
Bin Jawad Blams
‘Daash’ terrorist organization is the execution of a group of young people in the town of ‘Bin Jawad’ on charges of belonging to some of the security authorities, and these did not declare al-Asttabp to the organization, ans so were executed ! and execution of the initial number is 7 people slaughtered…
Oil CRESCENT:
Spanish newspaper says that ‘NATO’ will bomb the oil ports if they are dominated by ‘Daash’.
‘Rouge Valley direct’ a ajouté 4 nouvelles photos.
Eats her wanted a secret fighter returning from Crescent included the oil region after participating in battles against al-Sidra extreme ‘Daash’
And “re-concentration in the oil fields”.
South Eats her wanted area and patrolling large areas in case of any attack.
A tribute to the heroes.
‘Daash’ terrorist organization published a report entitled: “raiding Crescent oil”.
VALLEY AKAHIH:
Asthmara the remains of DAASH found during the day combing the surrounding area operations valley Akahilh:
Port Sidra bombing Tmrkzac Kharijite
Section does not miss …
Among the dead organization ‘Daash’ during clashes last Thursday at ‘Port Sidra’, was a person who was working as an ‘Egyptian police officer’ !
He, Ahmed League, fought in the ranks of the terrorist organization ‘Daash’ and ‘Ahmed League’ had published (within the organization ‘Daash’) as his nickname being called “Aboumaaz al-Qrani”.
There were 19 tanks in Port Sidra. 9 have been burned by Misurata and 6 have been burned by DAASH state regulation of … Who burn the remaining 4?
Photo was taken on the first day of the clashes at Port Sidra
Moment of engagement with Khorrgih in Port Sidra one axis and Black Guard Oil- installations Chlait DAASH ..
Sidra win !
Arrested Inventory Ali al-Rajeha, reporter, and ‘Guenah al-Lenbh fountain’ in the oil field.
one of the clashes in PORT SIDRA
‘CID Colonel Salah Ahouidi’, in Benghazi Hello:
Section exposure to attack from a group of outlaws have been stopped by the grace of God ..owalsbb attempt to take out a people of their right to set the order of the Parquet ..hat fled with their vehicles ..
There is no truth to the news which is trading about dependency of ‘Battalion 204′ or ‘Thunderbolt Special Forces’.
But these entities provided support sent Guo support us ..
autam custom al-Mthbn and will take legal action against them from being a deterrent !!!! ..ostqam state law, thanks to its youth stalagmite ..
ma I saw today heartened my chest where ‘all devices are united to defend the legitimacy of the state’ (TOBRUK).
We are able to repel any attack of any kind, at any time
Thanks, appreciation and respect for ‘all units of the Armed Forces and Security Services and Room Protection Zones, and military intelligence, and even our Green, which stood for the protection of section (CYRENAICA).
Things are now fully under control
.nsol Allah safety for all.
Safety teams were able to take full control of the fire in the tanks at Port Sidra and was completely put out the fire.
Fully fire control in the oil tanks in Port Sidra and al-Phippa Greetings and great for all firefighters.
‘Black Libyan resistance’ a ajouté 4 nouvelles photos.
Allah bless the Champions firefighters at ‘Port Sidra‘; and ask Allah for their healing and Anhieddi including national.
reconnaissance aircraft flew in the skies of the city of Ras Lanauf.
Toddler ‘Mamed Zwaoa’ who at the age of a year and a half and was wounded in the bombing today to support ‘the gate at Ras Lanauf’, remains still in serious condition.
BREGA:
https://www.facebook.com/BRIGA.HALHA/
Brega illuminating Bahlha
After closing the Page Youth Brega by Jbh terrorism-mail
And Open a new page and Smhoa Brega illuminating Bahlha ..
Angulw two young people in the news and media differently from the rest of the pages.
البريقة منورة بهلها
Personnage public
‘Valley Rouge Directly’ a ajouté 2 nouvelles photos.
Moved news
In an interview collect all of the Dean of the municipality of Brega, Mr. Driss Bouchmadh, and rat Captain Abdel Razek (key primarily responsible for the ambulance in MITIGUA airport)
has a major role in coordinating with the Dean of the municipality of Brega’s ‘provision of aviation for the transfer of wounded from Sidra’;
RAZEK was the person on the last ‘municipal council member Surman and rebels of Tripoli’. Razek has a big role in coordination with the ‘Dean of the municipality of Brega’ regarding the transfer of the wounded to the outside, and will provide all the possibilities for the wounded.
Fulbright grants curfew from 11 pm until 7:00 pm and was suspended the study of all academic levels until further notice
and the displacement of some families to Ajdabiya, Brega and Benghazi.
Support for the gate at the top of Anoov
(Image Gateway to support Ras Lanauf that was targeted yesterday by the terrorist organization of Daash)
between yesterday and today:
Our Green Champions of Cyrenaica
Terrorist elements belonging to the ‘terrorist organization of Daash’ are assessing the gates in different places in the coastal road from Brega even Ajdabiya.
Re-opening of the Port ‘Thuhayba’ balance in front of passengers after the protests in the back had stopped ‘Thuhayba’.
The conduct of a terrible accident on the road to Brega, in Ajdabiya, which claimed the lives of four people (two women and two men).
al-GUENAN:
Directed by ‘number 70 displaced families from the city of Tawergha ‘live in the municipality of Ajdabiya in al-Guenan area. The military has declared the region a military zone.
Ajdabiya controlled border guards on the gate 60, which was under the control of al-Mqji ‘DAASH’, which now have been thoroughly expelled from the gate.
Lord unites these heretics your side against the enemies of the homeland and the people,
al-GULWZ:
Strong explosion rocks the al-Gulwz neighborhood in Ajdabiya within the ‘Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque’.
Libyan Airforce Warplanes targeted morning separate locations for militias ‘Daash terrorist’ in Ajdabiya.
Review of ‘DAASH’ in the city of Ajdabiya.
A mortar shell fell near the Libyan hospital. A German family was near and combusted inside their car as a result of the fall of the shells.
Garbage is piling-up again:
Child Abdallah Arisa (a 15-year-old) pictured with a news channel reporter called‘Ali al-Rajeha’ (who was trained in DAASH camps by Sabratha Melcaat fighters)…both were killed a week ago in clashes with the LIBYAN ARMY forces under General Hftar, in Benghazi.
1__ targeting Solomon al-Dharat stadium where the match is being held for ‘The National Union’.
2__guetly and wounded after mortar rounds on the camp’s displaced Tawergha sports city in Garyounes.
A picture of smoke billowed after al-Kasv air on the eastern axis:
BUHEDAMA:
Targeting a power station in Buhedama north of Benghazi with ‘DAASH’ missiles this morning, which led to power cuts for several areas.
Fire put out in a power plant reservoir north of Benghazi.
Sunday morning found the body of policeman ‘Mamed Ali al-Choudy’ burned at power station N° 71 in Buhedama.
One combustion fuel tanks steam station in the city of Derna.
The death of ‘Mny Agheita’, a member of the ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’ for the dome after traffic accident.
in front of the ‘National Commercial Bank’ city of Tobruk:
Stealing Libya’s gold in the south of Cyrenaica, by Soadin Ali Nigerian Chadian ,, ,, ,, Egyptian Hraamah open in its limitless is not a sovereign !!!
A meeting between the ‘Tuareg tribe’ and ‘Social Council Warfalla tribes in the south’
and the ‘Commission communication’ and ‘Social Council of tribes Warfalla’.
SKILL HOTEL-FIRE:
Patrol in front of a militia ‘skill Hotel’ fire on tribal-Atnan sons Qadhadhfa, which led to the diagnosed and subjected the car to the accident.
Find a newborn baby lying in front of a garden Mrkzsabha medical school in exchange for immortality.
Gunmen have killed the citizen Mamed Hassan al-Orvla, and wounding Hatm Khalifh Achtaoa al-Orvla, in the new area.
NIGER:
Madama northern Niger Castle Otkhaddha, has French soldiers at their base merely 50 km from the Libyan border:
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Re-colonisation of LIBYA
Posted on 7 January 2016 by theorbo1
MU’AMMAR al-QATHAFI warned the Libyan people of what would happen…
MU’AMMAR, the Great Teacher, by upcoming artist, Omar al-Abdallat :
عمل جديد للفنان عمر العبدلات يا معلمنا كنا صغار وكنا ضيوفك
Radio in Cameroon says Maj. Khamis is definitely alive: This is not tampering with Shi. It will be not much longer until we understand our place; and who initially leaked the news, and why it chose to be in Cameroon particularly ?
from LAST YEAR:
As they promised you video download General Khamis Gaddafi Has joined soldiers and officers of the Libyan Army Base at Wattaya to liberate Libya from terrorism…:
‘MUSICIAN’ writes:
“THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE:
the ‘secretary’, which varies with the ‘Secretary of the General People’s Committee’, it is for him to sit in his house, and includes the Secretariat’s mandate to the Secretariat of another until the ‘General People’s Congress’… (in doing so, they could ensue Muammar al-Qathafi‘s guidance). The interests are always: first of the people (always in consideration of any dispute between the cost the people, and the truth of it).”
READ BETTER THE ‘GREEN BOOK’ for a better explanation !
other summeries you may find as follows:
‘The General People’s Committees’ consisted of 2,700 representatives of the ‘Basic People’s Congresses’. The GPC was the legislative forum that interacts with the ‘General People’s Committee’, whose members are secretaries of all the Libyan ministries. It functioned as the intermediary between the masses and their popularly acclaimed ‘leadership’; and was composed of the secretariats of some 600 local “Basic Popular Congresses.”
The GPC secretariat and the cabinet secretaries were appointed by the GPC secretary general and confirmed by the annual GPC convention. These cabinet secretaries were responsible for the routine operation of their ministries.
When Muammar al-Qathafi was receiving guests in his tent, just as he would receive them at home:
If the guest was ‘speaking on the subject of men’, Mu’ammar al-Qathafi would immediately see the futility of ‘talking’,…so Mu’ammar would ask his guest if they would desire a cup of green mint Shahi, or, he would ask for permission to pray, or he would start recalling about an incident remembered from ten years ago.
LIBYAN RAT NEWS:
ITALIAN FORCES in LIBYA, OCCUPATION of the ‘WEST’:
‘LIBYAN KNIGHT’, writes:
Italian General Paolo Serra become the commanding general (undeclared) as it was Bernard Levy (Speaker) undeclared at the beginning of February the catastrophe. He will organize the forces involved and put plans in cooperation with the international forces. It turns public opinion of the discussion of the illegality of his existence and violation of the rule to follow his movements and operations against ‘Daash’ legitimacy and become inclusive, cooperation and participation with a national duty.
Limited operations will be in effect but will be presented in the media on being impressive victories and edit regions, followed by Western statements that the fight against terrorism needs a long time and information centers and exploitation of the existing air bases by Western forces. Also to become a foregone conclusion occupation amid busy people to follow up the news that fooling them from time to time strikes blow for terrorism and reap some of the heads of their leaders.
Thus protectorate become acceptable and even welcome because they will participate in the news pass victories.
International forces have become acceptable because they lead the fight against ‘Daash’ as so cheers false Western and Arabic ‘media’.
Due militias are all the rear seats Jalili so-called army and its leadership unable to achieve anything noteworthy. And it is reclassified and integrate them within the legitimate Mardi official forces.
And fools rejoice ‘liberalization of Daash’ to put another Western occupier place without feeling.
Ten years and Western forces have not achieved anything in Iraq and before that in Afghanistan, more than a year has not achieved anything in Syria. Just Ttabqgua these living forms on Machristsal in Libya
(Time without the victory)
Which began at the request of NATO intervention and legitimize the end to work under his leadership and his orders. For your information even claim what has been done editing gray coordination and leadership and US air cover.
It remains a three-extortion Bank and trading
(Syrian tenderness Iraq, Mosul and Sirte, Libya) …
The attack on the oil fields of Zguet on the Libyan people and dropping off Western forces
And the acceptance of the (so-called) ‘governance’ of Italian Major general Paolo Sarra.
The children of Sheikh Abdul Salam Asmar a partagé la vidéo de green- Pen Green Pen.
Pen green- Green Pen
la Page on 25 novembre 2015 · criminal HiSam bin Humaid recognized in 2012 on the capital program Ozba channel where he said, and I quote …..
“We were fighting in the Libyan army, the police and not al-Qathafi nor Africans”
https://www.facebook.com/902520633104887/videos/vb.902520633104887/1077550348935247/?type=2&theater
The children of Sheikh Abdul Salam Asmar a partagé la vidéo de Gaballa Ali.
Allah have mercy on dampers requires Elly Mato …
https://www.facebook.com/gaballa.ali.5/videos/o.742798495752493/164903903874188/?type=2&theater
Gaballa Ali à earthquakes People’s Liberation mass
Hier, à 00:40 ·
Hebrew NATO countries are all bombarded Libya for 8 consecutive months and eluted honest with themselves for the day greeting to the Libyans and the real shame of the goats NATO.
DO NOT LET EVIL CLIENT ‘DAASH’ FOOL YOU !
Focused on video at the second when he says at 11 (on the timer) to which the workpiece mesh filled ousted and who became Angmasien and packages of any ousted, O fools
(I mean ‘DAASH’ sitting serve in Business Company)
This is an audio recording of the (so-called) “good” al-Krama Daash make a protest, in which is falsely propagandised as a description of the ‘organization Daash arrows’.
Close ‘Thuhayba crossing’ by Tunisian protestors, and a Libyan citizen was killed after an altercation with the protesters.
The closure of the road leading to Thuhayba offset crossing.
BADRI:
Invitee ‘Khalifh al-Gal Health complex’ in area of Badri. Our Commander Mu’ammar al-Qathafi originally opened this 30 years ago.
It is where Dr. al-Baghdadi Mahmudi practiced obstectrics.
Partially destroyed by NATO in 2011, it now officially has re-opened:
This boy was studying in the third grade Preparatory and was one frequented mosques Tripoli met him suspicious group and the wash his brain and sent immediately to the people of Sirte and did not know the boy, but Bshi paper written where I’m going for jihad for Allah’s sake’ !!! ..
And that’s before you now: before the bombing he had filmed himself in the gate in Sidra today in the ‘oil Crescent’.
Shortly before BMB armored vehicles bound for the region of al-Furnaj belonging to ‘militias Dra DAASH’.
A convoy belonging to the ‘armed militias of Misurata number 200 car crosses ‘Got al-Raman’ towards Tripoli.
Gneoh militias kidnap angle hospital director ‘Mokhtar al-Hbas’, the Controller of ‘al-Faragana al-Tarhouni’.
al-Qilos one of Melcaat Gneoh militia-people, was killed in clashes with Brotherhood militias in the area of ‘Obo azam Khlav’.
Abdul Rauf hater Carte’s Nawasi militia attack on the MISURATA Brotherhood militia uniformity in the al-Furnaj area.
Clashes in all of Abu Salim, al-Furnaj and Ada-al-Drabie.
Militias who control of the capital of Tripoli, evaluated 3 checkpoints for citizens:
Kopri al-Hdid, Kopri lbraiqh, and Kopri al-Frusah.
School artillery explosion inside the Airport Road.
Power outages for several areas of the capital Tripoli and the return of congestion at petrol stations.
Powerful storm caused the fall of some trees on city streets:
COASTAL ROAD:
Open coastal road link between the corner and Rishvana.
‘News Zintan rebels on Facebook’:
Confessions of the Children kidnappers to Obina al-Hurcara after their arrest …
Knowing that children did not return to their parents now
We ask God safety for them and my Lord endures every family of al-Hurcara…
https://www.facebook.com/alzentan.net/videos/vb.699526083428483/926984090682680/?type=2&theater
‘Kikla and the voice of reason’
3 janvier, 21:53 ·
Kabbajh
between ‘Abdel Moneim’ and ‘Mohammed Badi’.
The pain and deceit and deception ……….
‘Abdel Moneim’, not Kabbajh, who have millions .olm not have a father any position, but did not aspire to live like other young people.
While (the son of Salah) ‘Mohammed Badi’, taught in Thailand and has a lots of money and (Mahbh) in.
Ignite Mohammed’s father, Salah Badi, of a war in which
Abdel-Moneim was killed, and displaced people, and devastated his city.
Mohammed’s father (SALAH BADI) came out and said were not meant Lee City ‘Abdel Moneim’ (of Kikla) Shi, as he did not even bother to stand up for the people displaced, after Abdel Moneim was killed.
While still studying, Mohammed (who was banded safely out of Libya) was not hurt in any harm.
And that Allah in this story, is a lesson for those who wanted to be considered, when we are fighting a proxy war.
Wake Er people
‘Directorates support the security of the western region and southern power’ play wide campaign to arrest the extremists within the Zintan mountain and we hope to cooperate with them and inform them about any who are suspicious.
‘Zintan operations room’ a partagé la publication de Zintan Salafist channel.
‘Zintan Salafist channel’, broadcasts:
“Be my brother contributor SAVING Security Bmdantek and your area
And do not make glass car opaque, glass dark drive makes you prone to doubt and suspicion, when the glass car dimmed can not be security agencies know the driver, perhaps the people wanted and familiar to all and dims your car help needed to flee, do not make up excuses for blackout glass of your car, there is no excuse to do that.”
(‘Guenah al-Zintan A.Salafi’)
(above image: MP at RISHVANA GATE removing opaque glass)
Found an unidentified dead body of a dead and bearing signs of torture, at the Faculty of Science Alfrekh West in AJEELAT.
The assassination of the young ‘Asamh Radwan al-Sgar’ from the city of Sabratha. He was found dead today in his car in the city of AJEELAT.
I moved this morning one of the battalions room Bank’s operations toward advanced positions of ‘Wattaya base’ after monitoring terrorist groups are trying to move towards the base near ‘Sabratha’:
A suicide bombing targeting Dauphin Gate south entrance to the city of Misurata…
And news about the presence of 6 dead and wounded.
Death to ‘Saleh Jamil al-Taorga al-Qoha’, a condominium resident within the dark prisons in Misurata.
According to the information he had died two years ago; but his uninformed family did not know of the news until today !
Interruption of all connections from the city of BANI WALID !
ACHARTH al-ASKARAH:
Many of the dead and wounded after a truck bomb attack on the headquarters of Acharth al-Askarah in Zliten.
Preliminary details of the disaster truck bombs detonated in ZLITEN this morning:
Entered a truck towing a car behind her and a fuel tank
(Poti Ras Arrupe with fuel tank) appears to have been carrying a very large amount of explosives.
There, in Zliten’s ‘Market Tuesday’, at the coastal road Legion camp, where one was preparing to produce a batch of new students, (the assembly date for students in the headquarters at about 7:30).
The car on the truck entered the camp strongly at 8:30, only to explode inside the camp, in the presence of the students ..
The explosion was very strong, to the point Astiqd his voice on the bulk of our people in Zliten.
Said ‘Ahadd-al-Qatunain’ (just 2 kilometers from the incident) that he woke up with the sound of a huge bang, which opened windows of his house, having broken the windows of most of them.
And eyewitnesses say that the fire was burning in Ahiot reinforced concrete exterior walls of nearby houses ..
The voices of screaming women everywhere in Zliten.
The voices calling for Bdharort blood donation in ‘Zliten Hospital’ ..
The news that the number of expected deaths may exceed the 150 deaths ..
Material and human losses too large ..
The coastal road is closed, and some nearby schools stopped today.
There is a state of terror and fear and panic prevailing in Zliten‘s place.
God bless the victims of explosion B.Zliten ..
To know each rat, and less than a stray dog, and every boy fiddling or deluded him, that of giving coordinates for aircraft NATO crusader infidel order aimed Bhmmha against our people unarmed civilians in Zliten malice and Guelleh ..
vlielm he sits is and from the day the crime of bombing training center Police truck bomb to fall more than 150 innocent human being, both in offense alike.
To remember all words of leader Muammar al-Qathafi (Libya lipo turn to Islamic emirate …), but prevented Devils between you and wisdom at the time.
Now supposed to understand all the pro-Nakba February dirty and al-Mcwmp, why chose the masses of February of lice and rats and tricked him with the attack on police and security centers and military headquarters ?? And remember the famous wisdom “but end up eating bull” and Qaysoha to say Martyr “Kdtendmon day to Ainf remorse,” and the curse of the Great God Almighty, on each of the Khan.
Allah bless the victims of this terrorist act cowardly and inspired their families patience and fortitude, and God Ali mal case and helplessness.
By Author: Ibn home
Allah is my suffice, and the best deputy. Not around and no power except God Almighty. To God Aaliba
Allah is enough, and grace, and hell to the Agent (SATAN) in all those who contributed to the catastrophe in ’17 February’.
User al-Mute in ‘Zliten Hospital’.
Zliten – Taman in hyper paid for six months by land, sea and air – and today Taman pay again in the terrorist act that killed my father young people in the age of flowers course of 0000, died today of them are free and honest – that to God and to him we shall return … Mujahid desert
The children of Sheikh Abdul Salam Asmar a ajouté 3 nouvelles photos.
A guide to the plight of Libya in February. Photos of Zliten Teaching Hospital:
The children of Sheikh Abdul Salam Asmar3 h ·
Access over 55 forcibly entered his brother in Zliten explosion
And still ambulances transported Jerha
The initial death toll in the blast, which happened Guard training center of death
Zliten coast (45) as the source of the official of Zliten Hospital
Zliten – the first sponsor of terrorism and the latter is responsible for the bombing of today Hedda Office for Combating crime because of its leadership of al-Mqji According to the source from within the fight against crime to a terrorist Office office workers feel these tyrants – Mujahid desert
Zliten – Practical terrorist Hedda today that targeted a police training center car bomb and led to Aaadadkberh of dead and wounded – and the thing my father made Heselt al-Dhaah elevated is the graduation had led the police Hedda today is this topic process of the biggest terrorist operations in Libya – and Hedda speech already written him in social networking pages that Daash cells have the potential inside Zliten about a month ago —-
and now according to confidential information and accurate that there are lists prepared by al-Tndeim include 740 security men in various departments of the murdered between – Zliten – five 000 all Liberal discernible caution and steep and stay away from communities within cities Haliaaaaa this topic – I hope deployment of up to all the honorable and God Shahid Ali Maacol.
The spread of tents solace in most regions of Zliten; and the death toll is on the rise to a lack of resources and a shortage of medical supplies:
Photos of the suicide bombing in Zliten:
Martyrs Day bombing of Zliten
people and families of the city ‘expelled’ !
reporter news channel owned by Abdelhakim Belhadj Amir of ‘Libyan Fighting Group’ is accusing the city of backing terrorists and attempting to cover them through their news reporting.
The ‘Zintan and Red Crescent relief center’ are delivering humanitarian aid medicines and medical supplies to the hospital in Zliten.
‘Daash’ songs and speeches blaring broadcast from ‘Daash’ terrorist organization glare across Amaath audio in Sirte since this morning, after their defeat and their failure to occupy the oil ports; and claim what he described as Bjend succession to fight the ‘apostate’ Muslims ‘who control the oil’ (they said).
‘Daash’ in Sirte during his lessons after sunset prayers vows to enter ‘PORT Sidra’ on Friday and threatens suicide attacks by 200 Angmasa ready to liberate the oil wells as he put it, ‘considering that oil belongs to all Muslims’, as their WAHHABI preacher preached in his last sermon…..
GREEN FLAGS IN SIRTE:
DIALECT “AGALA”:
‘Rabia Mohammed Rhouma’, explains:
“Hannibal was with Green Flags are flown in Sirte vinegary walk with them live better than live with the shame and humiliation revolution vinegary smell of freedom and walk under the green banner.”
Daash terrorist organization besieged neighborhood N°2, and they are making thorough rigorous inspections of passing cars.
PICTURE: DAASH stopping passengers and order class training attendance:
Also, they are forcing public sector employees to attend (compulsory) daily ‘classes’ for their compound at ‘Qaat Oukadouko’, to attend (brainwash) what they called ‘Mhadh-Arhakaidah’, bearing full punishment upon any absentees.
Calm hangs over the entire area of Port Sidra, but flames are still burning in the affected reservoirs.
‘Daash’ terrorist organization based in the outskirts of the ‘Valley Akahilh’ between Port Sidra and Bin Jawad have not withdrawn from the area completely.
‘Daash’ terrorist organization based B.al-Thacad (near the town of West Om al-Guendel of Bin Jawad); and the arrival of convoys of DAASH into Sirte who are preparing to go into Bin Jawad to fully take-over and control the town.
Ooonaba indicate the fall of the city Bin Jawad which is now controlled by the ‘DAASH’ organization.
from the clashes yesterday in the Valley Akahilh
‘Gently'(CYRENAICAN) dust protector
BMB armored type belonging to the Kharijites have been targeted by the ‘Oil Guard facilities’ in the valley Akahilh.
al-Kachik and the tank
Sheep ‘DAASH’ tank captured by youth among the ‘Oil Installations Guards’ at Port SIDRA. ..
The al-Chwhev including Veraa
IBRAHIM al-JDHARAN:
Glory changer conditions …! How we were and how we’ve become ….
Praise be to Allah weft national. …!
https://www.facebook.com/368265363237742/videos/
DAASH INFILTRATES the Offices of our ‘Oil Guards’ of CYRENAICA:
The names of the martyrs of the dastardly bombing Ras Lanauf gate of Mntsepa-oil installations guards ...
1. Ahtaibh tribal ..
2 Monica Ali Moroccan Jdharan
3. Ali Ameharb Moroccan al-Aiwi
4. Moroccan Abdelkader Mokhtar al-Aiwi
5..mgtah Hamad Alaiwi Moroccan Driss
6..mbrok Boubacar Ajerynh ..
One of the car bombs that attacked by elements of the terrorist organization Daash Sidra on 01.04.2016 and was able to break into our ‘Champions Guard Oil Installations Central branch of Operations’, aborted and killed the terrorist, who was driving ..
‘Daash’ organization attacks the southwest Port Sidra forces of the ‘Oil Gurad installations and support forces’ Services of the Libyan Army, (under Ibrahim al-Jdharan).
‘Daash’ organization fell from their ‘Ada Kahilh’ posts; and full control has been restored by the ‘Guard Oil Installations’ Service Division of the LIBYAN ARMY.
Groom .. Naga_mzkor kicked honeymoon with his foot away, “and proceeded to send ‘DAASH’ the ‘eye of Hor’…
Brother martyr Saleh Mzkor ordered King Idris missile battalion.
(Osama Sultan)
https://www.facebook.com/tHe.ReD.vAlLy/videos/1001183803279225/
Tmrkzac bombing Kharijites
Front Sidra
Fire in another tank of Alphippa company reservoirs east of Ras Lanauf as a result of bad weather and south winds estimated the amount of crude oil found in the Sidra tanks and Harouj by 7 million barrels approximate million Libyan dinars.
Unfortunately wind cause the ignition of more Alphippa tanks in the reservoirs of ‘Ras Lanauf’.
‘Ibrahim Saqer’, Injured in yesterday’s terrorist bombing of the Ras Lanauf gate.
Now assign ‘a convoy of Tobruk’ to arrive at Port Sidra, to join the rest of the ‘Saraya Guard facilities’ in assigning axes.
‘Saraya’ batallion, one of the ‘Guard Oil Installations’ of the Tabou, comes to the aid of ‘Port Sidra’:
Child injured ‘Mohamed Munir Abdul Aziz al-Zawawi’, who was injured in the blast, which targeted a treacherous Ras Lanauf Mnyqubl ‘Daash’ terrorist organization:
The arrival of the initial medical material aid treatment and some important material to ‘Ras Lanauf’ from the city of Ajdabiya, after the municipal council Ajdabiya purchased these materials which are amounting to 13 000 Libyan dinars
and upon delivery of the bill for the dealer refused to receipt of the invoice and Free gave Allah scared him to the front of Sidra Parts good Allah and of and in pursuit of that material came to Ras Lanauf.
Tribute and homage to TANK 204’s (AJDABIYA) Colonel Mahdi al-Bergtha:
Many families from the residential area at the exit Ras Lanauf heading to neighboring cities as a result of the explosion of the oil tanks.
General Commander of the Army instructed the commander of the air base ‘HAVE-BUILT’, Colonel “Mohammed Mnfor” to move the company of pilots to ‘Ras Lanuf Airport’ to support the ‘Oil installations Guard forces’ in their war on terror.
The death of the young man
‘Fathi Mustafa al-Megrahi’ from Ras Lanauf as he fought the Kharijites.
Sky over Ras Lanauf now after one Sidra tanks explosion:
‘Wounded dogs’ today against the people of Hell:
Fathi Abdel Razek Moroccan
Hamad Moroccan al-Chilaba
flames bursting at Port Sidra tanks ..
Please pray for these heroes this difficult ordeal that they do and that Anjeho in extinguishing the reservoirs after the fire that broke out in the tank V to Port Sidra.
Martyr submitted Club al-Jazhoy quote yesterday in Sidra
‘Daash’ dead organizing terrorist elements who tried to infiltrate from the sea off the port of hand of PORT Sidra oil.
Brave young Benghazi-boys stop men who tried to destroy the supply lines.
Death in Benghazi axes when ‘DAASH Wajid Amoghair’ have supply line and then, most of the themes of media discreetly counterparty for who I Hajman Asudrh Kloha and Ahellbo even Ajifam Vthshm any talk.
Inventory ‘Aasy bin Aasy’ (who ordered ‘prison Tmanh’) fell into a coma and is in fact at ‘the American Hospital (area of Chla in Turkey)’.
The release of the citizen Ab Dakadir Abjad, after he was kidnapped about 8 months ago.
MISURATA warplanes in the skies over Sabha
http://jinge.se/mediekritik/saudiarabiens-kommande-sammanbrott.htm
VIDEO: Régimen saudí ataca un centro para invidentes en Yemen
SERBIA:
OUR WOUNDED SERVICEMEN HEALING in SERBIA:
Wounded oil ‘al-Mnchaet Guard cutter’ East of Serbia in favor of and support the comrades in the ‘Battle of Sidra’:
Sudan opens its schools to Libyan students residing in Cairo (EGYPT), who are unable to pay the cost for their studies.
http://professorali.com/2016/01/02/an-open-letter-to-saudi-arabia/
WAHHABISM has destoyed our world !
Professor A.L.I.
a professor has knowledge, an m.c. has the audience
An Open Letter To Saudi Arabia
Dear Saudi Arabia,
The word “dear” is a common salutation in any letter, but I feel so conflicted using it in this instance, since not only are you not dear to me, I actually despise you, for what you are, what you have done and continue to do and ultimately what you symbolize in the world.
I write this on behalf of your people, many of whom are my friends and whom I consider extended family members, who languish in your state, unable to speak, watching helplessly as you prey upon basic human rights of your own citizenry.
I write this on behalf of the tortured and executed innocence of your archaic injustice system, where upper social class and male privilege hold greater sway than both truth and justice.
I write this on behalf of immigrant workers, who come to help build your nation, who you treat like animals, and who you further victimize in ways too gross and too numerous to mention.
Despise You
I do despise you for how you have treated Tamils, Bangladeshis, Filipinos, East Africans and other racial groups who constitute a modern day slave labor system in your nation, complete with the viciousness of the days of old; and yet this is not the main reason for this letter.
I do despise you for how my friend (name omitted for security reasons) and his family are brutalized by the elites of your nation, despite being Saudi himself, and have no recourse for justice, since you have a system that blames the victim, when that victim represents a minority of any kind; and yet this is not the main reason for this letter.
I do despise you for how my aunt and uncle were treated while they lived in Riyadh, where he was working for AT&T, and the tales they told me of what they experienced and what they saw with their own eyes, and again this is not the main reason for this letter.
Hold You Responsible
As an American I hold you responsible for all the 9/11 hijackers who came from your country. I hold you responsible for Bin Laden and your export of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, which has hijacked the lives of many people, including Americans overseas and continues to hold our tax dollars hostage in military expenditures. I hold you responsible for the Janjaweed, for Boko Haram and for ISIS, all of whom you directly or tacitly support.
But these are not the greatest reasons for why I hate you.
As a Muslim I hold you responsible for hijacking Islam. In your backwards pseudo-intellectual interpretation of the faith, you have birthed every single example of Islamic terror we see in the world and have made the word terror inextricably connected to Islam in ignorant minds as a result. You gave birth to Islamophobia, because your form of Islam is one that we should fear. You hijacked hajj, the holy pilgrimage, which you don’t even hold on the proper day and your mismanagement has cost thousands of lives.
And still these are not the primary reasons for my disdain.
I hold you responsible as a human being, who sees your citizens, impish oil sheikhs, who travel to places like Los Angeles and London, prey upon women with brutal sexual violence and escape their crimes by using the façade of diplomatic immunity and paying off those who compromise their own values for filthy oil dollars. I am in disbelief that women and both religious and ethnic minorities are treated with greater disdain and inequity than that experienced by those groups before Islam.
The greatest reason for my disgust of your regime is the simple fact that all of these valid critiques are looked upon you as a sources of pride and that this pride fuels even greater abuses such as your financial and military support for the genocide in Bahrain and the extermination of the Houthi people in Yemen. The news of your execution of Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr, whose only crime was to ask for open elections, speaks volumes that you are a regime who is so wrapped up in the cloak of your perceived self-importance that you strike out at any that you can who disagree with you. You destroy shrines and world heritage sites to make space for your own aggrandizement, but also because those places represent legitimacy and you know you’re an illegitimate ruler of Holy Lands.
This is why I cannot go on the Hajj. I have family and friends who have gone, but I do not believe I can. I cannot enable the misperception that the false hajj you lead is legitimate. I cannot allow one cent to directly inure your kingdom of benefit from my coffers (I know that my usage of gasoline does, and I am taking steps, pun intended to remedy that as well). I cannot allow a visa stamp be looked on by my children, the students I teach as tacit approval of your regime and I cannot practice the cognitive dissonance that so many do who feel the same way.
So I have to deny myself a holy pilgrimage that I longed to do even before I became Muslim and prayed for every day since, and instead devote my prayer to your demise—that from your ashes a just regime emerges that is more in tune with the egalitarian and scientific principles of the true Islam. I will devote my time as an artist and educator to speak out against you and I hope that the Islamophobes in my country take a moment to listen, so that they know that where their legitimate fear can be directed. I will use my words to enliven those you’ve killed, thinking they have gone away—so do not think Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr is dead, he is very much alive and his voice will only grow louder as I add my voice to it, and invite those who are like-minded to do the same.
There are those Muslims who may read this and say that I’ve gone too far and that the hajj is a pillar of our faith, and yet if Husayn ibn Ali and Zaynab bint Ali, the grandchildren of the Prophet Muhammad could break their hajj and leave Arabia just as the usurper Yazeed became Caliph—I believe I am justified in doing so.
There are those Americans who read this and wonder why I am focusing all my energy on you, when there are so many other despotic regimes in the Middle East—and it is because you are the reason for many of their existences as well and I’d rather focus my attention on the head of the beast rather than its tentacles for if you kill the head, the rest will fall.
How do you kill the head; a head created by lies and emboldened by ignorance? With truth and knowledge. This open letter is just the beginning. I have been relatively silent till now, but I can no longer sit pat while innocent people are killed–
You have awoken in me and others who are brave enough to stand with me your greatest nightmare—we will be the truth seeking missiles that will dismantle the infrastructure of your lies and the knowledge bearers who will water the thirsty while rooting out the ignorance you depend on for your existence. Your days on this earth are numbered.
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BEIRUT:
Page identifiable developments in the case of Captain Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi, our brother who is detained in Lebanon… politically arbitrary arrests Antkiemaa violates all laws and all norms.
Cotinuing on the illegal holding of CAPT. Hannibal Gaddafi, in Beirut,
PAGE: “We are all with you, Captain Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi”
Questioned by the public prosecutor today discriminatory Captain Hannibal Gaddafi:
At ten o’clock in the Palace of Justice in Beirut,
By Attorney General Imad discriminatory Judge Kaplan.
This call comes at the request of the International Criminal Court, which asked Lebanon to questioning.
It mentions that a delegation from the International Criminal Court should have come to Lebanon, but Astmhl, because Lebanon is on the site of the ‘Rome Convention’ allows him and Gaddafi of failing to cooperate with the Court and the delegation not to approve the questioning.
From here the court has resorted to the request of the public prosecutor discriminatory questioning Gaddafi on its behalf.
It provides the legal mechanism used, the files included under Chapter VII of the Security Council, the cooperation of all Member States in the Security Council with requests Criminal Court, even if it were not a signatory to the ‘Rome Convention’.
Media and legal sources confirmed that the Lebanese authorities
Allowed our brother captive hero Captain Hannibal telephone Ballowaldh need descriptive.
PAGE: “We are all with you, Captain Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi”:
For information purposes only and as a reminder:
Captain Hannibal Gaddafi is our brother.
He suffers from severe psychological condition and lack of focus
Suffering from strokes in his head because of the torture he endured during his abduction and detention.
And suffering from injuries to his foot and is not treated so far and is being held in prison in solitary confinement in Beirut.
And he had appointed him the first session of the trial on Tuesday
And flimsy charges and fake because it does not punishable under Lebanese law originally ….
Q How long, O Delirious farce and Lebanese Minister of Justice
O Ashraf Rifi ……. how much they give you, O Ashraf Rifi to continue what you are doing against Hannibal ??
International Criminal memorandum and Interpol against Hannibal Gaddafi
Which is trying to inform the lies and vanities them dance via
‘Come memorandum’ expired for a long time and was also shot down
By the Ministry of Justice in Tobruk who confirmed that Hannibal is not required to show-up for any charges, by full amnesty decreed in Tobruk a year ago in Libya.
(PICTURE of the fully legal AMNESTY LAW in LIBYA, 02 JANUARY 2015)
Under Hannibal, Mrs. lawyer Bushra al-Khalil, has filed yesterday B.Mzkurtin:
First to the public prosecutor discriminatory on the status of Hannibal Gaddafi in front of Interpol,
And the second to the President of the Supreme Judicial Council Judge “Jean Fahd,”
ask him to oversee the case and protect it from politicization and political interference.
Lawyer ‘al-Bashir fishing’ (Captain Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi’s lawyer) warns of media incitement and fraud, and made-up fabrications resulting in dire consequences toward a person who is totally innocent.
They have illegally oppressed Hannibal Gaddafi and imposed upon him fabricated false statements:
All the information has been fabricated. al-Bashir fishing says that The Safir newspaper,’Okaz’, and ‘Saudi Arabia’ must stop the dirty campaign of lies and demonisation against Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi and all the sons of the leader Mu’ammar al-Qathafi.
Egyptian Minister of Justice, Counselor ‘Ahmed ulna’,
was asked to personally intervene in demanding the immediate release of Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi.
‘Ahmes ulna’ was able to reach and engage in a dialogue, personally and directly, with Lebanese Minister Ashraf Rifi
‘Ahmed ulna’ is demanding that Lebanon immediately release Hannibal Gaddafi, who has been detained arbitrarily and unlawfully.
https://www.facebook.com/christellabernardene.krebs/posts/917428328372175
Tunisian lawyer Professor Bashir fishing:
Confirms that the newspaper «ambassador» Lebanese
And the Saudi newspaper Okaz Aftert
of Hannibal Gaddafi and to Dr. Aisha Gaddafi
And that Dr. Aisha Muammar Gaddafi and Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi
Nothing to do with the blood of Musa al-Sadr
And it’s nothing to do with the disappearance of martyr Musa al-Sadr.
Mu’ammar al-Qathafi had nothing to do with Musa al-Sadr’s disappearance; because it happened outside the Libyan territories. All contrary news has been totally fabricated in this case.
Then any role in it as the raised far from a new kidnapped Hannibal Gaddafi and his being incarcerated within a prison of the Lebanese judiciary; but falls within the distortion of the family of Mu’ammar al-Qathafi and is a campaign against Mu’ammar al-Qathafi,
and the involvement of some of the media in this campaign falls within the framework of this propaganda aimed at demonizing the system of the GREAT JAMAHIRIYA (Third Universal Theory).
Statement Libyan community in support of Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi in front of the Lebanese Embassy in London on 12/29/2015
Sons of green mass honorable Liberal immigrants in Britain
In a protest on 12/29/2015
In front of the Lebanese Embassy in London to demand the release of Hannibal Gaddafi and demanding freedom for Hannibal. The Lebanese people and the Lebanese government for the immediate release of the captured Hannibal Gaddafi.
And a demonstration in front of the British Prime Minister to demand freedom for all detainees in the prisons of darkness Jermana, considering their opposition to the terrorist organization ‘Daash’ in Libya, foreign intervention in Libya, militias and armed criminal al-Fberarah in Libya.
FB PAGE “We are all with you, Captain Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi”
“I have a question Maherni expressly for Lebanese Justice Minister O Major General Ashraf Rifi:
Hama, why you hate the whole of Hannibal and the leader Muammar Gaddafi ??
If the family of Musa al-Sadr who were involved in the case of Mr. Musa al-Sadr
announced that it has nothing to do with the investigation of stoppng Hannibal
(And that al-Sadr family does not Taatba Hannibal being prosecuted; and are not considered to have the right upon Hannibal…)
And if the Lebanese Shiite Supreme Council announced the same thing
And he acknowledged that the issue has nothing to do Hannibal and clears Sadr family and the Council…
The gang hijacked from its chairman and former offender remote Hassan Jacob ……
O means you Ashraf Rifi Shaw _khask ??
And Lech Kbernha to the cause of Hannibal, yet you continued to arrest him and turned to the issue of out of the blue?
Henw reason your right to us, O, O Ashraf Rifi ??
Endowments operate Championship at the expense of our Hannibal ??”
GREEN SQUARE:
Demonstration Magdy Rady in ‘Green Square’ rejects puppet-government OS
These are not Azumh demonstration?
DAASH CONTACTS bombing barber-shop area sustained by explosive bag last night:
(WAHHABI against shaving beards and cutting hair)
Close the road to ‘Ghargharesh Kopri al-Amal’ area because of the clashes that took place this morning between armed groups:
Shooting voices heard near the bridge Gargharesh against the backdrop of the kidnapping of a woman.
Today two kidnapped in Tripoli to princes and Girl This of February sirs occurred
Image does not need to suspend the status of women days the Libyan Al-Tagah O Jardan.
1___ abduction of a woman named 10 in Slamh Mamed Saleh al-Haka street in GOT al-SHALL.
2___ Kidnapping two young Amr Mamed Blaid al-Qmavi and request a financial amount of 200 thousand dinars for his release
3___ Khald Osman Gaga abduction by militia Inventory al-Ehi al-Asalama, in Alkkla Gianni Gneoh’s area …
MITIGUA:
Photos to intercept the plane by an armed group from Tajourah was a departure from the base to the airport Mitigua headed for Alexandria under the pretext that on the plane wanted people amid the screams of women and children.
An armed group from Tajourah prevent passenger plane was heading from the MITIGUA airport to Alexandria, Egypt, under the pretext of the existence of wanted Alleha.mna plane. It came against the backdrop of the death of one of the leaders of armed groups in Tajourah.
Anasser-melcaat picture of deterrence B.el-kd. It is based on the so-called Gamal Zoubih.
BYE UNO RAT !
Video of the moment to expel Jamal Zoubih internationalist envoy Martin Kobler of the press conference and immediately leaving the plane on his way to Tunisia
Jamal Zoubih arrest called Mitigua Airport on the back of his expulsion of UN envoy Martn Kòbler of the press conference and on the air.
‘Green struggle mail’, comments:
“Torn homeland of the claim that they are surviving collar Vidjalo Charfah of strangers in their homeland and his side and was of mixed yesterday, with the near hypocritical with the right of fancy vanities come out of Khalthm al-Lantna al-Khiana and contaminate the country for as long as it was supervised al-Aotun have changed and honor.
Despite of this, and more remains to this beloved homeland sons Brar will not Atakhlu him and that neighbor them from the companion.
Greetings to those few of those who have their hearts in the right sense, patient and persevering, and to uphold the right hole at the time of treason and Ribaldries and decadence.”
[Nzal]
AIRPORT ROAD, 2014:
‘Zintan operations room’ a partagé la publication de ‘force supporting the security directorates of the western region and South Committee for the “200” ‘ :
‘Directorates support the security of the western region and the southern power of the Commission, “the 200” ‘ a ajouté 3 nouvelles photos.
Malclha car delivery to the citizen (Faisal Busayri) type Hyundai stolen from him in 2014 on Tripoli airport road.
DAMASCUS:
Abduction of two young Sabha-men in the ‘Damascus neighborhood street in Tripoli’:
‘Mamed al-Sgar al-Lf’, and ‘Mamed do al-Jtilaoy’.
Their families were contacted to ask for a sum of money in exchange for their release.
SHAT:
The killing of the young man ‘Abd-Rlrozk al-Saleck’ at ‘B.triv Shat’. He was born in 1998, and killed at the hands of a single drug user(who stabbed with a knife in the heart).
al-FREKH ‘b’:
Voices heard clashes area al-Frekh b at Ajeelat.
Picture of our tribal forces stationed near the desert:
“Our presence alive and we continue in the biggest resistance proof that Mu’ammar al-Qathafi was not plowing the sea throughout the forty years of time.”
Young ‘Mamed Bashir al-Tricka’ of condition steady, wounded by gunfire from an armed group fireing at his head, trying to steal his car.
‘Social Council of tribes of the Warfalla’ denies what was cited on the lying channel news (WESTERN PROPAGANDA STATION) about some members of the council meeting with the (so-called) puppet ‘government of OS’.
Anonymous flight hovering in the sky of the city of Sirte.
Access afternoon truck cars to the city of Sirte and the type cars Toyota double under the protection of elements of the terrorist organization ‘Daash’.
The organization of the work of the terrorist ‘Daash’, constructing earth mounds in the 50 area west of the city of Sirte.
Elements ‘Daash’ terrorist organization Bastiagaf the people who walked in the gate 20.
‘Daash’ terrorist organization resides in the forty gate area west of the city of Sirte and thorough inspection of the car flying from Sirte.
Dead and wounded from the elements of the terrorist organization of ‘Daash’ arrive to Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte.
‘Battle of Abu al-Qahtan’i changing the name chosen by the organization ‘Daash’ from ‘the Battle of Sidra’ .. ‘Daash’ Qahtani’ was targeted in a US raid in Derna.
‘Pen rebel’, reporting:
Withdrawal of ‘Daash’ to Bin Jawad’, after the robbery control.
There came armed convoy to Melcaat ‘Daash’ terrorist of the city of Sirte which consists of cars and armed fighters heading to the town of Bin Jawad.
Daash” terrorist organization assesses the gates and many Astaagafat along the coastal road from the city of Sirte all the ways until reaching Bin Jawad.
Lying Agency within the depths of the media wing of the terrorist organization ‘Daash’ published pictures of the regulation on the control of the southern oil port of tanks at Port Sidra east of the city of Bin Jawad.
Photos published by the Tnzbm of ‘Daash terrorists’ of the Port Sidra area across from Bin Jawad today. Pictures of tanks and warehouses of Port Sidra confirm the arrival of her Daash and non-specific, as ‘DAASH’ were found inside the tank installations !
‘Daash terrorist organization’ publishes pictures of suicide bombers who blew themselves up at the gate of Port Sidra this morning
1_ Abu Maaz al-Qrani.
2 _ Abdul-Rahman al-Muhajir (teen from TRIPOLI):
3_ Obuabdallah Ansari:
The attack happened in the early hours involving 40 cars and a number of tanks and radar jamming, but ‘Chaabab Ahars Kano’ in time and hit the flight hours 7 AM and 10 hour…
VALLEY AKAHILH:
‘Rouge Valley directly’, reports:
Withdrawal of “DAASH” from Valley Akahilh, after violent clashes in the Port Sidra area since the early morning hours ..
Where were the families of the seven members of their ingredients ? .. and sheep to him and killed nearly 5 members of them ..
4 Wounded, Hhdan battles today in clashes ‘Valley Akahilh’ due to regulation ‘Daash’ at Bin Jawad, as well as the strength of assigning Eats her wanted me up ‘Ras Lanuf’ after they combed the areas surrounding the oil-fields and spread the axis of fighting B.al-Sidra.
‘DAASH’ Galo lipo Lego Sidra to let them Iqrbo Njohm Gadi (InshaAllah)
Ayeyieyeier Yadin Prophet A sweet victory to de Dink Yashik Hahhahahaha.
GENERAL SAQR JEROSHI:
‘Guard oil installations device’ statement regarding the attack belonging to the ‘organization of the State forces’ (‘DAASH’) on the oil port of Sidra:
We ask Allah for steadiness’s ‘Champions Guard facilities’.
Calls for the men of the Guard Oil Installations:
List Establishments of ‘Oil guards Installaions’ Servicemen who were wounded today in clashes at Port Sidra.
A picture of a fire company Harouj oil tanks Oil Operations (al-Phippa) near Ras Lanuf plant
Fire broke out in one of the tanks Oasis. Port Sidra oil tanks on fire (image taken from the center of Ras Lanauf )
And renewed clashes this morning after an attack by ‘Daash Ali’ at Sidra.
And the fall of three martyrs and 12 wounded in the fighting today.
MARTYR:
Aanaala hear in Shi:
B clashes Valley ploy between enterprises Policemen and organization of ‘Daash’.
‘Monanad Ali’, adds:
Alhbk gate of Sidra in the morning. . Penthro at the refinery before do not connect the Rafale and Apache. .. Bihrkona, Bihrkona oil.
A large convoy of ‘DAASH’ is approaching ‘Ras Lanuf’ and destination seemingly towards Port Sidra ..
Sure, of course Araftoa Laish chose particular time Hia:
COPD tanks now because of the burning of missiles launched by the organization ‘Daash’:
‘Omar Ma’touq’, reporting
By communication. The time is now 12:30, colleagues in Ras Lanuf, sounds of heavy weapons stopped, and the withdrawal of one hand ‘DAASH’ Camp poll, which they had seized control of it in the morning, and their withdrawal from the area around the port of Sidra towards ‘Bin Jawad’…
Certificate visible presence of a burning car belonging to the point of camp of ‘Daash’ poll.
Now, not having them in camp and al-Phippa poll and the road open after closure by ‘DAASH’ Bastiagaf burning tank of Harouj company
(Pen rebel).
Daash forces were advancing towards the Port of Sidra.
‘Tairan Aharba’:
Two Satro and Souro from here.
Their faces al-Hfalla from here Htaiwhm ..
survey ..
Gu Oroham ate the rice in Bhakerih in Bin Jawad
Bombed for the second time now thrown O shot:
Melcaat ‘Daash’ infect an oil tank a long-range missile
The first pictures that we received from Ras Lanuf massive fire at oil storage tanks company Harouj-oil operations (Alphippa) near Ras Lanuf plant,
Note: This image taken from Ras Lanuf town center which is away from the scene of the fire about 30 km and columns of smoke and show clear evidence that the reservoirs that has Asabntha direct hit
Ras Lanauf road closed due to clashes.
Two men injured of the ‘guard installations’ remains fierce clashes.
The fall of the martyrs of the men guard installations and the arrival of the wounded to Ras Lanuf hospital now:
Last butter
Processing a large force of secret Eats her wanted militant supporters and young people to go in the morning to Ras Lanuf.
Currently intensify reconnaissance patrols of the area stretching from oil fields south to the coastal areas in the north to ensure they are free of ‘DAASH’.
Aviation who hit today in the ‘Italian Sidra flight after the staff of the Italian company Veba’.
Alaitalh authorities to address their fear of ‘Daash’ poured water from the control of the company, and held persona hostage.
And accumulated Tsedko tails and horns who Icolo flight Misurata.
A protest from our brothers Tabou, in-front of the ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’ in the ‘White Hall’ of the founding committee drafting the (so-called) ‘constitution’ for the headquarters of a ‘just constitution’..the members forgetting the unanimous oath and declaration of 02 MARCH 1977; that, the Holy Qur’an is the only law of the land..
Rat Misurata 24 hours Tucker bulldozers on the waterfront of Benghazi Mahd spoke …. When I wrote the news of the bombing of the gate before you, ‘Daash’ Johnny Mchmt and Alach and bent Khot …
TGI Vhmuna how these are proof MISURATA is supplying ‘DAASH’.
Was hit in ‘Daash’, el-Aish supports them in Benghazi, my shiny….
al-HAWARI:
Elements of ‘Daash’ organization controls the villas adjacent to the 6-al-Hawari General Hospital.
Video published of rat militia ‘Cil Chory of Bengazi’, showing their prisoners who follow the LIBYAN ARMY serving under Hftar.
Some were released, and there included interviews with the prisoners:
‘Colonel – Ibrahim Said Al Oraibi’ (above)
‘Col – Awad Abu Faraj scaffold’ (above).
Volunteer – Buhedama Ibrahim Mohammed Abdullah.
Clashes between guards ‘Champions-oil installations’ and a large force of ‘DAASH’, after targeting assign the third Ebric Aahmoudh car bomb your prayers for young people-
Allah save ‘men guard installations’ in their war with ‘Daash’.
Buhedama has been Tgiev 4 of Kharijites by ‘Champions Guard facilities’.
BOATNI:
the plane plunged into the area Boatni technical fault,
Something where the plane exploded (either Packer missile explosion inside either the heat of the Blahakha), he did not get over Boatni
Allah is alive and airmen Hawks from their day !
Thank Allah for the safety of Captain Naasralmbrok al-Haavy …, one of the new pilots in the Libyan air force ..
LIBYAN AIRFORCE Warplanes bombed terrorists’ positions within the areas of Laithi, Parwa and Rulrhh.
SOUTH-WEST:
Mohamed Saad
Ajoutée le 03 janv. 2016
Thnbugh is a mountain range located in the south-west of Libya, a barren plateau gravel rises more than 2000 m from the sea geology surface Thnbugh consists of a set of formations of volcanic rocks and exotic sandy shape and there are caves above the high plateau bordering the deep cliff in an area located by a large proportion of sand dunes Animated. The walls of these caves contain a range of exotic inscriptions that represent a full life of an ancient civilization. An analysis of these images Experts discovered that date back to 30 thousand years.
Because of the height and the properties of water retention in the subsoil of the Thnbugh the vegetation in this arid land is considered rich to some extent from the surrounding desert They include the presence of them scattered acacia trees and forests and cypress al-Bornbouk
During the humid period of the Neolithic period (between 9000 and 2500 BC), the Sahara was covered with grass and serve as endemic humans and animals such as ostriches, giraffes, elephants and antelopes. It also helped the abundance of water and some…
There are large lakes to encourage fish life, crocodiles and hippopotamus. Fassad these favorable conditions prairie hunters and later herdsmen to build housing in the camps and various hills and fertile land of high desert.
By 2500 BC, the desert, with the exception of the Nile River, has become barren land is no longer suitable that is inhabited by human beings. But this past remained fertile through drawings and inscriptions left by the population reflected on the rocks across parts of the desert.
For those rocks beautiful graphics human forms become visible memorial to the beliefs and practices of ancient inhabitants of North Africa during periods of adaptation to the changing environment and to acquire new tools and habits.
Simulator embodies the inscriptions on the stones of nature with large shapes of animals that have been extinct in that era, including antelopes, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, antelopes and hippopotamus. And there is hardly any of the ICON embodiment of pets, which may mean that the population may then earned a livelihood hunting large animals. The show forms of men armed with sticks, spears, axes and bows.
Wildlife in Libya ..WILD LIBYA
Introduction The first part of the film Thnbugh
Filming and editing … filmed and edited by
Mohamed Saad …. Mohamed Saad
Production … Production 2015
Tripoli, Libya .. Tripoli, Libya
Copyright © mohamed saad muntser
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United States deeply involved in the brutal war in Yemen
by Anders • 02 January 2016
This has occasionally published articles about the forgotten, the US-backed, brutal war in Yemen.
See special guest blog posts by Roland Hedayat 23/7
http://jinge.se/mediekritik/fn-sanktionerat-folkmord-i-jemen-bakgrunden.htm
and 24/7 and 21/8 “Yemen: brutal US-supported war kills children and creates svält”.
http://jinge.se/mediekritik/jemen-brutalt-usa-stott-krig-dodar-barn-och-skapar-svalt-fn.htm
the article and the article “Why the US supports Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen?” 12/10
http://jinge.se/mediekritik/varfor-stodjer-usa-saudiarabiens-krig-i-jemen.htm
and later “Swedish weapons used in the war in Yemen?”
http://jinge.se/mediekritik/svenska-vapen -used-in-Saudi-brutal-war-in-jemen.htm
“The international community” shows its ethical and moral level and illustrates its policy, by being mostly silent about the war – and above all by avoiding criticizing US involvement. This article of Medea Benjamin, demonstrates America’s deep commitment. I found it on the site ‘Code Pink’.
http://www.codepink.org/yemen_crisis
After nearly a year of civil war, met the rats conflicting forces in Yemen on 15 December in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the possibility of finding a political solution to the conflict that has been going on since March 2015. (HAH! same what they did with Libya; and force it down Yemen’s throats with threats…)
While this is a necessary step towards ending violence which has killed thousands, crippled infrastructure and led to a critical humanitarian crisis, should peace talks includes a mechanism to rebuild the impoverished nation.
Saudi Arabia, which is responsible for most of the destruction of its relentless bombings, should be forced to pay for the terrible damage has accomplished. So the US should do also. US involvement in Yemen can be summarized in three words: Support for Saudi Arabia.
America’s problematic relationship with Saudi Arabia go all the way back to World War II, when US officials began to see the Saudi oil as a strategic advantage. Since then, the US had blindly supported the UK in almost all political and economic efforts, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia is an ultra-conservative Islamic monarchy with widespread and repeated violations of human rights.
When the Houthis, an “Anasar-Allah” oriented ‘rebel’ group from northern Yemen, took the Yemeni capital Sanaa in January 2015 and the puppet-Sunni president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi on his own accord, resigned, to be in exile; But then formed in Saudi Arabia a coalition among the Arab Gulf states to fight the Houthi. Of course, the US has agreed to support these close allies in its efforts to “restore order” in Yemen by providing intelligence information, weapons and refueling of aircraft in the air. The US also sent US warships to enforce a blockade in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Arabian Sea. The blockade was ‘allegedly’ to prevent weapons shipments from Iran (BUT THEY HAVE SENT NO WEAPONRY !) to the Houthi, but it also prevented humanitarian transports to support besieged, confined Yemeni citizens.
CIA and other military intelligence service is also in place in Yemen, and provides information about military targets, and logistical support. US drones fly constantly and sending intelligence information to the Saudis.
Since then, the coalition carried out indiscriminate airstrikes and bombings across the country, often in densely populated civilian areas. In late September, the ‘UN documented’ that the war had killed 2,355 civilians and wounded 4862, most cases because of coalition air strikes. Saudi-led military intervention has created a humanitarian crisis where 75% of Yemen’s population (21 million people) is in urgent need of immediate assistance. Millions of people have been forced to leave their homes without water or electricity, as the country’s infrastructure continues to disintegrate.
The US is the largest supplier of these weapons used to bomb Yemen. Cluster munitions, which are sold to Saudi Arabia by a US company called Textron, has been used in many of the coalition strikes. These dreadful bombs presents a particular danger to civilian populations because of its comprehensive power and the fact that unexploded bombs can remain dangerous for decades after they are released. Therefore, they are banned in more than 115 countries.
“Saudi-led cluster bombs airstrikes have struck at areas near the villages, and putting the local population in danger,” said Steve Goose, arms director at ‘Human Rights Watch’. “These weapons should never be used under any circumstances. Saudi Arabia and other coalition members – and the supplier, USA – defies the global norm that rejects cluster munitions, because of their long-term threat to the civilian population “.
America’s direct role in the coordination of the Saudi air operations also makes the US complicit in war crimes. “The US government is well aware of the Saudi-led coalition’s indiscriminate air attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians in Yemen,” said ‘Joe Stork’, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at ‘Human Rights Watch’. “To provide the Saudis with more bombs in these circumstances is a recipe for more civilian deaths, the U.S.A. will be partially responsible for.”
To make matters worse, the terrible conditions on the ground led to a strengthening of extremist terrorist groups that will inevitably plague the nation for many years to come. The local al-Qaeda branch, is part of the ‘al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’ (also known as ‘AQAP’). Formed in 2009, it has used the current conflict to increased recruitment efforts.
The current political and security gap has also paved the way for the emergence of a branch of ISIL that carried out deadly attacks on Shiite mosques and positioned itself as even more aggressively than ‘AQAP’. Some fear that “AQAP’s, and ISIL’s recruitment efforts” may lead to competition between the two radical groups, that can mean even more attacks around the country when the groups are trying to upstage each other.
Saudi involvement in Yemen has only destroyed lives and created a state of total chaos, and the U.S. government is complicit in the carnage. Both nations should, as part of the peace process, forced to pay compensation for the enormous damage their bombs have inflicted.
interesting Other of:
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, United States, War, Politics
Current article on Yemen Pål Steigan 12/10 Counterpunch Entries for 24/7 Pål Steigan 20/8
National Global Research 12/5 DN 14/5 Pål Steigan 19/8 DN 16/4 Voice of Russia 15/4 Global Research 15/4 Pål Steigan 16/4 BBC News Bank 15/4 Global Research II DN 26/3 Iran Protests
Saudi Arabia kills his mercenaries in Yemen intentionally
http://hispantv.com/newsdetail/Arabia-Saudi/199420/arabia-saudi-mercenario-yemen
A Saudi fighter bomber.
The coalition led by Saudi Arabia kills his mercenaries in Yemen once they complete their missions to prevent leakage of confidential military information.
Since Saudi Arabia began its invasion in the Yemeni impoverished neighbor in late March 2015, coalition aircraft bombed led by more than twenty times the positions of their own mercenaries operating in Yemen. Riad argues that the attacks were carried out by mistake, but a secret report shows otherwise.
“Saudi Arabia does not want the experience of defeat in Iraq, where Saudi terrorists and mercenaries committed crimes against civilians and recorded videos (of horrible scenes) and put them within reach of the world to repeat. In addition, the coalition led Saudi Arabia does not want to leak confidential military information “reported Friday correspondent of the Iranian news agency Fars in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, citing several senior ‘Ansar-Allah’ popular movement.
The text states that it is unlikely that the alliance mistakenly bomb the positions of their own mercenaries, when known exactly where these people are deployed.
The last such incident took place on Thursday, when they killed at least 15 Saudi mercenaries in a fit of Saudi fighters in the city of Taiz, in southwestern Yemen. The attack occurred in the town of al-Shaqab, in the center of Taiz, wounded another 30 fighters.
Saudi Arabia Yemen remains deployed in hundreds of mercenaries from Sudan, Somalia, Colombia and several other countries. There are reports showing that Riyadh pays a month to these people to participate in the attack on the devastated territory of Yemen.
The accidental bombing mercenaries in Yemen Saudi Arabia contrast with the fact that it has not registered any attack “by mistake” alliance against terrorist positions there.
Last July, the US newspaper The Washington Post reported that Saudi Arabia not only prevents attack in Yemen to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), but Riyadh bombings have paved the way for the progress of this terrorist group.
TODAY, the SAUDIIS executed SHI-ITES!
Colombia criticized Saudi Arabia for seducing his soldiers with high salaries to fight in Yemen:
http://hispantv.com/newsdetail/Colombia/199438/colombia-soldados-arabia-saudi-yemen
Colombia Army soldiers.
Colombia criticized Saudi Arabia and the UAE for high earnerings which have seduced his soldiers to fight in Yemen while Bogotá needs their men to fight the insurgents and drug traffickers.
“My complaint is that, for example, UAE (UAE) and Saudi Arabia have not been able to negotiate a treaty with Colombia to regulate this relationship,” said Minister of Defense of Colombia, Luis Carlos Villegas, as reported Thursday the American chain Bloomberg .
In this context, a Colombian ex-military, who requested anonymity, he said that the soldiers are being persuaded to leave the Army of Colombia by economic incentives offered by Saudi Arabia and UAE, that is, winning nearly seven times what they receive in his country.
Colombian Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas.
A Colombian ex-soldier can earn per day in the Middle East compared to per month they receive in Colombia, while someone who has an official range and can speak English can get a salary of a day for fighting in that region according to the ex-oficial.
He also estimated that there are about 2000 Colombians working hired by UAE and over 200 have been sent to Yemen to guard bases but so far such as affirmative have not engaged in war.
Bloomberg said that neither the Saudis nor the UAE authorities have expressed willingness to discuss using Colombian soldiers and the possibility of reaching an agreement with the government about the South American country.
The Bogota government has so far not received any information on Colombian citizens who have died in the fighting in Yemen, according to a senior official of the Colombian Foreign Ministry who asked not to be identified was not authorized to speak publicly.
Recently, Yemeni sources have reported that at least six Colombian soldiers have been killed during clashes in the city of Taiz (southwest).
Last October, the Colombian daily El Tiempo reported that at least 800 former members of the Colombian army entered Yemen to support the offensive of the Saudi regime and its allies.
A residential building after being hit by an air strike in Sanaa, by Saudi aircraft (in Yemen).
Moreover, UAE last November sent secretly to 450 mercenaries in Latin America , including Colombian soldiers to Yemen to fight in the service of the Saudis against the Yemeni Army.
According to the latest United Nations statistics , the Saudi aggression against Yemen has left more than 32,000 victims, dead and wounded, mostly civilians.
ALG / NCL / RBA
TA’IZZ:
VIDEO: Yemeni Army Troops Kill Saudi Arabia Mercenaries in Ta’izz
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1775639#sthash.ZhjzfFA3.dpuf
https://www.facebook.com/alalameng/videos/vb.458965980855196/902239036527886/?type=2&theater
The ‘Yemeni Army’ backed by the ‘Popular Committees’ supporting the ‘Houthi Ansar-Allah’ movement has conducted a successful operation against Riyadh’s mercenaries in the southwestern province of Ta’izz.
Yemen’s al-Masirah news channel reported on Sunday that the operation was carried out in the al-Aqrooz and al-Sharija districts. Fatalities were reported on the side of the mercenaries.
Yemeni forces also carried out retaliatory missile attacks against the bases of the invaders in the Wazi’iyah district of the province.
On Saturday, six Yemeni civilians lost their lives and over 40 others were injured in Saudi airstrikes on Ta’izz.
In the Saqayn district of Sa’ada Province, northern Yemen, three civilians were killed in a Saudi airstrike on a residential area.
In another airstrike on the Kataf district of Sa’ada, six women were killed.
The regime in Riyadh began the campaign against Yemen on March 26, 2015. The airstrikes were meant to undermine Houthi.
Also on Sunday, Saudi warplanes bombarded a number of areas in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, including the al-Sabaha district.
Saudi jets also targeted the districts of Haymah al-Kharijiyah and Hamdan in Sana’a. Local sources said the warplanes launched six airstrikes on Haymah al-Kharijiyah and two on Hamdan.
More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 injured since the Saudi airstrikes began in late March; Press TV reported.
Saudi mercenaries looted humanitarian aid to Ta’izz
A fighter Loyal to Saudi-Yankee Puppet-president Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi.
Saudi mercenaries attacked Sunday humanitarian trucks arriving to the city of Ta’izz, in southwestern Yemen.
According to local News agency ‘Saba’, Saudi mercenaries and loyal to the Saudi-Yankee puppet-president (who voluntarily legally resigned) ‘Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi’ forces, have erected barriers at the entrance of the city and attacked and robbed humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of the city of Taiz, which They are surrounded for months.
Egyptian Security arrested Libyans in Cairo, under the pretext of the ‘absence of the establishment’.
“Libya is no longer a state of institutions and the law of Libya day state militias and the law of force and on this basis countries withdrew their embassies and imposed on us visas.”
MEDICINAL WATER TRUFFLES:
peace be on you all and the mercy of ALLAH …..
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(non-scriptural) Tale of the “The healing of the eye”:
This picture shows the inductors extract water truffles
Abiqh short and you are then divided into two halves al-Kmeh distortion on the fire a little for the pool water then enters the needle to suction the water and keep it in a dropper for use.”
“Follow-up work of the rats’ ‘National Conference’,” explains to us:
“God bless you on the subject. As a doctor I would recommend the use of water truffles to treat high eye pressure and Yah blue and white eye, it is very excellent for the treatment of eye pressure is very effective as in medicine
and sincerity of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him.”
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What shall Be
Posted on 29 December 2015 by theorbo1
Statement of the ‘General Conference of the tribes’ on 30/12/2015
“West looming international sanctions on Mu’ammar al-Qathafi’s followers in Libya and they are all in a state of alert and the silence is able to raise his voice of slaves when holding Mr. Psoth?”
‘MUSICIAN’ recalling one of the past ‘miracles’ of Mu’ammar al-Qathafi:
“Doctors told him in Europe, it is impossible to stand on his feet without surgery vertebrae; then came to the door of the room in a wheelchair at Bab Aziziyah, income Muammar al-Qathafi, to stop automatically with the crowds that stood. Medicine lied and ratified the prestige of Colonel.”
7000 devoted ‘Great Jamahiriya’ soldiers, as well as civilians accused of supporting al-Qathafi’s ‘Great Jamahirya’ (THIRD UNIVERSAL THEORY) system, are being held in illegal MISURATA and ‘Dawn Libya’ prisons, even after the official issuance of the ‘General Amnesty’ for all ‘Great Jamahiriya’ sympathisers, issued more than five months ago, by the TOBRUK ‘Majlis al-Nuwaab’, along with continuous ongoing pleas made by General Khalifta Hftar for the past four years.
‘Amnesty International’ has reported large scale torture and other mistreatment and executions, of those perceived as enemies of the new “O.S. puppet guardian (so named by the UN & the Western Nations as the) ‘government of reconcilliation’ (which is basicly MISURATA MB run).
Eric Draitser wrote the following, one year ago, on 23 January 2014, but it could just as well been wriiten today:
The Secret War in Libya
The Truth of the Green Resistance
“The battles currently raging in the South of Libya are no mere tribal clashes. Instead, they represent a possible burgeoning alliance between black Libyan ethnic groups and ‘GREAT JAMAHIRIYA’ (GREEN RESISTANCE) forces intent upon liberating their country of a neo-colonial NATO-‘guardian’ government.…(There is) the unmistakable fact, that the (newly installed puppet) regime of a ‘central government’ is under assault.
The rise of the Green resistance forces in Sabha and elsewhere is merely one part of larger and more complex political and military calculus in the South where a number of tribes and various ethnic groups have risen against what they correctly perceive to be their political, economic, and social marginalization. Groups such as the Tawergha (who were forceably removed from their city of ‘THORGHAE’ by MISURATA militias*) and Tabou ethnic minorities, both of which are black African groups, have endured vicious attacks at the hands of Arab militias with no support from the central government. Not only have these and other groups been the victims of ethnic cleansing, but they have been systematically shut out of participation in Libyan political and economic life.
The dominant Arab groups still view their dark skinned neighbors as something other than countrymen. Undoubtedly, this has led to a reorganization of the alliances in the region, with the Tabou, Tuareg and other black minority groups that inhabit southern Libya, northern Chad and Niger moving closer to the pro-‘GREAT JAMAHIRIYA’ / ‘GREEN’ forces. Whether or not these alliances are formal or not still remains unclear, however it is apparent that many groups in Libya have come to the realization that the government installed by NATO has not lived up to its promises [it is fully colonialistic], and that something must be done.
The Politics of Race in Libya
Despite the high-minded ‘rhetoric’ from Western interventionists regarding “democracy” and “freedom” in Libya, the reality is far from it, especially for dark skinned Libyans who have seen their socioeconomic and political status diminished with the end of the ‘Great Jamahiriya’. While these peoples enjoyed a large measure of political equality and protection under the ‘pure Quranic sharia-law’ established under the ‘GREAT JAMAHIRIYA’ (on 02 MARCH 1977), and especially the decree of the ‘GREAT UNIVERSAL GREEN CHARTER of Human Rights’ (12 June 1988), the ‘post-Great Jamahiriya’ era has seen their rights all but stripped from them. Rather than being integrated into a new democratic state, the black Libyan groups have been systematically excluded.
In fact, even Human Rights Watch – an organization which in no small measure helped to justify the NATO war by FALSELY claiming that ‘Gaddafi forces used rape as a weapon and were preparing “imminent genocide” ‘ – has reported that,
*: “A crime against humanity of mass forced displacement continues unabated, as militias mainly from Misrata prevented 40,000 people from the town of Tawergha from returning to their homes from where they had been expelled in 2011.” This fact, coupled with the horrific stories and images of lynchings, rapes, and other crimes against humanity, paints a very bleak picture of life in Libya for these groups.
In its 2011 report, Amnesty International documented a number of flagrant war crimes carried out by the so called “freedom fighters” of Libya who, despite being hailed in the Western media as “liberators”, used the opportunity of the war to carry out mass executions of black Libyans as well as rival clans and ethnic groups. This is of course in stark contrast to the treatment of black Libyans under the ‘Great Jamahiriya’, which was praised up and down by the ‘Human Rights Council of the United Nations’ in their 2011 report which noted that the LIBYAN ‘GREAT JAMAHIRIYA’ (under the moral guidance of Mu’ammar al-Qathafi), had gone to great lengths to ensure economic and social development, as well as specifically providing economic opportunities and political protections to black Libyans and migrant workers from neighboring African countries.
A pro-al-Qathafi Tuareg fighter, in September 2011, was quoted as saying, ‘fighting for al-Qathafi is like a son fighting for his father…[We will be] ready to fight for him until the last drop of blood.’
As the Tabou and other black ethnic groups clash with Arab militias, their struggle should be understood in the context of a continued struggle for peace and equality. Moreover, the fact that they must engage in this form of armed struggle again illustrates the point that many international observers made from the very beginning of the war: NATO’s aggression was never about protecting civilians or human rights, but rather regime change for economic and geopolitical interests. That the majority of the population, including black ethnic minorities, is worse off today, than they ever were capable of being, under ‘THE GREAT JAMAHIRIYA’. Their blessings coming from al-Qathafi, is a fact that is actively suppressed.
Black, Green, and the Struggle for Libya
It would be presumptuous to assume that the military victories made by the pro-Gaddafi Green resistance in recent days will be long-lasting, or that they represent an irreversible shift in the political and military landscape of the country. Though decidedly unstable, the neocolonial puppet government in Tripoli is supported economically and militarily by some of the most powerful interests in the world, making it difficult to simply overthrow it with minor victories. However, these developments do signal an interesting shift in the calculus on the ground. Undoubtedly there is a confluence between the black ethnic minorities and the Green fighters as both recognize their enemy as being the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood Militias who participated in the overthrow of the ‘GREAT JAMAHIRIYA’ (including all of its institutions and anything related to Mu’ammar al-Qathafi), as well as the central government in Tripoli. Whether a formal alliance emerges from this remains to be seen.
Were such an alliance to develop however, it would be a watershed moment in the continued war for Libya. As Green resistance fighters have shown in Sabha, they are able to organize themselves in the south of the country where they enjoy a large degree of popular support. One could imagine an alliance in the south that would be able to hold territory and possibly consolidate power throughout the southern part of Libya, creating a de facto independent state. Naturally, the cry from ‘NATO’ and its apologists would be that this is anti-democratic and counter-revolution. This would be understandable as their goal of ‘a unified Libya subservient to international finance capital and oil interests’ would become unattainable.
One should be careful not to make too many assumptions about the situation in Libya today, as reliable details are hard to come by. More to the point, Western media has attempted to completely suppress the fact that the Green resistance even exists, let alone is active and winning victories. All this simply further illustrates that the war for Libya rages on, whether the world wants to admit it or not.”
PICTURE: ADIL NAJI loves MU’AMMAR al-QATHAFI:
Eric Draitser is the founder of StopImperialism.com. He is an independent geopolitical analyst based in New York City. You can reach him at ericdraitser@gmail.com.
(Reprinted from ‘Counterpunch’ by permission of author or representative)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/01/libya-green-flags-and-the-heart-of-darkness/
Good Ibrahim Dabbashi is banned from the UN !!!:
Libya channel .. Spokesman interim government spokesman ‘Hatem Oraibi’ announced Thursday that the Cabinet decided to stop the Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi from his duties as a permanent delegate to the State of Libya to the United Nations.
Oraibi said that the suspension decision was based on a detailed book of the National Oil Corporation Chairman Naji Moroccan.
Oraibi pointed out that the book included the facts according to disrupt Ambassador Dabbashi to activate the National Oil Corporation worked in Benghazi for the collection of revenue from the sale of crude oil in favor of the interim government, and the conclusion of new contracts for the sale of oil and gas. (RATS OBVIOUSLY OPPOSED THIS AND THEY WANT THE OIL REVENUES along with their puppet- Western rulars, for themselves.)
Qltolena (RATS’) “revolution” blessing and “O glorious Jardan”:
The so-called ‘Council Chory Thoar Ajaddabaa one Melcaat N°17 of February’ swear allegiance to the Amir of Daash terrorist organization, known as ‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’ with a hearing and obedience.
https://www.facebook.com/wagakawesome/videos/vb.1462525864041226/1517935561833589/?type=2&theater
SOLAR NEW YEAR falls on great JUMA FRIDAY:
Allah is great ! Allah is great !
Brings the right voice calling for sunset prayers, Allah accepts the prayers and the prayers of everyone ..
Allah accept our Juma Prayers:
MONETARY EXCHANGE RATES:
Sale of foreign currency rate against # Dinar_alliba in the parallel market in Tripoli on Monday 28-122015:
= 3.080 dinars for the III.
1 euro = 3.330 dinars for the III.
= 4.300 Libyan dinars
1 LD = 0.670 Tunisian dinars (at Ben Guerdane)
1 LD = 2.800 Egyptian pounds (at the Salloum border crossing)
The sale of foreign currency rate against # Dinar_alliba by the Central Bank of Libya bulletin on Monday were as follows:
US dollar = 1.3899 LD
Euro = 1.5252 LD
Sterling Libyan dinars = 2.0741
Swiss Franc Libyan dinars = 1.4097
ITALIAN TROOPS in TRIPOLI NOW !
‘MUSICIAN’ comments:
“Case call themselves revolutionaries when they heard naming the intention of the Italians on the use of Apache to bomb their positions quite similar to the case goat in the days of winter, known as the apple of Anz season.”
Italian ‘Armed elements’ on foot passing of the first Stmbr Road towards ‘Green Square’ in Tripoli.
Martin Kòbler arrives through rats’ ‘Mitigua Airport’
Rat UN ENVOY enjoys a hot meeting with the TRIPOLI RATS:
UN envoy “Martin Kobler” meeting accompanied by the Italian security official “Paulo walk”, with Nuri Abu (Busamein) Bushman, and al-Khalifa, in addition to the group leader of the ‘Libyan Fighting Group’s ‘Mustafa Abdul Salam Noah’ and rat chief Jaddallah.
JANZOUR:
Photos of the visit, Martin Kobler camps for displaced Tawergha in the peasant camp:
Child ‘Mamed Naga Mbbah al-Kona’, a 9-year-old, kidnapped from area of Janzour (at ‘Hunter Laurel’). The child is suffering from inflammation of the total to inquire on the following numbers please:
(092-302-8526) (091-211-9702)
The kidnapping of the (so-called) Dean of Tripoli’s former mayor and his son.
“one of the kidnappers asked the people of the kidnapped to bring him the ransom money of the twentieth dinars category and be waxed and is used by the exchange for the release of their son kidnapped, and when you snap a question about the reason for his request that he does not have time to make sure of the value of the ransom, but this way !”
Clashes between militias of Inventory ‘Haitham al-Tagouris’ and militias of the Misurata Brotherhood Inventory ‘Bashir Sadaoa‘ (working now for the new ‘OS’ puppet government), near the headquarters of the former doctrinal, near the orbit Island.
Heavy rain falling on the capital Tripoli. The sinking of some roads and streets in Tripoli as a result of heavy rains:
Bumpts Street:
‘Mroh Abrahim bin Saadh’ abducted, 24 years of age, in Gharghour area on ‘Bumps Street’.
Known as Inventory ‘Abu Obeidh al-Zawa’, transfers weapons, mechanisms and a number of his followers, from areas adjacent to the city CORNER, to the center of Tripoli.
‘Mamed Azdin Atahir Hassan’ is a child who was kidnapped in front of his school in the western city of ‘Aharhh’. He comes from the area of CORNER.
Rally to Melcaat corner for refusing the so-called ‘Government of National Reconciliation’:
SALAH-UD-DIN:
Health center of Salah-al-Din, area near AIN ZARA:
Mr. Osama Jeweili Libya on ‘channel 218’ and to clarify some of the points
Osama Jeweili:
“The meeting of Abusshman with Saleh Issa Aguila is a meeting-comical, not worthy of their age
a means of dialogue and reconciliation would be useless with some configurations within; the capital may expect the worst.
The ‘Military Council for Xanthan’ (ZINTAN) is supportive of the ‘reconciliation government’ that serves as a last Western chance for Libyans.
We can not cope with terrorist organizations alone; so we must unify are ranks.
The Army must build itself according to sound bases…”
Mahmoud Ayesh Ayesh’, writes:
“Hedda one tacky tribute to Assad Armed Forces and Colonel Khalifa Hftar, and Ajmi al-Tieri…and all the shame categorize traitor Dnks his head in front of my father Bernard Levy.”
‘Abu Hisham’, exclaims:
“He (Jeweili) explains what he has.
He was ‘secretary of defense’ (under the ‘GREAT JAMAHIRIYA’) and no need for details of respect for our people B. al-Zintan who gave their lives for the sake of not singling out one side Us.”
Rabei Ali:
“Be aware al-Zintan guy been in you to swamp Brotherhood.
Ok, mesh was defense minister … Lech Mapny army? Tie up the dollar was cheap at the time.
With all due respect to the esteemed brothers in Zintan … I think that the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood Gouili worm must be eliminated…”
‘Sheikh Fathi’, adds:
“Army built the foundations of true and Mieh in Mieh thanks to the team Khalifa Hftar military expert of the first order, and Zaid Gadi O Jeweili and Dorlk Akhaddmha service;
and let the dampers requires Tris Libya Ischofoa in their job without Tvsif Zayed because you have a Zakkar hit in the mouth of the mosque, because you me Tsaalh rats shield-‘armor’ army and their rat militias Hrt at Sea.
The dream of the devil, in heaven and in al-Kika and a tribute to the team
and a tribute to the team Hftar and his soldiers brave and hit the footsteps of Allah, and the victory of Iedehm recognizes oh my hands received Army follows is built on the right foundations and above excellent.
Oh my army follows is built on the right foundations and above the excellent greeting and thousand greetings to Colonel al-Ajmi al-Tairi Knight Aaloutna Sharif Afif, and congratulations to the city of Zintan. Hada hero father worked silently and away from cameras and al-Tvsif, climbing, lying and laugh at Dqon Allepieon Libyans to free the Libyan National knew of the hypocrite and deceitful and live from under the hay.”
Admiral Libyan, writes:
“Camel what Ischofh Og in his neck Jeweili speaks to build an army on the basis of a correct mesh Mestm Vrokh compares in the spirit of the rule of the team’s first corner valiant Khalifa Hftar and what a vast difference between a lion and a tank.”
‘Ahmed Bakir’, says:
At launch in my patient in the army led by ‘Colonel Idris material’ and ‘Colonel al-Ajami al-Tieri’, ‘al-Osra’, and in the general leadership of the Army of non-mite, my patient”
PIC N° 1: Osama Jeweili
PIC N° 2: Colonel AJAMI al-Tieri
PIC N° 3: Col. Idress material (in a monitor beside the monitor of Mu’ammar al-Qathafi).
PIC N° 4: Colonel al-Sadeg al-Mzoga with Col Idress Material Cunieform
above: see Osama Jeweilli.
Speaking lounge opening bodybuilding for the city’s sports B.al-Zintan
Polate al-Emdar:
This is health. Activity in sports to be exercised not merely to be watched …. from the first chapter of the ‘Green Book’.
MIZDAH:
PICTURE: Freedom for Mohammed Deira and his father who were kidnapped by Mizdah at the hands of their criminal militias
Abuabdallah Mohammed:
We ask God Almighty to restore the monastery Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed and his son unharmed and that the injected blood between the brothers.
To the head of the interim government
To the municipal council of Zintan
To the committees of reconciliation and conflict resolution and domestic exchange
To all whom it may concern: –
The abduction of our colleague ‘Brother Mohammed Deira and his father’ yesterday in the city of ‘Mizdah’, by a group calculated on the epiphyseal tribe, and they are now in a secret prison near the city of Mizdah;
and kidnappers contacted the relatives of our colleague Mohammed and demanded and stipulated the release of a group of epiphyseal being held in Zintan until release ..
Colleague, Mohammed and his father, of the finest people and is a resident of the city of Tripoli and beyond his 20 years in the Libyan Foreign Services (and has always been a man of peace and blessings).
We ask God to bring him back, and his father, and all of that were captured on the identity of the home safe Maava.
Moved from the beauty // al-Cavala
‘Central committee of the Epiphyseal Tribes in Mizdah’:
‘Mstefy al-Tomi Ahamada’ was assassinated in his car, which was booby-trapped with an explosive device.
ZLITEN Greetings for a Happy Solar New Year 2016:
Moved to the mercy of Allah, held captive inside the prison, ‘Azdin Tkrona al-Maadana’ of ‘Tmanh city in Misurata’, who was captured in the 2012 war against BANI WALID under the terrorist Resolution N° 7
(Allah al-Taadib).
The release of the Haj ‘Younes Ibrahim Abdul Salam Eboumnyar Gaddafi’, after four years he spent in prison unjustly, Melcaat criminal Misurata finally frees him !
Assault by beating and torture the our captive hero Colonel Mujahid Sheikh Mohammed bin Nael al-Megrahi. in detention in Misurata:
Inventory Saleh BADI vows elements of ‘Daash’ holocaust that decided to attack Misurata.
Manifestations occurred in London before the British Parliament on 12.29.2015 against acts of February militias and demanding the release of prisoners in the prisons of the militias and accounting Mnfda owners and ‘Resolution decision No. 7’ oppressor against ‘Bani Walid’.
NEW PUPPET GOVERNMENT CUTS OFF ‘BANI WALID’ from the rest of the world !
“‘Law’ now is in the hands of the criminal Abannzqah governed by Satan.”
Interruption of all connections from the city of BANI WALID !!
The return of communications for the city of Bani Walid.
From the pages of this publication of ‘DAASH’:
Aaaaaaaaagel (al-Hdhir al-Hdhir)
Ham al-Nscher Walmcharkh
West tyrants Iqcefo expectations in the days al-Jya.
And in Italy (Sirte and Ajdabiya) ….
And Vrencevi .. (Benghazi) ….
Talimat Manmh Amh Majahdan Vi Libya.
We ask God saves Mujahideen and enables us to their necks ????????????
1_tnabih not use a mobile phone
2_adm gather in one place and spread
3_o lack of mobility martial armed car
4_ and change the location of a sniper Mujahideen every moment (of movement)
5_ dig trenches and burn tires
6_ cars put on them as a weapon to camouflage Mavernc end
7_ and lack of mobility vehicles to be an easy target.
‘Daash’ terrorist organization confiscates all the seals of the ‘Ministry of Education Offices’ in the region under the pretext of it being baton, bearing the logo of what they called “apostates” !
Removing bumps in the city of Sirte in the neighborhood N° 3 by members of the terrorist organization ‘Daash’.
NOFALIYA:
‘Daash’ terrorist organization assesses the immobilization fake gates at Nofaliya, to reveal the identities of citizens. Is it the military or civil questions on how they got this system, that contains the personal Libyan’s data ?
The closure of most of the gas stations of the city to the dome in Casablanca and Azdkham others.
Voice of right rises calling for Friday prayers ..
Allah accepts the prayers and the prayers of everyone …
Eagles of the Libyan Airforce over the city.
What is known as the ‘Shura council of the rebels Benghazi’ (“Ansar-al-Shariah”), issued a statement a short while ago, a division of the Islamic State under al-Baghdadi:
Hftar announces the launch of a new process in the name of ‘hurricane’ for the Liberation of Benghazi during the next 48 hours.
Visit of the ‘Commander Colonel al-Mahdi el-Bergthe’ on ground forces to corner 204 tank battalion and the western axis ..
GARYOUNES / TABLLINO:
Since the morning clashes between the combined forces of Libyan Army Battalion 21 with 204, in the western axis (the area around the university campus and the neighborhood) against the Kharijites holed up in the university colleges and some civilian houses in the neighborhood, with the fall of the shells fired by dogs deliberately firing on the people of Tabllino neighborhood,
Unless we insist on our National Army, will fight these Kharijites dogs and protect our civilians in their homes, Lord of the worlds ..
PIC: BATTALION 204 Holding the FLAG OF CYRENAICA:
The City of Benghazi thrives again:
‘Libya-page formal logic fight them to the Brotherhood ಠ_ಠ‘ a ajouté 7 nouvelles photos.
Pictures on Thursday 31/12/2015. Benghazi Park.
11 continuous months without pay and work and take care of and maintain all the animals from the park, by the youth of Benghazi.
All thanks and appreciation to those in charge to work.
Electrical Engineering School:
Declare open the door for admission and registration at the ‘Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Technology’ in Benghazi in 2016.
Special thanks to the teachers School Tiba Medina Buhedama and all those who contributed to alleviate the suffering of our children and we thank the school principal maximum Altanoah cast in the area to contribute to a large number of bags for Benghazi hope ..
al-HUMAIDA:
Water and sanitation company based Bntziv fetishes al-Humaida area to prevent sinking streets by rain ..
‘Libya-page formal logic fight them to the Brotherhood ಠ_ಠ’:
Sources close to the MP Chairman of the Council of Deputies’ (‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’) revealed that Saleh Issa Aguila, Chairman of the Council of Deputies (‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’), had received assurances from the new OS puppet-Government, that the military establishment will cointinue its current structure, and its leadership will stay the same within the new puppet ‘unity government’, as expected.
Quoted “Arab News” for these sources, the puppet-OS gave BOTH the members of the ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’ (Council of Deputies), and the Allaotunai (GNC) Congress of the MB rat eastern region, the same guarantees (!!!! impossible).
As for the survival of the military within the political agreement, the conditions were set by Saleh Issa Aguila, for approval of the puppet (so-called) ‘government of national reconciliation’.
According to the same sources, the side meetings included the Chairman of the Council of Deputies (‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’) and the deans of the tribes of the eastern region, he added, in addition to the deputies held yesterday on the guarantees provided by the ‘puppet-OS’ since a prelude to put through by the ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’ session on Monday.
The sources said that Saleh is still insisting on the approval of the ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’s full redress to the political agreement to agree to sign it, a forthcoming session today after hours.
It is noteworthy that Saleh Issa Aguila, the chair-deputy MP heading the ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’, is coming under pressure from the deans of the tribes stationed in eastern Libya,
during meetings held with him in the eastern region-areas (“or packages and middleware”), the last few days before agreeing to the signing of the political agreement;
and they will NOT go to the announcement, by the puppet ‘Government OS’ parallel in conjunction with the ending of the MB rats General National Congress (Allaotunai Confernce) state in Tripoli .
Cil al-Nwab will be held tomorrow chaorah hearing about al-Ag al-Ssayas ..
Aboubacr Baarh:
The United Nations demands to impose Skhirat agreement upon Libya, even by FORCE, Blackmailing Libya’s future, said the ‘Libyan Council of Deputies’ (‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab’) member ‘Abu camel reel’.
The UN envoy to Libya German, Martin Kobler, characterized not flexible enough, noting that walking towards the implementation of the political agreement, which his predecessor had prepared Bernardino León, with its errors. As ‘Camel’ put it, during a phone call to him on Thursday on the channel “Arab tomorrow.”
In rejecting the international community’s Libyan ‘Libyan dialogue’, the United Nations wants to impose Skhirat agreement on the Libyan people, forceably—
‘Camel’ pointed-out that the people will not accept anything that is imposed upon them, whether they are commandments from any quarter. ‘Camel’ added that the UN envoy was trying to the impose the agreement forceably upon Tobruk in its original entirety without any change, at a time when this agreement was unanimously rejected by the East, specifically in Cyrenaica, because of the lack of guarantees for the leaders of the Army, which is fighting terrorism in the city of Benghazi.
Citizen ‘Ahmad Abusciba’ was kidnapped near the diabetes clinic in Sabha.
Killing of ‘Aghannaa Bouchras Amr Akaddava (Khatri)’ in front of his mother !
BARAK CHAT’AI:
ADA AHATI:
Two cases infected with malaria in the District area of Ada ahati.
Video: Old Soviet missiles destroy Saudi Abrams tanks in Yemen
Posted: 25 Aug 2015 16:16 GMT | Last updated: 25 Aug 2015 16:19 GMT
https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/184076-video-tanques-abrams-sauditas-fagot-sovietico
http://es.rt.com/3y18
Yemeni forces have posted an Internet video with the destruction of two US Army M1 Abrams tanks to Saudi Arabia.
US Marine Corps / Illustrative image
Yemeni territory invasion by ground troops armed with Saudi American military equipment, including M1 Abrams tanks, immediately led to losses of tanks.
Judging from the video, Houthi rebels are armed with anti-tank guided missiles obsolete Soviet-made Fagot.
However, an impact of the missile on the side of the turret caused an impressive detonation of munitions into the tank.
The detonation of ammunition located at the rear of the turret is the Achilles heel of US tanks and leaves no chance of surviving the tankers.
Precisely for this reason Russian engineers developed new tanks Armata with turret uninhabitable.
The Fagot anti-tank missile system was developed in the Tula Design Bureau and adopted by the Soviet Army in 1970. The weapon includes a portable launcher with team guided missiles and 9M111. The missile range is two kilometers and shaped charge warheads are capable of piercing armor 600 mm thick.
ADEN:
al-MANSURA:
Militants loyal to former puppet Yemeni president ‘Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi’.
The militia leader of Hadi’s military, dies in al-Mansura, Southern, Yemen
A commander of the militia supportering former (legally resigned) Yemeni puppet-president Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, died in a shootout in the southern province of Aden.
As reported Thursday the Egyptian news portal ‘Youm7’, gunmen fired shots from a vehicle, against Ahmad al-Idrisi, in the port city of
al-Mansura, killing the the Saudiis puppet-commander and five of his paramilitaries.
http://hispantv.com/newsdetail/Yemen/199328/comandante-fuerzas-mansur-hadi-aden-tiroteo
al-Qathafi calls to Allah in Africa, and fights false Western missionary movement, which is ‘invading’ Africa.
(Mu’ammar Invites us to the way of Our Lord, with wisdom and good advice.)
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An important and very serious: my brothers and my dear ones and friends you have shared with you before the news of defectors disease days has Atbutt tests that a patient with a particular form of cancer began undergoing chemotherapy knowing that he was suffering from severe pain, has been with him every opportunity to rest and sleep and falling weight and no longer addresses from lunch to medicine .
Coinciding with his illness, I learned that a friend of mine and his father’s illness the same disease and spread of the disease in an advanced stage of his body; so that doctors asked them to take him to the house waiting for him to Stefae.
Began one of his daughters browsing the Internet Fthert on videos for fruit claims to a group of people she treated by fruit called ‘graviola germinate’ only in the Amazon region, there are some marketers have Bhowlanda and Spain enable my friend to get the amount of which dealt with his father in a matter of three days grandfather result was amazing significantly improved the health status of the father of my friend yellowing decline in the proportion in the disappearance of his body and holistic pain told me the subject and gave me the amount of fruit used by defectors since the last Thursday and until this moment.
I swear by Allah Almighty that the impact of this fruit like a miracle and praise be to Allah Almighty and the Almighty. Pain that was with him Nau m Akhasamh disappearance and Akhasamna all restore appetite. Eliminate the possibility of the restoration of basic needs such as going to the toilet, eating, drinking and sleeping things which seemed impossible to us in the counter.
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We ask Allah, to give speedy recovery for all. Do not forget the back of the unseen good prayers and healing Btafraj placebo patients Muslims.
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On this special Day
Mu’ammar al-Qathafi celebrating the ‘birth of Mohammed (PBUH)’ 28 JANUARY 2011.
12th of Rabie al-Awwal:
Capetown, S.A.:
In Syro-Aramaic, a language that preceded Arabic, the word “Muhammad” isn’t a name but a *title* defined as “The Anointed One/Chosen One”.
of this night:
Bishop FULTAN SHEEN:
“The Holy Qur’an has many passages concerning the Blessed Virgin. First of all, the Holy Qur’an believes in her Immaculate Conception, and also, in her Virgin Birth…..The Holy Qu’ran also has verses on the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity. Angels are pictured as accompanying the Blessed Mother and saying, Oh Mary, Allah has chosen you and purified you, and elected you above all the women of the earth. In the 19th chapter of the Holy Qu’ran there are 41 verses on Jesus and Mary. There is such a strong defense of the virginity of Mary here that the Holy Qur’an, in the fourth book, attributes the condemnation of the Jews, to their monstrous calumny against the Virgin Mary.
Mary, then, is for the Muslems the true Sayyida, or Lady. The only possible serious rival to her in their creed would be Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed himself. But after the death of Fatima, Mohammed wrote: ‘Thou shalt be the most blessed of women in Paradise, after Mary.’ In a variant of the text Fatima is made to say; ‘I surpass all the women, except Mary.’ “
Wednesday، 25 Dec 2013
On the Occasion of Christmas
Jesus Christ in the Holy Qur’an
S.D
Mary had withdrawn into the Temple, where she was visited by the angel Gabriel who brought the glad tidings of a holy son. The Quran states that God sent the message through the angel Gabriel to Mary, that God had honored her among the women of all nations. The angel also told Mary that she would give birth to a pure son, named Isa (Jesus), who would be a great prophet, to whom God would give the Gospel. The angel further told Mary that Jesus would speak in infancy and maturity and be a companion to the most righteous. When this news was given to Mary, she asked the angel how she could conceive and have a child when no man had touched her. The angel replied:
‘Even so: Allah createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, ‘Be,’ and it is!” [Holy Qur’an – 3:45-48]
Let’s read what is narrated in the Holy Qur’an:
”Behold! The angels said, ‘Oh Mary! God gives you glad tidings of a Word from Him. His name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honor in this world and the Hereafter, and in (the company of) those nearest to God. He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. He shall be (in the company) of the righteous… And God will teach him the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel”’ [3:45-48].
The Holy Qur’an, therefore, states that Jesus was created from the act of God’s will. The Quran compares this miraculous creation of Jesus with the creation of Adam, where God created Adam by his act of will (kun-fa-yakun, meaning ”Be and it is.”). According to the Quran, the same answer was given to the question of Zechariah, when he asked how his wife, Elizabeth, could conceive a baby, as she was very old.
The Quran narrates the virgin birth of Jesus numerous times. The Quran states that Mary was overcome by the pains of childbirth. During her agony and helplessness, God provided a stream of water under her feet from which she could drink. Furthermore, near a palm tree, Mary was told to shake the trunk of the palm tree so that ripe dates would fall down and she could eat and be nourished. Mary cried in pain and held onto the palm tree, at which point a voice came from ”beneath her”, understood by some to refer to Jesus, who was yet in her womb, which said, ”Grieve not! Your Lord has provided a water stream under you; And shake the trunk of the palm tree, it will let fall fresh ripe dates upon you. And eat and drink and calm thy mind.” That day, Mary gave birth to her son Jesus in the middle of the desert.
Mary carried baby Jesus back to her people. The Quran goes on to describe that Mary vowed not to speak to anyone that day, as God was to make Jesus, who Muslims believe spoke in the cradle, perform his first miracle. The Quran goes on to narrate that Mary then brought Jesus to the temple, where she was immediately ridiculed by all the temple elders. But Zachariah believed in the virgin birth and supported her. The elders accused Mary of being a loose woman and having touched another man while unmarried. In response, Mary pointed to her son, telling them to talk to him. They were angered at this and thought she was mocking them, by asking them to speak with an infant. It was then that God made the infant Jesus speak from the cradle and he spoke of his prophecy for the first time. He said, which are verses 19:30-35 in the chapter of Mary in the Holy Qur’an:
”He spoke, surely! I am the slave of Allah. He hath given me the scripture and hath appointed me a prophet;
He made me to be blessed wherever I am, and He has charged me with prayer and charity for as long as I shall live.
And (hath made me) dutiful toward her who bore me, and hath not made me arrogant, unblest.
Peace on me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!
Such was Jesus, son of Mary; (this is) a statement of the truth concerning which they doubt.
It befitteth not (the majesty of) Allah that he should take unto himself a son. Glory be to him! When he decreeth a thing, he saith unto it only: be! And it is.”
According to Islamic texts, Jesus was divinely chosen to preach the message of monotheism and submission to the will of God to the Children of Israel (banī isrā’īl).
”Christ, the son of Mary, was no more than a messenger; many were the messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how God makes His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth!” [Quran – 5:75].
”When Jesus came with Clear Signs, he said: ‘Now I have come to you with Wisdom, and in order to make clear to you some of the (points) on which you dispute. Therefore, fear God and obey me. God, He is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him – this is a Straight Way.’ But sects from among themselves fell into disagreement. So woe to the wrongdoers, from the penalty of a Grievous Day!” [Holy Qur’an – 43:63-65].
Muslims believe that Jesus was a precursor to Muhammad, and that he announced the latter’s coming. They base this on a verse of the Quran wherein Jesus speaks of a messenger to appear after him named Ahmad. Islam associates Ahmad with Muhammad, both words deriving from the h-m-d triconsonantal root which refers to praiseworthiness. Muslims also assert that evidence of Jesus’ pronouncement is present in the New Testament, citing the mention of the Paraclete whose coming is foretold in the Gospel of John. Muslim commentators claim that the original Greek word used was periklutos, meaning famed, illustrious, or praiseworthy – rendered in Arabic as Ahmad; and that this was replaced by Christians with parakletos.
Common ground with Christianity
Isa is the son of a virgin named Maryam (”Mary” in English), who is a role model for the faithful women. Isa is a prophet filled with the Holy Spirit [Quran – 2:87] and the Messiah in both religions (but the Christians add that besides having a human nature, he would be God too, which the Quran clearly denies). Isa is the ”word of truth” [Quran – 19:34]. Isa, through God’s power and will, cures the blind and the leper, raises the dead to life and know what is hidden in the hearts [Quran – 3:49]. And Isa will come back at the end of times.
According to Islam, Jesus never died on the cross, nor ever wanted to die on the cross, nor ever was born to die on the cross. Muslims believe that Jesus was sentenced to death, and people thought that he got executed on the cross. The Holy Quran rejects this idea, and claims that it is a false one. Jesus never died on the cross,
nor he ever died for anyone’s sins. Let us look at what the Holy Qur’an says about this issue:
”That they rejected Faith; that they uttered against Mary: A grave false charge;
That they said (in boast): ‘We killed Christ Jesus, The son of Mary, The Messenger of Allah.’ But they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjunction to follow, for of a surety they killed him not.
Nay, Allah raised him up Unto Himself; and Allah Is Exalted in Power, Wise.
And there is none of the people of the book (Jews and Christians) But must believe in him (Jesus) before his death; And on the Day of Judgment He (Jesus) will be a witness against them.” [Holy Qur’an – 4:156-159]
(View of the room)
(PICTURE ABOVE) NATO’s Foreign Ministers meet in Turkey 2015
IS AMERICA LOSING ITS ‘POWER’ OVER EUROPE ?
‘LIBYAN KNIGHT’, informs, and explains in his opinions:
“…Saleh Issa Aquila (Of TOBRUK’s ‘MAJLIS al-Nuwaab‘) did not hesitate to send his representative to Moscow. General Hftar does not hide spins explicit from Russia. He, perhaps, picks up the message dictated, and this saves him, in his similar support, as is in the case with Syria.
The fighter and followers in Tripoli are divided between supporters of dreams, which share a piece of the cake, and his removal from the lists of sanctions; and, between shows read next presenting an offering of settlement.
The OS (UNO’s forceably imposed ‘guardian government’ for Libya) was the last ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood hair that falls-out (so that at-last, they rule). And now, the country is on a ‘Hot Tin-Roof’.
The ‘fall of the West slogans of liberation’ and even the stability of republican-democracy.
They are spring and fall al-Obabil birds, and curiosity and (so-called) ‘friends of Libya’ and scared Sarkozy Nations and the legitimacy and transparency of its envoys.
And cheering turned to the West and critics of Russia’s non-participation in the Odyssey to the West; and, the unbelievers pilgrims to Moscow, individually and collectively.
Success in Russia to convince a lot regionally and internationally as an effective and able to bring about the balance of power, making it the kiss each competitors to the West, or affected by its policies. Moscow received delegations of Iraq and the Kurds in Turkey and before them the benefit of its embassy in Sanaa (YEMEN).
Russia’s success in bringing about a rift within the European system, which has become the difference between them, in a clear events, continued between the US and between the role of the researcher to assess the role of investigating his interests. This is Maabbar, as Vladimir Putin recently said,
“The problem in Europe is its not pursuing an independent foreign policy, as they are have handed over part of their sovereignty to NATO …which is basicly, in the first place, to America.“
Perhaps France and Italy are the two most distant from America and closer to Russia. It seems clear from recent statements by French Foreign Minister and the Defence Minister’s visit to Moscow and published in ‘Le Figaro’, that France, is determined now to being more effectively in the position of Syria and Libya (in coordination with Russia) regardless of America’s approval or not.
The so-called ‘UN Security Council’ calls for TRIPOLI’s militias to provide full support, and support for any assistance requested by the Government of clients (OS) in order to play its role as the ‘legitimate government’ and a single in the country. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(T and O Linha freedom group Gahaar 17)
Melcaat ‘Dawn Libya’ vows to begin firing bullets at all in favor of the so-called (Western)-puppet ‘government of national reconciliation’ (goody !!)
The UN, their ‘negotiating table’ and colonialism
Colonialism is the domain of a nation or a regime, on the territories and peoples outside its right.
‘Knight LIBYAN’, reviews for us, and comments upon, happinings now and of the relevent recent past:
Plane down force of American Marines personal with their weapons ‘Wattaya base’ without any prior coordination and without any formal statement reveals the details of the operation. Vertical plane (COPTER) and dropped off a number of Italian soldiers on board the ‘oil tanker Anwar Libya’ near ‘mullet field’ (in the Western Region) and has searched for two hours and everyone is in silent mode. al-Kaza and Italian Paolo walk after visiting Prairie (CYRENAICA) supervised in Tripoli to form a protection force.
And the absence of full to the owners of positions and ranks and medals whom Sdawa our heads of ‘Dignity’ and the rats’ ‘Dawn Libya’, the ‘Army and Liberation Forces’, as if all their cause Pisces (WHALE MARKET in BENGHAZI) and conflict .. al-Sabri market (such as ‘Dawn Libya’, our praiseworthy ‘Dignity’ troops and goodness and towers were slogans of the great deception).
* Government formed by Léon, who (Gvhm) for a professional contract in Dubai. Then they went all the heroes after his departure. And because they are hypocrites, Allah wanted to unmask them.
Endowed with all the victories, Martin Kòbler, who did not do, but with the planned Western establishment of which was written by Lèon. There came deputies (red line): The members of the Allaotunai (GNC) Conference (launched call) welcomed the Generals (Doom for the MISURATA bulldozers) not later than the leaders (the prohibition of external interference) welcomed the leaders (the establishment of the law of Allah) and cheered leaders (not to tyrants) and sped cities (the spark, steadfastness and knights). And turning everyone from dissidents to Mgpovin Harem Sultan, in the house of obedience .. (Atjtma for treason with modesty).
* Libyan Fighting Group a wave of betrayal and broken covenants and
reviews, under the temptation to deceive ‘the West’ and the ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood, were leading. And I committed all haram.
But today we are finally aware, that they openly used a Trojan horse; and its members began to see nightmares bags Orange allowance. Especially after they discovered the ‘Brotherhood betrayal’ and breach of some cadres, led by Belhadj, who was behind the assassination and the arrest of some of its Brotherhood members.
And detailed reports on the crimes of looting money and murder, torture and contacts with terrorist groups in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Algeria which ‘applies resolutions of the United Nations’. All that information ready when al-Obabil (birds) may soon come to the accusation table with long wanted lists. All that will change the alliances and enmities; and tomorrow’s roadmap, inevitably, will not be Kaloms .. (awakening in lost time).
* As in 2011, the media was able to draw a compass mind to change slogans instead of thinking about the prohibition of bringing the Crusaders and the betrayal of nations to open their doors to the ‘guardianship’ of subordination by foreign dictations.
Management of the media today, has also changed the compass of reason, as to what the puppet ‘Government of OS’ can and has already achieved under the chaos, instead of thinking about how these choices, [and I choose in the way of insult and humiliation which] blow up the so-called ‘international community’of all their hypocratic slogans of freedom, democracy and expression… which emphasizes the people’s choice for their own regime and not be led by anyone imposing it .. (modern methods in framing and directing the mind thinking).
* As (in 2011), Abdul Jalil came with ‘international support’ for change and his successor Cape slogans peaceful transfer to Zidane and his successors, among fake slogans of ‘development and reconstruction’ (MB), the new OS puppet-regime comes again with slogans ‘to achieve security, peace and reconciliation’. (Multiple logos, names and one death. Aatalmon and stupid to repeat an important lesson. Like a donkey carrying books).
And, through you, dear green honest ...
MEDIA NEWS REPORTING:
‘KNIGHT LIBYAN’, comments:
FIRST, early in 2011, ‘NEWSWISE’: Condi-Rice ‘doctor’ became deputy parliament (boldly). And was selected to the fact the name of the newspaper (intelligently). And managed the professional journalist dialogue (with confidence). And specialized edition hastily Press (perfectly). And supervised by a cell of activists, editors and directors (subtly). And dissemination vendors with laughter from the heart (Bchwi). And circulated by the masses of the two phones and cheerleaders (Baloaid and threat) until the court yard of the local channels and radio stations and seminars intellectuals and preachers fields and screens.
The newspapers (particularly ‘al-Jazeera’) spread like wildfire, because the hearts and minds and souls that want to hear the truth. But the reporting was incompatible with the (facts) ‘al-Viaqra’ and mercenaries and infidelity and collective massacres and aerial bombardment by Israeli aircraft, and leaked Tdoualha all symbols of ’17 February’, but were seen in the presses only the ‘pre-concocted fake’ CIA’s presentation of the ‘Arab Spring’ and even the so-presumed ‘goodness’ of the ‘United Nations and the (purposely falsely named) ‘Friends of Libya’.
When the newspaper was printed and distributed and read and traded. The combination grow up in front of Levy. And chanting for an advisory opinion al-Obabil (birds). And give the coordinates. (Adbhon and both still deny it !)
You are being lied to the newspapers! .. I did not lie.
This is the truth? .. Yes is the nail on the head.
Spring is the reality of style; and the fact is, that ’17 February ethics’ are the sole real values of the West.
This Is the truth, which was one of the main reasons for the arrival of fleets of 28 nuclear state.
Is the truth behind the deaths of tens of thousands of Libyans from the children and families of Tomahawk missiles were to pick up the remaining bags of them in smart bombs and cadres of the armed people among the missing and split and hewn hunted down satellite. And millions displaced between home and tents being imprisoned abroad.
Is the truth that will meet everyone face of God where Anato hopes to Abnon dignity not to blow.
You may forget about it. But have you ever asked yourself what would you say when you stand in front of the truth. Standing in front of the victims and displaced persons and the suffering and oppressed.
You may rest assured your conscience that you did not participate. But did you know that both of the cadre within the newspaper or Mrdd what came in or exploiter of what came in. Or silent on where you Manscher partner in all that blood and tears and suffering.
Haaratk has changed to ‘Dawn Libya’.
But the guilt of Aizul the statute of limitations. And sin Aivhb change the logo. Allah will niot find forgettable the ‘ 1973 Security Council Resolution’. The book Aagadr large nor small but learns them.
Many of the participants died. And the rest will not outdo the Angel of Death. Short life. The money will not take it with you. Authority Sttrkha. Only your business and your words will not benefit you. Are you ready for the question and the account and punishment. Regret it day to Ainf remorse. (Day unjust bite on his hands say I wish I had taken a way with the Prophet. O Welty wish I had not taken a close friend So and so) …
Ibrahim Dabbashi, through his personal story, describes transferred false moral decadence of the news channels.
The release of one of the country are free:
‘Ahanih Nasr bin Ramadan Kdavy Omly’, a chauffer for Muammar al-Qathafi, after five years of captivity from prisons of Msran-hala-gramah.
“Abu Zaid Dorda was echoed throughout the events of ’17 February’, in response to the Americans and NATO statements:
‘They have all options on the table and that means the defeat of their choices; but, we we have only one choice: to stand with the leader and the defense of the country until the end.’ “
RAS JEDIR (IGDAR):
Here are glorious bounties permeated to the Libyan people:
15 trucks of relief intervention at Tunisian-crossing Ras Jadir/ Igdir (Agdar) to Libya. 13 N° 2 trucks and a Southern to TRIPOLI.
REMOVAL by FORCE:
Western Army troops have completely encircled the road to the rail, where is the headquarters of the GNC’s prime minister; and it has been transmitted by the news, that he must be ‘handing-over’ the presidential residence to the new puppet-‘phantom’ OS government.
Abduction of Inventory ‘Baheej al-Kash’ of ‘City CORNER’ who was once an aide to terrorist ‘Abu Obeida angular’.
Janzour militias close Bridge Rd 17:
O.S.:
Abd Aty al-Khalqy’s body found near the ‘Sahaba Mosque’,
area OS Musharraf team glory.
The client called ‘Atahir Bachaga’, one of the main leaders of the ‘Roma Libya’, and one of the leading killers in the massacre at Gharghour, and owner of the famous phrase
“I will not get out of Tripoli, but in coffins, and Tripoli did not see after the war.”
Here is the day lose the ability to walk and finally his body began in fermentation..
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Oesel Ahmad Aboghalahm a child, was kidnapped from
in front of the ‘Hawks school district’ in Andalus.
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Lens: Mohammed Victor
One of the administrative border protection ,,,, Brigades
Site at the ‘Hamada red’.
A tribute to the men who Ivodhun crumbs for the protection of the municipality of the administrative borders of Zintan in this cold winter.
‘Zintan operations room’ a partagé la photo de
‘force supporting the security directorates of the western and southern region and South Committee for the “200” ‘, seized last night, in collaboration with the ‘Special Forces’ (at ‘Aghannaamh gate’), 80 liters of ‘homemade wines’ (Bukha).
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IDC: Detachable Tablet Sales for the Enterprise Are Booming
Amy Groden-Morrison Feb 08, 2016
If you believed many news reports, you'd believe that tablets were dead in the enterprise, victim to the overall trend of shrinking tablet sales. But the exact opposite is true. While worldwide, tablet sales are down 13.7% in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to a year previous, sales of the tablets most popular in enterprises --- detachables --- hit an all-time high in the quarter. So says the most recent results from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker.
Sales of pure tablets, those not designed to attach to keyboards, was off a full 21.1%, the report says. But the sales of detachables, the report concludes, more than doubled in the quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. Detachables include the Microsoft Surface line as well as the new, large iPad Pro. The report says that the iPad Pro was the top-selling detachable in the quarter.
Why Detachables Are Growing So Fast
Why are detachables becoming so popular? Because they're being used in the enterprise, often in place of more expensive PCs. Jean Philippe Bouchard, Research Director, Tablets at IDC, says, "One of the biggest reasons why detachables are growing so fast is because end users are seeing those devices as PC replacements. We believe Apple sold just over two million iPad Pros while Microsoft sold around 1.6 million Surface devices, a majority of which were Surface Pro and not the more affordable Surface 3. With these results, it's clear that price is not the most important feature considered when acquiring a detachable - performance is."
There's good reason that detachable use is growing in the enterprise. It's not just that they save companies money because they're typically less expensive than PCs. For much work, they're also superior to PCs, particularly when it comes to using interactive forms, or for applications that require touch. They're also much lighter and easier to carry tham=n laptops.
The upshot of all this? If you're a mobile app developer, no need to worry about reports of plunging tablet sales. When it comes to the enterprise, sales of tablets are full speed ahead.
To get a copy of the full IDC report, click here.
To read why tablets will rule the enterprise, click here.
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“Hey Babe” was produced by Gary Smith (Pixies, Throwing Muses, Blake Babies), and was originally released on Mammoth Records back in 1992. The album featured a bevy of guest players, including Mike Watt, Evan Dando, John Wesley Harding, Clay Tarver, Chick Graning, and Todd Philips.
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Comprehensive Healthcare with Maxima
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It is a human’s nature that everybody wants to get the best of its kind products and services. Similarly, when it comes to health insurance, people want to have a comprehensive plan that could offer maximum coverage. They want to enjoy life to the fullest and thus, want cover that can include all their medical bills.
Insurers have brought numerous medical insurance products to offer the required healthcare cover to the Indian citizens, but among them, there are very few plans could fulfil this volition. One such comprehensive coverage offering plan that is known as India’s first 360 degree product is Maxima, brought by Apollo Munich, a joint venture between the Apollo Group of Hospitals and Munich Health. Both the partners are well experienced in the field of healthcare and insurance. Thus, the company has successfully launched this plan, ‘Maxima’, the most extensive coverage offering medical insurance plan.
One of the unique aspects of this plan is that it offers cover not only to inpatient expenses, but also to outpatient expenses, up to a certain limit. Thus, one gets coverage for both big and small illnesses and need not have to worry about his/her medical bills. The ‘Maxima’ plan comes with a long list of benefits for its customers such that they get the overall coverage. A few of these benefits are as follows:-
Inpatient Basis
Like other health insurance plans, ‘Maxima’ also offer coverage to in-patient treatment expenses that are incurred due to an illness or an accident. It includes medical expenses for room rent, nursing, boarding expenses, ICU, surgical appliances, anaesthesia, medical practitioners, medicines, blood, oxygen, diagnostic procedures, operation theatre charges, cost of prosthetic or any device, if implanted during a surgical practice.
In addition to it, the cover includes pre- and post-hospitalization expenses.
Pre-hospitalization coverage includes treatment expenses incurred for 30 days, immediately before a policy holder was hospitalized.
Post-hospitalization coverage includes medical expenses incurred in 60 days immediately after the policy holder discharges.
Both these benefits are subjected to the condition that the cause of these expenses and hospitalization should be the same. The number of days for which coverage is offered increases to 60 days in pre-hospitalization and 90 days in post-hospitalization, if claim is intimated 5 days before hospitalization (in case of planned hospitalization).
A policy holder also gets cover for 140 Day-care procedures, which include minor surgical treatments which do not require hospitalization for more than 24 hours. The inpatient treatment coverage further includes domiciliary treatment, which include medical expenses incurred for availing medical treatment at home, which would have otherwise required hospitalization.
It continues to offer cover to organ donor, (in an event of organ transplantation) and emergency ambulance charges for transporting an insured from the place where an accident occurred to a hospital, subject to maximum of Rs.2000. It also includes daily cash for choosing shared accommodation and for accompanying an insured child.
Outpatient Basis
An individual buying ‘Maxima’ is entitled to consultation coupons, which can be used for seeking advice in specified network of hospitals by a general Medical Practitioner(s) or a specialist Medical Practitioner(s). One can also go and consult doctor in non-network hospital, if desired. In this case, he or she gets the specific amount of money reimbursed (as per plan’s terms and conditions) in return of consultation coupon.
A policy holder also gets coverage for diagnostic tests within specified network of diagnostic laboratories. These tests should not necessarily be prescribed by network Medical Practitioner. One can also get cover for pharmacy within specified network, subject to the condition that these medicines have been prescribed in writing by a Medical Practitioner (not necessarily to be Network Medical Practitioner).
‘Maxima’ further offers coverage to any required dental cure taken by an insured from a network dentist, subject to the condition that it shall not include any dental cure that consist of cosmetic treatment. It also includes cover for spectacles, contact lenses within specified network, subject to condition that these have been prescribed for the policy holder by an eye specialist network Medical Practitioner(s). Furthermore, one also gets entitlement certificate for annual health check-up within specified network.
There is a limit of each and every of the outpatient coverage module, which is clearly stated in policy wordings of the plan.
Optional Benefits
Policy holders get optional coverage for critical illnesses on payment of additional premium. In an event of an insured getting diagnosed with any of the covered major disorder, an insured is provided with lump sum payment, which is subject to the plan’s terms and conditions. Here, the plan offers cover to eight major illnesses, which are first heart attack, coronary artery surgery, paralysis, kidney failure, stroke, major organ transplantation, cancer and multiple sclerosis.
One can also opt for maternity coverage, if desired, this part of benefits work on principle of benefit that pays an insured lump sum money in an event of child birth. This coverage can be availed only after 4 years of policy issuance, as that is a waiting period associated with the same. The amount a person gets depend upon a condition whether it is a normal or caesarean delivery. One can also opt for optional coverage for new born baby for first 90 days, if desired.
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UAE's Azizi awards $410m contracts for massive Dubai project
Two contractors have been appointed to build 32 buildings with 4,000 units in Azizi Victoria
UAE-based Azizi Developments said on Wednesday it has awarded two contracts worth AED1.5 billion ($410 million) for the construction of phase 1 of Azizi Victoria.
Two contractors have been appointed to build 32 buildings with 4,000 units. Green Modelling Contracting has been appointed to construct 16 buildings and Modern Civil International Contracting Company will build the remainder.
Construction will begin immediately and is due to be completed in the third quarter of 2019.
Mirwais Azizi, chairman of Azizi Group said: “Azizi Developments has developed a strong reputation in the market for its ability to develop multiple mega-projects and deliver them ahead of schedule.
"Our goal for 2018 is to continue at the same rapid pace of development and ensure that we meet the growing demand for premier residential real estate in Dubai. The real estate sector in the emirate remains vibrant, driven by strong demand in certain key locations and we remain committed to delivering adequate supply to meet the aspirations of residents.”
Spread over a construction area of 33 million square feet, Azizi Victoria in Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum City – District 7 comprises 105 mid and high-rise residential buildings of 30,000 units of studio, one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments, a retail district and two hotels.
The project is twice the size of the Azizi Riviera development in Meydan One and has themes and elements influenced by contemporary British culture and way of living.
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Fusion Connect, Inc. – Files Third Amended 11 Plan and Revised Terms of $115mn Exit Facility and $225mn First Lien Facility, Confirmation Hearing Set for December 17th
by New Generation Researchon December 13, 2019
December 12, 2019 – The Debtors filed a Third Amended Plan which includes a blackline showing changes from the version of the Plan filed on November 8, 2019 [Docket No. 648]. In anticipation of a December 17th Plan confirmation hearing, the Debtors also filed (i) a Plan Supplement which includes revised exit financing documentation (terms detailed below); and details on directors and officers [Docket No. 656], (ii) the Debtors' memorandum in support of Plan confirmation [Docket No. 649] and (iii) Plan voting results [Docket No. 655].
The memorandum in support of Plan confirmation provides the following overview: "The Third Amended Plan undoubtedly achieves the purposes of chapter 11 in that it allows the Debtors to significantly deleverage their balance sheets, continue to operate ona going-forward basis and maintain, with minimum disruption, valuable services to approximately 60,000 customers. Importantly, the Third Amended Plan extinguishes approximately $411 million of debt and, through a stronger balance sheet, will enable the Reorganized Debtors to compete more effectively against competitors in its industry segment.
Contemporaneously herewith, the Debtors have filed a revised Third Amended Plan (the ‘Revised Third Amended Plan’). As reflected in the Revised Third Amended Plan and the Soldan Declaration, the First Lien Lender Group will provide the Debtors with the New Exit Facility in an aggregate amount of $115 million. The New Exit Facility will provide the Debtors with the necessary financing to satisfy their financial obligations while maintaining sufficient liquidity post-emergence."
The following is a summary of classes, claims, voting rights and expected recoveries showing no changes to (Defined terms are as defined in the Plan and/or Disclosure Statement):
Class 1 (“Priority Non-Tax Claims”) is unimpaired, presumed to accept and not entitled to vote on the Plan. The estimated recovery is 100.0%.
Class 2 (“Other Secured Claims”) is unimpaired, presumed to accept and not entitled to vote on the Plan. The estimated recovery is 100.0%.
Class 3 (“First Lien Claims”) is impaired and entitled to vote on the Plan. Aggregated allowed claims are $585.5mn and the estimated recovery is 60.0%–76.1%. Each holder will receive its pro rata share of (a) the First Lien Lender Equity Distribution; provided, that notwithstanding anything in the Second Amended Plan to the contrary, the distribution of the First Lien Lender Equity Distribution shall be made pursuant to, and subject to the terms and conditions of, the Equity Allocation Mechanism and (b) the loans under the New First Lien Credit Facility [NB: Cash in respect of any sale of the Canadian business has been removed]. According to the liquidation analysis: "The estimated recovery for Holders of First Lien Claims under the Plan is based on the valuation conclusions of the Debtors’ investment banker, PJT Partners, which estimated an enterprise value of $450 million to $550 million and a value of plan consideration to the First Lien lenders aggregating from $364 million to $462 million. The Debtors estimate that, using this valuation, Holders of First Lien Claims will receive a recovery ranging from 60% to 76% under the Plan. Under a chapter 7 liquidation it is estimated that Holders of First Lien Claims will receive a recovery ranging from 2% to 6%.”
Class 4 (“Second Lien Claims”) is impaired and entitled to vote on the Plan. Aggregated allowed claims are $85.0mn and the estimated recovery is 4.0%–6.9%. Each such holder shall receive on the Effective Date such holder’s Pro Rata share of the Second Lien Lender Special Warrant Distribution. According to the liquidation analysis: "The estimated recovery for Holders of Second Lien Claims under the Plan is based on the valuation conclusions of the Debtors’ investment banker, PJT Partners, which estimated an enterprise value of $450 million to $550 million and a value of plan consideration to the Second Lien lenders aggregating from $3.6 million to $6.1 million. The Debtors estimate that, using this valuation, Holders of Second Lien Claims will receive a recovery ranging from 4% to 7% under the Plan. Under a chapter 7 liquidation, Holders of Second Lien Claims are expected to receive no recovery.”
Class 5 (“General Unsecured Claims”) is impaired and entitled to vote on the Plan. The estimated recovery is NA. According to the liquidation analysis: “Holders of General Unsecured Claims will realize a recovery through interests in the Litigation Trust received under the Plan. The amount and percentage recovery of the interests in the Litigation Trust cannot be estimated because the outcome and the amount and allocation of net proceeds cannot be predicted at this time. The estimated recovery for Holders of General Unsecured Claims under a hypothetical chapter 7 liquidation is 0%.”
Class 6 (“Intercompany Claims”) is unimpaired, presumed to accept and not entitled to vote on the Plan. The estimated recovery is NA.
Class 7 (“Intercompany Interests”) is unimpaired, presumed to accept and not entitled to vote on the Plan. The estimated recovery is NA
Class 8 (“Parent Equity Interests”) is impaired, presumed to reject and not entitled to vote on the Plan. The estimated recovery is 0.0%.
Class 9 (“Subordinated Securities Claims”) is impaired, deemed to reject and not entitled to vote on the Plan. The estimated recovery is 0.0%.
Creditors of 19 individual Debtors were entitled to vote, in each case in respect of three classes comprised of holders of first lien claims (Class 3), second lien claims (Class 4) and general unsecured claims (Class 5). The voting in respect of Class 3 and Class 4 was identical (and unanimous) in respect of all 19 Debtors:
Class 3 (“First Lien Claims”) 111 holders, representing $572,297,206.69 (100%) in amount and 100% in number, accepted the Plan.
Class 4 (“Second Lien Claims”) 5 holders, representing $85,000,000.00 (100%) in amount and 100% in number, accepted the Plan.
As to class 5, the Plan was rejected in respect of the following Debtors: Bircan Holdings LLC, Fusion BCHI Acquisition LLC, Fusion CB Holdings Inc., Fusion Communications LLC, Fusion MPHC Group Inc., Fusion Management Services LLC, Fusion NBS Acquisition Corp., Fusion PM Holdings Inc., Fusion Telecom of Kansas LLC, Fusion Telecom of Missouri LLC, Fusion Telecom of Oklahoma LLC, Fusion Telecom LLC, Fusion Texas Holdings Inc. and Fusion MPHC Holding Corp Debtors have rejected the plan. A number of these rejections were de minimis in nature (ie a claim of $1 resulting in a rejection). The largest claim voting against the Plan was a $3.0mn claim voted in respect of Fusion BCHI Acquisition LLC.
The Plan was accepted, however, in respect of the following Debtors: Fusion Cloud Co., LLC, Fusion Cloud Services LLC, Fusion Connect, Fusion LLC and Fusion Telecom of Texas Ltd.
Exit Financing
The Plan Supplement attaches revised term sheets (and related blacklines) in respect of the Debtors' proposed (i) New First Lien Facility and (ii) New Exit Facility; the terms of which are summarized as follows:
New First Lien Facility
Borrower: Reorganized FCI (the “Borrower” or the “Company”).
Guarantors: All of the obligations of the Borrower under the New First Lien Credit Agreement shall be guaranteed by each of the Reorganized Debtors and each of their non-Debtor subsidiaries (subject, in the case of non-domestic subsidiaries, to limitations consistent with the New Exit Facility) (collectively, the “Guarantors”; and Guarantors, together with the Borrower, the “Loan Parties”).
Facility: A junior secured term loan credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of $225.0mn (the loans made thereunder, the “New First Lien Term Loans").
Maturity Date: The date that is 5.5 years after the Closing Date (ie the Plan effectiveness date).
Interest Rates: Interest shall be paid at the LIBOR Rate plus the Margin. “Margin” means 8.00% per annum. The term “LIBOR Rate” will have a meaning customary for financings of this type (and in no event shall be less than 2.00%), and the basis for calculating accrued interest and the interest periods for loans bearing interest at the LIBOR Rate will be customary for financings of this type. During the continuance of a payment event of default, any overdue amount under the New First Lien Credit Documents, and during the continuance of a bankruptcy event of default, the New First Lien Term Loans and all other outstanding obligations will bear interest at an additional 2.00% per annum above the otherwise applicable interest rate. Any payment of interest will be subject to the requirements of the New Exit Facility as described in the New Exit Facility Term Sheet.
Amortization: None.
Collateral: The New First Lien Term Loans will be secured by a senior priority perfected security interest (junior to the liens securing the New Exit Facility Credit Agreement other than with respect to the Vector Subordinated Note Collateral) in substantially all present and after acquired property (whether tangible, intangible, real, personal or mixed) of the Loan Parties, wherever located, including, without limitation, all accounts, inventory, equipment, capital stock in subsidiaries of the Loan Parties, investment property, instruments, chattel paper, real estate, leasehold interests, contracts, patents, copyrights, trademarks and other general intangibles, and all products and proceeds thereof, subject to certain exceptions and materiality thresholds reasonably acceptable to the Requisite New First Lien Lenders (collectively, the ‘Collateral’).
Mandatory Prepayments: Customary for facilities of this type and reasonably acceptable to the Requisite New First Lien Lenders. Mandatory prepayments will, subject to the requirements of the New Exit Facility as described in the New Exit Facility Term Sheet, be required from 75% of Excess Cash Flow (to be defined), with step downs to 50% if the Leverage Ratio (to be defined as the ratio of total funded indebtedness, including capital leases, to EBITDA) is below 3.50:1.00 and 25% if the Leverage Ratio is below 2.75:1.00.
Financial Covenants: Customary for facilities of this type and reasonably acceptable to the Requisite New First Lien Lenders, but in any event to include a minimum EBITDA covenant, a maximum capital expenditures covenant and a maximum Leverage Ratio covenant, in each case with a 25% cushion to the then approved forecast.
New Exit Facility
Borrower: Fusion Connect, Inc., as reorganized pursuant to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings (the “Company”).
Guarantors: Each of the existing and future direct, indirect and wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company and the direct parent company of the Company (subject, in the case of non-domestic subsidiaries, to certain limitations as reasonably acceptable to the Lenders) (the “Guarantors”). Lenders: Certain lenders to be identified (collectively, the “Lenders”). Administrative Agent: To be acceptable to the Lenders (the “Agent”).
Exit Term Loan: $115.0mn Exit Term Loan (the “Exit Term Loan”) with the right (with Lenders’ approval) to increase the size of the Exit Term Loans to $150.0mn.
Use of Proceeds: The proceeds of the Exit Term Loan shall be applied (i) to refinance the DIP Facilities, (ii) to pay transaction fees and expenses, (iii) to pay vendor payments and other Chapter 11 exit costs, and (iv) for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
Maturity Date: The date that is 5 years after the Closing Date (the “Maturity Date,” with the Closing Date being the date that the Plan is declared effective).
Interest Rates: A floating rate of LIBOR + 9.50% with a 2.00% LIBOR floor, payable up to quarterly for LIBOR borrowings.
Facility Fee: 2.75% of the amount of the Exit Term Loan, payable to the Lenders on the Closing Date (the “Facility Fee”). The Facility Fee will be deducted from the proceeds of the Exit Term Loan as original issue discount.
Administration Fee: As agreed with the Agent, payable to the Agent annually in advance on the Closing Date and on each anniversary thereof.
Amortization: Exit Term Loan: Amortization of principal in equal quarterly installments in an amount equal to 10.00% per annum of the initial funded balance of the Exit Term Loan, with the outstanding amount due and payable on the Maturity Date.
Collateral: First lien on substantially all tangible and intangible assets and equity interests of the Company and each of the Guarantors, subject to customary permitted liens and subject to certain customary exceptions and materiality thresholds to be mutually agreed and excluding the Vector. Subordinated Note Collateral (as defined in the Company’s Final DIP Order (Docket No. 160), entered by the Bankruptcy Court on July 3, 2019).
Financial Covenants: Customary for facilities of this type and reasonably acceptable to the Lenders, but in any event to include a minimum EBITDA covenant, a maximum capital expenditures covenant and a maximum Gross Leverage Ratio covenant, in each case with a 202% cushion to the approved forecast provided by the Company’s management and acceptable to the Required Lenders.
Plan Supplement
The Supplement attached the following documents:
Exhibit A-1: New First Lien Facility Term Sheet.
Exhibit A-2: Redline of New First Lien Facility Term Sheet.
Exhibit B-1: New Exit Facility Term Sheet.
Exhibit B-2: Redline of New Exit Facility Term Sheet.
Exhibit C: Directors and Officers of Reorganized Debtors.
Exhibit D: Rosen Consulting Agreement.
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Juno USA, LP – Files Chapter 11 Plan and Related Disclosure Statement, Single Debtor Entity to Survive as Holder of Net Operating Losses, Emerge Serving Corporate Transportation Sector
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A Hidden American Treasure Comes to Revelatory Light (part 3 of 3): Sweating out a Poem
Title art-graphic with Suzanne Jackson, Rachel Reese, and Alonzo Davis on stage at Telfair Museums Jepson Center for the Arts. The screen above them is showing archival images from the Suzanne Jackson Five Decades art exhibit. (photo by Aberjhani for Bright Skylark Literary Productions)
Having refrained for years from attending any kind of party at all, I relaxed my self-imposed tension by mixing in a little work with a lot of fun. In a room next to the kitchen (which itself resembled an art installation) I saw a stack of books and, being the bookaholic I am, could not resist their pull.
Picture my surprise when discovering in the pages of Daniel Widener's Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles (2010), and Kellie Jones's South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017), extensive references to the woman of the hour. Also nearby was a copy of ELEMENTAL and seeing it made me feel like the spirit of our friend Luther had dropped in to support the launch with his blessings.
By the time of the party, I had already learned that as well as being a visual artist, Suzanne was a poet who had studied with the phenomenal Lucille Clifton (1936-2010). At least two volumes featuring poems by her had been published: What I Love: Paintings, Poetry, & a Drawing (1972), and Animals (1978). Her writing had also been included in notable anthologies like the Nikky Finney-edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007). Maybe I was hoping to find those among the stacked books as well but, to avoid becoming self-absorbed to a point of rudeness, I forced myself to step away and began taking photographs of Suzanne, different guests, and the lush greenery outside the house.
The symbolic images seen in Suzanne Jackson's 12-foot award-winning canvas "Passages" (1978, above) are described in the FIVE DECADES exhibition catalog as "associated with love, childbirth, and women painted in expressive acrylic layers." It hangs here in front of 1 of 7 display vitrines and next to other compelling works included in the Five Decades retrospective debut at the Telfair Museums Jepson Center for the Arts. (Bright Skylark Literary Productions photograph by Aberjhani ©2019)
I tried to avoid cameras myself, not because I felt shy but because for some unknown reason I had begun to sweat--not daintily "perspire" but ferociously SWEAT, like somebody fully-clothed in a sauna--and my shirt was getting soaked. No one else appeared to be having this problem. Reluctantly, when informed that Suzanne wanted an assistant to take a black-and-white photo of me for potential use in a publication, I consented. Soon afterwards, the sweating became too ridiculous and I couldn't figure out why so I said my good-byes and started walking toward my residence, located at the time on the other side of town.
About halfway there, an energized psychic push-and-pull began stirring in my skull and words started to assemble themselves in flashes and clusters. Phrases such as "painted star-fire" and "unmapped territories" swirled and glowed like special effects in a movie. Is this, I wondered, what all the heat which had started flowing through me at the party and forced me to leave before I was ready was all about? A ball of winged language was preparing to reveal itself in one form or another and left me no choice but to stop walking, grab from my shoulder bag a pen and piece of paper, and write the fragments down.
Cover of Suzanne Jackson Five Decades retrospective catalog. For information on closing tour of the retrospective and book signing with artist Suzanne Jackson click the image. (Cover art courtesy of Telfair Books)
Such experiences were not new to me but the way they sometimes manifested could still come as an unsettling disruption. This was such an instant and every other block I had to stop walking and start scribbling. By the time I got home, I had written a rough draft which looked like it could be the beginnings of a poem. Okay, I thought, I'll just leave it in this folder and go back to it next week sometime.
Except that it refused to wait.
Polychromatic Inked Pages
Over the next few days I kept feeling drawn back to the folder and added to the lines already written in black ink, more lines composed in green, red, and purple ink. Sometimes I wondered: was I writing a poem or painting one?
Eventually, the evolving draft was complete enough to take on the title Syllables Painted on a Suzannian Canvas. It was enough to type up and print a second, then later third and fourth drafts before finally settling on: Suzannian Algorithm Finger-Painted on an Abstract Wall. It fit, I thought, the words which had sweated themselves out, the polychromatic inked pages, and the artist in whose honor the work had been composed.
Table of contents from Suzanne Jackson Five Decades retrospective art exhibition catalog. In addition to artist Jackson and editor Rachel Reese, catalog contributors include: Betye Saar, Aberjhani, Melanee C. Harvey, julia elizabeth neal, & Tiffany E. Barber. (Page image courtesy of Telfair Books)
My hope to come up with an idea for an essay or poem for the planned catalog in a couple of months appeared instead to have become an accomplished mission in a few weeks. It seemed the poem, which in time would be accepted for the pages of the catalog, had started writing itself the moment I read the words HATE HAS NO HOME HERE on the sign in Suzanne's window. Or it may have started long before then, upon that first meeting during my 2004 Harlem Renaissance lecture and book signing at the Carnegie Branch Library.
Contemplating how the poem had unveiled itself, I considered it a direct response to the dynamic creative presences gathered that day in Suzanne's home, and to my observances of the current Harlem Renaissance Centennial. This was appropriate enough given the way Harlem Renaissance artists, musicians, writers, educators, and leaders often inspired and empowered each other's creative efforts and political agendas.
Countering Toxic Bigotries & Heinous Practices
The unprecedented advancements of the Harlem Renaissance on multiple cultural fronts helped counter the toxic bigotries and heinous practices of a time when many Americans, if not most, were still entrenched in unyielding mindsets forged during the death-throes of slavery as it was practiced in the 19th century. They remained so even as social, legislative, and technological progressions in the 20th century indicated those who insisted on holding onto delusions of white supremacy were doomed to agonizing personal and collective implosions.
Our present 21st-century hour bears a lot of similarities to the previous time-frame. Works by black artists supportive of progressive change mattered then as they do now because often found within them were/are important ingredients for remedies to what ails our bleeding and burning world the most. Ingredients like symbols of life-sustaining values and language encouraging actions motivated by compassion and mindfulness.
The recognition and celebration of Suzanne Jackson's achievements in this modern era when chaos and enmity command so much attention on a daily basis is a recognition and celebration of some of our better options for moving toward the next century. Her painted, poemized, and otherwise choreographed meditations offer us touchstones of remembrance and awareness. Those touchstones inspire individuals and communities to consider more deeply and more efficiently the choices which have brought humanity to this 2019 moment of quivering uncertainties, and, the options most likely to help us regain the advantages of higher ground and hopes now seemingly lost.
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How 2019 Turned into a Big Year for Literary Productions (part 2 of 2)
"Tears of the Children of the Sun" artwork by Aberjhani C2019.
Some of the publications at Issuu, like CONNECT Savannah, are simply digital editions of magazines for which I've written feature stories or poetry. Others employing my writings are new to me. What probably amazes me more than anything else is the scope of their ideological --from politics and social justice issues to spirituality and the creative arts--application of the works.
More often than not, their assessments of certain situations align with mine. Although we have not formally partnered to include my voice in various photo spreads, feature articles, or special sections, the sense of balanced perspectives sometimes creates the feeling we have.
Podcast Prospects 501. Exploring the treasured catalog of articles, fiction, memoir, nonfiction stories, essays, poetryt & art by Author-Poet Aberjhani for adaptation to podcasts & film.
It has been just as revealing to learn how much international territory the different publications cover as it has been to check out their aesthetic strategies. For example, both the Daily Times (April 2019) in Lagos, Nigeria, and African-American News & Issues (March 2019) have based themes of entire editorials on concepts expressed in a single quote which serves as the lead statement or primary point of discussion. One addresses political freedoms and responsibilities in a democratic society while the other focuses more specifically on the Black Lives Matter movement.
The AssiégéEs Citadel des Resistance (June 2015), based in France, employed my Guerrilla Decontextualization philosophy to enhance a penetrating (some might say crushing) ideological critique. Going in a completely different direction, popular writings from different books were also presented in publications like One Curvy Boutique (Feb 2018) in Florida, USA, with images celebrating healthy self-esteem in women:
Famous "Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends" haiku from The River of Winged Dreams setting the stage for One Curvy Boutique.]
The September 11 edition of OPUS 2016 features a well-known maxim from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, alongside the photographic artistry (referred to as "Burtography") of Brazil's (by way of New York) Burt Sun. Mr. Sun's incorporation of the text is particularly intriguing due to the fine art photographer's skillful juxtaposition of nude figure with apocalyptic environments. His work forces us to challenge definitions of obscenity and question the honesty of declaring the nude human form as indecent while granting license for the destruction of communities in the name of political, military, or monetary gain. In short, his images provoke the kind of reflections I generally hope my pen does.
This fine art photograph by Burt Sun, as indicated by the text on the left side, is titled Syrian Kitchen. The quote beneath the title, "This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back," is from the poem "The Homeless, Psalm 85:10," published in ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love.
These observations might strike some as stretching small events to make big statements. They are in fact much more than that. It means, and suggests, a great deal when an editor of Pakistan Today (June 2019) in Karachi, Pakistan, the fifth largest city in the world (est. population 14.91 million), employs an author's literary voice to launch a powerful examination of “The Politics of Megalomania.”
There are, however, certain kinds of enchantment which may rightfully be described as small because they likely mean more to me than anyone else. Such an instance occurred upon discovering the popular quotation, 'Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate,' had been published in Revista Medalhão Persa (January 2019) as part of a somewhat lyrical celebration of the city of Tabriz. Fans of the poetry of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi will forever recognize Tabriz as a place associated with Rumi's great spiritual companion: Shams. But according to the publication, Tabriz "for some scholars was also the site of no less than the Garden of Eden.”
Familiar Touchstones of Cultural Awareness
The simple point of all this is not only to further highlight for podcast and film producers the advantages of adapting for their platforms materials from the Bright Skylark Literary Productions catalog. It is to confirm the demonstrated appeal of a catalog of contemporary works to populations across the globe.
Quote from Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: "The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary." Presented in Nigeria's New Telegraph.
While I welcome the prospects of adaptation different works to podcasts and/or film, one of my primary goals as a writer has always been to help foster dialogues which strengthen humanity's capacity for world-sustaining co-existence. Years of producing unique literary compositions which evolved into familiar touchstones of cultural awareness have created an exciting momentum from which many can benefit. That would be a good thing to keep going as we approach the final quarter of 2019 and prepare to accomplish a potentially much stronger surge forward in the year 2020.
If you missed part 1 of this post please check it out by clicking right here. Below is the promised image gallery of some of the publications at Issuu featuring my work.
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"Migration of the Weary Blue Dreamers" artwork for title graphic by Aberjhani C2019.
What has been dubbed the second Golden Age of Television, the continuing growth of independent technology giants like Netflix and now Amazon, and independent digital media platforms have increased available outlets for adaptations of literary titles. That observation only matters if such titles themselves are also available. For the purposes of this discussion, it matters a great deal because of an abundance of such assets.
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At Bright Skylark Literary Productions, I've been very fortunate in 2019 to see the following: planned publication of long-term projects, the unexpected publication of new book editions in new formats, work included in an important forthcoming art catalog, the continuation of major titles in progress, and the launch of dynamic new undertakings. All of these have put the year 2019--with the year 2020 likely to follow suit-- on track to become a banner year for literary productions:
Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah (memoir published May 2019)
Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player (Amazon Kindle Edition paperback novel published May 2019)
Memoir on Impact of Author Flannery O'Connor's Legacy (completing edits)
Incandescent Wonder: the Art, Photography, & Poetry of Aberjhani (in progress)
Suzannian Algorithm Finger-Painted on Abstract Wall (poem, fall 2019 catalog for artist Suzanne Jackson's 5-Decades Retrospective)
Of Toni Morrison My Soul Sings (poem, fall 2019 African Voices Magazine)
"Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah" now available for ordering at Amazon.com and Cyberwit.net.
The innate quality of each of the above literary texts, based on long-standing Bright Skylark values, practices, and goals, lends itself to very effective multi-media film, audio, or digital treatment. Moreover, the recent discovery of a virtual cache of materials utilized by diverse publishers at Issuu demonstrate potential creative uses of it (although sometimes unauthorized) in ways I had not considered.
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The non-redacted fact of the matter is many publishers and fellow creatives leading up to this 2019 moment have honored my literary labors by requesting use of specific quotes or citations to lend stronger context and substance to particular projects. So it was not surprising to see those pop up in magazines such as the scholarly JSTOR, or in books like Australian novelist Dianne Wolfer's young adult thriller The Shark Caller.
Screenshot detailing number of documents published on Issuu along with stats on visitors visiting the site.
I was surprised, however, when one of my friendly tech-angels took it upon herself to research inclusion of my work by publishers on the Issuu digital platform and discovered an impressive collection of journal credits had been building up for at least a decade. That meant, unknown to me during all that time, my work had been published in digital pages (please see part 2 for details and photo gallery) accessed by millions of readers around the world on a regular basis. This provided further confirmation of various catalogue titles' and in-progress works' adaptability not only to multiple media formats like podcasts but to different cultural demographic contexts.
So what did I think about that?
NEXT: How 2019 Turned into a Big Year for Literary Productions (part 2)
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Home World Europe News Brussels Attacks: New Footage of Third Airport Suspect Released
Brussels Attacks: New Footage of Third Airport Suspect Released
A new footage of the key surviving Brussels airport attacks suspect, showing the route he took after leaving the area, has been released by Belgian prosecutors.
Prosecutors have asked members of the public who saw the man to come forward.
The man was tracked on CCTV footage until 09:50 local time and was wearing a hat and a light-colored jacket, officials said.
His trail was lost close to the EU institutions in Brussels’ city center, not far from Maelbeek metro station.
Prosecutors said the man had discarded the jacket, and have asked the public to report if it has been found.
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The Brussels attacks killed 32 people on March 22.
Three attackers are believed to have targeted the airport, with two dying in the bomb blasts. Another died in the metro attack.
The “man with the hat”, as prosecutors called him, was captured pushing a trolley at Brussels airport next to the two suicide bombers in previously released CCTV footage.
The new footage shows the suspect briefly running amongst passengers as they try to escape the scene at the airport, before walking some 6 miles over a two-hour period.
He was last seen about 40 minutes after the Maelbeek metro bombing.
Federal prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt asked for those who “might have filmed or taken a photograph of the suspect” or believe they have any useful information, to call 0800 30 300 FREE (in Belgium) or 00 32 25544488 (from abroad).
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This is the one food Ree Drummond refuses to serve
By Candy Kirby
You will never find this ubiquitous fruit at the Pioneer Woman's ranch.Facebook/The Pioneer Woman
After nearly eight years of whipping up Southern-style comfort dishes on the Food Network, and 13 years of writing about cooking on her popular blog, Ree Drummond certainly knows what she likes--and what she doesn’t like. Yes, even the laid-back “accidental country girl” has a culinary Achilles heel.
"I don’t like bananas," Drummond, aka Pioneer Woman, tells Design and Living Magazine. "I like to drive that point home."
She reiterated her disdain for the fruit in an interview with TODAY, exclaiming that she won’t go near “anything involving bananas.” Other words that she uses to describe her relationship with the fruit include “abhor, loathe and recoil.” Clearly, no love lost there. In fact, Drummond has abhorred, loathed and recoiled from bananas ever since she was a kid growing up in the big city of Los Angeles--a long way from the famously sprawling Oklahoma ranch she calls home today.
Despite her lifelong aversion, the Pioneer Woman has ventured to the dark side on occasion. In 2011, she surprised her Facebook fans with a rare banana-filled treat.
“I made something containing bananas today,” she wrote. “For those of you who know me, you know that this is monumental. I'll be posting the recipe--and whether or not I worked up the courage to try it--tomorrow! Love, The Lifelong Banana Hater.”
That surprise was bananas foster, joining the only other banana-related recipe on her blog: her mother’s recipe for banana bread.
Drummond admits that it was easier to face her fruit fears knowing booze was involved. Nevertheless, she recommends slicing the banana in its peel to avoid ever having to lay a finger on the--gasp!--mushy banana. “The evil might melt your fingertips!” she writes. She also suggests slicing them in bigger chunks to make them easier to remove when you’re finished. Despite dipping a spatula into these uncharted waters, don’t expect Drummond to go, um, bananas for the fruit any time soon. Because after taking just two small bites of banana — a “character building exercise,” as she called it — Drummond confesses she finished her own plate of bananas foster ... without bananas.
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Home » The Mars InSight Landing Site Is Just Plain Perfect
The Mars InSight Landing Site Is Just Plain Perfect
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This artist’s concept depicts the smooth, flat ground that dominates InSight’s landing ellipse in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
No doubt about it, NASA explores some of the most awe-inspiring locations in our solar system and beyond. Once seen, who can forget the majesty of astronaut Jim Irwin standing before the stark beauty of the Moon’s Hadley Apennine mountain range, of the Hubble Space Telescope’s gorgeous “Pillars of Creation” or Cassini’s magnificent mosaic of Saturn?
Mars also plays a part in this visually compelling equation, with the high-definition imagery from the Curiosity rover of the ridges and rounded buttes at the base of Mount Sharp bringing to mind the majesty of the American Southwest. That said, Elysium Planitia – the site chosen for the Nov. 26 landing of NASA’s InSight mission to Mars – will more than likely never be mentioned with those above because it is, well, plain.
“If Elysium Planitia were a salad, it would consist of romaine lettuce and kale – no dressing,” said InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “If it were an ice cream, it would be vanilla.”
Yes, the landing site of NASA’s next Mars mission may very well look like a stadium parking lot, but that is the way the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) project likes it.
“Previous missions to the Red Planet have investigated its surface by studying its canyons, volcanoes, rocks and soil,” said Banerdt. “But the signatures of the planet’s formation processes can be found only by sensing and studying evidence buried far below the surface. It is InSight’s job to study the deep interior of Mars, taking the planet’s vital signs – its pulse, temperature and reflexes.”
The landing site for InSight, in relation to landing sites for seven previous missions, is shown on a topographic map of Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Taking those vital signs will help the InSight science team look back to a time when the rocky planets of the solar system formed. The investigations will depend on three instruments:
A six-sensor seismometer called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) will record seismic waves traveling through the interior structure of the planet. Studying seismic waves will tell scientists what might be creating the waves. (On Mars, scientists suspect that the culprits may be marsquakes or meteorites striking the surface.)
The mission’s Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) will burrow deeper than any other scoop, drill or probe on Mars before to gauge how much heat is flowing out of the planet. Its observations will shed light on whether Earth and Mars are made of the same stuff.
Finally, InSight’s Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment (RISE) experiment will use the lander’s radios to assess the wobble of Mars’ rotation axis, providing information about the planet’s core.
For InSight to do its work, the team needed a landing site that checked off several boxes, because as a three-legged lander – not a rover – InSight will remain wherever it touches down.
“Picking a good landing site on Mars is a lot like picking a good home: It’s all about location, location, location,” said Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL. “And for the first time ever, the evaluation for a Mars landing site had to consider what lay below the surface of Mars. We needed not just a safe place to land, but also a workspace that’s penetrable by our 16-foot-long (5-meter) heat-flow probe.”
The site also needs to be bright enough and warm enough to power the solar cells while keeping its electronics within temperature limits for an entire Martian year (26 Earth months).
So the team focused on a band around the equator, where the lander’s solar array would have adequate sunlight to power its systems year-round. Finding an area that would be safe enough for InSight to land and then deploy its solar panels and instruments without obstructions took a little longer.
“The site has to be a low-enough elevation to have sufficient atmosphere above it for a safe landing, because the spacecraft will rely first on atmospheric friction with its heat shield and then on a parachute digging into Mars’ tenuous atmosphere for a large portion of its deceleration,” said Hoffman. “And after the chute has fallen away and the braking rockets have kicked in for final descent, there needs to be a flat expanse to land on – not too undulating and relatively free of rocks that could tip the tri-legged Mars lander.”
Of 22 sites considered, only Elysium Planitia, Isidis Planitia and Valles Marineris met the basic engineering constraints. To grade the three remaining contenders, reconnaissance images from NASA’s Mars orbiters were scoured and weather records searched. Eventually, Isidis Planitia and Valles Marineris were ruled out for being too rocky and windy.
Smooth, flat ground dominates InSight’s landing ellipse in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. The ellipse is about 81 miles (130 kilometers) long, generally west to east, and about 17 miles (27 kilometers) wide, covering the area where the spacecraft has about a 99 percent chance of landing. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
That left the 81-mile long, 17-mile-wide (130-kilometer-long, 27-kilometer-wide) landing ellipse on the western edge of a flat, smooth expanse of lava plain.
“If you were a Martian coming to explore Earth’s interior like we are exploring Mars’ interior, it wouldn’t matter if you put down in the middle of Kansas or the beaches of Oahu,” said Banerdt. “While I’m looking forward to those first images from the surface, I am even more eager to see the first data sets revealing what is happening deep below our landing pads. The beauty of this mission is happening below the surface. Elysium Planitia is perfect.”
After a 205-day journey that began on May 5, NASA’s InSight mission will touch down on Mars on Nov. 26 a little before 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST). Its solar panels will unfurl within a few hours of touchdown. Mission engineers and scientists will take their time assessing their “workspace” prior to deploying SEIS and HP3 on the surface – about three months after landing – and begin the science in earnest.
InSight was the 12th selection in NASA’s series of Discovery-class missions. Created in 1992, the Discovery Program sponsors frequent, cost-capped solar system exploration missions with highly focused scientific goals.
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Crusaders Battle to Bitter End in Loss on Senior Day
John Carroll (20-5, 6-1 OAC) 21 28 18 25 15 3
Capital (10-18, 2-5 OAC) 25 26 25 20 12 2
Senior Kelly Leonard. (Jeff Mills photo).
K: Leah Switalski - 20
B: Kit O'Shaughnessy - 3
D: Sara Kaminski - 24
SA: 2 Players (#10, #3) - 2
K: Mona Ratliff - 18
B: Kristin Bender - 8
D: Kelly Leonard - 28
SA: Katie Weilbacher - 2
COLUMBUS, Ohio – There was no doubt that the Capital University volleyball team was playing for its seniors on Saturday, displaying some of its best play of the season against John Carroll University. In a tooth-and-nail contest, the Blue Streaks battled from behind and outlast the Crusaders in a five-set win on Saturday (21-25, 28-26, 18-25, 25-20, 15-12).
In the decisive fifth set, John Carroll (20-5 overall, 6-1 OAC) had carried over some of its momentum from a five-point win from the previous set. After Capital jumped up 2-0 early, the Blue Streaks rattled off five of the next six points to regain its advantage. Only after the game was tied 11-11 did they break away one final time when Leah Switalski recorded a kill to turn the ball over to Mena Afsarifard on the service line. John Carroll then scored three of the next four points and ended the game when Sarah Orlandi put down the final kill.
Capital had all the momentum early in the contest and took away a 25-21 first-set win after Courtney McCracken, LeAnna Cotton, and Mona Ratliff all put down four kills in the opening frame to lead the team.
The second set carried the same amount of steam with the Crusaders, though tied 26-26 Switalski turned the tide once more to help the Blue Streaks tie the game at a set apiece.
Sets three and four went back-and-forth, both in score and in the winners of each frame. Capital held John Carroll to just a .024 hit percentage in the third frame to take a 25-18 decision, easily. But the fourth is where the Blue Streaks picked up their game and reversed their fortunes by hitting .343 in the following set, which started their comeback.
Capital was led offensively by Ratliff, who tallied 18 kills on 41 attempts, good for a .268 hit percentage on the day. Two of her teammates joined her in double digits, McCracken with 13 and Kristin Bender with 12. Katie Weilbacher ended the afternoon with 41 assists and 12 digs for a double-double.
Leonard and Cotton served as the day's first stars by being highlighted for their contributions toward the program and University on its Senior Day.
Leonard entered the match with 1,467 digs and after posting 28 in Saturday's match is just five away from 1,500 in her career. She is also just 29 digs away from cracking the top-5 in Capital's record book.
Cotton put down seven kills on 39 attempts while adding three block assists in the loss.
With the loss, Capital drops to eighth place in the Ohio Athletic Conference standings with two matches left to play in the regular season. The top eight teams in the conference standings will advance to the OAC Tournament.
The Crusaders will close out the regular season with two road games, the first at Heidelberg University on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. They will close the regular season at Baldwin Wallace on Nov. 1.
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Ultrasound comes up short on early rheumatoid arthritis
By Rebekah Moan, AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writer
November 12, 2019 -- In patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, using ultrasound to guide treatment doesn't produce better decision-making than the conventional treat-to-target strategy, according to a Norwegian study presented at the 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Professionals annual meeting.
A research team from Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo, led by Dr. Espen Haavardsholm, PhD, investigated whether treatment outcomes in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis can be improved by targeting imaging remission as assessed by ultrasound in addition to clinical remission. They found ultrasound failed in this regard.
"For patients, this means that if you feel that the medication has worked, your joints feel well, and your rheumatologist cannot find any signs of active joint inflammation by physical examination, there is in most cases no need to go through additional imaging exams to determine that your disease is under satisfactory control with your current medication," wrote Haavardsholm in a press release from the ACR/ARP.
Ultrasound vs. MRI
The researchers crafted a follow-up to a previous trial -- Aiming for Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Randomized Trial Examining the Benefit of Ultrasound in a Clinical Tight Control Regimen (ARCTIC), which included 230 patients with early rheumatoid arthritis who were disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD)-naïve.
They randomized the patients 1:1, with one group undergoing an ultrasound strategy targeting those with a disease activity score of less than 1.6, no swollen joints, and no power Doppler ultrasound signal in any joint. The second group received a conventional strategy that classifies patients based on a disease activity score of less than 1.6 and no swollen joints. All patients were treated by the same DMARD escalation algorithm. They started with methotrexate; then escalated to combination therapy with methotrexate, sulfasalazine, and hydroxychloroquine; and, finally, a biologic DMARD.
"The purpose of this follow-up study was to use MRI, which is reliable, objective, and more sensitive than x-ray, to make a secondary assessment of inflammatory activity and structural damage progression in the two study arms," Haavardsholm wrote in the press release. "If there really were a difference, we would expect to see it in the MRI results."
In the ultrasound arm, physicians stepped up treatment if indicated by the ultrasound score, overruling the disease activity score and swollen joint count. MRI of the dominant hand was performed six times and scored in chronological order by a blinded reader. After exclusions, 218 patients (ultrasound n = 116, conventional n = 102) had MRI at baseline and at one or more follow-up visits.
A combined inflammation score was computed by normalized summation of the synovitis, tenosynovitis, and bone marrow edema scores. A combined damage score was computed by normalized summation of the erosion and joint space narrowing scores.
The proportion of patients in each treatment arm with MRI erosive progression after two years was calculated, using the smallest detectable change (0.61) as the cutoff.
MR images of the wrist at baseline and three-month follow-up, pre- and postgadolinium (Gd), show reduction of synovitis and tenosynovitis. Images are from Diakonhjemmet Hospital and not an actual patient in ARCTIC. Images courtesy of Dr. Espen Haavardsholm.
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The researchers found no statistically significant baseline differences between the two treatment groups in either of the combined MRI scores. The mean combined MRI inflammation score decreased during the first year in the ultrasound group by 64.2 and in the conventional strategy group by 59.4. These scores were maintained at the same level throughout the second year of follow-up.
There was no significant difference in change from baseline between the two groups at any time. The mean combined MRI damage score showed a small increase over time, with no significant difference between the two groups. In the ultrasound group, 39% of patients had MRI erosive progression compared with 33% in the conventional strategy group.
"Our findings confirm the main conclusion from the ARCTIC trial that targeting ultrasound remission does not lead to improved results," Haavardsholm wrote. "The main message is that people with rheumatoid arthritis should be diagnosed and started on treatment early, monitored closely, and treatment should be stepped up aggressively until the target of clinical remission is reached. This strategy has proven very successful. However, going beyond this by aiming to also achieve imaging remission increases treatment cost and effort, but does not significantly further improve the results."
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Superlatives from SXSW Film
Our list of memorable happenings from the 2019 film festival.
Biggest Take-Over of SXSW
Good Omens was everywhere…EVERYWHERE. The Amazon series, which is based on the book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman about a battle between heaven and hell, doesn’t premiere on the streaming service until May 31, but its presence was felt all over downtown and beyond. Hired hands dressed up as angels and devils roamed the streets; an army of singing nuns (aka the nuns of the Chattering Order of St. Beryl) were unleashed on sidewalks and at panels; an entire block was transformed into the “Garden of Earthly Delights;” the Amazon-sponsored SXSW shuttle bus, that takes festival-goers to different venues, played the band Queen’s music constantly. Even a group of “aliens” that we figured had nothing to do with the show were a part of the show. Of course, we were excited to see Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon Hamm, and Gaiman give a great panel about the show, and even spotted the stars hanging out in the garden later that night. But if the scenes that we saw during the panel hadn’t left us intrigued by the show, we would not be taking a bite of this apple, because the massive promotional push became a bit of hell on Earth for us.
Saddest Trend
The slate of Texas-made documentaries was fantastic this year. From Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins to Becoming Leslie, about Austin’s beloved homeless cross-dresser, to Running with Beto, we found ourselves filled with pride about the quality of these films. However, we also found ourselves feeling quite teary-eyed watching them. Learning more about the challenges Leslie Cochran faced his entire life, seeing just how great Ivins was and realizing no one comes close to her political humor these days, and knowing that Beto O’Rourke lost to Cruz left us in a funk. Even the hilarious documentary about a fake religion, J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius, was bittersweet because one of the followers interviewed in the doc was Margaret Moser, the longtime Austin Chronicle writer who passed away in 2017. But the fact that these documentaries made us feel anything is a credit to the filmmakers and their crews. They reminded us just how much of an impact their subjects had on this community.
Best Way to Honor an Icon
At the screening we attended for Becoming Leslie, we were greeted with a theater full of pink boas. Almost every seat had one waiting for its seat taker. And, without any prompting, folks were immediately on board, wrapping a boa around their neck in celebration of the man who became a symbol of “keep it weird” Austin.
Riskiest Film Introduction
When director Chris Morris walked on stage to introduce his film, The Day Shall Come, he gave the audience two options. He had written two very different speeches on two different colored cards. “How many of you want me to read the yellow card?” he said. The audience hollered. “And the green?” The audience yelled even louder. “What a shame,” he said, throwing the card on the ground. He explained that the yellow card directed him to light himself on fire, and now we were never going to get to see that. (Close call!)
Most Likely to End Up in the Rubbish Bin
We loved the Irish comedy horror flick Extra Ordinary, which had its world premiere at SXSW. It’s a wickedly clever film by first-time directors Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman, who took inspiration from the classics of the horror genre—from The Exorcist to Ghostbusters—for source material. It has standout performances by comedian Maeve Higgins and SNL alum Will Forte and has a twist ending that we did not see coming. After the screening, though, as we departed the theater, we were handed a little plastic baggie with “a gravel” in it that was “100 percent guaranteed haunted.” Sure, one of the film’s funny moments was the haunted gravel, but we could have done without the cutesy merchandise.
Best Choice of Footwear
For some of us, the decision to attend the Good Omens panel was made only after we realized that Jon Hamm was going to be in attendance. He did not disappoint. Strutting onto stage, he wore a well-fitted suit (hello, Don Draper) complete with a pair of red-bottomed Louboutins. “What kind of shoes are you wearing?” someone asked him during the Q&A. He explained his fashionable footwear with a smirk, but added that they weren’t actually his; a friend was expecting their return as soon as he landed back in L.A.
Best Perk/Worst Part of the Film Festival
On average, for every film we saw, we spent around two hours sitting in lines that wrapped around the street. Unlike in years past, getting there 45 minutes in advance was no longer going to cut it. However, the time we spent waiting ended up being one of the best perks of the festival. Everyone in line with us was so talkative and friendly that the wait didn’t seem that bad. For example, while waiting to see The Day Shall Come, we struck up conversation with a girl who talked in-depth about her career as a sock designer. (We ended up getting an Uber together to the next theater, where, as to be expected, we spent more time waiting in line.) Maybe it’s because misery loves company, or maybe it’s because people at SXSW are just plain cool, but the conversations we had with fellow SXSW attendees were just as interesting as the films we were waiting to see.
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Thus saith the Lord unto me, “Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.”
Thus saith Jehovah unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.”
Thus the Lord said to me: Go and buy yourself a linen girdle and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen undergarment and put it on. But do not put it in water.”
The Lord proclaimed to me: Go and buy a linen undergarment. Wear it for a while without washing it.
Adonai said to me, “Go, buy yourself a linen loincloth, and wrap it around your body; but don’t soften it in water.”
The Lord told me, “Go and buy a pair of linen shorts. Wear them for a while, but don’t wash them.”
Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins; but dip it not in water.
Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water.
This is what the Lord said to me: “Jeremiah, go and buy a linen loincloth. Then put it around your waist. Don’t let it get wet.”
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and purchase a linen undergarment for yourself. Put it around your waist. Do not let it touch water.”
Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.”
Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it round your waist, and do not dip it in water.”
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen ·belt [loincloth; underwear; C priests like Jeremiah wore linen undergarments; Ex. 28:39; 39:27–29; Ezek. 44:17–18] and put it around your ·waist [loins]. Don’t let the ·belt [loincloth; underwear] ·get wet [be washed; be brought into water].”
The destruction of the Jews is prefigured. 11 Why Israel was received to be the people of God, and why they were forsaken. 15 He exhorteth them to repentance. Thus saith the Lord unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
This is what the Lord said to me: “Buy a linen belt. Put it around your waist. Don’t let it get wet.”
The Lord told me to go and buy myself some linen shorts and to put them on; but he told me not to put them in water.
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen undergarment and put it on, but do not put it in water.”
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt. Then put it around your waist. Don’t let the belt get wet.”
This is what the Lord told me: “Go and buy a linen belt for yourself, and put it around your waist. But don’t let it get wet.”
¶ Thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go and buy thee a linen girdle and put it upon thy loins, and thou shalt not put it in water.
Thus Yahweh said to me: “Go and buy for yourself a loincloth of linen and put it on your loins, but you must not place it in water.”
The Lord said to me, Go and buy a linen loincloth and wear it, but don’t wash it—don’t put it in water at all.
God told me, “Go and buy yourself some linen shorts. Put them on and keep them on. Don’t even take them off to wash them.” So I bought the shorts as God directed and put them on.
Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it upon your loins, and do not put it in water.”
This is what Yahweh said to me: “Buy a linen belt. Put it around your waist. Don’t let it get wet.”
The Lord said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water.
Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist. Don’t let the belt get wet.”
The Lord said to me, “Go and buy some linen shorts and put them on. Do not put them in water.”
The Lord said to me, “Go and buy a linen belt. Put it around your waist. But do not let it get wet.”
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
This is what the Lord said to me: ‘Go and buy a linen belt and put it round your waist, but do not let it touch water.’
Thus the Lord said to me: “Go and get yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”
The Lord said to me, “Go and buy a linen belt, and put it around yourself. But do not put it in water.”
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it on, but do not wash it.”
Thus said the Lord to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth, and put it on your loins, but do not dip it in water.”
Thus said the Lord to me, ‘Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth, and put it on your loins, but do not dip it in water.’
Thus saith Hashem unto me, Go and buy thee a linen [i.e., priestly] ezor (belt) and put it around thy waist, and put it not in mayim.
Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen waistcloth, and put it on your loins, and do not dip it in water.”
Thus Adonai said to me: “Go, and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, and do not put it in water.”
The Eternal directed me. Eternal One: Go and buy a linen undergarment; put it around your waist next to your body beneath your clothes, but do not wash it.
Yahweh said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
The Lord saith these things to me, Go, and take in possession to thee a linen breech-girdle; and thou shalt put it on thy loins, and thou shalt not bear it into water.
Thus said Jehovah unto me, `Go, and thou hast got for thee a girdle of linen, and hast placed it on thy loins, and into water thou dost not cause it to enter:'
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Away from the map at the Atacama: Chile’s Spooky Ghost Cities
Thousands of overseas travelers see the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north west Chile’s Atacama Desert, but few make it into two of the area’s man-made attractions: the starkly lovely ghost cities of Humberstone and Santa Laura. Shafik Meghji takes us to those abandoned settlements.
Yellow tsunami”danger zone” signals, planted like sunflowers on street corners, direct our automobile along Iquique’s seafront. Inland, climbing the 800-metre-high cordillera which offers a background to the city, the vehicle slows to a crawl to facilitate beyond a section of street which dropped during the 8.2 magnitude earthquake at April 2014.
Past Iquique the dawn mist disappears, the warmth warms up along with the parched Atacama goes away into the space. This portion of northern Chile is among the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth; it’s so otherworldly that NASA uses it to check its Mars exploration vehicles.
“There is not a Individual in sight”
Our opinion forward is fuzzy as billowing clouds of dust fill the skies, the end result of Chilean military tank exercises, my own manual, Jaime, clarifies. Subsequently, some 45km inland from Iquique, a peculiar sight looks ahead: at the center of the desert plain sticks the giant winged skeleton of what seems like a marooned ship. Gradually other constructions materialise: a pair of rail tracks, clusters of huts and warehouses, and ultimately neat rows of homes and dusty roads. There’s not a individual in sight.
This ghost city, Santa Laura, is among those remnants of a largely-forgotten business that once made the Atacama Desert one of the most precious places on the planet. From the nineteenth century, the huge saltpetre (potassium nitrate) residue in the area — then a part of Peru and Bolivia — were profoundly in demand for use as fertiliser and gunpowder in Europe and North America. A booming business grown, together with rapacious nitrate barons — most of these British — with the hefty proceeds to construct opulent mansions in towns such as Iquique. In 1878 the War of the Pacific broke from Chile, and Peru and Bolivia: five decades after, Chile emerged victorious, with captured each the nitrate lands.
Of the 200 or so oficinas salitreras (saltpetre functions ) that functioned during the business’s heyday, just one — María Elena — nevertheless functions. The rest have vanished, stripped clean of whatever precious and finally consumed by the desert following World War One signalled the start of the end of the saltwater boom. However, for some quirk of destiny Santa Laura and Arabian Humberstone could have endured the same.
“Following the mines were left in the 1960s they had been inhabited by displaced men and women. There was garbage everywhere, graffiti, the bodies of dead dogs,” says Jaime. “Santa Laura and Humberstone were subsequently purchased by a businessman who intended to sell the stays for scrap. But he went bankrupt , which really maintained it. They had been taken over by a nonprofit organisation, cleaned and created UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2005.”
“A feeling that You’re in Some Type of steampunk hospital”
Now, Santa Laura, that opened in 1872, is an adventure park for everyone interested in industrial archaeology. Jaime and I arrive early in the afternoon and have the spooky site . At its height the oficina was home to over 870 inhabitants: employees lived with their loved ones and also for a lot of the plant’s foundation were treated appallingly. They worked long hoursin harsh circumstances, compensated at”tokens” redeemable only from the oficina’s stores, and dissent fulfilled by repression as well as massacre.
Wandering around Santa Laura, kicking up clumps of crumbly white caliche (unrefined saltpetre), we find a treasure trove of Victorian-era technologies: the remains of a railway station and train carriages; a mill with metal-cutting machines, coolers and compressors; along with a power station using a gas engine manufactured in Halifax and steel beams out of Lanarkshire in the united kingdom. Preserved from the dry desert atmosphere, the majority of the machines seem as though they’re still in working order.
Even the”marooned ship” proves really to be a leaching plant, its mast that a smokestack. The rusted corrugated iron partitions — among these pierced by many bullet holes creak and groan from the end. There’s still a distinct odor of iodine (a by-product of this saltpetre procedure ) providing the feeling that you’re in some type of steampunk hospital.
“The texture of west shore, small-town Americana”
A few kilometres away is the bigger and more broadly restored Humberstone. It had been taken over by the government, who in 1932 named it after British socialist entrepreneur James”Santiago” Humberstone. During its height, the city had a population of some 3500 individuals:”Although it had the potential for double that amount. The business was falling from the 1930s and the authorities just needed to give people tasks,” says Jaime.
A lot of the structure is Art Deco, providing Humberstone the vague sense of west shore, small-town Americana, and lots of the employees’ houses are turned to mini-museums. Among the most evocative is full of letters which shed light on daily life: one shows a”attack” by housewives who had been not able to cook for their husbands till they obtained a greater quality charcoal for those ovens; yet another complained about the expense of constructing a brand new tennis court.
At the town center, the living facilities demonstrate that from the 1920s and 30s, states had gradually improved. There’s a large, empty swimming pool, complete with diving board; a college full of wooden desks and (occasionally risqué) graffiti; along with a city clock stuck indefinitely at 4pm. Overlooking the city square is the old hotel, with guest rooms, a restaurant, bar, billiards area, along with another entrance at the back for employees, who have been prohibited from using the entrance door. Requirements may have improved, however a rigorous hierarchy lasted in the oficinas.
These gradually crumbling buildings offer a feeling the hostile Atacama was tamed — however a five-minute walk off into the industrial region reminds one of the harshness of their environment. It’s blisteringly hot, color tree, and the wind whips ago, covering us in a sheen of dust and dirt. Past the factories and factories, a lone train engine reaches out to the desert.
Humberstone’s highlight, however, is its own magnificent (and supposedly haunted) theater. Indoors, perched on a wooden chair, it’s strangely silent, as though a functionality had only just stopped.
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Recommended: Stijn Demuynck – “Pouancé”
This is a supremely gorgeous album.
I struggle to write about this supremely gorgeous album, because each time I play it over from the start, I get lost in the music and I forget to take any notes, jot down any thoughts, do anything resembling work that might result in an album write-up. So I find myself perpetually typing, “This is a supremely gorgeous album.”
Pouancé is the debut of drummer Stijn Demuynck. He and bassist Raphael Malfliet engage in all kinds of subtle shadowplay, and the tempos tend to stalk the melody more than guide it. Those melodies are shaped by the reed instruments of Leonhard Huhn. He keeps to the lower registers, which emits a haunting beauty. It also provides some lovely contrast with the upper harmonics of the choir that joins in on some tracks.
Opening track “Pouancé” speaks to that quality right from the start. A fluttering melody, yawns of harmony, and percussion that sometimes growls deeply and sometimes throws metallic streaks of dissonance across the surface of the song, somehow, all join together in grand unison. “A Few Drops of Time” has an alluring blend of focused melodicism and random improvisation. And then there’s “Ouverture” and the impression of a song in flight, like an Autumn leaf carried along by a stiff breeze. “Eb & Vloed” has a sharp presence, as clarinet and chorus and percussion reveal some edge and exploit the inherent tension within. The approach is similar on “Blauw in de Ardennen,” which begins as a stroll through the park and ends in the heart of the storm.
The album ends with the peaceful “Ze huppelde door de nacht.” Demuynck’s acoustic guitar notes are glittering raindrops caught in the sunbeams of Huhn’s clarinet. It’s a beautiful send-off on this supremely gorgeous album.
Your album personnel: Stijn Demuynck (drums, percussion, guitar), Raphael Malfliet (electric bass), Leonhard Huhn (alto sax, bass clarinet, clarinet) and Thea Soti, Mascha Corman, Taisiya Chernishova, Maika Küster, Hanna Schörken, Lisa Müller (choir).
Pouancé by Stijn Demuynck
The album is Self-Produced.
Listen to more album tracks on the artist’s Bandcamp page.
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Image caption Clyde Space is a market leader in the CubeSat sector
Miniature satellite maker Clyde Space is being bought by a Swedish space tech company in a deal worth £26m.
AAC Microtec is acquiring the Glasgow-based firm under a share sale and purchase agreement.
The deal will see AAC own 100% of shares in the Scottish firm. After completion of the acquisition, Clyde Space's owners will hold 49% of AAC.
Clyde Space said the transaction would create "a global-leading company" in the small and nanosatellite markets.
The deal is expected to be completed at the end of January.
Clyde Space, which employs nearly 80 people in Glasgow, was behind Scotland's first space satellite, UKube-1, which launched in Kazakhstan in July 2014.
In addition to complete satellite platforms, it has supplied more than 2,000 subsystems for small spacecraft.
Clyde Space, which was founded in 2005, is a market leader in the CubeSat sector, supporting about 30%-40% of all current and past CubeSat missions.
CubeSats are tiny fully functional satellites with typical mass of 4kg.
Clyde Space's customers have included Nasa, Spire, UK Space Agency and US Air Force.
In a statement, AAC said the combined company would offer "high-reliability technology and products" in a segment ranging from 1U CubeSats to 500kg satellites.
Clyde Space founder and chief executive Craig Clark, who will join the AAC management team, said: "With our combined resources, know-how and pools of highly competent individuals, we will jointly be able to boost the creation of innovative technology and products, and continue to lead the way in the most commercially interesting segments of the satellite market."
This week a market intelligence report by BIS Research said the global small satellites market was expected to be worth more than $10bn by 2021.
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St Petersburg supermarket blast injures at least 10 shoppers
Image caption The supermarket in St Petersburg was quickly evacuated by police and emergency services
At least 10 people have been injured in an explosion at a supermarket in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
One person was said to be in serious condition after the detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED).
President Vladimir Putin described the blast, at the Perekrestok supermarket chain late on Wednesday, as a terrorist act.
No group has said it carried out the attack, which officials say produced a blast equivalent to 200g (7oz) of TNT.
Russia's investigative committee said the home-made device was packed with lethal components.
The blast took place in an area of the shop that housed lockers for storing bags.
Image caption Investigators said they were treating the incident as an attempted murder
The property was quickly evacuated and there were no reports of a fire, but images circulating on social media in Russia showed extensive damage in an area of the store close to the tills.
Mr Putin commented on the blast at a military awards ceremony on Thursday. Officials had earlier suggested the attack was being treated as attempted murder.
Earlier this month, the Russian president and his US counterpart Donald Trump spoke by phone after information provided by the CIA helped Russian security services foil an attack on St Petersburg's Kazan cathedral.
At the time, Russia's Interfax news agency reported that a group had been planning attacks at a number of sites. Several people were reportedly detained.
In April, an explosion on the St Petersburg metro system killed at least 13 people and injured more than 50 others.
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Coming up on Sport Wales: Can Wales lift doom and gloom?
By Ian Hunt
Sport Wales reporter
From the section Wales
http://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20528351
It has been an autumn of discontent so far for Wales - and there will be a certain symmetry to their poor run of results if Australia waltz off with a win in the final match of the series.
It was against the Wallabies on their summer tour that Wales' woeful sequence of six successive defeats began.
Defeat number seven against the same opponents would, on the face of it, suggest Wales have made little progress since venturing Down Under confident of claiming that elusive southern hemisphere scalp on the back of another Six Nations clean sweep.
The Grand Slam champions ended up losing all three of those tour matches.
Newport County midfielder David Pipe reveals his new lease of life
More Millennium Stadium misery on Saturday - to add to those against Argentina, Samoa and New Zealand - would also see Wales drop out of the top eight in the International Rugby Board Rankings, potentially leading to a much tougher draw for the 2015 Rugby World Cup when it's made next Monday.
Doom and gloom. So what reasons for hope as Wales seek to salvage their status in world rugby as well as wounded pride? Sport Wales reports from the home camp once again as we ask players and management whether the pressure to end the autumn series on a high can inspire their first win over a southern hemisphere heavyweight since Australia were beaten in Cardiff in 2008.
We also bring you the verdict from an Aussie side who responded to defeat against France earlier in the month by seeing off England and Italy.
Our football focus switches to a sinner-turned-saint enjoying life in the Blue Square Premier as former Wales international David Pipe tells us he is on the road to redemption after serving a prison sentence for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Pipe was once part of a promising crop of Wales Under-21 internationals bubbling beneath the senior surface during the Mark Hughes era. He also picked up one full Wales cap.
But, while on the books at Bristol Rovers, he put his career in jeopardy when he was jailed for 38 months for smashing a bottle over the head of a man outside a Bristol nightclub in 2010.
After serving half of his sentence, he was offered the chance to resurrect his career with Newport County. And he took it.
Andrew Selby made his WSB debut in Newport
Last season Pipe, from Caerphilly, played a key role in Newport's successful battle against relegation from the Conference as well as their journey to the FA Trophy Final before manager Justin Edinburgh handed him the captain's armband in the summer.
As Cardiff City look to consolidate their position at the top of the Championship, we will also preview former Bluebirds manager Dave Jones' first return to the capital since he was sacked in 2011.
Jones repeatedly put Cardiff within touching distance of the big time during his six years in charge without quite managing to get them over the line, so will he be warmly-welcomed or generally cold shouldered by home fans when he brings his struggling Sheffield Wednesday side to south Wales?
Plus, can Swansea win at the Emirates? Michael Laudrup's men travel to Arsenal still looking for their first Premier League away win over one of the traditional big four sides.
Away from the pitch, we are in the ring with Olympic boxers Fred Evans and Andrew Selby as the Olympic boxers make a Newport homecoming in front of boxing legends Joe Calzaghe and Barry McGuigan.
It was thought Evans, who won a silver medal at London 2012, and Selby would turn professional after the success of Team GB at the Olympics.
But a new World Series of Boxing concept allows them to retain their amateur status while enjoying all the perks of professionalism.
Shining a light on the new venture, our reporter Steffan Garrero went behind the scenes with the pair - and got some expert opinion from McGuigan - as they fought for the newly-formed British Lionhearts team at Newport's Celtic Manor.
Sport Wales, BBC Two Wales, Friday at 21:00 GMT
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T-Cell Research
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BD solutions, including flow cytometers, software, conjugated antibodies, and services, are designed to support the rapid pace of discovery in T-cell research. Our solutions for T-cell identification, transcription factor expression, as well as cytokine secretion and measurement, reflect a commitment to high quality and consistency needed for advanced research.
To meet customer requirements,a range of choices is offered, from complete kits for phenotyping and sorting to fully customized formulas.
Overview Helper T Cells Regulatory T Cells
T cell precursors, derived from hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow, undergo multiple phases of differentiation in the thymus before maturing into functional T cells.
During this development, precursor T cells transiently or stably express specific molecules including T cell lineage markers such as TCR, CD3, CD4, and CD8. By analyzing expressed patterns of various markers, including cell surface receptors and intracellular signaling molecules, researchers have determined the cellular and molecular mechanisms that enable precursors to develop into mature, functional T cells.
A wide array of applications facilitate these studies—preeminent among them is multicolor flow cytometry. Using panels of directly-conjugated fluorescent antibodies to recognize T cell specific epitopes multicolor flow cytometric analysis allows researchers to interrogate specific target molecule levels expressed by individual cells in various phases of development. Using flow cytometry and assay systems such as BD™ Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) and BD™ Phosflow that measure proteins derived from activated T cell subsets, researchers have gained a detailed view of the cellular pathways and molecular mechanisms that support T cell development.
BD Biosciences also offers products that use complementary technologies such as ELISA, ELISPOT, In Vivo Capture, and intracellular staining assays to support T cell research.
For over 20 years, BD Biosciences has actively supported groundbreaking research in the field, with innovative FACS™ brand flow cytometry systems and high quality BD Pharmingen™ and BD FastImmune™ brand reagents designed to simplify the identification, isolation, and characterization of T cells and their interacting partners.
Helper T cells are essential regulators of adaptive immune responses and inflammatory diseases.
A sub-group of lymphocytes, helper T cells play an important role in establishing and maximizing the capabilities of the immune system. These cells are unusual in that they have little or no cytolytic or phagocytic activity. However, they are involved in activating and directing other immune cells.
After activation by professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs) such as dendritic cells, macrophages, and B cells, antigen-specific CD4 + T cells differentiate into effector cells that are specialized in terms of the cytokines and effector molecules that they express on their membranes or secrete and their discrete effector functions.
Th1 Cells
Th1 cells are involved in the cellular immune response and host defense against intracellular pathogens. These molecules are characterized by the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines like IFN-γ, IL-2, and lymphotoxin-α (LTα). Th1 cells are centrally involved in cell-mediated immunity. The cytokines produced by Th1 cells stimulate the phagocytosis and destruction of microbial pathogens by macrophages and other lymphocytes. Several chronic inflammatory diseases have been described as Th1-dominant diseases including multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Th2 cells are involved in the humoral immune response and host defense against extracellular parasites. These cells are characterized by the production of IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-13. Th2 cells are thought to play a role in allergic responses. Cytokines like IL-4 generally stimulate the production of antibodies directed toward large extracellular parasites, while IL-5 stimulates eosinophil response toward large extracellular parasites. Allergy and atrophy are thought to be Th2-dominant conditions. Th2 cells have historically been thought to be the source of IL-9. However, recent publications suggest the existence of a Th2-related cell type that is characterized by the secretion of IL-9 and IL-10. These so-called Th9 cells can differentiate from Th2 cells in the presence of TGF-β, or they can differentiate from a naïve CD4 cell with a combination of IL-4 and TGF-β. These cells may be involved in asthma and tissue inflammation.
Th1/Th2 Balance
When Th1 cells produce IFN-γ, this prompts macrophages to produce TNF and toxic forms of oxygen which destroy the microorganisms within the phagosomes and lysosomes. On the other hand, when Th2 cells produce IL-4 and IL-10, these cytokines block the microbial killing that is activated by IFN-γ. The Th1/Th2 relationship has also been investigated in regards to transplantation. Th1 responses have been implicated in most forms of acute graft or transplant rejection and graft-versus-host (GVHD) disease, while Th2 responses have been variably associated with either protection or chronic rejection. However, cloned Th1 or Th2 cells have a similar capacity to reject skin grafts in experimental models, and Tr1/Treg cells are now being implicated in protection and tolerance induction. The fetus is also analogous to an allograft, and Th2 or Treg responses are thought to be protective, while Th1 may lead to resorption or spontaneous abortion.
Th17 cells are involved in inflammation and host defense against extracellular pathogens. A subset of helper T cells that produce IL-17A, Th17 cells has been shown to play an important role in the induction of autoimmune tissue injury. They are distinct from Th1 or Th2 cells since they do not produce classical Th1 or Th2 cytokines such as IFN-γ or IL-4. They play a key role in mouse models of autoimmunity, and it has been suggested that the differentiation pathway from a naïve T-helper cell to a Th17 cell involves a combination of TGF-β and IL-6. RORγt is a key transcription factor involved in induction of Th17 cells. Some RORγt expression is induced in response to IL-6 or TGF-β, but the generation of Th17 cells requires TGF-β, as well as IL-6.
Furthermore, it is believed that the relative balance of IL-6 and TGF-β in steady state would tilt the balance in favor of either Th17 or Treg differentiation in diverse tissues. Induction of the Th17 subset requires TGF-β and IL-6, while amplification of IL-17A–producing cells is dependent upon TGF-β and IL-21. Maintenance of a Th17 response primarily depends on IL-23 (p19/p40). IL-23 binds to the IL-23 receptor that triggers downstream activation of STAT3 and subsequent upregulation of ROR-γ and production of IL-17A.
Since IL-17A leads to the induction of many proinflammatory factors such as TNF, IL-6, and IL-1β, it has been suggested that Th17 cells might be responsible for the development and/or progression of autoimmune diseases such as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and colitis.
Tools for the identification, isolation, and multicolor analysis of human regulatory T cells
As published data on the immunosuppressive potential of regulatory T cells (Tregs) has accumulated, enthusiasm for their potential therapeutic application has intensified. As a result, Treg research is very active, and new publications emerge almost daily. Today the most commonly used markers for Treg identification, isolation, and characterization are CD4, CD25, CD127, and FoxP3. However, new targets with functional significance such as CD39, CD45RA, CTLA-4, and others are rapidly emerging.
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Overview Immunophenotyping Intracellular Cytokines Intracellular Signaling Secreted Cytokines
BD offers a comprehensive portfolio of reagents and kits to study T cells from different perspectives, using a range of technologies.
Among the methods used for studying T cells, multicolor flow cytometry is preeminent because it enables the characterization of highly complex T-cell subpopulations—both functionally and phenotypically. Complementary technologies such as ELISA, ELISPOT, and bead-based immunoassays also further research in the T-cell area, offering flexibility to meet a range of experimental needs and multiple methods to verify results.
Comparison of technologies for T cell research
The following table lists important characteristics of tools to help you find the ones that meet your particular experimental needs. Certain technologies can reveal specific information about a sample, or might better meet practical needs such as the available instrumentation or sample type. In some cases, researchers can use the combined information from multiple techniques to verify results. Different approaches can paint a detailed picture of the mechanisms contributing to T-cell development.
Tool/Technology
Flow Cytometry: Surface
Flow Cytometry: Intracellular
BD™ Cytometric Bead Array (CBA)
In Vivo Capture Assay
Molecules detected Surface Intracellular and surface Secreted or intracellular Secreted (in situ) Secreted Secreted (in vivo)
Multiparameter Yes Yes Yes No No No
Single cell/cell subset
information Yes Yes No Frequencies, no subset
information No No
Antigen-specific Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Post-assay viability Yes No Yes, for secreted molecules No Yes Yes
Quantitation of protein Possible* Possible* Yes No Yes Yes
Instrumentation Flow cytometer Flow cytometer Flow cytometer ELISPOT reader Spectrophotometer Spectrophotometer
*With a standard such as BD Quantibrite™ beads
Immunophenotyping: combining surface and intracellular
Using multicolor flow cytometry—and combining surface phenotyping with intracellular staining of cytokines, transcription factors, or signaling molecules—you can identify individual T-cell subsets on the basis of their characteristic marker signature. BD's advanced reagent systems, extensive marker selection, and wealth of support tools help researchers simplify phenotyping and maximize the information obtained from individual samples.
Intracellular cytokines
BD Cytofix/Cytoperm™ reagents and the BD FastImmune™ cytokine system are reagents and protocols optimized to help you use flow cytometry to reproducibly measure cytokines within individual cells.
BD Phosflow™ reagents help you use multicolor flow cytometry to reliably measure the level of phosphorylated proteins involved in T-cell signaling, and combine the data with subset identification.
Secreted cytokines
For detection of secreted cytokines within a sample, BD offers multiple assays. BD Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) technology allows quantitation of multiple soluble cytokines simultaneously, while BD OptEIA™ ELISA reagents are designed for quantitation of single cytokines. BD™ ELISPOT reagents enable determination of the frequency of cytokine-producing cells, and BD™ In Vivo Capture Assays allow quantitation by directly capturing cytokines in vivo.
Immunophenotyping by flow cytometry, a valuable research tool, uses the differential expression of cellular markers to isolate and characterize T cells and their subsets.
Analysis of human blood
Data shows a 10-color panel run on a 3-laser BD LSRFortessa™ with a blue/red/violet configuration. The panel was used for defining T-cell subsets using lysed whole blood (BD Pharm Lyse™ lysing buffer) from a normal donor. Use of the BD Horizon™ V450 and BD Horizon V500 dyes allows brighter fluorochromes to be used for more dimly expressed antigens, while the use of 10 colors expands the amount of information gained from a single tube.
Analysis of T-cell subsets using marker profiles
T cells and their subsets can be defined by differential expression of cell surface markers including CD3, CD4, CD8, and CD25. Using panels of directly conjugated fluorescent antibodies to these specific markers, multicolor flow cytometric analysis allows researchers to interrogate the levels of multiple markers simultaneously on individual cells. This can provide information about the cell lineage and state of differentiation of cell subsets in a particular sample. Adding markers such as CCR7, CD62L, or CD69 to an analysis provides important information about the potential for cells to home and localize within the body, as well as the activation status of the T-cell subset of interest.
By analyzing the expressed patterns of various markers—including not only cell surface receptors, but also cytokine secretion profiles and intracellular signaling molecules—researchers have defined phenotypes that represent functionally distinct T-cell subsets (eg, Th1, Th2, Th17, Treg, Th9).
Major Known T-Cell Markers »
Isolation of selected cell populations by cell sorting
Defined cell populations can be isolated from complex cell mixtures by using a specific combination of surface markers and cell sorters, such as the BD FACSAria™ III and BD Influx™ systems. Purified, viable cell populations can be expanded, differentiated, and maintained in culture.
For certain applications, BD Biosciences scientists have worked out detailed protocols for sorting, such as a method of isolating human regulatory T (Treg) cells by using CD4-enriched cells and sorting on the CD4 +CD25 int-hiCD127 low phenotype, which provides increased efficiency and higher yields.
Tools to take advantage of the power of multicolor flow cytometry
Whether you are just getting started with flow cytometry, designing an advanced multicolor assay, or looking for a simpler way to set up and optimize your instruments, we offer a wealth of tools and information to help you along the way.
Multicolor Flow Cytometry Tools »
Major Known T-Cell Markers
Type of Cell
Cytotoxic
Th9 1
Tfh 2
Treg
Main Function Kill virus-infected cells Activate microbicidal function of
infected macrophages, and help B cells
to produce antibody Help B cells and switch antibody isotype
production T cell proliferation and
enhanced IgG and IgE
production by B cells Enhance neutrophil response Regulate development of antigen
specific B cell development and
antibody production Immune regulation
Pathogens Targeted Viruses and some Intracellular pathogens Parasites Parasites Fungi and extracellular bacteria - -
Harmful Function Transplant rejection Autoimmune disease Allergy, asthma Allergy Organ-specific autoimmune
disease Autoimmune disease Autoimmune disease,
Extracellular Markers CD8 CD4, CXCR3 CD4, CCR4, Crth2 (human) CD4 CD4, CCR6 CD4, CXCR5 CD4, CD25
Differentiation Cytokines - IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-12, IL-18, IL-27 IL-4, IL-2, IL-33 IL-4, TGF-β TGF-β, IL-6, IL-1, IL-21, IL-23 IL-12, IL-6 TGF-β, IL-12
Effector Cytokines IFN-γ, TNF, LT-α IFN-γ, LT-α, TNF IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-13 IL-9, IL-10 IL-17A, IL-17F, IL-21, IL-22,
IL-26, TNF, CCL20 IL-21 TGF-β, IL-10
Transcription Factors - T-bet, Stat1, Stat6 GATA3, Stat5, Stat6 GATA3, Smads, Stat6 RORγt, RORα, Stat3 Bcl-6, MAF FoxP3, Smad3, Stat5
Markers can be altered as a result of cellular environment, differentiation state, and other factors. Key cytokines appear in bold. BD Biosciences offers reagents for molecules that are red.
Soroosh P, Doherty TA. Th9 and allergic disease. Immunology. 2009;127:450-458.
Fazilleau N, Mark L, McHeyzer-Williams LJ, McHeyzer-Williams MG. Follicular helper T cells: lineage and location. Immunity. 2009;30:324-335.
Intracellular cytokine detection allows analysis of T-cell subset-specific responses
Detection of intracellular cytokines using multicolor flow cytometry is a powerful tool to gain insight into the spectrum of responses within mixed populations of cells. By simultaneously measuring multiple cytokines and cell surface markers in one assay, this technique offers insight into which cell subset is producing which cytokines. For example, multicolor flow cytometry can be used to identify Th1, Th2, or Th17 cells on the basis of their characteristic cytokine signatures. The cell-by-cell analysis allows researchers to analyze responses of distinct cell subsets without physically separating them.
Intracellular cytokine detection systems
For intracellular protein detection, cells must be fixed and permeabilized to allow a fluorescent antibody to enter and detect the target protein of interest. Different antigens have different sensitivities to and requirements for fixation and permeabilization, entailing additional optimization of protocols. To detect cytokines, which are secreted proteins, protein transport inhibitors are required to trap proteins inside the cells.
BD Biosciences offers two widely used assay systems for intracellular cytokine detection: BD Cytofix/Cytoperm™ reagents and the BD FastImmune™ cytokine system. Both systems offer researchers the ease and confidence of using optimized reagents and protocols and incorporate the high standard of quality and reproducibility that BD flow cytometry products are known for.
BD Cytofix/Cytoperm method
The BD Cytofix/Cytoperm method and related reagents address the wide-ranging experimental needs of basic research. With products for a broad selection of cytokines and multiple species, BD Cytofix/Cytoperm reagents offer maximum flexibility in intracellular cytokine staining.
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BD FastImmune system
The BD FastImmune system is designed to meet the needs of applied research on human samples. With a focus on complete, optimized systems, this approach is well suited for research studies monitoring immune status during disease, or immune responses to vaccine candidates.
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BD Phosflow™ technology offers an extremely powerful means of obtaining kinetic information on T-cell subset-specific signaling processes.
T cells are activated and regulated by complex pathways involving a number of signal transduction molecules, including receptors for antigens and cytokines, kinases, and transcription factors. Signals involving protein phosphorylation play a role in the differentiation of naïve CD4+ T cells into Th1, Th2, Th9, Th17, Tfh, or Treg cells.
Detecting transient phosphorylation events: BD Phosflow technology
Innovative BD Phosflow technology is the first complete flow cytometry solution to reveal intracellular data on basal and induced protein phosphorylation events in both cell lines and primary cells. The BD Phosflow approach is especially informative for studying T cells, in which phosphorylation of signaling proteins leads to the expression of particular T-cell phenotypes.
Specialized antibodies, buffers, and kits
BD provides reagents and kits for the study of protein phosphorylation by flow cytometry. Developed collaboratively by BD and researchers at Stanford University, BD Phosflow technology consists of phosphoprotein-specific, fluorochrome-labeled monoclonal antibodies, along with a system of optimized buffers that fix the cellular proteins to maintain their phosphorylation state and prepare cells for antibody staining.
Researchers can use the BD Phosflow system in combination with cell surface markers to reliably determine the level of key phosphorylated signaling proteins from populations within heterogenous samples such as whole blood. Even rare cell subtypes can be identified without upfront enrichment.
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Transcription Factor Buffer Set
The BD Pharmingen™ transcription factor buffer set is an optimized fixation and permeabilization buffer system ideal for the detection of intracellular and intranuclear proteins by flow cytometry.
It improves the sensitivity for many transcription factors including, but not limited to, FoxP3, RORγt, T-bet, and Bcl-6.
Optimized fixation and permeabilization buffer for the detection of intracellular and intranuclear proteins by flow cytometry
Improved sensitivity for many transcription factors including FoxP3, RORγt, Bcl-6, and T-bet
Fully integrated novel formulas speed processing and deliver high cell yield
Compatible with many cell types, cell surface staining, and tandem dyes
Supports high-throughput testing via volume reduction, bulk fixing, and storage
For more information, download the Transcription Factor Buffer Set data sheet »
A Choice of Techniques for Quantification of Secreted Cytokines
Secreted cytokines in samples can be quantified by various techniques. BD™ Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) can simultaneously quantify multiple cytokines from the same sample, while ELISA is a useful assay for measuring levels of single cytokines. BD™ ELISPOT reagents determine the frequency of cytokine-producing cells, while BD™ In Vivo Capture Assays allow sensitive and direct measurement of cytokine production in vivo (in mice)
BD Cytometric Bead Array (CBA)
BD CBA is a bead-based immunoassay for quantifying multiple proteins simultaneously using flow cytometry. The BD CBA portfolio includes assays for the measurement of a variety of soluble and intracellular proteins including cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, and phosphorylated cell signaling proteins. This technology makes BD CBA especially suitable for studying events involved in T-cell differentiation.
More about BD CBA »
BD ELISA reagents
ELISA is a useful assay for quantitating single cytokines. BD offers maximum flexibility, offering a large menu of pre-optimized, ready-to-use BD OptEIA™ kits and sets, as well as individual matched capture and detection antibody pairs with corresponding recombinant protein standards.
More about BD ELISA Reagents »
BD ELISPOT technology
The BD ELISPOT assay is a powerful tool for detecting and analyzing individual cells that secrete a particular protein in vitro. This technology enables determination of the frequency of cytokine-producing cells in a sample. It is highly sensitive and allows for downstream analysis.
More on BD ELISPOT Technology »
BD in vivo capture assays
The BD In Vivo Capture Assay is a complementary technology to ELISA and CBA. It is used for sensitive and direct measurement of cytokine production in vivo (in mice) through the injection of a cytokine-specific antibody and subsequent analysis of collected serum in an ELISA-type assay. The in vivo capture assays are easy to use and yield highly sensitive and directly correlated results.
More on In Vivo Capture Cytokine Assays »
Comparison of technologies for measuring cytokines
BD CBA
Allows detection of multiple cytokines in same experiment X X
Can obtain phenotype of specific cells expressing cytokine of interest X
Can measure quantity of cytokine secreted X X
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Intracellular staining of cytokines in cultured Th1, Th2, Th9, Th17, and iTreg cells - 5-color
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were cultured for 14 days in Th1, Th2, Th9, Th17, and iTreg polarization conditions and restimulated with PMA/ionomycin for 5 hours in the presence of BD GolgiStop™ protein transport inhibitor (monensin, Cat. No. 554724). The cells were then fixed with BD Cytofix™ fixation buffer (Cat. No. 554655), permeabilized with BD Perm/Wash™ buffer (Cat. No. 554723), and stained with BD Pharmingen™ antibodies against CD4 and intracellular cytokines IL-9, IFN-γ, IL-4, or IL-17A. The dot plots were derived from a lymphocyte gate. Flow cytometry was performed on a BD™ LSR II system. Normal human PBMCs were isolated from whole blood by Ficoll-Paque™ Plus, and stimulated and expanded with plate-bound anti-CD3 (10 µg/mL) and soluble anti-human CD28 (1 µg/mL) plus recombinant cytokine IL-2 (10 ng/mL) in the presence of.
TH1, IL-12 (50 ng/mL) plus neutralizing mAb to human IL-4 (10 µg/mL)
TH2, IL-4 (50 ng/mL) plus neutralizing mAb to IFN-γ (10 µg/mL)
TH17, IL-6 (50 ng/mL), IL-1β (10 ng/mL), IL-23 (10 ng/mL), TGF-β (10 ng/mL) plus neutralizing mAb to IFN-γ (10 µg/mL) and IL-4 (10 µg/mL)
iTreg, TGF-β (10 ng/mL) plus neutralizing mAb to IFN-γ (10 µg/mL) and IL-4 (10 µg/mL)
TH9, IL-4 (50 ng/mL), TGF-β (10 ng/mL), and neutralizing mAb to IFN-γ (10 µg/mL)
Detection of three cytokines simultaneously in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells
Simultaneous detection of TNF, IFN-γ, and IL-2 in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells
Cryopreserved PBMCs were stimulated with SEB (1 µg/mL) in the presence of brefeldin A for 6 hours. Activated cells were lysed and fixed using BD FACS™ lysing solution (Cat. No. 347691), then washed and permeabilized using BD FACS™ Permeabilizing Solution 2 (Cat. No. 340973). Cells were stained with a 6-color antibody panel including BD FastImmune™ cytokine antibodies [TNF FITC (Cat. No. 340511), IFN-γ PE (Cat. No. 340452), IL-2 APC (Cat. No. 341116), CD8 PerCP-Cy™5.5 (Cat. No. 341051), CD4 PE-Cy™7 (Cat. No. 348789), and CD3 BD Horizon™ V450] and analyzed on a BD FACSCanto™ II flow cytometer. Dot plots are based on a lymphocyte (FSC/SSC) and CD3+ gate.
Cytokine expression in naïve, memory, and effector T cells (part A)
Analysis of cytokine expression in CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell subsets using a BD FastImmune protocol
Human PBMCs were isolated from a healthy donor using CPT tubes. Cells were stimulated for 6 hours with SEB (1 µg/mL) in the presence of brefeldin A. Activated cells were then washed and stained with CD3 APC-H7 (Cat. No. 641397), CD4 PerCP-Cy5.5 (Cat. No. 341654), CD8 BD Horizon V500™ (Cat. No. 560774), CD28 APC (Cat. No. 559770), CCR7 PE (Cat. No. 552176), and CD45RA PE-Cy7 (Cat. No. 337167). Cells were then fixed by incubation with BD FACS lysing solution (Cat. No. 347691), washed, and permeabilized using BD FACS Permeabilizing Solution 2 (Cat. No. 340973). Cells were then washed twice, stained with IFN-γ BD Horizon V450 (Cat. No. 560371), IL-2 FITC (Cat. No. 340448), TNF Alexa Fluor® 700 (Cat. No. 557996), and analyzed on a special order BD LSR II cell analyzer. Dot plots are based on a lymphocyte (FSC/SSC), CD3+ and CD4+ gate.
Cytokine expression in naïve, memory, and effector T cells (part B)
Analysis of cytokine expression in naïve, memory, and effector T-cell subsets using a BD FastImmune protocol
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A VERY FLAPPY CHRISTMAS — In the online voting that followed this year’s DeLand Christmas Parade, the float belonging to the Milkweed Circle of the DeLand Garden Club took home top honors in the “Best nonprofit/community group float/entry” category.
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Kicking off the holiday season, thousands of West Volusians lined Woodland Boulevard Dec. 7 for the 71st annual DeLand Christmas Parade.
The longtime DeLand tradition was produced for decades by the DeLand Jaycees, and is now presented as a joint effort of the city’s three Rotary clubs.
This year’s parade featured more than 120 entries, including creative floats from local businesses, marching musical acts, and members of local community groups and charities who donned holiday apparel.
Viewers began claiming spots along Woodland Boulevard as early as 10 a.m. Saturday, for the parade that began at 5:30 p.m. Several businesses reserved seating in front of their storefronts, as well.
As in years past, The Beacon hosted an online poll where spectators could vote for their favorite entries. Voting ran from the start of the parade, at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 7, to 11:59 p.m. Dec. 9.
A record 1,812 people cast votes in several categories: best musical or dance-related entry, best nonprofit or community group float or entry, and best commercial float or entry. Not all voters cast a ballot in every category.
Last year, 1,461 parade viewers cast ballots.
All who voted this year had the opportunity to receive a free one-month subscription to The Beacon, and to be entered into a drawing for a free one-year subscription.
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Raymond Jones interview
Raymond Jones played a small but pivotal role in The Beatles’ history. He was the man who, on Saturday 28 October 1961, ordered a copy of the group’s single My Bonnie from the NEMS shop at 12-14 Whitechapel, Liverpool. Jones was served by Brian Epstein, who at the time ran the store’s record department.
Epstein’s curiosity was piqued after Jones told him about The Beatles, and on 9 November 1961 he paid a visit to the Cavern Club to watch them perform. So began a chain of event which let to him managing the group, securing them a record deal and steering them to worldwide fame.
In later years, Epstein’s assistant at NEMS, Alistair Taylor, claimed that Raymond Jones never existed, and that he had invented the character so that the record could be ordered into the store. Taylor’s story was refuted by the Cavern Club’s DJ, Bob Wooler, and Liverpudlian writer and broadcaster Spencer Leigh.
In August 2010 Raymond Jones left a comment on this site’s profile of him, along with an email address. We contacted him to see if he’d be willing to be interviewed, and corresponded by telephone and email. During those conversations he spoke of his time in Liverpool, his memories of The Beatles and Brian Epstein, and why he’d rarely come forward to set the record straight. Here’s what he told us.
The Beatles legend has it that in 1961 you were 18, and a printer’s apprentice from Huyton. Is this correct?
In his book A Cellarful Of Noise, Brian Epstein described me as an 18-year-old leather jacketed youth. I must have looked younger than my actual years. I was born on 21 June 1941, so I must have been 20 at the time. By the way, my friend and I Ron Billingsley wore leather jackets well before we ever saw or had even heard of The Beatles. I rode pillion on Ron’s motorbike.
I worked for a small printing company KB Print, which originated over Rigby’s pub in Dale Street. It later moved to Tithebarn Street. My address at that time was 48 Stonefield Road, Dovecot, Liverpool 14. Dovecot was only a couple of short bus stops away from Knotty Ash Village Hall.
How did you first hear about The Beatles?
I was a regular visitor to the lunchtime sessions at the Cavern in Mathew Street. I worked about a five minute walk away in Dale Street. My boss didn’t mind how long I stayed there as long as I made the time up in the evening. I suppose I was very lucky.
The first time I saw The Beatles I was totally blown away. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and watching. It was a sound I had never heard before. Pete Best was the drummer then; he used to sing Matchbox, a Carl Perkins song, and being a keen Perkins fan I was intrigued to see how they played the chord sequences.
One particular day Bob Wooler, the DJ from the Cavern, came into my place of work to have some tickets printed so I asked him where they were playing next. He said he’d let me know when he picked up the tickets, which I took to mean he’d find out the time and venue and tell me.
When he came in to pick the tickets up he opened the package and gave me two, which he signed so I could get free entry to the venue. The show was at Knotty Ash Village Hall. After that I started to follow The Beatles to most of the venues they played in the evenings. You could say I was totally hooked.
skye Thursday 2 September 2010
Joe, this is incredible!
Raymond Jones, I’m glad to know that not only are you real person, but you are healthy and happy. Thank you for sharing your story. God bless!
Joe Thursday 2 September 2010
Thanks Skye. I was so grateful that Ray agreed to take part in the interview. He’s got a great story to tell, and it’s a shame that so many Beatles books and documentaries have it wrong.
vonbontee Thursday 2 September 2010
“Either there is a Raymond Jones or I made it up.”
-What actually happened?
He made it up.
Okay, what?? Am I reading this wrong, or was it mistranscribed? Because it reads as though Jones is claiming that Alistair Taylor DID indeed make him up!
Or did he only mean that Taylor “made up” the Radio Merseyside call; or maybe just invented the detail about Jones’ drunkenness during the call? Either way, that’s a confusing passage.
It was unclear, you’re right. My fault for not making a better job of the edit. Ray meant that Taylor made up the story of inventing the phantom order at NEMS.
OK, gotcha. Thanks Joe!
Stephen Byrne Tuesday 5 November 2019
Wondered why Alistair had been wiped from collective Beatle memory in the Anthology, not even one notation about his existence. Thanks for clearing it up.
David Thursday 2 September 2010
I am really pleased that Alistair Taylor’s version has been put to bed. Well done, Joe.
Having said that, I saw a re-run of the Arena programme on Epstein the other night, and still find it hard to believe that after successfully running the record department at Nems for five years or so by that time, he was completely unaware either of the Cavern or of the Beatles… Is Liverpool city centre so vast?
Well, for a start neither Taylor nor Epstein were particularly interested in rock ‘n’ roll. Secondly, The Beatles hadn’t properly released a single – My Bonnie was a German import. Thirdly, Bill Harry (of Mersey Beat fame) suggests Epstein probably was aware of The Beatles as he wrote a column for Mersey Beat, but it wasn’t until Raymond ordered My Bonnie that he took proper notice.
mithveaen Friday 3 September 2010
This is an awesome story!!! Thanks for Sharing Mr. Jones!! Great work Joe!
Zig Friday 3 September 2010
Great interview Joe – nicely done. This is reason 1,000,001 why I love this site!
brian Sunday 5 September 2010
An excellent interview Joe! I remember felling a little let down when I read Alistair Taylor’s account that the whole requesting the “My Bonnie” record was faked. My faith has now been restored. This is one story of folklore and legend I’m glad is absolutely true!
Dave Cullen Tuesday 7 September 2010
I’m so pleased for Ray that the true story has come out, and that you’ve been able to get the message and interview over so well on this website.
beiweizz Thursday 9 September 2010
I read this article with your heartfelt honest attitude to the fact.
Thank you, Joe and Mr. Raymond Jones.
Martin Boyt Sunday 12 September 2010
Excellent stuff Joe! When I first saw the ‘exclusive interview’ title I had to do a double take. Who next then, George Martin…..Macca????!!
Happy Nat Friday 24 September 2010
Nice Joe!
Ken Dobie Friday 29 October 2010
I worked with Ray back in 73-74 and I aways knew the truth. I mentioned him to Pete Best and he said “you know he exists” I told him I used to work for him.
Dave Friday 19 November 2010
This is a great interview and the significance of Mr. Jones’ existance in the history of the Beatles cannot be denied. He appears to be a modest individual. Certainly he has considered the chain of events could have been drasticly different had he not been part of the picture?
mr. Sun king coming together Saturday 20 November 2010
Not necessarily Dave. Bob Wooler was promoting the single quite a bit in the Cavern so it is probable that someone would have ordered the record eventually, is it not?
Mondo Monday 7 February 2011
Fantastico – a great piece doing justice to the man and the myth..
James Percival Wednesday 2 March 2011
As an academic and historian, as well as being a huge Beatles fan, this story hightlights well the problems facing any agreed or ‘true’ account of the Beatles’ incredible story.
I once saw Alistair Taylor at a Beatles convention (1991), and he struck me as being as a slightly histrionic figure then. Having read nearly all the memoirs of Beatle friends and associates, it seems many of them were as affected by fame as the Beatles themselves. Certainly there is a lot of self promotion in many of the accounts.
So it is more than welcome to read an account that blows away the myths and self promotion, although I had already read Spencer Leigh’s account in Mojo so it wasn’t entirely new to me.
Brilliant stuff, and thank you Raymond!
Raymond Jones Saturday 9 April 2011
Hello James its good to have read that you thought Alistair Taylor was slightly histrionic. You will most probably have read my account of the story but, if I can help you with any questions you may have I will certainly try to answer them.
James Percival Thursday 12 May 2011
Hi Raymond
Sorry to take so long in replying, but I haven’t been back on the site for a while.
I’d love to write an authoritative account of the early history of the Beatles, or more realistically an overview of the books that have been written about them, but I have research projects lined up for about the next 5 years so I doubt it will happen. What just occurred to me is that you ought to be in touch with Mark Lewisohn who has been commissioned to write the definite history, just so you can set this story straight, as well as providing more detail about those important and formative years the Bealtes had just before they made it big. I don’t know him myself, but if I can get in touch with him via his publisher would you be interested? Does anyone have contact details for Lewisohn?
Joe Thursday 12 May 2011
I sent Mark a link to this interview but I don’t know if he saw it – I never received a reply. The first volume of his Beatles biography is complete though.
Raymond Jones Tuesday 17 May 2011
Hello Once again James,
I would be delighted if my story is included in Mark Lewishon’s Beatles Biography. All I want is the actual truth to be told. I will help him anyway I can.
jamesaway Friday 22 March 2013
Hi Raymond, I’ve just read the interview you’ve done here, Im totally blown away by the fact they attempted to fabricate what they did about your existence, its just incredible really, I just wanted to ask you what you actually thought of the boys themselves, did they stand out above the rest of the groups a lot? and if so what was it that particularly grabbed you with the live music they produced?Im a musician myself and a big fan of that scene in Liverpool at the time, I also realise that the beatles were also one of many groups playing hard around Merseyside at the time, for someone like yourself to pick up on them above other groups is interesting, you obviously had to hold down your job and fit the performances in when you could, it must have been a real buzz! incidentally, you mentioned seeing George in having a drink with his dad, did you ever see John around town and if so where would he hang out, the pub in dale street maybe too?Ive been to the grapes but Im sure they went else where too! Thanks for being so open about your experience you really have put the story finally into place and I understand you wanting to remain quiet all those years too, it does seem many associated with the beatles story can end up sad figures, you obviously are not and good on you for it all! Best wishes James
Les Swanson Monday 19 September 2011
I have just recently come back from Roda in Spain where I met Raymond Jones, what a facinating guy. He told me some stories that could not be repeated in any books as he couldnt afford to be sued!!
He is now a sprightly 71 years old now and I am going back out in a few months to meet him for a few beers and listen to more of his fantastic srories
Gene Quondamatteo Tuesday 1 November 2011
Fantastic story! How Raymond kept quiet for so many years is beyond me.
Kayleigh Johnson Saturday 14 April 2012
Raymond Jones is my uncle and Kenny Johnson is my Grandad, I recently found this page and story as my grandad Kenny sadly passed away recently and I am so moved and amazed by this story and what a great piece of family history for me to have and cherish forever thankyou Love Kayleigh x
Terry Hurley Thursday 13 September 2012
I have loved reading all these comments. Kayleigh – you are part of an incredible story – I am sorry about your Grandad.
To Raymond – thank you for your comments. I met Bob Wooler loads of times in the 1980s and always, always thought he was the real deal. Now I know you are too!
Chico Suman Saturday 27 October 2012
That’s a great story. There should be a “Raymond Jones St.” in Liverpool one day – so everybody would be in no doubt he exists!!! Long live Mr. Jones!!!
jimbo Friday 26 April 2013
What a brilliant article.
Sammy P Monday 23 September 2013
Well I have to say I’m not totally convinced either way. If I was the real Raymond Jones I’m pretty sure I’d have a rough idea what happened to my copy of such a monumental record / book. I can see motive for Taylor not wishing to explode the myth until later years but unsure why some until now unknown would hold back for so many years since first appearing on radio (if he actually did) Maybe we’ll never get to know the ultimate truth. Shame really but interesting stories either way.
Joe Wednesday 25 September 2013
For what it’s worth, Mark Lewisohn calls Raymond Jones’ story “verifiably accurate” in his new Beatles biography. And I contacted Spencer Leigh (BBC Radio Merseyside) before interviewing Ray, to check that he was the real deal. He confirmed everything was genuine, including the radio appearance.
Sammy Wednesday 25 September 2013
Way too many inconsistencies and holes in both Taylor’s and Jones’ accounts. Shame there is no hard evidence backing up either story – where is the signed book and single? How did the letter from NEMS to neighbour become separated from them and ‘saved’? Suppose we’ll never know.
Anthony Polson Sunday 24 May 2015
I agree, to many inconsistencies, one of the great Beatles mysteries that may never be solved.
Maitre Fromager Leandro Friday 22 November 2013
The story is quite believable, but why he didn’t post some current photos? That’s strange also because he could make a lot of money telling his story.
Bob de Jong Sunday 13 July 2014
Strange, there is no trace that Kenny Johnson ever played with Mark Peters and the Cyclones . I’ve found 4 different lead guitar players in that group, but not Kenny Johnson (aka Sonny Webb).
Norton Tuesday 29 July 2014
Often wondered if this is the same guy we’d often meet on Prescot Road and knew as ‘Record Ray’. Also, does anyone know if George Harrison ( ‘ Az ‘ ) ever recorded “Dream ( when you’re feeling blue” ) , as he often sang it when I asked him to give my girlfriend a mention.
Hildy Monday 22 December 2014
Snippets of history like this are gems to treasure.
Has there ever been a detailed documentary of the very early years of the Beatles shot at actual locations? This type of story would merit inclusion.
Between Mark Lewisohn and this site – and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr – it would be compulsive viewing for Beatle fans across the world, and it would be good for Liverpool too.
Shirley Johnson Wednesday 30 December 2015
i have been hearing this story for as long as i can remember , i have been listening to the Beatles since i was born . My father was Kenny Johnson who did most definitely play in a band called the cyclones (i have a photo) and Ray Jones is my uncle . I am sure of one thing . They don’t tell lies . They have no need to . Have some people heard of the word modesty ?
P.H.Chan Monday 28 October 2019
There was also a Kenny Johnson who was a famous country and western singer on Merseyside. He sang in the group the Hillsiders and Northwind and presented a country and western show on Radio Merseyside.
I presume he was a different Kenny Johnson and not your dad ? People may be getting the 2 mixed up.
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“When the superior man acts effortlessly and naturally, his force is felt for a thousand miles.” – Tao Te Ching.
Mando Friday 29 July 2016
Don’t criticize Raymond Jones for having lost the ‘My Bonnie’ record and the Brian Epstein book. Everybody has stuff they bought when young that they had little or no interest in later in life only to have somebody else throw away. That is what happened to my complete set of Beatles cards, Man From UNCLE cards, baseball cards and who knows what else that I bought in the sixties, and did not concern myself with in the seventies. It all got tossed. Now I cannot afford to buy it all back because it is worth too much. Besides, what about that notebook full of songs that John and Paul wrote way back when that Michael McCartney photographed? John and Paul did not keep up with it as they moved on. So somebody must have thought it was rubbish and threw it all away. Talk about priceless! I’m surprised people are not digging in the Liverpool landfill with hands and shovels trying to find it.
Peter Dix Sunday 7 August 2016
Just found this story and really pleased it is apparently true. I had heard the later story it was made up, which disappointed me as a life long Beatles fan. I have myself sadly given away and lost some memorabilia, records that I wish I could get back, due to moving house,divorce etc. I can believe the story and am glad to hear from the man himself, shame there isn’t a film of him telling the story anywhere for posterity.
paska perse Friday 28 October 2016
very cool, credit where credit is due
Frederick Harrison Friday 28 October 2016
There’s a reference to TV Show Scene host Bill Grundy… is this the same Bill Grundy who had the Today show and infamously ended his career by interviewing the Sex Pistols? He would be the right age and hailed from the northwest of England, which puts him in the right area to be hosting a TV show in the early 60s.
Willem Bakker Monday 13 February 2017
“I still have the letter Epstein’s secretary sent to my neighbour, it’s the only proof I have that it was me who went into NEMS.”
You don’t have any proof. Because there is no proof. Simply because one cannot say A without showing B. It’s actually that simple.
Willem Bakker Tuesday 14 February 2017
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersey_Beat
The wiki article shows the Beatles 2 januari 1962. On the cover. How can it possibly be that Eppy didn’t know who there on 28 obtober 1961?
And then again, he sold records. He sold Mersey Beat. I won’t discuss the content of previous Mersey Beat issues for the moment being; the only thing I see is a genuine letter. That letter states Mr. Epstein is searching for someone called Raymond Jones. Addressed to Miss Quinn. Who is also a genuine person.
My theory is that Miss Quinn read the book. She thought she knew who Raymond Jones was. It was her neighbour. Raymond confirmed and that’s why there is a letter. The secretary to Mr. Epstein questioned their boss.
Now Mr. Epstein had to tell the truth or just send Mr. Jones a copy. Little wonder Mr. Jones doesn’t have this copy; would a person like Mr. Epstein, after all his effort, sign this book “Best wishes, Brian Epstein.”
Just like the other copies Brian signed? Not a personal note? Why was he looking for Raymond Jones then? Makes no sense. And if there was a copy signed and addressed to Mr. Jones.. what (historical) value would it have?
A key document. Mr. Epstein must have been very amused. I think he was a funny man. No need for making funny stories up about him though. He was the man. After all.
Steve Sunday 26 March 2017
I remember reading a story in a Beatles book which claimed that prior to the boys breaking America an American girl had requested a local Detroit radio station play one of their ‘Swan’ released records. It was claimed this was the first time ever that an American had requested the Beatles. Although I can’t remember her alleged name, the article did name her. Could this be the mythical request which Taylor may have been responsible for and which he later confused with the the legitimate Jones story?
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B&B Lapford - devon
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Devonshire Dumpling
Morchard Road, EX17 5LP Copplestone, United Kingdom
This traditional inn is situated in the middle of Devon, and is surrounded by picturesque countryside. Dartmoor National Park is 16 miles from the building, and there is free Wi-Fi and free parking on site.
The Old Bakehouse
South Molton Street, EX18 7BW Chulmleigh, United Kingdom
Situated in the centre of a small conservation town, this respectfully converted 16th century house offers quality cuisine in a tranquil location. Built around 1520, this thatched, former wool merchant's house is joined by an adjacent bakehouse.
Coleford, EX17 5BZ Crediton, United Kingdom
Less than 30 minutes’ drive from Exeter city centre, The New Inn in Coleford provides luxurious rooms and high-quality dining. With free Wi-Fi and parking, this Devon inn serves a range of West Country cask ales and local specialities.
Fox & Hounds Country Hotel
Eggesford, EX18 7JZ Chulmleigh, United Kingdom
In the glorious North Devon Countryside, perched on the River Taw amid the scenic landscape of the Tarka Trail, this relaxed hotel offers a comfortable retreat to nature.
Archway House
Archway House, Leigh Road, EX18 7BL Chulmleigh, United Kingdom
Situated in Chulmleigh, this holiday home features free WiFi. The unit is 32 km from Exeter. Other facilities at Archway House include a barbecue. Tavistock is 45 km from Archway House, while Exmouth is 46 km away.
, EX17 6DU Copplestone, United Kingdom
Located in Copplestone, this holiday home is 44 km from Torquay. The unit is 21 km from Exeter. Free WiFi is offered throughout the property. There is a dining area and a kitchen complete with a dishwasher and an oven.
Spindleberry
, EX18 Chulmleigh, United Kingdom
Spindleberry is a holiday home is situated in Chulmleigh and is 32 km from Exeter. The property is 45 km from Tavistock and features views of the garden. The kitchen is equipped with an oven. A TV is available.
The Thelbridge Cross Inn
Thelbridge Cross, EX17 4SQ Witheridge, United Kingdom
Featuring a restaurant, The Thelbridge Cross Inn is located just 2 miles from the village of Witheridge. Dating back to 1700, the former coaching inn offers free onsite parking and free WiFi in public areas.
Westgate Cottage
, EX17 Lapford, United Kingdom
Set in Lapford, this holiday home features free WiFi. The unit is 48 km from Torquay. A dishwasher and an oven can be found in the kitchen and there is a private bathroom. Towels and bed linen are available in this cottage.
The Linhay
The Linhay is a holiday home situated in Chulmleigh in the Devon Region and is 30 km from Exeter. The property is 50 km from Tavistock and features views of the garden. The kitchen comes with a dishwasher and an oven.
The Waie Inn
Waie Inn, Zeal Monochorum, Crediton, EX17 6DF Copplestone, United Kingdom
Around 9 miles west of Crediton, The Waie Inn is a country pub offering accommodation and a range of facilities. On site you will find a swimming pool, children’s play park, squash courts and restaurant, as well as free parking and WiFi.
Virginia Cottage
Located in Lapford in the Devon Region, this holiday home is 48 km from Torquay. The property is 25 km from Exeter and boasts views of the garden. The kitchen comes with an oven. A TV is available. There is a private bathroom with a bath.
Happy Cottage
, EX20 North Tawton, United Kingdom
Set in North Tawton in the Devon Region, this holiday home is 44 km from Torquay. The property is 25 km from Exeter and free private parking is provided. The kitchen features an oven and a toaster.
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Armed mugger jailed over bid to steal watches from Arsenal stars
The would-be robbers used a stolen moped, were dressed in helmets and dark clothing to try and conceal their identities.
Sead Kolasinac and Mesut Ozil (PA)
By Helen William, PA
An armed mugger has been jailed for 10 years after attempting to rob two Arsenal footballers of luxury watches worth £200,000.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/armed-mugger-jailed-over-bid-to-steal-watches-from-arsenal-stars-38674424.html
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/00d85/38674421.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_c4c915cb-08a0-4442-be91-c0802cc7b91d_1
Harrow Crown Court heard that Ashley Smith and his accomplice did not count on the bravery of Bosnian defender Sead Kolasinac, in fighting back.
His teammate Mesut Ozil then drove them from the ambush as the would-be robbers pursued them on a stolen moped and threw stones, the court heard.
Ashley Smith (left) and Jordan Northover (Met Police/PA)
Smith, 30 – who was described by judge Ian Bourne QC as a prolific “career criminal” who was well known to police – was out on licence for a 42-month sentence for burglary in 2017 when he tried to carry out the street robbery on the Arsenal stars.
He had been released in connection with a burglary offence in January.
Smith, of Archway, north London, had previously pleaded guilty to the attempted robbery just feet from Kolasinac’s home in Hampstead, north west London, on July 25.
The judge said Smith, who appeared in court by videolink, had a “leading role” in the “very serious” attempted robbery with Jordan Northover, 26.
CCTV of Ashley Smith and Jordan Northover trying to rob Premier League stars Sead Kolasinac and Mesut Ozil (Met Police/PA)
Smith and Northover had been circling the area and on the look-out for a victim when they targeted the players.
Full-back Kolasinac, 26, had arranged to meet Ozil, 30, who was in a car with his newlywed wife, the court heard.
The judge said that Kolasinac, nicknamed The Tank, “must have been terrified by the events which took place immediately outside his house”.
Smith and Northover were “armed and dangerous” and were using a knitting needle and a pointed screwdriver as weapons, according to the judge.
He said: “Between them they produced these weapons which they threatened Mr Kolasinac with, a long pointed blade which was thrust in the victim’s direction and made contact with him.
“The two of them had not counted on Mr Kolasinac fighting back and he behaved incredibly bravely.”
At this point Mr Kolasinac may have felt the robbers would have done “anything they needed to obtain the watches”, the judge noted.
The weapons were described as a 10-12 inch long screwdriver with a thin steel coloured spike and a smaller darker instrument that was probably about six inches long.
The court heard that footage showed Mr Kolasinac attempting to engage with the culprits, but he was able to get in the car which was then driven away by Ozil.
The judge noted: “But that was not the end of it. The two men pursued the car along the high road and attempted to stop the vehicle, throwing stones at the car.”
The players managed to flee, but the stones caused “significant” vehicle damage.
The judge added that “fortunately for justice” an alert member of the public later saw the moped being parked in Boreham Wood and called police.
Officers were able to trace the defendants and arrest them.
The judge stated that Smith has “an appalling criminal record” of 20 convictions from 38 offences dating back to when he was 14 years old.
Assault, theft, burglary, driving without a licence and breaching a community order are among some of the offences.
Defence lawyer Susan Meek told the court that Smith had described the ambush as “a scummy thing to do and that when he takes drugs these are the things he ends up doing”.
Smith was also ordered to pay £181 in a victim surcharge.
Northover is to be sentenced at a later date which has yet to be set.
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Ermita de Santa Margarita-Pozo Junco
Hiking TraIl nearby El Pozo Junco natural area, in España and La Yesa population.
The largest locality in the area is Alpuente, with a population of 861 persons, at a distance of 15.962 kilometers from the center of the map.
The nearest is La Yesa (250 persons), at a distance of 9.772 kilometers.
Trail length: 12.453 kilometers.
Ermita de Santa Margarita, VF-TE-20, La Cervera, Abejuela, Gúdar-Javalambre, Teruel, Aragon, Spain
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La Yesa ( Population: 250 persons, At a distance of 9.772 kilometers from the center of the map)
Torrijas ( Population: 85 persons, At a distance of 12.019 kilometers from the center of the map)
Manzanera ( Population: 460 persons, At a distance of 14.164 kilometers from the center of the map)
Andilla ( Population: 384 persons, At a distance of 14.388 kilometers from the center of the map)
Alpuente ( Population: 861 persons, At a distance of 15.962 kilometers from the center of the map)
Arcos de las Salinas ( Population: 126 persons, At a distance of 15.974 kilometers from the center of the map)
Sacañet ( Population: 147 persons, At a distance of 16.933 kilometers from the center of the map)
Torás ( Population: 280 persons, At a distance of 17.858 kilometers from the center of the map)
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PARAISO ALTO (at a distance of 0.002 kilometers)
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2011-01-29-Barranco de Malos Pasos (at a distance of 0.003 kilometers)
cueva agua - puntal maganya (at a distance of 0.004 kilometers)
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Clippers edge Celtics 107-104 in OT with Leonard and George
Los Angeles Clippers forward Paul George, left, and forward Kawhi Leonard stand on the court during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
By: BETH HARRIS, AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) - With Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and Lou Williams on the court, the Boston Celtics had to pick someone to leave unguarded.
They chose Patrick Beverley and he made them pay.
Beverley shined on both ends, playing his usual ornery defense while scoring 14 points and grabbing a career-high 16 rebounds to help the Los Angeles Clippers win 107-104 in overtime with Leonard and George playing together for the first time Wednesday night.
"If I was a coach, I'd leave me open all the time," Beverley said.
Williams scored 27 points, George added 25 and Leonard had 17 for the Clippers, who improved to 9-1 at home after rallying from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter.
In their first season with Los Angeles, injury and rehab had prevented Leonard and George from playing alongside each other for the first 14 games.
"It's still tough," said Leonard, who missed the previous three games with a sore knee. "We're both on kind of minute restrictions so it's hard to get a flow."
George said he and Leonard are trying to get in sync with their other teammates.
"We're going to have growing pains," he said. "The great thing about myself and Kawhi is it doesn't matter, we're going to play basketball. Try to make the right plays and play off each other and just keep the game flowing. I thought in that aspect we were good."
It was a wild and sloppy game for both teams. The Clippers committed 23 turnovers (Williams had seven while Leonard and George had five each) to 17 for the Celtics.
"That was an ugly win, but it was beautiful," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.
Leonard blocked Kemba Walker's potential tying 3-point attempt in the left corner.
"He got enough separation to get it off against most of the league," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. "The problem is, that guy's not normal. He's not most of the league, and he made a great play to block it."
In overtime, George hit a 3-pointer after he missed his first attempt and Beverley got the offensive rebound, then George fed Beverley for a 3 of his own. George's free throw on a technical foul against Stevens completed a run of seven straight points, and the Clippers led 104-99.
"He literally singlehandedly willed that game with his effort, rebounding, making plays," Rivers said of Beverley, who got the game ball. "He's a tough kid."
The Celtics pulled to 104-102 on Jayson Tatum's basket after a wild sequence in which bodies crashed to the floor as both teams chased a loose ball before Boston got possession.
"Defensive mistakes, costly turnovers," Tatum said. "If we would have won it still would have been a learning experience."
Beverley hit a 3-pointer from the corner in front of the Clippers' bench for 107-102 lead, revving up Los Angeles fans and quieting the large contingent of Celtics fans in the stands.
"It was a playoff atmosphere," said Marcus Smart, who had 14 points for Boston.
Tatum's basket left the Celtics down by three. Walker, who had 13 points, got free in the corner for the last shot but Leonard leaped to deflect it.
Tatum led the Celtics with 30 points and Brad Wanamaker added 14.
Williams hit a go-ahead 3 with 31 seconds remaining in regulation.
With the crowd on its feet shouting "Defense! Defense!" Williams stole the ball at the other end and got fouled, making both for a 97-94 lead.
After a timeout, Tatum hit a 3-pointer with George falling down defending him to tie it 97-all with 13 seconds left.
Leonard's potential game-winning 3 rattled in and out as regulation ended.
"We've got some kinks to work out," Williams said. "Just understanding what everybody brings to the table."
The Celtics led by 10 early in the fourth but got outscored 13-7 over the final 3:16.
Boston missed 17 of 18 3-pointers in the first half. The Celtics then made seven 3s in the third quarter, with Tatum hitting four, to go into the fourth leading 75-69.
Walker's 3-pointer pushed the Celtics to their largest lead, 86-76, in the fourth. The Clippers ran off eight points in a row, getting 3s from Beverley and Williams, to trail 86-84.
Neither team led by more than 10 points in the game.
Leonard and George combined to score the Clippers' first 11 points of the third for a 51-45 lead.
That's when the Celtics kicked in from long range, with Tatum hitting back-to-back 3-pointers and Walker following with another. Tatum connected on consecutive 3s later in the period, too.
More Celtics stories >>
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Line Trimmers Review & Ratings
Canstar Blue’s 2019 review of line trimmers sees Stihl, Honda, Ryobi, Ozito and Makita compared on their ease of use, maintenance & servicing, reliability & performance, fuel economy/battery life, value for money and overall customer satisfaction.
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Most Satisfied Customers | Stihl
Proving to be a cut above the rest, Stihl has taken out top spot in Canstar Blue’s 2019 ratings for line trimmers. It scored five stars for maintenance, reliability & performance, fuel economy/battery life and overall satisfaction.
Stihl proves a cut above the rest in line trimmers review
When it comes to tackling the lawn, a lawn mower sometimes just isn’t enough to get that manicured look, particularly if you have tight spaces or plenty of edges to mow around. But instead of getting on your hands and knees with a pair of scissors or secateurs, households have another way to tidy up close to footpaths and trees – the line trimmer.
Known also as a whipper snipper, weed-whacker or weed-whip, the line trimmer is a handy addition to the shed, allowing you to tackle areas where you can’t use a lawn mower, or even tackle the whole yard if you only have a small patch to take care of. Generally available in both electric and petrol models, you have plenty of options to choose from for the next time the grass gets away from you. But which model should you spend your hard-earned money on?
Thankfully, Canstar Blue has looked to cut down the amount of time you spend looking, surveying close to 400 Australian adults about their recent line trimmer purchases to see which brands are proving a cut above the rest. In our inaugural line trimmer ratings, lawncare giant Stihl has taken out top spot, earning five-star reviews for maintenance & servicing, reliability & performance, fuel economy/battery life, and most importantly, overall customer satisfaction.
Best-Rated Line Trimmers
Canstar Blue’s 2019 line trimmers review saw five brands compared and rated in the following order for overall customer satisfaction:
1st Stihl
2nd Honda
3rd Ryobi
4th Ozito
5th Makita
Honda, Ryobi and Ozito scored four stars for overall satisfaction, with Makita rated three stars overall. Despite scoring multiple five-star ratings, Stihl wasn’t the only brand to perform well in the review. Both Honda and Ryobi were rated five stars for ease of use, with Ryobi also sharing the top spot for value for money with Ozito. So, there’s plenty to think about, and budget will likely play a big part in your buying decision.
Read on as we explore what the five brands in our 2019 review have to offer, before going into detail about what you should look for in a good whipper snipper.
Line Trimmer Brands
Founded almost 100 years, German brand Stihl is a mainstay with the yard work market, offering a range of products to help with jobs around the house, including chainsaws, pressure cleaners, hand tools, as well as gardening equipment such as hedge trimmers and line trimmers. Offering a wide range of line trimmers, from affordable electric models for small lawns to the Professional Series for those who have plenty of lawn to tackle, Stihl’s products are available at Stihl retailers around Australia, as well as at hardware retailers.
Offering a wide variety of battery-powered models, Stihl’s electric range weighs in between 2kg to 5kg, making them easy to move around your backyard and into those tight spaces. The FSA 45 introductory model includes features such as a loop handle for easy handling, a charge level indicator to ensure that you’re not running on empty, as well as an adjustable mowing unit to help with edge trimming. If you’re looking for something a bit more top of the line, the FSA 130 includes a single shoulder harness, variable speed control and a 280mm cutting diameter. Stihl also include corded models, each coming equipped with rubberised handles for comfort and weigh in under 4kg, making them ideal for smaller areas.
If you’re after a petrol model, Stihl’s Homeowner range may be more your speed. The introductory FS 38 model includes a multi-function handle, allowing you to easily stay in control of the engine output, while more expensive options, such as the FS 55, includes Stihl Easy2Start functionality, which features an additional spring accumulator which in turn places less stress on the starting device, meaning you won’t throw your shoulder out when you go to start your whipper snipper.
Rated five stars for maintenance/servicing, reliability & performance, fuel economy/battery life and overall satisfaction, Stihl got four stars for value for money and ease of use.
While better-known for its range of two and four-wheel vehicles, Honda has expanded into multiple markets that require an engine, including tools such as lawn mowers and whipper snippers. Available to purchase either through the Honda website or through a hardware or power equipment retailer, Honda line trimmers are generally more expensive than many of its competitors, but may be better-suited for those who have plenty to trim, or are passionate about their lawn care.
Honda’s most affordable model, the UMS425 Brush cutter, includes a bent shaft apparently for easier manoeuvrability around the yard, perhaps making it ideal for those with tight spaces or sharp corners. Also featuring a 0.55L fuel tank and four-stroke engine, the UMS425 comes equipped with a loop handle and anti-vibration padding so that you’re not left sore after tackling the lawn.
For those looking for something a bit more ‘top of the line’, the UMK435 may be the best tool for the job, featuring either a loop or bike handle depending on your personal preference, along with a 4-stroke engine, 4-tooth metal blade alongside a heavy duty nylon line head, helping to make short work of your lawn. You can also expect a single shoulder harness for additional comfort, as well as an anti-vibration engine mount to make your time on the tools easier on the body.
In joint-top spot for ease of use, Honda was rated four stars for reliability & performance, maintenance & servicing and overall satisfaction, with three stars for fuel economy/battery life.
Sold exclusively through Bunnings, Japanese manufacturer Ryobi has been in the power tool market for close to 80 years, offering a wide range of products for any projects you might have in and around the house. When it comes to whipper snippers, Ryobi’s range consists of both electric and petrol-fuelled models, with the range split into brush cutters and line trimmers, allowing you to narrow down your search depending on how much lawn you have to tackle.
Ryobi’s electric range is further split into 18V and 36V models, with the introductory 18V One+ featuring an adjustable shaft seemingly for easy use and control, a fold out edge guide to give you that manicured look, as well as an auto spool feed to take the guesswork out of sorting out the trimming line. The One+ is also available as a kit, coming with a Fast Charger and 4.0Ah Battery to keep you going during those big jobs. If you’re after something with a bit more grunt to it, the 36V Ryobi models may be more your speed, offering a similar output to a 25cc petrol engine. Selected 36V models also come equipped with Expand-It capabilities, allowing you to turn your whipper snipper into six other power tools, including a hedge trimmer and blower, ideal for those looking to tackle all areas of the backyard.
If you’re after a petrol line trimmer, Ryobi offers both curved and straight-shaft options, with most models including an easy startup feature to help you get your motor running, while also including a safety clutch for additional user-safety. With a 26cc line trimmer and a 52cc brush cutter available, Ryobi offer petrol models for small and large lawns.
Scoring five stars for value for money and ease of use, Ryobi got four stars for maintenance & servicing, reliability & performance and overall customer satisfaction, with three stars for fuel economy/battery life.
Another brand primarily found in Bunnings, Australian-brand Ozito has been a mainstay within the power tool market, offering hand tools, garden tools and power cleaning options for households to use on DIY projects. Focussing on electric line trimmers, the Ozito range can be purchased individually, or as a package if you’re looking to kit out your garden shed.
The bulk of Ozito’s range comes in the form of 18V cordless models, with individual whipper snippers or full kits that include chargers and batteries available. The OGT-0185 model includes features such as a 240mm cutting path and adjustable telescopic shaft to easier manoeuvrability, and weighs under 2kg, making it easy to carry around. Another 18V model – the PXCLTK-218 – features a 90-degree rotating head to allow you to edge your lawn, and additionally includes ten trimming blades for optimal cutting height.
For those after something a bit more powerful, Ozito also offers 500W and 600W line trimmers. The 500W model (LTR-529) includes a rotating head and edging wheel to help you spruce up all areas of your yard, while the 600W model (LTR-630) features an automatic line feed and 320mm cutting diameter. All Ozito models come with a three-year replacement warranty, allowing you to attack your backyard with peace of mind.
With four stars for ease of use, fuel economy/battery life and overall satisfaction, Ozito was rated five stars for value for money, but just three stars for maintenance & servicing as well as reliability & performance.
Founded over 100 years ago, Japanese brand Makita produces a variety of power tools, with a focus on electric and cordless models. Its tools are available at hardware retailers including Bunnings, along with a number of other retailers, which can be found via Makita’s Retailer Locator available on its website.
With a line-up that primarily consists of 18V models, Makita offers brushless and line trimmers for your yard’s needs. Makita’s introductory model, the DUR189Z, includes an adjustable shaft with ergonomic curve for easy use and manoeuvrability, with four variable speeds to help you tackle the lawn, whether it only needs a light trim or you’re tackling a jungle.
Other Makita whipper snippers include the DUR368AZ Brushless line trimmer, which includes dual 18V power output to tackle bigger jobs, along with a three-stage speed control and reverse switch to remove any tangled grass. It also features a cutting width of 350mm, and weighs about 5kg, making it one of the heavier models in the Makita line-up. Kits are available if you’re looking to purchase additional batteries and charging stations, ideal for those who are looking to get plenty done on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Rounding out the 2019 ratings, Makita was rated four stars for fuel economy/battery life, with three stars in all other research categories, including value for money, ease of use, and overall customer satisfaction.
Other line trimmer brands
There are a few other brands available on the market which didn’t qualify for our ratings. These include the following:
One of Australia’s icons, Victa may be more well-known for its range of lawn mowers, but still offers plenty when it comes to giving your yard the full care package. Primarily focussing on petrol models, bent and straight-shaft whipper snippers are available at power tool retailers and Victa wholesalers nationwide.
Included within the range is Victa’s Swift Start whipper snippers, available as a straight or bent-shaft variant, which feature Swift-Start to make sure you’re off and running easily, with the 2-stroke engine combining with the anti-vibration system to ensure that you’re not left sore after the yard work. Both the straight and bent shaft varieties weigh in at over 6kg, but have a cutting width of 400mm, making them some of the largest whipper snippers on the market. Victa also offers various attachments for select models, including a hedge trimmer attachment and pole trimmer attachment to take care of those hard to reach areas of the yard. And if you’re looking for a manicured end product, Victa has an edge trimmer attachment to keep your lawn looking fresh.
While originally a musket manufacturer, Swedish brand Husqvarna has transitioned into the power tool market, offering a variety of outdoor equipment, including chainsaws, mowers and whipper snippers. Available for purchase at hardware and power tool retailers, Husqvarna’s range includes electric and petrol models, with a professional range also available for those who own a lawn care maintenance business.
For the weekend-only warrior, Husqvarna offers a number of models under the ‘Occasional Use’ banner, including a 122C petrol model which includes Smart Start technology to reduce starter cord resistance, along with a low engine noise of 88 decibels. Also in the Occasional Use line-up is the 115iL trimmer, which weighs in around 3kg for easy use, and additionally features two modes – normal or savE mode, depending on whether you want more power or more runtime. If you’re looking for something serious, then the 535LK combi-trimmer may be the model for you, featuring a 1.5kW output, metal skid plate to protect the engine as well as several attachments to take care of any chores you have around the house.
Types of line trimmers
Petrol-fuelled line trimmers are the most common variety available, with 2-stroke and 4-stroke models ready to be used. Most models will have a 25cc engine, although some boast a 50cc engine, helping to make short work of any untidy part of the lawn.
Electric models vary between 18V up to 82V, with both corded and cordless varieties available to suit households with and without external power points. Most cordless models will include a rechargeable battery and charging station, although some sell them separately, so be sure to check before you hit the checkout!
It’s all in the shaft
Apart from how they’re powered, the biggest difference among whipper snipper brands and models is the type of shaft they have. Whipper snippers are available with either a curved or straight shaft, but what’s the difference?
Curved shafts are traditionally shorter and more lightweight than straight shaft models, usually making them easier to control. The trade-off is the reach, as some places may be harder to get to, and you may get an uneven cut if you’re not careful.
Straight shafts are the more common variety, with a longer reach and more stable grip, making them handy for those with a big job ahead of them. However, they are heavier, and generally cost more than the curved models.
If you’re after something a bit heftier, a brush cutter may be more your speed. Essentially a bulkier whipper snipper, brush cutters are generally better suited for clearing larger areas that aren’t suitable for lawn mowers, such as those filled with trees, or have plenty of rocks hiding under the grass.
The main difference between brush cutters and whipper snippers is a bigger engine and wider cutting area, with brush cutters similarly available in both 2-stroke and 4-stroke petrol models, together with electrical models. If you’ve got a large area to tackle, shoulder harnesses and straps are also available, making it easier to carry around.
Most brands offer a ‘split-shaft’ model, which allows you to replace the cutting head with other power tools, including hedge trimmers and pole pruners
Edge Trimmers
If you’ve got footpaths or pavers in your yard, an edge trimmer may be a handy option to have, allowing you to cut clean edges around the border of your lawn, giving you the ‘edge’ over your neighbour’s front lawn!
Edge trimmers work similarly to whipper snippers, although feature guiding wheels to ensure that you don’t accidently stray off course. Most edge trimmers also include variable height settings and cutting depths to suit your needs and garden. But before you simply turn your whipper snipper on its side, be aware that edge trimmers include specialised grips and guards for increased safety, meaning it may be worth investigating if you’re looking to get the most out of your lawn.
Trimmer Cords
While some trimmers use steel blades to get through tough grass and weeds, most whipper snippers use a trimmer cord, otherwise known as a trimmer line. Found at your local hardware store, a trimmer cord is traditionally made from nylon or plastic, and is available in both pre-cut or full spools.
Generally, a thinner cord will wear quicker, but gives a straighter cut than a thicker cord, making it more ideal for those looking to edge or trim, while thicker line will be more suitable for those looking to go to town with the brush cutter.
Feeding the cord itself can be almost as tough as tackling the lawn, particularly if you find yourself doing it often. Older models required you to hand feed the spool through, while modern ones have something more convenient, including the automatic feed and the bump feed.
The automatic feed works by automatically sending out more cord when you need it, which can take the guesswork out of how much cord you need. While handy for those unsure about cord length, it does add another mechanical part that could potentially break, meaning an automatic feed may cost you additional maintenance costs.
The bump feed works when you ‘bump’ or press the head of the trimmer against a flat surface, which squeezes a spring and releases cord from the spool. The bump feed uses centrifugal force to pull the string from the spool, which also allows you to control how much cord comes out. However, you’ll have to be careful with how hard, and how often, you’re bumping the feed, as one bump too many could spell the end of your whipper snipper.
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Fun in the sun?
For some, spending time in the sun means hitting the beach, but for others a sunny day means a perfect time for getting the yard work done. In addition to asking survey respondents about their most recent purchases, we also asked them how long they generally use their line trimmers for, with their answers recorded below:
Less than 10 minutes – 6%
Between 10 and 30 minutes – 61%
More than 30 minutes – 31%
With almost half (47%) of survey respondents starting up their line trimmer at least every fortnight, and an additional 34% getting their whipper snipper out on a monthly basis, the brand and type you choose could be the difference between slaving out in the hot sun for longer than you need to, or enjoying the time in the sun followed by a relaxing beer in the shade.
Which line trimmer should I buy?
To get the lawn of your dreams, you’ll have to put the work in, which can be made easier with the right tools. While a line trimmer may not be a worthwhile purchase for every lawn, it will come in handy for those with footpaths, trees or other obstacles. To ensure you’re not left in a spin, be sure to check out all your options before dipping your green thumb into your wallet.
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About this research
Canstar Blue surveyed 3,000 Australian adults across a range of categories to measure and track customer satisfaction, via ISO 26362 accredited research panels managed by Qualtrics. The outcomes reported are the results from customers within the survey group who have purchased and used a new whipper snipper/lime trimmer/weed-whacker in the last 2 years – in this case, 390 people.
Brands must have received at least 30 responses to be included. Results are comparative and it should be noted that brands receiving three stars have still achieved a satisfaction measure of at least six out of 10. Not all brands available in the market have been compared in this survey. The ratings table is first sorted by star ratings and then by mean overall satisfaction. A rated brand may receive a ‘N/A’ (Not Applicable) rating if it does not receive the minimum number of responses for that criteria.
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Interviewed at home 'New Dunmow House' 1 Gafzelle Drive 1983
Aubrey Stevens Interview
This video footage of an interview with my father, Aubrey Stevens was re-discovered by my brother, Chris, a couple of years ago. It had been amongst the large collection of documents, post-cards and Canvey History memorabilia which my Dad had collected over the years which, unfortunately, became dispersed after his death in 1986. We believe it was recorded in 1983 but we do not have any precise knowledge of the organisation which conducted the interview. Many thanks to Mike Machin for transferring this from V.H.S. format to enable us to publish on the Archive. Graham.
If anyone knows who made this video and who owns the copyright please let us know.
Can I hear gease in the background?!
By David Bullock (25/01/2010)
Ha Ha, Dave. Yes you can, they were the Chinese geese on the piece of land next to my Dad’s which we called ”the patch”. My Dad and nephew Paul Stacey kept a bit of a mini farmyard there with rabbits, chickens,Indian Runner ducks a couple of ordinary geese and those flipping Chinese type. It was quite an attraction for local mums and toddlers but I think the neighbours complained about those geese and eventually they had to go. Graham.
By Graham Stevens (26/01/2010)
Mr Stevens was a friend of my mothers. Very nice to see the old gentleman again. He was what Mr Cameron would call an ‘active citizen’ and did a lot of work to support community activity on the Island. Thank you for sharing this clip.
By Rich (13/04/2011)
Hello Graham. I remember Aubrey well. He brings back wonderful memories. He made the best bread on the island:)
By Theresa Brodrick. (17/11/2013)
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Home » Benitec selects Duke Clinical Research Unit as a site for HCV phase I/II trial
Benitec selects Duke Clinical Research Unit as a site for HCV phase I/II trial
RNAi-based therapeutics company Benitec Biopharma has selected the Duke Clinical Research Unit, the early phase unit of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) of Durham, N.C., as a site for its upcoming phase I/II first-in-man trial for TT-034 in hepatitis C (HCV). TT-034 is being developed as a potential "one-shot-cure" for HCV.
"We are very excited to be working with Duke, a world renowned research institution with significant experience in this area," said Peter French , Ph.D., CEO of Benitec. "The TT-034 trial marks the transition of Benitec to a clinical stage company. We expect that positive results from the trial will provide a value inflection point for the company, and also be a validation for our ddRNAi technology as an effective platform for therapeutics."
The phase I/II clinical trial is an open-label dose escalation study to evaluate the safety and activity of single doses of TT-034 in patients with chronic HCV genotype 1 infection who have failed previous treatments. The trial is expected to involve 14 patients in five sequential dose cohorts. Additional consolidation cohorts may be added during the study to confirm the results of the trial. The primary safety endpoints are dose limiting adverse events. The primary activity end points are serum viral load reduction and degree of hepatocyte transduction (measured through liver biopsies). There is a pre-specified interim read on safety and activity within months of trial commencement. The clinical trial is expected to begin enrolling patients during the second half of 2013.
Duke's principal investigator for the study will be Keyur Patel , M.D. Patel has previous experience with oligonucleotide therapeutics in HCV, is a recipient of the prestigious American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Shelia Sherlock Clinical and Translational Research award and has over 100 citations in peer-reviewed publications.
"TT-034 is a potentially transformative new treatment," said Patel. "A therapeutic that could cure an HCV patient with a single injection would obviously be a big step forward compared to even the best treatments that are currently on the horizon, as they all involve comparatively lengthy regimens with a combination of several drugs."
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Home Latest News Cornish Assembly plans unveiled
Cornish Assembly plans unveiled
The Liberal Democrats have announced that they will campaign at the next General Election to introduce a Cornish Assembly.
Liberal Democrats in Cornwall have long fought for greater powers for the Duchy and for recognition of “Cornwall’s unique heritage, culture and constitutional status”.
In 2009, Dan Rogerson MP introduced the Government of Cornwall Bill to Parliament which proposed a legislative Assembly for Cornwall similar to the National Assembly for Wales.
Introducing a Cornish Assembly was already a national Liberal Democrat party policy, but will now feature in the party’s planned manifesto for the next General Election in May 2015.
The ‘pre-manifesto’ was launched by party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg this week and will become the Lib Dem manifesto at the 2015 General Election.
Rogerson said: “In Coalition Government the Liberal Democrats have a record of action in delivering for Cornwall. Despite opposition and disinterest from Conservatives, Lib Dems have made sure that the Cornish are recognised with national minority status, have provided funding to support the Cornish language and have made sure that more decisions are taken here in Cornwall through bodies like the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership.
“Of course there is more to do, and more that we would like to do. That’s why if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government we would introduce a law-making Cornish Assembly. Bringing more powers and decision making to Cornwall will give local people a greater say over issues like schools, jobs, housing, healthcare and public transport, and will allow decisions to be taken in Cornwall and in the best interests of Cornwall.”
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