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accueillir (dans ses locaux)
Thread starter Transit76
Transit76
Could you help me on this one?
Context: I did a training course in a company and I would like to say: la société m'a accueilli dans ses locaux de mai à septembre.
franc 91
English - GB
I'd say simply - They invited me to do a training course with them from May to September
here is What I said:
The company, which has its head office in X, welcomed me from April to September. Is that correct?
it's too literal (well that's my opinion anyway)
Is The company, which has its head office in X, invited me with them from April to September better then?
Keith Bradford
Brittany, NW France
English (Midlands UK)
No, it's worse. Trust Franc, a native speaker.
I really do but I also need to say the company has its head office in X. How could I make my sentence then?
The company, with its head office in X, invited me to do a training course with them from May to September.
The company invited me to do a training course from May to September at its head office in X.
I prefer the latter.
Thank you very much, Keith!
well you can add - at their Head Office in....
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Mitt Romney: Arab Spring Could've Been Avoided By Bush's 'Freedom Agenda'
July 2012 in The Lodge #1
Are you EFFing kidding me. The Arab Spring was brought about by one Egyptian pissed off about the corruption of his country. His self sacrifice started Arab Spring.
I think the Palin/Romney morph is correct. Romney doesn't understand that grass roots revolution is sometimes is bloody and messy and junk. It's not some board room company takeover.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/mitt-romney-arab-spring_n_1710038.html
"President [George W.] Bush urged [deposed Egyptian President] Hosni Mubarak to move toward a more democratic posture, but President Obama abandoned the freedom agenda and we are seeing today a whirlwind of tumult in the Middle East in part because these nations did not embrace the reforms that could have changed the course of their history, in a more peaceful manner," Romney said.
Romney argued that with the rise of democratically elected Islamist governments in some of the countries undergoing revolutions -- Egypt and Tunisia in particular -- the Arab Spring has turned out to be less of a boon for Western interests than it initially appeared.
"Clearly we're disappointed in seeing Tunisia and Morocco elect Islamist governments. We're very concerned in seeing the new leader in Egypt as an Islamist leader. It is our hope to move these nations toward a more modern view of the world and to not present a threat to their neighbors and to the other nations of the world," he said.
July 2012 #2
I guess I missed the part where Romney suggested that a grass roots revolution isn't sometimes bloody and messy and junk and stuff.
Seems to me his argument is that a bloody, messy grass roots revolution wouldn't have been necessary and the election of Islamist governments avoided had President Obama followed President Bush's policies.
Of course, there's no proof that such would have been the case.
By the way, the Arab Spring was brought about by one Tunisian.
Steven wrote: »
You are correct.
Exactly............
I'm glad I made that point for you, then.
Brian D. Senior Member Posts: 4,011 Senior Member
It mystifies me that we talk and talk about democracy in places like Egypt and Palestine but then are surprised when Islamist governments get elected. The atmosphere over there isn't exactly primed for the popular election of liberal Western-leaning intellectuals. I didn't see much in Bush's foreign policy that ameliorated that.
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Cause "W" was really puttin the Freedom Agenda down hard.
“all who live in tyranny and hopelessness’’ that “the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.’’ "W"
Within days, the administration was making it clear that this “Bush doctrine’’ would apply even to autocratic US allies like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. When Ayman Nour, a leading Egyptian democracy activist, was arrested on bogus charges and thrown in jail, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cancelled a planned trip to Egypt in protest. Her trip was rescheduled only after Nour was released, and upon landing in Cairo in June 2005, she delivered a ringing defense of democracy and the right of peaceful dissenters to be heard.
There was no sequel to Secretary Rice’s dramatic exhortation in Cairo in June 2005. When Mubarak a few months later claimed victory in an “election’’ so grotesquely rigged that most Egyptians boycotted the polls, US Ambassador Frank Ricciardone publicly fawned over him, going on Egyptian TV to offer “the congratulations of the United States . . . for this great accomplishment.’’ Ayman Nour was thrown back in prison, but Rice fought a congressional effort to reduce the nearly $2 billion in aid Egypt annually receives from Washington.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned that any cuts would damage a "strategic partnership" that is "a cornerstone of U.S. policy in the Middle East."
Nothing like fawning and throwing money at a despot to make that Freedom Agenda Ring.
**** brings you another Retroactive Romney History Lesson.
Brian D. wrote: »
I would guess the countepoint would be that a gradual loosening of the stranglehold by somebody like Mubarak or Qadafi (no idea who the Tunisian was) may have give secular democratic organizations time to develop. Instead, when the balloon went up, the only people with any organization were the Islamists.
TimD Senior Member Posts: 906 Senior Member
July 2012 #10
Curiously (well not really) Mittens doesn't talk about democracy in Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi; I don't think he knows that Hosni's Egypt was known as an Islamic republic.
The Tunisian guy was from Tunistan.
TimD wrote: »
And the German Democratic Republic was democratic.
You Repubs have some strange ideas about "democracy". I grant, however, that the GDR operated pretty much like a Chairman/CEO's board meetings. :rolleyes:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/03/the_middle_east_is_not_rising.html
No matter how many times and in how many ways conservatives write this, it never stops being patronizing. Protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Iran are not rising up because President Bush gave them a pat on the head and told them they were worthy of dignity and freedom. Their inspiring courage, their bravery in the face of brutality and despotism, is a triumph all their own.
At bottom, there's a very basic contradiction at the heart of the conservative interpretation of today's events. On the one hand, they argue, the success of the protests vindicate Bush's faith in their democratic yearnings. On the other, they argue, Obama is doing everything wrong. Yet if Obama's doing everything wrong, even as some of the protests continue to succeed, what that really shows us is that we aren't the important actors here. This isn't about us. And it isn't about Bush.
It's over. Some of the bad guys lost. We have some maybe new bad guys. Get over it.
Actually one of the few things that I liked about W was that he funded many of the groups that started the Arab Spring. Once again Romney is talking out of his azzz.
This isn't about us. And it isn't about Bush.
Thumb way up.
Are you talking about the GDR or the middle east? In the case of the latter, the fat lady hasn't even put her make-up on yet.
The GDR n'existe pas. Care to make a friendly wager as to whether anything even vaguely resembling what we would call democracy takes root in the Arab Spring nations? The Fat Lady might not even be allowed on stage when the Islamists are in charge.
And as we have seen in Egypt there is a large and vocal segment that are not pleased with the results. I think we have let the dictators in the region tell us for too long that Islamic republics are an inevitable result of allowing the people to vote. I am not convinced.
George K wrote: »
Democracy didn't have a golden record in the middle east while the west was in charge either. Iran had a short-lived one in the 50's and Iraq seems to be holding the torch.
The bell of freedom ringeth neither louldly nor clearly.
I have been telling you that for a very long time.
No foundation, no edifice as it were. Aside from (West) Germany and Japan I cannot think of another successful democracy arising from a culture with no history of representative rule, and they are very special cases.
Nor the way Romney would like it.
Every western country previously under despotic rule had successful Democracies after not having a prior history of representative rule.
Some of them France for example took many years and many governments.
I don't see the argument. The driving engine of the human spirit is freedom. Eventually I believe that all totalitarian governments, even Korea will crumble and fall by the way side.
George what was America's history of representative rule? When did it become on man one vote and property qualifications were dropped? When did women get the vote? How about blacks? How is it that Americans don't directly vote for their president?
Tell us about Britain's democratic traditions - I will help. In the 1860's the Chartist movement pushed for extending the voting franchise to regular people. There was a demonstration numbering 400000 people, which actually outnumbered the size of the electorate. It not really a democracy when less than 400,000 people can vote in a population of 20 million.
Fact is that the west preferred strong men types, not democracies, for countries under their sphere of influence; just look at South America, the Middle East and Asia. in the 70's most of the countries in the free world, outside of western Europe, were dictatorships. Just when did the west start promoting democracy?
There's your answer above, in bold letters, and "eventually" can be a very long time.
The idea that democracy would flourish in the Arab world once tyrants were overturned is naive in the extreme. It did not work for Bush/Cheney/Rummy in Iraq and it is not working in the Arab Spring lands now. Perhaps in a few decades or centuries, but not soon.
France is a good example; so is Germany, whose first taste of democracy after WW I did not work out so well, and Russia whose dance with representative government was even shorter than Germany's. Russia still is struggling to establish democracy and at the moment is backsliding.
For reasons most likely explained by culture and history, representative democracy seems to take root more easily in societies with a long-standing "Anglo-Saxon" or Nordic influence than in ones influenced by central, southern or eastern Europe.
This becomes fairly obvious if you compare how well representative democracy has taken root in former British, French and Spanish/Portuguese colonies in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Thank you for providing additional examples for my point that democracy evolves over time, not overnight.
Wetdog Senior Member Posts: 5,149 Senior Member
Speaking of those "many governments" will Italy ever figure it out?
I find the assault on free thought disturbing,
I find the willingness to give it up frightening.
Wetdog wrote: »
What is a change of government in Italy would be called a cabinet reshuffle elsewhere.:rolleyes:
But the system, flawed as it may be, works better than in most places that have only been a country for 100 years or so, and less than that in its current geography.
Explain to me why this is not racist poppy ****.
Again it took almost a century for one of those European countries to develop a modern democracy. So how were the French superior?
In my mind it depends more on the will of the people, the Iranians wanted a government based on Islam, and the leadership. The problem with Egypt was not a lack of desire for a secular democratic state, it was the choices they were provided. This whole Arab spring in Egypt began as a movement to get the Judiciary to separate itself from the Executive and provide honest justice for Egyptians. These reformers are educated and moderate. The Islamic Brotherhood will not be in control of that country once a stronger democratically motivated political party has the time to develop.
Or until the military gives over real control of the government.
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Antonio VillaraigosaLu ParkerMirthala Salinas
Los Angeles Mayor Tony Villaraigosa Bows Out of Race for California Governor
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gestures during an interview Monday, June 22, 2009, at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Villaraigosa announced his decision Monday not to run for governor of California in 2010, because he wants to finish his job as mayor
Not really a shock and Mayor Tony knows he cannot beat California Attorney General and former California Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown in a contested Democrat Primary anyway.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on national television today that he would not be running for California governor in 2010 after flirting with a bid for higher office for months.
“I can’t leave this city in the middle of a crisis,” Villaraigosa said. Noting that Los Angeles is grappling with a $530-million deficit, a 12.5% unemployment rate and more than 20,000 people who have lost their homes over the last two years, the mayor said: “I feel compelled to complete what I started out to do.â€
Elected to a second, four-year term in March, the mayor broke the news to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room,” saying he wanted to devote his full attention to Los Angeles.
The former state assembly speaker said he had been making up his mind “for a long time†and that the state’s challenges had made the decision an “agonizing†one. Villaraigosa called the situation in Sacramento “an abomination,†but hinted at the political risks of announcing a statewide run so soon after being reelected to a second term. “I was elected mayor and reelected by the people of this city.They’ve given me the honor for a second term, and I feel compelled to complete the promise that I made to them. I’m going to dream, and I want the people to dream with me,†he said.
Villaraigosa’s decision adds a dash of clarity to the race for the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial nomination which, at the moment, appears will be between state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Brown has yet to say if he will run, while Newsom already has announced his candidacy.
In a personal note, Villaraigosa said the demands of the campaign trail would have kept him apart from his 16-year-old daughter, whom he called the “apple of my eye.†“She’s got two more years of high school and then she’s gone, and I don’t want to be campaigning for a year, and then leading the state in Sacramento and my little precious is, you know, finishing up her high school education.â€
Pundits will say Mayor Tony pulled out because of his self-inflicted summer of love affair with Mirthala Salinas or even his latest fling with television news anchor Lu Parker but it is really the candidacy of Jerry Brown that gives him pause.
Mayor Tony will now simply wait until after Brown loses to Meg Whitman or Steve Poizner and then run for Governor at a later time or for Dianne Feinstein’s United States Senate seat when she retires.
But, Villaraigosa will be judged on his second term as Mayor of Los Angeles and he had better do a better job.
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Posted: May 28, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books
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Oh high school… its trials and tribulations have provided fodder for some very cool writers and filmmakers. And now, Vera Brosgol, who has already made a name for herself in film and animation as storyboard artist for Coraline and story artist for Paranorman, has joined their ranks with her first full length graphic novel, Anya’s Ghost.Put out by First Second, it reads like a PG-13 Heathers with dash of cute.
Anya, a Russian born American, is having a hard time. The typical high school sort of hard time. She wishes she were thinner. And that her family would act a little less Russian. She’s pining after a popular boy with a popular girlfriend. Her grades aren’t great. And it seems like outcasts are her only prospects for friendship.
And then she falls down a well. Trapped with the bones and ghost of Emily Reilly, a young murder victim who has spent the past ninety years down here, Anya, the chainsmoking damsel in distress, makes for miserable company. Luckily, Emily and a random punk rocker facilitate her rescue. The girls form a friendship based on the most selfish of intentions – mutually so, mind you – and Anya finds Emily’s lust for life, albeit vicarious, to be a breath of fresh air. For a little while, anyway…
It’s rare, not super rare, but rare, that a writer will illustrate her own book. Brosgol’s talents in both departments shine here. Her simple, bold, and neat line work pairs perfectly with the story and the greyscale color scheme adds a depth that keeps it visually interesting throughout. It’s fun. Like a teen movie, on paper.
And, as with the best of teen movie protagonists, Anya finds herself. She learns that things are not always as they seem. And that being true to yourself makes you cooler than any makeover or boyfriend might.
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An Industrial Park in my Backyard – Similarities Between Coal Mining and Fracking – YouTube
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Marcellus Shale Gas Development: What Does It Mean for Pennsylvania Schools? — Natural Gas — Penn State Extension
Marcellus Shale Gas Development: What Does It Mean for Pennsylvania Schools? — Natural Gas — Penn State Extension.
Marcellus Shale Gas Development: What Does It Mean for Pennsylvania Schools?
Latest research brief on challenges and opportunities associated with Marcellus shale development as perceived by educational leaders
The rapid development of natural gas extraction has profound impacts on many communities. This new fact sheet looks at local challenges and implications they may have for schools. Surveys were sent to high school principals and directors and Career and Technology Center (CTC) directors within the Marcellus shale region, and interviews with focus groups were held to obtain information. Four broad areas in which schools may see direct effects as a result of natural gas development were determined: school demographics, student outcomes and workforce development; effects on local roads and transportation; and broader community services and infrastructure. A comparison of perceptions of school district leaders in areas with high drilling activity to those in areas with lower drilling activity were examined.
The fact sheet does provide all questions asked on the survey as well as the results separated by respondents in areas with lower drilling activity, areas with higher drilling activity, and CTC respondents. Besides the results, implications for school leaders on each broad area are provided. The complete fact sheet may be viewed here.
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Councilman: Dimock ‘Thugs’ ‘Pirating’ Montrose Water | WBNG-TV: News, Sports and Weather Binghamton, New York | Top Video
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Local prostitution linked to gas drilling industry | Star-Gazette | stargazette.com
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FOCUS | No Fracking Way: Protesters Block Frac Sand Mining Operations
FOCUS | No Fracking Way: Protesters Block Frac Sand Mining Operations.
No fracking way: protesters block frac sand mining operations
by Jake Olzen | February 15, 2012, 3:24 pm
On Monday, nearly forty people blocked truck traffic from entering “Mount Frac”—the Winona, MN dumping site for silica sand mined in Wisconsin and Minnesota’s beautiful driftless region before being shipped out for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” sites all over the country. In the twenty or so minutes that protesters blocked the site, eleven semi-trucks were held up; it was stark and visceral reminder of how much the frac sand industry has grown since last summer. There were no arrests made, although police warned that any future attempt to block the trucks would result in citations and/or arrest.
The activists—a diverse group of students, scientists, teachers, musicians, parents, farmers and other concerned citizens—issued a statement declaring their opposition to frac sand mining and fracking:
We stand here today because this is our community. We grow our food on this land and drink from these aquifers. We rely on this bridge and these roads. Frac sand mining and processing are not good for our community. We also know that our valuable sand is being used in the hydraulic fracturing process which is responsible for poisoning water and destroying land in countless other communities. We have used our words time and again to express our many concerns. Now, in the spirit of nonviolence, we use our bodies to say stop. Please, stop.
This was the second time in less than a week where frac sand operations were disrupted. Last Thursday, a group of nine—mostly Catholic Workers—blocked truck traffic for more than twenty minutes before leaving the site without any citations or arrests.
Silica sand, formed by pieces of crystalline silica, is idealized by fracking companies for the drilling of natural gas because of its hardiness and shape. A well is drilled and millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals is pumped into it. The sand can withstand intense amounts of pressure as natural gas escapes from the fissures that the sand holds open. There are a whole host of controversial issues surrounding fracking for natural gas as well as silica sand mining. Critics of fracking have noted that the liquid-injection mixtures are deadly compositions of unknown chemicals and carcinogens. Fracking companies have refused to disclose their “recipes” but aquifers, wells, and streams have been polluted at high rates around fracking sites in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. Some waters have been poisoned so badly that homeowners can light their faucet taps on fire and are forced to truck in their water. And while there are no natural gas deposits in Wisconsin or Minnesota, where the silica sand is being mined in open pits, both processes have major physical and environmental health concerns.
Issues concerning the mining of frac sand were widely expressed at the Winona City Planning Commission meeting on Monday evening. The Planning Commission is set to give recommendations to the City Council for how to deal with sand processing and transportation facilities that are knocking on Winona’s door. The planning commission prepared a document recommending a conditional use permit but many Winonans felt it did not go far enough. Residents’ concerns included blasting with explosives in the mines, excessive water use, increased truck traffic and more than usual wear and tear on local infrastructure such as roads and bridges, dust pollution, and, most worrisome, health hazards due to environmental exposure to crystalline silica.
Andrew Puetz, General Manager at Chrysler Winona—whose new, two million dollar dealership was relocated to downtown Winona as part of an economic revitalization attempt—spoke about the “economic fallout” his company is experiencing as a result of increased frac sand operations and traffic: “The sand affects the paint, air filters, and underside of the cars. We are regularly asked by customers about what color our cars are and are spending $2,000 a month just to keep them clean. There are serious effects on the exterior of our vehicles [from the sand]; what is that doing to our lungs and everything else?”
Proponents of frac sand mining—in Winona, Wisconsin, and elsewhere—emphasize the important economic development opportunities that it offers to small communities. But who is really benefiting? And at what cost? Out-of-state corporations, like the Houston-based, Fortune 500 EOG Resources, has its hands in townships along the Mississippi River. The frac sand boom is dependent on another exploitative extractive industry and the Energy Information Administration has concluded that there is significantly less natural gas available in the United States than previously though—up to fifty percent less. Are rural communities being hoodwinked by what some state and corporate leaders have dubbed a “gold rush?” Frac sand mining does not seem to be wise long-term or sustainable economic development. The communities along the Mississippi, due to the glacial drift that also created the silica sand deposits, have some of the highest concentrations of organic agriculture and family farms in the country. Tourism also accounts for much of the region’s income with its preponderance of local and state parks for birding, hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, and watersports. As a result local entrepreneurs—restaurateurs, artists, bar and cafe owners, specialty shops—also benefit. Frac sand mining and its related operations threatens the vitality of those industries by driving up the cost of rural real estate and contributing significant amounts of pollution, traffic, and blight. Yet the Winona Chamber of Commerce backs the frac sand industry over the broad economic interests of small business owners and the health and safety of the community.
Dr. Bruno Borsari, professor and biologist at Winona State University, called for a team of experts to be put together who could rigorously and objectively study the impacts of frac sand operations in town and assess the effects it would have on soil, air, water and health. “We are on the brink of collision with an impact upon the environment that is going to change the connotations of the county forever,” said Borsari, “and I am very disturbed because Winona County, whether you know it or not, is the most biodiverse county in the whole state of Minnesota.”
One thing is clear—the City of Winona is unprepared to deal with a powerful industry as well as a mobilizing citizenry. Last spring, frac sand mine owners and operators were able to sneak through plans without public input and with little oversight from regulatory agencies. Now, Winona is inundated with frac sand operations and the city has on its hands, in the words of Winonan Mike Leutgeb-Munson, “a public safety disaster that is perpetuated by the town laying out a welcome mat to industry to destroy our bridge and our town.” His sentiments were met with approving nods by most of the room. The fears of frac sand operations, largely confirmed by what has happened in other towns and counties, like Chippewa County, Wisconsin, are that the floodgates are opening and it is not going to be good for most businesses, homeowners, farmers, residents, and tourists.
“There are thousands of trucks in surrounding counties waiting to get in here” said Mary Ann from Buffalo County, WI—just across the river from Winona. “We need to mitigate the damage because this is just the beginning.” Winona is an attractive transfer point for the sand because of its location on the Mississippi River and its access to freight trains.
Many counties in Minnesota—including Goodhue and Wabasha County—have passed a one year moratorium to study the potential effects and costs of frac sand mining. Winona County passed a three month moratorium and when it expires it will have to face permit applications or extend the moratorium. But that does not resolve the issue of increased truck traffic, including the costs of additional road maintenance estimated to be more than $1 million annually or the dangers of heavy traffic in residential areas. And neither does it address the potential health hazards of silica sand. On both issues, the City of Winona has been slow in responding. The road issue may not seem like a big deal until you realize that in 2008 the bridge on Highway 43—connecting Wisconsin’s sand pits to Minnesota’s trains and roads—was closed because of rusting gusset plates (the same plates cited in the I-35W bridge collapse). Add the extra—and unregulated—heavy truck traffic weighing on the bridge and it creates legitimate concern for public safety.
The Winona protests come just a week after the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources denied a petition by residents seeking to have crystalline silica reviewed as a hazardous air contaminant. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has this to say about crystalline silica:
The seriousness of the health hazards associated with silica exposure is demonstrated by the fatalities and disabling illnesses that continue to occur in sandblasters and rockdrillers. Crystalline silica has been classified as a human lung carcinogen. Additionally, breathing crystalline silica dust can cause silicosis, which in severe cases can be disabling, or even fatal. The respirable silica dust enters the lungs and causes the formation of scar tissue, thus reducing the lungs’ ability to take in oxygen. There is no cure for silicosis. Since silicosis affects lung function, it makes one more susceptible to lung infections like tuberculosis. In addition, smoking causes lung damage and adds to the damage caused by breathing silica dust.
There are no conclusive studies regarding the health effects for the kind of exposure the public has to silica sand. The data on silicosis has been mainly linked to close-quarters exposure over an extended period of time. But research shows that the effects of silicosis, and other airborne illnesses, can take up to twenty years to appear. The risk itself—a risk they didn’t ask for—is what has Winonans up in arms. Alison DeNio, whose home is two blocks from Mount Frac, has already noticed the ill-effects the sand particulates have had on her family’s health. Her passion echoed how, she noted, many of her neighbors feel:
The respiratory issues in my household alone, since this thing has moved into the neighborhood, is out of control. My daughter has asthma now. My son is constantly coughing. I don’t want them to be outside. Even before we knew what this stuff was, we used to go running down that road. We can’t do any of that anymore with the amount of trucks coming through their now. The trucks are out of control. They go flying by us as we are sitting there on the side of the road on our bikes, waiting. It’s aggressive and a really awful environment.
Diane Leutgeb-Munson, who was a part of both truck-blocking actions, made a powerful appeal to the planning commission: “This is a crucial moment for our community and you do have power as an advisory commission. We are all looking to you. That’s why we came here. That’s why we’ve been showing up at city meetings and county meetings. We are asking you to do more than what this document says. These are scary moments for all of us. At the end of this meeting you get a choice and we are asking you to make the right one.” The planning commission tabled their recommendation for further study. While many of the “fracktivists” want frac sand mining gone completely, it is a victory for the emerging movement. It also sends a strong signal to the industry and to town and city governments that people are watching.
It may be coincidence, but at the beginning of the meeting, planning commissioner chair Craig Porter noted that they had never had so many people show up at a meeting. A much more likely explanation is the power people have when they get engaged, show up, and—when necessary—take direct actions. Of the more than forty citizens who packed into Winona City Hall, most of them proved their willingness to fight for what they believe in earlier that afternoon at Mount Frac. And that is a powerful testament to the efficacy of nonviolent action that corporate and government authorities take seriously.
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SonofSamhain
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I live in Becchofen, Germany
I was born on April 17
My occupation is Currently unemployed
Welcome a Board!
I like to Welcome you to the Ghostbusters Wiki! Thanks for your contributions.
A few tips for this wiki:
Please remember to sign your name on discussion pages by typing ~~~~ which automatically adds your signature and the date.
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Before making a new page use the search bar, or topic on the front page of the wiki and search for it, in case its already made.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! Devilmanozzy
...about pictures...
My laptop right now is in the repair shop as the power supply is now disconnected inside my laptop. And pictures and such are on it, so I need time to get a new screencap of Tempus, and Vampire Clowns up. Devilmanozzy 15:46, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I encourge you to..
Seek administrator. Requests for administrator
You have very good knowledge on Extreme Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters. I suggest you try out. Make sure to include link to your previous account here. Devilmanozzy 20:12, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Ghostbuters the Video Game
Do you own a copy, if so what console is it for (Wii, PC, PS3, etc.)? --Liberal Noob 23:26, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
I have the game on Xbox 360, PS2, and DS. BTW, do you know how to make it past the swarms of Candelabrum Crawlers in the first level before you reach Sargassi? SonofSamhainSonofSamhain 01:50, 15 July 2009 (UTC) July 15, 2009.
You are talking about the DS version right? If so I simply shot in every direction while I moved and ordered the others to follow me. It took me a few run throughs and the rest of the game is HARD! --Liberal Noob 23:42, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I was talking about the Xbox 360 version, but I no longer need your help. I snuck up a small hill and blasted the rest of them. After that, I went to Sargassi's restaurant and busted him. Matter of fact, I managed to complete the entire game eventually. I am stuck on the Museum level in the PS2 and DS versions, but I'm sure I will find a way to pass them. I would also like to discuss an idea I have for Ghostbusters. In 1991, the rookie member was my character Soul Man. Unlike the rookie, Soul Man is more talkative and Peter lets him tell his name. He even stays with the Ghostbusters after Shandor is beaten. Soul Man was a man named Thomas B. Stone and was one of the Ghostbusters' best customers. During the events of Ghostbusters 2, he was killed by the mood slime and became a ghost. Unlike most ghosts formed from the mood slime, Soul Man was a good guy. However, he knew the Ghostrbusters would try to bust him so he hid until the events of Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Soul Man was absent in Extreme Ghostbusters because when the Ghostbusters went out of business, Egon sent him in the Containment Unit to keep an eye on the captured ghosts. He wasn't able to help Eduardo in Slimer's Sacrifice because he had his hands full with Samhain, the Bogeyman, and a Gozer-influenced Stay Puft. After the end of the series, Ray, Peter, and Winston realized the new team needed their help, so they stayed in New York to keep helping them with the new powerful entities in New York. It was then when they freed Soul Man from the Containment Unit and allowed him to rejoin the team. Soul Man resembles the ghost in the No-Ghost symbol except he is slimmer and has no nose. He does not wear the Ghostbusters' traditional uniform and instead wears an orange jacket (though it features the logo on the right sleeve and has a name tag like the traditional uniform). I also have this idea that shortly after Shandor's defeat, all the ghosts the Ghostbusters captured (including Stay Puft, Azetlor, The Chairman, Spiderwitch, the Sloar, and at least what is left of Shandor and Gozer) reappeared and merged into a single entity that was easy to trap since Shandor's Destructor form took a lot of energy from them and weakened them. After the Ghostbusters returned to the firehouse, repaired the Containment Unit, and sent the captured ghost into it, the entity separated back into individual ghosts. --SonofSamhain 7: 24 PM July 16, 2009 (UTC)
Congrats! You are now a Sysop!
Yes and that means most of all, you can delete a page if its not up to spec. Please read the Mod Startup Kit page. Anyways, let me know if you have any questions, or if you want to start something new on the Wiki. Devilmanozzy 11:45, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
I copied the text to Ghostmakers
Sometimes lately Wikia gets sort of disconnected I noticed. That may be the problem you were having. Devilmanozzy 20:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
The Ghostbusters Video Games
Yeah I only left the games together because no one shown interest in the articles, and other than Ghostbusters(city screen type one) I have not played all that many of them. If you want to edit and make them happen, I don't mind. Ghostbusters Video Games. I'll get the pages started tonight when I get home from college. Devilmanozzy 01:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Legal B.S. ....
Note, no one came to me or the wiki saying we're in trouble or anything, but just to play it safe.....
For now on when uploading any images please use the Licensing:Fairuse. Also, include at the bottom of any page/article with a image the new {{Copyright}} tag. This is something new to me as I'm no lawyer, but it seems to be a good way to sort of seal the deal on the legal side of things. Devilmanozzy 07:42, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Reply to "Help!"
I don't hold it against anyone if they can't edit something. Now however, I'd like to know what problem your having, because likely others are having the same problem if its related to wikia. Devilmanozzy 02:00, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
If its the editor check this out on this page. You can turn off the Rich editor. Its glitching with some browsers and in so many words.... Sucks! Filmation_Ghostbusters_Wiki:FAQ Devilmanozzy 02:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
What Browser you currently using? Is it the connection in your local area? Devilmanozzy 03:01, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Please remove the comment to Mr.Slimeman
I made the mistake of saying Mr.Slimeman did the article. I forgot to change the user name. Devilmanozzy 16:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
1, Why does this wiki no longer feature videos? I'm okay with it. I am just curious.
I was informed by Liberal Noob that a lot of times videos get taken down due to copyrights, and boldly posting a link on the wiki invites them to be taken down.
2, What do you think of my fan character Soul Man?
I haven't gotten to it due to being busy with school. I'll try to get to it in a week.
3, Will you or anyone you know and trust on this wiki help me with the [Madballs Wiki] I have trouble on and rarely attend?
I had a few as a kid and they were fun. I'll take a look at the wiki in detail, and set up some pages and build templates and such. First things first, your need a logo like the no ghost sign is here. If your not good with editing images and such, let me know and I'll build a logo. Devilmanozzy 07:30, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Yeah I enjoy many 80's subject matters. I'm also was a big fan of Garbage pail kids, monsters in my pockets, silverhawks, and other such fiction.
Friendly warning about the troll running around bugging Madball Wiki. He was banned over here for flaming, deleteing and fighting. I suggest you block him too. But thats your call. Devilmanozzy 08:00, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Yeah Sure
Mr.Slimeman 05:11, 8 August 2009 (UTC) So sorry this is late, I've been running around doing some things I missed on vacation, but I finally saw your note about the credit thing... and yeah sure. It's cool just a mix up.
Class 8-11
If your in the mood, start those pages. Devilmanozzy 06:03, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Samhain Rocks
Mr.Slimeman 17:18, 11 August 2009 (UTC) He sure does, he sure does. Sign him up for Ghostbusters 3.
Mr.Slimeman 06:11, 14 August 2009 (UTC) Well, it appears that we think on the same level, with Samhain being the main villain for Ghostbusters 3. I feel like comparing notes here. I did sorta intend for Samhain to die at the end of the movie, since it seems Vigo and Gozer (though I'm not sure if he was destroyed or repelled) were destroyed at the end. In all confessions, there were a number of things I did for realism. The Extreme Ghostbusters were cast as the heroes because in real life, Bill Murphy, Harald Ramisis and the others are getting old. It's time to move onto the next gen, which means Extreme Ghostbusters. Though at the same time, it wouldn't be right to simply run over the old Ghostbusters with the new one. So the movie should even itself out with the new team having the skills, the old team having the experience. Comparing the parts of Samhain escaping from the unit, the cartoon series runs on a different continuation then the movie. So in reality the Ghostbusters haven't encountered Samhain yet in the movies. Plus, those who come to see the movie will probably not know who Samhain is, so they would need a fresh start (this is a bit hypocritical on my side since I'm always saying new comers aren't welcome here). I do like the suggestion about the Boogieman and stuff. The way I was thinking, the Boogieman would be featured in a picture show during the end credits since fitting in so many ghosts (and seeing how unhuman the Boogieman looks) could be a fatal problem. Though I do think in a confessions, the Boogieman should have some like movie role.
But it's great to see we think on the sam level and that's my notes. Take Care
Reply to: New Routine
Because I had questions the last time I decided to talk to you again after so long, I decided to ask more questions. 1, Why is your avatar now Prime Evil instead of Sandman?
Its a fan drawing I did of Prime Evil from Filmations Ghostbusters. Being the mod over there as well, I thought I'd do something fun with him. What......you don't like Prime Evil? lol Devilmanozzy
2, What do you think of my character Soul Man,
The soul man is a fun idea, and I like how it ties together The Real Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, and Extreme Ghostbusters together so well. I'll have to wait and see the end result, but its a fun character idea. The icing being the reference to a show Dan Aykroyd did in the 90's. Devilmanozzy
3, What do you think of me as of now?
odd question, I guess I'm happy you are spending time on the fan section which was so being ignored as of late. Hey its not up to me to decide what you do, and likewise. Just do what you want to do, and I'll be happy. Devilmanozzy
I also have some thoughts. I am not counting on it, but I think that some day, there will be screen caps for every episode of RGB, Slimer!, and EGB.
It's a slow process to get screencaps done, and I have had setbacks and such, but plans are still underway for more screen caps. Yes Extreme Ghostbusters and Slimer! will be getting screen caps too. I was hoping things would get a bit easyer with mods other than me here. But mostly, i have discovered that it'd take 50 mods to do what I want to do. So in short things take time....and thats how it goes. Devilmanozzy
I am also concerned about the future of my work on this wiki.
Well wiki is a changing thing that never quits. I came here back in September of last year and started adding, much like you are doing. I made tons of mistakes and learned from them, as you will go through as well. Nothing happens over night and time and dedication are key. Some visit here once a month, some once every 2 weeks, some once a week, some every 3 days and me......every day. And all editors and edits are of value. Sometimes its better to think about a wiki as a team project. Except there is no leader. That is my thoughts. Devilmanozzy 14:05, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Quite a number of great ideas
Mr.Slimeman 03:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC) Well, you (like me) really want to include other villains into the Ghostbusters' movie. The Sandman dream world and stuff are indeed some great ideas. And personally, I do think villains from the show should be incorporated. It looks as though only Gozer, Slimer, Mr.Staypuft, Zuul and Vince Clortho, and the library ghost really are acknowledged. However, I think villains (namely Samhain, the Boogieman, the Grundel, the Sandman, and perhaps Ghash) from the show, have played a role in the Ghostbuster history. However only fans of the show even know about them. I say, put them in and let them all make their impacts on the world and let all know about them.
Mr.Slimeman 04:01, 22 August 2009 (UTC) I like the idea of the monster goblins. I do however (don't take it offensivly) that the halo Stay puft and devil Stay puft are a bit cheesy. Maybe if the evil Stay puft had burning red eyes and the good stay puft had glowing blue eyes, it would work better. But you got some good ideas here, maybe some stuff like this'll happen in the next GB movie (provided it gets off the ground).
Mr.Slimeman 01:12, 27 August 2009 (UTC) Good observations. It's esential to bring in some stuff from the past movies as it will have been a while since the last GB movies. Gotta work the old magic.
Ok three of them may be here
http://forums.ghostbusters.net/showthread.php?t=8210, however the Slimer episode and a hour format version of Deja Boo are not there. Devilmanozzy 12:19, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
reply to: Linking to Filmation's Ghost Busters
In regards to that story, Prime Evil in a odd way I could never see doing that. Second, The sony ghostbusters never spoke of filmation ghostbusters so I don't see them having strong feelings about the other ghostbusters deaths.
And in a unrelated second comment, are you going to be coming back to Madballs Wiki? I did some edits over there.....! Devilmanozzy 16:57, September 2, 2009 (UTC)
reply to: Werebears wiki
I really don't know much on it, and from what I just read, it would seem that really you can't expect more than 50 articles for that wiki which is sort of a small wiki. I'll pass on it. I am hoping to build a few big wikis. Devilmanozzy 20:36, September 2, 2009 (UTC)
Mr.Slimeman 16:54, September 14, 2009 (UTC)Yes, Indeed that would be awesome.
Mr.Slimeman 17:50, September 20, 2009 (UTC) I did like the opening, except the weird chef thing. But I do admit, it seemed it got to be too childish by that time. I don't think Ghostbusters should be kill, die and all kinds of death stuff. But it just got too weird and a bit childish. I also hated some voice changes (ESPECIALLY Janine). Janine's voice gave her some great character, but when they changed it, she just got too plain. But they did pull out some good episodes.
Mr.Slimeman 04:23, October 4, 2009 (UTC) Boogaloo, that big thing from the third halloween episode? Hmm, I'm not sure about being siblings with Samhain, I mean they are very different. But they could have a connection.
The link to the RGB and XGB episodes is broken. Please make a note of it.
I looked and the links are working fine. What page are the links not working? Devilmanozzy (Talk page) 18:18, October 10, 2009 (UTC)
Reply to the game canon thing...
Wow. Not sure how to approach the idea and such. If it was not called a canon and was a fan story based on the games i'd suggest you posting it in the Ghostbusters Fan Scripts. Seems like a fun story, but the canon thing I can't seem to get past. Anyways fun idea. Devilmanozzy (Talk page) 20:32, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
New color scheme being done
I'm working on a new color layout so yeah it looks weird. Devilmanozzy (Talk page) 18:14, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
Mr.Slimeman 05:50, November 2, 2009 (UTC) Know this is late, was away from my computer all of Halloween. THEN IT'S A FULL SCALE GHOST WAR. Bring the mini containment unit, the hunting Slimer, all the equipment.
Master Mold HERE
Thanks a lot! About EGB: Code Ecto-1 game... No, you can't trap bosses. All you need is to deplete all their health and they will be defeated. Though, you could trap regular enemies! Master Mold 07:56, December 10, 2009 (UTC)
Well, GBC game is... much inferior to other. It is a platform-jumping game without story, remarkable ghosts (all are uninspired), or even bosses. Master Mold 16:06, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
I wish you HAPPY NEW YEAR too! :))Master Mold 14:56, December 25, 2009 (UTC)
Why are you killing THE FIRST BOSS after the second and the last?? :)) Well, unfortunately, I don't remember how I defeated her :( Practice is the key, though. Master Mold 00:40, January 8, 2010 (UTC)
I might have been mistaken :\ But they probably mean Ecto-1, not the GBC.
You are obviously right about game Stay Puft and XGB
If the game was canon in Extreme Ghostbusters, it wouldn't make any sense. The game ignores the fact that Stay Puft was a good guy in RGB since RGB isn't officially canon with the films. It would've been sweet if Stay Puft appeared in EGB, though. Connections to the movies could've probably kept the show on the air for a bit longer. SonofSamhain
I don't push the two canon thing cause I want to. I found it was sadly true after comparing things. Yes XGB's has nothing to do with the VG for the most part. I blame this on Harold Ramis as in Ghostbusters II movie was written with no respect to the RGB. Thats when the break in canons started. To the credit of GB:VG they did include the EGB trap in the basement, and the game has slimer as a pet sort of. Stay Puff in the animated became his own creature , but the movie canon the form is still connected to Gozer. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 18:39, January 25, 2010 (UTC)
Hi, my friend
I am visiting this wiki on my Wii. Isn't that neat? I know you are busy at college and you can't always check my messages on a semi-regular basis. SonofSamhain 11:16, February 4, 2010 (UTC)
Messed up. Yeah been busy lately with college as I getting closer to the finish line so to speak. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 16:14, February 4, 2010 (UTC)
Some jerk erased the page on Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost. I have restored it, but I am only good at text edits. This means that you have to redo the template and images. I know you won't enjoy having to do this all over again. SonofSamhain 18:55, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
The article is still up. You had the "?" missing. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 19:14, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
Whow
Mr.Slimeman 07:09, February 23, 2010 (UTC) Haven't been on lately and missed the message. The game sounds interesting, perhaps you should hold onto it and submit it to some gaming company. I'll bet a number of places would pay big money for something like this, especially involving the ever so popular ghostbusters.
Ghostbusters Fanon wiki?
Magma-Man wants to start up a new wiki based on fanon. If you are interested and think its a good idea, and there is one more user (perhaps Slimeman) I'll be willing to start it up, move all the fanon with user histories over there. Talk with Magma-Man about it (I'll read the talk pages so I'm aware if progress). Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 19:04, February 23, 2010 (UTC)
Grand Opening of Ghostbusters Fanon Wiki
A new wiki based on Fanon is now open for submissions. Go here! Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 01:13, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
Ghostbusters Fanon Wiki....
You do know about Ghostbusters Fanon Wiki right? Please come down there and take a look around, and edit a few there. Needs support. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 21:45, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
A Ghost Database?
I have opened a very important Forum Discussion on this topic, and I badly need input by all who add content to this wiki about it. Thank you! Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 00:33, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
I do not understand
I have made enough articles to give this wiki over 1,000 articles, but now the more I make, the less articles we have. I know you planned to erase my fanon articles, but I do not think that's it. SonofSamhain
Yeah I'm deleting them right now. There are a good 15 left to delete so this may not be the night we're reach 1,000. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 06:48, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
Ok, I've deleted all the articles that I plan on deleting tonight. We're at 988 it looks, and so its your call if you want to try to get to 1000 tonight. Still looks do-able. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 07:09, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
About Polar Slimers
What did you mean by "it won't work?" If it is because they haven't appeared after the accomplishments have been done, remember that the guide says that just because the requirements are done doesn't mean that the ghost will appear right away. Sometimes, you just have to keep at it until it appears.
SonofSamhain 19:25, March 21, 2010 (UTC)
Dude, look it up, the last two Slimers saddly not showing up in the game. Theres threads on this. Polar Slimer is glitched. link to one of many on this. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 03:16, March 22, 2010 (UTC)
What you think of the Paranormal Database so far?
I think we really got something here. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 06:14, March 31, 2010 (UTC)
There is a mistake in the Animated Ghost Database.
Most of the ghosts from XGB are said to appear in the episode Witchy Woman. This isn't true. I'd do it, but I am afraid of screwing it up. SonofSamhain 05:53, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
It is a work in progress, like all of any wiki. I was seeding the page, trying to get the page covering more stuff. The episodes will be corrected as I get to them. As for the screwing up part, I rather you try, fail and undo than not try. I hope the page can be easy to understand after a few edits. This is NOT my project, its a Ghostbusters Wiki project. That means both input and editing are welcome to try to add to the page. I may provide a template for adding new ghosts in the near future. In short, give it a shot, I don't want to be the only one with input. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:29, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
I screwed up. I was adding info on the Database and suddenly messed it up. I tried to fix it, but onlyt made it worse. SonofSamhain 18:49, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
Fixed. Whats happening is when you see this "<td></td>", you need to put the information inbetween the tags, not after them. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 19:56, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
Enjoying some edits, but a few in the class section appear to be based on Power level more than the standard class system. That being said, this is tricky as the wiki is going into some guess work territory. Please don't take edits personal, and keep thinking and editing. Your edits are useful for the project. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 19:16, April 6, 2010 (UTC)
Is it really necessary to point out the REAL classifications for the animated ghosts?
I mean, since the Animated Classification system doesn't really follow the rules of the Movie version, it doesn't seem necessary to point out what the ghosts' classifications would be if they used the system that was used in the movie and the Role-Playing Game. For one thing, even though the Animated system deals with how powerful an entity is, some ghosts' class levels are appropriate. For example, many Class 5 entities from the cartoons are like Slimer in that they appear to be humanoid while still looking somewhat inhuman and that both often slime things. That being said, I used logic and conductive reasoning to determine the Classifications of the other ghosts. For example, I determined the Leprechaun from the Extreme Ghostbusters episode The Luck of the Irish to be a Class 6 because he was too powerful to be a Class 5, but was too weak to be a Class 7. That being said, I just use the Classifications the GBs used on the shows if their Class Level was confirmed. SonofSamhain
The class system in the animated series is very debatable, and the higher up it goes it becomes even more hard to know what is what class. Anyways how hard is it to just place the episode classification in (). Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 21:42, April 10, 2010 (UTC)
Yes I will get to screencapping ghosts for the episodes
School has made me pretty busy, but I have been following your new ghost articles. Screencaps/bio infoboxes from me will follow them soon. Please continue what your doing. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:01, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
Article of the month for May
I'm wondering if you could focus on one of the articles that are from Extreme Ghostbusters Ghost and build it up so it can be 2500 bite count. Pick whatever one you want. I'll make screencaps for it. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 18:06, April 28, 2010 (UTC)
All of the ghosts in the Animated section of the Paranormal Database have articles as of now.
This leaves only organizing the video game ghosts. When I saw that the guide needed video game ghosts, too, I was confused when I saw that it called for ghosts from every game, not just the game released last July. I will add some ghosts eventually. In the meantime, hang on!
SonofSamhain 08:42, May 8, 2010 (UTC)
It will include all the games ghosts as in from all the video games released. Biggest issues are classification system. Noted that if you look at the link on the discussion page for Paranormal Database it is revealed that indeed they got many of the ghosts classifications wrong in the realistic version of the game in 2009. I have a idea on how to address some issues and make this easier. Make another column for the tables in Animated and video games and have one being the one based on Classification system and one being the given version in the source materials. Also, I'm debating on making or adding a similar thing to the character infobox templates as well. I am sort of trying to fix up things and get it so its easier to understand the difference. On the actual articles, besides the infobox, I'd like to only use source materials and not anything else such as guesses on classes.
Note I think the animated series classes shouldn't be noted on normal class pages and may be instead noted on like on class pages called like say "Class 7 Animated" much like the character pages and such. This would be a bit less confusing to me. Separate and explain is what I'm thinking. After all if the animated class system is going by different rules, there is no point in having them on the same page on a class. They a different system.
Anyways, I wont touch a thing on the class stuff til you sort of tell me your thoughts on this. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 12:36, May 9, 2010 (UTC)
Re: Reply about game ghosts
Yeah, I did notice some inconsistencies with the Classes. The Possessor Ghosts are class 7, and in the movies, it appears that you can only get rid of a Class 7 by destroying them or banishing them to their own realm. Even if it was possible to trap a Class 7 in the movies, it is just too easy to capture the Possessors, they're more like Class 3 or 4. I was actually thinking we'd do like the cartoons and have the correct movie-wise class system used with the class given in the actual media in parenthesis. The only real problem I have is that you and I are the only ones working on this. I think Mr. SlimeMan has gone offline and I haven't heard from Liberal Noob.
Yes I think one of the last things I read from Liberal Noob was that college is getting busy for him and he's sort of right now away. Mr. SlimeMan never talked about what he does outside of here, so I have no clue. I'm thinking about also once again getting the wiki Spotlighted by wikia. I already have started addressing stubs and stuff here. They upped the rules on getting a spotlight and that may make it a bit harder to get one. I'll go for a spotlight again, and maybe that will get us some new editors. For now lets just keep moving ahead with the Paranormal Database. I'm a bit confused as I thought you had the animated class system all nailed down so to speak. I think the actual pages/articles should address the material it is based on. Even tho the Class system is the right way to address ghosts, that shouldn't overide the content of the page. I may be undoing or redoing some edits I did including they classes and instead moving the class in a template. I'm just trying to make these things less confusing for people not reading these normally. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 13:24, May 9, 2010 (UTC)
The Mr. Hyde Thing
It was only a guess to who the third ghost was at the beginning/containment unit scenes Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster. I knew the other two ghosts were based on fictional books, so I guess Mr. Hyde. So know that is a guess. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 14:22, May 28, 2010 (UTC)
Pink big mouth....Yeah need better name
Here is a image of it.... So what should it be named? ....He ain't the same as the eyeball one. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 06:42, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
It was so quick, I thought those two ghosts were the same. It was like they blasted the eye ghost and then trapped him. My suggestions for names would be Mole Ghost for the mouth and Tiny Cyclops for the other one. SonofSamhain 06:49, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
First off, I was debating if it was even worth the time to call out (like said they are different ghosts, tho quite frankly very similar and the same color)the second ghost since its air time was like 2 seconds. However, it is important I guess, and yes I like your name chances. Go with them. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 06:55, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
Interestingly theres a pumpkin ghost of some sort in that episode in the containment Unit scene. What are your feelings on that one? It doesn't look to be samhain. Thoughts? Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 07:05, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
Funny you should say that
This may seem a bit fanon, but I think it might be a connected to Samhain
List of possibilities:
He attempted to free the Halloween master from the Unit, but the GBs caught him
The first idea I had, and the most ridiculous, was that he may be an illegitimate child after Samhain did it with one of the ghosts. If you think about, the ghosts do anything to pass the time in their prison, and they may have lovers in their.
The most rational thought I have is that he may be one of Ol' Pumpkinhead's minions. I remember that in Samhain's debut episode, some of his ghostly henchmen were based on pumpkins and jack o' lanterns.
SonofSamhain 07:21, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
Well, while I like the idea from a fan enjoyment type thing, they never said or suggested a thing of it. I do however suggest some sort of little section saying its not Samhain, such as Trivia. What else is wild in the episode is those Street Thugs ghosts which actually use guns and knives. And they so remind me of the Gremlins in the Gremlins Movies. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 07:29, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I like the Gremlins
I especially like the ghost that has bandoliers and holds a gun. His voice is cool. I also would like to tell you that I've done some updates on the Madballs Wiki. I have created articles for both of the episodes, but the article for the second one is unfinished. I'll complete it when my mother fixes the videotape I have of it. I'd also like you to read my GB dream blog. I left a message to your reply a long time ago. I do not expect a reply to this message, but it would be nice.
Its sad that the madballs series was discontuned like that. Anyways, never seen the second movie, so I can't help on that one. I'll take a look at GB Dream blog soon. Been busy (and still am) with finishing college. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 07:57, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
Need help getting Spotlight for Ghostbusters Wiki
Seems as tho I made one mistake and left up the admin needed ad. That was a no no and Wendy denied Ghostbusters Wiki. I am asking you to come to Spotlights and edit the section for the Ghostbusters wiki request and add that there is no current admin search. Any other good comments about the wiki and why we need a spotlight would be helpful too. We're close, but I need your help! Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 09:39, June 2, 2010 (UTC)
Update on the Database
I noticed some more ghosts missing from the Paranormal Database in the animated section, so I added the ghosts that were omitted and then made articles for the ones that didn't have one. The animated database now lists every major ghost from the cartoons, and that means both ghosts that were the main antagonists(such as Ral or Dr. Destructo) in the episodes and minor ghosts that nevertheless played a major role in the episodes they appeared in(like the Greaser Haunt or the Scaredy-Cat Ghost). I'd like it if you added some images and templates, that is if you're not too busy.
SonofSamhain 15:21, June 19, 2010 (UTC)
Yeah been busy. I'll address the character pages shortly. The edits are looking great! Yes there are ghosts I feel missing from both RGB and EGB. I'll soon start up a page or something trying to get a project page for the animated. I'll be more active after this week is ended. Hoping to get back to making screencaps for the episodes too. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 02:34, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
Edit War on Article Copycat
Please go to Talk:Copycat and talk with Eddy1215. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 17:39, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
Are you working on those pictures?
Because you haven't edited this wiki all day.
Been busy with stuff not net related. I will get to getting screencaps up and stuff soon. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 21:17, June 21, 2010 (UTC)
Ambiguous Fates and other discussions
I remember that Lothgar was trapped in Busters in Toyland, but I wonder if the Ghostbusters just left the trap behind and after they sealed the door, Lothgar was imprisoned there permanently, or if they brought the ghost trap containing Lothgar with them and dumped him into the Containment Unit after returning home. This leads to a possible explanation of why Gorgar was seen among the escaped ghosts in Guess What's Coming to Dinner. It could be that Gorgar was supposed to be Lothgar, but the animators got Lothgar mixed up with Gorgar. The evidence supporting this is that Gorgar and Lothgar are both very powerful demons with spiky protrusions all over their bodies and they even have similar names. The evidence that disproves my theory is that while Busters in Toyland comes before Guess What's Coming to Dinner on the DVD, it was actually the other way around when the cartoon originally aired.
My second confusion deals with The Phantom from Afterlife in the Fast Lane. When Phantom went back into his realm, one could assume that he is forever imprisoned in his domain, but there is a flash of light after he returns to his realm, so he might have been destroyed. Also, somebody posted the second Madballs episode onYouTube, so now's your chance to watch it.
While its a good explanation, I'm betting they just simply reused the character design templates for the episode Guess What's Coming to Dinner as every ghost shown in it was from season 6. The Phantom probably resigns in a part of the netherworld and since he was surprised to lose, he decided to leave them alone.
Say, about the Sleeping ghost article, in NOW Comics Vol. 1-17 I saw the red ghost you spoke of, tho it doesn't look like the sleeping ghost as he has legs. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 01:03, June 26, 2010 (UTC)
Doing some good work
I'll try to help with the NOW Comics sometime. Also, this Loosecannon540 guy appears to be a good help. He's done some editing on my Madballs wiki, mainly adding pictures for Wolf Breath, Skull Face, Oculus Orbus, and Horn Head as they appeared in the cartoon. Have you watched the Gross Joke episode on YouTube yet? If yes, I'd like you to post the following pictures.
Screamin' Meemie- appearance in Escape from Orb and Gross Jokes.
Freakella- As seen in Gross Jokes
Bash Brain- Both his cameo in Escape from Orb and his appearance in Gross Jokes.
Horn Head- Gross Jokes
Dust Brain- EFO and GJ
Oculus Orbus- Gross Jokes
Aargh- EFO and GJ
Slobulus- EFO and GJ
Skull Face- Gross Jokes
Escape from Orb of all 2nd series Madballs besides Wolf Breath.
I also have thought about making a Garbage Pail Kids Wiki, but I am not 100% sure if that would be a good idea. If you don't think I am right, we can work on it. Top priorities if this idea gets off the ground would be all of the original 15 series(and the unublished 16th series), the All-New Series, the crummy movie, and the at least half-decent and unaired cartoon. I just think it would be too much work to make articles for every individual Garbage Pail Kids character.
SonofSamhain 10:40, July 1, 2010 (UTC)
Got most of those pictures up at Madballs wiki except the Badballs in Escape from Orb. Thoughts on a GPK wiki.... It is a bit of a debate if it really needs to be with a good three strong websites that have covered the whole subject matter pretty good. However, its your call, and really it all depends on what direction you take the wiki. Ghostbusters Wiki has quite a bit of competition but the hits and interest in the wiki are high so it keeps going. If you do choose to do it, I'd say do each card. People want to know about each of the characters, and the other sites don't do it. It would make GPK wiki more its own thing. Covering the movie would be a move in the right direction too. But unlike Madballs wiki, you'd need to be dedicated to it, much like me at Ghostbusters wiki. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:56, July 1, 2010 (UTC)
Just some things I wanted to tell you
About the Garbage Pail Kids Wiki, I think we should wait for someone else to make it, since you made the Ghostbusters Wiki and I made the Madballs Wiki. I am also happy that they are creating a third Ghostbusters movie as well as the possibility of another Ghostbusters game. If they ever make a new Ghostbusters video game, I'd like it if the player can customize their own Ghostbusters team, so it could appeal to all Ghostbusters fans(fans of the movies, fans of the cartoons, or fans of the whole franchise, like you and me). I also wouldn't be too surprised if the third movie does well enough to make a third TV show, and if that happens, I hope they continue the tradition by making it a sequel to Extreme Ghostbusters just as Extreme Ghostbusters was a sequel to The Real Ghostbusters. If that is not the case, I don't care.
I don't know why a GPK Wiki never was made to be honest. It seems logical to me. Anyways, I'm right now focused on the outcome to Ghostbusters III and when and if it gets officially made. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:28, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted you to be aware
An unregistered contributor was spamming articles, so I blocked him and undid the damage. I didn't want to be harsh like with Uberfuzzy, so I blocked the user for one week. If I made a mistake by making it last one week, I'll just block him again, only permanently(if it is possible to do so, I have been editing wikis for a long time and I am still learning how they work). I also hope you continue with the NOW Comics. If I remember correctly, the Marvel UK Comics were just reprints of the NOW Comics series.
Saw him too though I've seen worse. A week seems about right to me. Anyways, here is a page I started on this a year ago "Mod Startup Kit". It address what I feel works. That being said, There is no straight guideline on this. Like noted on the page Anonymous users are hard to deal with to begin with. I try to always work with users even if they are not on my page. But based on some of the reading I got of his edits, he seems to like to add one line of pretty simple text to a given article without noting the structure of the article. Harder still is trying to tell them this. more than likely they don't read they own talk page, and they seem to be aloof so to speak.
Comics........I'll be back on NOW Comics shortly. With Marvel UK RGB comics, some are reprints, but many are original and I hope someone will add input to the articles if they see them started. Sometimes, its best to atleast Seed what you can for people to work off of. Some of the NOW Comics, I don't currently have to make pictures of. The ones I don't have are 28, all 4 Vol 2 set, and that odd annual refered as vol 2 #0. Have 1-27, Annual 1992, Annual 1993, and the RGB meet GBII 3 parter.
Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:28, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
Thoughts on Multiple stories in one comic
I want to do the following to those comics...
==title of story==
===Cast===
===Plot===
instead of what is there now. Do you agree? Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:16, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
I'd rather not worry about that right now.
I had everything all in one go because their was a frame story around the four other stories of Egon telling them to the reader. I'm also a bit busy adding the synopsis to the other comics and creating articles for the characters. Maybe I'll get back to that when I'm done with the other comics. I know that I'll use your techniques in the other comics with more than one story. I will also need some of your help in adding the synopsis, because I once read the Boogieman issue on GBFans, but it was missing the last pages. I know that the Ghostbusters managed to recapture the Boogieman from reading a blog and a fan fic by Fritz Baugh that had B-man having a conversation with the makeoverus Lotsabucks while in the Containment, and the fic said that it took place after the Closet Case story. GBFans also has only one Annual comic available to watch, and it also appears to be missing pages. What I am asking is that you offer me an alternative place to read these comics. I just don't want to boher you. SonofSamhain`
....I can help with that if you got a email or email me. My web site has a page of contacts, send me a quick message with your user name, and I'll send back the last page to comic 26. Got Annual 1992, and 1993. Only thing I don't have is that vol 2, #0 comic :( . However, I also have one of the two stories from v.2#0 from a marvel annual I downloaded.
I take it multiple stories fix up is fine then. "B-man having a conversation with the makeoverus Lotsabucks while in the Containment".....Woot? never read that! Where did you get that info on ectozone ....whats the name of the Fan Fic? Me want to know more on that one. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 16:05, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
Ghostbusters Rock!!!
Awesome Another Ghostbusters fan, just like I am. --Meowjar 19:40, July 11, 2010 (UTC)Rivera Federation Centeral
NOW Comics stuff
I have finished adding information on the first and second volumes of the NOW comic book. As for the Annuals, I was thinking that you could do some work. I wouldn't mind if you took care of the plots and characters of the annual comics. I am saying this because I have other things to do. I can't be everywhere at once. I am also thinking of reconsidering my opinion of whether or not the NOW Comics are canon. A lot of the NOW Comics stories are rather cool, funny, and amusing. I also have dirt on the whole Samhain-comic death thing. It once occured to me that Samhain's appearance in the intro to Extreme Ghostbusters was just meant to be an homage to The Real Ghostbusters, but I remembered reading an interview on a Ghostbusters fan site where somebody working on Extreme Ghostbusters said that Samhain was at one point going to appear on the show and that his appearance in the intro was what remained of the idea. I really think they should have done that anyway, cause it would've been neat to have more RGB villains appear. I mean, if the Grundel returned, why wouldn't they also let Samhain, the Boogieman, the Sandman, and the Ghostmaster return as well.
SonofSamhain 13:30, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry had family issues a few days ago. Well Samhain has appeared outside of RGB media in Ghostbusters Role-Playing Game. Anyways, I feel NOW Comics Vol. 1-17 really was a rewarding entry, and the factor that they rope the comics together by using characters in more than once adds charm. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 07:16, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
That jerk I blocked for a week returned and went back to spamming articles.
I didn't want that scoundrel to show his face again, so this time I blocked the annoying s**t for a year. I will now get started on undoing the damage.
This is the annoy part about spotlights, then the vandals also come here. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 07:16, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
Ye another f***r came and ruined the wiki.
He erased almost all the contents of Killerwatt Animated and he screwed up the template for Poltergeists (Type of Creatures)
Undone, and fixed. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 14:47, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
New Class Template
Check it out .... Template:Infobox Class Rating. Also, here it is in use on Toy Ghost. What do you think? Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 14:54, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
Neat idea
First, the Paranormal Database, now this. Where do you get these great ideas? Egon?
I have also done some recent edits. I found out the names of the Ghostmaster's three bounty hunters, I've cleaned up the Ghostbusters theme song, and I also specifiec Killerwatt's cameos in the Containment Unit.
I feel that the three Bounty Hunters, really are different creatures, and in Nurgot case, he has appeared outside of the episode by himself. (I have screen caps of all three of them.)If anything, maybe a page for Ghostmaster's servents would be a useful page. Also, what do we call that red bug eyed creature at the start of Short Stuff? Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 19:09, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
Idea to deal with Paranormal Database
I'm looking into a plan to make the page more manageable. Also, looking into getting articles on the 3 parter RGB in GBII. Also, trying to get screencaps done for the comics. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 16:07, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
After much thought about a GPK Wiki
I started one due to the odd factor that many of the GPK sites have been shutting down the last few years. GPK WIKI. Note, I am looking into getting templates made for the Series, and for each card. I'm looking to add you as a equal admin to this wiki if you still want it. I just wanted to get it started. Also, add me as Administrator to Madball wiki so I can upload the wiki logo. Note only as a Administrator and not a Bureaucrat (Don't want such a high stake in Madball wiki, just want to get the logo up and stuff. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 18:36, July 21, 2010 (UTC)
Nurgot doesn't seem to appear in Partners in Crime
I believe the green ghost you saw is more like a snake. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 12:51, July 31, 2010 (UTC)
I have new art at DeviantArt
Devilmanozzy DeviantArt page has new art based on Both the RGB and FGB. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 08:41, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
I am going to do another thing for this wiki.
Just to make this conversation interesting. I know we have "trapped"(made an article about) Poso's Followers, but did we "put them into the Containment Unit"(List them in our Paranormal Database)? Also, I am going to create articles for the Displaced Aggression IDW Comic, because I have a copy of it. My sister saw it while she went shopping for her birthday presents, and saw some stuff she knew I'd like. One of our family traditions is that when one of us has a birthday, the other siblings will get some presents so they don't feel left out. Anyway, I was at first confused, because I have to split the story into five articles, and my copy is a graphic novel with all four stories in one, and it is hard to tell where one story ends and another begins. Fortunately, I have worked something out. The first article will be about Peter Venkman's ghostbusting adventures in the Wild West and meeting Rachel Unglighter, then deciding to travel through time and rescue the other Ghostbusters. The second will be when they go to the medieval times to rescue Ray. The third one will be about when they go to the futuristic world to rescue Egon. The fourth and last one will be about when they go back to the present time to reunite with Winston and defeat Koza'Rai, as well as that story where Janine was sent to the 18th century and started her own ghostbusting business with help from the ghost of Leonardo Da Vinci until the boys in gray came to rescue her.
SonofSamhain 06:57, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
I'll look into getting front covers up. That is why I waited on it. Also, I currently only have scanned up for screencaps all 4 otherside comics, displaced Aggression 2, and Tainted Love. So I can only do screencaps for things going on in those. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 22:35, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
Long time. I also like the new badge system. I wasn't just editing like mad to earn the badges. Some of the requirements to earn the badges felt like something I should try. As for earning more badges, it appears I can only earn more by being patient. I just hope you're not jealous that I am ahead of you. I have more points. You see, I've always seen you as my boss. You're the Mr. Burns to my Homer Simpson. Wish I could give another example.
Sorry. Been tired the last day, and of coarse getting the badges done at both Ghostbusters Wiki and GPK Wiki is taking up time. No, I really am not concerned who is up. I hope people enjoy the concept of ghost collecting with the badges. I set up some fun characters, based on the type of edit, as RGB are straight article edits, EGB are for setting categories, and more. LOL I'm the caretaker, that is all. Note, I don't currently have a love for the sport of axe carving. Tho some scotch on the rocks sounds good. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 22:35, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
Still working on the Toy Section.
Sigh, nothing fun about working on the toy section, but I feel it is needed. Same for the Mattel line and minimate line after the kenner line. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:23, August 16, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about the Walter Peck trap thing
I thought you had simply copy pasted another ghostbusters information and forgot to remove the with trap part. I was unaware there was a trap in that set, and after a bit of research I found a place that showed the trap with walter peck. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 18:13, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
Important beyond belief!
Please go here, and read and reply. I need either your support or what your issues are with the merger. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 13:10, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
(I have spoken on the community thread.) I am trying to help you as you have helped me, but I also have problems I am trying to solve. I feel like all of us are experiencing a Crisis on Infinite Earths. I am troubled by the pollution and endangered animals. I am struggling to do well in school. Also, how are you doing on the employment line. I know that you are one of the most important members of Team Ghostbusters Wiki, but you need to pay the bills and stuff somehow. Money doesn't grow on trees, not because it doesn't, but because it is not easy to get it. I'm sounding like Louis Tully here. SonofSamhain 13:22, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
Where? Anyways, I mean by support would be to say that you are fine with the idea of moving content to gbfans. Please however say how you feel on this thread, as thats the link AJ got sent in the PM on GBFans. I doubt he'll be looking at our talk pages for comments.
BTW, this move couldn't come soon enough, I can't use the back button on wikia pages anymore, and images are not loading. This is really pissing me off. lolDevilmanozzy (Talk Page) 14:59, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
AJ has approved the idea on his side. Really its your call, cause you are my right hand man, and I can't dare see myself moving stuff without your approval. Your opinion counts to me. Please state what you feel on the forum. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:38, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
Merger Ain't happening
While I did delay the merger as said earlyer in the thread in the forum, There are other issues at work. After trying out some things at GBFans, it is clear they don't have they wiki set up very good. I talked to AJ about it, and pretty much he doesn't want my input on it "its fine" he says. Currently they also can't post any images other than jpgs (this wiki mostly uses png files). Another reason we can't merge is more of a issue of our mass. SonofSamhain we are just too good at building lol.
So, I'm looking into a second plan that would instead have us build a new wiki on my web site. I have built actual wikis from scratch before (Shmups wiki), so I do have a idea of what it would detail. But at this point I say, lets wait for wikia to bomb with the new wikia look. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 12:18, September 20, 2010 (UTC)
Hi Ian! it's me, Meg, ur sis :p if you aren't already, you might wanna think about becoming an Admin! :P You know wut they say. All toasters, toast toast! 18:53, September 22, 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've changed the color of the GPK Wiki's skin
I know you did it because you are the only person contributing to it other than me! I also added ChristopherJones' Slimer pic on deviantART to my favorites. Slimer's just so cute in it. The only reason I said Hi other than saying all this stuff and keeping up with this daily editing is that we've not talked in a bit.
SonofSamhain 15:50, September 25, 2010 (UTC)
Been busy in real life, and am starting to get the wiki and others ready for the "new Wikia" look. I changed the colors on GPK wiki to see if it was easier to read. I think its a better color scheme. Tho a independent may be made by me after the new look happens. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 02:43, September 26, 2010 (UTC)
Your welcome! I had alot of time recently. Yeah, I like BatB, and Kamandi is awesome. Zakor1138 02:58, September 26, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for not asking, but I fixed your userpage. It looked a little bit wrong. I hope you don't mind ;) I have fixed more people's userpage. I'm really sorry for not asking. By the way, I think it's good to archive your talk page :) --Station7 20:27, September 30, 2010 (UTC)
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!....Wiki?
I feel that the Beetlejuice Franchise needs a wiki. I'm starting research on what all is out there under the Franchise.
I'm looking for friends and like minded editors for this project. I don't know as much or have the resources I have had for other wikis for this project. If started, I think it could be a great wiki to promote with Ghostbusters Wiki, Filmation Ghostbusters Wiki, and Ghostbusters Fanon Wiki. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 09:57, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
I remember looking for a BJ wiki and only finding one about the same-named musician from Howard Stern. I will gladly try to contribute to the Beetlejuice Wiki once it is set up. If you've seen the movie, good. Also, every episode of the cartoon is on YouTube(though not all of them are submitted by the same user) SonofSamhain 11:24, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
While Beetlejuice may be a lesser to Ghostbusters, there is one scene in that movie that trumps everything ghostbusters..... "Beetlejuice the snake"!
Give me two weeks to get my ducks in a row here, (also while avoiding the sandworms) and I get it started. Need to get images together first so we can start it out well. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 12:11, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
I think you're with the wrong guy. I don't understand what you mean...no really not.--Station7 14:08, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
I think you're confused. I only said that I want to edit your userpage, but that now not needed anymore. That was the problem. that's now solved.--Station7 14:27, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
Why would I ruin your reputation. By the way, i have Autism (no friends, so why would I ruin someone's reputation?)--Station7 14:36, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
Maybe you should archive your talk page. By the way, making a userbox for Autism people. I already know where to find one ;) --Station7 14:44, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
Well, it looks like Wikia won.
This isn't so bad. I could get used to Wikia's new look. Sorry I haven't been updating lately. I made four Halloween pinups on deviantART and I've been trying to beat the first and third Streets of Rage games(I already beat Streets of Rage 2 twice). I just need time to adjust to everything. SonofSamhain 15:35, October 20, 2010 (UTC)
Sigh. Yeah, not liked it yet, but I'm willing to adjust. Been busy at work and RL matters such as a cat dieing and such. As you have seen, Beetlejuice is semi started.
Never played Streets of Rage, but interestingly the same guy that did the music for the 2 ActRaiser games.
Please check out Requests for administrator and write what you think of Zakor1138 becoming a admin here. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 04:46, October 23, 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Have you ever watched Halloween? I like the first two but after that its like "Come on! Youve been stabbed, Shot six times, and then you were in an explosion and we all watched you burn to death at the end Halloween II. Just die already! Youre just an insane patient not a demon dude who wont cant die." The first two were good though.WhoYaGonnaCall? 01:23, November 2, 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to point out some things about Extreme Ghostbusters.
While it is more serious, there were some pretty funny scenes, like in Be Careful What You Wish For when they had a giant toy robot appear and then show a woman scolding her child for talking to strangers, humorously implying that the toy robot was a result of a wish the boy told Duophanes about. Another thing I thought was funny was when snow got on Eduardo in the episode with the Harasvelg and Garrett said "Hey look! It's Frosty the Idiot Boy!" It's not nice, but funny nonetheless.
I also noticed some similarities episodes of XGB had to RGB. Below are some examples.
RGB: Ghostworld = XGB: The Ghostmakers
RGB: A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn = XGB: Seeds of Destruction
RGB: Janine, You've Changed = Witchy Woman
RGB: Follow That Hearse = XGB: Ghost in the Machine
I am pretty sure the similarities between these episodes are coincidental.
SonofSamhain 21:29, November 5, 2010 (UTC)
Very true, but just within the very RGB banner there were those repeat subjects:
The Collect Call of Cathulhu = Russian About
Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral = The Magnificent Five
Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional? = Stay Tooned
Ain't NASA-Sarily So = Spacebusters
and then there is the whole Rollerghoster thing..... (From Marvel/Nows "The Rise and Fall of Ghostbusting") (Marvel Comics "Rollerghoster!"). Oh yeah, Filmation had a episode named "Rollerghoster" too!
Yeah.... Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 22:10, November 5, 2010 (UTC)
Seems we're both busy as of late. Ghostbusters Wiki seems to be a happening place as of late. Anyways, Mrmichaelt is up for Requests for administrator. This will be the last of these I'm going to do for some time. Anyways what are you up to? Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 11:18, November 11, 2010 (UTC)
Slow business
I really ought to watch out for my wikis more often. An unregistered contributor vandalized two articles on the Girls Bravo wiki. Fortunately, the damage was minor and I was able to fix it. I was also able to block that jerk, remembering that it was in my power since I am now in charge of the Girls Bravo wiki. Anyway, what have you been up to lately?
SonofSamhain 16:36, November 17, 2010 (UTC)
Wow, I slept the whole day today from 3 am to 6 pm. As for the vandalism, yeah it happens. I see attacks all the time on the lesser wikis I maintain. As for what I'm doing today.....Sleeping.............! Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 00:55, November 19, 2010 (UTC)
Hey, how's everything buddy
I have lately made new pictures on my Deviantart account. I am happy that Thanksgiving will come in two days. I also wonder how you are doing, and hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving. You made a great picture of the Ghostmaster. SonofSamhain 15:02, November 23, 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Yeah, been going back and playing GB:TVG(SV) as of late to get screen caps for the wiki. I took a break from art making a while now but came back with a few images week ago. I added yesterday a interesting image of Beetlejuice as a Ghostbuster. Anyways, take care. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 21:18, November 23, 2010 (UTC)
Please answer!
I am sorry I was not active here lately, but I have done a lot on the other Wikis I contribute to. The Madballs Wiki has information on the comic book now and the Girls Bravo Wiki has an article for every episode of the anime, every chapter of the manga, the PS2 visual novel, and nearly every character. Wish you'd check your messages more often.
SonofSamhain 18:36, January 7, 2011 (UTC)
I have been very busy lately on the move in my life and things related to it. I barely get time to edit articles here right now at all. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 10:31, January 8, 2011 (UTC)
Problem with Animated Paranormal Database
Some characters(as in letters, numbers, punctuation, etc.) are sticking out at the top of the template. I have no idea what is causing it. I tried erasing the extra </tr> at one entry, but it just changed the outside-template characters. I also attempted to erase the </ br> characters at the top underneath the Animated Database summary, but that didn't seem to do anything! Soon I will get around to putting Woodchuck and Power Guy to the storage facility.
SonofSamhain 15:02, January 24, 2011 (UTC)
Sigh, I see the problem. I am actually thinking of redoing the Paranormal Database with Wiki pipe(Wiki tables) instead of the CSS tables that currently we use. So while it looks ugly, I can only say hang in there, cause it'll go away during the conversion. Also, the issue predates your edits. I didn't notice it but its been there a good 3 edits before today. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 15:52, January 24, 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for replying. It's been ages since I got a message on my talk page. It's odd how I've done so much for Ghostbusters, Madballs, and Girls Bravo wikis, and still the hard work as just begun. I got five of the ten issues of the Madballs comics for Christmas, so I used the information to update the articles on the Madballs Wiki regarding the comic. Once I recieve the fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, and tenth issues of the Madballs comic book, I will resume editing there. I also plan to someday return to the Garbae Pail Kids Wiki and resume editing. I'm just a little overwhelmed. Everyday, it's school, pleasure, and editing on Wikia, and this wiki's usually the only one I ever have time to contribute to these days. SonofSamhain 16:00, January 24, 2011 (UTC)
I know how that is. I havn't been able to edit as much as I once did due to the move and the job hunt. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 16:25, January 24, 2011 (UTC)
Killerwatt Issues
I think you're a little late with making it a must to add references. For one thing, the Killerwatt article said he made two cameos for a long time. Whoever posted that info is probably long gone by now. Also, I want to give you my word that I will never post false information on this wiki, and if I ever do, it's because I do not know it is false, and if that is the case, I will remove the false info I added once i am informed it is false.
On another note, it's great how big this article is spanning. Considering the minor ghosts we've covered recently, should their be an article about the ghost in Masquerade that haunted a vase gallery? Only problem we have in covering minor ghosts nowadays other than limited info(if any) is having to put it in the Containment Unit(Paranormal Database) after trapping it(making an article for it). SonofSamhain 11:24, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
The reference thing can be changed over time (heck it wont happen over nite). I'm hoping others will get on board and help, tho at this point we are only going to focus on new content that needs references. I hope to have a process for doing references here soon, so everyone can easily do it.
Actually, there are four in that episode. Anyways, any ghost such as them should be covered. Its quite breath taking how many ghosts that have been covered here. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 14:16, January 26, 2011 (UTC)
Some days, it seems the censors were pretty lazy
There were some things I was quite shocked to find in RGB and EGB, since those shows were aimed at kids. Makes me wonder how it got past the censors.
RGB Examples:
At the end of Once Upon a Slime, it at first looks like Ray is reading Slimer a porno mag. Even with Ray's remark of being a shame something wonderful can't come to life and the other Ghostbusters saying Slimer may be a little young for that.
In Trading Faces, there was a part where the Evil Slimer twin was clearly slapping Janine in the butt. There's no two ways about it, Slimer's evil lookalike was sexually harassing her!
EGB Examples:
Janine says "Hell's Kitchen" in Back in the Saddle, Part 1.
While it could easily go right over the heads of young viewers, when Janine remarks that her relationship with Egon would be easier if love were something he could see under the microscope, we hear Spengler say "Interesting, these paramecium are mating".
Kind of lacks credibility, since a lot of the ghosts on Extreme Ghostbusters were pretty frightening to children. Oddly, I was real young when I first saw Extreme Ghostbusters, and I never even flinched at the sight of the ghosts. This must run in the family, because I once showed my youngest sister Frankenstein when she was two. Then again, most 1930's horror movies are not very scary when compared to today's standards. SonofSamhain 07:51, January 29, 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, currently I'm having issues with wikia and they update as my user stuff has been reset. Totally annoying. Devilmanozzy 20:26, January 29, 2011 (UTC)
then if Ray and Egon are 38 and 40
Then how old are Peter and Winston?
Larry1996 19:31, February 21, 2011 (UTC)
Timeline Project
Appreciate the help there, but I'd prefer to work on the animated timeline alone for now as I thought Devilmanozzy stated on the main timeline page. Then when its finished, the team can go through it and put whatever suggestions on the Talk page. In fact, I already finished the Movie Canon one. If you want, it'd be a big help if another set of eyes went through it and looked for anything missing, grammar mistakes and post them in the Talk Page. Thanks, Mrmichaelt 01:54, March 11, 2011 (UTC)
Hey there SonofSamhain, Mrmichaelt was put in charge of the timelines. It is a extension of his own project he had already started. It is the type of project that we feel only one person should edit. Anyways, hope there are no hard feelings there. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 14:45, March 11, 2011 (UTC)
Agenda Policy (Important Read)
Agenda Policy is a very Important Policy that addresses who we as a wiki are, and who we are not. I want all current administrators to read it over, and to sign it. (do this: "*~~~") I am doing this in light of my recent events and to show fellow fans that indeed we are a open and friendly place. It may seem a bit over the top, but I see reasons for it. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 22:39, March 24, 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to talk
Your theories about the ghost being the Ghostmaster's minion are pretty strong. Come to think of it, the Ghostmaster may have had a hand in some of the Ghostbusters' previous missions. After all, he was originally going to be the main antagonist to make it consistent with most shows back then as they didn't really have a specific recurring nemesis(and if they continued with that concept, they probably would've planned for a third episode where he escaped the Containment Unit).
I am aware that Samhain, the Boogieman, and even Stay Puft appeared more often than the Ghostmaster, but the main thing was that the boys in gray never had a specific archenemy, and in a way, the Ghostmaster was one of those ghosts that were pretty close in fitting that category. And why else would he be called the Ghostmaster? He is the master of ghosts!
I also have to say you are pretty good with theories and the timeline. No way I could've done such a thing by myself. It would be hard to pay attention to every little time-related detail.
SonofSamhain 05:45, April 5, 2011 (UTC)
That would have been interesting if the staff set up Ghostmaster's existence/hand in things before his first appearance but I like the theory, overall. A bit of a nitpick on my part, but I never got why he remained in the Containment Unit. I figured he'd recharge his power in there and well, blow up the ECU, and escape.
As for the multi-limbed ghost, it's a toss up. I mean, I got my theory that hinges on a lot of speculation and implication, but your suggestion it gets its own page has its merit, too, since it makes a 'cameo' in the Extreme Ghostbusters credits. To be honest, I might have been more on edge that day and a little more defensive than usual. Working with others on a wiki is still a new thing for me.
And thanks about the timeline. I was rather surprised and humbled when Devilmanozzy suggested it be added because its a rather divisive issue with fans. I've made them before and working on two currently for other animated series and I'm not sure how I got the idea to research those little hints and details like full moons and holidays but I'm glad I did. But trust me, it takes a lot of time (even years) and stubbornness. Trust me, I wanted to quit many times on the timelines and I even quit on my version of the Spirit Guide twice. It took me essentially 12 years to finish that file. Ha ha, I'm even close to convincing myself to write up an all-inclusive Classification System. Mrmichaelt 06:25, April 5, 2011 (UTC)
I am not discouraging you, but I am not really sure an all-inclusive class system will work, as the movie and cartoon stuff are again different.
MOVIE CLASSIFICATIONS:
Class 1- Non-senitent vaporous manifestation
Class 2- Incomplete manifestation(e.g., floating sheets, crawling hands)
Class 3- Unidentified spirit of a deceased person, or the spirit of a deceased person unaware of the current time.
Class 4- Identified spirit of a deceased person, or the spirit of a deceased person that is aware of the current time.
Class 5- A malevolent but relatively harmless specter that is vaguely humanoid in appearance and/or behaviour.
Class 6- Animal spirits
Class 7- Highest class level, godlike entity with immense power
ANIMATED CLASSIFICATIONS:
Class 1- The weakest entities
Class 2- Harmless entities
Class 3- Malevolent, but still harmless
Class 4- Same as Class 3
Class 5- Same as movie version
Class 6- A being of unlimited power, but still weak enough to be captured.
Class 7- Similar to position in movie classification, except it is possible to trap Class 7 ghosts, when in the movies they could only be dispersed or forced back into the ghost world.
Class 8- Very powerful entities, but could still be captured.
Class 9- So powerful, they are difficult to trap(I remember in Simon Quaig's episode, Ray talked about trying to trap the horse, even though they didn't actually do it)
Class 10- Extremely powerful
Class 11- Extremely strong and powerful leaders of lesser spirits
Class 12- Even more powerful, but never actually seen. Many have speculated that The Player was a Class 12, but he said he was a class all to himself(whatever that means)
Class 13- Tenebraug was oddly weak when compared to Ghostmaster and the toy ghost. I mean, he was defeated so easily.
I also was disappointed the Ghostmaster never returned. As for recharging his power, it could be the Containment had special security features that prevented powerful but weakened entities from recovering their strength and getting the power to escape. Of course, there were some episodes where despite its size the grid would get too full, and it seems they made adjustments so it could continue to store more ghosts.
No worries. In the end, I'd have to look at my spirit guide file and my episode notes and look if there's a consistent pattern of traits and what not. If I can, the classification system would probably have to be Egon's version circa 1997/EGB. It'll just take a while for me to process everything and I'll probably have to set some assumptions and what not like I did with some of the timeline events.
Yeah, could be some sort of ectoplasmic dampening mechanism dohickey that Egon built in to keep the entities in a weakened state. I guess the reason I never thought of it were moments like when Surt made Siren hypnotize Slimer. But then again, that was an isolated case. Mrmichaelt 00:09, April 6, 2011 (UTC)
Mr. Hyde was a perfect decision
Back when you came to the conclusion the third library ghost in Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster was Mr. Hyde, I agreed with you. I can't think of any other 19th century literature characters that were ugly, sinister men wearing top hats. The thing I wasn't sure about was that I didn't even notice him the first time I saw the episode. It's quite funny, because it is similar to our debate where I thought the Tiny Cyclops and Mole Ghost were the same entity. When Ray shot Hyde, I amy have mistaken him for Ahab(which probably wouldn't make any sense, since he was already blasted.)
All in all, I wasn't skeptical. I just wasn't aware the Mr. Hyde ghost even existed back then. Sometimes there are things in the episodes I can only notice if I watch it more than once.
Live and let learn, you know. I have been wrong on here more than my share, and with cartoons like that, they sometimes used a ghost twice or three times during a episode. Being that many in that episode had that "17-18 hundreds" look, I can see the confusion. What I find surprising is they never debate these things at other ghostbuster forums/places. I love a good discussion about elements in the show/films/video games. That is what makes this place worth going to everyday. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 12:57, April 6, 2011 (UTC)
Reasons your idea for an all-inclusive class system may work after all
There are some similarities in the class systems. Both class systems established that Class 5 creatures were vaguely humanoid in appearance, haivng a tendency to slime everything, and in some cases being gluttonous in nature. Both also dictated that Class 7 ghosts were gods and demons or very powerful ghosts. They also kind of mixed and matched class information exlcusive to one another.
Ghostbusters novelization: I am aware that this book predates RGB, but it is worth noting how they use Class 9. Makes me wonder how they busted it. I have two solutions to that: First, the unlikely solution- Gozer was really a Class 10. I have known people who speculated that Gozer was really a Class 10, but I actually think he was a Class 7. The other solution I came up with by reading the original script- It was possible to trap Gozer, they just destroyed him instead because he was too elusive. Note that in the original shooting script, one of the busters says "Forget trapping it. Let's just blast it."
Animated Classifications: In Rollerghoster, they classify the ghost as a Class 6, wihch would be appropriate since it was a collective of animal ghosts and in the West End Role-Playing games, Class 6 entities were said to be animal spirits.
Once more, I'd just like to point out a few minor differences. In the movies, Class 7 was the highest class level and they were too powerful to trap, instead being disposed of by either destroying them or forcing them back to the ghost world. In the animated series, it was possible to trap a Class 7 and there were even higher classes of ghosts, with Class 9 entities being difficult to trap(as Ray described in The Man Who Never Reached Home, and they destroyed(or banished) Proteus instead of trapping him. They managed to trap S.I.D.N.E.E.(who was labeled as a Class 10) using a giant proton cannon and a giant ghost trap fashioned from a fire truck and a garbage truck respectively.
All in all, it is an interesting idea. And like Devilmanozzy and you, I am one of those Ghostbusters fans who likes the entire franchise as a whole. Everything has its pros and cons.
Movie Canon:
PROS- Funny lines, cool busting montages, lots of stuff.
CONS- Gray uniforms(only becuase they bring a lack of individuality, which may be why they made the uniforms multicolor in the cartoons)
Animated Canon:
RGB PROS- The animated characters are more fun to draw, a lot of interesting episodes and references to the films. While the show seemed to start jumping the shark by Season 3, there were some episodes in th elater seasons I particularly enojyed and found easy to compare to the earlier episodes: Elementary My Dear Winston, Halloween II 1/2, and The Bogeyman Is Back (unlike most fans, I actually tolerate the Junior Ghostbusters. I see them as a half-baked attempt in making the show more relatable to children. They can be annoying at times, but it was cool how they got us to see Boogieman and Samhain again)
RGB CONS- Like it or not, many of the later season episodes are a bit nonsensical and lacking in quality. The one episode of the show I absolutely despise is Venk-Man. The only thing good about that episode was the ghosts they used. I like Stay Tooned even though Sammy was annoying. I knew exactly how Peter felt, except I hated Sammy more because I hate it when people say "kiddo". I couldn't help but smile knowing that he wouldn't be botheirng anyone anymore now that he's in the Containment Unit.
EGB PROS- A lot of the ghosts were pretty interesitng(my favorites were the laughter vampires, the Mirror Demon, Achira, and Tempus. I kind of liked the new equipment, though that may be because EGB was my introduction to the franchise.
EGB CONS- Very few references to the movies(If Stay Puft appeared on Extreme Ghostbusters, it would've been so awesome!) Only references beyond variations of classic lines like "We Came, We Saw" and "Disaster of Biblical Proportions" was how Tenebraug's orb is from Moldova, formerly known as Moldavia, where Vigo is from. Last, but not least, it only lasted one season. I would've loved to see more episodes. :(
SonofSamhain 12:11, April 28, 2011 (UTC)
Yes, I noticed the Class 9 in Richard Mueller's novelization, as well. It also mentions Ray invented three different types of Ghost Traps. I know for a fact that in the RGB cartoon there was one episode where Egon made a new trap but it was so powerful it trapped itself (it was a 3 second scene gag, but still noteworthy). So along with S.I.D.N.E.E.'s capture, I think it is possible to trap up nearly all classes, it just depends on the strength of the trap and the entity. They managed to trap the Ghostmaster, a Class 11, by exerting most of his power.
As for Gozer, the GBI and Marvel UK Comic CDI lists it as a Class 7 whereas the Spengler's Spirit Guide lists Stay-Puft as a Class 10, implying Gozer as a Class 10, too. Which works out because the Toy Ghost in "Ghosts R Us" is a Full Magnitude Class 10 and was said to be the most powerful entity they encountered so far. I think at the time, the trap was too weak against a Class 10 and Gozer was sorta super charged from the summoning.
I've been meaning to brush up on my biology but I've been dancing around an idea to structure the CDI's by Order (like Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Genus, Species, etc.). The higher the order, the more Classes the CDI lists. So like the GBI would be a third order because it has 7 classes listed and the Spengler's Spirit Guide one would be a second order because it has 10 classes listed. If I ever get to writing my own version, it'd be first order, listing 13 classes. I like the idea of there only being one-of-a-kinds for Class 11-13 (Ghostmaster, Player, Tenebraug) but I'm sorta stuck on what class the Old Ones like Cathulhu would be other than the fact it defies standard classification.
But yeah, it's possible...heh. Mrmichaelt 01:10, April 29, 2011 (UTC)
New Stuff:Voting on Matters
I have a matter I'd like you to vote and give input on here on this page: Ghostbusters Wiki:Voting on Matters. Also, please check this page every 5 to 7 days if you can to see if a new vote is going on. Your a administrator here because I value your opinion on things, and your time. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 08:26, May 8, 2011 (UTC)
I am just a bit confused by these grid things. If things were easier to work with, I'd post my vote yes. I do not like links, pics, and stuff being stolen without permission. You respect my opinions, so I give you my vote here.
PS- Your new avatar image greatly unnerves me. I've seen it before. I am lucky I do not have nightmares about it.
Please just try out the page. I'd rather fix up the formatting and have your edit there, than to move it. I want to use the page when the wikia helper asks for proof. I went ahead and made the spot for you to edit there. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 12:19, May 8, 2011 (UTC)
Clean up.... big one
I had suspected user PrincessPussyCat0891 had stolen images from other sites, but tonight I found where he stole some.... GBFans. So after find a good 10 stolen images, I have deemed all his images were stolen either from GBFans, or Spook Central or other ghostbusters sites. I am deleting all his images (well there may be one or two savable) but too notable are some of these. So don't be surprised by the missing images, but don't worry, I'll fix those holes up with new screen caps I'm taking from the movies. So please be patent with this process. Keeping Ghostbusters Wiki creditable is my mission here. We do not need stolen images here. Most of the images I'm deleting look bad anyways. GBFans really has a terrible scanner over there lol. We can do better, and we are going to! Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 04:56, June 21, 2011 (UTC)
Lothgar
I know that he was trapped in Busters in Toyland, but there is ambiguity concerning whether he is now permanently trapped in Toyland or if they brought the trap with them upon exiting. While they did destroy the clock and seal the portal permanently, it not only would've been to prevent Lothgar from returning, other possibilities could be to prevent someone else from entering the barren world or to prevent it from falling into the hands of another entity. And it was really unclear whether they left the trap behind or brought it with them when they got out of Toyland.
Fine with me. I'm rather focused on making image galleries for the first 13 episodes of EGB, so I'll re-watch the ending of this episode some time this coming week and check it out. Mrmichaelt 07:54, June 26, 2011 (UTC)
New Design for Ghostbusters Wiki Voting time
I have finished up the new design, and we need one more vote for it. Please go here and look it over and vote. TY Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 21:06, July 3, 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for catching Peter in Sweet Revenge
I didn't notice because in the past episodes of Slimer!, the spud himself was the only one who's link was not updated.
SonofSamhain 15:09, August 20, 2011 (UTC)
You're welcome. Yeah, I always try to check the recent changes list before signing off the Internet. Mrmichaelt 04:35, August 21, 2011 (UTC)
Template:GCT
Template:GCT is a interesting template that acts like the wiki tables as it can hide text/images. I encourage you to give the template a few tries on articles. It isn't perfect but it is very useful. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 04:53, September 16, 2011 (UTC)
Elwyn Spaulding?
Please read and reply to comments on Talk:Elwyn Spaulding. Wondering if the spelling you had came from something. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 21:28, November 11, 2011 (UTC)
"Administrative Rules"
Please go down to Voting on Matters and vote on this. I set the edit count to 20 as you do more than that a month here. I think we have to officially retire some admins here, and make it clear who all are in charge. There are really only 3 of us here anyways. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 06:07, December 10, 2011 (UTC)
Some people can be very busy and have no time to edit stuff. Of course, I make at least one edit every day, so I should just barely be avoiding being on the verge of retirement. And I will continue contributing to this wiki as long as I live.
The reason I've only seldomly made more than one edit a day lately is I am trying to earn more badges. I have to rework through the days to get back where I was because my editing pattern was briefly halted for two weeks during the summer, where I was at a relative's house in Louisiana and there were no computers available.
Now I am not sure if I should keep staying true to the badge system. It is fun, but I just can't let it limit the number of edits I make per day.
PS: Have a nice holiday, my everchanging friend. SonofSamhain 08:11, December 10, 2011 (UTC)
The rule would be used only when a user has left for awhile and is not editing. Currently 4 admins are listed at this wiki because we can not official say the one is done here, and they are maybe editing 5 edits a month. Time to make rules so we can officially have a reason not to count previous admins. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 06:08, December 11, 2011 (UTC)
Same Rule up still. Please vote on it. No, this rule was not made to attack even semi-active users, it is aimed at straight dead admins. We keep acting like there are 4 of us, when really there is three at this time. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 03:23, January 5, 2012 (UTC)
Dropped by to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Only because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.
SonofSamhain 15:40, December 24, 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the holiday wishes. Merry Christmas to you too! Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 19:13, December 24, 2011 (UTC)
Have a Happy Holiday
Just so you feel acknowledged.
Thanks! Happy holidays to you, as well. Mrmichaelt 03:44, December 25, 2011 (UTC)
were is the page were i can look at all the Badges you can earn?
Try your user page SonofSamhain 07:20, February 4, 2012 (UTC)
Infobox Editing Suggestion
I've noticed you've been putting a second job in the 'occupation' part of article's info boxes such as with the Particle Thrower today. Just wanted to throw out an idea for putting a <br> between jobs so each one has one line in the box. It may look less jumbled and cleaner. Mrmichaelt 08:04, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
Need you help on a Question
I think a while back you had said you had Extreme Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Invasion. If so, can you go to Talk:Biker Ghost, and confirm or deny the claim I found. Thank You! Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 04:07, November 25, 2012 (UTC)
Spoiler Policy "Video Games-Mobile Games"
I have proposed changing the Spoiler Policy to have Mobile games treated differently from Console games. Changing the spoiler wait to 1 month for mobile video games. Please go to the Spoiler talk page and share views. Ghostbusters Wiki talk:Spoiler Policy Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 05:26, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
Ian!, long time no see, it's me, Larry1996, sorry we hadn't kept in contact in a while, but, I have some terrible news, Harold Ramis just passed away today, from a rare blood vessel disease today
Larry1996 (talk) 19:59, February 24, 2014 (UTC)
"Odd how nobody has revised my colloquial error here." .. I honestly just watch the new people and IP's. Yeah we all make mistakes, and even looking over what you changed, it didn't hurt the article that much. Improvement is the key to editing at wiki's and live and let live.. you know. Also, dude that was back in July 2010 you made the edit to a new article. I don't have the heart to say anything rude about it. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 16:29, March 3, 2014 (UTC)
Ghostbusters Tributes, Spoofs, & References
Hi SonofSamhain. This is Paul from Spook Central. Been a long time since we've been in touch, assuming I'm not confusing you with someone else who used the same screen name :-) Anyway, I noticed that you added a Ducktales reference to the Ghostbusters Tributes, Spoofs, & References page. Fantastic! It's always great to have more noted. A while back, I spent a great deal of time getting that page organized, especially the Movies and TV sections. I made an effort to get airdates/release years from the IMDb, so the items in each section could be listed chronologically. If you add any more items to the page, please add them in where they would fit chronologically. Thanks a million. Spookcentral (talk) 05:16, November 7, 2015 (UTC)
Please see your recent Blog
All recent Actor edits have been undone. I am stunned you'd do that. :( Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 20:59, August 23, 2016 (UTC)
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Archives for the month of: July, 2012
Geek science fact for the Olympics and Paralympics: Sports products don’t reduce injuries
31 July 2012 //
In a set of articles in the British Medical Journal, researchers debunked a number of claims for sports products. The color of urine—something athletes are told to keep an eye on—depends on many factors, not just hydration. Drinking before you feel thirsty may worsen performance. Energy drinks with caffeine and other compounds have no benefit above and beyond the boost from caffeine. And carbohydrate and protein combinations post-workout don’t improve performance and recovery.
Tags athletes, caffeine, carbohydrate, drinks, energy, exercise, health, hydration, London 2012, Olympic, Olympic athletes, Olympic Games, Olympics, Paralympic Games, Paralympics, performance, protein, recovery, science, sports, sports products, sports science, Team GB, thirsty, urine, workout
Categories Humans
Geek science fact for the Olympics and Paralympics: Does running barefoot cut injuries?
Yes. And no. Sorry, not really a fact, is it? Zola Budd ran barefoot in the Olympics in 1984, a race that was controversial for other reasons. Research in Journal of Strength And Conditioning suggests that barefoot running is neither good nor bad, but that both barefoot and shod running need proper training and conditioning.
Tags 1984, barefoot, barefoot running, exercise, health, London 2012, Olympic, Olympic athletes, Olympic Games, Olympics, Paralympic Games, Paralympics, race, run, science, sports, sports science, Team GB, Zola Budd
Geek science fact for the Olympics and Paralympics: Nature’s Olympians
Many animals can match and beat humans in track and field events. For example, the 5 cm hat thrower fungus can throw a spore capsule 2 m away.
Tags animals, exercise, hat thrower fungus, health, humans, London 2012, Olympic, Olympic athletes, Olympic Games, Olympics, Paralympic Games, Paralympics, records, science, sports, sports science, Team GB, track and field
Categories Fish and reptiles, Mammals, Plants, Viruses, bacteria, fungi & yeasts
Geek science fact for the Olympics and Paralympics: Team GB is trying out gene tests
Scientists working with Team GB are using genetic tests to try to work out why some athletes are prone to injury such as tendon injuries and stress fractures. Researchers at University College London may have found a gene linked with injury.
Tags athletes, cycling, exercise, gene, genes, genetic tests, health, injury, London 2012, medicine, Olympic, Olympic athletes, Olympic Games, Olympics, Paralympic Games, Paralympics, science, sports, sports science, stress fractures, Team GB, tendon injuries
Categories Genetics and genomics, Humans
Geek science fact for the Olympics and Paralympics: Fireworks!
As always, Olympics opening ceremonies include fireworks and today’s was no exception. Fireworks use a lot of science – for example, particle sizes control the rate of burn, different colours are created by using different metals, and the sounds and shapes depend on how the chemicals are packed.
Tags burn, chemicals, chemistry, colours, cycling, exercise, fireworks, health, London 2012, metals, Olympic, Olympic athletes, Olympic Games, Olympics, olympics opening ceremonies, opening ceremony, Paralympic Games, Paralympics, particle sizes, physics, science, sports, sports science, Team GB
Categories Chemistry, Physics
Pi Approximation Day
I know it’s a bit late, but 22 July (22/7) was Pi Approximation Day.
The fraction 22/7 is an approximation of pi, the mathematical constant that describes the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi has an infinite number of non-repeating digits after the decimal point – see this site for the first million digits (or not…) Pi Day is 14 March (3.14), of course!
Tags 14 March, 22 July, 3.14, mathematics, maths, numbers, pi, Pi Approximation Day, Pi Day, science
Categories Maths
Flying ant day
Today is likely to be flying ant day in the UK. The common black ant mates on the wing, and to increase the chance of finding a mate, males and new queens all hatch within a day or two of each other. After mating, the males die and the females create new colonies. It’s a feast for the birds, as well as a dramatic bit of science.
Source: Society of Biology
The Society of Biology is carrying out a survey – report time, date, location and weather conditions on the website to help the society learn more about the biology of ants.
Tags ant, ants, colony, common black ant, environment, flying ant day, hatch, male, mates, mating, queen, science
A device can make blind people see (well, almost)
Second Sight Medical Products has developed a medical device, Argus II retinal prosthesis system, that gives blind people a form of sight.
Source: Second Sight
The device includes a miniature camera that fits into the patient’s glasses, which converts video images into a series of small electrical pulses. The impulses are transmitted wirelessly to electrodes implanted on the surface of the retina. These stimulate the remaining cells in the retina to create patterns of light in the brain, and the brain learns to interpret these patterns.
This has been developed for patients who have lost their sight through retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease that damages the retina at the back of the eye.
Tags Argus II, blilndness, blind, brain, camera, cells, electrical pulses, electrodes, eye disease, glasses, inherited, light, medical device, retina, retinal prosthesis system, retinitis pigmentosa, sight
Categories Engineering, Humans, Technology
An artificial jellyfish can swim
Researchers in the US have created an artificial jellyfish from silicon and living cardiac muscle cells, and it can swim freely. The rat heart muscle tissue is stimulated electrically and this ‘beats’ to create the jellyfish’s propulsive force. This is called ‘Medusoid’ and could be a step towards synthetic life.
Credit: Harvard University and Caltech
For more, read the paper in Nature Biotechnology.
Tags animals, artificial jellyfish, cardiac muscle cells, heart muscle, jellyfish, Medusoid, nature, science, silicon and, synthetic life
Dogs can protect against asthma
Children brought up with animals, and youngest children in families, are often the least likely to get asthma, and this may be down to the microbiome (all the bacteria) in the home’s house dust. Mice fed house dust from homes with dogs were more likely to be immune to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) than mice fed with dust from non-dog homes. RSV is a common childhood infection, and children exposed to it are more likely to get asthma.The microbes in their gut were also different.
The hygiene hypothesis suggests that we get more allergies now because our immune systems don’t have enough to do. Hookworms might be able to cure allergies – but a dog is much more fun to take for a walk!
Tags allergies, animals, asthma, bacteria, childhood infection, children, dog, gut, health, hookworms, house dust, hygiene hypothesis, immune system, microbes, microbiome, research, respiratory syncytial virus, RSV, science
Categories Animals, Humans
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Couple lobbies against type of Hysterectomy that can spread undetected cancer
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It all began after the birth of Amy Reed's sixth child. Reed, an anesthesiologist knew she had fibroids, but they had never bothered her until that point. One had now grown so large that it was visible when she lay on her back. She was also having trouble with increased bleeding, as well as an unusual discharge.
So Amy's husband, Hooman Noorchashm, a surgeon arranged for her to consult with a gynecological oncologist. The oncologist reassured her that it was a perfectly normal fibroid and recommended its removal. After exploring the options, Reed decided to have a laparoscopic hysterectomy.
In order to remove a uterus laparoscopically a device known as a morcellator is sometimes used. Essentially, a morcellator chops the uterus up into small pieces that are removed via the vagina. Depending on the size of the uterus or fibroids being removed, they might be too large to remove laparoscopically without morcellation. The advantage to the surgery is a quick recovery time, relative to a traditional hysterectomy.
Unfortunately, in Amy Reed's case, the surgery had a major drawback. Eight days after the surgery, she got a call from her Surgeon who told her that pathology tests on the removed tissue had found cancer, specifically leiomyosarcoma.
When Hooman Noorchashm heard the diagnosis he was horrified. As a surgeon, he knew that when sarcomas are removed surgically, they need to be removed in one piece, along with a fair bit of the surrounding tissue to ensure that no loose cells are left to spread. By morcellating Amy Reed's tumour, they had essentially sprayed her abdominal cavity with cancer cells, moving her from what was probably stage 1 cancer to Stage 4. She was the second patient at her hospital that year to have her cancer upstaged by morcellation, and since Red and Noorchashm started a crusade to have this type of surgery banned, 5 more women have come forward.
During his research, Noorchashm discovered that the risk of leiomyosarcoma in women with symptomatic fibroids is far higher than for the general population (1 in 10 000 for the general population, closer to 1 in 416 for women with systematic fibroids. Shockingly, the oncologist who told Amy Reed her fibroid was perfectly normal was one of the coauthors on the paper that established this) and leiomyosarcoma cannot be detected by MRI's or biopsies prior to surgery.
Given these facts in March, the FDA issued a warning against morcellation, and held hearings into the use of the device this past July. Johnson and Johnson, the largest manufacturer of morcellators has suspended their production and sale.
As for Amy Reed? She has opted to aggressively treat her cancer and has had a radical procedure known as the Sugarbaker operation. Her "appendix, gallbladder, omentum (the fatty covering of the intestines), and peritoneum were removed" and surgeons poured heated chemotherapy medicine into her abdominal cavity and left it there for 90 minutes. She has been told that if the surgery is successful it would give her an 80% chance of having no reoccurrence of her cancer for 10 years.
A radio documentary from the CBC radio program The Current is available here:
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Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS)
Lead Research Organisation: National Oceanography Centre
Department Name: Science and Technology
The surface ocean is home to billions of microscopic plants called phytoplankton which produce organic matter in the surface ocean using sunlight and carbon dioxide. When they die they sink, taking this carbon into the deep ocean, where it is stored on timescales of hundreds to thousands of years, which helps keep our climate the way it is today. The size of the effect they have on our climate is linked to how deep they sink before they dissolve - the deeper they sink, the more carbon is stored. This sinking carbon also provides food to the animals living in the ocean's deep, dark 'twilight zone'. Computer models can help us predict how future changes in greenhouse gas emissions might change this ocean carbon store. Current models however struggle with making these predictions. This is partly because until recently we haven't even been
able to answer the basic question 'Is there enough food for all the animals living in the twilight zone?'. But in a breakthrough this year we used new technology and new theory to show that there is indeed enough food. So now we can move on to asking what controls how deep the carbon sinks. There are lots of factors which might affect how deep the material sinks but at the moment we can't be sure which ones are important. In this project we will make oceanographic expeditions to two different places to test how these different factors affect carbon storage in the deep ocean. We will measure the carbon sinking into the twilight zone and the biological processes going on within it. Then we will determine if the systems are balanced - in other words, what goes in, should come out again. We will then write equations linking all the parts of the system together and analyse them to make them more simple. At the same time we will test whether the simple equations are still useful by seeing if they produce good global maps of ocean properties for which we have lots of data. Finally, when we are happy that our new equations are doing a good job we will use them in a computer model to predict the future store of carbon in the ocean.
COMICS will ultimately result in improved predictions of future ocean carbon storage, hence contributing essential knowledge for evidence based policy-making. This project has been designed to provide an immediate and direct benefit to the ongoing development of the NERC-Met Office UK Earth System Model (ESM) which is the UK's platform for future IPCC assessments. COMICS will establish a pipeline for new insights from our in situ work to be translated through into recommendations for novel model parameterisations for a key component of the global carbon cycle, which will then be incorporated in the UK-ESM. This will build on work currently funded under the NERC Process Based Model Evaluation programme, which is part of the UKESM development strategy. To ensure that the results from our observational programme are translated into practical parameterisations for climate models, Prof Colin Jones (Head of the UKESM project) will sit on our project advisory board.
In addition to the Met Office, we have engaged stakeholders in Cefas (an executive Defra agency) which is responsible for delivering evidence-based advice on marine management issues. Our proposed work on marine environment modelling and predicting the marine impacts of climate change are directly relevant to Cefas. COMICS will ensure a direct link to Cefas/Defra through the inclusion on our programme advisory board of Dr Robert Thorpe (Fisheries Scientist) who will also provide a route to policy makers via the Marine Climate Change Centre.
COMICS will contribute to the UK's international standing, and capacity building in developing nations. One output of this project will be computationally efficient new parameterisations for carbon remineralisation which can be incorporated into any suitable global biogeochemical climate model. COMICS thus has the potential to influence future climate models at the international level. We will also contribute to capacity building in developing nations by proposing researcher exchange programmes and mentoring development of early career researchers.
COMICS also includes a programme of public engagement activities, targeting both the general public and the next generation of marine scientists. These activities aim to increase awareness of the importance of ocean carbon uptake for regulating Earth's climate in an era of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
These goals will be achieved through a dedicated impact effort, through dedicated staff time from NOC's communications office and the COMICS programme manager, with input from all members of the COMICS team.
Our impact programme includes funds for: a targeted stakeholder event that will be held at the end of year 3 in London to present our results from the specific standpoint of policy makers; design and distribution of glossy literature aimed at stakeholders and the general public; development of a programme website including professional graphic design; development of display materials for public events, such as science fairs.
Proposed additional impact activities for which we do not request NERC funds include: a Royal Society scientific programme meeting to which both stakeholders and the broader academic community will be invited (to take place in year 4); a collaborative researcher exchange programme with South African colleagues via the Newton Fund; supporting development of early career researchers from developing countries through the POGO fellowship scheme; daily cruise blog from on board the ship; Twitter feed (#comicscarbon), including two live Twitter Q&A events during the cruises; articles aimed at the interested public in Planet Earth; editorial feature in a popular science magazine; regular media
releases associated with cruises, journal articles, events etc.
Apr 17 - Oct 19
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Richard Sanders
Climate & Climate Change (25%)
Marine environments (75%)
Biogeochemical Cycles (75%)
National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation, Project Partner)
University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Washington University in St. Louis (Project Partner)
Alfred Wegener Inst for Polar & Marine R, Germany (Project Partner)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, United States (Project Partner)
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, United States (Project Partner)
IFM GEOMAR, Germany (Project Partner)
Centre for Env Fisheries Aqua Sci CEFAS, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
CSIR - South Africa (Project Partner)
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (Project Partner)
Richard Sanders (Principal Investigator)
Andrew Yool (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776
Thomas Robb Anderson (Co-Investigator)
Adrian Martin (Co-Investigator)
Stuart Carl Painter (Co-Investigator)
Daniel J Mayor (Co-Investigator)
Stephanie Anne Henson (Co-Investigator)
Alex Poulton (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5149-6961
Samar Khatiwala (Co-Investigator)
Sinhue Torres-Valdes (Co-Investigator)
Richard Stephen Lampitt (Co-Investigator)
Mikhail Zubkov (Co-Investigator)
Manuela Hartmann (Researcher)
Kevin Antony Saw (Researcher)
Anderson T (2019) Quantifying carbon fluxes from primary production to mesopelagic fish using a simple food web model in ICES Journal of Marine Science
Henson S (2019) Drivers of Carbon Export Efficiency in the Global Ocean in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
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Buhari’s anti-graft war deceitful, says Frank
By Adamu Abuh, Abuja
13 June 2019 | 3:13 am
President Buhari. Photo/Twitter/AsoRock
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has described the anti-graft war being waged by President Muhammadu Buhari as deceitful.
Frank, in a statement yesterday, argued that Buhari had lost the moral right to wage the anti-graft war in the country, adding that the APC-led administration was only fighting corruption on the pages of newspapers.
Frank described as corruption Buhari’s pressure on Danjuma Goje to drop his bid for the senate presidency and his support for Ovie Omo-Agege for deputy senate president.
Calling on Nigerians and the international community to disregard Buhari ‘fabricated’ integrity slogan, he said the current institutions established to fight corruption had been politicised and only being use against Nigerians opposed to the interest of the APC-led administration.
Said he: “General Buhari, for selfish reasons, is using corrupt means to get political support, as it is seen in the case of Senator Goje, whose alleged corruption case running into billions of naira was forgiven because he agreed not to contest senate principal position against APC’s preferred candidate.
“Buhari is the biggest beneficiary of corruption in Nigeria. He should account for the TraderMoni and tell the world where all the money used to buy votes during the just-concluded general elections he did not win came from.”
He challenged Buhari to tell the world what became of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) scandal, fuel subsidy, Ikoyi-gate where huge amount of money was discovered and so many corrupt elements around him.
ALL Progressives CongressAPCMuhammadu BuhariTimi Frank
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Develop these 6 personality traits and you'll be a happier person
Being happy comes from the personality traits that you carry within you
Published: July 04, 2019 11:20 Yousra Zaki, Web Features Editor
The struggle to find happiness is real! Here's a hint: Feeling happy will never be a permanent feeling, you have to create small moments and develop your personality to enjoy life more and have more moments of happiness Image Credit: Pexels
1. If you are compassionate
2. If you are enthusiastic
3. If you are efficient
4. If you are grateful
5. If you are intellectually curious
6. If you are open to new experiences
People have spent years trying to figure out the secret to happiness. It really does come from within. You could have millions of dollars, fame and a nice car, yet still feel a strong dissatisfaction that you can’t really explain, or you could be the person who smiles the biggest when you see a baby in a stroller, or if you find an onion ring in a bag of French fries. It’s all about how you choose to view life.
You don’t have to have all 6 of these personality traits to be happy. You can be a couple of them and still be a satisfied and happy person.
Most of the time those who are interested in other peoples’ lives, stories and problems are usually a lot happier than those who are only concerned with themselves. Compassionate people also tend to do random acts of kindness for those they love as well as for strangers. They are found to be happier and more satisfied with their life.
People who are enthusiastic tend to laugh a lot. They are described by others as people who have a lot of fun and are a lot of fun. When people are enthusiastic, they generally make friends faster than those who aren’t. And friends equal happiness.
People who like to get things done and follow tasks through to completion are also generally happier people. Efficient “get stuff done” types of people achieve more goals in life, which contributes to their satisfaction.
People who are habitually grateful (means that they say thank you and show appreciation without thinking) are usually happy people. Grateful people also look at the bright side. They usually notice and appreciate things that others see as ordinary and common.
Reading books about complex topics, watching documentaries that explain how the world works is a trait that most happy people have. They are curious about intellectual topics and enjoy meaningful conversations with others.
Are you an imaginative person with a wide array of interests? You must be open to new experiences. You read about new topics, you try new things, whether that’s new dishes at your city’s restaurants or scuba diving in the ocean.
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Prehistoric, Ancient Classical and Medieval Art
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Episode #1 of the course “Art Movements Throughout European History”
Art has been a part of human life since prehistoric times. With an appreciation and desire for beauty as part of their daily lives, prehistoric people created small, portable objects such as jewelry and religious artifacts that fit their nomadic lifestyles. One early example, the Venus of Willendorf, shows how prehistoric peoples created art to represent their hopes, dreams, and aesthetic values. Primitive cave painters in France used their hands and simple brushes, with paints created from charcoal and plants, to document their lives. As people settled into societies, artists became integrated into culture.
Wall Paintings @ Lascaux, France ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE
8th-century BC votive horse from Olympia (Louvre)
The largest societies of the ancient world became the blueprint for centuries of artists. Classic art is associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans. A culture that valued education highly, ancient Greeks incorporated mathematics into artwork and architecture, and religious and historical themes were common. They also invented materials and methods that made artwork last longer.
The Roman Empire revitalized principles of Greek art, focusing on proportion, depictions of the heavens, and their imperial legacy. Roman artists incorporated local styles from the cultures that were assimilated into the empire. Until it fell, the Roman Empire included the most diverse group of artists in history.
Laocoön and His Sons (Late Hellenistic), Vatican Museum
Augustus of Prima Porta, statue of the emperor Augustus, 1st century CE. Vatican Museums
The Middle Ages describes the time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance. Medieval art was often commissioned for church buildings or wealthy religious people, and it focuses on holy subjects such as saints. Medieval artists considered the subject more important than technique.
They rarely depicted landscapes or scenes without humans, and they painted flat perspectives without concern for capturing realistic elements. In approximately 1000 CE, European artistic style incorporated elements of ancient Roman art such as bold colors and less rigid human figures.
Reconstruction of the temple of Jerusalem, William of Tyre (Medieval art)
This Romanesque style later developed into Gothic art in the 13th century, which designed architecture to be more angular and ethereal and began to portray a more realistic, bolder depiction of human and religious subjects.
Milan Cathedral (Gothic architecture)
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Bungie Community Ride Along
Posted by DeeJ at 12/2/2011 6:05 PM PST
Take Our Jobs...If You Dare!
Join Bungie!
This ain’t no Humpday Challenge.
This is more social. Selected activities that shape our interaction from week to week will be more varied. We will pay attention to the notable players and private groups that make Bungie.net special, and make them a little less private. So, we’re going to shine our spotlight on the people who comprise our ravenously loyal community, and we’re going to share the virtual experiences that we have in common. Let’s use the time we spend on Bungie.net to enhance the games we love, and to form even stronger bonds with the people we play them with.
For this opening salvo of gunfire and ‘splosions, the private group of all private groups on Bungie.net was selected as the squad of honor: The Bungie.net Forum Ninjas. Cloistered in their mysterious chamber, they secretly regard themselves as Team HFCS (whatever, that stands for). This volunteer army of moderators and peacekeepers maintains a constant patrol over the forums that serve as the venue for our community. What better way to kick off our series of weekly ride along events?
To better understand the culture shared by these elusive regulators, I convened a meeting of their elite council and deciphered their cryptic code so that we all may understand them better.
What does HFCS stand for?
Qbix: Helt fantastisk creme saus
[Editor’s note: Q is Norwegian, not illiterate]
Lord Revan: Here For Commander Stosh
True Underdog: Having Fun Cracking Skulls
Old Papa Rich: High Fructose Corn Syrup
Who is the leader of your group?
Foman: I'll tell you who is NOT our leader: Qbix.
evilcam: Spartan Ken
Bobcast: Harrison's mom
Tom T: I just listen to the voice inside my head that says "ban", repeatedly.
How does one strive to become a Forum Ninja?
Old Papa Rich: You see the first part of Batman Begins? It's mostly like that.
True Underdog: It involves a toothpick, an empty bag of Big League Chew, a shot glass, and a sack full of dirty silverware.
Duardo: I battled my enemies to great snowy peaks of a mountain. I sought a magical element that would transform myself into a mythical force. I rode atop the great beast of legend. I was scathed and battered. Sweat pierced my eyes as though the great sun was mocking me. A coarse laugh was heard from afar. I turned to face my greatest enemy. Swords clashed. Bones were broken. Blood was spilled. I thrust my scabbard into his gut. My enemy had fallen. I climbed to the peak, and sitting atop was Foman's Mom. I claimed my reward. That is how I came to be.
evilcam: I don't know.
What is your favorite thing about the Bungie Community?
Recon Number 54: In a word? Diversity. In more words? The fact that there is such a wide and varied group of people who for one reason or another choose to spend their time gathered around in this cluster of people.
Qbix: Every day is different! Personally the private groups, the Septagon and the Flood are what keep me coming back.
Tom T: When members come together, united around a goal, to create something awesome.
True Underdog: I like how passionate the Community is. When they get behind something, they are pretty outspoken about it, even if that passion sometimes makes them rage...it's still pretty cool.
[Editor’s note: Awwwwww... See? Despite all of the banishments, dismemberments, and halted conversations, the Ninjas love you. All of you.]
Special guests selected to ride along with our Ninjas included a sampling of Bungie.net perennial citizens, selected at random from an avalanche of Xbox LIVE Friend Requests. Within moments of issuing the call to arms, my inbox became the site of a literal flash mob of eager players. The full power of the Bungie community rushed to my door, anxious for mayhem and thirsty for carnage (or maybe it was Doritos and Mountain Dew).
The fates were left in charge of the games we would play – at the click of a button, 15 players (we saved a seat for Foman) were thrown to the winds of Matchmaking. Servers hidden away in the Microsoft industrial complex sorted us into teams. Collective spamming of the gametype voting system turned map selection into a lottery. Our 16th warrior ended up being mute, having deprived himself of an active headset – serving up yet another reminder that the best way to ensure chatty teammates is to take matchmaking into your own hands.
Over the course of 90 minutes, the bonds of community were defined and strengthened. In all, six games were played (1 2 3 4 5 6).
A recurring theme of the evening was panicked cries of "Get Foman out of the Wraith!"
Starving and outnumbered, but not outgunned, the blue team on Abridged waged a battle two players short, due to drops.
This did not stop them from sweeping through red team defenses to detonate their bomb. Three times.
Did I mention Foman? Next time, we will fill that guy's seat, instead of waiting for him to arrive and lay our precious vehicles to waste.
During the scuffles that ensued, forum chatter caught fire. Alternative lobbies started to form, filling up with players looking to get in on the community action. Those that remained on the boards were entertained with random updates posted by SonicJohn, who assigned to himself the role of combat correspondent. He even compiled a morsel of multimedia to commemorate the night’s event.
To all that braved the blind curve that led to our impromptu battle royale, we say “Good Game.” Thanks for joining the party. And, thanks for being part of a kick ass community, ready to pick up and throw down at a moment’s notice.
This is just the beginning. Keep an eye on the forum. Keep checking your favorite private group for chatter. The call will come at a moment’s notice. The games we play will be up to you.
Let’s ride.
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Bungie.net Set to Read-Only Today
Posted by DeeJ at 1/8/2013 9:07 AM PST
Pardon our dust...
On Tuesday, January 8th, Bungie.net will be set to read-only mode. During this short, preparatory maintenance window, you can browse, but you can’t post. We expect the outage to be brief.
Thank you for your patience. If we don’t make it back, tell your mother we love her. See you on the other side.
Happy Holidays. Love, Bungie.
Posted by DeeJ at 12/21/2012 2:22 PM PST
We Wish You a Merry Mail Sack
Goodwill towards mail...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Bungie. Our cavernous hideout, usually overrun by artists, coders, and designers, is slowly becoming a place of empty chairs and empty tables. Before our beloved partners in crime could flee the scene in favor of their respective family reunions, we gathered around the very last bundle of community interaction that will be seen this calendar year.
The past twelve months have been home to fascinating developments at Bungie. We are thankful. We’ve marched ever closer toward our fate. There is brilliant light at the end of the tunnel, dear community.
But that is a glorious conversation best saved for another time. For now, let’s look back instead of forward.
Let’s open the Sack.
Frag Ingot What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment from this year?
I made it through...
Ben Thompson, Engineer
I wrote lots of cool things for Bungie.next. Maybe DeeJ will tell you more about that soon.
Tom Gioconda, Engineer
I started building a spaceship in my garage, entirely out of spare lawnmower parts.
Dave Mongan, Senior Writer
Deadlift: 325lbs., Squat: 225lbs, Machine Squat: 360lbs. Also, wrote/recorded 13 songs and remixed 2 songs.
Forrest Soderlind, Technical Artist
Professionally, I built a new back end system that (if it works correctly) will make the online experience better for a significant portion of our playerbase, without them ever knowing it is there. Personally, I went on some awesome adventures with my wife this year and didn't get us both killed, or too horribly lost.
Michael Williams, Engineer
Marriage!
Robert Kehoe, BVT Tester
Creating the next generation of the internal tools for Bungie.Next. They ain’t pretty, but they get the job done.
Alex Loret de Mola, Engineer
And, the following people on the Bungie Panel for this week counted their great fortune in landing a place on the roster of Team Bungie. This delegation represents only a fraction of the parade of noobs that stormed our front door to help us bring you a new game.
Will Edgette, Engineer
Leland Dantzler, Tester
Doug Juno, Artist
Drew Smith, Producer
David Johnson, Engineer
Mike Shannon, Senior IT Engineer
Chris Owens, Test Engineer
Andy Howell, Matchmaking Test Lead
Hylebos How is the Pentathlon shaping up?
As someone who has been honored with an invitation to serve on the Exalted Winter Pentathlon Committee, I'm one of the few people who can tell you that it’s shaping up quite nicely. Our competitors have been partitioned into four warring schools, with Captains assigned to lead each. Events have been chosen, with lieutenants designated to lead each school’s respective charge, and commissioners in place to enforce the rules of battle. As the games draw near, we'll treat you to the usual front-row seat, though I suspect the game I'm most anxious to play this year will be zealously guarded from your eyes.
Elem3nt 117 What is your New Year's Resolution?
I resolve to be a little bit more open and transparent with you. If that has you excited, please note that my track record for keeping these annual promises is less than impressive. Let’s see if my co-developers are more or less disciplined. What do you have planned for yourselves in 2013, Bungie Panel?
Decimate the competition in the Pentathlon or die trying.
Draw more.
Finish building that spaceship in my garage! Or, give up the ridiculous idea already and waste my free time more wisely.
To get up earlier!
Deadlift: 495lbs., Squat: 405lbs, Bench 250lbs.
Write a book, plant a tree. I can already imagine blank pages and a bare yard.
Christian Diefenbach, Engineering Lead
Don’t get suckered into anymore of those crazy “End of the world” doomsday prophesies.
Create more, consume less.
To finally fulfill my resolutions from the last 8 years.
I resolve to be better, stronger, faster.
To not make any more New Year’s Resolutions.
Be less tempted by Bungie’s free snacks. Who am I kidding?
Ninja Blue Wolf Does Marty do lessons?
You mean music lessons? No. Marty does teach us a lesson from time to time, but they are more in the vein of knowing when to hold ‘em – and when to fold ‘em. If you don’t get the reference, that’s an old song about Poker, written by a gambling purveyor of Fried Chicken.
WestCoastRonin If you could remake any Christmas movie and give it a sci-fi setting, which movie would you choose and what would it be like?
I’m pitching a starside reboot of A Christmas Story. My hero, Ralphie_9.6, is an astroclone incepted on an off-world colony who dreams of owning a Red Ryder x-ray cannon. As part of his coming of age, he learns to face off against the Academy’s most dreaded bully. Comic relief ensues when he tricks his best friend into sticking his tongue to the cooling towers of the main reactor. For the grand finale, a hoard of feral tusk-wolves make off with the sandtrout that was prepared for the solstice feast of the seventh moon.
The joy of editing this feature is the chance to hoard the best and most obvious answer for one’s self. However, in the event that Hollywood rejects my screenplay, here are some alternatives from the Bungie Panel…
If you ask me, Rocky 4 is begging for a sci-fi remake. It’s got it all: Good versus evil; hi-tech versus old-school; national pride versus personal determination. Everything is on the line, and it all comes to a head on Christmas Day. Simply set it in an interstellar society, with humans versus aliens and… Ba-da-bing ba-da-boom! Instant, updated holiday classic.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a cyborg sent back through time to Santa’s workshop (circa 1995) to protect Santa Claus. Sam the Snowborg is on a mission to kill him and alter the future so that Snowborgs rule over all mankind – and Christmas is permanently destroyed. To save the day, Santa and Rudolph must go to the Isle of Misfit Toys Asylum to rescue Mrs. Claus, who was arrested after encountering Rudolph in the prequel.
It’s a Wonderful Star Trek Life. I know they kind of already did it in TNG. I guess I just want Star Trek for Christmas.
As Life Day approaches on Tatooine, Emmet Otter and his Ma decide to compete in the Cantina's talent contest. Watch as they face corrupt Hutt judges, and challenge the Empire's most deadly musicians, "The Boba Fett Sarlacc Band". In the end they will learn the true meaning of Life Day, and the true power of the Force.
Mine is more based on a TV show than a movie. Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator - and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that looked a lot like Santa, and driven by an unknown force to change Christmas for the better. His only guide on this journey is ELF, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to replace bad presents with amazing presents and hoping each time that his next leap… will be the leap home.
I have a visual of people opening their Christmas presents to find face hugger aliens inside.
The first two Die Hard movies could be convincingly set on an inter-planetary colony and a spaceport, respectively. The plot of the second movie even becomes more much plausible in a spaceport.
White Christmas. It’s the year 2196, and Lt. Commander Wallace is performing a holiday space symphony for our troops fighting against the mysterious arachnid alien species that has invaded our solar system. He finds himself caught in a web, and about to be eaten by said aliens, before Ensign Davis runs over in the nick of time and saves his life. Their friendship comes to a head years later when their old Fleet Admiral is discovered running a failed tourist vessel orbiting Jupiter. They decide to bring their interstellar cast and crew to revive his chances of success. The plot really doesn’t have to change much at all! I suppose one of their love interests could get vaporized by a stray phaser blast as they defend the tourist ship from space raiders.
Yeah, Alex. Because nothing gets people in the Christmas spirit faster than vaporizing love interests.
irishfreak Why won't you return my calls?
Mostly because, for the first time in the years (and years) since I left college and joined The Work Force, I don’t have a phone on my desk. That took some getting used to. I remember asking about this on my first day at Bungie. Urk answered my question with a question of his own. “Who would you call?” That stopped me in my tracks. Hello, Internet? It’s me, DeeJ.
EZcompany2ndsqd If Santa came down your chimney and you were awake what would you do?
I’d handcuff him to the gas starter, light a candle, and have a long chat about all those years I got ugly sweaters instead of the video games that had been released that season. Perhaps the Bungie Panel will be more forgiving than I…
See if he wanted to play some Farcry 3 coop.
I would thank him for giving me a brand new fireplace.
Offer him a drink.
Release the Krampus!
Demand gifts as payment for intrusion.
We would then engage in mortal combat - Bungie wood n00b sword vs. Santa Sack. Spoiler: Christmas would lose.
Borrow his ride!
Ask if he had a couple hours to babysit.
Wager my soul against a golden fiddle in a Settler's of Catan match. Santa does that right?
Scream like a little girl and run around in circles until the bad man left. Sadly, that’s how I deal with most situations.
Offer the man some milk and cookies for installing a chimney in my apartment.
Probably offer him a beer. Cookies and milk probably get old.
DarthCarrick If you could give the Community a present, what would it be?
An exciting new place to call home. Since such things cannot be wrapped, that gift will have to serve another occasion.
Xd00999 You can now un-cancel one television show. What do you choose?
When I do make it to my television, I’m more than likely using it to battle the Internet though the construct of my favorite game. Thus, I am transferring my vote to the Bungie Panel. Have at it, people. What do you wish was still on the idiot box?
I used to work in TV, so that’s like asking me to resurrect only one of my deceased friends. Too cruel. Instead, I’ll bring to life a baby that was never born: a pilot I wrote called “The War.” Imagine the grittiness of “The Wire,” set on the coke-frenzied Sunset Strip of the 1980s. It was an intense roller-coaster ride of sex & drugs & rock-n-roll… or at least it would have been, had it ever seen the light of day. Oh well…
I’d pick one of the following:
Bring back Firefly!
Firefly, Duh. (Says the Star Trek fan… I know.. I know..)
Firefly.
Can I choose two? 1) Firefly 2) Farscape.
I’m sure this is the first time someone mentioned this show, but Firefly.
Answers other than Firefly are wrong.
Wonderfalls!
Better Off Ted.
Carnivale on HBO.
Arrested Development.
Deadwood, so I can open a can of peaches.
A Pimpin Lady Why will you not answer my question? I want to know where Bungie hires their non-gaming personnel. Last time I asked this question, you sent me to the job listings page on B.Net. In all my years here, I have never seen non-gaming related listings. I know you guys have to have accountants, HR, health educators, etc. Will you please tell me where the job listings for these people are found?
“Ma’am! I answered your question! I answered the darn... I’m cooperating here!” -Jerry Lundegaard, Executive Sales Manager, Gustafson Motors
It’s almost as if our whole team is devoted to the singular cause of making a game. We do have a few people at Bungie who mind the shop while we make the toys. In all your years here, none of them have quit. They really like their jobs. We see to that, personally. If we end up needing more of them, the curious onlookers who pay attention to our Careers page will be the first to know.
Marcellos007 What was the funniest present you´ve got for Christmas?
My father and my sister succumbed to the allure of a home shopping offering on television. One toll-free conversation later, our entire family received the gift of decorative swords. Mine was so decorative, the blade folded under the weight of its own haft when I sank it into the soil of the back yard in a dramatic reenactment of the ending to my favorite Scottish revolution film. Care to recall your own comedic lumps of coal, Bungie Panel?
My dad used to rewrap the board game Balderdash every year and give it to a random member of the family. That was always funny. Plus, it’s a good game.
Many years ago, a boss of mine gave me the menu for an adult-entertainment venue called The Chicken Ranch. I never visited the establishment, but I got a lot of laughs out of reading the names of their various “Dishes.”
One year, my friends thought it would be a good idea to all get me Hello Kitty themed gifts, including bubble bath that came packaged with warnings about urinary tract infections. Also included was a lantern that had a warning to “not look directly at.” So, all of the Hello Kitty gifts where deadly in one way or another. But really, isn’t anything to do with Hello Kitty?
Our family has had a habit of wrapping gifts in bizarre ways. I've seen bizarre polyhedral shapes, boxes nested in boxes, and gifts wrapped in twine that has been spliced so there was no end to untie.
A 20 pound wheel of cheese (I used to be a much larger man who loved his cheese).
A Rubik’s Cube shaped like Homer Simpson.
My dad gave me Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders. I was 8 and my mom was furious. Dad and I played the heck out of it, though.
Halo biggest fan For all the artists at Bungie: Do any of you frequently go to figure drawing sessions to stay sharp on your traditional drawing skills?
Is this really a question about art? Or, is it more a question about naked people in our studio?
CoRaMo Where is the strangest place you have ever played a video game?
Like so many of you, I was waiting anxiously on the sidelines while Halo: ODST was preparing to drop. Through some magic wielded by the Hand of Urk, I vaulted to the front of a very long line and was the first kid in my zip code to play Firefight in the belly of a military transport vehicle. Moral to the story: Always be nice to your Community Manager. Beat that, Bungie Panel!
The Experience Music Project in Seattle during the Halo 2 launch party. The science fiction museum had only recently gone into the building, and the whole experience was pretty surreal and awesome.
At the Podiatrist, while I was having an ingrown toenail removed. I needed a distraction.
You mean like the backseat of a Volkswagen?
Backseat of a Volkswagen.
I played Inception – The App while I was in Erfoud, Morocco just to unlock the Africa chapter. My wife rolled her eyes, but the camels didn’t seem to mind.
On the set of a movie.
In a van heading across the country to get to PAX – part of a caravan called the Cross Country Super Trip. We wired it up to a TV that was fixed into the ceiling, and played it on our two day long trek.
I played Pokemon Silver in an unmarked van, in Ireland, stuck at a sheep crossing while thousands of fluffy things crossed the road for more than 15 minutes (true story).
Do iPhone games on the porcelain throne count?
To most of you, playing in an arcade is probably pretty strange. More people play video games on the toilet via their phones than play in arcades now.
With gaming on cell phones, it doesn’t get much more strange than gaming in a public restroom. I’m... not the only one that does that, right?
Some of you are sick. Suddenly, that line that forms outside the Bungie men’s room is much less a mystery. Pull your pants up and get back to work. You can launch birds out of slingshots on your own time.
coolmike699 Does Bungie do a secret Santa? Has anyone gotten anything really weird?
Our Secret Santas give presents to the people who need them the most. This year, our tree was decorated with dreams passed along to us from our friends at the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We love making dreams come true at Bungie – the weirder the better.
Duardo What was the best gift ever given to you?
I have everything I want in life: a gaming console, a patient wife who lets me spend a lot of time with it, and a clan of willing killers to carry me to victory. Bungie Panel, can you do a better job of celebrating the spirit of giving?
Not to get all sappy, but a couple years back, my wife gave me a pretty non-traditional Christmas present: a pregnancy test that read positive. Now, a few years earlier I would’ve freaked out; but timing is everything, and instead I was super excited to know we were expecting a little gamer of our own.
The generosity of my friends. I can be demanding and a bit eccentric/neurotic, but they are all super accommodating.
My life, by my mom and dad. (I know, suck up...)
My first thought was to say “my daughters.” Then, I realized they’re more like Trojans taking over my world: making me work harder to get them the best life I can, eating away at my idle time with child’s play and E rated games, pushing me to better myself and… Yeah, my daughters.
My family once commissioned a custom art piece from one of my favorite artists based on a fictional character of mine. The effort and subtlety needed to gather the information for the commission was as precious as the artwork itself.
The gift of laughter! Yeah, right! That’d be my original 8-bit NES with the Gold Zelda Cart.
My wife built me a cabinet with a mini-fridge, snack drawer, and movie theater style popcorn popper for my home theater room was pretty damned impressive last year.
The gift of life! Hahaha, no. In all seriousness, the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was the beginning of what got me here today.
Being able to work at Bungie.
Dethklok: Dethalbum II on vinyl.
Forrest Soderlind: Technical Artist
spartain ken 15 Do you guys ever think you would sell some Bungie-themed Christmas cards?
If you refresh the front page of our website, you can have one for free. There ain’t any cash in it, but it’s still a sincere expression of our love and devotion. Of all the gifts that we’re to receive in the coming days, very few will make us as happy as your unshakable friendship.
And, thus, the Sack is empty. With its closure, we bring to an end another year of community love. This next year promises to be a more exciting one. Between now and then, do take care of yourselves. May your travels by safe, and your holiday loot plentiful.
To all a good night.
Friendship of Mythic Proportions
Lean on me...
The Bungie Community is constantly astounding us with their creativity, and their solidarity. Recently, some ancients (who were playing Bungie games before some of their contemporaries were born) banded together to produce a piece of art that would steady a friend in need as he took steps toward a new challenge. Behold the intersection between passion for games and compassion for one's fellow gamer.
Miguel writes: Folks, here's a link to the whole Soulblighter Sword Cane saga, how it came to be, why we did it, etc. It all started back at the tail end of August (right before PAX Prime!) and is finally done now. The man has his uber-cane! Thanks of course to all of you for creating a wonderful environment for us to form such lasting friendships. Man, are we getting old.
Cheers to the big hearts at Bungie.org.
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Sightings: Floyd Mayweather's Official Fight After-Party and More at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Professional Boxing Champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather transformed REHAB at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas into The Money Team (TMT)’s official fight after-party headquarters on Sunday, Sept. 14.
Jamie Foxx and 2 Chainz were among the first to arrive at Las Vegas’ original dayclub. As the two entered the venue, DJ Whoo Kid blared Foxx’s “Blame It (On The Alcohol)” while DJ Envy hyped up the crowd. In honor of 2 Chainz’s birthday, DJ Whoo Kid played the rapper’s “Birthday Song.”
Shortly after, Mayweather took over the poolside stage with his entourage as partygoers cheered in his honor. The group immediately popped bottles of Rick Ross’ Luc Belaire Rosé Rare champagne before hip-hop artists Jeremih, Fabolous, Jamie Foxx and 2 Chainz took turns performing. Spotted on stage was Chief Executive Officer of Philthy Rich Records and President of TMT P-Reala; TMT official DJ Jay Bling; artists Cap1, K.O. McCoy,Lonny Bereal, Marques Houston, Migos, Red Café, Slug, Tank and Young Scrap; promoter Jas Prince; Mayweather Promotions boxer Luis Arias; and reality star Siya.
The party turned into an all-night affair as Migos headed inside for the ultimate fight weekend experience finale at Vanity Nightclub. The hip-hop trio hung out on stage for an hour and performed some of their biggest hits including “Versace,” “Hannah Montana,” Fight Night” and more.
Additional sightings on property include world-renowned DJ Kaskade and Teddy Riley of Blackstreet dining separately at Hard Rock Hotel’s premier dining destination 35 Steaks + Martinis on Saturday, Sept. 13, and retired professional boxer Oscar de la Hoya at The Joint onfor the WBA Heavyweight World Title fight Luis Ortiz vs. Lateef Kayode on Thursday, Sept. 11.
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If a woman has two wombs, can she get pregnant in both?
by Julia Layton
Problems with Double Wombs
A couple of months ago in Britain, three babies were born from two separate wombs -- inside the same woman.
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The anomaly can cause fertility problems because each uterus is only half the size it would normally be, making it difficult for a baby to fully develop and unlikely that a woman will be able to carry a baby -- let alone two or three -- to full term. There's just not enough room in there. Twenty-five percent of the time, a woman who is pregnant in both wombs simultaneously who makes it to 30 weeks will have to deliver prematurely, usually by cesarian section, before it gets so tight in each womb that the babies can't continue their growth. In most cases, neither womb can stretch enough to accommodate a full-term fetus.
This type of simultaneous pregnancy is quite different having twins from a single womb. In a case of a double pregnancy in two wombs, a woman can deliver the babies days, weeks or months apart since the wombs are totally separate. This can cause problems considering that a scheduled, premature cesarian section is a likely delivery method. Few obstetricians would want a woman to undergo abdominal surgery twice in a month. So if at least one baby has to be delivered via Cesarean section, the doctor will usually recommend delivering both babies at the same time. The result, in that case, is much like having twins -- the woman goes into the hospital and eventually leaves with two babies who are the same age.
According to BBC News, a woman in Brazil with uterus didelphys delivered two healthy babies, one from each womb, in May 2003; and in 2002, the news organization Xinhua reported on a similar case in China. With advances in medical technology, the odds of successfully delivering babies from simultaneous pregnancies in two wombs may be getting a lot better.
Ms. Kersey's three daughters were delivered seven weeks early by Cesarean section and spent two months in the hospital finishing their development. In December 2006, all three went home in good health with their parents.
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Maurice Hines Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth & Personal Life
By June 21, 2019
Quick Facts of Maurice Hines
Full NameMaurice Hines
Net Worth$6 Million
Date of Birth1943 /12 /13
NicknameMaurice
Marital StatusNot Known
BirthplaceNew York, The USA
EthnicityWhite
ProfessionActor, Director, Choreography
NationalityAmerican
Eye colourBlack
Hair colourBlack
BuildAverage
EducationJose Quintanos School
Online PresenceFacebook, Twitter
Maurice Hines is the older brother of the late singer, Gregory Hines as well as an American director, actor, singer, and tap-dance choreographer. He is known for co-directing and choreographing the national tour of musical biography, Satchmo, Havana Night in Cuba, and the all-Latino production of The Red Shoes.
As well as he is an actor and singer too. He is known for his acting in the films, The Cotton Club, Oops, The Equalizer, etc. If you want to know more about Maurice Hines bio and career, read the whole article.
Maurice Hines Bio
Multi-talented Maurice Hines was born on 13 December 1943 in New York, The USA to the parents Alma Iola and Maurice Robert Hines Sr. As a matter of fact, his birth name is Maurice Robert Hines Jr. Moreover, his father, Maurice Hines Sr. was a dancer, musician, and actor.
Likewise, his late brother, Gregory Hines was the lead singer of the rock band, Severance. He holds an American nationality and belongs to white ethnicity.
Maurice Hines
Source: Observer
Furthermore, he attended Jose Quintanos School. Likewise, he learned tap dancing at the Henry LeTang Dance Studio.
Maurice Hines Body Measurements
Hines is a handsome man with an average body structure as an actor and director. However, he has not revealed anything about his height, weight, and body measurements like shoe size, dress size, etc until now. Besides his body measurements, he got black eyes as well as black hair.
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Furthermore, Maurice age is 76 years as of 2019. Despite being in his late 70s, he still looks handsome like he used to be in his early 20s and 30s.
Maurice Hines Career
Hines started his career by debuting in his first Broadway production, The Girl in Pink Tights in 1954. Likewise, being a professional choreographer, he co-directed and choreographed the national tour of musical biography, Satchmo, Havana Night in Cuba, and the all-Latino production of The Red Shoes.
Furthermore, his film debut was The Cotton Club. Likewise, he also guest-starred on the gay comedy, Will & Grace. Moreover, he conceived, choreographed, and directed Yo Alice in 2000. Further, he directed the musical, Ella, First Lady of Song. He also starred in the films like The Cotton Club, Oops, The Equalizer.
Maurice Hines Personal Life
Not to mention, the 76 years old actor is gay. He has always been out as gay and has never tried to hide it once. Being gay doesn’t mean that he is not in a relationship or married but he is keeping his love life under wraps. Once he mentioned that he first dated a football buddy from Gregory.
Beside it, the choreographer hasn’t stated anything about his gay relationships. But as he is at the age of 74, Maurice might be a married man. However, there is no guaranteed information on his married status, whether he is married, single or in a relationship.
Maurice Hines Net Worth
Maurice Hines is an American multi-talented personality. He has an estimated net worth of $6 million as of 2019. However, the actual figure for his annual career earning is still unknown.
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Not to mention, the career that spanned over 4-decades he made this big chunk of his 7-figure fortune from acting, dance choreographing and singing career. Likewise, he adds some of the money to his net worth through brand endorsements, commercials, and campaigns. However, there is no information about his exact salary and income.
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Intimacy During and After Transgender Transition
By Addi Stewart
What limit is too far for someone to seek their own desires? We are going to hopefully, eventually live in a world where certain privileged folks from certain insulated industries aren’t allowed to manipulate and exploit and abuse others for the sake of their personal pleasure and sexual satisfaction, and the borders and limits of their desires and attempted intentions will remain curtailed and controlled to civilized levels.
Some people, I would sincerely bet most of the dirty money in the world upon them being primarily heterosexual (but not absolutely all, as anyone can be a criminal and hurt another person, even trans folks… but they are far more rare. I digress!) will push their every possibility to capture sexual moments from another.
The vast majority of trans people who I’ve encountered have not been anywhere near the typical social standard of the average male, as far as identifying as the initiator of sexual circumstance.
I don’t know how many women are the people who instigate and emotionally engage with men (or trans, or women), but I know women have their own internal complications which require their own hyper focus and attempts at pseudo-comprehension when arranging situations with other women!
I know women instigate intimacy and emotional energy when they feel MOST safe to do so, and when they trust that it will not be a dysfunctional or damaging situation for them. But we are still probably centuries away from ACTUAL energetic equality of instigation, and considering climate change is going to wipe out whatever we have left of the planet in the next fifty years, we probably won’t create sexual initiation equality in our civilization’s lifetime. But we can still TRY!
I have a trans lover, and they have just finished a particular stage of their transition. They have taken hormones for three months now and have decided to be intimate again. They are letting people in the public know about their transitional period, and what new name and pronouns they would like to be known as.
They let me know that they were interested in reconnecting intimately, and I was at a crossroads that I’ve never known before. I had to ask myself where I was, how I felt emotionally and sexually. I’ve had sex with them, but before the transition. I have been with someone who transitioned, but I didn’t re-engage with them after they transitioned. We only hung out as friends, as they didn’t want to continue our relationship.
But now I AM with someone who does want to re-engage with me after their transition, and I’m not scared, but I’m just wondering what the protocol is for such a situation. I definitely am a believer in “follow your heart and trust your instincts” but that doesn’t answer all the questions that a person might have about safety and what other collective human wisdom has been gained and shared in the past from other folks who have been in such similar scenarios! I don’t know.
I don’t want to make them self-conscious or delay their desires for any unnecessary reason, but at the same time I have to respect my innocence in the moment, and the fact that I don’t want to make an irrational decision by rushing myself. I feel ready, but I don’t know until l’m in the moment. I feel ready and willing and able, but if my partner is more able, willing, and ready than I am, what will that do to our relationship?
Guess there’s only one way to find out! I’m happy they feel confident enough to initiate a new chapter of passion with me though! Stories to come…
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Jeunesse is a proud member of the Direct Selling Association (DSA). The DSA is an organization committed to the highest ethical business standards for the direct selling channel and to the customers their member companies serve every day. Their Code of Ethics is a robust series of policies that every DSA member agrees to follow as condition of membership.
Being a member of the DSA ensures accountability to policies that protect independent salespeople and consumers and encourages the entire marketplace for direct selling to meet these high standards.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding the DSA Code of Ethics.
If you feel that Jeunesse, or an Independent Distributor of Jeunesse, has failed to meet these requirements, please send your concerns to [email protected] and you will be contacted shortly by our appointed DSA Code Responsibility Officer.
If you are unsatisfied with the resolution provided, you may file your complaint with the DSA.
Visit the DSA web site to file a code complaint.
Please use the links below to learn more about the Direct Selling industry:
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Explanatory provisions in italics
The Direct Selling Association (“DSA”), recognizing that companies engaged in direct selling assume certain responsibilities toward consumers arising out of the personal-contact method of distribution of their products and services, hereby sets forth the basic fair and ethical principles and practices to which member companies will continue to adhere to in the conduct of their business.
1. Deceptive or Unlawful Consumer or Recruiting Practices
No member company or independent salesperson for a member company shall engage in any deceptive, false, unethical or unlawful consumer or recruiting practice. Member companies shall ensure that no statements, promises or testimonials are made that are likely to mislead consumers or prospective independent salespeople.
Member companies and their independent salespeople must comply with all requirements of law. While this Code does not restate all legal obligations, compliance with all pertinent laws by member companies and their independent salespeople is a condition of acceptance by and continuing membership in DSA.
Member companies shall conduct their activities toward other member companies in compliance with this Code and all pertinent laws.
Information provided by member companies and their independent salespeople to prospective or current independent salespeople concerning the opportunity and related rights and obligations shall be accurate and complete. Member companies and their independent salespeople shall not make any factual representation to prospective independent salespeople that cannot be verified or make any promise that cannot be fulfilled. Member companies and their independent salespeople shall not present any selling opportunity to any prospective independent salesperson in a false, deceptive or misleading manner.
Member companies and their independent salespeople shall not induce a person to purchase products or services based upon the representation that a consumer can recover all or part of the purchase price by referring other consumers, if such reductions or recovery are violative of applicable referral sales laws.
Member companies shall provide to their independent salespeople either a written agreement to be signed by both the member company and the independent salesperson, or a written statement containing the essential details of the relationship between the independent salesperson and the member company. Member companies shall inform their independent salespeople of their legal obligations, including their responsibility to handle any applicable licenses, registrations and taxes.
Member companies shall provide their independent salespeople with periodic accounts including, as applicable, sales, purchases, details of earnings, commissions, bonuses, discounts, deliveries, cancellations and other relevant data, in accordance with the member company’s arrangement with the independent salesperson. All monies due shall be paid and any withholdings made in a commercially reasonable manner.
Independent salespeople shall respect any lack of commercial experience of consumers. Independent salespeople shall not abuse the trust of individual consumers, or exploit a consumer’s age, illness, handicap, lack of understanding or unfamiliarity with a language.
1. This section does not bring “proselytizing” or “salesforce raiding” disputes under the Code’s jurisdiction, unless such disputes involve allegations of deceptive, unethical or unlawful recruiting practices or behaviors aimed at potential salespeople. In those cases, the section applies. As used in this section, “unethical” means violative of the U.S. DSA Code of Ethics.
The DSA Code Administrator appointed pursuant to Section C.1 (“Administrator”) has the authority to make a determination of what is a deceptive, unlawful or unethical consumer or recruiting practice under the Code using prevailing legal standards as a guide. Compliance with any particular law, regulation or DSA Code of Ethics provision is not a defense to a determination by the Administrator that a practice is deceptive, unlawful or unethical. For example, in a sale to a consumer, compliance with the Federal Trade Commission Cooling-Off Rule does not prevent the Administrator from making a determination that a particular sales practice is deceptive, unlawful or unethical and that a refund or compensation is required.
2. Products, Services and Promotional Materials
The offer of products or services for sale by member companies and their independent salespeople shall be accurate and truthful as to price, grade, quality, make, value, performance, quantity, currency of model and availability. All product claims made by member companies and their independent salespeople must be substantiated by competent and reliable evidence and must not be misleading. A consumer’s order for products and services shall be fulfilled in a timely manner.
Neither member companies nor their independent salespeople shall make misleading comparisons of another company’s direct selling opportunity, products or services. Any comparison must be based on facts that can be objectively and adequately substantiated by competent and reliable evidence. Neither member companies nor their independent salespeople shall denigrate any other member company, business, product or service – directly or by implication – in a false or misleading manner and shall not take unfair advantage of the goodwill attached to the trade name and symbol of any company, business, product or service.
Promotional literature, advertisements and mailings shall not contain product descriptions, claims, photos or illustrations that are false, deceptive or misleading. (Promotional literature shall contain the name and address or telephone number of the member company and may include the telephone number of the individual independent salesperson).
Independent salespeople shall offer consumers accurate information regarding: price, credit terms; terms of payment; a cooling-off period, including return policies; terms of guarantee; after-sales service; and delivery dates. Independent salespeople shall give understandable and accurate answers to questions from consumers. To the extent claims are made with respect to products, independent salespeople shall make only those product claims authorized by the member company.
1. and 2. These sections cover communications about your own company or another company. For example, this section covers misleading statements made by an independent salesperson for company A about company B and/or its products to consumers or prospective independent salespeople.
3. Terms of Sale
A written order or receipt shall be delivered to the consumer at or prior to the time of the initial sale. In the case of a sale made through the mail, telephone, Internet, or other non-face-to-face means, a copy of the order form shall have been previously provided, be included in the initial order, or be provided in printable or downloadable form through the Internet. The order form must set forth clearly, legibly and unambiguously:
Terms and conditions of sale, including the total amount the consumer will be required to pay, including all interest, service charges and fees, and other costs and expenses as required by federal and state law;
Identity of the member company and the independent salesperson, and contain the full name, permanent address and telephone number of the member company or the independent salesperson, and all material terms of the sale; and
Terms of a guarantee or a warranty, details and any limitations of after-sales service, the name and address of the guarantor, the length of the guarantee, and the remedial action available to the consumer. Alternatively, this information may be provided with other accompanying literature provided with the product or service.
Member companies and their salespeople shall offer a written, clearly stated cooling off period permitting the consumer to withdraw from a purchase order within a minimum of three business days from the date of the purchase transaction and receive a full refund of the purchase price.
Member companies and their independent salespeople offering a right of return, whether or not conditioned upon certain events, shall provide it in writing.
4. Warranties and Guarantees
The terms of any warranty or guarantee offered by the seller in connection with the sale shall be furnished to the buyer in a manner that fully conforms to federal and state warranty and guarantee laws and regulations. The manufacturer, distributor and/or seller shall fully and promptly perform in accordance with the terms of all warranties and guarantees offered to consumers.
5. Identification and Privacy
At the beginning of sales presentations independent salespeople shall truthfully and clearly identify themselves, their company, the nature of their company’s products or services, and the reason for the solicitation. Contact with the consumer shall be made in a polite manner and during reasonable hours. A demonstration or sales presentation shall stop upon the consumer’s request.
Member companies and independent salespeople shall take appropriate steps to safeguard the protection of all private information provided by a consumer, independent salesperson or prospective independent salesperson.
6. Pyramid Schemes
For the purpose of this Code, pyramid or endless chain schemes shall be considered actionable under this Code. The DSA Code Administrator (appointed pursuant to Section C.1) shall determine whether such pyramid or endless chain schemes constitute a violation of this Code in accordance with applicable federal, state and/or local law or regulation.
6. The definition of an “illegal pyramid” is based upon existing standards of law as reflected in In the matter of Amway, 93 FTC 618 (1979) and the anti-pyramid statutes of various states. In accordance with these laws, member companies shall remunerate independent salespeople primarily on the basis of sales of products, including services, purchased by any person for actual use or consumption. Such remuneration may include compensation based on purchases that are not simply incidental to the purchase of the right to participate in the program. See Section 9 for further clarification.
7. Inventory Purchases
Any member company with a marketing plan that involves selling products directly or indirectly to independent salespeople shall adopt and communicate a policy, in its recruiting literature, sales manual, or contract with an independent salesperson, that the company will repurchase on reasonable commercial terms currently marketable inventory, in the possession of that salesperson and purchased by that salesperson for resale prior to the date of termination of the independent salesperson’s business relationship with the company. For purposes of this Code, “reasonable commercial terms” shall include the repurchase of marketable inventory within twelve (12) months from the salesperson’s date of purchase at not less than 90 percent of the salesperson’s original net cost less appropriate set offs and legal claims, if any. For purposes of this Code, products shall not be considered “currently marketable” if returned for repurchase after the products’ commercially reasonable usable or shelf life period has passed; nor shall products be considered “currently marketable” if the company clearly discloses to salespeople prior to purchase that the products are seasonal, discontinued, or special promotion products and are not subject to the repurchase obligation.
Any member company with a marketing plan that requires independent salespeople to purchase company-produced promotional materials, sales aids or kits shall adopt and communicate a policy in its recruiting literature, sales manual or contract with the independent salespeople that the member company will repurchase these items on reasonable commercial terms. Any member company with a marketing plan that provides its independent salespeople with any financial benefit related to the sales of company-produced promotional materials, sales aids or kits shall prominently state and communicate in its recruiting literature, sales manual or contract with the independent salespeople that the member company will repurchase, on reasonable commercial terms, currently marketable company-produced promotional materials, sales aids or kits. A member company shall clearly state in its recruiting literature, sales manual or contract with the independent salespeople if any items not otherwise covered by this Section are ineligible for repurchase by the member company.
The DSA Code Administrator appointed pursuant to Section C.1, upon finding a member company has engaged in false, misleading or deceptive recruiting practices, may employ any appropriate remedy to ensure any complainant shall not incur significant financial loss as a result of such prohibited behavior, including but not limited to requiring such member company to repurchase any and all inventory, promotional materials, sales aids and/or kits which a complainant has purchased.
7a. The purpose of the buyback is to eliminate the potential harm of “inventory loading;” i.e., the practice of loading up salespeople with inventory they are unable or unlikely to be able to sell or use within a reasonable time period. Inventory loading has historically been accomplished by giving sellers financial incentives for sales without regard to ultimate sales to or use by actual consumers. The repurchase provisions of the Code are meant to deter inventory loading and to protect distributors from financial harm that might result from inventory loading.
“Inventory” is considered to include both tangible and intangible product; i.e., both goods and services. “Current marketability” of inventory shall be determined on the basis of the specific condition of the product. Factors to be considered by the DSA Code Administrator (appointed pursuant to Section C.1) when determining “current marketability” are condition of the goods and whether or not the products have been used or opened.
Changes in marketplace demand, product formulation, or labeling are not sufficient grounds for a claim by the company that a product is no longer “marketable.” Nor does the ingestible nature of certain products limit the current marketability of those products. Government regulation that may arguably restrict or limit the ultimate resalability of a product does not limit its “current marketability” for purposes of the Code.
State statutes mandate that certain buyback provisions required by law must be described in an independent salesperson’s contract. While acknowledging that the contract is probably the most effective place for such information, the DSA Code allows for placement of the provision in either “its recruiting literature, sales manual or contract.” Regardless, the disclosure must be in writing and be clearly stated. Wherever disclosed, the buyback requirement shall be construed as a contractual obligation of the company.
A member company shall not place any unreasonable or procedural impediments in the way of salespeople seeking to sell back products to the member company.
The buyback process should be as efficient as possible and designed to facilitate buyback of products. The buyback provisions apply to all terminating independent salespeople who otherwise qualify for such repurchase, including independent salespeople who are not new to a particular company, or those who have left a company to sell for another company.
The buyback policy should be published in multiple locations and formats, and stated in a manner understood easily by a typical independent salesperson. It should be the goal of each member company to ensure that the typical independent salesperson is aware of the company’s buyback policy. Therefore, each member company should undertake its best efforts to ensure the effective communication of the policy.
7b. Sales aids, kits and promotional materials, while not inventory or necessarily intended for resale, are subject to the repurchase requirement if a member company requires their purchase or if there is a financial incentive associated with their sale because “loading” of these items can cause the same harm to plan participants as loading of “inventory.”
With respect to the final paragraph of Section 7b., disclosure of an item’s eligibility or ineligibility for the buyback is key. Provided that repurchase is not required by this Code provision, for those items a member company chooses not to repurchase, the member company should clearly and conspicuously disclose to the independent salesperson or prospective independent salesperson that the items are not subject to the repurchase requirement. Under such disclosure, a refusal to take an item back will not constitute a violation providing the member is acting in good faith and not attempting to evade the repurchase requirement.
This Code provision is not intended to endorse marketing plans that provide financial benefits to independent salespeople for the sale of company-produced promotional materials, sales aids or kits (“tools”). While these materials can be important to individual sellers, the Code requires that member companies remunerate independent salespeople primarily on the basis of sales of products, including services, purchased by any person for actual use and consumption (See Code Section 6 and accompanying explanatory provision) and not on the sale of tools. In instances when some financial benefit is provided to an individual independent salesperson based on the sale of company-produced promotional materials, sales aids or kits, and is not otherwise in violation of the Code, this Section requires that the tools be repurchased under commercially reasonable terms.
8. Earnings Representations
The following shall be considered “earnings representations” under this Code:
Any oral, written or visual claim that conveys, expressly or by implication:
A specific level or range of actual or potential sales; or
Gross or net income or profits, including but not limited to representations that either explicitly or implicitly suggest that lifestyle purchases – including homes, vehicles, vacations and the like – are related to income earned.
Any statement, representation or hypothetical scenario from which a prospective independent salesperson could reasonably infer that he/she will earn a minimum level of income;
Any chart, table or mathematical calculation demonstrating possible income, actual or potential sales, or gross or net profits based upon a combination of variables;
Marketing materials or advertising explicitly describing or promising potential income amounts, or material-based lifestyles of independent salespeople;
Any award or announcement of compensation describing the earnings of any current or past salesperson. A company’s sales incentive awards, trips or meetings, and/or commissions, overrides, bonuses or other compensation, shall not be considered earnings representations unless they are accompanied by express indication of their value.
Member companies must comply with, and obligate their independent salespeople to also comply with, the following standards:
Earnings representations and sales figures must be truthful, accurate, and presented in a manner that is not false, deceptive or misleading.
Current and prospective independent salespeople must be provided with sufficient information to understand that:
Actual earnings can vary significantly depending upon time committed, skill level and other factors;
Not everyone will achieve the represented level of income; and
Such amounts are before expenses, if any.
Current and prospective independent salespeople must be provided with sufficient information to enable a reasonable evaluation of the opportunity to earn income.
If a specific independent salesperson’s commission or bonus payments are included in an earnings representation, any distributions made for those payments to others in the sales organization must be disclosed or deducted from the figure(s) used.
Any sales and earnings representations must be documented and substantiated. Member companies and their independent salespeople must maintain such documentation and substantiation, making it available to the Administrator upon written request.
Industry-wide – including DSA-produced – financial, earnings or performance information cannot be used as the primary source in documenting or substantiating a member company’s or independent salesperson’s representations. Such information can, however, be used in a general manner.
In assessing whether an earnings representation violates this section of the Code, the Administrator shall consider all relevant facts and information, including but not limited to the factors outlined in this section.
8. There is ample legal precedent in the form of FTC decisions to afford guidance on the subject of earnings representations. While not controlling, these precedents should be used by the Administrator in making determinations as to the substantiation of a member company’s earnings claims.
The Code’s simple prohibition of misrepresentations was intended, in part, to avoid unduly encumbering start-up member companies that have little or no actual earnings history with their compensation plan or established member companies that are testing or launching new compensation plans. The prohibition approach is meant to require that member companies in these circumstances need only ensure that their promotional literature and public statements clearly indicate that the compensation plan is new and that any charts, illustrations and stated examples of income under the plan are potential in nature and not based upon the actual performance of any individual(s).
9. Inventory Loading
A member company shall not require or encourage an independent salesperson to purchase inventory in an amount which unreasonably exceeds that which can be expected to be resold and/or consumed by the independent salesperson within a reasonable period of time.
Member companies shall take clear and reasonable steps to ensure that independent salespeople are consuming, using or reselling the products and services purchased.
It shall be considered an unfair and deceptive recruiting practice for a member company or independent salesperson to require or encourage an independent salesperson to purchase unreasonable amounts of inventory or sales aids. The Administrator may employ any appropriate remedy to ensure any individual salesperson shall not incur significant financial loss as a result of such prohibited behavior.
9. See, Code Explanatory Section 7a. regarding inventory loading.
This provision should be construed in light of the regulatory admonition that commissions be generated by purchases that are not simply incidental to the purchase of the right to participate in the program (see Federal Trade Commission 2004 Advisory Opinion Letter to DSA.) Member companies that implement procedures demonstrating that salespeople are purchasing the product for resale, for their own use/ consumption (i.e., “self-consumption,” “personal consumption” or internal consumption”) or for other legitimate purposes will be better able to meet the requirements of Section 9. The Code recognizes this as a long-standing and accepted practice in direct selling and does not prohibit compensation based on the purchases of salespeople for personal use.
Further, the Code does not set forth specific standards or requirements that a minimum level of sales take place outside of the salesforce.
10. Payment of Fees
Neither member companies nor their independent salespeople shall ask individuals to assume unreasonably high entrance fees, training fees, franchise fees, fees for promotional materials or other fees related solely to the right to participate in the member company’s business. Any fees charged to become an independent salesperson shall relate directly to the value of materials, products or services provided in return.
10. High entrance fees can be an element of pyramid schemes, in which individuals are encouraged to expend large upfront costs, without receiving product of like value. These fees then become the mechanism driving the pyramid and placing participants at risk of financial harm. Some state laws have requirements that fees be returned similar to the repurchase provisions delineated in Code Section 7a. The Code eliminates the harm of large fees by prohibiting unreasonably high fees. The Administrator is empowered to determine when a fee is “unreasonably high.” For example, if a refund is offered for only a portion of an entrance fee, to cover what could be described as inventory, and there is nothing else given or received for the balance of the entrance fee, such as a training program, that portion of the entrance fee may be deemed to be unreasonably high by the Administrator. This Code section reinforces the provisions in Section B. Responsibilities and Duties requiring member companies to address the Code violations of their independent salespeople.
11. Training and Materials
Member companies shall provide adequate training to enable independent salespeople to operate ethically.
Member companies shall prohibit their independent salespeople from marketing or requiring the purchase by others of any materials that are inconsistent with the member company’s policies and procedures.
Independent salespeople selling member company-approved promotional or training materials, whether in hard copy or electronic form, shall:
Use only materials that comply with the same standards used by the member company,
Not make the purchase of such materials a requirement of other independent salespeople,
Provide such materials at not more than the price at which similar material is available generally in the marketplace, and
Offer a written return policy that is the same as the return policy of the member company the independent salesperson represents.
Member companies shall take diligent, reasonable steps to ensure that promotional or training materials produced by their independent salespeople comply with the provisions of this Code and are not false, misleading or deceptive.
B. Responsibilities and Duties
1. Prompt Investigation and No Independent Contractor Defense
Member companies shall establish, publicize and implement complaint handling procedures to ensure prompt resolution of all complaints.
In the event any consumer shall complain that the independent salesperson offering for sale the products or services of a member company has engaged in any improper course of conduct pertaining to the sales presentation of its goods or services, the member company shall promptly investigate the complaint and shall take such steps as it may find appropriate and necessary under the circumstances to cause the redress of any wrongs that its investigation discloses to have been committed.
Member companies will be considered responsible for Code violations by their independent salespeople where the Administrator finds, after considering all the facts, that a violation of the Code has occurred. For the purposes of this Code, in the interest of fostering consumer protection, member companies shall voluntarily not raise the independent contractor status of salespersons distributing their products or services under its trademark or trade name as a defense against Code violation allegations, provided, however, that such action shall not be construed to be a waiver of the member companies’ right to raise such defense under any other circumstance.
Member companies should be diligent in creating awareness among their employees and/or the independent salespeople marketing the member company’s products or services about the member company’s obligations under the Code. No member company shall in any way attempt to persuade, induce or coerce another company to breach this Code, and an attempt to induce a breach of this Code is considered a violation of the Code.
Independent salespeople are not bound directly by this Code, but as a condition of participation in a member company’s distribution system, shall be required by the member company with whom they are affiliated to adhere to rules of conduct meeting the standards of this Code.
This Code is not law but its obligations require a level of ethical behavior from member companies and independent salespeople that is consistent with applicable legal requirements. Failure to comply with this Code does not create any civil law responsibility or liability. When a company leaves the DSA membership, a company is no longer bound by this Code. However, the provisions of this Code remain applicable to events or transactions that occurred during the time a company was a member of DSA.
2. Required Code Communication
All member companies are required to publicize the DSA Code of Ethics and the process for filing a Code complaint to their independent salespeople and consumers. At a minimum, member companies must have one of the following: 1. an inclusion on the member company’s web site of the DSA Code of Ethics with a step-by-step explanation as to how to file a complaint; or 2. a prominent link from the member company’s web site to the DSA Code of Ethics web page, with a separate mention of, or separate link to, the Code complaint filing process; or 3. an inclusion of the member company’s Code of Ethics and its complaint process on its website with an explanation of how a complainant may appeal to the Administrator in the event the complainant is not satisfied with the resolution under the member company’s Code of Ethics or complaint process, with a reference to the DSA Code of Ethics web page.
All member companies, after submission of their program, are required to state annually, along with paying their dues, that the program remains effective or indicate any change.
2a. The links should be clear and conspicuous. The location of the link on the member company’s website should be prominent so as to be accessible and visible to sales people and the consumer; member companies should place the link on a web page that is commonly accessed by salespeople and consumers. Inclusion of statements, such as, “We are proud members of the DSA. To view the Code of Ethics by which we abide please click here,” and “To file a complaint, please contact us at [company email and/or phone number]. If you are unsatisfied with the resolution, you may escalate your complaint to the DSA by clicking here,” are also ideal. Member companies should specifically link to either www.dsa.org/consumerprotection/Code and www.dsa.org/consumerprotection/filing-a-code-complaint.
3. Code Responsibility Officer
Each member company and pending member company is required to designate a DSA Code Responsibility Officer. The Code Responsibility Officer is responsible for facilitating compliance with the Code by his or her company and responding to inquiries by the DSA Code Administrator appointed pursuant to Section C.1. He or she will also serve as the primary contact at the member company for communicating the principles of the DSA Code of Ethics to the member company’s independent salespeople, employees, consumers and the general public.
4. Extraterritorial Effect
Each member company shall comply with the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations’ Code of Conduct with regard to direct selling activities outside of the United States to the extent that the WFDSA Code is not inconsistent with U.S. law, unless those activities fall under the jurisdiction of the code of conduct of another country’s DSA to which the member company also belongs.
C. Administration
1. Interpretation and Execution
The Board of Directors of the DSA shall appoint a Code Administrator (“Administrator”) to serve for a fixed term to be set by the Board prior to appointment. The Board shall have the authority to discharge the Administrator for cause only. The Board shall provide sufficient authority to enable the Administrator to properly discharge the responsibilities entrusted to the Administrator under this Code. The Administrator will be responsible directly and solely to the Board.
2. Code Administrator
The Administrator shall be a person of recognized integrity, knowledgeable about the industry, and of a stature that will command respect by the industry and from the public. He or she shall appoint a staff adequate and competent to assist in the discharge of the Administrator’s duties. During the term of office, neither the Administrator nor any member of the staff shall be an officer, director, employee, or substantial stockholder in any member of the DSA. The Administrator shall disclose all holdings of stock in any member company prior to appointment and shall also disclose any subsequent purchases of such stock to the Board of Directors. The Administrator shall have the same rights of indemnification as the Directors and Officers have under the bylaws of the DSA.
The Administrator shall establish, publish and implement transparent complaint handling procedures to ensure prompt resolution of all complaints.
The Administrator shall review and determine all charges against member companies, affording those companies an opportunity to be heard fully. The Administrator shall have the power to originate any proceedings and shall at all times have the full cooperation of all member companies.
3. Procedure
The Administrator shall have the sole authority to determine whether a violation of the Code has occurred. The Administrator shall answer as promptly as possible all queries relating to the Code and its application, and, when appropriate, may suggest, for consideration by the Board of Directors, Code amendments, or other implementation procedures to make the Code more effective.
If, in the judgment of the Administrator, a complaint is beyond the Administrator’s scope of expertise or resources, the Administrator may decline to exercise jurisdiction over the complaint and may recommend to the complainant another forum in which the complaint can be addressed.
The Administrator shall undertake to maintain and improve all relations with better business bureaus and other organizations, both private and public, with a view toward improving the industry’s relations with the public and receiving information from such organizations relating to the industry’s sales activities.
D. DSA Code of Ethics Enforcement Procedures
1. Receipt of Complaint
Upon receipt of a bona fide complaint from a bona fide consumer, the Administrator shall forward a copy of the complaint, to the accused member company together with a letter notifying the company that a preliminary investigation of a specified possible violation is being conducted and requesting the member company’s cooperation in supplying necessary information and documentation. If the Administrator has reason to believe that a member company has violated the Code, even if a written complaint has not been received, then the Administrator shall provide written notice to the member company stating the basis for the Administrator’s belief that a violation has occurred. The Administrator shall honor request by complainants for confidential treatment of their identity. The subject matter of a complaint will not be kept confidential.
2. Cooperation with the Code Administrator
In the event a member company refuses to cooperate with the Administrator and/or refuses to supply necessary information and documentation, the Administrator shall serve upon the member company, by certified mail, a notice affording the member company an opportunity to request Appeals Review Panel to evaluate whether its membership in the DSA should not be terminated. In the event the member company fails to request a review by an Appeals Review Panel pursuant to Section D.5. below, the DSA Board of Directors may vote to suspend or terminate the membership of the member company.
3. Investigation and Disposition Procedure
The Administrator shall conduct a preliminary investigation, making such investigative contacts as are necessary to reach an informed decision as to the alleged Code violation. If the Administrator determines, after the informal investigation, that there is no need for further action or that the Code violation allegation lacks merit, the investigation and administrative action shall terminate and the complaining party shall be so notified.
The Administrator may, at his discretion, remedy an alleged Code violation through informal, oral and written communication with the accused member company.
If the Administrator determines that there are violations of such a nature, scope or frequency that the best interests of consumers, the DSA, and/or the direct selling industry require remedial action, the member company shall be notified. The reasoning and facts that resulted in the decision as well as the nature of the remedy under Section E.1. shall be included in the Administrator’s notice. The notice shall also offer the member company an opportunity to consent to the suggested without the necessity of a Section D.4. appeal. If the member company desires to dispose of the matter in this manner, it will within 20 calendar days advise the Administrator, in writing. The letter to the Administrator may state that the member company’s willingness to consent does not constitute an admission or belief that the Code has been violated.
4. Appeals Review Panel
If a member company has submitted a request for review pursuant to Section D.2. or an appeal of the Administrator’s remedial action pursuant to Section D.3., an Appeals Review Panel consisting of three representatives from active member companies shall be selected by the Executive Committee of DSA’s Board of Directors within 20 calendar days. The three member companies shall be selected in a manner that represents a cross-section of the industry. When possible, none of the three shall sell a product that specifically competes with the member company that is seeking the Appeals Review Panel (hereinafter “the Appellant”), and every effort shall be made to avoid conflicts in selecting the Panel. If for any reason, a member of the Panel cannot fulfill his or her duties, the Chairman of the Board of DSA can replace that person with a new appointment. The representatives serving on the Appeals Review Panel shall during their time on the Panel have the same rights of indemnification the Directors and Officers have under the bylaws of the DSA.
5. Appeals Review Procedure
A member company must make a request to convene an Appeals Review Panel in writing to the Administrator within 20 calendar days of the Administrator’s notice of the member company’s failure to comply or the Administrator’s recommended remedial action. Within 10 calendar days of receiving such a request, the Administrator shall notify the Chairman of the Board of DSA. The Executive Committee then shall select the three-person Panel as set forth in Section D.4.
As soon as the Panel has been selected, the Administrator shall inform the Appellant of the names of the panelists. Within 14 calendar days of that notification, the Administrator shall send a copy of the Complaint and all relevant documents, including an explanation of the basis of the decision to impose remedial action, to the panelists with copies to the Appellant. Upon receipt of such information, the Appellant shall have 14 calendar days to file with the Panel its reasons for arguing that remedial action should not be imposed along with any additional documents that are relevant. Copies of that information shall be provided to the Administrator, who can provide additional information as the Administrator decides is necessary or useful to the Panel and the Appellant.
Once the information has been received by the panelists from both the Administrator and the Appellant, the Panel will complete its review within 30 calendar days or as soon thereafter as practicable. If the review pertains to whether the Appellant’s membership in the DSA should be terminated, the Panel shall decide whether the member company’s failure to work with the Administrator justifies suspending or terminating the Appellant’s membership in the DSA. If the review pertains to the Administrator’s suggested remedial action, the Panel shall decide whether the Administrator’s decision to impose remedial action was reasonable under all of the facts and circumstances involved and shall either confirm the Administrator’s decision, overrule it, or impose a lesser sanction under Section E. The Panel shall be free to contact the Administrator, the Appellant, and any other persons who may be relevant, in writing as deemed appropriate. A decision by the Panel shall be final and shall be promptly communicated both to the Administrator and the Appellant. The costs involved in the appeal such as costs of photocopying, telephone, fax, and mailing, shall be borne by the Appellant.
E. Powers of the Administrator
1. Remedies
If pursuant to the investigation provided for in Section D.3., the Administrator determines that the accused member company has committed a Code violation or violations, the Administrator is hereby empowered to recommend any appropriate remedies, either individually or concurrently, including but not limited to the following:
Complete restitution to the complainant of monies paid for the accused member company’s products, promotional materials, sales aids and/or kits that were the subject of the Code complaint;
Replacement or repair of any of the accused member company’s product that was the source of the Code complaint;
Payment of a voluntary contribution to a special assessment fund that shall be used for purposes of publicizing and disseminating the Code and related information. The contribution may range up to $1,000 per violation of the Code;
Submission to the Administrator of a written commitment to abide by the Code in future transactions and to exercise due diligence to assure there will be no recurrence of the practice leading to the subject Code complaint; and/or
Cancellation of orders, return of products purchased, cancellation or termination of the contractual relationship with the independent salesperson or other remedies.
2. Case Closed
Once the Administrator determines that there has been compliance with all imposed remedies in a particular case, the complaint shall be considered closed.
3. Refusal to Comply
If a member company refuses to comply voluntarily with any remedy imposed by the Administrator and has not requested a review by an Appeals Review Panel, the DSA Board of Directors, or designated part thereof, may conclude that the member company should be suspended or terminated from membership in the DSA.
4. Appeal for Reinstatement after Suspension or Termination
If the DSA Board of Directors, or designated part thereof, suspends or terminates a member company pursuant to the provisions of this Code, the DSA shall notify the member company of such a decision by certified mail. A suspended member company, after at least 90 calendar days following that notice, and a terminated member company, after at least one year following that notice, may request the opportunity to have its suspension or termination reviewed by an Appeals Review Panel, which may in its discretion recommend that the Board of Directors reinstate membership.
5. Referral to State or Federal Agency
In the event a member company is suspended or terminated by the DSA Board of Directors, or designated part thereof, pursuant to the provisions of this Code, the DSA shall inform the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) of such suspension or termination and shall, if requested by the FTC, submit any relevant data concerning the basis for suspension or termination.
F. Restrictions
1. Conferring with Others
At no time during an investigation or the hearing of charges against a member company shall the Administrator or member of an Appeals Review Panel confer with anyone concerning the alleged violation(s) of the Code, except as provided herein and as may be necessary to conduct the investigation and hold a hearing. At no time during the investigation or the Appeals Review Panel process shall the Administrator or a member of the Appeals Review Panel confer with a competitor of the member company alleged to be in violation of the Code, except when it may be necessary to call a competitor concerning the facts, in which case the competitor shall be contacted only for the purpose of discussing the facts. At no time shall a competitor participate in the Administrator’s or in an Appeals Review Panel’s disposition of a matter.
2. Documents
Upon request by the Administrator to any member company, all documents directly relating to an alleged violation shall be delivered to the Administrator. Any information that is identified as proprietary by the producing party shall be held in confidence. Whenever the Administrator, either by his own determination or pursuant to a decision by an Appeals Review Panel, closes an investigation, all documents shall either be destroyed or returned, as may be deemed appropriate by the Administrator, except to the extent necessary for defending a legal challenge to the Administrator’s or Appeals Review Panel’s handling of a matter, or for submitting relevant data concerning a complaint to a local, state or federal agency. At no time during proceedings under this Code shall the Administrator or a member of an Appeals Review Panel either unilaterally or through the DSA issue a press release concerning allegations or findings of a violation of the Code unless specifically authorized to do so by the Executive Committee of DSA’s Board of Directors.
3. Pending Members of DSA
Nothing in Section F shall prevent the Administrator from notifying, at his discretion, DSA staff members of any alleged violations of the Code that have come to his attention and which may have a bearing on a pending member company’s qualifications for active membership.
4. Public Reporting of Code of Ethics Complaints and Compliance Efforts
The Administrator may issue periodic reports on Code of Ethics compliance including disclosure of numbers and types of complaints as well as company-compliance efforts. The issuance of these reports will not identify individual complaints.
G. Resignation
Resignation from DSA by an accused member company prior to completion of any proceedings constituted under this Code shall not be grounds for termination of said proceedings, and a determination as to the Code violation shall be rendered by the Administrator at his or her discretion, irrespective of the accused member company’s continued membership in DSA or participation in the complaint resolution proceedings.
This Code may be amended by vote of two thirds of the Board of Directors.
As Adopted June 15, 1970
As Amended by Board of Directors through December 8, 2015
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Uber will be able to operate in London for the next 21 days, and the company pushed a notification to local riders on Monday saying that the decision wouldn’t affect service. Uber said it would appeal the decision before a magistrate judge. “TfL’s decision not to renew Uber’s licence in London is extraordinary and wrong,” Jamie Heywood, Uber’s regional general manager for Northern and Eastern Europe, said in a statement.
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Uber has a history of tussles with London regulators. The city’s transportation agency previously declined to renew its license in 2017 , citing Uber’s approach to driver background checks and its failure to report criminal offenses involving drivers and passengers. Uber received a 15-month extension only after promising to rethink its approach to safety . Since then, the company has added driver education focusing on road safety, reformed its processes for reporting crimes to the police, added an in-app emergency-assistance button, and created an independent board dedicated to overseeing its operations in the UK.
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Now London officials say that’s not enough. Transport for London says it uncovered at least 14,000 incidents in which Uber’s system allowed drivers to upload their photos to other drivers’ accounts, meaning the person who picked up a rider wasn’t necessarily the person attached to the account. In other instances, drivers who had been dismissed or suspended from the platform were allowed to create new accounts and drive again.“While we recognize Uber has made improvements, it is unacceptable that Uber has allowed passengers to get into minicabs with drivers who are potentially unlicensed and uninsured,” Helen Chapman, TfL’s director of licensing, regulation and charging, said in a statement.
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Getting booted from London would also likely affect the transportation company’s standing among business travelers, who can’t seem to get enough of Uber . One of the app’s strengths is that a traveler can hop off a plane or a train or a ship and know that they have access to Uber’s network of drivers. Uber is the most expensed business vendor in North America, according to a recent report from the expense management software company Certify. London would likely have some very angry habitual travelers if the ride-hail app were forced to pull out of the city.
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Croatia: The Case Of Journalist Karolina Vidovic-Kristo And A Rude Awakening To Denial Of Human Rights
January 25, 2015 by inavukic 47 Comments
Karolina Vidovic-Kristo
Photo: Patrik Macek/Pixsell
One would think that the firing or hiring of a journalist (or any employee, anywhere) is a matter that is not newsworthy and that any breaches of employee’s rights in the process are private legal matters to pursue. However, when the firing or hiring alerts one to blatant breaches of human rights, to the fact that employer’s Codes of Ethics may be in violation of the country’s Constitution as well as UN convention on Human Rights then such cases are newsworthy and such cases require action with view to protecting democracy – especially when we are dealing with a major public information source such as state-run radio and television. And, when it comes to Croatia – a country still obviously in transition from communist totalitarian regime of former Yugoslavia, then the citizens’ vigilance upon the state of democratic processes is all the more justified and necessary.
On January 5, 2015, Croatian Radio & TV/HRT Director-General Goran Radman summarily dismissed journalist Karolina Vidovic Kristo, saying that her employment contract was terminated because she insulted and disparaged him by putting his name in the context of the former totalitarian Socialist Yugoslavia and mentioning his previous position as director of the then Television Zagreb.” Reportedly the dismissal was preceded by in-house debates about banning the reporter from participating in the Croatian Catholic Radio’s program “Why I believe”, and which ban the HRT management made in line with the HRT Code of Ethics.
To refresh the reader’s memory, Karolina Vidovic-Kristo came under a sharp public spotlight in early 2013 after she was suspended as the editor of a cancelled TV program “Picture of Croatia” for the Croatian expatriate community over a broadcast entitled “Pedophilia as Basis of Sexual Education?” in which she expressed fears that Croatia’s school sex-education curriculum was being influenced by those who used pedophiles in research of child-sexuality/ Kinsey Report.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, as recognised by article 19 of the ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights/UN), and an integral element of a democratic society. As the European Court of Human Rights has expressed it:
Freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential freedoms of a democratic society and one of the basic conditions for its progress and for every individual’s self-fulfillment … it is applicable not only to ‘information’ or ‘ideas’ that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb. Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no ‘democratic society’ (Case of Plon [Societe] v France ECHR 200 [2004]).
As noted above, although Croatia would be a signatory to the ICCPR, article 35 of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia guarantees “respect for and legal protection of a person’s private and family life…” and in its article 38 it “guarantees freedom of thought and freedom of expression”, there are evidently no efforts being invested by the state authorities to ensure that the Code of Ethics implemented by the state-funded Croatian Radio & Television (HRT) reflect the implementation of commitment to these human rights.
In its statement dated 22 January 2015 the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights “on the summary dismissal of Karolina Vidovic Kristo and the responsibility of the Director in Chief Goran Radman for the situation at HRT”, the Committee agrees “that Karolina Vidovic-Kristo was right when she alleged that the Code of Ethics for journalists and creative staff and the General Rules were in violation of the Constitution of the RC and international standards of human rights, which also include the right to freedom of speech, opinion and religion”.
Article 47 of the Code of Ethics of HRT states that “Journalists and creative staff must be aware of the fact that everything they do, write or send to the public will be deemed to be an act of HRT”.
“Therefore”, stated a Croatian journalist, “not only our religious convictions, but everything we do in public, all our free-time activities presented in the public, are deemed to be acts of HRT, although they are not presented in the name of HRT but in our own name. Indeed, this gives the impression that we are someone’s property.”
All those present at a meeting discussing the HRT Code of Ethics agreed that these positions taken in the Code of Ethics and the General Rules are a violation of fundamental human rights and the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia, and that in fact, “they deprive journalists of elements of their creativity and character.”
Indeed, one may go a step further and say there are cases in Croatia where a person is punished for expressing their personal opinion! And the case of Karolina Vidovic-Kristo is evidence to that. Indeed, which country bar a totalitarian state permits the practices of denying an employee a private life, expression of private opinions? In which country can a fact-based opinion expressed about ones work supervisor/manager/colleague lead to summary dismissal!? Where are the proper mechanisms to assert as to whether an opinion offends or insults someone or whether, in fact, the opinion is expressed in good faith in order to further a greater cause, a greater good; in this case – a furtherance of democratic practices!?
This is absolutely shocking!
In communist Yugoslavia, people knew only what the communist government wanted them to know; communist operatives were required to live and breathe communist party lines.
Director in Chief of HRT was appointed by the Croatian parliament and his political affiliation was ensured by the majority seats in the parliament, hence leading to leaving the public informing through that media outlet biased to the advantage of the outgoing president Ivo Josipovic and the former communist party members and affiliates currently leaning towards the Social Democrat, left-leaning, government that is evidently failing miserably at monitoring the implementation of and compliance with democratic principles contained in the Constitution and beyond.
Be that as it may, the Director in Chief of HRT/Croatian Radio and Television (Goran Radman) must be held accountable and responsible for maintaining and promulgating the Code of Ethics for the employees that are, more likely than not, in blatant breach of the country’s constitution and laws on freedom of expression and human rights. This matter cannot be fixed by changing that Code of Ethics to comply with legislative requirements, it can only be fixed by the sacking of the Director in Chief and replacing him with another person whose priority is compliance with the legislation and democracy. On that note, I am pleased that the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights is supporting the initiative of Mr Branko Hrg MP to the parliament that Goran Radman, as Director in Chief HRT be dismissed. My Lord, he should have been suspended from duties, pending an investigation, the very moment Karolina Vidovic-Kristo had alerted to the likely and serious constitutional and human rights violations within the HRT Code of Ethics! Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A.Ps.(Syd)
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: communist totalitarian regime of former Yugoslavia, Croatia, Croatian Constitution, Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Croatian Radio and Television, freedom of expression, freedom of opinion, Goran Radman, HRT, human rights, ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Journalist's Code of Ethics, Karolina Vidovic-Kristo
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Good Food Everyday says:
Interesting 🙂
inavukic says:
Yes, Lea – the mind boggles at things one finds when coming out of totalitarian regimes – old habits die hard it seems and it takes the brave to correct them. Cheers
Brankec says:
I can’t help but think that we as a society are being put through some sort of litmus test the last while. Both globally and locally here in Croatia. Globally we have the shootings at Charlie Hebdo. A despicable and cowardly act of terrorism, unjustifiable by any means, despite the vile content that they often put out. The tragedy begs the question of where is the limit to free speech. And there is a limit. In my opinion, CH’s content often borders on hate speech and/or yelling fire in a crowded theatre, which is not considered legitimate free speech But all that aside, later on, our own Croatian heads of state, participated in the Paris march, allegedly showing their support for free speech. How bizarre.
Here in Croatia we’ve had our own freedom of speech issues. Take Frljic’s commandeering of the National Theatre in Rijeka, and using it to promote his own personal agendas. Unimpeded. Indeed with the complete support of mayor Obersnel and other Chicken coalition “art critics”. Without getting into the description of the vile content, the question being begged is whether it is excusable that people are being arrested for complaining about the content or for taking pictures (without flash) in the theatre, despite the fact there are no signs posted indicating prohibition. If Frljic is playing the freedom of speech card from the bottom of the deck, why are normally law-abiding citizens being arrested at his whim, for publicly disagreeing with him?
During the presidential campaign, some kids in Split distributed a poster of Josipovic and Seselj with their arms around each other (satirically, probably sparked by Seselj’s public endorsement of Josipovic) and for this were arrested and fined 1500 HKN. Also during the campaign, the head of udarno.com was suspiciously arrested after tying Josipovic’s father to a 1972 execution style UDBA murder of an entire family in Italy, and is still being kept in pre-trial for an alleged charity scam. Then we have the firing of Tihomir Dujmovic from Vecernji and the arrest of Velimir Bujanec shortly before the last local elections. Not to mention the media lynch and the Chicken coalition’s public whipping of Joe Simunic for sharing his joy in taking Croatia to the 2014 World Cup by chanting an old battle cry used by HOS, with fans who joined him shouting “za dom spremni”. And yet they march for free speech.
Then there’s Karolina Vidovic-Kristo, a double-victim of the hypocrisy-ridden Croatian administration which allows two brutal examples of stifling freedom of speech to go completely unpunished. How does giving an opinion opposite to the government’s on early childhood sex education hurt or harm society? How does criticism of an obviously questionable m/o by the head of HRT deserve getting the boot? Given that Zoran Sprajc and Hrvoje Zovko weren’t even warned for their deceitful splice-and-tape job tampering with Dedakovic’s phone call to Tudjman’s office, Karolina’s firing only proves that we need a top-down fumigation of (at least) our national media. How many more Branimir Bilic’s will be tormented for not towing the party line, how many Bruno Kovacevic’s will be browbeaten and bullied for NOT whipping a then-young-ski star Ivica Kostelic for an off the cuff remark (I’m as ready as a German soldier in 1941) in an interview. How does the lynching that Hrvoje Males was subjected to for an old photo of him and his buddies wearing Ustashe caps compare to the total impunity of our very own president claiming that partizan caps with the red star are caps of peace and love? Sometimes it seems that one and only one side has been given the divine right to express its thoughts and feelings publicly without impunity while some of us who disagree with them have to bite our tongue or else face some rotten consequences.
Back to Charlie Hebdo and how it affects our own situation here in Croatia. Two quotes come to mind. First, Voltaire, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” and second, P.J. O’Roarke, “There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”. When the people begin to recognize these 2 concepts, they will begin to feel the true democratic freedom that other countries with long traditions of free speech and democracy enjoy. They will be able to weed out the bullsh*t from legitimate satire, agitprop from proper reporting, gratuitous shock-jocking from well-placed select profanity, and as in Frljic’s case, art from junk.
Love your “summary”, Brankec – the duty to take the consequences, as regulated by law of course, is I believe a matter all who speak, write etc publicly take into consideration and if, for example, there’s a case of defamation then that is a part of free expression process and,defamation of course has its rules and definitions so that not all seemingly defaming is actually defamation – often matters of claims of such nature do not succeed in courts, particularly if facts are stated and matters are of public interest and what the public – the taxpayer – needs to know. In the case of Karolina Vidovic Kristo it seems that even the Code of Ethics of HRT serves as a tool to maintain the communist-like regime mindset: “though shalt not speak untoward about your leader”… not even if such speaking is not done in the course of one’s job or role…it seems that not even the parliament, that appoints the head of HRT is much interested in the retention of good, healthy democratic minds in journalists, who in reality should be the real asset of a state-run television, not its head…ah, so much work still to be done for democracy and freedom of expression in Croatia…the Croatian hypocrites that took part in the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris should hang their heads in shame for they’ve done bugger all to advance freedom of expression in Croatia
Of course, by ‘consequences’ I meant strictly those regulated by law, although there is that element of risk that we all take by publicly declaring our opinions. In our case, it’s possible that a crazed yugophile might not like what we write and could take drastic action like the terrorists did in Paris. We are both aware of that possiblity and accept the risk, but write anyway in the interest of a need for the pursuit of truth. In that pursuit I’m sure we probably offend those yugophiles that we criticize, and even accept that they will feel affronted, but all that is is a product of getting a point across with which they don’t agree. (see Voltaire quote). A lot of our like-thinkers especially in Croatia won’t like it, but we are going to have to tolerate dorks like Frljic and others like him, but we don’t need to do that quietly. Hopefully our new president and the soon-to-be newly elected government will recognize the fine line between bad taste and defamation or yelling fire in a crowded theatre, and will come to the aid of all critics, regardless of political affiliation. For now though, I think we can count ourselves lucky that neither of us works at HRT or relies on any yugo-dominated institution for our livelihoods or we’d find ourselves each on our respective arses somewhere just outside an HRT exit door. Hahaha!
Risks of nasty consequences I think are generally minimalised or altogether prevented if one takes care of certain essentials before speaking out but, yes, even meticulous assessments don’t preclude one from being exposed to the “Frljics” of this world and, as you say Brankec – we keep not quiet about the wrongs. Truth, decency and fairness is what all should strive toward, not all do, however – that’s a given and it’ll take a great deal for the concept of “in good faith” to catch on in Croatia…to right a wrong requires consistency and that is something I like in Karolina Vidovic Kristo. It is as you say so fantastic not to have to depend on the institutions poisoned with resistance to democracy and freedom of expression.
therealamericro says:
Democracy means Frljicas can live and function.
And their presence actually is a good thing because it lets us know what they really think about things so when major politicians and parties align with them, we know that they share the same, in Frljica’s case, YUgoslav homonationalist-socialist views.
Good point, therealamericro
Excellent analysis. It must be noted that Goran Radman was named by senior pre-war Zagreb KOS official Radojko Radoncic, who turned himself in in 1993 seeing SRAO “Krajina” had no chance of survival, as a KOS operative in his debriefing by Croatian intelligence. And Radman was head of slavishly pro-Milosevic TV Zagreb before the democratic changes.
So Kristo was fired over inconvenient facts and truths in an entirely political escapade.
Ina: you may want to throw your eye on this: http://www.vecernji.hr/svijet/tvrtka-iz-sad-a-spremna-na-nagodbu-sa-srbima-koji-je-tuze-zbog-obuke-hv-a-i-genocida-u-oluji-985999.
This is the US government’s, namely State Department’s way of equating guilt – despite the Gotovina and Markac ruling demolishing the hate speech spewed by Strbac and the ultra-nationalist Serbian diaspora organization in regards to surgically clean Oluja during which the civil and military judiciary functioned properly – following the Gotovina-Markac overturning.
The truth and MPRI’s cash is being sacrificed to keep alive the Soros-NED-IRI-State Department front Balkan Insight “equal guilt” agenda. This will no doubt be used by Serbia’s legal team to thwart a ruling which no doubt up until now was a slam dunk for Croatia considering the unbelievable demolishing of every single point and sub-point of the racist, genocide justifying and future genocide abating hate speech counter-suit by Serbia.
This is major high level deep state agenda legal games to change history.
Thanks for the link, therealamericro, will certainly pursue further research on that – one wonders then if true if Croatia or the US company placed a counterclaim with regards to Croats cleansed from Krajina, killed etc before Oluja…one expected Serbs weren’t about to accept any responsibility and this is quite shocking and I hope if true Croatia will learn a lesson regarding its neighbour
Sunman says:
Let’s hope that Croatia through our new President will press for, support or initiate a legal claim against Serbia for pre Oluja damage. In fact for any pre-Croatia victory damages by Serbia, it’s army, para military and military advisors. This action by the Serbs is actually a precedence that if successful will set the stage for successful claims by Croatia. This is not about genocide, this is about unlawful damages by Serbia. This is a long over-due action.
Looks like Mr. Luka Misetic cleared up some things on his blog.
However, just in case, I suggest his defense team readers of this blog make sure to forward MPRI the following:
https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/DOCLIBS/MILITARYLAWREVIEW.NSF/0/17ecb457e9eff74285257bf0005a5903/$FILE/By%20Gary%20D.%20Solis.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSRXAYeSo3M (note the author of the “case” confirms it was a massive evacuation, not “ethnic cleansing”)
http://www.icty.org/case/gotovina/4#acdec
Just for good measure ; – )
The pornographic treatise includes a claim regarding the alleged air to ground attack against a convoy. The problem with the pornographic treatis’ claim is that Tanjug reported on that and it stated that it was the RS Air Force, under Karadzic’s orders, that bombed the mixed civilian-military convoy to “motivate them” to fight. BBC translations conveniently scrubbed this from their archives but there are those of us who copy pasted it years ago, so that claim – something the paid agents of foreign influence at the State Department’s Balkan Insight bring up annually around the times of Operation Storm celebrations – is also debunked.
That about wraps up the “case” by Strbac and his psychopathic, sociopathic, compulsive lying cohorts in Chicago ; – )
Ah, great minds think alike, therealamerico 🙂 cheers
David B. says:
From Facebook: if it were truly a matter of HRT wanting to keep a certain distance from any individual’s commentary, it would have been so easy to place a notice at the beginning of the show saying something like “the following program does not necessarily reflect the opinion of management, etc. etc.” This seems to me more like the old “control” game. As long as the government controls the press, there is no freedom of the press, or at least not at that press.
If HRT did that, David, it would mean they operate properly and in the interests of the public! That’s evidently not the case for HRT – sadly
If HRT were run properly, it would need to forewarn the public of any program that overtly or covertly over-represented any one particular side, which, given the Party-sponsored programming on HTV, would mean that we’d probably spend more time watching warnings than programming. 🙂
Goes to show, Brankec: HRT needs to be cleansed of its top echelons
Aliosa says:
Thank you for visiting, Ina ! 🙂
Aliosa.
Cheers, Aliosa 🙂
Donald Miller says:
>Indeed, which country bar a totalitarian state permits the practices of denying an employee a private life, expression of private opinions? In which country can a fact-based opinion expressed about ones work supervisor/manager/colleague lead to summary dismissal!?<
Perhaps I was a totalitarian dictator in a previous life. 🙂
I totally disagree with your conclusions. Here's why:
According to your report, the employee was the one who violated her boss's private life by bringing him into a debate in which he did not want to be engaged as a private person. Here's my rationale. If I were to write an article about Ina Vukic, and I framed it as such: Ina Vukic, one-time professor at a communist college now has a weblog promoting Croatian . . ." I would have set the tone for the rest of the article, which would be obvious as to where it was leading, A Hatchet Job.
A similar tactic to gain attention for herself by what I consider muck-racking is the use of the Kinsey Report. It's guilt by association, and it places the victim of the article on the defensive immediately. Fox News used the same tactic in one of their prime time airings. People have used the Kinsey report for quite some time. Indeed, one wonders how much actually value it has after so many societal changes over the many years. In my opinion, the people who use the report could be cited for laziness because they haven't funded a recent report, using the (possibly over-restrictive) standards of today's researchers.
Nevertheless, it isn't any type of ethical conundrum equivalent to that of using "Doctor" Mengele's research, because he specifically set up human experiments that violated all sense of morality and personally violated his victims in the most egregious way. The Kinsey Report is simply that, a report–albeit not one that would go over by today's standards of research. but they reported was people told them rather than experimenting upon people themselves.
I see the reporter as someone who is in a very competitive business where it is difficult to make it to the top of the food chain and stay there. What she did wasn't extraordinarily unusual, but it, in my opinion, isn't proper journalism.
I can see where you’re coming from, Donald – however if you were to say I was a one-time professor at a communist college I would say that was a lie and defamation because it’s not true but if it were true I would simply get over it and say something “those were the times where there were no other colleges etc” the point is that the journalist stated the truth and she did not do that most likely out of the blue but in a context that relates to practices at TV station now and during communism etc. Regarding Kinsey and her suspension it was certainly not trying to catch attention but to relate information to the publiuc regarding the sex-education curriculum at school and persons involved in putting it together who were associated with actual research done by Kinsey using pedophiles, also a discussion as to whether child sex-education should include certain sensitive and controversial details – as a journalist he duty was to lay out to the public (parents) all the facts surrounding school education curriculum etc – she did succeed and the whole matter went to high courts, the curriculum that attracted controversy and opposition suspended and new one introduced – hence, sorry to say, she acted in the interests of the public not herself and paid dearly for it.
Well, obviously you know more about the context than I do. It just seemed dicey to me the way she went about it. Now, where I’m coming from is the perspective of a US citizen who knows that the books are cooked in terms of what news we get and why we get it — and the ego and ambition of reporters.
Simply meant to add some possible varying perspective on the issue. Glad I did. But as I said, I don’t know anymore than what’s in your article.
Well, as you can see my project is going over with a thud. I’m not going to let that stop me though. I think there must be a reason why I have the best network, by a long shot, of any community and the fewest members. (If it won’t fit on a bumper sticker, people don’t want to discuss it.) I, naturally, get more out of a discussion when people genuinely disagree with my position than when they don’t — or pretend they don’t. Anyway, beats me why I have about two hundred Read Out Loud PDFs and no one is using them.
All good, Donald, opposing or disagreeing views are as good as the agreeing ones – I did put a link in the article top my previous post etc for further info and it’s a given one cannot cram everything into a blog article so no worries. Reporters are reporters but in this case it’s not just reporting it’s also giving opinion, critical analysis of material most relevant in the employment of people and their duties – such as Code of Ethics. I see nothing wrong with ambition of reporters if that reporting contributes to information and growth of society in whatever way. But generally, I think media output is controlled by someone or other and, therefore, thank God for the independents and for individual bloggers who depend on no one 🙂
That’s what I try to do. Get my information from sources that are not mainstream. Of course even they have agendas. So it’s a matter of putting the pieces together and seeing what makes the most sense and where the preponderance of evidence lies.
Of course everyone has agendas, Donald – that’s a normal thing. I try and put links to sources of information and other material for readers to make up their minds. My agenda is furtherance of democracy in Croatia and working towards contributing to cleansing it from long=standing habits formed during fifty + years of totalitarian communism.
Wilkinson says:
If someone who has worked in high position during communist totalitarian regime holds a high position today and their style and attention to details do not reflect today’s requirements and seem to undermine or violate the practices we should be seeing today then questioning their “official/working” past and its possible influence on executing today’s duties is a duty, not a personal insult.
I just don’t see it that way based on the limited information I have. The state of “journalism” in the US is awful. What she did is not uncommon here. Sadly. I don’t believe a thing they say. It’s a corrupt system top to bottom in the US. Thus, I am suspicious of reporters, their bosses, the corporations than own and control them and the government that provides the information they report.
Sounds a lot like the problems you all had under communist control. To quote the famous lyrics, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
I’m used to working in a system where compliance with legislation is checked every year if one is to continue receiving government or taxpayer funding. That is non-negotiable. So, it would seem that in this HRT case that there was and is no compliance checks and if there were some under Goran Radman they were likely done under suspicious circumstances or by “blind” people. Mind boggles that an employer, HRT, expects in its Code of Ethics, that employees live as HRT, not themselves, i.e. their private lives taken away. It’s a given that in journalism an employer expects from journalist not to work for another like employer or role without clearing it with them first. That’s a widespread practice worldwide and nobody is questioning that but to deny an employee/journalist to express personal opinions without those being attached to their place of work does in my book constitute a serious violation of human rights. There are many unsavory, politically colored goings on in the media worldwide but when it comes to a company’s Code of Ethics – regulating employee behavior and roles, then there is no discussion nor room for politics. These must comply with law and that’s that!
From memory: It seemed that the code of conduct simply asked the employees not to behave in a way that would not disgrace or degrade themselves and their employer. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. If the actions of one person affects everyone else (or even a limited few) in the company that one person is, in my view, being self-centered. For instance, the don’t call it a workers union for nothing. In such a case as that, one person can seriously damage the image of the entire group. The enemies are ready to pounce on every utterance and every weakness they can find.
Budding in here, Donald: “Journalists and creative staff must be aware of the fact that everything they do, write or send to the public will be deemed to be an act of HRT”. Cheers
Budding is good. : )
That’s what companies that are important to US national interests say, but rarely do. I agree with that injunction. Just look at what happens when people don’t abide by it. The US has been caught red handed on several instances of spying on our allies, going so far as to invade Angela Merkel’s personal cell phone. There is an unsettling sense of arrogance and abuse of power one feels in such cases as that. It tainted the reputation of the entire country. I wouldn’t do that, and I expect my country to represent me in an admirable and ethical manner — which they did not, and are continually violating every ethical norm by which an honorable country should be performing its functions as representatives.
The lowest point was when the Attorney General of the US promised the Russians that we wouldn’t torture Snowden if they turned him over to us. (That was shocking and outrageous). “Oh how the mighty have fallen.”
And I guess if we stop fighting that which is unjust and hoping for better there’s only a dark abyss for most 🙂 I’m not ready to give up 🙂
Here are the guidelines from a public funded news program that was the best source of reliable information. In the US that isn’t a glowing recommendation, for no doubt our best is other countries’ worst. But overall I think Jim did a good admirable job. Unfortunately, he’s retired and other hands are at the helm. They do an okay job.
Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
I practice journalism in accordance with the following guidelines:
• Do nothing I cannot defend.
• Do not distort, lie, slant or hype.
• Do not falsify facts or make up quotes.
• Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story
were about me.
• Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
• Assume the viewer is as smart and caring and good a person as I am.
• Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
• Assume everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
• Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the
story mandates otherwise.
• Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and
clearly label it as such.
• Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and
monumental occasions. No one should ever be allowed to attack another
anonymously.
• Do not broadcast profanity or the end result of violence unless it is an
integral and necessary part of the story and/or crucial to its understanding.
• Acknowledge that objectivity may be impossible but fairness never is.
• Journalists who are reckless with facts and reputations should be
disciplined by their employers.
• My viewers have a right to know what principles guide my work and the
process I use in their practice.
• I am not in the entertainment business.
-Jim Lehrer
Unimatrix says:
This is not just the case of the said journalist. HRT (Croatian national TV) under Radman has become a very antinational. I’ve myself stopped watching it. 90% of news comes from Serbia. They like to call it region. But, the region would normally encompass other countries around Croatia: B&H, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Slovenia etc., but NO! I’d like to illustrate the absurdity with an example from last summer: there was a problem of mosquitoes in the north of Croatia and the reporter said: “Let’s check what’s what’s going on in Serbia since they may be experiencing the same problem!” , without even bother to visit that part of Croatia previously mentioned. I don’t remember having so much news from Serbia even before in YU times. It was TV Zagreb and mostly covered the news from Croatia. Most “reporters” are hardly reporters at all and what’s more they fail to have any university degree at all. They are all politically correct and easily controlled but they don’t need any control anyway because they share the main editor’s views in every respect. Radman has fired even the waitress from the TV café because she said something he didn’t like. All main newspapers are more or less the same. If you want to be banned from commenting, the only thing you have to post under an article is: there’s no Yugoslavia any more. We are lucky to have local TVs, papers and the Internet above all. To sum up – the freedom of speech is now worse than it used to be during communist times.
All the more reason to fight for freedom of speech, Unimatrix – thank you an your comment
Connor Vlakancic, HR/SAD U.S.President candidate, Nov.2016 says:
Postovani Ina, This is personally sad as I know Karolina from her very professional HRT interview of me on 30 Nov. 2012. I have 30 connections with HRT producers and journalists. Radman is previous Dean of VERN University with everybody he knows personally and professionally compromised with being associated with him. He is Linkedin with 500+ connections. Whatever exactly prompted his dismissal of Karolina is a BIG mistake that he will greatly regret if he does not act to reinstate her position and way apologize. I am invited to attend the inauguration of President-elect Grabar-Kitarović during which time I will seek the absolute accurate details of Radman’s conduct and provide to you.
Connor Vlakancic, Director, HRiSAD Vizija Budućnosti Koalicija
Times are certainly in for actions and clarifications, Connor, look forward to more news on this case that looks shocking
A truly interesting case and perfectly documented … Thanks for sharing stuff related with the legal frame- background as Freedom of Speech is nowadays a crucial topic, even more considering the slayers in regard to Charlie Hebdo´s Issue.
Best regards!, Aquileana 😀
Thank you, Aquileana, much appreciated and cheers
Joseph E Rathjen says:
This reminds me of companies who fire employees because something they posted online doesn’t conform to their corporate political or social agenda. I’m very careful about what I share in my articles online and where I share them. Because I’m a union official I have to be sure that I don’t go against the “grain” of their precious, political action initiatives.
Although I find amusement in edging closer to the cliff each time.
I’ve grown quite sick of all this political correctness crap and trying to censor journalism.
It was good to bring this out and publicise it!
I’ve grown quite sick of censoring journalists too, Joseph – and when such censorship takes the task of hiding the truth from the public then it’s very disquieting
Piece for you:
Savo Strbac’s Legal Farces: Legitimizing Illegitimacy and Criminality
A celebrity in Serbia as well as among the ultra-nationalist Serbian Diaspora, and close friend of [Zoran Pusic LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPMQPTAsVdk%5D, Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic’s brother, [Savo Strbac LINK http://www.hic.hr/english/index_Strbac.htm%5D was the former Secretary of the so-called “Krajina” – which was ethnically cleansed of nearly all of of its’ non-Serb population between the spring of 1991 and January 15, 1992, according to both the [Martic LINK http://www.icty.org/x/cases/martic/cis/en/cis_martic_en.pdf%5D and [Babic LINK http://www.icty.org/x/cases/babic/cis/en/cis_babic_en.pdf%5D rulings – the few non-Serbs that remained being barred from voting, and those who were ethnically cleansed barred by the “Krajina” government from ever returning.
Before Serbia’s genocidal aggression against Croatia, and before Milosevic’s Yogurt Revolution, Strbac was a Yugoslav People’s Army military prosecutor.
After Milosevic’s takeover and start of his very public and systematic trampling of the 1974 Yugoslav Federal Republic Constitution and illegal, unconstitutional centralization and Serbianization campaign, Strbac became a key member of the “Krajina” leadership involved in arming radical, pro-Nazi and WWII Italy collaborating Chetnik and pro-Milosevic Croatian Serbs via arms shipments from Serbia’s Ministry of the Interior, Serbia’s State Intelligence Service (SDB SR Serbia) and the Serbianized (by Milosevic) Yugoslav Federal Army (JNA), Yugoslav Federal Army Counter-Intelligence (KOS), as well as the Federal State Intelligence Service (FROY SDB).
The ICTY began working with Veritas and his Milosevic government subsidized “human rights” organization Veritas in 1993, when, at Milosevic’s behest and with Milosevic government financing, Savo Strbac formed the “humanitarian” non-governmental organization (directly financed by Milosevic’s and every subsequent Serbian government), “Veritas,” in ethnically purified (of non-Serb) “Krajina” – placing the ICTY in a monstrous conflict of interest as Strbac was not just the Propaganda Minister, pardon, Information Minister of “Krajina” in 1991 inciting Serbs into war crimes and hate, but also Secretary of the “Krajina” from late 1991 through August 1995.Strbac himself bore command responsibility, and [Strbac didn’t hide his real views about how he dreamed of total separation of Croats and Serbs, and “Krajina” joining a Greater Serbia, during the war LINK http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/04/weekinreview/the-world-the-serbs-dream-but-dare-not-wake.html%5D – yet despite all this, the ICTY continued to work closely with him and his “humanitarian” organization.
A vociferous public defender of Milosevic’s policies, [as well as more or less public spokesperson for the accused war criminal “Daniel Snedden,” or Captain Dragan LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvnX_tmO3ck%5D, Strbac himself stated on Republika Srpska television that the “Krajina” leadership ordered a mass withdrawal – or in his words – from the “Krajina” as soon as Operation Storm began, seen here with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSRXAYeSo3M, which entirely demolishes the ICJ counter-suit, as well as Chicago class action law suit against L3 Communications-MPRI, as do [Milosevic’s own words at the August 15, 1995 Supreme Defense Council Meeting LINK exodus LINK http://www.sense-agency.com/icty/gotovina-seeks-help-from-serbia.29.html?news_id=12933%5D.
Cited by many outlets – including the untransparently funded State Department regional English language online propaganda organ Balkan Insight, as if he never served as – and had and has no command responsibility for all the crimes committed on the territory of and in the name of “Krajina” – wartime Secretary of the “Krajina,” Strbac has and continues to spew Milosevic’s hate-filled, genocide-justifying propaganda.
Yet his racist suggestions have been accepted as fact in both the logically acrobatic ICJ counter-suit by Serbia and the current, openly racist (suggesting intellectual inferiority on the entire Croatian nation) class action law suit against L3 Communications-MPRI in Chicago which he co-authored.
In addition to suggesting that sheep were buried in the Ovcara mass grave of over 260 Vukovar hospital patients despite this claim being entirely debunked by the UN’s investigation and the actual exhumation, [Strbac stated as fact that it is lawful to kill civilians during war LINK http://www.sense-agency.com/icty/shepherds-exchanged-for-prisoners-sheep-buried-in-ovcara.29.html?cat_id=1&news_id=16209%5D (for more on Strbac’s views, see here: http://www.sense-agency.com/sense.48.html?case_id=99).
All of this begs the question: why hasn’t Croatia’s diplomacy made quite clear – to the ICTY, ICJ, UN and EU – that all of Serbia’s legal cases against or regarding Croatia or Croatians, including falsely imprisoned Veljko Maric, involve the open Milosevic apologist and greater Serbian ultra-nationalist and senior “Krajina” functionary Savo Strbac, his sham human rights organization that regularly engages in lies, deception and bloodthirsty hate speech, who bears command responsibility for the crimes Babic and Martic committed as he was their close collaborator as Secretary of “Krajina,” in addition to collaborating closely with Milosevic before, during and long-after Serbia’s wars.
If Croatia’s diplomacy does not engage in a very public information campaign regarding Savo Strbac’s bloody, hate-and-lie-filled past, and its connection to nearly every legal case regarding Croatia and Serbia’s genocidal imperialist war, there is no other option other than early elections as this is, considering the ICJ’s epic miscarriage of justice by arguing a technicality – that FROY and Serbia were not a signatory of the Genocide Convention until 1992 – and legitimizing discredited and debunked claims put forth by Strbac and Serbia’s legal team, is not just intellectual laziness and indolence leading up to this point by the current government, but high treason.
Ante Horvat (feel free to forward in Croatian or English to any and all Croatian media outlets).
Follow up piece to one I sent:
Pontius Pilate Redux – West, International Community Wash Their Hands of Covert and Overt Complicity in Serbia’s Crimes and Genocidal Aggression at the ICJ
By Ante Horvat
When discussions about the ICTY first began in the international community and international media as Serbia’s war against Croatia and democracy was at its apex, the impression was that the ICTY – and perhaps the ICJ itself – would serve as Nuremburg Courts of sorts for international war crimes and international aggression.
Both perceptions were, and with today’s ICJ ruling, are, false.
The ICTY and ICJ have failed their mandates dismally – and have allowed for the seeds of future conflict in the former “Yugoslav” region to be watered with no accountability being imposed on the Republic of Serbia, nor the genocidal greater Serbian idea, two pre-requisites for Serbia’s de-Nazification and coming to terms with its war criminal, expansionist, imperialist past, which is the only guarantee it will not happen again in the future.
The Greater Serbian idea, and Serbia’s aggression as a state, has been justified and washed of any guilt at the ICTY in several rulings, the most crucial being the Stanisic and Simatovic acquitals, in addition to the ICJ today.
The ICJ argued the morally, ethically, and ultimately legally flimsy and fallacious position that because Serbia was not a signatory of the UN Convention on Genocide until 1992, it, as Yugoslavia’s legal successor, could not be found guilty of genocide committed by the YPA, RSK and Serbian State Security (SDB) controlled paramilitary organizations in Croatia from the spring of 1991 through the January 15, 1992 cease fire despite the mountain of evidence, bodies, half a million refugees and 30,000 civilian invalids Greater Serbian genocidal aggression created.
The court took the debunked and illegitimate claims of “Krajina” Secretary and [counter-suit co-author Savo Strbac LINK to piece I sent earlier] and breathed a life of legitimacy into some of those debunked, false, discredited, and entirely illegitimate claims.
The reason – were Serbia found guilty of what it should have been found guilty for, several Western powers, as well as the International Community and UN itself, would have had their past governments policies and or political actors indirectly exposed and discredited and found guilty for their aiding and abetting Serbia’s aggression diplomatically and via the media at every turn.
It must not be forgotten that senior US leadership in 1991 – [Secretary of State James Baker, Ambassador to Yugoslavia Lawrence Eagleburger, and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft were operating in a blatant conflict of interest as shareholders and business partners with various Yugoslav state industries, including Crvena Zastava Arms which was illegally breaking the then UN sanctions on Gadaffi’s Libya LINK http://www.studiacroatica.org/anatomy/anatomy11.htm%5D.
Nor can it be forgotten that it was the West, International Community, and UN that pushed the arms embargo on the entire region allowing for Milosevic’s military supremacy – guaranteeing the mass murder, concentration camp internments, and systematic rape of hundreds of thousands of non-combatant non-Serbs.
It must not be forgotten that UN forces had quite [cordial relations LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tLLkDOk56U%5D – to and include visits to brothels of “Krajina” and “RS” mafiosos, some of which were staffed by [non-Serb sex slaves LINK http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/15/bosnia-sex-trafficking-whistleblower%5D – with Croatian and Bosnian Serb leadership, who were under the direct command and control of Belgrade.
It must not be forgotten that the UN chose General MacKenzie – whose wife Milica was a co-founder of the ultra-nationalist Serbian Unity Congress lobby group as well as active ultra-nationalist Serbnet contributor and organizer – to head the Bosnia Herzegovina mission despite this blatant conflict of interest. Nor that MacKenzie has become a public speaker on the North American and English speaking world Serbian ultra-nationalist community circuit.
It must not be forgotten that nearly all negotiations were premised on solidifying Milosevic’s wartime gains, and that Milosevic’s minions in occupied areas of Croatia and B&H rejected all of them because they didn’t get enough territory they wanted out of it and because they usually predicated mutual and reciprocal refugee returns – anathema to an ethnically pure greater Serbian state.
It must not be forgotten that the West, International Community and UN equated Croat and Bosniak victims’ and their self-defense against Milosevic’s well armed and technologically superior hordes with those very hordes on a regular basis despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It must not be forgotten that it was and remains a known fact that Belgrade was arming Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina before any free elections, i.e. before any “Serbian innocents” could have been “threatened” by anyone, especially considering Milosevic’s purging of Yugoslav intelligence and military of non-Greater Serbian elements as the illegal arming campaigns orchestrated by Belgrade that were underway simultaneously.
It must not be forgotten that the ICTY was working in a conflict of interest on both Croatia and B&H war crimes investigations into alleged non-Serb war crimes perpetrators by working with “Krajina” Secretary and Milosevic financed “Veritas” from 1993 through to today.
It must not be forgotten that Jovica Stanisic and Frenki Simatovic, the architects of Serbia’s wars and concentration camp system(s) inside and outside of Serbia became sources for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1992 after approaching them, and used this relationship for disinformation to continue Serbia’s wars and maximize gains, and that Simatovic and Stanisic’s release was a reward for helping oust Milosevic after he failed on all of his behind closed doors promises and became a bit too ambitious in Kosovo – which, if Milosevic defeated Croatia in 1991 as was hoped, expected and promised, would not exist on paper or through parallel institutions today and would be covered with mass graves.
It must not be forgotten that SENSE Agency, BIRN and Balkan Insight are directly financed propaganda mouthpieces of Western powers who green lighted Milosevic’s aggression and rewarded it at Dayton, and that the perception management campaign all three have been and are engaged in are to equate guilt between the mis-named “warring parties.”
It must not be forgotten that this UN, Western and International Community aping of Pontius Pilate ensured that chronological order of events, the order of battle, facts, and mountains of evidence and documentation do not matter when it comes to covering up the complicity of the powerful, and that, via what could have been future trend setting and war preventing courts, have instead thoroughly, skillfully and perfidiously washed Serbia, and the electorate that voted for those wars, of any guilt or responsibility, and that this will surely come to roost in the near or distant future when the next “Vodz” arrives on Kosovo Polje or throws a yogurt can in Belgrade.
The ICTY and the ICJ have failed humanity, truth, and ultimately, the law itself – and have no excuse for doing so other than behind the scenes power politics, that will surely bring another war to the region in the near or distant future sooner or later.
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Welcome to my blog. Here I will bring to you a variety of topics covering the documented truth about that terrible war that Croatia had to endure during the period between 1991 and 1995 and about Croatian political history that shaped a wonderful nation of people.
Croatian people wanted independence for centuries, just as they had it until the twelfth century but fate was not on their side – others wanted their beautiful land. In late 1980′s the will to break free from Yugoslavia which suffocated freedom and self determination through harsh communist party rule finally bore the desired fruit.
In June 1991 Croatia declared its independence; soon after the aggressive war against Croatia broke out. The struggle of the Croatian people for self-determination was a just one. But I fear genuine justice has not been served as there have been, and there still exist, international covert and overt moves to equate victims with aggressors continue in attempts to change history. Truth often becomes obscured and lost and that is why I have chosen to write this blog, to concentrate on actual events and issues about Croatia – wishing it a bright and freedom-loving future.
It certainly was not easy to come out of the war that was fought on two fronts:
1. On the military front the world’s public has seen the indiscriminate bombardment of Croatian cities, towns and villages from land, sea and air; the destruction of civilian targets including homes, schools, hospitals, churches, factories and cultural monuments; the blockading and destruction of roads, bridges and ports; the blockading of power, water, food and medical supplies. What hasn’t been shown on our television sets is the forced clearing and evacuation of towns and villages, followed by looting, torture, rape and murder carried out by the Serbian forces, who were initially backed by the federal Yugoslav army that was largely constituted by Serb nationals; the transportation of multiple hundreds of innocent Croatian civilians from Croatia into concentration camps Serbia (Begejci, Stajicevo, Sremska Mitrovica... from October 1991, and later (1992) transferred into Serb-held camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Omarska, Keratern, Manjaca, Trnopolje).
2. The second front was the war of political propaganda centred on: misinformation about the rights of minorities in Croatia; portrayal of the Croatian people as Ustasha or Fascists; the representation of the Croatian defence forces as illegal paramilitary units; the representation of the Croatian and Slovenian republics as unreasonable secessionists who are unwilling to negotiate; a regurgitation of distorted facts about World War II.
Indeed Croatia had an absolute right to defend itself and this is often forgotten if not often denied it.
Ina Vukic
Ina has been a tireless volunteer on humanitarian aid and fundraising for victims of war in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially war orphans. From1991 to beginning of 1994 she contributed in lobbying for international recognition of Croatian independence and Croatia’s rights in defending its territory and people from military aggression by Serbian forces. For this dedicated voluntary work Ina was awarded two Medals of Honour by the first president of the Republic of Croatia in 1995 (Commemorative Medal of the Homeland War and Order of the Croatian Trefoil).Ina has also written hundreds articles for newspapers in Australia and Croatia on the plight of Croatian people for freedom and self-determination, developing democracy in former communist countries. She holds two graduate and one post-graduate university degrees, specialising in behaviour, clinical and political psychology and management.
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Blessed Aloysius Stepinac quote:
“When they take everything from you, you’ll be left with two hands; put them together in prayer and then you’ll be the strongest.” Blessed Aloysius Stepinac (1898 – 1960)
First President of Croatia Dr Franjo Tudjman quote:
“They could not, nor will they ever be able to kill our passion and our need to live in human dignity, in peace with ourselves and with the free nations of Europe. We have carved out that right at our first democratic elections. For this right and for our sacred land we are even ready to die” – Dr Franjo Tudjman (1922-1999) ( Addressing the Croatian nation at the moment of the start of Serbian aggression against Croatia, 16 October 1991)
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SHALINI NAIR
MGNREGA wages fall below minimum wage in 34 states, Union Territories
Data shows that this is the maximum recorded divergence between the Centre-notified MGNREGA wages and the state-notified minimum wages since 2009, when both were brought on a par for the first time.
Rural distress and demand up, NREG gets lowest wage hike for 2019-2020
With effect from April 1, rural NREG labourers in six states and Union territories will see no annual increase in their daily wages this financial year while workers in another 15 states will get a daily wage hike of between Re 1 and Rs 5.
Rural distress: Last year of Govt saw highest demand for MNREGA jobs in 8 yrs
In 2014-15, the first year under of the NDA government when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dismissed MGNREGA as “the living monument of UPA’s failure’, the person-days generated was just 166 crore.
Ministry issues guidelines for real estate retirement home projects
The guidelines released on Wednesday will be issued to all States and Union territories so that they can incorporate the necessary changes in their respective laws.
Centre to states: Use SECC to take manual scavengers into rural skilling programmes
The SECC has identified a total of 1.82 lakh households where at least one person is employed in manual scavenging in rural India, numbers which have been dismissed as gross underestimate by organisations working in the area.
Two years after its term ended, Centre proposes to form new backward classes commission
According to sources, the proposal to establish the commission as well as names of those who will constitute the NCBC has been sent to President Ram Nath Kovind's for approval.
Woman at Dignity March assaulted in UP village
The woman, along with her husband, had returned to the village on Saturday, a day after the march culminated in Delhi. They took part in the march for their minor daughter, a rape survivor.
Let women who don’t want to complain to ICC go to NCW: Panel
The GoM, headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, was announced on October 24 last year, to examine the legal and institutional frameworks for addressing the issue of sexual harassment of women at the workplace.
In Delhi today: Over 5,000 survivors of sexual assault
Some spark a movement at the click of a keypad. Others trudge 10,000 km across the country for their stories to be heard, stories that were largely left out of India’s #MeToo movement.
Interim Budget: MGNREGA estimate less than 2018-19 expenditure
Sat, Feb 02, 2019
Activists say the lower provision does not augur well for the scheme, which is already beset by a near stagnation in wages.
Budget 2019: For unorganised sector, Rs 3,000 monthly pension
Goyal also announced a “substantial increase” in the Budget Estimate for welfare of SC and ST communities — an increase of 35 per cent and 28 per cent, respectively.
Govt to identify denotified, nomadic tribes not classified as SC, ST or OBC
As per the report prepared by the National Commission on DNT, NT, SNT headed by Bhiku Ramji Idate, over 260 extremely marginalised communities have never been identified or included in any of the reserved categories.
NREGA may provide way to tackle crop burning, says chief ministers’ panel
The sub-group of chief ministers headed by former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was formed to look at ways to converge the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with agricultural policy.
10% quota for EWS: States can go past Rs 8 lakh annual income criteria
It also allows states to notify EWS “from time to time on the basis of family income and other indicators of economic disadvantage” even if they are “adequately represented” in government jobs.
Sinho Commission 2010 report govt cited to push 10% never spoke of EWS quota
The report noted that economic criteria cannot be the indicator for identifying backward classes for reservation and that EWS can be identified by states “for extending welfare measures only”.
Report cited by govt for 10% quota ruled out use of creamy layer as cut-off for EWS
The 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill for granting 10 per cent EWS reservation was passed by both Houses of Parliament this week but several members and political parties raised the issue of how the Rs 8-lakh cut-off subverts the principle of social justice.
Amid demands for more reservation, OBC picture unclear
The Mandal Commission report of 1980 estimated the OBC population at 52 per cent based on the 1931 Census. The National Sample Survey Organisation data of 2006 shows the OBC population at 41 per cent, but it was only an estimate based on sample data.
Eyes on polls, Cabinet approves 10% quota for ‘economically weaker’ General category
Unlike the reservation for SC/ST/OBCs, caste is not going to be a criterion for eligibility to the reservation under this new provision.
Government plans Bill to crack down on NRIs deserting wives
In 2018, Punjab at 95 cases had the maximum such cases followed by Delhi at 85 cases and Uttar Pradesh at 82, as per data with the NCW’s NRI complaints cell.
Child abuse: More death penalty, longer jail terms
WCD Ministry officials said that the amendment was necessary as POCSO, unlike the Indian Penal Code (IPC), is a gender-neutral law that protects both boys and girls under the age of 18.
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26th November 2010 – Google Maps is here
We’ve been building in support for each account public profile page (museum directory page) to have an embedded Google Map showing their physical address. Today’s upgrade includes the bulk of the changes to support this. When you’re logged in, you can now go to Edit My Profile – Public Profile, and set a map location. This can be done by clicking the Geocode button (which gets the location from Google based on your public physical address) or by manually pasting
The latest eHive upgrade supports sorting of complex object numbers. eHive now stores the original object number entered and a formatted version which is used for sorting. You’ll see the new sort option on the search result page under Sort Records. This upgrade also includes: Sorting of draft records you have created by the date created A reduced indexing stop word list to include some two letter prefixes used by organisations in their object numbers A fix for bug where
September 21, 2010 By Vernon Systems
Royal Logistic Corps Museum
The Royal Logistic Corps Museum tells the story of logistical support to the British Army from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the present. Visitors can examine how over the last 500 years the soldier has been transported, fed, supplied with arms and equipment and kept in touch with loved ones. Exhibits include weapons, uniforms, medals and equipment relevant to the RLC (formed 1993) and its predecessors, whose collections are also held. These include the Royal Army Service Corps, Royal
June 25, 2010 By Vernon Systems
25th June 2010 – Pick list maintenance enhancements
A new pick list editor was added in the latest upgrade. You can now edit the names of existing terms or delete unused ones. There’s also a handy link showing the number of records using any particular term. You can click on the link to open a new tab with a results lists of all the records.
If you love your content, set it free
Mike Ellis, a social web specialist based in the UK, posted an excellent presentation on why setting your content free is a good thing. You can read the presentation here.
June 6, 2010 By Vernon Systems
NZMuseums developments – June 2010
The last two months has been a busy time for the web development team. One of the projects has been the redevelopment of the NZMuseums website. McGovern Online have updated the branding of the site and this has flowed through to all pages. The home page has also had a major overhaul. The changes include a new interactive map to find museums, display of the latest tweets from the NZMuseum Twitter stream, latest tags on the home page, a search
28th May 2010 Upgrade – Rights Management/Creative Commons
Our latest upgrade includes rights management support. You can now set a default licence for your content and override the licence on any specific record and its images. The licences you can choose from include Creative Commons to promote sharing and re-use of content. By default, all content has been set with a licence of ‘All rights reserved’. However, we’d love for organisations who hold the copyright to some or all of their content to choose less restrictive licences such
April 12, 2010 By Vernon Systems
Australia Post National Philatelic Collection
The National Philatelic Collection is a unique repository of philately and artworks relating to the design of Australian postage stamps. The collection presents the background story to stamp issues through items such as source photographs and artwork illustrating the development stages of the stamp design to printed proofs of the finished stamp. The collection is a source of information not only to philatelists, but also to those interested in the history of graphic design and printing in Australia. It tells
22 March 2010 Update
The first phase of a large batch of changes on NZMuseums has been completed. We’ve added search friendly website addresses, WordPress integration for the News section, new image zoom functions and a batch of other changes. You can read about it in full on the NZMuseums website. We’ve also fine-tuned how the pick list functions work over the last couple of weeks. You can now type into any pick list field and the possible matches will be presented. There’s also
February 11, 2010 By Vernon Systems
Square cropping of images is now common on many cultural websites. It allows users to browse small arrays of images which make the most use of the available pixels, however it is hard to have generic cropping rules that work for all images. The latest eHive update has added new options for the square cropping of images. The default square cropping for portrait images has been changed to keep the top of the image. By looking through our existing portrait
January 1, 2010 By Vernon Systems
NZMuseums community
NZMuseums.co.nz is a website brought about by National Services Te Paerangi (which forms a part of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington) in partnership with Vernon Systems Ltd. It features a directory of 400 New Zealand museums and galleries, who also have the opportunity to catalogue and contribute their collection items online. This is the first step in showcasing collections online for the majority of participants. Because the NZMuseums site is built utilising eHive as its
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The Specifications for a 40th Anniversary Ford Mustang
by Justin Cupler
In the 2004 model year, Ford celebrated the Mustang's 40th anniversary by adding a "40th Anniversary" badge on every 2004 Mustang. The 2004 Mustang also marked the end of the eighth generation, as a new body style appeared the following year.
The 40th anniversary Mustang had four different engine options: one V-6 and three V-8s. The V-6 -- a 3.8-liter -- produced 190 hp at 5,250 rpm and 220 foot-pounds of torque at 2,750 rpm. The Mustang's V-8 -- a 4.6-liter -- produced 260 hp at 5,250 rpm to 390 hp at 6,000 rpm, and 302 foot-pounds of torque at 4,000 rpm to 390 foot-pounds of torque at 3,500 rpm.
Just like all other Mustangs, the 40th anniversary Mustang came only as a rear-wheel-drive vehicle. Three different transmission options were available in 2004: four-speed automatic, five-speed manual and six-speed manual.
Exterior and Weight
The 40th anniversary Mustang measured 183.2 to 183.5 inches long, 73.1 inches wide, 52.9 to 53.2 inches high. It had a 101.3-inch wheelbase and a curb weight -- weight without passengers or cargo -- ranging from 3,290 to 3,780 lbs.
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Moscow Guide
Private Kremlin Tour with Guide
To tell the truth, Kremlin is one must in Moscow. Often people think that the Kremlin is just an ancient fortress. But once you go in, you will be amazed, because in the past it was a real town. All architectural monuments and treasures, that you can see in the residence of the Russian rulers, will elucidate the history of Russia.
Visit the grounds of the Kremlin museum with your private Moscow guide to take a look into the most important for the history of Russia Cathedrals. It is hard to believe, that over hundred years ago all of the Russian Tsars were crowned, married and buried there.
During your private Kremlin Tour you will be guided over the squares and streets of the Kremlin. You will admire with explanations of your personal Kremlin guide the monuments of the Russian casting: Tsar Bell and Tsar Cannon. You will learn about the palaces of the Russian Tsars and Rulers and many other facts. (Download Moscow Kremlin map)
IMPORTANT NOTE: According to the regulations of the Kremlin Museums all "tickets for the Kremlin or Armory with guide permit" can be arranged only in advance and in addition for a specific date and time slot. Admission to the Armory is done in sessions at 10:00, 12:00, 14:30 and 16:30. The tickets number is always limited by Kremlin Museums for every time slot, please book your private Kremlin tour or Armory Tour in advance. Once booked and confirmed by Kremlin museums, the date and time of the tour cannot be changed, and no reimbursement on tickets and admission fee is offered. Open: every day except Thuesday.
Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and other foreign languages.
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Tour name/Number of participants
Kremlin with Cathedrals, 2 hours 145 € 84 € 65 € 55 € 50 € 45 € 41 € 34 €
Kremlin with Cathedrals & Red Square, 3 hours 165 € 99 € 75 € 65 € 57 € 53 € 49 € 39 €
Kremlin with one Cathedral & Armoury, 3 hours 230 € 155 € 125 € 115 € 100 € 95 € 85 € 75 €
Kremlin with one Cathedral and Armoury, & Tickets for unassisted visit of the Diamond Fund of Russia, 4 hours 265 € 185 € 159 € 141 € 123 € 118 € 105 € 95 €
Kremlin with Cathedrals, Red Square, St.Basil's Cathedral, 4 hours 215 € 139 € 110 € 95 € 89 € 84 € 79 € 69 €
We offer private tours only. The prices are quoted per person depending on the number of people in the group.
Private guide, tickets for the mentioned in "tour name" museums, admission fees with a guiding permit, booking fee and VAT.
Your guide will meet you near Kutafja Tower of the Kremlin (Tower N16 on the plan - this is the main Kremlin entrance) with the sign “Ich war in Russland”.
Please, select your tour Kremlin with Cathedrals, 2 hours Kremlin with Cathedrals & Red Square, 3 hours Kremlin with one Cathedral & Armoury, 3 hours Kremlin with one Cathedral and Armoury, & Tickets for unassisted visit of the Diamond Fund of Russia, 4 hours Kremlin with Cathedrals, Red Square, St.Basil's Cathedral, 4 hours
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Europe’s Lethal Fortress
Make no mistake — it's European governments who are to blame for the deadly migrant crisis.
Migrants wait to disembark from a German navy ship in Palermo, Italy in June. Alessandro Fucarin / AP
My social media feeds are filled with dead children. Small bodies, washing up on the shores of a Mediterranean beach.
Why are they washing up on the shores? European governments want us to blame traffickers. The advantage of blaming traffickers is that it actually licenses those governments to implement even more repressive measures. But traffickers are only out to make a quick buck off the system that European governments have created.
It is incredibly difficult to get into “Fortress Europe” as a refugee. Apart from all the legal obstacles, according to the European Council of Refugees and Exiles, even refugees face a policy of “illegal pushback,” wherein Greek government forces illegitimately use violence and threats to prevent those seeking asylum — many coming from Syria via Turkey — from entering the European Union.
If they go through Bulgaria, they are locked up in prison “camps.” They live on miserly rations of food, in what Amnesty International calls cruel and inhumane conditions, and live in fear of racist attacks. If they try to cross from Morocco to Spain, or from Libya to Italy, they risk sinking to their deaths in the middle of the Mediterranean.
And this is the context in which there is an emergency at sea. As the International Organisation of Migration points out, there has been a drastic ramping up of border controls, particularly maritime border controls in Europe, particularly in the form of Operation Triton — a repressive counter-migration measure often misleadingly described as a search and rescue operation.
This partly explains why the rate of deaths is drastically increasing in the Mediterranean, while decreasing in other parts of the world. Denied other means to travel, denied legal entry as refugees, migrants take the boat. And it’s a rickety boat, sailing in precarious conditions, under circumstances of terrifying surveillance.
As Al Jazeera reported last year, the number of deaths in the Mediterranean sea is rising — over three thousand in the first nine months of 2014, the worst figure since the beginning of the century, adding to the total of forty thousand who CNN said have died like this across the world since 2000. A humanitarian catastrophe.
Most of the bodies don’t wash up on the shore. Most of them are never recovered; the ones that are usually don’t have documents. No one knows who they are, or even what sex they are in most cases.
At long last, there is a backlash. People may get swept up in racist propaganda, but nobody likes to think of themselves as so brutally inhumane that they’d let cheerfully let children drown at sea. The European governments are being shamed into accepting some refugees, although the British government remains intransigent. The Financial Times reports:
During the negotiations on relocating 40,000 refugees earlier this summer, one EU diplomat said British officials joked that they would take zero people “and double that if they were really pushed.”
But it’s important to say that these refugees only constitute a small minority of the immigrants within and coming to the European Union. The success of anti-immigrant racism depends on us accepting the idea that Europe “can’t take” so many migrants. But the fact is that most immigrants to Europe arrive by air, with work visas. When you see statistics claiming a large number of “illegal immigrants,” the majority of that is migrants whose visa ran out while they were at their work placement.
Thus, it is not that Europe “can’t take” the number of immigrants that arrive, which consideration can only be temporarily set aside in emergencies. It is that European economies need, and depend upon the immigrants that arrive. The determination of the European Union to maintain a “fortress” has nothing to do with the supposed material burden that refugees place upon those states, and far more to do with the political management of the labor force.
But in setting up non-nationals as parasites, as a burden, as usurpers of national resources, and so on, European governments and their loyal media are generating a dangerous political fantasy.
Ultimately, if the migrants coming to Europe are a problem, then the ones who are already there (first, second, or third generation, depending on how one is racially coded) must also be a problem. No matter that they have citizenship, the mere fact that we put up with such a burden, according to this logic, is a sign of “our” benevolence, generosity, and tolerance.
But that can only be pushed so far, and in moments of crisis, when the economy is depressed, when newspapers tell us that Europe is being driven to the brink of civil war by immigration, when cultural diversity is no longer a bland multicultural shibboleth but actually fighting talk . . . well, if “they” are a problem, wouldn’t it be nice if we could somehow, not have to live with “them” any more? That’s the fantasy which ultimately grounds support for Farageism, Trumpism, or at worst Marine Le Pen and Golden Dawn.
And that is also the limitation of humanitarianism in this situation. As I see it, it is not that despite all the racism and xenophobia some baseline, fundamental human sympathy has kicked in.
Rather, what we are witnessing playing out is what in good old-fashioned Marxist terminology might be called the contradictions of the dominant ideology. The liberal-humanitarian element of European ideology has come into stark and obvious conflict with the nationalist and racist elements.
And it is good that the liberal-humanitarian reflex is prevailing for now. That does give antiracists breathing space and an angle from which to attack the fortress: for now, the slogan “Refugees are welcome here” has a clear resonance. But it doesn’t in itself affect the underlying ideological coordinates according to which immigrants are a burden, and a menace, and a problem population to be controlled.
We shouldn’t expect the momentary shock of devastation and disaster to do our political work for us.
Richard Seymour is the author of several books, including Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics . He blogs at Lenin’s Tomb .
Make no mistake — it’s European governments who are to blame for the deadly migrant crisis.
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THE NEW MARINE TORPILLEUR MILITARY – THE MARK OF A CAPTAIN
The new Marine Torpilleur Military: a modern Marine chronometer for those who captain their own destiny.
Riding on the wave of success of its Marine Torpilleur, Ulysse Nardin is releasing the Marine Torpilleur Military edition, a chronometer for a whole new generation of adventurer. Bold and dashing, this is a direct descendant of the pocket chronometers prized by the sea captains of 19th or beginning of the 20th century, radically redesigned for a resolutely mo-dern era. Featuring the same Ulysse Nardin UN-118 in-house movement as the celebrated Marine Chronometer, the Ulysse Nardin Marine Torpilleur Military takes on a more imposing air, as if daring the wearer to rise to a new level of challenge.
Dynamic design is in every line; military bearing in every aspect of this contemporary dynamo. Its two interpretations take inspiration from the eternal elegance of vintage military timepieces. One with an eggshell white dial, whose outlined Arabic numerals enable quick reading of the time, matched by an elegant tan leather strap. The other in chic black, with orange Arabic numerals and superluminova-coated hands – ideal for legibility in the dark – and attached to the wrist with a black strap with orange stitching. Both editions command respect with an oversized crown, and a formidable 44 mm case with a steel sand-blasted finish, water-resistant to 50 meters, and stamped on the back with the distinctive Torpilleur.
Remarkable for a more accessible chronometer, it is powered by the Ulysse Nardin UN-118 manufacture movement. Featuring the proprietary Silicium anchor escapement crafted in-house at the Swiss manufacture, it boasts both COSC certification and the Ulysse Nardin certificate, a double guarantee of the highest performance standards. A small seconds function at 6 o’clock is complemented by a red serial number, showing the timepiece’s status as one of only 300 in a limited edition. The initials C.W. proudly proclaim it is a Chronometer Watch, referen-cing the military models of the past, whose design followed the strict codes of the armed forces.
This contemporary chronometer has the advantage of 170 years of timekeeping excellence, the generations of precision and performance that have ensured Ulysse Nardin chronometers a treasured place among naval captains and explorers over the years. Stand to attention now for this vintage-inspired Ulysse Nardin Marine Torpilleur Military edition: refined, resolute, and like its namesake, the torpilleur, able to outmaneuver its rivals at every turn. The mark of a captain, indeed.
References 1183-320LE/60
1183-320LE/62
Limited Edition 300 pieces
Movement caliber UN-118, Ulysse Nardin certificate
In-house designed movement
Escapement, patented DIAMonSIL
Oscillator: patented inertial balance wheel I 10 with silicium hairspring
Power-Reserve approximately 60 h
Winding self-winding
Functions chronometer COSC
small direct seconds at 6 o’clock
Case stainless steel
Bezel fluted, stainless steel
Dial eggshell or black with Arabic numerals
Crown screw down security crown
Water-resistance 50 m
Crystal anti-reflective sapphire crystal
Case-back stamped with a Torpilleur boat
Strap leather strap with folding buckle
MARINE CHRONOMETER ANNUAL CALENDAR MONACO
Marine CHRONOMETER Annual Calendar
Ulysse Nardin releases the limited edition Marine Chronometer Annual Calendar Monaco, in celebration of 9 years of loyal support for the prestigious Monaco Yacht Show.
Ulysse Nardin is proud to be the official sponsor of Monaco Yacht Show for the 9th consecutive year. The Monaco Yacht show is the world’s largest mega yacht exhibition, where luxury yacht builders from around the world reveal their stunning creations. The highly-anticipated event takes place at Port Hercule in late September under the patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. Ulysse Nardin commemorates this incredible event with a special edition Marine Chronometer Annual Calendar Monaco, in a limited edition of 100 pieces.
The Monaco Yacht Show is an ideal opportunity for Ulysse Nardin customers to explore the glamourous, exciting world of super yachts, with the MYS a perfect partner for the Swiss watchmaker, whose seafaring heritage stretches back to 1846. The MYS is the reference exhibition in the super yacht industry. Once a year the best and most exclusive super yacht builders and nautical service providers reach out to their clientele in the picturesque setting of Port Hercule. The MYS offers Ulysse Nardin the perfect environment to highlight its expertise, innovation and seafaring DNA.
This seafaring DNA is encapsulated in the Ulysse Nardin Marine chronometer created for the prestigious event. A timepiece inspired by the historic marine chronometers upon which the reputation of Ulysse Nardin was founded, the Marine Chronometer Annual Calendar Monaco is an exquisite timepiece of impeccable pedigree, created in a limited edition of 100 pieces.
At Ulysse Nardin, the pursuit of excellence in technical avant-garde has advanced in line with the search for timekeeping simplicity. In 2016, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Marine Collection, a Marine Chronograph incorporated an annual calendar for the first time.
A mechanical annual calendar typically requires up to thirty components. But in pursuit of the principle of simplicity, Ulysse Nardin watchmakers managed to streamline the system to a mere 7 elements. Simple to use, beautiful to behold, this timepiece is the epitome of innovation in the service of practicality, as it requires a date adjustment only once a year. This achievement in purity and functionality celebrates the achievements of Ludwig Oechslin, the originator whose legacy is the quest for simplicity in even the most difficult complication.
This quest is upheld too in the UN-113 caliber, a movement – including the silicium escapement and balance-spring – made entirely in-house at the Ulysse Nardin workshop. It enables the calendar date-setting both forwards and backwards – yet another simplification.
Only 100 pieces of this extraordinary timepiece exist, a fact to which the “Limited Edition” engraving on the bracelet’s titanium insert can attest. With its COSC-certification, the precision self-winding movement combines the coveted annual calendar feature with a 60-hour power reserve.
A celebration of the Monaco Yacht Show is revealed in several details on the white lacquered dial with its distinctive blue Roman numeral indexes – a feature of each timepiece in Ulysse Nardin’s Marine collection. A stunning tribute to the event of the year comes in the form of “Monaco 2017” inscribed on the dial. The dates of the event (27, 28, 29, 30) and the month of September are highlighted in blue, instead of black, on the date disc.
As you might expect for a timepiece with such an illustrious maritime heritage, the Marine Chronometer Annual Calendar Monaco is water resistant to 100 m, its 43 mm stainless-steel case equipped with a fluted bezel and a rubberized screw-down security crown. An anti-reflective sapphire crystal reveals the UN movement in the open case back, and a rubber strap with a folding clasp and titanium element keeps it firmly in place.
Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometer Annual Calendar Monaco and the Monaco Yacht Show. For all those who embrace the power of the sea, this is a match made in yachting heaven.
Reference 1133-210LE-3/40-MON
Movement caliber UN-113
Silicium escapement and spring, 28’800 v/h
Functions chronometer COSC with power reserve indicator at 12 o’clock
annual calendar, backward/forward setting, with months indicator at 6 o’clock
small direct seconds and round date window at 6 o’clock
Dial white lacquered with roman numerals in blue
Crown screw down security crown, covered with rubber
Water-resistance 100 m
Case-back open case back with sapphire crystal
Strap rubber strap with titanium element and folding clasp
Price € 9’900.-, CHF 9’900.-
Prices are subject to changes without prior notice
MARINE TORPILLEUR
Introducing the Marine Torpilleur, a light, modern Marine timepiece for those who captain their own destiny.
In the 19th century, when explorers roamed the oceans, the pocket chronometer was the captain’s watch, a mark of his rank both on shore and off. Ulysse Nardin’s pocket chronometers were among the most coveted – prized by naval officers and merchant captains the world over. That vibrant marine history led to the creation of the iconic Marine Chronometer, the ultimate expression of technical performance and beautiful design.
Now comes a new generation chronometer, made for the modern era: the Ulysse Nardin Marine Torpilleur. Named for the small, fast ships of that earlier era, whose agility ensured they easily outmaneuvered bigger ships, this is a timepiece for contemporary explorers. A lighter, thinner version of the iconic Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometer, the Marine Torpilleur is made for a young, less formal age.
It has dynamic appeal, certainly, yet is supported by generations of craftsmanship and performance that loyal customers know they can expect from the Swiss watchmaker. Like its inspiration, the Marine Chronometer, the Torpilleur is powered by the self-winding in-house UN-118 movement, and features the same 60-hour power reserve and proprietary Silicium anchor escapement. The Marine Torpilleur also comes C.O.S.C-certified, and meets the equally stringent standards that allow it to proudly bear the Ulysse Nardin Performance Certificate.
Outstanding design is visible on the dial too, where the iconic features of the Marine collection are in evidence: the Roman numeral indexes, and the emblematic logo with its flash of red in “1846”. While the graceful hands possess the instantly recognizable shape of a Marine timepiece, they too are redesigned for the Marine Torpilleur. The small seconds at 6 o’clock encircles the date window, while the 60-hour power reserve indicator is at 12 o’clock.
A sign of refinement and modernity. This is the new Marine Torpilleur. Initially launching in three different models, and two different dials, in stainless steel and 18 kt rose gold. Three successful visions of our time that embody the modern spirit:
The 42 mm 18 kt rose gold Marine Torpilleur with a white dial and leather strap with folding buckle. Screw-down security crown, sapphire crystals and water-resistance to 50 m.
The 42 mm stainless-steel Marine Torpilleur with a white dial and leather strap with folding buckle. Screw-down security crown, sapphire crystals and water-resistance to 50 m.
The 42 mm stainless steel case with a blue dial and stainless steel bracelet. Screw-down security crown, sapphire crystals and water-resistance to 50 m.
Resolutely modern, bold and brilliant, the Marine Torpilleur joins the long line of illustrious Marine Collection chronometers. It may be designed for the city, but its heart – like that of every true adventurer – belongs to the sea.
About Ulysse Nardin – Artisans of individuality
Founded by Mr. Ulysse Nardin in 1846 and a proud member of the global luxury group Kering since November 2014, Ulysse Nardin has written some of the finest chapters in the history of Haute Horlogerie. The company’s earliest renown came from its links to the nautical world: its marine chronometers are among the most reliable ever made, still sought by collectors around the world. A pioneer of cutting-edge technologies and the innovative use of materials like silicium, the brand is one of the few with the in-house expertise to produce its own high-precision components and movements. This exceptional level of watchmaking excellence has earned Ulysse Nardin membership in the most exclusive circle of Swiss watchmaking, the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie. Today, from its sites in Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, the brand’s continuing quest for horological perfection centers around five collections: the Marine, the Diver, the Classic, the Executive and the Freak.
References 1182-310/40
1183-310-7M/43
Movement caliber UN-118, 13 ¾‘’’
forward and backward date corrector
Case 18 kt rose gold or stainless steel
Bezel fluted, 18 kt rose gold or stainless steel
Dial white or blue with roman numerals
Case-back open case-back with sapphire crystal
Strap leather strap with folding buckle or stainless steel bracelet
FARFETCH TAKES A FRESH APPROACH TO HARD LUXURY
BEAUTIFUL FREAKS
Ulysse Nardin and FARFETCH present a new MARINE TORPILLEUR,
exclusively available on Farfetch.com
May 15th 2018, Le Locle, Switzerland: Ulysse Nardin has chosen Farfetch.com for its first online launch, and presents a special edition of the blue Marine Torpilleur, exclusively available on the website of the international online luxury retailer. This new piece, with a subtly crafted dial, joins the ranks of the popular Marine Torpilleur that was launched in 2017 and is initially available in two more classic versions: a white dial with black indexes and a blue dial with white indexes. On the FARFETCH MARINE TORPILLEUR, you will find layered pink gold coloring. Sober and elegant, it gives a more refined look to the piece overall, accentuating the contrast with the 42 mm steel case. The pink gold brings out the dial’s shimmering, iconic blue. In the same vein, the pear-shaped hands are no longer rhodiumized, but pink gold colored. The power reserve indicator at 12 o’clock is no longer in vermeil red, but also made of pink gold, as is the case for the date of the Le Locle Manufacture’s creation, 1846. The indexes have a small additional touch: the immaculate white has been discreetly transformed into light gray, to soften the dial’s overall look.
This new FARFETCH MARINE TORPILLEUR, available with a leather, steel or rubber strap, completes a collection which is already a best-seller. This new addition to the permanent collection, only available online, now forms part of the troop of Torpilleurs.
Women will also have their own new product available on Farfetch.com as the CLASSICO JADE, in the red version launched at SIHH 2018, is now available without the diamond-set bezel. It comes with a satin strap for formal version, or with an alligator leather strap, for a more day-to-day look.
“Expect more launches in the future,” stated Patrick Pruniaux, CEO of Ulysse Nardin since September 2017. “We’re delighted to launch Ulysse Nardin on Farfetch.com,” continued Mr. Pruniaux. “We’re showing our capacity to adapt to the changing era. It’s the first time that Ulysse Nardin has taken part in e-commerce on a global level.”
The blue-anchored brand will be online on Farfetch.com from Monday April 23, 2018, with a collection of more than 45 pieces, including the FARFETCH MARINE TORPILLEUR and the red CLASSICO JADE with a mother-of-pearl-set dial.
MARINE TORPILLEUR BLACK AND GREY
EXPANDING THE FLEET
The bestselling Marine Torpilleur Collection just doubled in size !
Left side: New Marine Torpilleur Boutique Only Edition in grey color. Right side: New Marine Torpilleur black & rose gold.
Le Locle, Switzerland, June 27th – Two very contemporary new timepieces have joined the ranks of the popular Marine Torpilleur class. Classic black or gunmetal grey, these lean clean modern machines are every bit as sleek and streamlined as the navy destroyer class of torpedo boats from which they take their name.
Initially launched with white or blue dials, the Marine Torpilleur fleet is now reinforced with two stunning new editions: rose gold with black and gold dial; and a Boutique-only version in stainless steel with grey dial. Elegantly elongated Roman numerals mark the hours. The graceful, poire-style hands are in rose gold colour, as are the ‘Haut’ (high) and ‘Bas’ (low) indications of the power reserve. The crown is screw-down and engraved with the Ulysse Nardin logo. The small seconds counter at 6 o’clock encircles the date window and the “1846” logo—a stylish nod to the year the house was founded. The luxury straps are in perfectly matched alligator.
Inspired by Ulysse Nardin’s marine heritage yet fully modernized for daily urban wear, the Marine Torpilleur is supremely comfortable on the wrist and a delight to the eye. A true Captain’s chronometer, COSC and Ulysse Nardin Certified, it represents contemporary watch design in its finest hour—the culmination of generations of craftsmanship and savoir-faire.
“A less formal, more contemporary version of the iconic Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometer, the Marine Torpilleur is aimed at a younger clientele.” said Patrick Pruniaux, Chief Executive Officer of Ulysse Nardin. “Yet it traces its heritage back to two breakthrough innovations of the early nineteenth century. The first Ulysse Nardin aficionados know well—the house’s famous pocket chronometer. Its unprecedented reliability and precision helped open the world’s oceans to sea-going merchants, navigators and adventurers. The second innovation was the Torpilleur. Fast, agile and armed with a new weapon—the self-propelled torpedo—the Torpilleur easily outmaneuvered the slow-moving battleships that till then had ruled the wave.”
Powered by the Marine Chronometer’s self-winding in-house UN-118 movement with 60-hour power reserve (indicated on a counter at 12 o’clock) and proprietary Silicium anchor escapement, the 42mm case has been completely redesigned, with lighter, more elongated lugs, a thinner fluted fixed bezel, and a much thinner flange framing the dial.
Launched in 2017, the Marine Torpilleur is the new flagship of Ulysse Nardin’s marine-inspired collections. These two standout additions to the fleet are just part of the adventure: expect to see exciting new launches on the immediate horizon.
Ferrari Collector David Lee
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Hoaxtead mob tries to ride on #pizzagate coat-tails
If you’ve been online in the past couple of weeks, chances are you’ve seen the hashtag #pizzagate popping up on sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube. We’ve talked about it here, but in the past week the #pizzagate phenomenon has grown exponentially, spreading its slimy fake-news tentacles as far as respected U.S. newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Yesterday both papers published critical, thoughtful pieces on the #pizzagate conspiracy theory and how it has hurt not only the owner, but workers and patrons of a popular pizza parlour in Northwest Washington.
According to the Times, #pizzagate started with the WikiLeaks email hacks that were made public just days before the U.S. presidential election:
Residents of Hampstead will feel a shudder of recognition at what followed:
A few conspiracy nuts grab some spurious information from a dubious source, draw some imaginary lines to create a story that confirms their own daffy preconceived notions of how the “elites” operate, and next thing you know, you’ve got death threats and harassment, and an innocent group of people trying to shield themselves and their families from online and in-person attacks.
The owner of the pizza joint in question, James Alefantis, told the Times, “From this insane, fabricated conspiracy theory, we’ve come under constant assault….I’ve done nothing for days but try to clean this up and protect my staff and friends from being terrorized”.
Mr Alefantis, the people of Hampstead understand and sympathise. It’s not easy trying to remain calm in the face of a tsunami of public hatred, especially when you have no idea where it came from, have done nothing to deserve it, and don’t know how to stop it.
Within hours of the Post story going up yesterday, the comments section had been inundated with comments from the Gullible Great Unwashed, conspiracy-minded folk for whom this story represents the very pinnacle of conspiritainment porn. (The Times, perhaps wisely, doesn’t have a comments section on its online edition.)
Hoaxtead mobsters make hay while the sun shines
Of course, as the #pizzagate farce gathers steam, you have to know that those with an interest in promoting the Hampstead SRA hoax will try to turn it into a victory. People like Deborah Mahmoudieh, Angela Power-Disney, and Sabine McNeill have all latched onto the story as though it was the last lifeboat on the Titanic.
In effect, they’re using a proven hoax as “conclusive evidence”, trying to proclaim that they were right all along, there really is a world-wide child-trafficking cult conspiracy:
Hoaxtead mobsters are trying to leverage this story into a last-ditch push to get Hoaxtead onto the world stage…and here’s why it won’t work.
No one cares.
The ravening crowds who are currently baying and slavering as they try to find the “silver bullet” that will prove that #pizzagate is real, dammit! are not interested in some rinky-dink two-year-old hoax in a suburb of London. They are after much bigger prey: most of them seem to be Trump supporters, who just can’t resist this one last chance to kick Hillary Clinton in the slats while she’s down.
They’ve already won the election, but that’s not the point. They want to crush their opponent into the dirt…and that has absolutely nothing to do with Hoaxtead. Hoaxtead is a complete non-issue for 99.9% of the #pizzagate nutters.
Social media sites paying attention now
Even more important is that for the first time in the history of the internet, the giant social media platforms are being forced to sit up and take notice. Reddit, known to some as “4Chan Lite”, has actually banned the original #pizzagate thread, ostensibly because it violated their policy of naming names. In reality, they grasped the fact that continuing to host this kind of harassing and defamatory material could make them legally liable…and that could add up to a world of pain for Reddit.
As our commenter Sam has pointed out here, a recent case in Australia proved that internet media giants like Google can be sued for refusing to remove defamatory material. Lawyers for several other social media sites attended the trial, which will likely have repercussions across the internet.
In social media terms, #pizzagate is a great honking lawsuit just waiting to happen. Even Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has had to promise to take steps to stanch the flow of fake news; and where Facebook goes, Twitter usually follows.
So what will become of #pizzagate? Eventually it will die down, consigned to that corner of the internet reserved for those who think the Earth is flat and alien reptiles live on a compound on the dark side of the Moon. A few hardcore nutters will continue to try and push it, but the vast majority of current supporters will drop off, most likely within a month or two. The news cycle giveth, and the news cycle taketh away.
And once again, the Hoaxtead mob will be left weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth, as their pet conspiracy once again fails to achieve lift-off.
27/11/2016 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: Angela Power-Disney, conspiracy theories, Deborah Mahmoudieh, fake news, harassment, internet, Sabine McNeill
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Very eloquently written, EC. I particularly like “The news cycle giveth and the news cycle taketh away”.
Re.your list of Hampstead hoaxer twunts who’ve climbed aboard the Pizzagate twatwagon, may I add that Mel Ve and Kristie Sue Costa have also clambered aboard and embraced it with open arms and closed minds…
The Tinfoil Twatwagon™ says:
Fear not, Pizzagaters – our best man is on the case. This dude is straight out of the Angela Power-Disney School of Journalism and Research and he’s already discovered that Jimmy Savile was arrested and convicted of 500 counts of raping children and dead bodies…
Oh and don’t bother trying to “click here” – Professor Menved didn’t deem it necessary to provide an actual link.
Dear lord. “Even dead bodies”? I mean yes, Savile was a creepazoid of the first order, but let’s not get silly here. Also, the NYTimes isn’t the only paper to report on this latest round of fake news. It may be considered the “paper of record” in America, but I understand they do have one or two other newspapers there too.
And the fact that the allegations didn’t come to light until a year after Savile’s death doesn’t seem to have blipped on Menved’s radar.
Have you seen this? The fraudulent ritual abuse allegations cat is out of the bag in current UK investigations:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3974750/A-satanic-injustice-Police-warned-Edward-Heath-ritual-child-abuse-claims-fantasy-ploughing-700-000-probe.html
This woman – Leading Criminologist Dr Rachel Hoskins – is a genuine hero! for speaking out. Thank you, Dr Hoskins!
Described as an expert on “ritual”, which I take to be an expertise in the well documented religious rituals of various cultural & ethnic communities, rather than “ritual abuse” or “ritualistic abuse” referring specifically to Pazder’s lurid fantasies and related fantasies derived from his.
I used to do this kind of work, speaking out in radio and print journalism, way back circa. late 1980’s. (Not as an “expert”, cause I don’t got the right academic creds for that, but rather as a spokesperson for anti-defamation organizations representing religious minorities too small to support their own such organization).
She’s right to say that she’s “taking a risk”, here.
I dropped out of it after a few years, once I started to be publicly ‘known’ for such work, locally. “The Public Face” of such work, on behalf of any minority group, can become a magnet for lunatic “haters” and that’s not a happy place to be in.
Yes, Captain Mainwaring pointed us to this one just a few hours ago–excellent news!
To their dis-credit Wikileaks jumped the shark with the ridiculous Podesta / Satanic dinner twits which they were actively sending out right up to election day.
While Assange & Wikileaks claimed they had no Trump leaked emails to release, they became an active partisan player in the US election and it’s a mystery why. Perhaps Assange believes Trump will return the favour in some sort of amnesty as many claim ( but why-he hasn’t been charged with anything in the US?) but I think the opposite will happen.
Now that Assange is being hailed by the Nazi / Alt Right, KKK and other extremists I think he is more likely to be seen as an annoyance by The Don and the CIA will view him as a “useful idiot” who is no longer of use and who they would rather see disappear.
# Nigel Farage should take note : once The Don realises he is powerless he just becomes an annoyance who can be dispensed with.
The blame for these vile attacks upon an innocent pizza parlour, it’s owner and workers lies squarely with Wikileaks : while releasing Clinton emails they exposed the home addresses and phone numbers, and social security details of Democratic Party workers with many receiving death threats. Although the NSA says it was Russia who hacked the emails and we cannot always assume this is truthful, Putin & Russia are celebrating a Trump win. Without a doubt the whole leaked email campaign was a deliberate and carefully planned enterprise to achieve a result and was successful.
This just shows the hideous Satanic hoax mob for what they are : incapable of original & intelligent thought and forever seeking out anything they think ‘proves’ the horrible darkness in the pits of their minds.
I still think there is a further plot in play here : eventual control of the internet. The reasons for doing so are being planted. I’ve had discussions with friends (and especially younger post-internet people) who really believe the internet is some sort of uncontrollable entity. The Bush administration had advanced plans drawn up to do just that by imposing expensive financial gates on net providers where the poorest could only access minimal content but they abandoned the plans as too soon and too unpopular. Driving those plans were large media organisations like News Corp who supported Trump.
She is brave for speaking up as she will become a focus of attention of these ghastly satanic promoters and receive threats as well as being accused of being part of a ‘cover-up’.
Yes, I think of the the abuse Jean la Fontaine had to endure for the crime of concluding that SRA is not a thing.
Re. the ‘troofer pizza’ pic above, I wonder whether Angie & Elaine’s patented ‘evil eyes’ rule also applies to Peacher?
Meanwhile, things are hotting up on the Cullinane conspiracy front and Neelu can rest assured that her crack intelligence team is on the job:
And meanwhile, over on Angie’s Farcebook page, a real turdfest is going on. She’s put up 13 posts in the last hour! It has been mentioned before that she does this when she’s really angry and upset about something. So that’s good news at least.
Here’s her most recent offering. Christ knows what it’s about but she’s making less and less sense these days:
Don’t worry, Liza – Bazza’s postponed his butterfly hunt and sorted it all out:
Can someone explain the concept of “either…and” to me? How does that work?
That went well then, Debs.
Have APD and Helen Lederer ever been seen in the same room at the same time? I reckon I’m on to something here.
gojam says:
Hi JS & El Coyote
Two points.
1) That article is riddled with errors. I’m not sure what is written by the journalist, what is written by Dr Rachel Hoskins and what is written by the author Richard Hoskins – or even if Richard Hoskins and Rachel Hoskins (both criminologists) are the same person.)
“Soon an anonymous blog from an alleged victim was spotted by investigative organisation Exaro. It also caught the attention of Labour MPs Tom Watson and Simon Danczuk. They met the alleged victim, who later became known as Nick, and on October 24, 2012, Watson rose in the House of Commons to make his now infamous allegation of a historic VIP paedophile ring.”
This passage especially stands out as wrong. Which leaves me with a dilemma. What can be trusted. The article, in places, resembles something written by someone with an hypothesis that they’re trying to p[rove, Making the facts fit the hypothesis, and perhaps bandwagonning in the hope of selling a book? Who knows?
You’ll know that I have scant time for these allegations. Perhaps if I could differentiate between what is ‘privileged’ information from an informed source and what is commentary from an uninformed source, I’d be able to take something from it but I can’t.
2) #PizzaGate.
Let’s start with the what is wrong. The entire premise that the allegations are based on are without foundation. The supposed code in the Podesta emails looks entirely made up to fit in with their hypothesis and the use of false UK stories, including Hoaxstead, undermines it further.
However, I’d remind people that John Stingemore and Tony McSweeney were both child abusers who were caught during the police investigation into the equally erroneous Elm Guest House myth.
Regardless of the stupid way that people have got there or the nonsense allegations that are being used to make the broader conspiracy look more substantial, I’m not so quick to dismiss the allegations against the pizza parlour. Why?
It isn’t because of the ‘child lover’ symbolism in the logo. Pizza slices are triangular, it can be coincidence, and frankly, if you start looking for such similarities you’ll find them if you look hard enough. Discussing this with a good friend earlier in the week, she jokingly suggested that her mother-in-law must be a ‘boy lover’ because she had a pair of earrings that resembled the symbol.
No, I won’t immediately dismiss it entirely for a number of reasons. Firstly, there can be absolutely no doubt that the artist who is displayed in the pizza parlour produces work that is 100% CSA related. No doubt whatsoever. They may be innocent reasons for this – she may be a victim herself – but that fact is indisputable.
Secondly, there is an image from one of the owners of the Parlour social media accounts of a very young boy (about 3yrs) in the arms of an adult male with a yellow bead necklace around both of their heads. The owner had written next to this picture “ChickenLover” – Once again there can be no doubt about what that reference is. Some have suggested that the yellow bead necklace is a paedophile symbol. I don’t know but it really makes no difference because the parlour owner made that connection in the picture not conspiracy theorists.
There are a few other less certain points, the singer interacting with the audience at the Pizza Parlour for example. The audience suggesting the owner liked boys, and children – Joke?
The point I’m trying to make is that people are inclined to dismiss everything when there is so much rubbish being cited as ‘proof’. That doesn’t mean that it is all rubbish and that everything should be dismissed out of hand. If investigators did that then Stingemore and McSweeney would never have been caught.
“It is because of the ‘child lover’ symbolism in the logo.” Should read ‘It isn’t because of the ‘Child lover’ symbolism in the logo. Can this be corrected please?
3:15 – “The true blood of Christ is cannabis.”
Yeah? Which Bible passage is that from , Araya? I want book, chapter and verse, please.
Yes, very welcome article, fair dues to Mail for printing it. I recently attended a talk at the LSE where Jean la Fontaine (among others) talked about the original “satanic panic” …. It was, in hindsight, horrifying. Not for the reasons conspiracy nuts might think though; as with Hoaxtead, seemingly intelligent and educated people completely abandoned any kind of critical thinking and/or common sense with appalling consequences for parents, children, and all the falsely accused.
Gojam, you’ve added 2 + 2 and come up with 5. There is no such thing as a “child lover” symbol… this is conspiratard nonsense. Also “chicken” in homosexual slang does not mean children, it means young men/teenagers. The artwork is very disturbing, granted, but again, that’s not evidence of anything except the artists vision and intent. None of this adds up to satanic babypizza-eating conspiracy of any kind.
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Hi Pallas. I’m not adding anything to anything and I’m not suggesting that there is a babypizza conspiracy.
On the rest, you’re wrong – plain and simple. Symbols – wrong. The narrow meaning of ‘Chicken’ you’ve decided to adopt – wrong.
Welcome news, and will be the subject of my next blog post on satanicviews.
I’d have great concerns about the veracity of an article from a man who has taken the gender and name of a SRA complainant (not making any judgement on the veracity of her complaints)
That is creepy. And if others don’t get that – or ignore that, then you’re just as blinkered as those you’re criticising.
I think the Mail have been taken in. I don’t think this person has had the privileged access to material he/she claims.
But we should believe a guy who names himself after a breakfast preserve?
Shit, it’s also my favourite band, isn’t it. Curses, Professor – you win this round but I’ll be back.
I am afraid such a task is way above my pay grade Spiny.
It would appear by the hoax mobsters ever confusing “idiot speak” that they are developing a “secret” code whereby the degree of nonsense determines rank within the organisation.Whilst they havent a clue what they are banging on about they wish to ensure that no one else knows what they are banging on about either.If everyone can end up wandering around utterly confused and perplexed then they will feel a little bit more normal.
Clearly it is all part of a cunning plan to undermine western civilization whilst simultaneously ensuring the ability to remain complete arseholes and ensure no one has to actually do a proper days work or anything useful ever again.
Someone in the CIA needs to defrost Alan Turing from cryogenic suspension and get to grips with what the fuck they are on about.It could be called operation Cuntwaffle or something.
Just to correct myself above. The SRA complainant is Rachel Hopkins and the cross dressing doctor calls himself Rachel Hoskins.
My mistake – apologies.
Patrick Cullinane was the greatest threat to the New World Order since Worzel Gummidge. The leaders of Islam, Judaism, Satanism, Catholic Church, Shinto, Mormons and Voodoo held a secret conference at a certain church in Hull over delicious local pizza. The local pizza delivery boy was sent to do their deed, death by pizza.
Replace the “and” with “or” and it still makes no sense; unless it should be “undead”.
Shit, that’s scary stuff, James!
The only genuine waste of human energies revealed by this fruitcake is the effort she manages to expend talking out of her backside.
Oh come off it Mel, you know damn well that you will soon be tucking into pizza again.
PA, I’ve amended Gojam’s original statement at his request to “it isn’t because of the child lover symbol”. Hope that helps.
Lol, i was puzzling over that comment also.
She said she is moving out of the country so she can have fresh cannabis every day. I wonder if she’ll be going to stay with Abrella?
No idea what that load of bollox is about.
if we all put our indifferences aside we may be able to come to some consensus as to what Mr Lyndon means.
The again why bother. It’s like trying to get sense out of a house brick.
There is a pizza ship just a mile from where the late / missing / kidnapped / gone-into-space Patrick Cullinane lived.
Think it’s just a co-incidence? I don’t think so.
a pizza shop as well.
The pizza ship was floating above his house when this incident occurred.
Pizza ship? I like the sound of that. Let me know when they have a sail on.
If you can interpret that then you are a better man than me Gunga Din.
Not sure I want to hear about Mizz Soma talking about containing orgasms.
What if you are a vegetarian?. Waste of a baby. Can I have mine made into shoes?
Hi Gojam! Nice to see ya.
Thanks for your input.
I appreciate the reminder, that we must always be open to examining the veracity of new information or new sources of information, because Confirmation Bias is hard-wired into fundamental human thought processes and NO ONE is immune to its influence.
I’m not endorsing the legitimacy of what The Mail claims Dr Rachel Hoskins has said about specific current cases. I don’t have access to all the information I’d need to have to analyze it myself, obviously. I’m applauding her courage in publicly raising the spectre of SRA fantasy with respect to current cases AT ALL.
There has been “stuff” between you and other CSA commentators. That’s none of my business, of course, and what follows is intended as a general comment not directed at or to any particular persons.
No one person can know everything about everything. When people perceive there to be a crisis in their community, they all bring their personal knowledge base and knowledge deficits to whatever effort they might make, toward “doing something” about it.
People often believe they know more about a subject than they actually, objectively do. For example – during the satanic panic of the 1980’s & early ’90’s, there were many insincere con-artists hard at work spreading misinformation for their own purposes. But there were many more totally sincere persons, also spreading this misinformation, because that was all the information they had access to on that subject. Some of these people didn’t even know there COULD BE other sources of information on the subject.
A prolific source of misinformation called: “Lt. Larry Jones’ File 18 network” “trained” dozens of professionals from a variety of fields on “Cult & Occult Crime”, supposely. In reality, they just filled their heads with nonsense, but these professionals didn’t know that. We had to be very careful in approaching Larry’s seminar graduates. We were telling them things they’d never heard before, and they were naturally skeptical about US as a source. They sincerely believed that they already knew “the truth”, you see. If we were too aggressive, or pompous, or insulted their own pride, they would end up stubbornly defending their misinformation, just to spite us. And this problem ran in both directions, of course. If you’ve never met a “fundamentalist” Wiccan – well, you don’t want to… Believe me.
I can only judge what has passed between you and I, Gojam. You’ve never given ME any reason to doubt your sincerity. You’ve been a very important source of accurate info, for me personally. And what only you and I could know, is how courageously frank & honest you’ve been with me in confessing to a lack of knowledge about some things, and how open and receptive you’ve been to the info I’ve shared with you about those things.
She really does not know what hashtags are for, does she?
Hahaha! Did you know that triangular slices of pizza = paedophiles? Worzel Gummidge was right, that’s why they cut his head off and replace it with a turnip!
I hope she means that, atm she’s boring the arse off everyone in the Excalibur Cafe on a daily basis about flat earth.
I think there is a lot of misinformation about Pizzagate, people are reading into every little detail. However, the code used in Podesta’s emails are a little disturbing. He repeatedly uses nouns out of their proper context, and apparently these nouns are related to code used by paedophiles. Like ordering international pizza from Haiti at $65,000, offering to substitute a lack of pizza with ‘walnuts’, renting pizza for an hour etc…
I cannot equate this with the outlandish Hoaxstead case, I really think that there may be something to it.
@ gojam
Considering the pizza place actually sells chicken, the poultry derived foodstuff that is, and even sells chicken wings, chicken lover isn’t such a strange reference. Imagine how many Instagram pictures and accounts have been scoured to find that particular smoking gun.
It is also a music venue and beloved by hipsters and contemporary artists. One person who knows the owner has a painting by an artist who has painted other things that people find disturbing. Perhaps a visit to see Piss Christ and the supposedly blasphemous Chris Ofili is in order for some people who either don’t realise that artists deliberately cause offence, or that offence can be found in the unlikeliest places.
Anyway, the pizza place has had punk bands. Blow me over with a feather if some people don’t find some punk offensive.
You might not like the art or musicians, but so what really? I notice people aren’t calling for these artists to be arrested in the main, just someone who knows someone who bought a piece of work that isn’t particularly disturbing by an artist who has made works that the mob don’t like.
Not convinced in the slightest, but I can smell the burning torches of the Internet horde and hear the metallic noise of sharpening pitchforks.
These are real people who have had real death threats.
There are people playing at being pizzagate investigators who previously hounded the people that the Hampstead children named. Not a surprise in the least. Don’t think I haven’t noticed McCann trolls and the Google Hollie Greig lot sucking up to high profile CSA campaigners either. They are a hateful bunch who frankly get their kicks from hurting people. Trauma vampires I call them.
Nope. Clueless.
Bob, as Justin Sanity says above, we really do not know anything that is verifiable for certain.
For example, how do we know that the emails are even genuine?
Even f it can be shown that they are of genuine origin, how do we know that the emails have not been altered afterwards?
How can you trust Wikileaks for anything. They are about as accountable and transparent as any government.
How easy is it to start a meme? Flat earth anyone? where did that come from?
It really shows that a lot of people will believe anything in either the mainstream media or any old shitty blog just because it is claimed.
Just make it a rule not to believe anything unless you can verify with real evidence. Not the junk in the ‘alternative media’ like Pizza means X Y or Z, therefore guilty or in the so called mainstream like Iraq has those WMDs so let’s go and destroy the country.
It seems that most ‘news’ is just really entertainment/distraction/titillation of one sort or another for a lot of people.
Unfortunately, it can be extremely powerful and sometimes it has terrible consequences for many people.
PIZZA LOVERS: Avoid the wrath of perverted lunatics and being burned at the stake in your town square.Cut your favourite nosh into novel shapes that dont include polygons with three edges and three vertices.This can be fun for the whole famiy.Heres one I made earlier.
Do you have a link to support that, Bob? With all due respect, I keep hearing about these mythical emails but have yet to see them. And it all sounds a bit odd to me – a highly secretive organisation with everything to lose are so determined to keep themselves hidden that they use codes in their emails but the most subtle form of code they can think of is “international pizza from Haiti at $65,000”? Sorry, I’m struggling to buy that and need to see these supposed emails first hand.
I’m amazed the baying crowd haven’t demanded to see Podesta’s cock tattoo yet.
Aha!! The spicy sausage special! I remember it well.
Speaking of coded messages, I’m intrigued by Neelu’s Lanzarote reference at the end of this Cullinane conspiracy thread! Angie, what HAVE you been up to? 😮
In due course, SN. In due course.
Christ, Neelu – move on!
Just to be clear JS – I think the SRA allegations against Heath are fantasy and you already know my views on Nick’s allegations – So I can hardly be accused of trying to perpetuate conspiracy theories, and I believe the Podesta pizzagate conspiracy to be politically motivated hogwash.
My problem with The Mail article is twofold. One it has obvious inaccuracies and two, I think it gives the impression that Nick’s allegations are SRA related and that Nick has been somehow manipulated by therapists into believing that he was abused – I’ve many reasons not to believe this including from sources that I can’t divulge.
It is as though Dr Richard/Rachel Hoskins has started with an issue that he/she has researched and fitted it with the subject at hand – it may have relevance to the other Heath complainants but not Nick and frankly, it isn’t helpful for the ongoing investigation into him for Perverting the Course of Justice.
Bravery in publishing it online? Given the image he/she released of her/him sitting up in bed reading today’s paper – I’d suggest self-promotion for a new book.
As for pizzagate I remember an informed source telling me about the EGH investigation – they went looking for evidence and had Stingemore in their sights already but then the Grafton boys they tracked down kept referring to “the other one, the fat priest”, It started with a fantasy but ended with two genuine abbusers being arrested and charged.
I’m not making any allegation against anyone, I’m just pointing out that if you have thousands of people searching online and elsewhere – sometimes, something genuine turns up in the midst of the rubbish and the natural inclination is for everyone to either believe everything or dismiss everything.
I’m not sure that I can concur with some of your thoughts on this, but nevertheless, THAT WAS GREAT! Thank you.
“Bradley Knight – You really are an idiot” – har-har-har-har!!
To be fair, Neelu does have a point, as this covert photo attests:
LOL! I shudder to think.
“He must be alive hopefully somewhere nice like Lanzarote, where he was found the last time he disappeared.”
There’s the ‘L’ word again! Angie’s in this conspiracy up to her eyeballs, haha 😀
At one point in Neelu’s rant above, she seems to be saying that Cullinane has faked his own death and disappeared by his own choice for the sake of his safety. So why the fuck is she telling the World about it? LOL
Neelu in continuing to flog a dead horse whilst causing upset to innocent folk shocker. Talk about confused,in one breath she refers to Patrick in the past tense in the next she suggests he is still mooching about in “somewhere nice like Lanzerote”.Bonkersville city,Arizona or what?
However within the mishmash of nonsense a rare glint of sanity can be spotted when she reveals:
“It was like he didnt know himself”.
Hey Coyote! (waving arms)
Referring back to some prior conversation…
So we have these Pizzagate fantasists, spinning an increasingly complex tale of conspiracy, most of which is clearly of their own invention, right? Pretty easy now to poke holes in it all. But what if it all gets subsequently “validated” by a Survivor claimant, who allegedly suffered such extreme abuse at the hands of…The Clinton Network (da-da-da-dum!)…that you’d have to a heartless b*stard to openly cast doubt on his/her tales? Eh? Right?
Here’s a deliberately absurd parallel, just to take this phenomenon out of the present context for a moment. Let’s say, a terrorism victim who had all their limbs blown off in a terrorist bombing, went on tour lecturing about international terrorist networks. So, if I was to suggest that – as tragic as this person’s life story is – being a victim of a bombing doesn’t automatically confer an expertise in international security matters, and asked to know what subsequent training in the subject this person has received, and from whom…wouldn’t that make me The Supreme Arsehole of All Time? In many people’s eyes, yes it would.
Yes, I noticed that she changes her mind several times during that one hissy fit, Classic cuntwaffle.
“Being a victim of a bombing doesn’t automatically confer an expertise in international security matters.”
I think that’s an excellent point, Justin. I would also add that it must be hard for someone with such a painful personal connection to an issue to be objective about it.
All roads lead to Lanzarote, it seems! I’m starting to think that Angie has Patrick locked up in a secret tunnel under her apartment! 😮
You’re right, of course. It would make you look like a major-league arsehole…but you’d also be right.
Adults who were sexually abused as kids may be considered experts on child sexual abuse, but only on the abuse which happened to them. That is, unless they decide to make use of that experience to become educated (and I mean properly educated, not just have a gander at The Courage to Heal and call it a day) in the subject.
You are asking that Neelu make sense. I think this might be a tad unrealistic.
I know, the one statement in that lot that actually makes sense!
Ha! I bloody knew it!
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Well, if he is still alive, Angie will soon see him off. Don’t touch the coffee, Patrick!
Gojam, it is my understanding that the work which featured in the pizzeria was by Arrington de Dionyso. They do not appear to relate to CSA. Some people have got these muddled up with Kim Noble (Ria Pratt).
Pallas, the recognition of these symbols and terms come from the FBI’s guidance on investigating this type of crime. I have come across the term ‘cheese pizza’ online for example, it is used by people in some places. Similar to how drug-users have underground terms.
So what’s the code if you actually want to order a cheese pizza?! Or does the FBI surveillance software kick in every time someone orders a genuine pizza over the phone? The plot thickens!
“I will have the kettle on Patrick.”
A comma would make all the difference in that sentence!
Fairly Sane knows what I mean 😀
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/hoaxtead-what-about-the-videos/#comment-45551
That much!
Also – wikileaks seem to be the only source for the “FBI pedophile symbols” nonsense as espoused by gojam. You would think that important public information about something like that would be on the actual official FBI website… well it isn’t. It’s only on wikileaks and a hundred other CSA hoaxer sites, so I’m calling bullshit on that one.
An interesting question from someone’s twitter feed: “How could a criminologist assess the veracity of a witness statement?”. And indeed, in situations where there are no other witness accounts, not even that of the alleged perpetrator, available…how could ANYONE “assess the veracity” of the statement?
It seems to me from my armchair amateur perspective, that an investigator who had reason to doubt a witness statement under such circumstances, might have two options.
One would be, a careful examination of the statement for internal inconsistency – the witness said something on Tuesday and directly contradicted that thing on Wednesday – and for external inconsistency – the witness stated the attack took place in “the old church on Maple Street”, but there has never been an old church on Maple Street. Such inconsistency wouldn’t necessary mean the witness was being intentionally untruthful, but they might provide support to other doubts about the validity of the statement.
Another option would be, to ask someone with expert knowledge of specific circumstances described by the witness, to provide an OPINION about the validity of witness statement.
Back in the day, I was sometimes asked to provide an assessment of alleged “occult signs & sigils” found at or nearby a crime scene, or to assess the validity of information about alleged “occult signs & sigils” provided in seminar handbooks. I felt confident about doing this, because there are specific, precise, protocols for the construction of a sigil. These protocols are hundreds of years old, and represent the “official” procedure taught to all members of the known historic “occult” organizations. These protocols are not random or arbitrary, they are derived from and consistent with the foundational “system” by which practitioners supposedly gain magical control over natural & supernatural ‘forces’. If they aren’t followed correctly, there will be no “magic”, and that belief is also foundational.
So, if an alleged sigil wasn’t constructed in this manner, if it doesn’t make sense from the perspective of these protocols, then one of two things must be the case.
1 – the person who constructed the sigil cannot genuinely be a high ranking member of a real occult organization, because they don’t know about or understand the protocols, or
2 – the witness isn’t describing something they really did see painted on walls, or tatooed on practitioner’s bodies, over & over throughout a long history of alleged abuse events.
Proof that there is no secret service that ‘takes people out’ is the fact this raving lunatic is still with us.
I shared a house once with 2 undertakers and they often described how difficult is was getting a corpse to look like a photo, the only thing they had to go on, if there was to be an open coffin. They obviously had never seen the person alive – and Neelu seems ignorant as to what happens ind death.
A person’s muscle structure ceases to be supported and this is very evident in the face where features can ‘relax’ and the deceased can look like slightly altered.
I experienced this with my own father’s open coffin where he looked oddly different and my mother later said it was because they had brushed his eyebrows the wrong way. That’s quite from the very heavy make-up they use to hide that deathly pallor so a nose may appear to have altered shape.
If Mr Cullinane could afford to be spirited away to..Lanazarote? or elsewhere why didn’t he just pay his bloody road tax and insurance which seems to be the cause of his current woes.
You can imagine it can’t you?…having seem Neelu at work outside that church berating cops and demanding judges be lynched..she approaches a Cullinane relative expounding her views that the person they are there to see off (if they didn’t think it was Patrick why turn up ??) and they just mod politely (having heard Patrick had a bunch of pals who were bonkers) which Neelu takes to be confirmation of her theory and she’s off and running.
The looniest part- why take the Talmudic Terror away to finish him off and then deliver his corpse back to his hone?
spelling mistakes etc due to fact my perfect clone replacement provided by MI5 / GCHQ has now been returned to the office so it’s now me a’ranting and a’raving but the fact my desk light blew last night and I’ve been too lazy to replace it may also be a cause.
Put those 2 in a room together and they could bore each other to death within a couple of days. The Neelu would have a real mystery on her hands.
The cases were people have died in strange circumstances are extremely rare. This was an infamous case in Australia where 2 government scientists died beside a river in the 1960s after meeting for a sex assignation.
It became a sensation over the decades with no cause of death being found, wild claims about spies and LSD but there is always an explanation and a credible one was found a few years ago : they were likely poisoned by noxious fumes from a near-by factory, the fumes having gathered in a sort of hollow by the river bank where the 2 were found which also explained the many complaints from near-by residents of a ‘rotten egg’ style smell every now and then. Many people however prefer the mystery,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogle%E2%80%93Chandler_case
Couldn’t help it! #Pizzagate
LOL! It’s okay, if you ever want stuff edited, just give the word. 🙂
LOL!! Loved that show.
The whole thing’s getting farcical now!
Fairly Sane. says:
I think her presence would make me contain mine.
She could “do a Rupert” on him. He arrived at her gaff as the cockiest bastard in Christendom. He left as a gibbering wreck.
Interestingly the one group not demanding to see tatoos is the holocaust deniers.
I SEE YOU says:
Gojam is never wrong. He promoted the Elm Guest House List bollocks and its pimp-in-chief Christopher Fay and the Sexaro rubbish and he is best buddies a vile bully currently awaiting trial in London for the stalking of a female journalist. Hows them New Forest Lib Democrats you hang about with Jon, are they worried yet?
Having had more than a good many comments deleted from the official “Pizzagate” Movie, Sorry, literally every fact, once you pause and take it in, is a pile of steaming shit. As for Gojam. I guess people have agendas to serve.
I think its the case of all these agendas. If things are larger than life, pause the firiggin videos. They are.
So much bullshit. Such as the old Hillary Clinton Email about “Sacrificing a chicken to Moloch in the backyard!”
From Neelu’s Cullinane Campaign headquarters (based in a pizzeria, I hear):
Screenshot from MKD’s latest video. Gayle sums up the funeral gore hounds nicely here (but then spoils it by reinforcing the conspiracy crap in the final stretch):
And this is the aforementioned MKD video:
For those who missed this earlier tonight:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/cullinane-and-paterson-what-happened/#comment-50091
Shit, they’re on to us, guys! All back to HQ immediately!
@PA – you will probably find this very disturbing. You should. I do.
http://www.inquisitr.com/2015502/police-now-able-to-profile-pedophiles-by-clothes-tattoos-and-books-they-read-thanks-to-texas-rangers/
“Police in the United Kingdom are now able to profile pedophiles based on their clothing, tattoos and even the books they read thanks to research compiled by the Texas Rangers. The program teaches officers to identify common traits shared among convicted pedophiles including specific behaviors, choices in clothing and specific items in their possession. The profiling method is being used to help officers identify potential pedophiles earlier so that children will be spared the abuse in the future.
The Mirror reports that 400 front-line officers have gone through the pedophile identification training. In addition to police officers, 160 public servants such as teachers and doctors have gone through the program as well. The training, called the Intervene to Protect a Child (IPC) program, was designed based off of training developed by the Texas Rangers. The training was created from interviews with known pedophiles and compiling a list of common traits or behaviors in the group”.
This is remarkably similar to the “training” seminars that Lt. Larry Jones used to charge police officers and other professionals (or their employers) hundreds of dollars to attend, and included “how to identify a satanic crime suspect” type of nonsense. Needless to say, this type of profiling is totally invalid and probably more dangerous than helpful.
But you may be a bit unfair to anyone who has been exposed to such pedophile identification training, because police officers and other professionals apparently ARE attending such seminars. If you have police sources in your life, and they share such info with you, why wouldn’t you take it at face value? What invalidating sources of info would be available to you? Anything as credible as serving police officers?
To make matters even more confusing for people, there are tidbits of factual information woven into these pedophile profiling theories. LGBT organizations have logos, and LGBT persons really do sometimes attach such “community pride” symbols to their clothing or possessions. It doesn’t necessarily follow, that pedophiles would or could do this, but the Boychat internet site has used a logo in the past.
(I’ve never mentioned Boychat, publicly, before. I’ve been avoiding doing so, because I don’t want to attract genuine pedophile apologist to anyone’s site, because I don’t want to publicize its existence to persons with nefarious intentions toward children, and because I know there continue to be active investigations centered on its users)
This is the expert right?
https://ineqe.com/pressrelease-glimpsecsa/
The logo stuff, well it looks to me as if child abusers designed logos that look superficially innocuous and mainstream for their own twisted reasons. It’s a long stretch to say anything else having a slight resemblance to these is also suspect. Thinking of say a UK frozen food manufacturer with a swirly heart type logo. Secret child abusing cannibals?
At some point all this dot joining becomes ridiculous. I’m all for people acting on concerns, but some people are the curtain twitching neighbours from hell who ring the police when the neighbour they don’t like has an overnight guest telling police the neighbour is running a brothel. A neighbour like that on my street doing this to someone in real life.
Tell me sir. How is Mr Laverty getting on?
Wot no cries of “false flag”? The troofers appear to be losing their touch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38123165
Very sad to hear about this, by the way. The people of the Big Easy have not had it easy in recent years and this is yet another blow to that great city. Love and best wishes to the victims and their families.
Yes. This guy:
“Dr. Michael Bourke, Chief Psychologist for the U.S. Marshals Service Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), received an award from the United Kingdom’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) in London on May 20, 2009. Dr. Bourke and his colleague, Dr. Andres Hernandez, were recognized for their “outstanding example of research into the behaviors of child sexual offenders.” CEOP is the UK’s primary law enforcement agency in the area of child protection”.
is presumably the person leading such seminars in the UK. There seems to be some misinformation in that Mirror article (what a surprise!), I think they’ve confused Texas Rangers for the entire US Marshals Service for example. So, the more disturbing profiling ideas such as “typical clothing” or “reading material” might be Reporter fantasies or misrepresentation.
I think that professionals like Dr Bourke are essential, and he may really be doing heroic work. I’d be surprised if he really was the source of the more hysterical and improbable profiling ideas. The real danger would come from spin-off seminar’s and conferences, where some over-zealous or unscrupulous Joe Child Protection Professional attends Dr Bourke’s lecture and then sets himself up offering similar training seminars “enhanced” by his own fantasies – oops I mean alleged research – or someone else spins off a service from him, etc. This has happened before. Here’s Lyle Rapacki, one of the bogus SRA “experts” who cashed in by such spin-off lecturing during the satanic panic years:
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=cabc&c=whs&id=4800
Just hope it navigates safely through the Bermuda Triangle.Be a real waste of cheese based product were that to go down.
Jesus wept.Hashtag Walls of Jericho?? Hashbag Cuntfwaffle fest more like.
Seems Angie has decended so deep into her own cesspool of hyperbole that only the most putrescent gas bubbles are escaping these days.
Quite well as I understand it. I’ll let him know you were asking after his wellbeing.
Personally, i dont get how you can stand by such a despicable figure.
Please. Don’t mention anything to him. I’ve had enough of him and his cyber crew.
Laverty and his group are a strange brew.
GBD, that was the cream of puns, Sir.
prestonkarton says:
“respected U.S. newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times” – LMAO. That alone shows what a shill disinfo site this is. and trying to call pizzagate a farce? wow. I spend a whole 30 seconds on this site until realizing its total shite. I bet you voted to remain in the eu, and hate farage/Trump, and think hillary clinton is an honest old lady dont you. Typical closet homo brits.
And that’s quite enough out of you, Preston.
Running with your “LMAO” motif, Preston, perhaps you could enlighten us all as to YOUR sources. You know, the ones that you’re using to state categorically on public forums on the worldwide web that a family man who runs a pizzeria is a satanic baby-trafficking child rapist. Do please educate us, oh wise one, as well as give us the opportunity to cry “LMAO” too.
And if you say it’s Alex Jones, David Icke, Before It’s News and/or Reddit, we may just have to insert an ‘F’ into said expression.
Or is it just that you think Mr. Alefantis looks a bit shifty (his “body language is all wrong”, right?)? So anyway, sources please, Professor…
Sooo, Preston, let me get this straight – you’ve made the allegations…but the burden of proof is on us? How does that work, then? Is “guilty until proven innocent” a thing in your backwater? Or is it just you?
“I spend a whole 30 seconds on this site until realizing its [sic] total shite.”
Well, kudos on your amazing research skills, Prof! Woodward & Bernstein eat your fucking hearts out!
I just hope you spent longer researching your “facts” about “Pizzagate” before besmirching the good name of a pizzeria owner and his family all over the internet.
And do feel free to provide a more robust analysis of this site. Perhaps you could clarify which specific facts you believe to be “shite” and what your “evidence” is.
Oh and thank you for completely destroying the myth about Americans being racist homophobic bigots. Oh wait.
“Typical closet homo brits.”
Sooo, Preston’s entire counter-argument is basically: “Everyone from the United Kingdom is gay.” My Pizzagate quest is over – I’ve finally found the brains of the operation!
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the smudgy line starts with the supposed leaked emails within one line where david brock emails invites for partyafter campaign, smudgy line creeps in with a completely new unrelated character through footnotes suggesting that brock pierce and gay pedophile ring in hollywood!! the only connection i could see was the name brock nothing else what has a campaign after party have to do with child sex ring in hollywood is this the sex ring in hollywood hiding under the shadow of fake news from washington. the video clip to strengethen these lies was a clip from an underground art band called heavy breathing doing a birthday bash for there promo agent! i would give up on david brock but i would keep a closer eye on brock pierce and co they were very dodgy indeed (an open secret)
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what is this website ?how come your the only ones calling out on the fake news for pizzagate. did you cover any stories on the weak connection of david brock and brock pierce. ive only found this page today, if you havent do you think somebody could i think that it would close the pizzgate arguement but i dont think the brock pierce and co will appreciate the revival of child sex rings in hollywood scandal back into the limelight though it should i feel like theyre trying to slide through the door with the fake news alibi.
Are we really the only ones calling out pizzagate as fake news? I really hope there are more!
One thing we’ve learned while covering the Hampstead SRA hoax is that it’s almost impossible to convince conspiracy theorists that they’re mistaken in their views—any argument put forward, no matter how concrete or reasonable, is immediately rebutted with “but you would say that—you’re a paedophile enabler, shill, etc.” Or else they come up with some other, even wilder, theory to account for the thing you’ve just told them. It’s really a losing game.
In our experience, the best thing to do is carry on researching and exposing the hoax and its promoters, and leave the troofers to do their thing. No one sane pays attention to them anyway.
That said, I think your line of questioning sounds very interesting. We’re not really into pizzagate per se, except as some fools are using it to try to re-invigorate the Hampstead hoax, but we’re sure there are people out there who’d be interested in following up on your leads. It doesn’t surprise me at all that the links between the two people you mention would be very weak. Most troofer arguments are based on very weak premises, built up to look important.
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Posted by JBowen on Oct 29, 2018 in Blog, Law and Ethics, Quick Tips, Scholastic Journalism, Teaching | 0 comments
Solutions Journalism doesn’t offer its solution to issues. It does report on what others haveworked and what has not
by Kristin Taylor
David Bornstein co-authors the “Fixes” column in the New York Times, a column focused on solutions journalism. In his 2012 TED talk, Bornstein explains why he has pursued solutions in his investigative journalism rather than simply focusing on the problem.
Bornstein argues that consistently negative feedback alienates journalism’s desired audience. How many of us, he wonders, have stopped watching the nightly news because it feels like such an unrelenting parade of misery? He has a point. Yet quick fluff hero stories — a firefighter saving a kitten from a tree — are also not the answer. He posits that serious journalism can investigate solutions as easily as it can problems, and argues that news producers need to devote equal resources to this alternative approach.
This perspective charts an important middle ground between gloom and fluff. Journalism students would benefit from watching this video and talking about the balance of their own articles. When writing about problems at school, are they also looking at what is working and how people are brainstorming possible solutions to the problem? If drug use at parties is a problem, they should report it honestly and fully. However, a solutions journalism approach would suggest they might also look into how organizations, adults or teenagers themselves try to address this problem.
Critics of solutions journalism fear this approach could cross the line between journalism and advocacy, and this is a valid concern. Student reporters must still go into their investigation of problems with an open mind, and they shouldn’t take a stance on the best way to solve the problem. After all, part of the issue, journalist Jonathan Stay argues, is agreeing on the problems in the first place.
“You can’t just sit down and make a list like ‘unemployment, education, crime, homelessness, global warming…’ and get to reporting,” Stay writes. “People are going to disagree not only about priorities, but about how to best to understand a problem, and even about whether or not certain things are problems. Dealing in solutions also tends to move the journalist from informer to advocate, which is tricky territory.”
But thinking about stories from this perspective — or at least considering it as a valid approach — is a good way to motivate reporters and readers alike. Consider an article one of my students wrote about the rise of hate crimes in early 2017. Although she didn’t even know about the concept of solutions journalism when she wrote this piece, the angle she took — the way Muslims and Jews are coming together to support one another — is clearly a solutions approach.
“In my initial research, all I kept seeing was negativity,” she wrote in an email when asked to reflect on her angle. “There were many articles about the increasingly terrible hate crimes, but limited stories on what people were doing about them. When the news constantly evokes feelings of hopelessness, people stop reading it. I then decided to take on an angle of positivity, one in which there was community and action instead of a list of atrocities.”
“The better people feel after reading the news, the more people’s trust in the media will be restored,” she added, “which is imperative to the functioning of our society.”
We don’t want our journalists to become advocates for causes, but we do want them to tell the whole story. The solutions, the people who help, are part of that story.
Quick Tip: Solutions Journalism
Guideline: One approach to reporting on problems in a community is Solutions Journalism. Students wanting to try this approach should work to examine what is and is not working to address existing problems rather than simply advocating for a specific solution.
Reasoning/suggestions:
Solutions journalism is an approach to news reporting that focuses on the responses to social issues as well as the problems themselves. Solutions stories, anchored in credible evidence, explain how and why responses are working or not working. Stories do not offer views on possible solutions. Separate op ed pieces can.
Students can use a solutions approach when reporting about problems in their communities.
Solutions journalism approaches stories this way.:
Reporting on a community’s issues and problems
Reporting about has or has not been done to solve it
Reporting on how similar problems/issues are solved in other communities
Reporting how and if this method could work at home
Reporting on any unsung heroes who have made strides to solve the issue in some capacity
Lesson: Solutions journalism in scholastic publications, JEA Scholastic Press Rights Committee
Solutions Journalism Network
Audio: Bad news isn’t the whole story, On the Media
Video: Solutions journalism, David Bornstein, TED
Fixes, New York Times
“The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems,” Jonathan Stray
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Just how far have LFC come?
3rd September 2019 sixtimesclub 0 Comments
After Liverpool’s confident 0-3 win over Burnley at a tricky Turf Moor on Saturday, it gave fans a
stark reminder of just how far Liverpool have come since the dark days of the past. Gone are the
days of losses to Crystal Palace at home; humiliated by West Ham away; and even recent struggles
such as Leicester at home last season. Ever since the Nou Camp loss, Liverpool have found another
gear, and just at the right time. Winning 2 out of the 3 trophies possible (thanks only to a penalty
shootout loss), Klopp’s Reds have been ruthless in every single way.
I’m not normally one for comparisons, but I’m going to draw one anyway. This was the team that LFC
put up in a 2-1 Wembley defeat to Aston Villa in the FA Cup semi-final in April 2015:
Mignolet; Lovren; Skrtel; Can; Moreno; Allen; Henderson; Markovic; Coutinho; Gerrard; Sterling.
You look at that team and think of that time; you cannot help but think of the boring, dull, slow build
up play. The hopeless defending, and the inconsistent keeping from our Simon. It was a dark time.
And even though Aston Villa had a decent squad back then, with the likes of a prime Christian
Benteke, Fabian Delph and a young and exciting Jack Grealish. But it was still a game Liverpool
expected to win. And a few weeks after this, in Steven Gerrard’s last game for the club, Stoke City
embarrassed LFC and Rodgers 6-1. If you ever complain that Liverpool didn’t score enough in a 0-3
win, remember where we once were. It’s not hard to see why John Henry pulled the plug on Rodgers
after a draw in the Merseyside Derby. Liverpool were going backwards after the sales of Luis Suarez
a year before, Raheem Sterling the summer just gone and the retirement of Steven Gerrard, the
mounting injuries with the off-colour Daniel Sturridge, the weakening defence capabilities of Martin
Skrtel and Dejan Lovren, the inconsistency of Alberto Moreno and Simon Mignolet and the lack of
serious attacking threat (Lazar Markovic, Rickie Lambert, Fabio Borini, Mario Balotelli etc.) It really
was a disaster, and had Jurgen Klopp not stepped in when he did, god knows where LFC would’ve
finished that season.
And although Klopp obviously didn’t work miracles that season with an 8 th place Premier League
finish, LFC were runners up in the League Cup to Man City and Europa League, and showed real
progress under the German. However, critics obviously believed that change would happen almost
immediately. But everyone knew that this major transformation under Klopp would take 2-3 seasons
at least. The next goal was to reach Champions League football, and then bag a trophy, then a major
one, such as the Champions League or Premier League. But it would take time. In 2016/17, there
were still defensive mishaps, but LFC were cleaner. Sharper. Ruthless. They won games convincingly,
especially with the likes of Sadio Mane on fire, and Roberto Firmino finding his feet. And then finally,
after 3-0 win at home to Middlesbrough, LFC qualified for the Champions League after a 4th place
finish, thanks mainly to the fact that LFC were not playing in Europe during this season.
But for 2017/18, Klopp needed signings if he really wanted to move this LFC team forward. He
brought players such as Andy Robertson, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mohamed Salah to the club,
who made huge impacts particularly in the clubs’ run in the Champions League, beating Guardiola’s
Man City home and away during that, losing only to the last great Real Madrid team with Cristiano
Ronaldo in the final in Kiev. But the club made such a huge step that season, that It was clear to see
that Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool would soon be a formidable force in Europe. Fancied again for
Champions League success in 2018/19 season, and surprise favourites for the league title, Klopp’s
men were under pressure to do well. Kiev was his 3 rd final with Liverpool, and he was yet to win a
trophy with the club going into his 3 rd full season with the club.
After signing Virgil van Dijk in January 2018 for a World record £75 million fee, Liverpool also
splashed out on Alisson for £66 million and Naby Keita for £48 million, but all this came about
because of Phillipe Coutinho for £142 million. People criticised Klopp for letting Coutinho go so
easily, but when a player is so unsettled, it can impact on the rest of the squad. We saw it in 2014
with Luis Suarez, sometimes a player just wants to leave. But everyone at the club wanted to prove
Coutinho wrong. Maybe Klopp should’ve replaced him; maybe it would’ve won Liverpool the league.
But hindsight is a wonderful thing. And to go on such an amazing journey with Klopp, from 8 th place
finishes to Champions League winners and Premier League challengers, it really is an incredible rise
through the ranks, all thanks to Jurgen Klopp.
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The Loudness Dependence of Auditory Evoked Potentials (LDAEP) as an Indicator of Serotonergic Dysfunction in Patients with Predominant Schizophrenic Negative Symptoms
Christine Wyss,
Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Konrad Hitz,
Michael P. Hengartner,
Anastasia Theodoridou,
Caitriona Obermann,
Idun Uhl,
Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Ruhr University Bochum, LWL University Hospital, Bochum, Germany
Patrik Roser,
Edna Grünblatt,
Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Erich Seifritz,
Georg Juckel ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Juckel, Wolfram Kawohl
Wolfram Kawohl
* E-mail: wolfram.kawohl@puk.zh.ch
Georg Juckel
Christine Wyss Konrad Hitz ... Wolfram Kawohl
Besides the influence of dopaminergic neurotransmission on negative symptoms in schizophrenia, there is evidence that alterations of serotonin (5-HT) system functioning also play a crucial role in the pathophysiology of these disabling symptoms. From post mortem and genetic studies on patients with negative symptoms a 5-HT dysfunction is documented. In addition atypical neuroleptics and some antidepressants improve negative symptoms via serotonergic action. So far no research has been done to directly clarify the association between the serotonergic functioning and the extent of negative symptoms. Therefore, we examined the status of brain 5-HT level in negative symptoms in schizophrenia by means of the loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials (LDAEP). The LDAEP provides a well established and non-invasive in vivo marker of the central 5-HT activity. We investigated 13 patients with schizophrenia with predominant negative symptoms treated with atypical neuroleptics and 13 healthy age and gender matched controls with a 32-channel EEG. The LDAEP of the N1/P2 component was evaluated by dipole source analysis and single electrode estimation at Cz. Psychopathological parameters, nicotine use and medication were assessed to control for additional influencing factors. Schizophrenic patients showed significantly higher LDAEP in both hemispheres than controls. Furthermore, the LDAEP in the right hemisphere in patients was related to higher scores in scales assessing negative symptoms. A relationship with positive symptoms was not found. These data might suggest a diminished central serotonergic neurotransmission in patients with predominant negative symptoms.
Citation: Wyss C, Hitz K, Hengartner MP, Theodoridou A, Obermann C, Uhl I, et al. (2013) The Loudness Dependence of Auditory Evoked Potentials (LDAEP) as an Indicator of Serotonergic Dysfunction in Patients with Predominant Schizophrenic Negative Symptoms. PLoS ONE 8(7): e68650. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068650
Editor: Xiang Yang Zhang, Baylor College of Medicine, United States of America
Received: March 26, 2013; Accepted: May 31, 2013; Published: July 12, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Wyss et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The authors have no support or funding to report.
Negative symptoms are core features of schizophrenia and are generally considered in psychiatric scales [1] and diagnostic classification, e.g. in the DSM-IV-TR [2]. These symptoms describe a deficit or an absence of normal mental functions and have traditionally been considered to consist of affective flattening, alogia, avolition, anhedonia and attentional impairment [3]. Research in this field has characterised negative symptoms to occur as accompanying symptoms of positive symptoms (e.g. hallucinations, delusion and formal thought disturbances) and both in the prodromal and residual state of the disease. They are named primary negative symptoms if directly related to the disease process itself and not resulted in a secondary action from other psychiatric symptoms or medication side effects [4]. Negative symptoms often lead to social impairment, resulting in poor success in social and professional life and account for much of the long-term morbidity and poor functional outcome of patients with schizophrenia [5], [6]. Despite that, the pathophysiology of negative symptoms has been widely unknown so far.
Schizophrenia research on biochemical functions has largely focused on the dopamine neurotransmitter system. The dopamine-hypothesis based on imaging studies proposes an imbalance of cortical and subcortical preponderance of dopaminergic neurotransmission, where a subcortical hyperstimulation of dopamine D2-receptors leads to positive symptoms, and a hypoactivation of cortical dopamine D1-receptors leads to negative and cognitive symptoms [7], [8], [9], [10]. However, the theory of a serotonin (5-hydroxytrypamine, 5-HT) and dopamine interaction as the mechanism behind schizophrenia has gained more acceptance. Moreover, there is evidence that the serotonin system inhibits dopamine function in frontal cortex and reinforce the imbalance in the mesolimbic-mesocortical pathway of the dopaminergic system [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]. The involvement of the serotonergic system in this theory is due to the fact that atypical neuroleptics [16], [17], [18] and antidepressants [19], [20], [21], which act via the serotonergic system, show remarkable potency for the treatment of negative symptoms. Meltzer [22] specifies that 5-HT2A receptor antagonism and 5-HT1A partial agonism together with weak dopamine D2 receptor antagonism are responsible for the principal pharmacologic effects of atypical neuroleptics on negative symptoms. An addendum to the former concept was that this new hypothesis allows explaining the heterogeneity of schizophrenia even better. Since a single type of abnormality of the neurotransmitter systems is unlikely to emerge as characteristic of all patients with schizophrenia. To sum up, there is evidence that the serotonergic system is a key component in the pathogenesis of negative symptoms.
The serotonin system plays an important role in pathophysiology of the major psychiatric disorders and provides a target of pharmacotherapeutic interventions. Therefore reliable indicators of this system are in urgent need for clinical and scientific interest [23]. Such indicators could be used after overcoming some challenges concerning the implementation in daily clinical use to identify patients with serotonergic dysfunctions and thus serve as therapy predictors [24], [25]. In fact, common indicators of the serotonin system are mainly indirect peripheral parameters that only give an approximate indication of the central serotonergic system. Such methods as neuroendocrinological challenge tests, measuring concentrations of serotonin metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid and tryptophan depletion test have not been proven to be sufficiently valid [26]. Furthermore, the use of imaging techniques that allow to reflect the availability of binding potentials of serotonin transporter (SERT) or 5-HT receptors, such as positron emission tomography (PET) [27] and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), are not appropriate for daily clinical use because of their invasive properties [15].
In the continuing search for biological correlates of psychiatric disorders, evoked potentials now constitute a prime target of investigation. In particular, the loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials (LDAEP) has been widely reported to be a valid measure of central serotonergic activity in humans [25], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32]. This measure represents a growth of the amplitude in primary auditory cortices, measured from the peak of the N1 to the peak of the P2 component along with an increase in sound pressure level (Figure `). A pronounced LDAEP supposedly reflects a low central serotonergic neurotransmission and vice versa. Some other reports have suggested that the interpretation may be more complex and the LDAEP’s specificity as a marker of serotonin function has been challenged [33], [34], [35], [36].
A significant body of research documents a weaker LDAEP in patients with schizophrenia compared to healthy controls, thus indicating increased serotonergic activity in patients [37], [38], [39], [40]. But this research to date has tended to focus on the diagnosis of schizophrenia, neglecting the clinical heterogeneity. However, it is of great interest to investigate schizophrenia on the psychopathological symptom level. Thus, the aim of the current study is to scrutinize the putative role of serotonergic neurotransmission of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
The sample included 26 male subjects (13 patients, 13 controls) who underwent electrophysiological recording. Subjects with psychiatric comorbidity, drug or alcohol abuse, benzodiazepine consumption for more than 10 days before examination or a lifetime history of neurological diseases were excluded. Thirteen patients with predominant negative symptoms recruited from the Department of General and Social Psychiatry at the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich met the diagnostic criteria for chronic paranoid schizophrenia in accordance to ICD-10 [41]. The psychopathological state of all patients was rated based on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS; [42]) and the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS; [1]). To differentiate depressive symptoms from negative symptoms, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD; [43]), Bech-Rafaelsen Melancholia Scale (BRMES; [44]) and Calgary Depression Rating Scale for Schizophrenia (CDSS-G; [45]) were applied. All patients were using atypical antipsychotics during the test period. Dosages were transformed into chlorpromazine (CPZ) equivalent values for comparative reasons [46]. Thirteen healthy, age- and gender-matched volunteers recruited from medical staff and students served as the control group. Controls with a lifetime history of any psychiatric disorder were excluded.
The study was approved by the special subcommission for psychiatry of the ethics committee of the canton of Zurich (“SPUK ZH Psychiatrie”) under the title “Die Rolle der zentralen serotonergen Aktivität bei Negativsymptomen” (Ref.-Nr.: E-19/2006) and was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All subjects have given written informed consent. Only participants with uncompromised capacity to consent were approached. The capacity to give consent had been established by the senior consultant psychiatrists responsible for the treatment of the patients.
Electrophysiological Assessment
Subjects were seated with their eyes open in a quiet room adjacent to the recording apparatus and were asked to avoid facial muscle movements throughout the auditory stimulus presentation sequence and the recording. As attention to the auditory stimuli has been shown to modulate the auditory evoked potentials [47] and therefore also the LDAEP [48], a silent movie was shown to them for distraction and the stimuli were presented in randomized orders and points in time that precluded preparatory state. Auditory evoked potential (AEP)-recording was performed with 32 electrodes referenced to FCz (BrainCap-MR 32 standard, 32 channels, Easycap, Herrsching-Breitbrunn) in accordance with the international 10–20 System [49]. Scalp electrode impedances were kept below 10 kΩ. Sinus tones (1 000 Hz, 40 ms duration with 10 ms rise and fall time, ISI randomized between 1 800 and 2 240 ms) of five intensities (60, 70, 80, 90, 100 dB sound pressure level, generated by a PC-stimulator) were presented binaurally in a pseudo-randomized order over headphones using Presentation software (Neurobehavioral Systems, Inc. San Pablo, CA). Data were collected with a sampling rate of 250 Hz and a band pass filter (0.5–70 Hz). Continuous EEG files for each subject were loaded into Brain Electrical Source Analysis software (BESA, version 5.3, MEGIS, Gräfelfing, Germany) and filtered digitally with a high bandpassfilter of 0.16–30 Hz (6/12 dB octave). Before averaging, the first responses of each of the five intensities were excluded in order to reduce short-term habituation effects. For artefact suppression, all trials were automatically excluded from averaging when the voltage exceeded ±50 µV in any of the 32 channels at any point during the averaging period. Data with a 100 ms pre stimulus and a 300 ms post stimulus baseline interval were then inspected visually. On average 63% (±5.228) artefact-free sweeps per intensity were averaged separately for each participant, which should lead to an appropriate signal-to-noise ratio.
Dipole Source Analysis (DSA) and Single Electrode Estimation
Dipole source localization of the N1/P2-component of AEPs was computed by means of the inverse solution as implemented in BESA, using a spherical head model. DSA provides an important methodological advance, because overlapping subcomponents of the N1/P2-component in the primary as well as secondary auditory cortex can be studied separately [50]. This is a pivotal point, as primary auditory cortex is highly innervated by serotonin compared to secondary auditory cortex [51]. Similar studies reveal a high spatio-temporal accuracy with DSA [52], [53]. Based on the grand average over all subjects a dipole model was computed for the 60 dB and 70 dB intensities with two regional sources (one for each hemisphere). Several authors suppose a frontal protective mechanism being activated during presentation of high tone intensities [54], [55]. Therefore a third regional source was added to the frontal region for the high intensity dipole model computed for the 90 and 100 dB intensities. These two models were applied to the individual data sets (high intensity model to 60–70 dB, low intensity model to 80–100 dB) in order to obtain the spatio-temporal information of the brain activation. The methods have been published in detail elsewhere [28], [29], [51].
Because the majority of studies on the LDAEP focused on the N1/P2 component, which seems to be more internally consistent and test-retest reliable than slopes based on other components [56], [57], the peak-to-peak N1/P2 amplitudes were used to quantify differences in the responses to the different tone intensities. Additionally to the DSA approach we analysed the data with a scalp method, as recommended by our group [58], to facilitate across-study comparisons. N1/P2 amplitudes were determined at the Cz electrode and were re-referenced to linked mastoids. The LDAEP was determined by the median of all slopes of each possible connection between the five different N1/P2 amplitudes corresponding to the five different intensities [29] for tangential dipole activity of both hemispheres and Cz-electrode estimation derived amplitudes. These values were used as the main variables for statistical evaluation.
Comparison of age and smoking status in patients and controls was conducted with a t-test for independent samples and cross-tabulation with χ2 test, respectively. To test the association between LDAEP values and the group factor (control group vs. schizophrenic patients) we conducted a series of generalized linear models (GLM) [59]. GLM was chosen because it allows for variables that are not normally distributed in comparison to familiar used methods as ANOVA or linear regression analysis. LDAEP of the left and right hemisphere and from Cz-estimation were entered as the dependent variables. The covariates age and nicotine use were tested separately in bivariate analyses against LDAEP using DSA. Distribution and link-function of the LDAEP variables were chosen according to their graph and the goodness of model fit indices. For this purpose we compared the Akaike’s information criterion (AIC) and the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) for the different distributions and link-functions. The best fit to the data was finally obtained with a gamma distribution (right skewed distribution) and log link-function. In all GLM a robust estimator was used to reduce the effects of outliers and influential observations. Group effects on LDAEP were displayed with mean differences, whereas associations between continuous measures and LDAEP were depicted with unstandardized regression coefficients (B). In order to provide comparability among predictors all continuous covariates were standardized using the z-transformation. Wilcoxon-test was used to test if the medians between left and right LDAEP differed significantly. Analyses were carried out with SPSS version 20 for Windows.
Demographics and psychopathology data for both groups are summarised in Table 1. Although antipsychotic medication estimated by CPZ-equivalent dose had a medium to strong effect on psychopathological scales, the correlations did not reach the level of statistical significance (PANSS general score; r = −0.698, p = 0.08; other scales r = −0.31–0.44, p>0.1).
Table 1. Demographic and clinical data of the sample.
The LDAEP using DSA was significantly associated with the group membership in both hemispheres (right: Wald = 10.094, df = 1, p = 0.001; left: Wald = 7.791, df = 1, p = 0.005). Patients with schizophrenia showed a significantly higher LDAEP than the control group (Table 2, Figure S2). Results were adjusted for age and nicotine use. The magnitude of the group effect on LDAEP on both hemispheres was remarkably large, as indicated through the standardized mean difference Cohen’s d = 1.04 (left) and d = 1.20 (right) (benchmarks are as follows: d = 0.3 depicts a small effect, d = 0.5 a medium effect and d = 0.8 a large effect). No significant differences in the LDAEP between the groups were found using single electrode estimation at Cz (Wald = 0.057, df = 1, p = 0.811). No significant differences between left and right LDAEP were found, neither among the whole sample (Z = −1.283, p = 0.200), nor among schizophrenic patients (Z = −1.153, p = 0.249) or the control group (Z = −0.524, p = 0.600).
Table 2. LDAEP mean values in left and right hemisphere and Cz electrode across groups.
Moreover, we observed a significant positive relationship between the SANS subscales “affective flattening” (beta = 0.207, p = 0.000), “anhedonia” (beta = 0.155, p = 0.016) and “attentional impairment” (beta = 0.189, p = 0.015) and the LDAEP in the right hemisphere in patients. SANS composite score (the sum of scores for all items), which reflects severity of negative symptoms, was also positively correlated with the right LDAEP (beta = 0.153, p = 0.035) (Table 3). Depressive symptoms (BRMS and CDSS G scale) (beta = −0.372, p = 0.000; beta = −0.305, p = 0.000) as well as PANSS general score (beta = −0.159, p = 0.026) were associated with the left LDAEP. Patients with higher scores on these scales showed lower LDAEP (Table 4). As shown in Table 3 and 4 all other psychopathological scales were not significant. LDAEP on both hemispheres were positively associated with medication by means of CPZ-equivalent dose (beta = 0.162, p = 0.001 and beta = 0.173, p = 0.030 for right and left hemisphere).
Table 3. Associations between right-hemispheric LDAEP values and clinical characteristics among patients.
Table 4. Associations between left-hemispheric LDAEP values and clinical characteristics among patients.
The present study was designed to investigate the role of serotonergic neurotransmission estimated by the LDAEP for the psychopathology of negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Due to the heterogeneity of the clinical concept of schizophrenia and its limitations as a valid object for scientific investigation [60], the level of psychopathological symptoms was chosen. We hypothesized that the LDAEP in patients with predominant negative symptoms would deviate from that of patients with predominant positive symptoms and healthy controls, indicating a difference in serotonergic neurotransmission. The results of this study provide new evidence in schizophrenia research. We would like to emphasize two remarkable findings. First, patients with schizophrenia showed a significantly stronger LDAEP than the control group. Based on the presumptions of the inverse relationship between LDAEP and 5-HT, this may indicate a difference in serotonergic neurotransmission. Moreover, the stronger LDAEP in patients with schizophrenia is highly associated with negative symptoms. Second, only the increased LDAEP in the right hemisphere was associated with negative symptoms, underscoring the effects of laterality in brain functions and brain activity in schizophrenia. The single electrode estimation at Cz did not show any significant differences between the groups, which may derive from additional frontal source activation involved in high intensities. This has also been reported by Hagenmuller et al. [58].
Our findings contrast with those of previous studies, which showed that patients with schizophrenia had a weaker LDAEP than healthy controls [37], [38], [39], [40]. However, those studies were not designed to control for LDAEP differences between positive and negative symptoms. They focused on schizophrenic patients as a self-contained group. Nevertheless, Juckel et al. [39] reported a tendency toward a positive relationship between PANSS negative score and LDAEP whereas Gudlowski et al. [37] found a negative relationship between those scores. Our findings are contrary to the results of Gudlowski et al. [37]. One explanation for inconsistent findings could be due to a difference in methodology as sampling biases, gender effects, intensity of stimuli and methods of estimation (DSA vs. single-electrode) [32]. In particular, our data were analysed with DSA method, whereas Gudlowski et al. [37] used single-electrode estimation for LDAEP. According to Hagenmuller et al. [58], studies using different methods are difficult if not impossible to compare. Furthermore, the sample in Gudlowski’s study included females and males. Even though some studies reported no gender effects [29], [40], [61], others have documented some effects on the LDAEP [62], [63], [64]. The study by Juckel et al. (2008) [39] used comparable methodology to the present study and some results are in line with our findings, showing strong LDAEP in patients with negative symptoms among schizophrenic patients. Compared to healthy controls, they reported weaker LDAEP in the left hemisphere in patients, which states a contrary result to our findings.
Nonetheless, our results are consistent with those of previous research on neurotransmitter alterations in negative symptoms and suggest the role of an impaired serotonergic system [12]. Although many studies on the direct involvement of the serotonin system in schizophrenia exist, here we focus on results concerning negative symptoms. Direct evidence is provided from a post-mortem study, which reported a decreased 5-HT2 receptor density in frontal cortex in patients with chronic schizophrenia [65]. Furthermore, a PET study showed lower availability of 5-HT1A receptors in patients with schizophrenia compared to healthy controls and receptor binding was negatively associated with negative symptoms, estimated by the PANSS scale [66]. Moreover, a genetic study by Reynolds [67] gives support to an involvement of the serotonergic system in the pathogenesis of negative symptoms, since the 5-HT2C receptor promoter polymorphism is associated with negative symptoms. From studies on the mechanism of action of atypical neuroleptics in negative symptoms an indirect evidence for serotonergic involvement is provided. In this context, it remains unclear why serotonin antagonists as well as agonists have an impact on the serotonergic system and improve the outcome of negative symptoms. Silver [20] suggests that these pharmacologically distinct treatments may share common final mechanism. This paradoxical finding needs further investigation. Moreover, one has to consider that different 5-HT receptors have opposite effects on the function of neurons by means of inhibition and excitation [15]. Further research is needed to clarify, if negative symptoms are caused directly by a primary abnormality in serotonergic transmission or in a secondary way via modulation of dopamine release [11], [68], [69].
With regard to the laterality effect, the present results showed a positive association between LDAEP and negative symptoms (SANS subscale affective flattening, anhedonia and attentional impairment, SANS composite score) in the right hemisphere, and a negative association between LDAEP and depressive symptoms (BRMS and CDSS G scale) in the left hemisphere in schizophrenic patients. A possible explanation could be that the LDAEPs in patients with high scores on depressive scales converge towards the LDAEP values of healthy controls (weaker LDAEP). This conclusion is in line with the literature about LDAEP in depressive patients, where no significant effect on the LDAEP has been shown [40], [63], [70]. Our results could also be due to serotonergic interhemispheric asymmetry, respectively to a reduced leftward asymmetry of brain structures of the auditory cortex in schizophrenia as observed by Salisbury et al. [71] and Shenton et al. [72]. At that juncture, that the role of the laterality effect in schizophrenia and in particular in negative symptoms is not known, interpretation is limited.
Nevertheless, our study is not without limitations: The sample size was relatively small, which had an effect on the statistical power. Furthermore, the effects of education were not considered. With regard to the influence of attention to the LDAEP [48] and given that patients with negative symptoms often show an attention deficit during auditory performances [73], an objective procedure controlling attention would have been necessary to add further consistency to our findings. A biased effect of medication is plausible since all patients were treated with atypical neuroleptics. There was an association with CPZ-equivalent dose and LDAEP found in both hemispheres in this study, indicating an elevated LDAEP (and lower serotonergic activity) with higher medication use. Furthermore, general symptoms rated on PANSS scale were negatively related to medication in that they displayed a statistical trend (p = 0.08). In a study by Juckel et al. [38] an increased LDAEP after a treatment with atypical neuroleptics compared to baseline was observed. Moreover, in a PET study, a trend toward a decreased 5-HT2 receptor binding in prefrontal cortex was found in neuroleptic treated patients, whereas neuroleptic naive patients showed similar results as healthy controls [74]. As negative symptoms also occur as pharmacological side effects (secondary negative symptoms) it is debatable if the found relationship between LDAEP and negative symptoms is an effect of secondary negative symptoms. A distinction between primary and secondary negative symptoms is not possible with contemporary measurements of psychopathology [75], [76]. On the other hand, a study design including unmedicated chronic schizophrenic patients is hardly realistic both for ethical reasons and practicability. Further studies with more focus on the effect of medication are therefore needed.
Another limitation is the possible influence of other neurotransmitters on the LDAEP. There are genetic association studies and challenge trials on possible influences of dopamine, glycine, and nitric oxide [33], [34], [35], [36]. As these studies point to a sensitivity of the LDAEP also to neurotransmitter systems other than 5-HT, the LDAEP’s specificity as a marker of serotonergic function is challenged [32]. This has to be taken into account in the interpretation of this study. Nevertheless, also these results are in part heterogeneous, e.g. an association of the LDAEP with the dopaminergic system by means of the COMT Val158Met-polymorphism [34] could not be reflected in a dopaminergic challenge trial [33].
In conclusion, the aim of the present study was to investigate the LDAEP as an indicator of serotonin functioning within the schizophrenic spectrum. In particular, we took account of the heterogeneity of clinical diagnosis by examining the accurate psychopathological symptoms. The results showed an association between the serotonergic function estimated by the LDAEP and the extent of negative symptoms directly. Our findings support the idea of differential clinical features of schizophrenia and contribute to the clarification of the aetiology of negative symptoms.
Figure S1.
Example of loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials (LDAEP). Auditory evoked activity of the tangential dipole in the right hemisphere following auditory stimulation of a 1000 Hz tone with different sound pressure levels (60 to 100 dB SPL) over all subjects (n = 26).
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Overall distribution of the loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials (LDAEP) values between both groups. The boxplots represent medians, quartiles and extreme values of the LDAEP variable in the left (A) and right (B) hemisphere across healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia.
The authors would like to thank Irene Stein for her help in the data acquisition.
Conceived and designed the experiments: WK GJ PR IU EG AT. Performed the experiments: CW PR. Analyzed the data: CW MPH KH WK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG GJ WK. Wrote the paper: CW WK CO ES KH GJ.
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Attention: the following blog-post contains sketchy, inaccurate, and in some places downright faulty interpretations of passages in Finnegans Wake. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THESE READINGS INTO YOUR OWN TERM PAPER. Never mind the plagiarism issue; no self-respecting college professor would ever give these readings a second thought; they’ll simply circle the year of the Wake‘s publication (1939) or perhaps the year of Joyce’s death (1941) and give you an ‘F’.
But these readings are a good deal of fun, and they happen all the time in Wake reading groups, so here we go:
#1) “Batman’s Biff” (FW336.34-337.3)
“Biff him one, Harry.” (Pvt. Compton to Pvt. Carr, Ulysses ‘Circe chapter)
The Passage:
—All to which not a lot snapped The Nolan of the Calabashes at his whilom eweheart photognomist who by this sum taken was as much incensed by Saint Bruno as that what he had consummed was his own panegoric, and wot a lout about it if it was only a pippappoff pigeon shoot that gracesold getrunner, the man of centuries, was bowled out by judge, jury and umpire at batman’s biff like a witchbefooled legate. Dupe.
Its Context:
This paragraph is transitional, taking place as it does between two major sections of the chapter in which it occurs. The preceding section, known as “Kersse and the Norwegian Captain” (pp. 311-332) describes what Adaline Glasheen calls a “comedy of love-intrigue,” and is full of goofy cadences and sing-songy repartee. The passage that follows it – known as “Buckley and the Russian General” (pp. 337-355), concerns warfare and assassination and so is much darker in tone.
The lunatic reads it like this:
“The Nolan” here is Christopher Nolan, celebrated Hollywood filmmaker (“photognomist“) who with his “Batman” movie trilogy once and for all “bowled out” the cheesy campiness of the 1960s style Batman of Bob Kane and Adam West fame – with its tailored spandex costumes and its “pow,” “bash,” “biff“, and “pippappoff” sound-effect word-bubbles — in favor of what is often called “comic-noir”, a style brought to the fore in the 1980s by Frank Miller, Alan Moore and others, presenting a much grittier, darker, and more violent Gotham City. These two opposing styles are epitomized by the female arch-villains “Pigeon-Woman” (left: campy) and “Bruno” (right: noir):
Bruno (from Batman: the Dark Knight Triumphant by Frank Miller)
Pidgeon Woman (from All-Star Comics #67 – author unknown)
Also, the presence of female antagonists in this paragraph points to a major theme that runs throughout Finnegans Wake, in which the male-dominant mindset perceives itself as under constant threat of being undercut – or “witchbefooled” – by the feminine element.
Why Joyce didn’t use better-known Batman villainesses like Catwoman and Poison Ivy here is something of a mystery.
#2) “Tigerwood Roadstaff” (FW35.1-11)
Tiger Woods – wearing the latest in Nike rain-gear
They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all creation, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he met a cad with a pipe.
This sentence occurs in a chapter which – taken as a whole – describes the arc of the patriarch’s rise to power as well as his fall from grace. Written in the idiom of hearsay (“They tell the story…” is typical for this section of the book), the cause of the patriarch’s fall is attributed in some places to political corruption, in others to sexual scandal, and still others to the ascendancy of a younger, more vibrant generation. As to this last, several figures supplant one another in rapid succession in this chapter, creating something of an amalgam that Wake readers have come to know as H.C.E., Earwicker, Persse O’Reilly, etc.
The most beautiful golf-course on the planet (“our greatest park“) can arguably be found in the wealthy U.S. Georgian town of Augusta (“happygogusty“) and, being the host of the annual Masters tournament (held around mid-April – or “Ides-of-April” – every year), it is also the most prestigious.
Plus (Condoleeza’ Rice’s recent membership-approval notwithstanding), the Augusta National Golf Club is also notoriously racist, so much so that club member Frank “Fuzzy” Zoeller, who himself donned the green jacket (his “mirthday suit“) on 15 April 1979, allowed himself to freely make fried-chicken-and-collard-green remarks about the recent assumption of one Tiger Woods (“tigerwood“), an African-American/Korean hybrid who soundly trounced the competition with the tournament’s lowest ever golf score: -18, in 1997 and would go on to become the world’s first billionaire athlete.
Only white men had ever worn a green jacket before then, so this “confusioning of human races” proved a sizeable fly in Zoeller’s elitist ointment. Perhaps the only black person he had seen on a golf course prior to Tiger Woods was his caddy (“cad“), and perhaps his truly idiotic remarks were informed by a subconscious fear of being mugged “with a pipe“. As it turned out, however, Zoeller had much less to fear from Tiger Woods than he did the news cameras that recorded him, for his status as a public figure was irreparably decimated as a result of their capturing for all posterity his little racist gaffe. If only he had read Finnegans Wake beforehand, he might have seen that “calzium chloereydes” anagramizes into “H.C.E. Zoeller, U is my cad”, and so would have kept his mouth shut.
It is now the year 2015, and the soil of history has been turned over once again. Tiger Woods is no longer the regnant sports idol he once was, for a 2009 sex scandal put an end to his squeaky-clean image, his massive advertisement contracts, and even his heretofore impeccable golf-game. The next sports super-hero to come along will no doubt think himself immortal as well, but history knows better, as does the Wake.
Left: Fuzzy 1979 / Right: Tiger 2002 / Center: Earwicker forever
#3) “The Abnihilisation of the Etym” (FW353.22-32)
The nightmare of history never looked so pretty.
—[The abnihilisation of the etym by the grisning of the grosning of the grinder of the grunder of the first lord of hurtreford expolodotonates through Parsuralia with an ivanmorinthorrorumble fragoromboassity amidwhiches general uttermosts confussion are perceivable moletons skaping with mulicules while coventry plumpkins fairlygosmotherthemselves in the Landaunelegants of Pinkadindy. Similar scenatas are projectilised from Hullulullu, Bawlawayo, empyreal Raum and mordern Atems. They were precisely the twelves of clocks, noon minutes, none seconds. At someseat of Oldanelang’s Konguerrig, by dawnybreak in Aira.]
This bracketed paragraph is part of the aforementioned “Buckley and the Russian General” section – all about war, bloodshed and general bellicose behavior – and marks the climax of the story in which a lowly enlisted private stumbles upon an enemy commander in the act of relieving himself and, after some hesitation, eventually takes aim with his rifle and pulls the trigger. To mark the occasion, the above paragraph is placed immediately following the moment of assassination.
Many major cataclysmic events of World War II are peppered into this paragraph, including the bombings of Coventry (“coventry plumpkins“), Piccadilly Circus (“Landaunelegants of Pinkadindy“), and Honolulu (“Hullulullu“). Most notable of them all is of course the splitting (“abnihilisation“) of the atom (“etym” as well as “Atems“, with “mulicules” thrown in for good measure), giving birth to the atomic bomb – mankind’s most terrifying invention – which, when it “expolodotonates“, is capable of creating a second sun in the sky (“dawnybreak in Aira“), and putting all of us on doomsday watch, anxiously awaiting that dreaded moment when the clock’s hands reach “the twelves of clocks, noon minutes, none seconds“.
#4) A Puling Sample Jungle of Woods (FW112.3-8)
“Ga Ga Gara. Klook Klook Klook.” -Black Liz, Ulysses ‘Cyclops’ chapter
—You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy? You says: It is a puling sample jungle of woods. You most shouts out: Bethicket me for a stump of a beech if I have the poultriest notions what the farest he all means. Gee up, girly! The quad gospellers may own the targum but any of the Zingari shoolerim may pick a peck of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne.
The chapter in which this paragraph appears takes for its subject a lost letter which, once found and deciphered, is rumoured to uncover the truth about the nature of Earwicker’s fall from grace. The letter’s contents are hardly discussed – only the paper, the handwriting, the type of ink used, the envelope in which the letter was sent, the diacritics, etc are described at any length. A few elements of the letter’s contents are given on the page immediately preceding the above paragraph, but they prove sketchy, trite, and unenlightening.
Joyce is directly addressing his readers here, empathizing with our frustration; he hears us complaining that Finnegans Wake is nothing more than a jumble of words, pure and simple (“a puling sample jungle of woods“). He counsels us, however, that while academics may be the official watchdogs of Wake exegesis (“The quad gospellers may own the targum“) we pedestrian lay-readers (“any of the Zingari shoolerim“) can take inspiration (“pick a peck of kindlings yet“) from whatever interpretation we please.
So sure: Christopher Nolan, Tiger Woods, J. Robert Oppenheimer – throw them all into the mix. They’re in there, whether Joyce knew of their existence or not.
Lunatics have their place in the world.
In truth, if you leave out that final conclusion, academic Wakeans interpret the paragraph on p. 112 pretty much the same as the lunatics, and they’ll even concede that the reading of example #3 is pretty darn hard to avoid. And actually, every Joycean I’ve presented #2 with has admitted that the Tiger Woods analogy is just plain uncanny. The only reading they would dismiss out-of-hand as utterly ridiculous is the whole thing about Batman. But even my fringe-reading of passage #1 (which I came up with on the fly in preparation for this blogpost, googling each word it contains for whatever Batman connection I could muster) can be contextualized within the major themes of the book, and to at least a certain degree, within the narrative journey of book II chapter 3 where it occurs.
So for a moment I’d like to step up and give the lunatic his due – albeit for just a moment. The concept of a “lunatic fringe” in Finnegans Wake studies is not my coinage – it actually comes from Roland McHugh who, in his extremely useful and informative book The Finnegans Wake Experience, uses the term to describe a kind of “anything goes” culture – quite prevalent in the 1960s – that would have utterly thwarted the exegetical project that he and so many other scholars were working to create back then. His Annotations books would never have come to light without a very strict set of guidelines by which glosses for a particular Wake word or phrase could be included in the formal list. And happily, Raphael Slepon has followed McHugh’s lead. While he always welcomes suggestions for additional FWEET elucidations (he only last week approved JGSF member Grant Franks’ suggestion of “nabla” for “nibbleh” at FW300.18), Raphael’s filters are notoriously – and rightly – tight. He has incorporated only four out of the seven suggestions I’ve sent to him over the years, despite the fact that I argued well for every single one.
But my point in presenting these lunatic Wake readings is to remind readers that formal exegesis will only get you so far if what you’re trying to do is actually understand what James Joyce was working to accomplish. When, in early 1940 – approximately one year after the Wake‘s publication – Finland was showing signs of successfully repelling a Russian invasion, Joyce fired off as many as five missives directing his friends’ attention to…
“…Helsinki where, happily and as the prophet foresaw, the Finn again wakes.”
— letter dated 1/9/1940 to Jacques Mercanton (Letters III, p. 463)
“…Helsinki […] where, as foretold by the prophet, the Finn again wakes.”
— letter dated 2/8/1940 to Frank Budgen (Letters I, p. 408)
“…Helsinki where, as was predicted, the Finn again wakes.”
— letter dated 2/9/1940 to Constantine Curran (Letters III, p. 466)
Quite the crusader, Joyce. But does this mean that Finnegans Wake is actually a book about the Russo-Finnish wars, that Helsinki, not Dublin, is the locus of the book’s activity, or that Joyce saw himself as some kind of clairvoyant? Let me be clear on this:
Joyce was keenly aware of what his new, elastic language was capable of accommodating, and by keeping himself well-informed on the topics of the day (including quantum physics, which he had a good armchair understanding of), he ensured that at least some of his deliberate predictions would come true, i.e. the atomic bomb, the leveling of Honolulu, Coventry, Piccadilly, etc. All pretty amazing, really, but prophecy is a ridiculously iffy game; Joyce missed the mark far oftener than he hit it. Rome, Athens and Bulawayo are also included in the ‘prophecy’ on p. 353, and all three cities made it through WW2 un-bombed. And oops: It would seem that Hiroshima wasn’t on Joyce’s radar at all. That this blog should be published on the 70th anniversary of that awful day is mere serendipity.
But serendipity, ephemeral though it is, is still part of the natural world, and the natural world, chaotic though it may be, is actually somewhat predictable. A hundred years from now, even Tiger Woods will have faded completely from cultural memory – only golf history nerds will know anything about him. The passage on p. 35 will continue to describe Earwicker’s struggles which are in no way exclusive to Woods, Zoeller, nor anyone else. Perhaps the passage’s language will uncannily accommodate some new headline involving a scandalized public figure – seems pretty likely in point of fact.
So no – the only supernatural thing about Finnegans Wake is its language, for language is itself a wildly bizarre phenomenon. The problem arises when real lunatics get hold of the book. I knew a guy once who believed that he himself was the hero of Finnegans Wake, that Joyce was writing about him and no-one else, and that all interpretations that differed from his own were wrong. And yet even here – in this blazing pit of solipsistic insanity – the Wake‘s yoke proves to be massively commodious; H.C.E.’s fall is, after all, as precipitous as the heights his megalomania allows him to climb. I think every Wake reader has at some point whimsically looked for their own name in the book’s pages – I know I have – and I’d be surprised if anyone has completely failed. If we don’t see a reflection of ourselves when we read the Wake – or really any book for that matter – we’re not looking hard enough.
We just need to be sane about it, is all.
Congratulations and a very happy Ides-of-April to Tiger Woods – his fall from grace turned out to be temporary, after all. To be more specific, he has once again donned the green jacket at this year’s Augusta National tournament – his first major title in 11 years. Fun fact for Wake readers: 11 years ago, Tiger was 32.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
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UPDATED: Wastewater Released Into Cannon River In Northfield
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UPDATE 1:37PM July 24, 2019: KDHL/Power 96 was able to speak to Aaron Luckstein, manager of the Municipal Wastewater Section, from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency about the Monday wastewater release in Northfield. Mr. Luckstein did confirm the wastewater release to KDHL/Power 96 news, and stated that it was currently an "on-going investigation".
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency did state that at this time there were "no determining factors" that have been determined to have caused the discharge of the wastewater material from the treatment facility. It was noted in the conversation that was had with Mr. Luckstein that currently the Cannon River is in a flood stage and floodwaters are known to be dirty in nature. The Minnesota PCA is and does advocate caution to anyone who is planning to recreate on the Cannon River with it still being in a flood stage.
The PCA stated that on Monday the City of Northfield did collect samples from the Cannon River and that after testing by the Pollution Control Agency, the samples were found to be below the levels of concern for fecal bacteria. The Pollution Control Agency will not be testing those samples any further, although the City of Northfield could choose to test those samples further if they chose to do so.
The wastewater facility in Northfield processes materials from both domestic sources like your sink, toilet, or washing machine as well as waste materials from industrial sources like metal finishing services.
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A malfunctioning alarm may be to blame for a maximum of 5,500 gallons of wastewater being released into the Cannon River on Monday in Northfield. According to a release on the City of Northfield's website, there aren't any health concerns for the public.
The release states that early on Monday, July 22nd, "a wastewater tank overflowed releasing a maximum of 5,500 gallons of wastewater into the Cannon River."
the City of Northfield stated that there is "equipment in place to prevent the overflow." An alarm that is to alert wastewater facility staff of elevated tank levels, "did not work properly".
At the time staff realized the release they "notified Minnesota Pollution Control Agency immediately" and also took water samples that were tested.
The release went on to say that the City of Northfield is "conducting an internal investigation" into the release of wastewater into the Cannon River.
We reached out to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency this morning and will update this post with their comments in regard to the malfunction, and any concerns they have over the release.
Source: UPDATED: Wastewater Released Into Cannon River In Northfield
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Vecuronium requirement during liver transplantation under sevoflurane anesthesia
Kook Hyun Lee, Soon Ho Nam, Seung Yeon Yoo, Chul Woo Jung, Seng Sim Bae, Jeong Rim Lee
Purpose: In liver transplantation patients under intravenous anesthesia, the vecuronium dose is known to be reduced, especially during the anhepatic phase. Volatile anesthetics potentiate a muscle relaxation effect of neuromuscular blocking agents, so the vecuronium dose is supposed to further decrease if sevoflurane is used during liver transplantation. The purpose of this study was to determine the appropriate dose of vecuronium at each phase of liver transplantation under sevoflurane anesthesia. Methods: Thirty-five patients scheduled for living donor liver transplantation because of liver cirrhosis were enrolled in this study. They were anesthetized with 1 MAC of sevoflurane and intermittent administration of fentanyl. Continuous infusion of vecuronium (0.5 mg/ml) was used for muscle relaxation, which was adjusted every 15 min for consistent muscle relaxation aimed at T1/Tc of 0.1 monitored by ulnar nerve stimulation. Vecuronium infusion was stopped after hepatic artery anastomosis was finished. The infusion rate of each operative phase-dissection, anhepatic, and neohepatic-was calculated and analyzed by one-way analysis of variance. The recovery time from train-of-four (TOF) count 1 to TOF ratio 25% was also measured. Results: The vecuronium infusion rate of each operation phase for adequate muscle relaxation was as follows: 0.033 ± 0.009 mg/kg/h during dissection phase, 0.031 ± 0.009 mg/kg/h during anhepatic phase, and 0.026 ± 0.006 mg/kg/h during early neohepatic phase. There was a statistically significant difference between doses at each phase (P = 0.033). The recovery time from TOF count 1 to TOF ratio 25% was 103 ± 29 min. Conclusions: The required vecuronium dose in all phases was less than the known dose in the anhepatic phase (0.036 mg/kg/h) under midazolam-fentanyl anesthesia. In addition, the vecuronium infusion dose was not reduced in the anhepatic phase compared to the dissection phases.
Journal of Anesthesia
Intravenous Anesthesia
Hepatic Artery
Liver Cirrhosis
Lee, K. H., Nam, S. H., Yoo, S. Y., Jung, C. W., Bae, S. S., & Lee, J. R. (2010). Vecuronium requirement during liver transplantation under sevoflurane anesthesia. Journal of Anesthesia, 24(5), 683-686. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-010-0982-6
Vecuronium requirement during liver transplantation under sevoflurane anesthesia. / Lee, Kook Hyun; Nam, Soon Ho; Yoo, Seung Yeon; Jung, Chul Woo; Bae, Seng Sim; Lee, Jeong Rim.
In: Journal of Anesthesia, Vol. 24, No. 5, 01.10.2010, p. 683-686.
Lee, KH, Nam, SH, Yoo, SY, Jung, CW, Bae, SS & Lee, JR 2010, 'Vecuronium requirement during liver transplantation under sevoflurane anesthesia', Journal of Anesthesia, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 683-686. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-010-0982-6
Lee KH, Nam SH, Yoo SY, Jung CW, Bae SS, Lee JR. Vecuronium requirement during liver transplantation under sevoflurane anesthesia. Journal of Anesthesia. 2010 Oct 1;24(5):683-686. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-010-0982-6
Lee, Kook Hyun ; Nam, Soon Ho ; Yoo, Seung Yeon ; Jung, Chul Woo ; Bae, Seng Sim ; Lee, Jeong Rim. / Vecuronium requirement during liver transplantation under sevoflurane anesthesia. In: Journal of Anesthesia. 2010 ; Vol. 24, No. 5. pp. 683-686.
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Rising Sun Farm
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Just came across a link for this article:
The Naturism of Rising Sun Farm in River Falls, WI
by Judd Spicer on July 1, 2009
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It was exactly a year ago when I first came across Rising Sun Farm in River Falls, WI. Not in person; rather via the web, when I was doing some research for a brief article detailing an upcoming “Dine Fresh, Dine Local” event. Rising Sun was providing strawberries to a few restaurants for the evening, and the farm’s website, while primitive and simple, is nonetheless earnest in stating atop its crest: “Unconventional Farming at Rising Sun Farm.”
I’m a city boy by blood, more learned in cultivating a $5 foot long and hitting the gym than tending a Wisconsin field. Thus the site’s tenets of “Eating Plenty of Fruits and Vegetables” and “Moderate Exercise” did little to grab my collar; but then I came across the farm’s philosophy of “Naturism: Naked in Nature.” Within said article, penned by Rising Sun proprietor Roger Browne, it’s explained that:
“‘Disrobics’ may occur at any time of the day. Without clothes we can usually work comfortably in even the hottest weather. Practical advantages include absence of binding, sweat-soaked clothes, less laundry, and a lower risk of heat exhaustion. Even when hot, humid weather hits it can be quite joyful working nude when it would be miserable working clothed.”
Browne then goes on to say:
“Working as naturists with the soil, plants, and each other enables us to experience our connection to the earth and our interconnectedness with all life. Naked in nature, we transcend from observer to participant.”
Even for a city boy, that plants a seed of curiosity. I made a mental note that when the seasons turned over, I’d learn a little more about this place and its founder Browne, whom a writing peer familiar with the gent had described in brief as “unique.”
In the early 1970s, Roger Browne, a native of River Falls, spent time on the West Coast, living with “The Family of Man” at Marble Mount, a commune at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. He eventually moved back to Wisconsin and soon co-founded Rising Sun in 1976.
In late May, I spoke with Browne on the phone to express my interest in visiting his farm. We spoke about the onus of the organic and nudist philosophies that he applies to his trade.
“I’ll sometimes refer to Marble Mount as my spiritual birthplace,” Browne explained in his super-relaxed monotone. “It certainly shaped me; to say it simply ‘influenced’ what I’m doing now would be understated. Small scale. Hand labor. Minimal use of machines. Particularly — not having a driveway. A significant part of the charm of the farm is that there are no cars here. At least there’s not supposed to be. You’ll notice that when you get here.”
Three weeks later, as I entered Hudson then proceeded south on WI-29, I was soon reminded — as per usual — of what a unique place the Twin Cities is. Drive 25 minutes in virtually any direction and noise fades, green appears, traffic lessens. In just under 40 minutes from my downtown St. Paul home, I arrived at Rising Sun; as per the afore-noted lack of cars, I drove past it twice.
At the farm’s entrance rests a measured garage-like structure that serves, I later learned, as Rising Sun’s unmanned storefront. The drill: come in, grab or a bottle of maple syrup or some produce or eggs from a walk-in cooler, leave a self-written receipt and some cash. Above a display of the syrup hangs a large chalkboard informing walk-up visitors (about two a day) of the inventory (and prices) that Browne described for me on the phone; among them: tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, eggs, cilantro, and myriad other products. Browne told me that he produces about 40 different items, although, all varietals considered, he oversees around 125 different plantings. Regular purveyors of the products include River Market Co-op in Stillwater, Dick’s Market and Whole Earth Co-op in River Falls, and Shady Grove restaurant in Beldenville, WI.
Continuing on foot in these early-morning hours, I follow the path toward the farm and Browne’s adjoining residence. The brief trail soon concludes, and two acres of farm and field appear as visitors are greeted by a sign post proclaiming: “Rising Sun Farm. Our Farm is Clothing Optional. Welcome.”
[Note: PG-13 nudity after the jump]
It’s only a matter of minutes before such greeting is personified by Browne, as I quietly ascend the steps to his handsome cabin which is mere steps away from the fields and greenhouses that are his charge. Brief pleasantries are exchanged while he points about the property (“Volleyball on Wednesday nights,” “That’s our cowboy hot tub”), and it’s not long before the work day begins, consuming the energy of Browne, a handful of interns / employees, and myself.
Volunteers like me are not a rarity at Rising Sun, as I’m given the manageable task of cutting some lettuce within one of the greenhouses. Browne gives direction with patience, his monotone never drifting. Inflection (or lack thereof) aside — when he speaks, it means something, and his instruction is succinct. From a purely verbal standpoint: think Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused, but with something useful to say. From a mental vantage: think Tetris.
I start cutting lettuce and snipping Asian greens, placing leaves in a bucket. I take my shirt off, although leave my jeans on, silently wondering if I’ll chicken out and work the day clothed. I cut alongside Jim, a paid intern and recently anointed father who came to Rising Sun this summer after working the grounds for several years at a nearby golf course. He admits that he makes less money with this gig, however it becomes clear that he’s making up for the lack of funds by cashing in the expertise provided by Browne.
“I’m out here to learn,” he says. “I plan to be out here about three years, if Roger will have me. I just had my kid a year ago and my girlfriend and I look toward this kind of living for the future. So, I’m just trying to learn from Roger, and decide what I might want to do with the knowledge. I’m out here to learn to provide for my family, I guess.”
Jim is soon shirtless in the near-oppressive heat of the greenhouse. I somewhat sheepishly inquire if he works in the buff.
“I’m probably the only guy that doesn’t,” he replies. “But the nudity doesn’t bother me. I don’t have any problems with what anybody does here. It’s very open. It’s relaxing here; there’s such a wide swath of people. But the nudist aspect isn’t the reason I came here.”
His boss is a nudist, and soon, as I exit the greenhouse with a full bucket, I note that Browne strips down to nothing but a ballcap. I’m still wearing my jeans. He’s working naked, like most everyday, and asks me to see if Emily, another intern, can use any help.
Like Jim, Emily is new to Rising Sun, having arrived in recent months and working as a paid intern. She’s a nascent college grad and it comes up that her dad is an attorney in Green Bay; in days of yore, she worked at his office for a spell, and plans to take to the LSAT soon. I draw my eyes over the idyllic property, seeing Roger working away in the nude, his shoulders coffee brown. A law office seems really damn far away from here.
“I stay in an old bus that’s been here about 30 years,” she says, smiling, washing lettuce in a long skirt, sans top. “There’s sort of a super-structure on top of it, and a porch outside. People that lived in there before left some junk that I find myself still cleaning up — an ongoing project. But each person that’s lived here contributes something.”
Emily points out two other folks on the grounds, Christopher and Melissa, working different parts of the farm at present. Both live on the property, as well. Jim’s in the minority in that he doesn’t. Christopher, she explains, is also working in his incipient summer as an intern. Melissa has worked at Rising Sun for five years.
“Everybody works together all day, and then we go home to our own space on the property,” Emily continues. “No one’s paying rent; some people live and eat out here a little while in exchange for their work.”
Talking on, I’ve noted both that I’m the only one not doing any work, just as I readily realize that I’m also not doing any work while still clothed. It’s getting hot in the jeans, 80-plus degree beneath the rising sun with only the shelter of inconsistent foliage. Emily’s working half-naked; Christopher’s working naked; Roger’s working naked. A small pang of panic wells-up in my gut — brought on only by me — and I realize that if I don’t lose the denim now, I never will. It’s similar to the feeling of jumping off a cliff with your buddies: You walk to the top, watch them jump into the water, and consider whether it would be less… frightening to just walk back down the rocks. It’s either that or leap.
Taking off my jeans and Jockeys can at first be described by about 1,000 different words, among them: scary, liberating, strange, natural, different, fun. Not that any of those present really cared to know or label the adjective of my experience. I realized then, that at Rising Sun, it’s not about the parsing of clothes that matters, it’s the stripping of judgment.
As I walk nude to one of the greenhouses to speak with Christopher, I feel more at ease by the moment.
“Sometimes, I forget it’s clothing optional,” he says, after explaining that he first met Roger while camping here with a cycling tour last year. “I love to take off my clothes, to walk around the house naked. But I never necessarily said to myself, ‘Oh, this is a nudist venue. I want to go to this nudist place. I’m a nudist.’ But being out here, I get nude mostly for comfort, and I also think of it like, ‘When in Rome…’ I’m learning about the nudist aspect of what’s happening here. And it really appeals to my philosophy of not hiding, being open, and also challenging what people think of what’s right and wrong.”
Christopher soon volunteers to make lunch, a stated ritual at Rising Sun where plates are filled with contents raised, grown, or caught on the grounds. Today’s feast will eventually consist of a delicious egg salad, greens with homemade dressing, and a raccoon stew (kinda stringy) in which the titular ingredient was shot by Christopher himself.
“Best raccoon I’ve ever had,” I’d later crack wise.
“You’ve had ‘coon before?” Christopher would query.
But before I’d have opportunity to be a smart-ass at the lunch table, I was first charged with picking bundles of parsley for a spell, working alone, or at times with Emily, Roger, or Melissa.
“Look for the flat leaves; the darker ones,” Roger instructs, before showing me an example of his bunch and nodding toward a flipped-Frisbee filled with red rubber bands.
I work on through the morning, talking at times, mostly listening as Roger describes the daily happy hour after work, or the Harvest Party he hosts come Labor Day, or the fella from New York who had just come here to work for nine days after seeing the farm’s ad in N Magazine.
Mostly, I’m just enjoying the silence and occasionally smirking to myself about the leviathan dichotomy between this peaceful place, and the big-city gonzo environs of Wrigley Field where I sat just two days prior, covering the Twins and Cubs. Jim was right, this place is relaxing.
It’s steamy now; I perspire in my ballcap and pick on. “Naked in nature, we transcend from observer to participant,” Roger wrote on his site, and I realize now why he penned as such. We’re well past the am hours, and I’m hungry. The scent of something comes from the nearby cabin; maybe it’s the ‘coon. Roger asks me to see if Christopher needs any help. I wipe sweat from my eyebrows and oblige.
Free Range Naturist
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Re: Rising Sun Farm
Very interesting indeed. This looks like my sort of farm. I am going to mark this down in the book of possibilities and if we ever make the cross-country naturist tour we have joked about (Atlantic-to-Pacific through Canada, then Pacific-to-Atlantic through the USA) this looks like a good spot to visit.
Millions of years of evolution have combined to produce me.
I'm rather hoping that I don't bugger it up in one lifetime.
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This sounds like an amazing place. Exactly the sort of place I'd like to spend a summer. Great find!
Quote from: Jared on May 13, 2011, 03:52:41 am
Seeing how this farm is only about an hour drive from my house, maybe I'll check it out sometime this summer. I'll report back if I make it over.
Quote from: Jann on May 12, 2011, 01:08:38 pm
Now that is exactly the kind of trip I want to take! (Not necessarily the naturist part...just the cross-continent two country road trip)
. . . and, given that this is a naturist forum, why not the naturist part. I am puzzled
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Quote from: Jann on May 13, 2011, 11:41:56 am
. . . and, given that this is a naturist forum[/i], why not the naturist part. I am puzzled
Perhaps Jared is just an avid bird watcher and accidentally ended up on here!
Quote from: Historybuff83 on May 13, 2011, 12:51:03 pm
booby birds ? . . . dicky birds ? . . .
But while we are already off-topic and considering things transcontinental, here is a question for all the Yanks on the forum: Have any of you ever driven Route 66 or do you know anyone who has ? If "yes," do you recommend it as something to do ? We have talked about it as a possible basis for the first half of a return route from California. Is it worth it ?
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Cyberpunk Thriller “X Marks the Spot” First Premium Release for Story Worlds Platform
March 21, 2016 by Chris Tihor, posted in Press Releases
Premium game available on innovative new platform that brings story based games to the casual gamer.
March 9, 2016 – Victoria, BC, Canada – Ironic Iconic Studios’ first game, “Mandatory Upgrade – X Marks the Spot” is an exciting new story-based game that allows the player to assume the role of a government agent investigating a death by a suit of cybernetic armour run amok. Starting today, it’s available on Facebook and the web through the Story Worlds platform.
Story Worlds was devised by One More Story Games as a way to create narrative-focused storytelling games and deliver them to a wide audience through traditional casual game platforms, such as smartphones and tablets. Ironic Iconic Studios saw Story Worlds as the perfect venue to release X Marks the Spot as the game addresses both the rising demand for story-based games while being playable within a few hours time to reflect the trend towards shorter, more compact experiences.
You’re Rachel Varley, fresh out of re-entry training and eager to get back to work as a NASIA Agent. But before you get a chance to get your feet under you, you find yourself tasked with discovering how a fellow agent managed to get carved up by a mechanized SWAT suit. Sure, everyone at the West Harbour Complex seems happy to help out and answer your questions, but you can’t forget that one or more of them may have been involved in plotting someone’s death. At least you’re not alone, you’ve got your trusty drone Osprey and your Virtual Personal Assistant, the always sassy Brigid. Will you be able to get to the heart of the mystery and still manage to escape in one piece?
Mandatory Upgrade – X Marks the Spot is now available on the Story Worlds games portal, with a free demo version available prior to full game purchase ($3.99 CAD). Play it on Facebook and the One More Story Games website. For more information, please visit www.mandatoryupgrade.com/x-marks-the-spot.
About Ironic Iconic Studios
Ironic Iconic Studios has been making games since 2003 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Their clients include Harebrained Schemes, Tap Tap Tap, Paper Machete Games and GameHouse Canada. This is the launch of their first in-house game.
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Ironic Iconic Studios has been making games since 2003, first in Victoria, British Columbia, and now in Toronto, Ontario. Our clients include Harebrained Schemes, Tap Tap Tap, Headless Chicken Games, and Talespinners.
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The Great Pumpkin Hunt at South Coast Botanic Garden
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Jack and the Giant in Hollywood
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Assistance League of Los Angeles Theatre for Children, 1367 North St. Andrews Place
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Military Tribute Days at Knott’s Berry Farm
Active, Retired and Veteran U.S. Military Personnel receive free admission to Knott's Berry Farm for themselves and one guest from November 3 - 21 and December 2 - 19.
Knott’s Berry Farm, 8039 Beach Blvd
Buena Park, 90620
Ice Presented by Plaza at Santa Monica
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Downtown Santa Monica, 1324 5th St.
Santa Monica, 90401
Open-Studio Maker Session at Child Creativity Lab in Santa Ana
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Child Creativity Lab, 1815 E.Wilshire Ave., #906
Outdoor Ice Rink at Irvine Spectrum Center
November 1 - January 5: Skate under the stars (and sun!) at the festive Holiday Ice Rink in the Giant Wheel Court at Irvine Spectrum Center. Skate rental is available or bring your own. Season passes also offered.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 @ 3:00 pm
Irvine Spectrum, 670 Spectrum Center Drive
Irvine,
Día de los Muertos Annual Art Exhibition and Altar Display in Long Beach
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Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave.
Veterans Day Ceremonial Walk in Buena Park
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Ehlers Event Center, 8150 Knott Ave.
Buena Park,
Free Car Seat Class in Orange County
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The Colony Theatre, 555 N. Third St.
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 - Saturday, November 9, 2019
OC Fair & Event Center, 88 Fair Drive
Free Day at The Huntington Library
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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San Marino, 91108
The Beauty of Christmas Open House at Sherman Library & Gardens
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AVCA Children’s Concert in Aliso Viejo
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 @ 11:00 am
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Fountain Valley Bowl, 17110 Brookhurst St.
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Upper Newport Bay, 2301 University Dr.
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Friday, November 8, 2019 @ 4:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Fillmore & Western Railway, 364 Main St.
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Saturday Science at Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey
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Columbia Memorial Space Center, 12400 Columbia Way
Day Out with Thomas: The Steam Team Tour at Southern California Railway Museum
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November Kids Club Classes at Michaels
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Art Without Walls at Hammer Museum
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The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Family Skate Night in Fountain Valley
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The Autry, 4700 Western Heritage Way
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MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull’s attacks.
But the real flaw in Turnbull’s strategy is its sheer negativity. The great dominators of parliament – Menzies, Whitlam and Keating most notably – all had something to say: they were policy powerhouses, intent on changing the nation in their own images. There was plenty of attack, plenty of a invective, but it was all aimed at providing a genuine agenda.
Paul Keating regarded parliamentary performance as a crucial part of his leadership. If you couldn’t win in the parliament, he declared, you couldn’t win in the country.
And it now appears that Malcolm Turnbull has belatedly taken the maestro’s advice. For the last fortnight our formerly urbane Prime Minister has indeed dominated the House of Representatives; indeed, he has all but blown it away.
Turnbull has raged remorselessly against Bill Shorten, calling him a hypocrite, a fake, a sycophant, a sucker up, a parasite and a man who will say anything do gain advantage – “don’t listen to what he says, look at how he acts,” our leader bellowed.
Bravura rhetoric, certainly, but not without risk. Because the biggest criticism of Turnbull since his ascension to the top chair has been that he has behaved in precisely the same way.
He is the one who has deserted all his earlier principles, caving in to the agenda of the far right to gain the vital votes that delivered him to the Liberal leadership. He is the one who has abandoned climate change policy, same sex marriage, the push for a republic. Hypocrisy? Fake?
And as for sucking up – even apart from his kowtowing to the likes of Peter Dutton, Barnaby Joyce and even the real fringe dwellers like Cory Bernardi and George Christensen, he is seldom seen away from the rich and famous whom he has cultivated all his adult life.
The irony is that Turnbull, in his own account of his rise, constantly tries to play down his wealth and privilege. We are constantly regaled about the stories of his upbringing in a rented home, raised by a single parent, how he made his way up by sheer grit and determination to achieve the position he now sees as his right.
As Turnbull tells it, it is a classic log cabin to White House fable, a noble saga of aspiration triumphant. But Shorten also came from humble beginnings – rather more humble than the sizeable cash inheritance that came Turnbull’s way. And he too has reached the height of leadership of the party of his choice and very nearly toppled the incumbent prime minister in his first go at it. For all Turnbull’s shouting, the comparisons are irresistible.
Turnbull , so far at least, seems to be ranting simply for he sake of ranting. If he is really to listen to the wisdom of Paul Keating, it might be an idea to heed one of his other maxims – the one that made him the most audaciously successful economic reformer in recent times. “Good policy,” said the great man succinctly, “is good politics.”
This, surely, is the message that Turnbull needs, and the one he is apparently determined to ignore.
Mungo MacCallum is a veteran journalist who was a senior member of the Canberra Press Gallery.
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3 Responses to MUNGO MacCALLUM. Malcolm Turnbull’s attacks.
John Redman says:
Spot on Mungo, I’ve been bellowing these exact thoughts to anyone who’ll listen to no avail and I don’t know what it is…sorta like white noise. No one seems to notice what any of them say, just keep their heads down and wait for whatever the next disappointment is to become reality. Keep on keeping on, someone’s needs to.John
Jim KABLE says:
I still cannot understand why a lout of shouting and a spray of personal attack should be regarded by the so-called mainstream press as evidence of leadership???!!! Many of us in our professional lives have seen leadership in which one is made to feel honestly and sincerely to be part of the team of positives – though many of us have also been there when the rule (not leadership) was through fear – through demeaning of one’s colleagues – not pretty. As indeed I thought Malcolm TRUMBLE’s tantrums were – not pretty – most unedifyingly TRUMP-like!
Jaquix says:
Turnbull is hopeless, a total dud of a PM. After he was attacked so viciously in QT Bill Shorten said mildly later, “I think Malcolm was looking in the mirror”. He is right, and when Turnbull rants about Bill being ” a hypocrite, a fake, a sycophant, a sucker up, a parasite and a man who will say anything do gain advantage – “don’t listen to what he says, look at how he acts,” you can just the description fitting Turnbull himself. Turnbull is a fake, he sucks up to the big banks and big business, and donors left right and centre. He would do anything for advantage, look, lets face it, he has sold his soul to the devil to be PM, and he lies through his teeth on a daily basis. Yes, Malcolm, we are looking at what you say and what you do, and THEY DONT ADD UP!
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If you can have this exchange with someone today, this person is someone to not ignore the other 364 days of the year. Today is, of COURSE, the greatest unofficial holiday on the calendar: Star Wars Day! Not Cinco de Mayo eve, but a celebration of the greatest fictional universe and the state of that fictional universe has never been stronger. Star Wars never really went away, but it hasn’t been mainstream cool like this since the Original Trilogy in the early 1980’s. We’ve had two outstanding films from Disney that have established enough good will and confidence in the franchise’s future that they’re not pushing The Last Jedi the way they did Rogue One and The Force Awakens. They know we’re on-board. What they are consistently doing is making sure the EU is promoting upcoming projects and is living up to the quality standards they’ve established for films. Novels, Comics,TV Shows, Video Games; all of it ties back to strengthening the brand as a whole and supporting the films. So we know what lies at the end of the 2017, but that’s far from the only Star Wars projects to look forward to while we count the days to TLJ. Continue reading May the Fourth Be With You! Happy Star Wars Day 2017!!! →
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January 22, 2017 sleeplessdave 2 Comments
Blockbuster books used to be a prime source for Hollywood adaptations, and still are when they happen, but the sad fact is that there are a lot fewer blockbuster books than there used to be. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins certainly broke out and became that rare novel that everyone was talking about, and, therefore, because I happen to run in very literate crowd, I was peer pressured into reading it. They sold me on, “Oh it’s even better than Gone Girl!” No. No it is not. Gone Girl was written by Gillian Flynn, who is extremely dark and twisty, but is also one of the best, most-compelling authors writing today, and the film adaptation of that by David Fincher was fantastic.. The Girl on the Train is a slog as a novel and, in that respect, its adaption is a very faithful one.
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Novak: Armitage Interviews "Obscured" The Truth
Matt Drudge sneak previews the next Bob Novak column, due out tomorrow (Thursday) [due tomorrow but arriving today!]:
"When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did," Bob Novak claims in a column set for Thursday release.
Novak, attempting to set the record straight, writes: "First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column."
Novak slams Armitage for holding back all this time.
Armitage's silence for "two and one-half years caused intense pain for his colleagues in government and enabled partisan Democrats in Congress to falsely accuse Rove of being my primary source," Novak explains.
"When Armitage now says he was mute because of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's request, that does not explain his silent three months between his claimed first realization that he was the source and Fitzgerald's appointment on Dec. 30. Armitage's tardy self-disclosure is tainted because it is deceptive."
For what it's worth, we believe Drudge has access to this because we believe that wire-service columns go out early so the subscribing newspapers can set them up. For example, Novak's July 14, 2003 column "outing" Ms. Plame went on the wire on July 11.
So, where are we? Well, various commentators, including myself, noted that Armitage had not exactly been forthcoming about his chat with Woodward or much else in this case, so there was reason to take his story with a grain of salt. This was Armitage's account as described by CBS:
"At the end of a wide-ranging interview he asked me, 'Why did the CIA send Ambassador (Wilson) to Africa?' I said I didn't know, but that she worked out at the agency," Armitage says.
Armitage says he told Novak because it was "just an offhand question." "I didn't put any big import on it and I just answered and it was the last question we had," he says.
Armitage adds that while the document was classified, "it doesn't mean that every sentence in the document is classified.
"I had never seen a covered agent's name in any memo in, I think, 28 years of government," he says.
He adds that he thinks he referred to Wilson's wife as such, or possibly as "Mrs. Wilson." He never referred to her as Valerie Plame, he adds.
"I didn't know the woman's name was Plame. I didn't know she was an operative," he says.
Skeptics noted that what Armitage claims he told Novak is much less than what Novak reported - for example, Armitage does not even admit telling Novak that Ms. Plame was involved in arranging Ambassador Wilson's trip to Niger. Where, people wondered, did Novak learn that - some undisclosed third source, from a chattier Karl Rove than either Novak or Rove described, or what?
On the other hand, Novak had an odd encounter on the sidewalk on July 8 with a stranger who tuned out to be a friend of Joe Wilson's. The two struck up a conversation, the stranger asked about Niger and Wilson, and Novak said (per Joe Wilson's book), "Wilson's an asshole. The CIA sent him. His wife, Valerie, works for the CIA. She's a weapons of mass destruction specialist. She sent him."
OK, that was on July 8; per other reporting, Rove and Novak exchanged phone calls on the 8th but only talked on the 9th. So how did Novak know on the 8th that Ms. Plame was a WMD specialist who sent her hubby to Niger? *IF* Armitage really only mentioned that "she worked out at the agency", Novak would have to be psychic (in which case his vast powers have been underutilized over the many years) or he would have to have another mystery source.
On the other hand, if Armitage told Novak that Ms. Plame worked in the Directorate of Operations and was involved in sending her hubby, as Novak asserts, then the question of what did Novak know and how did he know it is nearly answered.
However... how did Armitage know that Ms. Plame was in the Directorate of Operations, which is the branch that has the covert operatives (although not everyone there is covert)?
Armitage claimed that he learned about Ms. Plame from the INR memo (.pdf file thanks to Josh Gerstein and the NY Sun), which mentioned her in just one sentence as a "CIA WMD manager". Why did Armitage place her in the Directorate of Operations and not in WINPAC, which also has WMD specialist and, we presume, managers? A lucky guess?
My guess is that someone does have a mystery source here. I would be surprised if Bob Novak had not called one of his CIA contacts to probe the Wilson story - if everyone was telling him that Wilson was sent by the CIA, why wouldn't he call over there?
On the other hand, I don't mind the idea that Armitage, who has been in Washington a long time, has some long-time friends at the CIA and had a background chat with one of them. Senior people were asking about the Wilson trip and Armitage's underlings were telling him the INR was not involved - is it utterly implausible that Armitage called a CIA buddy of his to double-check?
Well - Novak says Armitage told him Ms. Plame was in the DO, even though Armitage could not have learned that from the INR memo. I suppose that calling someone in the DO an "operative" would be consistent with Novak's usage in his famous column:
Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him.
Compounding the mystery - On July 8 Andrea Mitchell claimed that CIA sources told her that the Wilson trip was arranged by "some of the covert operatives in the CIA at a very low level".
And on July 6, Walter Pincus and Richard Leiby of the WaPo reported that
A senior administration official said yesterday that Wilson's mission originated within the CIA's clandestine service...
I would think that "the clandestine service" meant Directorate of Operations rather than WINPAC. The point is, the notion that the Wilson trip was arranged by the DO was not, apparently, a big secret on July 8, and the use of the word "operative" was not unique to Novak.
My Big Finish - I have never thought the Armitage story was complete and accurate, so the Novak column does not shock me. And I DO NOT think Novak is coming forward simply to protect Rove or someone else - Fitzgerald has the testimony he has and this column won't change that; in the court of public opinion this case has been dismissed due to lack of interest.
I think Novak is coming forwards because he is peeved with Armitage and thinks he is being a weasel on this story. (And when the Prince of Darkness questions your integrity, that is getting down there...)
"NAME" GAME ASIDE: *IF* Armitage called a CIA crony that could explain where the name "Plame" came from - she is referred to as "Valerie Wilson" in the INR memo but someone who knew her before she was married might well remember her as "Plame". That said, in his interview Armitage denied using the "Plame" name and Novak does not contradict him (in this Drudge excerpt, anyway).
Novak claimed he relied on "Who's Who when he explained this last summer but that explanation has not really satisfied people.
Finally, Judy Miller had "Valerie Flame" in her notebook, probably from another source:
Mr. Fitzgerald asked me about another entry in my notebook, where I had written the words ''Valerie Flame,'' clearly a reference to Ms. Plame. Mr. Fitzgerald wanted to know whether the entry was based on my conversations with Mr. Libby. I said I didn't think so. I said I believed the information came from another source, whom I could not recall.
Mr. Fitzgerald asked if I could recall discussing the Wilson-Plame connection with other sources. I said I had, though I could not recall any by name or when those conversations occurred.
I am confident there are sources out there that Fitzgerald never identified. Since he was focusing his search on the White House, that is not surprising - Fitzgerald did seem to be investigating "Did the White House conspire to out Ms. Plame?", rather than "Who outed Ms. Plame?"
UPDATE: Armitage pisses back, via the WaPo:
Armitage, in an interview yesterday, said he stood by his account and disputed Novak's.
...In confirming his role, Armitage said his disclosure to Novak was done in an offhand way. At the end of their conversation, "Novak asked me, 'Hey, why did the CIA send Mr. Wilson to Niger?' I said, 'I don't know, but I think his wife worked out there,' " Armitage said.
...But Novak says in today's column that Armitage's statements "obscured what he really did" and that "Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson."
And now the comedy bit:
Armitage said he could not recall whether he identified the CIA division where Wilson's wife worked.
He can't remember, but Novak is wrong!
More fun:
Lobbyist Ken Duberstein, a friend of Armitage who helped arrange Novak's meeting with him, said yesterday that Armitage's account precisely matches what Armitage told him in October 2003.
Matches precisely! And Mr. Duberstein is certain about this three-year old conversation because he has notes and a tape-recording! Please, I'm begging now - give me a break.
And if they did not follow established procedures, then didn't they violate some law?
Posted by: lurker | September 13, 2006 at 10:19 PM
Rocco, Good catch as usual. That would accord with Thielman's statement that Powell and armitage got daily briefings about everything the INR did.
Posted by: clarice | September 13, 2006 at 10:23 PM
My impression/guess/understanding is that a career civil servant at State (or CIA, Pentagon, or wherever) is a "government" official.
Presidential appointees subject to Senate confirmation (as well as White House hires) are part of the "Administration", and will (mostly) leave when the President's term is up.
So, what's the secret code phrase for a sooper dooper extra special prosecutor, not elected, not appointed & confirmed by anyone elected, and not supervised by anyone elected or appointed?
(I have two suggestions: "fourth branch of government" and "foreign power")
Posted by: cathyf | September 13, 2006 at 10:26 PM
"And if they did not follow established procedures, then didn't they violate some law?"
I was referring to AJacksonian's long post about how to refer to names of covert status in memos; not Rocco's post about established procedures where Armitage was supposed to receive daily briefings.
Counterterrorism blog has two interesting articles:
Nasrallah is fast losing popularity even in its own ranks
Is Al Qaeda Changing Strategies? because of the Israel - Hizbollah war or they were afraid that Nasrallah has gained popularity among the Arabs?
cathyf, Libby's brief in support of dismissal on the question of the appointment was one of the best argued briefs I've ever seen. It was a mistake not to have granted it.
Libby's brief in support of dismissal on the question of the appointment was one of the best argued briefs I've ever seen. It was a mistake not to have granted it.
I'm curious -- my suggestion about the AG appealing the Appointments Clause ruling was basically a cathy-as-loose-canon idea, but, seriously, do they have standing? The argument is, more or less, that Fitzgerald is posing as a properly-appointed and properly-supervised special prosecutor. Can the justice department petition to have all of his special-prosecutor work product thrown out of any US court? (Obviously not his Chicago work product -- he was clearly properly appointed and confirmed there.)
Clearly Libby has standing to ask for the stuff related to him to be dismissed, but isn't it the Attorney General who is the injured party by the deriliction of duty of his predecessor? (Comey in his role as acting AG is Gonzalez's predecessor in this matter. It is Comey who created the unconstitutional office and then appointed Fitzgerald to it.)
Did Jeff explain how he was able to obtain the advance (not available to the general public one yet) edition to Novak's column, or did I miss something?
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 13, 2006 at 11:10 PM
Heh,ts--!
Cathyf, I always thought it odd that the DoJ allowed Fitz to make this argument without even filing an amicus brief.It is an arcane question about the DoJ's position now. Certainly he can--and should be fired and the case dismissed. If it is that authority will probably be of less authority because it was not taken to the Ct of Appeals and because the underlying case was dismissed.
Once the case is dismissed, I do not see how DoJ can appeal it.
******If it is that authority will probably be of less WEIGHT because it was not taken to the Ct of Appeals and because the underlying case was dismissed.
I was referring to AJacksonian's long post about how to refer to names of covert status in memos;
It's fairly obvious she was referred to that way because the referrer didn't know she was covert. And, in fact, that she was acting in a decidedly un-covert way--hosting an interagency meeting--when she did something memorable enough to be committed to the INR guy (Rohn's) meeting notes. If there was a security violation (and I contend there was), it was Plame's.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | September 13, 2006 at 11:51 PM
And, in fact, that she was acting in a decidedly un-covert way--hosting an interagency meeting--when she did something memorable enough to be committed to the INR guy (Rohn's) meeting notes.
Just a quick note: Rohn, the guy who wrote up the notes, was not at any moment present at that meeting when Plame was, according to what he told Isikoff and Corn for Hubris. So whatever Plame did, it was not memorable to Rohn, at least in the ordinary way we use that term. And it certainly appears that she did not host an interagency meeting. Here's Hubris p. 94:
Rohn said that he had arrived after it had started and "really didn't understand who had done the organizationn work for the meeting." he explained that he had used the word "apparently" in his memo because he hadn't been sure who had actually initiated the gathering. Valerie Wilson was not there when he entered. "I have never met her," he said. Rohn, who wrote the only known account of the meeting, acknowledged that his memo may have created a misimpression about Valerie Wilson's involvement.
Posted by: Jeff | September 14, 2006 at 12:03 AM
Captain's Quarters does Novak
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | September 14, 2006 at 12:08 AM
Well, in addition to my access to the inner workings of Fitzgerald's investigation, Novak also sends me his forthcoming columns for proofreading from time to time. It's an odd mix.
No, actually, it was published by the Chicago Sun-Times, which I take to be Novak's home paper, and I got the link from another commenter at emptywheel's. But that's so pedestrian, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
Certainly he can--and should be fired
Is it really being "fired" from the special prosecutor "position" if the position never existed because it is unconstitutional?
If Fitzgerald is not acting as a duly-appointed officer of the United States (as defined by the constitution) then none of his motions are legal filings. Like my 12-year-old knows how to run a computer and could print out some papers and ride his bike down to the courthouse, but he's not a real prosecutor and so he can't get his annoying little sister indicted for being annoying. As far as this case, it looks to me like Fitzgerald had about as much right to be making court filings as my kid does...
Posted by: cathyf | September 14, 2006 at 12:19 AM
Rohn, who wrote the only known account of the meeting, acknowledged that his memo may have created a misimpression about Valerie Wilson's involvement.
And you give me grief for quibbling? It's undisputed Plame showed up at the meeting--her version (SSCI):
The former ambassador’s wife told Committee staff that she only attended the meeting to introduce her husband and left after about three minutes.
Whether from personal observation or discussion with meeting members, Rohn's subsequent attempt to capture the essence looks to be serviceable. And whatever Plame did, it certainly doesn't square with the concept of someone for whom the "United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such individual's classified intelligence relationship to the United States."
Posted by: Cecil Turner | September 14, 2006 at 12:24 AM
--I'm sorry to disappoint you.--
You NEVER do that.
Posted by: topsecretk9 | September 14, 2006 at 12:33 AM
"The disclosure of Mrs. Wilson’s covert identity makes her and her family a target for those persons and groups who bear hostility to the United States and/or its intelligence officers."
The disclosure by Joe Wilson that a former US ambassador would take part in a CIA operation puts members of the diplomatic corps, active and retired, in the cross hairs of foreign intelligence services, friend and foe, around the world.
Posted by: Neo | September 14, 2006 at 12:37 AM
cathyf, logically you are right of course, but the AG having acquiesced so long in this arrangement even when Fitz was arguing that his appointment was constitutional, the AG may well have lost the opportunity at this last date to raise that.
Posted by: clarice | September 14, 2006 at 12:39 AM
Novak writes;
He had told me unequivocally that Mrs. Wilson worked in the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division and that she had suggested her husband’s mission.
I'm prolly taking parsing to a new level here, but is this "she had suggested her husband’s [the] mission. and the subsquency "offered up" the perfect person in her eyes to do the "mission" -- which track with her hasty "memo" that notes he has "good french contacts" to boot?
the idea of the "mission" was hers and the person to do the mission was Husband...if so, no wonder so many viewed it as a nepotistic junket in the community, especially when so many were saying "dumb idea"
If so wonder how hard she pushed her grand "mission" idea and why, cause the de-brief report looks nothing like the Op-Ed
(cathyf has said above theory was because they thought they were so vastly "vastly" and smarter then their silly peers)
cathyf
If he can be fired, then his position isn't unconstitutional. No?
If Gonazales fires fitz, and fitz ignores him then I think what happens is that fitz runs around 'neath the streets of Boston forever. He's the man who never returned (to Chicago).
And we're stuck with fitz forever.
There's the reason his investigation hasn't been declared complete. :)
Posted by: Syl | September 14, 2006 at 02:58 AM
Washington Post: Novak Accuses Plame Source Of Distortion
I've been surfing--If Novak is right and Armitage knew in JULY of 2003 that he was the source, this is even more interesting:
[quote]By Glenn Kessler
Monday, August 4, 2003; Page A01
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and his deputy, Richard L. Armitage, have signaled to the White House that they intend to step down even if President Bush is reelected, setting the stage for a substantial reshaping of the administration's national security team that has remained unchanged through the September 2001 terrorist attacks, two wars and numerous other crises. [/quote]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16856-2003Aug3?language=printer
It is probably pure coincidence but in July 2004 Armitage went on the Bd of CSIS, overlapping Mary O McCarthy's time at CSIS. (In 2004 she made a political contribution listing that as her place of employment ). He's still on that Bd.
From today's WaPo article above:
[quote]Armitage, in reply, said his disclosure to Novak was inadvertent and noted that Novak himself described it as "offhand" in an Oct. 1, 2003, column. Armitage said he could not recall whether he identified the CIA division where Wilson's wife worked. He added that he rejects any suggestion he was deliberately trying to plant the information, explaining that "I had no reason to wish him [Wilson] any ill" and that Wilson "was simply verifying what had already been reported [about Iraq] through State channels."
Lobbyist Ken Duberstein, a friend of Armitage who helped arrange Novak's meeting with him, said yesterday that Armitage's account precisely matches what Armitage told him in October 2003.[/quote]
This makes another witness whose memory wasn't perfect...but only one man was charged for not being autistic.
Maybe Duberstein is telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Maybe Novak is too. Which would leave Armitage covering his butt from the get go. Novak was not someone he would care if he burned.
Posted by: sad | September 14, 2006 at 04:27 AM
Something that seems surprising to me is that Novak gives date of the Armitage meeting as July 8, 2003 -- which is the same day Novak talked with Wilson's friend. Not only that, but according to Novak, he met with Armitage in the afternoon, while according to Wilson, Novak talked to Wilson's friend "late in the afternoon." I can't offer any theories other than coincidence for the timing, but what are the odds of that happening?
Posted by: MJW | September 14, 2006 at 04:35 AM
Following up my own comment: Why hasn't Novak revealed the identity of the mysterious snitch? Is there some stanger-who-accosts-a-journalist-on-the-street privilage I'm not aware of?
If one of Armitage's motives was to 'piss on' Tenet as someone, I think correctly, suggested, this may explain why Tenet signed the referral. He wanted to find out who was doing the pissing. He may have even suspected it was Armitage
Posted by: paladin2 | September 14, 2006 at 06:15 AM
Capt ed concentrates on the same part of the Novak piece that caught my eye - the calling up of Novak after years of shunning him.
Above, TM (I think) notes that Novak was not a neo-con but was tied to Rove.
So Armitage chooses Novak, sure that the info will get Rove.
Perhaps Armitage too, wanted Rove "frog-marched" out of the WH. (Although I'm more inclined to think Armitage was a pawn of Duberstien, grossman and Wilson.)
Posted by: Jane | September 14, 2006 at 06:38 AM
A little Devil's advocate here- what if Armitage was a "whistleblower" and it was one or both of the Wilson's he wanted exposed but then the story became the WH conspiracy instead of digging into Joe and Val's stuff? I know he has "apologized' to them but....
Time To Investigate Valerie Wilson’s Lies To America
Interesting!!
Posted by: lurker | September 14, 2006 at 08:06 AM
A J Strata. I can't seem to login to wordpress, so I'll post a few quick thoughts on AJ's Latest here. First, I think that everybody should read the knight-ridder piece he's posted.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/intelligence/11922512.htm
I think that this piece screams of being sourced by the Plames, but they were not alone. I think Fulton Armstrong may have also been a source. And it makes sense. Both Wilson and Armstrong were heavily promoted by CIP in their attacks on the Bush administration. Here are my reasons:
1)One of the complaints that Bolton had about Armstrong was that he was a notorious leaker.
2) As Alan Foley stated, he was rabidly defending the position that there was no Niger/Iraq connection, wrote a memo stating as much (even though he was the NIO LA) and per Foley, ignored the evidence of other analysts.
3)As we now know, it was a lie. Joe did find evidence of attempts to buy uranium, the reports were not crazy. (By the way, check out the mirrored language of Val in the SSIC report and Foley in the Bolton hearings where he states that Armstrong refered to the reports as just crazy)
I think what we see here is what we've been speculating about for months-- rogue CIA agents attempting a coup with the help of radical left think tanks (CIP). Wilson was involved with the CIP people long before the Kristoff article, and before he became involved with the Kerry campaign--as was Fulton Armstrong.
And don't forget Ms. "a cold room and the Red Hot Chili Peppers=torture" Priest- Goodfellow if married to CIP's ex. director William Goodfellow.
Sorry, just too many wires crossing for there to be "no there there."
Anybody know anything about Jonthan Landay, the author of the piece?
Posted by: Verner | September 14, 2006 at 08:15 AM
verner, doesn't this sound like a concerted effort - to destroy Bolton, prevent confirmation of Bolton, and destroy the Bush adm's ability to run day to day operations and fight the war against terrorism, and vote Bush out of the office? They were looking at prestigious jobs if Kerry won.
Well, looks like they were almost 100 percent successful. They prevented the confirmation of Bolton, leading to a temporary position and weakened the Bush adm. But they failed to vote Bush out of the office.
When Bush made that speech the day after the election, bet he knew far more what was going on than many of us did. What was that one statement he made, "paying capital gains"? (same as JFK said years ago).
I am not familiar with Landay.
Lurker.
I'm telling you, look at all of these scandals, and it always traces back to the same relatively small group of people. It is no coincidence.
And Lurker, how much do you want to bet that Fitzgerald never gave Landay a call?
But it seems that it's Rove who should be apologizing to Anne Richards...
Take load of this pure http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2133013>moonbat logic.
When will they call for the Wilsons to apologize to Rove?
Posted by: Bob | September 14, 2006 at 08:50 AM
Tom: Just paging through Wilson's complaint, I love this:
The disclosure of Mrs. Wilson’s covert identity makes her and her family a target for those persons and groups who bear hostility to the United States and/or its intelligence officers.
Well, that would explain why, after this nefarious disclosure, the Wilson's "went dark" to avoid the immense peril to which they had been exposed. Now we can all understand the "radio silence" that Joe observed in order to protect himself and his family from these dangers.
Posted by: no one of consequence | September 14, 2006 at 08:51 AM
Bob, the moonbats are quite misinformed. If anyone needs to apologise to Ma Richards, it's Bob Shrum. The accusations of AR's cocaine use and abuse came from...drumroll please...her democrat opponant when Shrum was running his campaign in the primary.
Kind of like they love to forget that Al Gore brought us Willie Horton.
It seems to me that it doesn't matter much what kind of false impression Rohn "might have" created. Valerie herself wrote a memo recommending her husband, didn't she?
Posted by: Other Tom | September 14, 2006 at 09:22 AM
Jeff may think that Novak is trying to save his reputation, but it is probably more likely that he is trying to backup his grand jury testimony. If the Armitage story and Novak's grand jury testimony are this different, Fitz must be scratching his head (or something else).
Meanwhile, Novak clearly makes it look as though Armitage was trying to put out this story. So why ? The most likely story is that State wanted to make it clear that the Joe Wilson African adventure was a CIA and not State driven operation. The unanswered question is obviously .. did Armitage do this on his own or are there more folks up and down the State food chain involved (i.e. Powell, Grossman, Duberstein, et al) ?
If only the Wilsons or Plames had gone dark-but alas we will never get that lucky. Correspondents Dinner, Vanity Fair article, washington parties-those Plames are regular wallflowers. My advice,stay in California where this kind of nutty behavior is more commonplace. Why not audition for a spy drama -like say "Vanished"- then we all would win.
Posted by: maryrose | September 14, 2006 at 09:37 AM
those Plames are regular wallflowers
Yep and that is the thing that just blew my mind from the time I watched ole Joe sitting daily on Hardball and making the rounds. I tell you....he made Richard Clarke's tour look puny (speaking as the MSM/DNC book/movie tour unofficial critic).
The most likely story is that State wanted to make it clear that the Joe Wilson African adventure was a CIA and not State driven operation. The unanswered question is obviously .. did Armitage do this on his own or are there more folks up and down the State food chain involved (i.e. Powell, Grossman, Duberstein, et al) ?
Think I can agree with this motivation(but only today...) because this could all have been about Armitage trying to make Powell look good. Guess we found the 'quagmire'.
Posted by: owl | September 14, 2006 at 09:57 AM
OT--I hit the Bob@5:50 link about Ann Richards. Absolute legal labeling: moonbat logic. Nuts and they do her no favor. I really liked Richards but happened to like Bush better. I can still quote her 'Pooooor George' speech and she was a very funny lady. I watched her during the Gore/Bush campaign trying to warn her fellow Dems. She kept telling them that they were underestimating this guy. Don't think she could ever make them listen. I have grown to throughly dislike the Democrats of today but I can't help but smile when I think of Richards.
Yes, Verner they are in all these battles..and they are still at it.http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24398
Tom, oooo TO-OM... Hey, man, you GOTTA blog this June 12, 2003 Knight-Ridder story that AJ found. It shows that
"Three senior administration officials"
"a senior CIA official" (who can logically only be Valerie Wilson)
at least one reporter (Jonthan S. Landay)
all about the Niger caper
before June 12, 2003, (before anyone in the White House or OVP was briefed about any of these things)
To borrow a phrase from Mr. Tenet, Fitzgerald just got "slam dunked."
Thanks, Cecil. So if Valerie Plame shows up in a hugh public event and her status was assumed to be covert, then she committed a security violation as well?
Plame would like us to assume she has been hiding in plain sight. The entries on this blog prove that assumption false.
Not sure that's supportable (it could be someone else who'd read the report). Besides, the later references in the article appears to be to the same person, and two of them have this obvious problem for the Plame interpretation:
The message contained the names of people to whom the source spoke, said the senior CIA official.
It wasn't until February 2003 that the CIA obtained the original Iraq-Niger documents on which the uranium story was based, he said. [emphasis added]
So if Valerie Plame shows up in a hugh public event and her status was assumed to be covert, then she committed a security violation as well?
She commits a security violation any time she acknowledges her intelligence relationship to the U.S. to anyone not cleared for (and having a need-to-know about) her covert status.
"She commits a security violation any time she acknowledges her intelligence relationship to the U.S. to anyone not cleared for (and having a need-to-know about) her covert status."
So basically as per my readings, when she told Joe on their 3rd date of her assumed covert status, she clearly committed a security violation....
And it is also assumed that Joe lacked security clearance and the need to know of Plame's status.
OT & "inside baseball" here, but Sen. Kerry sources Larry Johnson ("Republican...") in his response to 9/13/06 WSJ editorial on interrogation of high level jihadis.
No 1/4 hope springs eternal.
Posted by: stevesh | September 14, 2006 at 11:41 AM
"a senior CIA official" (who can logically only be Valerie Wilson)..."
This looks to me like Pavitt, Val's boss, the article says "he" if that's any guide.
More interesting is the three SAOs who admitted CIA reservations about the Niger story, despite Rice unconvincingly pleading ignorance.
Posted by: jerry | September 14, 2006 at 11:51 AM
Recognizing CIA's reservations, which later turned out to be incorrect, should never have become the issue that the PlameGate turned out to be.
Those "CIA reservations" claims were a lot more convincing before the relevant parts of various intelligence estimates were made public. Now that we know the CIA's main report said, for example: "Iraq also began vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellowcake" in October, 2002; the whole "we warned you" claims from CIA about a March, 2002 report fall a little flat.
Try Pilar and Armstrong or any of the other drips who Kerry works with..see if they fit. Today in a letter to the WSJ he accuses the Administration of reckless behavior citing Pilar, Drumheller and our old favorite, Larry Johnson.
The frontpage article I cited above shows we are now heading into this year's sequel of Bush Lied, starring essentially the same cast of characters.
This time the Reps do not have an operational majority on the critical Senate intel committee and Hagel hired a Kerry campaigner as his staff guy. If you thought they twisted the facts in the opening of the series, wait till you see the sequel.
--- He added that he rejects any suggestion he was deliberately trying to plant the information, explaining that "I had no reason to wish him [Wilson] any ill" and that Wilson "was simply verifying what had already been reported [about Iraq] through State channels."---
Well that's interesting...Army seems to acknowledge that he was
A - familiar with Wilson, the person, at the time (as in not just gleaned from the INR as some guy named WIlson)
B - He seems to have delighted in what Wilson was engaged in, at the time, and doesn't seem vexed that Wilson's own de-briefer reports conflicts with what WIlson was doing
If Kerry insists on hanging with this collection of former CIA losers so be it. His plot with them and the Wilsons to bring down the Bush presidency failed miserably. Nice try John but no cigar. I take particular pride in coming from the state {Ohio} who gave Kerry his walking papers. Duck hunting indeed! He thought we were a bunch of Ohio rubes who couldn't spot his insincerity and false behavior. We are smarter than he thinks. Are you listening Howard Dean?
Posted by: maryrose | September 14, 2006 at 12:37 PM
Secret Agent Valerie Plame:Code Name-Valerie Plame
Posted by: Terry Gain | September 14, 2006 at 12:40 PM
"Where can I get me a hunting rifle?" John and his wife do seem unable to hide their visceral contempt for average Americans, don't they?
Thanks for the FPM link Clarice. If you look, Landay was one of the leaders in the so-called exposure of the INC and Chalabi. I would say that he is pretty much on the anti-Bush side of the fence. I don't have Lex-Nex, but wonder if he did any reportage on Bolton and the Cuba flap--that would indicate an inside link with Armstrong.
As for the senior administration officials--look to the DOS. They, along with Val's chums (and note, not every analyst in the agency thought the reports were crazy...) were the parties pushing the hardest to discredit the Niger info.
Bush approval 47% =/- 5, Hell Yeah!
Posted by: verner | September 14, 2006 at 12:45 PM
http://www.examiner.com/a-284761~Meet_the_Next_President__Kerry_s_Second_Shot.html>John Kerry
“I would say the same thing,” he says. “If I were lucky enough to do it again, I’m going to make sure we’re campaigning in way more states.”
A far cry from what he said in 2003. He didn't need the south to win. To which I said, good thing, since you aren't going to get the south, you yellow bellied, sap sucking, egotistical...Yankee!!! ::grin::
Posted by: Sue | September 14, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Check this link for a conversation Armitage had the week after the leak:
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/09/novak_changes_h.html#comment-22370363
Posted by: Jane | September 14, 2006 at 01:00 PM
OT: Looks like Bush was right.
Arabs Increasingly See Lebanon As A Loss
As long as the Lebanese people become proactive against Nasrallah, Israel wins. Looks like they are slowly becoming proactive. Mainly because they saw Nasrallah inciting a war withOUT their involvement. Nasrallah was NOT their president nor dictator. Apparently, he's still hiding in undisclosed places.
Clarice, I'm not looking forward to another sequel but can see it become very, very nasty and it's going to be up to conservative bloggers to increase the reportings challenging their comments.
I'm worn out. I'm glad to help, but I do so hope this time the WH communications office bears the laboring oar.
http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6112 Bush Lied:The Sequel
Kerry's political tin ear is a guarantee that whomever he is backing is the wrong horse.
Posted by: sad | September 14, 2006 at 01:26 PM
Can Relate Clarice. And you are so right. The main criticism I have of the Bush Administration is that they have been too lamb-like in their push-back. Somebody needs to be assigned the job of officially putting the truth to the democrat lies.
David Limbaugh up against Sid Vicious Blumenthal on Fox. What a mismatch! Now Sid is quoting the SSIC report...geez. Read the Weekly Standard you jerk! The report is a pile of poop. David--pointing out how the facts were cherry-picked, and Roberts' dissenting report. Rush didn't get all of the brains in that family.
After Kerry's disgraceful Winter Soldier episode and his Congressional testimony, does anyone doubt that Kerry is perfectly capable of formulating the most evil of plots to get his own way and advance his own causes? This is a plot. A plot hatched in the proverbial smoke-filled back room somewhere by Kerry and his anti-war, cowardly minions. It took advantage of some willing participants, although I'm not sure that those used were entirely aware of just how they were being used or who was pulling the strings. With his "inside" people at State and the VIPS cabal at CIA, it was only a few steps to getting the WH/OVP ensared in the trap. The media then took the ball and did the rest.
I don't give Colin Powell a pass either. I was very high on him back then, so it isn't easy for me to have such a change of opinion about him now. Everything he is doing now, however, is really bringing out his true colors. I just read this morning that he is coming out against the President on the tribunals issue.
Red State this morning is calling for both Armitage and Fitzgerald to be hauled in front of a new Grand Jury. There is no getting around that Armitage should have gone immediately to the President in October. In fact, if Novak's memory is accurate, Armitage's claim he didn't know he was the leaker until Novak's 2nd article is totally bogus. Unlike some here, I think Novak is a long time, like decades long, respected Washington columnist. I think he is an honorable man, unlike many of the other players in this farce.
Posted by: Sara (Squiggler) | September 14, 2006 at 01:38 PM
Sara, in Novak's favor, he has no motive at this point not to tell the truth. Unlike Armitage.
Hope you are feeling better. I concur with your post and would only add that Colin Powell has had an inflated image of himself for quite awhile now. When crunch time came with his job on the line President Bush made the right decision not allowing Powell to dictate the terms in which he would stay. He probably made that announcement about leaving with Armitage before he informed Bush just to get the media coverage. At this point his star is fading though he still is an excellent public speaker.
Funny, isn't it how virtually all the nespaper accounts leave out the Woodward story which makes Armitage's role even worse?
"The main criticism I have of the Bush Administration is that they have been too lamb-like in their push-back."
Verner,
I really disagree with that. In the first place because it is not the President's job to respond or have his administration respond in a petty manner to petty people - petty response simply draws more attacks. In the second place, I prefer a "where are they now?" retrospective look at the players in this - and at the reputations of their press pimps.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | September 14, 2006 at 02:10 PM
Rick, We'll have to wait and see. The numbers look better, but they're not there yet. If the repubs lose the house--a real blow to the war against islamofascism IMHO-- I think we can blame it on the "Bush Lied" meme, and the fact that the administration has been extremely poor in communicating the real reasons we are at war in Iraq to the American people. And if not for the blogsphere, he'd be in much worse shape than he is now.
He's always had a hostile press to deal with, and while things are getting better (thanks in large part to Tony Snow I think) he still has a long way to go.
I'm soooooo dissappointed with Colin Powell in this whole stinking affair. I still believe in the Boy Scouts, still believe in Duty, Honor, Country.
I know the Beltway lives in its own little world and its politics and all that but Mr. Powell knew the truth and knew that innocent men were being slimed and slandered and lives were being ruined by the MSM and Mr. Powell could not find enough honor in himself as a man to come forward.
I am sorry to have to include Colin Powell with the likes of Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and John Murtha, who would not recognize honor if it ran them down in the road.
Posted by: TexasIsHeaven | September 14, 2006 at 02:25 PM
Nope agree with Verner on this one. It's been a PR problem from the jump go. Clarice pointed it out just then when she noted the Silence of the media.
Only lately have we been seeing some things being effective and Tony Snow did a GREAT WH press a couple of days ago. He slapped them down and smiled as he did it.
Posted by: owl | September 14, 2006 at 02:28 PM
I heart Rick and almost always agree with him, but not on this. Perhaps the President should stay as much above the fray as possible, but his relevant Cabinet members ought to be smacking this dreck up as fast as it rears its head and if they cannot get the media to cover it honestly, they should do it in Op Eds and by mobilizing the alternate media with briefings and details.
The other problem is that the Repubs did understand being a majority until the Dems almost beat them to death. McCain has kept Bush's numbers down. Add such as Specter/NSA, Graham/torture and Collins/Katrina. Then look what Hagel and Snowe just did on that horrible backstabbing. All they need is to finish him and us off with immigration. Duh....If Bush goes down.....they all go down. Yep.....my disgust knows no bounds.
Right now the same 2 DNC attack professional journos are beating up on Tony about torture. One of course is David Gregory and don't know that CBS guy. Only know he out Gregored Gregory the other day and after it again. So let me give a great big thanks to McCain, Graham and even include Warner, for making it all possible.
This is funny in a gag sort of way:
A mob of leftist misfits grandiosely calling itself the "International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration" has found President Bush guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The "commission" took place as part of a 17-day moonbat fest on the National Mall. Witnesses called before it include such notable kooks as Janis Karpinski, Ray McGovern, and Scott Ritter.
The adjudicators found W guilty on 20 counts, which boil down to five crimes against humanity:
1. Deposing Saddam Hussein.
2. Authorizing "torture" of pampered captured terrorists.
3. Altering the weather.
4. Promoting sexual abstinence.
5. Failing to do the job of local and state government in New Orleans after Katrina.
"Unbiased" Communists Charge Bush With Crimes Against Humanity
I know that David Gregory person outweighs me by about 100 lbs., but I swear if I was in the WH press room right now, I could take him.
Idiot! The language is so vague in the Geneva Convention that the Bush hating skag from Human Rights Watch claimed that putting Zubeydah (sp) in a cold room and making him listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers constituted TORTURE. DUH.
Jesus Christ. Zell Miller was right. These fools want us to fight the enemy with spit balls and Miss Manners. And McCain should know better.
The relevant department head and Secretary were Tenet and Powell. Rumsfeld has had a relatively combative relationship with the Mediacrat idiots and has never given an inch regarding the crap reporting out of Iraq. Do Americans in general consider Rumsfeld as authoritative regarding the situation or do they listen to the seditionists?
The Mediacrats are dying. Dying very ugly, but dying nevertheless. Awarding them attention simply prolongs the agony. Not a bad thing, in itself, but not particularly helpful, either.
Positing a potential Mediacrat win this year requires identification of districts where "one more push" in GOTV efforts would put the Mediacrats over the top. There are not fifteen districts where that is possible, there never have been and buying Mediacrat hype on electoral potential while recognizing what liars they are in all other areas seems a bit strange.
There are ten Rep districts that could possibly change hands and five Dem districts in the same condition. A strong Presidential reaction to press pustules would have no bearing on the districts in play and would be contrary to his actions in restoring a bit of dignity to the office which he holds.
I agree getting down in the muck with petty people only gets you fleas. I think his communication shop should step up. More officials should go on Fox News and the Sunday shows and go toe to toe on Hannity with these blowhards. Ask the dems what their detailed plan is-they consistently NEVER answer this question.
Heck, ask the Dems to promise that if elected they will repeal the Patriot Act, stop the NSA and banking surveillance programs , close Gitmo and prosecute only those terrorists who were read their Miranda rights..
And, in light of Kerry's (Walter Mitty )"kick ass" promise, let's start a letter writing campaign to Russert reminding him that he let Kerry skate on his twice given promise to publicly release ALL his military records.
"If one of Armitage's motives was to 'piss on' Tenet as someone, I think correctly, suggested, this may explain why Tenet signed the referral. He wanted to find out who was doing the pissing. He may have even suspected it was Armitage."
It also explains why he might have exaggerated the importance of the leak. He was at the White House every day and must have known that they were scratching their heads over Wilson -- and asking him about it. Doesn't Condi Rice's language about folks in the bowels of the C.I.A. sound like the kind of description she might have gotten from Tenet?
While it's possible there was no love lost between Tenet and the (interfering)Vice President, he had to have gone nuts when he found out what Plame's little group had been up to -- holding meetings with State, sending Joe on missions, not just sans confidentiality agreements, but also sans documentation. It must have been like discovering a State Dept. mole in his own operation, and it must have been embarassing as hell to boot. (Wish I could recall all the different timelines, like Val's forced leave, Tenet's retirement etc. offhand).
What incentive could a pol like Tenet have to compromise the White House? I don't think even Kerry would reward that kind of disloyalty in a DCI, a position that was headed for the dustbin anyway. The referral only makes sense if it was aimed either at State or at operatives in his own department (Let DoJ handle the purge?).
Posted by: JM Hanes | September 14, 2006 at 03:53 PM
Still, the referral had to be based on false information and representations.
listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers constituted TORTURE
Okay, I've had to ride in the car with my daughter playing their CD before. I think listening to them is torture. ::grin::
JMH: I think we're thinking along the same lines. I think Tenet intended to hit State (Armitage and Powell) and Libby got nicked in the crossfire. Tenet could have never anticipated Fitz getting so far off track. I doubt he thought there would be any indictments, just a lot of embarrassment. And I'm sure there is no love lost between Tenet and the Wilsons--indeed, I would be madder at Plame than anyone else if I were Tenet.
Verner:
Yes, that's the only way I can really make sense of his goosing up the investigation. I doubt he even expected the appointment of a Special Prosecutor. I'm working on another idea about Val & Joe too, over in the "I Don't Remember" thread.
You know, I never even realized that Novak's column was basically a free for all within the news media on July 11th... In other words, I never realized that many in the media already knew about Plame 3 days before Novak's column was even published.
Posted by: Seixon | September 15, 2006 at 04:52 AM
Good Morning all - in todays WSJ by VICTORIA TOENSING
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008948>What a Load of Armitage!
What did Patrick Fitzgerald know, and when did he know it?
What Mr. Fitzgerald chose not to know is even more troublesome than what he chose to ignore. When Mr. Armitage came forth in October 2003, why did Mr. Fitzgerald not request his appointment calendar from early May, the time the first story appeared in the national press about an unnamed former ambassador's trip to Niger? Mr. Fitzgerald demanded this type of information from White House personnel. Just think, if he had done so of Mr. Armitage, he would have learned prior to indictment about Mr. Woodward's appointment.
By the time he indicted Mr. Libby on Oct. 28, 2005, Mr. Fitzgerald knew two conflicting facts about the classified nature of the Niger trip: since at least early May 2003, Mr. Wilson was discussing his Niger trip with the press (Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times) and claimed in his July 2003 NYT op-ed that his mission was "discreet, but by no means secret." Yet, the indictment states that around June 9, 2003, the CIA sent "classified" documents to the vice president's office discussing "Wilson and his trip to Niger." If the trip was classified for the vice president, why was it declassified for Mr. Wilson? Did Mr. Wilson violate any law by revealing his trip or did Mr. Fitzgerald choose not to know?
Did Mr. Fitzgerald subpoena Ms. Plame? He could have asked her why, if she were truly covert, was she attending an Eastern Shore meeting in May 2003 with Democratic senators. The first journalist to reveal Ms. Plame was "covert" was David Corn, on July 16, 2003, two days after Mr. Novak's column. The latter never wrote, because he did not know and it was not so, that Ms. Plame was covert. However, Mr. Corn claimed Mr. Novak "outed" her as an "undercover CIA officer," querying whether Bush officials blew "the cover of a U.S. intelligence officer working covertly in . . . national security." Was Mr. Corn subpoenaed? Did Mr. Fitzgerald subpoena Mr. Wilson to attest he had never revealed his wife's employment to anyone? If he had done so, he might have learned Mr. Corn's source.
It is not just Mr. Armitage who should apologize. So should Joe Wilson and Pat Fitzgerald.
Brilliant! A minor quibble, though: if Joe Wilson and Pat Fitzgerald in fact intentionally hijacked the power of the government to violate various members of the Administration's rights (basically the counterpoint of the same charge they levied), why shouldn't they go to jail?
Plame should apologize, too, for committing more counts of security violations than one because her violations actually helped stir this PlameGate story.
Cecil,
They absolutely should be prosecuted. It will never happen, but it really should.
"He could have asked her why, if she were truly covert, was she attending an Eastern Shore meeting in May 2003 with Democratic senators."
SECURITY VIOLATION!!
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Elementary Students Raise Funds for Local Public Services
Some could say youth don’t have the means or the skills to make a difference. But sometimes their enthusiasm and innocence have a bigger impact than those much older.
This is true for a group of elementary girls who have big hearts and a desire to help their community. In August, a new “business” opened in Spirit Lake called “Boom O’ Loom Bracelets.” Ran by third and fourth graders, these enthusiastic girls started making loom bracelets and selling them for a quarter. The desire was to donate the money made to Lakes Regional Healthcare in Spirit Lake.
“We wanted to make some of the patients feel better,” third grader Josie Holter said.
The girls made $8 off their bracelets, and Josie’s dad Lee matched the funds. Josie and her friend Olivia Renken brought the items to the hospital and saw how their efforts could brighten someone else’s day.
“When we left, I felt really good knowing I helped someone,” Renken said about the experience.
Boom O’ Loom Bracelets started in the Holter’s garage and has increased in numbers and bracelets. There are now 11 neighborhood girls, ranging from Kindergarten through 4th grade, who assist with bracelet making, packaging, and selling efforts.
Over 35,000 rubber bands were purchased and colors of sports teams are favorite requests. The bracelets are sold for $1 to increase donation profits, and the girls take special orders.
As of Oct. 1, the girls have made over 200 bracelets and another $100, which they donated to the Spirit Lake Police Department.
“We really want to help people,” Macy Pruin said. “It makes you feel good when you make someone else feel good.”
These girls are impacting the world with their next fundraising efforts, as Boom O’ Loom is focused on creating Christmas presents for children in the hospital, Operation Christmas Child, and for local families needing an extra touch during the holiday season.
For anyone with bracelet orders or who would like to donate towards the girls’ efforts, they can email boomoloom@gmail.com.
Never underestimate the power of a young child wanting
to bring joy to the world!
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By laplantacion on 17 March, 2019 Bellas Artes Cinema Imagen Previously in La Plantación Sin categoría Taller de Verano Talleres 2019
Summer Workshop — JOSÉ LUIS GUERIN
August 27 to September 1, 2019
One of the most emblematic directors in independent cinema, working outside the commercial film industry.
The workshop develops a dialectical dialogue with the ideas and cinematographic projects that participants bring. These projects can aspire to be long, short or medium-length films, documentaries, essays, poems or fictions and can be at any stage of development: writing, filming, editing or simply the beginnings of an idea in the form of a few written lines, an outline, some photos or recorded clips. They may even originate in the workshop itself (so bringing a project along is not a precondition for attending).
Taking these diverse stages and formats as a starting point, we will discuss, reflect on and apply our imaginations to the different projects, sharing possible strategies and the dilemmas they pose and setting them against possible cinematographic antecedents which we will view together.
We will try to draw out general concepts from the specific issues that we address.
Aims of the workshop:
To reflect on cinema from the point of view of practice.
To give each participant the opportunity to formulate a cinematographic idea in their own way, free of any obligation to present a piece of film at the end of the workshop.
To prevent logistics and technology from becoming the main problem.
To share issues and encourage all participants to use their imaginations or borrow from each other’s projects.
The workshop includes daily morning and afternoon sessions, debates and movie screenings.
To complement the workshop, participants are free to watch additional films at the end of each day’s sessions.
The classroom will remain open 24 hours a day.
There is the possibility of an open-air screening.
Collaborative event of La Plantation and Council of Ferreira de Pantón. Friday, August 30 (afternoon):
– Projection to open air in the village of Ferreira de Pantón, friday, August 30, 9:30 pm. (located a kilometer away from the house “Casa dos Muros” where the workshop and accommodation will be taught), the film: “La academia de las musas”.
– Meeting of José Luís Guerin with José Manuel Mouriño (researcher, essayist and filmmaker).
Friends of the Cineclube Padre Feijoo of Ourense will beresponsible for the proyections and the thecnical part.
The workshop is intended for film makers, video artists, camera operators, film editors, students of Film, Fine Arts, Audiovisual Communication or Sound and Image, and anyone interested in the cinema.
José Luis Guerin.
In his film career as director and screenwriter of his own films, José Luis Guerín has combined fiction and documentary, blurring the boundaries between the two genres.
With his films, he has been present in Film Festivals such as Venice (Official Selection), Cannes (Un Certain Regard, Directors’ Fortnight), Berlin (Forum), San Sebastian (Official Competition), several times in Locarno, Rotterdam, Tokyo… He is perhaps one of the best received Spanish filmmakers among critics and audiences at International Festivals.
He has had retrospectives dedicated to him at festivals and important cultural centers such as the Georges Pompidou Centre (Paris) and the Harvard Film Institute.
Winner of the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía, 2001.
He currently lives in France.
Los motivos de Berta.
Spain / 1983 / 35mm / 115’ / B/W.
With Sílvia Gracia, Arielle Dombasle, Iñaki Aierra, Rafael Díaz, Juan Diego Botto.
José Luis Guerin’s first feature film, Los motivos de Berta (Fantasía de pubertad) follows the development of a lonely adolescent girl in a small village in Castille.
– Jury Award at the Berlin Forum.
– Premio Calidad awarded by the Ministry of Culture.
–Sant Jordi Award (RNE).
Souvenir.
Spain / 1986 / 8mm / 5’ / B/W
A hommage to Jean Renoir, René Clair and several images of a love from younger days.
Innisfree.
Spain / 1990 / 35mm / 110’ / colour
With Bartley O’Feeney, Padraig O’Feeney, Anna Livia Ryan, Anne Slattery
Things seen and heard in Innisfree, Ireland, where John Ford shot ‘The Quiet Man’ in 1951.
– Un Certain Regard selection, Cannes Film Festival.
– Fotogramas de Plata Best Spanish Film.
– Ciutat de Barcelona Award.
– Sant Jordi Award (RNE).
Tren de sombras (El espectro de Le Thuit).
Spain / 1997 / 35mm / 88’ / B/W and colour / sound.
With Juliette Gaultier, Ivan Orvain, Anne Céline Auche.
José Luis Guerín searches for the secrets hidden in the amateur images filmed by a certain Gérard Fleury in the 1920’s. Mystery and a silent interplay of appearances and disappearances, glances, recreations and correspondences.
– Directors’ Fortnight selection, Cannes Film Festival.
– Gold and Silver Méliès Awards given by the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation (Fantasporto).
– Festival of Ourense, Calpurnia Award for Best Picture.
– Festival of Sitges, “José Luis Guarner” Critics’ Award.
– National Cinema Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
En construcción.
Spain / 2000 / 35mm / 125’ / colour.
With Juana Rodríguez, Juan López, Santiago Segade, Abdel Aziz El Mountassir, Antonio Atar.
The construction of a block of flats in the Barrio Chino, a working class area in Barcelona, inhabitated by workers, immigrants, tramps and prostitutes.
–GOYA Award for Best Documentary.
– San Sebastián Film Festival, Jury’s Special Award.
– San Sebastián Film Festival, International Critics’ Fipresci Award.
– Award from the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos.
Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia.
Spain / 2007 / video / 67’ / B/W / silent with intertitles.
A free-standing essay rather than just a preparatory outline for En la ciudad de Sylvia, Unas fotos is a photographic diary of both stills and photographs reanimated by fades and dissolves, the search for a woman met 22 years previously.
– Vancouver International Film Festival selection – official competition.
– Gijón International Film Festival selection – official competition.
En la ciudad de Sylvia.
Spain-France / 2007 / 35mm / 84’ / colour / vof.
With Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Laurence Cordier, Tanja Czichy, Charlotte Dupont, Eric Dietrich
A young man, a stranger in the city, pursues the memory of a woman through the streets, cafes and bars of Strasbourg.
– Considered one of the 10 best pictures premiered in Spain by Cahiers du Cinéma Spain.
– Venice Film Festival selection – official competition. “Bizato de Oro” Critics’ Award.
– Festival du Cinèma Espagnol de Nantes. “Jules Verne” Award.
–ACE Award, New York Film Critics’ Association (Best Director).
Spain / 2010 / video / 127’ / B/W.
While attending festivals with En la ciudad de Sylvia, in Guest José Luis Guerín puts together a travel journal which, with Venice as his starting and end point, takes him to Havana, Macao, Hong Kong, Lima, Bogota, Paris… Guerín sets out to meet the inhabitants of these cities in their streets and squares, creating a journal of contrasts.
– Venice Film Festival selection – Orizzonti Section
– Toronto Film Festival selection
Dos cartas a Ana.
Spain / 2010 / video / 28’ / B/W / sound with intertitles.
Fascinated by the lost paintings of Antiquity mentioned in classical texts, particularly in Pliny the Older’s Natural History, José Luis Guerín creates an essay in the form of letters in which images, words, light and shadow explore the relationship between cinema and painting.
Correspondencias Jonas Mekas – J.L. Guerin.
Spain-France / 100’ / 2011 / video / B/W – colour
– The subject of a retrospective in the Georges Pompidou Centre.
Recuerdos de una mañana.
South Korea / 2011 / HD / 47’ / colour.
“On the morning of January 21st, 2008, my neighbour, a violinist, committed suicide by jumping out of his window. He was the same age as me, and the only thing I knew about him is that he was working on a new translation of Goethe’s Werther.” With this recollection as a starting point, the filmmaker began investigating his neighbours’ stories.
– Jeonju International Film Project.
– Shown in Locarno.
Le Saphir de Saint-Louis.
France / 2015 / HD / 35’ / colour.
The story of a painting in the votive chapel of the cathedral in La Rochelle, depicting the tragedy of the slave ship “Le Saphir” in 1741.
–La Rochelle Festival.
La academia de las musas.
Spain / 2015 / HD / 92’ / colour.
In this film he works from Fiction: a maze of situations based on things that never happened, fictionalised and recounted by actors who drew on their own personal experience to create the dialogues.
– Premiered at the Locarno Festival.
– Award: Giraldillo de Oro, Festival of European Cinema, Seville.
– Award: Best Director of Fiction, International Film Festival of Cartagena de las Indias.
–Don Quijote Award, FICCI in Tromso, Norway.
– Award for Best Catalan Film of the Year, Federation of Cine Clubs of Catalunya.
– Pepón Corominas Award, Catalan Academy of Cinema.
De una isla.
Spain / 2019 / 24´ / 16mm / B/W.
Exhibitions – Installations:
Las mujeres que no conocemos
Photosequential installation at the 52nd Venice Art Biennial (June – November, 2007) and in the CCCB – Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (January – March 2008)
Installation in the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art (December 2010 – June 2011)
Georges Pompidou Centre (December 7, 2012 – January 2013)
Exposiciones – Instalaciones:
Las mujeres que no conocemos.
La dama de Corinto.
740 €. (Workshop + full board and lodging in the Casa dos Muros + light snacks during the workshop).
The workshop will be given in Spanish.
Places are limited and will be filled strictly in order of registration.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN UNTIL AUGUST 26.
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Cuba Releases New Real Estate Rules, Will Allow Home Sales
November 4, 2011 By Mari Hayman
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Top Story — The Cuban government released new rules governing real estate on Thursday, which will allow citizens and permanent residents to buy and sell homes and apartments, the Cuban state press reported Thursday. The decision marks a major turning point for the Cuban Revolution, which has embraced an increasingly liberalized economic model since Raúl Castro took over in 2008. “To say that it’s huge is an understatement,” said Pedro Freyre, an expert in Cuban-American legal relations who teaches at Columbia Law School. In recent weeks, the Cuban government also once again permitted the direct sale of cars.
Read more from The New York Times.
Headlines from the Western Hemisphere
Barret Brown, of Texas, says he will support Anonymous in its fight against the Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel.
Ricardo Guzmán Romer, a Mexican mayor campaigning for the president’s sister in a gubernatorial race, was fatally shot in the state of Michoacán on Wednesday.
Mexican authorities say gunmen have killed five members of a family in a mountainous area in the state of Sinaloa.
Texas Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry proposed the federal government should extend work visas allowing undocumented immigrants to move freely between the United States and their home countries, though he continued to say he opposes a path to citizenship.
Puerto Rico has reached an agreement with the U.S. government to end a 12-year legal battle to improve the island’s health system for the mentally disabled.
Three Cuban dissidents jailed in a 2003 crackdown and imprisoned until their exile last year to Spain brought their story to Capitol Hill Thursday.
Haitian President Michel Martelly returned to Haiti Thursday after doctors in Miami operated on his left shoulder.
Honduran authorities arrested 176 police officers from the same unit for alleged links to organized crime gangs, the Honduran Security Ministry said Thursday.
The New York Times reports on Nicaragua’s presidential elections, slated for Sunday.
Retired general Otto Pérez is the strong favorite to win Guatemala’s presidential election Sunday, Reuters reports.
Venezuelan authorities continued to negotiate for the release of two police officers being held hostage by inmates following a deadly prison riot in Tachira.
Colombian cement maker Cementos Argos SA denied that it had purchased land in Montes de María through illegal sales after local landlowners were displaced by violence.
Peru’s president of the National Society of Mining, Petroleum & Energy said that cheaper labor and electricity costs will make Peruvian mining competitive with Chile despite higher taxes.
U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey urged President Barack Obama to declassify secret files on the 1976-1983 Argentine military dictatorship in which an estimated 30,000 people were killed. Obama and Argentine President Cristina Fernández will meet in France on Friday.
According to the UN Development Program, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay have the highest human development indexes in Latin America.
Witnesses and survivors of a bus-train collision in which six girls and two adults died on Wednesday say that the driver was wearing headphones.
Chilean miner Edison Peña will compete for the second time in the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday.
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Parallels Desktop 15 For Mac
Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac was launched two weeks back on 16th August 2019 in Singapore. It brings support for macOS Catalina (10.15) and provides supports DirectX 11, 10 and 9 on Apple Metal API for improved graphics.
There are four main focus areas with Parallels Desktop 15:
1.5, Mac, Parallels, Parallels Desktop
Thursday, 23rd August 2018
Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac was launched two days ago on 21st August 2018, just in time for macOS Mojave which is coming next month.
Parallels 14 is macOS Mojave ready. It supports Dark Mode and Quick Actions on Quick Look for Windows files. Support for additional Mojave features are in development and will be released alongside Mojave.
14, Mac, Parallels, Parallels Desktop
Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac was launched yesterday.
It brings support for MacBook Pro Touch Bar, macOS High Sierra, and upcoming Windows 10 features, such as the People Bar.
Monday, 22nd August 2016
Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac is now available.
It supports the new Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and is ready for the upcoming macOS Sierra update.
Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac is now available and it supports Windows 10 integration with Cortana.
Besides Windows 10 integration, Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac offers lots of speed performance improvements over the previous versions such as:
Microsoft Office 2016 For Mac Now Available
Lester Chan · 09:29 · 13 Jul 15
Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac was released back in October 2010 and now, almost 5 years later, we finally have a new office for Mac.
Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was released last Friday and is now available in 139 countries and 16 languages for all Office 365 subscribers.
2016, Mac, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Office 2016, Office 365
Wednesday, 20th August 2014
Parallels Announces Parallels Desktop 10 For Mac
Parallels today launched Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac and Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac Enterprise Edition, the industry-leading software for running Windows applications on Macs. New built-in intelligence and support for Apple’s latest operating system, OS X Yosemite. It provides ease-of-use for both business users and consumers, allowing them to forget about the operating system and focus on the task at hand.
Parallels Desktop 10 will bring many of the announced features of Mac OS X Yosemite Windows and Windows applications, supporting iCloud Drive, iMessages and SMS text sharing from Windows, and control of virtual machines from Spotlight preview and Finder QuickLook. New ease-of-use improvements include Wizards that guide users through optimising their experience, improved performance and battery life, and improved usability between operating systems so that people can complete tasks more quickly. Parallels Desktop 10 gets out of the way so customers can think less about the tools being used and more about what’s important. It also offers the choice and freedom to use whatever operating system fits your needs – including OS X Yosemite, OS X Mavericks, Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Windows 8, Windows 7, Chrome OS, Android and a number of Linux operating systems – all on one computer.
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Monday, 11th March 2013
Logitech Rechargeable Trackpad For Mac (T651) Review
Lester Chan · 09:10 · 11 Mar 13
The Logitech Rechargeable Trackpad (T651) is a trackpad for Mac and is retailing for S$98, the Windows equivalent is Logitech Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad (T650) is retailing slightly more expensive, for S$109.
Logitech Rechargeable Trackpad for Mac is an alternative to the Apple Magic Trackpad which is also retailing for the same price of S$98.
Bluetooth, Logitech, Mac, trackpad
Friday, 8th March 2013
Logitech Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard (K811) Review
The Logitech Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard (K811) is a keyboard for Mac and is retailing for S$169, the Windows equivalent is Logitech Bluetooth Illuminated Keyboard (K810) is also retailing for S$169.
The Logitech Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard is a pretty expensive alternative to the Apple Wireless Keyboard which is retailing for S$98.
Bluetooth, keyboard, Logitech, Mac, wireless keyboard
Friday, 22nd June 2012
Apple Singapore App Store Now In Singapore Dollars (S$)
Lester Chan · 10:35 · 22 Jun 12
Finally! Prices in both the iOS App Store and Mac App Store in Singapore are now displayed in Singapore Dollars (S$ or S$) instead of United Stats Dollars (US$). This means that the price of an app will not fluctuate because of the horrible currency exchange rate between Singapore and United States given by banks.
Last month, when I bought a US$0.99 app, my credit card bill will reflect S$1.30, but now the app just cost S$1.28. Apple uses very reasonable exchange rates, according to Google the exchange rate today (13:45 on Friday, 22nd June 2012) is:
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Music Together and Canta y Baila Conmigo are early childhood music programs for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and the adults who love them. We offer classes in Weston, FL at Little Java's Family Fun Center.
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Top Woodworth Sexual Harassment Lawyers - Louisiana
Nearby Cities: Alexandria, Pineville, Boyce, Deville, Bunkie
Related Practice Areas: Wrongful Termination, Defamation, Employment, Employment Law -- Employer
Sudduth & Associates, LLC
Sexual Harassment Lawyers Serving Woodworth, LA (Lake Charles)
At Sudduth & Associates in Lake Charles, Louisiana, we devote our efforts to protecting the rights of individuals and families facing tough and complex legal challenges. Serving Calcasieu Parish and the surrounding communities of southwestern Louisiana, the attorneys at our law firm deliver the personalized assistance and effective support our clients deserve when dealing with legal issues...
Robichaux, Mize, Wadsack, Richardson & Watson L.L.C.
Located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the law firm of Robichaux, Mize, Wadsack, Richardson, & Watson L.L.C., offers a wide range of legal services to help individuals, families and business owners protect their investments, rights and interests. Serving clients throughout Calcasieu Parish and across Louisiana and Southeast Texas, our law firm provides high-quality, effective representation to...
DeRosier Law Firm
Robert B. Landry III, PLC
Sexual Harassment Lawyers Serving Woodworth, LA (Baton Rouge)
A Baton Rouge, Louisiana, workplace should be a place where people feel safe; unfortunately, as our team at Robert B. Landry III, PLC, knows, discrimination, harassment and other violations occur all too often. We have dedicated the practice at our law offices to advocate for employees in these matters as well as in wrongful termination, retaliation, civil rights violations, wage and hour...
Damico & Stockstill, Attorneys at Law
Our Baton Rouge law firm provides high quality criminal defense representation for people throughout Louisiana in areas such as: Sex Crimes Violent Crimes Drug Offenses White Collar Crimes Environmental Crimes DUI & Vehicular Crimes Computer Crimes (or Internet Crimes) Personal Injury Car & Truck Accidents Although our practice is focused on the State of Louisiana, we have represented...
Gilbert Faulk
www.wgilbertfaulk.com Do you have a legal problem? Talk with Faulk! The Louisiana law firm of W. Gilbert Faulk Jr. is here to offer highly knowledgeable legal representation to individuals and businesses throughout Baton Rouge. With extensive experience in a spectrum of legal matters, Gilbert can assist you with issues involving: Business law — Buying, selling or starting a corporation or...
Law Offices of Mark D. Frederick, LLC
Sexual Harassment Lawyers Serving Woodworth, LA (Shreveport)
At the Law Offices of Mark D. Frederick, LLC, in Shreveport, Louisiana, we are committed to helping our clients with their most difficult and serious legal challenges. Serving Shreveport and Bossier City as well as all of the surrounding areas, our law firm provides effective, dependable representation to those who have legal issues involving any of the following: Personal injury and wrongful...
Weems, Schimpf, Haines, Shemwell & Moore
Our firm was formed in May, 1982, by Ronald R. Weems with one partner to provide general legal services in banking, real estate, tax and estate planning areas. Originally located in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1983 the firm relocated to 912 Kings Highway in Shreveport's historic Highland District. Since that time, the firm has evolved into a full-service law firm with attorneys focusing in...
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Suffolk, Virginia Consumer Lawyers
Brian James Gillette
Newport News, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 28 years experience
(855) 873-2604 13195 Warwick Blvd, Suite 2-B
Free ConsultationConsumer, Administrative, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
I went to law school because I wanted the opportunity to both help people and to work for myself. After graduating from the College of William and Mary School of Law in 1992, much of my practice was focused on personal injury litigation; however, I noticed I derived the greatest satisfaction from helping my Social Security disability clients through the frustrating and confusing Social Security disability application and appeals process. At the conclusion of a case, my clients would come in person to hug me, to thank me, and to tell me about the difference I had made...
Kellam T. Parks
Chesapeake, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 19 years experience
(757) 312-0211 501 Cedar Road
Consumer, Family and Personal Injury
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law and St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Kellam Parks is a managing partner at Parks Zeigler, PLLC – Attorneys at Law, located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Kellam focuses his practice on cybersecurity and data privacy, credit report disputes, civil litigation, and family law. He is active with the Virginia State Bar, most recently chairing the Special Committee on Technology and the Future Practice of Law. He is also active with both the Virginia Beach Bar Association, where he serves on the Circuit Court Liaison Committee and the Norfolk/Portsmouth Bar Association, where he serves on the Executive Committee. Kellam also participates in the mentorship programs for both associations,...
Avery T. Waterman Jr. Esq.
Newport News, VA Consumer Law Attorney
(757) 881-9881 12350 Jefferson Avenue
Consumer, Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Rights and Products Liability
Lenard Myers
Norfolk, VA Consumer Law Lawyer
(757) 828-6685 440 Monticello Avenue
Consumer, Business, Foreclosure Defense and Stockbroker Fraud
Lenard Myers focuses his practice on the representation of consumers, contractors, and businesses. A great deal of his work involves auto fraud, defending and preventing foreclosures, as well as matters involving complex commercial litigation. Mr. Myers practices law in the state and federal courts of Virginia. He places great value on courtesy, professionalism and resolving problems in the most cost-efficient manner possible. Lenard began his legal career as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney. Notably, he prosecuted over 300 matters with a conviction rate exceeding 90%. Subsequently, he successfully transitioned to private practice while returning to academia as an Adjunct Professor...
Rachel S. Gunther
Virginia Beach, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 14 years experience
(757) 671-3352 4646 Princess Anne Road Suite 101
Consumer, Business, Divorce and Estate Planning
Regent University School of Law
Robert (Bob) P. Stenzhorn
Yorktown, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 14 years experience
(757) 240-4000 4000 Geo. Washington Memrial Hwy
(Rt. 17 near Newport News/York Co. line)
Yorktown, VA 23692-2724
Consumer, Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Business
Litigation in the Virginia and Federal Courts, personal injury and taxation matters.
K Matthew Long
Ashland, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 10 years experience
(804) 755-7599 9410 Atlee Commerce Blvd
Consumer, Business, Collections and Personal Injury
I have represented clients in a wide variety of practice areas since 2009. More than anything I see myself as a problem solver. My approach is one of personal representation where clients are promptly updated at every step and phone calls and emails are returned very quickly. I immerse myself in every detail my client’s case and leave no stone unturned.
I maintain an active general practice of law that includes personal injury, civil litigation, business litigation, wrongful death, landlord tenant matters, drafting wills and powers of attorney, and traffic infractions.
I have developed...
Jason Meyer Krumbein
RICHMOND, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 20 years experience
(804) 592-0792 1650 Willow Lawn Drive
Free ConsultationConsumer
The Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law
Mr. Krumbein graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA in 1995 with a Bachelors in Criminal Justice. He then went on to law School at the Claude W. Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University, where he graduated in 1998.
Mr. Krumbein limits his practice to representing consumers in State and Federal Courts in collection defense, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and Fair Credit Reporting Act claims. He has previously represented consumers in Bankruptcy court in prosecution of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy.
Mr. Krumbein was admitted to the Virginia Supreme Court as well as all state courts...
Justin L Criner
Richmond, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 6 years experience
(804) 320-6600 2800 Buford Road
Consumer, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Appalachian School of Law
Justin Criner received his undergraduate degree in Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University where he met his wife and fell in love with Richmond and the surrounding areas. Mr. Criner received his juris doctor from the Appalachian School of Law in 2013 where he was a senior editor of the law journal and the president of the local Lions’ Club. He remains active in the community and can regularly be found at Lions’ Club or VCU athletic events. Before joining our firm, Mr. Criner worked as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney in Charleston, WV and opened his own practice...
Thomas Francis DellaFera Jr.
Henrico, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 4 years experience
Ext. 701 3420 Pump Road
Free ConsultationConsumer, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Tom graduated from the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law after receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Mary Washington. His varied legal background began in his final summer at UMW, where he was an intern for Rappahannock Legal Services. While there he worked with indigent clients and attorneys on all manner of cases ranging from civil suits to Social Security appeals to defending evictions.
Prior to graduating from Richmond Law, Tom interned with the Spotsylvania County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, where he cut his teeth handling misdemeanors and worked with attorneys to build criminal cases, including felonies. In...
Mr. Richard William Ferris
North Chesterfield, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 29 years experience
(807) 767-1800 North Chesterfield, VA 23235
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy and Business
Brooke S. Barden
(804) 249-6550 6800 Paragon Place, Suite 112
Consumer, Bankruptcy, Business and Tax
Tax Representation: Brooke provides tax planning, audit representation, and tax controversy services including negotiating an offer-in-compromise, installment agreement, abatement requests and FBAR compliance programs. She also regularly represents business owners with payroll tax issues and trust fund interviews. Corporate: She represents small to mid-size businesses in various industries and is experienced in determining the appropriate entity formation, performing business planning, corporate governance, contract drafting and negotiation and tax compliance services. When her clients make the decision to terminate their involvement with the business, whether it is though a liquidation, bankruptcy reorganization, asset purchase agreement,...
Mr. James Bradley Winder Jr.
Richmond, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 14 years experience
(804) 767-1800 9327 Midlothian TPKE
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy, Personal Injury and Traffic Tickets
J. Bradley Winder, Jr. is a native Virginian who attended James Madison University, graduating with a B.A. in English, and a graduate of The University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law. Bradley is licensed in both Virginia and Washington, DC, is a member of the United States Federal Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Bradley began practicing law as a consumer rights advocate and has since maintained a client and consumer advocate approach to his legal practice. Bradley is a partner at FerrisWinder PLLC and can assist you in the...
John C. Gayle
Richmond, VA Consumer Law Attorney
(804) 282-7900 5905 West Broad Street
Mitchell P. Goldstein
(804) 592-1674 102 E. Cary Street
Juan E. Milanes, Esq.
Reston, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 26 years experience
(703) 880-4881 c/o Law Offices of Juan Milanes PLLC
1831 Wiehle Ave Ste 105
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy, Collections and Foreclosure Defense
American University Washington College of Law
Mr. Milanes has built a solid reputation for outstanding legal work and inspirational management and mediation skills. Throughout his twelve year career with the United States Department of Justice, during which time he held several positions ranging from Federal Prosecutor to trainer for the Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training Office, Mr. Milanes appeared as lead counsel in several hundred cases, successfully trying several. He spent years working in various capacities in both the Washington, D.C. metro area and Suan Juan districts and, in addition to having significant legal connections and being a well-respected litigator in both jurisdictions,...
Mrs Lauren Morgan Ellerman
Roanoke, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 15 years experience
(540) 985-0098 303 Washington Ave., SW
Free ConsultationConsumer, Business, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Married, mother, Roanoke resident and Northern Virginia native.
L. Ilaine Upton
Annandale, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 32 years experience
(571) 302-4886 7369 McWhorter Pl. #412
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Defense
Tulane University School of Law
Kristi Cahoon Kelly
Fairfax, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 13 years experience
(703) 424-7572 3925 Chain Bridge Rd
Consumer and Foreclosure Defense
Kristi C. Kelly is a consumer protection attorney with a genuine commitment to representing the most vulnerable – and often overlooked – consumers in federal and state courts in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Ms. Kelly is widely acknowledged as a leading expert in consumer law. In 2014, Virginia Lawyers Weekly recognized her as a “Leader in the Law,” an annual award given to attorneys that set the standard in their field, and one of the most prestigious honors a Virginia lawyer can receive. She is described by her peers as someone “who takes – and wins –...
Geoff Burke
Alexandria, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 13 years experience
(703) 665-4454 100 North Pitt Street
Free ConsultationConsumer, Administrative, Criminal Defense and Employment
Wake Forest University School of Law
Burke Law, P.L.C. provides its clients with effective legal services as they face their most challenging legal issues. Burke Law counsels government contractors and employees on matters ranging from security clearances eligibility denials to the most basic questions about completing the SF-86. The law practice of Burke Law also defends clients against criminal charges, against asset forfeiture proceedings brought by state and federal law enforcement, and maintains a heavy consumer protection and civil litigation case load in both state and federal court. Clients in all practice areas attest to the prompt, courteous, and professional...
Andrew Strickland
Fairfax, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 3 years experience
(703) 829-6233 10615 Judicial Drive
Consumer, Business and Real Estate
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
I am a solutions-oriented, service provider with a background in real estate and business law. Prior to law school, I worked in real estate sales, property management, and investments. Throughout law school, my focus was on real estate and business. As a legal professional, I have held positions as an attorney providing services to the low-income and as a judicial law clerk working for a trial court judge providing research, legal drafts, and recommendations. Now, as a legal professional at Woehrle Dahlberg Jones Yao, I supplement my knowledge and experience with those in the firm to...
Todd Lewis
Arlington, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 15 years experience
(855) 550-9898 2200 Wilson Boulevard
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy, Business and Estate Planning
State University of New York - Buffalo
Todd Lewis began his legal career in Florida, where he served as in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 corporation. Upon moving to the Washington DC metro area, Mr. Lewis again worked for a Fortune 500 Corporation, helping to build one of the largest title companies in the world. Unhappy with the corporate lifestyle and looking to effect change and solve real world problems, in 2004 Mr. Lewis founded The Lewis Law Group, P.C., advising small to medium sized businesses and consumers in financial related matters, civil litigation, and general legal advisement. As a licensed real estate broker and agent for...
Mr. Paul Oliver Gaymon Jr.
(703) 407-9130 211 N. Union Street
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy and Tax
Paul Gaymon is the founder of The Gaymon Law Firm, PLLC where he focuses his legal practice on representing individuals and businesses with tax debts and other financial problems. Mr. Gaymon represents consumer and business debtors in complex Chapter 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcies. He regularly appears before the United States Bankruptcy Court and interacts with the Internal Revenue Service, the Comptroller of Maryland, and the Virginia Department of Taxation on behalf of his clients. Prior to representing persons and businesses with tax and other financial problems, Mr. Gaymon served as an Attorney-Advisor to the Assistant Secretary...
Steven Krieger
Arlington, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 7 years experience
(703) 831-7707 2200 Wilson Blvd.
Free ConsultationConsumer, Collections, Construction and Landlord Tenant
We understand that finding the right attorney is critical and would welcome the opportunity to assess your situation, answer your questions, and explain our ability to help -- even if that means helping you find an attorney with more expertise related to your legal matter. We believe that everyone should have access to legal counsel. We specialize in Residential Zoning, Consumer Protection Law, H-1B visa wage disputes, and Guardianship matters, but would be delighted to speak with you about any legal matter. Each legal matter is unique and requires an individualized approach, specialized expertise, and an ability to adapt to external...
Mark Westerfield
Alexandria, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 35 years experience
(703) 634-3666 4601-F Pinecrest Office Park Drive
Free ConsultationConsumer, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Insurance Claims
The George Washington University Law School
Mr Thomas Mansfield Dunlap
Leesburg, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 20 years experience
(703) 777-7319 199 Liberty St, SW
Consumer, Agricultural, Bankruptcy and Collections
Washington & Lee University
Edward McCoy Wayland
Charlottesville, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 42 years experience
(434) 984-0300 913 E. Jefferson Street
I have been practicing law for over 35 years. In general, I specialize in consumer rights issues, helping people who were having problems with debt collectors, credit reports, predatory lending, and fraud.
Steven Webster
(888) 987-9991 300 N. Washington St.
Consumer, Business, Products Liability and White Collar Crime
Steve Webster has over twenty-eight years of experience in civil and criminal litigation, appeals, and investigations. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America in multiple areas and has been recognized as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in Virginia by the National Trial Lawyers group. Prior to forming Webster Book LLP, he was a partner at a large international law firm where he spent several years litigating complex civil and criminal cases. He began his career by serving for several years as a public defender in Fairfax, Virginia after receiving his law degree from Georgetown University and his...
James L. Heiberg Esq.
Falls Church, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 28 years experience
(703) 237-1200 201 Park Washington Ct
Consumer, Bankruptcy, Criminal Defense and Family
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law
Shikha Parikh
Herndon, VA Consumer Law Lawyer with 11 years experience
(703) 651-6811 708 Pine Street
Consumer, Business, Foreclosure Defense and Immigration
Shikha Parikh is licensed to practice law in the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with a Bachelor of Science in Financial Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Mrs. Parikh received her Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law. After graduating from law school, Mrs. Parikh clerked for the Honorable Marjorie L. Clagett of the Circuit Court for Calvert County, Maryland. She subsequently worked in general practice, and opened her own firm with the goal of...
Kara Jenkins
Culpeper, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 11 years experience
(540) 825-7277 237 East Davis Street
Culpeper, VA 22701
Consumer, Bankruptcy, Business and Collections
Ms. Jenkins has been practicing law in Virginia since 2008 when she was admitted to the Virginia State Bar. She is also admitted in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She is experienced in various practice areas such as family law, construction law, landlord/tenant actions, estate administration, debt collection, and bankruptcy. She has appeared in Virginia juvenile and domestic relations district court, general district court, circuit court, and the Virginia Supreme Court.
Cary Powell Moseley
BEDFORD, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 30 years experience
(434) 546-3774 401 OTEY STREET
Free ConsultationConsumer, Arbitration & Mediation, Collections and Criminal Defense
Emmett Robinson
Lake Ridge, VA Consumer Law Attorney with 23 years experience
(703) 970-2080 1712 Financial Loop
Lake Ridge, VA 22192
Consumer and Personal Injury
Kelly Gurley Roberts
Charlottesville, VA Consumer Law Attorney
(434) 973-7474 307 W Rio Rd
Mr. Geoffrey Stewart Burke
Alexandria, VA Consumer Law Attorney
Consumer, Insurance Claims, Landlord Tenant and Nursing Home
Monique A. Miles
(703) 519-6810 216 S. Patrick Street
Consumer, Business, Civil Rights and Employment
Monique A. Miles is the Managing Shareholder of Old Towne Associates, P.C., where she focuses her practice primarily in the areas of employment, labor, non-profit law, and general civil litigation. Ms. Miles represents both individuals and select small businesses in a wide variety of claims, including breach of contract, wage and hour violations, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, breach of contract, wrongful termination, defamation, fraud, negligence and other torts. She also drafts and reviews employment agreements, negotiates severance agreements, and assists employers and former employees in dealing with the enforceability of restrictive covenants. Prior to opening her firm in June 2013, Ms....
Robert J. Windle
Woodbridge, VA Consumer Law Lawyer
(703) 690-1222 4391 Ridgewood Center Dr.
Suite H
Consumer, Civil Rights, Criminal Defense and Products Liability
Lynne Nuber Clark
Springfield, VA Consumer Law Lawyer
(703) 256-7900 7003 Backlick Ct
Consumer, Business, Estate Planning and Tax
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Leading with the brain in mind.
Relatedness: The Key to Employee Engagement
By Sandra McDowell, July 21, 2016
Do you want to engage others and increase their commitment to your organization? Let’s look at a key factor in how the social brain works.
The need for people to experience a sense of belonging and attachment to other people is the essence of the social brain theory, the idea that animals in complex social groups have evolved larger brains. Current neuroscience research shows that our brains are wired to be social and that a feeling of being connected to others is essential to our well-being.
Organizations have become less personal due to rapid growth, workplace virtualization, competitive pressures, and such communication tools as email, text and voicemail. As handy as electronic tools are for staying in touch, they are not a substitute for face-to-face interaction. Leaders often talk more about numbers and technology than they do about people and relationships. Consequently, as organizations grow, the feeling of connection or relatedness decreases.
Fostering genuine relationships is about knowing others, and letting them know you. When a leader recognizes, accepts, or embraces what is important to others, the dedication and commitment to the leader and their cause increases significantly. Leaders who are skilled at leading with heart know what it takes to build relatedness with those they lead, among team members and throughout the organization.
Exemplary leaders build relatedness with individuals, teams, organizations, and/or communities by basing relationships on optimism, trust, and acceptance. This forms the foundation for powerful connections between leaders and followers.
Some leaders build relationships through heartfelt messages and passion, often without being in our physical presence. Some of the most notable leaders who have done so include Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and the Dalai Lama. A common element in the leadership of these greats has been their gift to inspire and connect by sharing themselves through heartfelt messages packed with optimism. By being authentic and optimistic, they have been able to successfully build relationships with millions, without being face to face with most of them.
Relatedness is the key to unlocking commitment, collaboration and engagement.
Sandra McDowell, MA, CEC, PCC
Sandra has a Masters in Leadership, a Certified Executive Coach (PCC) designation and a certificate in Neuroleadership. She is a sought after speaker and facilitator (www.sandramcdowell.com) and the past recipient of a national and international young leader award. Sandra is serving as Interim Chief Operating Officer for First Credit Union where she has been part of the executive team for over 15 years, and she is the driving force behind a leadership and coaching culture. Sandra advocates that leadership is everyone’s responsibility, and she has taken her passion online by developing the eLeadership Academy to support the development of high-performance leaders (www.e-leadershipacademy.com). @LeadersThinkBIG
Mindful Breathing Exercises for Stress Relief and Clarity
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Weekly Exercises
Exercise 5: Creating an educational app
For this exercise, my task is to create an Innovative Media app using iBuild app. This app serves as an educational app for some topics in Innovative Media. The following photos are the screenshots of my Innovative Media app.
The text below my app's logo seem fine when I'm creating the app but somehow, when I download my app, the last line of the sentence got cut off because all the buttons were pushed upwards by the 'Created using iBuildApp.com' advertisement. Oh well. My label was "Click on the below buttons to know more about each Innovative Media topic!"
Note: The links in all the pages are real links to Youtube videos and can be clicked and watched if the real app is downloaded (I tested it, it really works!).
Exercise 4: Sound Editing
the_first_one_.mp3
For this week's exercise, I composed a song titled "The First One" via Garageband. I named it "The First One" because it's the first song that I composed for this subject aka Innovative Media. The song itself was composed of three different tracks, namely piano (I composed it myself), synth (software instrument) and a drum beat (software instrument). By adjusting the volume and arranging them accordingly, I had create and compose an electronic dance song!
Exercise 3: Media and Technology in My Childhood
1. Reflect on some part of your childhood and the way you used media as part of daily life when you were growing up. What were some of your favorite books, movies, TV shows, music, videogames, or online experiences between the ages of 4 - 7, 8 - 10 or between 11 - 15? Did your peers, parents or family members think and feel about media and technology and how did their views influence you?
I believe I am surrounded by different mediums technology ever since I was born (educational toys, cartoons, electronic toys and etc.). I can't remember what are my favourite books, movies, tv shows, music, video games or online experiences when I was between 4 -10 years old as it was eons ago! Despite that, I do remember back when I was a young teen (I'm now an 'older teen'), my 'favourite tv shows' would be cartoons (that aired every weekend mornings) such as Totally Spies, Ultraman, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Titans, Young Justice, Justice League and etc. My favourite 'online experience' would be playing Playstation 2 games and computer games. I do not have a favourite music genre, book and movies back then. Now, I don't really have any 'favourites'. My peers, family and I definitely think and feel about media and technology because all of us including the society have become dependent on them. These elements have become significant in our lives. Media provide us with a wealth of information (gossip, hard news, soft news and etc.) whereas technology is a great amount of help in improving our lives (transportation, digitalisation, internet, electronics, gadgets). My family and peers' views on technology and media are the same as my views so there were not much 'influence' going on between us.
2. Reflecting back on your childhood use of media and technology, what lessons did you learn from the media messages that were part of your growing up years?
One of the lessons that I learned from media messages that were part of my growing up years was that anything that happens in fictional tv shows or movies is fictional/fake. From that, I learned from an early age to differentiate between real life and fiction/virtual. For example, I like playing the Grand Theft Auto games but I do not practiced car-hijacking in real life (unless I want to land my butt in jail). Besides that, I also learned not too practice/follow/copy the 'on-screen happenings'. Other than that, media messages do not affect me much because I'm a sensible/rational/practical girl from young. I know what is right and what is wrong and media messages do not influence my personal beliefs nor my perceptions.
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Exercise 2: Creating a stop-motion video
For this week's Innovative Media tutorial lesson, our task was to form groups and a create stop-motion video. My group consists of me (Yue Lynn), Kiki Chen, Ali Imran, Samantha Sin and Sulaiman Shafiq. After going through what Kiki had took (a Superman paper doll and a background) for us to create the stop-motion video, I planned a storyline for Superman which consists of him getting flicked by one of our fingers.
Together, as a group, we expanded on the initial idea and the storyline ended up involved Superman getting beaten by a hand (Ali's hand). We took more than 100 photos of the 'story' using Sulaiman's DSLR camera. Kiki and Samantha helped set up Superman's 'scenes' whereas Ali's hand acts as the 'villain'. Sulaiman took the photos while I monitored everything and absorbed whatever new information that I could learned! It was a fun and educational experience indeed.
After the shooting, Sulaiman upload the photos to the iMac and convert them into a stop-motion video (for the video's audio, we incorporate one of Inception's soundtrack into the video) using the iMovie software. We exported it and upload it on Youtube and Padlet. Below is our 'aptly titled- video:
Exercise 1: Understanding NEw Media
Question 3: Who is being left behind in the digital era and what can we do about it?
People who are left behind in the digital era are mostly made up of old people, those who live in places such as forests and mountainside (no internet access or accessible electronic/digital equipments/gadgets), poor people (notably, Africa) and people who are ignorant/oblivious to the digital world. This could also be associated with the term 'Digital Divide'.
We can help reduce the number of people who are 'left behind' by promoting awareness of the importance of internet and digital media usage. This method might seem common or cliche but I believe educating people about 'something' via awareness is one of the most effective ways to make said people realise the significance about said 'something'. When we 'teach' people (especially senior citizens-that-still-possess-a-sharp-mind and oblivious/ignorant people) about the benefits and importance of digital media or the internet, they could be coerced out of their comfort zone to explore the many intricacies of the digital world.
When it comes to poor people living in poor countries or people who live in places where there is no access to digital media, helping them would not be an easy task. Nonetheless, it is not impossible. Big organisations that are IT-related could help provide these people with digital access/media besides providing them with IT lessons. This will be a very 'slow and long process' but it could help these people catch-up with today's digital era.
In conclusion, people who are left behind by the digital era could be helped and it is a situation that could be improved by using the right or feasible methods.
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30 Days of Horror: #27 & #28 #30daysofhorror #HO17
So yes, I failed to keep up with this once again, but that means you get two picks for the price of one today and tomorrow.
My first pick for day 27 is a non-fiction book that I’ve only recently come across. It’s like everything I love about trashy horror in one book!
Available in paperback & digital, 256 pages
Published September 19th 2017 by Quirk Books
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and ’80s . . . if you dare.
Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate!
Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. It’s an affectionate, nostalgic, and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of two iconic decades, complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles.
You’ll find familiar authors, like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, and many more who’ve faded into obscurity. Plus recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.
Goodreads // Guest Post: Paperback Lost by PG Bloodhouse
Read this? What did you think?
My second choice for today is a book that I really enjoyed. It was much better than the film, but it was still worth a watch.
Available in all formats incl. audio, 460 pages
Published June 19th 2014 by Orbit
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her “our little genius.”
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite, but they don’t laugh.
Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children’s cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she’ll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn’t know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.
The Girl with All the Gifts is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman.
You can catch up on all four stories here.
Author lipsyyPosted on October 29, 2017 October 29, 2017 Categories 30 Days of Horror, Horror October 2017, UncategorizedTags 30 Days of Horror, Flash Fiction Battle, Halloween Reads, Halloween Stories, Horror Books, Horror October 2017, Paperbacks from Hell, The Girl With All the Gifts, Vote NowLeave a comment on 30 Days of Horror: #27 & #28 #30daysofhorror #HO17
Horror October: Week #4 Wrap-up! #HO17
The end is nigh, horror fans! And I can’t lie, I’m slightly relieved. It’s been a blast, but busy, oh so busy!
Anyway, in case you missed anything last week, here is a handy summary of all the goings-on.
Day #22 & #23: Relics & Angel of Vengeance
Day #24: There’s Someone Inside Your House
Day #25: The Hollow Girl
Day #26: Doctor Sleep
Top Ten Tuesday: Weird horror book titles
Entry #3: In That Sleep of Death by Stephen Kozeniewski
Entry #4: Puppets by Gabino Iglesias
Vote for Your Winner Now!
Guest Post: Paperback Lost by PG Bloodhouse
Lazy Saturday Review: Under My Skin by Juno Dawson
I crown the winner of the Flash Fiction Battle!
Don’t forget to vote for your favourite!
Author lipsyyPosted on October 29, 2017 Categories Horror October 2017, UncategorizedTags Book Reviews, Flash Fiction Battle, Halloween Competition, Halloween Reads, Horror Books, Horror October 2017, Weekly round-upLeave a comment on Horror October: Week #4 Wrap-up! #HO17
Flash Fiction Battle: Entry #4 #HO17
Welcome to the second annual flash fiction battle in which four brilliant independent horror authors will battle it out to be crowned the King or Queen of Horror, (well, Horror October at least).
For the past few weeks, four horror writers have been creating an original short story based on the theme you chose.
The winning theme was ‘Master of Cemeteries’.
The vote will open tomorrow at 09:00 (GMT) for you to pick your favourite, so look out for my post. I will crown the winner on Halloween!
Without further ado, here is the final entry…
Please do let us know what you think in the comments below. Will this story get your vote?
by Gabino Iglesias
“You look a little pale, Daniel,” said Frantz in his deep, rumbling voice. “This new task has you scared, man? If you wanna roll with us, you’re gonna see some weird stuff. And you’re gonna see a lot of blood. Either one bothers you, walk away now. I might forget about your face if you’re lucky.”
Daniel shook his head. Becoming a member of Zoe Pound was all he’d thought about since his older brother, Samuel, joined them at the age of fifteen. He wanted the money and the respect that came with being a member of the gang. He craved the brotherhood of other Haitians and Haitian-Americans. He dreamed about the power and women that would come his way if he didn’t mess up and did what he was told like a good soldier.
“I’m good, Frantz,” said Daniel, quickly making his way to the door. “Meeting the guy in a mausoleum is weird, but I’ve been in the streets long enough to see weirder. I’ll get you a new puppet tonight.”
Puppets. That’s what Frantz called the disposable bodies the bokor, the dark voodoo priest, got him for suicide missions. Daniel knew that getting a new one entailed killing a man and getting him into the hands of the bokor within a day. What he didn’t know was why he was getting this special task assigned to him after he’d botched a drug deal the previous week. Frantz had called it a rookie mistake, but the look in his eyes did not match the smile he shot at Daniel when he said id. In any case, Daniel was going to get in done. That would be a good start in terms of getting back on Frantz good side.
The victim had already been picked. The man was as predictable, loved his routine, and lived alone. Those were good things. They were also the things that were going to get him killed. Daniel knew he liked to park his car behind a local pizzeria before hitting the trails at a nearby park for his nightly run. It was a matter of waiting for him to show up. When he did, Daniel stepped out from behind a Dumpster, pressed his gun against the man’s temple, and made him get in the car and drive to Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Brownsville, a huge, neglected place that also happened to be Florida’s most important primarily African-American graveyard.
There was a lot of shaking and offering on the drive there, but Daniel ignored all of it. This was a mission he would not screw up. The man at the wheel was already dead to him, nothing more than a throwaway sack of meat and bones.
The explanation Frantz had given Daniel was incredibly accurate. The newbie gangbanger kept his gun in his hoodie and made the man walk to mausoleum near the woods that backed up against the cemetery on the far left side without an issue other than the annoying crying and pleading the man was doing, not to mention he kept snorting snot into the back of his skull like a hog with the flu.
Waiting at the threshold of the dilapidated mausoleum was a wiry, light-skinned man wearing a sleeveless white shirt. His hands, arms, chest, and neck were covered in tattoos.
“You must be Daniel,” said the man.
“Yeah, you the bokor?”
“That’d be me, young blood.”
Daniel realized the man looked anywhere between 38 and 78 years old. His face sported lines that spoke of years under the sun, of hard living and strange nights, but his body looked young and powerful, almost like that of a swimmer or lightweight boxer.
“This the puppet?” the bokor asked, jutting his jaw at the sobbing man.
“Yeah,” replied Daniel.
“Get him inside and shoot him.”
The man screamed some unintelligible promises and supplications. Daniel grabbed him by the back of the neck and pushed him into the cool, moist, smelly darkness of the mausoleum.
Two bullets went into the man’s body, both close to where Daniel thought his heart should be. He dropped down and twitched twice.
“Nice work,” said the bokor from somewhere behind Daniel.
The cold, hard blade pressed against Daniel’s neck from the back.
“The ritual works better if you start it as the person is dying. It’s easier to trap their souls in their bodies for a while that way.”
Confusion and fear kept Daniel frozen. The sound the blade made as it sliced across his neck was as unexpected as the whole situation. It was somewhat of a crunch. The taste of his own blood came quickly, the warm liquid flowing down his chest.
Daniel turned around, lifted his gun, and shot the bokor in the chest, right below his right clavicle. A dark hole appeared where the bullet disappeared into his body, but no blood came. Daniel squeezed the trigger again, aiming higher this time. A second hole opened up in the bokor’s left cheek. The wound remained as dry as the one in his chest.
“Be happy Daniel, you accomplished your task tonight. In fact, you brought Frantz two puppets instead of one. I’m sure he will appreciate the gesture.”
The bokor’s laugh echoed inside the dark mausoleum as Daniel dropped to his knees, his muscles starting to lose their strength.
“Don’t despair, Daniel,” said the bokor. “Your brother asked me to make sure you could cross over as soon as your next job is done.”
Daniel couldn’t reply with a severed throat, so he closed his eyes and felt the tears roll down his face as cold darkness embraced him.
Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist, and book reviewer living in Austin, TX.
He’s the author of ZERO SAINTS, HUNGRY DARKNESS, and GUTMOUTH. He is the book reviews editor for PANK Magazine, the TV/film editor for Entropy Magazine, and a columnist for LitReactor and CLASH Media. His reviews have appeared in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, 3AM Magazine, and many other print and online venues.
Gabino’s latest release is an anthology of crime stories inspired by the songs of Johnny Cash.
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Entry #2: The Master of Cemeteries by Justin Bienvenue
The vote opens tomorrow!
Author lipsyyPosted on October 27, 2017 October 27, 2017 Categories Flash Fiction Battle, Horror October 2017, UncategorizedTags Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Battle, Free Horror Stories, Gabino Iglesias, Halloween Competition, Halloween Stories, Horror Stories, Horror Writers, independent authors, Short Stories1 Comment on Flash Fiction Battle: Entry #4 #HO17
Flash Fiction Battle: Entry #3 #ffb17 #HO17
Once all four stories have been published, the vote will open for you to pick your favourite. I will crown the winner on Halloween!
Without further ado, here is Entry #3.
In That Sleep of Death
by Stephen Kozeniewski
“You want to know the really perverse thing about The White City Devil?” Donnelly asked, the glee in his voice as he discussed his favorite serial killer almost palpable.
Vince shrugged as he shuffled to the other side of his kitchen to grab a mug for the loudmouthed undertaker’s coffee. Vince always kept some beans on hand for Donnelly’s occasional visits, but he never drank anything more powerful than tea himself. High-test upset his stomach, and he had enough trouble sleeping nights with the arthritis and everything else.
“The only thing that got him off was the sound of women screaming. That’s why he kept doing it. Imagine putting all that time and effort and money into making a jack shack for yourself because of a weird kink. Eh, but it was the 1800s, after all.”
Donnelly shrugged. Vince nodded and sat down across from his…well, he hesitated to use the word “friend,” even in his own mind, as he didn’t particularly care for the other man. “Acquaintance” seemed too remote, considering he knew more about Donnelly than almost any man alive. (Certainly, he spilled his guts to Vince often enough.) “Visitor,” perhaps was a fair splitting of the difference.
Donnelly continued describing the exploits of mass murderer H.H. Holmes for more than an hour before finally asking Vince a question about himself. In previous visits he had gone much, much longer.
“But, my God, Catapali, I have to say, I sort of get it. After all, the work I do, the work you do. Well, you’re so much closer to the metal, so to speak, than I am, digging all those damn graves. I can’t even get to sleep without a fifth of Amaretto in me. How do you sleep at night, anyway?”
Vince didn’t rush to answer. Usually if he waited long enough, Donnelly continued on with whatever he had been blathering about. This time, though, he was silent just long enough for it to seem rude if Vince didn’t respond.
“Noise machine.”
Vince pointed at the little box with the speaker in his bedroom. It was visible from where they were sitting. Donnelly nodded.
“Yeah, that makes sense. That’s a good…I’ll have to try that.”
It was almost dark before the chatterbox mortician finally left, but Vince didn’t really mind. He couldn’t do any more work before dark, anyway. Not his real work, anyway. He clambered into his pickup truck and was greeted with a thump from the pine crate in the bed.
“Easy now,” he said, putting his hand through the back window and stroking the crate, as though its inhabitant could feel his soothing touch.
The thumping didn’t stop as he drove out to the gravesite. With the pulley system he had rigged up for his truck it was no trouble at all to dump the pine crate into the open grave. Getting the expensive cherry coffin from Donnelly’s funeral home up into the bed was slightly trickier, but he had done it nightly for years now and was used to it.
When Vince had first started his job, he had done the grueling work of digging a three by eight foot hole six feet deep by hand. 144 cubic feet of soil. 1100 gallons. Every speck hauled out of the ground at the end of a spade. Hours of work. Now, with his backhoe, it took him forty-five minutes, tops. Ten to cover it back up.
It was only half an hour to the abandoned dump. Using the old car compactor, Vince squished what was left of the dearly departed Mr. Squillante into a fine red paste, strewn with splintered wood and bone. Vince had occasionally considered selling Donnelly’s expensive coffins, but he had no idea what the market was for those, and, really, he didn’t need the money. He led a simple life.
Afterward, he swung by all his usual haunts: the docks, a few crack dens, the bus station. It seemed like slim pickings tonight, but he finally tracked down a skinny runaway peeing in the bushes outside of the homeless tent city downtown in Memorial Park. He brought the boy back to his caretaker’s shack before nailing him into a fresh pine box for tomorrow. By three in the morning he had finished digging all the graves for tomorrow.
Vince trudged into his bedroom, feeling every second of his sixty-seven years on this Earth. It seemed like all he ever did anymore was work his fingers to the bone, and yet no matter how tired he was he could never sleep a wink at night without his noise machine. It wasn’t a store-bought device with a pre-recorded track, though, as he had let Donnelly assume. The transmission had to be live. Always live.
He flicked it on. Instantly, his bedroom was filled with the soothing sounds of nails scratching against wood, panicked low-oxygen screams, and profanity-laden threats. Good. The prostitute he’d buried in Squillante’s stead was just reaching that point of pitch-perfect desperation. Vince yawned and felt his eyes grow heavy. Better sleep while he could. Tomorrow he’d have to do it all over again.
Stephen Kozeniewski (pronounced “causin’ ooze key”) lives in Pennsylvania, the birthplace of the modern zombie. During his time as a Field Artillery officer, he served for three years in Oklahoma and one in Iraq, where due to what he assumes was a clerical error, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
He is also a classically trained linguist, which sounds much more impressive than saying his bachelor’s degree is in German.
He has written numerous horror novels including Braineater Jones, The Hematophages and Hunter of the Dead, and has been published in various anthologies.
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The vote will open soon. Stay tuned for the final story!
Author lipsyyPosted on October 24, 2017 October 23, 2017 Categories Flash Fiction Battle, Horror October 2017, UncategorizedTags Blog Event, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Battle, Free Horror Stories, Graveyards, Halloween Competition, Halloween Stories, Horror October 2017, independent authors, King of Horror, Master of Cemeteries, Short Fiction, Spooky Stories5 Comments on Flash Fiction Battle: Entry #3 #ffb17 #HO17
For the past week and a half, the four participating horror writers have been creating an original short story based on the theme you chose.
You can read the first entry, ‘Holding On’ by Sean Seebach here.
The Master of Cemeteries
by Justin Bienvenue
I roam the land from the opening gates down to the last stone and rotting tree. I’ve been doing this for so long that I’ve lost count of exactly how long it’s been. You’d think this would be the same old routine and boring ass job but not for me. I own my craft, I appreciate every day and I love my job. Some take on this job and they get scared shitless because they think it’ll be “cool” but they don’t know, they don’t have a goddamn clue how to truly take this job seriously. I love this job because I don’t always work at the same place, no I travel and go where I’m needed. Sometimes I do return to places I’ve worked before, sure the land is the same but the work is different. Ghastly and inhuman some would say but righteous and spectacular for me.
I marvel at the opportunity to dig a hole six feet deep and bury a body into the fresh Earth. Sure there’s maggots, worms and other creatures and insects you’ve never even heard of in the ground below but after a while you don’t even notice em there. Sometimes I go lower than six feet I know it’s a bit unorthodox but I feel it’s a sign of appreciation and honor. Some I bury above six feet because I don’t think they were good in life so why should they have it good in death? What’s the big deal about not digging a body six feet and only digging it 2-4? Well let’s just say man’s best friend and mother nature usually show up to make sure they don’t enjoy their eternal slumber.
My first gig was over in Tucson. They had me bury a ruthless outlaw for gunning down eight people simply for looking at him wrong. Talk about talk being cheap. Well I don’t rightfully condone pointless killing but I felt if I didn’t bury this guy six feet that he was gonna rise up and bury my ass so I made sure he was given a proper burial. I’ve buried every sort of person, you name it. Outlaw, clown, lawyer, garbage man, mafioso, zoo keeper, heck even celebrities. Personally I could give two shits as to what their job was when they were alive but I know some people like to know so I throw it in. I used to be a bounty hunter part time but I didn’t see the point really. Bounty hunting became extinct and it got in the way of this job which has many, many parts to it.
I remember the first day I ever worked in New Orleans. They had me over at the St. Louis Cemetery. They told me it would be a bit different than what I may be used to but they had no idea who they were talking to. IF you don’t know, St. Louis is below sea level like most of the city so when there’s a massive storm or flood, the bodies go a washin’. I did my best fisherman and Charon impression and took them bodies out of the water and back into their crypts. Now for as long as I’d been on the job at that point I thought nothing could upset me but the cleanup I did that day would have given a slaughterhouse janitor the nightmares. There were bodies, limps, morbid looking faces and some of the grimiest, slimiest and slippery stench skin you’ve ever seen. Imagine putting Play-Doh under water and then rubbing it with olive oil and dead meat.
My job isn’t always that messy as I usually just patrol normal ones and do my usual maintenance. I do landscaping of the area, mow the open grass areas and keep the graves looking fresh and up to code. You always know if you’re at a cemetery that I’ve been to because it’s so clean and peaceful. It’s practically a garden only instead of flowers there’s gravestones so it’s pretty much a garden of the dead if you will. So in some ways I’d like to consider myself a gardener, only I don’t make stuff grow…or do I? In all seriousness I make sure no stone is turned, no grass gets weeds and no grave is unfilled. I don’t just harvest the land of the dead and dig their beds I also chisel their tombstones and layer the bricks and concrete in their crypts. Find me another person who does that and I’ll start digging my own grave. I just did it for fun one day when I got done early once and seeing as my stone was good and the family really enjoyed it I decided to add it to my repertoire.
Once I had to bury a famous pianist so I crafted a giant tombstone that looked like a piano. The family loved it but the people of the cemetery and the townspeople thought it was too much. They learned to appreciate it..after I told them I could make some for them when they died. I haven’t worked there too much since. As I said though I travel a lot going from graveyard to graveyard in hopes to make each one greater than the next one. I should have my own show on HGTV called “Flipping Graveyards” because I mean I’m that good at what I’d do.
I won’t need another job for as long as I live, heck I’ll probably still be doing this when I’m dead if they let me, you know the guy upstairs or the guy down below? I mean I am helping them..at least I think I am. If you need someone to take care of the deceased I’m the one you call. I have a list of titles on my resume; gravedigger, undertaker, mortician, gravestone carver, crypt builder, gardener, landscaper, embalmer, among many others. When you need a person to care for your loved ones I’m your woman, the master of cemeteries.
Justin Bienvenue is an indie author and poet. He is diverse in several different genres but mainly writes horror and poetry.
He published his first book The Macabre Masterpiece: Poems of Horror and Gore in 2010 and later had it republished in 2013. He also published the Western Horror A Bloody Bloody Mess In The Wild Wild West in 2013, Like A Box of Chocolates another book of poetry in 2014 and a Crime Thriller Opium Warfare. He has also written several stories and poems which have been published in anthologies.
When not writing novels he also writes short stories and drabbles, and on his blog. He is currently promoting his latest novel while also working on Hundred Year Old Horror, a Horror Blog.
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30 Days of Horror: Phantoms
Author lipsyyPosted on October 19, 2017 October 17, 2017 Categories Flash Fiction Battle, Horror October 2017, UncategorizedTags Brand New Stories, Creepy Reads, Death, Flash Fiction Battle, Free Horror Stories, Graveyards, Halloween Competition, Horror October, Horror Stories, Horror Writers, independent authors, Justin Bienvenue, Master of Cemeteries, Short Fiction, Short Stories3 Comments on Flash Fiction Battle: Entry #2 #FFB17 #HO17
The winning theme was ‘Master of Cemeteries’, and the stories have started rolling in. Once all four have been published, the vote will open for you to pick your favourite. I will crown the winner on Halloween!
Without further ado, feast your eyes on Entry #1.
by Sean Seebach
“It’s my job,” Ben said to his wife. “It has to be done.”
She tucked her face into her husband’s neck, rubbed her nose into his flannel collar, then kissed his unshaven cheek before leaving a coffee filled thermos and ham sandwich with him. The coffee would get drank. She had her doubts about the latter, noticing Ben’s flannel hanging loosely from his body. Everything had changed so quickly for them.
But she knew Ben was right. It was his job as the caretaker of Cedar Grove Cemetery to do the work that had to be done. She took a moment to gaze at the purple streaked sky before firing up the family’s 2001 Plymouth Neon, the one that fought to remain forest green against the orange colored rust, and thought about how proud she was to have Ben Taylor as her husband.
Ben picked up the plastic grocery bag his wife had left him and took a squat next to the pile of dirt where he left his spade. He unscrewed the thermos cap, poured, and sipped black coffee during the chilly October twilight.
Across the street, he heard children laughing, screaming, yelling “trick or treat!” at the top of their little lungs. Visions of toddlers dressed as dinosaurs, spacemen, princesses flashed through his mind. Huddled together in small groups, holding the hands of their Mom and Dad, only to let go once they were close to a walkway that led to the porch. Then, a full on joyous sprint, high-pitched screeching, heavy breathing, wide smiles. Plastic bags decorated with witches and castles and bats and cartoonish looking boogiemen being whipped open. More smiles as handfuls of sugary goodness fell into those bags. Bags that Mom and Dad would surely have to go through once darkness fell.
His stomach turned sour.
He picked up the sandwich his wife had left him and unwrapped it. He put it to his nose and smelled it. When was the last time he ate? Ben couldn’t remember. He hadn’t eaten in so long that Ben wasn’t sure if he even liked ham anymore, let alone sandwiches.
He took a greedy bite anyway. He chomped around for a few seconds before spitting it out. He wasn’t ready to eat. Not yet. Maybe later.
The sun fell faster and soon it would be dark. If Ben didn’t get a move on, he’d be working by the light of the lantern. This was okay by him. He wanted to hear the children a little longer.
The moon was almost visible now, a large white china plate hanging in the darkest sky imaginable. Gray, elongated clouds hovered in front of it. They were so close to each other they almost touched. Crickets began chattering to one another in the copse of trees close to where Ben was. Every now and then their chirps drowned out from the call of an owl. The children’s voices from across the street became nothing more than an echo. Ben picked up his spade and began to work.
He had done this so many times before. He tried to convince himself this was just like all the others. But he couldn’t fool what the heart knew. Trying to move on, to push through, was something he and his wife would have to learn as they lived. But Ben needed something to hang on to, something he could feel.
He took a moment to give his hands a break. They began to bleed in the cracks of his palms. He removed his flannel and wiped sweat from his face. When he exhaled he saw his breath and the cool air felt good. He straightened his back and glanced down and regarded the missing pooch from his beltline.
“Heck of a way to lose weight, Ben,” he said. “Didn’t even have to exercise.”
Then it came to him.
“Exercise.” He took a deep breath. “Running.”
Running was the word he needed to find the memory that he would…
“Hold on to forever. Bobby, you’re…”
…“Running! Look Daddies! I’m running!” Bobby is running all right. He’s running in the backyard. His arms are outstretched along with his chubby hands. He is smiling and his head is tilted back so his eyes are squinting into the sunlight. White light enhances the child’s blonde hair, mainly at the flared ends where the wind has caught them, forcing them to flap like little wings…
“Daddies, I spin.” Bobby holds his arms up. Daddy grabs a hold of Bobby’s hands and asks him if he’s ready. “Readies,” Bobby says with a nod and a grin. Daddy plants his feet into the tall, soft green grass and begins to spin. Bobby’s feet lift from the grass and into the air. Their eyes lock onto each other. In the corners of their eyes, the world is spinning in a kaleidoscope of color: green, blue, white, brown. Daddy’s worries vanish in that moment. The envelopes stamped with PAST DUE in red letters, asking the cashier to return the snack cakes and bubble bath at the register to prevent an overdraft (just the necessities on this shopping trip, Bobby. Sorry), the anxiety from watching the price screen on the fuel pump go higher and higher are all forgotten in the whirlwind…
“Daddies, look! I fall.” Bobby falls down. “Daddies! You fall…too!” Daddy also falls, right on his back. He looks over at Bobby who has his arms once again stretched out to his side. Daddy does the same. They face each other, make eye contact and smile. Together they raise their feet to the clouds then watch the sky as the dizziness slows…
Ben finds that memory in the darkest of moments, one that he will hold on to for the rest of his life, as he spills the last of the dirt onto the gravesite with the tombstone marked:
Bobby Taylor
February 5, 2015-October 24, 2017
Influenced by Stephen King and Rod Serling, Sean Seebach has written four books: A Looking in View, Autumn Dark, Our Monsters Are Real: The Pig Man and his latest release Unknown Vol 1.
When Sean isn’t writing or managing a wonderful barbecue joint with amazing people, he enjoys reading, cooking, and listening to rock n’ roll. He currently lives in Ohio with his wife, daughter, and son.
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Huge thanks to all four writers, especially Stephen for helping to coordinate.
Author lipsyyPosted on October 17, 2017 October 15, 2017 Categories Flash Fiction Battle, Horror October 2017, UncategorizedTags Death, Family, Flash Fiction Battle, Free Horror Stories, Gravediggers, Graveyard, Halloween Competition, Halloween Stories, Holding On, Horror Stories, Horror Writers, Indie Authors, Master of Cemeteries, Sean Seebach, Short Fiction, Short Stories, Story Prompts4 Comments on Flash Fiction Battle: Entry #1 #FFB17 #HO17
Horror October: Flash Fiction Battle – Voting Ends Tomorrow! #ffb17 #HO17
Just a quick reminder that Voting ends on Friday 6th October at midnight (GMT)
The flash fiction battle will see four of the best independent horror writers produce an original short story (1000 words or under) based on a prompt chosen by you!
Voting ends on Friday 6th October at midnight and I will announce the winning prompt on Saturday 7th. The writers will then have until the 21st Oct to get their stories to me. Once all four stories have been published another vote will open so you can pick your favourite story and I will crown the winner on Halloween.
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The Gauntlet Assassin Excerpt
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The Gauntlet Assassin/Thriller/Chapter 1
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 11:05 a.m.
Lara attached the LifePac and watched it hit the man with two-hundred joules of electrical current. His eyes popped open, his pulse stabilized, and piss flooded his sweatpants. Terrific. He would live long enough to regret cutting off two fingers in an attempt to collect disability funds. She cauterized his bloody stumps and watched him breathe for a few minutes. Gangrene or sepsis might kill him eventually, but she’d done all she could. Lara stepped back from the sweat-soaked couch and packed up her equipment.
“You’re taking him to the hospital, aren’t you?” His wife grabbed Lara’s arm, her bony fingers transmitting misery.
“You said he didn’t have a med card.”
“If you leave him in the twenty-foot zone, they have to treat him.”
“I’m sorry, but I could lose my license if I do.” Lara shoved the portable defib into its pouch and strapped the pack around her waist. She had to carry it in public at all times, the privilege of having a freelance paramedic license. With the growing doctor shortage, anyone with medical skills was fully utilized.
“He has heart disease and needs an artery vac. This was our chance for treatment.”
“Oh christ.” Lara hated this aspect of her job. “Do you have a car?”
“I’ll help you get him into the vehicle, but you have to drive him.”
Lara hurried to her med van and hauled out the wheeled gurney she rarely used. She and the gaunt wife struggled to get the now-conscious but heavyset man onto the gurney, then into their small car.
“When you get to the hospital, pull him out, honk the horn and drive away.” Lara gave her a grim smile. “Good luck.” Walking away from the noncs, as non-covered citizens were called, never got easier, but she dwelled on it less now. She’d once been a homicide detective, a job that toughened her for the new world.
She started toward her van and her iCom beeped. Another 909 emergency. The location appeared on her screen in map form, a secluded home only a half mile away. Lara acknowledged the assignment with a push of her thumb and ran to her vehicle. Her body hummed with adrenaline as she raced up City View. What would it be this time? The neighborhood was probably too upscale for something like a gunshot wound or a domestic dispute with knife injuries. Lara scowled. She hoped it wasn’t another VEx accident with a chubby middle-aged woman trying improve her health with virtual exercise. Someone had called for a freelance paramed instead of an ambulance, so it could be anything.
Lara loved these moments. Rushing to a scene, not knowing what chaos she would encounter. In some ways, it was better than being a police officer because she kept on the move and did a lot less paperwork. She missed the authority of the badge though. She’d liked having people pay attention and feel nervous when she approached. It beat the hell out of her current personal life: a forty-two-year-old woman with no partner, no children, no power.
The house sat at the end of a long drive, behind a tall screen of Sequoias. Lara took note of the street number on the gate and kept moving. A black compact car soaked up sun in the driveway. The summer heat was coming on earlier every year. She parked next to the empty vehicle and glanced at her Taser on the passenger’s seat. The weapon was bulky to carry, but some neighborhoods and situations required it. Lara determined this wasn’t one of them. She touched the 9-millimeter in her shoulder holster as she climbed out. The gun went everywhere she did, but for most volatile situations, she preferred the Taser. Less blood and noise.
As Lara moved toward the house, the front doors burst open and a man barreled out. Behind him, a large black dog noisily gave chase. Lara backpedaled toward the med van to get out of their way.
Running man raised his arm. Lara dropped to the asphalt as he fired. She rolled and pulled her weapon, but his footsteps kept going and a second shot didn’t come. A car door opened, the engine cranked over, and he raced down the driveway. Lara let out her breath. As she stood, the dog turned back and charged into the house.
What now? The person who made the emergency call had likely been shot and still needed medical attention. Heart thumping, Lara glanced down the driveway and watched the black sedan turn left on the road. Her muscles unclenched and she decided to enter the home and check out the situation. She grabbed her Taser and tucked it into her waistband in case the dog turned on her.
As she hurried up the walkway, she made a mental note of what she’d seen of the assailant: five-ten, lean, dirty blonde, thirty-something, and a squarish face. Lara slowed and moved cautiously through the open front door, weapon ready. The big house was quiet and she crept through, taking in details. High ceilings, open floor plan, and two additional exits that she could see. One leading to the garage from the kitchen, the other into a pretty side yard.
No people, no black dog.
She made her way down the hall to a room near the end. Weapon raised, she entered the bedroom. A large man, wearing only black leather pants, lay on the floor. Blood had soaked into the pale-blue rug under him and sprayed the white satin sheets on the bed. A familiar salty smell mingled with the wet metallic of the blood. As stepped toward the victim, Lara recognized the scent: a mix of sweat and semen.
Lara slipped off her medpack and kneeled down. She heard shallow breathing and saw that he’d been shot in the shoulder. The black dog lay nearby, whimpering and watching her.
“Good dog. You stay.”
The man opened his eyes. “Thank God.” The dog started to get up, but the man snapped his fingers and it lay back down.
Lara began to pull out supplies. “You need the ER. Why didn’t you call for a regular ambulance?”
“It’s personal. I don’t want to report this.”
Oh shit. She should have left after the jackass shot at her. It was too late now. She couldn’t walk away from a bleeder. Lara lifted his shoulder to see if the bullet had gone through. He moaned and squeezed her wrist. The exit hole was twice the size of the entry wound and bleeding heavily, but she wouldn’t have to dig out the bullet. She laid his shoulder back to the floor. “What’s your name?”
“Thaddeus Morton.”
Lara froze. “The federal employment commissioner?”
“Aren’t you supposed to be Washington D.C.? Overseeing the Gauntlet?”
“I’m flying out tomorrow morning—if I don’t bleed to death.”
“Is this your house? I thought you moved to the capital.”
“I kept my home here and a friend takes care of it for me. I come back whenever I can.” He grimaced as he talked.
Lara bit back another question and focused on her task. She grabbed a packet of gunshot gauze, a new product designed to fill such wounds and slowly dissolve as the tissue around it healed. The gauze had been invented by a Chicago ER doctor soon after the dark shift, as she called it. The Supreme Court had struck down a series of gun control laws and now weapons were everywhere. So were gunshot wounds. An entire industry had sprung up to treat them.
“We need to roll you over so I can bandage the exit wound.” Lara gave him her best smile, which wasn’t much. “This will hurt.”
“Do you have pain meds?”
“I’m not licensed for them. You know how the DEA is.”
Lara cauterized the major bleeders with a C-laser, sprayed the wound with antibacterial, then packed it with gauze. The white material soaked with blood before she could get the skin-sealing bandage in place. The sealer, as medics called it, had biologic properties that bonded with tissue.
She taped a padded exterior bandage in place and asked, “Who shot you, and why don’t you want to report it?”
“My lover.” He paused. “Going public was a political career killer even before the new Congress made homosexual acts illegal. Not that I’m gay. I’m bisexual.”
Lara didn’t give a rip about his sexual practices, but she watched his face for signs of lying, a habit from her detective days. She saw none. “What makes you think I’ll consider not reporting this? I could lose my license.”
“Because I’m the employment commissioner and you’re a contestant in the Gauntlet. I can help you if you help me.”
Lara’s pulse quickened. What was he saying? “Did you ask for me when you called the Paramed Service?”
“I didn’t have time. But I hoped it would be you.” He spoke softly, then waited.
Lara’s mind raced. The employment commissioner oversaw the contest, now in its third year, and he would rule on any situations that required a judgment call. He could disqualify any competitor too, including her.
Lara was torn. Her desire to win the Gauntlet was like a tumor growing inside her. Oregon desperately needed the grant money and the jobs that would be awarded to the winner’s state—and she needed a reason to keep getting up every day. Yet having the contest handed to her was not what she had in mind. “I don’t want to win except on my own merit.” She almost regretted the words as soon as they left her mouth.
“Be more specific.” He sat up and she noticed that he was attractive in a pretty-boy way with dark wavy hair and high cheekbones. She’d only seen the commissioner a few times on the news, and the camera had not flattered him. Still, he was almost fifty and the black leather gear he was sporting made her a little sad for him.
“I don’t want your help. I want to win clean.”
“Could I interest you in some cash?”
Lara laughed. “Taking a bribe for not reporting this incident would be worse than simply not logging the GSW.” She began to pack her medical supplies.
“Tell me what you want. I can’t let this incident reach the police or the media.”
“Your boyfriend is a menace. He shot at me on his way out and should probably be locked up.”
Morton’s eyes widened. “Oh shit. I’m so sorry.” He scooted to the bed and leaned against it. “He’s having a bad reaction to some medication. He’s not usually like this.” The commissioner’s gaze slid away and Lara sensed he’d just lied to her.
“Does he have a criminal record?”
“No. He’s never hurt anyone before. He found out I cheated on him and freaked out. Shooting at you was just a leftover emotional reaction. He’ll calm down and be fine.”
“I want his name. For my own protection.”
Morton hesitated. “Richard Bremmer, but please don’t report this. I’ll lose my job.” He locked into her eyes. “And everything that goes with it.”
Lara wanted to get the hell out. After a quick look at the dog, which hadn’t moved since Morton snapped his fingers, Lara slipped her gun back into its holster and stood to leave.
“Are you going to report this?”
“I don’t know yet.”
In the van, she accessed her call log on her iCom and stared at the cursor, which was waiting for her to speak or type something. Crap. She was required to report the GSW, so that was the safest thing to do. If she lost her freelance paramed license, she’d be scrambling to find work like millions of others. She couldn’t go through that nightmare again. After leaving the police department, she’d been unemployed for years. Then the gun laws loosened and health insurance got scarce, so paramedics were suddenly in demand.
Yet, if she reported the incident, Thaddeus Morton would be investigated and likely removed from overseeing the Gauntlet. His last act as commissioner might be to disqualify her. If she kept his secret and he stayed on as a judge, he would owe her, and it couldn’t hurt to have someone in her corner while she competed.
If she brought home a grant, co-funded by AmGo and the federal government, Oregon would have money to spend on jobs and social programs. AmGo would build a facility in Eugene that employed thousands. Teachers and police officers would go back to work. Not her of course. She had burned that bridge thoroughly. Still, she was a cop at heart and she hated the way law enforcement had been crippled by the never-ending recession. Most departments now only investigated violent crimes, and detectives had a couple days to track leads. After that, the case went into the cold file and they moved on. It was shameful. So many victims with no one held accountable.
Lara slammed out of the van and ran back into the house. Morton had changed into jeans and opened a suitcase on the bed. He jumped like a startled cat when she burst into the room.
“What is the first phase of the Challenge like this year?” The Gauntlet had five phases that changed from year to year, and the details were kept secret until the program went live.
“It’s an elevated maze.”
Lara made a quick mental assessment. “I’d like to be paired against someone tall and female.”
“I’ll see what I can do.”
“Beyond that, I intend to kick ass on my own.”
“I’m sure you will.”
“I hope your accidental shoulder wound heals quickly.” Lara bolted from the room before he could say anything else. No promises had been exchanged, but she felt a little dirty anyway.
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We The Animals – film review
Jamie Havlin
We The Animals (2018)
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Cast: Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian, Josiah Gabriel, Raúl Castillo
Format: Dual format
Jamie Havlin takes a look at a visceral coming-of-age film that deals with self-discovery, sexuality and social class divisions.
Based on Justin Torres’s semi-autobiographical novel, We the Animals is a tale that showcases three pre-teen first-time actors in leading roles. These are Isaiah Kristian as Manny, Josiah Gabriel as Joel and Evan Rosado as Jonah.
Their home life is far from ideal. Their mother (Sheila Vand) is from Brooklyn originally, their salsa dancing dad is Puerto Rican (Raul Castillo) and the family now live in a cramped and ramshackle household in upstate New York. She has a production job at a local beer bottling plant. He works as a security guard.
They both love their children, but they have a dysfunctional relationship that zigzags continually between brutality and affection. Both have a tendency to scream at each other in front of the children and let them roam around their rural neighbourhood unsupervised.
Like many boys left to their own devices for long periods of time, the brothers mess around and get up to mischief. After their father disappears in the wake of hitting their mum, their behaviour worsens. These semi-feral youngsters steal from neighbour’s gardens. They steal from small shops – and when they’re caught, they think nothing of kicking the owner in the face in order to aid their escape. They throw stones at cars and when one driver gets out her car to tell them off, they threaten her.
When the brothers come across the grandson of a neighbour they steal from, they are shown some sex phone-line show on cable TV and porn videos – We The Animals being set in what looks like the mid/late 1980s. The two older boys cherish the chance to enter what they see as the grown-up world, although the more introspective Jonah doesn’t even pretend to be interested. He is only ten.
Soon Manny and Joel are drinking and smoking and they also begin criticising Jonah, the most sensitive of the boys. Life is tough for the siblings but at least up till this point, they seemed to share a genuine bond.
Jonah is a budding little Jean-Michel Basquiat, crawling under his bed while his brothers sleep at night to create his art – energetically scrawled stickish figures in coloured pencil.
These images sometimes erupt into animated sequences with the people depicted growing wings and breathing out what looks like fire. They’re a little disturbing but also an inspired entryway into his troubled emotional state of mind. Supplied by adult artist Mark Samsonovich, they’re cleverly integrated into the film and are what I liked most about it.
Zak Mulligan’s impressionistic cinematography is consistently inventive too, with much of the film shot at child’s-eye-height. A special mention must also be made for Evan Rosado, who excels in a complex role for such a young actor.
The film was awarded the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Innovator Award and has been compared to Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life (2011), although I wouldn’t rank it that highly myself. Its screenplay could surely have done with another draft. Almost aimless in places, its ending felt too sudden and ambiguous for the story being told. Ultimately, while I enjoyed it, I just never felt gripped in the same way that I did during another similarly themed recent movie The Florida Project (2017).
We The Animals does, though, demonstrate the potential of director Jeremiah Zagar, and I’ll be interested to see his next film.
For more on the film: https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/we-the-animals/
All words by Jamie Havlin. More writing by Jamie can be found at his Louder Than War author’s archive.
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Mike Ramirez
Director of Governmental Affairs
The 79th session of the Nevada Legislature has come to end, and it sure was loaded with ups and downs from the beginning to the final days! All the way to the end of sine die at midnight, there was plenty of politicking happening. In many ways, this session was better than the 2015 session, primarily because the Democrats had control over both houses — although with a Republican governor in place, it made for an interesting 120 days. No one can dispute that Governor Sandoval had his veto pen in hand, which affected plenty of hot topics, including education reform (ESAs), changes to rideshare companies (Uber and Lyft), the prevailing wage, recreational marijuana and project labor agreements, just to name a few.
There were several bills being considered during this session that were highly relevant to our industry, including collective bargaining, the Peace Officer Bill of Rights, PERS, heart and lung presumptions, etc. The governor vetoed collective bargaining bills AB 271, SB 356 and SB 469. As of June 6, AB 290 (a bill clarifying leave time for union representation) is sitting on the governor’s desk with our hope that he will sign it rather than veto it. There were over half a dozen PERS bills that were aimed at pension reform. Only one of these bills, SB 384, was supported by our coalition, but the governor ultimately vetoed it. Our Peace Officer Bill of Rights bill died before it made it out of the second house passage. There were several heart and lung bills, but we supported one in particular, AB 267, and it is currently on the governor’s desk waiting for signature.
One challenge we faced while up in Carson City this session was that it was very obvious that Governor Sandoval, Senator Roberson and Senator Settelmeyer refused to meet or even converse with anyone related to law enforcement. It makes it difficult for us to consider supporting any of these candidates in future elections and, in my humble opinion, any elected official who refuses to meet and debate with constituents or who singles out a particular group of constituents should not be in politics. Senator Roberson has been on a mission to destroy collective bargaining since 2011, and he was fairly successful in his efforts to have Governor Sandoval veto our collective bargaining bills.
Below is a breakdown of the particular bills and their status.
SB 356 (collective bargaining, sponsored by Senator Atkinson): Vetoed by Governor Sandoval on Friday, June 2. Please remember this when he comes to us in the future and asks us to believe that he supports public employees.
SB 469 (collective bargaining, sponsored by Senator Parks): Vetoed by Governor Sandoval on Friday, June 2. This pertains to SB 168 from the 2015 session. It would have reduced the current 25% General Fund requirement for funding compensation/COLA increases to 16.7%.
AB 271 (collective bargaining, sponsored by Assemblyman Carrillo): Vetoed by Governor Sandoval on Friday, June 2. It was voted out of the Assembly on party-line votes before the governor’s veto.
AB 290 (collective bargaining): This is our last remaining bill. At the end of May/beginning of June, we activated an exempt bill sponsored by Assemblyman Wheeler. This bill was gutted and replaced with NRS 288.225: release time language. It is on the governor’s desk.
SB 282 (formerly BDR 539; revises NRS 289 language, specifically 289.085; sponsored by Senator Segerblom): This legislation failed to survive the mandatory legislative deadline.
SB 176 (body-worn cameras, sponsored by Senator Ford): This bill was signed by the governor.
AB 302 (combining Parole and Probation with Corrections): This bill was voted out of committee and survived the first committee vote, but there is no update on this bill yet. It was amended and is not supposed to take effect until 2019 at a minimum.
SB 403 (sponsored by Senators Manendo and Ford): This bill will provide a 5% increase in pay to Highway Patrol troopers. It remains in Senate Finance at this point and should be scheduled for a hearing soon. NHPA requests that we all support this long overdue pay increase. Senator Ford has stated that a COLA for all employees is going to happen, but that it will not be the 5% proposed.
AB 267 (workers’ compensation, sponsored by Assemblyman Araujo and many others): This legislation affects active police and fire members with heart and lung issues. If our officers prevail in denied cases, this legislation will require the insurers to reimburse the costs to the officers, including attorneys’ fees. This bill was on its way to the governor’s office at the time this article was written.
SB 384 (sponsored by Senator Ratti): Vetoed by Governor Sandoval on Friday, June 2. This bill would have made certain PERS information confidential.
SB 460 (sponsored by the governor): This bill changes the makeup of the EMRB from three members to five members. Three of the five must be from Southern Nevada P# 14821. Our amendment and the amendment from EMRB were presented in the hearing. This was passed out of the Assembly Government Affairs Committee and should have been voted out on June 2.
Our team of legislative lobbyists worked tirelessly to fight for bills that make sense for our industry. Our team of consists of me (LVPPA and SNCOPS), Ron Dreher (PORAN), Scott Edwards (SNCOPS), Tim Ross (WCSDA), Rick McCann (NAPSO) and Mike Giurlani (NSLEOA). We also have our legislative coalition, consisting of over 44 different association members, including SEIU, AFL-CIO, PFFN, CCFA, Teamsters, NSEA, AFSCME, NCA, NHPA, RPEN, WSPA, PPACE, PMSA and more.
With the 79th session behind us now, I would like to thank all of you who took the time to email the elected officials when I asked for your support. Our lobbying team can only do so much. The efforts of our officers helps seal the deal sometimes, so we can’t thank you enough. By the time this article goes to print, I will be back in Las Vegas, no longer enjoying the pleasant weather of Carson City. As always, feel free to contact me via email at mramirez@lvppa.com or cellphone at (702) 373-1006 with questions or concerns. Be safe out there!
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Although many people drink alcohol regularly, only some become addicted. Several studies have shown that genetic and environmental factors contribute to individual differences in the vulnerability to the effects of alcohol (Nestler, 2000; Kreek, 2001; Crabbe, 2002). Among the environmental factors, stress is perhaps the most important trigger for relapse after a period of abstinence (Koob and Nestler, 1997; Piazza and Le Moal, 1998; Koob and Le Moal, 2001; Weiss et al., 2001). Here we show that ethanol withdrawal symptoms were completely absent in cannabinoid CB1 receptor-deficient mice, although acute effects of ethanol and ethanol tolerance and preference were basically normal. Furthermore, foot-shock stress had no affect on alcohol preference in Cnr1-/- mice, although it induced a dramatic increase in Cnr1+/+ animals. These results reveal a critical role for the CB1 receptor in clinically important aspects of alcohol dependence and provide a rationale for the use of CB1 receptor antagonists in the treatment of alcohol addiction. (+info)
(2/1474) Cannabinoid CB(1) receptor-mediated inhibition of hippocampal acetylcholine release is preserved in aged mice.
1. The cannabinoid CB(1) receptor inverse agonist/antagonist SR 141716 increases acetylcholine release in rodent hippocampus and improves memory in some experimental paradigms. Since drugs like SR 141716 may represent a novel class of cognition-enhancing drugs, we wanted to check whether the function of the CB(1) receptor is preserved during ageing. 2. Hippocampal and striatal slices from 2- to 3- and 24- to 28-month-old C57BL/6J mice were preincubated with [(3)H]-choline or [(3)H]-noradrenaline ([(3)H]-NA) and superfused. 3. The cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN 55212-2 inhibited, and SR 141716 facilitated, the electrically (3 Hz) evoked tritium overflow in hippocampal slices (preincubated with [(3)H]-choline) from young and aged mice to the same extent. The evoked overflow per se was less by 33% in slices from aged animals. 4. WIN 55212-2 and SR 141716 did not affect, but the muscarinic receptor agonist oxotremorine inhibited, the evoked (3 Hz) overflow in striatal slices (preincubated with [(3)H]-choline) from young and aged mice to the same extent. The evoked overflow per se tended to be less in slices from aged animals. 5. The evoked (0.3 Hz) overflow in hippocampal slices (preincubated with [(3)H]-NA) was not affected by WIN 55212-2 and SR 141716, but was inhibited by histamine (via H(3) receptors) in slices from young mice and, to a somewhat less extent, in slices from aged mice. The evoked overflow per se did not differ between age groups. 6. In conclusion, the function of the CB(1) receptor involved in the tonic inhibition of hippocampal acetylcholine release is preserved in aged mice. (+info)
(3/1474) A3 adenosine and CB1 receptors activate a PKC-sensitive Cl- current in human nonpigmented ciliary epithelial cells via a G beta gamma-coupled MAPK signaling pathway.
(1) We examined A3 adenosine and CB1 cannabinoid receptor-coupled signaling pathways regulating Cl(-) current in a human nonpigmented ciliary epithelial (NPCE) cell line. (2) Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings demonstrated that the A3 receptor agonist, IB-MECA, activates an outwardly rectifying Cl(-)current (I(Cl,Aden)) in NPCE cells, which was inhibited by the adenosine receptor antagonist, CGS-15943 or by the protein kinase C (PKC) activator, phorbol 12,13 dibutyrate (PDBu). (3) Treatment of NPCE cells with pertussis-toxin (PTX), or transfection with the COOH-terminus of beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (ct-betaARK), inhibited I(Cl,Aden). The phosphatidyl inositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, wortmannin, had no effect on I(Cl,Aden); however, the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK) inhibitor, PD98059, inhibited I(Cl,Aden). (4) Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction experiments and immunocytochemistry confirmed mRNA and protein expression for the CB1 receptor in NPCE cells, and the CB1 receptor agonist, Win 55,212-2, activated a PDBu-sensitive Cl(-) current (I(Cl,Win)). (5) Transfection of NPCE cells with the human CB1 (hCB1) receptor, increased I(Cl,Win), consistent with increased receptor expression, and I(Cl,Win) in hCB1 receptor-transfected cells was decreased after application of a CB1 receptor inverse agonist, SR 141716. (6) Constitutive activity for CB1 receptors was not significant in NPCE cells as transfection with hCB1 receptors did not increase basal Cl(-) current, nor was basal current inhibited by SR 141716. (7) I(Cl,Win) was inhibited by PTX preincubation, by transfection with ct-betaARK and by the MEK inhibitor, PD98059, but unaffected by the PI3K inhibitor, wortmannin. (8) We conclude that both A3 and CB1 receptors activate a PKC-sensitive Cl(-) current in human NPCE cells via a G(i/o)/Gbetagamma signaling pathway, in a manner independent of PI3K but involving MAPK. (+info)
(4/1474) Reduction of human monocytic cell neurotoxicity and cytokine secretion by ligands of the cannabinoid-type CB2 receptor.
1 Two cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2, have been identified. The CB1 receptor is preferentially expressed in brain, and the CB2 receptor in cells of leukocyte lineage. We identified the mRNA for the CB1 receptor in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells, and the mRNA and protein for the CB2 receptor in human microglia and THP-1 cells. 2 Delta(9)-and Delta(8)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) were toxic when added directly to SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. The toxicity of Delta(9)- THC was inhibited by the CB1 receptor antagonist SR141716A but not by the CB2 receptor antagonist SR144528. The endogenous ligand anandamide was also toxic, and this toxicity was enhanced by inhibitors of its enzymatic hydrolysis. 3 The selective CB2 receptor ligands JWH-015 and indomethacin morpholinylamide (BML-190), when added to THP-1 cells before stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and IFN-gamma, reduced the toxicity of their culture supernatants to SH-SY5Y cells. JWH-015 was more effective against neurotoxicity of human microglia than THP-1 cells. The antineurotoxic activity of JWH-015 was blocked by the selective CB2 receptor antagonist SR144528, but not by the CB1 receptor antagonist SR141716A. This activity of JWH-015 was synergistic with that of the 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) inhibitor REV 5901. 4 Cannabinoids inhibited secretion of IL-1beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) by stimulated THP-1 cells, but these effects could not be directly correlated with their antineurotoxic activity. 5 Specific CB2 receptor ligands could be useful anti-inflammatory agents, while avoiding the neurotoxic and psychoactive effects of CB1 receptor ligands such as Delta(9)-THC. (+info)
(5/1474) Cannabinoid1 receptor in the dorsal vagal complex modulates lower oesophageal sphincter relaxation in ferrets.
Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta9-THC) is an effective anti-emetic; however, other potential gastrointestinal therapeutic effects of delta9-THC are less well-known. Here, we report a role of delta9-THC in a vago-vagal reflex that can result in gastro-oesophageal reflux, that is, gastric distension-evoked lower oesophageal sphincter (LOS) relaxation. Oesophageal, LOS and gastric pressures were measured using a miniaturized, manometric assembly in decerebrate, unanaesthetized ferrets.Gastric distension (30 ml) evoked LOS relaxation (70 +/- 8% decrease from baseline). Delta9-THC administered systemically (0.2 mg kg-1, iv.) or directly to the dorsal hindbrain surface (0.002 mg),significantly attenuated the nadir of the gastric distention-evoked LOS relaxation, and time to reach maximal response. Similar increases to maximal effect were observed after treatment with the cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN 55,212-2 (0.2 mg kg-1 iv.). The effect of systemic delta9-THC on gastric distention-evoked LOS relaxation was reversed by a selective cannabinoid1 (CBI) receptor antagonist, SR141617A (1 mg kg-1 i.v.). Since this reflex is vagally mediated, we used a CB1 receptor antiserum and immunocytochemistry to determine its distribution in ferret vagal circuitry. CBI receptor staining was present in cell bodies within the area postrema, nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) and nodose ganglion. Intense terminal-like staining was noted within the NTS and dorsal motor vagal nucleus (DMN). Neither nodose ganglionectomy nor vagotomy altered the CB1 receptor terminal-like staining in the dorsal vagal complex. Retrogradely labelled gastric- or LOS-projecting DMN neurones did not express CBI receptors within their soma. Therefore, CBI receptor staining in the NTS and DMN is not due to primary vagal afferents or preganglionic neurones. These novel findings suggest that delta9-THC can modulate reflex LOS function and that the most likely site of action is via the CBI receptor within the NTS. This effect of delta9-THC may have implications in treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux and other upper gut disorders. (+info)
(6/1474) Cannabinoid receptor type 1 modulates excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in mouse colon.
The effects of cannabinoid receptor agonists and antagonists on smooth muscle resting membrane potentials and on membrane potentials following electrical neuronal stimulation in a myenteric neuron/smooth muscle preparation of wild-type and cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1)-deficient mice were investigated in vitro. Double staining for CB1 and nitric oxide synthase (neuronal) was performed to identify the myenteric CB1-expressing neurons. Focal electrical stimulation of the myenteric plexus induced a fast (f) excitatory junction potential (EJP) followed by a fast and a slow (s) inhibitory junction potential (IJP). Treatment of wild-type mice with the endogenous CB1 receptor agonist anandamide reduced EJP while not affecting fIJP and sIJP. EJP was significantly higher in CB1-deficient mice than in wild-type littermate controls, and anandamide induced no effects in CB1-deficient mice. N-arachidonoyl ethanolamide (anandamide), R-[2,3-dihydro-5-methyl-3-(4-morpholinylmethyl)pyrrolo[1,2,3,-de]- 1,4-benzoxazin-6-yl]-1-naphtalenylmethanone, a synthetic CB1 receptor agonist, nearly abolished EJP and significantly reduced the fIJP in wild-type mice. N-piperidino-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-4-methyl-3-pyrazole-caroxa mide (SR141716A), a CB1-specific receptor antagonist, was able to reverse the agonist effects induced in wild-type mice. SR141716A, when given alone, significantly increased EJP in wild-type mice without affecting IJP in wild-type and EJP in CB1-deficient mice. Interestingly, SR141716A reduced fIJP in CB1-deficient mice. In the mouse colon, nitrergic myenteric neurons do not express CB1, implying that CB1 is expressed in cholinergic neurons, which is in line with the functional data. Finally, excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in the mouse colon is modulated by activation of CB1 receptors. The significant increase in EJP in CB1-deficient mice strongly suggests a physiological involvement of CB1 in excitatory cholinergic neurotransmission. (+info)
(7/1474) Toxicological and structural features of organophosphorus and organosulfur cannabinoid CB1 receptor ligands.
Potent cannabinoid CB1 receptor ligands include anandamide [N-(2-hydroxyethyl)arachidonamide], Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol, and 3H-CP 55,940 at the agonist site and selected organophosphorus esters (including some pesticides) and organosulfur compounds at a proposed closely coupled "nucleophilic" site. This study considers the toxicological and structural features of alkylfluorophosphonates, benzodioxaphosphorin oxides, alkanesulfonyl fluorides, and analogs acting at the nucleophilic site. Binding at the agonist site, using3H-CP 55,940 in assays with mouse brain membranes, is inhibited byO-isopropyl dodecylfluorophosphonate (compound 2), dodecanesulfonyl fluoride (compound 14) and dodecylbenzodioxaphosphorin oxide with IC50 values of 2-11 nM. Compounds 2 and 14 are also effectivein vivo, with 84% inhibition of mouse brain CB1 binding 4 h after intraperitoneal dosage at 30 mg/kg. Compound 14-inhibited CB1 in mouse brain requires about 3-4 days for recovery of 50% activity, suggesting covalent derivatization. Delayed toxicity (mortality in 0.3-5 days) from compounds 2, 14, and octanesulfonyl fluoride (18) is more closely associated with in vivo inhibition of brain neuropathy target esterase-lysophospholipase (NTE-LysoPLA) than with that of CB1 or acetylcholinesterase. NTE-LysoPLA inhibited by sulfonyl fluorides 14 and 18 cannot "age," a proposed requirement for NTE phosphorylated by organophosphorus-delayed neurotoxicants. Several octane- and dodecanesulfonamides with N-(2-hydroxyethyl) and other substituents based on anandamide give depressed mobility and recumbent posture in mice, but the effects do not correlate with potency for CB1 inhibition in vitro. Specific toxicological responses are not clearly associated with organophosphorus- or organosulfur-induced inhibition of the proposed CB1 nucleophilic site in mouse brain. On the other hand, the most potent CB1 inhibitors examined here are also NTE-LysoPLA inhibitors and cause delayed toxicity in mice. (+info)
(8/1474) The cannabinoid system and immune modulation.
Studies on the effects of marijuana smoking have evolved into the discovery and description of the endocannabinoid system. To date, this system is composed of two receptors, CB1 and CB2, and endogenous ligands including anandamide, 2-arachidonoyl glycerol, and others. CB1 receptors and ligands are found in the brain as well as immune and other peripheral tissues. Conversely, CB2 receptors and ligands are found primarily in the periphery, especially in immune cells. Cannabinoid receptors are G protein-coupled receptors, and they have been linked to signaling pathways and gene activities in common with this receptor family. In addition, cannabinoids have been shown to modulate a variety of immune cell functions in humans and animals and more recently, have been shown to modulate T helper cell development, chemotaxis, and tumor development. Many of these drug effects occur through cannabinoid receptor signaling mechanisms and the modulation of cytokines and other gene products. It appears the immunocannabinoid system is involved in regulating the brain-immune axis and might be exploited in future therapies for chronic diseases and immune deficiency. (+info)
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random thoughts from lorne
Nicolae Ceaușescu gave his last speech from the balcony, then fled the mob. Hours later he was arrested, tried and executed, all on Christmas Day 1989.
Black markers set into the ground mark the graves at Langemark German War Cenetery
Emil Krieger’s sculpture of four mourning figures watches over the last resting place of the fallen.
The Ebola isolation unit at ELWA in Monrovia.
The Leaning Tower in Pisa, Italy, looks a lot more likely to topple than this model.
Big Ben and Westminster seem small enough without the Eiffel Tower towering in the background.
Unexploded shells on display at Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917.
An impressive record of service.
An interior shot of St. George’s Memorial Church in Ypres.
The European Union Parliament Building in Brussels.
A Boot Bath. With no running water this oddly shaped tub probably kept the water warm longer. The servants would bring the hot water in pitchers and pour it in.
Sir John A. MacDonald’s study.
The Macdonald family cradle was brough to Canada in 1820
Isabella Macdonald’s room. She was Sir John A.’s first wife who died young.
The kitchen was a much simpler place to eat than the dining room!
The laundry area.
The vault built to hold Canada’s gold reserves. It is empty because Canada no longer has gold reserves.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio studios.
The Prime Minister’s office – with his bedroom next door.
What to tell the public in case of a nuclear attack.
Civil defence area.
Contingency preparation
The entrance from the Bonnechere River.
Nineteenth century British Army commander Viscount Wolseley’s statue was paid for by public subscription.
The public paid for this statue of 19th century General Charles James Napier that sits in Trafalgar Square.
A typical cell. This one is furnished for the tourists – the rest of them are empty.
Separate quarters for family visitation and conjugal visitation. (We pamper our prisoners.)
Visitor’s booths
I had a different graphic chosen to illustrate this post and decided against using it. It was classic conspiracy theory – suggesting those liking things as diverse as Starbucks to jazz music were involved in witchcraft. I decided it was just too offensive, even if it did provide a perfect illustration of small minds at work..
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Wisdom of Nym: Exit Final Fantasy XI
It’s all over for Final Fantasy XI. Or it will be, anyhow.
It was hard to imagine that the big Final Fantasy XI conference was going to end in a whole bunch of good news for the game. The game has been running for half of forever, and it’s not as if it coincided with a big event that would make an expansion or the like sound reasonable. So what we actually got was…
Well, all things considered, it was intensely positive.
Don’t misunderstand me; I’m sure that pretty much everyone who still plays the game and several people watching from the sidelines would prefer that FFXI continued getting big updates and improving forever. But realistically, this is what’s best for the health of the game and the playerbase. Yet I’ve already seen more than a few people taking umbrage with it, complaining and raging that this is some betrayal or that it shows Square-Enix has no idea what it’s doing, accusations that are almost comically misplaced.
Let’s recap. Over the course of the next year or so, FFXI will receive one final storyline to wrap up everything that’s happened over the greater-than-a-decade it’s been operating. It’ll also be receiving a mobile client, and there will be another game released based in Vana’diel. How that will tie into the mobile client remains to be seen, although they’re being announced as very separate things; the standalone title appears to be Japan-only at this time, but it can of course change.
All of this is good, not the least of which because this was always the endgame for the title.
The fact is that every online game decreases in relevance, users, and popularity over time. You have two models to use here, and one of them is to basically just keep going until finances force you to shut down, no matter how small updates may become or how many people remain in the game. The other option, though, is what Square-Enix is going with: bow out gracefully while the game is still relevant.
I generally like this approach better. It’s the same reason I like shows that don’t try to drag their runs out as long as possible. At this point, The Simpsons could end tomorrow and it would still be arguable if it even had as many good seasons as bad ones. Stopping when you’re ahead is a mark of moderation and being conscious of what you have.
At this point, the plan is for updates to halt but support on the PC to continue indefinitely. Refocusing on PC development instead of consoles doesn’t help matter much, but that’s because it’s happening at the end of the game’s life cycle rather than the middle. Saying “it’s not helping development now” is missing the entire point that literally nothing can or will help development now; development is over now.
You might have no interest in playing the game on mobile, of course. But if you already play the game and have for year, it’s possible – probable, even – that you are not the target audience for that feature. It’s far more likely that the target audience consists of people who haven’t played the game before or people who would like to try out a game that’s already feature complete. It’s an experiment, and quite frankly with the game as it is, it’s a very good sort of experiment.
After 13 years, the game is going to be closing down the active potion of its development. But the game itself isn’t going anywhere despite that. I can think of only a few other games that have ever done that, and it’s a sign of respect and veneration, not a matter of tossing the older games under the bus whilst still supporting it in its twilight years.
For me, of course, it prompts memories. Final Fantasy XI is the point on the map where my journey through MMOs began. It was the first online game of its type that I ever played, a game I very nearly passed on altogether until my girlfriend at the time convinced me it was a good idea. I remember logging in the first night and watching the painfully slow download on PlayOnline, a client service that was and is so endlessly unnecessary that it seems absurd except as a relic of PS2 development.
And so much of my play and enjoyment still centers around what I learned to love in FFXI. My love of roleplaying comes in part from the stories I made in that game. I remember sitting in Jeuno and chatting with friends, running through the expansive and seemingly endless maps, exploring the storyline in fits and starts. My mind casts me back to searching for keys so I could unlock my airship passage, farming subjob items to reach Whitegate, unlocking new jobs and trying them out, sitting in Ronfaure just listening to the music.
It’s a grand game. It’s a game that frequently shows its affection for its players in a way more suited to showing utter contempt, but it’s still a game that remains resolutely a part of my identity and history. I will miss it when it goes quiet, but at the same time I’m happy that the game had the durability, the innovation, and the longevity that it did. And I’d much rather have it end on a high note here than simply continue on interminably for years without updates.
All good things must come to an end. But what an end. What a timeline. What a journey.
Feedback may be left down in the comments below, as always, or it can be sent along to eliot@massivelyop.com. Next week, I want to actually go back to talking about Final Fantasy XIV and speculating about where the chips will fall once the last part of the 2.5 patch comes out. (Spoiler warning: Lots of people will die and be hurt, probably. A trend has been established.)
The Nymian civilization hosted an immense amount of knowledge and learning, but so much of it has been lost to the people of Eorzea. That doesn’t stop Eliot Lefebvre from scrutinizing Final Fantasy XIV each week in Wisdom of Nym, hosting guides, discussion, and opinions without so much as a trace of rancor.
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sdyaris While it’s not official cannon, there has been a FFXI x FFXIV crossover on both games though special events. Likewise, there’s a ton more FFXI references in FFXIV (Enemy names, events, NPC chatter, this flavor text for a drop from a known FFXI NM: http://www.xiv-minions.com/minions/smallshell.php )
But yeah, besides that, nothing officially as cannon :)
xania
Succorbenothi My favourite will always be Zi’tah. It’s just so haunting and beautiful. I can see the gloomy trees with Ro’Maeve looming in the distance clear as day every time I listen to it.
FFXI was my first online game too, and I feel a huge pull to go back and see this one last story. I don’t know if I will… when I tried to go back for the last expac I’d grown weary of it; that frightened me a little to be honest. I love this game, I truly do, and I don’t want my last memories of it to be boredom and frustration. Maybe I’ll wait and see what it is first, or try the new mobile client. Maybe it will be more fun if my old linkshell comes back this one last time.
In any case, it’s certainly bittersweet. I will never forget the amazing times I had with my friends in FFXI. While I may have moved on and my tastes changed, I will always consider it one of the best games I’ve ever played.
seemsthatway98
Succorbenothi You know what I love more than Bastok’s theme? The Gustaberg theme. There’s that live orchestral version too that’s just !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMAZING
TheDynamis
SE does things their own way. Maybe it’s because they are in Japan, or maybe because they figure people will play Final Fantasy no matter what – but I would gladly pay one sub for both XI and XIV together, as opposed to strictly making XI free to play.
In fact, that would be a smart move on their part, as those playing XIV who never tried XI would be able to give it a shot.
Tandor Shadewalker
CistaCista Tandor Shadewalker I don’t think so, it’s definitely the game/developer he’s talking about.
” The other option, though, is what Square-Enix is going with: bow out gracefully while the game is still relevant.”
” I will miss it when it goes quiet,”
I agree Bree with your interpretation of what Eliot meant, it’s just not how it came across. It read like a closure announcement.
haggus71
AndrewClear Yeah, and GW just died after being put in maintenance mode for 3 years+. You know not what you say. I know plenty of people who still go to that game regularly, to experience the lore, or to play one of the few balanced PvP games still around. You don’t like it, don’t play. Then you can pretend the game is over and done with, while others can enjoy the game for years to come, without hearing you whining in general chat.
CistaCista
Tandor Shadewalker Agreed, after skimming the article I realised it was Elliot that was bowing out, not the game.
Succorbenothi
I just looked up the Bastok music.
While i sat there reminiscing at the MANY hours spent there, my wife asked what FF11 was.
Somewhere there was a part of me that died.
cursedseishi
AndrewClear
Maintenance Mode =/= Abandoning the game. And as it already has been said elsewhere before dozens of times, they will still update the game from time to time, the only thing stopping now is major content development. Balances and tweaks will still occur as needed, but that’s it. As for the 12 a month? Servers cost money to run, maintain, and at times replace, as does it cost people to handle the game itself.
I’m guessing the fact you don’t like Square wrapping up the game’s story with one last major content update then transitioning it towards a manageable low-cost mode, means you’d rather see the game unceremoniously shuttered then? Because that’s the only other way this could really go.
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Ira Vinson "Jack" Birdwhistell
Photos Writings Clippings Causes Interests Quotes Family Funeral
May 31, 1946 - February 7, 2014 • Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
Ira Vinson "Jack" Birdwhistell, known as "Doc" to most, was a prominent Baptist minister and professor of Religion and Church History. Descended from a long line of Kentucky ministers (including Rev. John Rice and Rev. W.D. Moore), Jack received a calling in 1964 while a Freshmen at Georgetown College. He initially served as the Youth Minister at Sand Spring Baptist Church before going on to pursue a M.Div and Ph.D. in Church History from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Jack was ordained at his home church in Lawrenceburg, Ky in May, 1970, after which he served as the Pastor at Canmer Baptist Church in Canmer, Kentucky and then at First Baptist Church in Drakesboro, Ky. Jack then became "Doc" in 1980 when he was hired as the Campus Minister at Georgetown College, his alma mater. He would go on to serve in this role for 17 years before moving to teaching full-time in the Religion Department.
Known to his students, family, and friends as a great encourager and teacher, Doc built a lasting legacy that is best summed up by his own favorite saying: "Shine On!" Doc passed away suddenly in February of 2014 - this page is our attempt to further extend his life and message.
Life at Georgetown (36)
Growing Up Lawrenceburg (20)
College & Seminary (9)
Exploring Kentucky (11)
Held February 10, 2014 at John L. Hill Chapel in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Letters and Writing
Wishes and Hopes - Georgetown College Last Chapel Lecture The text of his 2010 "Last Chapel" lecture at Georgetown College. This piece is especially meaningful because he wasn't one to give direct advice - but does here.
My "Baptist Life" His spiritual/vocational autobiography - in bullet points!
The Baptists and Me
Basketball & Me 3-pages on how he grew to love basketball in the 50's and 60's
Baseball & Me
Campus Ministry at Georgetown College - A Personal Recollection
The Scoop on 'Doc' - 2006
Update from Doc to Georgetown Faculty
Grandad's Welcome
A Tribute to Bill Treadwell
Birdwhistell Revision/Expansion of W.D. Moore Tribute
The Birdwhistells of Anderson County
Seminar Reflections
The Five Little Moffetts and How They Grew
Memories of Martha Moffett
John Rice - Pioneer Kentucky Preacher
Causes and Donations
Doc Birdwhistell Shine On Fund
Doc had a habit of helping students afford special trips and projects by little "micro grants". Georgetown College established this fund to continue the effort.
Clippings and Articles
Checkers 'n Coffee - Church Recreation Article
Anderson County Bearcats Basketball Season Opener
Jack Birdwhistell and George McKee on County History
Jack Birdwhistell Hosts Bible Study
Birdwhistell Appointed to Church History Position
Birdwhistell as Guest Pastor - 1985
Feature of Birdwhistell as Campus Minister - 1982
Birdwhistell Named Campus Minister at Georgetown
"Shine On!"
"It's not about you! (or me)"
"God gives EVERYONE an open bid!"
"God, I love baseball!" - Roy Hobbs, 'The Natural'
"All that matters is faith working through love." - Paul to the Galatians
University Of Kentucky Basketball, Cincinnati Reds, Frederick Buechner, Hoosiers, Church History, Shaker Village At Pleasant Hill, Wise Dan, Collecting Postcards, and Horse Racing
Nancy Ann (Forgy) Birdwhistell
- Carl Vinson Birdwhistell
- Mary Lois (Moffett) Birdwhistell
- Ben Moore Birdwhistell
- Mark Dudley Birdwhistell
- Daniel Birdwhistell
- Myra Corinna Curl
- Dylan Boone Curl
Jeremy Shannon
Each year during the offseason, the Cincinnati Reds Caravan comes through Cynthiana. In 2014 Doc was supposed to come with me to the caravan but was unable to attend at the last minute do to a schedule conflict at Georgetown. While at the caravan I had the players and front office personnel in attendance sign this ball for Doc. I was able to give it to him a few weeks before he passed. Doc's son Dan was gracious enough to return the ball to me a few weeks after Doc's passing and I now keep it in my office at work as a reminder of the influence Doc has had on both my life and the lives of so many others.
Dan Birdwhistell
Dad loved beautiful places, and Shaker Village in Kentucky was among his favorite. The good people there helped us make a fitting tribute with about a 1/2 acre that is now known as "Doc's Grove." If you'd like to visit, you can find the spot right next to the Scale House and Old Ministry's Shop, facing East. It most certainly is a place of perfect peace.
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Hospital & Locations
Donor Acknowledgement
Named Endowment Funds
Planned gifts allow donors to make a significant gift to Franklin Memorial Hospital's endowment and capital projects during their lifetime with funds that may not come for many years. Planned gifts take many forms, some of which can provide immediate, lifetime income to the donor and save on taxes. While we are happy to describe the kinds of planned gifts available, you should always consult your own financial advisor or attorney when you are considering a planned gift.
Nine Ways to Give*
1. A Gift of Cash: Gifts of cash (paid in cash, by check, or by credit card) provide immediate support for Franklin Memorial Hospital. Those who itemize their income tax returns are entitled to a charitable deduction of up to 50% of adjusted gross income, with a five-year carry-over period for the excess. Download a Gift Form.
2. A Gift of Securities: Gifts of long-term, appreciated securities provide the same benefits as cash for Franklin Memorial Hospital and offer you the additional benefit of paying no capital gains tax. Your contribution is based on the mean value of the stock on the day you transfer the stock to Franklin Memorial Hospital. You are entitled to a charitable contribution up to 30% of adjusted gross income (with five-year carry-over) and you avoid the capital gain which would have applied had you sold the securities.
3. A Gift of Real Estate: Real estate has appreciated faster than the rate of inflation and offers great potential as a gift planning opportunity to support Franklin Memorial Hospital. We would be happy to explore the options and benefits with you of considering the gift of a home, vacation property, condominium, undeveloped land, or other real estate. Real estate contributed outright, in trust, or through a part gift/part sale arrangement provides a way to avoid or substantially reduce capital gains tax.
4. A Gift in Trust: We are happy to work with you and your financial advisor to explore the options and benefits of creating a charitable trust arrangement which suits your unique circumstances and can provide you with income for life or a term of years. For example, you may choose a fixed or fluctuating payment, the rate of such payment, as well as many other features to suit your needs. You incur no capital gain tax on the transfer of appreciated assets (securities or real estate) and you receive an immediate income tax deduction for part of the gift. As with all life income plans, the funds are distributed to Franklin Memorial Hospital upon the death of the life income beneficiary(ies).
5. A Gift of a Personal Residence or Farm with Retained Use: It is possible to transfer ownership of your personal residence or farm to Franklin Memorial Hospital while retaining the enjoyment of the property for the remainder of your lifetime. This may be an excellent way to support Franklin Memorial Hospital, receive a current income tax deduction for the property’s discounted value, and continue to use the property for as long as you live.
6. A Gift of a New Life Insurance Policy: You can make a magnificent commitment to Franklin Memorial Hospital through the purchase of a life insurance gift. Through relatively modest annual gifts which are used to pay premiums on the policy, you can create a far greater gift than might otherwise be possible. By naming Franklin Memorial Hospital as owner and beneficiary of the policy, your annual premiums will be deductible for income tax purposes.
7. A Gift of an Existing Life Insurance Policy: Many people own insurance policies which are no longer needed for their original purposes. Such policies can be given to Franklin Memorial Hospital and you will be entitled to an income tax deduction for the cash surrender value, and the amount of any future premiums paid.
8. A Gift of an Income Stream: You can provide annual payments to Franklin Memorial Hospital from a pool of assets which later will be distributed to your heirs. Known as a Charitable Lead Trust, this plan allows you to direct income payments to Franklin Memorial Hospital for a specific number of years. At the end of the trust’s term, assets are transferred to family members at a reduced transfer tax.
9. A Gift Through Your Will: Executing a will can be both simple and inexpensive. A bequest in your will can be for a particular item, dollar amount, or a percentage of your estate.
* Excerpted with permission from "The Complete Guide to Planned Giving" ©2004 by Deborah Ashton.
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UnNews:Tigger Woods: The Truth About Those Pooh Stick Messages
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
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ORLANDO, Florida -- Disgraced animal children's character Tigger Woods has asked for privacy after the publication of incriminating Pooh Stick messages on the internet. Their lurid invitations to tickle my tummy and I need some tender loving stuffing have shocked the stripey one's fans and put in question Tigger's lucrative career in Disneyland.
Known for his bouncy personality , Tigger has asked for "forgiveness" from his friends at the Pooh Corner Golf Club where messages he had written to Little Red Thigh High Riding Boots and other women were discovered. Besides Red Riding Hood, there were a few other names mentioned on the sticks including cocktail waitress Betty Boop and nightclub singer Minnie the Moocher.
"I have been a very bad Tigger",' said a tearful Woods . "I have been happily married to Pippi Longstocking since we met at a screening of Mamma Mia in Stockholm where I was playing a Crazy Golf tournament against a bunch of trolls . I am very sad she has found out that I had been seeing Red Riding Hood in the forest."
Tigger Woods had managed to keep his illicit relationships a secret from Pippi by insisting he needed more golf practise to 'score more birdies' with his eight inch iron and long putter. The bunch haired , Swedish smorgasbord had no idea her 'Tigger' was secretly going down to the woods to play real life 'Teddy Bears Picnic' with the The Boobs in the Red Hood .
Speaking through her lawyers (Christopher Robin and Associates) , Pippi said that she was prepared to forgive Tigger for his indiscretions if the fake fur philanderer put 50% of his recent earnings in her bank account. So far Tigger has refused to comply with her demands and is currently staying with Eeyore to cheer himself up. Tigger is requiring DNA testing before admitting to fathering any of Rabbit's many "friends and relations".
Tigger's friend Kanga says he is a misunderstood toy and that the lack of female company in 100 Acre Wood was enough to drive anyone to look for illicit pleasures with other celebrity shy fairy tale characters.
Winnie the Pooh and his relationship with Piglet has been the subject of much speculation. A reporter suggests that Pooh's attempts to come out of the closet were stymied when his portly figure got stuck in the doorway.
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2020 Oscar noms
Oscar nominations are being announced at 5:18 AM Pacific time on Monday, 13 January.
Last year, geeky movies didn’t have the strength in noms that they had the previous year. 2020 does look like there will be a Best Actor nom (for Joaquin Phoenix in Joker), but beyond that? There are some possibilities, but my feeling is that it’s going to be muggle-heavy. When we get to wins, I could see special effects going to The Irishman (as I write this, we don’t even know the nominees) and make-up going to Bombshell…not that those awards always go to geeky movies, but “de-aging” in dramas certainly gives the Academy the opportunity to award muggle movies in potentially geeky categories.
This years, I’m going to list what I think are possible geeky noms ahead of time. I’ll do that in italics. Then, I’ll try to update this live during the announcement, moving those that actually get noms up.
As always this year, I plan to do my BOPMadness (Bufo’s Oscar Prediction Madness), where anyone can predict the nominees. In the aggregate, we’ve done pretty well during the decades of playing. I did use Gold Derby to help me see what had “buzz”. I’m grouping them based on what I consider likely, mostly to make it easier for me to move ones which do get nominated (if I’m right, of course).
A couple notes on what I qualified as geeky:
* I debated Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…I generally consider alternative history to be geeky, but I decided not to include this, that it wasn’t the intent
* I did count A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is a fantasy show, and for noms, I count biographies of geeky figures (and documentaries on makers of geeky works)
My guess? Joker gets some Big Six noms. Us get recognized, and could in the Big Six (as well as original screenplay). Cats could get nommed, which would get pushback. Best Animated Feature may not have the big studios, which would get noted. Otherwise? We’ll know soon. 😉
UPDATE: 1st reactions…well, I probably shouldn’t have cut and pasted some of my nominees, because I did okay picking possible ones. Joker did very well, even better than I might have thought. Us was shut-out. JoJo Rabbit surprised me with how well it did (6 noms) and Parasite also got 6 noms. A Marvel star got two (!) noms: Scarlett Johansson got supporting for JoJo Rabbit and lead for Marriage Story. Margot Robbie got supporting for Bombshell. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil getting nommed may surprise people. Oh, 1917 got 10 noms and may “take away” some wins from possible geeky pictures. Frozen II was perhaps underrepresented.
Avengers:Endgame
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywaler
Todd Phillips (Joker)
Lupita Nyong’o (Us)
Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Brad Pitt (Ad Astra)
Ewan McGregor (Doctor Sleep)
Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)
I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away (Toy Story 4)
Into the Unknown (Frozen II)
Spirit (The Lion King)
Never Too Late (The Lion King)
Speechless (Aladdin)
Catchy Song: The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Alita:Battle Angel
Missing Lin
Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Best Doc Feature
Best Doc Short
Best International Film
Complete list of nominees from the Academy website:
http://oscar.go.com/nominees (note: at time of writing they hadn’t updated it yet with the 2020 noms)
Stay tuned for our annual BOPMadness (Bufo’s Oscar Prediction Madness) if you want to predict the winners!
Note: at time of writing, Slashfilm had gotten at least most (if not all) of the nominations up: https://www.slashfilm.com/2020-oscar-nominations/
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The 2020s: the decade our tech learns to understand us
I do an annual prediction post on my I Love My Kindle blog (The Year Ahead ), and honestly, I have a decent track record (I hit all 3 of my big predictions for 2019, for example).
I started to think about how tech in general might change in this decade, the 2020s.
Obviously, there will be a lot of change in a lot of areas, and I’m sure some of it will surprise me.
However, I do feel confident about one change that we’ll all wonder how we didn’t have it earlier…and that people who grow up with it will hardly notice.
Our tech will begin to understand us much better.
I don’t mean the literal meaning of our conversation, but that will come, too.
I mean that it will know how we feel and guess our intent.
That may sound like science fiction, but it’s already happening.
I have a free app from Microsoft
Seeing AI
intended for people with visual challenges. I can point my phone at someone, and it will give me a broad sense of how they are feeling: “35-year old female with glasses looking angry.”
There are apps to help people on the autism spectrum, who sometimes have a hard time interpreting other people’s feelings, determine just that.
It’s not that hard. Oh, it’s possible to get it wrong, but looking at a person and determining if they are happy or sad is usually pretty simple for humans to do and will be for our tech to do by the end of the decade.
I recently got the
Anki Vector robot (at AmazonSmile*)
as a gift.
It’s easy to tell “how it is feeling”…and its entire face is just two eyes. It does have other body language (it can get sort of “hopping mad”, for example), but even without eyebrows, which help to communicate, you can tell.
This ability for tech to understand how we feel isn’t artificial intelligence (which will improve a lot also): it’s called “artificial empathy”.
It will use artificial intelligence to achieve it, and there are similarities. There are three main elements:
What can they sense?
How can they process it?
What can they do with that conclusion?
Vision sensors are part of the first one: that will give them facial recognition, but also things like gestures. Gestures are less universal, though. When they get precise enough to tell things like dilating pupils, they’ll be able to get past more cultural habits.
Another major sense will be hearing. We can tell on an audio phone call if someone is happy or angry, and we can hear it in radio dramas and podcasts. That’s going to help and that tech undoubtedly exists, although not necessarily in the general market (I’d be very surprised if law enforcement and the military don’t both have something which does that with, oh, 75% accuracy).
People talk about “smelling fear”. Tech is less far along with scent then with vision or hearing…I’m not sure that will be effective in the next ten years.
Those are all senses we have.
Tech will have some that we really can’t utilize. For example, it might be able to monitor blood flow at a distance, or cortisol levels (to detect stress).
That all has to do with detecting our emotions, and that’s one part of what I expect.
The other big part is context.
Our tech will begin to understand what the situation is, and what types of information we want in it (and what actions we may want it to take).
I just ran into a situation like that today.
I was writing about the debutday of the Adam West Batman series in 1966. I could have done the math in my head as to how long ago it was, but decided to use the calculator on my computer so I wasn’t trusting to my (usually reliable) math skills.
Well, I didn’t notice that I had accidentally typed 2010-1966 instead of 2020. So, I tweeted out 44 years instead of 54 years.
I fully expect that within ten years, it would have known I was probably trying to do a year calculation, and asked me if that’s what I meant.
Context will include things like:
Are you in the car?
Are you at work?
What time of day is it?
What day of the week is it?
Are you on vacation?
To whom are you speaking? Your Significant Other? Your child? Your boss? Your coworker?
The combination of these two things, being able to understand what we are likely to want in a given situation, and to tell in the moment how we are feeling, will eliminate a lot of the frustration we have now with tech. Our digital assistants will know when to respond with a joke or a true apology. They’ll play music which makes us, as individuals, feel better…or that gets us energized for a challenge. It may suggest that we talk to someone we haven’t in a while…and let it go if we don’t like that idea.
Yes, I think that will be the most significant change in tech in the next ten years…bigger than augmented reality, bigger than autonomous vehicles, at least in how it affects us personally. It doesn’t matter what the tech is: this will change our relationship and interactions with it.
What do you think? Am I overestimating what our tech will be able to do? How important it will be for us? Is there some other tech change you think will be more important? Feel free to let me and my readers know by commenting on this post.
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Ends in 0: geeky anniversaries in 2020
Hey, little Ten Toes! Humans (at least those using the decimal system) like to observe anniversaries by the decade. This is a brief list of some of the geeky anniversaries happening this year. It is in no way comprehensive, and we certainly may add to it (and invite you to make suggestions by commenting on the post).
We arrange them by the day of the year, rather by the length of the anniversary. While I like pointing out the number of geek-friendly movie favorites released in 1960, for example, I think it will be easier for people to be aware of an anniversary based on the day of the year. I’ll try to highlight the big ones. Let me know if you like it this way better…
Oh, and after internal debate in 2018, I decided not to list the birthdates of living celebrities. Some of them may not like having their ages highlighted in this way.
I’ll call out a few I think could get media coverage, then give you a fuller list:
The word “robot” in the play R.U.R.: 100 years
Star Trek: Voyager TV series debut: 25 years
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari opens: 100 years
Sliders TV series debut: 25 years
Adventure Time TV series debut: 10 years
Daredevil TV series debut: 5 years
Dune published: 55 years
Inception: 10 years
X-Men opens: 20 years
Comic-Con 1st held 50 years
Ray Bradbury born: 100 years
Supergirl TV series debut: 5 years
Toy Story opens: 25 years
The Walking Dead TV series debut: 10 years
Day of the year not known:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published (1900: 120 years)
R.U.R. published by Karel Capek (introducing the word “robot”) (1920: 100 years)
Bill, the Galactic Hero published (1965: 55 years)
Ender’s Game published (1985: 35 years)
January: Astounding Stories of Super-Science #1 published (1930: 90 years)
6 January: Agent Carter TV series debut (2015: 5 years)
11 January: Rod Taylor (The Time Machine) born (1930: 90 years)
15 January: The Man in the High Castle TV series debut (2015: 5 years)
16 January: Star Trek: Voyager TV series debut (1995: 25 years)
1 February: Samurai Pizza Cats series debut (1990: 30 years)
4 February: George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) born (1940: 80 years)
12 February: Lorne Greene (Battestar Galactica) born (1915: 105 years)
19 February: Fred Freiberger (Star Trek) born (1915: 105 years)
20 February: Robot Chicken TV series debut (2005: 15 years)
27 February: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari opens (1920: 100 years)
3 March: Mutiny in Outer Space opens (1965: 55 years)
15 March: 2000 Plus radio show debuts (1950: 70 years)
16 March: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (John Barrymore) opens (1920: 100 years)
22 March: Sliders TV series debut (1995: 25 years)
26 March: Hot Tub Time Machine opens (2010: 10 years)
30 March: John Astin (The Addams Family) born (1930: 90 years)
31 March: Tank Girl opens (1995: 25 years)
5 April: Adventure Time TV series debut (2010: 10 years)
8 April: Colossus: The Forbin Project premieres in New York (1970: 50 years)
10 April: Daredevil TV series debut (2015: 5 years)
15 April: Buck Rogers TV series debuts (1950: 70 years)
16 April: Charlie Jade series debut in Canada (2005: 15 years)
27 April: Flash Gordon radio series debuts (1935: 85 years)
1 May: Avengers: Age of Ultron opens (2015: 5 years)
6 May: Freaky Friday (Shelley Long) debuts (1995: 25 years)
9 May: Friday the 13th opens (1975: 45 years)
13 May: Werewolf of London opens (1935: 85 years)
15 May: Mad Max: Fury Road opens (2015: 5 years)
26 May: Beneath the Planet of the Apes opens (1970: 50 years)
June: Dune published (1965: 55 years)
1 June: Blue Bolt 1st comic appearance (1940: 80 years)
1 June: Total Recall opens (1990: 30 years)
7 June: The Adventures of Topper radio series debut (1945: 75 years)
12 June: Jurassic World opens (2015: 5 years)
15 June: The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes opens (1955: 65 years)
15 June: Batman Begins opens (2005: 15 years)
22 June: The Lost World opens (1925: 95 years)
22 June: Paul Frees (Boris Badenov) born (1920: 100 years)
July: The Circus of Dr. Lao published (1935: 85 years)
July: Out of this World Adventures comic debuts (1950: 70 years)
3 July: Back to the Future (1985: 35 years) (2005: 15 years)
6 July: How It Should Have Ended debuts (2005: 15 years)
8 July: Fantastic Four opens (2005: 15 years)
14 July: X-Men opens (2000: 20 years)
15 July: Gremlins 2 opens (1990: 30 years)
16 July: Inception opens (2010: 10 years)
28 July: Waterworld opens (1995: 25 years)
1 August: San Diego’s Golden State Comic-con (later San Diego Comic-Con) first held (1970: 50 years)
2 August: Weird Science opens (1985: 35 years)
4 August: Virtuosity opens (1995: 25 years)
5 August: Last Women on Earth opens (1960: 60 years)
14 August: The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens in the UK (1975: 45 years)
16 August: Robert Culp (The Greatest American Hero) born (1930: 90 years)
17 August: Animal Farm by George Orwell published (1945: 75 years)
17 August: The Time Machine opens (1960: 60 years)
20 August: H.P. Lovecraft born (1890: 130 years)
22 August: Black Scorpion opens (1995: 25 years)
22 August: Ray Bradbury born (1920: 100 years)
23 August: Fear the Walking Dead TV series debut (2015: 5 years)
24 August: James Tiptree Jr. born (1915: 105 years)
24 August: Darkman opens (1990: 30 years)
27 August: The Last Exorcism opens (2010: 10 years)
September: Challenge of the Unknown comic debut (1950: 70 years)
1 September: Edgar Rice Burroughs born (1875: 145 years)
5 September: Batman radio show is broadcast (1950: 70 years)
7 September: Dario Argento (Suspiria) born (1940: 80 years)
13 September: Supernatural TV series debuts (2005: 15 years)
23 September: Ghost Whisperer opens (2005: 15 years)
1 October: The Five Children and It published (1905: 115 years)
2 October: Tom Corbett Space Cadet debuts (1950: 70 years)
3 October: Dark Angel series debut (2000: 20 years)
4 October: Thundarr the Barbarian debuts (1980: 40 years)
4 October: One Punch Man TV series debut in Japan (2015: 5 years)
11 October: The Bugs Bunny Show debuts (1960: 60 years)
14 October: The Fog (remake) opens (2005: 15 years)
24 October: Trog opens (1970: 50 years)
26 October: Supergirl TV series debut (2015: 5 years)
27 October: Planet of the Vampires opens in the USA (1965: 55 years)
29 October: The Golem premieres (1920: 100 years)
30 October: A Midsummer Night’s Dream opens (1935: 85 years)
31 October: The Walking Dead TV series debut (2010: 10 years)
November: The Beyond comic debuts (1950: 70 years)
November: Strange Worlds comic debuts (1950: 70 years)
1 November: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1600: 420 years)
4 November: The Wizard of the Nile Operetta opens on Broadway (1895: 125 years)
4 November: Chicken Little opens (2005: 15 years)
9 November: Child’s Play 2 opens (1990: 30 years)
14 November: Shadowchasers series debut (1985: 35 years)
15 November: Once Bitten opens (1985: 35 years)
22 November: Toy Story opens (1995: 25 years)
22 November: Unbreakable opens (2000: 20 years)
23 November: The Expanse series debut (2015: 5 years)
26 November: Young Justice series debut (2010: 10 years)
5 December: Flash Gordon remake opens (1980: 40 years)
13 December: Mysterious Doctor Satan serial 1st chapter opens (1940: 80 years)
15 December: Dude, Where’s My Car? opens (2000: 20 years)
17 December: TRON: Legacy opens (2010: 10 years)
18 December: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015: 5 years)
22 December: Dracula 2000 opens (2000: 20 years)
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AFD News: Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani join The Rock in live-action Disney Toy Story
December 27, 2019 (AFD News)
by Oihc Conip
Blake Shelton will play Woody and Gwen Stefani will be Bo Peep in the DisneyPlus live action re-imagining of Toy Story (being simultaneously released in movie theatres), Disney announced today.
They will be joining Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Buzz Lightyear. Announced earlier: The Walking Dead’s Cailey “Judith Grimes” Fleming as Andi, Akwafina as Slinky Dog, Ken Jeong as Mr. Potato Head, and, reprising his role from the Pixar movies, John Ratzenberger as Hamm.
Jon Favreau is directing with a script by Kumail Nanjani, Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler.
No release date was announced, but it is assumed that they will wait until Johnson is available, which should put it some time in the early 2030s.
Note: this is a joke. I use the tag “AFD News” on this and my I Love My Kindle blog, short for “April Fools’ Day News”. It just struck me as a funny idea that they would do a live action Toy Story. The byline this time is Pinocchio backwards, with the theme of turning something “pretend” into something “real”.
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2019 In Memoriam
We regularly report the passing of people who have contributed to geek pop culture. In this year’s
we have recognized the work of well over 150 people at time of writing.
Those listings are necessarily short, basically just a listing of what brings them into the family of geek-friendly creators.
In this post, I want to do more of a narrative, to tell the stories of some. This isn’t to judge them as more important than the others: a hallmark of geeky fandom is that we recognize everyone. In this, it may simply be people for whom I can best tell the tale.
For the others, and for more detail on these, see that 2019 Geeky Good-Byes page.
These are presented in their reported chronological order.
William Morgan Sheppard had a rich and diverse career, with nearly 200 screen credits. He appeared both onscreen and as a voice. Not many actors appeared in the Star Trek universe, Star Wars, the Transformers, DC (in Young Justice), Marvel (as Dum Dum Dugan in the 1994 Iron Man series), Doctor Who, Max Headroom (Blank Reg), Babylon 5, Disney (Gargoyles), Biker Mice from Mars (Lawrence Limburger), and menacing Elvira. He was the epitome of a character actor, reliably enhancing every scene he was in.
Carol Channing was certainly better known for muggle roles, especially in Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. However, her unique voice, both raspy and welcoming, led to geeky voicework. She voiced Grandmama Addams on the 1992 The Addams Family Cartoon and Fanny in The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.
While James Frawley had been an actor in The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and My Favorite Martian, it was as a director that he had his biggest impact. When I watched The Monkees, which did have geeky episodes, I’d perk up when I saw his name. I could count on the episode being a bit more out there. For example, he directed Monstrous Monkee Mash, where in a certain Transylvanian count, the Frankenstein monster, and a wolfman all make appearances. Other GF shows he directed include Ghost Whisperer, Smallville, and Earth 2. On the muggle side, he directed Scarecrow and Mrs. King episodes, Cagney & Lacey, Columbo, and many more. Peter Tork of The Monkees also died this year.
Directors clearly liked working with Dick Miller and audience liked him seeing him! Roger Corman directed him more than 15 times (including the role that probably comes first to my mind, Walter Paisley in A Bucket of Blood), as did Joe Dante. He never played the “big man” in the movies, but was never small in his parts. A documentary about him, That Guy Dick Miller, was released in 2014.
While Julie Adams did appear in other geek-friendly roles, it’s her iconic performance as scientist Julie Adams in Creature from the Black Lagoon for which she will be forever remembered.
Albert Finney‘s five Oscar nominations in four decades were all for muggle roles, but he played Scrooge (one of the fantasies that is considered classic literature), appeared in Wolfen & Looker, played Kilgore Trout, and Daddy Warbucks (there is minor magic in the version in which he appeared).
The average person probably can’t name Carmen Argenziano, but might recognize the character actor from decades of appearances. Gaters definitely can put a name to the face, even if that name might be Selmak rather than Carmen.
Jan-Michael Vincent had success early on as “Link” Simmons on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. He starred in The World’s Greatest Athlete & parried with George Peppard in Damnation Alley (based on a Roger Zelazny book). He was best known to geeks as Stringfellow Hawke in over 50 episodes of the supertech series, Airwolf.
Beverley Owen was the original Marilyn Munster, the “normal” appearing niece of Lily Munster.
Hollywood musicals can certainly feel like fantasies, and director Stanley Donen made some of the best…On the Town, Singin’ in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and more. One of them, Damn Yankees, clearly fits our criteria, featuring the inimitable Ray Walston as the devil (Mr. Applegate). Speaking of the Devil, Donen directed my favorite portrayal, 1967’s original Bedazzled. He also did The Little Prince, and stepped in to direct Saturn 3.
One of the most intense guest stars on Star Trek: The Original Series was Morgan Woodward…and not just once, but twice: Dr. Sam van Gelder in the Dagger of the Mind, and Captain Tracey in The Omega Glory. He appeared in 3 episodes of the Logan’s Run TV series, and made many guest appearances (including The X-Files and The Incredible Hulk).
Soap’s Katherine Helmond might be best-known for comedy TV, but had an unforgettable role in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. She also appeared on both The Six Million Dollar Man & The Bionic Woman, worked with Elvira, got into the DC universe as Aunt Minerva on Batman: TAS…and voiced Lizzie in the Cars movies for Disney.
Lisa Sheridan was a 21st Century geek-friendly TV star. From Chloe Tanner on FreakyLinks to Larkin on Invasion and Dr. Sanchez on Journeyman, she was a familiar sight.
No question, Luke Perry will be best remembered for playing Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills, 90210. He will also be associated with Riverdale, having played Archie’s dad, Fred. Additionally, he starred in the post-Apocalyptic Jeremiah series, and did a fair amount of voicework: Napoleon Brie on Biker Mice from Mars; Sub-Zero on Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm; and Marvel’s Rick Jones on The Incredible Hulk.
Larry Cohen had a truly unique artistic vision. He was a writer, director, and producer on cult favorites, suffused with humor and twisted body images. The killer baby trilogy that began with It’s Alive might be the most memorable, but for me, I think of God Told Me To, Q, and the consumerist satire The Stuff. He directed the Stephen King inspired A Return to Salem’s Lot.
Thunderbirds are go! Shane Rimmer voiced Scott Tracy on the Andersons’ Supermarionation show, and worked with on other shows as well. He appeared, often in small roles, in many geek-friendly productions: Live and Let Die, Rollerball, The People That Time Forgot, the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, Batman Begins, and Louis on The Amazing World of Gumball.
I shook hands with Peter Mayhew at an event. His smile was charming, although he must have done the same thing thousands of times before with other Star Wars fans. He clearly risked a lot to come back as the best co-pilot ever, and did it partly for us.
I think of Billy Drago first for Nitti the Enforcer in the Kevin Costner version of The Untouchables, but he was one of those actors who was always recognizable, even in more than 100 roles. He appeared in seven episodes of the original Charmed series as Barbas, and was John Bly on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr..
Sure, Arte Johnson was great on Laugh-In, but he also played Renfield in the George Hamilton Dracula spoof, Love at First Bite. He guested on Bewitched and Lost in Space. While his physicality was often part of his roles, by the 1970s he was doing regular voicework (Tyrone on Baggy Pants & the Nitwits, Weerd on The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Devil Smurf, Top Cat on Yo Yogi, and he got into the DC Universe as Virman Vundabar on Justice League Unlimited).
Cameron Boyce was a current and rising star, in part because of plaing Cruella de Vil’s son, Carlos, in The Descendants. He voiced Jake in Jake and the Never Land Pirates, and voiced Shocker on Spider-Man.
In nearly 60 years on screen, Freddie Francis was a looming presence in Hammer movies (Professor Richter in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Professor Keeley in The Satanic Rites of Dracula…) and in the 1980s, was in Krull, Firestarter, and played Thufir Hawat in Dune.
30 years after playing Nathan Bryce in The Man Who Fell to Earth, Rip Torn played Agent Zed in Men in Black (he’d repeat the role). It seemed particularly appropriate when he voiced Zeus in Disney’s Hercules: he often played the authority figure who could be exasperated with his underlings.
As a child, Denise Nickerson had done more than 70 episodes of Dark Shadows, but she’ll be remembered forever as Violet Beuregarde in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
David Hedison always had a special earnestness on screen, whether it was in the original version of The Fly, as Ed Malone in The Lost World, or in over 100 episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Captain Lee Crane. He played James Bond’s CIA contact, Felix Leiter in a couple of movies, including one of the geekiest, Live and Let Die.
If you think about moving scenes from geeky movies, Rutger Hauer‘s rain speech from Blade Runner has to be up there. He followed that up with Ladyhawke, and then simmered for more than thirty years. Smallville, Salem’s Lot, Batman Begins, Dracula 3D: he became part of so many of our universes.
Yes, Peter Fonda was best known for Easy Rider, but he played Chuck Browning in the Westworld sequel, Futureworld, Mephistopheles in Ghost Rider, and others.
Many people have contributed to Doctor Who’s success and longevity, but Terrance Dicks would make anyone’s short list. As screenwriter, Script Editor, and author of books, he was involved with fleshing out the Time Lords, what the TARDIS can do, the term regeneration (and more than 1 doctor appearing at the same time), and Sarah Jane Smith.
Aron Eisenberg appeared in several Star Trek works, but his most memorable role is probably Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Ah, Sid Haig! He often played menacing parts, and his work stretched from Batman ’66 and the original Star Trek to repeated appearances as “Captain Spaulding” and beyond.
Rip Taylor will always be thought of as the confetti throwing comedian, yet he had extensive geek-friendly performances. He was Sheldon the Sea Genie on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (and actually played genies multiple times), the voice of Uncle Fester on the 1992 animated The Addams Family, The Royal Recordkeeper/The Royal Judge on Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove series, and others in more than 40 years of work.
You could count on Robert Forster to bring the gravitas. I probably first think of him as Arthur Petrelli on Heroes, but for many, his Sheriff Truman on Twin Peaks is likely to be their first association.
Virginia Leith had more than 25 screen credits, but she’s best known as lead character Jan Crampton (“Jan in the Pan”) in The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.
Probably more famous outside of the USA, Maria Perego created Topo Gigio, who mischievously caused trouble for Ed Sullivan in his appearances on that show.
A staple in UK telly (Father MacAnally on Ballykissangel for one), Niall Toibin had some geek-friendly roles, including Reverend Coot in Rawhead Rex.
He was British Eddy on James Cameron’s Dark Angel, appeared in The Dead Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, and was John Mann did six episodes of Haunted as Simon.
Michael J. Pollard often played characters with a mischievous half-smile, which served him well as Superboy’s impish enemy, Mr. Mxyzptlk. That’s not to suggest that he wasn’t an actor capable of range: he got an Supporting Oscar nomination for Bonnie and Clyde. He appeared on Lost in Space, and on Star Trek: The Original Series as Jahn in Miri. In the 90’s, he voiced Psycho on Troma’s Toxic Crusaders.
Nobody drew bizarre comics like Gahan Wilson. He often needed just one panel to show off his macabre humor…Playboy was one of the magazines that featured his work.
Joan Staley played Okie Annie in an Adam West Batman two-parter.
Japanese live-action sci-fi is really unique, and Nobuo Yajima brought his special effects flair to several series, including johnny Sokko, Spectreman, and Kamen Rider Black.
It was a difficult year for Star Trek fans, especially in December. D.C. Fontana was absolutely crucial to the development of the Star Trek universe as we know it. She wrote 11 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, including introducing Spock’s family. She wrote for other Star Trek series, but wasn’t limited to just the Trekverse. She wrote for The Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers, and He-Man, among others.
Robert Walker Jr. won praise for the title role in the muggle Ensign Pulver, but was unforgettable as Charlie X on Star Trek: The Original Series.
It’s especially hard to write about Rene Auberjonois‘ passing. He just always seemed like someone you would want to know, and that’s how castmates have responded. He could go easily from muggle to geek-friendly: for us, he did 173 episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Odo.
Big Bird never lost his naivete on Sesame Street, that charming innocence. Muppeteer Carrol Spinney brought him into our lives for decades. Spinney wasn’t all sweetness and light, though: he also played a lot of kids’ favorite grouch, Oscar.
We celebrate each and every one of them and thank them for their contributions to our entertainment. That also goes for those not listed here, but at 2019 Geeky Good-Byes and the ones we will unfortunately inevitably miss. Thank you also to all those who knew them and enabled them to share their creativity with us.
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2019 Cyber Monday! Great deals & gift recommendations
I’m not arguing, of course, but it amuses me that Cyber Monday is still such a thing.
Its origins come from when people didn’t have powerful computers at home, but did at work. So, they would shop at work on the Monday following Black Friday. Now, of course, we have super powerful computers in our pockets via SmartPhones, so we don’t need those work resources. Still, websites make a big deal about it, and speaking of deals, genuine ones are available.
That doesn’t mean that additional deals won’t come between now and the end of the year, they clearly will. However, today is very competitive…and my guess is that many people have completed the majority of their holiday shopping after Cyber Monday, which changes the dynamics (worth noting at this point that I’m a former brick-and-mortar store manager…primarily bookstores and a gamestore).
Let’s check on that:
First, here’s my previous post in my ILMK blog for Black Friday this year…many things go on sale on Black Friday and then back on Cyber Monday:
2019 ILMK Amazon Black Friday & Gift Guide
and this one from my The Measured Circle blog:
5 practical (but cool) gifts for under $30 each
I debated, but decided to post this here in The Measured Circle, since I may range far away from the typical ILMK topics…and this blog can cover anything. 🙂
NOTE: ALL PRICES ARE ACCURATE FOR WHAT I SEE AT THE TIME OF WRITING. PRICES MAY GO UP OR SALES MAY END BEFORE YOU SEE THIS. THEY ALSO MAY NEVER APPLIED TO YOUR MARKET.
Lemostaar Dust Mop Shoes Slippers (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) $11.45 at time of writing
While we haven’t had these long, so I can’t say how durable they are, my Significant Other says they worked well in the kitchen. Yes, this one is goofy, but it’s not a gag gift.
Unisex LED Beanie Hat with Light (at AmazonSmile*) $7.89 at time of writing
These are great! We had a different, but similar, brand get broken and wanted to replace it right away. It’s got a USB chargeable light on a knit cap. If you go out in the dark and cold (we do that at the dog park), these are perfect…hands free light, warm ears. We get asked about it by other people.
Luci Outdoor 2.0 – Inflatable Solar Light (at AmazonSmile*) $15.75 at time of writing
This is the best solution if your lights go out. Many “emergency” lights are just blindingly bright for me (I have good night vision). Also, we’re not fond of having to use batteries, although we will with some things. We literally just keep these sitting on a windowsill that gets outside sunlight (it doesn’t have to be direct). If the power goes out, you can inflate them (you can do it with your mouth…it’s not hard), and one of these can light a room with a diffuse light for hours…just from solar power. I would keep one in your “go bag”, and they are good for people who camp (or maybe something like a treehouse or playhouse).
Kangaroo Home Security Motion Sensor (at AmazonSmile*) $9.90 at time of writing
We were going away for a week (we’re back now), and while our front door is nicely protected with a doorcam, we have a sliding glass door I wanted to cover. This was a very simple set-up: you don’t have to pay a monthly fee (you can for more options) or have a security system (but it can work with them). What it will do is alert you on the phone when it detects motion (you can set it in such a way it’s not likely to trigger on your pets). It doesn’t shine a light or set off a siren, but if you have, say, an Echo Show in your home (we do), you could then check on the room. Unless someone is already all set up with security, they can use it…and I’m thinking of getting one for my office at work.
Ultrasonic Pest Repeller (at AmazonSmile*) $27.95 for a two pack at time of writing
Your mileage may vary (YMMV) but this works very well for us (and we’ve tried different things). It’s just plugged into a power outlet in the kitchen, and we see no bugs or evidence of rodents. We have dogs who are clearly completely unaware of the ultrasonic sounds it puts out. You want one where the sound fluctuates (so they can’t get used to it), and this one does. The message isn’t that you think they have bugs, it’s that you don’t want them to get them. It’s good for people who want to avoid chemicals or who don’t want to kill animals (even bugs).
UPDATE: I’m going beyond five, because I did really want to include this one:
Asgens “power tower” (at AmazonSmile*) $24.99 at time of writing
I have one of these for work and one of these next to the couch at home. At work, I do plug several things into power when I go to a meeting…but I always say, I bring more outlets than I use. 😉 Others plug into my tower on the table, rather than perhaps crawling around to get to one. These have both USB and “wall” outlets and are surprisingly light. I used to carry a traditional powerstrip, but this also fits into my laptop case and has a smaller footprint on the table. I took one with us when we recently went on a trip (again, I used to take a traditional powerstrip to a hotel, but this was better). People often comment on it. One drawback: I bought my first one partially for the retractable cord, and that eventually just stopped working. I think it’s like a garden hose getting twisted if you have a reel..it’s possible I could have done something different in my winding technique, but it’s not a dealbreaker.
iTD Gear Wall Outlet Coverplate w/ LED Night Lights (Auto on/off) at iTECH DEALS $2.99…I haven’t tried this one, but the reviews are good and it looks cool. I have bought from this site
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Baxter Boo dog clothes: 25% off & free shipping with coupon code CYBERSALE
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2019 Black Friday: deals & gift suggestions (updated throughout the weekend)
For my readers in the USA (and it’s extended beyond), today, Friday 29 November, is “Black Friday”, one of the biggest shopping days of the year. I’m not going to write a lot about the history or anything in this post…I just wanted to put deals that catch my eye and make some suggestions.
IMPORTANT NOTE: the price that I show will be for the USA at the time of writing. Today is volatile: prices will change quickly, and by the time you see this, the price may no longer be valid. Always check the Buy button before you click/tap/voice select/eye gaze…the price could be different. Just because you missed the deal doesn’t mean you should just pass on it: some of these are worth it at the regular price, in my opinion. Let’s start with a few quick resources, then get into it!
Black Friday FM (my favorite resource for seeing the ads, the hours, and searching for deals
Brad’s Deals (good all year long)
camelcamelcamel (Amazon price tracker and price alerts)
(my post) 2019 ILMK Amazon Black Friday & Gift Guide
(my post) 5 practical (but cool) gifts for under $30 each
Okay, here we go! Remember these prices can change at any time…happy gifting!
Oculus Go Standalone Virtual Reality Headset – 32GB (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) $149.99 at time of writing, 1:00 PM Pacific (still valid 10:30 AM Pacific on Saturday 30 November) ($50 off) | 64GB model also available, also $50 off…the lowest price that’s been listed at camelcamelcamel
I’m in VR several days a week. This is an easy way to get involved, a stand-alone. That means your phone doesn’t have to power it and it doesn’t need to be connected to a computer.
Echo Auto $29.99 at time of writing (still valid at 10:30 AM Pacific on Saturday 30 November), $20 off
This is my favorite gift of the holiday season, and this is a great price! We have two and use them all the time.
Kindle Paperwhite (at AmazonSmile*) $84.99 ($45.00 off) (still valid at 10:30 AM Pacific on Saturday 30 November, except that you got a $5 credit for e-books on Black Friday, I think that’s gone)
I’ve been writing about Kindles for more than ten years in my ILMK blog, and this is my favorite model. It’s a great gift.
Instant Pot Duo 80at AmazonSmile* $99.00 ($40.95 off) at 10:30 AM Pacific on Saturday 30 November | It was cheaper on Black Friday
Syuan Two Way Easy Trans Smart Language Translator Device Electronic Pocket Voice Bluetooth 52 Languages (at AmazonSmile*) $99.99 (save $100.00) | valid at 10:30 AM Pacific Saturday 30 November…it was cheaper on Black Friday
When you were a kid, you probably didn’t want a “practical” gift…you wanted toys!
As adults, though, it can be different. A lot of people are trying to reduce the number of things they own; they may want new things in their lives to justify their existence more than just fun (fun has a purpose, but that’s for another time).
Especially for gift exchanges at work, or for people you don’t know well, a practical gift can be perfect.
While I’ve written a lot about Black Friday (and where to find deals) in the past, and even this year on my ILMK blog
I thought I’d focus this post on things I actually own and have used in a practical way this year. Being in California, one thing that became a lot bigger issue is dealing with a power shutdown. Power outages have always been possible here, but a complete shutoff for days is new. Naturally, it’s true across the country that power might go out. Some people also choose to be without power (by camping, for example). That will undoubtedly influence this listing. Again, these are things we’ve actually used and found useful in 2019, and I’m keeping to a low price point.
There you go! Fun gifts are great, too, but these can make people’s lives better as well as happier. 🙂
Recasting the Avengers with Classic Film Stars #ClassicFilmAvengers
I’ve been having fun with this one on Twitter!
I saw an image of Vincent Price as Dr. Strange in a tweet, and that inspired me to think…what if we recast the Avengers with Classic Film stars? So, I tweeted it!
I set it up this way:
“let’s say you were casting the Avengers with classic hollywood stars…who else would you pick? You can pick them at any of their ages, they don’t have to align chronologically.”
I’m going to put my current version (with understudies in parentheses) at the top, then you can read how I got there. It may shift often, as I think of (or am convinced of) other roles and castings.
CURRENT (retro) CAST | IN PROGRESS (taking me a while to transfer the suggestions into the right spots)
The Avengers (and other Marvel characters)
Dr. Strange: Vincent Price
Iron Man: young Orson Welles
Black Widow: Lauren Bacall
Captain America: Buster Crabbe (Troy Donahue, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster)
Hawkeye: Jimmy Cagney
Bruce Banner: Jimmy Stewart
Hulk: Lon Chaney Jr. (Ernest Borgnine, Rondo Hatton)
Thor: Kirk Douglas (Burt Lancaster, Johnny Weissmuller)
Ant-Man: Donald O’Connor (Mickey Rooney)
The Wasp: Hedy Lamarr (Myrna Loy)
Scarlet Witch: Judy Garland (Janice Rule)
Quicksilver: Mickey Rooney
Black Panther: Paul Robeson
Shuri: Rita Rio
Ramonda:Lena Horne
Klaw: Barton Maclaine
Everett K. Ross: Roddy McDowall
Nick Fury: Humphrey Bogart (John Wayne)
Professor X: Fred MacMurray
Magneto: Basil Rathbone
Spider-Man: Jackie Cooper (Harold Lloyd, Fred Astaire)
J. Jonah Jameson: Edward G. Robinson
Doc Ock: Peter Lorre
Doctor Doom: Bela Lugosi
Thanos: Boris Karloff
Ben Grimm, The Thing: Ernest Borgnine
The Green Goblin: Joseph Cotten (Danny Kaye, Donald O’Connor)
Red Skull: Erich Von Stroheim (Otto Preminger)
Arnim Zola: Donald Pleasance
Maria Hill: Rosalind Russell
Reed Richards:(Robert Ryan)
Superman: (Rock Hudson)
Green Lantern: (George Segal)
Supergirl: Lee Remick
This was my first set (it was all that fit in a tweet, really):
Black Widow: Ginger Rogers
Captain America: Buster Crabbe
Ant-Man: Mickey Rooney
Nick Fury: Humphrey Bogart
I asked people to respond…and they did! They probably will continue to do so over the next few days. They suggested alternative actors for the above, and added new roles, even going beyond Marvel. I’ll add the others below. I’ll put who suggested it in [brackets]
Spider-Man:Harold Lloyd [John Whatley @jbw4926]
Superman: Rock Hudson [John Whatley @jbw4926]
The Green Goblin : Joseph Cotten (resemblance to Norman Osborn maybe not coincidental). [John Whatley @jbw4926]
Green Lantern: George Segal [John Whatley @jbw4926]
Supergirl: Lee Remick [John Whatley @jbw4926]
Captain America: Troy Donahue [John Whatley @jbw4926]
Scarlet Witch: Janice Rule [John Whatley @jbw4926]
Reed Richards: Robert Ryan [John Whatley @jbw4926]
Hulk: Ernest Borgnine [John Whatley @jbw4926]
Nick Fury: John Wayne [Snowy Dave @quigonusa] (I’d still go with Bogey on this one)
Loki: Danny Kaye (I did this one @bufocalvin…he would certainly bring the God of Mischief part of it.)
Magneto: Basil Rathbone (me…I considered Professor X, but this is better!)
Captain America: Gary Cooper [Jeffs Comics @jeffs_comics] (he also praised Buster Crabbe…I’m staying with Crabbe)
Black Widow: Lauren Bacall [@jeffs_comics] (On reflection, this seems like a better choice. I’d switch. I was looking for someone with movement skills and confidence, but you can just see Bacall playing this)
Captain America: John Wayne or Burt Lancaster [Donovan.morgan @bigdwloz] (I still prefer Buster Crabbe, although I can see Lancaster more than Wayne)
Thor: Burt Lancaster (me, because he could be funny, but you know who would be better? Kirk Douglas! He could really be funny when appropriate, but operatically intense as well. Not as muscled, but they could work with that)
J. Jonah Jameson: Edward G. Robinson [Donovan.morgan @bigdwloz] (I like this one!)
Spider-Man: Fred Astaire (because he’d seen him dance on walls…a good reason 😉 ) [Donovan.morgan @bigdwloz]
Doc Ock: Peter Lorre [Donovan.morgan @bigdwloz] (again, I think this is a good choice)
Doctor Doom: Boris Karloff [Donovan.morgan @bigdwloz]
The Green Goblin: Danny Kaye [@jeffs_comics]
The Green Goblin: Donald O’Connor [@jeffs_comics]
Mysterio: Fred MacMurray [@jeffs_comics]
The Sandman: Ernest Borgnine
Electro (Gabby Hayes)
Doctor Doom (Bela Lugosi)
Thanos (Boris Karloff)
The Wasp: Myrna Loy [ComicsintheGoldenAge @ComicsInTheGA] (I’ve since noticed someone in another thread suggested the same thing. However, I like Hedy Lamarr for the Wasp: why not have an actual genius inventor in the part?)
I’ll keep adding, and I’m posting this before I got them all in there. You can add more on Twitter (please use #ClassicFilmAvengers), or by commenting on this post.
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Disney+ on Fire TV: 1st impressions
I’ve been so excited about Disney+, and got to be even more so when Amazon and Disney worked out the deal to put it on the
Fire TV family (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
I’m watching it this morning on our
Fire TV Cube (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
I normally watch the news for a while first thing in the morning, but wanted to give my readers my first impressions. I’ve talked before about the content
Disney+: a deeper dive
and even though a lot has been added since then, this post will focus more on the experience of using it. I’ll go with simple bullet points: if you have specific questions, you can ask me by commenting.
Note: for the readers of my most popular blog,
I Love My Kindle
where I’ve been writing about e-books, EBRs (E-Book Readers), and Amazon generally for over 10 years, I’ll link to this post. I have some other catching up to do there (I intend to do one of my round-up posts today) and while this is about watching content on an Amazon device, I didn’t want this to dominate that blog today.
I subscribed yesterday by going to Disney+ on the web. Honestly, that was a bit clunky. It kept taking me to a place to enter a redemption code for a limited tie offer, but I didn’t get one. I suspect that might be because I did the year subscription instead of month to month. It also didn’t link me in any way to our long time Hulu account, at least as far as I could see. Again, maybe the yearly subscription makes it better than the bundle, but it would have been nice for them to tell me. They are supposed to link them through our e-mail addresses, based on stories I’ve read
There was no link on the Fire TV home screen that I saw. I searched for Disney+ (it came up as Disney Plus) while I was typing. Amazon may not have had time to put something together, but I hope they fully embrace Disney+: this is a symbiotic relationship, and I don’t think they’ll lose much Prime Video membership over it…viewership initially, perhaps, but I’m sure the vast majority of people watch PV as part of their Prime Memberships and don’t pay extra for it. Update: it timed out while I was writing this, and then there was a splash in the slideshoeat the top of the FTV home screen
There were zero reviews! I was seeing it at about 2:00 Pacific (my local time)
It took about a minute to download and install: nice!
Excitingly, it suggest that the app could automatically log me into it when I had the Disney+ app open on my phone (saving me, presumably, from entering my password, which can be tedious with a remote), if I was on the same network. However, after I downloaded the app, got the confirmation code, entered that on my phone…nothing. Maybe I had to be logged into the account on the phone when I opened Disney+ on the streamer…I’ll try that later today on another FTV
There was a collage character portraits of Maui from Moana, Elastigirl from The Incredibles, Captain America, Rey from Star Wars, and Jeff Goldblum from…well, it’s never been quite clear where he’s from, but we’re always glad to visit his world. 😉 He has a new show on D+, part of the National Geographic brand. They didn’t label or brand these
They did brand at the bottom: Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Star Wars/NatGeo
Further in, there were different character portraits, and with the brands in a different order: Iron Man, Darth Vader, hello again Elastigirl, Moana from Moana…and Jeff Goldblum
Once I was logged into the app, they had a slideshow. They promoted: The Mandalorian, Avengers: Endgame, Lady and the Tramp (the new “live” version), High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, The Simpsons, Avatar, Encore!, Captain Marvel, The World According to Jeff Goldblum, the Dumbo live action remake. So, that’s five D+Os (Disney+ Originals), two Marvel theatrical hits…Dumbo is an interesting choice, given that it wasn’t their biggest box office hit
What I’m not seeing so far promoted at all is Disney backlist (that’s what I most want to see…movies/TV more than, oh, I’ll go with more than thirty years old). Mickey Mouse hasn’t shown up at all yet, for example. That’s interesting to me: this should be a great service for movie/TV buffs and older fans, but I’d say it’s pretty clearly marketed at parents of kids and younger fans
5 clickable tiles for Disney-Pixar-Marvel-Star Wars-National Geographic. One sort of cool thing is that when you scroll to one of those, you get an animated thumbnail, just for that one
Below that (I’ll start top to bottom):
Recommended for You (hmm…they don’t know me yet, presumably, so this must be a generic “me” at first): Avengers Endgame, The Simpsons, Dumbo, Captain Marvel, Free Solo, Lady and the Tramp, Expanding the Universe (Marvel), The Mandalorian, HSM:TM:TS (High School Musical…I’m not going to keep typing out that long title!), Marvel Hero Project, Frozen, Encore!, a Toy Story tile…but I’ll admit, I can’t read it from here (there may be a way to increase the size of the images, haven’t checked yet…something about money), that Jeff Goldblum series, The Imagineering Story, Avatar, Pixar in Real Life, Float, The Force Awakens, Noelle, The Sound of Music (part of the Fox acquisition: yay!), Cars, Clone Wars, The Family something, Moana,
Hit Movies: Avatar, Frozen, Toy Story 3, Avengers Endgame, The Force Awakens, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Finding Dory, The Avengers, Rogue One, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Finding Nemo, The Avengers Age of Ultron, The Phantom Menace, Alice in Wonderland (Johnny Depp version), Inside Out…I’m going to stop listing individual titles or this will take too long!
Trending (The Simpsons is #1, if they are in order)
Out of the Vault: they do go beyond The 90s wave, including The Jungle Book, Cinderella, Snow White…
Inspired by True Stories
Ultra HD and HDR
Disney Channel Favorites
Throwbacks: Hannah Montana, Boy Meets World, That’s So Raven, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, The Sandlot, Hocus Pocus, 10 Things I Hate About You…
Beasts and Monsters
Nostalgic Movies: here we go! Tron, the original The Parent Trap, The Rocketeer, the original The Love Bug, Return to Oz (if you haven’t seen it, be prepared to be creeped out!)…
Disney Junior Series
Feel Good Sports Movies
MIckey Mouse Through the Years (Hi, Mickey!)
Fun Mysteries: Zootopia, The Great Mouse Detective, Sister Act…
Animal and Nature
Profiles (Hi again, Mickey)…when I went to edit, I found that a bit difficult–just getting to the right places. Lots of icon choices, though, including Featured, Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Nat Geo, Mickey Mouse and Friends, Disney Classics, a separate category for Disney Princess (why no plural?), Villains, Disney Channel | Autoplay | Background Video (on or off) } App Language (English UK, English US, Espanol (Latinoamericano), Francais (Candien), and Nederlands)
Search: title, character, or genre (no actor search? When I tried to search for Kurt Russell, it showed me appropriate choices when I typed Kurt, but by the time I added the R, it found nothing). Search also had “Collections”, like Through the Decades, Star Wars, and Spider-Man
Settings: Account, Help, Legal, Log Out…I don’t see any accessibility settings (I checked under Account) to make it bigger, for example
UPDATE: Oh, oh, here’s a problem! I stopped watching a movie in the middle. When I went back into Disney+ it showed at first…that’s fine. When I deliberately went to home after that, I can’t find where it went! I figured they would add a navigation for incomplete viewings, but I don’t see anything. I checked under watchlist. I’ve scrolled through Home. I reselected my profile…nothing. They need an incomplete and/or recent part to the navigation
UPDATE: JustWatch, my favorite app/website to search streaming offerings, is already listing Disney+
That’s enough to get you started! I may add more to this later, but that’s a good introduction.
Overall? The interface looks cool, but could use some smoothing. For example, why do I have to delete the word “profile” to enter a name for a profile? Why, when there is an arrow pointing to my right, does the arrow on my remote not work (you have to click select instead)? Discovery seems okay, but will get better, I’m sure.
Enjoy! If you have questions, feel free to comment…but I might not respond right away! I’m off to Medfield College (a fictional Disney location used in quite a few of their movies).
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CLOSE TO 85,000 TRAVELLERS CHOOSE VIA RAIL DURING EASTER LONG WEEKEND
April 18–23, 2019
VIA Rail cross-Canada routes
Most popular route: Ottawa – Toronto
Most notable ridership increases on the Québec City – Windsor corridor: Montréal – Québec City (up 15%), Ottawa – Québec City (up 11.6%) and Kitchener – Toronto (up 9.8%)
24.7% revenue and 8.9% ridership increases on non-Corridor routes (Toronto – Vancouver and Montréal – Halifax long-distance trains, and regional routes)
Busiest day: Thursday, April 18
MONTRÉAL, April 25, 2019 - VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) continued its long multiple-quarter streak of increased revenue with a solid performance over Easter weekend. Passenger revenue was up 8,8% from 2018’s Easter break, giving the Corporation its best performance in 10 years.
Out of the approximately 85,000 travellers who chose VIA Rail to get around, more than half boarded trains within Ontario on routes that included Ottawa – Toronto, where 10 departures are offered each day in both directions. As for interprovincial travel, 29% of passengers took the train between Ontario and Quebec, particularly on the Montréal – Toronto and Montréal – Ottawa segments. In six days, VIA Rail trains covered a total distance of 28 million kilometres.
Of the busiest segments, the most notable increases over the long weekend were between Montréal and Québec City, Ottawa and Québec City, and Kitchener and Toronto, where passengers opted to take the train instead of their cars for a comfortable and worry-free springtime getaway with their friends or family.
“Our transformation plan continues to pay off as we bring Canadians towards a more sustainable future,” said Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, President and Chief Executive Officer of VIA Rail. “These results are a testament to the growing popularity of train travel and to our commitment to offering passengers a sensible, green alternative to road travel and an easy, sustainable and enjoyable travel experience. This is VIA Rail’s contribution to the future of Canada and of Canadian communities. I commend the sustained efforts and the remarkable devotion of our employees, who are largely the drivers of VIA Rail’s success.”
About VIA Rail Canada
As Canada’s national rail passenger service, VIA Rail (viarail.ca) and all its employees are mandated to provide safe, efficient and economical passenger transportation service, in both official languages of our country. VIA Rail operates intercity, regional and transcontinental trains linking over 400 communities across Canada and about 180 more communities through intermodal partnerships, and safely transports nearly 4.8 million passengers annually. The Corporation has been awarded five Safety Awards and three Environment Awards by the Railway Association of Canada since 2007. Visit the “About VIA Rail” section at https://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-rail.
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Citrix Exits Cloud Server Business
Citrix starts the new year off by selling its CloudPlatform business to Accelerite.
Citrix is starting 2016 by selling its CloudPlatform business unit. Citrix announced on January 11th that it is selling the CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager product lines to Accelerite, which is a business unit of Persistent Systems. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time.
"We at Citrix are extremely confident that Accelerite will help nurture our customers, who are heavily invested in running their public, commercial clouds on these solutions and will allow Citrix to focus on our core priorities around the secure delivery of apps and data," Steve Wilson VP and GM, Converged Infrastructure at Citrix, wrote in a blog post. "Citrix will work closely with Accelerite to build on CloudPlatform integrations with XenServer, NetScaler and Citrix Workspace Cloud."
The CloudPlatform technology is based on the Apache CloudStack open-source project that Citrix helped to start. Citrix contributed the CloudStack code to the Apache Software Foundation in April of 2012. The CloudStack technology itself came to Citrix by way of the acquisition of cloud.com in July 2011.
Citrix has had a mixed relationship with the OpenStack community over the last five years. Initially the company was a big supporter by way of its Project Olympus effort, but backed away in 2012 in favor of CloudStack. In 2013, Sameer Dholakia, who at the time was the group vice president and general manager of cloud platforms at Citrix, did a video interview where he explained how Citrix would be supporting OpenStack as well as CloudStack.
Over the last several years, Citrix has had somewhat of a personnel shift too, with former cloud.com executives leaving the company. Among them were Shannon Williams and Sheng Liang, who have since gone on to found container startup Rancher Labs.
For its part, Accelerite sees a need for cloud infrastructure even in a world where developers are increasingly adopting containers.
"Although we see an increase in both the acceptance and adoption of containers in today’s clouds, large gaps still exist in an enterprise’s ability to deploy and manage containers in these environments," Nara Rajagopalan, CEO of Accelerite, said in a statement. "CloudPlatform, with its simplicity and ease-of-use along with its tremendous customer base, is a great platform for enterprises to use to address this emerging need to help evolve the cloud into its next phase of hyper-convergence."
Citrix Isn't Completely Leaving the Cloud
With Citrix now selling off its CloudPlatform assets, the company isn't leaving the cloud altogether. Wilson commented that Citrix's cloud strategy is dedicated to supporting a range of technologies that enable customers to choose public, private or hybrid cloud technology.
"We will continue to work with both the OpenStack and CloudStack open source communities to ensure our products are optimized for offerings based on those projects," Wilson stated. "Core product offerings in our cloud computing portfolio include NetScaler, XenServer and Citrix Workspace Cloud."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at ServerWatch and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist
HPE OneView: Product Overview and Insight
Software-Defined Networking Poised for Prominence (Finally)
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Looking at Altspace VR’s closure
Posted on July 28, 2017 August 19, 2017 by Inara Pey
Courtesy of AltspaceVR
Update: AltspaceVR is hoping to remain open – see my update for more (such as was available at the time of writing).
Altspace VR, once regarded by The Verge as “one of the most fully developed platforms” for social VR, is shutting down. The new came via an AltspaceVR blog post, which was quickly picked-up by a number of tech media outlets.
In A Very Sad Goodbye, the company state:
It is with a tremendously heavy heart that we let you all know that we are closing down AltspaceVR on August 3rd, 7PM PDT. The company has run into unforeseen financial difficulty and we can’t afford to keep the virtual lights on any more. This is surprising, disappointing, and frustrating for every one of us who have put our passion and our hopes into AltspaceVR. We know it will probably feel similarly for you…
We’re a venture-backed start-up. We had a supportive group of investors that last gave us money in 2015. It looked like we had a deal for our next round of funding, and it fell through. Some combination of this deal falling through and the general slowness of VR market growth made most of our investors reluctant to fund us further. We’ve been out fund-raising but have run out of time and money.
In all, AltspaceVR raised some US $26.3 million in funding through two rounds of investment, with US $16 million raised in 2014, and a further US $10.3 million raised in a second round of funding led be Raine Ventures. Techcrunch reports other investors including Comcast Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Lux Capital and Rothenberg Ventures.
Playing Dungeons and Dragons in AltspaceVR. Image courtesy of Techcrunch
Initially, AltspaceVR was seen as quirky given the initial avatars were simple in approach compared to virtual world platforms, but users who tried it out tended to be attracted by the platform’s ability to offer virtual spaces for socialising, giving the company something of a lead in the so-called “social VR” space which is now the subject of much talk. Fellow blogger and VR / tech expert Austin Tate was one of those who dipped his toes into the application, and he offered insight into things as it opened its doors, including a look at the interactive capabilities then on offer.
At its height, AltspaceVR reported around 35,000 monthly users on the platform, who use it for around 35 minutes each per day. That might not sound a lot by Second Life standards, but considering the slow take-up of VR outside of certain niche areas of early adoption, it’s actually not bad and perhaps indicates there is potential for VR environments where people can get together and share time and (web-based) content (the platform also offered a dedicated SDK for building “in-world” content and games).
Certainly, the take-up was enhanced by the push to make AltspaceVR genuinely cross-platform in approach and accessibility – although some of the claims around the application, such as it hosting the “worlds first VR wedding” did cause some eye rolling among established users of virtual spaces given just how long wedding in VR (albeit without fancy headsets) have been going on. Nevertheless, the platform has developed a loyal and supportive community – and may have done as much as anything else to convince the likes of Facebook that there is something to the “social VR” thing.
Elsewhere, the news of the closure is likely to be seen by some as a stroky-chin-I-told-you-so moment, quite possibly with sagely negative nods towards the future of Sansar and similar platforms. However,while Sansar is making a play for the “social VR” space as well, it’s important to remember that AltspaceVR is a very different, more focused beast than Sansar, despite some (incorrectly) labelling AltspaceVR as “Second Life for VR” in the past.
The recent AltspaceVR MACH event featuring Bill “the Science Guy” Nye showcased the use of “social VR” space for outreach whilst also, perhaps, highlighting some of the applications’ limitations in terms of fidelity and immersiveness. Image courtesy of AltspaceVR
Sansar is clearly aiming for a much higher sense of immersion, with far more involved capabilities which will allow it to function as an effective platform across a range of potential markets and audiences and meet the needs of a broad range of use cases. However, it is perhaps a salient reminder as to just how nascent the current VR market really is, and why keeping a weather eye on how things progress – and the time frames involved in seeing them progress – is vital.
In the meantime, AltsapceVR is unsure as to what might happen in the future, the blog post noting that the team has poured a significant amount of effort into the application, which might be “foundational” to the development of “social VR”. As such those behind the company would, “love to see this technology, if not the company, live on in some way, and we’re working on that.”
For those engaged in AltspaceVR, the announcement of the closure is worth reading through in full, as it offer tips on saving photos and friends lists, and how those using the SDK might see the web content they developed for AltspaceVR live on elsewhere. There’s also a note that come Thursday, August 3rd, there was be a final party in Altspace VR, which will culminate in the doors closing at 19:00 PDT.
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Alchemy Release 5.0.6.41161
Posted on July 28, 2017 by Inara Pey
On Monday, July 24th, Alchemy issued an update to the release version of their viewer. Version 5.0.6.41161 incorporates all of the updates found in the last Beta update (version 5.0.0.40120, reviewed here), which included Project Bento and Avatar Complexity support (although no Graphics Presets), updates to the right-click context menu for better avatar and estate management, and numerous other improvements.
The new release, available in both 32- and 64-bit for Windows, and 64-bit only for OS X and Linux, brings with it assorted improvements and updates, some of which are very much “under the hood” in the form of a revamp of the rendering system, together with nips and tucks to the UI.
This release also sees Alchemy achieve parity with the Lab’s 5.0.6 code-base, and so includes all the recent updates from the Lab, including, but not limited to:
HTTP improvements and Asset fetching via CDN
Use of custom inventory folders for the receipt of uploads
Avatar rendering and exceptions
The updated region access controls and revised Trash behaviour updates
The new Grid Status toolbar button, allowing you to view the Grid Status page in the viewer’s built-in browser.
The most visible change to the viewer is that while maintaining the LL “v5” look about profiles (avatar, group, object), Alchemy now displays profiles in separate floaters, rather than “tabbing over” in the current People / Friends / Nearby People / Group / Inventory floater or mucking about with a sidebar, making it a lot easier to browse multiple profiles in each class / across profile classes.
Profiles now open in their own floaters in Alchemy 5.0.6.41161
For OpenSim users, this release of alchemy also provides a warning when log-in credentials are being sent over an insecure connection, while the grid manager has received some reliability improvements. Alchemy also now has the ability to store avatar log-in credentials.
Much of the work on this release is said to be geared towards performance improvements. Alchemy has always – for me – produced pretty solid results FPS when on a near-like-by-like comparison with other viewers as it is possible to get (same graphics set-up, same region, same windlight defaults, similar / the same avatar numbers, etc.). Such tests are by no means perfect (you cannot account for the graphics load of individual avatars on a region, for example, even if the numbers are the same, for example). On my i4 / 16 GB DDR3 / GTX970 system, I found this version of Alchemy continues the tradition of providing me with on average higher FPS than the LL viewer (roughly 10-20fps on average) and Firestorm (between 15-30fps), although the differences could be negligible in popular spots.
There’s no RLV / RLVa in this release, nor has the Lab’s Graphics Presets been implemented – which in my personal view is an oversight, as they do allow for much smarter use of graphics settings by those prepared to put the (not exactly extensive) effort into setting things up. That said, Alchemy continues to do what it says on the tin, and this update should keep regular users of the viewer happy.
Alchemy website
Alchemy 5.0.6.41161 release announcement
Alchemy 5.0.6.41161 release notes
Alchemy downloads page
Alchemy in this blog
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FORTUNE MAGAZINE Value Driven by Geoff Colvin
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Yes, you can raise prices
A few smart companies are raising prices in the recession. Should you? A simple but useful matrix can help.
By Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large
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(Fortune Magazine) -- The signs in the window of Jay Kos, an upscale men's wear boutique on Park Avenue in Manhattan, seemed at best cheeky, at worst clueless. Surrounded by glaring economic-crisis headlines cut out of newspapers, they said, "Cashmere sweater: $2,500. Recession price: $2,500." "Lamb's fleece jacket: $11,000. Recession price: $11,000."
It was an in-your-face declaration that the business, whose clients include bankers and celebrities, wasn't going to cave in to any mere economic collapse. "Some people hated it," says the shop's eponymous owner. "But most people loved it. And some people even bought because of it."
That story is worth pondering because one of the most important decisions businesses must make in this recession is what to do about prices. Cutting them seems the obvious move, and thousands of companies, from electronics retailers to Walt Disney World, are doing it. But others, like DuPont (DD, Fortune 500), are maintaining prices, and a few, including Colgate-Palmolive and McDonald's (MCD, Fortune 500), are in some cases even raising them (the price of a double cheeseburger went up 19 cents in December).
The matter is critical because it affects not only immediate results but also longer-term competitive positions and brand power. Price cutters can steal customers but may sacrifice profitability that could take years to get back. For luxury products, price may be part of the brand identity. If a Herm�s bag were priced temporarily at $200 instead of $5,000, the whole meaning of the brand would shift radically. Even nonluxury businesses - pizza and gasoline, say - face the same risk: Competing on price could define you as a commodity.
To help understand how companies price any product or service, I like to think of a two-dimensional matrix. On one axis is how differentiated the customer considers the product or service, ranging from a commodity to utterly unique. On the other axis is how strongly the customer feels a need for the product or service, from considering it a must-have to seeing it as totally discretionary. Where do various products and services - including yours - land on this matrix?
The best spot is the corner representing a unique necessity; the customer has gotta have it, and no close substitutes exist. Occupying this vaunted space are surprisingly humble products, like Colgate toothpaste. Few people will stop brushing their teeth no matter how bad the recession gets, and personal-care brand preferences are deeply ingrained. That's why Colgate (CL, Fortune 500) has been able to raise prices - and it's an important part of why the company's profits rose last year and are forecast to increase smartly this year.
Conversely, the worst locale on the matrix is the opposite corner, where we find discretionary commodities. One competitor is much like another, and at any given moment most people don't really need any of them. In this miserable spot sit many major airlines. Travel can often be postponed, and there's little reason to choose one carrier over another on well-traveled routes. U.S. carmakers occupy the same corner; you can probably use your current car for another year, and if you do decide to buy a new one, the brand strength of the U.S. makers is much weaker than the imports'.
The other two corners of the matrix are in-between cases. Must-have commodities are things like light bulbs and toilet paper; no one will stop buying them, but the brands don't matter much. Highly differentiated discretionary purchases are things like a Rolls-Royce; it's unique, but no one really needs one.
Smart companies use tools like this to analyze customers. The matrix is based entirely on customer perceptions, which vary widely, so for any product or service it's useful to plot the perceptions of each customer segment. That way you can create different value propositions in which price will play greater or lesser roles. McKinsey, for example, reports that a beverage company found price sensitivity varied by a factor of three just across zip codes within Jacksonville. Offering all of them the same price wouldn't make much sense; varying prices in the obvious way would be a simple way to increase total profit.
Pricing is always important, but in booms you don't have to get it exactly right. Now you do. Decide carefully, because you'll be living with the consequences for a long time.
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Boity Thulo dispels reports on engagement to Cassper Nyovest
Helen Zille was handed a package with the spy tapes and other documents on Thursday at the High Court in Pretoria.
Local hip hop star Cassper Nyovest once said in his hit single Phumakim, “I only f*ck with women that’s as famous as me.’” He wasn’t kidding.
Reports that Nyovest, born-Refiloe Phoolo, and TV presenter Boity Thulo are engaged sent Twitter into frenzy on Thursday morning. Thulo has since denied them during an interview on Metro FM with Bonang Matheba later on July 16. Thulo did however confirm that she and Nyovest are a couple.
Drum magazine reports that Nyovest popped the question and Thulo said yes in their latest issue, which features the couple on the cover of the magazine with the quote “It’s official! Cassper pops the question and Boity says yes …” The Doc Shebeleza rapper confirmed their blossoming love on Facebook by declaring that he is “madly in love” with Thulo, who became a hot topic when she showed off her derrière in Marie Claire’s Naked Issue in 2014.
“I just want the world to know how much I’m madly in love with her!!! I can’t hold back!!! She is perfection!!!,” he said on Facebook.
Although the pair denied rumours of their love affair in the past weeks, Nyovest has not been one to keep his love life behind closed door.
Photo credit: Twitter
In Phumakim, Nyovest raps: “if she ain’t no Amanda du-Point she ain’t tailored for me” about his then relationship to actor Amanda du-Point. But he quickly did a 360 when the short-lived relationship with du-Point ended. Nyovest went public with his love affair with du-Point, who acts on SABC1’s Skeem Saam, at the Channel O Music awards in November 2014, where the pair locked lips on stage and later posted a series of images of them looking all lovey dovey on social media.
In true theatrical style, he revealed news of the pair’s breakup by changing his lyrics to, ” Even Amanda du-Pont wasn’t tailored for me, now I really f*ck with women as famous as me “, during his performance at the Metro FM music awards earlier this year, Times Live reported.
One again his love life is being exhibited. Nyovest and Thulo dated in the past when Thulo was still in varsity and before Nyovest got his big break in showbiz. The public doesn’t have to play the guessing game anymore. All we can do now is grab our popcorn, sit back and watch how their publicity stunt plays out.
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WikiLeaks – The interesting times of the Derg(or the Dirg) in the 70s Ethiopia
This is maybe my longest blogpost in history and I am sure I’m not going to compete with this one. There was just so much juicy information about a time in Ethiopian history which is not really discussed or talked about. This documents and briefing’s from the American Embassy and Reftels that was sent to the US is telling a story that is interesting today. I personally have much more knowledge about Meles Zenawi and post him, then the time before. It has been discussed in certain books that I have read on the political history on the Great Empire of Ethiopia. What often portrayed about this time is very blurry. With this stories that I have found on WikiLeaks, they might shine a light and give some of the other ones who read my blog some new insights to special time in Ethiopia. This is at the time of the rule of the Derg and the PMC Chairman Lt. Gen Haile-Mariam Mengistu!
The DERG executed 62 civilians, military detainees and hostages. Some of this people is the once that are involved in the top officials who are supposed to topple the PMC. One of the men who is supposed to executed are General Aman former Chairman of PMC, Also Prime Minister Endalkachew Makonnen, the Emperor’s grandson Admiral Desta. The one not on the list is the former Emperor Haile Selassie (WikiLeaks, 1974).
This happened because of an inner struggle for power between General Aman and Haile Miriam Mengistu, the last mention is the one that is suspected to inherit the title after General Aman. Amans strategy has been to collect his supporters and especially from his own area in Eritrea. Second part of it Pro-Monarchist has used Aman to stage a comeback. Third is too reduce the 120-man membership to 15 best educated junior officers, this to have a Junta especially made for General Aman. Fourth strategy is the disagreement over Eritrea. Where the PMC has stepped up the military actions and the PMC is not for a separate state as a solution and has sent reinforcement to secure the military situation. Fifth strategy for General Aman struggled because of his close ties to Haile Selassie. Haile Selassie is held at the Menilik Palace. Another press report is rumored that he will be executed (WikiLeaks, 1974).
Who is Haile Miriam Mengistu?
Was the official VC in the Provisional Military Commission (PMC), he is the chairman of the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee (AFCC). This has been in control since June in Ethiopia. HMM is an ordinance officer, a training officer of the 4th division in Addis Abeba (WikiLeaks, 1974).
The thing that is fearful for the American views of what is happening in Ethiopia. Soviet is trying to supplies and arms to the country (WikiLeaks, 1974).
25th November 1974:
This power struggle that happen on the 24th November happen a fight between Aman and the PMC. The foreign policy is still not certain. But first manifestation of this is the follow up on the Soviet offer of military equipment a few months ago (WikiLeaks, 1974).
30th January 1975 – Land Reform:
In a Land Reform seminar that was a two week this was opened at the National University (former Haile Selassie I University). There was 900 civilians, 400 military participants that was briefed by 28 expert lectures and 15 other military and civilian speakers. The experts and speakers spoke on topics of socialist programs and ‘administration of land and land reform’. PMAC Mengistu termed the participants “disciples of change”. Mengistu said that all of them carried the responsibility of building a greater Ethiopia. Minister of Land Reform Ato Zegeye Asfaw said: “Socialist Ethiopia will give land to the tiller and collective farms and communes will take care of the land and its utilization for the common good of the people” (WikiLeaks, 1975).
18th February 1975:
Heavy fighting has occurred in Asmara at the 18th. The attacks we’re concentrated on the Ethiopian Military Installation but also the American-Run Electricity generator in the other side of town (WikiLeaks, 1975).
There we’re two more demonstrations for Pro-Provisional Military Government in Addis Abeba that day. One was made out of war-veterans and the second one is in benefit of OAU, but both demonstrations was for the Ethiopian Unity. PMAC Haile Mariam Mengistu hold a speech in from of the veterans – where the main focus was to keep Eritrea as a region in Ethiopia (WikiLeaks, 1975).
The PMG has announced to confiscate land from 7 former Ethiopian ambassadors this include Zewde Gebre Selassie, this is because of their rejecting to move back to Ethiopia. Zedwe has now been changed with Kifle Wodajo who now is the Ethiopian Ambassador to the US (WikiLeaks, 1975).
22nd July 1975:
On the 18th of July a three day delegation led by Louis Reyes, Cuban Ambassador to Iran and EPMG official has signed a joint communique for diplomatic relations. Reyes said: “the historic victory of the Ethiopian people can serve as an example to Africa and the rest of the World”. Maj Mengistu said: “there is a lot Ethiopia can benefit from your Cuban experience” (WikiLeaks, 1975).
2nd Octorber 1975:
There is friction between Chairman Teferi Bante, First Vice-Chairman Haile Miriam Mengistu and Second Vice-Chairman Lt. Col Atafu Abate. The second echelon Viz. Major Sisay Habate and Lt. Col Asrate Desta (WikiLeaks, 1975).
In the last year there been two major coup plots. The two main people against the government, first student development campaign from E.G. Major Kiros Alemayehu and the one in charge of media – Major Nadew Zekarias (WikiLeaks, 1975).
The Derg has struggled with price-control and minerals exploration (financial restraint).The government has been civilian administrative structure down to Woreda(county level). The civilian cabinet has been stable. Below the ministers is now permanent secretary (department manager) and vice-ministers (the same as assistant secretaries). The government is still not consulting the technical experts before public policy statements. They have even announced without checking with Urban Land Reform. Future policy decisions are for rural land reform, nationalization of banks and insurance agencies etc. Also getting less technicians in government to get consensus (Wikipedia, 1975).
22nd October 1975:
Addis has been tense the last three days after rumors of tension between Mengistu and Atenafu. This has threats to dissolve the military council and either both or one of them are arrested. The view the Derg shows the picture of unity to the public (WikiLeaks, 1975).
21st April 1976:
PMAC First Vice-Chairman Major Haile Miriam Mengistu had his first national speech on both Ethiopian radio and TV.
The main points of the speech was how the feudal system of both Menelik and Haile Selassie.
The imperialist has used various techniques infiltrating the system with missionaries, teachers, merchants and entrepreneurs, government advisers and experts.
The Ethiopian Revolution have accomplished the deposition of former emperor, declaration of socialism, nationalization of means of production and distribution like rural land, urban land and extra houses. A new labor law and formation of Peasant association.
Mengistu announced to the public that their scientifically working on making Ethiopia a People’s Democratic Republic.
New national democratic revolutionary program to liberate the people from imperialism, neo-colonialism and feudalism – grant democratic freedom to friends of the revolution…
Addressed the Eritrean problem and called them out as exiled aristocrats and foreign imperialist, only reactionary bandits there.
Mengistu also addressed people in the country side and progressive workers to form a United Front to work against Anti-Revolutionaries.
(WikiLeaks, 1976)
22nd April 1976: Ethiopian revolution to continue:
Vice Chairman Mengistu has asked for continuing support for it, that authority from center to the provinces. Also still no recognition of the Eritrea which is a special case.
Important part of the programs:
The program is based on far-left militants and also on a Marxist model, and a Workers party is created, which is supreme and has to govern operation of the government. Also the focus on class struggles.
Public sector is to becoming bigger and private farms will get more government support.
Nationalization of both production and distribution with private incentives are enhanced.
Veterans are now offered financial, educational and health benefits.
Woman are mobilized for productive work and freed from limited roles that have been available for them.
The Ethiopians problems will be tackled from the devolution from the center of main authority. The Eritrean problem is still not questioned in a special way, it’s seen as a provincial issue. The foreign policy of Ethiopia is remained unchanged (WikiLeaks, 1976).
24th April 1976:
There been unauthorized demonstration that was followed by government warning against “progressive” that takes control over shops and private business. There been attempting of looting stores and shops near Addis Abeba, in Nazareth and Debra Zeit (WikiLeaks, 1976).
Because of this Mengistu has promised free speech and freedom to demonstrate. This led to unreasonable behavior from the public that has threatened the public order. Mengistu himself has said their promoting: “raising revolutionary consciousness of the masses”. The hope is that the Ethiopian Easter weekend which is a family and religious affair which will lead to more calm and less tension – which will last over the weekend (WikiLeaks, 1976).
24th May 1976:
Megistu has had a MediVac to China on the 20th May. What Haile Mariam Mengistu is expected to have it can either be gastritis which can lead to stomach cancer; he could have a brain tumor and also hurt after a gun wound. The unscheduled flight from Bole Airport went at night 22:00 – where it was reported to leave for China. Lt. Col. Atnafu returned to Addis Abeba from Gojjam (WikiLeaks, 1976).
10th September 1976 – Condolences for Mao’s Death:
The Ethiopians sent messages of condolences to Wu The and Hua Kuo Feng. The leaders of the revolution are also being in the Chinese Embassy signing in the condolence book. The message from the leaders is setting Mao on the levels of Marx, Engels and Lenin (WikiLeaks, 1976).
24th September 1976 – Assassination attempt:
Eyewitnesses tell that there were automatic weapons firing that happened near a football Stadium at 2025 from two civilian automobiles. One was moving west from the revolutionary square. They fired both in the air until they turned south past fourth division headquarters. The followed by an explosion and another further down the road a few minutes later. A dozen store windows broken after the shooting. Following the incidence the EPMG put up a road block in the intersection surrounding the area. All vehicles and passengers are being searched. The roadblocks were taken away the day after (WikiLeaks, 1976).
25th September 1976:
Heavy military control in Addis Abeba this morning after yesterday’s incidence. There has been big patrol activity after the attempted on Haile Miriam Mengistu the day before. Rumors have it that Mengistu has been injured in either leg or foot (WikiLeaks, 1976).
26th September 1976 a staged morning Workers-Rally:
Before the staged morning Workers-Rally there been an ambush on Haile Meriam Mengistu the 23th September. Which wounded him and this lead to Peasant Associations and urban dwellers to meet in the Revolution square in solidarity. It was a four hour event, which was hold tight by armed guards where the speakers spoke on the importance of keeping up the efforts of the revolution. Next troubled date for the PMC will be the 28th when schools reopen (WikiLeaks, 1976).
CIA involvement in Anti-Regime activity:
CIA is supposed to be supporting Placards and EPRP. News broadcast is saying: “EPRP is Cia”(…)”Away with CIA agents, disguised as tourist”(…)”paid CIA agents”(…)”Yankees go home”(…)”No more chills and CIA” (WikiLeaks, 1976).
Some rumors has been spread that it was a fake assassination attempt on Mengistu. This happening after the rally is to make him a hero. Also put restraints on the EPRP as a CIA front. There is issued more strikes. It will also be occurring more executions even though none of the would-be assassins. PMAC has gotten more support from the rallies and media this is from the peasants groups and workers. The reaction to it has put EPRP who has been seen as responsible for the attempt. Students might make trouble without the EPRP assistance. The violence of this last week might end up some calm this week (WikiLeaks, 1976).
Izvestiya reports also that there was an assassination attempt on PMAC Haile Mariam Mengistu. Also, there was one important sign in one of the demonstrations in Addis: “bring CIA intrigues to an end” (WikiLeaks, 1976).
3rd November 1976 – Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization (AAPS) Conference:
At the conference it was a total of 7,000 or 8,000 peaceful Ethiopian attendance mid-afternoon rally to support and also show solidarity to Southern Africa. Chairman Ato Tesfaye Tadesse who introduced AAPS Second General Yousef El-Sabat, Iraqi Deputy Secretary-General of AASP Nouri Abdel Razzak, Secretary General of ANC Alfred Nzo, Crypriot Dr. Vasses Lyssarides, Soviet Pressidum member Figret Tabeev, Angolan representative Dr. Olga Lina, Vietnamese representative Tran Hoai-Nam, Cuban delegate Ramos Claudis, Yemen representative Anis Hassen Yahya, West German Committee of Anti-Imperialists solidarity delegate Peter Wal and Delegate of Western European Public Organization Conon Gor (WikiLeaks, 1977).
Main rhetoric from the conference is against racism, imperialism, oppression, praising the Ethiopian socialist revolution and hospitality. We’re they also was supporting complete liberation of Southern Africa. The Vietnamese, Angolan, Cuban and the ANC did not mention the US during the conference. While other made references to the economic ties between Southern Africa and the US. The delegates from abroad are set to establish legitimacy for the PMAC and Mengistu (WikiLeaks, 1976).
2nd May 1977 – TV interview of Haile Meriam Mengistu:
He will be interviewed by French and Swedish journalists and will be aired on French TV. One of the main questions was related to the Expulsion of U.S. Official Personnel last week. Mengstu has answered to that U.S. agencies whose activities has been terminated and were in Ethiopian on the basis of old agreements with Haile Selassie. The revolution is now clearing out the leftovers from the imperial era (WikiLeaks, 1977).
Ethiopian-Vietnamese relations are strong, especially considering the wish from the Ethiopians of getting former U.S. Military equipment from the Vietnamese. There been secret visits from Ethiopian officials to Vietnam. There is not sure if the Vietnamese will support EPMG. A support with to the Ethiopians … they can complicate their relations with PRC and the US (WikiLeaks, 1977).
Claude Cheysson from the EEC and was a part of a three person delegation to Addis Abeba the 18th -20th of May. PMAC Haile Mariam Mengistu signed a 30 million Birr aid accord during the visit. This aid accord was based for a rural water development project. This aid accord is part of the already with 280 million birr that will be available for the government of Ethiopia. The EEC program mission was completed in the June of 1976. Then there was put aside 100 million birr. The Amibara agriculture development project which has a aid accord accordingly to be set for a 35 million birr. The EEC follows the guidelines of determines which projects that gets funding. Foreign Affairs minister Col. Dr. Felleke Gedle-Ghorghis: “the government gives priority to rural development. Particularly agriculture, which employs vast majority of the Ethiopian people” (…)” Multi-purpose package programs which provides support to small holder farms through extension, livestock and range development projects”. The projects will be mostly into a agricultural sector, either development with infrastructure like rural roads. Also projects that are about industrial development which is focused on the output of agricultural produce. 10 percent of all the development is going to other then national development but for projects for regional projects. This kind of projects is the once that are on the Lake Rudolph and the Omo to develop tourism (WikiLeaks, 1977).
29th May 1977 – Speech to the Naval College and Military academy gradution:
(This was happing at the Jubilee Palace – Former palace of the Emperor Haile Selassie).
Chairman Lt. Col. Haile Mariam Mengistu saying: “there will be no problem with regard to arms”. Further comments from the Soviet Union and that helped and “won high benefits” because of the Ethiopian revolution. Fear from “reactionary of neighboring areas”. Mengistu focused on the responsibilities to the motherland, secure national unity and also territorial integrity. He characterized American imperialism as an arch enemy and is now in league with reactionary Arab regimes. American imperialism he says: “by cutting its arms aid” (…)”now it’s time when we have to crush anti-revolutionary encirclement with unity and determination stronger then steel and hoist a new banner of victory at price of our blood”. On Djibouti want to forge a stronger relationship with: “neighboring reactionary forces” (…)”to withstand any and every step which might be contrary to national interests of Ethiopia in Djibouti” (WikiLeaks, 1977).
30th May 1977: Meeting with the Egyptian ambassador.
The position of Ethiopia is that Mengistu is not strong, but if he can last until September, then he can be in a stronger position. PMAC Mengistu has to be effective with the use of the peasant army which is now in training. The peasant army will not be used in Bale-Ogaden region because of the Somali tribesman and the semi-desert where the army would be a disadvantage towards them. The result of the guerrilla war has hurt Ethiopian army and the Ethiopian situation in Bale-Ogaden has been bad for them. Some even describe it as a “bloodbath”. With this situation the civilian-military relationships in Addis could become tense. The Civilians might even use the peasant military army and Kebele Defense Forces to make a move against PMAC. Mengistu went on a two-day visit Libya after being in Moscow; this was to secure funding of Soviet War Material. This is to secure shipment of heavy weaponry from Libya to Ethiopia. Also a possibility for Cuban forces into Eritrea (WikiLeaks, 1977).
17th June 1977:
The East German Politburo member Werner Lamberz together with a two Foreign Affair deputy minister Willerding, Foreign trade deputy minister Clausnitzer, Deputy Planning Commission Chairman Dieter Albrecht and several other SED-Central Committee members. They are on a visit as a delegation from the 13th to the 17th in Addis Abeba (WikiLeaks, 1977).
This delegation has had lengthy discussion with PMAC Chairman Haile Mariam Mengistu and PMAC Second Gen. Capt. Fikre-Selassie Wogderess at both FONMIN and National Palace. Also the delegation went on a inspection tour of the Siga Meda military training (WikiLeaks, 1977).
The Soviet Union has made a EPMG a priority and until this date, been spending great funds on the banking on it and hoping for solidarity, some free advice and also high levels visits. On the negative side the Ethiopian put up a front to the Somali Ambassador during the 15th July. This hasn’t served the Soviet Block interests, and can only lead to more polarization between the Soviet clients in the Horn (WikiLeaks, 1977).
22nd June 1977:
On the OAU African Refugees day on the 20th June Haile Mariam Mengistu called upon the OAU members to ratify OAU convention on African Refugees. At the same time he urged Ethiopian refugees to return home without fear of retribution. Mengistu noted that there is special cases and need efforts in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa (WikiLeaks, 1977).
UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR):
There been movement from Somalia and Ethiopia. Eritrean youth, one identified as Kidane Kibrom has stayed in Hargeisa and El Garis Ethiopian Refugee Camps where has for the last 14 months. Kibrom claims 118 Ethiopians has had a hunger-strike in the camps for lack of jobs and training. UNHCR is claiming that the funds they have put for the camp is being used for other purposes then the camp (WikiLeaks, 1977).
6th July 1977 – Mengistu on the Middle East:
Mengistu on the settlement on the Middle East question is that Israel should be recognized, but also a quick withdrawal of forces from the Arab territories since 1967. Also added the Palestinian people have a right to a homeland, but must be a peaceful means in a peaceful settlement (WikiLeaks, 1977).
7th July 1977 – OAU statements:
Lt. Col Haile Mariam Mengistu was not interested in the interference from Somalia and Sudan on Ethiopian affairs. Mengistu was committed to “special committee” on the problems between Sudan and Ethiopia. This will solve the matter in a way Ethiopia sees fit. Like on the Eritrean question: the position they have is that Sudan wants to assure them independence. Mengistu met with 5 of 9 states in the committee to discredit by most OAU. Mengistu did say at the summit that there was a difference between Sudan and Somalia as problem makers. The Somalian view on rule of law is a total disgrace and has a long standing territorial claim. Where the Ethiopian issue with Sudan is more of a Sudanese leaders where they undermine the Ethiopian unity and territorial integrity (WikiLeaks, 1977).
15th July 1977;
On the 14th of July there has been report of movements from the Ethiopian army. The reports are saying that the army has left the base of Tatek Meda Training base going to Eritrea and Ogaden. The number of army personnel is 83 bus loads of militia bound for Assab. EPMG is reported to reverse the actions in Northern Eritrea, but its most likely to be sent to Massawa. A small contingent of regular army has been sent to Asmara from Jimma in the Southwest Ethiopia. There are even reports of more army movements. The numbers of movement is 16 planeloads (some of them was aircrafts including some 720 BS), even militias are planned to be moved to Dire Dawa. Most of the bridges and highways to Dire Dawa are out of order. Therefore the trainload of 25 cars apparently left Addis Abeba but they will not come whole way directly to the destination of Dire Dawa. They have to hike the rest of the way when the rails are done (WikiLeaks, 1977).
19th July 1977:
Mengistu called in the French Ambassador after seeing the ambassadors from east European countries in Addis Abeba. In this meeting with the eastern European ambassadors he told about the bad situation in Eritrea with the fall of cities of Keren and Decamere. He even complained about the aid the Soviets did not give to Ethiopia. Mengistu also claimed that Somalia Army Units has crossed over the border into the Ogaden. The French ambassador considered the war already had begun. The Romanian Ambassador added that Mengistu had said “Opposition-Controlled the territory including the Omo-Valley and the city of Beica 50 kilometers from the Sudanese border”. Mengistu also claimed that the Eritrean “liberation forces” has gained triple strength because of support from Sudan and Saudi Arabia (WikiLeaks, 1977).
23rd July 1977:
The issues that Djibouti has by the border to Ethiopia are making a lot of trouble. From Sudan has given a non-flight and also no overflight rights for any Ethiopian Registered Aircraft (WikiLeaks, 1977).
Further PMC Lt. Col Haile Mariam Mengistu has received at Grand Palace Issa representative who has described the Somalia attacks as “calculated criminal act on the part of Mogadishu regime”. The Patriotic Media is telling victories stories of Ethiopian revolution and the continued call for voluntary contribution to the campaign (WikiLeaks, 1977).
There seems to sabotage on the Addis Abeba to Djibouti railway. After the Somalian Mogadishu based government has sent infiltrators to blow up bridges along the railway. Though the Sudanese doesn’t seem eager to comply to Mengistu accusation of closing the airspace (WikiLeaks, 1977) .
Issa representative comments: “acts of provocation for the consequence, of which Ethiopia should not be held responsible, reactionary regimes of Sudan and Somalia fully responsible for the deterioration of peace and security in Eastern Horn of Africa” (WikiLeaks, 1977).
From the 25 of June 1977: the final stages of military training of the People’s Militia to fight against the Western-Somali Liberation Front. The Ethiopian People’s Militia fights for peace and stability on the African horn. On the 25th of June the military contribution gets a one-month salary over the one year campaign (WikiLeaks, 1977).
PMAC Haile-Mariam Mengistu has from the 23th of July coordinated the Armed Forces and People’s Militia. The Headquarters are set in Harar for the fighting in Eastern Ethiopia and in the northern Ethiopia are located in Asmara. Because of this there was appointed 3 new Joint Commands and 4 new division commanders (WikiLeaks, 1977).
5th August 1977: U.S. Arms assistance to Somalia:
PMC Haile Mariam Mengistu is not happy with the arms supply of Somalia which is seen as a foreign threat. Mengistu stated that the U.S. relationship had with previous government – described as a close cooperation in economic and defense. He had no intention of criticizing the US Government. US failure takes seriousness of Ethiopian security. In Emperors time with Sudan Government used Socialist arms from USSR and China to support secessionist movements in the North. Somalia was amassing arms from the USSR, they have 300 tanks. When Ethiopia asked for help from US Government they got empty handed. Ethiopian has reserved and has no actions towards US. What damaged Ethiopian image was the example of Spencer and Levine who helped Anti-Revolutionary feudalists to flee to Sudan and supplying them with American arms. Mengistu said that EPMG can no longer rely on US supplies. This is to protect independence and national integrity and will look elsewhere for arms. Ethiopia sees this to keep territorial integrity and fear of aggression from its neighbors that the US Government now supports (WikiLeaks, 1977).
8th August 1977:
Former Ethiopian Foreign Minister Kifle Wodajo together with ex-minister Gedamu Tesfare thinks that the west is judging Soviets possibilities to settle the differences between Somalia and Ethiopia. What is important for Mengistu is the power and not Ethiopian nationalism, even with the growing pressure from the Soviet. Even the agents within the Revolutionary Council are partly open to give up parts of the Ogaden. Somalia claims to a larger area then only Ogaden. The set up will be to give the most of of the Ogaden. Kifle believes that the Soviet can on the contrary to the western believe that the war between Somalia and Ethiopian can be solved to Soviets advantages. Even the regimes terror tactics is silences the public (WikiLeaks, 1977).
Moscow is seeking to save the Pro-Soviet regime of Lt.Col. Haile Meriam Mengistu from being overthrown or collapsing, especially with last military defeats like the ones in the Northern Province of Eritrea and the disputed region of Ogaden along with the Somalian border. There is a claim is that the Soviet has a deal in order for both Somalia and Ethiopia. This deal will give the most of Ogaden to the Somalia but the significant towns of Harrar and Dire Dawa gets to stay Ethiopian. There has been reaction on the issue from the Somalia President Mohamed Siad Barre. Instead it seems more like the Western Somalia Liberation is supported by the Somalian Government. On next Thursday there will be a special mediating committee of 10 African countries in Libreville, Gabon, where delegation from both Somalia and Ethiopia. Spokesman from Western Somalia Liberation Front says: “we do not expect any pressure and even if they do this, we will not accept it” (…)”out lands extends up to the Awash river and we are not going to compromise. We are going to take back all of our land” (…)”under no circumstances can we stop before taking Harrar and Dire Dawa” (…)”today that Somali territorial claims covered all of the Ethiopia’s four southeastern provinces of Bale, Sidamo, Arrusi and Harrarghe and are not limited to Ogaden region itself”. The disputed area of the Somalia and Ethiopia is 1/3 of the land mass Ethiopia and the equivalent of half of Somalia. The issue that Soviet has that they want to continue two have to Marxist states and not lose either. And with the nationalism in both countries it will be a feat to keep Mengistu in power when losing all that land. Ethiopia claims that Somalia has gone in will full-scale invasion from regular Somali Army Units. The Somalian Government denies this but says that the Front’s army is 30,000-man guerrilla. At the same time the goals and claims of territory from Somalia is the same from both government and the guerrillas (WikiLeaks, 1977).
25th August 1977:
Chairman Lt. Col Mengistu said during a patriotic rally on 24th August. That Ethiopian revolution is supposed to bring equality, justice, democracy and a classless society. Mengistu was also addressing certain groups as masquerading as progressive but in reality is “anti-people” the groups is expected to be EPRP and EDU. Also he was direct on the Eritrean secessionist which he called aristocratic and ex-patriotic control over Eritrean production. External enemies are set to be Bare and Somalis (WikiLeaks, 1977).
Outtake from the Ethiopian Herald August 28th:
“It sad commentary that even USA which championed Ethiopia’s rights in 1935, has today betrayed its own cardinal principles, and reward aggression by refusing to deliver weapons bought by Ethiopia for it own defence. Such attitudes will only add fuel to the flame and disturb international peace and security. Indeed it is an unwise act from so great a height” (WikiLeaks, 1977).
If the US Government wishes to have a normalized bilateral relationship with the Ethiopian government, then it has to become a link between two. Especially with Ethiopian sending a ambassador they intend to send to Washington (WikiLeaks, 1977).
There have recently been small insurgencies from Somalia in Ogaden region. Ogaden region is in flames. Policies been announced on the 10th and 17th from the State Department Spokesman. The ambassador (the U.S.) is refraining from supplying arms to Somalia. Further on thinks the ambassador that the U.S. government should not take sides in this dispute between Ethiopia and Somalia. Berhanu Bayeh says that the immediate concern is that US Weapon and spare parts. The holdings of arms have been occurring during the last ten years. Because of that the people of Ogaden has suffered because of this. The Ethiopian Army has gone after the invaders, but has issues with having equipment. Now lacking the defensive arms that Ethiopian army gotten earlier from the US Government. Mengistu wasn’t in the way of ordering new shipments of arms. This was more honoring older contracts and sending both ammo and spare parts to the Ethiopian Army. Also, that the arms would be delivered and resumed immediately (WikiLeaks, 1977).
There has been official Ethiopian Ambassador in Washington, USA. This is since 10. February 1975 (WikiLeaks, 1977).
There been rotations and new appointments in the government there is 32 who are both civilian and military that are changing positions. This is three ministers, an Armed Force Chief, Air Force Commander and 16 Ambassador-designated (WikiLeaks, 1977).
4th October 1977:
The Nigerian Federal Commissioner for Internal Affairs Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi was in Addis Abeba the 3rd October. The Nigerian President Gen Olusegun Obasanjo sent a special message to PMAC Haile Mariam Mengistu. In that message it was details on his mission to establish normal relations between Somalia and Ethiopia. Make sure that they follow the good progress for the meetings in Gabon in August and follow up these. Still with these negotiations happening there is still heavy fighting in the Ogaden. Ethiopia will like the Nigerian efforts both for Inter-African but also on an international perspective (WikiLeaks, 1977).
31st October 1977:
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca is reporting that Mengistu will shortly take a trip to Cuba to meet Castro. This will escalate the presence of Cubans in Ethiopia and might make a difference in the friendship between the nations. This visit from Mengistu might not deliver any change to the relationship if the comments from US Policy Advisor Alfredo Ramirez Otero. Even Castro doesn’t have a specialty for Africa in any way politicially. The Cubans has already a tiny presence in 300 “teachers”. There is a big possibility that the Cubans have forces fighting the Somalian for the Ethiopians. The Cubans want to have talks between the Government of Somalia and the Government of Ethiopia. It is accepted that the Soviet and Cubans have told Mengistu has to show moderation towards the US. The Cubans are opposing the struggle against the Ogaden and the Eritrean. Malmierca has said “that the Ethiopian and Somalian should get into some talks” (WikiLeaks, 1977).
The Ethiopian Foreign Minister Felleke Gedle-Ghiogis will be in Sierra Leone for a OAU Ethio-Sudan Committee meeting (WikiLeaks, 1977).
28th November 1977 – Italian Communist Party visit Addis:
The Italian Communist Party has favored the Ethiopia over Somalia. Italian Communist leader Giancarlo Pajetta a MP in Italy has visited Ethiopia. The plan was made by Berlinguer and a Derg Representative. It was on the 60th Anniversary celebration in early November in Moscow. The Italian Communist Party has been unsure about the Ogaden war and the Ethiopian Revolution. The Italians have traditionally supported the Somalia’s and the road to Socialism and the alliance with Moscow. Because of the visit they now show their full support of Ethiopians. Pajetta feels the PMC Mengistu devotion to the world communist cause. The Italians has tried to get the Ethiopians to have talks with the Somalis. The Ethiopians will not discuss anything with them until the forces from Somalia are out of the territory. Pajetta had hope that the friendship with Ethiopia would open it up talks. The visit of Pajetta most important effect is that the PMC will have the Moscow support of EPMG and also support the Eritrean liberation force PLF. They want to give them autonomy from Addis. There have also been no words that Pajetta also went to Mogadishu (WikiLeaks, 1977).
14th December 1977:
Haile Mariam Mengistu told two U.S. congressmen: “it is not our objective to cross our borders once we have thrown the Somalis out of Ethiopia. We intend to repeat the same mistake as the Somalis”. Mengistu stated further: “Policy of non-aligment” (…)”Peace, equality and social justice” (…)”A struggle is going on at every level between those who would like to see the old reinstituted and those who are determined to protect the revolution” (…)”intent and the objective of the revolution have been remain the restoration of Human Rights to the greatest majority of the Ethiopian people”. Representative Bonk from the congress is hoping for a peaceful solution in the Ogaden region, the Chairman of the PMC Mengistu said it wasn’t necessary to involve the OAU in the conflict (WikiLeaks, 1977).
Said Barre went on a visit to Madagascar where he hold a speech at the international airport in Antananarivo where the message was “Other party (Ethiopia)” should also come to Madagascar. Barre said the talks with the Madagascar government officials where he said: “the great questions of today notably concerning eastern Africa, the Somali-Ethiopian conflict, Somali-Malagasy relation” (WikiLeaks, 1977).
Hope this have given you some insights and been inspiring!
WikiLeaks – ‘ETHIOPIA AND CUBA ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS’ (22.07.1975) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ADDIS08717_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘SHAKE-UP IN TOP MILITARY COMMAND STRUCTURE’ (25.07.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS04505_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘NEW HIGH-LEVEL CIVILIAN AND MILITARY APPOINTMENTS’ (19.09.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS05529_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘LAND REFORM SEMINAR OPENS IN ADDIS ABABA’ (30.01.1975) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ADDIS01173_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘REPORTS OF MILITIA MOVEMENTS TO COMBAT AREAS’ (15.07.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS04332_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘NIGERIAN EFFORT TO MEDIATE HORN CONFLICT’ (04.10.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS05786_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘PROPOSED ITINERARY FOR VISIT TO THE HORN: ETHIOPIA’ (25.11.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS06574_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘VISIT OF SOMALI PRESIDENT TO MADAGASCAR;’ (24.12.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ANTANA02363_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘ETHIOPIAN REACTION TO MAO DEATH’ (10.09.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS10196_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘SOVIET PRESS SUMMARY – SEPT 29’ (29.09.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976MOSCOW15363_b.html
WikiLeaks –‘SITUATION IN ETHIOPIA AS OF 1500 HOURS (EST) FEB. 19, 1975’ (19.02.1975) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE036564_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘VIETNAM MESSAGE OF SUPPORT FOR ETHIOPIA’ (17.05.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS03091_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘CONVERSATION WITH EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR’ (30.05.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS03366_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘EAST GERMAN PARTY-GOVERNMENT DELEGATION VISIT TO ETHIOPIA’ (17.06.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS03805_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘ETHIOPIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DENIES’ (09.08.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977STATE187303_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘VISIT OF EEC REPRESENTATIVE – CLAUDE CHEYSSON’ (26.05.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS03305_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘ENCIRCLEMENT CONSPIRACY CONDEMNED AS DEFENSE CAMPAIGN PREPARATIONS CONTINUE’ (23.07.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS03917_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN ADDIS ON MENGITSU BRIEFING’ (19.07.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977MOSCOW10403_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘THE HORN AS SEEN BY FORMER ETHIOPIAN OFFICIAL’ (08.08.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977PARIS22990_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘VISIT OF HIGH-LEVEL ETHIOPIAN DELEGATION’ (31.10.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977HAVANA00485_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘TENSIONS AGAIN PEAKING IN THE DIRG?’ (22.04.1975) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ADDIS12499_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘SITUATION IN ADDIS’ (24.04.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS04909_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘AFTERMATH OF SEPT 26 RALLY’ (29.09.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS10614_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY DELEGATION AFFIRMS SUPPORT OF ETHIOPIAN SOCIALIST REVOLUTION’ (28.11.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS06603_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘INR/AF ASSESSMENT OF ETHIOPIAN SITUATION’ (25.11.1974) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE259383_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘ETHIOPIAN POSITION ON MIDDLE EAST SETTLEMENT’ (06.07.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS04154_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘WOUNDED VICE CHAIRMAN GIVES PRESS CONERENCE’ (25.09.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS10518_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘ETHIOPIAN VIEWS ON REFUGEES’ (22.07.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS03887_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘PMAC FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN ADDRESSES THE NATION/ SUMMARY’ (21.04.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS04821_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘MEETING WITH MENGISTU’ (29.08.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS05172_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘PMAC CHAIRMAN MENGISTU SPEAKS MIND’ (25.08.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS05132_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘AAPSO MASS RALLY AND DELEGATE MEETINGS WITH PMAC FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN , MAJOR MENGISTU’ (03.11.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS11444_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘IS FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN MENGISTU ILL?’ (24.05.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS06257_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘REPORTED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON MENGISTU’ (24.09.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS10506_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘MENGISTU SPEECH AND PROPOSALS AT OAU SUMMIT’ (07.07.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS04183_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH AT NAVAL COLLEGE AND MILITARY ACADEMY GRADUATION’ (01.06.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS03435_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘PMAC CHAIRMAN PROTESTS US ARMS ASSISTANCE TO SOMALIA’ (05.08.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS04752_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘PRESS RELEASE OF CODEL TSONGAS/BONKER FOLLOWING’ (14.12.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS06851_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘MENGISTU’S TV INTERVIEW’ (02.05.1977) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977ADDIS02738_c.html
WikiLeaks – ‘ANTI-CIA PLACARDS AGAIN EVIDENT DURING EPMG-STAGED SOLIDARITY RALLY’ (27.09.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS10527_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘PMAC’S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY PROGRAM: EMBASSY’S INITIAL COMMENTS’ (22.04.1976) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ADDIS04881_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘CONG. TESTIMONY: AF CONTRIBUTION TO Q AND A’S’ (28.11.1974) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE262329_b.html
WikiLeaks – ‘THE DIRG AND THE GOVERNMENT’ (02.10.1975) Link: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ADDIS11773_b.html
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Windrush: David Lammy MP letter to PM Theresa May – “Re: Windrush cases – Exceptional Case Funding” (17.05.2018)
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Opinion: Why is PM May deliberately stupid?
Today on the 13th May 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May wrote an article on Facebook called: ‘Trust me, I’ll take back control — but I’ll need your help’. This is an article on her defense on her and her parties stance on Brexit, as it is supposed to address the lacking framework for the negotiations with the European Union, as the United Kingdom is withdrawing their membership. However, she must think the electorate of United Kingdom are a bunch of fools.
Since she wrote first this: “We will leave the Single Market because staying in the Single Market means continued free movement of people, but we will maintain the strongest possible trading partnership with our European neighbours and create new trade deals around the world ensuring that we seize the opportunities to build an economy that works for everyone”. Than to continue the hogwash, she wrote this: “And we will leave the Customs Union so we can establish our own independent trade policy and negotiate trade deals in our interests. I have proposed different options for a new customs arrangement with the EU and the government will continue to develop them during the negotiations”. Later, the final nail in coffin of nonsense, she wrote this: “This means there can be no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, or between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. We will uphold the Belfast Agreement in full – and we will ensure the constitutional and economic integrity of the whole United Kingdom. Second, any agreements must create as little friction as possible for trade to protect the jobs that rely on speedy and integrated supply chains. These are a valued part of our economy, particularly for our manufacturing regions”.
So the takeout of this masterpiece of nonsense, was that the United Kingdom with the Tories at the helm, will leave the Single Market and the Customs Union, while trying to get friction-less trade. I hate to say it, but that will be impossible. As the standards for trading with the EU isn’t like that and they will not configure the whole system to fit the hands of May. She might think she is the wisest of them all and the Princess all of Europe looks up-too. However, she and Her Majesty’s Government have to follow guidelines. That is within reason of everyone else and all the other member states of the Union.
If the UK leaves the Single Market and Customs Union with the EU, they will be a significant less important trading-partner by default. They will have to have a hard-border, tariffs and check-points of delivery of the product in and between the British isles. I know that the Tories will say this is not true, but if making themselves a Third-Party State to the European Union, means the trading agreements will be as hectic as they are for Zimbabwe or any other random partner trading with the EU. It will be friction, there will be tariffs and will be checks of goods. The borders and movement of funds will be costly, as the third-party nation will not have advances and securities directly with the EU. That is why the standards and the tariffs are there. Because the EU will secure trading directly with other partners and within the Union. The ones who has already signed-off to be part of the Single-Market and its business model.
Theresa May should understand that with the disconnect from both entities within the EU, there will not be possible of a stop of goods and services. The trading agreements with the EU might help, but that will be new negotiations and also suspend possible trading that exists today. Because the EU cannot have similar standards as today with a Third Party State.
That is why I think May is deliberately stupid, as she should know better. She thinks she can mix sewage and water in the same pipes, not thinking someone will catch cholera. But that is what she does. She promise golden roads to heaven, but she should have idea what the proposals really means. As an outsider, I can say that I think, she is acting like a fool, and she takes the British for a ride. Unless, that is what the Kingdom likes to played around like pawns, while the Tories play power games with them. Because that is how it seems. As the deadline for withdrawal is there… getting closer and the Tories are looking more depleted, than anyone should think was possible. Peace.
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Brexit: The PMQ Today shows obvious signs that PM May doesn’t know what sort of deal she wants!
The Prime Minister Questions in the House of Commons this Wednesday 9th May 2018, proves a certain thing. That the Conservative Party and their coalition is not prepared or has any signs of where they are heading with the Brexit Negotiations. It is hectic mess of own dodgy unstable government, which is marred with internal conflict and egos. That all want their slices of the pot, but is not considering the implications of their actions. How can I say that, well, let me take the significant answer from PM Theresa May today, which show it all!
“We are leaving the customs union. What we are doing is ensuring that we deliver customs arrangements but leave the customs union, ensure no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, as frictionless trade with the EU as possible, and an independent trade policy. What would Labour give us? It wants to go into a customs union with the European Union, with no say over trade policy and with Brussels negotiating trade deals in its interests, not our own. The Labour manifesto said that it wanted to strike trade deals, but now it has gone back on that policy. Typical Labour—letting Britain down once again” (Theresa May, 09.05.2018).
It is like she is dreaming, its like she doesn’t know how the European Union operates or how negotiations work. As she is thinking she can get the specialized agreement with “non” or “soft-border” in Ireland/Northern Ireland, however, still having hard borders towards the rest of the Union. Where they will not be delivering to the protocol of trade or movement. Because that is the main issue of the Brexiteers. That is not how the world works or how the EU would accept. Because if you have soft-border one place, you have soft-border all around the island.
When I hear the PM speak, has she heard from the EU:
“The European Union is giving the U.K. a take-it-or-leave-it offer over customs union membership. Remaining in the regime must be on the EU’s terms, the conditions won’t change, and it would mean Britain having no independent trade policy, Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned. “We can’t change our rules; our rules will remain the same,” Barnier told a business conference in Sofia on Thursday. “When you’re in a customs union for goods, like Turkey for example, you become part of a common trade policy — you don’t have autonomy anymore.” (Okov, Slav & Wishart, Ian – ‘EU Won’t Adapt Customs Union Rules to Suit Britain, Barnier Says’ 26.04.2018, Bloomberg).
So clearly, the mark has been missed. The Tories has no idea about this trade-deals and the movement, as the EU will be hard-lining the rules and regulations that all the member-states has put together. That is why the Tories are walking towards becoming a third-party state to the EU and will meet the same demands that has. Seemingly, the Brexiteers are thinking of how that will be. Its like the British is forgetting that to get into the marketplace, you have to follow the standards of that one. You can try to make your own, but that takes time. And the time is not the side of the UK right now. They have less time, they have squandered the time and now the clock is ticking.
Therefore, I have hard to believing the PM understand or has underestimated the consequences, maybe because it doesn’t hit home. It everyone else, just like the sorry misfortune of the Windrush generation, this sort of diplomatic and foreign affairs doesn’t directly hit the PM and her party. That is why it doesn’t cost to botch it or to misuse the precious time to get it fixed.
We know she did repeat herself later while answering a question put by Matt Western:
“As I said earlier, there are two options for delivering on the objectives that we have set. We will leave the customs union, we want to ensure that there is no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, we want to ensure that there is as frictionless trade as possible between the UK and the EU, and we want to ensure that we can have an independent trade policy. I say to the hon. Gentleman that what is not credible is a Labour party policy that wants us to be in a customs union, giving all the power for negotiating our trade deals to Brussels, with no say whatsoever for the UK” (Theresa May, 09.05.2018).
Therefore, the Brexiteers are still leaving the Kingdom into problematic shores, as they are cannot count on the paradigm shift or what the Tories really want. It is obvious with the talk and answers, that the UK Government, don’t know or doesn’t understand the implications it will bring. Like they are naive and thinking they can get it exactly how they want and without any costs. That is not how these sort of things play out. However, then again, it is done by David Davis and Boris Johnson, so I am sure road to oblivion sounds better than Hackney. Peace.
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The Tories proved yesterday that shielding PM May is more important than the Windrush Generation!
Again, the Tories, the Theresa May backed alliance and the United Kingdom ruling party voted against the better judgement on a serious matter. As they have certainly overstepped and also misused their authority, by naming the Windrush Generation as ‘illegals’. They have again proven a point by their rulings within the House of Commons, where the majority of the Tories and their alliance members decided to close the inquiry and also look into the paperwork that has led to the people, whose been living in the kingdom for generation to be sent home. The lack of understanding and also self defence, proves that the Tories are afraid, that this will expose the time when Theresa May was the Secretary of Home Office. That she put forward the agenda, that Amber Rudd continued. Therefore, the Tories are shield the PM, but not the constituents. You really see who matters and who doesn’t in society, when the Tories are shielding themselves, but not opening for the reality of what they did.
“That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to give directions that the following papers be provided to the Home Affairs Committee: all papers, correspondence and advice including emails and text messages, from 11 May 2010 up to and including 1 May 2018, to and between Ministers, senior officials and Special Advisers relating to policy decisions including on the Immigration Acts 2014 and 2016 with regard the Windrush generation cases, including deportations, detentions and refusal of re-entry, the setting of deportation and removal targets and their effect on the Windrush generation, and action taken within Government following the concerns raised by Caribbean Governments with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office including the original decision by the Prime Minister not to meet Caribbean Heads of Government and officials, and all copies of minutes and papers relating to the Cabinet’s Immigration Implementation Taskforce” (Opposition Day – Windrush Generation Standing Order 9, 02.05.2018).
Because on this matter, it was following the party lines, it was the Conservatives, the Democratic Unionist Party and one independent that voted Noes to it, they we’re a total of 316. While the ones voting Ayes, was the Labour, Green Party, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, Scottish National Party and they are total of 221. Therefore, the documents get to be behind close doors, unless a whistleblower releases a dossier of information to hurt the agenda of May. Since she is now shielded for her scrupulous activity as the previous Home Secretary.
This is really insane, that the Tories are shielding the Prime Minister over the lives of people whose whole life has been in the United Kingdom, that the determination and the decisions to keep the blatant disregard for their lives over one person’s political life. It really shows how little policy or little lives matter to the Conservatives, when they can destroy others, but cannot investigate themselves. This is a refusal to open government and to see what the Tories did wrong.
The UK government should be ashamed, should be disgusted and be in disbelief, they are not the pillar of democratic values, and neither a beacon of hope in the midst of bad behaviour. Because they are doing that themselves to their own citizens, stripping them of their nationhood and calling them illegal. When they have lived there generations and where allowed to enter back-in-the-day.
Nothing noble about this. It’s a theft of other people’s hard work and dedication, their will to move and settle down. Its theft of hope and also courage to move to a foreign place to set up shop. Instead of fixing the issues, they made it worse and now they cannot even stomach people looking into the mess the Tories themselves created. Because, because they are afraid of what May did in the past. Cowards, weaklings and disgusting human beings who should look into themselves and their attitudes as they have put other people in disarray, but are not doing anything to promise to fix it.
Except saving the grace of her grace, the Prime Minister, because she is apparently more important than the commoners, the people and the ones who seek refuge in the United Kingdom back-in-the-day. Peace.
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Opinion: Cambridge Analytica is bankrupt, but don’t believe the hype – The ugly baby got a new name!
Well, if there ever was someone, who used their profits and riches to rig modern-day elections, it would be the tech billionaire Robert Mercer. He is behind the Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), who had the Cambridge Analytica as their daughter Company, whose been involved in election all around the globe. Taking personal data from the social media, making campaigns and manipulated news-cycles. These companies has used Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Mainstream Media to hit the public and done it with perfection.
Now today, Cambridge Analytica announced this: “Earlier today, SCL Elections Ltd., as well as certain of its and Cambridge Analytica LLC’s U.K. affiliates (collectively, the “Company” or “Cambridge Analytica”) filed applications to commence insolvency proceedings in the U.K. The Company is immediately ceasing all operations and the boards have applied to appoint insolvency practitioners Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP to act as the independent administrator for Cambridge Analytica. Additionally, parallel bankruptcy proceedings will soon be commenced on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC and certain of the Company’s U.S. affiliates in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York” (Cambridge Analytica, 02.05.2018).
So the official company is down, however, the men in background has hit the ground running. They have no plan to back-down, they are just leaving one trademark and company name behind and creating another one. Because while the scrutiny, the leaks and the truth about the shady involvement in the elections from Cambridge Analytica has appeared, they have incorporated since 11 August 2017, a new Company named Emerdata Limited.
Emerdata Limited appointed Alexander Nix as the director on the 23rd January 2018, so that he got suspended in March 2018, didn’t matter to much. Because he extended his work within the Mercer network. Other familiar faces which is directors within the company is Julian Wheatland, Rebekah Mercer, Jennifer Mercer, Cheng Peng, and Dr. Alexander Taylor. All of these has been part of Cambridge Analytica. All of these previous leaders from the other company that went bankrupt today, has been moved here within February and March. Therefore, a careful soul knows that this has been in the making. To think otherwise, it is to underestimate the ones that already has done what it could to manipulate and change the paradigms of elections world over.
Just like Cambridge Analytica had other smaller arms of inner-works companies, the Emerdata Limited, has also a small company underneath that is called Firecrest Technologies Limited, a company incorporated by Alexander Nix on the 7th March 2018. Therefore, just as he was stepping down, he already had to running businesses within the Mercer family again. How convenient right?
What is even better, just like the Brexit Campaigns with BeLeave and Vote Leave was in same offices right? Well, the new companies within the Mercer family is both incorporated and have the same address. They have the same offices and the same people, they are based on the magical sphere of: Pkf Littlejohn 1 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf, London, England, E14 4HD. That cannot just be a mere coincidence, unless your naive. They already pulled of the same stunts within the campaigns of Brexit and now they are trying to do it again.
So don’t believe the hype, the ugly baby of Mercer got a new name and new package, just trying to spike up the next election with more Arm & Hammer. Expected to get the juice. Peace.
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Windrush: Letter from Marsha de Cordova MP to Home Secretary Sajid Javid – “Re: Chartered deportation flights” (01.05.2018)
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Windrush: Amber Rudd letter of Resignation (29.04.2018)
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Windrush: Amber Rudd Letter to PM Theresa May – Immigration Enforcement (30.01.2017)
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Windrush Scandal: Amber Rudd MP letter to Yvette Cooper MP concerning the Windrush Generation(24.04.2018)
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Brexit: Possible breaches of Campaign Laws for the ‘Vote Leave’ and ‘BeLeave’ within the Cambridge Analytica sphere!
On the 13th April, the British Parliament published their Legal Opinion on the ‘Vote Leave’ or Brexit Campaigns that was connected to the Cambridge Analytica, Aggregate IQ Data Services Ltd (AIQ) and others. This is was a specific plan that was hired to secure the well-funded campaigns and strategies to get the result they wanted. This companies was hired by all parties that matters in the wish to leave the European Union (EU). This was the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP) and even the Conservative Party (Tories). All of them has paid for services within these companies. Therefore, the investigation will reveal how they operated.
The Cambridge Analytica and AIQ was sophisticated measures of forcing their messages to the public. Where even the consultants wasn’t working separately from each other. What is also seen is these campaign officials are now part of the advisers of the Prime Minister, these being Stephen Parkinson and Cleo Watson, who both has prominent roles within the Downing Street. What is striking is how these officials was part of the ‘Vote Leave’, while the separate campaign ‘BeLeave’ run from the same offices wasn’t stopped. If this wasn’t done misuse power and also manpower, what isn’t?
So this mismatch of organization, combined with the setting, shows how they we’re not truthful of the information and the spreading of information within the structure. Neither, was the collections of personal information and the analyzes used to hit the regions that could be swayed for the Brexit. This was specialized tactics and also moving in ways that was not following British Campaign laws.
You know that is all operated together with a flinch of evidence, it couldn’t be more blatant:
“We have seen screenshots relating to BeLeave’s shared drive within Vote Leave’s Google Drive space, which, according to J, was administered by Victoria Woodcock, Vote Leave’s Chief Operating Officer. On 10 March J was invited by Mr Grimes to join the BeLeave shared drive. Many of those with access to the shared drive had Vote Leave email addresses” (Matrix Chambers, 2018).
When your sharing the same cloud space online and the same shared drive, even the emails, there is no question of how you move and how you work. You wouldn’t have shared interests and shared intelligence, if your having all digital content combined. All content was connected and therefore, they knew of each other. Therefore, they could massage the messages and use their techniques to strike the public together.
The Opinion is showing how the campaign crossed the lines of donation and personal spending, also practices of mismanagement on purpose to secure the Vote Leave didn’t earn more funds after law, therefore helping Be Leave Campaign, even as it was run from the same offices with different British Nationals running them. That Vote Leave raised more funds than the £7,000,000 pounds spend on the campaign.
We know it is serious, when the Committee of the Parliament wants more investigation into it and refers it all to the Crown Prosecution Service. Where they want all parties involved possibly prosecuted for their electoral malpractice.
That these sort of activities needs to be looked into, as we know Cambridge Analytica misused personal information from Facebook, breached privacy laws to be able to engineer results and messages for parties within the United Kingdom. They has also now worked together and made sure the BeLeave and Vote Leave misused provisions within the Electoral Law. Clearly, the UK and their parties are not as clean and democratic as they want to be.
This sort of practices and use of power within the electorate is a warning sign. How international companies and tech-companies are getting involved in digital marketing and in targeting the electorate. If the ones fighting for the EU Referendum and for the leaving the Union did this. What did the bigger parties, than the Tories and Labour? What sort of connections and digital fingerprint did they have?
This are people who are close to Theresa May at Downing Street, the stretch from power is very short. It’s like when David Cameroon hired the advisers directly from media, as the May has followed suit, but more modern than hiring from newspapers and Murdoch companies. Therefore, the ones who was part of this, should worry for their positions within the close inner-circle of the Prime Minister. This sort of legal opinion should hit the Tories hard and the PM especially. Since the ones who is advising her, was in the midst of the shady operations done by AIQ & Cambridge Analytica, as well as the BeLeave and Vote Leave circles.
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Maldives committed to carbon neutral aims despite political uncertainty
The government says it remains committed to pursuing the previous administration’s carbon neutral ambitions despite recent political tensions reportedly affecting investment potential for such schemes.
Environment Minister Dr Mariyam Shakeela contended that some of the programs presently being undertaken by her ministry had started seven years previously – before Former President Mohamed Nasheed came to power – and were being adhered to on the grounds they would benefit the nation.
“We are continuing with the carbon neutrality program,” she said. “ We are giving it our best shot.”
Nasheed, who alleges he was forced to resign under duress back in February of this year, claimed that resulting political tensions from his ouster had all but ended hopes of achieving these aims. The former president aimed to position himself globally as a high profile advocate for pursuing carbon neutral developments.
However, as the Maldives commits itself to a new US$138 million project that it has claimed within five years will generate 16 megawatts of renewable energy, one regional environmental organisation has called for greater collaboration between Indian Ocean nations to drive sustainability.
Mumbai-based NGO, the Centre for Environmental Research and Education (CERE) has told Minivan News that despite being a small island state, the Maldives stood as a good indicator of how other larger nations could scale up its programs to successfully undertake green initiatives.
“Maldives needs to assume a bigger role in the sustainability dialogue with India and a clear road map on how this will be achieved has to be stipulated,” CERE stated, pointing to the key commitments it hoped to see from the present government.
The comments were made as the Maldives Energy Authority yesterday told local media that once the US$138 million project became operational, ten islands within the country would be entirely powered with renewable energy. The ministry contended that a further 30 percent of the total energy demands of 30 islands would be “converted” to renewable energy.
Minister of State for Environment and Energy, Abdul Matheen Mohamed, said that a so-called Sustainable Renewable Energy Project (SREP) was also set to be conducted on 50 islands with assistance from organisations like the Climate Investment Fund as part of wider national sustainability commitments, according to Haveeru.
Environment Minister Dr Shakeela confirmed to Minivan News today that the SREP scheme was directly related to the the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries devised under the previous government of former President Nasheed.
Some of the key minds who helped devise the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) for the former government said earlier this year that the project had fallen through after political instability following February’s controversial transfer of power had deterred potential investors in the scheme.
Dr Shakeela, who was in Hyderabad, India, for the 11th Convention on Biological Diversity confirmed that the project had been within the Economic Ministry before she retrieved and reviewed the plans.
“I worked on it with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the IFC and it has now been finished,” she said.
“I think it is important [to understand] that our ministry does not categorise projects according to who has [initiated them]. Our plan is to continue them with all the policies and programs as long as they are not detrimental to the economy.”
The government of President Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan has previously stressed that it was committed to “not completely” reversing the Nasheed administration’s zero carbon strategy: “What we are aiming to do is to elaborate more on individual sustainable issues and subject them to national debate.”
As well as committing to trying meet the carbon neutral goals of his predecessor, President Waheed has also announced plans to make the Maldives the world’s largest marine reserve within the next five years five.
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Addressing the Maldives’ ongoing eco-commitments, CERE claimed that the main challenge for carbon reduction developments both in the country and around the world was to show sustainability projects could actually be synonymous with economic benefit.
CERE Co-Founder Kitayun (Katy) Rustom claimed that the organisation continued to try and advocate green strategies that defied traditional perceptions of sustainability being seen as ‘anti-development’ or ‘anti-growth’.
“It is necessary for all of countries to realise that our window of opportunity for carbon reduction is only till 2020 – after this it will be next to impossible to mitigate the disastrous and irreversible impacts of climate change,” she claimed.
“The key challenge is to see carbon reduction as a positive economic initiative.”
Rustom said that the Maldives’ ongoing attempts to become a carbon neutral economy were well publicised in India and reflected a “commonality of purpose” between the two nations.
“India is one of the most vulnerable to climate change especially with respect to sea level rise – just like the Maldives – since it has a 7,500 km long coastline and even a one metre rise in sea levels will submerge an estimated 5,700 square kilometres displacing millions of people,” she added.
“Of course, there are a host of other catastrophic impacts that climate change will have on our country. India does not see itself as any different from the island states in the Indian Ocean and it understands the need of working on a united platform.”
Rustom added that she ultimately hoped for much more defined collaborations between the authorities of Indian Ocean nations in future.
“A cross-sharing of carbon reduction strategies need to be encouraged and formalised in which quantitative targets need to be spelt out. The Maldives needs to assume a bigger role in the sustainability dialogue with India and a clear road map on how this will be achieved has to be stipulated,” she said.
“Perhaps the Ministry of Environments of both countries can set up a Indian-Maldivian Committee to work on this mission and lay down specific goals.”
Earlier this year, former President Nasheed’s Climate Change Advisor – UK-based author, journalist and environmental activist Mark Lynas – said that after the controversial nature of the transfer that bought the present government to power, he was sceptical of its ability to take stands on sustainable development.
Lynas claimed that the loss of “democratic legitimacy” in the Maldives had destroyed its ability to make a moral stand on climate change-related issues, and be taken seriously.
“I think that the Maldives is basically a has-been in international climate circles now,” said Lynas, who drew a monthly stipend of Rf10,000 (US$648) for expenses whilst serving in his position.
“The country is no longer a key player, and is no longer on the invite list to the meetings that matter. Partly this is a reflection of the political instability – other countries no longer have a negotiating partner that they know and understand,” he said.
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Posted on October 15, 2012 October 16, 2012 Author Neil MerrettCategories Business & Tourism, Environment, Society & CultureTags "The Island President", Dr Mariyam Shakeela, maldives, maldives news, Mark Lynas, Ministry of Energy and Environment, President Dr Mohamed Waheeed Hassan, renewable energy, sustainable development
9 thoughts on “Maldives committed to carbon neutral aims despite political uncertainty”
Dhivehi Hanguraama says:
Again with this nonensense. So again I must speak and repeat the truth.
Climate-change, like neurologism and evolutionism is nothing more than a pseudo-science wielded by zionist and secular fanatics with the intention of inducing the world into mass hysteria for the benefit of their diabolical power plays.
If evolutionism were true Chimpanzees would be giving birth to Humans and Alligators would be giving birth to Giraffes.
If Neurologism were true and our brain runs on electrial impulses beholden to physical laws rather than by an immaterial soul, too much thinking would cause our brains to overheat, catch fire and melt.
If Climate-change were true, the snow on top of the Himalayas should have melted by now and submerged the entire subcontinent in snow.
Deeper investigation into the so called “Global Warming” myth actually yields a picture completely at odds with what we’re being told. For instance, did you know that snowfall has actually been on the increase?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7101397.stm
Any fool gullible enough to fall for the lunatic theories of the madmen that comprise the Western “Scientific” community should be garrotted on the spot immediately.
Sappe' says:
SREP stands for Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries - http://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/cif/srep
Ashiyath says:
Really Lynas? So we deserve to sink?
Dhonbe says:
I see, the entire worth of the Maldivian people and our right to stay above the ocean are all entirely contingent on which political party is in power - specifically that political party which is headed by Nasheed.
And these certain international factions have the audacity to question OUR ability to take a moral stance? Really?
Hypocrite regime....
can not be trusted!
Hasim says:
Completely agree with comments made by Ashiyath.
Mark Lynas and his cronies are nothing but a bunch of white, Neo-Colonial, barbarians.
Really, so, just because there is a new government, suddenly the ground-truths of the Maldives sinking have changed ? The Maldivian government should issue a life-time ban for Lynas and his cronies like Mike Mason ever visiting the Maldives. Maldivians can solve their own problems - we have done so for thousands of years when the ancestors of Lynas were still living in caves.
Hashim Amla says:
Dhivehi Hanguraama. You make me laugh every time you post. I can't figure out if you're actually serious or are just trolling....quality entertainment anyway, thanks.
Begone with you, I am a scholar, not a based comedian.
Climate-change is a pseudoscience that was popularized by the insane rantings of Al-Gore.
You did it again! Made me laugh.
A scholar hahahahaaa....of what?
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Bullish trend reversal in UltraShort Long-term T-bond (TBT)
By Deron Wagner | October 15, 2010
The major indices took a breather yesterday, as stocks closed slightly lower across the board. In an intraday pattern that was the opposite of the previous day’s action, stocks trended lower throughout the morning, then recovered off their lows in the afternoon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to finish unchanged, but the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 Index slipped 0.2% and 0.4% respectively. The small-cap Russell 2000 edged 0.2% lower, as the S&P MidCap 400 lost 0.5%. The Dow finished in the upper quarter of the day’s range, while the rest of the main stock market indexes closed near the middle of their intraday ranges.
Volume receded slightly, enabling the broad market to dodge a “distribution day.” Total volume in the NYSE was 2% lighter than the previous day’s level. Turnover in the Nasdaq eased 12%. Trading in both exchanges remained above 50-day average levels. Market internals were negative, but not by a wide margin. In the NYSE, declining volume exceeded advancing volume by just over 2 to 1. The Nasdaq adv/dec volume ratio was only fractionally negative.
Several times over the past week, we briefly discussed are trailing stop strategy for maximizing profits on winning trades, specifically with regard to our long position in iShares Emerging Markets Bond Fund (EMB). Yesterday, EMB pulled back, triggering our tight trailing stop and knocking us out of the trade with a gain of approximately $2,000 (4.4 points, including an October dividend distribution). As you may recall, because the ETF was starting to become short-term “overbought,” and was already showing a gain of approximately 3 times our average losing trade, we shifted to a tighter stop based on the 20-period moving average on the hourly chart. Since EMB closed below that moving average yesterday, it may be headed for a short-term correction. For long-term traders and investors willing to hold through a pullback, price action has not yet given any reason to sell. However, because the plays of this newsletter are short intermediate-term, we wanted to lock in the profit, rather than sitting through a potentially time-consuming retracement.
Lackluster investor demand for thirty-year government T-bonds yesterday sparked a selloff in the bond ETFs. Key levels of technical support, such as the 50-day moving averages, were convincingly violated on high volume. This had the effect of causing the inversely correlated UltraShort 20+ Year T-Bond (TBT) to break out above resistance of the lengthy downtrend line. Volumen TBT was also the highest of any day since late August. The daily chart of TBT is shown below:
Notice that TBT formed a bottom in August, bounced into resistance of its 50-day moving average in September, then pulled back in late September and early October. However, the pullback caused a “higher low” to be formed on the daily chart. This is the first sign of a potential trend reversal. Then, yesterday’s action enabled TBT to blast through its 50-day moving average on strong volume. The move back above the 50-day moving average also corresponded to breakout above the downtrend line (dashed blue line). Upon spotting this action, we sent an Intraday Trade Alert to subscribers of The Wagner Daily, informing them we were buying TBT in the late afternoon. Our expectations for the trade is a short-term, momentum-driven rally to the area of the July 2010 highs. Our protective stop is about a point below convergence of the 20 and 50-day moving averages.
Going into today’s session, traders may want to keep an eye on US Oil Fund (USO), which we discussed in our commentary two days ago. Take a look at the current setup:
With USO consolidating in a tight range, right at resistance of its 200-day moving average, as well as its August 2010 highs, a move above yesterday’s high could spark significant momentum that leads to a new uptrend. We are already long the trade from two days ago, and USO is currently near our entry price. But traders who missed our initial entry point might consider a secondary entry on a breakout above yesterday’s high, and hence the 200-day MA.
There are no new setups in the pre-market today. However, now that we have closed a few trades, we have freed up buying power for new opportunities. If any new trades are spotted during the day, we will send an Intraday Trade Alert with details.
Yesterday was a rather active day for our portfolio. YCS, which failed its trend reversal after our entry, finally hit its stop. EMB hit our trailing stop, enabling us to lock in a nice $2000 gain. AMJ hit our trailing stop, locking in a small gain. Lastly, we entered a new trade in TBT via Intraday Trade Alert.
On October 1, EMB paid a dividend of $0.445 per share. The distribution has been included in the profit calculation of the trade.
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What makes Ranveer Singh the hottest in Tinsel Town?
From Bittoo to Bajirao, we have seen Ranveer Singh in many of his avatars and we have loved each one of them. Over these years he has grown immensely and has played versatile characters that have etched in our minds. Whether he is playing on the silver screen or not at the moment, his presence is pretty evident in the way that he moves in the film circuits. Some people may criticize him for being brash and loud, but that’s what makes him stand out, perhaps. He is out there- out in the open. So love him or hate him, but you can NEVER ignore him.
So when Ranveer Singh completed 5 years in the industry, last week, we knew we had to do something to participate in the celebrations!
He is suave
He is a ladies man. Pretty evident from the way he charms all his leading ladies. From Anoushka to Parineeti to Sonakshi to Deepika to Priyanka, all seem to be extremely fond of him. Their camaraderie is so evident on the interviews that you are sure he has been one of hell of an entertainer even on the sets.
Not just the way that he comes across, but also the way that he dresses. He is that cool dude who can carry a formal look and a boho look with equal elan. We have seen him as the guy next door Bitto to a casanova Vicky to a street style Romeo Ram (Goliyon Ki Raasleela- Ram Leela) and he has been able to carry each of the looks with such aplomb.
He is hot
Oh c’ mon, as if you never drooled over the body he flaunted in the song “Tatad-tatad” in Goliyon Ki Raasleela-Ram Leela. And of course, the song “Ang Laga De Re” just sealed the deal to his hotness level. He just looks so delicious in this song, that you never want it to end. And I have seen the movie on the big screen, not once!! The hotness quotient does not get any less if he plays Kabeer Mehra (Dil Dhadakne Do), the young scion of the Mehras who simply can’t make up his mind.
Ranveer Singh has proved that he is one of the hottest we have in the industry presently.
He is cool
How can someone look so hot yet so cool, all at the same time? Well, he does. He becomes the covetous Vicky in Ladies vs Vicky Bahl and then turns the reluctant Varun Srivastava in Lootera. He is so cool he can get into any character and make it his own. In spite of the fact that there are bigwigs like Anil Kapoor working beside him, he did not falter one bit in Dil Dhadakne Do and made a mark all of his own.
Not just his characters, but the way that he is in his life, just defines his cool attitude. Just recently he got many stars dubsmashing his dialogue from Bajirao Mastani including THE Big B, and that just goes on to show how cool he is!
He has the swag
Do you not recall the roll he got into with the AIB viral video. He has all the capability to get into controversies like that because he cares two hoots about what the world measures him as. Not only did he manage to create the roar but he swooped out of it just as smoothly. Not just that, he does not shy away from bringing out his funkiest, casual, wackiest, quirkiest self and yet appear so damn comfortable in his skin. He oozes confidence in each of his appearances whether it is on media, on the silver screen, on social media or even at the airport. He knows they notice him, and he’s all eager to show off!
He can act
Nopes, we would never argue about that. The Bitto Sharma still resides in our heart with his boy next door image and then with the vulnerability that he played Varun from Lootera completely etched him further. He is the one we look out for each year to come up with something that is different from his last appearance. And he never disappoints. He can act, alright. From bringing in the grins to enticing us with his sexiness to making us misty-eyed all in a single movie in Goliyon Ki Raas Leela-Ram Leela, he has shown versatility in each of the characters that he has played. It’s not just that he can act, but his eyes, his hair, his arms….they all act!
After 5 years, today, we wish Ranveer Singh many many more successful years in the movie business and may he shine even stronger than before. As far as Bajirao Mastani is concerned, am waiting for the BO window to open!!
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2 thoughts on “What makes Ranveer Singh the hottest in Tinsel Town?”
I love the Ranveer from BBB. I think no one could justify that character but him. 🙂
moviemassala says:
Agree Pooja…I loved him in that character too!
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Virginia Beach, VA 23460, USA
All-Navy Softball Teams want Gold at Home
NAS OCEANA Editor MARCOA Media
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Coastguardsmen from around the world have all converged on Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola to participate in the 2019 Armed Forces Softball Championships from Aug. 13-17, 2019.
Two NAS Pensacola-area Sailors - Chief Aircrew Survival Equipmentman Brandon Sterns from the Naval Survival Training Institute (NSTI), a component of the Navy Medicine Operational Training Center (NMOTC) and Lt. j.g. Monica Shifflet, attached to Aircraft Flight Training Squadron (VT) 86 were selected for the All-Navy Team and will be gunning for the Armed Forces gold.
In his second season with the All-Navy team, Sterns said, "The intensity (of the games) is incomparable. We have guys from everywhere across the globe coming here to compete for a spot on this team and the cool thing is, especially when you play longer and more competitive at the higher military levels, everyone knows each other on the other teams. It's the brotherhood you develop with people around the world, a chance for a gold medal and the honor to represent your service."
The All-Navy Men's team has high hopes this year after a heartbreaking defeat in the gold-medal game last year.
"We have a great squad again this year," said All-Navy Men's Head Coach, K.J. Johnson, NAS Whidbey Island sports coordinator. "We have a really good chance to win the gold this year for the first time since 1996."
The women's team is feeling pretty confident in their chances this year too, despite having a relatively new team.
"The team has only six veterans," said All-Navy Women's Head Coach, Operations Specialist 2nd Class Olivia Arellano, stationed aboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), homeported in San Diego. "Even with the majority of the team being fairly new, we all have the talent, we work together and communication is great, so this year I have a really good feeling about it. I definitely expect to medal and hopefully come out on top with the gold."
Each team will play nine games. The number of players from each team that get to go on to represent the military as a whole for the All-Armed Forces Team depends on where they finish in the tournament.
Sterns said that he saw thousands and thousands of people watching via Facebook Live from all over the world last year, but they would love the support in the stands to give them that home-field advantage.
For approximately 25 years, Pensacola Morale, Welfare and Recreation has hosted the All-Navy Men's and Women's Softball Team for tryouts and training camp. After this year, the All-Armed Forces Championship will be headed to a different service's base and the Navy will not host it again until 2026.
Historically there has not been very much support in the stands for the tournament. The tournament is open for all spectators with base access to come out and support their respective service team.
"We encourage anyone to come to the Barrancas Field onboard NAS Pensacola," said Brett Pelfrey, NAS Pensacola & Corry Station Sports Coordinator.
The schedule for the tournament can be found at: https://www.navymwrpensacola.com/programs/195abb9c-1616-4f40-85cd-ae0fe2c11f49
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Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) has gone 40 years without "doing it." Now his pals are making it their mission to help him score... fast! Can he survive their hilariously bad advice? Will he land in the arms of the way-too-experienced or the way-too-drunk? Or can he find true love where he least expects - from a gorgeous grandmother (Catherine Keener)? When it comes to sex, there's only one sure thing - The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Jonah Hill, Loudon Wainwright
© 2005 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Critics Consensus: Steve Carell's first star turn scores big with a tender treatment of its titular underdog, using raunchy but realistically funny comedy to connect with adult audiences.
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Micheal Compton
Carell and Keener have nice chemistry that is missing in a lot of romantic comedies. But that rela...
Leigh Singer
The scatological skits are predictably outrageous, but it's the attention to detail that really pa...
Patrick Nabarro
PJ Nabarro
Within its very mainstream, crowd-pleasing confines The 40 Year Old Virgin is actually a pretty en...
The 40-Year-Old Virgin knows what it's doing.
The Tyee (British Columbia)
Dorothy Woodend
On screen that takes about one minute in the final consummation, but in the case of the 40-Year-Ol...
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Chris Barsanti
Apatow's creative miscalculation here extends well beyond forgetting to give his characters much t...
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Judd Apatow might have been crowned the savior of American comedy, but the brutal truth is that he...
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A pleasant surprise, The 40 Year Old Virgin stands apart from other gross out comedies mainly beca...
Fernando F. Croce
Simultaneously subversive and reactionary
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Leave it to Judd Apatow to take a simple concept you'd find in basically any sex comedy, and add h...
Common Sense Says
A one-joke sex comedy that is not for kids.
Parents need to know that this movie is focused on a man's effort to lose his virginity. To that end, it leans heavily on verbal jokes and sight gags related to sex: crude slang for sexual activity, genitals, erections, bodily fluids, breasts, and dildos. By way of example: the first joke has to do with a woman having sex with a horse, though the language is much coarser and repetitive. The virgin and his three male coworkers/friends spend most of their time talking about sex, showing off or complaining about their conquests. They make homophobic remarks, go to bars and parties, ogle women (at one point, they see two girls kiss), play violent video games and watch violent (Dawn of the Dead [1978]) and pornographic movies. Women wear revealing outfits (one shows a nipple during a speed-date conversation), drink, drive badly, and throw up. Characters drink repeatedly, smoke pot, and curse frequently; one smokes cigarettes when he's depressed and another spends long minutes trying to put on a condom. Soundtrack features songs about sex and sexual desire (for instance, Missy Elliot's "Get Ur Freak On").
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MPavilion 14 November 2019 — 22 March 2020
2019: Glenn Murcutt
2018: Carme Pinós
2017: OMA
2016: Studio Mumbai
2015: AL_A
2014: Sean Godsell Architects
About MPavilion
Naomi Milgrom Foundation
Naomi Milgrom AO
Naomi Milgrom is the founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—a not-for-profit charitable organisation that exists to initiate and support great public design and architecture projects. MPavilion is commissioned by the Foundation, and its patron Naomi Milgrom has always championed projects that explore design’s close interconnection with contemporary culture. In doing so, she has sought to create new public and private partnerships in the civic space.
Architect 2019
Glenn Murcutt AO
Located in the Queen Victoria Gardens, opposite Arts Centre Melbourne on St Kilda Road, Melbourne.
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Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.
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No Time to Waste; Decline Drops New Single and Announces Tour
Decline has released a new single from the forthcoming EP “Own Your Words”, titled “Deteriorate”."Hardcore for us has always been as much about the message as it is the music. Along those lines, Deteriorate is the first song put out there off our 7" and it deals with the the pressures men and women face to attain the "perfect body" that movies and magazines tell us we need to have.” -Drummer Chad Rapper Listen to “Deteriorate” here: https://soundcloud.com/newagerecordsofficial/decline-deteriorate The band is playing extensively in the coming months: July7/28 Chicago IL7/29 Milwaukee WIAugust8/26 Chicago ILSeptember9/30 Chicago ILWest Coast Tour in October:10/5...
The New Age Records Roster Gets Bigger with Crow Killer
Salt Lake City’s Crow Killer have landed a spot on the New Age Records roster. The band, featuring ex-members of Aftermath of a Trainwreck, Cool Your Jets and Close Grip, will head to the studio this winter to record their first full length LP. "I’m thrilled to be working with Blake (Foard) again. We have been friends for over a decade and he’s one of the biggest contributors to the positive side of the hardcore community.Crow Killer is a reflection of that". -Mike Hartsfield, New Age Records
Drug Control Summer Tour Dates Announced!
The Drug Control West Coast Summer Tour 2017 is shaping up pretty well. DC will join up with their friends in Dare for the following dates: 8/23 San Diego, CA 8/24 Orange County, CA 8/25 Bay Area, CA 8/26 Portland, OR 8/27 Seattle, WA
Safe and Sound Announces First European Tour for July & August with Wake of Humanity
With the forthcoming EP “Ashes Lie and Wait” due out this July, Safe and Sound have announced their first European tour with their friends Wake of Humanity. Check them out at the dates below! 7/20 Prague, Czech Republic - Pre Fluff Fest Show 7/22 Rokycany, Czech Republic - Fluff Fest 7/24 Budapest, Hungary 7/25 Vienna, Austria 7/26 Kosice, Slovakia 7/27 Warsaw, Poland 7/28 Wroclaw, Poland 7/29 Berlin, Germany 7/30 Kiel, Germany 7/31 Hamburg, Germany 8/01 Iper, Belgium 8/02 Eindhoven, Netherlands 8/03 Leipzig, Germany
Welcome Treason to the New Age Records Family
We are thrilled to announce that we have added Cincinnati's own Treason the the New Age Records Family. Hardcore is alive and well in 2017… Hailing from Cincinnati, OH, Treason was formed out of necessity. With hardcore roots going back decades, the band felt a sense of obligation to represent the hardcore community and give back to what has given them such memories and purpose. Formed in 2017, Treason has members of Suffocate Faster, LAW, Culture, One Nation Under and Blood Has Been Shed, giving the band its own uniqueness both in sound and message. “I remember coming up and buying anything New Age...
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12-hour battery pack could address the Nintendo Switch's on-the-go woes
By Michael Irving
12-hour battery pack could add...
The SwitchCharge is an accessory for the Nintendo Switch that adds an extra battery pack for 12 hours more play, as well as a better kickstand
InDemand Design
The SwitchCharge wraps around the console to boost its battery life with a 12,000 mAh battery
The SwitchCharge includes slots for two extra game cards
Since it's designed specifically for the Switch, the SwitchCharge battery outputs at a high enough level to allow simultaneous playing and charging
The SwitchCharge adds a sturdier kickstand, which is adjustable to several different angles
With its own power supply, the SwitchCharge potentially solves one of our annoyances: namely, that to charge the console on the go, you need to dismantle your at-home setup
Since the charging port on the bottom is no longer blocked, the SwitchCharge allows gamers to play the Switch in tabletop mode while charging it
As we've said several times already, Nintendo's new gaming console, the Switch, is a blast, but there are a few niggles we'd like to see ironed out. The ability to play it anywhere comes at the cost of battery life, and trying to charge it on the go isn't as easy as we'd like it to be. The SwitchCharge is a new accessory designed to address these issues, and it's currently seeking funding on Indiegogo.
In our experience, the Switch's battery lasts about three or four hours – not too bad, especially if you're alternating between playing it at home and away, but those looking to kill a long flight could be out of luck. Try to top it up mid-game, and you'll run into even more frustrating issues: namely, the console is so power-hungry that some battery packs don't deliver enough juice, and even when they do, the port is on the bottom of the device so you can't play tabletop mode with it plugged in.
These are the main problems that London start-up InDemand Design is looking to address with the SwitchCharge. The device is designed to clip around the Switch and boosts its battery life with a beefy 12,000 mAh battery built into the bottom, which the company says should translate to an extra 12 hours of play. Since it was specifically made for the Switch, its output should be high enough to overcome that pesky problem of the battery draining faster than it's being topped up.
Packing that extra power into the base would also solve another annoyance we have: the fact that the console only comes with one power cord, meaning you have to dismantle your at-home setup whenever you want to charge it out and about. With the SwitchCharge bringing its own power supply, you could make sure it's fully prepped before you leave the house, and never have to detach the dock from the TV.
If it works as expected, the SwitchCharge should make tabletop mode more worthwhile. Not only would the built-in battery allow the Switch to be played on a table while being charged simultaneously, but a sturdier kickstand could prevent some unwanted falls. Rather than a flimsy piece of plastic on one side, the SwitchCharge is designed to spread the weight across two thicker legs, and it's adjustable to allow play at different angles.
To round it out, the company says that the SwitchCharge can be quickly connected or disconnected from the console, and there's two little slots in the top to store extra game cards.
InDemand Design is currently seeking funding for the SwitchCharge on Indiegogo, with a target of US$80,000. Early bird pledges start at $75 for the device and a power supply, while a pledge of $115 includes the device, power supply, screen protector and a carry case. If all goes as planned, shipping should begin in August this year.
You can check out the video below for more on the device.
Sources: InDemand Design, Indiegogo
SwitchCharge - The first battery case for the Nintendo Switch
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Michael has always been fascinated by space, technology, dinosaurs, and the weirder mysteries the universe. With a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and several years experience under his belt, he joined New Atlas as a staff writer in 2016.
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30. Oktober 2019, 8:32
Why Some Forms of Leukemia Only Affect Children
Fusion gene in tumor cells: Red signals show the ETO2 gene locus, green signals the GLIS2 locus and yellow signals the ETO2-GLIS2 fusion. Chrystele Bilhou-Nabera & Nassera Abermil, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris.
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) mainly affects children, with the prognosis often being poor despite several decades of research into more effective treatments. A new study led by researchers from the University of Basel and from Gustave Roussy Institute, Paris, explains why some forms of leukemia develop only in infants. The study also reveals potential new therapeutic targets, as the researchers report in the journal Cancer Discovery.
Over recent decades, research into pediatric cancer has intensified and treatments have improved, but the prognosis remains particularly unfavorable for young patients. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) accounts for 15% of cases of leukemia diagnosed in children and adolescents. Overall survival at age five is around 60%, with relapse being the most common cause of mortality.
Abnormal protein fusion
There are several subtypes of AML. One of the most aggressive types, which is linked to treatment resistance and a particularly unfavorable prognosis, is acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AML-M7). It was on this particular form of leukemia that the research teams of Prof. Dr. Jürg Schwaller (University Children’s Hospital Basel and Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Mercher (INSERM U1170 at Gustave Roussy Institute, Université Paris Saclay) focused their attention.
In 2012, the research team around Mercher found that AML-M7 frequently presents genetic alterations that lead to the expression of an abnormal protein resulting from the fusion of the two proteins normally independent in the cell. Although this fusion – known as ETO2-GLIS2 – has been identified in 30% of AML-M7 cases, the researchers had been unable to explain this abnormality. Similarly, it was unclear why children with AML-M7 are on average under age two while older children (on average towards the age of 6) are usually diagnosed with other pediatric AML subtypes.
Targeted inhibition
To address these questions, the researchers developed a mouse model of AML-M7 to study the expression of ETO2-GLIS2 fusion. In this model, the researchers could first show that the activation of ETO2-GLIS2 fusion in fetal hematopoietic cells is sufficient to rapidly induce aggressive leukemia – which is very similar to AML-M7. If, on the other hand, the fusion was activated in blood-forming cells of adult animals, this childhood leukemia did not occur, whereas other forms of AML developed much later. Moreover, by blocking ETO2-GLIS2 fusion in the in vivo model, researchers were able to bring tumor proliferation to a halt, with the abnormal blood cells once again able to differentiate into normal blood cells.
These findings suggest that this particular type of leukemia only occurs in infants because fetal hematopoietic cells – unlike adult ones – are more sensitive to certain genetic mutations such as ETO2-GLIS2 fusion. The study also shows that ETO2-GLIS2 fusion is the actual motor of this form of pediatric leukemia. The researchers will now try to directly inhibit the activity of this fusion in the tumor cells.
Prof. Dr. Jürg Schwaller, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Children’s Hospital Basel, phone +41 61 265 35 17, email: j.schwaller@unibas.ch
Cécile K. Lopez et al.
Ontogenic changes in hematopoietic hierarchy determine pediatric specificity and disease phenotype in fusion oncogene-driven myeloid leukemia
Cancer Discovery (2019), doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-18-1463
https://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2019/10/25/2159-8290.CD-18-1463
Universität Basel
Iris Mickein
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Friday Fossil Fuel Runoff
Eyes on the Ties’ Friday Fossil Fuel Runoff – October 6, 2017
By Rob Galbraith and Derek Seidman
Vol. 1, No.1
Welcome to the first installment of the Friday Fossil Fuel Runoff, a new Eyes on the Ties series rounding up snippets, blurbs, and links from around the web and highlighting some of the power politics behind the week’s fossil fuel industry developments. We’ll also include a link or two to a LittleSis resource that we think readers might appreciate. If you have any feedback or tips, or would like to subscribe to an email version of these posts, feel free to contact us at [email protected].
Dominion Energy plans expansion of not-yet-approved Atlantic Coast pipeline
On September 29th, the Associated Press reported on a leaked audio recording of a Dominion executive discussing expanding the Atlantic Coast Pipeline into South Carolina:
“It just fits into the whole idea that we’ve never really believed that Dominion is telling us the whole truth about the project and the gas and where the gas might go,” said David Sligh, conservation director of Wild Virginia, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving Virginia’s national forests.
PAI published a report on the power behind the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in June. You can read it here.
See our map of the power behind the Atlantic Coast Pipeline:
Shot: Fracking boom is dependent on billions in government subsidies
Without the $4.6 billion per year the fossil fuel industry receives in subsidies from the federal and state governments, nearly half of the oil production in the United States would be unprofitable, according to an October 2 report from the Washington Post.
Chaser: GOP proposes multibillion-dollar tax cut for oil companies
On October 5, Bloomberg highlighted how the Republican tax plan to slash the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% and allow the immediate deduction of capital investments would generate a “multibillion-dollar benefit” for US oil and gas producers.
ExxonMobil, the largest oil company in the United States, reported $7.8 billion in profits in 2016.
Explore the LittleSis profiles of the top 10 US oil and gas firms here.
Director of IOGCC, a government-led fossil fuel advocacy group, steps down
This week EnergyWire reported that Mike Smith, the executive director of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, was leaving his job.
The IOGCC is an influential quasi-regulatory body created by Congress in 1935 which has long been a quiet advocate for the fossil fuel industry. Investigations have traced key fracking exemptions from environmental laws back to IOGCC’s advocacy. The group also created the industry-funded FracFocus database, meant to ease concerns about the toxic chemicals in fracking fluid, but has been plagued with criticism.
According to EnergyWire, IOGCC executive director Smith was Secretary of Energy to Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating from 1995 to 2002 and served as assistant secretary for fossil energy in the Bush administration from 2002 to 2004.
For one example of IOGCC’s fossil fuel lobbying, see this LittleSis map by DeSmog Blog’s Steve Horn.
Virginia DEQ to decide on water permits for Atlantic Coast Pipeline in December
The Roanoke Times reports that the battle over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will face a key moment in December, when the Virginia DEQ will decide on whether or not to approve the water permits for it:
“DEQ still has a responsibility to recommend denial if protection is not assured and, despite its failure to conduct fair and transparent processes so far, I still have hope that the governor will insist DEQ follow the law and the science… If he does so, then DEQ will have no choice but to recommend denial.”
Police are gearing up to confront Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline protesters
StateImpact Pennsylvania reports that police in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, are preparing for protests as construction of the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline begins later this month:
“More than 1,000 people have signed a pledge to use civil disobedience to disrupt the work, according to Mark Clatterbuck of the group, Lancaster Against Pipelines (LAP). Construction on the pipeline began last month, but work is not expected to get underway in Lancaster until mid-to-late October.”
Check out LittleSis’s profile page for Williams Companies, the parent company behind the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.
More from LittleSis:
In case you missed them, check out these two Eyes on the Ties stories we posted in September!
“Eyes on the Ties’ Fracketeer of the Month: Stephen Schwarzman”
“Pro-Atlantic Coast Pipeline Op-Ed Fails to Disclose Funding from Duke Energy”
That’s all for this installment! If you have tips for next week or would like to subscribe to an email version of this post, please send us an email to [email protected].
In the Series:
atlantic sunrise
interstate oil and gas compact commission
iogcc
Former Obama EPA Official Now Lobbying for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Eyes on the Ties’ Fracketeer of the Month: Antony Ressler
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Robbie Caldwell
Video: Caldwell steps aside as Vanderbilt head coach
Nov. 27, 2010—Robbie Caldwell stepped down as Vanderbilt’s head football coach, effective after the Commodores’ Nov. 27 game with Wake Forest. Read the full release.
Caldwell steps aside as Vanderbilt head coach
Nov. 27, 2010—Robbie Caldwell stepped down as Vanderbilt’s head football coach, effective after the Commodores’ Nov. 27 game with Wake Forest.
VUCast: Helping troops fight a medical mystery and a Dore hits the small screen
Jul. 30, 2010—VUCast: Vanderbilt doctors uncover why troops are returning from the Middle East with a mysterious breathing problem. Plus, why Peabody is offering a unique new master’s program for free.
Bobby Johnson retiring as head football coach
Jul. 14, 2010—Watch excerpts from the July 14 news conference where Head Football Coach Bobby Johnson announced his retirement. Read more. Media Contact: Larry Leathers, (615) 322-4121 larry.leathers@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt head football coach Bobby Johnson retires
Jul. 14, 2010—Vanderbilt head football coach Bobby Johnson announced his retirement from college football at a July 14 news conference. Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor David Williams, who also spoke at the news conference, said he was shocked but he respected Johnson’s decision. “When he informed me, I tried to talk him out of it,” said Williams, vice chancellor...
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October security releases and v6 LTS "Boron" security inclusions
by Rod Vagg, 2016-10-15
(Update 18-October-2016) Releases available
Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines.
The following releases all contain fixes for CVE-2016-5180 "ares_create_query single byte out of buffer write":
Node.js v0.10.48 (Maintenance)
Node.js v4.6.1 (LTS "Argon")
While this is not a critical update, all users of these release lines should upgrade at their earliest convenience.
In addition, our new Node.js v6 LTS "Boron" release line is available beginning with Node.js v6.9.0 (LTS "Boron"). Along with the transition to Long Term Support, this release also contains the following security fixes, specific to v6.x:
Disable auto-loading of openssl.cnf: Don't automatically attempt to load an OpenSSL configuration file, from the OPENSSL_CONF environment variable or from the default location for the current platform. Always triggering a configuration file load attempt may allow an attacker to load compromised OpenSSL configuration into a Node.js process if they are able to place a file in a default location.
Patched V8 arbitrary memory read (CVE-2016-5172): The V8 parser mishandled scopes, potentially allowing an attacker to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code. This vulnerability would require an attacker to be able to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a Node.js process.
Create a unique v8_inspector WebSocket address: Generate a UUID for each execution of the inspector. This provides additional security to prevent unauthorized clients from connecting to the Node.js process via the v8_inspector port when running with --inspect. Since the debugging protocol allows extensive access to the internals of a running process, and the execution of arbitrary code, it is important to limit connections to authorized tools only. Note that the v8_inspector protocol in Node.js is still considered an experimental feature. Vulnerability originally reported by Jann Horn.
All of these vulnerabilities are considered low-severity for Node.js users, however, users of Node.js v6.x should upgrade at their earliest convenience.
Original post is included below
Node.js v6 LTS security inclusions
Next week, on Tuesday the 18th (late evening UTC), the Node.js Foundation will be launching its second new LTS release line, a continuation of the v6.x series of releases. This line will be codenamed "Boron" and the first version will be v6.9.0.
In addition to a change to introduce the process.release.lts property, set to 'Boron', we will also be including 3 low-severity security patches that only apply to the v6.x release series.
The security vulnerabilities being addressed are all low-severity and arise from Node.js dependencies:
OpenSSL when Node.js is built in FIPS-compliant mode (not official builds)
v8_inspector, a new experimental debugging protocol
These patches will also be included in the new v7.x Current (non-LTS) release series which is due to be launched later this month.
Node.js v6 is affected
Node.js v4 (LTS "Argon") is not affected
Node.js v0.12 (Maintenance) is not affected
CVE-2016-5180 "ares_create_query single byte out of buffer write"
A security vulnerability has been discovered in the c-ares library that is bundled with all versions of Node.js. Due to the difficulty of triggering and making use of this vulnerability we currently consider this a low-severity security flaw for Node.js users.
The patch has already been included in Node.js v6 and we will ensure that patched versions of the remaining affected versions are made available by Tuesday the 18th.
Node.js v6 is not affected
Node.js v4 (LTS "Argon") is affected
Node.js v0.12 (Maintenance) is affected
We apologise for the short notice of these releases.
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Woman up, Ms Gillard!
As soon as she took office, Julia Gillard signalled that she intended to take a hard line on the off shore processing of asylum seekers who arrive here by boat. The new Prime Minister announced a processing centre (sounds a bit like a fish canning enterprise) in East Timor without, it subsequently emerged, first having properly consulted with that country as to its willingness to partner with Australia in the venture.
As we know, the East Timor proposition came to nought, and served to position the new Prime Minister as a woman who perhaps spoke too soon, and incautiously. This cast early doubt on her capacity for tough. She’s had to work hard to dispel this initial doubt because everyone knows a woman who seeks high political office has to be twice as tough, twice as hard and twice as mean as any man. Unless she wants stay on the backbench for her entire career and be of no interest to anyone other than her electorate.
The Malaysian “solution” has also thus far come to nought, not because that country declined to co-operate with Gillard’s tough plans to expel boat arrivals including unaccompanied children, a new benchmark in tough that left me gob smacked and tearful, how female of me, but because the High Court of Australia found the current Migration Act incompatible with the government’s tough policy. In a
After having petulantly (unwise choice, petulance erodes tough) attacked the full bench as activist judges who were missing an opportunity to stop the boats (an ignorant response from a lawyer: as if it is the High Court’s job to stop the boats) Gillard has now proposed amendments to the Act that will grant an immigration minister unfettered control over the expulsion of asylum seekers to any country he or she decides is suitable, should he or she deem that to be in the national interest. The amendment will ensure there can be no further legal challenges to such a ministerial declaration.
Never underestimate the power of a woman.
Theoretically, this amendment could lead to asylum seekers being refouled, that is sent back to the countries from which they have fled. The UN Refugee Convention proscribes this course of action. The Convention does allow us to relocate asylum seekers to a third country for assessment, however that third country ideally would also be a signatory, and certainly would offer protection of asylum seekers’ human rights, including non refoulement.
We have now strayed so far from the Convention that the only reasons for us to continue as signatories are that we would look like very bad (if tough) international citizens if we withdrew, and withdrawal would undoubtedly put the kybosh on our aspirations to a seat on the UN Security Council. So we will maintain our status as signatories, whilst abandoning pretence to anything other than minimal observance of the Convention. Amending the Migration Act will legitimise our hypocrisy. Not only has a woman proved she is better at tough than the men, she’s also surpassed them in the hypocrisy stakes.
Qué viva liberación de la mujer!
I just love how that sounds in Spanish.
I am woman hear me roar
The fact that Gillard chose to announce her East Timor “solution” hours after taking office indicates that she was determined to position herself from the start as a woman who is capable of great tough, especially on asylum seekers, that hapless and motley collection of human vulnerability who, one could be forgiven for concluding, exist primarily for Australian politicians to use as a yardstick for their implacability capability. Tough implacability apparently being the sole measure of strength in this brutalized country’s brutalized politics, formerly epitomized by Liberals John Howard, Philip Ruddock, Peter Reith, Alexander Downer, et al.
In a bold and successful tilt at gender equality, Gillard has now proved beyond question that a woman can be much better at tough than a man. We have the extraordinary vision of Abbott refusing to co-operate with Gillard’s proposed amendment on the grounds that it strips asylum seekers of all human rights protections, including those written into the Act by his predecessor John Howard who we thought was tough at the time, but who now looks like a little bitty pussycat.
In other words, Abbott has voluntarily relinquished his inherited title of sovereign head of the continent of Tough to Gillard, because worrying about asylum seekers’ human rights is so not tough that he might find he’s stranded himself off shore in the very leaky boat of mercurial public opinion. It could viciously turn, public opinion could, and drive Tony, soon to be despised as a bleeding heart if he’s not careful, past the shores of need to the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate.* Who knows where he might make landfall? Maybe Malaysia.
Who would ever have thought it?
Gillard’s off shore processing stance was adopted in response to focus groups who want rid of boat arrivals like a good householder wants rid of rats and cockroaches, having learned from Pauline Hanson and John Howard that asylum seekers are a threat to the very fabric of the Australian way of life, and quite likely terrorists to boot. Focus groups aren’t going to put their weight behind any politician who can’t show them some tough, and kick the bastard refugees out as soon as they disembark from their bastard cobbled-together boats. If they sink and die it serves the importunate bastards right, is pretty much the attitude of focus groups the government consults.
The people of the focus groups found their natural leader in Gillard. She, like Pauline Hanson, validated them and gave them a voice. You aren’t racists, she told them. If you worry about border security and our nation’s sovereignty you are not racists, and their hearts swelled with gratitude at this Prime Ministerial liberation from the burdensome slur of bogan racism laid upon them by middle class tosser academics, soy milk latte sipping left wing inner city über cool arty farty wankers, and maybe that nerdy egg head Kevin Rudd as well, even if he did try to hide it. Julia speaks their language, she has the right accent; she makes it OK to hate boat arrivals and call it border protection, and she’s tough. What more could a focus group want?
A victory for women
Julia Gillard is unquestionably the mistress of the politics of tough, and the blokes she’s bulldozed in her single-minded pursuit of the title can only lie trashed and spent in the gutter, marvelling at her prodigious talent. In the patriarchal culture of hegemonic masculinity Gillard has proved herself to be more skilled and adept than any bloke. Suck it up, chaps. You should have tried harder to keep us pregnant and barefoot.
Julia is a role model for our female young, demonstrating how a woman can indeed be harder, more mean, and infinitely more tough than a man by honing her skills on powerless asylum seekers. There’s no issue in Australian politics that comes anywhere near providing the same opportunities for the performance of tough. Climate change you might protest, but that doesn’t yet have the human element essential to modelling first class tough. Derogatory remarks about the legitimacy of a photograph of one polar bear looking desperate on a melting ice floe can’t compare with the opportunity to send unaccompanied minors to a country where they might get caned, just for being in it.
Here’s the rub
However. Here’s the rub. If it was your desire to see a change in the monotonous political culture of “how thoroughly can I trash somebody to show how tough hard and mean I am,” if it was your hope that women might introduce an alternative to the tough, hard and mean meme that can only ever be maintained at the expense of others because it is founded on being tough hard and mean to somebody, you’re likely to be feeling a bit disillusioned.
If women in high political office are going to be the same as men and worse, why do we want them there, you might be asking? Why do we need anymore mean tough and hard politicians, and especially why do we need women politicians who think they have to up the stakes and be even meaner, tougher and harder than the men?
Why do we value and reward the mean, the tough and the hard in politics above all other characteristics in the first place, whether they manifest in a man or a woman?
Julia Gillard is living proof that the qualities required for political office in Australia are un-gendered. She is the living proof that women can do anything a man can do and more, in that world. She’s living proof that women are capable of the same oppressive and repressive patriarchal attitudes and behaviours that in other contexts feminists have vigorously protested and fought to liberate us from for decades, only to have our first female leader head right back into the brutal bloodied heart of the patriarchy’s savaging body, and prove that not only can we equal them in their dark arts, we can outdo them.
Woman up, Ms Gillard, and stop copying the blokes. It’s not yet too late. Things can’t get much worse for you, so if you’re going down, do it in a blaze of female glory by being tough enough to change your mind, because very soon Tony Abbott’s going to start looking better at pretending to be humane than you are, and that’s just going to mess with everybody’s heads, possibly terminally. Then you’ll find yourself and your party cast into the wilderness for a good few decades, while the rest of us have to find ways of staying alive under a coalition government led by a failed seminarian who likes going round mostly naked, and has a bad and unreconstructed attitude to women.
From one woman to another this heartfelt plea: have mercy, Julia. Have mercy.
*Leonard Cohen, Democracy.
Gillard, Abbott asylum meeting lasts just 15 minutes (theage.com.au)
Stalemate over Australia asylum (bbc.co.uk)
Coalition sinks PM’s boat plan (theage.com.au)
Gillard faces internal revolt (theage.com.au)
Gillard sinks to new low – Newspoll (heraldsun.com.au)
Tags: Abbott, Tony. FORMER Australian Prime Minister, asylum seekers, East Timor, High Court of Australia, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Malaysia, Off shore processing, Pauline Hanson, Peter Reith, Philip Ruddock, Refugee
Categories Abbott, Tony. FORMER Australian Prime Minister, Politics
Dear Julia: when supping with the devil use a long spoon
Julia Gillard this afternoon invited Tony Abbott to a briefing tomorrow on the legal implications of the High Court’s decision last week on the Malaysia solution. Abbott has accepted.
It’s looking increasingly likely that the two will join forces in amending the Migration Act to stop any possible legal disputes preventing off-shore processing of asylum seeker claims.
Common sense and decency have long since fled this debate. It defies rationality that the major parties are willing and eager to continue spending billions on off-shore processing and mandatory detention.
Perhaps the most bizarre aspect is that last time we used Nauru as a dumping ground for asylum seekers who arrived by boat, almost every one of them was found to be a refugee, and sent to Australia where they now live. As the majority of boat arrivals are granted refugee status, we can only anticipate that this will continue to be the case. Unless of course, Ms Gillard has it in mind to indefinitely detain genuine refugees in Nauru or some other off-shore prison, until she can persuade another country to grant them sanctuary.
So exactly how will this “stop the boats?”
Just when we thought Gillard’s judgement couldn’t get any worse, it does.
In her final abandonment of the Labor platform on refugees, Gillard appears to have entered into an ego-driven game of one-up-man-ship with the High Court. Her ill-disguised pique with Chief Justice French adds personal prime ministerial face-saving to an off-shore processing policy that is already populist, right-wing and economically insane.
The mental and physical damage the Gillard government will continue to inflict upon asylum seekers and their children by subjecting them to mandatory detention and off-shore processing is of no consequence to Gillard. In spite of mounting evidence and protests from just about everyone involved in the detention system about the damage sustained by both detainees and those who work in these grim places,Gillard continues to pursue a policy that she is fully aware seriously harms many, and she does it for personal and political gain.
An alliance with Tony Abbott on asylum seeker policy is but the latest Gillard political misjudgment and it ought to be the last. As Philip Adams wrote today, resign Julia, resign.
The High Court decision gave the ALP a golden opportunity to extricate themselves from a disgraceful and shaming policy without losing too much face.
While Gillard was perfectly entitled to criticize the decision, her opinions were wrong. She’s been shooting off her mouth on the asylum seeker issue since day one, when she announced that we’d be expelling boat arrivals to East Timor without first properly negotiating her plan with that country. Things have gone downhill from there.
If there is such an animal as the national psyche, government and opposition policies on boat arrivals are doing it nothing but damage, as willful misrepresentation, weasel language, outright lies, complete lack of compassion and political and personal selfishness over-rule every other consideration, such as our responsibilities to the region in which we stand out as the wealthiest country, our voluntarily incurred responsibilities to the UN Refugee Convention, and our right to behave humanely and generously towards those in need. Julia Gillard is denying us that right. Julia Gillard is shriveling our national heart and soul. Julia Gillard is turning this country into a land of hard hearts and closed minds.
I wonder if she’ll have the sense to get anything Tony says in writing.
If Julia buys bipartisan Tony she’ll buy anything (thepunch.com.au)
Both sides courting disaster over asylum seeker policy (thepunch.com.au)
Tags: Abbott, Tony. FORMER Australian Prime Minister, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, East Timor, Julia Gillard, Malaysia, Nauru, Refugee
Gillard’s premature enunciations
The Gillard government’s announcement of its plan to spend 12 million taxpayer dollars on an advertising campaign to sell the carbon tax beggars belief.
The carbon tax is by no means a done deal. The multi party committee on climate change may not arrive at a consensus. The proposed carbon tax may not progress to the legislative process. The Independents without whom Gillard cannot function are enraged, both by the proposed advertising campaign, and the presumption of their compliance upon which it is based.
Informing these key players just one hour prior to making the plan public would seem to be yet another unwisely arrogant move. While in itself it will probably not affect the Independents’ committment to the negotiations, the move does imply a degree of government contempt for the process, and an assumption that the decision is already in the bag.
Perhaps one of the motives behind this bizarre campaign to sell something that does not yet exist, is a hope that if the public can somehow be convinced by the mere announcement of this campaign that it’s a certainty, the multi party committee will be forced by public opinion to reach the consensus the government wants. Independent Tony Windsor said the advertising decision bordered ”on asking us to endorse publicly funded propaganda”.
This type of tortured magical thinking is quite characteristic of the Gillard government, from the day twelve months ago when it became the Gillard government up until now. Think the East Timor solution, the Malaysia solution, and the carbon tax Gillard was never going to introduce till she changed her mind about it.
Gillard’s assumption that the carbon tax outcome is so certain that the government can already commit 12 million dollars to explaining it is mind-boggling, anyway you look at it, and everyone is scrabbling to find a rational explanation for the move.
Gillard has acquired a reputation for putting the cart before the horse. She did not consult with East Timor before assuming their willingness to take our cast off refugees. The Malaysian solution was announced way before those negotiations were settled, indeed they are on going, and we have no idea what that outcome will be. Now she wants to sell a carbon tax that does not yet exist. Isn’t that false advertising?
Although Gillard appears outwardly calm and in control, her consistently premature and inappropriate announcements reveal an underlying profound anxiety and lack of control. She continues to indulge in premature enunciations that leave everyone embarrassed and unsatisfied.
Gillard may not believe in God, but she seems to believe in some kind of supernatural force, because from day one, her government appears to have operated on a type of blind faith in itself that has no connection with reality. The arrogant assumptions as to the outcome of the multi party climate change committee negotiations is yet one more example of this excess of self belief, now looking increasingly more desperate in spite of Gillard’s outward efforts to appear calm while the boat lurches sickeningly yet again.
In circumstances such as this, Gillard’s much remarked inability to express appropriate affect becomes a positive advantage.
Magical thinking was intrinsic in the overthrow of Kevin Rudd: who else but those with their heads in fairyland would have believed for one moment that Rudd would just go away? Instead he’s been a fierce and constant thorn in their side, and will continue to be so, publicly undermining, destabilizing and dividing just by his very existence.
Polls reveal he is considered a better contender for PM than is the woman who deposed him. Anybody could have seen that coming, but not, it appears, those who chucked him out. Actions have consequences, and frequently they aren’t the consequences you hope for. Any first year psychology student could have predicted the consequences of that coup.
“I have taken control” Gillard brayed 12 months ago when she ousted Rudd, claiming that the government under his control had “lost its way.”
If this is an example of taking control, if this is a government that’s now found its way, beam me up Scotty.
The government’s motives in announcing this ad campaign are unfathomable. The use of public money to fund a campaign about something that does not yet exist is nothing more than a cynical exercise in propaganda. It will backfire, as has much else this government has done so far.
$12m budget for carbon tax campaign draws fire (theage.com.au)
Gillard’s polling trend worse than Rudd’s (news.theage.com.au)
Australia’s Gillard Slumps in Poll (online.wsj.com)
Tags: Australian Labor Party, carbon tax, East Timor, Gillard government, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Malaysia, multi party climate change committee, propaganda
Chris Bowen outdoes Philip Ruddock: who would have thought?
The opposition is quite within its rights to call for marching in the streets as a reaction to the Gillard government’s deal in progress with Malaysia to send boat arrivals to camps in that country.
What we know, however, is that the opposition doesn’t give anymore of a stuff about the well-being of boat arrivals than does the government. It’s just an opportunity to score points. The calls for demonstrations against the Malaysia plans are hollow and hypocritical. I can’t imagine why any one of the opposition would think the punters actually believe they care, except perhaps those who’ve forgotten the children overboard saga, and Woomera, and the sinking of the Siev X.
I’m not sure how much more sickening this whole thing can get. The human capacity for vile behaviour never ceases to amaze me, and that’s probably more a comment on my inability to to acknowledge that the triumph of hope over experience is far more common than the other way round.
What has to be accepted, it seems, is the reality that fear and xenophobia are setting the political agenda in this country. Emotion and irrationality have won the day.
Emotion and irrationality are never a good foundation for deciding anything. Yet the whole asylum seeker debate is driven and dominated by nothing more substantial than the xenophobic emotions of focus groups. People who’ve never seen an asylum seeker and likely never will, are in charge of making refugee policy.
When they’ve managed to stop the boats, these people will begin to notice that their lives are no better for it. It wasn’t the asylum seekers that were causing their misery after all. Their misery comes from the inside, and nothing is going to make it go away.
The policies of both major parties are held hostage by a demographic that lift its leg and pisses on the UN Conventions to which we are signatory. This demographic doesn’t give a flying f**ck about Australia as part of a global community, and the responsibilities that come with that. They have no awareness of the origins of white settlement in this country and could care less, or of how our presence here counts for less than a nanosecond in deep time. They just don’t want boat people here. They just don’t like them.
It would have been quite something to have a government that was capable of standing up to these bullies, instead taking a principled stand on boat arrivals in keeping with the Conventions to which we are signatories, and our domestic laws. But that ship has long since sailed.
It remains to be seen how much Chris Bowen will capitulate to Malaysian demands. We are quite likely already the laughing stock in our region. Our neighbours must be enjoying having us by the short and curlies. Rudd’s farcical “solution” with Indonesia and the Oceanic Viking. Gillard’s premature announcement of her plans for a detention centre in East Timor. Nauru just begging us to come back. And now, Malaysia having us dance to their tune. If we aren’t ashamed of the government’s treatment of asylum seekers, we ought to be cringing at how demeaned we are by our humiliating begging for someone, anyone (except Nauru) to make this all go away.
Australia criticized over child asylum seeker plan (sfgate.com)
Australia criticized over child asylum seeker plan (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Australia to deport lone children (bbc.co.uk)
Children will be sent to Malaysia: Bowen (news.theage.com.au)
Tags: asylum seekers, Australia, children overboard, Chris Bowen, detention centres, East Timor, Gillard government, Human rights, Malaysia, Oceanic Viking, Refugee, United Nations, Woomera. Siev X
Julia Gillard: our First Hollow Woman.
by Debbi Long via flickr
I’ve been in denial about Julia Gillard‘s prime ministership since her first day on the job. I’ve only just decided I’d better examine this unhealthy emotional defense, and my resistance to doing even that is strong.
The most common form my denial takes is whenever I see or hear Gillard I struggle to block her right out of my awareness. I don’t just “switch off,” I wish it was that easy, no, I have to actively deny her entry into my consciousness, rather like a metaphysical turning of not just my back, but my whole being.
If I’m not quick enough, and she gets in despite my lack of hospitality, I find myself swearing without either finesse or coherence, as well as making the medieval hand gesture used to ward off the devil, that one like the “call me” sign but with the first and pinky fingers and facing the other way, usually directed towards the enemy’s third eye.
I used this against John Howard as well, I’m not partisan.
The thought that generally accompanies this bit of theatre is “She’s not really our Prime Minister, someone else is, she’s just a pretend one till the real one comes along, so I don’t need to listen to anything she says, she’s a usurper.”
It isn’t just question of not believing a word she says. I didn’t like how she acquired the top job. I didn’t like the maternalistic undercurrents revealed in what she told us when she took over, along the lines of: “the government has lost it’s way and I’m here now to get it back on track.” Tickets on herself, is what I thought, an understandable assessment when we recall that hardly anybody in the general population knew what was going on in federal Labor at the time.
I didn’t like her rush to placate the Australian Christian Lobby‘s fears that gay marriage might be legalized. I didn’t like her rush to console xenophobic focus groups with promises of off shore asylum seeker processing in East Timor. These very early comments, when most of us were still in shock and had other things on our minds, signaled that her primary concern was pleasing interest groups the ALP perceived as pivotal to them staying in power, rather than any wider concern for the country.
I didn’t like the “real and realler” Julia idiocy, and instinctively felt that anyone who has to tell the world they’re going to be real now when they weren’t before is probably permanently untrustworthy, and terminally lacking in credibility. I wonder to this day how any self-respecting woman could think it was OK to make such coyly precious announcements about herself, while simultaneously appearing in an airbrushed and highly glamourised state in the Women’s Weekly. I wonder as well, what it says about that woman if she secretly thought the real/unreal Julia thing was crap, but did it anyway because the faceless men told her she should.
I railed vigorously about this at the time and some of my friends told me to shut TF up, anything was allowed because we had to stop Tony Abbott. I didn’t talk to them for a while, on account of what looked to me like their dodgy means to an end morality.
I still can’t get a sense of the “real” Julia. I don’t know who she is or what she stands for, and if she has any wisdom and vision, it’s not apparent to me. Julia Gillard is, as far as I can tell, entirely a product of the ALP machine, and she will do whatever it takes to keep that machine functioning and in power, like all good middle managers should.
It isn’t the country she cares about. It’s the ALP running the country that is her primary concern. In this, Julia Gillard is our First Hollow Woman.
I thought this morning that my emotions on this matter (as opposed to my rational thoughts) are rather like those of the adolescent who suddenly acquires a step-parent. The individual concerned has been around for a while as Mum or Dad’s love interest, and you’ve coped with them because they haven’t actually moved in. But suddenly there’s a marriage, or a move into de facto status, and they’re in the family, taking the place of the real parent who left or died.
You hate the interloper. You can’t help it, they’re not who you want to be there and they wield power you feel they have no right to have. Your life’s mission becomes getting rid of them. In your opinion, they have no authority, moral or otherwise. They got the position because they either pushed the real parent out, or leapt in when there was a sudden vacancy you didn’t have any control over. It’s not fair, you aren’t going to accept it, and anybody who thinks you’ll eventually come round has rocks in their head.
Which is not to say I’m pining for Kevin, because I’m not. I just want somebody I can look up to: it’s lonely when there’s no one at the top to admire.
Gillard is only PM because of those pesky Independents, she doesn’t have a mandate. It is extremely unfair, in my opinion, that we should have been faced with a choice between her and Tony Abbott, no country deserves that fate, although there are those who argue that we get the governments and leaders we deserve.
Taking a step back from my adolescent-like prejudices against the PM, and looking at it woman to woman, I find I still don’t see Gillard as having wisdom and vision. Were I to encounter her in the workplace I would watch my back, keep my distance, and never go for an after work drink with her because she’s not the type who’d consider anything off the record, and watching my mouth when I’m trying to relax is counter productive. She’s a political woman through and through, and she’d give them her life and yours.
To be fair, wisdom is a quality that is sadly lacking across the board in our politics. It seems to have become negatively associated with the ageing process, although some claim to find wisdom in the eyes of the newborn. Either way, it doesn’t have much attraction for the masters and mistresses of our political universe. Wisdom is unfashionable. A choice was made between wisdom and focus groups and the latter won hands down. Common sense was collateral damage.
As for their vision, well, that seems to be entirely restricted to their vision of their own potential power. That has quite possibly always been the case with politicians. I’m scared to posit a past when leaders were really leaders, and the people who elected them were far more deserving of quality and wisdom than are we.
Gusmao says no to Gillard plan: report (news.theage.com.au)
Brown to take Gillard to task over ‘values’ attack (theage.com.au)
Abbott’s ‘regret’ over Gillard abuse (theage.com.au)
Gillard and Abbott and the art of verbal abuse (noplaceforsheep.com)
Tags: Abbott, Tony. FORMER Australian Prime Minister, asylum seekers, Australia, Australian Christian Lobby, Australian Labor Party, East Timor, focus groups, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Politics, Prime minister, Queen Julia, xenophobia
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Ex-entertainment workers using quick HIV test boost Aids fight in Asia
July 23, 2015 In NAZ Asia By garethandrews91
It’s 9pm and the night is just beginning at a popular entertainment establishment in Phnom Penh. Diners enjoy a meal at a restaurant on the ground floor, the rooms on the middle level reverberate with popular songs, and the top floor is a hotel.
In a corner next to several karaoke rooms, a serious conversation is taking place amid the laughter, strobe lights, brightly dressed women and loud male customers. Five entertainment workers are sitting on a sofa talking about why they don’t get tested for HIV.
“I don’t know where to go,” says one woman. Agreeing, a co-worker adds: “I dare not go. I am too afraid.”
Their interviewer is Rath Chan Molika. The 22-year-old recently quit her job as an entertainment worker and is now an outreach worker and lay counsellor with Smartgirl, a sexual health and empowerment programme for entertainment workers that provides community-based HIV testing.
Smartgirl outreach worker and counsellor Rath Chan Molika, a former entertainment worker.
Molika says the women feared getting tested at public health clinics because they’re scared of going alone, as well as of the needle and blood.
But with Smartgirl, a pioneering programme launched in April 2013 and one of the first of its kind in the region, things are changing. The traditional test – drawing blood with a needle and syringe for lab analysis – is replaced with a rapid finger prick test that can be done by trained counsellors at any location at any time.
M_Style in Phnom Penh, a club where men go to have sex with other men, provides information and HIV testing.
“Bringing the facility close to the people is always the best. People don’t have to use sophisticated laboratory equipment,” says Dr Ly Penh Sun, director of the National Centre for HIV/Aids, Dermatology and STD Control.
In 2014, Cambodian authorities reported that about 20,000 people from key populations – this includes men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers and people who inject drugs – were tested, double the number in 2012.
WATCH Molika tell her story and see how she helps others
If a person has a positive result with the first rapid test, they are accompanied by outreach workers to health facilities for confirmatory tests with a medical professional. If the result is confirmed, the person is provided with free HIV treatment.
This Cambodian peer-to-peer testing model was presented at a two-day meeting of Aids managers in Manila this month, and used as a positive case study of how to scale up HIV testing in the region through community-based testing.
Entertainment workers read brochures about HIV prevention.
Since the programme began nearly 700 lay counsellors have gone through a five-day training course in how to provide HIV counselling and testing.
“The people who are conducting the tests are familiar with the people they are testing. They can interact more. They can support each other,” says Choub Sok Chamreun, deputy director of Khana, which leads the programme implementation along with Family Health International 360 and Population Services Khmer.
Across the western Pacific region – of which Hong Kong is a part – knowledge about HIV testing and counselling among key populations is low. Key populations are at higher risk of HIV, but only one-third of them knew their HIV status in 2013.
At the meeting, organised by the WHO’s regional office for the western Pacific and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids), 10 national HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted infection programmes, civil society and development partners in the western Pacific region joined forces to push for expanded HIV testing coverage.
The goal set by the UN and its partners is to end the Aids epidemic by 2030. In the next five years, the aim is to ensure that 90 per cent of people living with HIV know their status, 90 per cent of people who know their status have access to treatment, and 90 per cent of people on treatment have suppressed viral loads.
“Finger-prick test” reads the sign on this door at M-Style.
But community-based testing is just one part of a diversified approach to expanding HIV testing, according to UNAids. Hospitals, clinics and other health facilities need to offer more voluntary HIV testing and counselling during routine check-ups, including antenatal visits. Voluntary testing of intimate partners of people living with HIV should also be included.
The WHO will soon launch new guidelines on HIV testing services and has started a global social media campaign called #Test4HIV.
As in many other countries in the region, Cambodia’s Aids epidemic is concentrated in key populations at higher risk of HIV. Despite efforts to scale up HIV testing, latest available data from Cambodian health authorities found significant numbers of key populations have not had an HIV test – 32 per cent of entertainment workers, 14 per cent of men who have sex with men and 85 per cent of people who inject drugs.
An entertainment worker at M-Style has a finger-prick HIV test.
The Cambodian government and its civil society partners along with international organisations decided in 2013 to promote HIV testing among key populations using the rapid finger prick test, a relatively recent technological innovation. The initiative is supported by the US government and the UN Population Fund.
But while this peer-provided HIV counselling and testing has increased the number of people tested from key populations, it has not detected a significant number of new HIV cases. In 2014, there were only about 150 confirmed cases.
To improve their efforts to find more people living with HIV, implementation partners are starting to retool the programme to intensify outreach to people at the highest risk within each key population, using geographical hotspot mapping information.
Says Ly: “The plan is to modify the outreach guidelines to the population at highest risk and intensify targeted outreach activity, as well as active case management, to register and retain the people who were found to be HIV positive to ensure they receive treatment.”
There were an estimated 34,000 entertainment workers in Cambodia in 2014, working in a range of places, including hotels, karaoke bars, beer gardens, casinos and massage parlours. Unprotected sexual relations with male customers can place some women at higher risk of HIV.
HIV counsellors talk to men at M-Style.
“Some go out with customers without using a condom correctly and consistently. And they sometimes also use drugs together, sharing needles and syringes, which increases their risk of exposure,” says Molika.
As part of her job with the Smartgirl programme, she informs entertainment workers about health, sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and contraceptive methods.
When the group counselling session ends, Molika breaks away and in a separate room welcomes Mao Soma.
The two women talk quietly with a tray full of cotton swabs, vials and bandages laid out on the table before them. Molika has been trained to provide pre- and post-HIV test counselling and to conduct a rapid finger prick test.
While Mao Soma winces as the needle pricks her finger, the procedure is over fast. Within 15 minutes, there is a result.
Information, counselling and HIV tests are provided at M-Style.
“HIV testing lies at the foundation of the region’s response to HIV,” says Steve Kraus, UNAids director for the regional support team for Asia and the Pacific.
“Only if people know their status can we reach our global goal of ending the Aids epidemic as a public health threat in the region.”
Saya Oka is regional communications adviser for UNAids based in Bangkok
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