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Terry Mandel Bio, Wiki, Age, Net Worth & Husband
By Alina Shrestha February 8, 2019
Quick Facts of Terry Mandel
Full NameTerry Mandel
Marital StatusMarried
EthnicityWhite
ProfessionProducer
NationalityCanadian
Eye colourBrown
Hair colourBlonde
BuildSlim
SpouseHowie Mandel (m. 1980)
EducationHarvard University
It’s easy to grab the public’s attention when you are associated with a famous celebrity right? People will be curious to know more about you and your day to day activities when you are associated with popular celebrity. Same is the case when it comes to the wife of Terry Mandel.
Yes, you heard that right. She is a wife of a popular judge on America’s got talent and host of Deal or No Deal as well as a comedian, Howie Mandel. If you want to know more about Terry read the whole article. We will make sure to provide you with all the details we could grab about her. Stay tuned to us until the end.
Terry Mandel’s Bio & Wiki
She is the native of Toronto, Ontario born as Terry Soil. Despite being the wife of a huge star, she prefers to keep her past life and personal matters as private as possible. So, the only information we could grab about her is she celebrates her birthday every 26th August.
A post shared by Terry Mandel (@tmandel) on Oct 27, 2018 at 7:09pm PDT
She also hasn’t said a single word about her parents and siblings. Terry graduated from William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute for her high school education in Toronto. Later on, the star moved to Harvard University to pursue a degree in Business. Other than that, she hasn’t revealed anything about her educational qualification.
Terry Mandel’s Age, Body Measurement (Height & Weight)
Since the exact date of birth of Terry is missing we cannot really assure her age. However looking at her she looks in her late fifties and early sixties. Despite her age, she has been able to maintain her body to its optimum level. The secret behind her fit body might be her daily exercise and a balanced diet.
Yet we don’t know her exact body measurement, height & weight. Comparing her height to her husband, who stands at five feet and nine inches tall, she is likely to be above five feet and three inches.
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Is Terry Mandel Married? Know About Her Husband
How many people on the planet are lucky enough to enjoy the long parade of blissful married life? Not many. However, Howie and Terry are undoubtedly one of them who are enjoying fairytale love life. The duo’s relation dates back to the time they were in high school.
New York Stock exchange. What an amazing experience!
A post shared by Terry Mandel (@tmandel) on Nov 30, 2018 at 2:00pm PST
You got it right! The pair is high school sweethearts. They exchanged vows on 16 March 1980. From their marriage, they are proud parents of three children son Alex, and two daughters Jackie and Riley.
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Together they welcomed their first daughter, Jackie in 1984. She is currently working as a teacher now. Then a son, in 1989. Alex inherited his father’s comic skills and has a career of his own now. Terry’s second daughter or we can say the last child was born in 1992. Riley appeared as a model in the game show, Deal or No Deal.
In most of the interviews, Howie has opened up on his wife being supportive throughout their married life. Stating to The Times of Israel, he revealed that he turned down the role of presenter on Deal or No Deal earlier. But it was his other half, who convinced him to utilize the opportunity and have a different experience.
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Well, their beautiful journey of togetherness is now thirty-eight years old. And, still, the married couple has no rust in their relationship.
Terry Mandel’s Net Worth
Terry took up the job of a producer for many of her hubby’s live comedy shows which have added certain percentile in her net worth. The star also works with her partner-in-crime and discovers new talents, through a talent agency in Toronto called The Abstract Talent Agency.
Look I’m a couch potato on the move !
A post shared by Terry Mandel (@tmandel) on Apr 8, 2018 at 12:54pm PDT
From her career, it is likely that she amasses a good fortune. Moreover, she enjoys her husband’s net worth of $40 million along with her son’s net worth: $500 thousand. As for now, she is living a very blissful life with her family and hubby.
Deal or No DealThe Abstract Talent AgencyThe Times of Israel
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Timeless calling
This Winter has begun under a relaxed tone with a dash of androgynous vibes.
Por AMURA
The most cherished in the F1
With a month of anticipation the activities of the Mexican Grand Prix 2015 were taken by the hand of a presentation that would be the protagonist of the maximum joust of worldwide racing: the trophy.
Por Mario Ramírez
Since 2005 when it was created this biennial auction, the best and most prestigious watch makers contribute to the fight on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Por Enrique Rosas
INTERNATIONAL COMPASS
Punta del Este receives us with arms wide open to show us that this little South American paradise is full of charm and color. This city isn’t just a port destination, it also provokes dreams. It’s a place filled with art, culture and history.
Por María Grajales
Punta del Este, An exclusive meeting point in Latin America
Mesmerizing summer residences, skyscrapers on the shores of the sea, lengthy yachts, sumptuous hotels and restaurants, incomparable nature...all this transforms Punta del Este in the most glamorous Spa in Latin America and the most exclusive of the region.
Por E. Jorge Delgado Fernández Embajador de Uruguay en México
WINDOWS TO THE WORLD
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OFF BOARD
2122 Hotel Art Design
With a boutique concept that very few places have, and a precise and clever design, this elegant, sober and at the same time cozy hotel, hab only 40 rooms that are equally distributed and equipped to the utmost detail.
Por Lizethe Dagdug
L’Aubergue
Abeautiful and elegant decoration, warm and inspiring; this hotel specializes in custom made experiences as well as offering a unique site that makes a perfect balance with this destination; ambiance and art. The structure was built 1947, it’s Water Tower is a reference point of Punta del Este.
Por Gwen San
Serena Hotel
This property is the perfect location for couples, since it doesn’t allow minors; it’s designed to offer the most pleasant experience on the seashore. It’s sunbeds are the best place to enjoy the sunset, while it’s restaurants and bar please the expectation of any guest.
Por Lisa Katana
Sisai Hotel Boutique
Winner of the Traveler’s Choice 2015 by the Tripadvisor platform, this place has it all: excellent location in the most cosmopolitan zone of the Design District, attractive amenities, all room services, climatized pool, fitness area, event salon; and one of the best Spas in Uruguay.
Por Luna Sánchez
Yoo Punta del Este
Located in the Art District zone which is distinguished by it’s sophisticated and cosmopolitan vibe, this complex offers integral lodging, here, relaxation is guaranteed.
Por Sigfrid Herrera
Ever since it was founded in the 1970s in Turin, Italy, by the businessman Paolo Vitelli, Azimut Yachts distinguished itself by improving constantly, on an international scale, with over 40 years to attest to it. It has earned its place amongst the most recognized shipbuilders. Currently, as Azimut-Benetti Group, it is acclaimed for its innovations and designs.
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Azimut 77s
The Azimut 77S, one of the jewels of the Italian shipbuilder, has imposed that sport yachts around the world undergo a vanguard evolution. It is a yacht that displays the distinctive comfort of the S collection, a product of that advanced technological research undertaken by Azimut Yachts.
Azimut Flybridge 80
Named as the yacht of the coming decade, the Azimut Flybridge 80 is a model in which each and every detail has been meticulously designed.
The elegant profile of this yacht suggests how far it can take us. This singular model displays ample lateral windows to illuminate its interior. It features triple IPS propulsion, as well as structural elements made of carbon fiber; and dazzling stylish details to provide an overall navigation experience that is unrivaled.
Elegance, sportiness, and stylish design; harmonious lines that provide a stable handling and maximum comfort, all these combine to create a rare enclosure.
We gathered very early at the SCUBA DIVERS URUGUAY center, this place is located near “Los Dedos”, it’s quite an iconic monument in Punta del Este. The morning was beautiful, typical during the summer in these latitudes; the sun begins to come out and the sky is clear of clouds, an enjoyable navigation is promised.
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GOLF JOURNEY
Bridgestone Americas’s Golf Cup
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Por Ramón García de la Sierra
Azimut was present at the F1 Grand Prix of Mexico 2015
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Por Felipe López
We enter a unique world were the best kept secret will only be shared with a few, as if an espionage mission was about to begin, the DB10 comes to us with a refreshing proposal that clashes Aston Martin with clean lines. This bet brings a light carbon fiber architecture and a design so unique it represents the before and after of this firm.
Por Aston Martin México
Chef Jean-Paul Bondoux has created this place - located in one of the best neighborhoods of Punta del Este- into his own corner of French excellence, it is currently one of the most successful delicacy spots of this destination!
An Italian den in the heart of the Conrad hotel, it counts with specialties that turn it into a must of this city. It’s risottos and Angus cuts, as well as its seafood dishes enter in this category too and sweet desserts.
Lo de Tere
It’s fun name is a contrast to it’s classical elegance, at the same time it preserves a touch of friendship with which every aspect of it’s gastronomic proposal is created in every dish it offers.
B Restaurant & Bar
BRestaurant is the best choice if you want to taste the latest gastronomic tendencies in Punta del Este and beyond it’s borders. this place holds local elements and completely fresh ingredients with a great quality.
Tannat Grape
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Por Juan Diego Wasilevsky
MEET THE MUSIC
Uruguayan Music flying like a bird
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Por Elbio Rodríguez Barilari
Ricardo Rondón
In this occasion, Amura Yachts & Lifestyle takes the space of that maestro Ricardo Rondón has portrayed for two years, he has delighted us with his knowledge toward classical music and opera; today we would like to make homage to a professional who excelled in the field of the arts, subjects who do not enjoy of much diffusion in our country.
The Pablo Atchugarry Foundation
Art will always be in need of organizations that back it up, that give it it’s space and allow them to make statements; offering a forum, debate and why not, an immense garden of 25 hectares filled with sculptures. Only one glance is needed to understand the headquarters of the Pablo Atchugarry Foundation, we then realize it’s commitment toward art and it’s exponents.
Por Fundación Pablo Atchugarry
A postcard from Punta del Este
“La Mano” which emerges from the sand in mid Parada 1 of la Brava, has rested here for 33 years; it was a late afternoon in February 1982, when Chilean artist Mario Irrazábal arrived to an event hosted by the Maldonado Intendancy, he would be participating in the First International Al Fresco Encounter of Sculpture in Punta del Este.
Museo Ralli
As soon as you cross the door, it is possible to encounter a spectacular Dali sculpture, in it’s garden you will find bronze chisels of various Latin American Plastic Artists.
Por Museo Ralli
TIPS & TOPS
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Tag: spring training
Cactus League: Weirdo stuff at Camelback
KC was at Camelback Ranch in Glendale Thursday taking on the hated White Sox. Things got weird, but we’ll get to that in a minute. Let’s start by talking about Camelback Ranch.
Camelback Ranch
I’ve now been to 4 different Cactus League. Surprise (Royals, Rangers) is pretty basic as far as Spring sites go. I went to Goodyear (Reds, Indians) and Mesa (Cubs) last year, and those are both really pretty, but Camelback Ranch (Dodgers, White Sox) is on another level.
Camelback features yellow seats – similar to the pale yellow seats of Dodger Stadium – and a beautiful red-brown concourse with a tarp overhang for extra shade. The buildings are stone and iron with vegetation built in around the edges. It’s really impressive.
I’m hoping to make it to Salt River Fields (Diamondbacks, Rockies) on Saturday, and I hear their facility is the best out here. But for now, the park in Glendale is top of my list.
Duffy plunks two consecutive batters
Okay, now let’s get to the weird stuff.
Ian Kennedy was the starter. He went 3 innings ad only allowed 2 hits, one of which was a solo home run to Matt Davidson. Danny Duffy relieved him throwing innings 4 to 6. He also allowed 2 hits and also allowed a solo home run to Public Enemy #1, Brett Lawrie, in the 5th.
But the 4th inning was classic Danny Duffy. He started by giving up a single and a stolen base. Got a guy to pop out, but then promptly lost control and hit two consecutive batters – Hector Sanchez and Mike Olt. He was very deliberate in apologizing to Sanchez – not sure if he apologized to Olt or not – and then with the bases loaded and 1 out, just when you think Duffy is going to fall apart entirely, he got a strikeout and a groundout to end the inning with no damage.
The bullpen looked great too – 3 innings of 1 hit ball. Luke Hochevar threw a perfect 7th, Brian Duensing threw a perfect 8th, and Ross Ohlendorf – who has had an absolutely dreadful Spring to this point – stranded a leadoff double in the 9th.
Okay, now let’s get weirder. In the 5th inning Raymond Fuentes singled and Dusty Coleman walked, bringing up Tony Cruz with two on and nobody out.
The Royals tried a double hit and run. Coleman and Fuentes broke with the pitch and Cruz laced a fastball hard into left field. The ball carried and found leather on a line. The left fielder tossed it to the second baseman who tossed it on to the pitcher covering first, and the White Sox had turned a triple play. A 7-4-1 TP for those of you keeping score at home. Inning over.
Butera Inside-the-parker
Yet somehow things got even weirder.
The box score says the Sox committed 3 errors on the day, but those of us who were there know that was extremely generous. It easily could’ve been 5 or 6.
The most egregious “hit” call came in the 7th when the Royals blew the game open. They batted around and put up 7 runs.
Drew Butera was playing first base. In fact, all three KC catchers were in the game – Cruz catching, Salvador Perez DHing. Butera hit a line drive into left center. The left fielder took a bad angle and couldn’t close on it. Then he fell over. The ball rolled to the wall.
The center fielder, backing up the play, reached the ball first. He bent over to pick it up. He couldn’t. At this point, Butera is somewhere between second and third. The defender tried again and the ball evaded him again. Butera came around to score standing up – the Royals second inside the parker in three days.
But no, the outfield did nothing wrong, let’s give him a home run. Sure.
Royals won 9-2. The White Sox looked really terrible. And I sure don’t care much for Brett Lawrie. He couldn’t be a better fit on this Chicago team.
Headed back to Surprise today. Diamondbacks @ Kansas City. Until tomorrow.
Author Adam PaulPosted on March 11, 2016 April 2, 2017 Categories Baseball, RoyalsTags cactus league, Royals, spring trainingLeave a comment on Cactus League: Weirdo stuff at Camelback
Cactus League: Gordon and Hosmer murder baseballs, KC wins 7-5.
Greetings from Arizona!
I’m in Phoenix over the next four days checking out Spring Training with my buddies, Dan and Zach. The weather is warm and the libations are on point. Life could be worse.
The Royals played two split squad games on Wednesday. I was in Surprise watching the Royals play the Milwaukee Brewers. Yordano Ventura got the start for the home team against Wily Peralta. The other was in Peoria against Seattle. Sounds like Drew Butera had a day there.
Here were the takeaways for me from yesterday’s game in Surprise.
Hosmer and Gordon hit balls far.
I don’t talk about Eric Hosmer enough. I forget about the guy. Maybe I take him for granted. He gets so much attention from the ladies and media that I don’t feel inclined to add to the noise. He’s fine, but I admit, he’s not my prototypical favorite ballplayer. I like generally appreciate defense, speed, versatility and pitching. He’s got a couple of those, I suppose. I gravitate towards shortstops, pitchers, centerfielders and utilitymen. Corner infielders and corner outfielders generally just aren’t my primary interest. Forgive me.
But Wednesday, the corners stole the show. Hosmer went 2-2 with a walk and HR (like 420′ to straightaway CF), Mike Moustakas went 2-3 with a double, and Gordon went 4-4 with a HR (like 440′ to CF). Multiple baseballs were murdered, obviously.
Hosmer launched his in the 3rd. It landed halfway up the centerfield batters eye. Gordon matched him in the 6th. His landed 3/4 of the way up and one hopped the wall beyond. Crushed. It.
See that green grass and wall beyond centerfield? Hosmer’s ball landed halfway up the grass. Gordon’s bounced to the wall.
Spring Training games are mostly pointless in terms of wins/losses, but what does matter is whether or not guys appear to be in rhythm. They’re called “Training” games for a reason. And the starters, in general, do appear to be in rhythm. Those three combined to go 8-9 vs the Brewers, which is about all you can ask for really.
Salvador Perez and Omar Infante left a lot to be desired, however. Infante batted third today and went 0-3 with 3 popouts. Salvy went 0-3 with a walk and grounded into a bases loaded double play. In that at bat, Salvy got ahead in the count 3-0, but had the green light for some reason (again, probably wouldn’t be swinging 3-0 during the regular season). If that ball had found grass, it could’ve really been a route.
Fortunately we only expect something from one of those two. I’m fully anticipating Christian Colon winning the second base job.
Yordano roughed up early, dirty late.
I’ve been impressed with our starters so far this spring. Kyle Zimmer has looked sharp. Edinson Volquez has felt sexy. Ian Kennedy impressed me. Yordano looked solid in his first start.
But Yordano got roughed up a bit on Wednesday giving up 3 runs on 5 hits in the first inning. It seemed like the Brewers were working on slapping the ball the opposite way off his fastball.
He settled down for the next two innings though throwing a perfect 2nd and 3rd. The last batter he faced was Chris Carter who he threw 4 pitches – 2 dirty breaking balls, a show-me 97 mph fastball, and one more knee buckling curve. Made him look foolish.
It seems like Ventura is figuring out he doesn’t just have to throw smoke to get guys out. He wasn’t spectacular in 2015. It’d be nice to see him revert back to his 2014 self this year. Overall, Wednesday was both poor and yet promising.
The Eephus League Scorecard
Most of you wont care about this one bit, but I’m trying out a new scorecard this week.
In the 1940s, a new pitch developed called the “eephus” pitch. Supposedly invented by Rip Sewell, it was basically a slowball junk pitch. Only one man ever hit one for a home run – that was Ted Williams in the 1946 All-Star Game. I think that stat is real. Maybe not. Apparently the word “eephus” is thought to come from the Hebrew word for “nothing,” as in, “that pitch ain’t nothing.”
The original scorecard is sleek and pocket sized. I bought the cheapest one as a trial run. If it goes well this week, I’ll get the half season one for the regular season. Just wanted to rep a pretty sweet company if you’re into scorekeeping like some of use nerds.
Check out Eephus League here.
Welp. That’s it for now. Headed to Camelback Ranch today to see KC take on the Worst Sox.
Author Adam PaulPosted on March 10, 2016 April 2, 2017 Categories Baseball, RoyalsTags cactus league, Royals, spring training1 Comment on Cactus League: Gordon and Hosmer murder baseballs, KC wins 7-5.
Cactus League: Happy Yordano Day
So he gave up 4 runs in 1 inning in his first spring outing…so what? There are still few things in baseball as exciting as Yordano Days.
I’m not totally certain where the term “Yordano Day” originated. I picked it up sometime early in the season last year. Maybe I invented it. I’m not sure. All I know is that every day Yordano Ventura pitches feels like a freaking holiday for me.
Someone decided to launch a Twitter account this year, apparently: @yordanoday.
happy yordano day, you guys. #royals #letsthrowfire
— happy yordano day (@yordanoday) March 6, 2015
Okay fine. It’s all me.
Yordano didn’t have it yesterday. Well, maybe he did, but it’s Spring Training, so it doesn’t really matter. It’s not like Ventura is going to lose his starting spot based on a poor Cactus League. At most, he’ll lose out on pitching Opening Day on April 6. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter one bit.
Established ballplayers come out in Spring Training working on specific things. Mike Moustakas is working on his bunting and taking the ball to the opposite field. Alcides Escobar may be working on his plate discipline as the leadoff hitter going into 2015. Bubba Starling (not established as anything but a potential bust) may want to start working on not striking out 5 consecutive times.
Pitchers do the same thing. They might need to work on or develop a new pitch. Or perhaps there’s a specific mechanical adjustment that needs to take place. Or maybe they’re trying to establish comfort pitching inside. The point is that pitchers aren’t always bringing their best stuff in Spring Training. Their bread and butter may be on the back burner.
This is why we shouldn’t geek out when Mike Moustakas wins the Cactus League batting title. It’s also why we shouldn’t freak out when Yordano Ventura allows three of the first four batters he faces on base. Not great, but let’s remember where we are.
Ventura did admit that he needs to get more movement on his fastballs. His pitches were too straight, he said, but he felt good. Ned Yost said he may have been overthrowing a bit, but overall was impressed and thought he looked fine.
I got to watch Yordano warm up. What a freak. He begins by tossing with Salvador Perez in the outfield. Every throw he takes three steps back. Soon, he’s rifling the ball from the center field to the right field corner – something like 250 feet away. Hits Salvy in the glove every time. Pop. Pop. Pop. Then Salvy throws the ball back so high its like Ventura is practicing flyballs. Then he slowly moves back in and the two walk to the bullpen to throw from the mound.
Just listen to it. Sheesh.
Every time Ventura reaches back to throw, my heart skips a beat. It’s so powerful. It sounds like a bottle rocket. Ssssssifffffff-POP! But the other reason is because I get scared. His arm is insane, and every time he throws I’m afraid he’s going to catch the return throw from Salvy and motion to the trainers to come check out his elbow. It feels inevitable. I hate that it feels so inevitable.
Ventura looks bigger than I remember him. His shoulders looked broader. His body looked thicker. He clearly worked hard in the offseason – or perhaps his adult body is still developing – but it eases the fear somewhat. Means the torque on his ligaments is assuaged by the size of his muscles. It’s good news – although it may just be my eyes playing tricks on me observing him so up close.
A few other notes from the Royals’ 11-9 win against the Indians on Friday…
Alex Rios looks great. He had three hits yesterday and hit his second homer of the short spring season. Making a case for himself as Cactus League MVP after just three games.
The Royals only won the game because the Indians defense is awful. They botched multiple plays that led to an eight run 5th inning capped off with a Brett Eibner three run HR. Thanks, Tribe.
Speaking of awful defense, Orlando Calixte had a rough game at short. He airmailed a throw to first. His range is poor. Just reenforces how valuable Alcides Escobar is to this team defensively. He played all 162 games at SS last year. Christian Colon is the backup option and with Omar Infante continuing to be a question mark at 2B, it puts our middle infield depth in the spotlight.
Kelvin Herrera pitched one inning. He was lights out. Good. Herrera is the first of the HDH trio to pitch this spring. I think we know who Davis and Holland are at this point. They’re proven. Herrera had a good year, but part of me wonders if he pitched over his head last year. Herrera had a good year, and I hope he continues what he established himself to be last year.
I’m back in KC now. Spring Training was fun, but the rest of it will need to be watched from afar. Great start – with the exception of Tim Collins being injured, there’s a lot to be excited about in 2015.
Also, I got sunburnt.
Author Adam PaulPosted on March 7, 2015 April 2, 2017 Categories Baseball, RoyalsTags alex rios, cactus league, orlando calixte, Royals, spring training, yordano venturaLeave a comment on Cactus League: Happy Yordano Day
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RCWs > Title 53 > Chapter 53.12 > Section 53.12.115
53.12.061 << 53.12.115 >> 53.12.120
RCW 53.12.115
Increasing number of commissioners—Resolution, petition—Ballot proposition.
A ballot proposition shall be submitted to the voters of any port district authorizing an increase in the number of port commissioners to five whenever the port commission adopts a resolution proposing the increase in number of port commissioners or a petition proposing such an increase has been submitted to the county auditor of the county in which the port district is located that has been signed by voters of the port district at least equal in number to ten percent of the number of voters in the port district who voted at the last general election. The ballot proposition shall be submitted at the next general or special election occurring sixty or more days after the petition was submitted or resolution was adopted.
At the next general or special election following the election in which an increase in the number of port commissioners was authorized, candidates for the two additional port commissioner positions shall be elected as provided in RCW 53.12.130, and the voters may be asked to approve the nomination of commissioners from district-wide commissioner districts as permitted in RCW 53.12.010(2).
[ 1994 c 223 § 86; 1992 c 146 § 7.]
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APPLICATIO new on Instagram!
Hamburg, October 2018 After it was announced that Google will discontinue its social media platform google+ in the future and will only continue its internal activities, APPLICATIO has decided to continue to report on its work on Instagram in the future - mainly image-based. Since a picture says more than 1000 words anyway, it will certainly be exciting to follow the work there as well. You can find APPLICATIO at https://www.instagram.com/applicatio_hh/
As long as google+ remains open, APPLICATIO will serve its "follower" on this platform as well, but is prepared when the switch is flipped. Follow us!
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Union and public anger fuelled by the feeling that we’re not really all in this together at all
Posted by Alastair Campbell | Jun 18, 2011 | Economy, Politics | 44 |
Simon Kuper, best known for his writings on sport, has an excellent column in the FT magazine today. It is never easy to reduce a rich column to a sentence or two, but his main point is that in our celebrity-obsessed media (new and old), the poor are largely forgotten. ‘The 2.5 billion people with less than two dollars a day get ignored, due to being poor, non-white and non-Anglophone,’ says the strapline at the top.
Flick through any newspaper, or watch a news channel for 20 minutes – any longer is likely to invoke a rather sickly feeling – and you are likely to see his point.
Now to another part of today’s FT, the news section, and a small single column on page 3 headlined ‘spending highlights difference in class‘. It is alongside a far bigger piece showing how the trappings of the wealthy – fine wines, polo club membership, art, yachts, property in Chelsea and Kensington – are all becoming more expensive. Poppets.
The smaller piece records ‘while the top 20 per cent of earners in the UK faced overall inflation of 2.5 per cent between 2008 and 2010, the poorest fifth experienced inflation of 4.3 per cent, according to research by the Institute for Fiscal studies.’ The reasons are fairly clear – food and fuel take up a far larger share of spending by the poor.
Elsewhere in the FT, not least in the ghastly (I hate them, Fiona loves them) ‘how to spend it‘ magazines (today’s is about yachts!) evidence abounds that there is plenty of superwealth around, largely unaffected by the crash.
All this adds up to something of a problem for the government, who seem perplexed by the reaction of the unions and others to their planned pensions reforms and cuts in public spending.
Ministers, many of whom are pretty well off and live somewhat gilded lives, appear genuinely to believe their line that ‘we’re all in this together.’ But the people feeling the tightest squeeze believe that they are taking a bigger rap for the financial crisis than those who caused it, who continue to have the ear of ministers, the wealth of Croesus, and an obliviousness to the inequalities they have helped to create, defend and now cement.
So finally to the FT leader (my God they’re getting their share of plugs today) … ‘The coalition’s slogan that we are all in this together may seem a bit hackneyed. But it expresses an important idea. And the public sector unions must understand that includes them too.’
They would get that message more easily if they felt it applied equally at all levels of society. Whether in politics, economics or, as Simon Kuper points out, media, it doesn’t apply equally at all, and helps explain why unions and many of their members feel as they do.
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ZacMurdoch on June 18, 2011 at 11:12 am
Quite so. Look, for example, at Marina Hyde’s piece in today’s Guardian about MPs’ pensions in general and Francis Maude in particular (claimed £35,000 in two years for mortgage payments on his flat when he owned a house a minute’s walk away as well as one in the country and one overseas).
Many politicians – and many metropolitan opinion-formers in the media – think that salaries of £100,000+ are the norm, despite the fact that only 10% of the working population are in the 40% tax bracket or higher.
I’m sick of the overblown rhetoric from ministers and their mates in the media about gold-plated public sector pensions, though I also recognise that Hutton’s proposals were pretty fair – as do most of the union leaders.
This ‘public bad, private good’ war helps no-one – how can we possibly expect public services to improve if we make them so unattractive to work in? Not so much in terms of salary and pension (though there are some very low salaries in parts of the public sector, even though the professional grades dominate now there is so much outsourcing). Much more in terms of the anti-public sector rhetoric, to the extent that people must be starting to feel apologetic about being a local government planning officer or health service administrator.
Sarah Dodds on June 18, 2011 at 6:09 pm
But Zac, surely the point is that they do not want public services to improve?
It is hard to be seen to “fix” something that is not broken. Unless you can bloody well smash it to bits first.
NHS Manager on June 18, 2011 at 6:47 pm
I will never apologise for being part of the NHS management.
You are quite correct about the anti-public sector rhetoric, not just from the Tories but it’s pretty much all over the media. It has been that way for years though and it will never change. To be honest though, I don’t care what either of those sectors say, I’m not in it for their faint praise and meaningless platitudes. I do it because I make a positive difference to real people’s lives.
Shirley Davis on June 18, 2011 at 11:19 am
The message is coming through at all levels, isn’t it – this Government’s economic plan is NOT in the least bit fair. But then we never expected anything less of the Tories – it’s those LibDems that should be hanging their heads in utter shame and, I suspect, the rank and file are doing so in private circles. The leaders are just planning what next to buy.
But, there is some comfort in being frugal through no choice. Today we’re spending our Nectar points on something we really want and feel utterly pleased we can get it for no cash outlay. If money were no object, we’d doubtless miss out on such small pleasures.
But it isn’t the point, is it? Many cannot even spend enough to earn the Nectar points.
Mabozza Ritchie on June 18, 2011 at 11:29 am
It is obvious that the public sector would gain far more public sympathy should any forthcoming strikes be due to the nature of the cuts in services, rather than changes to their pensions. However, I eagerly await the Unions bringing the subject of MP’s pension arrangements into the debate. I’ll start to believe we are all in this together when MPs move to a Career Average arrangement like the proposals for most of the public sector. Hopefully Marina Hyde’s article in yesterday’s Guardian is the start of some serious public exposure and debate.
Duncan Phipp-MacIntyre on June 18, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Insulated, cushioned and protected, many live free and protected from the front line of decline. Analysis of the impact of inflation across society would, I’m sure, reveal stark differences.
The middle may be squeezed but the bottom is crushed.
I detest these pejorative terms and the superiority/inferiority they entail. Top, middle, bottom.
Heating, electricity and food are hitting many of us very hard indeed.
As we approach the longest day of the year, the long winter nights to come may be very cold and dark indeed.
We are all in this together – some of us are just more in this than others.
Duncan Phipp-macintyre on June 18, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Addendum –
A perfect storm of rising prices
Meg Hillier MP
http://www.labourlist.org/a-perfect-storm-of-rising-prices
was busy cleaning – sorry. Can never avoid compulsion. All the best.
alienfromzog on June 18, 2011 at 12:16 pm
I don’t necessarily have a problem with having a multimillionaire Prime Minister and Chancellor.
I don’t think it necessarily wrong to have a multimillionaire Prime Minister and Chancellor institute policies that adversely affect the poor (If such policies are necessarily or morally justified – for the record their neither…)
What I really really can’t stand is a multimillionaire Prime Minister and Chancellor instituting policies that adversely affect the poor (quite disproportionately) and then claiming we’re all in this together…
In is unconscionable, iniquitous and appalling.
MicheleB on June 18, 2011 at 12:22 pm
We’ve become more ethical about the third world; we used to exploit it by investing gaily in industries that exploited their workers.
Along with banking I’m sure that pension funds have had to become more ethical (more, we know not completely).
Pension funds simply can’t grow by the amounts they used or pay out for as long as they used to. All that said I think a lot of the bad feeling this weekend is more to do with Danny Alexander’s exhibitionism than anything else.
His exposure of every aspect of ConDem targets on Today and in the Telegraph yesterday was exploitative bad manners.
He’ll be among the first ex-LDs to convert to another joint party name for the next GE. His about-turn last May, his readiness last summer to be used (as if anyone could believe his ‘accidental’ exposure of handily-highlighted unemployment figures was anything other than softening-up publicity for slightly lower numbers to be released just a few days later) have deleted any honourable impression he used to convey.
ambrosian on June 18, 2011 at 3:06 pm
It’s not just the seriously rich but many of the well-off middle classes who sincerely believe that there is no real poverty in Britain today. This is because (a) they don’t know any poor people and (b) because they are told by the media that you can live the life of Riley on benefits.
There was a telling exchange at PMQs when an MP asked Cameron about the BBC documentary Poor Kids. Cameron immediately began talking about the overseas aid budget, not realising that the documentary was about kids in Britain.
At this week’s PMQs, asked about rising energy prices, Cameron said “we have kept the Winter Fuel Payment”. I was longing for someone to point out that Osborne cut £100 from the Winter Fuel Payment for the over 80s, though he did it quietly and never announced it in his budget speech. My Tory MP told me that Labour were also planning to do this if re-elected. I’m beginning to wonder if he’s right since Labour have said so little about this particular attack on the oldest and most vulnerable. I emailed Ed Balls about it but received no reply. Anyway, watch the deaths from hypothermia rise if we have another severe winter. (Younger recipients only face a cut of £50 so maybe the thinking is that the over 80s are dispensable and will be dead soon anyway).
The great gulf of ignorance and incomprehension in our divided society was well put by Paul Merton recently, speaking of Boris Johnson:
“Boris is just not from the world where you think: ‘I’ve got 36p in my pocket and the giro doesn’t arrive for another two days…..'”
Merton has lived in that world and so have I. It’s a world that’s about to get even more intolerable as £18 billion of welfare cuts start to bite.
ZintW4 on June 18, 2011 at 3:12 pm
The attack on public sector workers and public sector pensions is an example of the squeezed middle being squeezed until the pips burst. What could be more worrying than being told you’re going to be worse off in your old age and the pension contributions you have been making are going to give you less back for your money. The retort from the right is “Why should those in the private sector pay for huge public sector pensions”. Well here’s one reason – public sector workers get no share bonuses. The only ‘share ‘ option they have is in a job well done be it serving school meals, emptying dustbins or working as classroom assistants. Their careers line our communities with something called social capital. That money isn’t spent on Yachts or villas in Umbria – it’s spent on making sure older people get their home help support, that kids get after school clubs and that rubbish is collected. Working in the private sector as I do, I have to say that giving those same workers a decent pension is a bargain when you look at what society gets back.
The Tories and the Liberals should be ashamed of themselves.
MicheleB on June 18, 2011 at 3:50 pm
There’s something very wrong in prices for utilities (the basics of a
home life) being the same for everyone, especially when
infrastructure/standing charges comprise such a high proportion of lower
usage by those in smaller/more careful or modest households.
Andy Stansfield on June 18, 2011 at 3:55 pm
We’re all in it together, yes. But the point is about our relative heights as we stand ‘in it’. The relative difference in income between poorest and richest means that some are in it but ‘it’ barely messes their shiny shoes. Others are up to their necks and some, worse.
The policies of the government mean that the level rises and the first people to choke are the ‘shortest’ people.
Shine your shoes, sir?
MattNW5 on June 18, 2011 at 4:29 pm
And the anger of those of us in the wealth-creating private sector, with jobs on the line and ever-increasing tax burden is fuelled by the fact that, even after all the proposed changes, these public sector workers will still enjoy a retirement plan that rest of us can only dream of. Their negative salary differential with the private sector was largely removed under the last government, and WE still have to pay for their retirement, alongside paying for our own.
I don’t know which of us is believing the wrong hype.
Isn’t the average public sector pension top up ‘only’ about £4k/£6k?
For those of ages that mean a higher proportion of input will be post-2008, perhaps pensions will indeed be lower than for those with the majority of their fund before the crash.
Anyone with an ounce of arithmetical ability knew that final salary pensions were always unrealistic and unaffordable for the future generations that would actually be paying them. In some cases they even inhibited a person’s promotabiity for the last decade of their career.
Ehtch on June 18, 2011 at 4:44 pm
The old Victorian help the poor Roundtree spirit is a bit thin these days, when people like Lord Leverhulme and others built healthy housing for their local people.
There is too much concerntrated shove under the matress wealth about in the UK these days, and for, say, the last three decades, say no more, started in fashion by a certain lady and her friends ideals. These companies pissing off to the Swiss Banking system really bugs me.
Society and community is still alive, if it is given a chance. Link to Lord Leverhulme, Gladstone’s industrial mate. persil washing powder and sunlight soap and all that. But there was a big question mark on Belgian palm oil from then though…
http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/
I hope you England living people, wherever you originally come from, are going to climb a hill to welcome winter on the night of 21/22 June. For you London Beau Brummers, Solsbury Hill will do, in a London Taxi travel ride, on recomendation from the great Peter Gabriel,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ylSUsel3w
Gilliebc on June 18, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Oh how my heart bleeds for the private sector, not!
You lot “never had it so good” back in the 1980’s when “greed was good”
It is no good you now expecting the public sector, who have always been paid a very basic wage by most people’s standards, to pick-up the tab for the bankers huge, almost catastrophic mistakes.
It suits the Government of the day (any government) to stir-up ill feeling between the private and public sectors. Ultimately, the people need their public sector services i.e. Police, Teachers, Fire Brigades, Ambulance and so on to enable them to have a reasonable education, relatively safe lives and proffesional help in an emergency situation.
The current difficulties in the private sector is not the fault or doing of the public sector. The (justifyable) anger felt by people working in the private sector should be directed at those responsible i.e. the bankers and the Government. Not the public sector, especially the emergency services who carry on doing their jobs during good times and bad times and it has to be said, more important in the scheme of things to most people.
Very well said ZintW4. I couldn’t agree more. Especially the bit about the bonus payments that the private sector “enjoy” and which I forgot to mention in my post.
Good post ambrosian. I also picked-up on the two points you mentioned during this weeks PMQ’s. The point about Winter Fuel Payments is a very telling point indeed. The fact that Labour are not speaking out on this issue or any other issues where our most vulnerable members of society are having the rug pulled out from under them is cause for concern. One could be forgiven for thinking “they are all in it together”
Deaths from hypothermia are bound to rise if we have another cold winter.
Or, if the elderly and very poor are forced to choose between heating and eating, maybe we will even see deaths caused by starvation!
But surely that couldn’t be the plan, or could it?
I suppose “call me Dave” will be expecting the “big society” plan to kick-in then, with lovely do-gooders serving up warm soup to the old and vulnerable as they sit huddled around braziers in the street!
We are all, apart from the wealthy elite, going backward not forward.
Gilliebc on June 19, 2011 at 12:23 am
Shirley, whilst I’m pleased that you have been able to get something you really want with your Nectar points, which you of course have earned through your purchases and I also accept what you say about many people not even being able to spend enough to earn Nectar points. The fact remains that Nectar points and other such schemes are merely crumbs used to appease and placate the masses.
In a fairer more equal society these crumbs wouldn’t be necessary.
A short while ago EDF Energy were offering Nectar points to customers who were willing to read their own meters! I personally found that very offensive. A small reduction on our bills would have been much more appropriate, I think. But all the while a brainwashed public are prepared to go along with these daft ideas such as Nectar points and the like, nothing will ever change. I’m afraid I don’t accept crumbs and as far as I’m concerned they can shove their Nectar points where the sun doesn’t shine.
Ehtch on June 19, 2011 at 1:44 am
Latest front page pic of my daughter on her facebook front page. Looking totally gormless and totally beautiful with it, as usual,
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/174433_720165273_2480291_n.jpg
Robert on June 19, 2011 at 9:02 am
Ambrosian, in the light of the Phillip Davies stream of consciousness political philosophy, the whole point of knocking £100 off the winter fuel payment for the over 80’s is that at that great age in the big society there will be others helping out in the homes of the very elderly who will also be being kept warm at the taxpayer’s expense, with that very same extra £100.
And in a Tory/LD governed Britain we cannot tolerate the elderly’s cleaners and carers’ warmth subsidised by the taxpayer, can we?
ambrosian on June 19, 2011 at 9:49 am
There’s no actual evidence that Labour would have cut the Winter Fuel Payment. The Tories say Labour hadn’t budgeted for it to continue at the present rate. But Brown and Darling always announced the level of such payments on an annual basis rather than fixing them for five years.
Cameron, of course, during the election swore blind that the Tories wouldn’t touch the Winter Fuel Payment. Yet another big lie.
There’s a certain irony that the highest proportion of Tory voters is amongst the elderly. Many of them took these hugely increased benefits and free TV licences whilst complaining loudly that Labour had nothing for them. They’ll get a nasty shock this winter when they get their Winter Fuel Payment because this cut has had so little publicity. Not that I’d be mean enough to say they deserve it!
Richard on June 19, 2011 at 10:16 am
The mantra message is that ” the “average” pension in public sector is only £3,500, so that is not a lot is it?” It is about 25% of average salary.
The pension is that low because the average employee in the public sector serves only 15 years, and the pension represents 15/40 of final salary.
Let us also pay tribute to the person who stuffed private sector final salary schemes. A victimless crime he said when ACT was abolished. Explain that one, Mr Balls, to the public service employees who are now being squeezed pednsion wise as their pensions are no longer affordable.
Anyone hear M/s Bousted on Any Questions getting in a complete horlicks on the subject?
Ehtch on June 19, 2011 at 10:59 am
I am working on the dowry levels. Might put it up for auction. Love? What the fuck is that?
kate and wills i like, i think they may have something healthy, appart from love. praise them. Kate? I would too Wills, oh yes.
Do you like Jonathan Meades, Alastair? I love him to death,.I think I know where he is coming from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYZQFcBnZ8
Robert on June 19, 2011 at 12:28 pm
The previous Tory administration started the process of reducing ACT. GB simply finished what the Tories started doing and what they would have done had they won the 1997 election.
MWCheshire on June 19, 2011 at 4:24 pm
All in this together? I know where I am and it is not
“together” with the current government…
I am pleased that the CamerOsbornEgg three-headed monster has at least stopped
using the phrase lately – out of shame, I am sure. The last time I remember
hearing it was when Boy George used it during his budget speech, allowing all
those of us with a sense of
humour to fall about laughing.
It is a sad inevitability that those of us not blessed with great wealth will
be most adversely affected by current inflationary issues and price hikes – the amount I spend
on food and fuel as a proportion of my income would be pretty eye-watering if I
dared calculate it definitively. The same cannot be said of the better off.
Francis Maude (not exactly hard up) is getting on my wick as well in his new
role as “anti-public service pensions” tsar, and as for that
Alexander chap, well, words fail me..!
Dave Simons on June 19, 2011 at 4:43 pm
I need to unscramble the figures a bit. When you say 25% of average salary, do you mean average UK salary, public and private, or just UK public sector? If £3,500 is 25% of whichever you mean, that means the average is £14,000. I thought the average UK salary was around £25,000. I don’t have a figure for average UK public sector alone. Averages of course disguise the real picture. In the public sector a few people on £100,000 raise the average for a lot of people on, say, £17,000. There are also regional and occupational differentials to consider. Also I’d be interested to know where that average of 15 years comes from. Outsourcing and the proliferaton of short-term contracts have played havoc with such figures in recent years.
On this occasion I’m not being critical – I’m just asking for clarification.
I’m not sure how so many in the Cabinet can even pretend to be sharing the pain that people on benefit (not bloddy ‘welfare’ …… wannabe-trendy usage and as for ‘senates’ in the NHS or for the reformed HoL I could ……).
Anyway, I don’t know what the daily interest might be, even on the present low bank rates, on something like £35m in the bank or in shares. …… I’ve probably got it wrong but only 1% would grow by £350k p.a. !
Whether living publicly-funded or not, I doubt the owners of such amounts spend much time being curious about what the cuts feels like for many.
Curiosity can’t be pretended, it can only be inspired by first hand exposure. As for empathy …..
There was an interesting ‘experiment’ on radio quit e along while ago, long before M Portillo tried living on a council estate. Bruiser Brian Hayes had Olga Maitland living in a bedsit on giro cash for a couple of weeks and her surprise at the decisions/choices someone doing so have to take – such as coins in the meter or have some food – seemed to change some of her opinions. I doubt she had much time left in HoC to apprise colleagues.
Dave Simons on June 20, 2011 at 6:22 am
Matthew Paris tried living on unemployment benefit for a short spell in the 1980s when he was an MP under Thatcher, and he found he couldn’t manage it. However the experience seems to have had no effect whatsoever on his backwoods Tory views, as expressed regularly and ad nauseam in ‘The Times’. ‘There but for fortune’ seem to be his conclusion from his experience, and fortunately he’s not there.
Chris lancashire on June 20, 2011 at 8:42 am
In view of your opening paragraph you will presumably be endorsing the Coalition’s policy to increase overseas aid to the UN target of 0.7% of GDP.
SG on June 20, 2011 at 9:04 am
‘Why should those in the private sector pay for huge public sector pensions”. Well here’s one reason – public sector workers get no share bonuses’
That’s a ridiculous argument. Most private sector workers do not receive any bonuses either and the idea that all public workers are only doing their job becasue they have a social conscience as oppossed to those in the private sector is equally absurd. The fact is someone has to pay for these pensions and why should those in the private sector, the majority on similar pay, be expected to do so when many can barely afford to fund their own retirement plans. Even with the recommended changes to public sector pensions, they will still be significantly better than those inthe private sector in most cases !
Most posters on here need to be able to differentiate between a few in the banking industry on vastly inflated salaries and the majority in the private sector.
‘Oh how my heart bleeds for the private sector, not!You lot “never had it so good” back in the 1980’s when “greed was good”. (Gilliebc)
Who exactly is you lot ?, most in the private sector earn the same or less than public sector employees and do not receive any type of bonus, yet some on here expect them to fund the pensions of public sector workers when they cannot even afford to fund their own. Get real !!
Don’t think anybody can blame the present pension crisis on the latest crash, it’s been coming since the late 90s. Life expectancy, better health after 50+yrs of NHS plus pensions having indefinite terms to run ….. hard to plan for!
Way back then, only 12/15yrs or so after the mid-80s introduction of double tax-break pension plans developed under the last Tory lot, the myth of their being possible had already been busted.
There were so many other busts exposed around the same time; endowmment mortgages and all the rest of the ‘money from thin air’ schemes that were never ever realistic, so pensions kept being swept under the carpet.
I daresay a lot has only even come out now because of all the public bodies invested in Icelandic funds and their tax breaks that crashed and all coinciding with the approaching retirements of so many baby boomers having been employed all their lives in the massively-expanded post-WWII public sector .
Perhaps we should also be looking to the public services that dodged tax!
SG, on this issue, to put it in a nutshell, you are right and I was wrong!
For me to lump the private sector workers together with the (not all) greedy overpaid, bonus enriched bankers was not accurate.
I shall attempt to edit the post where I wrote something that is incorrect.
However, owing to the somewhat chaotic system that is “Disqus” this usually means the post disappears altogether. Although in this instance, it wouldn’t really matter.
Thanks for putting me right SG.
tess on June 21, 2011 at 3:41 pm
If we really all are in this together as shiny faced CamSham and his bubbly quaffing pals spout so often, then how come us, the low paid “deserving poor” are facing the battle of our lives!There are millions of people in this country with no pension at all, in fact, we live day to day, hand to mouth just trying to survive(I have mastered a weekly shop for a family of four for £45- perhaps I should offer Georgie Porgie and CamSham some budgeting advice!) If we really are “All in this together” then perhaps CamSham could wipe the Clegg off his face and advise me – do I spend my last £10 on shoes for my five-year-old – or a birthday cake for my very understanding teenager?….These are the kind of decisions myself, and many, many of my friends in similar positions are having to make thanks to these razor sharp cuts- how can CamSham and his true blue pals the yellow bellys EVER understand what the “ordinary man” feels? They can’t is the answer and those that do, and turn a blind eye should hang their heads in shame and remember – what goes around comes around – hopefully, theirs is on its way!!
I’m sure nothing’s so simple SG. After all, who are the customers to most of the private sector?
Some supermarket groups have long had very generous final salary pension packages and when those pots prove to be inadequate for the early lucky recipients I daresay the top-ups will have to come from customers of the future.
I think the most repugnant demonstration of how we are definitely not in anything together is the spoiled brat’s retort today to RAF officers wondering where the Libyan endeavour is going.
‘You do the fighting and I’ll do the talking’ …. I almost threw up.
New Statesman has suddenly become courtesan, a hitting pitch, where the yank money is suddenly interested, due to me feeding them,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK913I
The Sherriff if NS us certainly a niggar. Well, you know what I mean. I am welsh by the way,m from wales, with small parts, apart fom Tom Jones,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjFHqMxLGjg
Ehtch on June 26, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Never mind about cabbages and Pete Gabriel the marvellous! How about west country mrtvellos apples that canbne turned into cider, knocks the socks of any beer anything alcoholic around. I well recomend it, seriously.
Might as well post my favorite track of John Foxx, when he was in that Ultravox in 1977, which made them,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YVyvUWmQY
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Largest vessel to date traverses expanded Panama Canal
The COSCO Development vessel, with capacity to transport up to 13,435 containers, transits the Agua Clara lock through the canal expansion, on the Atlantic slope in Colon, Panama, May 2, 2017. EFE/Alejandro Bolívar
The COSCO Development, a huge container vessel, on Tuesday became the largest ship to date to traverse the newly expanded locks of the Panama Canal.
by Andrea Rodes
Largest vessel to date traverses expanded...
By EFE
The ship, which is 366 meters (1,200 feet) long and 48 m (157 ft.) wide, can transport up to 13,435 containers and is en route from Asia to the US East Coast.
It began its journey through the Canal early Tuesday morning on the Pacific side at the Cocoli locks, waterway authorities said.
Panama Canal Authority administrator Jorge Luis Quijano said that if all the containers the ship is carrying were laid end to end the resulting chain would measure about 80 kilometers (50 miles).
Quijano wrote on his Twitter account that the containers currently on board the Hong Kong-flagged vessel, built in 2011, "would reach from Puente de las Americas to the entrance of El Valle," the tourist town west of Panama City.
Since the newly expanded locks were inaugurated on June 26, 2016, an average of 5.9 of the huge Neopanamax vessels have traversed the Canal.
The Canal - through which 6 percent of world commerce passes - is a chokepoint for 140 maritime routes linking 1,700 ports in 160 countries.
The cost of the waterway's expansion, which was mainly carried out by a consortium headed by the Spanish firm Sacyr, ultimately will exceed the $5.25 billion originally forecast.
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A priest explains celibacy
Corinne SIMON/CIRIC
Fr. Patrick Briscoe, OP | Jul 07, 2019
Friendship and love are of the very essence of the priesthood.
Since the days of Christ’s public ministry, when Our Lord conspicuously chose not to marry, the world has looked askance at priestly celibacy. Today, popular tropes routinely cast aspersion on this longstanding discipline of the Western Church, blaming it for everything from the recent clerical abuse scandal to regional scarcities of priestly vocations.
Disoriented by these accusations, we can forget to reflect on the positive and transcendent reasons why priests in the West remain unmarried, and what their celibate lives say to the world.
To those afraid of commitment, the priest’s life can seem alien, even threatening. His celibacy speaks of total commitment. In a 2015 address to Dartmouth College graduates, New York Times columnist David Brooks urged his audience to make commitments.
Brooks said, “Your fulfillment in life will not come from how well you explore your freedom and keep your options open. That’s the path to a frazzled, scattered life in which you try to please everyone and end up pleasing no one … Your fulfillment in life will come by how well you end your freedom.”
For Brooks, by chaining ourselves to something immovable, by forging bonds of commitment with others, we can combat the tyrannical freedom of our age—the illusive freedom of endless options and choice.
New York Times columnist wants to convert. Are we stopping him?
By his vows, the priest is free. By promising obedience and celibacy to the bishop, the priest chains his life to the Gospel, renouncing anything that could stand in its way. While many people today jump from company to company, city to city, relationship to relationship, the priest is there. He remains. He is available. He is ready. He is free. He is all these things because the Church, to which he commits himself, remains all these things.
Further, in any number of difficult pastoral situations today, people experience profound frustration. As the breakdown of the family continues to foment discord and pain in our culture, some feel that the Church’s only answer to the nexus of struggles they face is merely a prescription of more isolation and loneliness.
Amidst our highly sexualized culture, the faithful celibate priest assures them: Sex is not life, life is more than sex.
The priest is there. He remains. He is available. He is ready. He is free. He is all these things because the Church, to which he commits himself, remains all these things.
The celibate priest lives in solidarity with those who are alone.
The celibate priest lives in solidarity with those who suffer a failed marriage.
The celibate priest lives in solidarity with those who daily contend with disordered sexuality.
In one of the most poignant summaries of Christianity ever, the French poet Paul Claudel asserts: “Jesus did not come to explain away suffering, or to remove it. He came to fill it with His presence.”
The priest, standing in persona Christi, in the very person of Christ, stands with all who ache. By his celibate witness, the priest joins the song of those who lament.
But even as he joins the chorus of suffering, the priest raises the pitch of the tune. The priest, who has chosen this way of life, reminds the faithful that we shall all someday be as angels, neither married nor given in marriage (Matthew 22:30). We, the pilgrim people, look forward to a life beyond what we presently see and hear. Scripture tells us, eye has not seen, and ear has not heard the glory that has been prepared for us (1 Corinthians 2:9).
Our hearts have to be set on arriving at the Kingdom. The Gospel—in all its fullness—is the only thing that can bear our hearts’ weight.
Finally, the celibate priest’s heart belongs to Jesus. He is intimately united to Him. The late Irish Trappist monk Eugene Boylan described the priest’s union with Jesus, saying:
He has chosen us to share the joys and sorrows of his heart, to give him sympathy for his sorrow, love for his love. He has not chosen us because of any merit or talent of our own, but because of his goodness and mercy. He has not chosen us for what we are, but for what he can make of us.
Too often friendship and love are considered a garnish of priestly life. However, they are its very essence. Jesus, who calls us friends and begs us abide in me (John 15), invites us to union and love, rather than simply to works and fruitfulness. The essence of the priesthood of Jesus is mystical conformity to the heart of Christ. From this love springs the priest’s apostolate.
Union with Christ allows the priest to be configured to the Church as Christ was: To love the Church, with the same love of the bridegroom. Just as Eve was brought to be from the side of Adam, the Church sprang into being as blood and water poured forth from the side of Christ on Calvary Hill. The celibate character of a priest’s life is not a mere sign. It is the actual living out of Christ’s spousal love for the Church. It is a pouring forth from the priest’s own heart a new share of the love out of which the Church first emerged.
Our culture is filled with priests of our own design. They preach gospels of affirmation, satisfaction, and achievement. They promise comfort and complacency now, while rejecting the things of above and those that have yet to come. Today, we need to see and hear the priesthood of Christ. We need a priesthood which dares to live the deepest solidarity with suffering pilgrims. We need a priesthood which loves with the heart of Christ, a priesthood which beckons us to chase the things of heaven.
In the end, perhaps priestly celibacy is considered by the world to be so very odd, because the love it proclaims seems, to the world, so very foreign.
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Currie, Kevin Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Editorial Board Member
Name: Currie, Kevin
Email: currie@rowan.edu
Institution: Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Subject Categories: Membrane Biology, Neurobiology
Expertise Terms: amperometry, calcium channel, calcium imaging, catecholamine, chloride channel, chromaffin, dorsal root ganglia, electrochemistry, electrophysiology, exocytosis, G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), ion channel, neurotransmitter release, patch clamp, secretion, serotonin transporter, sodium channel
Drews, Gisela University of Tuebingen Editorial Board Member
Name: Drews, Gisela
Email: gisela.drews@uni-tuebingen.de
Institution: University of Tuebingen
Subject Categories: Metabolism, Molecular Bases of Disease
Expertise Terms: ATP, beta cell (B-cell), bile acid, calcium, calcium channel, calcium imaging, cell metabolism, diabetes, electrophysiology, exocytosis, insulin secretion, ion channel, mitochondria, oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species (ROS)
Hirata, Hiromi Aoyama Gakuin University Editorial Board Member
Name: Hirata, Hiromi
Email: hihirata@chem.aoyama.ac.jp
Institution: Aoyama Gakuin University
Department: College of Science and Engineering
Subject Categories: Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Neurobiology
Expertise Terms: aging, behavior, brain, Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), calcium imaging, chaperone, chloride transport, CRISPR/Cas, development, ER stress, fish, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), glycine, glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI anchor), Mauthner, medaka, motor neuron, muscle, muscle atrophy, muscle hypertrophy, muscle physiology, muscle regeneration, muscular dystrophy, mutant, myogenesis, myostatin, myotonic dystrophy, neurodegeneration, neurogenesis, neurological disease, neuron, neuroscience, neurotransmitter receptor, Notch pathway, sensory neuron, skeletal muscle, sodium channel, somite, spinal cord, synaptic plasticity, zebrafish
Jovanovic, Jasmina UCL School of Pharmacy Editorial Board Member
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Email: j.jovanovic@ucl.ac.uk
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Department: Pharmacology
Subject Categories: Neurobiology, Signal Transduction
Expertise Terms: brain, Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK), calcium imaging, cell surface protein, confocal microscopy, endocytosis, enzyme kinetics, exocytosis, GABA receptor, intracellular trafficking, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), neurochemistry, neurodifferentiation, neuroprogenitor cell, neurotransmitter, neurotransmitter receptor, neurotrophic factor, phosphatase, phosphorylation enzyme, protein conformation, protein phosphorylation, protein serine/threonine phosphatase (PSP), protein-protein interaction, receptor endocytosis, Signal Transduction
Lee, Hon Cheung Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School Editorial Board Member
Name: Lee, Hon Cheung
Email: leehoncheung@gmail.com
Institution: Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
Department: School of Chemical Biology & Biotechnology
Subject Categories: Cell Biology, Signal Transduction
Expertise Terms: ADP-ribosyl Cyclase, calcium imaging, calcium intracellular release, calcium signaling, calcium stores, calcium-binding protein, CD38, cell signaling, cell surface enzyme, cell-penetrating peptide (CPP), cyclic ADP Ribose (cADPR), Cyclic ADP-ribose, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3), inositol trisphosphate receptor (InsP3R), intracellular trafficking, lysosomal calium stores, NAADP, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP), pH regulation
Lemasters, John Medical University of South Carolina Editorial Board Member
Name: Lemasters, John
Email: lemaste@musc.edu
Institution: Medical University of South Carolina
Department: Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Subject Categories: Bioenergetics, Cell Biology, Metabolism
Expertise Terms: alcohol, apoptosis, autophagy, bioenergetics, calcium imaging, calcium signaling, cell death, confocal microscopy, hepatocyte, imaging, in vivo imaging, iron, iron metabolism, ischemia, ischemia/reperfusion, liver, liver injury, mitochondria, mitochondrial (patho)physiology, mitochondrial apoptosis, mitochondrial metabolism, mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT), mitophagy, multiphoton microscopy, necrosis (necrotic death), oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species (ROS), VDAC, voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC), Warburg effect, Warburg phenomenon
Lytton, Jonathan University of Calgary Editorial Board Member
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Email: jlytton@ucalgary.ca
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Expertise Terms: calcium, calcium ATPase, calcium channel, calcium imaging, calcium intracellular release, calcium signaling, calcium transport, calcium-binding protein, ion channel, membrane, membrane function, membrane protein, membrane transport, metal homeostasis, Molecular Biology, plasma membrane, sodium-calcium exchange
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Monteith, Gregory The University of Queensland Editorial Board Member
Name: Monteith, Gregory
Email: gregm@uq.edu.au
Institution: The University of Queensland
Department: The School of Pharmacy
Subject Categories: Signal Transduction
Expertise Terms: breast cancer, calcium, calcium ATPase, calcium channel, calcium imaging, calcium intracellular release, calcium transport, cell signaling, FLIPR, ion channel, mammary gland, molecular pharmacology, pharmacology, PMCA, PMCA1, PMCA2, Signal Transduction, SPCA, SPCA1, SPCA2
Nichols, Robert University of Hawaii at Manoa Editorial Board Member
Name: Nichols, Robert
Email: robert.nichols@hawaii.edu
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Expertise Terms: Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid, calcium imaging, calcium intracellular release, cell culture, Neurobiology, neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative disease, neurological disease, neuroprotection, neurotransmitter receptor, neurotransmitter release, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR), oxidative stress, protein phosphorylation, synapse, Synapses, synaptic plasticity, synaptosome
Parent, Lucie Université de Montréal Editorial Board Member
Name: Parent, Lucie
Email: lucie.parent@umontreal.ca
Institution: Université de Montréal
Department: Pharmacologie et Physiologie
Subject Categories: Membrane Biology, Molecular Bases of Disease, Neurobiology
Expertise Terms: Biophysics, calcium channel, calcium imaging, calmodulin (CaM), cardiomyocyte, cardiovascular disease, cell surface protein, computer modeling, electrophysiology, epithelial cell, flow cytometry, glycosylation, heart failure, ion channel, plasma membrane, post-translational modification (PTM), site-directed mutagenesis
Roe, Michael SUNY Upstate Medical University Editorial Board Member
Name: Roe, Michael
Email: roem@upstate.edu
Institution: SUNY Upstate Medical University
Department: Medicine
Subject Categories: Cell Biology, Molecular Bases of Disease, Signal Transduction
Expertise Terms: bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET), biomarker, biosensor, calcium, calcium ATPase, calcium channel, calcium imaging, calcium intracellular release, calcium signaling, calcium transport, cell compartmentalization, cell signaling, confocal microscopy, diabetes, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3), insulin secretion, ion channel, molecular imaging, pancreatic islet, Phospholipase C, potassium channel, Signal Transduction, subcellular organelle
Romanin, Christoph Johannes Kepler University Linz Editorial Board Member
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Email: christoph.romanin@jku.at
Institution: Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Expertise Terms: allergy, Ca2+ Signaling, calcium channel, calcium imaging, calcium release-activated calcium channel protein 1 (ORAI1), calcium transport, calcium-binding protein, cholesterol, cholesterol regulation, cholesterol-binding protein, CRAC channels, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), mast cells, optogenetics, Orai channels, patch clamp, protein conformation, STIM1 and STIM2, stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1)
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Email: g.rutter@imperial.ac.uk
Department: Cell Biology, Division of Medicine
Subject Categories: Cell Biology, Metabolism, Molecular Bases of Disease
Expertise Terms: AMP-activated kinase (AMPK), bioenergetics, bioluminescence, Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), calcium imaging, calcium intracellular release, CALCIUM/Imaging, cell metabolism, cell signaling, cyclic ADP Ribose (cADPR), diabetes, DISEASES/Diabetes, endocrinology, functional genomics, GENE/Promoters, glucose, insulin, insulin secretion, insulin synthesis, MEMBRANE/Trafficking, metal homeostasis, mitochondria, secretion, SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION/Protein Kinases/MAP
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Email: sekler@bgu.ac.il
Institution: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Department: Physiology and Cell Biology
Subject Categories: Bioenergetics, Membrane Biology, Molecular Biophysics
Expertise Terms: calcium, calcium ATPase, calcium imaging, calcium signaling, calcium transport, MCU, membrane biophysics, membrane transport, Metallothione, mitochondrial calcium uniporter, mitochondrial sodium calcium exchange, NCLX, sodium-calcium exchange, zinc, zinc homeostasis, zinc transport, zinc transporters, ZIP, ZnT
Shah, Mala UCL School of Pharmacy Editorial Board Member
Name: Shah, Mala
Email: ucnvms6@ucl.ac.uk
Subject Categories: Neurobiology
Expertise Terms: axon, Biophysics, calcium channel, calcium imaging, dendrite, electrophysiology, epilepsy, hippocampus, ion channel, neurophysiology, neuroscience, neurotransmitter release, potassium channel, sodium channel, synapse, synaptic plasticity
Trebak, Mohamed Penn State Hershey College of Medicine Editorial Board Member
Name: Trebak, Mohamed
Email: mtrebak@psu.edu
Institution: Penn State Hershey College of Medicine
Subject Categories: Membrane Biology, Molecular Bases of Disease, Signal Transduction
Expertise Terms: atherosclerosis, calcium channel, Calcium channels, calcium imaging, calcium intracellular release, calcium release-activated calcium channel protein 1 (ORAI1), calcium signaling, calcium transport, cancer, cardiovascular disease, endothelial cell, excitation-contraction coupling (E-C coupling), excitation-transcription coupling, G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), migration, mitochondria, mitochondrial transport, Phospholipase C, proliferation, redox signaling, Signal Transduction, smooth muscle, STIM/Orai channels, Store-operated Calcium channels, TRP channels
Wennemuth, Gunther University of Duisburg-Essen Editorial Board Member
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Hive review
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Hive is a board game without a board. Well in reality the hexagonal tiles that are added to the game actually create the board itself. As more and more pieces are added the game becomes a fight to see who can be the first to capture the opposing Queen Bee. In Hive, like Chess, the tiles can then be moved to other positions according to various rules, making it a very abstract strategy board game. Capture the opponent’s queen bee by completely surrounding it using your ants, beetles, mosquitos, spiders, and grasshoppers and avoid the capture of your own queen. Now John Yianni’s tabletop Hive game has been brought over to the iPhone by Lotusland Studios.
There are 22 pieces in total making up a Hive set, with 11 pieces per player, each representing an insect and a different means of moving.
– 1 Queen Bee (Yellow-Gold)
– 2 Spiders (Brown)
– 2 Beetles (Purple)
– 3 Grasshoppers (Green)
– 3 Soldier Ants (Blue)
Play against the AI that naturally increases in difficulty and a professionally composed soundtrack by John Tennant, Hive on the iPhone can become quite addictive. You can play with two players on one iPhone or play over the network. The iPhone version of Hive, the queen bee does not move first (tournament rules). Now on the iPhone you can easily pick from a variety of themes including 3D insects and the ‘classic’ wood tile set based on the original first edition pieces, plus colored backgrounds.
If you’ve ever played Hive on the tabletop, or love Chess and are looking for a wonderful complement with an exciting fluid game style, grab yourself a copy of Hive on the iPhone. New users will have to take a few minutes to learn the basic moves and rules. Once you get hooked this game is a ton of fun to play on the iPhone and great for all ages.
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News Release – Senator Casey Votes to End Ability to Filibuster
For Immediate Release: November 21, 2013
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355
Senator Bob Casey Joins His Party to Radically Remake America’s Judicial System
(Harrisburg) — Today Senator Bob Casey, Jr. joined the other Senate Democrats, except Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR), to rewrite the rules and remove the minority party’s ability to filibuster judicial nominees requiring a 60 vote threshold to advance the nominee. Such a move leaves the path wide open for President Obama to remake the US judicial system. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA) is appalled by Senator Casey’s continued votes which attack the family and destroys the lives of babies in the womb.
“Casey’s liberal leanings are increasingly being exposed with each vote he casts. He is walking in lock step with the Democratic Party which seems to be intent upon destroying the America that we know and love. We’ve always suspected they wanted no voices of disagreement heard, now Casey and fifty-one of the other Senate Democrats have proven it by their votes today. The message: Disagree and you will be forced to sit down and shut up – period,” commented Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.
The very idea that Obama’s nominees are not being confirmed fast enough is false. In the first ten months of President Obama’s second term, 34 of his judicial nominees have been confirmed. During the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term only fifteen of his judicial nominees had been confirmed. President Obama and the Senate Democrats are simply dissatisfied at the speed in which the US judicial system is being flipped toward a radically liberal ideology.
As one Senator noted in 2005, ” Everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster—if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate—then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse.” That Senator was Barack Obama when the Democrats were in the minority. Seems like he’s “evolved” on this issue too!
“Reid used procedural votes on the nomination of Patricia Ann Millett to the DC Circuit Court as the means to get the cloture vote lowered from 60 to just a simple majority. Millett was one of three Obama nominees to the DC Circuit that had been recently blocked by the Republicans. Millett, Cornelia Pillard and Robert Leon Wilkins are radical nominees that tend to ignore what the US Constitution really says, supports the killing of babies up until their birth, seeks to destroy the family by their support of so-called ‘gay marriage’ and should not serve in the courts, let alone the DC Court which is considered by many to be the second highest court in the land. Senator Casey voted for confirmation of all three and his vote today to end the filibuster crosses a line that destroys the Senate’s constitutional ability to give advice and consent as is outlined in Article II, Section 2 since only one side of the debate has been deemed important,” concluded Gramley.
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“Experts” wrong to write-off Ong as next PM
In Political governance, Public Administration on 01/10/2018 at 9:34 am
“Experts” kanna chiat sai a second time: they got to recant their view that he’s no longer in contention to be the next PM. (For the record, I’ve never tot Ong Ye Kung was in the running to be PM. In fact, I tot he was “very mediocre”. In Ong Ye Kung: A study in failure I’ve listed his NTUC and SMRT failings, and more.)
But many “experts” (Think Eugene Tan) did think he could be our next PM, and they had to eat their own faeces and drink their own urine after the latest cabinet reshuffle: Our new PM/ Trumpets pls for me
But given the announcement of a very major change in our education system,
Primary and secondary schools to cut down on exams and tests, as MOE announces sweeping changes to reduce emphasis on grades
In a major move to reduce emphasis on grades, the Ministry of Education (MOE) will do away with examinations and graded assessments for Primary 1 and 2 students from next year.
Mid-year examinations for students in Pri 3, Pri 5, Secondary 1 and Sec 3 will also be removed in phases from 2019 while all students from Pri 3 to Sec 4 or Sec 5 will not have more than one weighted assessment per subject per school term.
In addition, students’ report books will also no longer reflect their class and level positions as well as overall marks, with scores to be rounded off without decimal points.
These changes were announced by Education Minister Ong Ye Kung on Friday (Sept 28).
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/primary-and-secondary-schools-cut-down-exams-and-tests-moe-announces-sweeping-changes
these experts should now eat more their own faeces and drink more their own urine and repent and recant their writing-off of his chances of becoming PM. There was a really good reason for PM to retain him at MoE: to finalise and announce the above changes, even if “Schools” were in the portfolio of Ng Chee Meng, now NTUC’s Secretary-General.
Me? I don’t think he’s going to be the next PM, but I’m not so cocksure any more.
Firstly, because PM seems to like him: remember he served as Lee Hsien Loong’s Principal Private Secretary (2002–2004). To be fair to him and PM, he did good work when he was concurrently
Director of Trade at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (2000–2003)
Deputy Chief Negotiator of Singapore-US Free Trade Agreement (2000–2003).
And because he can throw smoke. Not as good as Lawrence Wong (Smell the smoke? From Indonesia or from the PAP & cybernuts?) but still better (Doublespeak on “Every school a good school”) than Heng or Kee Chiu:
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This threat to edible corn comes on top of GE alfalfa (a major, major threat to organic agriculture) and GE sugarbeets. Please take action on this vital issue.
Last Friday, the US Department of Agriculture announced it would deregulate a type of industrial corn genetically engineered to produce an enzyme that speeds the breakdown of starch into sugar, which would increase efficiency in making ethanol. The agency concluded the crop does not pose a plant risk.
For once, natural health advocates are voicing the same concerns as the corn industry. The Center for Food Safety says that bio-fuel corn “will inevitably contaminate food-grade corn, and could well trigger substantial rejection in our corn export markets, hurting farmers.”
Five major US trade associations whose member companies process and export corn and corn products agree. They say the product—if inadvertently commingled with general commodity corn at even very low levels—will have significant adverse effects on food product quality and performance.
Fears about the genetic contamination of corn echo concerns about Monsanto’s mutant alfalfa—that it will likely destroy organic alfalfa altogether because the crop is so invasive and its seeds are so easily spread by the wind. The danger of contamination of non-genetically altered species is extremely high, despite half-hearted attempts at “usage guidelines.” Organic alfalfa, in turn, is essential for organic meat production.
In an article at TruthOut, reporter Mike Ludwig noted that House Committee on Agriculture members pressed Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to fully deregulate Roundup Ready alfalfa and reject the proposal to geographically isolate it from traditional alfalfa. Upon learning that the USDA had fully deregulated the genetically engineered grain, committee chair Frank Lucas (R-OK) said, “I am pleased that USDA used sound science and respected the limit of its statutory authority to make this decision.”
Monsanto was one of the top contributors to Lucas’s campaign committee in 2010. A political action committee and individuals associated with Monsanto donated $11,000 to his campaign last year, and Lucas has received $1,247,844 from the agribusiness industry during his political career, according to watchdog site OpenSecrets.org. Lucas was elected chairman of the Agriculture Committee in December.
Deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa, sugarbeets, and now bio-fuel corn—what’s next? We must overturn these disastrous decisions. If you have not done so already, please see our recent Action Alert on alfalfa, which now includes both bio-fuel corn and sugarbeets, and send your message to the USDA, Congress and to President Obama today!
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335 responses to “Now USDA Has Deregulated Genetically Engineered Bio-Fuel Corn!”
Regina DeFalco Lippert says:
I vote NO! on the deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa, sugarbeets, corn and any other crop, especially since there is NO WAY to prevent them from contaminating regular crops, and especially organically grown crops!
George Ordal says:
These lectin-containing crops are dangerous to human health. From this point of view insect metabolism is so similar to our own. Extensive experimentation on a number of different humans need to be done to avoid jeopardizing people.
Christine Blake says:
Amazing the government will just sell our heltha away to any stupid corporation wh pays them enough. Pathentic
Amazing the government will just sell our health away to any stupid corporation wh pays them enough. Pathentic
Gary Ray says:
Natural health advocates are voicing the same concerns as the corn industry. The Center for Food Safety says that bio-fuel corn “will inevitably contaminate food-grade corn, and could well trigger substantial rejection in our corn export markets, hurting farmers.”
Jackie Hannahs says:
There are many of us who want to eat organic foods. Bio-Fuel corn will contaminate the food grade corn. This will affect quality!! Why are you doing this?????
janet bernson says:
Shall we become Sheeple…led to slaughter by Monsanto and their ilk? NO! Genetically modified seeds undermine the very nature of NATURE. We must choose now to nurture Nature, using biologically friendly forms of agriculture.
doris bet says:
STOP, STOP, STOP the deregulation of genetically engineered foods!! The heath of a nation is at stake.
Zach Freidhof says:
I whole-heartedly opposed GE “foods.” This is destroying the local farmer, and making organic a joke. We breed out the nutrients of these foods so that they’ll stay on a shelf longer, which is out right absurd. If this passes, I hope that people take to the streets in protest.
Miss Lyn says:
What is wrong with the USDA and our food supply? Why does the government give in to GE/GMO food. I refuse to eat Frankenfood. Government should be for the people to ensure healthy, organic food. Stop giving in to Monsanto and big agribusiness! Our government is killing us slowly, USDA and FDA all for corporations. Get rid of the people who has ever worked for or has ties to Monsanto. Get rid of Clarence Thomas.
Joyce Raby says:
The USDA is selling out to big business. They are doing so at the detriment of the health and welfare of the American people. Big companies have money, and money has become more important than people. This is very shameful for this country. People are more important that big business.
Deregulation of GE Bio-fuel Corn or of any GE plants at all puts our entire ecosystem at high risk! Please have some foresight.
Donnal Poppe says:
I am so update that USDA has allowed 3 products of engineered food products into our food chain. this so impacts organice produce and farming that Monsanto has been allowed these approvals is dangerous.
Dorothy Joan Studenic says:
Please think of the health of our country. Healthy people don’t use doctors, medicine and insurance as much!!! If that isn’t a savings that benefits the whole country——what is? Health care takes the biggest bite out of the countries budget than all the rest.
Since money is the driving force before humanity. This is once Congress CAN make a difference and help balance the budget to boot.
Edward Adams says:
The Deregulated Genetically Engineered alfalfa, sugarbeets, and now bio-fuel corn is a threat to our food supply and poses risks our organic food industry. Yep, let’s put our trust into science like we did for trans fat, high fructose corn syrup, NutraSweet, ect. Trust us, these products are good for you!
vesta elliott says:
This is outrageous!!! We are no longer a Democracy, the USA is a Corporatocracy!!! This proves that money is the only thing that the United States cares about. We cannot eat money!!! I am sad for my child to grow up in a place with no regards whatsoever for our environmental/ecological future!!!! The USDA is antiquated in its thinking and at this rate we will always be behind the rest of the civilized countries.
ROBERTA SEBASTIAN says:
NO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD – FOR ANIMALS OR HUMANS – YOU ARE SO GREEDY AND BUSY, DESTROYING MOTHER EARTH AND HER CREATURES – WAKE UP TO THE REALITY OF THE DANGERS WITH WHICH YOU ARE TOYING – GREED IS AN INSIDIOUS AND EVIL MASTER
David Richard says:
I am distraught and outraged by the lack of oversight that Congress and the government agencies have towards this technology. What world will we leave for our children and our children’s children? These industry funded decisions have real consequences and will likely wreak havoc with our ecology, which in the final say, will wreak havoc upon our already greatly weakened economy. We need to develop long-range, time-tested solutions to our agricultural problems — not apply vested interest science that fails the objective standards of any serious scientific scrutiny. This decision is an example of poor government, poor science, and poor ecology — all to make a business or two rich — in the very short term. And perhaps the short term is all the time we have left to avert a global tragedy!
Marilyn Peterson says:
Stop poisoning our food supply. We have the right to eat in a healthy way, the way nature intended out food to be. As a citizen of the U.S. I strongly protest to what is being done to our food supply.
Stop this madness of artificially creating these GMO foods. Thank you.
Glenn Donze says:
One cannot help but wonder if the infusions of cash by huge agra into the political scene will eventually cause the overall degradation of our food supply and result in the catatrophic decline in our health already underway.
Doesn’t common sense (and history) dictate that “improving” on nature has almost always had adverse effects?
Stephen Dzuba says:
Stop the deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa, sugarbeets, and bio-fuel corn! And fire Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
Albert Krauss says:
I am going on record in this public place as identifying the right wing and industry corrupted Republican members of congress who have “engineered” this USDA regulatory coup, a subversive (old language) or terrorist (the updated term) group, and as such, they should be targeted by the conscientious members of our population for political annihilation. Read that carefully: the modifier is POLITICAL.
William Links says:
this must be stopped. all these GE crops are a threat to all of us and our health.
Perhaps we all ought to band together and bring a lawsuit against the USDA for contaminating our environment and food supply!
Maureen Bowers says:
Deregulating GE biofuel corn is not in the best interests of the farmser, the consumers or food safety. Reverse this action now.
Geralyn Leannah says:
Please work to reverse the disastrous decision made by the USDA to deregulate Monsanto’s use of Round Up.
Tim Hayes says:
You’re selling out the Earth’s future for profit. GMO’s are bad for the environment anyway you analyze it, and bad for the people consuming them. Stop them now!
Ellen McConnell says:
Why isn’t the USDA protecting the American public? Why is organic being put at high risk with all these genetically engineered crops?
What do we have to do as a people to have this nonsense stopped.? I would like the President and Congress to answer me and other concerned Americans.
Lisa Kaplan says:
Why is the USDA allowing all of these GMO’s to be deregulated? How does it benefit the and the land?
Marilyn Whitesides says:
What’s next? Stop with the genetically engineered products. This is so wrong and puts control of the world’s food supply in the hands of one company.
raymond Young says:
Just plain GRAFT.
danny king says:
How many more thing are you going to allow to be genetically modified. Why do you continue to let monsanto tell you how its going to be. I never thought I would see the daywhen big corporation dollars has such a big sayso in how thing are done in this country. I hope that this does not lead to other things ,but I,m sure it will. Soon nothing that a person eats will be real. We may as well eat out of the garbage.
M. J. Winder says:
Not only are you allowing the general population to be poisoned, but you are also subjecting your own families to the horrid toxins from Monsanto and other polluters and dangerously negligent companies.
Stop the insanity! Do the right thing.
David Getoff says:
This is just one more piece of proof that the consumer and our safety makes no difference to “our” politicians. It will never cease to amaze me how easily money from big busines is able to completely destroy what little ethics our federal regulators and politicians might have left in their souls
ecoalex says:
Once again profits,and franken science trumps common sense.This smacks of the starlink gmo corn fiasco.What made starlink ok for animals,but not for humans? Aren’t we all mammals?What will it take? A contaminated food supply and mass illness?It appears so.
Norma Galinn says:
I GUESS TOM VILSACK AND FRANK LUCAS DON’T CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE HEALTH OF THEMSELVES,THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!
Issyco says:
it’s scary to have our farm industry run by the likes of Monsanto, but not surprising. No one in Congress or our Dept. of Agriculture cares anymore about food safety, drug safety, the health of our planet or anything else. All they care about is getting re-elected and lining their pockets!
Who is to say that this corn cannot feed over into fields of food corn,. It has been proven that pollination by wind, birds and on purpose takes place and then it cannot be stopped. Are we to just roll over and let the corps. like Monsanto kill us all just for the profit margin?? Their children will suffer also. Whebn this happens, and it surely will, these politicians must be held responsible.
Lisa Burroughs says:
stop Monsanto
caroline aslanian says:
Have you thought about approaching the first lady.
Behind every successful person is a spouse!
Piera DiGiulio says:
Please overturn the deregulation rulings on biofuel corn, genetically engineered alfalfa, and sugar beets. The seeds from these plants are invasive. they will destroy our organic plants and will hurt farmers and the export of US corn, alfalfa, and sugar beets. Our organic herds rely on organic feed. If the deregulation is allowed to proceed the US will no longer have organic meat.
Deanne Luzaich says:
this is a disastrous decision that will have far-reaching impact on our environment and our health with irreversible damage. Also people should have the right to choose organic food, but this will pollute the organic food industry also! Please reconsider this.
JUDY BOITT says:
What;s the matter with you people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your kids will at some point have to eat this stuff……….Did you ever take the time to see what it will do ????? Is money so important that you have to sacfifice people ???? Who then will vote for you.
At least label the products that are “infected” by GMO . Give us a fightning chance.
Give the animals a chance.
Does GMO mean “GOD MOVE OVER”
I am sorry for all us, because the human race will surley come to an end when we find out that the soil of earth is ruined, seeds cannot be saved and the Montsano Co. will rule the food of the world. Your food too………..and you also ……you will hang your head in shame when you realize what you are doing.
Karen Falk says:
The only sound science is the sound of cash flowing into politician’s pockets. As Joni Mitchell put it so well many years ago – “give me spots on my apples and leave me the birds and the bees”
WHAT IS “REMEMBER ME” FOR? IT USUALLY MEANS MY NAME ETC IS ALL FILLED OUT WHEN I TAKE ACTION
Insane LEADERS allow INSANE behavior and deregulation !!
Sharon Bauer says:
NO issue is more important to me than preserving the genetic integrity of plants. Allowing genetically engineered crops to pollute ALL other crops, as they inevitably will, destroys the possibility of organic agriculture and will damage our health and the health of the earth in ways that can never be reversed.
Debi Jackson says:
I urge he Obama administration and Congress to think long and hard – while weighing ALL the science that is overwhelming in its evidence that bio-engineered agriculture cannot possibly be kept from contaminating ALL agriculture, not to mention the lack of long-term testing to verify any ramifications on our physical health and the health of the creatures with whom we share the planet. Our entire ecosystem could be put at risk if we move blindly forward with only the bottom line of Monsanto as our guide. I implore my elected decision-makers to please rethink this potentially devastating decision(s). Thank you for your attention to this vital and time sensitive issue.
Debi Jackson
Deborah Gayner says:
Genetically engineered seeds, including roundup ready seeds are simply a PROFIT CENTER for the manufacturer.. THE SCIENCE DOES NOT WORK….. THE CROP YEILD IS NOT INCREASED…THE VIABILITY OF THE SOIL IS DIMINISHED. THE RISK OF IRREVERSIBLE CONTAMINATION IS GREAT.
Representative Frank Lucas (R – OK) should be ordered to eat only genetically modified foods. When are we going to stop the corporate buying of our elected reps??? It is time that at least they wear the colors of their ‘SPONSORS’, so we are all clear as to where their loyalties lie.
STOP THE POISONING OF OUR PLANET FOR PROFIT!
Sylvia Barnard says:
We want congressional hearings on genetically engineered alfalfa.
Constance Del Nero says:
I am very concerned about the recent spate of GE approvals. These products may not be safe. They have not been adequately tested. What’s more, they might not be containable once they have been planted. Seeds know no bounds. People with allergies, intolerances or personal beliefs may be exposed to substances they are not aware of. This is wrong and may be dangerous. I was so excited at the election of Obama because he seemed like a breath of fresh air in our government, someone who would not be at the beck and call of big corporations. He has proved himself to be no different than his Republican predecessors.
Patricia R. King says:
Secretary Vilsack has lost his mind or else he is a closet Tea Party Republican completely sold out to agri-business Monsanto. What price, Secretary Vilsack, did you put on your honor? Because honor, like reputation, is very hard to redeem once you have sold it. President Obama has made a sad mistake in his choice for Secretary of Agriculture and it may be irredeemable. At any rate, it has cost him my vote in 2012.
John Lewis says:
The USDA has evidently bowed to pressure from special interests to allow this horrible decision. Very short-sighted, and very counter-productive. Good luck convincing the European markets, etc. So much for organic agriculture. That genie is now out of the bottle.
Nancy Welch says:
I don’t trust genetically engineered seeds and, if we don’t do something about it now, I feel that it is just a matter of time before everything we consume will be genetically altered for one reason or another. To my knowledge, no independent studies have been conducted on the safety of altered seeds for human consumption. Please take a long hard look at these policies. I saw a report not too long ago about how a farmer in Canada could lose his farm that is situated close to a Monsanto agribusiness because the wind blew Monsanto’s altered seeds onto his land. Monsanto was suing because these genetically altered seeds have been patented by Monsanto. Thus, their case was that the farmer was unlawfully using their product. I feel these actions are a conspiracy to put farmers out of business so companies like Monsanto and large agribusinesses like it can dominate the world food market. Please, put the welfare of the people before corporate profits and don’t be so quick to approve these genetically altered seeds.
Dr. jamo Smith says:
This insanity must stop. Once these genetically altered plants invade our organic resources, our food supply is in extreme peril. None of the recently released GMO products has been tested for human or animal safety. Once contaminated, our food will always be contaminated. Shall we go back to roots and berries.
Please stop this irresponsible conduct.
Karen Jackson says:
NO MORE GMO ANYTHING!!!
We have entered the Age of Insanity in the U.S., as well as all over the earth. Corporate greed is boundless and heartless. There is little consolation in knowing that they will be destroying themselves along with us. Money and Power are their gods. I only wish I had not had children, who have brought me grandchildren and great-grandchildren to bear this tragic burden. I am 85 and will oppose these demons until my final breath.
Jane Kirk says:
Please stop destroying healthy-foods and plants for monetary advancement of corporations. We need to be constanly caring for all the humans whom we serve. Thank you
rvanstrien says:
Leave our food alone!
Donald Willey says:
Corn is a very poor at best ethanol producer, there are grasses that produce far more ethanol per pound than corn can ever do…Why Corn?? It seems a form of insanity that we can’t get past!!!
The USDA is in the business of trying to poison our food supply, and I fear they are doing a good job of it! They must be part and parcel of the eugenics movement!!
The FDA (Federal DEATH Administration) is in the same business, and has joined with USDA to kill off masses of people!! May God reward them for their treachery!!!!
Ann Capotosto says:
NO to GMOs of any kind! GMOs are poison. They endanger the safety of organically grown crops. If you feel confident about them, just swig some Roundup with your next meal. That’s what we are eating. Your blatant disregard for food safety is beyond belief.
GERALDINE HALL says:
The Government with their new regulations and stipulations are killing us. That’s right they are killing the American people. You ask how, well, by using genetically grown foods, be it vegetables, fruit, and animals, they are poisoning us with toxic chemicals that they applied to these foods. The reason why the USA has so much cancer, heart disease and other diseases is because of the foods we eat are contaminated. The water we drink is polluted and chemically treated, the air we breath is filled with toxins and more chemicals, and the food we eat is now becoming not a food, but a chemical waste plant to kill our bodies. WE MUST GO BACK TO NATURAL WAYS OF FARMING WITHOUT CHEMICALS THAT CAUSE DISEASE THEN DEATH. Oh, you must think I am radical, but I am not. I am just a concerned citizen that has knowledge of what our Government, the FDA, and the other agencies are doing to our foods, air, water and survival for our future. ALL THE GOVERNMENT WANTS IS TOTAL CONTROL OVER ALL OF US. WHAT BETTER WAY BY MAKING US THINK THAT THE CHEMICALS ARE BEING USED FOR OUR GOOD. BUT THESE CHEMICALS OUR ROBBING US OF OUR HEALTH, STARTING WITH OUR BRAIN CELLS AND ENDING WITH TOTAL DISTRUCTION OF OUR ENTIRE BODIES.
GOD CREATED MAN, NOW THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO CREATE LIFE. IT ISN’T THEY WANT TO SUSTAIN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT, BUT TO MAKE IT WHAT AND HOW THEY WANT LIFE TO BE.
GREED MAKES US THINK WE KNOW WHAT IS BEST. GREED ONLY MAKES THE PERSON IN CHARGE RICH AND THE MULTITUDE POOR AND UNHEALTHY. STOP THIS INSANITY NOW.
Ken Mundy says:
We are handing over our food future to Monsanto and a few other select, politically connected mammoth agribusinesses. Once they control the seeds for our food, we are nothing more than slaves.
sterling showers says:
positively no gmos
Paul Richards says:
The USDA has joined Big Pharma in the destruction of wholesome foods! Monsanto intends to use food to destroy people…that is the total purpose of it! It has been proven to cause Liver & Kidney disease in humans!! Do they care? Not NO but H** NO.
Larry Kimball says:
So GE bio-fuel corn will inevitably contaminate food-grade corn, which will destroy our corn export markets and will have significant adverse effects on food product quality and performance. It would appear that Monsanto is now running USDA as well as owning Frank Lucas, how sad for the rest of us. This stupidity must be reversed.
Catherine Root says:
all genetically engineered crops pose a threat to all animal life. all genetically enineered crops are a major threat to organinc and non hybrid organic crops.
Why is the USDA allowed to thumb it’s nose at the health and welfare of the American people? Where is the review of the USDA when they willfully ignore the admitted damage that WILL be done to safely edible organic crops? Where are the law suits? We know Congress people like Frank Lucas (R-OK) are willfully ignorant of the facts and greedy to get more money from corporations like Monsanto at the expense of their constituents and all Americans. Who has common sense and conscience to stop this madness?
Rev. Dr. Ronald L. "Chief Grey Eagle" Sims says:
Genetically Engineered corn, alfalfa, and sugar-beets are a danger to human, animal and plant life, because the pollen of those plants can and will spread to edible plants, be consumed by animals (such as cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep) and thereby into human consumption.
Further, there have been no studies of long-term effects of GE corn, alfalfa and sugar-beets, to see the possible harm to human beings will be.
Please, stop ALL GE corn, alfalfa, sugar-beets and salmon, for the benefit of all life forms on this planet.
Doesn’t the USDA that this can change everything about our lives and can do harm to young children?
This has to stopped TODAY and that is a fact.
I guess the USDA aren’t humans.
Peter Heymann says:
Dear President Obama and Congressional Representatives,
The safety of the food supply is of critical importance to every human on earth. Given that the release of Genetically Engineered crops into the wild poses a credible threat to the integrity of all existing like-species crops, why is it that you have not insisted on a public dialogue on the efficacy of Genetically Engineered food plants?
I respectfully insist that you halt the release of all GE crops into the biosphere (aka, into farmland production) at once.
While we are debating the risks of GE crops, can we also debate the legitimacy of Monsanto’s apparent intent, which is to effectively take “ownership” of the primary food crop species, with the goal of forcing the collection of fees for the use of its GE crops on every consumer of food? What gives Monsanto the right to upend the existing order of things–wherein every human has the right to plant and harvest seeds without paying some corporation a fee with every generation of crops?
It seems that this matter would demand that you decide whose side are you on, the humans’ and the earth’s side or the corporations’ side. I earnestly hope you demonstrate with your actions that you favor the humans and the earth.
Seriously concerned in Seattle,
–Peter Heymann
Linda Zigich says:
I am repulsed by the blatant disregard for our food supply. It’s all about MONEY, but even the rich (Monsanto) will not escape the toxic and devastating affects of the GMO’s. This IS a global catastrophe just waiting for you to vote. You vote “for” you lose. We all lose. STOP the insanity. Stop the insanity with your vote against GMO’s. Stand up to Monsanto while you can still do so. We’re risking everything that has a heartbeat. Do you understand that?
please help with this issue…..
Henry Coleman says:
This ia all very frighting. Not only is organic farming in danger but agribusiness will in time be able to control all the seeds grown in America. Business does control Congress as seen in Frank Lucas (R-OK) ha received over $1,247,844 from agribusiness during his political career. AS they say in Texas, “you got to dance with them what brung you”. This is how the Congress is run today. It does look out for The Doug Jones of America but for Dow Jones ( big business Walk Street, banking, Chcmer of Commerce).
bruce warren says:
Anyone voting to deregulate genetically engineered food should be forced to eat it.
Brenda Vargas says:
I am totally against this. This hurts the family farmer and the public. This has never been properly tested and I for one do not want myself, my family, my friends or animals to be part of the testing to see what this will do to us.
God Help Us says:
Not sure who is in charge, but saying these plants wont pose a risk is absurd. The wind blows and insects pass pollen- Monsantos payoff must have been substantial. Selling your soul to the devil – again.
John Jones says:
Perhaps all the to-do about the end of the world as we know it on Dec 23rd 2012 is a signal that the masses are going to wake up and demand honest representation from their governments. All this bunk about liberty and living in a free country where we have a choice to live healthy and well, is just that . . . bunk!
The idea of asking Congress (or Parliament for us in Canada) to make decisions based on honesty rather than greed is like asking a 4 year old to choose broccoli instead of ice cream . . . neither of them knows better.
If the US people can’t find the wisdom to elect people like Ron Paul to represent them from the highest position on down, what hope is there for ‘the people’s choice’?
I believe in government, because the option – anarchy – is even scarier. But, when government starts killing people by approving obviously deadly products and productions such as GMO (particularly Round-up ready) seeds, it’s totally out of control, and something is going to break.
Let’s hope it doesn’t break as violently as it’s doing in Egypt and other evil government controlled countries.
O'neil Couvillion says:
I believe that this is really nuts ! Years ago I once planted some popcorn about 1 mile from a field of regular corn . I dIscovered that when the regular corn was cooked , some would actually pop ! This was caused by cross pollination by bees . I don’t believe that corporations are even worried about that . I wonder if our food supply will recover from blunders like this ? This is wrong and must be stopped now . I’m sure it worked in the lab , not the real world !
The reason I used popcorn and its effects on regular corn is this happened , and the pop corn wasn’t gentically altered . I wonder what really is in this type of (new) corn ? I wonder what effect it will have on the bee population ? What about our water supplies ?
Marianne D. says:
Protect our Earth and all people will be protected.
Mr and Mrs James Dension says:
Please stop authorizing the use of GE grains, etc. Americans who want chemical-free food products hope ypu will favor us instead of Monsanto!
John Beaven says:
The fear of groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists is that genetically engineered corn will contaminate corn grown for food. I have the same fears and would put a STOP to genetically engerneered seeds and anamils.
anne hutchings says:
It is shortsighted for the USDA to continue to de-regulate genetically modified foods. We have no idea of the long-term consequences of the changes to foods and it seems that the USDA is playing with the Big Boys and not looking after the needs of the population. We need an impartial, regulatory body who is looking after OUR needs, not those of big business
What happens to organic food supplies? It is impossible to control pollination, so this engineered seed, be it alfalfa, sugar beets, corn etc, will corrupt other crops – and then what? Monsanto and other big players have done a great job in getting rid of, and scaring off, small farmers and farmers who are trying to farm organically to produce healthy food which is aimed at improving the health of the population. Someone needs to think about world food supplies, not alternative energy needs. Without sufficient food, the US and the world’s population is doomed.
We are reaching a crisis here, it would be nice to think that the USDA might have a crisis of conscience which would allow them to think, research and act independently.
Francis Chamness says:
I demand congressioonal hearings on deregulation of genetically engineered Alfalfa and other crops [corn,etc].
Deborah Pierce says:
I cannot believe our own government has sold its people out to agribusiness. Cease and desist this horrible behavior.
Malina Feder says:
I do not believe that GMO plants are healthy for me to consume, or for the earth and water that they are grown in. Could you please investigate this, and not through Monsanto.
Keep our planet alive. Please
Kyle Brandt says:
Please do not deregulate genetically engineered bio-fuel corn. Deregulation of this contaminant would leave plenty of loopholes open for it to spread freely. We rely on food for survival; let us not poison ourselves. Thank you.
Marguerite Loddengaard says:
I am appalled at these decisions that will impact organic crops. I am a cancer survivor and need organic food to maintain health.
Nancy Hart says:
It is your job to protect the American public and you are not doing your job when you allow Monsanto to sell GMO alfalfa, sugarbeets and bio-fuel corn. These dangerous plants contaminate normal crops. Soon there will be no natural food.
Plus we do not know the long term effect on humans! Stop Monsanto while we still have some uncontaminated crops.
Raven Kasprzak says:
these companies plan to get total control over our food, we can not let that happen. This would be so bad for the world and our health. Let’s stop this now.
Valerie Bline says:
I am amazed how anyone with children or grandchildren or cares about the problems we leave the next generation could put their future food supply in such jeopardy. Primary issue is irreversibly altering mother nature adversly. This is the ultimate corportization of control of our very sustance. We should all reject being Monsanto’s lab rats, but then no one minds that Dupont, Dow and others have experimented on us for years.
Brenda Exline says:
You would think that the people in this country would be entitled to a safe food supply but the powers that be seem to have other ideas. I don’t know if I can hold my nose and vote for Obama again or not since he is behind all of the GMO appointments in his administration. So disappointing while they put on this big organic gardening act in the White House.
Christina Strother says:
I find this horrible news that more of our food sources are going to be tampered with in the name of the Dollar Bill. It is amazing that a few make lots of money off of something that effects millions. The effects are not worth the risks. Let them contaminate their own food and leave ours alone!
Gene Plank says:
Before we know it, people will not even be allowed to grow their own food.
florence chapgier says:
Totally disgusted and very very angry at Monsanto and its horrific actions. This is our Earth, and our Planet and the inheritance of our kids !!!!
Fernando D. Craff says:
This corrupt politician, Frank Lucas (R-OK) should be thrown in jail for accepting contributions that benefit Monsanto and other companies. These people should work for US, not for special interest to gain monetary benefits. When are the people of this great country going to wake up about our liberty to choose what we eat and buy true organic products without having to worry about all the poisons that these companies like Monsanto put in our foods. It is very sad and disgusting that the FDA, that supposedly should protect the consumer, is in bed with these companies, for the mighty dollar, without regards for the health of the people. I hope some day not too distant, the people of this country will revolt against the FDA and all the corrupt politicians that work for special interests but us.
Thomas Pauley says:
This is reckless science at best, we don’t know all the ramifications of doing this, it’s wrong, just wrong!
Mr. Anje' Waters says:
DO NOT allow GE corn to be approved!!! This will be dangerous for food corn. I beg you!
Dan Mastrosimone says:
I’ve got news for you GE corn is the major portion of the corn we eat right now! We need to get it out of our food supply, and take great care to use it for fuel only and make sure it STAY’S out of our food supply…
Francie Georges says:
When are people going to be protected. We are getting poorer nourishment, more diseases, earlier diabetis, more learning disabilities, inability to fight off depression. What are you regulators thinking?
Francesco Mariglia says:
There is no message to click and sign that sends to President Obama and Congress. Do you think people are going to spend an hour writing a note and looking uo there representatives when we are used to somply clicking on Change.org type alerts? Who has the time in the age of organizations that make alerts user friendly?
ANH-USA says:
Hi Franceso, to get to the action alert you have to click the link “see our recent Action Alert on alfalfa” in the last sentence which points to http://www.anh-usa.org/now-usda-has-deregulated-genetically-engineered-bio-fuel-corn/ . We are editing the page to make the link more prominent.
vicki hood says:
I hold you directly responsible for ruining my health, my food supply and my life. You and Salazar take my public lands , my air, my oceans, my body. You sign me over to big pharma, big corp (like Monsanto), big bank, big oil and gas, big cattle industry. What the hell is the matter with you? Why do you want me dead? Bush policy lives on. Our young, finest men are dying in one big phony war. Your big corporations make money at it. We cry.
Helen Baumgartner says:
What is happening is so utterly insane and unbelieveable that we are not seeing it or its ramifications for the future health and life of all on earth, including those who have perpetrated this injustice, unless they have plans of leaving the planet or going underground.
What is the intention behind the action? What are the secrets? Who’s hidden agenda is this?
The devastating consequences stretch way out beyond Organic agriculture and any special interests groups or corporate profits. Can you see it? Look from ass many directions as you can imagine. Get interested in it. What is hiiding in plain sight that is not easily discernable? Is it an end game? A way to get away with torture and the killing off of life as we know it? I would really like to hear about the intentions. Not just lies about the obvious. If you who are so opposed to having no holds barred on Monsanto and others of their kind are so certain, be bold enough to reveal the truth. Why lie to cover up what is already known and proven untrue? We need answers to the tough questions. Tell all.
Chris Cook says:
These GE plants are not safe. The possibility of contamination is too high to take the chance.
Margaret McElligott says:
Please stop genetically engineered farm products. They will contaminate the nation’s food supply with unknown consequences.
Fred M. Reinman says:
When wll the proper testing be done to ensure that GE foods are safe to grow much less to eat?
Stephanie D Story says:
Upon learning that the USDA had fully deregulated the genetically engineered grain, committee chair Frank Lucas (R-OK) said, “I am pleased that USDA used sound science and respected the limit of its statutory authority to make this decision.”
Please use your influence to turn back the tide of approval and use of genetically modified seeds.
Karen White, MSW says:
FRANKENFOOD CANNOT BE THE NORM-IT IS NOT HEALTHY. IT CAN ONLY BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO REAL FOOD, NOT THE SUBSTITUTE.
Carol Early says:
We don’t need walk-a-thons to cure diabetes, cancer etc. We need good, wholesome food…untainted by chemicals and grown as nature provides. Growing something faster (aka GE) does not make us healthier. It only lines the pockets of CEO’s. Please put a stop to this nonsense.
cheryl mcdonald says:
This is outrageous
Maura Ellyn says:
There is no reason for any GMO crops other than more profit and power for the biotechs and their shills. Higher yields, a lie. Roundup resistant super weeds, yes. Further poisoning of the earth, water, wild and domestic animals and humans, yes. All proven, is some cases in court. And Gmos are also further imperiling the economy, as far as exports, crops, meat, cheese, etc., and the degradation of human and animal health. This is the rare black and white issue. I’d say shame, but the USDA has repeatedly shown that those who make decisions and regulations have no shame. No shame, no concern for the environment, no concern for animal and human health, no concern for the future. And now, by the USDA’s recent horrific GMO decisions, it has taken away choice. There will even more contamination, it will be almost impossible to avoid GMOs. The biotechs and the USDA wave the banner of science – science shows these products are dangerous and harmful in every way, numbers say GMOs will hurt the economy. Only those deranged and blinded by insatiable greed could possibly endorse GMOs. The decisions makers at the USDA do not serve the people, do not serve the country and do not deserve the honor of doing so.
Michele Beckett says:
We have found out that FDA is not regulating parts in our bodies, not regulating meds now you want us to eat food grown near Genetically altered crops. You want ur children to die, our animals to die?
Bit hypcoritical for wanting to
battle Starvation and Obesity so let’s kill people off?
Why don’t you just sign up as a Republican, that is what you are and this Administration represents…Killers, Profiteers. You will be out in 2012, I would rather vote for a Republican than another Phony Democrat.
Thous Shalt not Kill…yet here you all are ready to kill our children. Hope FDA eats this food with you, this corn will end up in more places than biofuel as will the alfalfa also! Read your labels
Thomas Klein says:
Please do not permit the use more dangerous genetically modified crops. This variety of corn may well contaminate further corn destined for food usage!
Dr. Michael J. Collier says:
Deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa, sugarbeets, and now bio-fuel corn—what’s next? We must overturn these disastrous decisions.
This is absolute and total BS. Let’s get things on a sound, truthful basis; this is no time for ill-informed and inaccurate science.
Tunisia Fountain says:
I’m deeply concerned about the long term ramifications of deregulating GMOs. It seems that the public’s best interests and public’s opinion are irrelevant and this is unacceptable. There are many other optiins that are organic, sustainable, and not a threat to public health and biodiversity. Once these plants contaminate organics there is no return and they simply can not be contained, nature can not be controlled.
Instead of bowing to large corporations, the US needs to follow science in this matter and look to the European nations on this and opt to eliminate GE foods. They are a biohazard.
mike kelly says:
This is ridiculous. With the first wind, my corn that my family will eat will be corn that Monsanto made in a laboratory. Stop this insanity now. If you want ethanol, lift the idiotic trade ban with Cuba and buy all their sugar. Stop subsidizing Archer Daniels. They have enough money.
When, 20 years from now, we find that this sci-fi corn causes us to die early, you will be gone, Archer Daniels will have billions socked away in the Caymans, and not one single soul will be held accountable. Stop this madness!
Ethel Leider says:
Stop monkeying with our food. Corn is our food.
When are people going to be protected? We are getting poorer nourishment, more diseases, earlier diabetis, more learning disabilities, inability to fight off depression. What are you regulators thinking?
Barbara Kilpper says:
How can the people who are supposedly leading us be so stupid? Why are you screwing with our food? I currently buy everything possible from any country other than the U.S. where we choose to poison the masses in order to become fat, rich cats. I hope your constituents get fed up and take to the streets. I’ll be there.
fred karlson says:
I am definitely opposed to the use of Roundup which is tied to GMO crops. Roundup destroys soil biology and makes it difficult for plants to uptake trace minerals. There is no science to prove that GMO crops provide better nutritional crops than traditional ones. If anything, it is the contrary. In addition, GMO crops threaten to cross-contaminate all varieties of traditional and organic crops, creating more problems about who owns the newly cross pollinated seeds as well as the future generation of our seeds. Do we want corporations like Monsanto to direct all of this and destroy traditional farming as we know it?
Fred Karlson
Robin C says:
This is just horrible news. What the heck is wrong with the USDA? I think the lobbyist have some one in the money pockets
Shirley Weyand says:
Do you really believe that the one that sits in the oval office gives a hoot about the damage that Monsanto causes the animals and humans with their insane ideas. This was all preplanned so as to bring down the population by plague or starvation. It does not have to happen but we need a leader, though I really do not see one on the horizon. Look also at the money that changes hands to keep these folks like Vilsack doing as he does. He knows its wrong.
Dan Sherwood says:
These products are not safe for consumption and will contaminate food-grade corn as well as organic corn.
Charles Ross says:
Turning these untested modified crops loose is insane; there is no tract records; little testing (which shows adverse affects on mice after the second generation).
These untested crops also leave world agriculture at risk; diversity is what has prevented world wide crop failures from happening; If all crops are the same, all are equally vulnerable.
Scarlett Manning says:
How can you let this happen. When we all know how bad monsanto is and how they are contaminating our food supply. The Center for Food Safety says that bio-fuel corn “will inevitably contaminate food-grade corn, and could well trigger substantial rejection in our corn export markets, hurting farmers.”
They have outlawed GE crops in Europe and elsewhere, why are we so backwards regarding the facts about the health of our crops, environment and ultimately our citizens.
This threat to edible corn comes on top of GE alfalfa (a major, major threat to organic agriculture) and GE sugarbeets. Deregulating a type of industrial corn genetically engineered to produce an enzyme that speeds the breakdown of starch into sugar, which would increase efficiency in making ethanol. The agency concluded the crop does not pose a plant risk.
Suda Prohaska says:
These shannigans about allowing genetically altered plants to proliferate in our country and in our agriculture and in our food supplies, regardless of the INTENDED use–just flies in the face of good science and good health. This is unconscionable. And you, Mr. President, and your administration will lay down an irreversible course that will ultimately destroy healthful living. If you wish to be a leader, now is your chance. Reverse course on GMO foods and agriculture.
Suda Prohaska
James Mattioda says:
Please stop genetically modifiying ou food supply.
James Mattioda PhD
It is beyond me to begin to understand how GE food can be permitted for human consumption. GE food is toxic and harmful. Please STOP the USDA okaying GE for human or animal consumption. I am horrified GE food has gotten this far. If people being healthy is really a concern, then GE food must be eliminated for consumtion by humans as well as animals that are eaten.
Lisa Kazmier says:
I am disgusted. We all know Monsanto will be the first one running to the GOP to cry for help if this blows up — and of course the US will bail them out. Who will bail out those Monsanto hurts?
Paulette Lieska says:
I feel so dishearted by these decisions to deregulate all of these Genetically Engineered products. So many of us are doing everything we can to eat organically to stay healthy and to take care of our soils, our waters and our bodies. These decisions are destroying everything!!
Why do I bother to vote Democratic? Why can’t one of you take the lead on this and STOP putting the fox in charge of the henyard? Get behind the reversal of these decisions before it is TOO LATE! I feel our voices are simply not heard by you, our Senators, our House Representatives…and, yes, You, our President who I have had the most faith in. If one of your doesn’t stand up and take a postion on this I am going to give up on you as you have given up on all of us.
We need you to express our voice and the voices of our children of the future. Stop this insane attack on our food and our planet. PLEASE!
Paul Turner says:
93% of soy, 86% of corn, 93% of cotton, and 93% of canola seed planted in the U.S. in 2010 were genetically engineered. Soybean oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, canola oil – all over in our food supply, yet none of these are labeled as GMO (genetically modified organisms) in the United States. And bio-fuel corn WILL contaminate more of our food supply.
To the Members of the House and to the President
Dear Congressmen and Congresswomen,
You are most certainly aware that by signing the permission by Monsanto and other companies like it, to produce genetically modified seeds for crops used by animals or humans, that you are signing the extinction of the human race and all species on this planet. w
While this many not happen overnight, it
You MUST realize that you hold the future of this Planet in you hands.
Life is not about money – it is about people. Please do not allow Frankenfoods to be grown on our planet or, if you cannot stop them, then admit that we have been taken over by alien species whose biological needs are different from our own: hence their need for GMOs.
If you admit that you are powerless against what is happening we will all have more respect for you because as it stands we have lost respect for the whole lot of you.
Corrine Meier says:
Please reconsider not deregulating genetically engineered bio-fuel corn! The Center for Food Safety says that bio-fuel corn “will inevitably contaminate food-grade corn, and could well trigger substantial rejection in our corn export markets, hurting farmers.”
Marilyn Ortt says:
USDA is turning the future of American agriculture and our food over to Monsanto and other huge agribusiness corporations. This is outrageous and should not be tolerated. I urge this agency in the name of all that is right to reverse this approval.
Parvin Johnson says:
How do the people of this country to get the regulators to look out us instead of the large Agribusiness Corporations.
Emily Orme-Johnson says:
Wake-up Obama! Bioengineering makes living things become sick!!!!! Your choices will hurt us all.
It now appears that we are not just a nation of sheep, but we are governed by idiots,and have no intention of interfering with them…I am getting on in years, but you with children, I really worry about your future.
Jim Nordstrom says:
Please do not deregulate genetically engineered food. No one knows at this point what the long term affects of consuming this are. The public deserves unaltered food the the right to choose what they buy. The fact that Frank Lucas is chairman of the Agriculture Committee and received large contributions from Monsanto and the agribusiness industry shows how unfair this ruling is.
Fred Fawcett says:
When will someone with organizational ability do what has to be done? When will someone organize progressive voters? When will we form a voting block that demands legislation from democrats in return for our block of votes? They can’t win elections without us, but refuse to fight for our causes when elected. They do this because they think we have no where else to go come election day. If they truly thought that we would act as a unified group and refuse to back them with our votes, they would bargain with us for those votes. They have no choice. Without us the lose. We have only ourselves to blame if we continue to support them at the polls only to get what we’ve gotten from the Obama administration. A big fat zero. Nothing, Nada, Zippo. Its as simple as finding a way to unite so that we can get a count of our members and having a representative to bargain for us. That and the courage and discipline to withhold our vote if democrats call our bluff. Lets win for a change.
Kurt Duffner says:
Obama Administration,
Please do not allow this multi-national corporation to continue these actions. Our soldiers and citizens of this country deserve better than being poisoned by this corrupt organization. They have been poisoning our people through Agent Orange, through RBST in dairy cattle, and you want to continue allowing them to poison and kill every living organism through genetic engineering. Ranchers and farmers have lost all control over getting the best product to the market and are being bullied into a corner. I feel it would be one of the greatest mistakes for our country, our people, and especially our fragile ecosystems and environments to allow these corporations to continue business this way. Do not allow this! Your administration should be encouraging local, sustainable and organic growing programs. How does Mrs. Obama feel about allowing this to happen. She has worked hard to promote organic gardening at the White House and fighting obesity with healthy food choices. How is this healthy for our country or its citizens.
Kurt Duffner
If you want anything that is safe to eat… NEVER count on the USDA/government!! You either have to kill it or grow it yourself. Hurry and buy organic seeds because soon the government will take that away from us too. We lose more of our rights everyday.. now they are dictating what we eat!
Tony Tirado says:
All concerned,
I agree with this message. Let’s put a stop to this.
Concerned consumer
Deborah Merlin says:
GMO kill people. Please outlaw it!
Dr. Joel Saeks says:
If you continue all this deregulation soon there won’t be any biodiversity in the world ….. When this happens a small fungus resistant to the monsanto chemical sprays used will wipe out the entire food supply of the planet. You need to think before you act of the long term effects. If no 3rd party studies have been done then you are committing a crime against humanity.
Linda Kramm says:
Unbelievable ! Greed in America is now attacking our precious food supply. Stop Monsanto and the politicians who are in their pocket!
Barbara Viken says:
Monsanto’s policies are not sustainable. Unless we want all humanity to die, we need them stopped.
Susan Lilly says:
This is becoming the Monsanto administration and it scares me! I know someone who knows Tom Vilsack well and he said he is between a rock and a hard place. That because of the money and power that Monsanto has, it is very difficult in the political climate to rein them in. This administration needs to realise that Monsanto’s stated goal is to control the world’s food supply. Come on, people, this ca NOT happen!!!
Carol Boeckley says:
Please stop deregulating genetically engineered corn and all other food products. Don’t you care about the health of people? or the fortunes of our farmers? Don’t you even research the damage you are doing? FIVE major trade organizations are telling you that this will hurt our farmers, but NO you seem more interested in pandering to companies that will profit by this decision. It’s totally SICK to disregard the people and their health.
Dave Zunkel says:
Deregulating ANY genetically engineered plants is a bad idea! They adversely effect food product quality, make them unfit for export to many other nations and could contaminate non-GE plants, making them sterile. STOP the deregulation!
Doris Sampson says:
NO GMO’s!
MaryStone says:
Do not deregulate genetically alfalfa,sugarbeets and bio-fuel. Why is it Monsanto has so much control over Congress and our USDA? Is it always the one with the most money wins? Who is looking out for the American people and the damage this will do our organic farms and the health of our children? Please protect us from those who are only interested in the money, not the welfare of the people.
Jayn Avery says:
As a gardener I find it hard enough to prevent the hybrid corn pollen from contaminating my heirloom seed, which to me is priceless. The thought of seed from my neighbor’s corn contaminating my corn is appalling. There are people who cannot eat the corn products made from GMO corn because it causes an allergic reaction. Is anyone really studying this?
Denise Mueller says:
For the health and well being of the adults and chlidren of the United States, I urge you to control and protect corn crops from contamination. We talk about how people need to eat healthier by growing their own vegetables but yet we allow gentetically engineered corn that could possibly harm naturally grown corn. Is health really important or is big business?
Marian Cruz says:
Monsanto must not be allowed to genetically modify our food. NO, NO to Monsanto!
Linda Shine says:
Deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa, sugar beets and now bio-fuel corn is a
BIG mistake. it will not help anything. It will hurt everything, including mankind.
Elliott Smith says:
So much of our food in stores has msg and aspartame, now more and more crops hae GMO’s. America’s health is going downhill but certain people are making money on all this. Become educated and become active.
Stephanie Zaccagnini says:
Deregulation of genetically engineered organisms is a huge mistake whether plant or animal.
Please reverse these dangerous approvals before we find out the effects first hand.
Sadly, by then it will be too late.
Frances O'Neill says:
The government is making sure we kill ourselves.
jeanene says:
I guess all the land will then be designated for these crops. Nothing left for animals, cattle and organic agriculture.
William Roberson says:
We do not know the long-term effects of genetically modified foods. The least of which is that they likely will cross-breed and possibly eliminate natural strains. We are playing God with our food supply, just so large corporations like Monsanto can corner the market and allow for the application of increasingly stronger pesticides, which only breeds stronger pest resistance. Mono-agriculture, in the event of widespread disease or pest infestation, threatens our food supply.
Most importantly, we risk long-term, widespread health problems should genetically altered foods cause unpredicted changes in our bodies, or those of our children.
art godinez says:
STOP THIS MADNESS NOW!!!!
Chris Pallas Ward says:
No GMOs!!! Don’t contaminate the real thing. Please, think seriously about our future before allowing this to happen.
sd7 says:
Woah. I can’t even muster up a reply.
Jack R. Betterton says:
Henry Kissinger once stated upon leaving office
“WE ARE OVERPOPULATED”
Does his statement tell you what going on?
Janet Robinson says:
GMO food is dangerous and untested. Who truely knows the long-term effects of eating this food? Should we really live this dangerously? I, for one, will never eat this crap, at least, it won’t be with my knowledge.
Cynthia Lebuda says:
Being I am not a truck, car, plane nor a train. I am not too concerned about bio-fuel. I am not even a lawn mower. If your going to give chemically treated bio- veggies to something let it be something that uses anti-freeze….
Sincerely, Cynthia Lebuda
joyce schrieber says:
Why don’t the ‘powers that be’ realize that the pollen from this frankenplant will flow around the globe, changing our foods forever? Science and research are needed and monsanto must be stopped!!!!
Sandy Abbott says:
Why do you want to allow geneticly modified foods into the worlds food supply? Is is because of ignorance as to the effects of this action or do you want to contribute to the destruction of our food?
LaVonne Carlson says:
Some of us prefer to eat pure, unaltered food. This kind of deregulation threatens that food supply in many ways. Please stop doing this!
Hildy Roy says:
The Government is getting involved in waaay too many things that do not belong to them. Leave our food supplies alone, please! GMO food is NOT a natural thing created naturally by the Universe (God, whoever)
We do not need more sugar in this country, Most of the problems with obesity are sugar, sugar, sugar. So leave the beets, corn and alfalfa pure so I and others can enjoy.
Did any of you foolish people stop to realize (of course you did, but you don’t care!) that this is affecting YOU, your children, your grandchildren and on and on. How greedy and stupid is that!
thank you…hildylyn
Wanda Ballard says:
This is insanity, that Monsanto is allowed to take over our food and do as they wish with it. All in the name of CORRUPT MONEY and POWER OVER REAL FOOD FARMERS. How dare they. Monsanto and their THUGS must go straight to prison for years, or until the good and real farmers are able to get OUR food back to normal. President Obama, get rid of Monsanto and all of their THUGS. Also get rid of your Monsanto “Food Adviser” and other CORRUPT MONSANTO THUGS employed by you. What happened to you Obama???? We have moved from adoring you, to we will NOT vote for you again. We are SHOCKED AT YOU, that you could become CORRUPT ALONG WITH Monsanto. You also muck around in muddy waters, with the likes of scumbag Ken Salazar. You do the good thing of stopping to smoke, then you hang out with and befriend CORRUPT CROOKS like Monsanto Thugs and the GREEDY SADISTIC, Ken Salazar…. Wanda Ballard & William McHenry
Madeline Loder says:
Very destructive move to deregulate genetically manipulated food supply! I eat organically produced food as often as I can. My food will no longer be organic. This is a tragedy! Please overturn these decisions in the name of freedom and individual choice/1
Gary Fulreader says:
I am truly appalled to hear of yet another devastating decision from the USDA. De-regulating genetically engineered grain and crops is a direct violation of human rights. It grieves me to see that this country is continuing to be run by those with no regard whatsoever for the planet and the future well-being of the inhabitants of this planet. Unfortunately government agencies are no longer protecting our people and our planet. Everyone knows this. Don’t you think it’s time we bring ethics back to our government and our country? I sure do.
I urge you to reverse the devastating decisions regarding genetically engineered (and ROUNDUP READY!!!) alfalfa, corn, and sugar beets. This is a decision that cannot wait. Please take this action now.
Gary Fulreader
Roberta Jamieson says:
I am extremely concerned about GMOs and crossover from them to food and organic food corn (especially this bio-fuel GM corn). Please do NOT allow this to be deregulated or sold. It will not only hurt us, our future generations but most certainly farmers.
Robert Ross says:
This government, just like the last one, refuses to listen to reason, or hear the facts. This government does not represent the people, they represent the corporations. Many Americans know this especially those who do not vote or participate in the political process because it is useless. Apparently, you can NOT fight city hall, the halls of Congress or the Oval Office. I am sick of trying to reason with those who will not reason. I am sick of trying to change the minds of those who have closed minds.
Tragic decision to deregulate genetically engineered corn. Contamination for political reasons is inexcusible! Please do something President Obama and the sane members of Congress.
Harold Withers says:
Please stop this insanity before we are all forced to use these things.
Joan Godwin says:
If we keep genetically changing all of our foods we aren’t going to have any real food left and than we really will have a bunch of obese and sick people to take care of. TALK ABOUT FINANCIAL PROBLEMS FOR OUR GOVERNMENT!
Denise Hanley says:
Stop the insanity~!! Please reverse the deregulation of GE corn~!!!
Larry Manter says:
This is just incredible! Is the USDA in the pocket of Big Agriculture? It seems so. Genetically modified anything is an idea which whose time should never come. There’s just no way to isolate it and, if it’s hazardous or has unknown ill effects (and it’s even possible that Big Agriculture knows about them and is hiding them because they will do ANYTHING for a buck – like most big corporations in America), we’ve screwed ourselves because it may very well take over everything because of pollination (or maybe it does something to the soil or water or something – no one KNOWS what it can do that’s not good).
Sally Blakemore says:
The ignorance of this arrogant administration really amazes me. Playing into the hands of these repugnant corporations and what they have already accomplished world wide is in the news. Organic farmers and bees and natural growth cycles are totally at risk. Maybe if they would get Monsanto out of the administration it would become more clear what real science has to say on the matter. It is a crime against Nature.
Karen Brick says:
I am deeply disappointed in this Administrations outrageous inability to fight off the lobbyists at Monsanto and other companies wanting to develop GE foods. The fact that they ignore the dangers these foods represent is mind boggling to me. Before long, we’ll be drinking plastic milk!
Wayne Collins says:
I don’t think the USDA and our congress are paying any attention to our concerns anymore …like they are only interested in political score and aggressive reckless behavior to demonstrate authority with no care or fear for loss of integrety or public trust. Responses from our elected officials are lame at best. Its like they are all in some kind of coma!!
Marcia Bailey says:
I am very concerned about these genetically engineered crops. I think we don’t know enough about the long -term effects of going this route, and I believe it could be costly to us.
Mary Davis says:
Please over turn the decisions about deregulating alfalfa, sugarbeets and bio-fuel corn.
Please don’t bow down to Big Ag.
Jessica Semon says:
The USDA does not have the right to jeopardize the world food supply. Please stop the cultivation and sale of GMO crops. This is pure insanity.
Enrique & Laura Dovalo says:
The God of these politicians is MONEY they sell their soul to evil. They do not realized that all these generically modified food is no food and the human body do not agreed with fake food converting it into many illness such as cancer, obesity and many more. What is going on with our congressman and our senators, ether they don’t read, or the want to play stupid only for MONEY. Wake up America!!! Stop this non-sense be aware of what is going on before is too late. Vote against generically modify deregulation. WE are the ones who are going to poison the world if we do not stop this destruction to human kind.
Sally Cernie Ph.d says:
Isn’t it time that our elected officials focus on the welfare of their constituents and stop being controlled by the big Corps whose only interest is $$$$ regardless of consequenses to the future of our country?. Do they not have children and grandchildren? Science is a wonderful thing but when there is doubt created by honest researchers who are concerned about people and consequenses, the created doubt should take precedence to taking chances on adverse reactions by ommision of facts.
What will it take for our voices to be heard?
Please stop screwing up the food supply with genetically modified foods.
William Rodriguez says:
Ok…………to each his own. So, this mutant grain will eventually dominate the world corn crops! I beleive it will. Nature will do what it has always done, pollenate. These crops will be fed to animals produced for human consumption. So far I have no problem with it. Im a vegetarian. You folks that eat meat will be the first unfortunate ones to suffer from the out come of this mutated grain. Personally I will not be eating corn or anything with corn in it anymore. Tough I know since there is corn and it by products in so much of our foods. I’ll deal with it. Eventually the truth will surface and the requried change will be put in place. Till then folks watch what you choose to eat and your health. You just had more pollution added to your diet!
Stephen Perkins says:
I’m appalled at the ignorance and short sightedness of ALL GMOs and petro chemical agenda. Their profit margins are threatening my physical helath. I’m HIV positive for over 22 years, eating organic produce as much as possible is LIFE SUSTAINING because all of the systemic nutrients are intact as history and natural cultivation as proven.
NO ONE has proven that GMOs or FrankenFoods are safe for everyone over a lifetime. Let’s backoff and take a more conservative path….
And NO chemical foods (GMOs) and organic foods can NOT by definition co-exist happily without affecting the latter drastically.
Judith Caldwell says:
To our national leaders:
It is vital to the continued health of our food supply, economy, and citizens that the deregulation of GE grains and animal feeds (such as corn and alfalfa, as well as sugar beets) WITHOUT proper research of their safety and impact upon organic-grown products is reprehensible! Stop bowing to multinational food corporations like Monsanto! Their ONLY concern is profit – NOT nutrition or health!
already did
Laurita Walters says:
The problem with bio-engineered corn for is that it will pollute the food corn. Bio-engineering is not controllable; the pollen will spread the changes to other corn crops. So then we are eating corn that is crossed with corn specifically designed for bio-fuel. I am all for bio-fuel, but I don’t think we should eat it. Could this crop be completely contained? There is really no way to guarantee that. It would have to not produce pollen at all, and then we are only guessing that would solve the problem.
jon trapp says:
Blatant greed and stupidity. Do you people have children?
Carole Bretschneider says:
Please stop! Leave healthy , sustainable food to the local small farms so that we can watch and
know that our food is safe. Do it your children and grandchildren and mine!
We do not need genetically engineered Bio-Fuel Corn!
Robin C Rutan says:
I am incredibly frustrated with the corporate world and its control over our lives to a point of making lab animals of us all. Only time will tell the effects of GMO products and the time to really research side effects of GMO products. This is not like engineering through grafting and breeding, it is genetic manipulation. It moves beyond creating hybrids to frankensteinism. This kind of research requires a much better understanding of genetics than we currently have.
Helen Pille says:
PLEASE… stop Monsanto before they completely endanger the health of every living person on this earth!! GM is not and never will be healthy and I think we all know there is only one reason Monsanto is pushing this through is GREED….MONEY, MONEY, so there will always be corruption and always our ‘government seems to back the wrong people or project. what good is it that Mrs. Obama pushes ‘organic’…when her husband and his backers help Monsanto.??? pray tell me where it will end. If you think we have health problems not……..just you wait
Carolyn Friedman says:
Please, NO genetically engineered bio-fuel corn. No genetically engineered ANY corn!!! Or afalfa. Or any food! PLEASE!
georgie-ann says:
this is sickening
Patricia H. Wilson says:
It is critical that our congressmen, senators and presedent start listening to the people that elected them! We live within our means, try to eat locallly grown foods, organically grown as much as possible. We do not want Monsanta dictating the type of food products we eat. Foods produced from GMO seeds are not acceptable to Americans who care about their health and the heallth of their children. GMO products need to be banned. Please listen to us. We vote in every election from the smallest local issues to the largext national ones.
Vance and Patricia H. Wilson
Michael Ruzza says:
Think about what your really accompolishing with this action!
Barbara Peterson-Malesci says:
Stop it! Stop letting these people whose campaigns are funded by agribusiness to say how it’s going to be in our country. It is now a widely known fact that these genetically modified crops pose a huge risk to the health of the American people. It is also widely known that it is easily spread by the wind that great care must be taken so as not to infect organic crops. We the American people demand that we have that choice. Stop this deregulation before it’s too late!
Delfin Labao says:
This is an assault on everyone’s immune system! Talk about overtaxing our Healthcare system! Our health begins with the food that we eat-
anita sarcone says:
When is it not going to be about money and our health actually matters? It’s not necesary to do this. Stop selling us out.
Donna Walter says:
We are really kept busy with these email comments. I hope they will have some effect. It creates the feeling that the walls are closing in.[Need for phycological drugs?] I will continue to hope there might be some THINKING person out there. I see little evidence in this propaganda.
Population control… or ensuring the aliens will have a vacant earth for their seeding 🙂 Everyone wanted change well here you are!
jill goetsch says:
Could we consider using unbiased science and ethics, instead of greed and profit in our policy making decisions? Where is transparency?
Lorree Gardener Milne says:
We, the people, must not accept the decisions…. even by our own misinformed President, to move forward with ANY genetically modified or genetically engineered seeds, plants, animals or any other “products” that are being forced upon us by the corporations that are endangering our very lives and the future of our planet.
Carolyn S. Akins says:
Please leave genetically contaminated Corn out of the market!
And the need is there for Organic Alfallfa seed. Stop messing with the food source of our farmers for the good of feeding the country with reliable seed!
Karl J. Volk says:
Please leave all plants and animals the way the are naturally do not chang them.
Rich Wills says:
Genetically engineered crops are a bane to humankind. Monsanto needs to be shut down and its officers and investosr must be immediately imprisoned!
Karen Salenius says:
Stop risking everyone’s lives with GMOs. You will contaminate the entire world with destructive engineered food so that no one will be safe. Do you want your loved ones to be used as guinea pigs in this big unethical and immoral experiment for which no one has willingly signed on? Listen to the people and do what is right. Believe me, what you are doing is not right.
Robin Pulley says:
I am against deregulation of the genetically modified corn. I feel there trickle down effect of the modifications will results in poorer food quality for eating… I like to quote an age old saying, “It is not nice to fool mother nature” she had it put together very well and balanced in the first place!.
David A Weitzler says:
Crops for the Insatiable Appetite
In season pollen grains containing trillions of genetically engineered gametes slip across boundaries into small, private farms where they have there way with local daughter gametes. Far from offering to pay child support, one large agribusiness insists instead upon receiving a stud fee. As hoots go this would be grand, but our judicial system does one better. It holds the issue up to an earlier, erroneous decision and considers the required stud fee quite sensible.
When confronted with the science of genetic engineering, the courts were blindsided by its many new, non-trivial techniques of altering genetic code and failed to separate those techniques from the meiotic process by which helical sentences have always been written. Those natural processes brought about the crucial replications of bio-technologically imprinted code, while furnishing the coat tails of their own mystery to those who had rewritten the same.
I am writing all this down using the Roman alphabet. For a different purpose, I might write my information in the code of some computer language or even in the code of genetics. Were I to protect the originality of my ideas in the first two cases I would seek a copyright, but somehow the last case allows me to get a patent, granting me almost mythical powers. Certainly the method of placing my designed, genetic code into a reproducing cellular environment is patentable, a unique cellular environment may also be, but why isn’t the code itself subject instead to copyright laws? I only ask because—in spite of what they, who shan’t be named, have said—small changes do make differences and reverting here to copyright law may bring about just such a difference.
As might this, imagine a box of cereal with ingredients: wheat, wheat, cane juice. . . ; where wheat is wheat that has been genetically rewritten rather than passed off as having been engineered. Were new helices mechanically imprinted their true nature as sentences of information, subject to copyright law, would be clear. Along with the papyrus scrolls, typewriters, and printing presses; a novel process for rewriting genetic code would itself be a patentable; but this gaff in patent law must be undone before we all are.
Rosemary Wilvert says:
Protect our food from GE contamination!
Beverly Holingsworth says:
STOP messing with NATURE and our FOOD SOURCE! You have NO RIGHT to do this! The PLANET does not BELONG to YOU! You are mearly a CARETAKER!
Erik Stark says:
Thanks!! President Obama, gosh, I can’t wait to see what you do next!!! And to think only the Republicans could do outstandingly disgusting things that only benefit big business at the expense of everyone, and everything, else. Thanks for correcting my naivete.
Jorge Arenas says:
This is highly dangerous, if commingling occurs, it would be a great disaster.
walter zadan says:
I am outraged that the Department Of Agriculture has approved the use of
GE alfalfa and corn. This will certainly lead to the pollution of organic crops
and destroy the organic foodindustry.
Monsanto and DuPont are evil companies.
benjamin staub says:
Lucas is obviously not interested in the well being of the community of this country, but only in his financial portfolio. He is an evil greedy pig, and should be punished.
And Monsanto must be stopped. They are literally poisoning the world in which we, our children, and all future life depends on. Poison doesn’t just wash away, you buggars.
Joy E Goldberg says:
This is beyond outrage. It is criminal.
brian laddy says:
may those who took money from agribiz & big oil may your families die horrible deaths for your greed
Patricia Rosenblad says:
The practice of allowing genetically engineered food is putting the health of our nation at risk. Now that the USDA is deregulating genetically engineered alfalfa, sugar beets, and now adding food grain corn is a travesty. This practice will end up hurting all of us, including those involved in creating such an irresponsible practice.
As one of your constituents and an active member of the United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women, I strongly urge you to take a firm stand against these dangerous practices and keep our crops from all being contaminated by these GE foods. The money it might generate for agribusiness is not worth the risks.
Antonia Guerra says:
The USDA, Congress, White House, Our Nation and The World need to understand the world of dirt, its microbiol fuel cells and its generating of physical, intellectual and emotional unity. Dirt, the movie exhibits and delivers the superb message. It serves as an awakening as to what we are destroying,
our very existence. Wake up, change, and embrace sustainable best practices now.
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marieke furnee says:
awful,awful…
Change and hope are busted!
Darlene Fast says:
Have we lost our minds? Please think ahead just a little bit to what might happen with all this GMO pollen floating around contaminating other crops. How long has this been studied? How do we know what the long term effects will be (outside of lining the pockets of Monsanto).
The “regulating” agencies have become a joke, following whichever mega-corporation is paying. We have contaminated our food supply with pesticides, herbicides, untold hundreds of dyes and “flavoring” agents, preservatives – more names we can’t pronounce than whole food. Flouride in our water. Mercury in our teeth and in vaccines to “prevent disease.” Anyone from another planet would ask why we are trying to kill ourselves off by slow poisoning.
Don’t any of you have children and grandchildren? We already have more children with allergies, autism, ADD and ADHD, asthma, cancers of every imaginable type – the list goes on and on and on. No one had these things when I was a child. Now they are so commonplace that no one even notices. Where does it stop? When the sickness industry is half the GNP instead of only a fifth?
Oh, well, it’s making some folks rich. I hope you can all sleep at night (of course you can – just take a pill). Insanity.
Åke Wikström says:
Please, in the name of God, stop all GMO. We have no idea what it will lead to. There are much better ways and they will win anyway. Remember Egypt!
Dianora Niccolini says:
Monsanto, STOP POISINING US WITH YOU ENGINEERED CRAP!!
Corn ethanol is not the answer to our energy problem. It uses oil to produce ethanol and ethanol in gasoline engines reduces MPG. Biodiesel from algae is a much better solution.
Lynn Sawyer says:
KEEP HARMFUL CHEMICALS OUT OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY. WE MUST THINK OF OUR GRANDCHILDREN!!
Mary Dybdahl says:
This is another tragic happening in the news. Our government must not just deregulate and leave no one to watch out for the people and animals food. Just because the corn is used for fuel doesn’t mean it will not contaminate all the fields of corn around it. The seeds will mix and soon there will be no pure natural food. Our children and the elderly will be the first to become sick. It seems some one in history said they did not have to take America by force. It looks like the new trick is to rob us of our strengh so we will be a push over. The water contaminated the food engineered & polluted the air contaminated. What are they thinking. Who cares about us. Mary Dybdahl
This is an outrage and a direct attack on our health and the health of our food supply. We must fight this with everything at our disposal. Obama and his GMO Monsanto appointees are destroying organic agriculture brick by brick. Only madmen bent of destroying life would do such a thing.
Karen Appleby says:
Have you ever seen a Sci-Fi movie where some mutant beings ended up taking over a nation and finally the world. It all started small but spread. This is the very thing that I see happening in our nation with the destruction of natural food products “to make them better!”
Man never makes things better. He only disturbs and destroys everything he gets his hands on. He destroys the balance of nature. He destroys the ecosystems. He destroys the oceans, the lands, the forests. You name it and man has brought destruction to it.
Please, please do not destroy our food! We need natural corn, natural sugar beets, natural wheat. We are allowing greedy companies that specialize in genetic engineering to change our crops. If this continues, we may not be able to return to what is good and healthful.
The US is beginning to make me sick with its policies. No pun intended.
Daniel Fratus says:
I can’t believe you are doing what you are doing with such disregard for common sense and responsibillity. What ARE you thinking?
James salter says:
This latest opening to GM bio-fuel corn is at best Insane As a long time farmer I know full well how far corn pollen can travel sometimes 100s of miles! This corn WILL, not just maybe, contaminate food corn.
It appears there is corruption going on at the USDA and the head of the house committee on agriculture and those not looking out for American Citizens
Darlene Friese says:
How simple it would be to just leave nature alone. For centuries people farmed in a natural way without the use of pesticides or the attempts of genetically engineered farming. Leave Mother Nature and God alone!
Laurie Elms says:
Do not approve any GMO plants. They will ruin all of our food. You do eat don’t you? What will you tell your grandchildren when you ruin the food supply and your part in it.
Patricia Chang says:
It is all about campaign donations; and nothing else, not health, not safety, not campaign promises. President Obama, you would sell us all down the river for a bent nickel!
william whitaker says:
This is an outrage. Is there no shame in the Obama/Bush administration?
Stop this madness with the GMO crops before it is too late. Are the corporatists really trying to kill us? It now appears that this is NOT a conspiracy anymore!
Douglas Lara says:
Monsanto is really spelled Monster, FYI.
Patricia Kanipe says:
This is an outrage and should be illegal. Some of the worst news I’ve heard in months.
Warren Settlemire says:
No! Not only No, But Hell No!
David Forde says:
America is going to pay a very heavy price for this piece of political stupidity!!
Brian Melsky says:
The deregulation of GMO BioFuel is abhorrent!!!
Suzy T says:
Threatening edible corn with GM biofuel corn is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard yet, and I’m hearing plenty. One of the reasons Mexico is so unstable now is that the price of corn for tortillas went through the roof.
anni crofut says:
Once again, we see politics and campaign donations generating policy that will affect the food industry and ultimately consumers’ health.
Alice Artzt says:
I am really horrified at this propagation of GMO crops. It is the beginning of the end of edible food for the planet and will first kill off the polinators (bees and bats etc) and then the animals that eat it and then we who eat that food and also eat the animals that ate the food. This will be a huge disaster for the planet and will not be reversible.
hovaard says:
the bees are being killed by bayer’s pesticide and have been for a long time. i bet the bat disease is caused by some weird scientist concoction also. no pollinators= all genetically modified everything. this is big pharma in action worldwide. then all nutrients will be in drug form, including vitamins regulated also by big pharma.
alfiya says:
the most dangerous things to come is their aim to have everything on the earth for themselves, and all they do is poison,kill and destroy. WHO THEY ARE??????????? who gave them right to destroy us? how many of them and how many of us? why we are letting them to do so? PEOPLE! THINK ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN! THEY WILL BE NOT ABLE TO SEE THE BEAUTY OF THE NATURE, NOT ABLE TO EAT REALFOOD! Parents what are you thinking?????????????
Randall Hartman says:
We shouldn’t be making bio-fuels from corn anyway. We should be making them from ag waste, and food waste, etc. There are plenty of sources that are waste products anyway that could be used.
Ron Avila says:
The Center for Food Safety says that bio-fuel corn “will inevitably contaminate food-grade corn, and could well trigger substantial rejection in our corn export markets, hurting farmers.”
Please care less for Monsanto and corporations and more for the health and welfare of our citizens.
This is going over the top. I am shocked that the USDA has passed seemingly without review, without the consent of the people, not one but 3 new GE crops. Please stand up for the health of the nation as well as conventional and organic farmers alike, both nationally and internationally who will be adversely affected by this decision. Enough is enough, please avoid heeding to the will of powerful GE mulitnational companies and make decisions that reflect the opinion of the people, in representation of the people of this nation, not the fictitious entities in ‘whose’ interest genetically engineered crops benefit. Please take a stand and overturn these decisions.
franchezska zamora says:
Stop Monsanto’s mutant genetically engineered alfalfa, sugarbeets, and now bio-fuel corn!
Pay attention to science & not the corps that are putting $ in ur pockets! What ever happened to govt for the people by the people?
Anita M. Buffer says:
Will Profiteers ever stop finding new ways to make a profit at the expense of animals and humans? It’s time for Americans to put their foot down and stop allowing the rich to run our beautiful Nation into the ground.
This needs to Stop!!!
Carolanne Wright says:
This will be a disaster for our food supply. Besides lobbying, consider educating farmers about the financial, environmental, and health dangers of genetically modified crops. A grassroots campaign would be quite effective in educating those who are actually using these modified seeds.
Carol Lapetino says:
Deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa, sugarbeets, and now bio-fuel corn—what’s next? We must overturn these disastrous decisions. I
Lola Terrell says:
The wold has gone mad, and the corn with it, And the alfalfa. I truly feel that sooner or later (and hopefully very sooner!). Americans who value life and nature are going to be rallying big time in Our streets and squares. I think we are going to have to. The corporations have us trapped by their money, just like the Mubarak regime had the Egyptians trapped. Thank you.
Jennifer Hang says:
Genetically modified food crops make organically grown food crops impossible because of cross pollination. We as consumers have the right to consume organic food if that is our choice. Please do not negate our choice with GMO contamination.
Janice Larson says:
I am terribly disappointed in your utter lack of concern about what your decision re GE bio-fuel corn will do to our crops, our food supply. Please read the following quote:
Please stop this irresponsible behavior!
This is a bad idea. GE plants are not safe & could threaten the enviroment
George R Larko says:
From what I’ve seen from the past preformence of Government agencies that between “Monsantos”, and a few other Agra business’ they pretty much control these Departments. it would be helpful to know what can be done; and who the common citizen could turn to for help!!! One of the more pressing delemas would be the long term affects of GE in the food chain.NO,one can tell us that a substance like ” Round Up Ready” products are safe!!! Wear are the FDA,USDA,CDC,and all the redt of our so called protectors when we need THEM !!!
Genetically engineered food? What am I, a test tube? I am a human being who needs natural food, not chemically enhanced and engineered food from Monsanto. Why is big business allowed to do do what ever they want by paying off members of our government. Stop this along with all genetically engineered food.
Sylta Kalmbach says:
I cannot understand that if this type of corruption is a “KNOWN” factor by all concerned (Or is it?), how in a country like ours, that this disgraceful, well-disguised GRAFT and CORRUPTION is allowed to PROLIFERATE!!! WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE MEMBERS??? DOES NOONE HAVE ANY SAY IN THIS?? Where is President Obama?? And why are we, the general public, just sitting back and watching all this happen??
Magnus Mulliner says:
It’s NOW time to WAKE UP and start to make SMARTER choices. We can only do this once we are conscious/mindful of how we vote. We vote daily by where we place our feet, what we watch, where we put our $ & £ and ultimately what we put in our mouths!
My invite is for anyone reading this to EMPOWER themselves and vote as local as you can. Get to know your local farmers, buy locally grown produce.
Too many people are victims of Big Pharma and GMO. Our time is NOW to make the necessary distinctions in our lives that will allow our children and their children to have a healthy birthright.
As always, have FUN and live everyday in a loving attitude of gratitude.
Yours in health and in happiness
Magnus A. L. Mulliner
barbara williams says:
our government is wrong, so wrong. they want to kill most of us off, so they will have more money to throw away on their own stupid agendas, and their pensions and health insurance.
I don’t care if my reply isnt printed. I will not moderate my thoughts or words, many others feel the same as I.
John Dierig says:
Once again political contributions persuaded these CORRUPT politicians to endorse bad science!
JOHN CLYMER says:
IT’S A HUGE MISTAKE TO PLAY WITH NATURE LIKE THIS.
And why shouldn’t we be equally as concerned about the “food” GMO corn? I don’t understand. I do understand it’s dangerous to our health and environment, why the double standard?
Mary Meier says:
The recent push to deregulate GMO crops is unconscionable, the reasons given lacking in veracity. These crops are not better, they do not give a higher yield than other crops. They do contaminate the soil, they contaminate the ground water, and they contaminate nearby crops. They, due to the increase herbicides needed for these crops,are dangerous to humans and animals. The Southwest area of the US has had a plague of “Pig Weed” due to the installation of the GMO crops. These weeds can take over a field within a year, nothing can kill them and their root systems depleat the soil of any nutrients. These crops are bad for the environment and the living creatures living within, this includes people.
Jeanne Bellinger says:
Monsanto is changing the world in a negative way. The USDA does not always have the best interests of the public in mind. I am very concerned about the future we are leaving for our children and grand-children.
leslie schneider says:
Overturn the USDA’s decision to allow the deregulation of the industrial corn which is genetically engineered. Do you listen to anyone that you were put in place to represent ? It appears that you do not care about doing what is right for the health of everyone concerned. Prove that you do instead of letting Monsanto and agribusiness dictate your vote !!!!!!
Again we are faced with Mindless lack of concern for life and intentional murder.
Cheryl Baker says:
There is no way to prevent cross-pollination between GM and non-GM corn. Corn is a wind-pollinated crop and the pollen can travel fom field to field quite easily. The same is true with alfalfa, an insect-pollinated crop, where the pollen can travel just as far as the insect carrying it. The danger of contamination of non-genetically altered species is extremely high, despite half-hearted attempts at “usage guidelines.”
Five major US trade associations whose member companies process and export corn and corn products agree. They say that this GM corn—if inadvertently commingled with general commodity corn at even very low levels—will have significant adverse effects on food product quality and performance.
Laurie A Main says:
Please help us stop this ongoing travesty of our rights. The FDA and huge corporations are being allowed to contaminate our food legally! I personally do not wish to eat ‘fuel’.
Thomas Young says:
The farmers and populations who stand to suffer most from GMO technologies are those who are accustomed to subsistence farming methods requiring them to save seeds, compost, and practice integrated pest management. Farmers who have switched to GMO seeds have become dependent on companies such as Monsanto to supply them with new seed annually, in addition to synthetic fertilizers and pesticides required to grow many GMO crops. This dependence creates a cycle of debt for formerly self-reliant farmers.
In the United States, the patenting of GMO seeds has provided companies like Monsanto legal leverage to litigate against farmers who save their own seeds, if their seed becomes contaminated through cross-pollination with GMO crops. There is no clear intention by GMO scientists to solve food and hunger crises when GMO crops are creating an increasing reliance of farmers on non-renewable resources and unsustainable farming methods, and GMO seed corporations are engaging in frivolous lawsuits against farmers who are practicing the time-honored tradition of seed saving.
What we need is an alternative to the current for-profit model of GMO seed production and distribution. We need a non-profit organization dedicated to developing new food crop varieties that can be cultivated using traditional and organic methods, and whose genes are not protected by patents and frivolous lawsuits, permitting subsistence farmers to save seeds and control our own destinies. As long as the technology of GMO crops is sown by the hands of for-profit corporations, everyone except for these companies and their stockholders will continue to be on the losing end of this technology, whose benefits we should all be in a position to reap.
Kenneth Kelly says:
Corn-based ethanol was and is a bad idea, but this is far worse. The government and the chemical companies need to get off the farmer’s back.
barbara billek says:
Please OPPOSE deregulation of GE alfalfa
Corn is wind pollinated. Are these people crazy?
Robert McCart says:
How in the world, could you deregulate putting Genetically engineered food out into the world. This has to be one of the most dangerous decisions yet. I don’t think it should done, let alone deregulated.
lynda mink says:
we are destroying our food sources by doing this… we must stop before it is too late to go back…
John Zeigler says:
There is no stupidity like human stupidity.
Debbie Starks says:
PLEASE leave the organic foods alone. I don’t want genetically engineered alfalfa, sugarbeets & now bio-fuel corn. This does not help overall health of our country!
Debbie Starks
Kinga Salierno says:
I for one DO NOT want to eat genetically altered foods!! I don’t understand the purpose-do these politicians know what the results and effects are on the human body after ingesting, nature and animals? No – don’t mess with it!!
Karin Braunsberger says:
Please protect our health and stop deregulating genetically modified crops. You are supposed to represent us and not corporations.
caroly lehman says:
We need to let our crop seeds in their natural state. Anytime you alter a product from its
natural origin leads to disastrous consequences. We have to stop these practices and start
thinking of our citizens health safety and protecting our organic farming. Monsanto is a huge
company whose only interest is profit. Politicans who support Monsanto and agencies such as the USDA are thinking only of their own selfish interests. Their own children and grandchildren
will be effected by altered crops. What’s next?
Eugenics is a mighty big industry just google it to find out who is involved. Be ready for a rude awakening.
Charlotte Wales says:
As consumers and as parents, we must DEMAND that we have access to clean, non-gmo foods and seeds. It is our RIGHT to have clean, healthy foods, not forced to eat/grow synthetic, unhealthy crops just so Monsanto, et al, make obscene profits worldwide. We have to JUST SAY NO – no to chemical-soaked foods!!! If more people will buy local, fresh foods, and also start small home gardens, you can then be assured of healthy foods, as well as support small and parttime farmers. We have to also be active online – – – I’m an online activist, every single day, on this issue and others. Email corporations, politicians, newspapers – let them know what YOU think; they do look at numbers – emails, phone calls, etc. – get others involved; it’s the only way we’ll win –
Andrea Humble says:
This is obviously a conflict of interest and Luca should not even be involved. Do not be a part of this. Protect the environment and the people.
Debra Sandoval says:
Is this a free country anymore?….Obviously no one is listening to the people, to us
…we may have the right to voice our opinions on issues, but nothing is being done about this. The people who are behind this must have an alternate food supply or they love money so much that it has blinded their judgement to their own demise and that of their children. This is unconstitutional..to effect our food supply like this without our approval!
Our government paid all these farmers to grow bio-fuel corn……and now we find out that a lot of this corn is also bio-engineered…it has been growing here unrestricetd already before this alert came out. The government doesn’t seem to be concerned about getting vehicles to burn this fuel…now we have a glut of this corn and they want people to eat it. Anyone feel like having nice fresh corn on the cob this summer after reading this?
Where do you think all this corn syrup came from ….and now we see the propaganda about sugar is sugar on TV.
What about the family farmers who have been talked into planting the GE foods???? Once people find out their crops are GE…who really wants to buy their produce? So then they’re wiped out.
NIce plan here…..it seems to me that this is a sneaky way to force GE foods on people…what are you going to eat, if you don’t eat GE foods? The question is why are we doing this? We’re unable to grow healthy hatural food now? GE foods are going to end world hunger, too, right?
This already happened in Canada a few years back….I don’t know what the health consequences have been, but the organic crops next to the GE crops were contaminated.
There will be no natural foods left in the world…….this is not what we want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The people behind this have stock and other interests in Bio-tech….they want to ride the Bio-tech wave to additonal wealth….this wealth is going to exact a heavy price….our very lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop this GE and cloned foods movement now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Valerie Campbell says:
All these GMO products scare me. What is done now can never be undone.
Robert Cruder says:
“Organic” is much like “Kosher”, a religious rule not backed by science that allows some producers to charge far more for a similar product.
The “Organic” producers make unsubstantiated claims to frighten consumers away from virtually identical non-organic products such as GMO corn and reap a profit from doing so. When their own varieties (of mixed but indeterminate genetic origin) risk acquiring some genes from engineered varieties they complain that this will destroy their industry.
It will only harm the organic industry if organic consumers acting out of irrational fear of even the tiniest trace of engineered genes stop purchasing the organic product.
How could that ever happen?
Jim Healey says:
These Government organizations are supposed to protect Americans. Since These, FDA, USDA, have been infiltrated by Corporations with in their ranks. We the people must demand this practice ends. Corporate donations should never influence these agencies. Welcome to a Government that is about to Doom all inhabitants of America and else where with these GM products. We must vote these people out of office. We must demand no corporations are allowed to make decisions when it comes to these organizations, or we shut them down and create non profit organizations that have the final say as to what gets planted for all consuming mamals.
angelika says:
simply put- not good
Rabiyatu Benyameen says:
We’re quickly becoming a Frankenstein food producing society strongly influenced by bureaucratic policies which don’t care about the well being of its citizens. Shame on you USDA for this deregulation and your selfish agenda to continously promote capitalistic control over peoples livelihood. This is not a democracy. It’s a dictatorship
Charlie Peters says:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704554/posts http://
(NO on Prop. 87, 2006 An ethanol support)
Clean Air Performance Professionals
Charlie Peters President
cappcharlie@earthlink.net
Federal ethanol policy increases Government motors oil use and Big oil profit.
It is reported that today California is using Brazil sugar cane ethanol at $0.16 per gal increase over using GMO corn fuel ethanol. In this game the cars and trucks get to pay and Big oil profits are the result that may be ready for change.
We do NOT support AB 523 or SB 1396 unless the ethanol mandate is changed to voluntary ethanol in our gas.
Folks that pay more at the pump for less from Cars, trucks, food, water & air need better, it is time.
The car tax of AB 118 Nunez is just a simple Big oil welfare program, AAA questioned the policy and some folks still agree.
AB 523 & SB 1326 are just a short put (waiver) from better results.
GOOGLE: Prop 87 (510) 537-1796
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Bucks beat Heat on Middleton's buzzer-beater
Mar 25, 2015 - 4:11 AM
Plumlee Jams - Whiteside Injured
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Milwaukee, WI (SportsNetwork.com) - Khris Middleton beat the buzzer on a 3- point attempt that completed a late Milwaukee rally and lifted the Bucks to a dramatic 89-88 victory over the Miami Heat.
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News, Reviews and the Occasional Blues…
Lots of talk about what I read, what I buy, when I feel sad and occasionally some other stuff.
Book Review – The Girl In The Red Coat – Kate Hamer…
On August 28, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, BooksLeave a comment
Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different – sensitive, distracted, with an heartstopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter’s strangeness, especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own.
When she takes Carmel for an outing to a local festival, her worst fear is realised: Carmel disappears into the crowd. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own. But do the real clues to Carmel’s disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at?
Oh dear. Oh dear me. I really wanted to enjoy this book as I’d heard good things about it from a couple of friends of mine. However the glowing reports I’d received sadly did not match up with my own opinion of this book, which I found a struggle to read. It was that bad.
Am I really the only person in the world that disliked this book? I’m looking through the reviews on Goodreads and the vast majority of them are far too positive, they really are.
This book is based on a tried and tested formula. That of a kidnapped child. Carmel is taken from her over anxious and paranoid mother at a festival by a strange man. One could argue that Beth’s (the mother) paranoia was justified as she does lose her daughter but the author takes this concept way too far.
The story flips back and forth between Beth and Carmel but towards the end of the book becomes woolly and ever harder to follow. How did this couple manage to get a girl with no ID and no passport into the States who have some of the most stringent immigration control laws in the world? It just doesn’t sound believable and that makes it a misnomer in what is supposed to be a believable story.
As the book goes on I get more and more turned off by the religious aspects of the story. Atheist and proud here. I found this story really rather difficult to swallow.
This book is labelled as a psychological thriller. Huh? In what alternate universe is that then? This book is about as much of a psychological tension filled thriller as I am a gold medal ice skater!
The ending is my biggest beef of the whole story though. It is so insubstantial and abrupt it leaves you with a sense of emptiness and feeling incomplete. This book left me feeling cold.
A one out of five star read.
Be kind to each other.x
Book Review – The Secret – Katerina Diamond…
On August 27, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, Books, crime thrillersLeave a comment
Can you keep a secret? Your life depends on it…
When Bridget Reid wakes up in a locked room, terrifying memories come flooding back – of blood, pain, and desperate fear. Her captor knows things she’s never told anyone. How can she escape someone who knows all of her secrets?
As DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles search for Bridget, they uncover a horrifying web of abuse, betrayal and murder right under their noses in Exeter.
And as the past comes back to haunt her, Grey must confront her own demons. Because she knows that it can be those closest to us who hurt us the most…
Wow. Just wow. This is Katerina Diamond’s second book, but the first one that I have read. Her writing style was a little difficult to get to grips with at first due to the way that the way her chapters jump back and that, for me, is a slightly difficult style to follow as for me, I worry about losing parts of the story. Fortunately that didn’t happen and I was able to thoroughly enjoy the whole story without losing any bits of it.
I’m a little bit in love with Imogen Grey. She has some way to go to prove herself to be in the same league as Kim Stone and Helen Grace, but I’m sure she’ll get there.
Diamond is a masterful suspense writer and able to create both evocative and dark suspenseful story arcs and also to keep the reader guessing about just who the bad guys really are until the very last pages.
I’m really not able to say much more about this book without blundering my way into some serious spoilers, so my advice is definitely just read it! It’s one of the best books I’ve read in a while.
A five out of five star read.
Book Review – The Missing – C.L Taylor…
You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them.
But should you…?
When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire, blames herself. She’s not the only one. There isn’t a single member of Billy’s family that doesn’t feel guilty. But the Wilkinsons are so used to keeping secrets from one another that it isn’t until six months later, after an appeal for information goes horribly wrong, that the truth begins to surface.
Claire is sure of two things – that Billy is still alive and that her friends and family had nothing to do with his disappearance.
A mother’s instinct is never wrong. Or is it?
Sometimes those closest to us are the ones with the most to hide…
I was really excited having just read and really enjoyed this author’s first foray into the world of young adult fiction to pick up this book and I really wasn’t disappointed. The book is very cleverly written and the use of Snapchat conversations at various points throughout the story was a really clever way to enhance the story being told to the reader.
Those conversations certainly kept me guessing right until very near to the end of the book! I was convinced it was 3 or 4 different people at various points throughout the whole story.
As Claire searches for her son Billy, it becomes clear that she didn’t really know her teenage son at all. Was that to be expected in the family dynamic? Who knows? One could say that we all change as we grow and we feel the need to be less open with our parents, having the need for our own lives. Or one could say that a truly close family will always know each other. *shrug* Who knows?
There were suspicious elements casting a shadow over several of the characters in this story and and at one time or another, they could all have had something to do with Billy’s disappearance. I can’t mention this one particular character as I don’t want to include spoilers in my review. But as I think back to the story, there were clear indicators that this person was hiding something very major.
The book discusses “hardcore” porn. I kind of wish that the writer had just used the correct term and said BDSM. However that is just a minor grumble.
All in all, I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be looking out for the writer’s other work.
A four out of five star review.
Book Review – I Kill – Giorgio Faletti…
On August 13, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, Books, crime thrillers2 Comments
The voice on the radio.
The writing, red as blood.
I kill . . .
A detective and an FBI agent embark upon the most harrowing case of their careers as they attempt to track down an enigmatic killer in this relentlessly suspenseful thriller. The killer announces his heinous acts in advance with desperate phone calls and ties his crimes together with songs that point to his victims; he then mutilates them and removes their faces.
Set in Monte Carlo and featuring an international cast of intriguing characters, the hunt for the deranged perpetrator remains gripping and unsettling, possibly even more so, after the killer’s identity is revealed and the detectives must close in on their target before he strikes again.
I had, for some weird reason, I have no idea why, a really sinking feeling when I picked this book up. It wasn’t the length of it. No, I’ve read many 500+ hours age books before. I just couldn’t nail down what it was. Then I started to read it. Oh dear…
By the time that I was 100 pages in, the book’s pace was so turgid and slow that I seriously felt like putting it in the charity box pile and saying goodbye to it. But I am stubborn. I do not like leaving books unfinished. It leaves me with a sense of dissatisfaction and unsettlement. So even though I can see me taking a long time to read this book I will get through it.
Well, so far, all I can say is that the book appears to be set in 2005 and it feels like it is set in the 1970s!!! Everything just feels dated. Even the murder of Allen Yoshida, the computer billionaire. *yawn* I’m beginning to think it’s going to take me longer than a little while to get this book finished I really am.
I’m now about 120 pages from the end and whilst there have been a couple of plot twists that did shock and sadden me a little bit, my mind just has not been able to wrap itself around the tedium involved in this story.
The two main protagonists, Nicolas Hulot and Frank Ottobre do not act like senior police officers with years and years of experience. OK, Frank could be excused up to a certain degree because of what had happened to him, but I honestly just wanted to reach through the pages and throat punch the both of them to see if that would shake some life into them.
It’s honestly a real shame as the story itself had the potential to be absolutely brilliant! But I just couldn’t get into it at all. This is very unusual for me as I can normally find at least two characters and a couple of threads of story line to give me hope. There was Barbara though. I identified with her very much for reasons of my own.
As the end of the book gets nearer, I’m discovering that I’m not excited to find out how it ends. I’m just excited for it to end. Isn’t that sad?
Now I’m really cross. I’ve just read a paragraph where Faletti mentions “Pagan idolatry” as being responsible for the evils committed by the “bad guy”. How DARE you Mr Faletti? Pagans are not evil and this continued misrepresentation by authors and by the press simply is not acceptable. Christians are capable of far greater evil the pagans ever have been!
Right, I’ve actually finished this awful excuse of a book. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that I have found as dreary and uninspiring as this one. At times it felt like the words were superglue and my eyes were constantly sticking and having to be dragged over the sentences. I am quite literally only giving this book one star because I can’t give it none. Do yourself a favour. Put it down and read something else instead.
Book Review – Pretty Baby – Mary Kubica…
On July 10, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, BooksLeave a comment
A chance encounter
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can’t get the girl out of her head…
An act of kindness
Heidi has always been charitable but her family are horrified when she returns home with a young woman named Willow and her baby in tow. Dishevelled and homeless, this girl could be a criminal – or worse. But despite the family’s objections, Heidi offers them refuge.
A tangled web of lies
As Willow begins to get back on her feet, disturbing clues into her past starts to emerge. Now Heidi must question if her motives for helping the stranger are unselfish or rooted in her own failures.
Urgh. Just urgh. I really wanted to like this book, I really did. Hearing good things about the author made me excited to read it. Yet the writing style really put me off. From one character’s point of view it was present time and from the other two it was several days prior and it kept on jumping back and forth between the three characters which made the story difficult to follow.
The characters were all seriously irritating. Apart from Willow. For reasons of my own I empathise with her. Heidi I wanted to throat punch, I really did. That woman was way too goody goody and pure. Chris seemed to be a frustrated adulterer (I hate cheaters whether fictional or in real life) and Zoe was a brat who needed a good attitude adjustment.
The concept of the story was good, but it could have been so much more. There are parts that are achingly sad, but they are far outweighed and let down by the rest of the story.
I will give this writer kudos for bringing to the fore the topics of mental health and abuse as they are not nearly normalised enough in popular fiction. I just wish that there had been a trigger warning somewhere in the blurb. It took several days away from the book before I felt able to continue with it, but that’s just me.
I’m only able to give this book a two out of five star read.
Book Review – Pretty Is – Maggie Mitchell…
On July 3, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, Books, crime thrillers, reviewLeave a comment
Lois and Carly-May were just twelve when they were abducted by a stranger and imprisoned in a cabin in the woods for two months. That summer, under the watchful gaze of their kidnapper, they formed a bond that would never be broken. Decades later, both women have new lives and identities. But the events of that summer are about to come back with a vengeance. Lois and Carly-May must face the truth about their secret, shared past… What really happened in the woods that summer?OK, I have to be brutally honest. I did not enjoy this book. Not even a little bit. I got three quarters of the way through and I came very close to putting it down. Mitchell’s first book has been described, amongst other things as “a slick take on a trope that just isn’t going away”. Sorry but no. I don’t see it as slick at all. The story judders along, jumping between the two protagonists both in current and past time. The whole thing is puzzled together and not at all what I was expecting.I honestly like my thrillers to be fast paced and to pick me up and whirl me along from the very first page and not put me down until the last. Pretty is just doesn’t do that.Both of the women were clearly in need of some very serious and intensive therapy but were both allowed to tumble along and present a functioning face to the world when they both needed a Psychiatrist and some very effective drugs.I just couldn’t get on with any of the characters at all. The villain of the piece just wasn’t very… villainous, and the way the book wound up just seemed so implausible. If you enjoyed this book, fair enough. It just wasn’t for me.A two out of five star book.Be kind to each other.x
Book Review – Joyfully His by Jamie Beck…
On June 15, 2018 June 15, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, BooksLeave a comment
Folks in Sterling Canyon know that small towns have long memories. Two years after the DUI that injured a pedestrian, Andy Randall is still making amends. He hopes the Christmas spirit will help him get rehired as a ski instructor, but that job will come with conditions. He can’t afford another mistake, which is exactly what making a play for his former boss and friend, Nikki Steele, would be.
Nikki races down double black diamonds and hikes mountains better than most guys, unafraid of tumbling down the slopes. But trusting the guy who once shot her down could end in a fall that actually hurts, especially when she’d have to vouch for him with her boss. Still, the resort needs another instructor to handle the holiday tourists, and Andy’s sexy grin and relaxed charisma make him hard to resist.
With both of their reputations now on the line, can Andy convince Nikki that the second chance he wants isn’t only about the job?
Yes. It was that time again. I need the comfort of a good old soppy romance and as I had read and enjoyed the previous three books in the Sterling Canyon series, I wanted to read this novella just to see how things panned out.
Andy is the protagonist in this shorter story. It’s actually quite nice to see the story go to being from a male perspective from a change (the previous three books were all female led).
I must admit that I had thought he might one day end up with Emma, but by the end of book three, it is abundantly clear that that is not going to happen. So it was nice to see him given his (much shorter but still nice) love story.
It’s difficult to say a lot without giving the game away but it was a thoroughly enjoyable story and I was happy while reading it. I feel a bit sad to say goodbye to the Sterling Canyon characters as I built a fondness for them over the first three books.
I would definitely recommend that you read the series if you enjoy romance novels.
A four out of five star book.
Book Review – No Other Darkness (D.I Marnie Rome Book 2) – Sarah Hilary…
On May 19, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, Books, crime thrillersLeave a comment
Two young boys.Trapped underground in a bunker.
Five years later, the boys’ bodies are found and the most difficult case of DI Marnie Rome’s career begins. She has to find out who they are and what happened to them. For no-one has reported them missing – and it seems she is the only person to care.
This book deals with the most shocking of all crimes… the possible torture and murder of two young children. The writer has handled it in a very sensitive way and built a story skilfully around a topic that is sad and disturbing. I have read some crime thrillers around the same topic that just sensationalise and are not layered or enjoyable in the slightest.
Marnie has definitely entered my collective of favourite fictional police women. D.I Kim Stone, D.I Helen Grace and now D.I Marnie Rome.
Marnie is again a multi-layered protagonist and as such, is able to convey her past into the work she does to understand certain aspects of this case.
I admire Marnie’s character a great deal. She isn’t as rule bending as my other two favourite fictional detectives but having a good working relationship with her seniors provides a different dynamic to the story.
It was gratifying to see post partum psychosis dealt with in such a way. It isn’t widely dealt with or known about and the way that this book sensitively deals with the subject is, for me, an excellent thing. The character of Esther was skilfully created and the way that she is juxtaposed with her new self is very cleverly done, it really is. Mental health is not dealt with enough in mainstream fiction and to see it done in such a skilful way really is gratifying.
Another thing that I love about the D.I Marnie Rome books is the character of Noah Jake. He is a person of colour and also a gay man. There are scenes between him and his partner that deal with arousal and kissing which I adore. This needs to be more prevalent in mainstream fiction and I applaud Ms. Hilary for doing this with her characters.
The story is very skilfully written and I adored every page of it. Bring on book three!
This is a definite five out of five star read.
Book Review – Unexpectedly Hers – Jamie Beck…
On April 25, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, Books, reviewLeave a comment
By day, bashful wallflower Emma Duffy works at her family’s bed-and-breakfast. By night, she secretly pens erotic romance hot enough to melt the snow in their cozy Rockies town.
But Emma’s real life is about to heat up when her mother books the entire inn to a professional snowboarder, hoping the publicity will put them on the map. In a karmic twist of fate, that guest is Wyatt Lawson, the man with whom Emma had shared the secret one-night stand that became the inspiration for her novel and its dreamy hero. Worse, a film crew is documenting his comeback just as her debut is about to hit the shelves. Emma’s only saving grace is that Wyatt doesn’t remember her—and hopefully he never will.
When Wyatt arrives in Sterling Canyon for several weeks of intense training, the last tumble he expects to take is falling for a girl, especially one as shy as Emma. Unlike groupies with their hidden agendas, she isn’t using him—or so he believes…until the film crew uncovers Emma’s pen name and steamy novel.
Wyatt’s comeback run can withstand a fall or two, but can his heart recover from this crash and burn?
I’ve grown really attached to the Sterling Canyon characters that Jamie Beck has created and feel a little sad that I only have one more book to read before the series is done. Anyway, enough being maudlin and on with the review.
This, like the other two before it is a really sweet book and there is an interesting balance between all of the lead characters. I was really pleased to see Emma in the limelight this time around. She deserved it so much!
She is a sweet, shy woman and lived for way too long in her mother’s shadow. Seeing the way that Ms Beck writes her into being a stronger and more independent woman was really gratifying.
This book was finished in a couple of nights and is perfect for curling up with a box of chocolate with.
A four out of five star read.
Book Review – Secretly Hers – Jamie Beck…
On March 26, 2018 By ravenwing72In Blogging, Book Reviews, Books, reviewLeave a comment
On her thirty-first birthday, hopeless romantic Kelsey Callihan has all but given up on happily ever afters, which is why she agrees to a risqué proposition from Sterling Canyon’s notorious playboy, backcountry skier Trip Lexington. After all, every girl needs a little fun, and with Trip, there are no mixed signals or risks of a broken heart. And if his tips can help her land a husband in the process, all the better.
Trip couldn’t be happier with his secret, no-strings fling with sweet and sexy Kelsey until she calls it quits after meeting a man she believes could share her dream of marriage and family. His jealousy turns to outrage when he discovers that the man is his estranged half brother and lifelong rival.
Now Trip must decide whether the fire in his gut is due to sibling rivalry or something much more dangerous…like love.
Here I am into another foray into the wonderful world of beautiful, soft and gentle literary cotton wool. After reading a couple of non fiction books and then having some serious sinusitis that left me neither wanting to blog nor read, I did neither. However, I have this book to review as well as others so I shall get on with it. I loved this book. It’s the second of the Sterling Canyon series and the second of the three female friends, Avery, Kelsey and Emma is the lead female protagonist in this book.
Kelsey was pictured in the last book as a hopeless romantic and was nicknamed “boomerang” by Grey, Avery’s partner when she was chasing after him. Trip, the main male character joined in with it which does come back to bite him on the ass at one stage but I will say no more than that as I don’t want to add any spoilers to this review at all about any of these books.
You can almost see the heartache waiting to happen at first, but you realise as the pages turn that there is more to this story than a no strings attached sex kind of thing. Kelsey displays fortitude and bravery in this story and proves herself to be much more than the book initially paints her to be. Trip also shows a side to his personality which is more than the town Casanova.
It is very difficult to say much more about this story without major spoilers but if you like Jamie Beck and these books then you will really enjoy this story. I give it a four out of five star read. Enjoy the book.
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It’s hard to be a beautiful Countess—you never know when a band of adventurous pirates is going to show up and abduct you. In the case of the bored Countess Julia of Fondi, however, those pirates can’t come soon enough. Julia’s desire for adventure and excitement is met when the pirate Barbarossa climbs in her window, but even she might find more than she bargained for when their first adventure takes them into a mysterious storm, an exceedingly strange land, and a place of monsters and possible death. Perhaps boredom isn’t so bad after all.
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Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Votive Offerings
27 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the Lord at your valuation, 3 then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him.
9 “If it is an animal such as men offer as an offering to the Lord, all of such that any man gives to the Lord is holy. 10 He shall not substitute anything for it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he makes any exchange of beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. 11 And if it is an unclean animal such as is not offered as an offering to the Lord, then the man shall bring the animal before the priest, 12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. 13 But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.
14 “When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 And if he who dedicates it wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall be his.
16 “If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land which is his by inheritance, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it; a sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand at your full valuation; 18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from your valuation. 19 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall remain his. 20 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more; 21 but the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a field that has been devoted; the priest shall be in possesion of it. 22 If he dedicates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of his possession by inheritance, 23 then the priest shall compute the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the amount of the valuation on that day as a holy thing to the Lord. 24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance. 25 Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
26 “But a firstling of animals, which as a firstling belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at your valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at your valuation.
28 “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether of a man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29 No one devoted, who is to be utterly destroyed from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall be put to death.
30 “All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. 31 If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32 And all the tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 A man shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”
34 These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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When Lorraine McNeill’s mother, Agnes, died, Lorraine’s loss was as profound as her devotion. But through this tragic event Lorraine met her new husband-to-be, John Caulfield. Although their paths crossed in a series of chance encounters, it took the worst storm to hit NI in 50 years to bring the pair together.
Lorraine’s GP first signposted her to Cruse Bereavement Care, which supports people coping with loss, after Agnes’s death. After six weeks’ counselling she heard about Cruse’s Beyond Words project, a friendship group funded by money raised by National Lottery players. The project offers people suffering bereavement a chance to meet and talk through activities from drama to creative writing.
Lorraine started attending last March, and first met John, also from north Belfast. He had joined in 2014 after the death of his wife Eileen in 2013. He and Lorraine got talking on the group’s residential on the north coast.
“On the way home the group stopped at Portballintrae, which mum and I loved,” says Lorraine. “I went for a walk but when John realised I wasn’t back after it started to rain, he went looking for me.
“I thought it was so lovely that someone who hardly knew me would do that. We sat together the rest of the way home.”
But still no ‘date’ was planned… until, that is, the day of Storm Ophelia when once again fate threw them together.
John takes up the story: “Neither Lorraine nor I could stand the loneliness of our homes after our loss. Eileen and me were together 27 years. We lived for one another, didn’t need anyone else.
“I could understand Eileen passing away, but I couldn’t understand why I’d been left. We should both have gone, I thought.
“I couldn’t stay in the house so I’d walk – rain, hail or shine – until I was so tired I had to sit down. Nothing and no-one could help me, I thought.”
A year after Eileen’s death, on one of those walks, John found himself outside Belfast’s Ulster Hall where Cruse was holding a promotion day for Beyond Words.
“One of the organisers there asked me to their friendship group – I only agreed to go to get away from him. When the date came, though, he’d sent a taxi for me!” says John who admits to being terrified when he walked into that first meeting.
“It was the first time I’d talked about Eileen in over a year. I was very emotional. There were lots of tears.”
For all that though John was still sceptical that the group could help – until, that is, he was persuaded to go on a Beyond Words residential.
“I wasn’t looking forward to that either but I did start to open up and as I told my story and listened to other people’s I began to feel a bit better. I didn’t want to go home. I thought that would be the end of it – but it was only the beginning.”
Through Beyond Words John began creative writing classes and even penned a play about bereavement, performed in Belfast’s Crescent Arts Centre.
The couple’s stars aligned when Lorraine started attending the friendship group as well.
“Our paths crossed a few times at events but it was the day of the big storm when we realised this was something special,” beams John.
“Lorraine had called into a coffee shop but it was closing early because of the gales and she ended up on the Shankill Road, which is where we ran into each other.
“We walked the length of the road and when it came time to part we made an arrangement to meet again.”
It was a date – and many more followed. As Cupid’s arrow finally found its target, John popped the question last January – and Lorraine said yes!
“We’re getting married on June 22, 2019 and we can’t wait! Everything’s booked,” says Lorraine.
Eleanour Ellerslie, the project manager, says the support has made such a difference: “I have known John for four years and saw how the Friendship Group helped him and brought out his creative side. It’s wonderful to see such a happy ending for him,” she says.
“Having a Beyond Words wedding was one of the project outcomes we never anticipated. Their story shows that there is life beyond the death of a loved one.”
Perhaps though the final word should go to the bride: “When I went to Beyond Words the first time I wasn’t looking for romance. I was grieving. I hadn’t been on a date for 25 years and I never thought this would happen. But it has and it’s all just wonderful. We just couldn’t be happier.”
Thanks to National Lottery players, Cruse are able to continue supporting people like John and Lorraine through the hardest parts of their life – and through the happiest!
To learn more, visit: https://www.cruse.org.uk/northern-ireland
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Knowing Nonno
Exploring Italian Genealogy and Related Topics
For The Lost of February '44 - Part III
For The Lost of February '44 - Part III: We Will Not Forget
How would my father react to the revelations regarding his father's disappearance? After all, Damiano was lost almost 70 years ago. My father was only an infant when Damiano went off to war. Therefore, he had no memories of him. His mother had passed on 20 years ago, and thus, another link to Damiano left with her. My father's life was now occupied with the travails of aging and the joy drawn from his grandchildren. What place, if any, would the news of Damiano's fate have on his present reality, or for that matter, on his future?
When I decided to share what I had learned with my father, I did not expect an emotional moment worthy of a Steven Spielberg epic. On the contrary, I expected a barrage of skepticism grounded in seven decades worth of perceptual defense. However, without meeting my eyes, he just asked that I leave behind some documents so that he could examine them when he was alone. Anyone who knows my father would have been confused by this reaction. My father has never been known for lukewarm responses to anything, let alone news of this nature. Initially, I misinterpreted his reaction as a dismissal from a man who had no desire to reopen old wounds. However, during a subsequent visit, I realized the truth. Unprovoked, he asked me if there had been any new developments. Then with an uncharacteristically calm, serene manner, he asked me to inform him if he could be of assistance as we work to ensure that the perished POWs of the Oria shipwreck are remembered properly. It was then that I understood that he could not provide an immediate response to the unexpected news. He needed to deal with the discoveries on his own terms and in his own time. No doubt, after all this time, who could blame him? He deserved to confront the news how he saw fit. All the loved ones of these lost POWs deserve that much.
As I was sharing this new found information with my family, our international group took on numerous initiatives to raise a broader awareness so as to provide others unknowingly connected to the Oria the same opportunity for closure. The website PiroscafoOria.it became a central portal for consolidating information and erecting a virtual memorial. Many of us (too many to list without risking unintended omissions) took on projects large and small to raise awareness. These have included newspaper articles, speaking engagements, conferences, and pieces for Italian television. Most recently, the Italian television program, La Vita in Diretta, did a follow-up piece on the 69th anniversary of the shipwreck this past February 12th.
As a result of these efforts, many people have learned the truth about lost loved ones. It is tragically too late for many family members who deserved closure, but as the video above testifies, many daughters, sons, grandchildren, and even siblings are finally able to relieve themselves of the burden of seven decades of painful ambiguity. Furthermore, additional eye witness accounts have been gathered. Amazingly, this includes former Italian POWs, now in their 90s, who were almost boarded on the Oria and were then forced to endure the poorly managed efforts of recovering and burying human remains after the shipwreck.
Though much has come to light, there is still so much more to accomplish. As of this writing, only 115 of the more than 4,000 Italian POWs have been identified and memorialized on the virtual Wall of Honor. Numerous formal letters and emails have been dispatched to federal and local Italian institutions respectfully requesting assistance with matching passenger list names with records of soldiers missing in action. Sadly, the response has been a mix of condescension and bureaucratic apathy, which has only intensified as Italy's political and economic turmoil churns. Most responses simply assume that we seek monetary assistance, which is quite frankly insulting. A mere authorization to release data pertaining to Italian soldiers missing in action during the period and vicinity of the shipwreck would be a godsend to our efforts.
Besides Italy's continuous political and economic challenges, we can only speculate as to why the Italian authorities have not offered any proactive assistance. Regardless of the cause, the response to date sets a disturbing precedence. Furthermore, what message does it send to current Italian serviceman and their families? If financial concerns are at the core of these responses, why not propose gestures that cost nothing, such as a dedicated moment of silence during a ceremony on an existing national holiday of remembrance? If formal assistance cannot be provided for objectives such as preserving remains and artifacts or erecting a memorial, why add insult to injury? Why not focus on what can be done rather than on what cannot?
Despite these obstacles, simply being a part of these efforts has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Each emotional message from someone who is just learning the truth about a missing brother, grandfather, father, etc. has only strengthened our resolve to continue our efforts. Next February, the 70th anniversary of the shipwreck, I plan to visit the site of the tragedy personally on behalf of my father, grandmother, and all those who knew and loved Damiano. I look forward to personally thanking Telis and other friends who have done so much. I hope to honor the lost of the Oria with as many other family members of victims as possible. These men were lost to their families, and they were almost lost to history. Now, we can ensure that they will not be forgotten. Their memory will live on as another reminder of the incalculable costs of war and the consequences which ripple through time.
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America’s 10 Must-Visit Lap Pools
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The benefits of a good swim are well known — all the upside of running or other aerobic exercises, minus the downside of a long grind on a hard surface (i.e., fewer orthopedic injuries).
What’s less established are the benefits of a good swim in a beautiful, inviting or just plain jaw-dropping lap pool. But we suspect you’d be willing to give it a try just in case — especially since seeking out a new place to swim can help you stave off the boredom of doing another round laps.
Here, dive into the country’s 10 must-visit lap pools — guaranteed to give you a boredom-free swim.
1. THE INDOOR POOL AT THE INTERCONTINENTAL, CHICAGO
Photo Credit: Intercontinental Hotel
Built in 1929 — just as the Roaring ‘20s were giving way to the Great Depression — this junior Olympic-sized pool has been hosting swimmers since the building was part of the Medinah Athletic Club. (Johnny Weissmuller — aka Tarzan — trained here.) Its Jazz Age glamour, including hand-painted Spanish tiles, has been painstakingly preserved. Best of all, you don’t need to book a room to go — you can get a membership to the spa or spring for a day pass.
2. RIVER HOUSE POOL AT PALMETTO BLUFF, BLUFFTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
Photo Credit: Palmetto Bluff
A low country stunner overlooking the May River, this 50-meter, three-lane pool near Hilton Head and Savannah is perhaps the most relaxing location on our list. (Helpful on that front: No kids allowed.) It’s a saltwater pool, which is believed to help with everything from asthma to inflammatory diseases, and supposedly can help induce sleep. Be sure to relax your muscles at the adjacent Jacuzzi.
3. BARR POOL AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, DALLAS
Photo Credit: Southern Methodist University
This isn’t the most famous pool in Texas — that would probably be Barton Springs, the naturally cold public pool (created by natural springs) open year-round in downtown Austin. This isn’t even the most famous pool in Dallas — that would be the one at The Joule Hotel, whose infamous clear bottom extends 8-feet past the edge of the building. But this is still a rare thing — an Olympic-caliber lap pool that’s fully open to the public.
4. BAY CLUB AT THE GATEWAY POOL, SAN FRANCISCO
Photo Credit: Bay Club
Looking for an outdoor pool in downtown SF? Join the club. Literally: the Bay Club, which runs this, billed as the only downtown aquatic center without a roof. It’s the lone exclusively members-only pool on this list, but it’s here for its impossibly convenient location — it’s close to plenty of amenities (including tennis courts) and the Ferry Building, with an unrivaled view of the Bay Bridge. Also convenient: It’s heated.
5. THE ANNENBERG COMMUNITY BEACH HOUSE, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA
Photo Credit: Annenberg Beach House
Rare is the public pool that also hosts art exhibits. This is that pool. It was originally part of an estate owned by Marion Davies, a gift from William Randolph Hearst, her lover (and inspiration for “Citizen Kane”). It opened to the public eight years ago, and is home to a boisterous pool scene just footsteps from the beach. Pro tip: Stay for the nightly sunset swims, which are adult only.
6. MANHATTAN PLAZA HEALTH CLUB, NYC
Photo Credit: Manhattan Plaza Health Club
This is the other members-only pool on this list, though it offers day passes on weekdays. New Yorkers know a pool like this is a rarity in the Big Apple: It’s 75-feet long with a retractable roof and a Hell’s Kitchen location that’s accessible for nearly everyone (so long as the subway’s actually, you know, working). FYI: It also offers scuba lessons, if you’re looking to expand your aquatic repertoire.
7. JOHN C. ARGUE SWIM STADIUM, LOS ANGELES
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks
Another mind-blowing public pool in Southern California: The pool from the 1932 Summer Olympics is available for use. (Including John Williams’ Olympic fanfare on your swimming mix is pretty much a must.) The Expo Park location is family friendly, but note: Afternoons are reserved for recreation, not laps.
8. OMNI GROVE PARK INN, ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Photo Credit: Omni Hotel
This massive resort is nestled under the Blue Ridge Mountains and contains an 18-hole golf course, a 55,000-square-foot sports complex and a historic on-site hotel. But you’re ignoring all of that for the stunning underground lap pool, which eschews chlorine (it’s supposedly safer that way) and includes underwater music (to keep you in beast mode).
9. INDIAN SPRINGS, CALISTOGA, CALIFORNIA
Photo Credit: Indian Springs
To keep in shape for the long days and nights of wine ahead, consider staying at Indian Springs. It’s home to a century-old mineral water pool, fed by onsite geysers. (In case that’s not special enough, the pool’s also one of the biggest in the Golden State.) Those looking for a less intense experience can head to the appropriately named Adult Pool nearby. In either case, you can enjoy poolside drinks and even ice cream. (Waiting an hour is entirely up to you.)
10. CHELSEA PIERS, NYC
Photo Credit: Chelsea Piers
This indoor six-laner feels generous by Manhattan standards, but what will really catch your eye is what’s outside: a stunning view of the Hudson. A day pass runs $60, and includes access to all of Chelsea Piers’ facilities, including the track, basketball courts and the rock wall, which is open year-round. Hit the adjacent whirlpool, then head to the sundeck, where you can watch the sunset as your muscles cool down. We can’t promise it’ll help your recovery, but it can’t hurt, right?
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Daylight Management Opens the Window to Comfort and Energy Efficiency
February 17, 2017 NEMA Communications Comments 0 Comment
This piece was originally published in the February 2017 issue of electroindustry.
Konstantinos Papamichael, PhD, Professor, Department of Design and Co-Director, California Lighting Technology Center, University of California, Davis
The CLTC Daylight Harvesting Optimization laboratory, showing the interior façade, the installation of the electrochromic glazings and the openable window with the roll-down shade, the venting skylight with the solar shade, and the HVAC system. The vertical façade and the skylight are illuminated with controllable electric lighting that is used to simulate daylight changes, such as sunrises, sunsets, partly cloudy skies, and uneven distribution of daylight caused by outdoor obstructions. Photo courtesy of the CLTC
Daylight management is an emerging term referring to strategies and technologies for controlling daylight penetration in interior spaces through windows, clerestories, skylights, tubular daylighting devices, and building core sun-lighting systems to maximize daylight benefits. This article presents key performance aspects affected by daylight penetration in interior spaces, along with strategies and technologies used to effectively manage its dispersion to address the daily and seasonal changes in outdoor and indoor conditions.
Daylight Benefits
The daily and seasonal variation of solar radiation has shaped life on earth over millions of years. Our vision and circadian rhythms have been shaped by the variations of the spectral power distribution and intensity of daylight. As we increasingly spend more time indoors during daytime, it is important to bring daylight indoors to satisfy significant psychological and biological needs.
The most important psychological benefit of daylight penetration in interior spaces is the information it provides about outdoor conditions, such as the time of the day, weather conditions, and the state of our surrounding world. Windows provide the most informative view and thus the greatest psychological benefits. Clerestories and skylights also provide some connection to the outdoors, especially when they provide view of the sky. Tubular daylighting devices and building core sun-lighting systems, which are designed to transfer daylight and sunlight deep into building core spaces, do not provide view but still provide some information about time of day and weather conditions.
The most important biological benefits of daylight penetration in interior spaces are related to vision and circadian rhythms. Daylight is an excellent source of illumination for visual activities and has been a common standard for the evaluation of color rendering fidelity of electric lighting sources. The circadian benefits were discovered about fifteen years ago, through the realization of the function of certain ganglion cells in the retina, referred to as ipRGCs (intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells). With peak sensitivity in the blue part of the visible spectrum, ipRGCs send messages to our brains that adjust our biological clock to maintain healthy circadian rhythms, i.e., excretion of hormones that strongly affect our sleep-wake patterns, body temperature, metabolic activity, alertness, etc., all of which are critical for health and wellbeing.
A third important benefit of daylight is its potential contribution to sustainability through energy efficiency. Using daylight to satisfy interior illumination needs reduces electric lighting loads. The term “daylight harvesting” initially referred to the practice of saving electric lighting energy in commercial spaces by adjusting the output of electric lighting systems based on interior daylight levels. Various strategies and technologies have emerged over the past several decades, continually improving reliability in determining interior daylight levels through use of photo sensors. Moreover, controlling electric lighting through switching and dimming has now been mostly resolved with solid-state lighting. Traditionally, daylight management at the window level is provided mostly for luminous comfort, view and privacy, through use of window attachments such as Venetian blinds, vertical louvers, roll down shades, and screens, controlled manually by occupants.
Daylight Challenges & Opportunities
While daylight offers significant benefits, it can also produce uncomfortable conditions. Direct solar exposure can produce discomfort through glare and heat, especially during the cooling season. Unless the sun paths to the window are blocked by external obstructions, such as trees or other buildings, most window orientations require some form of static or dynamic glazing or window attachment to control direct solar penetration.
Space occupants are very good in manually operating dynamic daylighting systems for view, privacy, and glare. However, most fall short in operating for energy efficiency, as studies have shown that most people respond to nuisances, especially from direct solar penetration, but not to opportunities, such as reducing energy requirements. Moreover, operation of dynamic Operation of dynamic daylighting systems for energy efficiency is also required when there are no occupants in the space. Manually adjusted systems are often left in “shading” mode, resulting in reduced interior daylight levels and missed opportunities to save electric lighting energy. The benefits of daylight harvesting can only be realized through automated operation of dynamic daylighting systems and prioritizing among multiple performance aspects, such as comfort and energy efficiency.
Automated performance of dynamic glazings and window attachments can maximize opportunities to reduce electric lighting based on available daylight, while eliminating or reducing glare from direct solar penetration. Moreover, automatic operation can expand energy savings beyond electric lighting, by operating the dynamic daylighting systems in ways that reduce HVAC loads for heating, cooling, and ventilation, especially when spaces are vacant.
Some static daylighting systems can satisfy specific performance aspects for specific applications, such as preventing glare from direct sun penetration by blocking targeted directions of incoming solar radiation or dramatically reducing daylight penetration through use of low-transmittance glazings, which supports view but eliminates most other daylight benefits. While such static systems certainly manage daylight penetration, daylight management refers mostly to automated operation of dynamic daylighting systems, aiming at optimizing multiple performance aspects under varying indoor and outdoor conditions.
Strategies & Technologies
Today’s glazing and window attachment strategies and technologies offer a wide range of options for balancing the often-competing performance aspects affected by daylighting.
One of the most promising strategies for addressing competing needs for comfort and illumination is to split windows horizontally into two sections, which are treated differently in terms of glazing and window attachments. The lower section, e.g., below 7 feet, is focused on view (view window), and the upper section, e.g., above 7 feet, is focused on providing daylight for illumination purposes (daylight window).
Daylight management through automated operation of dynamic glazings and window attachments requires process controllers that continuously receive and process input about outdoor and indoor conditions and send commands to actuators that adjust the dynamic window components for visible and solar transmittance to maximize multiple performance aspects, such as comfort and energy efficiency.
Many high-performance buildings use automated daylighting systems, often implemented as double facades for buildings with curtain walls, with excellent performance in terms of providing comfort and energy savings, extending beyond direct daylight benefits to include natural cooling and ventilation. This practice, however, is not spread in ordinary buildings, mainly due to economic constraints. The technologies to implement the required integrated automation are available today and as the cost of related processors, sensors, and communications decreases, it is a matter of time before automated daylight management becomes common practice.
Daylight Management R&D
Most of today’s R&D efforts in daylight management are focused strategies and technologies to improve on three main challenges:
Reliability of sensing indoor and outdoor conditions (e.g., occupancy and light levels)
Algorithms that process outdoor and indoor conditions to determine the desired state of dynamic daylighting systems
Integration of automatic operation with manual operation by occupants, which is most important for acceptance of automated operation
The California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) has developed a unique experimental laboratory that includes an internal vertical facade and one skylight, both illuminated by electric lighting that simulates daylight changes, such as sunrises, sunsets, partly cloudy skies, and facades of the same space that are partially blocked by external obstructions, resulting in uneven distribution of indoor daylight levels. The CLTC laboratory also includes dimmable light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, a dedicated HVAC system, and sensors for occupancy, indoor, and outdoor light levels. Current work is focused on the development of control algorithms to automatically operate the electric lighting and HVAC along with several dynamic daylighting systems, including an operable venting skylight with operable solar shade, a window with two electrochromic panels that can be operated separately, and an openable window with an operable perforated shade.
The development of the integrated control algorithms is based on a simple control strategy that shifts priorities between comfort and energy efficiency based on occupancy. When the space is occupied, all systems (daylighting, electric lighting, and HVAC) are adjusted for comfort. When the space is unoccupied, all systems are adjusted for energy efficiency. Daylight management is based on occupancy, the state of the electric lighting and HVAC systems, and the potential for daylight glare, determined through photo sensors measuring incident radiation on the facade and the skylight.
During vacancy, the electric lighting is off, and the daylighting system is adjusted to either minimize solar heat gain during cooling periods or maximize solar heat gain during heating periods. During occupancy, the daylighting system is adjusted based on the state of the electric lighting and the potential for daylight glare. Daylight penetration is increased if there is no potential for glare, until the electric lighting is reduced to a minimum or turned off. Daylight penetration is then adjusted based on the status of the HVAC system and the potential for glare. If the HVAC system is in cooling mode, then the daylighting system is adjusted to maintain the same interior light levels at which the electric lighting reached its minimum or was turned off. If the HVAC system is in heating mode, then the daylighting penetration is increased if there is no potential for glare.
Automated daylight management is key to realizing daylight benefits by maximizing comfort and energy efficiency. Today’s commercial technologies can certainly meet the needs of the required integration of daylighting, electric lighting, and HAVC controls, which can be brought together through appropriate communications and control algorithms. The ultimate vision for the future is the development of smart luminaires, windows, and skylights, which carry their own sensors to sense various environmental conditions—such as occupancy, light levels, temperature, and humidity—and communicate with each other and the electric lighting and HVAC systems for effective individual operation.
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The microbial world has responded to this large and wide distribution of tetracyclines by developing resistance, which is now notably limiting their clinical efficiency. Many pathogenic and commensal bacteria are now tetracycline resistant through harboring tet resistance genes, of which now more than 30 dif- ferent types have been identified and characterized. They have been shown to have their origin in tetracycline-producing Strep- tomyces species, where they can be regarded as protection against the antibiotics they produce themselves. The very fast spread of the tet genes into and between pathogenic bacteria is a reflec- tion of the efficiency of those genetic mechanisms that allow the horizontal spread of genes among bacteria. 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Squamous Cell Carcinoma The patient described in Case 2 exhibits several manifestations of sig- nificant sun damage to the skin purchase genuine tadacip online erectile dysfunction in young males causes, including solar lentigo (tan macules) 20mg tadacip erectile dysfunction drugs over the counter canada, deep wrinkling cheap 20 mg tadacip mastercard impotence sentence examples, and actinic keratosis (scaly patches and plaques). The physician should monitor this patient closely and consider treatment of extensive actinic keratoses with topical fluorouracil, cryosurgery, electrodesicca- 30. Biopsy should be performed if actinic lesions exhibit suspicious changes, including increasing erythema or induration, enlargement, ulceration, or bleed- ing. Similarly at high risk of recurrence and metastasis are lesions of mucous membranes, nose, scalp, fore- head, and eyelid. Other risk factors include toxic exposure to arsenic, nitrates, or hydrocarbons, as well as immunosuppression, particularly in organ transplant patients. The physician should perform a thorough history of potential predisposing conditions, including sun or other radiation exposure, exposure to carcinogens, immunosuppression, and family and personal history of skin cancer. Patients with a positive skin cancer history or extensive actinic skin damage should undergo regular screening examinations for new or changing lesions. Physical examination of the patient in Case 2 should include exam- ination of the entire skin surface and palpation of regional nodal basins surrounding questionable lesions. Given this patient’s history of sun exposure and evidence of extensive sun damage and because of the suspicious size and characteristics of the presenting lesion, a full-thickness biopsy is warranted. Radiologic and laboratory tests are not indicated unless there are symptoms of or reason to suspect metastasis. Treatment of this patient’s low-risk lesion would involve surgical resection with 4-mm margins, with frozen section to confirm clear margins. Indications may include inoperable tumors, large lesions in cosmetically sensitive areas, or patient con- traindications to surgery. Nevi (Moles) Many patients present for evaluation of nevi (melanocytic nevocellu- lar nevi or moles). Moles are extremely common in all races, and it is not uncommon to find several dozen on a single individual. While most such lesions are entirely benign, the incidence of and mortality from malignant melanoma has increased markedly over recent years, bring- ing to the forefront the importance of the physician’s ability to recog- nize suspicious lesions. These tan to light brown, small macules with irregular borders are lesions of the basal and upper dermis that result from increased melanin produc- tion by nonneoplastic melanocytes. The common nevi seen in the patient presented in Case 3 are made up of benign neoplastic melanocytes, called nevus cells, and are clas- sified according to the site of nevocellular proliferation. They are typ- ically small, well-circumscribed macules or papules that, with the exception of the dermal nevus described below, regress spontaneously 30. History of childhood sunburn may increase the likelihood of developing a greater number of nevi, and those with numerous nevi (more than 40) have a greater likelihood of developing melanoma and should be monitored closely. All three of the common benign nevus types are represented among the many lesions of this patient. In junctional nevi, nevus cells are clus- tered at the dermal–epidermal junction above the basement membrane. These are dark brown to black, macular to slightly raised lesions that appear in young children after age 2. Compound nevi are composed of nevus cells both at the dermal–epidermal junction and within the dermis. They also are brown to black in color, are usually slightly raised, and are frequently hairy, with sharply defined but often irregular borders and smooth to slightly papillary surfaces. A compound nevus sur- rounded by an area of hypopigmentation is called a halo nevus. Intra- dermal nevi are made up of nevus cells primarily occupying the dermis, sometimes extending into subcutaneous fat. These are flesh- colored to brown, raised, fleshy papules that distort normal skin anatomy, with hairs and dark flecks sometimes present on the surface. Malignant transformation of any of these nevi is rare when they are small in size (<6mm), stable in appearance over time, and lacking suspicious characteristics, including ulceration, bleeding, or pruritis. No intervention is indicated for this patient’s lesions at this time, although she should be instructed to monitor their appearance and to follow up with her physician for periodic screening exams. Atypical and Dysplastic Nevi Case 4 describes a specific lesion on the same young woman as in Case 3. Unlike the many pigmented lesions on her arms and trunk that easily are classified as benign, this particular lesion should come to the physi- cian’s attention because of its size and irregular shape and surface texture. This lesion is termed atypical on the basis of its gross clinical characteristics. While often referred to as dys- plastic nevi, atypical nevi may or may not demonstrate histologic dysplasia. A single atypical nevus can be found in 5% of whites in the United States, and, in the absence of family history of melanoma, this finding is associated with a 6% lifetime risk of developing melanoma. In persons with one or more atypical nevi and a strong family history, the risk of developing melanoma may be as high as 80%. In these persons, the atypical nevus itself may undergo malignant transforma- tion, or disease may develop de novo elsewhere; hence, annual skin screening exams by a physician strongly are recommended. In all patients with a single atypical nevus or nevi, education regarding melanoma risk and self-examination is essential. Intermittent but intense exposure to sunlight Blistering sunburns in childhood Tendency to sunburn rather than tan Living in sunny climates close to the equator Positive family history of melanoma Positive personal history of melanoma or other skin cancer History of atypical nevi Recent changes in mole(s) are associated with increased risk of developing melanoma, full- thickness biopsy of this patient’s lesion should be performed. Melanoma The lesion of the patient described in Case 5 is worrisome for several reasons. He has a significant history of sun exposure and sunburn, which is a strong risk factor in fair-complexioned individuals. Inter- mittent but intense sunlight exposure in particular appears to increase risk. Additionally, melanoma in a first-degree relative, in this case his father, increases risk by at least eight times. The patient also reports a recent history of rapid change in the size and texture of the lesion, which should alert the physician to the likelihood of a malignant process. Other suspicious changes not seen in this patient include changes in color, ulceration, bleeding, or pruritis. Given the high like- lihood of malignant melanoma in this patient, one also should ques- tion him about recent weight loss or other constitutional symptoms that may be indicative of metastatic disease. On exam, this patient’s lesion possesses many characteristics typical of malignant melanoma, including heterogeneous color and nodular- ity and relatively large (1. A: Asymmetry B: Border irregularity C: Color variation or variegation D: Diameter greater than 6mm E: Elevated area or palpable nodule within a formerly flat lesion Also: ulceration, inflammation, bleeding, satellite nodules, local lymphadenopathy 30. Nonetheless, not all melanomas are clinically obvious, as different histologic types present very differently. Amelanotic melanoma, for instance, is a dangerous, albeit rare entity, because of its tendency to go unrecognized, and hence, it tends to be diagnosed at a later stage when therapy becomes more problematic.
Indeed buy discount tadacip 20 mg online erectile dysfunction diabetes, many interviewees generic tadacip 20mg amex doctor who treats erectile dysfunction, like Gary buy cheap tadacip on line erectile dysfunction treatment injection, who reported having gained awareness of the need for medication in order to decrease the risk of relapse, became proponents of adherence and encouraged it amongst other consumers. Such interviewees often referred back to negative experiences of going off medication to support their arguments. Interviewees’ typical responses to this realization can be categorized as acceptance and/or frustration. Acceptance responses were typically positively framed and extracts in this category often involved normalization of maintenance medication programs by comparisons with maintenance programs that members of the mentally-healthy population are prescribed for physical conditions. Acceptance was commonly framed by interviewees as an essential pre-cursor to adherence, especially long-term adherence. Frustration responses typically involved interviewees complaining, or reporting past complaints, about having to constantly take and monitor their medication. Acceptance and frustration responses to the realization that medication adherence is a lifelong were not mutually exclusive. Interviewees frequently reported experiencing acceptance punctuated by frustration and vice versa, both exercising separate influences on adherence. The following extract represents a clear example of an acceptance response: Ruth, 31/07/2008 L: What about you Ruth, how has it impacted on your life? I do have to take them or else you know…get unwell, so…looks like I’ll have to take them for the rest of my life. L: And how does that feel, knowing that you might have to take something for the rest of your life? When asked about how she feels about having to take medication for the rest of her life, Ruth responds that medication is preferable to relapsing, thus adopting a “lesser of two evils” discourse. It could therefore be argued that consumers’ awareness of having a chronic illness which requires lifelong medication therefore does not necessarily equate to positive perceptions of medication. More commonly, medication adherence was framed by interviewees who expressed acceptance as necessary, albeit unpleasant. The following extract is in the context of a consumer who has experienced past difficulties with non-adherence. Below, Thomas describes how he feels about his illness and medication at present: Thomas, 19/2/09 T: I understand my illness now more than I used to. Although not explicitly an acceptance response, Thomas indicates that over the years, he has gained insight and understanding into his illness, himself and the “need” for taking medication. He does not explain how he gained understanding into his illness, himself and his medication. Nonetheless, he directly links enhanced understanding or insight, particularly in relation to the “need” for medication to his adherence (“so I take it”). The following extracts compare chronic schizophrenia to physical 103 conditions, both chronic and temporary, in order to normalize having to take medication on a regular basis for an extended period of time: Ryan, 26/09/2008 R: Uh, how do I feel about it? I realise that um, I’ve got a condition like any other health condition that needs to take medication to um, control the symptoms and treat the illness, so I do…But see, I’ve realised uh, I mean it’s like a lifeline, it’s like someone with diabetes has to take their medication. So I just look at it the same way as anyone else that has a, um, uh, health problem, just have to take them... Brodie, 21/08/2008 B: Um, yeah, it’s just like taking a Panadol or something, if you’ve got headache. In the first extract, schizophrenia is directly constructed as the same as “any other health condition” that requires medical treatment and is later likened to a chronic physical health condition, “diabetes”. The comparison between schizophrenia and diabetes facilitates Ryan’s construction of antipsychotic medication as “like a lifeline” and, therefore, necessary in schizophrenia management. In the next extract, Brodie could be seen to minimize medication adherence amongst people with schizophrenia, when he initially likens taking antipsychotic medication to taking pain killers consumed to treat a headache. He acknowledges, however, that he is required to take antipsychotic medication regularly and for an extended period of time (“I think I have to take them for the rest of my life”), thus, 104 departing from similarities to pain killers used to treat a headache. The interviewees’ normalization of requiring medication on a lifelong basis could be seen to reflect acceptance of their illness, the necessity of ongoing medication to treat the illness and a degree of integration of the illness and medication into their lives. Indeed, Brodie evaluates taking antipsychotic medication on a nightly basis neutrally (“you’ve gotta take it every night of the week, which is ok”). The following extract reflects a consumer’s significant insight, not just relating to the nature of schizophrenia and the need for medical treatment but to how the medication works and how the schedule can be tailored to specific circumstances. Travis is talking about how he is presently lowering his dosage of medication in collaboration with his prescriber: Travis, 19/02/2009 T: Yeah, yeah I’m just slowly doing it, you know but um, you know, I’m very in touch now with where I am. In the above extract, Travis states that he has the self-awareness to recognize in vivo when his illness symptoms are worsening (“I’m very in touch now with where I am. He reports an appropriate response to perceived fluctuations in symptoms, involving contacting his doctor to discuss whether his medication schedule should be tailored to his situation, enabling early intervention. The extract reflects a complex understanding of the mechanism of medication, as well as early warning signs for relapse and 105 Travis’ initiation of an intervention response. It almost goes beyond acceptance or awareness of the need for lifelong medication and towards integration into everyday life and an attempt to gain the most from the medication schedule. This level of insight, current insight in particular (as opposed to retrospective), was uncommon amongst interviewees. The following extract is also from the interview with Travis and, again, reflects insight beyond an awareness of the need for lifelong medication to treat schizophrenia. The extract is in the context of Travis talking about what he thinks is the best approach to lowering medication dosages. Travis, 19/02/2009 T: Well you know, I’m not a doctor but I think that the best way to do it is to slowly reduce it and feel where you’re at, you know. If you start feeling a bit panicky, just stop it there for a while and let it set in a bit and then, I’m feeling alright now. Like with me, I just lowered my tablets, 50mg, it took me about two months just to get my panicking down, you know, so it’s a lot easier for me because I’m experiencing this and I know what’s going on but if you’re someone who’s just become ill, or even two years of being ill, you know, these things are hard to accept and that can very easily make you get annoyed and just go off the rails and chuck it altogether. Travis states that when he first had his medication dosage decreased, his symptoms, particularly anxiety, became worse and it took him two months to adapt to the lower dosage and stabilise. Travis indicates that whilst he was able to deal with the instability for two months, other consumers, especially those who are newly diagnosed or have not been ill for 106 long, may find such experiences “hard to accept” and become “annoyed”. Travis suggests that a frustrated response to setbacks, such as symptom fluctuations in response to lowering medication dosages, could potentially influence consumers to become non-adherent (“chuck it altogether”) and “go off the rails”. Travis’ personal account seems to reflect not only an acceptance of having a mental illness which requires ongoing medication, but also an acceptance of the limitations of medication. There is perhaps scope for service providers to have a role in communicating the limitations of medication to consumers upon diagnosis, such as that it may not work immediately, it may not eliminate symptoms altogether, it is not a cure and it may cause side effects. Such communication could be useful to consumers so that their expectations of medication are not too high, thus, they may be less prone to feeling let down by their medication and resigning to non- adherence. The following extracts represent frustration responses to the realization that medication is required for the rest of consumers’ lives to treat chronic illness. In the previous extract, Travis spoke about how perceptions of medication as being ineffective or as taking a long time to work can lead to non-adherence. The below extract represents a first-hand account of the experience of frustration, more specifically in relation to having to take a significant amount of medication over an extended period of time, and the impact this has on adherence. Ever since, ever since ever since I 107 was a child I always had to take medication for different problems I’ve had. Um, when I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 16, over the years the medications I’ve taken an’ that, it’s just, you just get sick and tired of taking them…Um, but that time I just got just got sick of taking the medications all the time, you know?
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British surgeon and gynaecologist Colorectal symposium Florida, February () Shock is more a part of the phenomena caused by injury, whether surgical or otherwise, than a Antoine B. Churchill, London () One rarely records pulmonary tuberculosis in people who during their childhood had Nelson Mandela – been attacked by the disease and in whom the lesions have healed before the age of Freedom fighter and President of South Africa fifteen years. The doctors and nurses treated me in a natural Marfan’s Law of acquired immunity in tuberculosis. The Parthenon () reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was Observe methodically and vigorously without the enemy of prejudice. These were men and neglecting any exploratory procedure using all women of science, and science had no room for that can be provided by physical examination, racism. Little, Brown and Co, experiment, one must compare the facts observed London () during life and the lesions revealed by autopsy. Nurses, therefore, are in a unique position to bring spiritual aid to their John Marston – patients and to the patients’ families. The Soul of a Surgeon Exposition of the Various Methods of Examination Used in To do all this to be all this, the Master Surgeon Medicine. A Manual of Pathology () must be a man of mind, a man of thought, a man who knows his province, the human body, as a whole and not only one of its parts. Marx – Surgical Papers German physician and medical historian and scholar Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. Henry Maudsley – Quoted in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine English mental pathologist : () To despise the little things of functional disorder is Physicians see many ‘diseases’ which have no to fall by little and little into organic disease. Attributed Quoted in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine As no one can have perfect knowledge of all parts : () of medicine a simplicity of nomenclature would For thousands of years, medicine has united the seem not merely desirable but essential. To depreciate its treasures is to discount all human endeavour and achievement as naught. Somerset Maughan – Quoted in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine British writer and doctor : () When you have loved as she has loved you grow The education of most people ends upon old beautifully. Quoted in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine People ask you for criticism, but they only want : () praise. Her thin lips were pale, outdated, is alcohol, when administered in and her skin was delicate, of a faint green colour, moderation. It possesses the distinct advantage of with out a touch of red even in the cheeks. There was neither good nor Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation bad there. Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation : The Moon and Sixpence Ch. Their heart’s in the right place, but their and happiness is an essential to good head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. The Summing Up Journal of the American Dental Association : () Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. The trained nurse has given nursing the human, Attributed or shall we say, the divine touch, and made the hospital desirable for patients with serious ailments regardless of their home advantages. Andre Maurois – Lancet : () French writer While there are several chronic diseases more Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has destructive to life than cancer, none is more no time to form. The Aging American Annals of Surgery : () Yet had Fleming not possessed immense knowledge and an unremitting gift of observation There are two objects of medical education: To he might not have observed the effect of the heal the sick, and to advance the science. Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation : () Life of Alexander Fleming I knew a man who had been virtually drowned The scientist is not content to stop at the and then revived. Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation : () Attributed I have never known a man who died from Gavin Maxwell – overwork, but many who died from doubt. British writer and naturalist Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations Then it came again, thunderous, earthshaking, The safest thing for a patient is to be in the hands the longest, loudest and most superbly of a man engaged in teaching medicine. In order stupendous fart that I have ever heard in to be a teacher of medicine the doctor must my life, a sound of such magnificent and always be a student. Longmans, Harlow () Medicine is a profession for social service and it developed organisation in response to social Tom G. 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Daedalus : () The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate So much of the diagnostic process is now done the need of a physician. Cannon) The surgeon is often intolerant and the internist Sir Peter Medawar – self sufficient. British scientist and Nobel laureate Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics : () Science without the underpinning of hypotheses The glory of medicine is that it is constantly is just kitchen arts. He does not realise that, instead of conceiving National Education Association: Addresses and Proceedings : () him, his parents might have conceived any one of a hundred thousand other children, all unlike Truth is a constant variable. Medieval maxim Annals of Surgery : () In the presence of the patient, Latin is the The church and the law deal with the yesterdays language. An expert is someone who is more than fifty miles Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation from home, has no responsibility for implementing : () the advice he gives, and shows slides. I think all of us who have worked years in the Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations p. Penguin Books, London () profession understand that many very skilful operators are not good surgeons. Quoted in The Doctors Mayo (Helen Clapesattle) Attributed · Giles Ménage – C. British comedian and writer Dis Exapaton Contraceptives should be used on every H. PrejudicesTypes of Men Attributed George Meredith – But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and English novelist and poet excessive, overturns all patience. Attributed In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, Ilya Metchnikoff – salt to remove salt humours. Russian biologist Samson Agonistes Preface Already it is complained that the burden of The fever is to the physicians, the eternal supporting old people is too heavy, and statesmen reproach. Chalmers Mitchell) ‘Minerva’ Contemporary British medical columnist Alan Milburn – British Secretary of State for Health ‒ A good physician appreciates the difference between postponing death and prolonging the act Medicine is not a perfect science.
Weight-normalized piperacillin clearance versus serum creatinine (A) and body weight (B) order tadacip overnight delivery erectile dysfunction depression treatment. One proposed method is the use of scavenged samples left over from the normal clinical care of infants purchase generic tadacip online impotence risk factors. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of adults with serious infections caused by susceptible anaerobic bacteria but is not approved for use in children buy 20mg tadacip fast delivery best male erectile dysfunction pills over the counter. In spite of this, metronidazole is extensively used “off-label” in 2 children to treat anaerobic intra-abdominal infections (i. In young infants, its use is typically restricted to treatment of rare cases of anaerobic bacteremia, central nervous system infections, and complicated intra-abdominal infections 3,4 such as necrotizing enterocolitis. Because infection in young infants with very low birth weight (<1500 g birth weight) is associated with devastating outcomes including death and neurodevelopmental impairment, appropriate dosing recommendations for agents such as metronidazole are needed in this population. These recommendations are derived from small, single-center studies and have not been prospectively evaluated. In addition, these dosing regimens are cumbersome due to the different combinations of maturation components required to choose the most appropriate dose. Metronidazole dosing was determined by the routine clinical practice in each unit, and no exclusion criteria were used. The study was approved by the institutional review boards at each institution, and informed consent was obtained from a parent or guardian prior to enrollment. Missing weights were imputed with the last recorded value carried forward for up to 7 days. Scavenged samples were defined as samples obtained 66 without obtaining additional blood from the infant. Blood draw samples were defined as samples obtained with collection of extra blood from the infant. The duration of metronidazole infusion was performed according to site routine clinical care. Samples were refrigerated or placed on ice immediately after collection and then centrifuged at 1500 g and o 4 C for 10 minutes. Samples from all sites were shipped on dry ice to Duke University Medical Center where they were stored at -70° C prior to analysis. The first-order conditional estimation method with interaction was used for all model runs. Once covariates were identified during the model- 68 building process, covariate testing was performed via standard forward addition backward elimination methods. A forward inclusion with backwards elimination approach was used during the multivariable step, and a reduction of 6. Model evaluation Models were evaluated based on successful minimization, goodness-of-fit plots, precision of parameter estimates, bootstrap procedures, and visual predictive check. For the visual predictive check, the final model was used to generate 1000 Monte Carlo simulation replicates of metronidazole exposure, and simulated results were compared with those observed in the study. The number of observed concentrations outside the 90% prediction interval for each time point was quantified. Metronidazole trough concentrations at steady state were predicted for each subject using individual empirical Bayesian estimates from the final model and dosing prescribed in the study per routine medical care. When a dosing range was recommended, the highest end of the range was chosen for the simulations. One subject was excluded from the analysis because sampling was obtained during drug infusion and no other samples were collected. The exclusion of these subjects and samples resulted in 32 subjects from 5 sites with 116 concentrations used in the modeling process. Because few samples were obtained within the first few hours post dose, inter- compartmental clearance was not estimated and a 2-compartment model did not provide a better fit to the data. The visual predictive check revealed a good fit between observed and predicted metronidazole concentrations (Fig. Only 7% (8/116) of observed concentrations were outside of the 90% prediction interval. Without appropriate studies specifically designed for preterm infants, clinicians are often forced to prescribe products “off-label,” exposing patients to potential adverse drug effects or less-than-optimal drug exposure without dosing 14,15 evidence. These data suggest that safety should not be different between the new dosing regimen and current clinical practice, but further prospective studies are warranted to verify this finding. This finding may be due to higher doses (more frequent administration) prescribed per routine medical care when compared with published regimens and suggests that prescribing 5,6 practices in the neonatal intensive care unit are not driven by these sources. In adults, metronidazole undergoes extensive hepatic metabolism with subsequent 16 17 renal elimination ; the elimination half-life is 8 hours, 20% is protein-bound, and the 17 apparent V ranges between 0. The bias introduced by scavenged sampling was quantified in this study and resulted in an underestimation of metronidazole concentrations by ~30%. To more precisely estimate the amount of bias introduced by scavenged samples, a higher number of timed samples should be obtained. This finding could be due to higher documentation errors associated with sampling or dosing times extracted from the medical record after a scavenged sample was collected. Future efforts evaluating this methodology should consider the physicochemical properties of the drug (i. Individualised dosing of amikacin in neonates: a pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic analysis. Population pharmacokinetics of meropenem in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of infants with suspected or complicated intra-abdominal infections. Development of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay of six antimicrobials in plasma for pharmacokinetic studies in premature infants. Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Anaerobic Bacteria; Approved Standard. Pediatric drug labeling: improving the safety and efficacy of pediatric therapies. Developmental pharmacokinetics of morphine and its metabolites in neonates, infants and young children. Metronidazole population pharmacokinetics in preterm neonates using dried blood-spot sampling. Simultaneous quantification of amoxycillin and metronidazole in plasma using high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detection. Clinical data by gestational age group Gestational age at birth Characteristic <26 weeks 26–29 weeks 30–32 weeks N 13 14 5 Gestational age, weeks 24 (22, 25) 28 (26, 29) 31 (30, 32) Postnatal age, days 29 (2, 71) 32 (2, 78) 29 (10, 73) Postmenstrual age, weeks 32 (24, 39) 32 (28, 43) 36 (32, 40) Weight, g 1410 (678, 2537) 1510 (850, 3611) 1658 (1230, 3850) Female sex 6 (46) 9 (64) 2 (40) White race 4 (31) 10 (71) 2 (40) Hispanic 1 (8) 2 (14) 0 (0) Serum creatinine (mg/dL) 0. Solid and dashed black lines represent observed and predicted median concentrations, respectively. Weight-normalized metronidazole clearance versus postmenstrual age (A) and serum creatinine (B). Shaded gray area represents the 90% prediction interval around the loading dose simulations. However, this approach underestimates the complicated physiology of preterm infants, which differs greatly from other populations. Preterm infants have a larger extracellular fluid volume, immature renal and hepatic function, underdevelopment of metabolic enzymatic systems, and a unique blood-brain barrier—all of 1 which can substantially alter drug disposition. Preparation of standards Individual clear stock solutions of piperacillin and tazobactam were prepared at a concentration of 15 mg/mL.
Addicted or depressed persons should take glu- tamine buy tadacip 20 mg lowest price erectile dysfunction mayo clinic, no less than 3 grams (3000 mg) a day tadacip 20 mg visa smoking and erectile dysfunction statistics. When we drink alcohol or put it on the skin (as in mouth- wash order genuine tadacip on-line erectile dysfunction nicotine, tinctures, medicine) or produce it by fermentation in the intestines (Candida produces alcohol) a substance, salsol, is formed. The amount is larger than normal because so many clogged cells are activated together. The solution to alcoholism is to avoid ergot contaminated food and avoid beryllium inhalation. Stopping the use of alcohol may save a life or career but does not correct the problem. Even after 30 years of abstinence, I still see the beryllium present in the addiction center and the salsol, derived no doubt from endoge- nous sources, still attached to the beryllium. If any member of the family is, or was, addicted to alcohol the house should be searched for beryllium sources. The garage door to the house should be permanently closed, and the car and lawnmower kept out of it. It is not normal for them to be in the brain, they typically travel between the stomach and lungs. Their excrement dries and flies about in the dust, but mostly it resides in the soil. The eggs hatch in the stomach and the tiny larvae, microscopic in size, travel first to the lungs. Children should be treated for Ascaris anyway, whether coughing or not, once a week. Such a requirement is termed obligatory anaerobic meaning “must have absence of air. Brain abscesses and brain tumors usually have Bacteroides fra- gilis growing there. Brain tumors will not shrink unless all the parasites, bacteria and viruses are dead. Perhaps it is the toxins of the Ascaris larvae or Bacteroides or Coxsackies that induces the seizures. But by killing Ascaris, Bacteroides and Coxsackies (zapper or frequency generator at 408, 325, 364, 362. Inflammations are intended to attract calcium so a wall can be built around the intruders. Inflammations are negatively charged regions so the positively charged calcium can find its way to the inflamed site. These are found in paint (persons with seizures should never be around fresh paint) but are also found in trace amounts in carbonated beverages. A person with seizures should drink no commercial beverages: see the Recipe section for homemade carbonated and other beverages. There are several other specific brain irritants that accumulate at the seizure center. After all, seizures are an ancient malady, existing long before chemicals and solvents were manufactured. Perhaps it is these “isomers”, perhaps it is the simple overdose of a natural thing that is brain-toxic. They are often put on the boxes of cereals, rather than the cereals themselves, so the cereals can be pronounced preservative-free. Imagine how much the box must be drenched with to prevent oxygen leakage into the interior? Chickens and the eggs they lay, have lots of malvin too, stop eating chicken and eggs. Here are foods relatively free of malvin: artichokes, aspara- gus, almonds, barley, beans of all kinds, green beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cantaloupe, celery, nectarines, citrus, dates, 14 mango, pears, kiwi, pineapple, Granny Smith apples. Eat no whole grain products; take niacinamide 500 mg three times a day to help the liver detoxify tiny bits in other foods. Kill Ascaris, Bacteroides and Coxsackie virus and stay on a maintenance program of killing them. Keep your fingers sanitary: spray them with 10% grain al- cohol or vodka after bathroom use. Even a year after your last seizure you should carry your medicine with you and have some in your house. It might only take two days from the time of accidental swallowing of animal filth, to having little larvae in the brain. She had been completely honest with her doctor, because she was that kind of trusting person. But the social worker had called her, talked about “the law” and being an unfit mother. She planned to move, and until then would filter all the drinking water so her breast milk would be free of it too. We recommended leaving the state in order to be able to peacefully raise her child. Clara Scruggs, 50ish was losing control over her seizures and had to be hospitalized while a new medicine was tried. She was started on the herbal parasite program but could only increase by one drop of Black Walnut Hull Tincture a week, instead of daily, since each new increase would give her a seizure. After each seizure, a checkup showed she had picked up Ascaris again sometimes with additional parasites. She could not bear to put her cat outside; Boots had been a friend in need many times. When she finally got Boots onto a regular parasite program she improved enough to go to church and church events again. She decided to do a liver cleanse—this, too, gave her two seizures the next day but paid big dividends in other ways. She eventually improved to an incidence of one small seizure (“spacey” time or incoherent speech) in two weeks. In six weeks he was down to one or two seizures per week, although he had not yet started the parasite program. When the pets and family were all treated for parasites he had no more breakthrough seizures and could cut his medicine in half which gave him much more energy. Shiresse Nobel, age 7, was having minimal seizures but the mother did not want to start her on medicine. Shiresse had high levels of mercury in her body, although she had no tooth fillings. The parents were very fastidious and extremely conscientious about diet and habits. He was started on parasite herbs at once, since he was on medication that would shield him from having another seizure while killing Ascaris.
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The big loss yesterday for Israel in the United Nations will make it much harder to negotiate peace.Too bad, but we will get it done anyway!
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GALICIA GUIDE | Flight to Galicia February 22, 2016
Galicia has 3 international airports and they are Santiago de Compostela airport, la Coruna airport and Vigo airport.
For details of flights from the UK, USA and Ireland, go to this 2012 flights to Galicia page.
The airline Iberia (bookable through Opodo) fly from London Heathrow to La Coruna.
Ryanair fly from Stansted and Liverpool to Santiago de Compostela. Clickair will fly from London to Vigo.
Flight options (from the UK)
You have two flight options if you want to get to Santiago de Compostela from Britain. The first is to fly direct. You can fly direct to Santiago from two UK airports, namely Liverpool and Stansted. You can fly direct to la Coruna from Heathrow and you can fly direct to Vigo from a London airport (this is a new service).
The second option is to take a connection. This will open up several additional airports with a first leg that will normally take you to either Madrid or Barcelona. These connections can be booked through a single operator and should not require you to arrange baggage transportation between connecting flights.
Flying Direct to Galicia from the UK
Three carriers now fly direct to Galicia and they are Iberia, Ryanairand Clickair. Ryanair fly to Santiago de Compostela from both Stansted and Liverpool, Iberia fly direct from London Heathrow to la Coruna and Clickair fly from London to Vigo.
Ryanair Flight scedules from the UK to Santaigo de Compostela
Ryanair flights from Liverpool to Santiago de Compostela airports re-comence from 3 April 2008 with 3 flights per week (on Saturady, Tuesday and Thursday). This service is currently being rested over winter as Ryanair add some alternative winter sun routes. Prices can be as low as 1 penny for a one way ticket.
Stansted to Santaigo de Compostela - will see a reduced service over the winter months with flight schedules dropping from daily to 3 times per week. The daily flights will probably resume from spring or summer 2008 to the autumn (fall).
We have use Ryanair for 3 return flights this year and all have been cheap, early to arrive (on average over 30 minutes early) and the staff have been friendly. For our review of Ryan air, click this Ryan air link.
As a result, no doubt of Ryan Air's competition, Iberia have substantially reduced their direct fight charges and are now offering tickets on a similar price structure.
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Google Expands IT Training Offerings
UC Riverside Expands Online Engineering Degree Programs
By Rhea Kelly
Through a partnership with Pearson, the University of California at Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering is growing its online engineering degree programs, adding specializations in Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering (Power Systems), Environmental Engineering Systems (Water), Materials at the Nanoscale, and Mechanical Engineering.
Pearson will provide a range of services, including marketing, enrollment management, student support and retention services, and helpdesk services, allowing the university to "extend its award-winning program to working adults and other non-traditional students that may not have been able to attend an on-ground program in the past," according to a press release.
"We are pleased to collaborate with Pearson to offer these online programs that enable employed engineers and scientists to sharpen their engineering management skills and advance their technical training," said Dean Reza Abbaschian of UCR's Bourns College of Engineering, in a statement. "We believe the degree program will benefit them, their employers and our industrial community."
About the author: Rhea Kelly is executive editor for Campus Technology. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Smith, Kleinveldt shine with bat and ball
Rory Kleinveldt and Jason Smith struck with bat and ball as the World Sports Betting Cape Cobras fought back well during the second half of day one of their latest 4-Day Domestic Series assignment against the Warriors in Cape Town on Monday.
The pair shared a crucial 75-run stand that rescued the log leaders from a limp 132 for seven to post 239 all out at PPC Newlands.
The pair then nabbed a wicket apiece as the visitors were pegged back to 60 for three by stumps on a busy opening day.
It was a crucial display in both disciplines by the pair, with Smith the architect through his holding 74 (115 balls, 12 fours).
Before that the home side, who are seeking a victory that will take them even closer to the four-day title, wilted under the pressure of a strong bowling display by the Warriors.
The Eastern Cape side won the toss and three wickets apiece by Basheer Walters (3/51) and Glenton Stuurman (3/88) jolted the Cobras badly.
They were seven down by the 49th over with only David Bedingham (43) and Kyle Verreynne (31) making any significant impact.
It was then left to Smith and Kleinveldt, who blasted 42 off 44 balls, to provide some sort of meaningful total.
There were also two wickets from Simon Harmer (2/32) and Lutho Sipamla (2/57) as the Warriors completed a good day with the ball.
However, some of that work was undone when Lizaad Williams (1/21) and Kleinveldt (1/14) got rid of in-form openers Eddie Moore (10) and Gihahn Cloete (7) respectively, leaving the away side on 18 for two.
Smith (1/9) then got Yaseen Vallie (20) to dent the Warriors further, with Colin Ackermann (17) and Jon-Jon Smuts (5) taking their side to stumps – 179 runs behind.
January 14, 2019 /by David Brooke
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'Port Summer Nights' To Sizzle This Summer 29 June 2016
By: Alan Pollock
Topics: Harwich Port , Local Music , Entertainment , Tourism
Port Summer Nights kick off the summer of 2016 on Wednesday, July 6. FILE PHOTO
HARWICH PORT — Wednesday nights are going to be hopping in the 'Port this summer.
The Harwich Chamber of Commerce has announced the lineups for Port Summer Nights, the weekly celebrations of art, dining, music and shopping, which start next Wednesday, July 6.
“It looks great,” chamber Executive Director Jeremy Gingras said. “We've got eight weeks' of bands lined up and other activities.”
Each Wednesday night, live music will be performed up and down Route 28 in Harwich Port from 6 to 9 p.m. Visitors can stroll the village and soak up the tunes for free, stopping to shop and dine along the way.
“We have themes for each night, and the first night, July 6, is the 'Kick-off to Summer' theme,” he said. Performing upbeat summertime music will be High Attitude, Straight Jacket Slumber Party, African Drumma Queens, Good Question, the Ukeladies, and the Last Men on Earth.
Port Summer Nights is an outgrowth of the Harwich Port Musical Strolls held for years on alternate summer Wednesdays by the Harwich Port Merchants' Association. In March, leaders of the association announced the group was ceasing operations because of a lack of volunteers. It turned the musical strolls over to the chamber, which expanded them to a weekly event.
“It has definitely made Harwich Port what it is,” Gingras said of the signature summertime music series. After 16 years, “it's certainly come into its own.”
Continuing through Aug. 24, the event has various themes, from blues and country to “Get Your Groove On.”
“Our big one is going to be July 13, and that's 'Thank a Local Hero' night,” Gingras said. Among the special guests will be cyclists from “Big Nick's Ride for the Fallen,” a fundraising motorcycle ride that takes place later in the month.
“They'll be here on their motorcycles,” Gingras said.
The event isn't just about music, he added. In addition to offers by local merchants, there will be plenty of food offerings from local restaurants, the Pilgrim Congregational Church and a food truck.
“It's a great chance to hang out and have fun,” he said.
The weekly events can draw impressive crowds, but Gingras said parking shouldn't be in short supply. The town has connected its parking lot on Schoolhouse Lane with the lot behind the Cape Cod Five and TD Bank.
“That adds about 30 spaces to the municipal parking lot,” Gingras said. The new spaces are expected to be available for use by the end of this week, he added.
Port Summer Nights is organized by a committee of 10 or 11 volunteers which has been actively meeting since January. The daunting task of lining up acts for eight weekly events has gone well, Gingras said.
“It's been great.”
The event has its own Facebook page, which lists the acts scheduled for each week.
“It will also have updates for different activities,” Gingras said. In the past, visitors had the chance to throw a baseball and dunk the town administrator, the chairman of selectmen or the school superintendent. It was a hit.
“You can be sure the dunk tank will be back this year,” he said.
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“I LOVE THAT YOU CAN DESIGN AND WRITE !"
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Yellow Scene (YS) Magazine is a monthly regional magazine for Boulder and East County. It focuses on many local topics, from education to politics. YS makes ad revenue, but is devoted to never getting paid for journalism. The sales and editorial departments proudly remain completely separate, making YS a genuinely good read.
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Edited by: Lisa Chalykoff; Neta Gordon; Paul Lumsden
512 pages; 6" x 9"
Availability: Canada Only
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Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as poetry, short fiction, and drama. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an introductory headnote and by explanatory notes, and each genre is prefaced by a substantial introduction. Companion websites include genre-specific quizzes and discussion questions for students and instructors. Pedagogically current and uncommon in its breadth of representation, The Broadview Introduction to Literature invites students into the world of literary study in a truly distinctive way.
The second edition of The Broadview Anthology of Literature: Drama includes new plays by Daniel MacIvor, Gwen Pharis Ringwood, and Donna-Michelle St. Bernard.
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“The Broadview Introduction to Literature presents a judicious selection of literature from around the world and across the centuries. … The editors do not privilege one country, author, century, or genre over another. Rather, this anthology invites readers to consider markedly different … orientations to the study of literature and the multiple ways writers present complex ideas and human experience.” — Deborah Torkko, Vancouver Island University
“Of all the anthologies available for introducing university students to the study of literature, this one stands apart as particularly valuable, comprehensive, and engaging.” — Dana Medoro, University of Manitoba
“Informative, accessible, and far from dry, The Broadview Introduction to Literature encourages students to make the transition from literary appreciation to literary analysis and, equally importantly, to enjoy doing so. … The anthology strikes me as very well thought out, very well laid out, and very cognizant of the needs and interests of its intended audience. I look forward to using it with my classes.” — Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba
“The editors of The Broadview Introduction to Literature have thoughtfully compiled a varied selection of works that provide an impressive range of national, historical, and cultural perspectives. Their choices reflect a rapidly expanding literary canon, and at the same time respect the diverse composition of most first-year university classrooms. This collection combines frequently anthologized texts with refreshingly unusual additions.” — Heather Meek, Université de Montréal
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
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Krapp’s Last Tape
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Aust Mum Digs in Over Jay-Z Copyright Suit
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An Australian mother says she’ll fight US rapper Jay-Z’s copyright lawsuit because she thinks she should be able to use the Grammy-winner’s name and lyrics to sell children’s books.
Jessica Chiha and her business The Little Homie are being sued in the Federal Court by the US billionaire, legally named Shawn Carter, who accuses them of of knowingly infringing on his trademarks and misleading conduct.
“We are unbelievably disappointed to find ourselves caught in a legal battle with someone whose music we love and adore,” Ms Chiha said in a statement on Thursday.
She said The Little Homie was created so parents could connect with their children through something they love during the transition to parenthood and her “love of hip-hop and the artists I grew up listening to.”
The online retailer raised $8000 on Kickstarter to publish the “AB to Jay-Z” picture book, which refers to well-known rappers to teach the alphabet, and has since expanded to include a colouring book and clothing.
Other artists featured include The Notorious B.I.G., Pharrell Williams and Snoop Dogg.
The back of the book includes the quote “If you’re having alphabet problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but my ABCs ain’t one”.
Jay-Z’s song famously opened with “If you’re having girl problems, I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one.”
“To have someone like Jay-Z file legal proceedings is daunting beyond belief and hugely dispiriting,” Ms Chiha said.
“We maintain we have done nothing wrong and intend to give it everything we’ve got for common sense and common good to prevail, to the extent we can fight the fight.”
It’s that persistence to keep trading that has landed the company in court.
Documents filed earlier this month by the rapper’s Australian legal counsel note Mr Carter asked Ms Chiha to stop in March 2018 and again in July this year.
Letters were sent between lawyers until September.
“Unless restrained, the respondents threaten to and intend to and will continue to engage in the conduct referred to above,” the statement of claim reads.
The lawyers said the retailer and director deliberately and knowingly attempted to trade off the reputation of the rapper, who is married to singer Beyonce.
AAP understands the book came to Jay-Z’s attention after controversy broke over accusations of cultural appropriation and racism in 2017 when a customer asked if the company was black-owned.
Source: Shepparton News
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John Man
The definitive history of the Samurai, by acclaimed author of Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior
The inspiration for the Jedi knights of Star Wars and the films of Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese samurai have captured modern imaginations. Yet with these elite warriors who were bound by a code of honor called Bushido—the Way of the Warrior—the reality behind the myth proves more fascinating than any fiction. In Samurai, celebrated author John Man provides a unique and captivating look at their true history, told through the life of one man: Saigo Takamori, known to many as "the last samurai." In 1877 Takamori led a rebel army of samurai in a heroic "last stand" against the Imperial Japanese Army, who sought to end the "way of the sword" in favor of firearms and modern warfare. Man's thrilling narrative brings to life the hidden world of the samurai as never before.
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Home > Mobile Experience > Securing the future of mobile video
Securing the future of mobile video
By Akamai March 24, 2016 1:20 PM
By Lu Bolden, Vice President, Business Development, Verimatrix
The coming of age for mobile video and TV was perhaps one of the most tangible takeaways from the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) at Barcelona, amid some of the more futuristic demonstrations around say the Internet of Things and virtual reality.
But anyone drilling down into the detail would soon discover two significant hurdles still to be overcome before HD quality premium video becomes widely available for mobile users, whether they are accessing over Wi-Fi or cellular 3G/4G networks. The two challenges are broadly quality of service (QoS) and security, which turn out to be more closely related than might seem at first sight.
This connection between QoS and security is embodied in Akamai's Predictive Content Delivery (PCD) solutions, which were unveiled at MWC and address both these challenges. The fundamental motivation for PCD was that no matter what transmission, modulation and error correction technologies are employed, wireless data communications will always be subject to variations in signal strength, bandwidth, latency and therefore QoS.
Conditions for RF (radio frequency) transmission vary greatly within a cell or hot spot and users move about within them, so consistent QoS over the air is virtually impossible to guarantee. The ability to apply adaptive bit rate streaming (ABRS) mechanisms can be compromised in particular by varying latency of TCP connections over mobile networks.
PCD overcomes this by taking account of individual viewing preferences and downloading and pre-positioning the most popular titles on each subscriber's handset during pre-determined lower bandwidth consumption times.
Because storage on smartphones and even tablets is limited, it is important to have intelligent algorithms for working out which movie titles or TV shows each user is most likely to be interested in on the basis of known viewing habits and that is embodied in Akamai's PCD.
But pre-positioning immediately amplifies the security risk, because any stored content is potentially vulnerable to piracy. That is where the connection between mobile QoS and security comes in and why Verimatrix as a content protection specialist was integrated into PCD applications.
For premium rights owners such as the movie studios to allow their content to be pre-positioned on users' devices one fundamental condition had to be met. This was that downloaded content must be just as secure as streamed, protected by the same trusted encryption mechanisms. Only then would they allow the same access rights for each.
Our integration for security with PCD therefore had to be effectively the same as for streamed content. To achieve this we had to ensure, firstly, that the stored content was held in a secure container on the user's device and only decrypted upon playout at the time of consumption, as happens with streaming, leveraging the same HLS and DASH standards.
Then, secondly, to enforce this, the decryption keys, which only consume a small amount of bandwidth in any case, are only delivered when the user decides to play the content. No confidential information is stored locally on the device and there is no window of opportunity for interception or capture of unencrypted data any more than there is with live streaming. Users get not only the benefit of guaranteed QoS but also potential to use their mobile handset as a portable DVR, which could then mirror the content to a big screen.
We are not of course arguing that at a stroke we have resolved all security issues associated with premium mobile video. But what we in partnership with Akamai have achieved is to bring mobile download onto the same security level as streaming so that it can be established as a long term solution to the conundrum of mobile QoS.
You can learn more from the Solution Brief - or watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouc4RRzpgg8
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Seeing the Unseen: The Peak Experience and Interactions with an Alternate Reality
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This latest widely-acclaimed ground-breaking book, written by a scientist and unbiased futuristic thinker, wakes you up to the meaning of life, reality and you. Davis bridges the gap between science and spirituality through an objective, evidence-based analysis of experimental research and theories, integrating them with life-changing personal accounts of spiritual and extraordinary experiences. He shows how a wide variety of unusual phenomena may all be related, presenting a rationale and framework for their scientific study within the physics of consciousness.
Life after Death: An Analysis of the Evidence
Life after Death: An Analysis of the Evidence, provides the latest experimental evidence and scientific based theories, anecdotal accounts of experiencing an alternate realm of existence after clinical “death,” and communication with the deceased.
This book will give you an appreciation of the possibility of an afterlife. The concept of life after death is addressed through an objective evidence-based analysis of the consciousness-brain connection, reincarnation, near-death and out-of- body experiences, mediumship, apparitions, and quantum physics.
Ever since we stopped crawling out of the primordial soup and evolved into inquisitive and inventive complex language based bipedal primates, people have wondered if upon death we diminish into a void of nonexistence, persist in an alternate realm of existence, or revive in a cycle of reincarnation. This thought provoking book may provide the answer. After all, one day your brain will cease to function and you will become a nonentity. Or will you? We all have questioned, at least once in our life, what happens when the hard drive crashes and the screen fades to black. Is death really the grand finale? Find out.
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Buffalo Comptroller Barbara Miller-Williams wants to start a conversation with the mayor and his staff about the city’s reserve funds. It is a good idea: Increase reserve funds while bolstering the city’s weakening Wall Street creds. It sounds simple, but it’s a financial balancing act that includes, among other challenges, wondering whether to rely on casino revenues t…
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Messages From Wrestling Team GroupMe Reveal Culture Of Intolerance
By Bwog Staff on Nov 10, 2016 346 Comments
Bwog recently received screenshots of a Class of 2017 Wrestling Team GroupMe. The screenshots, which contain messages spanning from 2014 to a few days ago, are troubling—the men in the group message mock women’s appearances, make jokes about rape, use homophobic and racist slurs, and engage in other distasteful interactions. After requesting a statement from the University, we have learned that an investigation has since been launched, and that the Wrestling team will no longer be competing at their meet this weekend.
The messages show a lack of respect for women—even those with whom they interact regularly. In the screenshots we received, the wrestlers sent each other numerous photos of female Columbia students and mocked their appearances. One of the men said a female student looked like “a dude in a wig.” Another woman was referred to as “fish pussy.” The wrestlers in the GroupMe also mocked female students as a whole. In one message, a wrestler refers to female Columbia students as “ugly socially awkward cunts” who feel “entitled.” Just messages before, another member of the team expressed frustration over how their team would “run the town of any state school” where “every girl begs for the cock so hard.” It appears these team members don’t realize the irony in referring to women as “entitled” for wanting to control their own bodies.
Among the misogynistic messages is a shocking proliferation of racism and racist comments. Their comments about black women come across as especially distasteful and cruel. The wrestlers’ usage of the n-word is flippant, too, and they use it to refer to women with whom they’ve hooked up, workers at businesses around Columbia, and protesters in Ferguson, MO.
Athletics receives a large allotment of the university’s financial and personnel resources. As such, Athletics and the people under it represent the interests of the university perhaps better than even whole academic departments. On Giving Day, for example, Athletics received $2,651,323 in donations—the second largest amount received by any part of the school. These resources should not be used to support a team whose members participate in a culture of bigotry. Though we don’t know if similar sentiments are expressed by younger members of the Wrestling team, we find it particularly troubling that these sorts of attitudes and beliefs are being espoused (and have been since 2014) by the team’s current seniors, team members who are nominally our athletic leaders.
We chose to post the screenshots without names because we believe the messages that were sent are part of a greater issue. Just this past week, Harvard canceled their Men’s Soccer team’s season after it came to light that they consistently produced “reports” degrading the Women’s Soccer team. Our intention is not to defame any individuals, but to bring up a larger question of how this sort of culture has continued for so long among students who are supposed to represent the University. It is clear that this sort of “locker room banter” should not be blindly accepted at an institution of higher learning.
The University released a statement to us regarding the screenshots after we informed them of the situation. You can read the full statement from the University below:
Columbia University has zero tolerance in its athletics programs for the group messaging and texts sent by several members of the men’s varsity wrestling team. They are appalling, at odds with the core values of the University, violate team guidelines, and have no place in our community.
Upon learning yesterday of these messages, Columbia’s Department of Athletics and our office of Student Conduct and Community Standards initiated an investigation. The Department of Athletics has decided that, as the investigation proceeds, Columbia wrestlers will not compete in Binghamton University’s open meet this weekend.
You can see the screenshots from the GroupMe below:
Mocking a girl’s photo on Instagram
“feminist birchs s”
Discussing protesters in Ferguson, MO
More on Ferguson
uh nope!!!!
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@Chad It’s just locker room talk bro!!
Alfons says:
@Alfons Obviously these guys haven’t the moralic mature to be in any kind of leading position in the future.
@bb you say that, but this exact behavior has been exhibited repeatedly by our next President of the United States….
@Alfons so it seems the constitution is still not worth the paper it’s written on…
@Anonymous trump has violated the constitution? what a joke of a “”””””school””””” columbia is
@Anonymous It’s not written on paper. It’s written on parchment, so…
@Anonymous jada stevens is my favorite pornstar. swear to god she has a double-jointed ass. that shit jiggles in all the right ways.
@Anonymous Why is this downvoted? Y’all really need to watch her bang bus scene
Why not says:
@Why not I’ll give it a try
@Anonymous You’re an idiot. Most of this stuff is satirical, sarcastic, or people are just taking it out of context. Not speaking for myself, but this is guy talk. None of this shit is serious nor should it have even made it out of that group chat. This is an invasion of privacy. Back to “leadership” – I am positive %100 of male members who hold a position of power have and do talk like this amongst their friends. Have a sense of humor.
Dr.Benway says:
@Dr.Benway Could you write that in English?
I'm a victim give me attention says:
@I'm a victim give me attention I’m gonna carry my mattress around campus until these wrestling bros get expelled.
Boycott BWOG says:
@Boycott BWOG We should find out who published these messages without the victim’s sent. BWOG is harboring a journalistic rapist.
Consent is sexy says:
@Consent is sexy *consent
Karita dos Santos says:
@Karita dos Santos Hi guys, emissary from the “real world” here. I am FASCINATED by this conversation and by how many CU students are trying to defend these cretins. You want to complain that CU is too politically correct and this is an invasion of privacy, right? After all, Donald Trump did it, right? Guess what: you guys are the “special snowflakes” on this thread. Invasion of privacy, my ass. If you don’t want anyone to see or read it, don’t put it in writing. And definitely don’t put it out there electronically. Anyone ever heard of Anthony Weiner? And I bet you’re not Hillary supporters and cheered on the release of her emails. Out here in the real world, shit like that gets published all the time. Oh, and if you work for a real company someday (doubtful–you all sound like a bunch of spoiled trust-fund babies to me–daddy will no doubt have to help you out), the company you work for will have these little policies against behaving like the wrestlers, even in private. See, they have an aversion to being sued. So they’d rather fire you than have a conversation about the invasion of your privacy. Geez. What a bunch of whiners.
You're a dingus mate says:
@You're a dingus mate “I’m insecure so I’m going to ragepost on some obscure blog, telling everyone else that I’m better than them”
Feel better now?
rkm says:
@rkm I love your post and yes this social media conduct should be condemned by all in the civilized world.
Anyone Anywhere says:
@Anyone Anywhere It’s also called FREEEDOM OF SPEECH! Where is the left at protecting thier rights? OH but “FUCK TRUMP” “FUCK YOU RACIST TRUMP VOTERS” yeah that’s jussssttt fine!
Yo Daddy says:
@Yo Daddy You don’t understand what “Freedom of Speech” means. It means you can’t go to jail (most of the time)- it does NOT protect you from being fired or disliked by other people. You are free from prosecution, not from the consequences.
@Dr.Benway Columbia accepts government money and can be sued for a violation of the 1st amendment.
Damn, son... says:
@Damn, son... Nope.
@Jam ooh, That’s good. Tell them.
Buster_roo says:
@Buster_roo If we read all the texts from our deployed armed forces do you think we can cancel the rest of the wars?
Giovanni says:
@Giovanni I’m all in for cancelling the rest of the wars.
unsurprised says:
@unsurprised And people wonder how a candidate like Trump could possibly be elected president.
curious_alum says:
@curious_alum To the wrestlers in these comments:
How did these get leaked? Did a girl get your phone passcode, go through your phone, screenshot them, and leak them?
@Tommy You mean like our former President Clinton who sexually harassed women in probably all 50 states.. Had to Pay $850,00 to Paula Jones for sexual harrasment!! Had sex in the oval office with an Intern (Sorry… Since that time our children in High School don’t consider “Oral” Sex as sex! AND IS STILL REVERED IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY !!! LMAO… Why is it I get the feeling you would vote for him in a HEARTBEAT???? They said some brutal things but they were in a PRIVATE CHAT ROOM! They are KIDS!! Give us all a freakin break… You want make this a statement on our soon to be President… LOL….
@? are you an idiot, these are not “kids” these are grown ass men and as adults they should be held accountable for their behavior
jwkc says:
@jwkc Legally, perhaps adults. Technically, not kids. Mentally not developed adults. Prefrontal cortex brain development isn’t fully functional as an adult mature brain until approximately age 25. This is the part of the brain responsible for decision-making ability, impulsivity, emotional response etc…basically what would be considered “grown-ass-man” maturity level. These are clearly not grown-ass men, particularly in 2014 when some of the wrestlers posted last). They were, at best, latent adolescent or emerging adults as far as neurobiological development. If they are currently still behaving badly, maybe the punishment ought to reflect a learning experience directed to target the root of the problem? Instead of punishing a whole team, instead of targeting even one person, consider something creative and use positive constructive tools to change the core belief of the boys. I think they need do some service for women’s shelters in need, single-parent families, projects to raise money for rape crisis centers across the country, etc. So much good can come from giving these young guys a chance to have a hands on service oriented experience that changes the lives of people in need. Suspending/expulsion does nothing to teach, it punishes a long list of people outside of the boys themselves and has lasting crippling effects into the future. Rather than cripple them, help them initiate change so they can become the kind of men that will make a positive difference in society. With the holidays approaching, there must be ample service to assign to them that reflects countering the racist, sexist, and totally immature remarks. I’m sure their parents taught them better!! Don’t give up on these guys just because they seem like insecure assholes. Columbia isn’t just for the elitist who has a perfect resume and a family with money. Columbia offers diversity of interests, cultures, sexuality, ethnicity, and socio-economic class. If Columbia expels on the basis of one’s failures or even beliefs, they have negated their mission of diversity as well as ignored some of the greatest influential people of all time, who also had failed moments regarding bad behavior during emerging adulthood. This is one of the best teaching moments of these senior’s lives, I hope Columbia and the athletic directors will use some creative disciplinary action that actually initiates change in these “not-so-grown-ass-men.”
@Anonymous excuses and butt holes
Cindyloowho says:
@Cindyloowho You need to repost this where someone with juice will see it. 👍
@Charley Those messages seem pretty mild when compared to the language Hillary Clinton promoted when she engaged JayZ as her star attraction for a concert to boost the moral of her voters. If Hillary promoted it, I’m surprised the CU admin would have any objection.
@Anonymous If Harvard suspended their entire soccer team for saying about a fraction of this and we don’t at the very least do the same for the wrestling team here, we’ve lost any last scrap of integrity I thought we had.
@Anonymous Harvard was an overreaction… Maybe Columbia can do better. Teach a lesson, do some good, and still allow these kids to compete.
@Anonymous Insane. Absolutely insane. The wrestlers should be ashamed of themselves.
@Anonymous They need to be wrecked over those racist and rapey comments.
@Will Expel them
CC 2015 says:
@CC 2015 We should all release our text messages here on Bwog so that they can be judged. Then, together, decide who should stay at Columbia to make it a better place.
Reasoned Responder says:
@Reasoned Responder I doubt there would be anyone left.
Fuck Man says:
@Fuck Man I literally could not give less of a fuck about what some guys say to each other in their group message. Why would anybody care
@Anonymous While I am not condoning this language in any way, this article is a huge invasion of privacy.
@bb Literally, did you read the article??? It is TRYING to evaluate a underlying culture of racism, sexism, and bigotry on the part of individuals that represent this University.
“Our intention is not to defame any individuals, but to bring up a larger question of how this sort of culture has continued for so long among students who are supposed to represent the University.”
@Anonymous what a load of shit, you and the authors both know that this is a blatant violation of privacy and incredibly defamatory, your “”””””””good”””””” intentions are irrelevant and you should be ashamed of yourself
ZzzzzzZ says:
@ZzzzzzZ Good job sidestepping the real issue! how many more gold stars would you like for displaying your idiocy?
@Anonymous What issue did i sidestep?
The one where a bunch of PoC and neurotic liberals got their feelings hurt when they read a private conversation and now want to punish people for daring to speak in a way they dont approve of in the security of their privacy?
Youre a piece of shit.
@Dr.Benway Columbia needs to mind its own business. They are in the position of employee here and cannot dictate to its Adult employers how to behave provided they are violating no civil law in which case it would be a police matter.
@Anonymous This is a wrestler and you know it hahahaha
@Anonymous what about the 45 people who agreed with him?
all wrestlers?
youre more embarrassing to columbia than they are
@Anonymous They only said these things to each other? So it literally doesn’t affect anybody at all except them. You wanna punish them for what they say to themselves alone in their room too? Get outta here
Fuck the wrestlers says:
@Fuck the wrestlers What difference would if make if someone heard it? These racists motherfuckers don’t have the moral backbone to represent or belong to this university.
@Anonymous Nice language there (pot said to the kettle).
@Anonymous It was a private GroupMe meant for the teammates’ eyes only.. This shouldnt have even been posted
Nope says:
@Nope It shouldn’t have ever been said
@Anonymous grow up you whiney little bitch
@Anonymous THIS IS INDOCTRINATED, BACKWARDS WHITE SUPREMACY. Why do you not see this as a problem, ESPECIALLY at one of the most progressive and prestigious academic institutions in the country???? IT’S NOT JUST TALK. NOTHING IS JUST TALK.
@CC 2015 We should probably attach a microphone to every student on campus and appropriately punish each one as seen fit
Good idea says:
@Good idea Yes, let’s do that. You see, most of us don’t say shit like this.
@Anonymous Yes in fact we do. That’s quite right. The punishment is supposed to show the tons of other guys (as a guy I know of many) who speak like to each other this and think it is okay.
@Anonymous KAPPA DELTA RHO TOP HOUSE
@Anonymous These boys are assholes…but so is whoever invaded their privacy…
@anon If anyone else has ever lived near any of the wrestlers like I have, it shouldn’t be shocking to see how terrible of human beings they are
CU Athlete says:
@CU Athlete fuck these thumbs
Proof God exists says:
@Proof God exists I lived next to some of them sophomore year and they were awful, so I prayed they would get punished, and now I am basking in sweet vengeance.
Couldn't agree more says:
@Couldn't agree more Same here! McBain? They were, quite literally, animals. Destruction of property, frightening outbursts of anger, absolutely disgusting what they have said.
@Anonymous I say things to my friends that outsiders would think horrible and disgusting all the time. Nothing you can do about it. Stop trying to incriminate thoughts between friends. I don’t give a fuck until they say or so something that isn’t private.
CC 17 says:
@CC 17 I love when people defend someone doing something fucked up by saying, no it’s not bad because I do it too!
@Anonymous they didnt do something fucked up mate
no one was even harmed
if you think this is fucked up you will not survive the real world
pff says:
@pff The real world is fucked up. So are you.
Cry more says:
@Cry more Doesn’t change the fact you won’t survive the world with your delicate sensibilities.
@Anonymous So when are the PC Police gonna install monitors in everyones devices so if they catch you disagreeing you’ll be dragged off to SJW re-education camps.
PC Police says:
@PC Police If you’re being textbook racist, textbook homophobic, and textbook misogynistic you need to be dragged off to a SJW re-education camp
@Anonymous no you dont
@Anonymous Dude everyone can see that you’ve left like 10 comments…
@Anonymous why would i care?
@GH Ahhhahahahah That is too funny :)
@Anonymous What exactly is the take away from this? Is it supposed to make me upset that people talk this way or that these people exist within our community? Because it doe neither. Everyone is acting like stuff like this is the problem and not a result of a greater problem. I doubt that these people are actually terrible people or that they are are awful racists. The problem is that everyone here is so toxically liberal to the point where dissenting opinions are beaten into submission and shoved under the rug. These things they are saying are terrible but its most likely because these people don’t feel safe speaking like this in public and probably don’t understand the actual impact this can have on people because its rare for anyone to actually have a substantial conversation about things like race or gender without an extreme liberal bias – not because they don’t want to but because you won’t let them and they don’t feel safe trying . To be clear what I am saying is that if people don’t really understand why what they are doing is wrong, they view it as a type of joke because of the culture they are surrounded by and those who think this way will never be able to learn otherwise because their wrongness is just “truth” or “how it should be,” which just makes people defensive. So its not really surprising that talk like this happens in private groups, in fact I’d bet that on pretty much every group me for a Columbia group there are some things like this. I know for a fact of at least a few others. Now I won’t argue that people should feel safe saying things like this but I will argue that the culture at this school is the actual issue. All it does is push issues into the shadows and demonizes differing opinions (and yes racism is an opinion, its a shitty opinion but its not objectively incorrect) to the point where they will rather choose to not engage in discussion to dealing with the uphill battle of trying to convince a violently liberal peer that there is some merit in whatever non-PC idea. It’s people like us who are responsible for Trump’s election because we managed to convince ourself that all other contrary opinions just didn’t exist and those are just bad uninformed people instead of engaging in meaningful discussion, its not the fault of the big bad racist in the midwest somewhere. All I’m saying is, if you really want to combat any of these issues instead of just feeling good about your moral superiority you need thicker skin cause y’all are acting like a bunch of closeminded pussies.
@lol didn’t read
@Anonymous you must be one of the ugly socially awkward ladies
@Anonymous this guy has a point, liberalism seems to becoming the new fascism. how can you simply ignore the opinions of a large part of the country. trump did win
@Anonymous you know you can track comments and see that you just replied to yourself? lol “this guy has a point”
@pff Hitler also won. Great argument there
Top kek says:
@Top kek “Racism is an opinion, its a shitty opinion but its not objectively incorrect”
“These things they are saying are terrible but its most likely because these people don’t feel safe speaking like this in public ”
Got it, black people demanding respect just makes you call them n**gers. God, I can’t wait to see you get suspended. Bwog publish their names!
@Anonymous Don’t know what their names are re: the exact people in this GroupMe, but you can definitely see the names of all the male wrestlers (and what class they’re in) on the athletics roster website, so you can narrow it down to the 7-8 guys in the Class of 2017 on there.
@Anonymous what a mature thing to do
@Dr.Benway That sounds like a threat to me to harass students. You should be expelled.
@anon You on the team, bruh?
@Anonymous Better not have any bad thoughts and also be an athlete I guess
Anon going against pc culture says:
@Anon going against pc culture Is nobody disturbed by the invasion of these players privacy? What they say to each other in private is nobody’a business but their own.
Of course the ultra liberal, politically correct members of the Columbia community are quick to demonize and destroy the lives of these young men.
This whole act by bwog is truly disgusting and they should be ashamed.
@Anonymous i agree, a shameful post
remind me, what harm is done to you by these people disliking or even hating you? are you incapable of moving on with your life? i thought columbia students were supposed to be smart, but if youre so fragile that you crumble at the thought of someone disliking or hating you in their own privacy id not only call you an idiot but an embarrassment of a person.
The people intent on destroying these folks lives are doing actual, real harm. Grow up you babies.
@Hm What a harm it is to have your privileges taken away. It’s almost as if they were female, a person of color, or queer
@Anonymous Remind me of which privileges females, poc, queers are denied?
@Anonymous also while im here i find it hilarious that poc need to change their desired reference (african-american, black …) over and over and over again endlessly
its never going to get you the respect you want.
Your ignorance is what's hilarious says:
@Your ignorance is what's hilarious Not all poc are black people. And not all black people are African-American.
@Your ignorance is what's hilarious Not all poc are black. Not all black people are African-American.
@Anonymous And cue the 4chan storm … (Noticing the trend in non-crown, anti-PC culture comments here …)
@Anonymous Oh yeah, go ahead ignore my opinion just like you ignored the opinion of half the country the other night. Worked out real well for everyone. Why don’t you try to understand others instead of shouting down at them from your high horse.
zzzzzzzz says:
@zzzzzzzz can you tell me what I’m supposed to understand from wrestlers calling black girls nigs?
@Anonymous were they talking to you, or even in earshot of you?
Zzzzz says:
@Zzzzz you’re the one asking people to try to understand them. Well here you go buddy I’m trying. Gimme a nice long lesson on what I’m supposed to understand from people talking shit about women and throwing around nigger. I won’t even bother riding my high horse bro. I wanna hear this other half of Americas reasoning for this.
here come says:
@here come the trolls
most of whose real names are blacked out in the screenshots above
@Anonymous theres a reason our names are blacked out. pc culture has made it impossible for people to adequately express very real concerns without being socially prosecuted. Do you use the anonymity of my post to arbitrarily invalidate my opinion like half the country?
Use the track button, I'm not ashamed. says:
@Use the track button, I'm not ashamed. What “very real” concerns were you attempting to express (in the screenshots, as the wording of your comment implies)? That people tend to react poorly when they find out that you’re a racist bigot, regardless of how they find out?
Yikes says:
@Yikes The rest of the wrestling team coming to their defense, are we surprised?
@Anonymous Not only the wrestling team came to their defense. The pc is out of hand, THIS IS WHY TRUMP WON. Whether you like it or not, he won.
@Anonymous maybe they SHOULD have gone to a state school lmao
if they can’t handle all these nasty women who just aren’t *begging* for the D…
@Anonymous I hope kdr gets investigated as well, this is terrible
@Anonymous Shameful that they would say things when so many of the people they call “brothers” are black/african-american/latino.
KDR says:
@KDR This was not KDR. The seniors involved aren’t part of the fraternity.
@Anonymous Except the president of a KDR is a junior on the wrestling team and the messages here explicitly reference attending a KDR meeting?
You mean to say that these guys who explicitly referenced KDR in a private group chat and attended a meeting discussing a mixer were just doing it for shits and giggles, not because they were in KDR?
I get you’re trying to protect your organization, but come on….
No thank you says:
@No thank you Again, what do you want the frat to be investigated for? …saying shitty things?
@Nate Investigated for what exactly?
@Anonymous words inspire action. you think this racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-semitic speech doesn’t turn into statistics??? suspend this piece of shit of a team. you all are shameful, and do not deserve to be at this university.
@Anonymous Because we don’t punish thoughtcrimes… see Minority Report and 1984 for reference
@Anonymous i wonder how the people in these comments got admitted to columbia, affirmative action?
Lmao says:
@Lmao It’s better than getting in for being a dumbass athlete
@Anonymous at least dumbass athletes actually have a skill
@Anonymous @the comment below
http://media.thedailytouch.com/2014/06/Napoleon-Dynamite-skills-gif.gif
@Anonymous Total invasion of privacy. To post private group chat messages for a good “scoup” is really low, especially when you know its going to give a group of young men a bad rep. Everyone says shocking things behind closed doors, in one form or another. No on really cares. Go do something more productive like study.
@Anonymous do you mean “scoop”? also it’s “no one”, not no on
@Anonymous ok grammer nazi we get it u go to columbia
Grammar police says:
@Grammar police Grammar*
Bruh says:
@Bruh Okay*, You*
@Anonymous what a mature reply
nasty woman says:
@nasty woman the fact that you are saying that this is an invasion of these “men’s” privacy is absolutely ridiculous, the only way that BWOG got these is by someone who was a part of this group message taking screenshots and sending them out. shame on them for having the conversation in the first place.
@Anonymous I hope no one is stupid enough to submit screenshots with their own blue comments in it
@CC '16 If these young men were worried about a bad rep, they should’ve refrained from making such awful and derogatory comments about the people they are *privileged* enough to share this school with.
And no, not everyone says things like this behind closed doors, and I would hope that most students at this institution would have the intellect and the guts to call this for what it is: hateful, racist, and mysogynist bs
@nice it’s*
these “young men” gave themselves a “bad rep”, not the post.
looks like you need to do some more studying (of basic 1st grade grammar)
Disappointed alum says:
@Disappointed alum “Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
This is not just private talk.
@Anonymous PC alert – calling all safe space operators, we’re gonna need more space.
@Dr.Benway Watch your arse because we are now in charge.
Ugly Socially Awkward C**t says:
@Ugly Socially Awkward C**t I am so sorry that these poor privileged males had their privacy violated. It must really suck to have your masculinity questioned on a daily basis by ugly socially awkward c**ts like me. I can understand the emotional trauma that brings and the need to vent to your teammates in a homophobic, racist, and misogynist way.
@Anonymous i bet $100 you are actually ugly and socially awkward
Im a BITCH, get at me. says:
@Im a BITCH, get at me. I bet $100 that you have a small dick and fragile masculinity ^
@Anonymous That could very well be true but she is definitely physically ugly & socially awkward so someone needs to get her to a safe-space immediately to prevent her ear-holes from these words.
If anything... says:
@If anything... She seemed perfectly able to handle “these words,” bro. She sees their fragile masculinity for what is and called it out. If anyone needed a safe space, it’s these pathetic boys who couldn’t handle an environment in which girls aren’t stroking their egos by *begging for the D*. If the women at these state schools they mention are really *all at least an 8*, and if we at Columbia really are all ugly, socially awkward c**ts, please explain to me–because it quite literally makes zero sense–why they would even want us begging for it, and why they would feel so affronted when we don’t? It’s insecurity at its best. It’s pointing a finger at everyone else BUT themselves for their ill-perceived shortcomings influenced by a culture that celebrates a toxic form of masculinity they feel they are not–but shouldn’t even–live up to.
@Anonymous So it’s okay for you to body shame men, but you cry foul when it happens to women? Your misandry is leaking.
@Dr.Benway It’s their nappy that’s leaking. Quick! Run to the all sex toilet for a change.
Deez says:
@Deez It was the russians! /s
Macho Man says:
@Macho Man Yep, you def an ugly bitch who doesn’t get the male attention you want. So you do the extreme by getting very fat, dye your hair 5 different colors, get kindergarten grade tats and start shouting nonsense in order to win a debate.
@Dr.Benway Don’t you ever get tired of those cliches?
@Anonymous Go to state school, you dicks. These “Columbia bitches” don’t want you here either.
@Anonymous too bad only 1 person said that please continue generalizing though
If I learned anything says:
@If I learned anything from these screenshots is that these wrestlers lack basic understanding of simple spelling and grammatical concepts
@anon it’s*
=) says:
@=) im sure that’s what they really cared about speaking to their friends in a private chat ……. grow up
Ugly Columbia Bitch says:
@Ugly Columbia Bitch I hope KDR can find girls to mix with now that the entire female population knows about this.
Bernie Sanders says:
@Bernie Sanders The seniors involved aren’t even in KDR…. moronic comment on your part.
Wrong says:
@Wrong Lmao four of them are and two are on KDR’s board
@Anonymous You idiot, there are seniors on the wrestling team who are in KDR… and they also took KDR down with them by saying they had a meeting to talk about how ugly the girls at their party was…. so
@Anonymous EXPEL THEM NOW
@Bernie Sanders You’re pathetic. You cannot severely punish people for private discourse. Go to North Korea.
@NOPE HOW DARE YOU USE SENATOR SANDERS’S NAME IN VAIN
@Anonymous not surprised someone who wants to expel students over private conversation loves bernie sanders
idealists are killing america
expel them says:
@expel them america got killed when your ancestors put their dirty Anglo-Saxon toes on the soil.
non-non says:
@non-non You can, in fact, punish people for private discourse when it’s appalling. They violated Columbia’s standards of behavior, which says “students are expected to uphold the highest standards of integrity, civility, and respect. Students are therefore expected to conduct themselves in an honest, civil, and respectful manner in all aspects of their lives. Students who violate these standards of behavior interfere with their ability, and the ability of others, to take advantage of the full complement of University life and are subject to Dean’s Discipline.” Bring on some discipline. This was not civil or respectful, and GroupMe falls under the banner of “all aspects” of their lives.
@Anonymous Oh are you following Orwell too? I love his guides, especially this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime
@Randy Thoughtcrime isnt saying disgusting things to your friends on a group chat. See how it has the word “thought” – that means you keep it to yourself. It’s unspoken, not shared with a bunch of other idiots.
@Dr.Benway Columbia is in the position of employee and cannot dictate to its employers, the students,on what to do or say in private or public.
@Anonymous How’s that safe space of yours?
TBH says:
@TBH The only good thing that the wrestling team has done for Columbia is lower the curve. Anyway, someone from the group must’ve shared it in an attempt to act like a ‘whistleblower’, so please stop whining. These idiots are not worthy of representing our diverse university.
@Lol if you want to know who said it there are like 7 wrestlers who are seniors, peep on columbia athletics website
@Anonymous http://www.gocolumbialions.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=9600&SPID=3876&SPSID=43592
Choose for yourself who you wanna avoid.
same as immediately above. says:
@same as immediately above. *maybe avoid. since we don’t know full deets yet. my bad, but I stand by the sentiment of general awareness.
lmao wut says:
@lmao wut wait… but they’re all ugly though…
CC-17 says:
@CC-17 It is a privilege, not a right, to attend Columbia. These men have violated their privileges by spewing hateful rhetoric that denies people of their humanity and makes them fear for their lives. They will never understand the dread of being a marginalized person. They will never understand that fear of being a woman, the feeling of being forcefully finger fucked; the physical pain it causes, and the psychological struggles of victim shaming, and misinterpretation of a woman’s kindness and common human decency as “begging for the cock so hard.” I feel unsafe knowing that these men have been in my classes. I am in disbelief that these men have said hurtful and derogative comments about people I care for within the Columbia community, denying people of their identities by perpetuating the relentless cycle of “othering.” This is not the Columbia I know. Free speech is free speech insofar as it enables us to unite as a community who protect each other under our shared identity: “human.”
IM LITERALLY DYING says:
@IM LITERALLY DYING TRU REAL
freedomthinker says:
@freedomthinker Free speech is free speech. Where was there a clause in the constitution that says, “…insofar as it enables us to unite as a community who protect each other under our shared identity,” ??????????????
Seriously, you just killed the meaning of the word freedom by adding your little clause.
So you feel unsafe because college age guys are being immature and thinking about sex? Oh wait, and talking trashy amongst themselves about sex and girls? Do you also feel unsafe on a regular basis because of what people could be thinking in the privacy of their minds? Maybe the guy or girl behind you is in class undressing you mentally or lays in bed at night thinking about you. As dumb as that sounds, it makes the point that you can’t force people to think certain ways so that you feel safe. You will never feel safe if you knew what was in everyone’s mind. That’s what privacy is for. Forcing people to make you feel safe is stealing free thought. Hey wait, last I checked wasn’t Columbia a liberal university?
@Thomas Get more hyperbolic and emotional tho.
Person With Intelligence says:
@Person With Intelligence I am going to ask all the men on the Columbia Wrestling Team to stop being fucking pathetic and fucking stop commenting on this thread to defend yourselves. Ya’ll are all pissed that you guys got caught in the act and now are trying to act like you guys are the victims because your privacy was “invaded”. Whoever shared these screenshots should be THANKED for acknowledging this absolutely disgusting population that exists in our school and one people try to act doesn’t exist. The Wrestling Team should be ashamed of themselves, and if their season isn’t cancelled, I will be so disgusted with our administration. Everyone trying to defend their privacy can honestly fuck off, this language is so dangerous and it doesn’t fucking matter that it was in a group chat. Everyone stay woke and help call out these bigots.
@Anonymous trump will pardon these heros
@Thomas So dangerous ? Jesus you’re stupid
alum says:
@alum To everyone saying this was an invasion of privacy: it is extremely likely that someone from within the wrestling team leaked these screenshots. Bwog did not hack their groupme, relax.
@Anonymous what if bwog didnt identify them as from the wrestling team? if youre going to publish private communications the least you can do is make a genuine attempt at providing anonymity
Um what says:
@Um what Their names weren’t published
@Anonymous and yet i was easily to find out who spoke from the comments here. not directly publishing them is a bad excuse
@CC '16 If people from the wrestling team know who said these comments, and didn’t CALL THEM OUT ON IT, then that’s on you (and them)
@Anonymous call them out on it? for what? they havent harmed anyone you delusional 4 year old
@Fuck off A shitbag gets exposed as a shitbag, call the wahmbulance
@Anonymous how is he a shitbag?
has he harmed ANYONE?
Just speculation, but it seems like he was hacked (I am not a part of the wrestling squad) says:
@Just speculation, but it seems like he was hacked (I am not a part of the wrestling squad) I’m pretty sure someone either hacked them or snuck onto their phone and took screenshots. If you were in the group, it would be obvious who in the group leaked the messages based on the groupme hearts and blue notifications (you would only have to look at the comments that are blue or that have the red hearts next to them and look at who hearted them). If a wrestler leaked the screenshots, he must have been forgotten about this or felt morally compelled to release the screenshots despite implicating himself. I doubt the wrestler was morally compelled because he liked or said some of the most offensive stuff in the groupme chat.
Releasing the groupme snapshots would also be social suicide within the wrestling group and on top of that, would be an act of self-crucifixion to the public. There is no vindication for doing this as the wrestler, so I’m pretty sure someone illegally accessed his groupme conversation and leaked them to bwog.
@Concerned Make no excuse for the outrageous behavior, but beware the “mob mentality” and the calls for “vigilante justice.” Making generalizations that the entire team is guilty and should be punished is as horrifying as the act itself. Some of the comments that have been made here show that we all have our (sometimes hateful) prejudices and biases. Have faith that judical process will prevail and the consequences will be just.
moral highground says:
@moral highground everyone jump out to judge and condemn others for being prejudice more so than we self reflect.
no one here seemed to be so “tolerant” when we called half of the nation hicks or rednecks.
It seems pretty self righteous to claim moral high grounds due to our “education” (which for the most part was handed to us by virtue of birth).
@Fuck off Spot the freshman who” never been to the backwoods of America to see that the majority of them are actual racist hicks and rednecks.
@Anonymous majority of blacks are criminals, congrats on legitimizing racism!
Op says:
@Op Like you would’ve done better if you were raised in the same condition.why don’t we try to understand each other instead of calling names
@Anonymous Nice sweep statement
stalin says:
@stalin this is why we need gulag
TBD says:
@TBD this is when we realize that apparently not all rapists coming from Mexico…..
way to go bwog ... says:
@way to go bwog ... way to release the screenshots with the person’s own comments. the rest wrestling team could pretty easily find out who wrote those blue comments. way to turn 30 wrestlers on one kid.
in addition. the fact that the person’s own comments were screenshoted means that it’s an outsider that took these screenshots and submitted them to bwog…
@Anonymous kid deserves it, this is a major breach of trust
@Anon How about the people involved apologize and face consequences for their comments instead of directing their frustration on one person who clearly had nothing to do with it
@Op Did you not read the second part of my comment. I really hope no one is dumb enough to report screenshots that could lead to his exposure
@CC '16 Talking about how they “should’ve gone to a state school instead” but these assholes still get the privilege of graduating from an Ivy League school? Come on, Columbia, gotta do something about this.
@Anonymous columbia should be selecting the most qualified people to graduate, if someone is racist, sexist, hateful and yet causes no harm to anyone at all, why would you deny them the education they apparently deserve?
anyone here who feels hurt by these messages i invite to avoid the people involved, but retribution? be an adult, or try to. i know many of you wont be capable.
@Anonymous there’s literally nothing wrong with a little racism
b@b anons back me up (boredatbutler.com)
@Anonymous I hope you’re joking, lmfao
@Anonymous no, we anons at b@b have had multiple polls and believe that there’s really nothing wrong with racism and that, if anything, helps our society progress from being bogged down and having to consider ever individual case, but use time wisely for more important things
vist b@b if you don’t believe
b@ Fuck Man says:
@b@ Fuck Man The belief among us at b@ isn’t that racism helps or anything, it’s just that Racism is good.
@Anonymous You can’t legislate racism. Unfortunately the constitution does not prohibit it, it only protects us from discrimination.
@Anonymous Actually its very good it doesnt prevent racism\
t. 1984
@Anonymous Investigate KDR, this is absolutely disgusting.
SILENT MAJORITY says:
@SILENT MAJORITY I have read the article 3 times, and read all the comments twice. I have a son that is a 1st year student at Columbia University, and is also on the wrestling team. It seems like everybody wants to “CONVICT and HANG” these boys for making a mistake. These are young athletes, many on their own for the 1st time, and “YES” it was like LOCKER ROOM CHATTER, with 1 HUGE difference. They were in a PRIVATE GROUPME Chat, that only they were viewing. This was not on Facebook, or Twitter, or in a newspaper, it was in a PRIVATE CHAT that was between some wrestlers. While I do not think that this was done with any intent to hurt anybody, and some of what I read was very tasteless, once again people make mistakes. I read this, and people are comparing these boys to “President Elect Trump”. I guess a lot of people are still hurting over the election, and this is their avenue to vent. TRUMP WON the election for PRESIDENT of the US, regardless of what was said, PUBLICLY, not in a group chat. If you are not happy with the election results, then GET OUT OF THE USA. If you can`t be forgiving and think that all these athletes should HANG, well maybe you should take your child to another University. GROW UP…The Silent Majority has spoken
1st AMENDMENT / FREEDOM OF SPEECH : For all of you want to be POLITICIANS….
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, ensuring that there is no prohibition on the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to …ETC
These boys are for the most part, VERY GOOD PEOPLE, hard working people, and the kind od people that are successful in achieving most of their goals. This was done in a PRIVATE CHAT ROOM, nobody got hurt, and there was nothing done that was against the law. GET OVER IT, and MOVE ON….
@Anonymous most of the people here are kids and generally just repeat what their teachers and peers say without any thought for genuine compassion, empathy, etc.
In response to a dumb f**k says:
@In response to a dumb f**k If you think this is okay, you are a shit parent. Should have used a condom before bringing another rapist/racist to the world.
@Anonymous How is this not ok ?
Who was harmed?
Use your brain, you’re paying 50k a year to train it.
Silent Majority's Son says:
@Silent Majority's Son Mom,
Stop embarrassing me! I’m trying to make friends here and this isn’t helping!
Silent Majority 1st Year
P.S. I need more undies, can you please send some?
@SILENT MAJORITY Son,
Suck it up, pussy. Time to grow up and be a part of this America-loving, privacy-having, privilege-touting family once and for all. We’re not harming anyone by supporting these people. If you don’t love it, get out!
SILENT MAJORITY mom
Silent Majority DAD says:
@Silent Majority DAD Wife and Son,
I’m gonna whoop both of your asses. I didn’t bust my hump in finance for the last 20 years making high 6 figures so you could air our dirty laundry in public. I should smack both of you.
P.S. speaking of laundry, honey, next time you do my undies can you use extra bleach? That great Silent Majority Southwest Chili you made gave me the runs. Do that, or go to Wal-Mart and get me and our boy some brand new ones. I like the real tight white ones that make my willy look all bunched up ;-)
FemAnon says:
@FemAnon So, following from what you said, it would 100% ok for people to spew this sort of vile sh*t about any female or minority members of your family as long as the speakers don’t think they’ll ever get called on it?
Neat.
OneLessPOS says:
@OneLessPOS You are EVERYTHING WRONG with parenting and America. Congrats on the great job you have done raising another misogynistic, predatory, racist white male. I can only hope for your son’s sake that he doesn’t know you wrote this and would repudiate your comments if he did. Hopefully you will find out that that’s indeed the case so you can live the rest of your life as a lonely and miserable woman whose son won’t even let you see the grandkids because of your views and that the world is less one POS white male. These texts are not mistakes. They are indicative of a mentality that should be eradicated from any fair society. While on the surface they may seem harmless, the fact that millions of other young men think and behave this way is the issue. Shame on you and all the rest of the mothers who feel this way. You are a scourge to humanity.
@Thomas And you’re not a very smart person
@Anonymous Is this shit actually anonymous?
@Anonymous I don’t know how the crown works but I can’t imagine its that anonymous.
@FemAnon it’s if we’re on the CU wifi, I think.
Actually says:
@Actually Nah, it’s if you post with your CU email.
While we're at it says:
@While we're at it Delta Sig drugs their drinks
@Anonymous Oh Bwog comment section, how I’ve missed you.
@FemAnon Truly, the juice is sweet on this one.
sign this - we need to hold people accountable. says:
@sign this - we need to hold people accountable. https://www.change.org/p/president-bollinger-petition-expel-cu-2017-wrestling-team
Fuck Athletics says:
@Fuck Athletics Yet the university STILL funnels money into athletics and not–you know–academics
@Anonymous That’s not that works
@Anonymous *how that works, sorry
@Anonymous This was talk done in private. This is exactly what Zuckerberg did with facebook. It was a site to rate and pick up women.
Duh Fuq says:
@Duh Fuq y’all thumbs come away from this thinking you just reinvented facebook?
@Dr.Benway Of course, and that was its purpose at Harvard.
@Anon These kids are the fucking worst. I’ve seen the way they act. These comments don’t surprise me at all.
@anonymous They are precisely what you said… kids. Kids trying to grow up and find who they are and what they value and making idiotic impulsive mistakes. Much like all young college students…in every University across America. At 48, I’m glad I am not condemned and judged by who I was at 19 or 20! That would be a cruel and fatalistic punishment.
@Anonymous U don’t even go here lmao
@Anonymous Okay, even aside from the fact that these messages are horribly offensive (which should obviously be the main takeaway), can we just acknowledge how insecure these messages make the wrestlers seem – in their masculinity, their straightness, their interactions with women.
They sound like middle schoolers trying to act tough around each other. Like, I’ve heard Columbia students be offensive, but it’s rare to see members of our community sound so offensive *and* pathetic.
@Anonymous This is abhorrent, but just as capital punishment does not disincentivize murder, nor will expulsion disincentivize this type of behavior. Expulsion alone will only serve to engender bitterness, and make them more vigilant in not getting caught next time.
As with the election of Trump, this comes from a lack of empathy. If you asked the wrestlers point blank (in private so as to avoid social pressures), “Should African-Americans be treated equally before the law? Should women be paid the same as men for equal work?”, I imagine they would say yes. The issue is that they don’t understand the effect their words have on their intended targets. It would be far more instructive to have the victims (the UPS store workers, the women from Insta, etc…) confront them in-person, in an organized, moderated environment, and explain to the wrestlers exactly why their words cut to the bone. In doing so, the wrestlers would see first-hand the effect they’ve had on other people, and they would quickly have that sinking feeling of despair we call empathy. It’s unlikely they would engage in such behavior again.
At least let something constructive come of this. Afterwards if you want to expel them, go ahead, but know that the only purpose it will serve is vengeance.
@Anonymous I guess this is how we deal with a Trump win, tighten our grip on what we control. Yeah, the wrestlers are wrong, but it was wrong before. I’m not defending it and I guess we should probably do something, probably, I guess? Just saying there’s a reason why texts from 2014 only appear today.
CU Wrestling Alum says:
@CU Wrestling Alum Very disappointed. As members of a varsity athletics program you represent Columbia University, and behavior like this is not representative of the team and university that I know and love. The comments of several individuals tarnish the reputation of a program that decades of alumni worked hard to build. I’m sure these messages will be read by members of the CU athletics staff that work hard every day to support you, many of whom are minorities. Reflect on that, be better.
Anon Alum says:
@Anon Alum The Harvard men’s soccer team had the dignity, intelligence, and class to write this http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/4/mens-soccer-apology/. Why can’t the Columbia men’s wrestling team take responsibility for themselves?
Concerned Student and Parent says:
@Concerned Student and Parent We are all born as innocent children with a clean slate. Where does such racist, sexist, disrespectful talk come from? Where is it learned? How is it reinforced into becoming acceptable behavior? I appreciate another commentator’s thoughts about having a moderated discussion with the wrestling team and some of the men and women mentioned in these group chats. Maybe each group making an attempt at humanizing the other group would help, and might spread. There are small, right in front of us, things that can be done, such as this moderated meeting, while everyone continues to put their heads together and figure out how to tackle the larger issue. Addressing the larger issue involves several, coordinated approaches, none of which are quick. I am heartbroken to see this. So many problems in the world, so many opportunities to help, and for whatever reasons, these young men think what they are doing isn’t just OK, but that it is the right thing to do at this stage of their lives. How can everyone feel they have a voice, while not feeling they have to be cruel and personal?
Columbia student says:
@Columbia student Amazed at the hysteria being perpetuated by SJW students and the complicit Columbia administration. These comments were written as jokes and occur in private conversation everywhere. Compared to the filthy goons at BLM and other likeminded organizations that incite looting and violence at anti-Trump protests and other places, these comments are tame. The double standard is absolutely astounding.
@Anonymous It is sad to hear that you are a Columbia student. I’ve always had great respect for the Ivy Leagues because I always thought that the cream of the crop were the ones chosen to go to these institutions. There is no double standard, whether you are on the right or the left, this type of thought is of concern because these are the “future leaders” of our society. If this is how they interact with one another on a personal basis, is the way they interact in public just a façade? Will they let their “jokes” interfere with actual policy or governing? If someone makes a “Joke” about a female colleague’s appearance, should that concern that person if they work in the same office? Is it acceptable to make a “joke in private” to other colleague’s as long as the person the joke is directed to does not hear it even though they work together and some decisions that are made are made as a team? Just because they occur everywhere does not mean we as a society should look away and disregard them. Obviously, whoever got hold of these text messages did not find them amusing, otherwise we would not be reading them. So, it is not hysteria, it is the society we live in and it takes us all to change this way of thinking about other human beings that differentiates us from lower forms of life.
@Anonymous I am a parent of a wrestler at this University. I would like to apologize for any offensive behaviors or words that were done or said that were unkind, ignorant, or plain unethical. I am worried for the safety of the team members, the safety of my son. Greater awareness is followed by a broader understanding of the individual. It is the mission of Columbia to educate, to bring about societal change, to be the catalyst for changing narrow-mindedness. I cannot speak for the whole team, but I can speak from a parent’s perspective of an individual who began his true education by diligently working through the core curriculum of the 1st and 2nd year students. It was remarkable professors and being in an environment of positive, forward-thinking, open-minded Columbia students who value individual’s right to freely think, be, express, and protect others rights that created change in him. My son’s educational experience, the influence of professors (specifically his philosophy courses), the strong examples of integrity of his coaches, along with the rest of the student body transformed his belief structures. He is not the same kid who is looking for acceptance or to be cool with his buddies at other people’s expense. He has a strong sense of integrity, ability to show empathy, regrets his past behavior as an insecure young/early student, and tries to inspire others to look for the good in others and give people the benefit of the doubt. It was his education at Columbia that brought about that kind of change for him. He sees the world outside of the narrow belief system he was raised in. For this, I am profoundly grateful. There are not words to describe the way Columbia has changed his core beliefs. If you subscribe to the notion that these boys are bigots, rapists, racists, etc., you have deeply misunderstood the individual and have stereotyped an entire team because of immature, unthinking, locker-room banter that most kids grow out of as they learn the behaviors are wrong during emerging adulthood.
I know in our home, we foster kindness, acceptance, freedom of thought and expression, and forgiveness. Seeking excessive punishments doesn’t teach. Consequences of poor choices do not change belief structure or a person’s character. If you want to change character, you have to change the belief. Character follows focus…always. Before you consider chopping down an oak sapling just as it has begun to have solid roots, contemplate the positive aspects of the mature oak tree that provides beauty and shade for all people.
“To understand, is to transform what is.”-Krishnamurti
To the seniors: Be kind. When you know better, you behave better. Be the change the world needs.
To the student body: Hate breeds more hate. Keep my son and his team safe despite their failures. We all fall some point in life, its how we help others get up that changes both the person who fell and the one offering help.
Lol sure but says:
@Lol sure but These boys are seniors. Clearly the education – the privilege – they had did little to change their perspective on respect, and four years later, they still subscribe to the same racist and misogynist notions they came with. They had opportunities to change and to grow, and yet they still stuck with their own sense of superiority to the point where they had to have public disgust to sense the gravity of their choices. They have abused their right as a student and used it to denigrate the student body, and fracture the community moreso than it was. The problems of our community – particularly the alarming increase in mental health disorder are real. They were part of the community. And they added to that culture. It’s disgusting. And the way they’re handling it now? Even more so. THIS ISN’T THE WORST THAT THEY’VE SAID. They clearly didn’t have any openness to change, and admissions should really think about letting in “state school” students before they fuck it up their own damn selves.
@anonymous The screenshots date back to his freshman and sophomore year. I know what he said was terrible. That was then, this is now. He did change. He isn’t the same person who laughed at other’s expense to fit in. He definitely is not a bigot or a racist. I have no idea about the other people in the thread. I think only one person mentioned a state school, no? Maybe that person was acting impulsively. You can hardly blanket an entire group based on bad behavior of a few.
The best predictor of future behavior is current behavior. I would think Columbia officials would investigate current behavior of the people in question. You can’t study Franz Fanon, Kantian theory, and Simone De Beauvoir (to list a few of the many) and not initiate change within.
2015 alum says:
@2015 alum Telling the community to keep people who mock and degrade them, who decide all their female classmates are entitled b’s safe is a mockery. We want to keep our community safe, they’re the ones who are making it unsafe for anyone not looking to be screwed by them or accept their spot as a racial lesser. I really don’t believe that 3 years on campus changed your son that much, more likely he’s sorry he is caught and trying to minimize the consequences. You’re enabling him.
little dude says:
@little dude I can tell your son and his peers have really taken in the life of the mind. Seriously though, I hope he was on a scholarship or something- that tuition money might’ve been a real bad investment after all.
oooooh says:
@oooooh Guess we know who wrote his admissions essay.
don'tjudgeme. says:
@don'tjudgeme. Your assumptions are inaccurate. Blanket statements, stereotyping athletes (or anyone, really), or making assumptions based on prejudices is no different from what the athletes did. Your remark may have not been sexist or racist, but it was definitely coming from a place of intellectual elitism.
FYI my son never got a lower than an A- since preschool, his SAT’s and ACT’s reflected Columbia material, and he was at the top of his class taking every AP class made available to him. While we’re debunking offensive stereotypes, he’s also a concert violinist and pianist (probably unknown to his peers). Pretty sure he was a competitive candidate for any of the Ivy’s…even without athletics. I’m grateful he got into Columbia on his own backbone. Try not to be a skid mark on society by ignorantly spouting your polemic assumptions. Not everyone has to come from opulence to be at Columbia, not everyone has the privilege of a two-parent home.
Skid Mark says:
@Skid Mark “Your assumptions are inaccurate.”
> My comment is not meant to be accurate. It is a quip on the contrast between the saccharine “forgive me” essay you wrote for your son and the grammatically-deficient (even for a groupme) team messages.
“Blanket statements, stereotyping athletes (or anyone, really), or making assumptions based on prejudices is no different from what the athletes did.”
> If you can’t see the profound difference between my comment and those from the team, you’re missing something.
“While we’re debunking offensive stereotypes…”
> You’re doing God’s work.
“Try not to be a skid mark on society by ignorantly spouting your polemic assumptions.”
> Better to be a skid mark than a vile dollop of shit.
Haha says:
@Haha Maybe Utah rationalizes “athlete prejudice” as the same as racism and sexism but the rest of the rational country doesn’t. Now we know where he gets this ignorance from
@Anonymous These were private texts that were hacked. Anyone could be hacked like this. That is a crime. Different than the Harvard’s team that was done on an official team recruiting website.
sick says:
@sick Not everyone says stuff like this in private.
@Anonymous Kathy Boudin Professor at Columbia University but the wrestling kids are the ones with the issues LMFAO
In 1981, Boudin and several former members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army robbed a Brink’s armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York. After Boudin dropped her infant son off at a babysitter’s, she took the wheel of the getaway vehicle, a U-Haul truck. She waited in a nearby parking lot as her heavily armed accomplices took another vehicle to a local mall where the Brink’s truck was making a pick-up. They confronted the guards and gunfire immediately broke out, severely wounding guard Joe Trombino and killing his partner, Peter Paige. The four then took $1.6 million in cash and rejoined Boudin.
An alert college student called the police after spotting the gang abandoning their vehicle and entering the U-Haul. Two policeman spotted and pulled over the U-Haul, but they were expecting black males, and could only see Boudin – a white female – in the driver’s seat. She got out of the cab, and raised her hands. Another police car with two officers quickly arrived on the scene.
The police officers who caught them testified that Boudin, feigning innocence, pleaded with them to put down their guns and got them to drop their guard; Boudin said she remained silent, that the officers relaxed spontaneously.
After the police lowered their guns, six men armed with automatic weapons emerged from the back of the truck, and began firing upon the four police officers, one of whom, Waverly Brown, was killed instantly. Officer Edward O’Grady lived long enough to empty his revolver, but as he reloaded, he was shot several times with an M16 rifle. Ninety minutes later, he died in the hospital. The other two officers escaped with minor injuries.
Boudin and Gilbert allegedly acted as decoys as well as getaway drivers.
The occupants of the U-Haul scattered, some climbing into another getaway car, others carjacking a nearby motorist while Boudin attempted to flee on foot. An off-duty corrections officer, Michael J. Koch, apprehended her shortly after the shootout. When she was arrested, Boudin gave her name as Barbara Edson.
Gilbert, Samuel Brown, and Judith Alice Clark crashed their car while making a sharp turn, and were arrested by police. Three Black Liberation Army members also failed to escape that day. Two days later, Samuel Smith and Nathaniel Burns were spotted in a car in New York. After a gunfight with police that left Smith dead, Burns was captured. Three more participants were arrested several months later.
The majority of the defendants received three consecutive sentences of 25-years-to-life, making them eligible for parole in the year 2058. Boudin hired Leonard Weinglass to defend her. Weinglass, a law partner of Boudin’s father, arranged for a plea bargain and Boudin pleaded guilty to one count of felony murder and robbery, in exchange for one 20-years-to-life sentence. By comparison, David Gilbert received 70-years-to-life and as of 2015, is still incarcerated. After the couple began their prison sentences, WU co-founder William Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn adopted Chesa Boudin and raised him as their own son.
@Jane Disgusting invasion of privacy. I’m a flaming liberal Bernie Sanders supporter but this kind of thought policing is SO HYPOCRITICAL from liberals claiming to be open minded when you are anything but. I’m a Columbia student, and I’ve noticed my fellow students posting the pictures of these guys and trying to get other people to share the pictures and even expel the students. I don’t know any of these wrestlers since I’m a graduate student, but the people distributing these pictures are JUST AS BAD as these people who are claiming to be morally superior to. Policing people’s private conversations and thoughts? Do you really not see how fucked up that is? I keep reading comments like “well thoughts become actions!” By that logic we better not speak out in dissent against Trump because “thoughts become actions” and next thing you know you could become a terrorist or plot a presidential assassination.
This is not okay says:
@This is not okay So none of you have ever said via text anything bad about anyone or anything that could make you look bad if it were hacked and published? Wow, I go to school with a bunch of saints. This shit is almost turning me into a Trump supporter. I’m as liberal as they come, but shit like this turns me away from wanting to be associated with liberals. This is not okay.
xyz says:
@xyz I have to say that, no, I never have put anything in writing in any form that’s as vile as what I see in these texts. I don’t think you have to be a “saint” to avoid using the kind of language the members of the group used, the nastiest and most hurtful racist and misogynistic slurs in the English language.
That said, can anyone really know that vile texts from two years ago give the entire picture of who these students are? I am disturbed at commenters’ readiness to call for them to be expelled (on what grounds?) or labeled as “white supremacists” and shunned. People sometimes do really dumb things; that doesn’t negate their value as human beings, and it doesn’t mean they can’t learn or change. There’s enough hate out there without working ourselves into a condemnatory frenzy about these poor dumb kids, even if their words legitimately make you sick.
@Anonymous Student from the CLS here: I sat out this election, in part, because of this BS. “Liberals” violating constitutional rights and exercising social control over people’s private social lives: welcome to America! Enough is enough. These people wouldn’t know a true leftist if they were staring one in the face.
@Anonymous I would hope for better from the entire Columbia community. In this post -Trump atmosphere there is no room for tolerance regarding misogyny, racism, anti-semitism and homophobia as ignoring such will allow it to grow at a far greater rate than ever before in our nation’s history. But, at one of the top universities in the country, there does need to be room to educate and change attitudes and biases so all of you as future leaders can accept the humanity in each other and build a better future. Changing attitudes, biases and rape culture comments does not occur by shutting out and closing off the offenders. Doing such encourages the very activity that incurred in the Group Me conversation. So, the question to everyone is how are you going to change the attitudes, beliefs and biases without further entrenching intolerance?
@Anonymous “Post-Trump” atmosphere? Give me a break, as if that justifies administrative involvement.
“[T]here is no room for tolerance regarding misogny, racism, anti-semitism and homophobia as ignoring such will allow it to grow at a far greater rate than ever before in our nation’s history”–you’re kidding, right?
And evidently there is no tolerance for personal boundaries, privacy, or freedom of speech too. Dear snowflake: punishing a person for “shooting his mouth off” leads people to hate you. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD. You’re not encouraging dialogue. You’re punishing a person who made private (NOT PUBLIC) messages to friends. You make sensible people want to rip your throat out by disrespecting individual rights. That’s precisely the effect that you have on people with your little youtube/twitter/facebook lynch mobs. You’re only providing fuel for the Trump supporter fire.
@Anonymous You guys might want to check out the track teams messages
@Anonymous *Track team boys post tasteful memes and ask about practice time*
@Anonymous Clearly their Columbia education isn’t doing these losers much good since they can’t even use proper grammar.. spelling the word “counties” as county’s and using “there” for they’re. What a bunch of pathetic punks.
@Anonymous These messages are just sickening.
The Great Barzini says:
@The Great Barzini phone autocorrect does stupid shit like that all the time. they probably just don’t proofread (if only they would have, Lord knows they might have thought better about spewing all this awful shit). that being said, I feel that I can agree with the general sentiment of derogation here.
Black Alum CC 15 says:
@Black Alum CC 15 As a liberal black alum, these students shouldn’t be expelled or punished. They were expressing their thoughts by means of their constitutional and human rights. Who are we to judge what they can and cannot say in the company of their friends? As a community, do we punish those who think differently? Do we enforce our standards of judgement in personal dialogue? Are we drawing a line where one shouldn’t be drawn?
That said, these students are sick and need help.
@Anonymous I was following you until you said they are sick and need help. There’s a saying called “shooting your mouth off”–now that’s become a mental illness? Give me a break.
iprazhm says:
@iprazhm What’s the big deal here?!? How dare we set standards of decency and respect in the speech and ideas of young men and women or children, when the new president of the united states has been given a pass to use vulgar and even dangerous private ‘locker room banter’ in his conversation? How dare there be such hypocrites when the majority of voters gleefully excused the President Elect’s PUBLIC usage of such vulgar and dangerous speech? ‘AHhh’, but you say, “The Emperor’s new clothes look so much better on Trump, than they did on Obama!’
@Anonymous These guys need to lawyer up and sue the university if disciplinary action is taken against them. This is a complete and total invasion of privacy and the freedom of speech. These were private messages sent on a private messaging app. Now university administrators are in the habit of regulating our social lives? Really? What about Tinder? What about facebook messages? Does an administrator have the right to tell me if I’ve sexted “too hard”? This is ludicrous. Now we have to worry about the “liberal” getstapo.
This is an uncontroversial violation of individual rights. I attend Columbia, and I’m disgusted by this place. Lee C. Bollinger claims he is in favor of freedom of speech. What he ought to do in this situation is to instruct administrators that when students show up at their doors complaining about “racist” and “sexist” text messages, the response ought to be “Look, I’m not getting involved.” Unbelievable.
Frosh says:
@Frosh Would you say that these meathead wrestlers are an anomaly or are most guys at Columbia like this? I thought this was a broadminded campus of intelligent people. I don’t want to be at a school where students think this is OK. The only way this culture, to the extent it exists, is going to change is if we the students confront them and call them on it when we see it because it is not OK.
@Anonymous This is the same CLS student who left the above comment. You know what I think isn’t okay: violating people’s privacy, putting their lives under a microscope, and using token messages in which people shoot their mouths off to subject them to institutional discipline. Lee C. Bollinger is a complete hypocrite if he allows administrators of the institution to mete out discipline under these circumstances–Jesus Chris, even if these students made these statements publicly, they would be protected by the 1st Amendment. How have we gone from the ACLU’s defending the rights of Neo-Nazis to march through Skokie, Illinois, to tarring and feathering students for comments made in private conversations?
Yeah, they made sexist and racist comments. But they have the RIGHT to say those things. You know, I’m honestly hoping that Republican politicians begin regulating private and public universities to protect students’ rights. The argument that Columbia is a “private” institution that can strip away fundamental American liberties is a total misnomer. When taxpayer dollars in the form of federal financial aid pay for the mortar between Columbia’s bricks, the institution isn’t a purely private anything. Congress seriously needs to exercise its Commerce Clause Power to bend little Lee C. Bollinger over its knee and smack the shit out of him. You think this is a victory for the students at Columbia? The only thing you’ve demonstrated to me is that you’re a bunch of little, weak social fascists. You’re worse than any Trump supporters I’ve ever met, and I know more than a few.
Let"s reflect over the events of last week says:
@Let"s reflect over the events of last week Outside looking in, seems to me that for many there is an overwhelming bigotry and hate towards athletes at Columbia. The comments and names that have been thrown at wrestlers and athletes are just as inflammatory as those made in the chat group. The only difference is that theirs were meant to be shared in a private setting, while the comments made by the “intelligent students” have been voiced publicly. Apparently in one venue it is not ok and in the other it is acceptable. Is that the way our system works?
For a population that found is so terrible that Donald Trump was elected and the objectionable behaviors associated with his supporters so inflammatory, it has been so easy and effortless for many to yell the chant of “lock them up” in this situation.
Welcome to Trump World.
@Anonymous Anyone else wondering how/why GroupMe screenshots from 2014 are surfacing now? If it’s an active GroupMe, someone must have done some serious scrolling to reach messages from over two years ago. Anyway, I find these messages repulsive, but I fail to see what expelling these athletes will ultimately accomplish. Sure, it will send a message that Columbia doesn’t condone this kind of language, but I feel like in reality it will just have a negative effect on the school’s reputation. Many will see this as another example of PC culture at its most extreme and further incentivize them to support Trump and all he stands for (as has been suggested by several of the commenters above). Trump’s election sent a clear message that we unfortunately live in a country in which these kind of people exist. We can’t expel them from America, so instead we need to learn how to counter their bigotry and misogyny. I feel like a similar approach needs to be taken here.
Obviously, -Anonymous says:
@Obviously, -Anonymous A warning to users of the internet, those with thoughts not accepted by society, or any subset of society: You are not safe on the internet, nor are you safe outside of it either, but there is a safeguard, an ancient one: Anonymity, yours, everyone’s greatest tool in times when not your actions, but your thoughts are the crimes in which you shall be punished for.
There are people hellbent on punishing your thoughts, they have a title: Thought Police
Unfortunately, because of them, and because of the vindictiveness of society, your thoughts can never be your own, either they must be hidden in your person, so that no one may find them, or they must be the thoughts of someone else, a fake identity, one that isn’t connected to your real one, this has two names: Doublethink, and Anonymity.
Doublethink and Anonymity are your greatest tools, or tool I should say, for they are one and the same.
Build a fucking wall says:
@Build a fucking wall Oh no are the wittwe wiberaws mad…
This is exactly the kind of pc bs that lost you all the election.
Feminists, environmentalists, multiculturalosts need not apply. Gonna be a beautiful 4 years. Get ready to eat shit.
Reframe says:
@Reframe Let’s reframe this to see how we are reacting:
It’s elementary school and the kids are all asked to draw something nice. Everyone grabs pink and blue and red crayons and begins to draw flowers, trees, and other delightful scenes. There is, however, one boy named Jimmy, who decides he doesn’t want to choose red or blue or draw nature. Instead, he decides to mix a bunch of colors and smear it across his paper, with a complete lack of thought for what it looks like to others. Now, another child sees Jimmy’s paper and is appalled. The image is NOT pretty to her, and actually is scary to her. So, she snatches up his paper, shows it to the rest of the class, and demands to the teacher that he be kicked out, instead of asking him why he chose to do what he did. He was expressing himself in a way that wasn’t appealing to others, but nobody tried to help him understand or change so he never did. Jimmy never got to show his classmates his love for animals, or his sense of humor, or even his crazy sick deck of baseball cards. There was more to Jimmy than the paper, but suddenly nothing else in his life meant anything.
The process of change shouldn’t begin with shaming them publicly. It should be our main concern to engage in discourse and show them why they shouldn’t speak or behave this way. Expulsion will not change them, nor will it help us in the future. If we take a step back and look at this situation, we will be harming ourselves in the effect that we cannot understand the minds of these people. Without this knowledge, we can’t hope to foster any change or growth, and we will be effectively locked in a safe space with very little experience in the art of discourse.
If you don’t like this post, hit reply. Show me where you disagree and we can discuss it.
@Anonymous The problem is that what little Jimmy drew wasn’t a smear of ugly colors that wasn’t like what the other kids did–he drew pictures of his little classmates and labeled them “N**” and “C***.” He may also love animals and have baseball cards, but is it surprising that at first glance nobody wants to talk about that?
Kev says:
@Kev Yes, I agree that the story is a crude analogy and the current issue much more severe than an elementary classroom setting, but the point remains; kicking him out of the shared space will be less constructive than a discussion. Shutting our doors due to being uncomfortable or even insulted is not a way to address any problem. Now, don’t misunderstand, I’m not telling you to sit back and just accept these issues, that’s not fair. I am trying to let you see that this whole thing, from the article to the comments, is not a solution and neither is expulsion.
And, for the record, it is surprising that nobody wants to talk about his love for animals or baseball cards. It sucks to be judged from an exterior point of view, as many people here have pointed out. Simply because now his image is reflected by this ugly exterior that has little reflection of the other aspects of his character. Granted there are terrible people here and there, but to discount someone before knowing them is the same discrimination that people have been fighting for years. If someone isn’t willing to consider all aspects of a person and/or be willing to be a constructive force in the issue, they are doing more harm than good by shaming the individual or group in question.
@Barb I’m moderately amused that so many track team apologists fail to understand that the First Amendment applies to government regulation of speech, not Columbia University’s ability to regulate speech.
Columbia U. as a private institution is completely within its rights to expel, kick off the team, admonish or otherwise discipline team members who were involved in this or other violations of Columbia’s code of conduct. They can choose to have a wrestling team or drop it entirely. They can choose to do nothing. Under FERPA, they are restricted in what they can publicly disclose about students who were involved, but they absolutely can take action.
Civics, people, civics.
In case you forgot... says:
@In case you forgot... Just watch … people like Barb here want to have all trump supporters expelled!!! Thats the natural next step of her argument. Barb… youre in for a tough four years. Im celebrating all the times youll be triggered. Its going to be beautiful.
Im going to drink ALL your tears.
@Anonymous wf? I hate men now!
@Deez Now?
M.H. says:
@M.H. Wait, one of the wrestlers wrote, “..we should went to state schools.” ??
How did he get into college?
Ted Bundy says:
@Ted Bundy the men in the text threads will be your boss someday
Anonymous Rando from a Public School says:
@Anonymous Rando from a Public School I wonder what all those people who are chiming in about “invasion of privacy” think of wikileaks dumping Hillary’s emails into the public domain. Were you calling for protection for her private emails then?
BTW, all those of you that say “send them to a state school” sound like a bunch of assholes. There is no school where talking like this is appropriate or welcome.
@anonymous k
@Anonymous Am I allowed to listen to rap music at Columbia? Because from this event, the answer would be no.
@Deez As long as you don’t sing along, or print out any lyrics. 1984 much?
amindofitsown says:
@amindofitsown Eh, not surprised. As ugly as it may be, this is human nature. This isn’t something that some cultural sensitivity classes or some rule will take care of, this is how people have been, are and always will be. Attitudes like this just don’t go away or “die”.
@Deez Stereotyping is not racism. Anyway, thanks for the new Trumpocrats!
@Neil I’m pretty sure a quick google search would show a number of rappers that the university has hosted that have said worse. Political correctness isn’t so much about banning WHAT can be said. It’s about banning WHO can say it.
MikeP says:
@MikeP So…I guess Orwell’s 1984 is now considered a guidebook, instead of a warning?
Punished for private speaking. Wonderful, Columbia, just wonderful. Let’s make sure the same standards are applied to group chats of Sororities, Ethnic groups, and any of the other non-white-male organizations on campus.
Because we all know their private communications are just as colorful.
James Morgan (alum) says:
@James Morgan (alum) Let’s see the texts from members of the basketball team. A full 38% contain the phrase “muh dick”.
debitor serf says:
@debitor serf This is called ‘jock’ culture and is prevalent on every sports team, at every university, in every locker room, that has ever existed all throughout the history of mankind.
If you’re going to ban the wrestling team at CU, then you may as well ban all men’s sports teams at every university in the country, because they ALL act like this.
Does anyone think the major league sports teams locker-rooms are squeaky clean PC ‘safe places’?
My goodness, the Russians are going to steamroll over these snowflakes…
@Anonymous Has anyone noticed that this new lewdness witchhunt trend only affects white males? The things that groups of women say about guys and other women can be just as awful (every sorority girl knows this). And what groups of blacks says about whites in their own privacy or LGBTQ members have said about conservative Christians can be just as bad. If we are now going to start persecuting everyone using things they’ve said in private conversations, then do it across the board. Scan every text communication produced by every group on campus, not just those done by white males. This is getting ridiculous.
@Anonymous Nobody went looking for these “private” messages. The question is what to do when they become public.
David Shaw says:
@David Shaw The texts were crud, and childish. They may well reflect the adolecent thoughts of boys/men who are and will be pigs their entire life. Or not.
My question, what about free speech? THis was a private conversation. And as far as anyone knows, their opinions never actually did anyone any harm.
Is any of this anyone’s business? Did some ‘adult’ snowflake get their feelings hurt? Great, let’s create a new society where those in power get to decide what is and is not approved speech. Yea that sounds like a safe society. BTW Is anyone at Columbia familiar with history? And what happens in totalitarian societies?
@Ima “Sticks and stones ma…….”
Oh, never mind. Those whiny little snotflakes couldn’t grasp the meaning anyway.
Gilbert Skidmore LMHC says:
@Gilbert Skidmore LMHC this is all private school learned behavior encouraged by privileged college
placement.
May I suggest an MMPI at application time or prior to acceptance. This will bring out the personality issues for the college to decide. much of this bullying can also be a potential for adult anti social tendencies.
@Anonymous Guys talk about pussy. Deal.
Girls talk about dick, too. Deal.
Babies. Babies. Babies.
SJW says:
@SJW Waaa!! They said something to hurt my feelings! I’m gonna go crawl into my safespace where white males are not allowed!
@anonymous You cannot belong to a group, whether that be a sports team, university, fraternity, or corporation without taking the responsibility to represent it. Harvard Men’s Soccer team issued an apology. They misrepresented the team, and at least assumed some responsibility to remedy their actions.
Do I say things in private that I hope will be kept private? Absolutely. I am a woman, and I know we too say things about the opposite sex. It would be unfair to pretend otherwise. But these select guys have said exceedingly awful things that are harmful, whether that harm is tangible or not. Their statements are embarrassing, disgusting, and simply went too far. May I occasionally say something that does not represent my morals in the heat of a moment? Absolutely. But these texts were captured over the span of years. Clearly, there is an underlying sentiment of racism, sexism, and incredulity amongst these select boys.
In the real World, you will be held accountable for anything in writing. If this presidential election has proven anything, things said in private are liable to public scrutiny. You will be fired for what you say on social media. You will be sued, impeached, defamed, whatever. This does not mean the entire team should fall for their behavior. This does not mean that all white men are racist rapists. In fact, as these boys have incorrectly generalized women and people of color throughout their leaked messages, we cannot respond by hatefully generalizing all white men.
The senior team probably should be suspended for the remainder of the season, because their actions, and subsequent responses, are disgusting. Unfortunately, that is just the way things work when you represent a group. They have a privilege to attend a highly ranked institution, and should represent it accordingly. If you are a racist and sexist asshole on your own time– that is too bad for you. Good luck in the real World. But don’t try to act like you are the victim for having your privacy invaded. Don’t try to write this behavior off to a premature prefrontal cortex. Don’t try to pretend you are just kids. Your texts were captured from ages ~19-22. That is young enough to speak rudely, but a bit too old to be so ignorant. As the mothers have said, I myself did plenty of idiotic things between ages 19 and 22, but a key difference between the majority and these boys is that we are not, or were not, racist/sexist assholes. You got caught– accept it and move on. Sure, both men and women may speak about how attractive the opposite gender is, they may even speak inappropriately… but don’t condone sexual assault. Sure, maybe you feel our campus is too PC for your taste, but does this excuse a contemptuous and lewd reaction in response?
You are extremely wrong. But those extrapolating this behavior to all white males or athletes are in the wrong too. To the wrestling team, hopefully your mothers will stop defending you. Hopefully you will learn to be open to others. You can’t demand respect, or disdain the double standard, by perpetuating hate from the other side. It is simply hypocritical. Ask others for perspective. This article, and the comments, are so entrenched in “he said/she said” type rhetoric. Grow up, respect humans, and take the responsibility to represent what you belong to.
@Danielle This isn’t a matter of 1st Amendment rights- these athletes are legally ‘welcome’ to be racist, sexist, homophobic, and what-not not as much as they’d like in their private lives (short of any hate crimes). However, they cannot and should not be able to do so as a group or as individual students who are members of a university sanctioned and financed athletic team. And clearly, we need to discuss the meaning of ‘private’. These texts were not private. It’s a naive view of our world today to think something like ‘texts’ are or inherently deserve some level of privacy. Texts are not private conversation- it’s 2016. It’s hard to say if private conversation even exists anymore. Texting is a record that can easily and permanently be released into the world. I’m sorry if you wish it were otherwise, but practically, it’s not. And even so, I personally think we need to reevaluate this idea that if we say something in private, it somehow negates our moral responsibility to our neighbors and ourselves. Or it just didn’t ‘happen’ because it didn’t pop up on Facebook. That’s silly. If you say something racist in a forest and no one’s around to hear it, you’re still saying something racist.
Some, if not many, of these athletes are probably receiving scholarships and all these athletes put on uniforms that signal that they are a part of a university sponsored team. So yes, the school certainly has a right and even a moral obligation to suspend these students, suspend the season or the team, and to revoke scholarships. These students should also be put into mandated classes to address why their words are problematic. I don’t believe in discipline without education. These students have texted terrible, frightening things. But they are still human beings and members of Columbia’s University. We shouldn’t hate them in same the way that they seem to hate others.
Samamthe says:
@Samamthe Just words, you have no right to post private messages.
Let he, who is without sin, cast the first stone.
Thought Police!
@Reasoned Responder To the folks trying to equate this “leak” with DNC/Hillary emails published by Wikileaks… no. If you think wrestling on behalf of a university demands roughly the same amount of transparency, accountability and discretion as being the Secretary of State, you’ve completely lost control of your senses.
These texts/comments are offensive to some, but they weren’t published in a public forum. You can personally detest the people who made these comments, but that’s about it. Some people are like this. You’re probably not going to change their minds. However, if you are trying to use this as some sort of example or catalyst to push policy, law or some sort of social movement, you’re going to get reasonably people like myself to stand up in opposition against you. There should be some amount of privacy that everyone is entitled to, especially when it matters to no one but those involved in the exchange.
@Anonymous Of course we are all entitled to privacy and freedom of speech. That does mean that leaked private messages will not get you in trouble. The HRC emails represent the most recent example we are all acutely aware of. Yes, she was running for national office, and these guys are merely wrestling. But that is the way it works. Whether it is right or wrong, people are held socially accountable for some of the stuff they say privately.
@Reasoned Responder “f course we are all entitled to privacy and freedom of speech. That does mean that leaked private messages will not get you in trouble.”
So you’re starting with a contradiction… if we’re all entitled to privacy, there should be a consequence of leaking and publishing things like this. Freedom of speech does not absolve anyone of the consequences of their speech, but these exchanges were clearly not meant to be published publicly. So which is it? Do we respect privacy or are we ok with thought-crime witchhunts like this?
With regards to HRC, considering her position as Secretary of State and the office she was running for, her emails should have all been kept behind an encrypted firewall. It wasn’t. That was the first issue. The second was about the content of those emails and how she was making policy decisions, and how those with power to influence those decisions were interacting with her. Her policy decision would affect the lives of millions of people, so those millions of people are entitled to know who was influencing her policies and decisions.
With this wrestling team thing, no one’s feelings would have been hurt if this wasn’t published. The offense couldn’t have taken place had all of this just stayed private. I doubt any of these men will radically change their lives or thinking with the backlash or punishment coming their way. You can try, but I believe this outing of their private conversation will only galvanize their opinions expressed within these screenshots.
So what is the purpose of publishing this? What greater good will be served by this? The blog post tries to make a big deal about how these men represent the university and they need to act in a certain way so they do that properly. Before this blog published these screenshots, they were doing that publicly and had given no reason for the greater public to question their behavior. In that sense, this blog site is the only group responsible for anyone have a lesser opinion of Columbia because of this incident.
@Anonymous As said, “Whether it is right or wrong, people are held socially accountable for some of the stuff they say privately.” Whether you like it or not, what you say may come back to haunt you in the future. It it is ignorant to assume that things you write on GroupMe, texts, social media, etc will be kept private. No one has control over that. Leaks happen and when they look like this, they are liable to offend… this is the way the World works.
What are people supposed to do now that these have been leaked? Again, not stressing whether that exposure was right or wrong. Do you really think it is unreasonable for people to be offended by the content of those messages?
I absolutely agree with you that you can detest people who speak this way– and that is the limit of what you can do. Such is the way it should be, as they were speaking privately amongst friends. But the leak happened, and now they will be ridiculed for what they said. Again, it is how the World works.
@Anonymous I think we agree more than we disagree. I agree with you when you say “It it is ignorant to assume that things you write on GroupMe, texts, social media, etc will be kept private,” but I’d like to consider for a moment why that is and if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. What’s disturbing to me is that it seems more and more people only judge a personal invasion of privacy (not exposure of government conspiracy or institutional collusion) as a good or bad thing depending on the content of information exposed or the ultimate consequences of the leak. For example – icloud hack and celebrity nudes released = universally condemned as a bad thing, often called a digital “rape” of the victims. Leslie Jones hack and publishing of her personal photos, etc. = same deal. This fiasco = these bloggers and a good bit of the comments are framing it as a good thing.
It’s either an invasion of privacy, which is always a bad thing, or it’s not. It can’t be dependent on what is obtained by the invasion.
Now, as you say, there’s almost no such thing as digital privacy anymore, to me that is a serious issues and really bad thing that we collectively shouldn’t stand for or, in this case, celebrate just because it happens to burn some people we personally don’t like.
I also think this will eventually go much further than just ridicule though. We’ll see what ultimate punishment is levied, but if they lose their scholarships, or if the individuals are tied to their specific comments, etc. they could lose a whole lot more. Seems like the majority here think that’s all well and good, but to me that’s a dangerously short-sighted or myopic perspective.
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Ken Wilkie says:
@Ken Wilkie I don’t condone the things in those texts, but the texts were private texts between friends. What right does anyone have to steal private texts and post them online?
I hate to say it, but everyone on this planet probably says something offensive or makes jokes to their friends in private. You can’t force political correctness in peoples’ private time, and no matter how much you don’t like their conversations it’s totally unethical to steal their private texts and make them public.
Ed Crunk says:
@Ed Crunk Hahahah, love these guys!
@Oscar If these were comments at an all black college or at a non-distinguished state school, would the people feeling sorry for these individuals still be feeling sorry for them?
Brown grad says:
@Brown grad One tiny thing i would like to thank the Columbia rape culture for, that it let me know as a high school senior, to put my efforts elsewhere in my applications. Specifically, the recruiter who came to meet me and tell me why Columbia was so great, sounded just like these guys, and his best selling point was how many NYC girls would want to date me. Take home message, blame the parents, blame the admissions, blame your donors, quit your TV. Should I go on?
@GH Really CU? Try to not be foolish. First your kind get Trump elected by calling everyone racists and killing conversation, along with Hilly calling 25% of the country (Trumps’ take of registered voters (half reg’d voters did not vote)) “deplorable”. No undecided, or potential Trump voter had any chance to discuss their thoughts in a safe space in the last 8 years and longer, they get smacked down as “racists” and never move toward the middle and maybe a vote for Hiilly (I gave 4x financially to two other candidates who are not sold to wall street).
Now your backwards thinking is going to ensure many young people start to see politically correct speech as spawned by those quickest to kill the 1st amendment in addition to killing conversation and progress. Calling “racist,” and nigger and whatever, gets no one anywhere, ever. You can’t just go penalizing everyone who uses hate speech in private, swears or speaks some BS.
These young persons need safe space with their peers. If they go spray painting these messages on St. Paul’s, then it’s public and you have a problem. You are taking private conversations and exposing them… these guys were not running for office. Swimmers raping people is one thing, guys talking need a chance to mature without any penalty. If they choose to serve at a women’s shelter or otherwise assist in choosing a non-punishing way to grow and mature, that would be a good solution. The answer is interaction, communication and growth. Unless that is not what CU is about.
These are very hard working young men, frat members and wrestlers and are mentally average guys among a significant portion of their demographic. Planning frat parties, talking about the young women at the parties…. let this be a wake-up call to the drunk and drugged rape culture of frats and sororities, it’s ending. (Yours Truly-Degree holding Social Worker). It’s sad when politics of running a U and making a million dollar salary need a scapegoat of whom to make an example.
@Roger Is that it? Is that all their is?
Now the staff are becoming snowflakes?
Who said “tolerant speech” is the law? And who published private conversations? Why are you violating someones privacy?
You’ve become the Liberal PC Frankenstiens!
@Art Awwww did your feelings get hurt? Oh, it did? Okay, what happened to you next? Were you able to survive :::gasp:::: being offended?
CAP10 says:
@CAP10 Reading this is quite a window into the state of American consciousness. Putting aside the free speech and invasion of privacy issues, maybe it an admirable to goal to cleanse humanity of hate. But isn’t that quasi-religious? Hate, it’s been around pretty long, pretty long. But an activism that strives to overpower hate, can it be overpowered? If we grant that it can’t be simply overpowered, then where to? Again, certain religious ideas or the more enlightened humanities, where we find the advise to address our reactions to the world, rather than fight with the world.
Sam Dennis says:
@Sam Dennis For decades I was led to believe that it was the Conservative Republicans not the LIBERALS who were the racists and misogynists, yet there (Columbia U) in one of the Nation’s Prime Centers of Liberal Learning all of a sudden the facade is shattered. Who’d have thought?
@Anonymous If anyone has access to the GroupMe, look at the messages with the red hearts and you can narrow down which account the screenshots came from.
SaynotoPCBS says:
@SaynotoPCBS The only culture of intolerance i see here is from the University that thinks that private banter amongst the lads is illegal or even something that is wrong.
What world have you been brought up in? Teenagers, adolescents and young men engage in this kind of shit talking between them self all the time, everywhere. They always have and they always will. Don’t pretend you haven’t heard your little or older brother talk shit with their friends like this.
Another thing is that even if they said the most horrible stuff someone could possibly imagine, or even if they held the worst of opinions, they are still allowed to hold those. Even if they are considered wrong they are views and thoughts and they are (still at least) legal to have and they should in no way be punished for having them.
@Danielle I don’t think anyone is saying (yet) that their speech is illegal. But many policies on a private campus are not necessarily backed by actual US laws. They are just campus policies. And I would imagine that the kind of rhetoric texted by some of the athletes on this team is in violation of some campus policies (or at least, should be in violation of a policy I would hope to exist).
It’s not a question of which world we have been brought up in- it’s a question of which world we should all strive to live in. Someone can think that speech like that is just speech, but it’s not. It’s not harmless, it is hurtful, and it does encourage a dangerous attitude towards difference that does influence others into normalizing racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts that often then normalize hate crimes against the affected groups. And Universities should strive to discourage that kind of normalization- with all their students and certainly with students who represent them on an athletic team.
Also, I’ve never heard my brothers say those things and there are plenty of men who don’t speak like that. And men (since you seem to think this is about ‘lads’) certainly don’t have to think, text, or speak that way. They really don’t. It’s not a natural law or a matter of physics.
And again, no one is saying they aren’t ‘allowed’ to hold those beliefs. They are. But I, and many other demographics represented in those texts, don’t want to be on a university campus that doesn’t want to protect us by investigating those texts and practicing justice on our behalf. And school discipline is very different from actual legal consequences- the school absolutely has a right to discipline and educate those students who texted and, of course, those student can leave if they don’t want to subject themselves to any of that. I hope they won’t though. I’d rather them think about whether or not they should hold those views and be given the chance to consider who they could be instead. Be given support from those of us who say, “yes, embrace your athleticism, your masculinity, your ‘lad-ness’, but you don’t need to put down others or hold those views in order to demonstrate any of that.”
Best of luck to those who were hurt by those words (don’t lose hope that you are valuable and deserve respect) and best of luck to those who texted those words (feel free to join some of us who try to reflect, evolve, and help and respect others, despite our differences).
DR says:
@DR There is plenty of “hate” to go around. More PC private speech control. If we only saw the private texts between the liberal students.
Why doesn’t Columbia suspend the students who are walking the streets in protest about a fair election, shouting expletives, stopping traffic (likely illegal) and making their own reverse intolerant comments?
@pete This is so far left PC it wreaks of the thought police. This is what free speech looks like. Dislike it all you want, it is constitutionally protected. Remember that document, the only real definition of who we are as a country?
But where are is all the hue and cry about civil rights here?! A few above get it, but far too few just don’t.
@CAP10 This is not really a confusing issue but the response seems confused. Break it down:
Question 1 – is this hate speech? (I think there is almost total agreement on this one)
q2 – how do I as a person react to hate speech?
q3 – Is my reaction affected by the fact that this was private speech?
@Dr.Benway Here’s how you should react,mind your own business and get a life.
@stacy and lets see some of the Girls text, As a cop I can tell you they are just as bad
@Anonymous Stacy what are the statistics of sexual assault by women vs men?
CC Alumnus in California says:
@CC Alumnus in California Weak. Columbia, stop coddling millennials with too many feelings. Political correctness has gone too far. Until Columbia stops meddling in private conversations of students (on a non-Columbia website!) I am suspending my alumni contributions. Will urge my fellow graduates to do the same. The wrestling team did nothing wrong.
Stanley P. Kachowski says:
@Stanley P. Kachowski Apparently, you need to be a holocaust denying war-monger for Columbia to defend your right to speech. I present you a verbatim excerpt from your Dean about supporting free speech of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But here this isn’t even about free speech but more of a thought-police exercise.
“First, since 2003, the World Leaders Forum has advanced Columbia’s longstanding tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate, especially on global issues. It should never be thought that merely to listen to ideas we deplore in any way implies our endorsement of those ideas, or the weakness of our resolve to resist those ideas or our naiveté about the very real dangers inherent in such ideas. It is a critical premise of freedom of speech that we do not honor the dishonorable when we open the public forum to their voices. To hold otherwise would make vigorous debate impossible.
Second, to those who believe that this event never should have happened, that it is inappropriate for the University to conduct such an event, I want to say that I understand your perspective and respect it as reasonable. The scope of free speech and academic freedom should itself always be open to further debate. As one of the more famous quotations about free speech goes, it is “an experiment, as all life is an experiment.” I want to say, however, as forcefully as I can, that this is the right thing to do and, indeed, it is required by existing norms of free speech, the American university, and Columbia itself.
Third, to those among us who experience hurt and pain as a result of this day, I say on behalf of all of us we are sorry and wish to do what we can to alleviate it.
Fourth, to be clear on another matter – this event has nothing whatsoever to do with any “rights” of the speaker but only with our rights to listen and speak. We do it for ourselves.
We do it in the great tradition of openness that has defined this nation for many decades now. We need to understand the world we live in, neither neglecting its glories nor shrinking from its threats and dangers. It is consistent with the idea that one should know thine enemies, to have the intellectual and emotional courage to confront the mind of evil and to prepare ourselves to act with the right temperament. In the moment, the arguments for free speech will never seem to match the power of the arguments against, but what we must remember is that this is precisely because free speech asks us to exercise extraordinary self- restraint against the very natural but often counter-productive impulses that lead us to retreat from engagement with ideas we dislike and fear. In this lies the genius of the American idea of free speech.
Lastly, in universities, we have a deep and almost single-minded commitment to pursue the truth. We do not have access to the levers of power. We cannot make war or peace. We can only make minds. And to do this we must have the most full freedom of inquiry. “
@Anonymous For me, this is what it comes down to: the wrestling team competes in the name of Columbia. It says COLUMBIA on their uniforms. Columbia pours money into their athletic program, gives them special access to academic support, lets them register for classes early, transports them to matches, and maybe even gave them preference in admissions because of what they could contribute to the team and hence, the school and its reputation.
Columbia didn’t go rummaging around in their texts, but when they became public, it’s pretty hard to justify reacting to them with nothing but a shrug, because that would also send a message: “These people represent us and here’s what they stand for.”
The right to freedom of speech means they can’t be arrested for what they wrote or said. It doesn’t guarantee that there will be no consequences.
Whether or not campus media should have published those texts in the first place–that’s a whole other matter. And I have some sympathy with commenters who point out that plenty of people on the left seem to have no problem putting inflammatory labels on people.
@kelly Little mindless wanna-be liberals, we can blame the adults these little morons are imitating.
This is truly pathetic, Columbia is honestly a joke, and has been for twenty years. Very light academics, lots of PC drama, like this.
They think this makes them look like adult liberals, it’s funny, and sad.
Way to steal private texts, and publish them….
Thought Hillary, Pedestal, and the DNC said that was wrong?
Hahaha, so stupid. You kids better stay in the northeast, you will never make it in that real world, where men and women joke about sex, race, and all other adult topics.
@kelly One other thing, let’s call this what it is, open season on white males, which I am sure most of these guys are probably, given that it’s Columbia.
The one group the Leftist ENCOURAGE their mindless followers hate, ridicule, condemn, etc.
If I were a male at this horrible school, I would be out on transfer before Christmas, there are so many other fantastic schools, why waste that once in a lifetime experience with a bunch of whiny little PC nazis?
Seriously, take a look around and go somewhere where you are not hated, not to mention you will have 10 times more HOT women that actually LIKE white males. Why suffer such a backwards, hateful place as Columbia?
(that should be the new slogan for males considering Columbia).
Hatred and bigotry are alive and well at places like Columbia, how ironic.
You PC clones truly don’t get it, you are just programmed, and you never bother thinking. Very sad.
@Anonymous Wow, Kelly! So much anger and discontent! Tell me are you hot? Did your father think your mother was hot? Were you allowed to voice your opinion as a child? If you are not hot, do you deserve to be treated like a piece of S___T? Just curious, because quite frankly, I would not want my daughter hanging out with someone that does not think of themselves very highly. But hey, there is a place for everyone, and at the end of the day, these northeast liberals are the ones pulling the strings. I don’t get it Kelly, but hey, everyone deserves someone to mistreat, I’m sure your man appreciates you whole heartily.
@Asdf The discourse is awful and sad. It was also basically private. While revealing ugliness about how some people really think, punishing them for conversation sets an example. Imagine Donald Trump punishing the NYT for violating his standards… Erode Freedom to exchange private thoughts, even very ugly ones , and at some point your Freedom island will disappear into the sea.
roberts says:
@roberts men are men, cowboys are cowboys,…>!! get over it.
men talk like that all the time ..in the locker room, at work, or with their friends, ..
yes, it’s a little sickening sometime, i agree.
and very immature and ridiculous …. it’s a man thing, i guess.
@roberts and …thomas jefferson and george washington used four letter words sometimes,
@Anonymous If you think this is about four-letter words, perhaps you should reread those texts.
@L If these messages were posted on a PUBLIC social media, then there is a problem. On the other hand, messages being hacked and screenshot by a member outside the Columbia Wrestling GroupMe is another thing and there should be consequences.
Carl Webb says:
@Carl Webb These texts are OVER TWO YEARS OLD.
Anyway who cares what they say in private. I say worse and will always do so to spite the Libtard SWs. Oh yeah and GO TRUMP,
Vadiraja says:
@Vadiraja It matters how these people think. Even if one dismisses these posts as satirical, they are satirical in a way that shows that they are the modern day misogynists and racists. If you want to see satire that is still funny but does not degrade woman or degrade people based on their genetics, see THE ONION.
@Dr.Benway Shut up. People like you will simply be ignored in the future or told to shut up and behave yourself.
We’re tired of having to deal with children who believe that every little thing is somehow a crime or something that we should waste out time being concerned about.
Grow up.And stay away from men because we don’t want another mattress girl on our hands.
Herambe says:
@Herambe This makes me think of when we saw Clinton/Podesta’s emails and how corrupt Democrats are.
It’s weird that MSM and SJW’s are so hellbent on destroying innocent people’s lives but not mentioning politicians who pimp America for their own personal gain.
Keen says:
@Keen They all sound like trump supporters to me
@Hi So does freedom of speech not a thing anymore?
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Picking your favourite Harry Potter movie (or book) is like trying to pick your favourite child. I don’t take the decision lightly, hence why it has taken me SO LONG to write this post. Whichever film is left last, I immediately feel guilty for, and to be honest, each film has their strengths and weaknesses, which makes the decision even harder. Nevertheless, I’ve managed to rank them. Finally.
I would just like to take a moment to say that just because your favourite doesn’t come near the top, doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the film or think it’s good. I love all of the Harry Potter films dearly, but my reasons for ranking them in this order is down to my own personal taste. With that in mind, let’s get underway.
Order of the Phoenix marks David Yates’ debut on the Harry Potter franchise, and unfortunately he was met with a difficult task. Order of the Phoenix is the largest book in the series, and so trying to condense the plot into a streamline film was going to be challenging for any director. Couple that with the fact that this was David Yates’ first Harry Potter film, I find Order of the Phoenix to be the weakest.
Scenes I Love: Dumbledore’s Army practicing in the room of requirement, watching their friendship develop and grow stronger. The Order at Grimmauld Place, especially Christmas with the Weasleys.
I know, I know. The climax of the Harry Potter franchise charts so low on the list? Yes, but only because I cannot bear to watch my beloved characters die in the final battle. It is an amazing action film, with incredible special effects, moments of humour, and it completely charming – but I have to mentally prepare myself before I put the DVD on!
Scenes I Love: Dumbledore’s Army camping out in the room of requirement, led by the silver trio Neville, Ginny and Luna. Neville generally being a bad-ass beauty in his cardigan. Ron and Hermione FINALLY getting together. Lupin, Sirius, James and Lily walking with Harry into the Forbidden Forest. Narcissa betraying Voldemort!
The film that kick-started it all. Watching the young golden trio is just a delight, and it’s so comforting to revel in the pure innocence of the Wizarding World before Voldemort’s return. Christopher Columbus managed to make the first film timeless, and no Christmas is complete without watching this film by a roaring fire and wearing a Weasley jumper.
Scenes I Love: Hagrid putting the Dursleys in their place. Harry’s first experience of Diagon Alley. Harry meeting Ron and Hermione on the train. Harry standing up to Draco (multiple times). The gold trio sleuthing around the castle figuring out the mystery.
Prisoner of Azkaban stands out, not just visually, but as the turning point of the Harry Potter franchise. Alfonso Cuarón creates a stunning film, that sees the trio not only come into their adolescence but also gives the collection a mature tone. It’s a shame that Alfonso Cuarón didn’t stay on for more Harry Potter films, as his vision was something that was universally loved by all of the fans.
Scenes I Love: Hermione being rubbish at Divination, yet mastering all of her classes by using a time turner. The introduction of the Mauraders, and seeing Remus and Sirius come to life. Ron and Hermione going on “dates” in Hogsmede as Harry can’t visit without permission.
The second film, also directed by Chris Columbus, steps up a gear with the Chamber of Secrets. Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts with more knowledge of Voldemort, the Wizarding World and the dangers that surround Hogwarts. With Hermione being petrified for a portion of the film, we see Harry and Ron haphazardly try and navigate their way through the next mystery, and ultimately (without realising it) destroying a Horcrux.
Scenes I Love: The introduction of Dobby. Dobby is free! The Weasleys rescuing Harry from the Dursleys. Spending time at the Burrow. The Weasley’s in general. Harry’s derp moment trying to get to Diagon Alley. Lockhart being inept throughout the whole film.
A lot of people were opposed to splitting up the Deathly Hallows book into two films, and I can understand why. From a business perspective, it would seem as though Warner Brothers wanted to make more money by issuing two separate films, but had they not made that decision, we would not have had Part 1 in all it’s glory. I know lots of people think that the “calm before the storm” films are boring, as I heard lots of complains about Mockingjay Part 1 as well as the first Deathly Hallows film. Personally, I absolutely adore this installment. There are so many moments of light and shade, and comedy mixed with fear as the final battle looms ever closer. The dynamic between the trio strengthens as their friendship is put to the test, and even though we’re out of our usual Hogwarts setting, we’re still left with the amateur sleuthing that the trio partake in throughout all the books and films.
Scenes I Love: The flight of the seven Harrys. Preparing for the Wedding at the Burrow. The return of Dobby and Kreacher. Camping in the Forest. Harry and Hermione dancing together. The silver doe. Ron returning, destroying the Horcrux, admitting his deepest fears and feelings, and Hermione giving him hell. Ron and Harry making up and talking in the tent. The tale of the three brothers. Basically any romantic Ron/Hermione moments.
Trying to decide between my number two and number one was THE MOST difficult decision ever and to be honest I switched these around a number of times. Probably by the time this post goes live I will have changed my mind again. When the Goblet of Fire DVD first came out, I watched it over and over again, so I probably know the film inside out. Mike Newell created a fantastic film, and I’m sad he didn’t stay on for more films after Goblet of Fire.
Scenes I Love: The entire Quidditch world cup sequence. Harry falling for Cho Chang and Cedric and Harry looking out for each other, despite the fact that Cedric is dating Cho. The Yule Ball sequence. Ron and Hermione arguing. Cedric’s funeral and Dumbledore’s speech. The ending with the golden trio watching Durmstrang and Bauxbatons leaving Hogwarts.
Half-Blood Prince is my favourite Harry Potter film, (although closely followed by Goblet of Fire). David Yates, who tackled the task of adapting the remaining Harry Potter movies, really hit his stride with this film. Once again, this film is the calm before the storm, as we see Harry and the gang return to Hogwarts after the events of Order of the Phoenix. This also marks the last time Harry is at Hogwarts before the Final Battle.
Scenes I Love: Harry and Dumbledore out on their adventures. Harry trying to flirt with the waitress. Harry returning to the Burrow and flirting with Ginny. The trio taking potions classes and Hermione getting frustrated at Harry because he is better than her (thanks to the Half-Blood Prince). Ron being rubbish and then awesome at Quidditch. Hermione and Ron fighting, flirting, trying to get back at each other. Ron being under the influence of a love potion. Harry being under the influence of Felix Felicis. And so many more!
That concludes my ranking of the Harry Potter films. Do you disagree with my choices, and think a different film should be number one? Or do you agree with me? Let me know in the comments.
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Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project
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Title Robert Erdman, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by H. P. Bluhm
Alternative Title No.177, Robert Erdman, interview by H. P. Bluhm
Creator Erdman, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1927-2011
Contributor Bluhm, Harry P.; Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center
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Subject Erdman, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1927-2011--Interviews; University of Utah--Faculty--Biography; Educators--Utah--Biography; University of Utah--History; University of Utah. College of Education--History
Description Transcript (90 pages) of interview by Harry P. Bluhm with Robert Erdman, professor of educational psychology and former Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Utah, on March 31, 1987. This interview is no. 177 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape no. 605. Includes a copy of Erdman's vita
Abstract Erdman (b. 1929) recalls his background and schooling, his first years at the University of Utah as a faculty member, his chairmanship of the Department of Special Education, and his deanship of the College of Education, 1976-1983. Interviewer: Harry Bluhm
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Production Begins on Netflix’s ‘The King’ Starring Timothee Chalamet and Joel Edgerton
by Matt Goldberg May 31, 2018
Production has begun on David Michôd’s new movie for Netflix, The King. Written by Michôd and Joel Edgerton, the film is inspired by Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V as it follows a disgraced young Prince Hal (Timothee Chalamet) who eventually learns what it means to be king thanks to his friend Falstaff (Edgerton).
The film has a killer cast that also includes Ben Mendelsohn (thus marking an Animal Kingdom reunion between Mendelsohn, Michôd, and Edgerton), Sean Harris, Lily-Rose Depp, and Robert Pattinson. The film also marks Michôd’s new project for Netflix after last year’s War Machine.
The film won’t literally take Shakespeare’s words and instead will use his plotting and characters but employ the common vernacular a la Game of Thrones. It sounds like a film that needs an epic canvas as it explores what it means to rule, so hopefully Netflix will give the movie a bit of a theatrical release.
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Check out the press release below, which details the characters the cast will be playing. The King will be released sometime in 2019.
NETFLIX’S “THE KING” STARTS PRODUCTION IN THE UK
Robert Pattinson, Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily-Rose Depp, Tom Glynn-Carney and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie join cast
Director: David Michôd (War Machine, Animal Kingdom, The Rover)
Writers: Joel Edgerton and Michôd
Producers: Academy Award winning Plan B will produce along with ith Porchlight Films’ Liz Watts (who produced the Michôd-directed Animal Kingdom and The Rover), Edgerton and Michôd
Cast: Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird), Golden Globe nominee Joel Edgerton (Bright, Loving, The Great Gatsby), Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Macbeth), Golden Globe nominee Ben Mendelsohn (The Land of Steady Habits, Ready Player One, Bloodline), Robert Pattinson (Good Time, The Lost City of Z), Lily-Rose Depp (The Summoning, The Dancer), Tom Glynn-Carney (Dunkirk) and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
Edgerton will be playing Falstaff; Chalamet will be playing Hal; Pattinson will be playing The Dauphin; Mendelsohn will be playing King Henry IV; Depp will be playing Princess Catherine; Harris will be playing William; Glynn-Carney will be playing Hotspur; McKenzie will be playing Philippa
Log line: Inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V, a young, disgraced prince, Hal inherits the crown and must learn what it means to be a king, guided by his one true friend, Falstaff.
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A Hero is You: DC Universe Online Arrives on Xbox One
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What do you call something that's not the primary key?
I've been working with a group who have built a system where they've coined a few new terms in the process, and I wanted to know if there's something more standardized they should be calling it.
Basically, they have tables which hold versioned info, so the unique key for the table is the identifier for the document being tracked, plus the record number (although, the record number is auto-numbered, so it's unique in itself). They refer to the fields that make up the document's identifier (it changes for each table), as the 'prime key' ... but the fields both individually and collectively (eg, if it has fields A, B and C to get a unique identifier, they might interchangable refer to A as being 'a prime key' and A/B/C as being 'the prime key'
If they had a normalized database, this would be an obvious candidate for a foreign key -- but it's not normalized, so it's not a reference to a different table.
Is there some name for this concept -- an identifier to select some concept that's not what the table is based on, but which isn't a foreign key?
update: it's not an alternate key, as it doesn't identify a unique record within the table; it identifies a group of records. Take the folowing table:
id document_id version_no
-- ----------- ----------
1 1 1
So we're tracking metadata for 5 objects, which are two different files, one of which has been updated once (2 versions/editions of it), and one which has been updated twice.
We have the following:
candidate keys : (id) or (document_id, version_no)
natural key : (document_id, version_no)
surrogate key : (id)
primary key : (id, document_id) (I didn't select it)
... if document_id were a relationship to another table, it'd be a foreign key, but 'foreign key' typically also infers a constraint (ie, the value has to exist in some other table before it can be used here) ... but in this case, it's not. So, is there some other term to describe this as something that selects a related grouping of objects rather than a single record out of the table?
The first definition of surrogate on the wikipedia page for surrogate key fits, but that's not the common usage of the term, where most people consider a surrogate key to fit the second definition:
Surrogate (1) : This definition is based on that given by Hall, Owlett and Todd (1976). Here a surrogate represents an entity in the outside world. The surrogate is internally generated by the system but is nevertheless visible to the user or application.
Surrogate (2) : This definition is based on that given by Wieringa and De Jonge (1991). Here a surrogate represents an object in the database itself. The surrogate is internally generated by the system and is invisible to the user or application.
update 2 : Basically, if you had a table that handled versioning of records, if you moved the records to a new table and stored editing history, the fields that link back to the original table would be considered a foreign key ... but if you stored all of it in one table, without relating to a secondary table, is there a name for the group of fields that identify the multiple versions of the record?
The reason I ask is that the group I'm working with has decided to call it a 'prime key', and when I came on board, I reviewed all of their documentation, and told them they had a typo, and it was the 'primary key', but they explained that no, it was the phrase they had coined to describe this concept.
I'm trying to identify if there's a accepted name in the database community for this concept.
In some ways the document_id is a surrogate key, but in our particular case, it's the hashing of a natural key (time placed into 12 second 'slots' ... the natural key (time) may change between versions/editions. (it's science data, so there are corrections for clock drift, etc.) – Joe Jan 11 '11 at 16:07
If id is a candidate key then (id, document_id) can't possibly be a primary key because it isn't a minimal superkey. It might be the column referred to by a PRIMARY KEY constraint, but that's different. – nvogel Apr 13 '11 at 10:06
@dportas : it's not a candidate key ... it's technically an identifier into a different concept. Let me go an update the question. – Joe Apr 13 '11 at 14:01
User terms surrogate key and natural key for primary key as a variant.
Surrogate Key:
Surrogate keys are keys that have no “business” meaning and are solely used to identify a record in the table. Such keys are either database generated (example: Identity in SQL Server, Sequence in Oracle, Sequence/Identity in DB2 UDB etc.) or system generated values (like generated via a table in the schema).
Natural Key:
Keys are natural if the attribute it represents is used for identification independently of the database schema. What this basically means is that the keys are natural if people use them example: Invoice-Numbers, Tax-Ids, SSN etc.
Surrogate Keys vs Natural Keys for Primary Key
garikgarik
A "candidate key" is any column or collection of columns that CAN uniquely identify a record in a table.
A "primary key" is a candidate key that is defined as the primary key for the table.
Internally, a primary key is simply a unique index, clustered or non-clustered, that is typically used in foreign key relationships.
There is more to it than this, as always, but I hope this helps.
Leigh Riffel
Matt MMatt M
A compound key would also define what you're describing.
I've heard it called other things as well, like composite key. But note that the composite key is not the same as a compound key. Just trying to alert you to two vocabulary words.
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Located on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, officially an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, NH Shopfitting & Interiors provides a tailored service to clients across the retail, commercial and leisure sectors, but the company has become recognised for its specialist work in the fit-out of petrol forecourt shop interiors, food outlets and washrooms. Established over 20 years ago by MD Nicholas Hunt, the company has enjoyed exceptional growth over recent years, and has partnered with key site operators to meet the growing demand for customer-focused convenience and food service outlets at UK filling stations.
Joinery manufacture is at the heart of the company’s activities, and the growth in sales has necessitated investment in both machinery and premises. NH Shopfitting now operates from a 4,000m2 site, with workshops and offices, a generous parking and loading area, and a joinery production space that has increased by 50% since the business moved here in 2014.
Ray Townley, Area Sales Manager for DCS, visited the site to discuss NH Shopfitting’s growing dust extraction requirements with Project Manager Stephen Jordan and, as Ray explains: “Dust extraction was previously provided by several stand-alone bag filter units located adjacent to production machinery but, as the production area expanded and new machines were installed, the ageing bag units had finally reached their limitations.” The system design for NH Shopfitting was going to be relatively straightforward; the old bag units would be scrapped and replaced with a high-efficiency, externally-sited and ATEX-approved filter unit with a 30kW direct drive extraction fan, new FastClip ductwork system routed to all the machines and, as recommended by the ATEX regulations, a CARZ back-pressure isolation valve which, in the event of an explosion in the filter unit, prevents the effects of a pressure wave and flames travelling from the filter, back along ductwork, and into the factory.
NH Shopfitting operates a typical range of high-powered machinery including a number of saws, an edgebander, a heavy-duty wide belt sander, and a high-speed HOLZ-HER CNC machine. However, and again typical of fit-out joinery manufacturing, constantly varying production demands dictate that all the machines are never in operation at the same time. “Having surveyed the premises and reviewed the extraction requirements with Stephen, this installation appeared to be a shoo-in for the inclusion of an Ecogate® controller and automatic dampers,” says Ray Townley, “so I agreed with Stephen that I would visit again with Ian Rayner, Ecogate’s Sales Manager.”
“As anticipated, Ian Rayner was able to demonstrate that incorporating Ecogate technology into the system would significantly reduce the amount of electricity consumed by the extraction fan; effectively halving the extraction system running costs.” Ian Rayner’s calculations showed that including Ecogate in the system would generate sufficient savings to recover the additional capital expenditure in less than 3 years and, in addition, installing the Ecogate system negated the need to include Star-Delta starters; reducing the base cost of the extraction system. “Installing Ecogate® technology optimises fan speed, in real-time, to exactly match extraction demand”, says Ian Rayner. “At NH Shopfitting, the maximum air volume capacity requirement is almost 15% less than the total air volume would be with the fan extracting continuously from all machines – as it would be without Ecogate – and the average volume requirement is reduced by a minimum of 22%.”
DCS installed an NFSZ3000 2HJLR rotary valve filter, with patented antistatic Superbag filter media, and a reverse air regeneration fan provides efficient filter cleaning. Side access doors, reached via an elevated gangway, allow access to the filter media for inspection and maintenance, and the waste dust is delivered pressure-free from the filter unit, via rotary valve, into a covered skip. “We were impressed by the professional service DCS provided from start to finish”, says Stephen Jordan. “We’ve now got an efficient, cost-effective system that we can virtually forget about; we’ll be making savings on electricity costs for years to come and in winter we can heat the factory with clean, warm air from the filter unit.”
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Jessica Walter Just Revealed A Major ‘Arrested Development’ Season Five Spoiler
By Olivia Armstrong Twitter @itslivarmstrong Jul 10, 2015 at 3:45pm
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San Diego Comic-Con kicked off yesterday, igniting its annual weekend of superfandom and getting the Internet excited about too many future pop culture revelations at once. This morning, television matriarch Jessica Walter did just that. There to promote her work on FX’s Archer, the actress was eager to veer off topic and give the skinny on the anticipated new season of Arrested Development, which, yes, has finally been confirmed.
In a sit-down with TV Line, Walter mentioned excitedly calling up series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and asking him how she should respond in the event someone asks her about Season Five, to which he and producer Brian Grazer replied, “Now that Buster has been arrested for the murder of Liza Minnelli, we’re very excited to get the show started.” You may or may not remember the much-maligned fourth season of the cult comedy left us scratching our heads following Lucille Two’s (Minnelli) mysterious death during the Cinco de Quatro festivities. In addition to all of the George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) drama plus the rift between Michael (Jason Bateman) and George Michael (Michael Cera), Season Five will now feature an even bigger trial than that of George Sr.’s infamous fraud charges.
There’s no set date for the new season as of yet but Grazer mentioned back in June that the series will air 17 new episodes on Netflix early next year. You can watch Walter spill the beans below and stream all four seasons of Arrested Development on Netflix.
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Nathan and the Amazing TechnoPocket NerdCoat
by KJ Kabza
KJ Kabza's fantasy and science fiction have appeared in F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction Online, AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, and others, with work upcoming in Buzzy Mag and GUD. This is his second story in Daily Science Fiction. To see why his work has been dubbed "Delightful" (Locus Online), "Very clever, indeed" (SFRevu), and "RECOMMENDED" (SFF World), he invites you to peruse kjkabza.com for links to more, and follow him on Twitter @KJKabza.
It begins to unravel in the Green Horse Caf�. And that frighteningly athletic-looking waitress (that's Jiao Ming, by the by, and she's gotta be 5'10" if she's an inch) is gonna be the one to pull that first, tempting thread.
The moment hits at 12:05 P.M., when this guy that Jiao wishes she didn't know enters with a gust of ankle-biting air. His name, as Jiao has read from his credit card on prior occasions, is Nathan Pinkwater. Slender but flabby, tall but self-conscious, he slouches in a funny way when he walks and bites his nails all over the place (look at those cuticles, would you; ugh), and tends to flirt with all the debonair suaveness of a shaven orangutan. At least the usual dandruffy snow on Pinkwater's shoulders has evaporated in the happy spring of improved personal hygiene.
And--wait a sec. What the hell is he wearing?
Jiao stops mid-stride to stare, a grilled-focaccia-avocado-sprout-pepper plate in one hand, as Pinkwater slouches in his funny way towards his favorite crappy table by the kitchen. He is wearing a coat. But is that even a coat? Such perfect drape.
The way it pulls light in, and won't let it out.
Pinkwater removes it. He arranges the garment on the back of his chair, like it's a cloak adorning a throne, and Jiao nearly forgets to deliver her focaccia-whatever plate before approaching his table.
"Hi," she says, and because Pinkwater's habits are pretty regular, Jiao asks, "Pot of Jasmine green tea?"
He looks up in startled pleasure to find that Jiao is his server--"Oh, hi!"--then squints ineffectually at the chalkboard menu over the serving counter. "I'll have a... umm..."
"I can come back."
"Wait. No, actually, green tea is fine. But..." Pinkwater smiles at her. Jiao wearily braces herself for a terrible pick-up line, but that's not what Pinkwater's going for at all.
He goes for his coat.
Rather: he reaches somewhere into that perfect, inky blackness, and pulls out a teapot.
Jiao stares. Teapots, now, even those little ones--and this one was full-sized, heavy stoneware--cannot be crammed into pockets. Not if you want such a seductively smooth and perfect drape.
Pinkwater is smiling like a Labrador that just rolled in something too nasty to specify. "Can you put it in my teapot?"
Jiao says, "I get off work at 2. Stay until then. Then we'll talk."
Pinkwater's smile falters. His nail-bitten hand curls around the teapot protectively, as if sheltering a kitten. "Listen. Uh--"
Jiao goes to the kitchen without taking it.
At 2 o'clock, Jiao's as good as her word and comes straight to Pinkwater's crappy table. "Ready?"
"Oh. Uh." Pinkwater picks up his coat (oh, that drop of ink; oh, that slice of midnight) and follows Jiao in funny-slouching nervousness. They leave the building, and Jiao's long exhalation steams out into the sharp winter air.
"Let's sit in my car," she says.
Pinkwater's eyes grow into eager moons, but Jiao turns and doesn't look behind her. She stalks over the salted ice to the lot. Her rusty steed, bearing the opinionated bumper stickers of owners long absent, awaits. She unlocks it and gets in and starts the engine, the heater plastering her with chill air.
Pinkwater slithers into the adjacent front seat.
Jiao turns to him. He's wearing the coat with Style and Flair, which should not be so, since the manner in which he slithered inside the car should've twisted it all up. Nope. It sticks to him like an octopus made of wet silk.
"Look," says Jiao. "Uh--I'm Jiao, and this is my shitty car. But forget that. If you actually have a magic coat, what the hell are you doing wasting your time in a stupid coffee shop in Boulder?"
Pinkwater's lips move in a feeble infant-like way before he gets any words out. "It's not magic."
Jiao's eyes harden. She holds out her hand. "Gimme your teapot."
Pinkwater blinks, and produces, impossibly, the offending and telltale teapot, from a section of coat that drapes perfectly over his lightly-flabbed ribs.
"If that's not magic," says Jiao, taking and inspecting the teapot at critical and close range, "I don't know what is."
"It's not magic," says Pinkwater, a little indignantly. "It's sleight-of-hand."
"Bullshit," says Jiao. "What else you got in there?"
"It wasn't in there," objects Pinkwater. "Strictly speaking."
Jiao removes the teapot lid and peers inside. Deceptively normal. She hands it back and says, "What, are the pockets in some other dimension?"
Pinkwater colors. "No," he says.
The ensuing silence between them is uncomfortable and sharp. In the lot outside, five students squeeze into a car even shittier than Jiao's and drive away.
"You're a terrible liar," says Jiao.
"I'm not lying!"
"Really terrible."
"Pocket dimensions quantumly anchored to ordinary up and down quarks," Pinkwater scoffs. "That's ridiculous."
Jiao eyes him.
Pinkwater colors again. "Listen, uh, I'm very flattered that you were impressed, and I'd be happy to show you some more tricks sometime--say, over dinner? This Friday?--but really--"
Jiao leans across him, tigress-like, and sets her left hand on his door, twisting her body to face him. Pinkwater stares at her and wilts. "Listen," says Jiao, "wouldn't you be curious if someone showed up at... wherever it is you worked... and brought out a thing like this? I'm not trying to get you in trouble or steal your secrets. I'm really just dying of curiosity."
Pinkwater eyes the predatory way she's leaning. Jiao dislikes using sweetness or flattery as a general rule, so it is an effort for her to smile and lean back a little. "Please?"
Her reluctant guest draws in a thoughtful inhalation. "Well, it isn't just up and down quarks," he finally says. "Obviously."
Jiao waits. Pinkwater says nothing further, only glances at her, conspiratorially. He opens his coat, and Jiao realizes that Pinkwater is still holding his teapot. Not when he reaches in and puts it away, though.
In its place, he withdraws a rubber chicken.
Pinkwater gestures with the rubber chicken as he talks, its vulcanized bits wobbling stiffly against a backdrop of growing fog on the windshield as the heater gathers steam. "You see," he says, "what you really need are gravitons and anti-gravitons, which are by the way neither particles nor strings but really kind of like a state of oscillation localized to a certain neighborhood." Flop, goes the chicken neck. "And all you need to do is find a way to line them up and enmesh them with up and down quarks--or I mean, whatever, it doesn't have to be common matter--for which you basically need to set up these other oscillations that don't really have any names yet." Flop, goes the chicken neck. "Basically, it's like taking a big fishing net and... no. Okay, it's like a big ball of... no, that's not right. Maybe a soap bubble?" The chicken pauses, evocatively, in mid-air. "Yeah, a film of soap bubble, that you hold metal rings against before blowing bubbles through the rings. And then the bubbles stick to the original film. I wish you knew math."
"Who says I don't?"
Pinkwater sets the chicken, fastidiously, on his lap. From the coat he withdraws a box of crackers. "Well, then I wish we had a marker board. If you know math, why are you wasting your life waiting tables?"
"If you know English, why are you wasting your life building a magic coat instead of teaching ESL in Korea?"
"It's not magic," huffs Pinkwater. He sets the crackers on the dashboard and withdraws a pair of dress pants. "It's science."
"Sure," says Jiao. "What's with the chicken?"
Pinkwater withdraws an iPod, a glossy magazine, a liter of Mountain Dew, an abused bag of trail mix, a pair of sneakers, a change of socks, a pile of mismatched screws, a pair of noise-canceling headphones, a first aid kit, and a checkbook. By this point his lap is thoroughly smothered, but he still produces a bag of potting soil. It's got a leak in it. Rich peat drizzles onto Jiao's passenger seat, leisurely, and even though the seat was already pretty filthy anyway, she now dislikes Pinkwater even more. "You wanted to know what else I was carrying," says Pinkwater, producing a flyswatter.
Jiao winces. "Put all that shit back before somebody sees you!"
Pinkwater gestures at the fog-covered windows and wipes his forehead with a wrist. The heat is blasting now. "Nobody's going to see me."
Jiao wipes her hand all over the windshield.
"Hey!" Instead of replenishing the technopocket nerdcoat, Pinkwater leans over his treasures like a child protecting a pile of blocks. "I thought you didn't--"
Jiao buckles her seatbelt.
"What are you doing?" Pinkwater asks.
"Taking your dumb ass some place less public."
Jiao glances at Pinkwater, now sullenly restocking his coat, as she drives. Her curiosity has been joined by alarm at his naivet�--surely some shady authority figure, representative of The Man, would catch Pinkwater flaunting this thing, and then?--as well as anger at herself for getting involved. Hell, some government lackey could be following them right now. Jesus, what was she doing?
But man... just consider that coat.
Maybe Pinkwater--kind, generous, grateful Pinkwater--had a second one that he wouldn't mind loaning out.
"Okay," says Jiao. "So you got this coat. You built it, right? I mean you don't get that shit off of eBay."
"Yes," says Pinkwater. "I built it."
Jiao eyes him as she sails through a stop sign. "You're lying to me again."
"I am not."
"I already said you were a terrible liar. Who built the coat?"
Pinkwater looks offended. He picks up his noise-canceling headphones, shakes out the potting soil, and slips them back into the contested garment. "I designed it. I didn't steal anything. The other guy stole my blueprints, so I just took back what belonged to me."
Jiao's hands squeeze the wheel. It makes a sound like the rope of a tire swing, twisting in midair under the weight of several panicking children. "Okay," she says, with forced calm. "Who did you steal it... er... take it back from?"
"I told you. My lab partner." Pinkwater's fluttery mouth stills and scrunches in, and his features sour in displeasure. "Well, all right. He's the P.I."
"The..."
"The head of the lab." Pinkwater flips through his checkbook, ensuring that all blank checks are present and accounted for. He slides it into a pocket. "He acts like we're his slaves. Takes credit for everything."
Jiao's hands are still clenching. This makes it hard to steer. She realizes that if she crashes like this, her body is going to snap apart on impact, while blithe, stupid, dopey Pinkwater's is going to flop around happily in his seatbelt like that goddamn rubber chicken. "Okay," says Jiao again, relaxing, albeit not very far. "Does he know the coat is missing?"
"I don't know. I don't care, either. He doesn't think I know that he went ahead and built it, so there's no way he'll think it's my fault."
"You know what," says Jiao. "Maybe we should just move on and forget this whole conversation. Can I drop you off somewhere?"
Pinkwater's disappointed expression is almost pitiable. "What? But I thought you--"
"Think whatever you want, but I draw the line at getting involved in some kind of mad scientist feud. No matter how awesome your coat is."
"I'm not a mad scientist," says Pinkwater, defensively, heaving up his unopened Mountain Dew. "And if I were, I'd be doing much worse with this technology than just designing a coat."
"Like your mad scientist lab head might be?"
Pinkwater frowns.
"What could he be doing with it?" Jiao demands, though of course, Pinkwater has no way of knowing, and she immediately regrets asking the question. She can answer well enough, anyway, with the aid of frenzied assumptions and half-baked suspicions. Mostly, you could smuggle things. Guns. Landmines. Bombs. Hell, warheads and tanks, for that matter, if maybe you made a pocket on a big enough tarp or something. Drugs. Stolen electronics. Diamonds. Gold.
Pinkwater opens the coat to replace the Mountain Dew, and a living, wrinkled hand reaches out to accept it.
"Oh," says Pinkwater.
Jiao screams. The car fishtails under her panic until she gets it to the other side of the road, roughly in a parking space in front of a public park. It's cold enough for the park to be empty, except for two dog-walking women, who stare at Jiao's car in puzzlement as they pass.
"What the SHIT!" says Jiao.
Gingerly, Pinkwater pulls the pocket open with both hands and peers inside. "Hey. I think that's him."
"Get out."
Pinkwater shuts an eye and squints into the pocket, as if peering down the barrel of a rifle. "How'd he get in there?"
"Get OUT!"
The hand comes out again. Pinkwater slaps it, as if shooing away a fly, but it finds his throat and begins to squeeze.
Jiao wants to open the passenger door and kick this horrifying tangle of WTF onto the asphalt and drive away, but she doesn't have room to kick. So she opens the glove compartment and pulls out a pocketknife. Pretend you're killing a zombie, she thinks, giddily, as she unfolds the blade. A disembodied zombie hand. But it's not a zombie. It's an actual guy in there. Pinkwater is turning purple-red, his weak nerdfingers fluttering around the enraged strength of that terrible coat limb. Jiao slashes the blade across the back of the not-zombie wrist, barely producing a scratch.
But it's enough. The hand retreats.
Pinkwater leans back, gasping, holding his tender throat. Jiao throws the knife onto the floor. "Jesus, Nathan!"
"I guess he's mad," Pinkwater gasps. "What do we do?"
"We?" Jiao shoves him. Fine potting soil rains from his pants onto the floor. "We don't do a damn thing. You get out of my car. I'm sorry I ever invited you in here, and I'm sorry I ever asked you about it. I don't know anything, I don't want to know anything, and I don't even know you."
The coat flutters independently of Pinkwater.
From inside, a voice says, "Is someone else out there? Can anyone hear me?" But it's not the voice of an enraged male mad scientist. Nope.
A young woman's voice, that is.
Jiao gapes. "And who is THAT?"
Pinkwater's eyes are baffled pools. "I don't know."
From elsewhere in the garment, the originally expected male mad scientist voice says, "Who's there?"
Jiao and Pinkwater gawk at each other in horrified, you've-got-to-be-shitting me shock as Pinkwater's coat engages in a heart-wrenching conversation with itself.
"My God! Who's there? Where am I?"
"My name is Martin Stroek. And unless I am mistaken, we are in a pocket dimension, artificially connected to, but separate from, our usual reality."
"Oh God. Oh God. Don't stop talking. Let me find you."
"You're right on top of me, Miss."
"I don't feel you. Where are you?"
"Calm down. You can't feel me because an infinite number of objects can occupy the same space, here. The physics are very different."
"How did he get me here?"
"I can't speak for you," says the scientist grimly, "but me--I was pushed."
In a moment of frigid clarity, Jiao thinks: Actually, Pinkwater is an excellent liar.
Pinkwater sees the transformation in Jiao's eyes. His pale skin pales further. "Wait. You don't have the whole story. I didn't--"
Jiao lunges across the car, opens the door, and shoves Pinkwater onto the asphalt. She crawls out after him, bone-chilling cold be damned. Pinkwater mewls and gets to his knees on the gritty ice, holding up his hands and dithering, but Jiao tackles him and rips the coat from his thrashing, flabby body. "You don't understand!" Pinkwater cries. "He had the coat for weeks before I got it back! I don't know where it's been! Who he's shown it to!"
"This is bullshit!" Jiao reaches into every pocket--and there are so, so many--and grabs and removes. All of Pinkwater's miscellaneous weirdo crap comes out, but now there's more, tons more, and it gets more alarming as it goes. Receipts and ticket stubs; eight bags of groceries; a woman's luggage set, full of luggage; silk bed sheets, lingerie, flowers. Photographic film prints: Pinkwater and a young woman. Time and date stamp: several years prior. Some people have real, real trouble letting go. So much trouble, they go back and grab. Eh, Pinkwater?
Jiao finally grasps a frantic, pawing hand. Pinkwater is pleading: Jiao doesn't know what she's doing, she has no idea of what's at stake, she'll ruin everything. Jiao pulls anyway.
She doesn't look much older than her photographs.
She clings to Jiao, a tiny woman, head barely up to Jiao's armpit. She quivers like a terrified rabbit. She's so small that Jiao can wrap her left arm around her shoulders while she uses her right arm to shake the ever-unliving bejesus out of the terrible coat as she yells her judgment at Pinkwater. "Who else you got stowed away in here? An ex-boss you never liked? The step-mom you hated? The girl that turned you down at a sixth-grade dance? Now you don't ever have to let go of anything, isn't that right, Nathan?"
"It isn't like that!" Pinkwater wheedles. His hands paw uselessly at the parking lot grit atop the filthy ice. "It isn't like that at all!"
Jiao wants to kick him.
Instead, she digs through the coat again while the small woman eases her grip and hides behind her.
Maybe Pinkwater does not keep (specifically) his ex-boss and step-mom and sixth grade crush in his coat, but there are certainly many, many more people in addition to the woman and Dr. Stroek.
And none of them look happy.
They assemble themselves in a ring around their pathetic, trembling captor. He doesn't try to run. Somehow, this only sickens Jiao further, and with a hiss, she throws the coat (now empty... right?) down onto the asphalt, at Dr. Stroek's feet.
She doesn't suggest anything. Nobody does.
But they all get the same idea, at about the same time, and nobody feels the need to discuss it. In fact, nobody talks at all. They just take the coat and force Pinkwater inside. Inside inside.
Jiao turns to Dr. Stroek. "So if you made these pockets, can you sew them up?"
This story was first published on Friday, October 5th, 2012
"I used to own the most amazing coat," my friend Nathan said to me, during a walk. "It had a zillion pockets and they all had zippers, and it was the most ridiculous, nerdiest, awesomest thing you've ever seen. Wish I could remember what happened to it." He held up his hands just so, as if framing a shot of a distant, glorious past. "Nathan and The Amazing TechnoPocket NerdCoat!"
I pulled out my little notebook. "I'm going to use that."
"As a title. I don't know what the hell that story will even be about, but I NEED that title."
Obviously, it had to be about a coat.
Nathan's last name didn't make it into the story, for reasons of propriety. But the last name of Daniel Pinkwater, the author of "Young Adult Novel"--one of the real Nathan's favorite books, which also happens to exhibit a type of absurdism I love and pay homage to in this story--did.
- KJ Kabza
We hope you're enjoying Nathan and the Amazing TechnoPocket NerdCoat by KJ Kabza.
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Teaching, Writing Workshop
Workshop : Narrative
October 15, 2011 Damien Walter 5 Comments
The second in a short series of posts accompanying workshops being taught for the Certificate in Creative Writing at Vaughan College. This post is on narrative, and why it is both a simple and deliciously complicated idea.
In Reading Like a Writer, novelist Francine Prose says that the true problem with narration is not who is speaking, but rather who is listening? And sometimes, especially for beginning writers, the problem is understanding that anyone is speaking at all.
We often use the word narrative interchangeably with both story and plot, and forget that while all three refer to some kind of sequence of events, each also has a quite separate specific meaning. A narrative is a told sequence of events. We call the teller a narrator, and the process of telling narration.
When writing a narrative we have to think about the point of view of the teller. Is the narrative being told in first or third person for instance. What is the voice of the narrator? How is it coloured by accent, attitude, emotion or other factors. How much does the teller know about the narrative? These can become thorny, circular arguments for writers, unless they are related back to the fundamental idea that a narrative has to be being told by a person. Sometimes the narrator is the central character, sometimes a subsidiary character or outside observer, sometimes by the author herself, or a combination of all of these.
For most of human history all stories were told. We passed them from one teller to the next, through an oral storytelling tradition stretching over thousands of years. Even once we began to record stories in writing, the written word was still written to be read aloud. With printing and mass literacy came the possibility for novels that were written to be read from the page. But without an actual human voice there to give the words shape, the writer has to work even harder to create the voice and viewpoint of the narrator. So it was really with cinema and TV that we began to lose the relationship between narrative and the voice of a narrator.
When you as a writer know who is telling the narrative, and also as Francine Prose suggests who they are telling it to, the entire writing process becomes both easier and filled with many more sophisticated opportunities. Take a simple children’s story like Jack and the Beanstalk. Imagine that Jack is telling the narrative as an old man, reflecting on his youthful adventure. Then imagine that he is telling it to the giant, somehow recovered from his fall from the beanstalk. Maybe the story is being told over a flagon of ale at an inn, two old men (or one old man and a very old monster!) reminiscing about better days. Or perhaps Jack is telling the story to his own wastrel son, an old man telling a young one what life is really about. With a scenario like this in mind, the richness and details of the story just come flooding out.
Once we understand as writers that there always has to be someone telling the narrative, and someone listening, we can work with that understanding in subtle ways. The narrator can be made invisible, the narrative transparent. As long as we as the writer understand how the narrative works, the workings can be hidden from the reader. The best narratives often work this way.
Imagine a woman (or man) recounting a serious crime she has committed, such as a bank robbery or even a murder. In the space of one page, have the woman first recount the crime to another criminal she wants to impress. Then secondly, also in the space of a page, have her recount it to a judge who she wants a pardon from.
Narrative- Telling a story (frootbat31.wordpress.com)
What is Powerful Narrative? (writeabetternovel.net)
The writer’s role in creating digital worlds (thecontentlab.icrossing.com)
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EU, UK, and Canadian Whistleblowers Receive New or Enhanced Protections
By Ginger Buck
Three recent international developments have occurred that will further enable and encourage whistleblowers to report alleged wrongdoing, and provide guidance for employers and organizations to respond to such complaints. The European Union formally adopted a whistleblower protection directive on September 25, 2019, requiring organizations with 50 or more workers to establish internal reporting channels over the...
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Second Circuit Upholds SEC Denial of Whistleblower Rewards to Three Claimants in Deutsche Bank Settlement
In May 2015, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay a $55 million penalty to the SEC to settle charges that its financial statements misreported the value of a portfolio of derivatives, failing to take account of the material risk of potential losses associated with the derivatives. Subsequently, in November 2017, the SEC announced that it had awarded whistleblower rewards totaling $16 million to two whistleblowers “whose...
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Question of the Week — Is the use of public nuisance law against J&J for its role in the opioid crisis appropriate?
The landmark $572M opioid verdict in Oklahoma against Johnson & Johnson stemmed from a single claim: “public nuisance” under state law. Other cases against opioid manufacturers, including whistleblower cases, involve claims for fraud, unlawful marketing, improper prescriptions, kickbacks, violating the Controlled Substances Act by failing to report suspicious purchases, and even flooding the black market. But...
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Whistleblower Suit Revived by Third Circuit Despite Settlement in Related State Court Action
In United States ex rel. Jean Charte v. American Tutor, Inc., the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed dismissal of a whistleblower’s qui tam action under the False Claims Act, giving the whistleblower the right to pursue her claims. The district court had dismissed the action under state law res judicata principals, because the relator had settled a defamation action brought in state court against her by...
Tagged in: Confidentiality and The Seal, Court Decision, Education Fraud, FCA Federal, FCA State, Government Decision, Whistleblower Case,
Intermountain Settles Dispute Pending Before Supreme Court, Leaving 9(b) Ambiguity Unresolved
Earlier this month, a Utah-based hospital chain announced it would settle whistleblower Dr. Gerald Polukoff’s case alleging the hospital performed unnecessary heart surgeries on Medicare patients, thereby overcharging the federal government in violation of the False Claims Act (FCA). Defendant Intermountain Health, the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West, had petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to...
Tagged in: Court Decision, FCA Federal, FCA Pleading, Healthcare Fraud, Hospital Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity,
Second Relator to File Wins First-to-File Fight in First Circuit
After Millennium Health agreed in 2015 to pay $227 million plus interest to settle claims that it submitted false claims bills for excessive urine testing, $34 million – 15% of the total – was set aside to resolve the competing claims of more than seven different relators who had filed qui tam cases against Millennium that were dismissed as part of the settlement. Since that time, several of the relators have...
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Whistleblowers Win One in Supreme Court with Clarification on Statute of Limitations for False Claims Act Actions
In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court affirmed that the False Claims Act’s statute of limitations applies in the same manner to all whistleblower-initiated actions, regardless of whether the United States has intervened in the action or not. The decision resolves a three-way split among the federal circuit courts. In the underlying litigation, U.S. ex rel. Hunt v. Cochise...
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Supreme Court rules in favor of position advocated by Constantine Cannon partner Henry Su on behalf of The Center for International Environmental Law and others in Jam v. International Finance Corp
Can the World Bank and other international organizations be sued for investments gone awry? That was the question, broadly speaking, that the Supreme Court answered in Jam v. International Finance Group, a case brought by Indian fishermen and farmers from the state of Gujarat whose waters and lands were destroyed by a power plant financed by the International Finance Group (IFC). The group of farmers sued the...
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Data Whistleblower Case Raises Question of What is a Public Disclosure
As regular readers know, we have been closely tracking the progress of data analysis firm Integra Med Analytics’ whistleblower lawsuit under the False Claims Act against Providence Health and its consultant J.A. Thomas and Associates, Inc. (JATA). The case alleges a conspiracy between Providence and JATA to upcode for specific Major Complications or Comorbidities (MCCs). This case is part of a growing number of...
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DOJ Affirms its Materiality Provision but Threatens to Dismiss Gilead FCA Case
On November 30, 2018, the United States filed its amicus curiae brief before the Supreme Court in Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Campie (“Gilead”). The brief highlights two key topics in False Claims Act (“FCA”) litigation: (1) the interpretation of materiality under Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar, 136 S. Ct. 19889 (2016) (“Escobar”) and (2) the impact of...
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Vermont Looks to Sharpen Stance on Worker Misclassification
by Scott Braddock | April 20, 2016
Worker Misclassification
Last week, the Construction Citizen team updated you on the fact that lawsuits about worker misclassification have been ramping up all across the country. The battle is playing out on multiple fronts – particularly in court houses and in the halls of state legislatures. The problem is at crisis levels across many industries, especially construction, and federal regulators have signaled they are getting more serious about reining it in.
Put simply, worker misclassification is cheating. It happens when a business pretends its workers are independent contractors when, by law, those people should be paid as employees. There are many legitimate uses of contract labor, however, which is why the IRS has this test to determine who can and cannot be classified that way.
Employers who intentionally cheat in this way do it to avoid payroll taxes, health benefits, and other protections for workers. Unscrupulous businesses use misclassification to lower their costs and gain an unfair competitive edge over employers who follow the letter of the law.
Lawmakers in Vermont are considering legislation to revise rules for what makes a person a self-employed independent contractor versus an employee. According to the news site VTDigger, "The most controversial part of the bill would change Vermont’s 'nature of the business' or 'like work' provision."
Reporter Erin Mansfield wrote that "Under current law, that provision means Vermont businesses are not allowed to bring on a single independent contractor or multiple independent contractors to perform work that is core to the business."
The bill, which is in a House committee now, may be changed significantly before it's possible passage into law. It has been delayed a few times already. One of the proposed amendments would “consider any people performing the same work as each other on a job site to be employees.” That amendment would slap businesses with a $5,000 fine if they coerce “a prospective employee into becoming an independent contractor.”
There’s also been discussion of allowing people to hold independent contractor status only if they pay for their own workers’ compensation insurance.
Lawmakers have also given thought to empowering the state’s attorney general to investigate worker misclassification. Under one proposal, the Vermont Attorney General could prosecute such offenses under the state’s consumer protection laws and collect attorney fees.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, or NCSL, "a big incentive in misclassifying workers is the savings on labor costs, which typically are a major portion of overhead for businesses. It’s estimated that a business can save 30 percent of their labor costs by using independent contractors rather than employees."
Taxpayers as a whole are picking up the slack, the NSCL said. “A report by the Government Accountability Office estimated that in 2006 alone, the federal government lost out on $2.72 billion in Social Security, unemployment and income taxes because of employee misclassification,” the group wrote.
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Featured » Pivotal Blog » For many enterprises, a multi-cloud future is inevitable—and desirable
December 3, 2019 Neil McAllister
If your organization has a cloud strategy, you’re right in line with 94% of today’s enterprises, according to the 2019 RightScale State of the Cloud Report. But what does a cloud strategy mean to you? While it might be tempting to assume you’ll be able to evaluate all the major public cloud vendors, choose the best one, and stick with that choice, the reality isn’t that simple.
A growing consensus suggests that few modern enterprises will be able to rely on a single provider for their cloud-based apps and services. Instead, most will provision workloads on various providers, including public and private clouds as needs require. The same RightScale report reveals that 84% of enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy. That doesn’t just mean “the biggest one, plus another,” either. The survey results show enterprises running workloads in an average of 3.4 public and private clouds, while simultaneously experimenting with another 1.5—for a whopping total of 4.9 clouds each, on average.
The case for multi-cloud
There are many reasons why an enterprise might find itself forced to support multiple clouds. One such situation might result from business lines launching pilot projects without centralized oversight, sometimes referred to as “shadow IT.” Or, in the case of mergers and acquisitions, two entirely separate IT organizations must be made to coexist, despite having developed their cloud plans in parallel.
There are also a number of technical and operational concerns that make a multi-cloud environment actually desirable:
Product groups may wish to avoid cloud vendor lock-in, in order to diversify risk factors and improve their negotiating power.
Security or compliance concerns might demand that a given app be confined to a certain cloud, such as a private cloud or one with government security certification.
Some clouds might offer specific advantages over others, such as high availability, advantageous pricing for certain workloads, or specialized technologies such as machine learning or artificial intelligence.
Employees might have specialized expertise working with one specific cloud, which might not be the organization’s primary or preferred cloud.
App customers, too, might have their own preferences; for example, they might have stringent uptime requirements, or they need a cloud that caters to specific geographic regions.
Another argument for maintaining a multi-cloud strategy has to do with the fluidity of the cloud computing market overall. Which cloud provider best meets your requirements for any of the aforementioned concerns might change from year to year, or even month to month, as new services launch, new data centers open, and new pricing kicks in. Or it could be that a software vendor (MongoDB or Confluent, for example) rolls out a new managed service that makes more sense than managing that system yourself or even using a cloud-provider-hosted version.
The multi-cloud conundrum
However, the reality is that managing multiple clouds does present a unique set of challenges. And these aren’t confined to increased costs; after all, it’s perfectly possible to ring up huge bills with a single public cloud provider. Rather, it’s necessary to consider the potential causes of increased costs when it comes to multi-cloud:
Operations teams who are trained to specialize on different clouds may become siloed, leading to poor communication across teams and inflated payroll costs.
Various applications may rely on duplicate functionality from different cloud providers for core functions, such as storage and authentication.
Applications built for different clouds may employ conflicting, incompatible, or noncompliant networking and security models.
Tools used to manage workloads may be inconsistent, resulting in duplicated operations effort.
When workloads are spread across multiple clouds, defining tenants may require excess integration effort.
These challenges are not insurmountable, however. For most enterprises, a successful plan for managing multiple clouds should take a two-pronged approach. First, application owners should conduct an audit to determine which applications are running where, and then identify which should be migrated, which could be merged, and which should stay where they are. Second, steps should be taken so that future application development is done in a way that is as cloud-native and cloud-agnostic as possible.
Rising above the clouds
Containerization is a good place to start. Bundling applications as container images and deploying them via container runtimes not only makes them more portable across operating environments, but it can also make them better suited to clustering and more resilient to failure. Containers can also be an effective way to “lift and shift” legacy applications—those that were never designed to play nice with cloud environments—so that they are decoupled from their underlying bare metal or virtual infrastructure and can more easily be migrated to modern platforms.
Containerization by itself, however, is but a means to an end. The next step in the modernization journey is orchestration—that is, automating the processes of instantiating, starting, stopping, monitoring, and managing containerized apps. Kubernetes has emerged as the clear leader in this field. Because it is an open source project with a modular and extensible design, Kubernetes makes it possible to manage whole portfolios of clustered applications and related support tools with a consistent set of declarative procedures and practices.
Equally important, Kubernetes creates an infrastructure that abstracts away the low-level details of your environment. You can manage your Kubernetes cluster (whether that’s pure open source or a commercial offering such as Pivotal PKS) and deploy applications to it using the same tools and practices, no matter if it’s running on bare metal, cloud VMs, or even a fully managed cloud service. This consistency can help you avoid siloed IT teams and establish policies that traverse on-premise and multiple cloud environments alike.
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, such as Pivotal Application Service (PAS), create an even higher level of abstraction that targets developer productivity while further automating operational tasks around managing the underlying VM infrastructure. Typically, PaaS offerings will include their own internal container-orchestration systems to handle the scheduling of workloads, but interaction with either the scheduler or the underlying VMs should be minimal. At SpringOne Platform 2019, in fact, DICK’S Sporting Goods demonstrated a live migration of its production—and PAS-based—search application from Google Compute Engine to Microsoft Azure.
What’s next: Everything shifts up
As programmatic infrastructure like this becomes the norm, smart organizations are moving their concerns up the stack. So rather than spending their resources configuring servers or conducting cloud-provider bake-offs, they’re focusing on application development while managing networking and other operational concerns at the container-orchestration and virtualization layers. You might decide to run a workload on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or a private cloud depending factors such as geography or price, but applications should be developed without concern for where they run, and the act of deploying to any cloud should be a standard experience.
Pivotal is already working toward this experience by mitigating the tough decisions around which tools to choose at the all-important platform layer. We’re making PAS run smoothly on top of Kubernetes, and releasing products such as RabbitMQ for Kubernetes and the Pivotal Build Service that will eventually support applications running on any Kubernetes distribution, on any cloud. Meanwhile, our peers at VMware are working on standardizing the multi-cloud management experience with products such as Tanzu, Tanzu Mission Control, and Project Pacific.
The end goal is simple: That you worry about your business and your applications first, and where they run second. Capitalizing on a multi-cloud world means being flexible and taking advantage of the right cloud at the right time. Committing to a single host might be the right option in some instances and for some period of time, but you don’t want to be left starting from scratch when the world around you changes.
Neil McAllister is a veteran technology journalist covering enterprise technology. He is currently a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Pivotal.
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Halle Berry Directing MMA Feature ‘Bruised’ | Film News
05 Dec 2019 — Filed Under: Film, Film News
Academy Award winner Halle Berry is stepping into the director’s chair for the first time. Her directorial debut will be an MMA-based film titled Bruised, and she’s got Shamier Anderson (Destroyer) and Adan Canto (Designated Survivor) on board for the project. Berry herself will also star.
Michelle Rosenfarb has written the script, which follows Jackie Justice, a washed-up MMA wrestler who has failed at the one thing she’s ever been good at – fighting.
When 6-year-old Manny, the son she walked out on years ago, returns on her doorstep, Jackie is forced to conquer her own demons and fight to become the mother this kid deserves, all while preparing to face one of the fiercest rising stars of the MMA world.
Berry is working with the team that does the fight choreography on the John Wick franchise. Anderson will play the owner of the female mixed martial arts league that Jackie participates in. Canto plays Berry’s MMA manager and boyfriend.
Anderson has played twins opposite Billy Bob Thornton on the Amazon series Goliath and recently wrapped filming on both the Netflix movie Awake opposite Gina Rodriguez, and Stowaway with Anna Kendrick and Toni Colette. Canto has had roles on Netflix’s Narcos and X-Men: Days Of Future Past. He recently wrote, directed and produced his first short titled The Shot.
Berry was the first (and sadly, currently only) black woman to ever win Best Actress at the Oscars, winning for her performance in 2001’s Monster’s Ball. Not only could Bruised be a potential step back into the limelight as an actor, but also as a director, and it’ll be interesting to see Berry in such a physical role. She’s also on board to star in a remake of the 1985 thriller, Jagged Edge.
Production on Bruised is already underway.
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Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. Click on image to see the costume inspired by this image. Photo courtesy of Miramare Foundation
Let’s face it folks:
Fashion and Costume & Design can be a very dangerous profession. When I think of all of the creative notables (and those in their periphery) who have come to an untimely end whether by their own hand or by another form of tragic demise, the list is staggering:
Alexander McQueen (suicide)
Isabella Blow (suicide)
Jay Sebring (Manson Family victim)
L’Wren Scott (suicide)
Kate Spade (suicide)
Wallis Franken (death by defenestration-look it up)
Gianni Versace (assassinated)
Ossie Clark (murdered)
Gianpaolo Castellani (trampled to death by an elephant during a safari)
Irene Lentz (suicide)
And then there’s this guy:
Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (death by firing squad)
Why is there such a high death rate within this profession? More than likely because of the fact that clothing design is a hybrid between art and commerce, a hybrid that is not always a harmonious one.
Take a volatile creative personality and force them to answer to the suits in the boardroom and it can easily drive a sensitive person to a violent end. Of course each case has its own subconscious triggers but the results are the same.
And then there are those who die violent deaths; Being a high profile person unfortunately attracts those who wish to do them harm, as in the case of Gianni Versace or Ossie Clark. Then there is the subject of our Blog, The Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. I was inspired to write this post after being commissioned by a Mardi Gras Krewe to design the costume for their King. The inspiration was drawn from an official portrait of the Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. As I worked in the creation of the King costume, I was also inspired to do a little research on this misunderstood monarch. What does he have in common with the others on this list? Plenty, please read on:
Maximilian and Carlotta in happier days. Image courtesy Fundación Chapultepec
In the U.S. we have appropriated the Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo and turned into an excuse to guzzle Margaritas and eat Mexican food without a clue as to the history behind this celebration. So widespread is the ignorance around the holiday that someone once actually wished me a “Happy Cinco de Mayo” assuming that because I had a Spanish surname I would be celebrating the holiday. I can still see the embarrassment in their face when I patiently explained that it was a Mexican holiday and I was actually Cuban-American! Oh well..
But even those who may be slightly familiar with the history behind the holiday will say that it celebrates the expulsion of the French from Mexico and the execution of the evil, incompetent Emperor Maximilian. But peel back the onion layers of history and you will find that Max was a tragic figure, who was a pawn between several superpowers of the time. A person who was a bundle of contradictions, naive, idealistic, creative and in the end: heroic in the face of tragedy. Oh yes and he designed the costumes for the army of his adopted country.
Our subject’s story begins in the Austro Hungarian Empire. He was the younger brother of the Emperor Franz Josef and like most second sons he wound up playing second banana in domestic geopolitics. But in spite of that, he had a successful career in the Austrian Navy and later became Governor of the Lombard/Venetian Kingdom. It was here that his creative streak began to emerge when he set out to build his new home in Trieste, named Miramare Castle. He was heavily involved in the design and landscaping of the property and the result is a beautiful fairy tail palace that still exist today:
Beautiful Miramare Castle in Trieste, Italy. Image courtesy of Museo Castelo Miramare
He was doing well for himself and for his wife Carlotta, when all of the sudden the fickle finger of fate intervened and sucked him into a political whirlwind that let to his tragic demise. Unbeknownst to him his older brother Franz Josef and Louis Napoleon III of France were hatching a plot to put a figurehead ruler in Mexico so that they could control the country’s silver mines and use the bullion to prop up France’s currency. However, there was a minor detail in that there was already a democratically elected president in place: Benito Juarez. He had confiscated these silver mines and other properties belonging to the oligarchical landowners of the country. Juarez had become an inconvenient person much like Allende in Chile had been to the CIA. So the two superpowers took it upon themselves to depose Juarez and install a useful idiot who would do their bidding in running the country. Sound familiar?
President Benito Juarez- Image courtesy of Museo de Arte Popular, México
According to historians, our friend Maximilian was duped by his older brother and the Emperor of France into believing that he had actually been democratically elected by the Mexicans and so accepted the offer to be their King. This might sound completely unbelievable today, but remember that news did not travel so fast back then. There was no 24 hour news cycle and sometimes it would take months for news to travel from one end of the world to the other. So it’s totally plausible that the naive and idealistic Max would have believed this.
So he packed his bags and took his wife Carlotta along with mercenaries from the French army and set his sights on Mexico. During the month long journey to his new country, he did not engage with his ministers to learn the policies of Mexico, but chose instead to focus his energies on designing the military uniforms of his new army. Really. He also focused his energy on learning about the indigenous culture of Mexico and its flora and fauna. Evidently Maximilian had cancelled a long planned trip to Brazil to study their botany but obviously he found this new adventure to be much more challenging.
Mexican Army Uniforms designed by Maximilian. Courtesy Fundación Chapultepec
One he was established in his new country, Maximilian proved to be much more liberal and egalitarian than he was made out to be by his European sponsors. For starters, he upheld many of the reforms that had been implemented by Juarez. He championed the cause of the Campesinos and refused to return the confiscated lands to the Church and forget about the silver mines! Maximilian had barely steeped off the boat and he was already making some powerful enemies.
Unfortunately such highbrow idealism also came with a smattering of ignorance and arrogance. Even though he upheld President Juarez’s reforms, he also invited him to be a part of his new Imperial Cabinet which only served as a major insult to Juarez since he was the democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation. This was something Juarez would deeply resent and no doubt encouraged him to order his execution later on. To add to the mess, Mexico’s neighbor to the north, the US was involved in their own Civil War; As the Union began to gain the upper hand, many Confederate soldiers and their families fled to Mexico seeking asylum. (The irony here is not lost.) Maximilian welcomed them and even allowed them to keep their slaves. This is a bit oxymoronic for the man wanted to abolish the system of peonage but gave refuge to slave owners from another country.
So as you can see, Maximilian although well intentioned, fell far short of what would be required of a person in that unenviable position. He was making enemies from all angles and the powers that be were out to teach him a lesson. But in spite of the political intrigue and betrayal that surrounded him, Max still pursued his creative bug by redecorating what would become his Imperial residence: Chapultepec Castle. Just as he did with Miramare, he worked closely with the architects and designer to create a lovely Neo-classical style palace of unsurpassed beauty. In fact it is the only castle in North America to have been inhabited by an actual sovereign.
Chapultepec Castle- Image courtesy Atlas Obscura
To recap, the powers that be were out to get our artistic Monarch and his sensual world would collapse around him like dominoes in a southeast asian theater of war. The French never really succeeded in pushing Benito Juarez out of Mexico, he was just biding his time on the American border. The Americans in turn, invoked the Monroe Doctrine and ordered the French troops out of Mexico. Louis Napoleon had by now grown tired of his disappointing Protege and was only too happy to oblige. Besides, he was too busy invading Egypt. To top it all off, Empress Carlotta suffered a major nervous breakdown and wound up being institutionalized. And you thought you have problems?
The ill-fated Carlotta of Mexico-Image courtesy of Kunsthalle Museum, Mannhiem, Germany
The French withdrawal from Mexico gave Juarez’s army the chance to take back what had been lost earlier, the turning point being the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, hence the holiday. Maximilian and his few remaining soldiers where eventually surrounded at the city of Santiago de Querétaro. After a short siege, the city fell and Maximilian surrendered to his victors where he was summarily courtmartialed and executed by firing squad on June 16, 1867. Witnesses said that he displayed the quality of “noblesse-oblige” to the end. As he marched towards his death, he tipped his his executioners and ask that they aim for his heart, not his face so that his mother would recognize him in death. His last words were: “I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me. May my blood, which is about to be shed, be for the good of the country. Viva México!” Noblesse-Oblige indeed.
Execution of Maximilian by Édouard Manet-Courtesy MOMA, NY
Thus ends a very cautionary tale about the dangers of idealism, betrayal and how one person’s obsession with aesthetics made him unable to balance cultural pursuits with Realpolitik, causing him to wind up on the roster that was presented at the beginning of this post.
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The Bard’s Final Fantasy
Enter the Fantasy Portal.
Are you ready to be a Warrior of Light and defend your Empire?
I loved working on this project! As a designer there is nothing more challenging or satisfying than bringing a costume to life which has never been made before.
Often times an artist may create a sketch of a character without thinking how this can translate onto the human body.
The challenge was to create something wearable and functional but to retain the “character” of the Bard and I was deeply honored to bring her Fantasy Bard’s costume into reality.
Front View among the materials used were Silk Noil, vintage Peau de Soie and wool challis
So here is the story of how I brought the Bard to life!
Back View detail
My client and I worked closely to bring her Bard’s costume to life for her to wear at the FanFest in Las Vegas.
The Bard’s costume featured a series of organic and inorganic fabrications that help bring her character to life.
Sleeve detail
For the organic effect I selected some unusual and hard to find fabrics including silk noil, trimmed with vintage Peau de Soie and wool Challis.
There fabrics which are very hard to find or no longer manufactured. I coupled this with more contemporary futuristic materials such as holographic Mystique spandex for the appliqués.
At her fitting. The fantasy unfolds!
Much attention was placed on the details in order to replicate the character’s costume as accurately as possible.
She found the Lodestone!
Yes, the Bard found the Lodestone and I am sure the costume helped!”
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*David Bowie Is Everywhere!*
Costumes by Antonia visits David Bowie Is at the Brooklyn Museum NY
Finally made to the Holy Grail for all Bowie fans. The closing week of the ‘David Bowie Is’ exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. This all encompassing exhibit has been touring the world since its premiere at the Victoria & Albert Museum 5 years ago. The fact that it only made two pit stops in the United States speaks volumes to The Thin White Duke’s worldwide appeal. This particular blog entry is of such a deeply personal nature, that I have procrastinated forever in posting this.
David’s measurements! From one of his designer’s fitting books.
In spite of the fact that the presentation was disorganized and overcrowded, it was the content of the exhibit that overcame any drawbacks resulting from the ineptitude of the Brooklyn Museum. After all, we are talking Bowie here, and we all know that he was a ‘Mortal with potential of a Superman’. And I don’t want to totally trash the museum either; to their credit they did resolve some of my concerns. But according to one of my sources at the museum, even they acknowledged that they had gotten in over their heads with this exhibit.
Like some cat from Japan: Designer Kansai Yamamoto discusses his collaboration with Bowie.
David surrounded himself with the best talent: the best designers, the best directors, the best musicians. Talent that matched, but never surpassed his own. The show was a comprehensive overview of his collaborations as a performer, artist, writer, painter. Bowie the Artist. The shear breadth of his artistic accomplishments is overwhelming. Since this is a costume blog, the main focus will be his costumes. However I am including samples of his other facets because otherwise it would not do him justice.
David’s portraits of Yukio Mishima & Iggy Pop
I should start out with this caveat: there where no photos allowed in the exhibit so these pictures where taken clandestinely and at great personal risk. My apologies in advance for the poor quality of some of the images. In fact at one point when I was attempting to take a picture, a hand appeared in front of the lens belonging to an angry security guard who demanded that I stop on pain of banishment from the museum and confiscation of my pictures. So there was A LOT I could not capture: His costume from when he appeared on Broadway in “Elephant Man”, the Bauhaus costume from his “Saturday Night Live” appearance, the Kabuki cape designed by Kansai Yamamoto. And so on.
Photo Interuptus! The hand of an irate museum security guard photo bombs by pictures.
My attempt here is to present his costumes and how they would have been worn within the context of his performance. As mentioned earlier, David collaborated with the top creative talent and as a costumer and technician myself, I was in awe over the beauty and detail of his clothing. The delicacy of the tailoring conceits and the detail of the embellishments are incredible. It’s hard to believe that the enormity of the effort that went into creating a garment that was often times intended to be worn only once.
From the 1980 Floor Show. Costumes worn by David & Mick Ronson.
The first time I saw Bowie perform was in the “1980 Floor Show” which was broadcast in the USA on the “Midnight Special” TV series. It was a Rock’n’Roll cabaret with dancers, costumes, a guest appearance by singer Marianne Faithful and everyone’s favorite trans model Amanda Lear, who took time away from her duties as Salvador Dali’s muse in order to serve as MC for the show. Not a bad line up.
Storyboard from the 1980 Floor Show
This production was the most blindingly theatrical presentation that my 16 year old eyes had ever seen. The originality of the costumes inspired me to grab a pencil and sketch pad. Aladdin Sane’s Thunderbolt of Enlightenment struck my brain causing a deluge of creative juices to start flowing and as I result I was sketching costumes furiously through the entire show. How’s that for inspiration?
The infamous ‘Third Hand’ costume without the third hand, thanks to the TV censors!
The costumes for this show were showcased in their own particular vitrine. They now only had David’s costume but the one worn by guitarist Mick Ronson. Mick is often overshadowed by Bowie’s supernova, but let’s not forget that he had a hand in the creation of the man, before Ziggy broke up the band.
Some exquisitely tailored suits by designed by Ola Hudson for the album “Pin-Ups” and a later creation by Alexander McQueen for his 50th Birthday concert.
The first time I actually saw Bowie perform live onstage, in the flesh, was for the ’Thin White Duke Tour’ also called the ‘Isolar Tour’ on February 6, 1976 in San Francisco. To say that it was an out of body experience would be an understatement because I was completely consumed by his presence. I am not the first person to say this. The energy and charisma he exuded onstage was something every performer can only dream of achieving. It was a true out of body experience. Un-psychotropically enhanced.
Thin White Duke: The draping on the sleeve lent grace and fluidity to his movement when he performed on stage.
The concert began with a screening of the surrealist film ‘Un Chien Andalou’. The cinematic collaboration between Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel best known for the close up of a girl’s eye being sliced open by a razor blade. When this happened the screams of horror from the audience was deafening! As the film came to its conclusion, the projection screen rose and the band began to play the intro to ‘Station to Station’, eventually a spotlight popped on our guy as the sang the lyrics about his return. Not knowing what kind of fashion statement he would make, he was dressed in black and white which went well with the stark fluorescent lighting.
The “unexpurgated” artwork for the “Diamond Dogs” album cover by Guy Peellaert
The ‘Thin White Duke Tour’ was the most amazing piece of theatre I had ever seen up until then. Having out done the ‘The 1980 Floor Show’.
“Ashes to Ashes” Pierrot/Major Tom costume designed by long time collaborator Natasha Korniloff. The pictures do not do this costume justice. Behind is the lesser known ‘Screaming Lord Byron’ from the “Blue Jean” video.
Feeling fully recovered from my out of Bowie-body experience, I decided that this concert was something that must be repeated’. So I hoped into my Ford Pinto (don’t laugh, it WAS 1976) and drove down to L.A. to catch the show again at the venerable L.A. Forum. This time I was able to relax and enjoy the show. Gloating with delight hearing the audience’s shrieks when the girl’s eye was slashed in the opening film. No more out of body experiences this time. I was just an observer. As expected Bowie delivered another out of this world performance.
From the “Elephant Man” Playbill.
So fast forward to the 80’s and by now I was a college student living in New York. ’Scary Monsters’ was constantly spinning on my turn table (kids, if you don’t know what that is, Google it). The third and last time I saw Bowie perform live was on Broadway in ‘Elephant Man’ and needless to say, it was the most amazing piece of theatre I had seen up until then. Only Bowie can out do Bowie., so all his previous opera. What a performance! He opted out on the prosthetic makeup and chose to use his body language and voice to convey the pathos of the lead character.
Periodic Table of Bowie. Click on the link to learn more about this alchemical egregore. His widow, Iman, is listed as one of the “Noble Metals”.
My college and my apartment were both located in the Chelsea district of Manhattan and in a stroke of Kafkaesque synchronicity, so was Bowie’s. According to a friend who had it on good authority that our Hero had a loft somewhere south of West 23rd St, so we took it upon ourselves to case every single single building in the vicinity until we came upon one building around West 20th @ 9th avenue that yielded results. We were reading the names on the mailboxes and one of the tenants went by the name: “Bewley Brothers Music”. Ya Think?! Eureka!
Pencil drawing by a young David. Foreshadowing early incarnations of characters that would manifest as characters later on in his career.
We stood in front of the mailbox pondering our next move: Should we ring the door bell? What if he answers? What if he invites us up? What do we say to him? This reverie of ‘what ifs’ was rudely interrupted by the booming voice of a very irate doorman: “Had it ever occurred to you kids that he may be going in and out the back door?!” Well, these two junior stalkers in training made a dash out the door to the back alleyway of the building but to no avail; we were unequivocally asked to leave the premises by the same irate doorman.
David being assisted into his ‘Dark Angel’ costume by Angela and (perhaps) Coco Schwab.
I lived in the Chelsea district for several more years and as time passed I became one of those blasé jaded New Yorkers who is not impressed by celebrity. Yes, I did spot him once or twice in passing and my heart would jump ever so slightly. But I was determined to stay in ‘Blasé New Yorker Mode’. To the point where one day I was grocery shopping at the local A&P supermarket and as I was browsing the produce department, I could see out of the corner of my eye that someone was trying to take my shopping cart. Without turning my head I grabbed the cart away from the interloper and shouted in my most nasally Manhattanese “That’s MY cart”. I heard a crisp British accented male voice mutter “Oh sorry” as he slipped away. Yes, The Thin White Duke was a grocery cart thief!
All roads lead to Bowie: Nikola Tesla corner on 40th & 6th Ave. Bowie played Tesla in his last film role in “The Prestige”.
As time progressed, I moved on to other musical styles and to other cities. I hadn’t purchased a Bowie album or even listened to his music in years. I was vaguely amused by my younger relatives fascination with him and was pleasantly surprised to find one of my nieces apartment covered with Bowie poster when I visited her one Thanksgiving. But when I heard the news of his transition on January 10, 2016, it all came flashing back to me. The Stars did look very different after that. Tears would not stop flowing. Every time his name was mentioned, my eyes would water up. In fact I’m in a bit of a ‘Weepy Devotchka’ mode right now as I type this. The impact that he had on my life, my choices and values was something that cannot be quantified. In many ways he saved my life, lifting me out of the mundane and the cruel to a realm that was both sacred and sublime.
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Dickinson (16-3-4, 7-0-2) 0 0 0
Johns Hopkins (17-2-4, 6-1-3) 1 1 2
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1st - 32:39 - Riley O'Toole (Johns Hopkins)
2nd - 66:45 - Emily Maheras (Johns Hopkins)
Sv: Carli Boyer - 10
A: Abigail Gerdes - 1
Sh: Riley O'Toole - 6
Sv: Caitlin Hendricks - 8
(Geneva, N.Y.) – The #11/15-ranked Dickinson women's soccer team suffered a 2-0 setback to #12/9 Johns Hopkins in the Third Round of the NCAA Division III National Championship at William Smith College on Saturday afternoon.
The Red Devils put some early pressure on the Blue Jays, forcing a corner and putting a dangerous serve in front of the goal.
Both teams put together some quality builds in the opening minutes and sophomore Carli Boyer (Silver Spring, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) came way off her line to make a strong play at the top of the area.
The Blue Jays were content to shoot from all over the field but didn't have a number of strong chances. They did get a couple later, attacking on a counter off the Devils' second corner as Boyer swallowed up a pair of shots.
Meg Tate (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle) fired a hard shot on a dangerous ball from Addy Zandi (West Chester, Pa./B Reed Henderson) but Caitlin Hendrix was able to make the save.
Boyer countered on the other end, punching the ball out to turn away another chance for Hopkins. The Blue Jays drew a free kick just outside the 18 and had a chance but the shot went wide of the post.
Hopkins would find the net with just over 12 minutes remaining in the first half as Riley O'Toole put away a rebound from Abigail Gerdes after a quick counter by the Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays kept the pressure on in the final minutes of the half. Boyer made another big play, pulling a cross out of the air in traffic in the final minute.
Hopkins kept coming in the opening minutes of the second half. Boyer came up big with a couple of nice saves as the Blue Jays forced three corners in a quick span at the 36-minute mark.
Hopkins caught a break with 23 minutes to play, earning a penalty kick and stretching lead to 2-0.
Dickinson immediately looked to counter, working into the area on the ensuing kick-off, ending with Ally Diez (Rockville Center, N.Y./South Side) hitting a shot just wide of the post and into the side of the net.
Tate chased a ball down on the end line and fed a great cross to Keira Shoup (Prince Frederick, Md./Calverton School) forcing a big save from Hendrix.
Boyer made an epic save as Rachel Jackson broke away for a one-on-one, coming out and taking the ball away with a great challenge. The Devils had a nice counter and then drew a free kick about 30 yards out, but a header went wide of the net.
Kyra Thomas (Watertown, Conn./The Taft School) hit a rocket into the hands of Hendrix and Rachel Lazris (Columbia, Md./Wilde Lake) put a great shot on net that Hendrix had to tip over the crossbar to give the Red Devils a corner.
Dickinson kept attacking until the final whistle and did create some dangerous opportunities, but Hopkins would hold on to advance to the 'Elite Eight' on Sunday against host William Smith.
The Blue Jays held a 22-9 advantage in shots, but Dickinson put eight on goal while Hopkins had 12 on target. Hendrix finished with eight saves for Hopkins while Boyer made 10 for the Red Devils.
Dickinson matched the school record with 16 wins, finishing 16-3-4 on the season. All three losses came to nationally ranked teams, including #1-ranked Messiah and the Blue Jays twice. The Red Devils tied Hopkins, 2-2, in the regular season match in Baltimore.
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6. Economic Outlook. The International Economy. Graph 6.1 Australia s Trading Partner Growth* Year-average RBA forecast
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1 6. Economic Outlook The International Economy Overall, growth of Australia s major trading partners (MTPs) is expected to be a bit above its long-run average in 014 and 015 (Graph 6.1). Forecasts for most individual trading partners are not above their historical averages; rather, the forecast of aboveaverage MTP growth reflects the changing pattern in the destinations of Australian exports. In particular, an increased share of Australia s exports is going to China, which is growing much faster than elsewhere. Chinese GDP growth in 014 is expected to be close to the authorities target of 7.5 per cent. Recent data suggest that growth has picked up following weakerthan-expected growth in the March quarter. This is consistent with relatively accommodative fiscal and monetary conditions, which have seen debt continue to grow as a share of GDP and which should continue to support activity in the second half of the year. In Japan, for 014 as a whole, growth is expected to be stronger than the average of the past decade, although the increase in the consumption tax in April resulted in very strong growth at the start of the year and a contraction in activity in the June quarter. Growth is expected to slow just a bit in 015 to be close to its average pace. Aggregate growth in the rest of east Asia in 014 is expected to be below its decade average, in large part reflecting very weak growth in Thailand, before picking up in 015 to around average, aided by recovery in the advanced economies Graph 6.1 Australia s Trading Partner Growth* Year-average RBA forecast * Aggregated using total export shares Sources: ABS; CEIC Data; RBA; Thomson Reuters The forecast for US growth in 014 has been revised down, as economic conditions in the first half of 014 were weaker than anticipated. However, growth is expected to pick up in 015, supported by stimulatory monetary policy and further improvements in the labour market. In the euro area, the gradual recovery in economic activity is projected to continue. The outlook for the terms of trade over the rest of 014 is a little lower than at the time of the May Statement (Graph 6.). This predominantly reflects weaker-than-expected spot prices of bulk commodities in recent months, which is likely also to flow through to lower contract prices. Iron ore and coal prices are forecast to remain close to their current levels, as the growth of global steel demand is expected to be close to that of global supply STATEMENT ON MONETARY POLICY august
2 index Graph 6. Terms of Trade 011/1 average = Sources: ABS; RBA Additions to supply from new and existing mines are expected to be partially offset by the further closures of higher-cost iron ore and coal mines. Domestic Activity Forecast index 100 In preparing the domestic forecasts, as usual a number of technical assumptions have been employed. The exchange rate is assumed to remain at its current level over the forecast period (TWI at 7 and A$ at US$0.93), which is a touch higher than the assumption in the May Statement. The forecasts are based on the price of Brent oil remaining at US$106 per barrel, a little higher than the assumption in May. The cash rate is assumed to be unchanged over the forecast period at.5 per cent, which implies that borrowing rates remain at very low levels. The working-age population is assumed to grow by 1.8 per cent over 014 and 1.7 per cent over 015 and 016 (drawing on forecasts by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection), a little below the previous Statement. The starting point for the forecasts of the Australian economy is above-trend growth of GDP over the year to the March quarter, driven by very rapid growth of resource exports. GDP growth excluding resource exports also increased a little over the year to the March quarter, but remained below its longerterm average. This reflected the combination of stronger growth in dwelling investment, a pick-up in consumption growth over the year as a whole, subdued growth in public demand and non-mining business investment, and a substantial decline in mining investment. The available indicators suggest that GDP growth slowed to a more moderate pace in the June quarter. Exports appear to have declined, partly reflecting some payback from weather-related strength in the March quarter, while indicators of consumption, including retail sales growth and consumer confidence, were weak. Nonetheless, indicators of business conditions remained at around average levels, a timely measure of consumer sentiment has rebounded more recently and conditions in the housing market are consistent with further strong growth of dwelling investment. GDP growth is expected to be a little below trend over 014/15, before picking up to around a trend pace over 015/16 (Table 6.1). While the central forecast is slightly lower than at the time of the May Statement, the differences are well within the usual ranges of uncertainty for the forecasts. The key forces that have been expected to influence GDP growth over the next few years remain largely as they were. Mining investment is expected to decline much further as large mining projects are completed. Consolidation of state and federal government budgets, if it proceeds as envisaged in the budgets, could weigh on growth in domestic demand. Notwithstanding the depreciation since the peak seen last year, the exchange rate remains elevated, particularly given the recent declines in commodity prices. These factors will be partly offset by the stimulus from low interest rates, which is supporting activity and prices in the housing market and also bolstering household consumption. In time, the growth of dwelling investment and consumption, combined with the direct effect of the low interest rates on borrowing costs and the generally good health of business balance sheets, is expected to spur a recovery in non-mining business investment. 70 Reserve Bank of Australia
3 Table 6.1: Output Growth and Inflation Forecasts (a) Per cent June 014 Dec 014 Year-ended June 015 Dec 015 June 016 Dec 016 GDP growth 3 ½ 3 ½ 3½ ¾ 3¾ ¾ 4¼ Non-farm GDP growth 3¼ ¾ 3 ½ 3½ ¾ 3¾ ¾ 4¼ CPI inflation (b) 3 1¾ ¾ ½ 3½ ½ 3½ ¼ 3¼ Underlying inflation (b) ¾ ¼ 1¾ ¾ ¼ 3¼ 3 3 Year-average 013/ / / GDP growth ½ 3½ ¾ 3¾ (a) Technical assumptions include A$ at US$0.93, TWI at 7 and Brent crude oil price at US$106 per barrel (b) Based on current legislation for the price of carbon Sources: ABS; RBA A significant increase in exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as the LNG plants currently under construction commence production, should also help to push GDP growth higher towards the latter part of the forecast period. GDP is expected to grow at a little above its trend pace over 016. Growth of household consumption appeared to have been a little lower than expected at the time of the May Statement, and this is reflected in the forecast for this year. Despite the modest downward revisions, consumption growth is anticipated to pick up to a slightly above-trend pace by 016, supported by moderate income growth and increases in household wealth. Fiscal consolidation at all levels of government is expected to continue to restrain public demand growth over the forecast horizon. Dwelling investment is expected to increase noticeably as a share of GDP. Forward-looking indicators of dwelling investment, such as approvals, commencements and work yet to be done remain at high levels and will support growth of dwelling investment in coming quarters. Dwelling construction is expected to continue to expand later in the forecast period in response to low interest rates, strong population growth and only limited construction over the past decade. The expected level of dwelling investment in 015 and 016 is similar to that forecast three months ago. Business investment overall is forecast to continue contracting, owing to sharp falls in mining investment. Surveys of investment intentions and information from the Bank s liaison imply that mining investment will decline more rapidly over the next couple of years than it has to date, as some large mining projects reach completion. Non-mining business investment is expected to pick up modestly over the coming year or so. This is consistent with the ABS capital expenditure survey of investment intentions for 014/15. Also, survey measures of business conditions and capacity utilisation are around their long-run average levels, although Bank liaison continues to report that firms are reluctant to invest until they see a sustained period of strong demand. The stock of work yet to be done (including a number of large healthcare and office building projects) will support nonresidential construction over the next few quarters. However, non-residential building approvals have declined in trend terms since the start of the year, suggesting that non-residential construction will not be as strong in the near term as previously assumed. Nevertheless, growth of non-mining business investment is still expected to pick up to around the average pace seen from the early 1990s up to the global financial crisis in response to the very low level of interest rates, strong population growth and STATEMENT ON MONETARY POLICY august
4 the very subdued growth of the capital stock outside the resources sector over recent years. Resource exports will continue to provide an aboveaverage contribution to annual GDP growth of around 1 percentage point over 015 and 016. Much of this will come from LNG exports as five of the seven LNG projects that are currently under construction are expected to begin production during that time. There has been a small downward revision to the outlook for coal export volumes over the next few years as expansions to capacity from new and existing mines are partially offset by the closure of a number of older and higher-cost mines. Some labour market indicators have improved a little this year, but overall conditions remain subdued. There remains a degree of spare capacity, as reflected in the elevated level of the unemployment rate and broader measures of underemployment. The unemployment rate is likely to remain elevated for a time and is not expected to decline in a sustained way until 016. This period of subdued labour market conditions is expected to restrain wage growth for some time. Over the past two years, the growth of wages, as measured by the wage price index, has declined to its slowest pace in at least 15 years. Wage growth is expected to pick up only slightly from its current pace over the forecast period, remaining significantly below its decade average of 3¾ per cent. At the same time, productivity growth is expected to remain a bit above its average of the past decade, helping to keep overall labour cost pressures well contained. This sustained period of slow growth in labour costs should assist in an improvement in the international competitiveness of Australian firms, which will lend more support to labour demand than would otherwise be the case. Inflation Inflation was a little higher in the June quarter than had been expected. Headline inflation was 0.6 per cent in the quarter in seasonally adjusted terms and 3.0 per cent over the year. The year-ended rate of CPI inflation was boosted by a little under ¼ percentage point from the increase in the tobacco excise late last year. The pace of underlying inflation increased to ¾ per cent in the quarter, and was around ¾ per cent in year-ended terms, which was about ½ percentage point above that of a year earlier. The rise in underlying inflation over the past year has in part owed to the earlier depreciation of the exchange rate. A rise in import prices is being passed on gradually by domestic wholesalers and retailers, resulting in an increase in the prices of tradable items. Over the past year or so, passthrough appears to have been broadly in line with historical experience. Further pass-through of the exchange rate is expected to contribute around ¼ to ½ percentage point to underlying inflation over each of the next two years. By late 016, three and a half years on from the initial depreciation, these effects are likely to have largely run their course. Meanwhile, spare capacity in labour and product markets is expected to see domestic inflationary pressures remain contained. Inflation in non-tradables items, which tends to be affected more by domestic demand and supply, and less by the exchange rate, has declined over the past year to around its slowest pace in 10 years. This slowing has been particularly marked in those components that are generally more sensitive to growth of labour costs. Inflation is forecast to decline over the coming year to around ¼ per cent before picking up, to be in the top half of the target range over 016. This forecast continues to be based on below-trend growth in the economy in the near term and low growth of domestic costs but stronger inflation in tradables prices than in recent years given the assumption of an unchanged exchange rate. The abolition of the carbon price has lowered the forecast for the CPI; the outlook for inflation is lower than earlier expected in 014/15 but higher in 015/16 (given that the previous legislation entailed a move to a floating price in mid 015). 7 Reserve Bank of Australia
5 The Bank s forecasts use modelling by Treasury, which suggests that the removal of the carbon price would reduce CPI inflation by around ¾ percentage point over 014/15. This effect is similar in size to the upward influence on inflation that was expected to result from the introduction of the carbon price in 01/13. A little more than half of the total effect is expected to reflect the direct effect from lower electricity and gas prices and so would not be expected to affect the statistical measures of underlying inflation. The remainder is expected to reflect the indirect effects on the prices of other goods and services in the CPI basket. This is expected to reduce underlying inflation by around ¼ percentage point over 014/15. There is uncertainty regarding the timing of both the direct and indirect effects of the repeal of the carbon price. The timing of the direct effects will depend on the extent to which savings on utilities costs are passed on to customers by way of lower prices or subsequent rebates, particularly given the retrospective nature of the repeal. The timing of the indirect effects is even less certain, as the speed with which cost savings to businesses are passed on to final consumer prices is difficult to predict, owing to the inherent lags with which cost changes pass through the supply chain. Because of this, the Bank s forecasts assume that the total effects are realised over a period of two quarters rather than the full effect occurring in the September quarter. As was the case following the introduction of the carbon price, it will not be possible to identify the size and timing of the effects of the repeal of the carbon price amid the usual variation in consumer prices driven by other factors. Other government policy measures are expected to affect inflation over the next few years. As was the case in May, the forecasts incorporate the staged increase in the tobacco excise over the next few years. This is expected to contribute around ¼ percentage point each year to the rate of headline inflation, but to have little effect on underlying inflation. Uncertainties Trading partner growth has been around average for a few years, and if the forecasts for the next two years of similar growth are borne out, it will have been quite a period of stability. Much of the uncertainty surrounding the external outlook pertains to country-specific factors, although there are some broader risks to the global economy such as a reversal of the current low pricing of risk. In China, government policies are providing a measure of support to activity, thereby increasing the likelihood that economic growth will be close to target in 014. However, if housing market conditions were to weaken more noticeably, this could weigh heavily on the economy overall and have adverse implications for financial stability. Although the direct exposure of the banking sector to housing appears relatively low, banks are involved indirectly in the funding of much property-related lending and could be exposed to financial losses in the event of a sharp correction. Efforts by the authorities to provide a measure of stimulus could boost growth in the near term but make it harder to facilitate the desired deleveraging and, in time, prove destabilising for the financial system. The ongoing strength of growth in Japan is somewhat uncertain given the volatility in activity caused by the increase in the consumption tax in April. This should become clearer as data for the June quarter and beyond become available in the coming months. In the United States, much of the unexpectedly weak first half of 014 appeared to reflect temporary factors. Since then, there have been signs of slightly soft outcomes in the housing market but greater strength in the labour market, and there is some uncertainty about the extent to which inflation might rise over the period ahead. In the euro area, the European Central Bank announced a range of stimulatory policy measures aimed at addressing the risk of a prolonged period of low inflation and supporting small and medium-sized businesses. It is not clear how large an effect they will have. STATEMENT ON MONETARY POLICY august
6 Accommodative financial conditions have contributed to a period of rapid growth in debt and property prices in several east Asian economies. A shift in market sentiment, triggered perhaps by a stronger-than-expected recovery in the United States and faster normalisation of US monetary policy, could lead to an outflow of capital and a disproportionate tightening of financial conditions in a number of emerging market economies, with adverse effects on economic activity. The key uncertainties for the domestic economy continue to be centred on the timing and extent of the expected decline in mining investment, the associated rise in resource exports and the further strengthening in non-mining activity. While this transition has been unfolding for some time, helped in part by the very low level of interest rates, there is no guarantee that the rebalancing of spending will be a smooth process. Even if it proceeds as expected, the significant change in the composition of economic activity could result in either excess demand for, or supply of, particular labour skills or types of capital, and could also have implications for the exchange rate. There is little doubt that mining investment has a lot further to fall, but it is unclear by just how much, and how quickly this will occur. In part, it depends on whether the remaining large mining projects stay on budget and on schedule. Relative to three months ago, when near-term prospects for non-mining activity appeared to be improving, the recent softness in some indicators has increased the uncertainty around the strength and timing of the pick-up in consumption and non-mining investment. For some time now, nonmining investment has been forecast to pick up strongly beyond the next year or so, consistent with past behaviour following troughs in non-mining investment. With only tentative signs of improvement in near-term indicators, the timing of the pick-up has been pushed out a bit further. However, with generally favourable conditions for investment, such as healthy business balance sheets and low interest rates, non-mining business investment could pick up sooner and by more than is forecast. There is some evidence that momentum in consumption growth has waned somewhat, although at this stage it is unclear whether this reflects temporary sentiment effects or a more lasting reassessment of economic conditions by households. In the latter case, the saving ratio could remain at its higher level for longer. The increase in dwelling investment is in part expected to result from house prices continuing to rise at a faster pace than household incomes because of low interest rates. Indeed, while house price growth slowed in the early part of 014 from the rapid pace in the second half of last year, it has not slowed further and there are some tentative signs of a pick-up in conditions in the established housing market. If house price growth and turnover were to pick up strongly, this could boost dwelling investment and consumption more than currently expected. If accompanied by an increase in leverage, it could also increase future risks for the economy. However, it is possible that longerrun affordability considerations may restrain housing demand and so growth of dwelling investment. The release of state and federal budgets has provided further information on the size and nature of planned fiscal consolidation. Nevertheless, there continues to be some uncertainty surrounding the extent and timing of fiscal consolidation. Different outcomes from those that have been assumed could result in consumption and public demand growth being either stronger or weaker than forecast. The outlook for iron ore and coal prices is a source of uncertainty for the domestic economy. As is typical, there is a wide range of forecasts by market analysts for these commodity prices, with Bank estimates towards the lower end of the range. Iron ore and coal prices will depend on both China s steel demand as well as the response of higher-cost producers to the recent decline in prices. At current prices, there is a sizeable amount of coal and iron ore production that is unprofitable, and the outlook for prices will depend on what proportion of these mines is shut down. Given Australia s position on global iron ore and coal cost curves, it is more likely that there will be some impact on Australian coal production than on Australian iron ore production. 74 Reserve Bank of Australia
7 An important source of uncertainty with respect to the lower commodity prices is the response of the exchange rate. Historically, a fall in commodity prices has, in time, led to a depreciation of the exchange rate. In the absence of such a response, a fall in commodity prices would lead to weaker GDP growth since softer incomes and government revenue would weigh on domestic demand. However, if the exchange rate were to move lower, this would provide some offset to the fall in commodity prices by helping to stimulate demand in trade-exposed sectors of the economy. A decline in the exchange rate would also add to prices over a period of time. A further delay in the transition to non-mining generated economic growth would lead to greater slack in the labour market and weigh more heavily on wage and price inflation. Working in the other direction, an improvement in labour market conditions could lead to a period of strengthening demand and an earlier-than-expected decline in the unemployment rate. Such an outcome would be more likely if the changes that firms have made in recent years have left less slack within firms given existing staffing levels. There are a number of countervailing factors affecting inflation, the net effect of which is difficult to predict. The recovery in the housing market has already seen an acceleration in new housing cost inflation, which may have further to run. While approvals for new dwellings have eased a little, there is still a risk that capacity constraints resulting from an extended period of rapid growth in activity may emerge, with implications for activity and wage and price pressures. Inflation in prices that are strongly influenced by state and federal governments policies is also high relative to the case over much of the inflation-targeting period. While the removal of the carbon price will work to lower some of these prices, there may be a more persistent positive effect on inflation from other administered prices. With a number of these factors placing upward pressure on inflation, the forecasts for inflation are predicated on the subdued outlook for labour cost growth. These identified, and other unknown, risks mean that there is significant uncertainty about the path for GDP and inflation. One way of demonstrating the uncertainty surrounding the GDP and inflation forecasts is to present confidence intervals based on historical forecast errors (Graph 6.3 and Graph 6.4). 1 R Graph 6.3 GDP Growth Forecast* Year-ended 90 per cent interval 70 per cent interval * Confidence intervals reflect RBA forecast errors since 1993 Sources: ABS; RBA Graph 6.4 Trimmed Mean Inflation Forecast* Year-ended 90 per cent interval 70 per cent interval * Confidence intervals reflect RBA forecast errors since 1993 Sources: ABS; RBA 1 This is based on Tulip P and S Wallace (01), Estimates of Uncertainty around the RBA s Forecasts, RBA Research Discussion Paper No and RBA (013), Box E: Forecast Confidence Intervals, Statement on Monetary Policy, February, p STATEMENT ON MONETARY POLICY august
8 76 Reserve Bank of Australia
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Media Confirmation: “Biggest earthquake in years rattles Southern California” July 4,2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova March 23, 2018 in her Ebook and Paperback book April 5,2018 : Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 …
Media Confirmation: “Biggest earthquake in years rattles Southern California” July 4,2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova March 23, 2018 in her Ebook and Paperback book April 5,2018 :
Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller ….
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….. In the future and the more distant future I see part of the population of California is moving to other states. I see earthquakes, and splitting of parts of earth, I see hot water is coming out like a lake, but that will be because of explosion of underground energy (which is like a bomb)…. (Media Confirmation).
Biggest earthquake in years rattles Southern California – JUL 04, 2019
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquake-california-shake-quake-20190704-story.html
The largest earthquake in two decades rattled Southern California on Thursday morning, shaking communities from Las Vegas to Long Beach and ending a quiet period in the state’s seismic history.
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Media Confirmation about Senator Cory Booker announces run for presidency in 2020 February 1, 2019 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book Published April 5, 2018 : Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 … Published April 5, 2018 By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova Buy the Paperback book from Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1987578066/
Media Confirmation about Senator Cory Booker announces run for presidency in 2020 February 1, 2019 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book Published April 5, 2018 :
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…….Senator Cory Booker – he is gaining speed yet for the Presidential Election 2020.
…..From the Winter of year 2018 – he is starting to be a factor in the election policy – until March 2019…then, there is a lull and a little before the Election 2020 ( a few months) – they will look for him again. He will receive very good Internet and Media promotion (advertising). Senator Cory Booker has more chances for a President now – until the end of year 2019 – What can stop him is : his political party, the money and he himself. His strength is the mimicry (imitation) – he is using it to win the sympathy of the people.
Senator Cory Booker announces run for presidency in 2020
New Jersey senator will run for Democratic nomination to challenge Donald Trump
Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 13:02
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/senator-cory-booker-announces-run-for-presidency-in-2020-1.3778826
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Media Confirmation about Elizabeth Warren’s decision December 2018 “Elizabeth Warren announces 2020 run against Trump” – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book Published April 5, 2018 Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 … Published April 5, 2018 By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova
Media Confirmation about Elizabeth Warren’s decision December 2018 “Elizabeth Warren announces 2020 run against Trump” – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book Published April 5, 2018
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Democrat – Massachusetts) – Person with a vision for the near and far future, Mission of a millitary commander, Health – delicate, Success – sure, Enemies – Russians…- Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 16,2018, 10 am. – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria,Varna.
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……There are forthcoming nervous breakdowns for her – August,September 2018 – they are starting from her family and the close to her people.
December 2018 – political events, decisions, death of political associates (colleagues). February 2019 – ….
Elizabeth Warren announces 2020 run against Trump: ‘I’m in this fight’ – January 1, 2019
Massachusetts senator releases video to announce widely expected run as Trump says he would ‘love to run against her’
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/31/elizabeth-warren-2020-run-president-trump?__twitter_impression=true
Senator Elizabeth Warren jumped into the race for president on Monday, announcing she is forming an exploratory committee for 2020. “I’m in this fight all the way,” she said on Monday afternoon.The Massachusetts Democrat, known for her critiques of big banks and corporations, became the first major candidate to declare her intentions with a video posted online on New Year’s Eve.
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Media Confirmation about : The Australlian Billionaire James Packer – November ,December 2018 – “documents connected with construction, a power plant, a hotel will start favorably for him. At the end of the year 2018 – his shares on the world market will be increased. And very slowly, his life is going back to normal.” – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova April 5, 2018 in her Ebook and Paperback book : Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 … Published April 5, 2018 By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova Buy the Paperback book from Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1987578066/ Buy the Ebook only from the Authors – https://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova/
Media Confirmation about : The Australlian Billionaire James Packer –
November ,December 2018 – “documents connected with construction, a power plant, a hotel will start favorably for him. At the end of the year 2018 – his shares on the world market will be increased. And very slowly, his life is going back to normal.” – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova April 5, 2018 in her Ebook and Paperback book :
James Packer (Australlian Billionaire) – Attacks, Business, Who is he and how does he survives? – year 2018 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 22, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
……..November 2018 – documents connected with construction, a power plant, a hotel will start favorably for him.
At the end of the year 2018 – his shares on the world market will be increased. And very slowly, his life is going back to normal…..
1. James Packer begins building his $50million Mexican mega-mansion near Karl Stefanovic’s wedding location …after pulling out of attending the ceremony. –
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6474143/James-Packer-begins-building-Mexican-mega-mansion-near-Karl-Stefanovics-wedding-location.html
2. James Packer sets sail for luxury in new $200 million superyacht -14 December 2018
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/james-packer-sets-sail-for-luxury-in-new-200-million-superyacht-20181214-p50mav.html
…After weathering plenty of emotional hurdles and checking himself into a Boston mental health facility in March, staying for six weeks, Packer has also been preoccupied with construction of the huge ship, which has been hidden inside a vast boat shed at an Italian shipyard in Livorno….
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Media Confirmation about : Senator Elizabeth Warren Wins Second Term In The US Senate – November 6, 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her New Ebook and Paperback book published April 5, 2018 : Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 … Published April 5, 2018
Media Confirmation about : Senator Elizabeth Warren Wins Second Term In The US Senate – November 6, 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her New Ebook and Paperback book published April 5, 2018 – Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller ….
…..October 2018 will be a tough politically month for sen. Elizabeth Warren – she will hold on to the last of her forces – I see the winning of the Elections from the Democrats. As a leader – year 2018 is a supreme leader. Year 2019 is….
Elizabeth Warren Wins Second Term In The U.S. Senate – November 6, 2018
http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/11/06/warren-beats-geoff-diehl
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Media Confirmation about : Democratic NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wins 3rd Term on the Midterm elections 2018 – November 6, 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book published April 5, 2018 : Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 … Published April 5, 2018 By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova
Media Confirmation about : Democratic NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wins 3rd Term on the Midterm elections 2018 – November 6, 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book published April 5, 2018 :
Andrew Cuomo (Governor of New York) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 20,2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova ” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Photo : March 14, 2018. Time – after the photo.
…..If his health allows – he will be a Governor of New York for a long time.
Cuomo Wins Third Term in New York as Democrats Consolidate Control in Albany – November 6, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/svc/oembed/html/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F11%2F06%2Fnyregion%2Fandrew-cuomo-wins-governor.html
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Media Confirmation about : Sen. Chris Murphy Wins Re-Election In Connecticut -November 6, 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book published April 5, 2018 : Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 … Published April 5, 2018 By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova
Media Confirmation about : Sen. Chris Murphy Wins Re-Election In Connecticut -November 6, 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book published April 5, 2018 :
Chris Murphy (Democrat, Senator for Connecticut) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 23,2018 by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna.
……November 2018 – Senator Murphy will see it as a victory for the Democrats at the first moment. Then….
Sen. Chris Murphy Wins Re-Election In Connecticut
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/11/06/sen-chris-murphy-wins-re-election-in-connecticut/
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Media Confirmation about : Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown Wins Re-election – November 6, 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book published April 5, 2018 : Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 … Published April 5, 2018 By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova
Media Confirmation about : Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown Wins Re-election – November 6, 2018 as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book published April 5, 2018 :
Senator Sherrod Brown (Democrat – Ohio) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 19, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
….October 2018 – Collecting and distribution of money. November 2018 – partial victory of the Democratic party satisfying their requests. December 2018 – ….
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown Wins Re-election Against Jim Renacci
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sherrod-brown-reelected-ohio-senate_us_5bc8e1bce4b0a8f17eea817a?guccounter=1
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Midterm Elections 2018 , Scandals,Billionaires,Republicans and Democrats – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama ,Mark Cuban (US Billionaire – Dallas Mavericks Owner), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Democrat – Massachusetts) , Sen.Kamala Harris (Democrat – Senator from California), Sen. Cory Booker (Democrat – Senator from New Jersey), Senator Sherrod Brown (Democrat – Ohio), Andrew Cuomo (Governor of New York), Terry McAuliffe (Former Governor of Virginia), Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix , James Packer (Australlian Billionaire), Chris Murphy (Democrat, Senator for Connecticut) , Jerry Brown (Democrat – Governor of California), Rex Tillerson, Betsy Devos, Bill Haslam (Republican, Governor of Tennessee), Jim Justice (Republican, Governor of West Virginia), Bruce Rauner (Republican, Governor of Illinois), Steven Mnuchin (US Secretary of the Treasury), Congressman Michael McCaul – Texas (Republican),Jeff Flake ( Republican, Senator for Arizona), Rick Scott (Republican, Governor of Florida), Darrel Issa (Republican, US Congressman), Robert Mueller (Special Counsel in Russia Probe) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions
1. Tom Steyer (Democratic billionaire megadonor) – November 2018 – “the boat” must sink, so can everybody see that it’s rising and with a cosmic speed is winning the elections. Health, Business, Strong and weak points, Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 9, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
2. Oprah Winfrey (Media Mogul) – A strategy filled with content. Health, Business, Prosecution and US Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 10,2018, 10 am. – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
3. Barack Obama (Former US President) – The luck is still not on his side. Who are the partners of Barack Obama and what will happen until the US Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 11, 2018, 10 am. – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna.
4. Mark Cuban (US Billionaire – Dallas Mavericks Owner) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 13, 2018 –
5. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Democrat – Massachusetts) – Person with a vision for the near and far future, Mission of a millitary commander, Health – delicate, Success – sure, Enemies – Russians…- Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 16,2018, 10 am. – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria,Varna.
6. Sen.Kamala Harris (Democrat – Senator from California) – The wars of USA, Health, Clairvoyant reading for year 2018 and part of year 2019 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 17,2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
7. Sen. Cory Booker (Democrat – Senator from New Jersey) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 18,2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
8. Senator Sherrod Brown (Democrat – Ohio) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 19, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
9. Andrew Cuomo (Governor of New York) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 20,2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
10. Terry McAuliffe (Former Governor of Virginia) – Election 2018, 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 21,2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
11. Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix (data analysis company used for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 20,2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
12. James Packer (Australlian Billionaire) – Attacks, Business, Who is he and how does he survives? – year 2018 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 22, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
13. Chris Murphy (Democrat, Senator for Connecticut) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 23,2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
14. Jerry Brown (Democrat – Governor of California) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 23,2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Republican Politicians – Billionaires
15. Rex Tillerson (Former US Secretary of State) – He will return again to work in the White House. Partners, Arctic , Business. The Second one becomes the first – about Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 24,2018 , 7 pm – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
16. Betsy Devos (Republican, US Secretary of Education)- Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 25, 2018, 10 am. – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
17. Bill Haslam (Republican, Governor of Tennessee)- Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 25,2015 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
18. Jim Justice (Republican, Governor of West Virginia) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 28,2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
19. Bruce Rauner (Republican, Governor of Illinois) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 26, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
20. Steven Mnuchin (US Secretary of the Treasury) – Health, Business, A lawsuit against supporters of Trump, US Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions march 28,2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
21. Congressman Michael McCaul – Texas (Republican) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 28, 2018, 11 am. – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
22. Jeff Flake ( Republican, Senator for Arizona) – What can betray him is like with Napoleon and his last batttle… – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 31, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
23. Rick Scott (Republican, Governor of Florida) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 2, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
24. Darrel Issa (Republican, US Congressman) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 2, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
25. Robert Mueller (Special Counsel in Russia Probe) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions August 4, 2017 – Robert Mueller between the star of Moscow, the intervention of Saudi Arabia in the Energy business and his choice about USA. The investigation about impeachment of Donald Trump and the Russian meddling in US Election 2016 – What he will investigate? When he will be ready? Military intervention and participation, war footing, business and money – when? The jews in the business ? New US Election – When? Intervention of the russians in the business and replacement of people on leading positions – now…. – Clairvoyant predictions/Psychic reading August 4, 2017 by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
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MEDIA CONFIRMATION of Forthcoming eruption of volcano Kilauea in Hawaii – seen through the eyes of Tulsi Gabbard and predicted by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova in her NEW BOOK : 2020 ELECTION IN USA – SCANDALS, MILITARY POLICY, TRUMP ,TRADE WAR. WHO WILL CHOOSE PUTIN FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF USA ? CLAIRVOYANT/PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS : JEFFREY EPSTEIN, TRUMP, REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BY DIMITRINKA STAIKOVA, STOYANKA STAIKOVA, IVELINA STAIKOVA PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
MEDIA CONFIRMATION of Forthcoming eruption of volcano
Kilauea in Hawaii – seen through the eyes of Tulsi Gabbard and predicted by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova in her NEW BOOK : 2020 ELECTION IN USA – SCANDALS, MILITARY POLICY, TRUMP ,TRADE WAR.
WHO WILL CHOOSE PUTIN FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF USA ?
CLAIRVOYANT/PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS : JEFFREY EPSTEIN, TRUMP, REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
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Tulsi Gabbard (Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 24, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna Contact on email – dimitrinka.staikova@hotmail.com
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In Addition : Tulsi Gabbard (Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 24, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova Photo : August 23, 2019. Time of the Clairvoyant reading – after the photo.
Tulsi Gabbard has a problem with the upper part of her head, a disease in the breasts and the ovaries. I see her in a big stress that affects her health – she is calming itself with listening of music and sounds. She counts on the support of the militaries and the business connected with the private armies.
She sees a forthcoming eruption of volcano in Hawaii – the lava hasn’t reached the top yet, but there is smoke from the ground. (MEDIA CONFIRMATION)
It is upcoming for her to…….
A Tiny Leak Led to a Massive, Unexpected Collapse at Kilauea Volcano
Its caldera’s dramatic, surprisingly slow collapse could point to other risks worldwide
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MEDIA CONFIRMATION of : “#Boeing Fires C.E.O. #DennisMuilenburg” – December 23, 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova : “Year 2019 there is a forthcoming changes in the senior staff of the Boeing Company” – in her book published March 31, 2019 : WHO WILL WIN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020 ? Republicans vs Democrats – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions for : Trump’s 2020 Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke , Kirsten Gillibrand , Elizabeth Warren ,Kamala Harris , Cory Booker, Julian Castro….
MEDIA CONFIRMATION of : “Boeing Fires C.E.O. Dennis Muilenburg” – December 23, 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova :
“Year 2019 there is a forthcoming changes in the senior staff of the Boeing Company” – in her book published March 31, 2019 :
WHO WILL WIN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020 ? Republicans vs Democrats – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions for : Trump’s 2020 Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke , Kirsten Gillibrand , Elizabeth Warren ,Kamala Harris , Cory Booker, Julian Castro….
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Dennis Muilenburg (Boeing Company Chief Executive) – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions about the Boeing Company – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Photo: March 19, 2019 . Time – after the photo.
……Dennis Muilenburg is pedantic, methodical and patient in his work.
Year 2019 there is a forthcoming changes in the senior staff of the Boeing Company.(MEDIA CONFIRMATION)
He has a soul of soldier, despite he likes on words to bet. Until the end of ……
Boeing Fires C.E.O. Dennis Muilenburg – December 23, 2019
3 Media Confirmations of Boeing May 2019 – new orders from NATO (“Boeing gets Contract for F-15 Eagle”), problems with contracts (“China threatens to reduce Boeing orders”) and new accidents with Boeing May 2019 (“Boeing 737 Makes Emergency Landing At Tennessee After A Potential Mechanical Issue”) – As predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her Ebook and Paperback book published March 31,2019 :WHO WILL WIN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020 ? Republicans vs Democrats – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions for : Trump’s 2020 Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke , Kirsten Gillibrand , Elizabeth Warren ,Kamala Harris , Cory Booker, Julian Castro….Part 1by Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova
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Media Confirmation of : “#JoeSestak Drops Out Of #Democratic Race” – December 2, 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughter’s Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – in their Book published September 2, 2019 : 2020 ELECTION IN USA – SCANDALS, MILITARY POLICY, TRUMP ,TRADE WAR. WHO WILL CHOOSE PUTIN FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF USA ?
Media Confirmation of : “Joe Sestak Drops Out Of Democratic Race” – December 2, 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughter’s Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – in their Book published September 2, 2019 :
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…Joe Sestak is afraid to make decisive steps in a certain moments. He is taking the final decisions as he decides, he is influenced by itself and its own moods – he is very sensitive and sometimes romantic type of person. That will earn the voters, but not the desired sponsors. Behind him are staying Intelligence, a media. The funding for his campaign will not be enough…..
In Addition : Joe Sestak (Presidential Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading August 27, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
….August 2019 – only 1/3 of the money for his campaign are collected. I see a connection with the underground business.
Joe Sestak Ends Presidential Campaign – December 1, 2019
But his campaign began late and never got off the ground. He raised less than $500,000, and his polling average in the Democratic primary was 0 percent.
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Media Confirmation of : Steve Bullock ends presidential campaign because not enough money for his campaign – December 2, 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her book published September 2, 2019 : 2020 ELECTION IN USA – SCANDALS, MILITARY POLICY, TRUMP ,TRADE WAR. WHO WILL CHOOSE PUTIN FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF USA ?
Media Confirmation of : Steve Bullock ends presidential campaign because not enough money for his campaign – December 2, 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her book published September 2, 2019 :
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Steve Bullock (Governor of Montana, Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 23, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
Photo : August 21, 2019. Time of the Clairvoyant reading – after the photo.
…Steve Bullock is a man who doesn’t neglect the big retail business – the food chains, the energy business of the gas stations. Behind him will stay mainly the big Funds related with money and merging of corporations of a smaller business – including Real Estates and Constructions.
What he doesn’t own is money. It is written in his destiny to have money, but he will loose them with the same speed they came.(Media Confirmation 1)
Steve Bullock has charm , he is analytical in its convictions, but he will remain in the second line of politicians – candidates for president.(Media Confirmation 2 )
His weakness is a woman – there will be a dirt with a woman. His strength is when he opens his mouth and starts talking.
I don’t see the money to be enough for him and his campaign – Bullock 2020.(Media Confirmation)
Media Confirmation 1 – “Steve Bullock ends presidential campaign, will not run for Senate “- December 2, 2019
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/02/politics/steve-bullock-2020-campaign-ends/index.html
Bullock was able to raise $4.3 million to fund his campaign throughout 2019. But the governor ended up spending much of that and entered the fourth quarter of 2019 with $1.3 million cash on hand, a number that paled in comparison to larger, better funded campaigns.
Media Confirmation 2 -” Bullock Becomes 3rd Governor to Drop US Presidential Campaign” – December 2, 2019
https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/bullock-becomes-3rd-governor-drop-us-presidential-campaign
But he remained at the bottom of the polls and unfamiliar to many voters. His biggest national exposure appeared to come when he didn’t make the cut for the first debate, resulting in a slate of news stories and an appearance on “The Late Night with Stephen Colbert.”
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Media Confirmation of : Tim Ryan ends 2020 presidential campaign, He will run for reelection to the House of Representatives, His campaign was marked by slow fundraising and low poll numbers October 24, 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova in her NEW BOOK PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 :
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Tim Ryan (Presidential Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading August 27, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
…..Tim Ryan will soon stop his presidential campaign, because of promised to him a very special work position – he will be a big boss in a business connected with energy and politics – I see him sitting in a big chair. (MEDIA CONFIRMATION 1).
…. His money are ending very fast, because of two big sponsors – two companies – each of them is separating to two parts.(MEDIA CONFIRMATION 2).
He will not have a contact with Russians. At the end – I see the breaking of contracts. One of his guards is a spy. I see Tim Ryan to watch a high building.
Media Confirmation of :
Tim Ryan ends 2020 presidential campaign – October 24, 2019
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/24/politics/tim-ryan-ends-campaign/index.html
(CNN) Rep. Tim Ryan dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Thursday, ending a campaign that failed to gain any traction in a large field of better-financed and better-known Democrats.
In a video sent to his supporters, Ryan also announced that he will instead run for reelection to the House of Representatives. (MEDIA CONFIRMATION 1).
Democratic U.S. Representative Ryan of Ohio ends presidential bid – October 24, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-ryan/democratic-us-representative-ryan-of-ohio-ends-presidential-bid-idUSKBN1X326W
Ryan, whose campaign was marked by slow fundraising and low poll numbers, is the latest to withdraw his candidacy in a slowly thinning field of Democrats seeking the party’s nod to run against Republican Donald Trump. (MEDIA CONFIRMATION 2)
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1. Jeffrey Epstein (Multimillionaire Financier) – His death, How his death will affect the Presidential Election 2020 in USA and Trump. Money, Business, War against the Jews. A revenge . Negotiation. War… – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 20, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In Addition : Jeffrey Epstein (Multimillionaire Financier) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 19, 2019 – By Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
2. Bill Weld (Republican Presidential Candidate 2020 Election, former Governor of Massachusetts) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 20, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In addition : Bill Weld (Republican Presidential Candidate) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 20, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
3. Michael Bennett (Democratic Presidential Candidate 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 22, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
4. Steve Bullock (Governor of Montana, Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 23, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In Addition : Steve Bullock (Governor of Montana, Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 23, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
5. John Delaney (Democratic Presidential Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 24, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In Addition : John Delaney (Democratic Presidential Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 24, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
6. Tulsi Gabbard (Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 24, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
7. Greenland (Photo of Google Earth) – What will happen with the deal of Trump about Greenland ? Where there is Gold, Metals for the Space Industry, Oil and Gas ? – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 25, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In Addition : Greenland (Satellite photo of Google Earth) – Clairvoyant reading August 25, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
8. Amy Klobuchar (Democratic Presidential Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 26, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In Addition : Amy Klobuchar (Democratic candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading August 26, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
In Addition : Amy Klobuchar (Democratic candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading August 26, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Ivelina Staikova
9. Wayne Messam (Mayor of Miramar – Florida, Presidential Candidate 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 26, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
10. Tim Ryan (Presidential Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 27, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In Addition : Tim Ryan (Presidential Candidate for 2020 Election) – Clairvoyant reading August 27, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
11. Joe Sestak (Presidential Candidate for Election 2020) – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 27, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
12. Andrew Yang 2020 Presidential Campaign – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 29, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
13. Tom Steyer ( 2020 Democrat for President ) – Clairvoyant reading / Psychic predictions August 29 , 2019 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova ” from Europe , Bulgaria , Varna.
In Addition : Tom Steyer (2020 Democrat for President) – Clairvoyant reading August 29, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
14. Xi Jinpin (President of China) – Trade War Truce and Hong Kong – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions August 30, 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In Addition : Chinese president Xi Jinpin (the Trade War with USA and Hong Kong) – Clairvoyant reading August 30, 2019 by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
15. Which place is designated for the Human race on the Moon – Full Moon August 16, 2019 – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions about the Light and the Dark side of the Moon. About Energy and Minerals – where exactly are they on the Moon? About the distribution of the Moon ; crashed alien spacecraft…..- by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
In Addition: The Moon at August 16 , 2019 ( Full Moon ) – Clairvoyant reading – by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova
16. Satellite image of failed Iranian rocket launch at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Northern Iran – August 29, 2019 – Clairvoyant reading August 31, 2019 – by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova
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● Bernie Sanders ( US Senator ) – Bernie Sanders 2020 Presidential campaign
● Beto O’Rourke ( Campaign for Presidential election 2020 )
●Donald Trump (U.S. President and Candidate for U.S.Election 2020)
●Elizabeth Warren ( U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and Democratic candidate for president in 2020 Elections )
● Julian Castro ( 2020 Presidential Candidate )
● Joe Biden (2020 Candidate for U.S. President)
●Bill de Blasio ( Mayor of New York city and 2020 Candidate for U.S. President )
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#Manhattan : Media Confirmation of : #NewYork’s and Mayor #BilldeBlasio’s problems with Energy and Water – July 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her New Ebook and Paperback book Published June 4, 2019 : Tory Leadership Race candidates, Election – UK and USA 2019 – 2020 , Facebook battle Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Mark Zuckerberg, Joe Biden, Boris Johnson , Jeremy Hunt,Sir Graham Brady -Committee 1922, Michael Gove… By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova
Media Confirmation of : New York’s problems with Energy and Water – July 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her New Ebook and Paperback book Published June 4, 2019 :
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Bill de Blasio ( Mayor of New York city and 2020 Candidate for U.S. President ) – Clairvoyant reading/ Psychic predictions May 24 , 2019 2 pm – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova ” – from Europe , Bulgaria , Varna
photo : May 16 , 2019. Time – after the photo
……July 2019 – there is a forthcoming distribution of money and problems in New York city – explosions, tragedies + a natural disaster and problems with energy (Media Confirmation 1)
and water (Media Confirmation 2) . Until three days the population will calm down and the normal life will return. I see …..
De Blasio leaves campaign trail as New York City blackout affects thousands – July 13, 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/13/new-york-blackout-1415663
New York to set limits for industrial chemicals in water – July 9, 2019
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Media Confirmation about “Inside the Trump Campaign’s Frenzied Search for Clinton’s Emails” April 18, the 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her New Ebook and Paperback book Published March 31, 2019 : WHO WILL WIN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020 ? Republicans vs Democrats – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions for : Trump’s 2020 Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke , Kirsten Gillibrand , Elizabeth Warren ,Kamala Harris , Cory Booker, Julian Castro…. Part 1
Media Confirmation about “Inside the Trump Campaign’s Frenzied Search for Clinton’s Emails” April 18, the 2019 – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her New Ebook and Paperback book Published March 31, 2019 :
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Donald Trump (U.S. President and Candidate for U.S.Election 2020) Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions March 26 , 2019 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Photo: March 25 , 2019Time – after the photo
……April 2019 – there are conversations about the lawsuit and taking of a decision by lawyers. There must be a news for a lawsuit that will mute the Russian meddling case. A choice for apparent by betrayal of a democrat. The choice is falling at first on Hillary Clinton , then it is going to two more democrats – a lawsuit against them – it is connected with Libya and Syria. What Trump really wants and he can’t touch is Obama…..
Inside the Trump Campaign’s Frenzied Search for Clinton’s Emails – April 18, 2019
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-18/mueller-report-trump-hillary-clinton-emails
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Media Confirmation of Elizabeth Warren Pledged To Replace Betsy DeVos With A Former Public School Teacher If She Wins In 2020 (May 13, 2019) – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her New Ebook and Paperback book :WHO WILL WIN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020 ? Republicans vs Democrats – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions for : Trump’s 2020 Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke , Kirsten Gillibrand , Elizabeth Warren ,Kamala Harris , Cory Booker, Julian Castro….Part 1
Media Confirmation of Elizabeth Warren Pledged To Replace Betsy DeVos With A Former Public School Teacher If She Wins In 2020 (May 13, 2019) – as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova in her New Ebook and Paperback book :
Elizabeth Warren ( U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and Democratic candidate for president in 2020 Elections ) – Clairvoyant / Psychic predictions March 27 , 2019 ,10 am – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” -from Europe , Bulgaria , Varna. http://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova
Photo : March 17 , 2019 . time : after the photo
……May 2019 – she will need a big patience. Elizabeth Warren is seeing itself as a teacher and a man of enlightenment (Media Confirmation).
June 2019 – she is in ….
Elizabeth Warren Pledged To Replace Betsy DeVos With A Former Public School Teacher If She Wins In 2020 – May 13, 2019
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/elizabeth-warren-betsy-devos-2020
Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised Monday that she would choose a former public school teacher as secretary of education if she was elected president.
“Let’s get a person with real teaching experience,” she said in an email to supporters. “A person who understands how low pay, tattered textbooks, and crumbling classrooms hurt students and educators.”
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Ryedale council votes to extend fracking moratorium indefinitely
By Ruth Hayhurst on September 6, 2019 • ( 32 Comments )
Opponents of fracking outside Ryedale District Council, 5 September 2019. Photo: Ryedale Conservatives
Councillors have voted for an indefinite moratorium on fracking in the North Yorkshire district where Third Energy has permission for the process.
The ruling Conservative group on Ryedale District Council announced last week that it would propose a motion for a five-year moratorium on fracking. This would have continued a previous moratorium, passed in 2015.
But at a meeting of the council last night (5 September 2019), councillors approved an amended version for an indefinite moratorium.
The vote was 18 in favour, 0 against and 8 abstentions.
The revised motion said the council wanted to:
“put on record thanks to the Councillors who have fought against fracking in the courts and at the Public Examination into the North Yorkshire Minerals Plan, and to everybody who had contributed to the anti-fracking cause, including members of the public who engaged in lawful direct action.”
Members also asked the council leader, Keane Duncan, to write to the government setting out Ryedale’s position.
Cllr Duncan had described the motion as a “historic message” to the government and signalled “a significant break” with national policy.
Local anti-fracking campaigners welcomed the vote today.
Steve White, of Frack Free Ryedale, said:
“Ryedale District Council’s motion for a moratorium reflects a growing realisation across the political spectrum that a new intensive gas industry, feeding our addiction to climate-threatening fossil fuels and threaded through our densely populated island, simply isn’t viable.”
Third Energy was granted planning permission in May 2016 to frack the KM8 well at Kirby Misperton.
But the operation has not yet happened. In January 2018, the government ordered an assessment of Third Energy’s financial resilience. There has been no public statement on the outcome of the test.
Since then, Third Energy’s onshore gas business was sold to the subsidiary of a US firm. Last month , Third Energy announced it was focusing on conventional gas in Ryedale.
Local anti-fracking campaigner, Peter Allen, said:
“The recognition by Ryedale District Council that fracking is totally unsuitable for the area is to be welcomed. Let us hope that the enlightened stance of the council is followed by similar actions from the county council and the government.”
“The amended motion also recognises the contribution of campaigners who have fought to prevent fracking in North Yorkshire. Frack Free Ryedale recently celebrated the fact that in the five years since the group formed, no fracking has taken place in the district but they vowed to keep the pressure on until fracking is banned completely.”
Steve Mason, a Lib Dem councillor on Ryedale District Council, said:
“This is great, and a reflection of the hard work and dedication of the anti-fracking campaigners everywhere. You do have to give credit where credit is due, and the Conservative motion was a positive step forward for the council. I’m especially glad they accepted our amendments to make it an indefinite moratorium and also write to the government to set out this position.”
Ryedale District Council is not a mineral planning authority. Any decisions on fracking applications in the district would be made by North Yorkshire County Council.
But Jennee Dixon, of the campaign network Frack Free United, said the motion by Ryedale could have a significant role in influencing future government policy.
“The message that I hope these local Conservatives convey to their colleagues across the country is: ‘Is fracking a price worth paying?’
“Let’s not forget that it is still Conservative party policy to frack the UK. It’s increasingly likely that an election is coming. Fracking, which affects over 170 constituencies, including 40 marginal seats, could be an electoral earthquake for the Conservative party.
“It is clear that developing fracking in the UK will lead to unacceptable negative impacts on local communities, the economy, democracy, environment, health and also hamper efforts to tackle climate change.”
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Martin Collyer says:
Sorry, but you are incorrect Philip. Is that more to your liking?
So, if companies that have not brought sites into production ie. no income, can restore sites, why a problem with sites where production has happened and income has been obtained?
Third Energy have been operating pretty successfully in the area for many years, although recently investment to keep that going has been limited. So, now there are new owners who wish to renovate and revitalise, not to frack.
If you wish to propose this is something different, and quote Canada as your reason, feel free. Pretty tenuous, and do not expect others to mop it up. There have even been anti “experts” mistake which Barclays owned Third Energy, so excuse me if I do look at what is being posted about this situation with some skepticism and remind some that this situation has required some of us to do our research and those who do not will be challenged.
Whether there is the ability to refresh this business, we will see, but that is a separate issue. Someone has supplied fresh capital, so obviously there is some confidence this is possible.
The Achilles heel for the antis who believe one company exiting means the business will cease, even though that has been proven not to be the case many times over.
Mike Potter says:
I’m very interested to hear that, quote ‘Someone has supplied fresh capital, so obviously there is some confidence this is possible.’ I’m most interested to know who that someone is, and how much. Is this capital ‘real’ money, or just funny money in the form of extra borrowing from those desperate to get some return on their ever increasing losses?
philip Tate says:
New tone much appreciated, Mr Collyer. By all means be sceptical . Third Energy never made a profit in any of the years since its acquisition of Viking. The accounts are on line with Companies House. Eight years of losses is not my definition of “operating pretty successfully.” but nobody actually died , that’s true.
IGAS – which restored the site at Tinker Lane – has lost 97.5 % of its equity value in five years. I don’t think I would put that record in the category of companies ” operating pretty successfully. ”
We all know that oil and gas exploration is highly speculative but the latest advances in financial engineering make it hazardous in a different way, especially when there are legacy issues to consider. The Oil and Gas Authority quite rightly has a test of Financial Resilience before Fracking can commence. Third Energy – the pretty successful company – failed the test and was obliged to remove its equipment. I am sure I haven’t invented that but by all means continue with your scepticism.
I think if you understood more about corporate finance you would realise that the Fracking Industry has been captured by the banking industry. Supplying debt in the form of junk bonds is highly lucrative and the credit derivatives arising from unsecured lending are even more so.. Fracking in America has replaced Housing as the new sub prime lending. It’s brilliant if you are on the right side of the bet.
Energy Policy and Environmental damage are too serious to be the playthings of bankers.
Mr.Tate, please do not patronise me. What were you saying about tone?
Your very selective comments are very obviously-selective!
We have had Canada, now we have “captured by the banking industry”. Please explain that within the context of INEOS!
Third Energy under previous ownership, were failing to invest, very obviously, because Barclays Bank, like most banks, had an asset they were not interested in long term and were, like most banks, being pressured to dispose of non core assets. It is no more complicated than that.
The current “lot” have stated they wish to refresh those assets. They have stated they do not wish to frack.
Whether there is enough gas left to have success within that intention, only time will tell. This is exactly the same across much of the N.Sea, where it is seen as environmentally sound to extract gas and oil from assets that may otherwise have been abandoned with resource still left. Big Oil is being replaced there by some who think they can do that. Where are Big Oil going? See my next sentence.
Fracking in USA is increasingly being funded by Big Oil, such as Shell. Yes, it’s brilliant if you are receiving their dividends.
“Oil majors get claws into Texas wildcatters”: James Dean, Times, August 28th, 2019.
Mike-borrowing is funny money? Suppose it depends on where you borrow the money. Most with mortgages see it as an investment. I am of an age where my “funny money” is pretty low, but I recognise many less ancient find borrowing is the way they progress to what they wish to achieve. Some will make the wrong selections and find it may produce problems, others will state in later years, it was the best thing they ever did. Start up businesses may prosper, or fail. I really do not see that oil/gas exploration is any different in that respect. If you want to see how long a business can run on “funny” money, without making a profit, take a look at Tesla! (How is their equity doing Mr. Tate?)
I make no pretence about understanding financial machinations. I’ll leave that to you and Philip. However, I do realise there’s a big difference in borrowing real money against the risk of losing collateral such as a house. Entirely different than complex offshore tax avoiding company structures borrowing against nothing more tangible than the prospect of a nice return. A cursory glance at TE’s accounts doesn’t reveal much in the way of tangible assets to be repossesed by Barclays bankers.
Surprisingly, you seem to have overlooked my question: I’m very interested to hear that, quote ‘Someone has supplied fresh capital, so obviously there is some confidence this is possible.’ I’m still most interested to know who that someone is, and how much.
Do you really know that ‘someone has supplied fresh capital’ or was it just one of your usual comments that sound vaguely plausible but cannot be backed by factual information?
We will see if and when the investment that has been spoken about happens, Mike. Could it be the Norwegian Wealth Fund?? LOL
However, it does seem borrowing against-as you put it-the prospect of a nice return- is not too difficult when a business plan supports that. Tesla has found that out, even though their business plan has failed repeatedly.
Mind you, there are always projects where the business plan doesn’t do that-The Swansea Lagoon comes to mind-and then the ” compulsory mug punters” ie. the tax payer,s are expected to fund “superb” projects that are rejected by everyone else who looks at the business plan.
It’s a funny old world.
I note the remaining subsidies on electric vehicles are to be withdrawn. That should excite a few more business plans, and probably send money rushing to the safe havens-like Shell.
Have to let you think about that for a while, as I have someone arriving to collect a great stack of firewood I have for friends and neighbours. They obviously heard about the predictions of a harsh winter on the way, and have decided to get their truck load before it is all gone.
A business plan that supports a nice return hardly described the English fracking industry at the moment. Only a crumbling and shambolic Tory govt supporting it centrally, with the wider membership revolting, seismic issues, Wall St calling time on the US industry and their very questionable economics, greater momentum countrywide against fossil fuels and single use plastic, a credible forecast that the amount of gas under our feet was drastically overestimated etc etc.
I’ll take your continued lack of response to my question as meaning:
1. I just made up the bit about someone supplying fresh capital to sound knowledgeable and to imply that the industry is on a sound footing really, or
2. I’m remarkably well informed about precisely who is funding the fracking companies, but not at liberty to disclose such commercially sensitive information.
If it’s the latter, I’m surprised someone so important and so deeply involved with the fracking and investment businesses has the time or inclination to spend huge amounts of time on Drill or Drop.
Well, that was all Alice, wasn’t it Mike!
Third Energy are NOT a fracking company, anymore. So, you seem very interested in their funding, for something they are not intending to do! As far as funding for INEOS is concerned, that is quite straight forward-funded out of current profits and maybe debt-just like the £50m plus they have invested in their vehicle business although they have yet to make one unit.
Cuadrilla funding is pretty easy to identify as well, so is that of Igas.
You could be “remarkably well informed” if you looked into the reality of those companies who are planning to frack-at the moment-rather than conflating with those who are not.
I did respond to your question, but it was you who ignored the response. Let me try again. Third Energy have outlined their plans for investment. If, and when, they conduct those plans you may see where the funds have come from. Until then, I suspect they are not that inclined to share them with you.
“Wall Street calling time”!!! You mean Occidental who just invested $38 BILLION in US fracking, 3 other $20 BILLION take over deals/mergers forecast, Exxon, Chevron and Shell expanding their operations, BP and INEOS evaluating options. Come off it Mike, you are either commenting on something you have not researched or you believe others will be fooled.
I am sorry if my earlier post came across as patronising, Mr Collyer. I think I was advising you not to put your money where your mouth is. Destruction of shareholder value is widespread in the Fracking Industry. Even those companies providing support services have suffered : in the last five years, Halliburton shares have tanked from $65 to $20 and Schlumberger have gone from $103 to $46. This may be “selective” but it does bear examination.
Occidental has not ” invested” $38 billion in US Fracking. It has consolidated its position by buying Anadarko. And how has it done this ? It has raised $13 billion on the bond market and by doing so added $40 billion of debt to its balance sheet : debt.that previously belonged to Anadarko. Good news for the Banking Industry. Like all companies that are forever merging and consolidating it is hoping that the future increased cash flow will be sufficient to service its debt. The form book is not good. Occidental shares have fallen from $94 to $45 in the last five years.
Returning to Third Energy, the original wing of Barclays that supplied debt never had a long term interest in the Company. The strategy was always to exit within a 5 – 7 year window. Actually Barclays was extremely successful in sourcing funds for a business which in its last accounts had a turnover less than the local family business that delivers my milk and paper – The Times, obviously. Third Energy burnt 100% of its share capital and became wholly dependent on debt to fund its day-to-day operations. With insufficient income to service an accumulated debt of £68 million ( some of it secured on assets of about £3 million ) it was “Time Gentlemen, please “.
You may well be a cheerleader for the Fracking Industry, Mr Collyer , but not all of us who have grave misgivings about an unnecessary industry that not only increases the consumption of fossil fuels at the same time as harming our natural environment – not all of us are as ignorant as you so regularly suggest. And here’s a prediction : Cuadrilla will have gone by Christmas.
But, Third Energy has nothing to do with the fracking “industry”-or testing of such- now, Mr.Tate. You can meander around the subject as much as you like, but that is the reality.
In terms of how companies raise money for acquisition/takeover/merger it rarely comes out of profit, usually out of banks or other financial bodies, who have seen a business plan and reckon it is a good investment. They utilise your savings account money and generously give you around 0.2% return for that whilst they pocket over 10% that they make if the business plan succeeds, and often if it does not. I’m not sure of the point you are making that somehow fracking companies are unique in that, as the example of Tesla clearly shows they are not.
I would even suspect the £50 million plus INEOS have put into their vehicle business so far, may come along exactly the same route.
Your prediction regarding Cuadrilla follows many others who have done the same. You may be correct, but I suspect, if so, they will be replaced by someone else-politics allowing. Just like the way Third Energy was going to disappear (and others) but have not, or have and been replaced.
Why would UK fracking increase consumption of fossil fuels? It is now intended largely to produce hydrogen, which will still be produced somewhere. Surely, you are not contradicting the antis hymn sheet and suggesting it will make that production so much cheaper that there will be the equivalent of a feeding frenzy? I can’t see it other than in addition to hydrogen fuelled buses, trains and heating systems we could see many more hydrogen fuelled cars. As long as the carbon removed is either utilised or safely stored what is the issue?
Meanwhile, I watch with horror the TV news regarding issues such as the devastation in the Bahamas, and wonder how the reporters always manage to avoid the key component for rescue and to get these poor people back to as they were, and how they travelled there. It’s called fossil fuel, Mr.Tate-the stuff that gets the rescue ships, helicopters there, the heavy machinery fuel to clear the debris, the generators to replace any electric structures destroyed, the chain saws to clear the way for all of that to happen, the plastic sheets for shelter etc.,etc. That is why, if you look, you will find that the level of mortality from such disasters around the world is so much lower than it used to be, although still a tragedy for those caught up. Even a fleet of carbon fibre yachts will not change that one iota.
But, nuclear so much better! Ohh-today Japan about to discharge water into the ocean and EDF having more problems with the engineering of their new reactors.
Quote: But, Third Energy has nothing to do with the fracking “industry”-or testing of such- now, Mr.Tate. You can meander around the subject as much as you like, but that is the reality.
How wonderful that you have such implicit trust in the word of Third Energy, the O&G industry generally, BEIS, OGA, UKOOG etc. Personally, I have found so many weasel words, half truths, strategic silences and occasional downright lies, that I’m somewhat more sceptical.
It was certainly interesting when TE suddenly declared their damascene conversion from unconventional to conventional, only days after Ryedale DC opposed their application for a 17 year extension to the already expired permissions for the majority of their infrastructure on the grounds that the justification for extension was about retaining this infrastructure for future fracking operations. Sadly, this bore no relation to the original permissions and was therefore seen as not permissible in planning terms – completely new applications would be required for fracking. Rather a slow, costly and strongly opposed process I would imagine. Something of a dilemma for TE. No money and no permission to frack and the possibility of having to restore their existing infrastructure after conventionally producing less gas in recent years than the flatulence of a small local dairy herd. With no evidence of any ability to produce gas and no generator to burn it in within the next couple of years (oh dear, more significant investment needed), it won’t be easy to convince sensible investors to pump yet more money in, unless there could be a return from future fracking. In such a cleft stick, they’d need someone very clever and convincing to attract continued investment. Have you thought of applying Martin?
I thank you for your high opinion of my abilities Mike, but I suspect my fees may be too high.
Besides which, there are many companies who have recently obtained funds in the UK on shore oil and gas sector without the need to resort to such extremes! It really comes back to the strength, or otherwise, of a business plan. You may like to suggest that would be enhanced by some sly little reference to a distant frack. I suspect if that was the case a business plan to invest until then would be sunk. Jam many tomorrows away is hardly convincing, especially given the current political situation.
So, yes, I would expect TE to try and show how they will reinvest and develop what is there. Whether they are able to, remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, others can get paid for telling them they don’t want them to do, what they don’t want to do!
Perhaps I could do better as a Councillor? Like my local ones who agreed an hours free parking a few years ago to help retain local shopping, now want to stop that to assist climate change and will receive less income from local shops once they close and locals will increase on line shopping so climate change is not helped!! Sales of Bourbon biscuits and delivery vans triumph once again.
Could you just try and get your ball on the green , Mr Collyer? Your posts are nothing more than random swipes in the undergrowth. INEOS, TESLA, the Bahamas, Nuclear Power, Hydrogen and local Parking Charges. Could you remind us of your central thesis ?
My original argument was that Fracking is bad business and I have given examples of the destruction of shareholder value. You have not provided a single example of a Fracking company whose share value has increased . I have also explained why Private Equity is an unsatisfactory entity to engage in an industry that has “legacy” issues. You laughed at my reference to Canada. The State Legislature of British Columbia and Canada’s Supreme Court are not so easily amused as they address the difficulty of dealing with 10,000 “orphan wells”.
These are serious points and I would welcome a serious and informed response.
Just stick to the point and demonstrate the understanding of Financialisation that you claim to have.
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Single Scattering Properties of Biomass Burning Particles for Radiative Transfer
Hungershöfer, Katja and Trautmann, Thomas (2004) Single Scattering Properties of Biomass Burning Particles for Radiative Transfer. AFO2000 Abschluss-Symposium, 22.-24. März 2004, Bad Tölz, Deutschland.
Our work as subproject P3 in the joint project EFEU aims for a better understanding of the interaction between biomass burning aerosol and radiation. The two main points are the single scattering properties and the multiple scattering between these particles, as described through the radiative transfer equation. The scattering and absorption properties of the single particles depend on the particle size, their morphology and composition. The regarded wavelength plays an important role, too. Information about the optical properties can be received either from experiments, like the ones that have been carried out by our EFEU project partners or by calculation with the help of our models. A comparison between the measured and modelled properties showed partially a good agreement. While we were able to demonstrate that the temporal development of the number size distribution is substantial, it has been shown that its temporal variation does not capture the resulting optical properties alone. After adapting our radiative transfer model to the project-specific requirements, radiative transfer calculations had been carried out for the Quinault fire. Thereby the influence on the photolysis frequencies and the heating rates were in the center of attention. These calculations showed a strong backscattering of the solar radiation through the emitted particles. The result was an increase of the photolysis frequencies up to 20% above the plume compared to the clear case. Within and under the smoke layer a stronger decrease was obtained. In case of the net heating rates a maximum heating of the atmosphere was reached above the center of the fire. Responsible for this was the absorption of solar radiation through the black carbon at wavelengths below 1 micron. This also explained the somewhat higher heating in case of an internal mixture of organic and black carbon compared with an external mixture.
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Biomass burning aerosol, optical properties, radiative transfer, solar and longwave radiative heating rate
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Posted on June 6, 2012 by Ellen Brown
The problem is all inside your head she said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically
I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
–Lyrics by Paul Simon
The Euro appears to be a marriage of incompatible partners. A June 1st article in the UK Telegraph titled “Why Europe’s Love Affair with the European Project Is Ending” reported that two-thirds of 9,000 respondents thought that having the euro as their single currency was a mistake.
For Greece, it was a tragic mismatch from the beginning; and like many a breakup, it is really about money. Greece is a vivacious young woman chained to a tyrannical old man. She yearns to be free to dance on her own; but breaking up is hard to do. Defaulting on her debts will force her out of the Eurozone and back to issuing drachmas, and she could get brutally beaten by speculators on foreign exchange markets for her insolence.
Fortunately, there are alternatives to an ugly divorce. The treaties binding the 17 member nations are just a set of rules, entered into by mutual agreement; and rules can be bent or broken, especially in crises. The ECB (European Central Bank) broke a litany of rules to save the banks, and so did the Federal Reserve to save Wall Street in 2008. Rules that can be bent for banks can be bent for people and nations—not just Greece, but all the other Eurozone countries threatening to file for divorce.
Paul Simon says there are 50 ways, but here are five creative alternatives.
1. The Open Marriage: Return to the Drachma Without Abandoning the Euro
James Skinner, former chairman of NEF (the New Economics Foundation in the UK), suggests that the Greek government could start issuing drachmas without abandoning the euro. Drachmas could be reserved for domestic use—to pay the government’s budget, hire workers, build infrastructure and expand social services. He writes:
Greece is suffering from a lack of money because the only source, the single currency, has dried up. But there is no law that states that there has to be only one currency.
. . . By enabling the Government, monitored by the Central Bank, to spend newly created money directly into the economy, bypassing the banking sector, the burden of increasing national debt can be avoided. . . .
This programme for creating a new Greek Drachma, bypassing the private banking sector, could start tomorrow. Its immediate effect would be to get the unemployed back to work. All existing Euro transactions can continue as before, quite separately from the new currency. The two currencies can perfectly well co-exist and run alongside each other. . . . Foreign banks will continue to deal in Euros and other currencies as usual.
This solution was successfully used in Argentina when its currency collapsed in 2001. The government walked away from its debts and started issuing its own Argentine pesos. Three years after a record debt default on more than $100 billion, the country was well on the road to recovery. Exports increased, the currency was stable, investors returned, unemployment diminished and the economy grew by 8 percent for 2 consecutive years.
2. Separate Bank Accounts: Fire Up the Printing Presses at the Greek Central Bank
In a March 19 article on Seeking Alpha, George Kesarios observed that the Greek central bank has the power to issue more than just drachmas. The ECB is not an ordinary central bank:
Rather, it is a confederation of central banks. Each European national central bank can theoretically do the same types of market operations as the ECB and then some. The forefathers of the euro have left many monetary windows open, which, if used correctly, can solve the European debt crisis in a very short period without taxpayer funds.
He cited article 14.4 of the Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks, which provides:
14.4. National central banks may perform functions other than those specified in this Statute unless the Governing Council finds, by a majority of two thirds of the votes cast, that these interfere with the objectives and tasks of the ESCB. Such functions shall be performed on the responsibility and liability of national central banks and shall not be regarded as being part of the functions of the ESCB.
That means the National Center Banks can do whatever the ECB can do—and even things it can’t. The Greek central bank could step in and start issuing euros itself. Again, there is precedent for this. It was under Article 14.4 that the Irish Central Bank was able to print 80 billion euros as “emergency liquidity assistance,” and the Greek central bank has already printed 44 billion euros itself.
The Greek government could print euros, refinance its sovereign debt, and pay the interest to itself, effectively eliminating the interest burden. Among other precedents, there is Canada, which borrowed from its own central bank from 1939 to 1974 to fund major infrastructure projects and social programs. It pulled this off over a 25-year period without hyperinflating the currency, driving up prices, or increasing the public debt, which remained low and sustainable.
There is the concern that the euro might suffer by devaluation if other Eurozone members followed suit. But Kesarios points to the Japanese experience, “where one can print and print and then print some more, without the value of the currency being marked down (due to positive trade flows).” The euro might be equally resilient.
3. Divorce: Just Walk Away
According to the May 29th New York Times, the 130 billion euro bailout that was supposed to buy time for Greece is now mainly just servicing the interest on the debt. The “troika”—the ECB, IMF, and European Commission—which holds three-fourths of the debt, is sequestering the bailout funds to be paid right back to themselves in interest payments. This is merely going to compound the debt to disastrous levels, without a single cent going to the Greeks or their comatose economy.
Interest rates on Greek ten-year bonds have gone to nearly 30 percent recently. Under the Rule of 72, at 30% compounded annually, debt doubles in 2.4 years. If the Greeks can’t even pay the interest on the debt today except by borrowing, how are they going to repay double the principal in a mere 2.4 years? At 30%, the Greeks could be paying over 100% of their GDP in interest charges. Legally, a contract that is impossible to perform is void.
Alexis Tsipras, leader of the radical left-wing Greek party Syriza, which is now in second place in the Greek parliament, calls it an “odious debt,” a legal term for a national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation. An odious debt under international law need not be repaid.
4. Spousal Support: The Public Bank Option
If divorce is too much to contemplate, Greece’s crippling interest burden can be relieved by taking advantage of the ECB’s very generous 1% rate for bankers. Article 123 of the Maastricht Treaty forbids member governments from borrowing directly from the ECB, but it makes an exception in paragraph 2 for “publicly-owned credit institutions”—something Greece will have plenty of when it nationalizes its banks. They can line up at the ECB’s window for its bargain-basement 1% banking rate and use the borrowed funds to buy up the national debt.
Researcher Simon Thorpe wrote to the ECB and asked whether they would object if a publicly-owned credit institution were to borrow from the ECB and use the funds “to supply the money to a government such as the Greek government in order for that government to pay off its debts to financial markets.” The ECB replied:
According to the Treaty—as you have just quoted—such publicly owned credit institutions “shall be given the same treatment by national central banks and the ECB as private credit institutions.” It is up to the banks to decide how to use the money they have borrowed from the central bank system.
5. The Dowry: Impose a Financial Transaction Tax
Thorpe notes that the ECB has issued and lent nearly one trillion euros to the banks at 1% since December 2011—three times the total Greek debt of 355 billion euros. If Greek public banks borrowed from the ECB at 1% and bought Greece’s sovereign debt, the debt could be paid off in 10 years just from the returns on a very modest Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) of 0.3%.
Imposing a tiny FTT on all financial trades would not only be a lucrative source of revenue but would prevent the attacks of speculators, both on the newly-issued drachma and on the sovereign debt of Greece and other Eurozone countries. The FTT has already been implemented in many countries. In 2011, there were 40 countries that had FTT in operation, raising $38 billion (€29bn).
Where There Is a Will, There Is a Way
The problem is finding the will, particularly among the Eurocrat leaders holding the reins of power, who may not be looking for an amicable workout. The marital problems of Greece and the Eurozone stem from an arbitrary set of rules that were entered into and can be changed by agreement. But as Mike Whitney maintained in a June 3 article titled “Europe Moves Closer to Banktatorship”:
These people are not interested in fixing the EZ economy. They are engaged in a stealth campaign to . . . solidify the power of big finance over the individual states . . . .
To avoid that dire scenario, the popular majority needs to grab the reins of power. It is fitting that Greece, the birthplace of European culture and democracy, is the focus of the struggle against bondage to an elite banker class. Greece can dance again if she can set herself free.
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pm, on June 6, 2012 at 11:25 am said:
I’ll take what’s behind curtain #3. Renounce the bankster debts en toto and cancel any and all plans for austerity.
Then I’ll take a side order of #2 and use the Greek central bank to spend the currency of its choice into the economy to save people lives and livlihoods.
If other countries follow suit, this could be the counter revolution that ends the bankster empire.
ErnieM, on June 6, 2012 at 11:34 am said:
Right on. As someone famous said (loosely), “We can live in abundance instead of austerity if we get the banker parasites off of our backs.”
Susan, on June 6, 2012 at 5:59 pm said:
Just copy Iceland they are doing great.
Michael Kenny, on June 7, 2012 at 8:19 am said:
Amusing. I see this article more as an example of the increasingly frantic reaction of US neocons to the realisation that neither the EU nor the euro are going to collapse, nor is any Member State going to leave the eurozone, least of all Greece. The Pew survey (you can link to it via the Telegraph article) is a hilarious example of flat-footed manipulation of figures so as to produce the desired result. Most of the raw data has actually been concealed! By the way, Syriza, like all Greek parties except the communists, want to keep the euro, as do about 80% of the Greek people. On present polling trends, no matter how Greece votes, 90 – 95% of the voters will choose pro-euro parties. That sounds a lot like a love affair but not one that’s likely to break up anytime soon!
pm, on June 8, 2012 at 2:31 am said:
It sounds like stockholm syndrome kinda love affair.
Ellen Brown, on June 10, 2012 at 11:01 am said:
I tend to agree; they’ll change the rules rather than crash the system. It’s a huge game of chicken.
rmiglobal, on June 7, 2012 at 12:53 pm said:
The bankers own every single politician in Greece and their nephew the civil servant. Things will not end nicely.
Calliope, on June 7, 2012 at 4:18 pm said:
By Zeus, what a great article by Ellen Brown.
The five ways to leave your oppressor are excellent measures for Greece and all of us, all the countries suffering from the strangulation, hypersqueeze, and suffocation that is being perpetrated upon us by the less than 1% – the Midases of the world.
The question is: why can’t Greece choose any or all of these five ways to free themselves? They CAN and I believe the will is there on the part of the 99% – but does the Greek government choose to do so? If they don’t, it is probably due to the same forces that are at play here.
Greece seems to be a microcosm, IMO, of what is going on worldwide. Ellen Brown has made excellent recommendations for banking and finance reform. The ideas are there. The problem, sadly, seems to be the “Banktatorship”, the Imperial Plutocracy. As mentioned in this article, the banksters are not in the business of fixing economies, and are engaged in a not so stealthy campaign to solidify the enormous power of the financial elites over the rest of us – the 21st century serfs.
The answers are here also. The 99% needs to be aware of what is no longer stealthy – although it was for a long time hidden – and “grab the reins of power.” We have to get out of our “Stockholm Syndrome” mode.
Let’s make a new plan, Stan. Print those drachmas with a beautiful picture of Olympian Zeus holding a giant and awesome thunderbolt in his great hands.
Thanks, and great imagery!
50 Way to Leave Your Lover: Greece and the Eurozone, on June 7, 2012 at 9:07 pm said:
[…] bondage to an elite banker class. Greece can dance again if she can set herself free.Ellen Brown The Web of DebtPosted: Thursday, 7 June […]
Greece And The Euro: Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover, on June 8, 2012 at 6:44 am said:
[…] – Greece and the Euro: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (Web of Debt, June 6, 2012): The problem is all inside your head she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.–Lyrics by Paul Simon […]
Piccolo Economista, on June 10, 2012 at 7:33 am said:
Solution #1 is the most logical from a systemic POV.
It is what Bernard Lietaer is also recommending as per his recent report made for the Club of Rome (Money & Sustainability: the Missing Link) on the subject of Complementary Currencies. In fact, I suspect Skinner got the idea from him…
Look at how Uruguay and Brazil have been using that concept to satisfy their internal needs. Consider how the Swiss use the Franc and WIR to keep their economy in balance.
Sure, it’s not “efficient” (adding another variable), but it is more “resilient” through diversity.
The key is to remove the power of issuance from the private banks, and limit (if not, prohibit) convertibility.
Every nation should be considering this idea, except allow the issuance to be controlled by provinces/states, municipalities, etc. since most nations already have sovereign control over their national currencies.
ErnieM, on June 10, 2012 at 8:25 am said:
“Look at how Uruguay and Brazil have been using that concept to satisfy their internal needs.” Do you have references for that? Thanks.
Thanks. The problem is that the local currency will get killed by speculators if let out of the country; but the Greeks could do like Malaysia did in 1998 and impose strict currency controls. You change your money at the border; nobody speculates with it abroad.
JT, on June 11, 2012 at 6:05 am said:
Good piece. FYI, SYRIZA’s platform is here: http://socialistworker.org/2012/06/06/what-syriza-stands-for
James, on June 12, 2012 at 6:14 pm said:
The recent Global Research article on Belarus, Sanctioning Progress: The Secret Economic War against Belarus (re-published here) is most insightful and revealing. Whilst Belarus is demonised or ignored by the corporate and phony alternate news media, it provides an example that Greece and the rest of the European Union would do well to follow.
This comment of 14 October 2011 on this site shows that Belarus owes much of its prosperity to public banking as well as public spending programs.
On another topic, Ellen, have you any thoughts on the on-line payment system, flattr at flattr.com? It makes
it possible for people who make non-proprietary copyrighted contributions to the Internet, such as this, to be paid for their work, but as it is voluntary it relies on the good intent of readers. This blogger thinks highly of it. (Even though he has a
curious myopia towards Public Banking for someone who opposes neoliberal economic orthodoxy, his article on flattr is quite good.)
It seems that flattr is private financial institution and not a public institution.
If any of the public banks were to set up an equivalent on-line payment facility, I think it could be made more versatile and taken up at a rate still more rapid than that at which flattr is now being taken up.
desideriuserasmus, on June 16, 2012 at 3:32 pm said:
Ending the ‘Zero-sum game’(dilemma) in Greece
This article suggest simple and effective methods to solve for the Greek tragedy
of our times, by means of diagnosing the illness down to its causes and then offering available simple measures for unwinding these malignancies.
The present day Greek crisis comprises a socio-economic dilemma consists of a couple of ‘Zero-sum Game’, where resourcing for one critical need comes on the expense of another critical need. These dilemmas compound each other to form concrete threats to the socio-economic stability on continental and global scales.
One of those Dilemmas concerns the monetary constraints, with the supply of currency is subjected on the one hand to heavy interest by the global banking cabal, headquartered in Wall-street, and on the other hand is subjected to depletion(“vacuuming”) by means of VAT – a “skull tax” like system which targets the foundation of socio-economics in the flesh.
The other Dilemmas concerns the need to protect the country itself,
i.e. the stability and the natural resources, while all such funding must come on the expense of other critical matters, given the above VAT-vs-Interest constraint and aggravating its impact further.
Greece may implement a most effective measure for the sake of
‘implicit_default-while-effective_recovery’, by means of eradicating its VAT.
VAT is quite like a skull-tax or a carbon tax, i.e. inhumane thus its annihilation
should be the first and most target of economic public protection.
This is because the monetary policy of currency-starvation is two folds:
On the one hand, the thraldom-of-interest on money issuance causes the crisis altogether. On the other hand, VAT depletes the currency supply exactly where it is needed most: at the end user’s hand-to-mouth in-the-flesh economy.
While combating the thraldom-of-issuance requires addressing explicitly and directly the cartel of interest i.e. taking the global banksterite genocidal mafia head-on, then curbing the VAT rather a matter of social-welfare, which this time is implemented in the most effective, just and economic sense.
The military dilemma
The concentration of the ~1/4 million US military personnel from around Europe in Greece may bring some $25 Billion p.a. to that country,
thus saving it financially for the long run, without a threat to French banks or to German pensions. The U.S. GAO (Government Accountability Office) claimed:
“245,000 beneficiaries in U.S. European Command”,
where the cost of a single brigade, i.e. at about 11,000 personnel,
is at about $100m p.a.:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/09/army-brigades-in-europe-cost-billions-093010w/
Zero-sum games are coupled with immorality
1. A Zero-sum game yields immorality,
e.g. arid environments give a great survivability advantage to evil people.
2. Immorality leads to perpetrating zero-sum games,
e.g. web-sites for on-line ‘deals’, where the unsuspecting users
are bound to loose in a rigged game the kind of a Casino.
Since zero-sum games are the presence of evil, then it is very clear they must be unwound entirely, i.e. to the point of dissolving them entirely, thus urgently – while the physical damage is still manageable, containable and corrigible.
OliveOyl, on June 18, 2012 at 1:08 am said:
Ellen Brown, I’ve shared your blog post re: 50 Ways with numerous people and with a local newspaper editor. Thanks very much for writing it.
Please, a penny for your thoughts on the Greek election which was concluded last night. Maybe it’s time for a new blog entry?
pm, on June 18, 2012 at 5:20 am said:
By choosing the New Democracy party in the Greece elections it appears that the greeks have rejected all of the alternatives listed above. Instead of “50 ways to leave your lover”, how about “I’ve got plenty of nothing” [cus nothing is plenty for me] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf6WLrMIsMA
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Word for 'so simple you'd think it's obvious but it's not'
Word for 'so simple you'd think it's obvious but it's not' .. for example I learned today that people who are easily distracted are more like to become addicted.
Is there a word for that?
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Seems similar to this question. There might be some useful answers. – Sam Mar 4 '12 at 5:21
This question reminds of the bit about the cat flap from Dirk Gently. – Sam Mar 4 '12 at 5:22
Welcome to the site, Randy. Unfortunately, this question does not meet our standards for single-word-requests. You need to describe the context where you need this word, what words you've already found and rejected (and why), what connotations you want (or want to avoid), and any other criteria that you're using to determine whether a word will work. Otherwise, we'll just be playing a guessing game. – Marthaª Mar 5 '12 at 19:48
Are you asking for the word that describes something that is "deceptively simple", or as some respondents have suggested, something that is "obvious in hindsight"? – user14070 Mar 7 '12 at 19:38
There may be no such single word, but you can say that such things are obvious in hindsight.
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Also not a single word, a "bright idea" normally means something that's simple and obvious once it's been thought of. – FumbleFingers Mar 4 '12 at 17:11
A couple of suggestions, though neither is one word:
Blindingly obvious — something that is so plain to see that it is easily overlooked (Do I sheepishly admit that this definition is from UrbanDictionary.com?)
Oft-overlooked — something that should be thought of immediately, but is usually missed
JLGJLG
You might call it a truism.
No 'truism' is something that is so obviously true that it need not be mentioned. But OP is asking for the opposite 'so simple you'd think it's obvious but it's <b>not</b>' – Wishwas Mar 4 '12 at 4:18
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Is WPP the canary in the coal mine for the global ad business?
By Patricio Robles August 23rd 2017 16:23
On Wednesday, the world’s largest ad agency holding company, WPP, spooked investors by warning about a slowdown that it projects will result in dismal sales growth of 1% or less.
Shares of the firm plummeted the most in a single day since 2000 and are now down by more than 20% this year.
WPP CEO Martin Sorrell blamed his firm’s woes on a “trifecta” of factors:
Digital disruption. While Sorrell says that the “duopoly” of Google and Facebook isn’t hurting WPP, the ways in which consumers are engaging with brands through digital channels are changing rapidly. A WPP investor document noted “content competition from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Alibaba and Tencent.” There’s also Amazon. As CNBC’s Patti Domm observed, “Price wars and changing consumer tastes have turned some of the once mainstay brands into virtual commodities, with less supermarket shelf space and now less marketing clout.”
Zero-based budgeting. More and more companies are engaging in this practice, which essentially requires that every expense be justified. This generally encourages companies to lower costs, resulting in lower budgets for ads and agencies.
Activist investors. The trend towards zero-based budgeting is in many cases being pushed by investors who want the companies they invest in to increase profits. To maximize their returns, some of these investors have pushed share buybacks and dividends over innovation and core business investments, which can obviously have an impact on ad budgets.
By far, WPP has been most hurt by its CPG clients.
As AdAge’s Laurel Wentz pointed out, WPP’s two largest clients, Procter & Gamble and Unilever, are on a mission to cut their agency costs by half a billion dollars over the next five years.
Unilever announced earlier this year that it was cutting its ad output by 30% and Procter & Gamble made headlines recently when it revealed that it reduced spending on digital ads by more than $100m last quarter without impact on its growth rate. According to P&G CFO Jon Moeller, the reduced spend “reflected…a choice to cut spending from a digital standpoint where it was ineffective, where either we were serving bots as opposed to human beings or where the placement of ads was not facilitating the equity of our brands.”
So is WPP sounding a warning to agencies or the entire ad industry?
Brian Wieser, a senior research analyst at Pivotal Research Group, told AdAge that “the thematic elements WPP is talking about are already of concern to every holding company.” In other words, this isn’t just about what’s happening at WPP and its clients specifically.
As Ian Leadbetter, co-founder Ruler Analytics, detailed earlier this week, talk of the death of agencies is on the rise. But is the agency really on its death bed?
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This quartet of friends from New Brunswick, New Jersey joined forces as Let Me Run in the summer of 2007. The band quickly struck a chord with people in a short amount of time. Drawing influences from heavy hitters like Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker, the band was poised for success from the beginning. Soon after their formation the band released a self-titled 7” that stamped their intentions upon the listening audience. With songs laden with hooks and sweet heavy riffs the bands dynamic tendencies got them recognized by XOXO Records who released their debut album “Meet Me at the Bottom” in 2009. Although Let Me Run has only embarked on one official tour, their location in the tri-state area has made it possible for them to pummel the surrounding states with their presence on short weekend trips and one-off shows. With a line-up shuffle already complete the band is brimming with renewed purpose and energy as they begin their journey of writing, recording and releasing a brand new EP in the beginning of 2010 on Paper + Plastick. If you have any doubts that this band could possibly get any catchier, just wait for the new tunes to hit your ears and get stuck in your head for weeks!
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Prognostic factors for surgical outcomes including preoperative total knee replacement and knee osteoarthritis status in female patients with lumbar spinal stenosis
Ho Lee, B.; Kim, T-Hwan.; Chong, H-Soo.; Lee, S-Hwan.; Park, J-Oh.; Kim, H-Sun.; Shim, D-Woo.; Lee, H-Mo.; Moon, S-Hwan.
Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques 28(2): 47-52
A retrospective clinical case series. To investigate knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and total knee replacement (TKR) status as prognostic factors for surgical outcomes in female patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). There have been many reports on numerous prognostic factors for surgical outcomes in patients with degenerative lumbar conditions; however, there has been no report on the surgical outcome in patients who underwent spinal surgery with coexisting KOA and TKR. This study included 141 female patients (mean age, 67.6 y) who underwent spinal surgery for LSS between January 2006 and December 2010. At 1 year postoperatively, surgical outcomes were measured using the Oswestry disability index (ODI). Various clinical factors including KOA and TKR were analyzed as prognostic factors for surgical outcomes. Mean average scores at preoperative evaluation were 26.1±6.6 in the no KOA group, 23.6±7.9 in the KOA group, and 30.4±6.7 in the TKR group (P<0.05). Mean average scores at postoperative 1 year were 13.8±8.5 in the no KOA group, 16.8±9.5 in the KOA group, and 21.4±5.7 in the TKR group (P<0.05, Mann-Whitney U test). Preoperative ODI scores were shown to be significantly affected by the TKR status only (P<0.05), and were significantly higher in the TKR patient group. ODI scores at postoperative 3 months were significantly correlated with the preoperative ODI and the operational level (P<0.05). At postoperative 1 year, ODI scores were shown to be affected by the operational level, the preoperative ODI, and the presence of advanced radiographic KOA (Kellgren/Lawrence grades III and IV) (P<0.05). A poor preoperative functional score, the presence of preoperative KOA, and longer operational levels were shown to be poor prognostic factors for the 1-year surgical outcome of LSS. Also, patients in the TKR group showed the worst ODI scores at preoperative and postoperative 1-year evaluations. Consideration of these factors when planning for spine surgery could be helpful in predicting the surgical outcomes of lumbar spinal surgery.
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Functional outcomes of outpatient balance training following total knee replacement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial. Clinical Rehabilitation 29(9): 855-867, 2016
Comparative outcomes and cost-utility after surgical treatment of focal lumbar spinal stenosis compared with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee--part 1: long-term change in health-related quality of life. Spine Journal 14(2): 234-243, 2014
Effect of body mass index on knee function outcomes following continuous passive motion in patients with osteoarthritis after total knee replacement: a retrospective study. PhysioTherapy 103(3): 266-275, 2016
Comparison of clinical outcomes between total knee arthroplasty and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis of the knee: a retrospective analysis of preoperative and postoperative results. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 10: 168, 2016
Efficacy of multimodal, systematic non-surgical treatment of knee osteoarthritis for patients not eligible for a total knee replacement: a study protocol of a randomised controlled trial. Bmj Open 2(6), 2012
Tramadol in Knee Osteoarthritis: Does Preoperative Use Affect Patient-Reported Outcomes After Total Knee Arthroplasty?. Journal of Arthroplasty 2019, 2019
AB1146The Relationship Between Function and the Periarticular Knee Structure Measured by Ultrasound in Obese Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis on a Waiting List for Total Knee Replacement. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 74(Suppl 2): 1285.2-1285, 2015
Health-related quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis after total knee replacement: factors influencing outcomes at 36 months of follow-up. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 15(9): 1001-1007, 2007
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of Singapore English and Chinese Versions of the Oxford Knee Score (OKS) in knee osteoarthritis patients undergoing total knee replacement. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 15(9): 1019-1024, 2007
Knee crepitus is not associated with the occurrence of total knee replacement in knee osteoarthritis - a longitudinal study with data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy 2018, 2018
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Validation of the Polish version of the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) in patients with osteoarthritis undergoing total knee replacement. Bmj Open 5(7): E006947, 2016
Total knee replacement or non-surgical therapy for osteoarthritis of the knee?. National Medical Journal of India 29(1): 25-26, 2016
Comparative outcomes and cost-utility following surgical treatment of focal lumbar spinal stenosis compared with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: part 2--estimated lifetime incremental cost-utility ratios. Spine Journal 14(2): 244-254, 2014
The levels of the adipokines adipsin and leptin are associated with knee osteoarthritis progression as assessed by MRI and incidence of total knee replacement in symptomatic osteoarthritis patients: a post hoc analysis. Rheumatology 55(4): 680-688, 2016
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has extended his condolences to the families of flood victims across Malawi, where at least 23 have died in recent days, and to the Government and citizens of the country.
In a statement released on Monday, Mr. Guterres said that he was “deeply saddened” by the loss of life and the “significant damage to people’s homes and livelihoods” caused by the heavy rains and subsequent flooding.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that the flooding has affected some 115,000 people, particularly in the south of Malawi. In a factsheet on the floods released on Saturday, OCHA warned that the number of people affected is expected to rise, as assessment teams reach new areas.
The flooding has had a major impact on power supplies in Malawi: according to media reports, the country’s main utility company, EGENCO, has said that more than 80% of the country’s available hydro-electric capacity is down.
On Friday, Malawian President Peter Mutharika declared a State of Emergency in the areas hit hardest by the rains and flooding, which followed the formation of a “tropical disturbance” over the Mozambique Channel earlier in the week.
Search and rescue teams from Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs, have been working with local partners to deliver relief to affected people, including tents, plastic sheets, maize, rice, beans, blankets and kitchen utensils, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Homeland Security.
The United Nations expressed its solidarity with the Malawian authorities, and committed to support them as they respond to the humanitarian needs of the population: the UN response has involved several main agencies. The World Food Programme (WFP) has deployed two boats to accompany the assessment and response; the UN Childrens’ Fund (UNICEF) is providing drones; and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in collaboration with the WFP, will support mapping using satellite imagery.
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Raha-ne de England
One a rare Saturday in my life, I had one thing in common with Sunny Gavaskar, David Lloyd & Naseer Hussain – none of us had ever seen Ajinkya Rahane bat before! What we all saw – the composure while facing the current best Test bowling attack, the assured feet movement and the excellent strike rate – was heartening to say the least. Kudos to the selection committee for finally getting something right, after howlers in form of picking Dravid, RP Singh and Jadeja for the ODI squad.
The ESPNSTAR commentary team, led by Shastri, predicted 220-230 as good score after inspecting the Chester-le-Street track. Spunky character Parthiv thought “‘Raha-ne’ de, let’s show that the highly paid commentators erred atleast 25 per cent off the mark”. For the first 15 overs of the game, there were just four desperate lbw appeals from the bowling team – all thick inside edges. It took the commentators as late as the 28th over to realize that 300 was very much on; on a pitch and crowd noise, which resembled more sub-continental than English.
Or should I say England? Shastri’s quote of the day “seems India playing a Rest of the World XI” was more apt – with the host team fielding a motley collection of players originating from three continents. The cherry on the cake, however, came two days ago when a local newspaper headline screamed “Ravi & Patel undo India” – referring to the sole T20 game which England won.
India batted the full 50 overs at the Riverside ground, in itself an achievement, considering how the summer went. Although they finished with a score, 30 runs short of what should have been, they didn’t have anyone complaining – certainly not the fans who spent two depressing monsoon months watching the Men in Blue struggling to even reach 275.
This has been a tour where, barring four Test match days in July, England hardly had to earn much – most of the times getting gifts (and umpiring decisions) on a platter. India played two Tests with a bowler short and three Tests with a batting lineup so messed up that all key players played out of position. Finally, when India got all fit batsmen in the squad lined up for the first ODI, one of them got injured in a washout game.
At the time of writing, India have called on 28 players at Queen’s territory – they may have budgeted for 20 at most – and are likely to add to it with Sachin’s fitness in major doubt. Experts can blame IPL or excess cricket or the World Cup stress, but the probability of this occurring was always very very low.
The weekend game started with Sachin being ruled out. It’s been that sort of tour – whenever things seemed at par or India had upper hand, things went worse for the guests.
India’s young openers started brightly today, smashing the bowlers to 82/0 by the 16th over in testing conditions – reducing Anderson, Dernbach and Broad to snarl, sledge and swear. Out of the blue, the tide turned, as two quick wickets came England’s way. One of which was undeserved; exposing yet again, how cold ‘hotspot’ is and how the third umpire, on basis of scant evidence, used his subjective opinion to overturn the field umpire’s call. The entire drama further denting the role of on-field umpires – Billy Doctrove looked a bigger and fatter fool, than what those excess sweaters/jackets made him on a chilly morning.
An hour later, Virat and Parthiv guided India to a grand 190/2 in the 37th over, when tragedy struck again – the two set batsmen fell on either side of Rohit retiring hurt – making sure England came back with minimum effort. Rohit Sharma’s international outing lasting just four balls, played over two games.
Two and half hours later, India were back on top. PK’s immaculate line and high quality swing bowling keeping captain Cook and his partner guessing; eventually send them back to the kitchen. Indian supporters finally eyed a victory, the locals prayed for another story. The rain gods listened, and then obliged, fast and quick
It’s been that sort of tour. English experts, commentators can rebuke and ridicule India, can call the players ‘donkeys’ and make further 4-0, 5-0 predictions. India were numero uno for a long time enough to have earned their pride of place. Even if the rankings don’t back them at any point, they will still be carrying the “World Champion” tag for another four years.
England have just been crowned number one, and they need to prove that ranking in the first place, before any talk of domination starts. Prove by holding onto it the next six months; prove by playing away from home, with the pressure to win every game; prove by winning in vicious turners of the subcontinent; prove with key players falling by injured; prove by winning with no luck by their side.
Till that time, “Raha-ne de England”.
Published: http://www.news18.com/blogs/india/avijit-das-patnaik/raha-ne-de-england-12526-746015.html
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When Schroeder’s revealed the building’s origins as a beer saloon dating back to 1857, restoring it as a brewery became his goal.
When Tom Schroeder decided to buy and restore a historic limestone building at 445 Smith Ave., St. Paul, Minn., he had no idea of the journey that lay ahead to become a brewery and restaurant operator.
Actual history is woven into daily operations of Waldmann Brewery, opened in 2017 in St. Paul’s oldest surviving commercial building, a former German lager saloon. “People get to time-travel while enjoying our beer and food from a modern—albeit tiny—kitchen,” Schroeder says.
“Waldmann Brewery sports the largest collection of mid-19th century saloon chairs that you’ll find anywhere, whale-oil lamps (burning paraffin) on tables, and period hand-blown glass,” Schroeder says. On the walls hang framed antique maps and engravings, along with portraits of original owner Anton Waldmann and the saloon’s master stonemason Jacob Amos. Wood-burning cast-iron stoves complement the building’s HVAC system to warm dining rooms during winter.
“The building itself features hand-planed woodwork and many of the structure’s original square-cut nails. Customers may not notice these details, but the combined feel is palpable,” Schroeder says.
As originally printed in FER Magazine fermag.com
The project began in ’08 as a way to save the pre-Civil War-era limestone structure from demolition. “It had been used as a residence for 154 years, but in its first life had clearly been something other than a house,” says Schroeder, a dedicated supporter of historic preservation in the St. Paul area. When Schroeder’s research revealed the building’s origins as a lager beer saloon dating back to 1857, restoring it as a brewery became his goal.
chroeder enlisted St. Paul-based architect John Yust, AIA, a specialist in historic restorations, along with a team of volunteer and professional historians, archeologists, craftsmen-carpenters and other contractors. Restoration work on the 1,020-sq.-ft. building began in 2012. But getting permission from the city became a project unto itself. “The lot had been zoned as a residential site for decades,” recalls Schroeder. “We worked with the city to address the zoning problem by proposing an ordinance that would allow historic structures to be used for their original purposes. It took about four years for the ordinance to be enacted.”
St. Paul officially designated the structure a Heritage Preservation Site in ’15. After 11 hearings before the zoning board and two public hearings before the City Council, it granted the building a Historic Use Variance permit in ’16, opening the way for a brewery to set up operations in a neighborhood.
Equipping Waldmann’s Kitchen
For the foodservice side of the project, Schroeder tapped Connie Dickson, FCSI, Principal, Rippe Associates, Minneapolis, to design the kitchen layout. Karl Gerstenberger, a chef and butcher with a background in traditional sausage making, joined the team shortly after the first round of architectural drawings was completed.
“The limited kitchen space was challenging,” Dickson says. “I fell in love with the goals for this project and with Tom, John, Drew [Ruggles, a brewer], and Karl’s passion for history, food and beer. This team proved resourceful and flexible in determining how to get the most from a tight footprint.”
Gerstenberger developed a menu for Waldmann Brewery inspired by an ’05 visit to a historic restaurant in Regensburg, Germany. “I put together a set of images and food concepts based on smoked sausage, cheese and beer that clicked with everyone. Then it was a matter of working with Connie to design a kitchen with adequate work surfaces for food prep, and enough hot power to execute,” Gerstenberger says.
“We ended up with a production-oriented space that could manufacture a fine-textured German-style bratwurst,” says Gerstenberger, whose background with the USDA makes him a self-proclaimed “meat nerd.” The team replaced the smoker with a pair of stacked, half-size convection ovens. They added a buffalo chopper, used for sausage production, in the back corner, along with two high-output burners.
History, Flavor
Waldmann’s may have been billed as a brewery, but before long, the restaurant side of operations became as important as the lager side.
“When you design a space, you have a preconceived notion of how it will operate. Then it opens and people start coming in. That’s when you discover what it really is,” Gerstenberger says.
“Most breweries tend to take an industrial space, make it feel modern and cool, with seating around the beer tanks. With Waldmann, though, we’ve got charm and history. We worked hard to capture the traditional side of a brewery, but once we opened, people perceived us to be a restaurant first.” Indeed, some months, the restaurant side of the business accounts for up to 60% of sales, Schroeder reports.
Waldmann’s house-made sausages dominated the production schedule from the beginning. “Early on, we started with a one-day-a-week sausage making. This soon changed to two days a week—Sunday mornings and all Monday— where we would crank out up to 150 lb. of linked sausages,” Gerstenberger says.
These days, the Waldmann team is working to maintain the saloon’s balance as both a restaurant and a brewery. Customers are drawn to the experience of drinking and dining in a living museum.
“It’s not a competition between the two,” Schroeder emphasizes. “Both beer and food were important parts of German lager beer saloons historically. And both are still important today in terms of differentiating ourselves in the market.”
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Thoughts after the game
Modeste: “Good for the mindset”
NetCologne FC-TV spoke to Anthony Modeste, Rafael Czichos, Simon Terodde and Achim Beierlorzer after the 2:1 win over SC Freiburg.
Anthony Modeste: "It was tough for both teams given how warm it was today. It was really, really hot. I heard that FC haven’t won here in Freiburg for more than 20 years. We’re happy to have ended that today. Three points before the international break. It couldn’t be better. That’s good for the mindset."
Rafael Czichos: "The game took it out of all of us today. But how we came back from going behind was special. We fought our way to the win. When it comes to the own goal, I should have done it differently. But otherwise, we put in a good defensive performance and got the rewards as a team. The manager gives us belief. The belief, that we can get something, that we also had last week but it didn’t work out. This time it did."
Simon Terodde: "Hats off after this performance. When you know how destructive Freiburg can be and how good they are at home, it’s enormously important for us to have won the game at the end. We can thank Ellyes for it. It wasn’t a huge chance, instead a ball that he’s won in the opponents’ half. He kept running and I thought, when is he going to play the ball? Then he finished at the near post. A big thank you to him. It’s important, that we took the three points. Now we have enough time to prepare for the derby. Then we can get ready for an unbelievable atmosphere."
Achim Beierlorzer: "The win was unbelievably important. It simply helps for the reinforcement, that this way of playing football is right. Even though things didn’t always go our way, the team didn’t let that stop them. I’ve got a lot of respect for that. We made a few changes, went forward as a three, so that we could put more pressure on their build-up. That worked really well, because we got more possession and action on the ball. A precise cross and a superb piece of skill – and then we’ve won in Freiburg. How the boys believed in themselves in the second half was impressive."
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The pessimistic and optimistic view of BEF experiments?
The question of the value of biodiversity-ecosystem function (BEF) experiments—their results, their relevancy—has become a heated one in the literature. An extended argument over the last few years has debated the assumption that local biodiversity is in fact in decline (e.g. Vellend et al. 2013; Dornelas et al. 2014; Gonazalez et al. 2016). If biodiversity isn't disappearing from local communities, the logical conclusion would be that experiments focussed on the local impacts of biodiversity loss are less relevant.
Two papers in the Journal of Vegetation Science (Wardle 2016 and Eisenhauer et al. 2016) continue this discussion regarding the value of BEF experiments for understanding biodiversity loss in natural ecosystems. From reading both papers, it seems as though broadly speaking, the authors agree on several key points: that results from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments don’t always match observations about species loss and functioning in nature, and that nature is much more complex, context-dependent, and multidimensional than typical BEF experimental systems. (The question of whether local biodiversity is declining may be more contested between them).
Biodiversity and ecosystem experiments typically involve randomly assembled plant communities containing either the full complement of species, or subsets containing different numbers of species. Communities containing lower numbers are meant to provide information about the loss of species diversity a system. Functions (often including, but not limited to, primary productivity or biomass) are eventually measured and analysed in relation to treatment diversity. Although some striking results have come out of these types of studies (e.g. Tilman and Downing 1996), they can vary a fair amount in their findings (Cardinale et al. 2012).
David Wardle’s argument is that BEF experiments differ a good deal from natural systems: in natural systems, BEF relationships can take different forms and explain relatively little variation, and so extrapolating from existing experiments seems uninformative. In nature, changes in diversity are driven by ecological processes (invasion, extinction) and experiments involving randomly assembled communities and randomly lost species do nothing to simulate these processes. Wardle seems to feel that the popularity of typical BEF experiments has come at the cost of more realistic experimental designs. This is something of a zero-sum argument, (although in some funding climates that may be true...). But it is true that big BEF experiments tend to be costly and take time and labour, meaning that there is an impetus to publish as much as possible from each one. Given BEF experiments have changed drastically in design once already, in response to criticisms about their inability to disentangle complementarity vs. portfolio effects, it seems they are not inflexible about design though.
Eisenhauer et al. agree in principle that current experiments frequently lack a realistic design, but suggest that there are plenty of other types of studies (looking at functional diversity or phylogenetic diversity, for example, or using random loss of species) being published as well. For them too, there is value in having multiple similar experiments: this allows metaanalysis and comparison aggregation, and will help to tease apart the important mechanisms eventually. Further, realism is difficult to obtain in the absence of a baseline for a “natural, untouched, complete system” from which to remove species.
The point that Eisenhauer et al. and Wardle appear to agree on most strongly is that real systems are complex, multi-dimensional and context-dependent. Making the leap from a BEF experiment with 20 plant species to the real world is inevitably difficult. Wardle sees this is a massive limitation, Eisenhauer et al. sees it as a strength. Inconsistencies between experiments and nature are information that highlight when context matters. By having controlled experiments in which you vary context (such as by manipulating both nutrient level and species richness), you can begin to identify mechanisms.
Perhaps this is the greatest problem with past BEF work, is that there is a tendency to oversimplify the interpretation of results – to conclude that ‘loss of diversity is bad’ but with less attention to ‘why’, 'where', or 'when’. The best way to do this depends on your view of how science should progress.
Wardle, D. A. (2016), Do experiments exploring plant diversity–ecosystem functioning relationships inform how biodiversity loss impacts natural ecosystems?. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27: 646–653. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12399
Eisenhauer, N., Barnes, A. D., Cesarz, S., Craven, D., Ferlian, O., Gottschall, F., Hines, J., Sendek, A., Siebert, J., Thakur, M. P., Türke, M. (2016), Biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12435
Vellend, Mark, et al. "Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110.48 (2013): 19456-19459.
Dornelas, Maria, et al. "Assemblage time series reveal biodiversity change but not systematic loss." Science 344.6181 (2014): 296-299.
Gonzalez, Andrew, et al. "Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity." Ecology (2016).
Tilman, David, and John A. Downing. "Biodiversity and stability in grasslands." Ecosystem Management. Springer New York, 1996. 3-7.
Cardinale, Bradley J., et al. "Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity."Nature 486.7401 (2012): 59-67.
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Rebuttal papers don’t work, or citation practices are flawed?
Brian McGill posted an interesting follow up to Marc’s question about whether journals should allow post-publication review in the form of responses to published papers. I don’t know that I have any more clarity as to the answer to that question after reading both (excellent) posts. Being idealistic, I think that when there are clear errors, they should be corrected, and that editors should be invested in identifying and correcting problems in papers in their journals. Based on the discussions I’ve had with co-authors about a response paper we’re working on, I’d also like to believe that rebuttals can produce useful conversations, and ultimately be illuminating for a field. But pragmatically, Brian McGill pointed out that it seems that rebuttals rarely make an impact (citing Banobi et al 2011). Many times this was due to the fact that citations of flawed papers continued, and “were either rather naive or the paper was being cited in a rather generic way”.
Citations are possibly the most human part of writing scientific articles. Citations form a network of connections between research and ideas, and are the written record of progress in science. But they're also one of the clearest points at which biases, laziness, personal relationships (both friendships and feuds), taxonomic biases, and subfield myopia are apparent. So why don't we focus on improving citation practices?
Ignoring more extreme problems (coercive citations, citation fraud, how to cite supplementary materials, data and software), as the literature grows more rapidly and pressure to publish increases, we have to acknowledge that it is increasingly difficult to know the literature thoroughly enough to cite broadly. A couple of studies found that 60-70% of citations were scored as accurate (Todd et al. 2007; Teixeira et al. 2013) (Whether you can see that as too low or pretty high depends on your personality). Key problems were the tendency to cite 'lazily' (citing reviews or synthetic pieces rather than delve into the literature within) or 'naively' (citing high profile pieces in an offhand way without considering rebuttals and follow ups (a key point of the Banobi et al. piece)). At least one limited analysis (Drake et al. 2013) showed that citations tended to be much more accurate in higher IF journals (>5), perhaps (speculating) due to better peer review or copy editing.
Todd et al (2007) suggest that journals institute random audits of citations to ensure authors take greater care. This may be a good idea that is difficult to institute in journals where peer reviewers are already in short supply. It may also be useful to have rebuttal papers considered as part of the total communication surrounding a paper - the full text would include them, they would be automatically downloaded in the PDF, there would be a tab (in addition to author information, supplementary material, references, etc) for responses.
More generally - why don't we learn how to cite well as students? The vast majority of advice on citation practices with a quick google search regards the need to avoiding plagiarism and stylistic concerns. Some of it is philosophical, but I have never heard a deep discussion of questions like, 'What’s an appropriate number of citations – for an idea?'; 'For a manuscript?'; 'How deep do I cite? (Do I need to go to Darwin?)'. It would be great if there were a consensus advice publication, like the sort the BES is so good at on best practices in citation.
Which is to say, that I still hope that rebuttals can work and be valuable.
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16 1/4 in. x 22 5/16 in. ( 41.3 cm x 56.7 cm )
Gift of Mr. Raymond C. Smith
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Like the other Tonalist painters, such as Dwight William Tryon, also on view in this gallery, Eaton rejected the highly detailed Hudson River school style and its grand landscapes in favor of intimate and subjective views of nature. He painted landscapes almost exclusively, many of which, like Twilight, depict a marshy meadow with a grouping of trees, backlit by the setting sun and devoid of the presence of humans or animals. This painting is dominated by dark, neutral hues in grays, browns, and blues, and Eaton’s atmospheric rendering of the scene has imbued it with a sense of wistfulness or nostalgia. The title itself, Twilight, also the title of the Tryon in this gallery and of many other nineteenth-century landscapes—references the moment captured in the painting, a time when the day is approaching its end and darkness is beginning. Perhaps this was meant to encourage a state of reverie and nostalgic reflection on the past at a moment when the country was swiftly undergoing enormous changes and the settling and building up of vast areas of land left many with a longing for unspoiled nature.
Typical of many of Eaton’s landscape paintings, “Twilight” depicts a marshy meadow with a grouping of trees executed in a Tonalist manner. Dominated by dark, neutral hues in grays, browns and blues, Eaton depicts the landscape with a sense of atmosphere or mist giving the work on an overall tone of wistfulness or nostalgia. Many 19th century American artists, like Eaton, felt a sense of longing for nature untouched by the hand of man, during a time when the Industrial Revolution brought about the clearing of enormous areas of land. The title itself, “Twilight,” is an allusion to the time when something is declining or approaching its end and darkness begins.
Landscape painting with green marshy field in foreground, a grouping of trees in the middle ground on right side of canvas, and blue sky with patches of soft clouds above.
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Co-authorship and diversity among researchers: Positive trends for IFLA and the global profession
Witt, S. W., Mar 1 2018, In : IFLA Journal. 44, 1, 1 p.
Three Days to the Future: An invitation to reflect upon IFLA’s Global Vision project
Rudasill, L. M., Jun 1 2018, In : IFLA Journal. 44, 2, p. 87-89 3 p.
An evidence base for IFLA’s global vision
Witt, S. W., Dec 1 2017, In : IFLA Journal. 43, 4, p. 319-320 2 p.
IFLA’s global vision with local perspectives
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Han, M. J. K. & Hogenboom, K., Oct 2 2017, In : Journal of Library Metadata. 17, 3-4, p. 157-159 3 p.
Access to knowledge at the heart of the profession and a key to sustainable development
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Assessment as action research: Bridging academic scholarship and everyday practice
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Libraries: A Call to Build the Action Agenda
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Researching the impacts of information policy an imperative for the global library community
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Guest editorial: Predictive modeling in health informatics
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US Government Abandons 14 Million Unemployed
Until Tuesday
BREAKING IN DC
OBAMA MAKES JUMP TO GOP OFFICIAL! SEEKS BIPOLAR CONSENSUS WITH REPUBLICANS!
Or something. I think the VSP are making a major miscalculation.
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Seems like only a month of Sundays ago,
The President has issued an ultimatum that more tax revenue must be part of budget negotiations. Indeed, he endlessly repeats his desire for a “balanced approach,” implying that as much as 50 percent of the deficit reduction in any agreement should come from higher revenues.
Because I am a thoughtful, middle-of-the-road, pragmatic guy, I’m willing to accept the President’s ultimatum. I do have one tiny request, however, and that is for any such deal to be based on honest math.
Just in case anyone you know is pretending to want to balance the budget.
I have taken great liberty with other peoples works and efforts to bring some of the most pertinent, for the moment, essays of Claude Helvetius, given the current political climate we find ourselves in America, and perhaps around the world.
I do so because I wish them to be read, and perhaps the book downloaded and read in its’ entirety, since so many lessons of the philosopher of democracy are lost on modern man. It was not because of his assertion that if man had been born with hoofs he would not have progressed beyond subsistence that excited authorities to burn his book, and for many in high stations to wish to do him likewise.
Helvetius Essay III- XVII
CHAP. XVII.
OF THE UNIVERSAL DESIRE OF BEING DESPOTIC, THE MEANS EMPLOYED TO ARRIVE’ AT THIS POWER, AND THE DANGER TO WHICH IT EXPOSES KINGS.
This desire derives its source from the love of pleasure, and consequently from the nature of man himself. Every one ‘would be as happy as possible;—everyone would be invested with the power of forcing men to contribute to their happiness to the utmost of their power; and for this reason everyone desires to command.
All people are either governed according to laws and established conventions, or by an arbitrary will. In the first case, the power over them is less arbitrary, and they are not under so great a necessity of pleasing the prince; besides, he that would govern a people according to their laws must know (hem, reflect upon them, and endure the fatigue of studying them,— from which indolence always seeks to be delivered. In order to gratify this indolence, he aspires to an absolute power, which, exempting him from all care, study, and the fatigue of attention, makes his fellow-creatures the abject slaves of his will.
According to Aristotle, a despotic government is that in which all men are slaves, and only one free.
This is the motive that induces every man to desire to be despotic. In order to be so, he must demolish the power both of the great and of the common people, and consequently divide the interest of the citizens. In a long succession of age’?, opportunities will offer, and almost all sovereigns, being animated by a view of their interest more lively than rational, embrace them with avidity.
On this anarchy of interests is established the despotic power of the East, resembling the picture given by Milton of the empire of Chaos, which, says he, extends its royal pavilion over a barren and wasteful abyss, where Confusion, involved in herself, maintains the anarchy and discord of the elements, and governs each atom with a sceptre of iron.
A division being once sown between the citizens, it is necessary to debase and degrade their minds, by brandishing the sword of tyranny, and making it dazzle in their eyes; to place the virtues in the rank of crimes, and to punish them as such. To what cruelties of this kind have not only the despotic power of the East, but even that of the Roman emperors, been carried? “Under the reign of Domitian,” says Tacitus, «’ the virtues were decrees of death. Rome swarmed with informers; the slave was a spy on his master, the freedman on his patron, the friend on his friend.” In those calamitous ages, the virtuous man did not advise the commission of crimes, but he was obliged to wink at them. Had he shewn more courage and firmness on such occasions, it would have been treated as a crime against the state. Among the degenerate Romans, weakness was the heroism. In that reign were punished Senecio and Rusticus, the panegyrists of the virtues of Thrasea and Helvidius; those illustrious orators were treated as criminals of state, and their works burnt by public authority. Celebrated writers, such as Pliny, were reduced to compose grammatical books, because every work, on a more elevated subject, might nave given umbrage to the tyrant, and have been dangerous to the author. The learned, who had been invited to Borne by an Augustus, a Vespasian, an Antoninus, and a Trajan, were banished by a Nero, a Caligula, a Domitian, and a Caracalla: the philosophers were driven away, and the sciences proscribed. “These tyrants,” says Tacitus, “endeavored to obliterate whatever had the marks of genius and virtue.”
By thus keeping the mind in the perpetual tremors of fear, tyranny debases it to her purposes. It is she who in the East has invented those cruel tortures and punishments practiced there*;—punishments sometimes necessary in those detestable countries, because the people are invited to commit crimes, not only by their misery, but also by the example of the sultan, who teaches them to despise justice.
These are both the motives on which the love of despotic authority is founded, and the means employed to arrive at it. Thus, foolishly in love with arbitrary power, kings inconsiderately throw themselves into a road interrupted by a thou« «and precipices, down which a thousand tyrants have fallen. Let us here venture, for the good of human nature, and that of sovereigns, to lend them some light, and to shew them the dangers to which, under such a government, they and their people are exposed. Let them from henceforward keep far from them every perfidious counsel, that inspires them with the desire of arbitrary power; and let them at length know, that the strongest and most masterly treatise against tyranny would be a treatise on the happiness and preservation of kings.
* The punishments, in use almost all over the East, fill the human mind with horror, because the tyrant who orders them is himself above the laws. This is not the case in republics, where the laws are always mild, because those who establish submit to them.
But, it is said, who can conceal this truth from them? why do not they compare the small number of princes banished from England with the prodigious number of Greek and Turkish emperors murdered on the throne of Constantinople? If the sultans, I reply, are not deterred by these terrible examples, it is from their not having this picture habitually present to their minds: it is from their being continually prompted to despotism, by the wretches who would share with them the arbitrary power; and because most of the eastern princes, being governed by the will of a vizier, yield, through weakness, to his desires, and are not sufficiently informed of their injustice by the noble resistance of their subjects.
The entrance into despotism is easy. The people seldom foresee the evils a confirmed tyranny prepares for them; and, if they at last perceive it, it is not till they sink under the yoke, are changed on all sides; and, being unable to defend themselves, only wait trembling for the punishment to which, they must be condemned.
Emboldened by the weakness of the people the princes become despotic tyrants. They do not know, that they themselves suspend over their heads the sword that is to give them, the mortal blow; that, to abrogate all law, and reduce every thing to arbitrary power, they must perpetually have recourse to force, and often employ the soldier’s sword. Now, the habitual custom of making use of such methods, either provokes the citizens to revolt, and invites them to revenge, or insensibly accustoms them to know no other justice than force.
Though a long time be required to spread such an idea among the people, it forces its way at last, and reaches even to the soldiers, who, at length, perceiving that no collective body in the state is capable of resisting them, and that the prince, odious to his subjects, owes all his power to them, their souls are open to the most audacious projects, and they long to better their condition. If then a bold and courageous man flatters them with the hope of plundering some great cities, such a man, as all history proves, is sufficient to cause a revolution ;—• a revolution that is always speedily followed by a second; since, in despotic states, as the illustrious president de Montesquieu observes, the tyrants are often assassinated, without destroying the tyranny. When once the soldiers know their strength, it is impossible to keep them within just bounds. I could cite on this occasion all the Roman emperors proscribed by the Praetorian bands, for resolving to free the country from the tyranny of the soldiers, and to re-establish the ancient discipline of the army.
The despotic tyrant then, in order to command slaves, is forced in his turn to obey his ever turbulent and imperious troops. But the case is very different, when the prince has created in the state a powerful body of magistrates, by whom the people, being judged, obtain ideas of justice and equity; the soldiers, being always taken out of the body of the citizens, preserve in their new state some idea of justice; besides, they are sensible that the entire body of the citizens, called together by the prince and the magistrates, under the standard of the laws, would oppose any bold attempt, and let the valour of the army be ever so great, it must at length be overpowered by numbers. Hence, the soldiers are kept within the bounds of duty by sentiments of justice and fear.
A powerful body of magistrates is then necessary to the safety of kings: it is a buckler, behind which both the prince and people are sheltered, the one from the madness of sedition, and the other from the cruelties of tyranny.
The Khalif Aaron Al-Raschid reflecting on this subject, in order to preserve himself from the dangers which on all sides surround despotic princes, one day asked his brother, the celebrated Beloulh, what advice he could give him on the manner of reigning well? “Make thy will,” said he, “conformable to the laws, and not the laws to thy will. Reflect, that men without merit are always craving, and that great men are so modest that they seldom ask; refuse then the requests of the one, and prevent those of the other. Load not thy people with taxes too burthensome; and recollect on this subject, the advice which king Nouchirvon the Just gave to his son Ormous: “My son,” said he, ‘« nobody will be happy in thine empire, if thou thinkest only of pleasure. When thou art reclined on thy pillow, and ready to taste the sweets of sleep, remember those whom oppression keeps awake; when a splendid repast shall be served up before thee, think on those who languish in misery; when thou ramblest through the delightful groves of thine haram, remember that there are those who are unfortunate, and whom tyranny keeps in irons.—I shall only add one word more,” said Beloulh; “receive into thy favour men eminent in the sciences, and conduct thyself by their advice, in order that monarchy may be obedient to the written law, and not the law to monarchy*.”
* See Chardin, vol. v.
Themistius+, being commissioned by the senate to harangue Jovianus on his advancement to the throne, made nearly the same discourse to that emperor: “Remember,” said he, ‘«that, though the army has raised thee to the empire, thou must learn from the philosophers the art of governing; the first has given thee the purple of the Csesars; but the latter will teach thee how to wear it worthily.”
+ Critical History of Philosophy, by M. Seslandes.
Even among the ancient Persians, the most abject and dastardly of all people, the philosophers, who inaugurated the princes, were allowed to repeat these words to them at their coronation §: “Know, O king, that thine authority shall cease to be lawful on the very day that thou ceasest to render the Persians happy.” A truth of which Trajan appears to be fully sensible, when, being raised to the throne, and presenting the sword, as usual, to the prefectus pretorio, he said, “Receive from me this sword, and make use of it under my reign, either to defend in me a just prince, or to punish in me a tyrant.”
\§: Ibid.
Whoever,’under pretence of supporting the authority of his sovereign, would stretch it to an arbitrary power, is at the same time a bad father, a bad citizen, and a bad subject: a bad father and a bad citizen, because he would load his posterity and his country with the chains of slavery; and a bad subject, because, by changing a lawful for an arbitrary authority, he is summoning up ambition and despair against the king. I call to witness the thrones of the East, so often stained with the blood of their sovereigns ^. If the sultans well understood their own interest, it would never permit them either to wish for such a power, or in this respect to yield to the desires of their viziers. Kings ought to be deaf to such advice, and to recollect that their highest interest requires, if I may so express myself, that they should set a proper value on their kingdom, in order that it may be enjoyed by them and their posterity. This true interest can only be understood by intelligent princes: in others, the contemptible glory they propose to themselves, by commanding absolutely, and the love of indolence, which conceals from them the dangers with which they are surrounded, will always prevent their engaging in more noble pursuits; hence all governments perpetually tend towards despotic power.
^ Notwithstanding the attachment of the Chinese to their sovereigns, which has often led several thousands of them to sacrifice themselves on the tomb of their monarchs, yet how many revolutions has the ambition of arbitrary power excited in that empire? See the History »f the Huns, by M. de Guignet, in the article of China.
Helvetius Essay III- XVIII
CHAP. XVIII.
THE PRINCIPAL EFFECTS OF DESPOTIC POWER.
I Shall first distinguish despotic power into two kinds; one, suddenly established by force of arms in a virtuous nation, that bears it patiently. This nation is like an oak bent down by main force, whose elasticity soon breaks the ropes which hold it down. Greece furnishes a multitude of instances of this kind.
The other is founded by time, luxury, and effeminacy. The nation among whom it is established is like an oak, which, being bent down by little and little, insensibly loses the elasticity necessary to make it rise and recover its first state. Of this last kind of despotic power 1 shall’ treat in this chapter.
In nations subject to this kind of government, the men in high posts can have no clear idea of justice; they are in this respect plunged into the most profound ignorance. Indeed, ‘what idea can a vizier form of justice? He does not even know, that there is such a thing as the public welfare: yet destitute of this knowledge he must wander here and there without a guide. The ideas of just and unjust, received ia early youth, insensibly become obscured, and at length entirely disappear.
But who, it is objected, can conceal this knowledge from the viziers? How can they acquire it, I reply, in these despotic countries, where the citizens have no share in the management of public affairs; where the person, who fixes his attention on the misfortunes of his country, meets with the eye of resentment; where the mistaken interest of the sultan is opposed to the interests of his subjects; and where, to serve the prince, i» to betray the nation? In order to be just and virtuous, it is necessary that they should know what are the duties of a prince and his subjects, and study the reciprocal engagements that bind together all the members of society. Justice is no more than a consummate knowledge of these engagements. To rise to this knowledge, they must think; but what man among a people subject to arbitrary power dares to think? Indolence, inutility, inaction, and even the danger of thinking, soon draw after them an incapacity of thought; for they think but little in countries where they keep their thoughts concealed. It would be an idle surmise to say, that they are silent from prudence; but this does not prevent their thinking. It is certain, that they are void of thought, and that great and noble ideas are never formed in the heads of those subject to arbitrary power.
In those countries people are never animated by that opinion of their own importance, and that giddiness which foretells the destruction of empires. Every one keeping his eyes fixed on his private interest, never places them on that of the public— The people then can have no idea either of the public welfare or the duty of citizens; and the viziers, being taken from the body of the nation, must, on entering their office, be void of every principle that can teach them a wise administration, or a proper distribution of justice; the people then must seek for great places, not with a view of doing good, but to make their court to the sovereign, in order to obtain a share of his power.
But, even supposing them animated with the desire of doing good, their ignorance prevents their being able to accomplish it; and the attention of the viziers being necessarily engrossed by the intrigues of the seraglio, they have not leisure for reflection.
Besides, to obtain knowledge, they must expose themselves to the fatigue of study and meditation; and what motive can engage them to take this trouble? They are not stimulated to it even by the fear of censure *.
* For this reason the English esteem the liberty of the press one of the most valuable of their privileges.
If we may be allowed to compare small things with great, let us take a survey of the republic of letters. If the critic* Were banished from thence, is it not obvious, that authors being freed from the salutary fear of censure, which now compels them to take pains in improving their talents, they would then present the public with only rude and imperfect pieces? This is exactly the case of viziers; this is the reason of their inattention to the administration of affairs, and the cause of their never condescending to consult men of learning +.
+ The president de Montesquieu.s authority has been quoted in the parliament of England, because the English are a free people: and in relation to laws and the administration of affairs, Peter the Great consulted the famous Leibnitz, because one great man is not ashamed to consult another; and because Russia, by its commerce with the other European nations, may obtain more knowledge than other, eastern nations. even among ourselves, Louis XIII. in one of his letters, complains of the Marshal d’Ancre. “He opposes,” says he, “my walking in the streets of Paris, and allows me no pleasures but those of hunting, and taking a few turns in the Thuilleries: he has forbid the officers of my houshold, as well as all my subjects, to converse with me on serious affairs, and to speak to me in private.” It seems as if, in every country, pains are taken to render the princes but little worthy of the throne, where they are called to it by their birth.
What I have said of the viziers, may be applied to the sultans. Princes do not escape the general ignorance of their own. nation: their eyes are, even in this respect, covered with a thicker darkness than those of their subjects. Almost all, who are intrusted with their education, or who surround them, being eagerly desirous of governing under their name, have an interest in rendering them stupid *. Thus, the prince destined to reign, being shut up in the seraglio till the death of his father, passes from the haram to the throne, without any clear idea of the knowledge of government, and before he has ever* been once present at a divan.
Wherefore then, after the example of Philip of Macedon, whose superior courage and understanding did not inspire him with a blind self-confidence, and who paid his pages for repeating to him every day, “Remember, Philip, that thou art a man,” why should not viziers sometimes allow critics to put them in mind of being men*? Wherefore, I say, cannot they without a crime, doubt of the justice of their decisions, and repeat after Grotius, “That every decree, or every Jaw, which people are forbid to examine, and to censure, can never fail of being unjust?”
There is not a person like the Duke of Burgundy to be found in the East. That prince read all the libels made against him and Louis XIV. He was desirous of being informed, and was sensible that hatred and humour can alone, sometimes, dare to present the truth to kings.
It is because these viziers are but men. Are there many among the authors who would have the generosity to spare the critics, had they the power to punish them? It is at least only the men of a superior genius and of an elevated character, who, sacrificing their resentment to the public advantage, would preserve in the republic of letters the critics, so necessary to the progress of the arts and sciences. How then can such generosity be required from a vizier?
“There are,” says Balzac, “but few ministers so generous as to prefer being praised for their clemency, which lasts as long as the families of those they have preserved, to the pleasure of revenge, though the latter passes away as swiftly as the fall of the axe that separates the head from the body.” Few viziers deserve the praises given in Sethos to queen Nephta, •when the priest, pronouncing her panegyric, says, “she pardoned like the Gods, with the full power of punishing.”
Those in power will be always unjust and vindictive. M. de Vendome said, pleasantly enough on this subject, that in the march of armies he had often inquired into the quarrels between the mules and the muleteers; but, to the disgrace of human nature, reason was almost always on the side of the mules,
M. de Vernay, who was so well skilled in natural history, that by the bare inspection of the tooth of an animal he knew whether it was carnivorous or fed on grass, often said, “Let me only see the tooth of an unknown animal, and by that I shall judge of its manners.” After his example, a moral philosopher may say, *’ Shew me the degree of power wherewith a man is invested, and by that I shall form a judgment of his justice,” In vain should we attempt to disarm the cruelty of the viziers, by repeating after Tacitus, that the punishment of critics is only the trumpet that informs posterity of the disgrace and vices of their executioners. In despotic states, people care, and indeed cannot avoid caring, but little for glory and posterity, since they do not love, as I have already observed, esteem for its own sake, but for the advantages it procures; since nothing is granted to merit, and there is nothing which they dare refuse to power.
* As all the citizens are very ignorant of what constitutes the public welfare, most of the projectors in those countries are either cheats, n ho have no particular use in view, or people of mean abilities, who cannot seize, at a single glance, the long chain by which the several parts of a state are connected together, and consequently they always propose schemes that are inconsistent with the general system of government: for this reason, they seldom dare to expose them in their works to public view.
The viziers having then no interest in improving their minds, and consequently in supporting censure, they must generally remain ignorant *. The Lord Bolingbroke says on this subject, “When young, I at first considered those who governed the nations as superior intelligences; but,” he adds, “experience soon undeceived me. I examined those who were at the helm of affairs in England, and soon found that the Great were like those gods of Phoenicia, on whose shoulders were fixed the head of a bull, as a mark of supreme power; and that, in general, men were governed by the greatest blockheads among them.” This truth, which Bolingbroke applied, perhaps from humour, to England, is, doubtless, not to be disputed in almost all the empires of the east.
Helvetius Essay III- XIX
CHAP. XIX.
THE ABJECT AND SUBMISSIVE SUBJECTION, IN WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE KEPT, OCCASIONS THE IGNORANCE OF THE VIZIERS, AND IS THE SECOND EFFECT OF DESPOTIC POWER.
Though the viziers, it is objected, may not find it for their interest to improve their minds, yet it is most certainly for the interest of the public, that they should not be ignorant, since every nation desires to be well governed: what then is the reason, that no citizen in those countries has the virtue to reproach the viziers for their ignorance and injustice, and to force them by the fear of contempt to become good citizens? It is because the property of despotic power is to debase and degrade the mind.
In states where the law alone dispenses punishments and rewards, and where obedience is paid to none but the laws, the virtuous, dwelling in safety, contract a boldness and firmness of soul, that cannot subsist in a country which is the seat of despotic power, where property, life, and liberty, depend on the caprice* and arbitrary will of one man. In these countries it would be as imprudent to be virtuous, as it would have been to be viscious in Crete and Lacedemon. There no man rises up against injustice, and, rather than applaud it, cries with, the philosopher Philoxenes, “Let me be carried back to the quarries.”
* We can find no instance in Turkey like that which happened in Scotland, of the laws punishing the sovereign for an act of injustice committed against a subject. At Malcolm.s accession to the throne of Scotland, a nobleman presented to him the patent of his privileges, entreating his majesty to confirm them: but the king took the patent, and tore it in pieces. The nobleman complained of this to the parliament, who decreed, that the king should sit on his throne, and in the presence of the whole court stitch the nobleman.s patent together with a needle and thread.
In these governments, how difficult would it be to be virtuous? To what dangers would a person of probity be exposed? Suppose a man in love with virtue; would we have such a man perceive, that the injustice or incapacity of the viziers or satraps was the cause of the miseries of the public, and yet be silent? this would be a contradiction. Besides, a mute probity would here be of no use. The more virtuous this man was, the more eager would he be to point out him on whom the national contempt ought to fall: and I even maintain, that he ought to do it. Now, from the injustice and weakness of a vizier invested, as I have said above, with the power necessary to condemn merit to the greatest torments, this man would be so much the sooner delivered to the mutes, in proportion to his being more the friend of virtue than of his country.
As Nero, when on the stage, extorted the applauses of the spectators, more barbarous than himself; so the viziers require the praises of even those they use ill, and overload with taxes. They are like Tiberius, under whose reign the sighs and cries of the unhappy wretches under oppression were construed to proceed from a factious spirit, because every thing is criminal, says Suetonius, under a prince who is constantly stung with his own guilt.
There is not a vizier, who would not reduce mankind to the condition of those ancient Persians, who, being cruelly whipped by the order of their prince, were obliged to appear before him: “We come,” said they, “to thank thee for having condescended to remember us.”
The noble boldness of a citizen, so virtuous as to reproach the viziers for their ignorance and injustice, ‘would be soon followed by his punishment*, to which nobody would expose themselves. Nobody, you will say, but the brave man, the hero. He might do it, I reply, when supported by the hope of esteem and glory; but, if he is deprived of this hope, his courage abandons him. Among a slavish people, the name of factious is given to a generous citizen; and there will be found those who approve his punishment. There is no crime on which praise is not lavished, in a state where an abject mean* ness is become the mode. “If the plague,” says Gordon, “had garters, pensions, and ribbons, to bestow, there are churchmen vile enough, and civilians base enough, to main* tain, that the plague reigns by divine right; and that to withdraw ourselves from its malignant influences is a sin against God.” It is then more prudent in these countries to be the accomplice than the accuser of knaves; for virtue and talents are always the but of tyranny.
* When a vizier commits a fault during his administration, if the public suffer by it, the people complain, and the vizier’s pride is offended: but, so far is he from changing his measures, and trying by a better conduct to calm their too just complaints, that he solely employs himself in methods of imposing silence on the citizens. These methods of force exasperate them, and they redouble their cries: the vizier has then only two parts to take, cither to expose the state to revolutions, or to carry despotic power to that excess which always threatens the ruin of empires. This last choice is most commonly preferred by the viziers.
On the conquest of India by Thamas Kouli Khan, the only man worthy of esteem, whom that prince found in the Mogul’s empire, was one named Mahmouth, and this Mahmouth was banished.
In countries subject to a despotic government, the love of the esteem and acclamations of the people is so criminal, that the prince always punishes those who obtain them. Agricola, after having triumphed over the Britons, in order to escape the applauses of the people, as well as the fury of Domitian, passed the streets of Rome in the night, in his way to the emperor’s palace: the prince embraced him coldly: Agricola retired; and the conqueror of Briton, says Tacitus, was instantly lost in the crowd of other slaves.
In those unhappy times, one might have cried out at Rome, with Brutus, “O virtue, thou art but an empty name [” How can we expect to find it amongst a people who live in perpetual agonies, and whose minds, being broke with fear, hava lost all their force and vigour? Among such people, we only meet with powerful insolence, and abject dastard!)* slaves. What picture can be more humbling to human nature than the audience of a vizier, when, with a grave and stupid air of importance, he advances into the midst of a crowd of clients, who, grave, mute, and immoveable, with their eyes fixed and cast down, wait trembling for the favour of a look*, nearly in the attitude of those bramins, who, with their eyes fixed on the end of their noses, wait for the blue and divine flame with which Heaven is to bestow its illuminations, and whose appearance, according to them, is to raise them to the dignity of a pagod!
* The vizier himself never enter! the divan, when the sultan it there, without trembling.
When we see merit thus humbled before an ignorant vizier, or even a despicable eunuch, we cannot help calling to mind the ridiculous veneration in which cranes are held at Japan, where the name of that bird is never uttered without its being preceded by O-thurisama, or, my lord.
Helvetius Essay III- XX
CHAP. XX.
THE CONTEMPT OF VIRTUE, AND THE FALSE ESTEEM PEOPLE AFFECT TO HAVE FOR IT, THE THIRD EFFECT OF DESPOTIC POWER.
Since, as I have already proved in the preceding chapters, the ignorance of the viziers is a necessary consequence of despotic forms of government; the ridicule, which in those countries is cast on virtue, seems equally to proceed from the same effect.
Is it to be doubted, that, in the sumptuous repasts of the ancient Persians, and in their elegant evening entertainments, they ridiculed the frugality and coarse food of the Spartans? and that the courtiers, accustomed to cringe in the anti-chamber of the eunuchs, in order to obtain the disgraceful honour of being their sport, did not give the name of ferocity to the noble pride which forbade the Greeks prostrating themselves before the great king.
A slavish people cannot avoid treating with ridicule bravery, magnanimity, disinterestedness, a contempt of life, and all the virtues founded on patriotism and liberty. In Persia, they must then have treated as a fool, and the enemy of a prince, every virtuous subject, who, struck with the heroism of the Greeks, exhorted his fellow-citizens to assemble, and, by a speedy reformation of the government, prevent the approaching ruin of an empire, where virtue was despised*. The Persians, to escape the mortification of thinking themselves mean, were under the necessity of considering the Greeks as ridiculous. We can never be struck by any sentiments that do not affect us in a lively manner. A brave citizen, who is had in veneration wherever the rank of a citizen subsists, must ever pass for a fool in all despotic governments.
* At the very moment when three hundred Spartans defended the pass of Thermopylae, some Arcadian deserters were giving Xerxes an account of the Olympic games, when a Persian lord cried out— “What men are we going to fight! Insensible of interest, they are only greedy of glory!”
Among us Europeans, who approach nearer to the heroism of the Greeks than to the servility of the eastern empires, how many great actions would be deemed foolish, were they not consecrated by the admiration of all ages! To this admiration is to be ascribed our not mentioning as ridiculous th» order sent by the people of Sparta to King Agis, before the battle of Mantinea: “Take no advantage of superiority of numbers; send back a part of the troops, and fight the enemy with equal force.” In like manner we should treat as ridiculous the answer made by Callicratidas, general of the Lacedemonian fleet, before the battle of Argineuses. Hermon advising him not to engage the Athenian fleet with unequal force, “O Hermon,” he replied, “the gods forbid that I should follow an advice that would be attended with such fatal consequences to my country. Sparta shall not be dishonoured by her general. Here both I and my army must either con. quer or perish. Is it for Callicratidas to teach the art of making a retreat to men who, to this day, have never inquired what were the numbers of the enemy, but only where they were encamped?” So bold and noble an answer would to most men appear foolish. What men have such an elevation of soul, such a profound knowledge of politics, as to perceive, like Callicratidas, the importance of cherishing in the Spartans that obstinate bravery that rendered them invincible? This hero knew that to be incessantly employed in cherishing their sentiments of courage and glory, too much prudence might blunt their edge; and that a nation can have none of the virtues, without having the scruples that attend them.
Half politicians, for want of comprehending a sufficient extent of time, are always struck in too lively a manner with a present danger. Accustomed to consider every action independently of the chain by which they are all united, when they think of correcting the success of any virtue that prevails among a people, they too often only take from them the palladium tp which is fixed their success and glory.
It is then to this ancient admiration that we owe our still continuing to admire these actions: this admiration is then ouly hypocritical, or the effect of prejudice. A felt admiration would necessarily lead us to imitation. , Now, what man is there, among those who pretend to be passionately fond of glory, who would blush at a victory, that was not entirely owing to his bravery and military skill? Are there many Antiochus Soters? That prince, sensible that he owed the defeat of the Galates only to the terror and confusion into which they were thrown by the unexpected sight of the elephants, shed tears on his triumphal palms, and on the field of battle caused trophies to be raised to his elephants.
They boast of the generosity of Gelon. After the defeat of the innumerable army of the Carthaginians, when the conquered expected the hardest conditions, that prince only required of the humbled Carthaginians the abolition of the barbarous sacrifices of their own children, whom they offered to Saturn. That conqueror would reap no other advantage from his victory than the conclusion of the only treaty that perhaps was ever made in favour of human nature. Among so many admirers, why has Gelon no imitator? A thousand heroes have by turns subdued Asia: however, there is not one who, sensible of the miseries suffered by the human race, has improved his victory, by freeing the Orientals from that weight of wretchedness and degradation- into which they have been sunk by despotic power. None of them have destroyed those houses of grief and lamentation where jealousy without remorse mutilates the unhappy persons destined to guard their pleasure, and condemned to the punishment of having desires always reviving and always impotent. People have then no esteem for Gelon’s action, but what is hypocritical, or the effect of prejudice.
We honour valour, but it is less than it was honoured at Sparta: therefore we do not experience, at the view of a fortified town, the sensations of contempt felt by the Spartans. Some of them, passing under the walls of Corinth, asked— “By what women is this city inhabited?”—” These are,” they were told, «’ the Corinthians.”—” Do not these meanspirited and cowardly men know,” they resumed, “that the only ramparts impenetrable to the enemy are citizens determined to die?” Such Courage and elevation of soul are only to be found in warlike republics. With whatever love we are animated for our country, we do not see the mother, after the loss of a son killed in battle, reproach her other sons who have survived the defeat. We do not take example from those virtuous Spartans: after the battle of Leuctra, ashamed of having borne in their wombs men capable of flying, those, whose children had escaped the slaughter, retired to the innermost parts of their houses, in mourning and silence; while, on the contrary, the mothers, whose sons died fighting, filled with joy, and, with their heads crowned with flowers, went to the temple to return thanks to the gods.
However brave our soldiers may be, we do not see a body of twelve hundred men sustain, like the Swiss at the battle of St. James l’Hospital*, the efforts of an army of sixty thousand men, who paid for their victory by the loss of eight thousand Soldiers. We no longer see governments treat as cowards, and condemn as such, ten soldiers, who, escaping from the slaughter of that battle, brought home the news of so glorious a defeat.
* M. Duclos, in the History, of Louis XI. says, that the Swiss, to the number of three thousand, sustained the shock of the Dauphin.s army, composed of fourteen thousand French and eight thousand English. The battle was fought near Bottelin, and the Swiss were ‘almost all slain.
At the battle of Morgarten, thirteen hundred Swiss routed the Archduke Leopold’s army, composed of twenty thousand men. Near the Wesen, in the canton of Claris, three hundred and fifty Swiss defeated eight thousand Austrians 4 every year they celebrate the memory of this defeat on the field of battle, when an orator makes- a panegyric on this action, and reads the list of the three hundred and fifty names.
If in Europe itself we have only a barren admiration of such actions and such virtues, what contempt must the people of the East feel for the same virtues? Who can make these think of them with respect? Those countries are peopled with abject vicious minds; and when the virtuous men in a country are not sufficiently numerous to give the bent to a nation, it necessarily receives it from those who are corrupt. These last, always interested in ridiculing the sensations they do not feel, render the virtuous silent. Unhappily there are but few who do not yield to the clamours of those by whom they are surrounded, who are courageous enough to brave the contempt of their country, and have the judgment to think that the esteem of a nation, placed on a certain degree of degradation, is less flattering than dishonourable.
Did the little value set on Hannibal, at the court of Anticchus, dishonour that great man? did the cowardice, with which Prusias would have sold him to the Romans, stain the glory of that illustrious Carthaginian? In the eyes of posterity, it has only dishonoured the king, the council, and the people, who deliberated upon it.
The result of what I have said is, that people have really in despotic empires only a contempt for virtue, and that nothing but the name is honoured. If every day we invoke this virtue, and require it of the citizens, it is only, in this case, with virtue as with truth, it is demanded on condition we arc so prudent as to conceal it.
Helvetius Essay III- XXI
CHAP. XXI.
OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EMPIRES SUBJECT TO ARBITRARY POWER: THE FOURTH EFFECT OF TYRANNY.
The indifference of the eastern nations with respect to virtue, their ignorance, and abject state of mind, necessarily follow from the form of their government, and must at the same time render citizens dishonest to each other, and void of courage with respect to an enemy.
From this source we may trace the astonishing rapidity with which the Greeks and Romans subdued Asia. How could slaves, educated and nurtured in the anti-chamber of a master, stifle, at the sight of the Roman swords, the habitual sensations of fear they had contracted from arbitrary power? How could men, so debased, without elevation of mind, accustomed to trample on the weak, and to cringe before the powerful, avoid yielding to the magnanimity, the policy, the valour, of the Romans, and shew themselves equally dastardly in counsel and in the field of battle?
If the Egyptians, as Plutarch says, were successively the slaves of all nations, it was owing to their being subject to the most severe despotic power: thus they almost constantly gave proofs of cowardice. When King Cleomenes, being driven from Sparta, took refuge in Egypt, he was imprisoned by the intrigues of a minister, named Sobisius; but having killed his guard, and broken his fetters, the prince presented himself in the streets of Alexandria; but in vain did he exhort the citizens to revenge him, to punish the injustice of his treatment, and shake oft. the yoke of tyranny: every where, says Plutarch, he found only immoveable admirers. These base and cowardly people had only that species of courage which made them admire great actions, but not that which would excite them to imitate them.
How can a slavish people resist a free and powerful nation? In order to make use of arbitrary power with impunity, the tyrant is forced to enervate the minds and the courage of his subjects. What renders him formidable at home, renders him weak abroad: with liberty, he banishes from his empire, all the virtues. “They cannot,” says Aristotle, ” inhabit base and servile minds.”—” We must,” says the illustrious president de Montesquieu, whom we have already quoted, “begin by being bad citizens, in order to become good slaves.” They could only oppose against the attacks of a people like the Romans, councils and generals absolutely unacquainted with political and military knowledge, taken from that very nation, whose courage was softened, and whose minds were debilitated; it then necessarily followed that they must have been overcome.
But, it is said, the virtuous have however shone with the greatest lustre in despotic states. This is true, when it hat happened that the throne has been successively possessed by several great men. Virtue benumbed by the presence of ty« ranny, revives at the appearance of a virtuous prince: his presence may be compared to that of the sun; when his light pierces and disperses the black clouds that cover the earth, all nature revives, everything glows with new life; the plains are peopled with laborious husbandmen, the groves resound with aerial concerts, and the winged inhabitants of the skies fly to the tops of the oaks, to welcome the returning sun. “O happy times,” cries Tacitus, under the reign of Trajan, “when people obey only the laws, when every one may think freely, and freely tell his thoughts, when every heart flies to the prince, and the sight of him is a benefit!”
The lustre thrown upon such nations is always but of short duration. If sometimes they attain to the highest pitch of power and glory, and become illustrious by success of all kinds, this success being united, as I have already said, with the wisdom of the kingswho governed, and not with the form of government, has always been as fleeting as brilliant: the strength of such states, however it may impose upon us, is but an illusion; it is the Colossus of Nebuchadnezzar, whose feet were of potter’s clay. These empires resemble the lofty pine, whose top reaches to the heavens; the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, seek for shelter under its branches; but, being fixed to the earth by too weak a root, is overthrown by the first storm. Such states have but a momentary existence, if they are not surrounded by nations, who have little dispositions for great enterprizes, and are subject to arbitrary power. The respective strength of such nations consists then in an equilibrium of weakness. If a despotic empire has received a shock, and the throne cannot be secured without a manly and courageous resolution, that empire is destroyed.
The people who groan beneath the yoke of arbitrary power have then only a momentary success, a mere flash of glory, and must, sooner or later, submit to a free and enterprising
nation. But supposing that particular circumstances and situations save them from this danger; the bad administration of these kingdoms is sufficient to destroy, to depopulate, and to turn them into desarts; the lethargic languor that successively seizes all the members, produces this effect. The property of despotic power is to stifle the passions: now when minds have, by the want of passions, lost their activity; when the citizens are in a manner rendered stupid by the opium of luxury, indolence, and softness, the state then falls into a consumption; the apparent calm it enjoys, is, in the eyes of men of understanding, a languid statathat is the forerunner of its dissolution. The passions are necessary in a nation, and are its life and soul; the people who have the strongest, are in the end triumphant.
The moderate effervescence of the passions is salutary to an empire; which in this respect resemble the sea, whose stagnate waters, on becoming corrupt, would exhale vapours that would prove fatal to the universe, if they were not purified by the rising of tempests.
But, if the grandeur of nations subject to arbitrary power is only momentaneous, it is not so in governments where the power, as in Rome and Greece, is divided between the people, the nobility, or the kings. In those states, private interest, closely connected with that of the public, changes men into citizens. It is in such states only that the people, whose success depends on the constitution of the government, may hope that it will be of long duration. The necessity in which the citizens here find themselves, of being employed about important objects, and the liberty of thinking and speaking whatever they please, give greater strength and elevation of mind; the boldness of their thoughts have an influence on their hearts, and make them conceive more extensive, more courageous projects, and execute them with greater intrepidity. I shall even add, that if private interest is not intirely separated from that of the public, if the manners of a people, like those of the Romans, are not as corrupt as they were in the time of Marius and Sylla; the spirit of faction, which obliges the citizens to watch, and be a mutual restraint on each other, is the preserving genius of these empires. They are maintained only by a
counter balance of opposite interests. Never are the foundations of these states more secure, than at the time when these exterior ferments appear ready to overthrow them. Thus, the bottom of the sea is calm and tranquil, even when the north winds, let loose on its surface, seems to turn it up from its abyss.
After having discovered in the despotic power of the eastern nations, the cause of the ignorance of the viziers, the indifference of the people with respect to virtue, and the overthrow of empires subject to that form of governments, I shall now proceed to shew the opposite effects produced from-other political constitutions.
Helvetius Essay III- XXII
CHAP. XXII.
OF THE LOVE OF CERTAIN NATIONS FOR GLORY AND VIRTUE.
This chapter is so necessary a consequence of the preceding, that I should think myself excused from all further examination of this subject, were I not convinced, that an explanation of the means proper to necessitate men to virtue, would be agreeable to the public, and that such disquisitions are instructive even to those who are most virtuous. I therefore enter into this subject. I cast my eyes over the republics more fruitful in virtuous men: I stop them at Greece and Rome, and see a multitude of heroes arise. Their great actions, preserved with care in history, seem collected there, to spread the odour of virtue into the most corrupt and distant ages: it is with these actions as with the vases of incense, which, placed on the altars of the Gods, are sufficient to diffuse their perfume over the vast extent of their temples.
Whoever considers the virtuous actions history has transmitted of these people, and would discover the cause, they will find that it proceeded from the address with which the legislators of those nations united private and public interest*.
In this union consists the true spirit of the laws.
I take the action of Regulus for a proof of this truth. Sup. posing in this general, no sentiment of heroism, not even those with which he must have been inspired by a Roman education; I maintain, that, in the age when that consul lived, the legislation •was, in certain respects, brought to such a degree of perfection, that had Regulus consulted merely his own personal interest, he could not avoid the generous action he performed. For whoever calls to mind the discipline of the Romans, and that flight, and even the loss of their buckler in battle was punished •with the bastinado, under which the guilty commonly expired, must be convinced that a consul conquered, made prisoner, and deputed by the Carthaginians to treat about the exchange of prisoners, could not appear before the Romans, without the fear of that contempt, which is always so humbling to republicans, and so insupportable to an elevated mind. Hence the only part Regulus had to take, was to efface, by some heroic action, the shame of his defeat. He therefore opposed the treaty of exchange, which the senate was ready to sign. He doubtless exposed his life by this advice: but the danger was not imminent; it was very probable, that, astonished by his courage, the senate would be only the more eager for concluding a treaty, that would restore to them so virtuous a citizen. Besides, supposing the senate was brought over by his advice, it was very probable, that the Carthaginians, from the fear of reprisals, or an admiration of his virtue, would not make him suffer the punishment, with which they had threatened him. Regulus did not then expose himself to any danger, to which, I will not say an hero, but even a sensible and prudent man, would have presented himself, to avoid the contempt, and obtain the admiration, of the Romans.
There is then an art of necessitating men to perform heroic actions; not that I would pretend to insinuate here, that Regu]us did nothing more than obey this necessity, nor do I mean to stain his glory; the action performed by Regulus was, doubtless, the effect of an impetuous enthusiasm, which led to virtue; but such an enthusiasm could no where be kindled but at Rome.
The virtues and vices of a nation are always necessary effects of its legislation; and it was doubtless the knowledge of this truth, that made way for that excellent law in China; to fertilize the seeds of virtue, the mandarins participate in the glory or shame of the virtuous or infamous actions committed in their governments*; and, in consequence of them, those mandarins are raised to superior, or degraded to inferior posts.
* This is not the case in the other empires of the East, where the governors are only employed in levying taxes, and opposing seditions. Besides, they are not required to trouble themselves about the happiness of the people in their provinces; their power in this respect is even very limited.
How can it be doubted, that virtue is not among all nations the effect of the greater or less degree of wisdom in the administration? If the Greeks and Romans were so long animated by these manly and courageous virtues, which Balzac calls “the excursions of the soul beyond the common duties,” it is because the virtues of this king are almost constantly peculiar to the nations, where each citizen has a part in the sovereignty.
It is only in these countries that we find aFabricius. Being pressed by Pyrrhusto follow him to Epirus: ” Pyrrhus,” said he, “thou art doubtless an illustrious prince, and a great warrior; but thy people groan in misery. What rashness would it be to take me into Epirus? Canst thou doubt that thy people, soon ranged under my law, would not prefer exemption from tribute, to being overloaded with taxes, and security to the uncertainty of their possessions? To-day thy favourite, tomorrow I should be thy master.” Such a discourse could only be pronounced by a Roman. In republics we perceive, with astonishment, how far the heighth of courage, and the heroism; of nations may be carried +. I shall mention Themistocles for an example of this kind: a few days before the battle of Salamis, that warrior, insulted in full council by the Spartan general, made no other reply to his menaces than these words< "Strike, but hear." To this example I shall add that of Ti. moleon: he was accused of a misdemeanor, and the people were ready to cut his accusers in pieces; but he stopped their fury by saying, "O SyracUsans, what are you going to do? Think that every citizen has a right to accuse rae: take care, lest by giving way to your gratitude, ye do not injure that very liberty, which it is my glory to have restored to you."
+ We see from cardinal Mazarine’s letters, that he was sensible of the advantages of this form of government. He was afraid that England, by forming a republic, would become too formidable to its neighhours. In a letter to M. le Tellier, he says, ” Don Louis and I know very well, that Charles II. is out of the kingdoms that belong to him; hul among all the reasons that may engage the kings our masters, to. think of his restoration, one of the strongest is, hindering England from forming a powerful republic, which, in the end, would give all its neighbours cause to look about them.”‘
If the Greek and Roman history is full of these heroic strokes, and if we in vain search the whole history of despotic power to find the like; it is only because, in these governments, private interest is never united to that of the public; because, in these countries, among a thousand qualities, they do honour only to baseness, and reward none but those of moderate abilities*; and because, to these men of moderate abilities, the administration of public affairs is almost always intrusted; while men of genius are excluded. They are of opinion, that these being restless and too active, they would disturb the repose of the state; a repose that may be compared to the momentary stillness of nature preceding a tempest. The tranquillity of a state does not always prove the happiness of the subject. In arbitrary governments, the men are like those horses, whose noses being wrung, suffer, without flinching, the most cruel operations, while the courser at liberty prances at the first touch. In these countries, a lethargy is taken for tranquillity. The love of glory, unknown to these nations, can only be preserved in a body politic, by the mild fermentation that renders it sound and robust, and calls forth ev«ry virtue and every talent. The ages most favourable to literature have, for this reason, always been most fruitful in great generals and great politicians: the same sun gives life to the cedar and the plane, tree.
*In these countries genius and abilities are only honoured in great princes, and great ministers.
Moreover, this passion for glory, which was deified by the Pagans, has received the homage of all republics, but principally of those that are poor and warlike.
Helvetius Essay III- XXIII
CHAP. XXIII.
THAT POOR NATIONS HAVE BEEN ALWAYS MORE GREEDY OF GLORY, AND MORE FRUITFUL IN VIRTUOUS MEN, THAN OPULENT NATIONS.
The heroes in commercial republics seem to appear only to destroy tyranny, and then to vanish. It was in the infancy of the liberty of the Dutch, that Balzac, speaking of that nation, said, “that they deserved to have God for their king, since they could not. bear to have a king for their god.” The soil proper for the production of great men in republics, is then soon exhausted. The glory of Carthage disappeared with Hannibal. The spirit of commerce there, necessarily destroyed that of valour. “Rich nations,” says Balzac, “are governed by the force of lucrative reasons, and not according to moral institutions, which propose motives to great and honest enterprizes.”
A virtuous courage is only preserved among poor nations. The Scythians were, perhaps, the only people who sung hymns in honour of the gods, without asking any favours, from their beiug persuaded that the courageous could want for nothing. Subject to commanders, whose power was sufficiently extensive, they were independent,” because they ceased to obey their chiefs, when they ceased te obey the laws. There are no rich nations who resemble the Scythians, in having no other want but that of glory. Wherever commerce flourishes, riches are preferred to glory, because riches afford an exchange for all pleasures, and it is more easy to acquire them.
What a sterility of virtues and talents must this preference occasion. The decrees of glory never proceeding, but from public gratitude, its acquisition is always the reward of services rendered to our country; and the desire of obtaining it, constantly supposes the desire of performing services, that may b« of use to the nation.
This is not the case with the desire of riches. They may> sometimes, be the reward of stock-jobbers, of meanness, of spies, and very often of crimes; they seldom fall to the share of those who have the greatest abilities, or of those who are most distinguished by their virtues. The love of riches does not necessarily lead to the love of virtue. Commercial nations ought therefore to be more fruitful in good merchants than in good citizens, and in great bankers than in heroes.
It is not then in the land of luxury and of riches, but in that of poverty, that the sublime virtues grow and flourish *; nothing is so uncommon as to meet great minds in opulent empires+; the citizens there contract too many wants. Whoever has multiplied them, has given tyranny hostages for his baseness and cowardice. Virtue, with which few are satisfied, can alone secure the people from corruption. It was this kind of virtue that dictated the answer of an English lord, distinguished by his merit, to a minister. The court, finding it for their interest to bring him over to their party, Mr. Walpole waited upon him: “I come from the king,” said he, ” to assure you of his protection; to let you know, that he is sorry for his not yet having done any thing for you; and to offer you a post more suitable to your merit.” “Sir,” replied the nobleman, ” before I answer your proposal, permit me to have my supper served up.” Immediately was brought in the remains of a leg of mutton, on which he had dined; then, turning to Mr. Walpole, “Sir,” said he, “do you think that a man, who can be contented with such fare, can be easily gained over? Tell his majesty what you have seen; this is the only answer I have to make *”.
*To which I add happiness. What it is impossible to say of individuals may be said of nations—that the most virtuous are always the most happy, though they are not the most rich and commercial.
+ ” Among all the nations of Germany, the Sucones,” says Tacitus, “after the example of the Romans, set a value on riches, and like them have submitted to despotic power.”
Such a discourse could only proceed from a person who knew how to contract the circle of his wants: but how few persons, in a rich country, can resist the perpetual temptation of superfluities! What virtuous men does poverty give to a nation, whom luxury would have corrupted!” O philosophers,” Socrates often said, ” you who represent the Gods on earth, learn, like them, to be self-sufficient, and to be contented with’little; especially, go not cringing to solicit princes and kings.” “Nothing can be more firm and virtuous,” says Cicero, “than the first ages of Greece; they were terrified at no danger, they were discouraged at no obstacles, and no respect restrained them, or made them sacrifice the truth to the absolute will of princes.” But these philosophers were born in poor countries; therefore their successors did always preserve the same virtues. Those of Alexandria were reproached with having too much complaisance for the princes their benefactors, and with purchasing, by their meanness, the tranquil leisure those princes suffered them to enjoy. On this subject, Plutarch cries out, “What sight can be more degrading to human nature, than to see sages prostitute their praises to men in place! Must the courts of kings be so often the rocks on which wisdom and virtue split! Ought not the great to be sensible, that all who entertain them, with things of only a frivolous nature, deceive them +? The true manner of serving them is to reprove them for their vices and bad conduct, and to let them know, that it ill becomes them to spend their days in diversion. This is the only language proper to a virtuous man; lying and flattery should never dwell upon his lip.”
*This story I find related of a member of parliament, in the reign of Charles II. in the General Dictionary.
+ There was doubtless a time when men, distinguished by their wisdom, had a right to speak only to princes, in order to tell them what was truly useful. Hence, the philosophers of India left their retreat hut once in a year: this was to repair to the king’s palace, where each % of them uttered, with a loud voice, his political reflections on the administration, and the changes and regulations they would have made in the laws. Those, whose reflections were for three times successively judged false or trivial, Ipst their right of speaking. Crit* Hist, of Philosophy, torn. II. ,
This exclamation of Plutarch is very fine; but it is a greater proof of his love of truth than of his knowledge of human nature. It is the same with respect to Pythagoras: “I refuse,” says he, “the name of philosophers to those who give into the corruption of courts; those alone are worthy of the name, who are ready to sacrifice before kings their life, their riches, their dignities, their families, and even their reputation. By this love of truth,” he adds, ” we participate with the divinity, and become united to him in the most noble and intimate manner.”
Such men do not indifferently arise in all kinds of governments: they are produced, either by a philosophical enthusiasm that is speedily extinguished, by a singular education, or by an excellent legislation. The philosophers mentioned by Plutarch and Pythagoras have almost constantly been born in poor nations, passionately fond of glory.
Not that I regard indigence as the source of virtues: it is to the greater or less wisdom in the administration of honours and rewards that we must attribute the production of great men among all nations. But what can scarcely be imagined is, that virtue and abilities are no where to be recompenced in so flattering a manner as in poor and warlike republics.
Helvetius Essay III- XXIV
CHAP. XXIV.
PROOF OF THIS TRUTH.
To take from this proposition the air of a paradox, it is sufficient to observe, that the two most general objects of the desires of mankind are wealth and honours. But of these two objects, men are most desirous of honours; they are dispensed in a manner-flattering to self-love.
The desire therefore of obtaining them renders men capable of the greatest efforts, and it is then that they perform prodigies. Now these honours are no where distributed with more justice than among the people, who, having no other money to pay for the services rendered to their country, have consequently the greatest interest in supporting their value: thus, the poor republics of Greece and Rome have produced more great men than all the vast and rich empires of the East.
Among the nations opulent and subject to despotic power, people place, and ought to place, more value on money than on honours. As honours received their value from the manner in which they are administered, and as in the East the sultans are dispensers of them, it appears, that they must bring them into discredit by the ill choice they make of those whom they adorn with them. Thus, in those countries, honours are properly mere titles only: they cannot flatter pride in a very lively manner, because they are seldom united with glory, which is not in the power of princes, but in that of the people only, to bestow; since glory is nothing more than the acclamation of public gratitude. Now, when honours are debased, th«r desire of obtaining them grows cool, and this desire no longer enables men to perform great things; they become in a state a spring without force, and therefore placemen justly neglect to make use of them.
There is a district in America, where, when an Indian has gained a victory, or managed a negotiation with dexterity, they say to him in an assembly of the nation, “Thou art a man.” This eulogium is a more powerful incentive to great actions than all the dignities proposed by despotic states to those who render themselves illustrious by their talents.
In order to be fully sensible of the contempt which must be sometimes thrown on honours, from the ridiculous manner in which they are bestowed, let us remember the abuse that was made of them in the reign of Claudius: ” Under that emperor,” says Pliny, “a citizen killed a raven, remarkable for his dexterity: this citizen was put to death, and a magnificent funeral was made for the bird; a musician, playing on a flute, preceded the bed of state, on which the raven lay, which was supported by two slaves, and in the procession followed an infinite number of people of both sexes and of all ages. Upon this subject, Pliny cries out, «’ What would cur ancestors say, if in Rome itself, where our first kings were interred without pomp, where they did not revenge the death of the destroyer of Carthage and Numantia, they had assisted at the obsequies of a raven.”
But, you will say, in countries subject to arbitrary power, honours are however sometimes the reward of merit. They doubtless are so: but they are oftener the reward of vice and meanness. Honours are in these governments like the scattered trees in a desert, whose fruits are sometimes carried off by the birds of heaven, but become too often the prey of the serpent, which from.the foot of the tree ascends even to its top.
Honours being once degraded, services performed for the state can only be paid for with money. Now every nation, who discharges its obligations only with specie, soon becomes overcharged with expences, and in a little time insolvent; there is then no reward for virtue and abilities.
In vain, is it said, that, instructed by want, princes in this extremity ought to have recourse to the payment of their obligations with honours: for as in poor republics, where favours are distributed by the body of the nation, it is easy to raise the value of honours, nothing can be more difficult than to render them valuable in despotic countries.
What probity would that administration shew, that should endeavour to reward with honours! What strength of mind would it require to resist the intrigues of courtiers! What discernment to grant these honours only to persons ot great talents and distinguished virtues, and constantly to refuse them to those of mean abilities, who would discredit them’. What justness of thought would it demand, to seize the precise moment, when these honours, by becoming too common, would no longer excite the citizens to make the same efforts, and when they ought consequently to create new ones!
It is not the same with honours as with riches. If the public interest forbids the melting down the gold and silver specie, it on the contrary requires, that honours should not be bestowed
as a reward, when they have lost the value which they only receive from the opinion of the people.
I shall observe on this subject, that we cannot, without astonishment, consider the conduct of most natious, who employ 10 many men in the management of their revenues, and appoint none to watch over the distribution of honours. Yet what can be of greater use, than a severe scrutiny into the merit of those whom they raise to dignities? Why has not each nation a court, in which, by a profound and strict examination, they may ascertain the reality of those talents that are to be rewarded? What a value would such an examination give to honours! What a desire to merit them! What a happy change would this desire produce, not only in private education, but by little and little, in that of the public! A change, on which, perhaps, depends all the difference observable between nations.
Among the base and cowardly courtiers of Antiochus, how many would there have been had they been educated from their infancy at Rome, who would, like Popilius, have drawn a circle about that king, beyond which he could not pass without rendering himself a slave, or the enemy of the Romans!
Having proved that great rewards produce great virtues, and that the wise distribution of honours is the strongest band which legislators can use to unite the private and general interest, and to form good citizens; I think I have a right to conclude from thence, that the love or indifference of certain nations for virtue is an effect of the different forms of their governments. Now, what I have said of the love of virtue, which I take for an example, may be applied to any other of the passions. We ought not then to attribute to nature that unequal degree of passions, of which different nations appear susceptible.
As the last proof of this truth, I am going to shew, that the strength of our passions is always proportioned to the force of the means employed to excite them.
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What amazes me is how many politicians, pundits and columnists are are falling for this bullshit. I’m not surprised that ordinary people might do so, having been inflamed by politicians, pundits and columnists that know better.
Because my inductive reasoning tells me that politician, pundits and columnist do know better, and that leads me to deduce that they are lying sons of bitches.
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Biden Steps Up Hits on Buttigieg, Warren Over Health Care
by Bill Barrow .
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden. (Source:AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Joe Biden is taking aim at Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren during an eight-day tour of Iowa that the former vice president hopes will help him gain ground in the state that holds the first presidential caucus.
Biden argued Tuesday that Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is riding his coattails in pushing for a "public option" government-insurance plan to be sold alongside private insurance. He argued that Warren, meanwhile, is out of step with the Democratic Party and the general electorate with her call for a single-payer "Medicare for All" system that would supplant the private insurance market altogether.
Biden entered the race earlier this year as a front-runner, but his increasingly aggressive stance toward Buttigieg and Warren marks a recognition that the race is far from locked up in the crucial states that kick off the primary season. And by zeroing in on health care, Biden is highlighting an issue that he sees as core to his candidacy.
Biden points to his work helping pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010 as an example of the type of leadership experience most of his rivals lack. And he argues that while the other candidates have shifted their positions, he's been consistent during the 2020 campaign in embracing the public option, which he thinks will be less objectionable to moderate voters than a single-payer system.
"I was the first guy to come out with the plan to build on Obamacare, and I'm glad Pete has a version of that same plan," Biden told reporters Tuesday in Mason City, Iowa. A day earlier, Biden was even more direct, saying the mayor essentially "stole" his idea after having once endorsed Medicare for All before he became a presidential candidate.
On Warren, Biden said there is "great enthusiasm" among Medicare for All supporters who back the Massachusetts senator, though he clarified that those enthusiastic supporters don't represent a majority of the party. It came a day after he told reporters that he didn't see enthusiasm for Warren.
"I don't think ... that's where the center of the party is or the left or the right of the party," Biden said Tuesday. Most Democrats "know it will take a long time, they know it costs a lot of money, and it's causing some consternation for people," he continued. "And I think ... people are gonna find some version of what I've been talking about for a long time, and it's to build on Obamacare with a public option."
Buttigieg pushed back at Biden's criticisms after attending a health care roundtable in Montgomery, Alabama, in Tuesday. He noted that he has been talking about "Medicare for all who want it" since at least February, before Biden entered the 2020 race.
"I'm glad when there's overlap among Democrats who have shared values," Buttigieg said. "Our policies are not the same, but there are certainly some areas that are consistent because we believe in the same things across this field. I will continue to advocate for what is right and seek to earn support based on that."
Both men have pushed back at Warren and fellow progressive Bernie Sanders on the debate stage this year, casting single-payer as too expensive and impossible to get through Congress.
Buttigieg had taken a different view before his campaign.
In February 2018, Buttigieg was drawn into a Twitter back-and-forth as progressives were urging Democratic politicians to back single-payer. "When/where have you ever heard me oppose Medicare for All?" he asked in a Feb. 17, 2018, response to an activist's query. A day later, he tweeted out a column he wrote as a Harvard University senior, saying he'd "been on record on this one since 2004." On the same day, he declared in a separate tweet: "Gosh! Okay ... I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All, as I do favor any measure that would help get all Americans covered. Now, if you'll excuse me, potholes await."
For his part, Biden can't claim to have cornered the market on a "public option." Two other candidates — Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Michael Bennet of Colorado — have long backed "public option" legislation on Capitol Hill.
The intraparty debate has proved fraught for other candidates.
California Sen. Kamala Harris, who ended her 2020 bid Tuesday, took a considerable hit over the summer as she backed off her Senate sponsorship of Sanders' Medicare for All bill but then delayed making her own proposal. At least twice as a candidate, she seemingly endorsed a single-payer system that would eliminate private insurance, only to retreat soon afterward. She ultimately produced a plan intended as a sort of hybrid between single-payer and a public option.
Warren, meanwhile, fueled her rise to the top tier of Democratic contenders in part by branding herself as the candidate with detailed policy plans for a range of national challenges. But she noticeably delayed offering a health care proposal, sometimes saying only, "I'm with Bernie." She eventually unveiled a single-payer plan but put a $20 trillion price tag on the first decade — lower than independent estimates that put the cost at $30 trillion or more. And, unlike Sanders, she maintains that she could cover the cost without tax increases on middle-class households. Biden openly mocks the contention.
Undecided Democrats like Wendy Ewalt and Diane Schlei will end up settling the issue — at least before the general election.
Ewalt is a 68-year-old retiree who came to hear Biden on Monday in Storm Lake. "We need single-payer because nothing else is working," she said, arguing that Warren and Sanders are pushing a debate the nation must have.
Schlei, 69, is also a retiree. She's not necessarily happy with the existing health care system. But she's not convinced the United States will accept an all-government insurance system — or a presidential candidate who wants one.
"We don't need someone too far out there," she said, saying she'll likely choose between Biden and Buttigieg. "I just don't think they can make it work."
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Because Airbnb involves people renting out their private homes, the company lives in a sort of regulatory gray area. Homeowners in the United States who use Airbnb are not required to make their properties comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act, although they are prohibited from discriminating against people with disabilities and those who use service animals. A few years ago, Airbnb gave homeowners the option of describing their properties as wheelchair accessible. But in most cases homeowners who are able-bodied tend to believe “wheelchair accessible” means a wheelchair user can get through the front door — and that’s about it. This puts wheelchair users in the exhausting position of having to contact every Airbnb host who has listed a home as wheelchair friendly in their destination to ask questions about roll-in showers, doorway widths, ramps and other items, over and over again.
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Big rallies held after Rio politician is shot dead
BBC – Tens of thousands of people in Rio de Janeiro and other cities in Brazil have taken to the streets to mourn a murdered politician who had campaigned against police brutality. Marielle Franco, was viewed by many as a champion of women’s rights.
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Tens of thousands of people in Rio de Janeiro and other cities across Brazil have taken to the streets to mourn a murdered politician who had campaigned against police brutality.
Fonte: BBC News
Marielle Franco’s murder shocked the nation
Marielle Franco, a 38-year-old Rio city councillor, was viewed by many as a champion of women’s rights.
Ms Franco and her driver were both shot dead while in her car on Wednesday.
Brazilian President Michel Temer called her murder an attack on democracy and the rule of law.
‘Barbaric crime’
Public Security Minister Raul Jungmann has said the federal government will use all resources available to find her killers.
Earlier, the bodies of Ms Franco and Mr Gomes was taken to Rio’s city council on Thursday afternoon
“I’m here at the request of President Temer,” he said at a press conference.
“I would like to tell the friends of relatives of Marielle that we will find those responsible and punish them for this barbaric crime,” Mr Jungmann added.
“Justice will be done.”
Postagem de Marielle no Twitter
Ms Franco was returning from an event encouraging black women’s empowerment in central Rio when a car drew alongside hers and nine shots rang out.
She and her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, were both killed, and her press officer, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, was injured.
Police officials said it appeared Ms Franco had been deliberately targeted.
She was shot four times in the head, and three bullets hit Mr Gomes.
Ms Franco was elected to the city council in 2016 and presided over the women’s commission. She was a councillor for the left-wing Socialism and Liberty Party.
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Ms Franco, who grew up in Mare, a favela complex in the north of the city, has been an outspoken critic of the move to deploy the army and the federal police force.
On Tuesday, she posted on Twitter about the killing in the Manguinhos favela of a 23-year-old man, which the youth’s family blamed on the military police.
“Another killing of a youth which could end up on the PM [military police] tally. Matheus Melo was leaving church. How many more will have to die before this war ends?” she asked.
Mais um homicídio de um jovem que pode estar entrando para a conta da PM. Matheus Melo estava saindo da igreja. Quantos mais vão precisar morrer para que essa guerra acabe?
— Marielle Franco (@mariellefranco) March 13, 2018
In another tweet she expressed her solidarity with the people of the favela of Acari.
“What is happening now in Acari is absurd!” she posted. “The 41st battalion of the military police is known as the battalion of death. Enough of trampling all over the population! Enough of killing our youth!” she wrote, adding a picture with the words “We’re all Acari, stop killing us!”
O que está acontecendo agora em Acari é um absurdo! E acontece desde sempre! O 41° batalhão da PM é conhecido como Batalhão da morte. CHEGA de esculachar a população! CHEGA de matarem nossos jovens! pic.twitter.com/SrSycFE5Sl
The UN Human Rights Office in Geneva condemned the “deeply shocking murder of a well-known human rights defender” and called for a “thorough, transparent and independent” investigation to be carried out as soon as possible.
Amnesty International urged that the investigation be rigorous and focus on “the context, motive and responsibility” for the killing.
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Darren Fells NFL Fantasy Profiles
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Scores in playoff loss
Fells caught three of seven targets for 22 yards and had a four-yard touchdown reception in Sunday's 51-31 divisional-round loss to the Chiefs.
Analysis: Fells, who ranked third among tight ends during the regular season with seven touchdowns, snapped a five-game streak without a score. The 33-year-old Fells began the season as an afterthought as a receiver while competing with three tight ends the Texans had selected over the last two drafts, but he emerged as a go-to target in the red zone for quarterback Deshaun Watson. He had career highs in targets (48), catches (34), yards (341) and touchdowns (seven) and now is slated to head into free…read more
Published: Sun, Jan 12 at 8:01pm by Rotowire.com
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Suits up versus Kansas City
Fells (hip) is listed as active for Sunday's divisional-round playoff game against the Chiefs.
Analysis: Meanwhile, fellow tight end Jordan Akins (hamstring) won't play Sunday, which should lead to Fells garnering ample playing time against the Chiefs. In last weekend's wild-card win over the Bills, Fells logged a 96 percent share of his team's offensive snaps, en route to hauling in four of five targets for 37 yards.
Published: Sun, Jan 12 at 10:45am by Rotowire.com
On track to play
Fells (hip), who is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Chiefs, is expected to play, James Palmer of NFL Network reports.
Analysis: The Texans list three skill-position players as questionable -- Fells, Will Fuller (groin) and Kenny Stills (knee) -- but the trio is trending toward suiting up for the divisional-round showdown in Kansas City. Assuming he gains clearance to play and experiences no in-game complications with the hip, Fells should dominate the playing time at tight end. No. 2 tight end Jordan Akins (hamstring) has been ruled out for a second straight game, and his absence in the wild-card win over Buffalo…read more
Published: Sun, Jan 12 at 6:22am by Rotowire.com
Added to injury report
Fells (hip) is listed as questionable for Sunday's playoff game against the Chiefs after being limited at practice Friday.
Analysis: Fells was added to the Texans' injury report Friday, which implies an in-practice setback. Meanwhile, Jordan Akins (hamstring) -- who was inactive for last weekend's wild-card win over the Bills -- a game in which Fells logged a 96 percent snap share, is also listed as questionable for the contest. As a result, the status of both tight ends is worth monitoring in advance of Sunday's 3:05 p.m. ET kickoff.
Published: Fri, Jan 10 at 1:40pm by Rotowire.com
Has four catches in playoff win
Fells caught four of five targets for 37 yards in Houston's 22-19 overtime win over the Bills in their AFC wild-card round playoff game Saturday.
Analysis: Fells filled his usual role as the Texans' lead tight end and had his most catches, targets and yards since Week 8. Three of his receptions came on third down to move the sticks, and he had catches on two separate scoring drives. He might have been remembered in a different light had his third-down drop on Houston's first overtime possession led to a Bills' score. Fells played 66 of 69 snaps (96 percent) while the only other active tight end, Jordan Thomas, played just eight.
Published: Sun, Jan 5 at 7:53am by Rotowire.com
Three grabs in Week 16 win
Fells caught all three targets for 27 yards in Saturday's 23-20 win over Tampa Bay in Week 16.
Analysis: One of Fells' targets was a red-zone catch for a 10-yard gain, but he went a third straight week without reaching the end zone. He's second among NFL tight ends with seven touchdowns, behind only the Ravens' Mark Andrews (eight). The three catches, his most since Week 8 against Oakland, gives him 34, three more than fellow tight end Jordan Akins.
Published: Sun, Dec 22 at 4:51am by Rotowire.com
Escapes injury designation
Fells (hand) won't carry an injury designation into Saturday's game against the Buccaneers.
Analysis: After being limited in practices Tuesday and Wednesday, Fells received the green light for the Week 16 matchup by putting in a full workout Thursday. Fells should thus be in the clear to lead Houston's tight-end group in snaps Saturday like he typically does most weeks, though he's actually drawn fewer targets in the passing game of late than backup Jordan Akins.
Published: Thu, Dec 19 at 2:27pm by Rotowire.com
Another limited practice
Fells (hand) was a limited participant during Wednesday's practice.
Analysis: Fells has now logged back-to-back limited sessions to open Week 16, but the prevailing thought is that he'll be able to play through the hand injury in Saturday's game against the Buccaneers, barring any setbacks. The tight end has fallen behind Jordan Akins in terms of targets in recent weeks, but Fells continues to lead the position group in offensive snaps.
Published: Wed, Dec 18 at 2:31pm by Rotowire.com
Limited to begin Week 16
Fells was a limited participant in Tuesday's practice due to a hand injury.
Analysis: Fells presumably sustained the injury in this past weekend's 24-21 win over the Titans, but it didn't stop him from playing 83 percent of the offensive snaps and contributing one catch for a two-yard gain on two targets. Expect Fells to ultimately gain clearance for the Texans' matchup Saturday with the Buccaneers.
Published: Tue, Dec 17 at 1:51pm by Rotowire.com
Two targets in Week 15 win
Fells caught one of two targets for two yards in Sunday's 24-21 win over the Titans in Week 15.
Analysis: Fells, who has a career-high seven touchdowns in 2019, did not score for the second straight week. It was also the second straight game without a red-zone target. He remains Houston's leader among tight ends in terms of playing time but has fallen behind Jordan Akins in terms of targets. The Texans are on the road Week 15 against Tampa Bay, whose defense has surrendered the fourth-most yards per game (62.3) and is tied for fourth in touchdowns allowed (seven) to tight ends.
Published: Mon, Dec 16 at 6:16am by Rotowire.com
Four targets in loss
Fells caught two of four targets for two yards in Sunday's 38-24 loss to the Broncos.
Analysis: Fells had fewer targets and snaps than Jordan Akins, who, despite having fewer touchdowns this season, is considered the better receiving threat. When Houston fell behind 14-0 after one quarter and 31-3 at halftime, Fells' playing time took a hit.
Published: Mon, Dec 9 at 7:01am by Rotowire.com
Scores in win
Fells caught two of three targets for 23 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 28-22 win over New England.
Analysis: Fells, who is tied for the league lead among tight ends with seven touchdowns, recorded his first TD in three games. He remains the top dog among the team's tight ends even with the return of Jordan Thomas. Fells' 42 snaps were more than Jordan Akins (31) and Thomas (14).
Another red zone target in win
Fells caught one of two targets for 24 yards in Thursday's 20-17 win over the Colts in Week 12.
Analysis: Fells had one long catch to set up the Texans' first field goal and added his team-leading 10th red-zone target, one of only two plays Houston ran inside the Colts' 20-yard-line. The 33-year-old Fells has scored six touchdowns, all from the red zone, and is tied for the lead among tight ends in TD receptions. He does have more competition for snaps now that Jordan Thomas is back from injured reserve.
Published: Fri, Nov 22 at 5:00am by Rotowire.com
Three targets in loss
Fells caught one of three targets for 18 yards in Sunday's 41-7 loss to Baltimore.
Analysis: Fells, a surprising leader among tight ends with six touchdown catches, saw his two-game touchdown streak end. The Ravens steamrolled the Texans, which saw only one receiver post more than 27 receiving yards.
Published: Sun, Nov 17 at 8:22pm by Rotowire.com
Scores again
Fells caught one of three targets for one yard and a touchdown in Sunday's 26-3 win over the Jaguars.
Analysis: Fells found the end zone for the third time in the last two games and has a team-high six touchdowns, which is also an NFL-high figure among tight ends. He's been a major surprise in the Texans' offense with career highs in catches (24), targets (31) and touchdowns (six).
Published: Sun, Nov 3 at 5:11pm by Rotowire.com
Surprise TD leader
Fells caught six of six targets for 58 yards and two touchdowns in Sunday's 27-24 win over the Raiders in Week 8.
Analysis: Fells was the safety valve on a pair of plays extended by quarterback Dehsaun Watson's legs. It was the second multi-touchdown effort of the season, giving him a career-high five over eight games, tops on the Texans. The 33-year-old tight end has caught all seven of his red-zone targets for 75 yards and five scores.
Published: Sun, Oct 27 at 8:02pm by Rotowire.com
Catches two passes in loss
Fells caught both of his targets for 27 total yards during Sunday's 30-23 loss to the Colts.
Analysis: Fells continues to see the field plenty, with at least 40 offensive snaps in five of his last six games, but targets are less than consistent. He has just two games with more than three targets this season. The broad-bodied tight end doesn't necessarily need a ton of targets to come up big as evidenced by his two-target, two-touchdown Week 5 performance, but inconsistency in targets risks the more-than-occasional dud from Fells. Sunday brings a matchup against Oakland's 31st-ranked pass defense.
Published: Tue, Oct 22 at 4:42pm by Rotowire.com
Heavy usage in win
Fells caught six of seven targets for 69 yards in Sunday's 31-24 win over Kansas City in Week 6.
Analysis: The catches, targets and receiving yards were season highs for Fells, and it was his first game over 50 yards. The Texans leaned heavily on their ground game and used a lot of two-tight end sets, so Fells also enjoyed a season-high snap count (80 of 92, 87 percent). While he didn't record a touchdown catch, Fells has been used as a red-zone target this season -- he had one target Sunday -- and is tied with Will Fuller for the team lead at three scores.
Published: Mon, Oct 14 at 5:02am by Rotowire.com
Scores pair of red-zone TDs
Fells caught both of his targets for 20 yards and two touchdowns in Sunday's 53-32 win over the Falcons in Week 5.
Analysis: Fells' two touchdown grabs give him three for the season, tying him with Will Fuller for team high. Quarterback Deshaun Watson has involved Houston's tight ends more in 2019 than he did last year. Fells and Jordan Akins have has many red-zone targets (seven) as the team's more heralded wideouts.
Published: Sun, Oct 6 at 6:25pm by Rotowire.com
Catches lone target
Fells caught his only target for 12 yards in Sunday's 16-10 loss to the Panthers in Week 4.
Analysis: A week after being targeted six times, Fells' volume dropped to a more typical amount Week 4. This was the second time in four games he's received a solitary target. While he's the starter due to his blocking skills, Fells (11 targets) is second behind Jordan Akins (14) in terms of attention from quarterback Deshaun Watson.
Published: Mon, Sep 30 at 5:20am by Rotowire.com
Scores first TD
Fells caught five of six targets for 49 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 27-20 win over the Chargers in Week 3.
Analysis: Fells led Houston's tight ends in snaps and targets for a second straight game but took a back seat to Jordan Akins, who caught two touchdowns, as a receiver. Houston's tight ends took on an expanded role in the gameplan against the Chargers, receiving 11 targets in Week 3 after being targeted a combined seven times over the first two games. Maybe not so coincidentally, involving the tight ends led to quarterback Deshaun Watson throwing for a season-high 351 yards, the fifth-highest total of…read more
Leads TEs in snaps
Fells caught one of three targets for nine yards in Sunday's 13-12 win over the Jaguars.
Analysis: Fells made his second straight start at tight end and was the position group's leader in snaps with 44, five more than Jordan Akins. When the Texans offense tilts more toward the running game, as it did Sunday, Fells will be on the field more than Akins due to his blocking ability. Through two weeks, Fells has one catch on four targets.
Tops depth chart
Fells is listed as the first tight end on the Texans depth chart.
Analysis: Fells was listed as the starting tight end in the game books for Houston's first three preseason games before he sat out the finale. He caught both of his preseason targets for 34 yards and played little beyond the first quarter. His placement atop the tight ends could be a nod to Fells' talent as a blocker, while Jordan Akins or Jerell Adams, listed second and third on the depth chart, respectively, becomes the position group's target leader.
Published: Tue, Sep 3 at 11:58am by Rotowire.com
Signs with Texans
Fells is signing a one-year contract with the Texans, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports.
Analysis: Fells was released by the Browns on March 10 after catching 11 passes for 117 yards and three touchdowns in 16 games during the 2018 campaign. He only has 68 receptions in 70 NFL appearances, but 10 of them have gone for a score and he also has a strong reputation for blocking. Fells has a nice opportunity to compete for playing time ahead of his age-33 season, as the Texans figure to have an open competition at tight end with Ryan Griffin, Jordan Thomas, Jordan Akins and Jerell Adams all in…read more
Published: Mon, Mar 18 at 2:03pm by Rotowire.com
Cut by Browns
The Browns released Fells on Sunday, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports.
Analysis: Per Mary Kay Cabot of The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Browns dangled Fells on the trade market but were unable to find a suitable partner. Fells doesn't bring much to the table as a pass catcher, failing to reach 200 receiving yards in four of five pro campaigns. That said, his ability as a blocker has allowed him to maintain a consistent workload the past four seasons -- between 32 and 61 percent of the offensive snaps in a given year -- so the 32-year-old should garner plenty of interest on…read more
Published: Sun, Mar 10 at 12:32pm by Rotowire.com
Records 11 catches in 2018
Fells ended his 2018 campaign with 11 catches (12 targets) for 117 yards and three touchdowns.
Analysis: Used as mainly a blocking tight end, Fells wasn't utilized much on offense during his first year in Cleveland, as he spent the bulk of his time backing up starter David Njoku. Fells signed a three-year, $12 million deal with the Browns last offseason, which will become fully guaranteed if he's on the roster on the third day of the 2019 league year.
Published: Fri, Jan 4 at 3:59pm by Rotowire.com
Find end zone in win
Fells caught all three of his targets for 18 yards and a touchdown during Sunday's 26-18 win over Cincinnati.
Analysis: Fells scored Cleveland's second touchdown of the game midway through the second quarter when, draped over by a Bengals defender, reeled in a one-yard touchdown from a scrambling Baker Mayfield. Situated behind an emerging David Njoku, Fells has been seldom used this season, with Sunday representing just his second multi-catch game of the season. His role has been that of occasional red-zone threat, with three of his 10 catches on the season going for touchdowns. The season ends against a Ravens…read more
Published: Sun, Dec 23 at 7:08pm by Rotowire.com
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Jadeveon Clowney eyeing Super Bowl contender in FA Mon, Jan 13 at 5:23pm
Chiefs' Sorensen on huge fake punt stop: 'I did my job' Mon, Jan 13 at 2:40pm
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Tony Romo To Undergo MRI On Back
Tony Romo will undergo an MRI on his back, which was in pain after the Dallas Cowboys' last-minute win over the Washington Redskins.
"I tweaked it in the game," Romo said, per the Cowboys' official website. "For whatever reason, just the twist or whatever that was, definitely just made it not feel comfortable."
"We think it'll be OK, but it was a tightening -- it wasn't a contusion," Jerry Jones said. "It was a little tight, but they're working on him and we'll work on that all week. He really had a little of it in practice, to give you an idea, this past week -- just a little tightness."
Kevin Patra/NFL.com
Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Injury
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Adapting to Times, Facilities Plans for Future
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FOR SA featured on SABC2
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Afterburner – Game the game
Afterburner is a pretty boring game
My first attempt resulted in a lame score and only Stage 3
But I’m not sure why. I mean, it has all the elements that should make it pretty awesome (and why little Forsoothed would’ve thought it was awesome): you pilot a sweet F14, your missles ‘lock on’, you get to shoot billions of enemies, it’s not impossibly hard (possibly the name of someone’s sex tape)…
I can’t believe you clicked on that link, you perv! (srsly though, it’s SFW)
Maybe it’s just an example of a game/style that’s been done better as time moves on? Or maybe the ‘fly in a straight line with no real control over where you’re going format’ just doesn’t have any staying power once you’re past the coolness of the F14?
WHO DO I WORK FOR AND WHAT I’M I ACCOMPLISHING HERE? Are we at war? Who are we? What is war?
YOU GET TO DO MID-FLIGHT REFUELING! #rad
Warning – “game studies” sentences incoming
Afterburner is probably an example of a seriously ludo-game like Tetris, no story whatsoever, but without the interesting mechanics. A ludo-game without the “fun”.
End “game studies”
Anyhoo, the good parts: all of the aforementioned cool stuff, plus you get to launch from an aircraft carrier, the ‘Sega Enterprise’. Oh Sega, you do go on. The gameplay is quite crisp and since I’m not going to have the patience to play through the boredom, I immediately wanted to find a cheat to see what the bosses (if there are bosses) would be like. Apparently there are 18 stages in Afterburner, I think I made it to 5 or 6 with some real effort.
Final thoughts, or “After” burner (oh self, you do go on)
In retrospect, this should’ve been a ‘played it for 5’ game: worth resurrecting for a quick (barrel) roll, but I’ve spent more time writing about Afterburner than actually playing it.
You let me down younger self, you let me down.
I did get better, 10X my first go-round #hardcore
This entry was posted in game-the-game, games and tagged afterburner, gaming the game, not great, played it for 5 minutes, sega, sega master system on April 27, 2014 by forsoothed.
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6 thoughts on “Afterburner – Game the game”
rocketbouchard April 27, 2014 at 7:39 pm
Hmmm. Interesting… What’s the real difference between tetris and after burner? The speed (AB)? The … rigidity (Tetris)? Could it be that the difficulty (due to the fluidness of AB) and the speed increase too quickly in AB?
forsoothed Post author April 27, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Fun. Afterburner is missing the fun.
It’s probably something to do with it being based on an uninteresting mechanic: stay in a turn and you avoid almost all death. My thesis would say that the user has almost no agency, therefore the funs are dead.
OutRun 1986 by TAGGSTA April 28, 2014 at 3:10 am
I’m not a big afterburner fan but this game is 25 years plus old now and was an arcade game that was meant to bring in the coin to arcade owners.
Not sure what version your playing?? The best would be the JP Saturn version to really test it out in the home.
This game was supported by a DLX version in the arcade with a motion cockpit that was a pretty awesome experience back in the day.
It was the first flying game to do this and was ground breaking back in the 80’s.
It had it’s time when it was a number one experience that was FUN, you just needed a £10’000 arcade machine to play it the way it was intended.
You didn’t mention the barrel roll to escape the missiles?
Some old games stand up well to
forsoothed Post author April 28, 2014 at 7:04 am
Wow, you know your Afterburner, awesome!
You make a great point that I didn’t really address: Afterburner is 25 years old, so it’s totally unfair to really criticize this game (especially the Sega Master System version that I played).
Though, I’m not really trying to comment on what the game was, more the difference between what I remember and my experience now. What I find really interesting is that when I was a kid I loved this game SO MUCH and now I find it super boring.
That’s definitely not the game’s fault! I think I wanted to love this game so much, because nostalgia, that I forgot to mention that.
I have played an arcade version with the moving cage relatively recently and it was a blast. I wonder now, though, if that’s because I never play arcade games for very long at a time?
Did the JP Saturn version include other gameplay elements?
I think it may of had an Arranged music track, not a lot else tho in the Jap Saturn version.
The Otaku Judge April 28, 2014 at 3:08 pm
I have fond memories of Afterburner as I originally played it during a vacation in Portugal. I thought the arcade machine’s moving cockpit was pretty snazzy.
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Man tracks down own stolen truck, things take a turn when he tries to confront suspects
Posted 10:35 pm, December 11, 2019, by Lauren Steinbrecher
KEARNS, Utah-- A Kearns man is thankful he’s okay, after quite an ordeal he went through to find his own stolen truck—twice. He came almost face-to-face with the suspects, and nearly ended up hurt in the process.
Now, a second vehicle of the man's is heavily damaged, and the suspects haven't been caught.
Jay Hancock’s truck disappeared from his work in Kearns on Friday afternoon. Surveillance video shows two men swarm the truck, which was parked in the lot of Tunex near 5400 South on 4015 West.
One man is riding a bike, and throws the bike in the bed of the truck before getting in and taking off.
Through the Ring Neighbors app, Jay heard about sightings around town. One person even shared video of his truck as part of an alleged theft. The person who shared the video said the man driving the truck stole a metal propane hood.
On Saturday evening, Jay said he and his girlfriend drove around the area where the truck had been spotted, and managed to find it in West Valley City two miles from Jay’s work.
“We followed it, it pulled over,” he said. He said he called 911, and said he could see two men inside of it.
“I had my girlfriend, who was driving, put the van at an angle in front of the truck,” Jay explained.
He decided to try to get out of the van, as his adrenaline started pumping at the sight of his stolen truck.
“I just wanted to get the guy out of my truck and get my truck,” he said.
But once Jay started opening his door on the passenger side, he said the truck rammed right into the passenger door of the van—and right where he was trying to get out.
“I was trying to pull door and hold it shut, while still on phone with 911,” he recounted.
The man had used Jay’s own truck to crash into Jay’s van. The driver quickly took off. Police arrived, but Jay said the truck was nowhere to be found.
Jay didn’t give up and on Sunday, he found the truck just down the street from where it had crashed into his van.
He called police from a safe distance away, and let them handle the rest. He said police told him because no one was in or near the 4-plex where it had been parked, they cleared the scene.
However, they did make a discovery in the bed of the truck.
West Valley City Police said they found various items like tires, rims, a vacuum, and helium tank. It’s unclear if those items were stolen, too, but nevertheless officers booked the items into evidence.
Jay said they also found the stolen propane hood from the neighbor with surveillance video. He decided to return the hood.
“I personally took it to him, just to show him that things could happen-- it was awesome to know that everything played out the way it did, and nobody actually really got hurt,” Jay said.
No one hurt, and Jay got his truck back.
He did admit that it probably wasn’t the best idea to try and approach the men in his truck, but he said he let his adrenaline and excitement of seeing his truck get to him.
At least now, it’s home. He did say that the truck has damage to it, and his tools are gone. His van is also damaged. and the passenger door is destroyed.
He’s hoping now police can catch the suspects, and surveillance will help someone identify them. Both Unified Police and West Valley Police said they don't have any possible suspects.
Jay and his girlfriend got a short glimpse at the men. He described them as Hispanic, with the driver wearing a gray pullover hoodie and ball cap, and the passenger wearing dark clothing.
Anyone with information related to Jay’s stolen truck or the crash can contact Unified Police or West Valley City Police.
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Utah family pleads for return of late father’s show bike, stolen from garage
Police believe all 39 victims found inside Essex truck were Vietnamese
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