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Samsung tempers expectations for a 64-bit Android answer to Apple's A7
By Daniel Eran Dilger
Thursday, November 07, 2013, 02:31 am PT (05:31 am ET)
Samsung sought to assuage its investors' concerns about increasingly intense competition with Apple and the cooling market for premium Android smartphones, outlining a specs race that described a future with 64-bit Exynos chips, super high resolution mobile displays and a new focus on software.
However, delivery of the most anticipated advance, a 64-bit mobile Application Processor, was pushed out indefinitely into the future at the company's "Analyst Day" event, offering scant hope for an Android answer to Apple's A7 anytime soon.
Samsung growing to battle new competitors
The company's all day investor conference began Wednesday with an introduction by Sang-hoon Lee, Samsung's president and chief financial officer, who outlined 2013's estimated revenues of $211 billion U.S., with profits of $35 billion.
For the first half of the year, Samsung said 11 percent of its revenues came from Korea, 28 percent from America, 23 percent from Europe and 18 percent from China, with a remaining 20 percent from all other regions (as presented in the bizarrely ratio-inaccurate pie chart above).
Capital expenditures for the year were estimated to reach $22 billion, versus Apple's reported $7 billion in capex (less than the $10 billion Apple planned to spend in 2013).
The company said its investments were shifting from building up manufacturing capacity toward the development of new markets and technology, while Apple has reported the reverse: that much of its capital investments are directed to infrastructure, particularly manufacturing capacity.
Samsung also outlined "key strategic shifts" from hardware sales to a software focus, and from a components business to shipments of more finished devices. Again, Apple has had a strong software focus since the early 1980s, with AppleWorks, Lisa Office and the Macintosh, and has continued a strong focus on iOS and OS X bundled apps, Pro Apps, iWork and iLife, and its other App Store titles.
Samsung's new strategies increasingly put the company in more direct competition with not only Apple, but also Samsung's other component customers as well as Google and Microsoft, the companies that currently supply Samsung's mobile, netbook and PC software platforms.
While not directly addressed during its investor event, Samsung's latest build of Tizen (below), the Linux-based mobile platform salvaged from the ashes of MeeGo (itself the merger of the abandoned efforts of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo), appears designed to serve as a drop in replacement for Google's Android or Microsoft's Windows Phone while coincidentally stumbling upon interface elements more than a little reminiscent of Apple's new iOS 7.
Samsung IT & Mobile
JK Shin, Samsung's president and chief executive of IT & Mobile (the business segment of Samsung Electronics that compares closely with Apple), outlined his outlook for the smartphone and tablet markets, promising that the company would "play a key role in the premium smartphone market."
He stated that from Samsung's perspective, the premium market will continue to outgrow market forecasts (above), an apparent reversal of the company's warnings from the beginning of the year about increasing competition in the plateauing market for premium Android smartphones.
That also seems to contradict Samsung's sales results throughout the year. The company just stated that in its September quarter, premium smartphone sales "stayed about the same" rather than keeping pace with Apple's growth, which comes entirely from premium smartphones.
Shin also presented some of the first solid numbers of Samsung's premium smartphone sales, noting that total sales of Samsung's Galaxy S and Note products were expected to reach 100 million for 2013, well below Apple's fiscal year sales of 150 million iPhones and only about a third of the number of total "smartphones" Samsung is regularly reported to ship.
Samsung System LSI
Next up, Dr. Namsung Stephen Woo, president of Samsung's System LSI, reviewed the state of the semiconductor industry, noting in particular the slowing overall growth occurring on the premium end of smartphones and tablets.
Citing data from Gartner and Strategy Analytics, Woo depicted mid-range and low-end phones increasing by an estimated 22 percent next year, while premium phones are expected to only increase by 9 percent. In tablets, a similar shift toward growth in the middle and low end were noted, with an inexplicable retraction in high end tablets presented as having occured this year compared to 2012.
Woo next predicted a display trend of ever increasing resolutions and pixel density on mobile screens, ramping from 1080p screens Samsung began fitting into its mobile devices this year to "WQHD" screens next year with a 2K resolution of 2560x1440, nearly as great as a 13 inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display.
He also predicted that even higher resolution 4K "UHD" 3840x2160 displays would come into the mobile device market by 2015. He didn't specify why mobile devices would immediately need such incredible bit densities, but did note that such resolutions would demand far higher processing power.
Woo next turned to camera sensor trends, predicting a leap from 13 megapixel mobile cameras to 20 megapixels in two years. He also addressed specialized camera software that already exists, from HDR to face detection and image stabilization.
"As you can see in the graph, the resolution number goes up," Woo explained. Shifting to a similar graph showing numbers getting bigger in Application Processors, Woo described three advanced technologies Samsung was working on in chip fabrication: Widcon (wide connection) a high bandwidth memory interface Woo contrasted with the LPDDR3 memory standard; the FinFET process for building advanced 10-14nm silicon, and 64-bit CPU cores for mobile Application Processors.
Short shrift for Samsung's 64-bit answer to A7
Alluding to Apple's custom 64-bit A7 Application Processor (which Samsung is manufacturing), Woo said "many people were thinking 'why do we need 64-bit for mobile devices?' People were asking that question until three months ago, and now I think nobody is asking that question. Now people are asking 'when can we have that? And will software run correctly on time?'"
Woo told his audience, "let me just tell you, we are... we have planned for it, we are marching on schedule. We will offer the first 64-bit AP based on ARM's own core [reference design]. "We are marching ahead with the 64-bit offering, and even though it's a little too early, I think we are at the leader group in terms of 64-bit offerings" -Dr. Stephen Woo, Samsung
"For the second product after that we will offer even more optimized 64-bit based on our own optimization. So we are marching ahead with the 64-bit offering, and even though it's a little too early, I think we are at the leader group in terms of 64-bit offerings."
Unlike the detailed roadmap charts for extremely high resolution mobile displays and rapidly increasing camera sensor pixel density releases over the next two years, Woo did not offer any other details about Samsung's 64-bit AP plans, despite acknowledging that such sensors and cameras necessitated vastly greater processing power.
Woo also offered no comment on how Samsung planned to support existing software on its planned 64-bit offerings, nor even whether such a chip would get custom Android support or use Samsung's own Tizen or some other operating system.
Woo also didn't outline any novel uses of 64-bit computing comparable to the applications Apple launched for the iPhone 5s, which included advanced video game graphics, enhanced audio and video processing apps like Garage Band and iMovie, and Touch ID processing and secure storage. Samsung didn't make any apparent mention of efforts related to fingerprint recognition.
Instead, the only new example of applications that "require higher computing/bandwidth" depicted in Samsung's presentation was "dual camcordering."
Samsung's advanced chip fabrication technology and capabilities are extremely rare among fabs globally, forcing Apple into partnership (for now) with the company to fabricate its advanced A7 design.
However, Samsung's reticence to plot out a confident 64-bit roadmap in detail, despite acknowledging that 64-bit is an important advance for mobile devices, illustrates the vast gulf between being able to fabricate an existing chip and begin able to custom design a new one.
A7,
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The Wolf Among Us 17+
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**NOTE: Compatible with iPhone 4S and up, and iPad 2 and up - also requires iOS 6 and up**
****Episode 1: Faith is now FREE****
***Save 25% on additional episodes in The Wolf Among Us by purchasing the Multi-Pack [Episodes 2-5 bundle] via in-app in the 'Episodes' menu***
From the creators of the Game of the Year award-winning series The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series, comes a gritty, violent and mature thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books (DC Comics/Vertigo).
As Bigby Wolf - THE big bad wolf - you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
An evolution of Telltale's ground-breaking choice and consequence game mechanics will ensure the player learns that even as Bigby Wolf, Sheriff of Fabletown, life in the big bad city is bloody, terrifying and dangerous.
Over a season of content spanning across 5 episodes (All five critically acclaimed episodes are available now):
Episode 1: Faith
Episode 2: Smoke and Mirrors
Episode 3: A Crooked Mile
Episode 4: In Sheep's Clothing
Episode 5: Cry Wolf
*Miscellaneous Fixes
1K Ratings
The makers of the amazing Walking Dead: The Game have done it again, turning another long-running comic book into a spellbinding interactive adventure. Set in the universe of Bill Willingham’s beloved Fables series, The Wolf Among Us depicts Snow White, The Big Bad Wolf, and other fairy-tale characters living in our modern world. Its first chapter, “Faith,” gets this five-part prequel off to a rousing start, boasting stylish visuals, sharp dialogue, dark humor, and intense, choice-based gameplay.
Bethsodas , 12/06/2015
Overall a great and entertaining game, but...
Love the game overall - interesting and fun to play. My only complaints are that each chapter is fairly short (takes you now more than maybe an hour tops to play each chapter) AND each chapter can often take forever to load, even if your phone is plugged in and you have a good wifi connection. It literally took me about 8 hours on a lazy day just to be able to play MAYBE three hours of gameplay Because I had to have the loading screen actually up with the volume down and to keep checking to make sure it had t stopped loading and then restarting the load if it was cut off. For the $15 season pass, I do think the game itself is definitely worth it, but I would've MUCH rather been able to load the whole game at once (even of it took 3 hours or so) and to play chapter after chapter rather than having the annoying and long load process in between.
guesswho!! , 12/11/2019
Great game but unfortunately full of critical bugs
This is a masterpiece game from Telltale. The comic graphics are beautiful, the crime story is entertaining and the voices are great. However, since Telltale doesnt exist anymore, this game has not aged well with the new iPad iOS. It is full of bugs. Everything worked fine until I purchased the Episodes 2-5 package. From then on, about 1 out of 4 times the choices were blank and I was not able to see what I selected even in critical situations. This is deadly for a choice-based game. There were further parts were there were no voices, so I could not hear what the characters were saying - which was most depressing at the end, when the story unfolded. Because of that I don’t fully understand how the story ended. Further, it was not possibly to see the overview of choices I made in the Extras menu, because the system would not let me scroll down.
I will ask for my money back, because it is unacceptable that the now seller of the game keeps it in the store without maintaining it. This is a rip-off. I read through other negative reviews and obviously I am not the only one experiencing this issue.
Again: Great compliment to Telltale Games. Really nice game and sorry your company does not exist anymore. I am sure you would have taken care of these issues.
Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor
Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
©2014 Telltale, Inc. Telltale, Telltale Games and the Telltale Games logo are trademarks of Telltale, Inc. All Rights Reserved. © Bill Willingham and DC Comics™ Bill Willingham (2014). All Rights Rese
Episode 2: Smoke and Mirrors $4.99
Episode 3: A Crooked Mile $4.99
Episode 4: In Sheep's Clothing $4.99
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Consumer Groups Outraged by Utility Rate Increase
Consumer groups are severely concerned about the impact on UniSource Electric residential electric customers, particularly low- and fixed-income customers, from an Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC)-approved rate increase and a 50 percent increase in the mandatory monthly fee or “basic service charge.”
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A new report from Frontier Group, A New Way Forward: Envisioning a Transportation System without Carbon Pollution, highlights that in order to tackle carbon pollution, there needs to be a transformation in how we move people and goods in, through and between our cities. The good news is that the last decade has seen an explosion of new technologies and the emergence of new innovations that can contribute to a solution.
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Don’t Believe the Hype – Millennials’ Transportation Habits Are Changing | Sean Doyle
Despite news stories claiming that Millennials are buying up cars at record rates, the reality is quite different. After adjusting previous studies to account for differences in the size of the generations measured, on a per-capita basis, Millennials are 29 percent less likely than members of Generation X to own a car.
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Arizona Receives a ‘B’ in Annual Report on Government Spending Transparency
Arizona received a ‘B’ when it comes to government spending transparency, according to the fourth annual report by the Arizona PIRG Education Fund, Following the Money 2013: How the States Rank on Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data. Arizona’s official state transparency website, OpenBooks, received an ‘A-’ in last year’s report.
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Clean energy advocates provide action plan
Clean energy advocates and leaders from across the West are urging policymakers to enact policies and support investments in renewable energy and efficiency that would modernize our electric system while slashing greenhouse gas emissions. With President Obama calling for action to address climate disruption in his State of the Union address, and thousands of others marching on Washington this past weekend, a series of white papers and a video are being released to help illustrate how adopting a Clean Energy Vision rather than business as usual will move the West forward.
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Offshore Tax Dodging Blows a $503M Hole in Arizona’s Budget
As Arizona lawmakers are soon to begin discussing the state budget for the next fiscal year, the Arizona PIRG Education Fund released a new study, The Hidden Cost of Offshore Tax Havens: State Budgets under Pressure from Tax Loophole Abuse, revealing that the State of Arizona lost $503 million due to offshore tax dodging in 2012.
Phoenix Receives a Grade of “D” for Spending Transparency
Phoenix received a grade of “D” for spending transparency, according to a new report released today by the Arizona PIRG Education Fund. The report reviewed how well the thirty largest cities in the U.S. – including Phoenix - publicly provide data about city spending and revenues in an online transparency website.
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New Report: Billion-Dollar Democracy Shows Unprecedented Impact of Big Money in 2012 Elections
It took just 32 billionaires and corporations giving Super PACs an average of $9.9 million apiece to match every single dollar given by small donors to Romney and Obama in the 2012 election cycle, according to Billion-Dollar Democracy, a new report by the Arizona PIRG Education Fund and Demos. Those small donations amounted to over $313 million from more than 3.7 million individuals.
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Trouble in Toyland 2006
According to the most recent data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), almost 73,000 children under the age of five were treated in emergency rooms for toy-related injuries in 2005. Twenty children died from toy-related injuries last year.
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Domestic Violence Restraining Order Clinic (Redwood City) 9:00 am
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Redwood City Bay Area Legal Aid hosts Domestic Violence Restraining Order clinics in Redwood City every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9:00 am; and every Wednesday at 1:30 pm. Clinics last approximately 3.5 hours. BayLegal Staff and …
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Consumer Rights Clinic (Fremont) 10:00 am
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By Mikhail Madnani on 27th April '18 in Android, Game, iPad, iPhone
Florence by Mountains Studio Is an Excellent Interactive Adventure
Monument Valley is one of the nicest looking games on iOS and the sequel was even better in a lot of ways. Mountains is a studio that has the lead designer of Monument Valley and some very talented individuals working together to create Florence. Florence is a lovely interactive adventure game on iOS and Android with some gorgeous animations and a superlative soundtrack.
You’re introduced to Florence and her routine in the opening moments of this and see how she deals with various things during her day. Florence slowly reminisces about her childhood, then in the present falls in love, and goes through a lot more here. This isn’t a super long visual novel like Steins;Gate but a succinct adventure that is more than memorable story wise and for the gorgeous visuals and excellent overall design. This easily exceeds anything else in the medium right now just for how well it conveys the narrative to you with your interactions. There is even a section where you go through Instagram like photos on your own phone as Florence and it feels quite meta. I love how interactive boring things are in this. Even the act of brushing teeth has you moving a toothbrush on the bottom of the screen with visual and haptic feedback. In fact, Florence makes fantastic use of haptic feedback on newer iOS devices.
Florence meets Krish and soon her routine changes as she falls in love with him. They eventually move in together and I’m not going into more details for obvious spoiler reasons. You really need to play this. A lot of the actual “gameplay” is just you solving basic puzzles or moving things into place while you see the story unfold in front of you. The soundtrack from Kevin Penkin deserves its own proper mention because it is without fault and the use of said soundtrack in key story segments is great. Check it out on iTunes here. Speaking of the audio, there is no real voice acting outside of some slight gibberish sounds to indicate phone calls and the like.
Thematically there’s a heavy use of solid colours throughout and this goes well with the crayon like style for characters and animations. Florence is probably one of the most polished games you will play on any platform and while it is short, it never overstays its welcome and is memorable in every aspect. While it is currently just on iOS and Android, I can’t really imagine it playing as well or being as immersive on non touch screen devices.
Florence is available for $2.99 on iOS as a Universal app as well as for Android on Google Play.
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Water dripped down her chin. Hands reached out blindly looking for a paper towel. She took two deep breaths as time slowly ticked by. Cassie waited. How am I going to get this done without anyone getting killed? she thought. Her eyes glanced down at her watch. It was 8:58 a.m. If she was going to do this, the time was now. Closing her eyes, Cassie ran her hands down her uniform shirt and unbuttoned each clasp one at a time. Tearing it free of her body left her standing with only her white tank top. I can’t take the chance of them knowing I’m a cop. A lump formed in her throat as she gulped. Tenderly Cassie folded up the shirt, allowing her walkie to lay across the top. She then opened the trash can and placed the uniform top within.
“I will come back for you later.”
Cassie rolled her shoulders and pulled her gun from the holster, gripping it tightly. She inched towards the bathroom door, opened it, and moved down the short hallway. Voices drifted down the hall as people talked peacefully amongst each other. Suddenly a loud bang rang out that shook her to her core. She peeked around the corner as five men walked in carrying black bags, just like in her vision. Her eyes darted around the room taking in all the people who were there. As before, Gregory wasn’t anywhere to be seen.
The leader broke off from the group and walked over to the teller stand. Cassie didn’t need to be in close range to understand what was being said. He was demanding the money in the tills and poor Sally was scared. Her muscles tightened as she lowered herself to the floor. The four men scanned the crowd of people, circling them into a small group. They were then forced to sit on the floor and wait.
Any minute now Tim would come out of his office, so she had to act fast. Looking at the two desks sitting in the back of the room, Cassie made a dash to the closest one. Her butt slid across the floor as she turned to peek above the top. Good, no one saw me. Now only feet away from the hostages, Cassie took in each individual. She assessed the situation as an officer should. If only she would have turned her head slightly her eyes would have connected with a figure standing in the shadows of the hall.
One of the women was crying her eyes out. She was with a large, bulky man who was probably her husband. His shoulders were squared and ready to strike if anyone touched, but his focus was on the woman in tears. His arm was protectively wrapped around her as his eyes danced over the masked men. He has military training or could be in the force. This might work to my benefit if I give him a big enough opening to act.
Slowly, she inched her way towards the edge of the desk. Her eyes peered out, watching every movement the leader took. Cassie shot a glance at the security door. Still closed. It didn’t look like it was the right time yet for Gregory to make his move. The leader looked in her direction. She twisted herself around, pressing her back up against the wall of the desk. Closing her eyes, she prayed he hadn’t seen her. A few moments passed and nothing happened. She released a sigh of relief.
“What are you waiting for, missy? I want these bags filled and ready in less than five minutes. You understand?”
Cassie snuck a glance over her shoulder to see the leader pacing along the teller stands. Sally was grabbing cash and flinging it into the bags as fast as she could. She breathed slowly, trying to keep her heart from racing. Easy girl, it’s almost time. Panic couldn’t cripple her right now. She had to keep a level head, because seconds later the shit was going to hit the fan.
Snick. Tim’s door shut.
“What in God’s name is going on here!”
The leader growled in irritation. Cassie edged to the left to keep Tim from seeing her. Tim flung his arms into the air as the leader forced his gun into Tim’s face. She could feel the fear coming off him and the others in the room. God, I hope this works.
“Apparently you missed one, boys!”
Tim whimpered as he was drug to the floor.
“If you move you die, understand?”
His words sent gooseflesh across her skin. This guy deserved to die. Cassie closed her eyes, taking a deep breath, then slowly raised herself up and waited for her cue. The security door was cracked open. Eyes peered out from the darkness. Any second now.
“Is there anyone else in this damn bank I should know about?” the leader yelled, slamming his fist down on the countertop in rage.
“Yeah, me!”
Gregory threw open the security door just like he had in her vision. He shot off two rounds, aimed at the leader. The leader jumped behind the safety of the teller stands. Cassie bit her lip with trepidation. Labored breathing followed as the leader stood up, shaking himself. His dark eyes glared at the door.
“What the hell are you waiting for, an invitation?” yelled the leader. “Shoot!”
Her shoulders scrunched as gunshots filled the room. Even though she knew he was okay, Cassie couldn’t help but fear for Gregory. Silence followed. The leader motioned towards the red-haired man. He broke from the group and slid inside the security room.
Silence followed. No one left the security room. The leader’s eyes darted right and left. His breathing became labored. The anticipation was killing him, and it was killing her, too. Now was the moment to act.
“I’ve had enough of this shit!” the leader yelled out.
Now! Cassie moved faster than she ever had in her life. His hand reached out to grab Tim. Cassie grabbed him by the wrist mid-swipe. He yelped out loud, wide eyed. She twisted his arm up around his back, snatching his gun. He grunted in pain.
“Where the hell did you come from?” he growled between gritted teeth.
The three remaining men looked in her direction. Cassie hid behind the leader, using him as a human shield.
“Drop your weapons!”
The men looked at each other. Something passed between their eyes. Then to her surprise, and the leader’s, they all raised their guns and aimed directly at her hostage. I can’t believe they would kill one of their own. Panic filled her as she waited for the right moment to take cover.
“Hey you dumbasses, don’t you even think about shooting!”
Cassie was hoping they would stand down, but she wasn’t so lucky.
She dropped to the floor and rolled back behind the desk, leaving the leader to fend for himself. He fell to the floor with a gunshot wound in his right shoulder. The three men went to take cover, but Gregory jumped out at that exact moment, taking one of the men down.
“Police! Hands in the air.”
Cassie turned toward the hallway to see Max emerging from the shadows. He jumped behind the teller stands using them for cover. The tallest of the men shot bullet after bullet at Max. Dammit, I will get my ass rung again if he gets hit. Without thinking Cassie flung herself over the top of the desk.
The man shooting at Max grabbed his chest and toppled over. Everything that happened afterwards was just a blur. Two men remained. One reached to grab the woman Cassie had recognized, but was taken back when her husband jumped up and slammed his fist into the side of his head. He threw his body down on top of the man, pinning him to the floor.
Cassie saw Max standing over the last man. Max had nailed him in the chest while he was distracted by the husband’s antics. Gregory stepped out from behind the teller stalls then made his way over to Sally and the girls. Slowly they took his hand and got off the floor. Tears fell freely from everyone in the room. I can’t believe we got out of this alive. Cassie glanced at Max, who looked her straight in the eye. Something dark flashed across his face.
“It’s over,” Gregory said, comforting Sally.
Sirens rang through the room. Police cars pulled up moments later and the doors flew open. The sergeant stomped in, taking in the scene. Worry filled his eyes. And was that relief she saw when he looked at her?
Thank you for reading chapter 4 of my Vortex Series: Book 1. Want to keep on reading? Click here for Chapter 5.
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Disclaimer: You are reading the first draft of this book. When the book is finished it will go through an extensive edit. It will also have a read through with my beta team. Then once completed ebook copies will get sent out to all members.
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Ducati Scrambler 1100 Makes Hollywood Debut In 'Venom'
The Ducati Scrambler 1100 has been shown in several scenes of the upcoming Hollywood film from Marvel Studios, 'Venom'.
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The Scrambler 1100 is ridden by actor Tom Hardy's character in the film
'Venom' trailer shows Ducati Scrambler 1100 in several scenes
The Ducati Scrambler 1100 will be launched in India in August 2018
In India, the Scrambler 1100 is expected to cost between Rs. 11-12 lakh
A Ducati Scrambler 1100 has been spotted in the trailer of the upcoming Hollywood film 'Venom' where actor Tom Hardy's character is shown riding the bike. Hardy's character Eddie Brock is seen riding what seems to be the new Ducati Scrambler 1100 in several scenes, as shown in the trailer of the upcoming film from Marvel. The film is expected to be released in October, and the Scrambler 1100 is expected to get significant screen presence, with the protagonist riding it in several scenes. In a spectacular scene shown in the trailer, Tom Hardy and the bike fly in mid-air and separate, before the rider and the bike land together.
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(The Ducati Scrambler 1100 is seen in several scenes in the film)
Watch the trailer of 'Venom' here:
The new Ducati Scrambler 1100 has already been spotted in India and is expected to be launched sometime in August 2018. The Scrambler 1100 will be the top-of-the-line model in the Scrambler family and will address a section of riders seeking a more performance oriented model in the Scrambler line-up. Globally, the Ducati Scrambler 1100 is available in three variants - the standard Scrambler 1100, Scrambler 1100 Special, and the Scrambler 1100 Sport. All three variants are expected to be offered on sale in India as well.
The Scrambler 1100 shares the engine with the Ducati Monster 1100. The 1,079 cc, L-twin has been tweaked for smoother fuelling and makes 85 bhp at 7,500 rpm and peak torque of 88 Nm at 4,750 rpm. The engine is mated to a six-speed transmission, and the Scrambler 1100 also gets a comprehensive electronics package, with three riding modes, and five-level traction control. Also standard is a slipper clutch and the bike also get an inertial measurement unit (IMU) which helps calculate lean angles and actuate the cornering anti-lock braking system. The throttle is ride-by-wire and the bike gets three riding modes - Active (with full power and direct throttle response), Touring (with full power and relaxed throttle response) and City (with power reduced to 75 bhp and muted throttle response). The Ducati Scrambler 1100 is expected to be priced between ₹ 11 - 12 lakh (ex-showroom) once it's launched in India.
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Movie of the Week Reviews
MOVIE OF THE WEEK July 20, 2018: 93Queen
July 15, 2018 September 12, 2018 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments anne brodie, betsy bozdech, borouch park, brooklyn, Cate Marquis, esther iverem, Ezras Nashim, hasidic community, hatsolah, jennifer merin, kristen page kirby, Marilyn Ferdinand., maryann johanson, nikki baughan, Pam Grady, rachel ruchie freier
If there’s one thing you’ll take away from watching “93Queen,” it’s likely to be this: You do NOT want to get in Rachel Ruchie Freier’s way. Paula Eiselt’s debut documentary follows this tenacious, dynamic woman — and those she rallies to her cause — as she launches the first all-female ambulance service in New York to serve the women of the Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The result is both a compelling glimpse inside an insular community and a fascinating portrait of a determined feminist.
As a traditional orthodox community, the Borough Park Hasids have strict rules about gender roles and interactions. That can lead to issues when women, who aren’t allowed to be touched by men they’re not married or related to, have emergency OBGYN needs and only male emergency medical workers (in the form of the impressive-but-male-only Hatzolah ambulance corps) are available. Enter the Ezras Nashim, a woman-organized and -staffed group of volunteer EMTs.
Freier doesn’t let anything stop her from reaching her goal of getting Ezras Nashim off the ground. Not frequent, vocal, personal pushback from the community’s more traditional members. Not disagreements within the group of women who are working with her. Not even wrong turns when she’s driving the ambulance to her first real call. Luckily, she has plenty of support to help her realize her dream — including her (comparatively) enlightened husband and many other Borough Park women who love the idea of women helping women.
Freier’s version of feminism isn’t perfect; she’s not exactly intersectional, and her own tradition-based biases limit other women’s opportunities (she flat-out refuses to allow single women to participate in Ezras Nashim). But for Borough Park, she’s basically Susan B. Anthony. And, as a result, her struggles and triumphs feel all the more significant. — Betsy Bozdech
Team #MOTW’s comments:
MaryAnn Johanson Director Paula Eiselt has found a terrific story for her debut documentary, one that speaks to the almost impossible barriers that so many women, in communities, face as we try to live our best lives. Her protagonist, Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, may actively dismiss the notion that she is in any way a feminist, but her work and her ambitions — to be taken seriously for her mind, to help other women whose needs aren’t given due consideration in her ultraconservative culture — are the epitome of feminism. She’s a true heroine. Read full review.
Nikki Baughan: “Fasten your seat belt and let’s move,” says Hasidic Jewish woman Rachel ‘Ruchie’ Freier early on in 93Queen, and you’d be wise to follow her advice. The subject of Paula Eislet’s fascinating documentary is a one-woman dynamo, a fiercely religious Jewish wife and mother who also happens to be a lawyer who dreams of becoming a civil court judge. Ruchie is determined to set up an all-female group of volunteer EMT’s, named ‘Ezras Nashim’ (Women For Women) to serve Brooklyn’s closeted Hasidic Borough Park community after the all-male force, Hatzolah, refused to allow women to join. Read full review.
Sandie Angulo Chen: You don’t need to know your fleishig from your milchig to enjoy director Paula Eiselt’s documentary about a small group of pioneering Hasidic women who form a “by women for women” volunteer EMT corps as an alternative to the all-male run Hatzolah. The film focuses on affluent mother of six Ruchie Freier, who already bucks tradition by being a practicing attorney in an ultra-orthodox community that doesn’t value women’s education or work beyond the domestic sphere. She is the leader of the women who want to be EMTs but were denied the chance to be a subgroup of Hatzolah. Through interviews with Ruchie and other women in Ezras Nashim, (which means “helping women”), it’s clear just how much opposition they face not only from the powerful Hatzolah men but also from the overall Hasidic community, where feminism is a dirty word. Read full review.
Marilyn Ferdinand: “The wisdom of the market” was a phrase that came to mind as I watched 93Queen. Simply put, this phrase directs entrepreneurs to look for opportunities to fulfill unmet needs, confident in the belief that consumers in that particular market will respond positively. The market orthodox Jewish director Paula Eiselt examines in her first feature documentary comprises Hasidic women in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in need of an emergency medical service that respects their religious belief that only their husbands may touch or see their bodies. The entrepreneurs are dynamo Jewish lawyer, wife, and mother Rachel “Ruchie” Freier and other like-minded Hasidic women who challenge the neighborhood’s all-male volunteer service by trying to start up an all-female counterpart. The results, predictably, show that there is nothing truly free about the free market and that women with a common-sense idea that all Orthodox Jews should embrace find that patriarchy is the stronger of the two beliefs. This terrific film, a warts-and-all look at a community coming to grips with change, is entertaining, suspenseful, joyful, and infuriating in equal measure. Try it. You’ll like it.
Susan Wloszczyna: As documentaries go, 93Queen might be constricted in its scope as it details the recent creation of an all-female Hasidic EMT corps of volunteers that serves the male-dominated ultraorthodox Jewish community of Borough Park, Brooklyn. Given how women followers must steadfastly maintain their modesty to the point where showing their bare legs to a man other than their husband is forbidden, it didn’t make sense that an all-male medical emergency squad known as Hatzolah was the only option to handle calls involving births, miscarriages and other indelicate body-exposing medical situations. Continue reading…
Anne Brodie: The amazing story of Rachel Freire illustrates the old saw “you can do anything you put your mind to”. Paula Eiselt’s documentary 93Queen follows the turbulent journey an upper middle class Hasidic Jewish lawyer with an ambitious plan to create a specialized ambulance service for the community. Here’s the catch. The setting is Borough Park, Brooklyn, the largest density of Orthodox Jews in the US. The usual model for the Hasidic woman is to raise children and run the home and to step out to work and aspire to become a business owner is to defy the Torah. Plus there is a Hasidic Jewish ambulance service, all male. Her point is that Orthodox women cannot touch a man outside her immediate family, which raises problems if a woman needs an ambulance. Brilliant idea. However, community backlash is swift and subtle, and not so subtle. Men make prank calls to the hotline, abuse her verbally and online. Her service, Ezrus Nashim ‘helping women’ with 50 members, is a success from day one – and she wore her high heels to the first call! It’s a reality. Freire furthers infuriates the elders when she runs for civil court judge – “It’s not modest” – and wins, becoming the first ever female Hasidic Jewish judge in the US. It’s a great story – but overshadowed by blatant sexism. After all, she’s not modest. She’s too busy saving lives.
Jennifer Merin 93QUEEN, filmmaker Paula Eiselt’s first feature, takes us into the closed Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn, where orthodox tradition preserves a wide divide between women and men. Women are expected to live life as homemakers and mothers. They are not allowed to touch or be touched by men who are not their husbands. Strictly observed,that custom presents a real problem when it comes to emergency medical care — especially when the emergency has to do with an ob-gyn issue such as childbirth. Although the Hasidic enclave is home to Hatzolah, the world’s largest volunteer ambulance corps, that esteemed organization has banned women from its ranks. So, a tenacious group of women have formed Ezras Nashim, the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in the US, to serve and transport women who do not wish to be touched by men who are not their husbands. 93QUEEN is the story of these women. The documentary’s central character is Ezras Nashim founder Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, a Hasidic lawyer-turned-Judge who has clearly challenged the patriarchy and is determined to provide dignified emergency medical care to Hasidic women of her community. Ruchie is quite a character!
Kristen Page Kirby: The old saw about Ginger Roberts and Fred Astaire applies to 93Queen, though instead of dancing, Rachel Freier and her all-woman Hasidic ambulance squad are not only doing “men’s work” in heels, they’re doing it in skirts, pantyhose, long-sleeved blouses and wigs. It would be easy to dismiss 93Queen as a typical woman-against-the-world documentary — albeit a fascinating woman in a unique section of the world — and the movie does that well. But as Freier presses forward with her vision for Ezras Nashim, the questions she and the film wrestle with get deeper and more complicated. It’s easy for non-Hasidic viewers to understand why Ezras Nashim is necessary and beneficial to the community, and why the rules and traditions they face are wrong when viewed through the light of the mainstream world. It’s when Freier and the rest of the squad start imposing other rules — particularly the one that single women can drive and dispatch, but not serve in a medical capacity — that the viewers have to ask themselves how Freier bristles against some obstacles while putting in place obstacles that don’t affect her. Is it really a victory for women if the victory doesn’t benefit all women — and when the limits of that victory are placed by the women who won?
Esther Iverem: 93Queen gives rare insight into the Intertwined issues of religion, feminism and anti-woman ideology in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jewish community. As this documentary follows its brave protagonist in her quest to establish an all-woman’s volunteer EMT service, the filmmakers are unflinching in how they capture the competition between personal ambition and group bias, and the claim for who has God’s blessing.
Pam Grady: Technical aspects are sometimes rocky in this documentary about women attempting to start an all-female EMT service in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn community, but the content is engrossing. Most of the film’s focus is on Ruchie Frier, a mother of six whose freezer is filled with her homemade challah. But she is also someone who got her law degree at 40 and aspires to become a judge who is now pouring her considerable energy into making the ambulance service a reality — and becoming a lightning rod for controversy in what is a deeply conservative patriarchy. What unfolds is a deeply affecting portrait of a woman who is observant in her faith, yet determined to challenged its strictures from within to the benefit of all the women in her community.
Cate Marquis Documentary filmmaker Paula Eiselt brings us an inspiring story of women helping women in 93Queen. A group of women in a Brooklyn Hasidic community see a need for an ambulance service to help women in their community, a service they dub Ezras Nashim (“Helping Women”). Read full review.
FILM DETAILS:
Title: 93Queen
Directors: Paula Eiselt
Language: English, some Hebrew and Yiddish with subtitles
Screenwriter: Paula Eiselt (documentary)
Distribution Company: Abramorama, PBS
AWFJ Movie of the Week Panel Members: Sandie Angulo Chen, Nikki Baughan, Anne Brodie, Betsy Bozdech, Marilyn Ferinand, Pam Grady, Esther Iverem, MaryAnn Johanson, Cate Marquis, Jennifer Merin, Nell Minow, Kristen Page-Kirby, Liz Whittemore, Susan Wloszczyna, Jeanne Wolf
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Jennifer Merin
Jennifer Merin is the Film Critic for Womens eNews and contributes the CINEMA CITIZEN blog for and is managing editor for Women on Film, the online magazine of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, of which she is President. She has served as a regular critic and film-related interviewer for The New York Press and About.com. She has written about entertainment for USA Today, The L.A. Times, US Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Endless Vacation Magazine, Daily News, New York Post, SoHo News and other publications. After receiving her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts (Grad Acting), Jennifer performed at the O'Neill Theater Center's Playwrights Conference, Long Wharf Theater, American Place Theatre and LaMamma, where she worked with renown Japanese director, Shuji Terayama. She subsequently joined Terayama's theater company in Tokyo, where she also acted in films. Her journalism career began when she was asked to write about Terayama for The Drama Review. She became a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor after writing an article about Marketta Kimbrell's Theater For The Forgotten, with which she was performing at the time. She was an O'Neill Theater Center National Critics' Institute Fellow, and then became the institute's Coordinator. While teaching at the Universities of Wisconsin and Rhode Island, she wrote "A Directory of Festivals of Theater, Dance and Folklore Around the World," published by the International Theater Institute. Denmark's Odin Teatret's director, Eugenio Barba, wrote his manifesto in the form of a letter to "Dear Jennifer Merin," which has been published around the world, in languages as diverse as Farsi and Romanian. Jennifer's culturally-oriented travel column began in the LA Times in 1984, then moved to The Associated Press, LA Times Syndicate, Tribune Media, Creators Syndicate and (currently) Arcamax Publishing. She's been news writer/editor for ABC Radio Networks, on-air reporter for NBC, CBS Radio and, currently, for Westwood One's America In the Morning. She is also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. For her AWFJ archive, type "Jennifer Merin" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).
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Tag Archives: isdn
Reader, Tamia Boyden asks this question:
In the 90s, how could we access the internet without WiFi?
In the process of responding to a reader, we have compiled a short history of public and residential Internet access. Whether you lived through this fascinating period of social and technical upheaval or simply want to explore the roots of a booming social phenomenon, I hope that you find the timeline and evolution as interesting as I do.
Before answering Tamia’s question, let’s review a snapshot of the highlights. This short bullet-list focuses on technical milestones, but the history below, explains the context, social phenomenon and implications.
Short Version:
• 1965 Hypertext link described
• 1970s TCP/IP packet protocol
• 1983 TCP adopted by Arpanet
• 1989~91 Http protocol
• 1991 Public access begins
• 1995 Netscape Mozilla unveiled.
World’s first web browser
Question: In the 1990s, how could we access the internet without WiFi?
We didn’t need WiFI in the 1990s and we don’t need it now. In both era’s, you can simply attach your PC to the internet with a network cable. If your PC does not have an Ethernet port, you can add a miniature USB-Ethernet adapter. They are inexpensive.
Likewise, before internet service was available to almost every home and business, you could access the internet via telephone modem, or by visiting a library, internet cafe or office that had a leased line for fast access.*
In each case, adoption goes hand in hand with infrastructure build-out, cost reduction and (in the case of WiFi), the desire to move about the home or community more freely.
* Ellery’s brief history of Public Internet Access
1965: The concept of “hypertext” and clickable “links”. But demonstrations were limited to a single computer or a local network. The first mouse was patented in 1967. But for the next 15 years, few people used a mouse or pointing device.
1970s: The Internet and its predecessor, the Arpanet, was a constellation of networked terminal access tools that connected universities and research labs. Finding material and accessing it required command line jargon that limited its use. You could access the web and most standards were in place—but there was no universal browser that incorporated hypertext links.
1983: Apple introduces the Lisa (predecessor to the Macintosh). It included a mouse, which most people had never used before. Not to be outdone, Microsoft offered an aftermarket Mouse for $195 which came bundled with Word and Notepad.
1991: The public gained access in 1991 after Tim Berners-Lee, posted a summary of the project and the http standard that he pioneered.
1995: Netscape introduces Mozilla (later renamed Netscape browser). It kicked off a gradual migration of data from FTP and Usenet servers to web pages (http protocol) and an explosion in services and subscribers.
Final Impediments to Adoption: Complexity & Connection infrastructure
In-home use still required special equipment (a telephone modem) and applications had to be installed from a CD or multiple floppy discs. These apps modified the operating system by adding a TCP stack and a Windows Socket API. Prior to these things being bundled into new PCs, the process was a daunting. And so, for the next 10 years, many people accessed the internet from Internet cafes, schools or libraries.
1999: The WiFi standard was introduced in 1997. But it had technical limitations that limited its appeal. In 1997, 802.11b, the first widely used and supported WiFi standard, brought the freedom of movement into homes. This occurred at around the same time that many people were moving from a desktop or tower computer to a laptop.
WiFi-b and later g and n helped to propel convenient Internet access from anywhere within a home. Over the next decade, consumers came to expect an available WiFi signal in offices, schools, restaurants, hotels and airports.
2003: Rise of Social Media
Myspace wasn’t the first social media platform. Friendster beat it out by almost a year. But Myspace was the first to go viral and nationwide among many demographics. Along with Facebook—which eclipsed Myspace in subscriber growth—social media platforms turned many infrequent users into constantly-connected consumers.
Friendster March 2002
MySpace August 2003
Facebook February 2004
Twitter March 2006
2007: Apple and AT&T introduced the iPhone in the summer. Prior to 2007, flip phones offered web access via a crude browser built into Symbian or Palm, the OS used by Nokia, Motorola Palm Pilot and others. But the iPhone kicked off the Smart Phone, a new category of must have consumer gadgets. It propelled ubiquitous, mobile internet access.
Gradually, the Internet become a mass market phenomenon. But slow connection speeds and the need to suspend telephone calls limited its use. Between 1978 and 1996, telephone modems gradually improved technology from 300 bps to 56,000 Baud (access at ~25 kbps).
After 1996, consumers gradually switched away from using their telephone lines to a dedicated internet service. Homes connect to an ISP (Internet Service Provider) via either existing phone wire (ISDN), TV cables, Fiberoptic or Wireless-to-home.
Today (2019), it is not uncommon to have residential internet access via a Gigabit fiberoptic connection.
— Image credit: 1) Malone Media Group 2) Chris Galloway
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2019.08.24 @ 05:12
What’s Happening? #30
Events, General, Worldwide 2020, crunchyroll expo 2019, MADKID FC, my own way, new divide, one-man live
As of this writing, we now have seven days left until MADKID’s debut performance outside of Japan at the Crunchyroll Expo 2019. Some of you reading this may be wondering if I’m super duper excited for this moment to come, being both as an Axcel of over a year and as (probably) the only active Axcel who is also a local. To be honest with you all, I am both excited and nervous at the same time. I mean after all, even though I may be one person, but as one of the few Axcels representing the U.S., especially with the state of California, I don’t want to end up being a disappointment to the boys and to the Japanese Axcels who will be flying out here. Still, I also want this event to be a memorable one for all of us, even if it’s just one day.
But first things first. This 30th What’s Happening? post isn’t about CRX. I’ve written about that a lot already in the past. I will be writing about CRX again right after the actual event. And then, there are other things as well.
MADKID 5th One-Man Live: New Divide
This explains why the boys have new profile pics. It was actually expected that something new will be announced in lieu of these new concept pics. It was either going to be a new single, new album, or a new live tour. Rather, we get a one-location one-man live known as New Divide. It was announced yesterday of this upcoming solo live event with (hopefully) new tracks and probably other surprises that we might not expect.
The following information is as follows:
MADKID One-Man Live: New Divide
Shibuya WWW X
7:30 p.m. JST
FC 1 first dibs on ticket sales open at September 23, 2019 (JST).
If you want to see the original tweet, here it is (along with the promo video):
2020.02.06ワンマンライブ決定🔥
【New Divide】
18:45 OPEN / 19:30 START
チケットFC先行発売決定‼️
(９/23までにご入会の方)
詳しくはHPでご確認ください。https://t.co/g1VEgZBfCR
FCでしか聞けない新曲も随時発表‼️https://t.co/0IDxMvJWZb pic.twitter.com/zBW8Xp6TlW
— MADKID OFFICIAL (@MADKID_official) August 23, 2019
That background music in the promo video is…?
As you know, the background music playing in the background is definitely new music. But it’s not the official new single 2 since their first album release CIRCUS. Still, you get a chance to listen to this song in full…
… if you are an FC member, that is.
This new limited single you’re hearing in the background is called My Own Way, another rock joint the boys produced since RISE and FAITH. Even if you’re lucky to be an FC member, you can’t exactly download the actual track, as it is in lyric video format. 3 Now, speaking as a techie, there is a way of extracting the audio from that lyric video and make it as your own single and listening to it in your own personal playlist, but for the sake of your privileges as a member, please don’t do it.
I have listened to the song and it is yet another uplifting song of encouragement depicting the power of independence and individuality. This song theme has been common and more well-known for MADKID as that is what they represent in the first place. I’ll be listening to it when I need some personal encouragement for the things I really need encouragement on, but otherwise, that’s it.
I wouldn’t worry and pout about this being an FC-only release. We still got the “BER” 4 months and January 2020 for any more upcoming news and releases from the guys. But, in the meantime, please do consider joining the FC.
Speaking of the FC…
Updates on the FC Site Renewal
Speaking as a web dev, I didn’t expect for the FC site devs to run into various problems during their migration and revamping. However, once most of it is up and visible, well…
Throughout Twitter, I’ve seen fellow (Japanese) Axcels having problems with logging in. Many of them somehow got error messages stating their memberships have expired, even though they recently renewed them. There are others 5 who just can’t log in at all, even if the FC staff emailed them directly of their new username and password.
Because of this, a lot of fans missed out on the FC-only events that were announced, such as the September Axcel Meeting and this:
https://twitter.com/axceltweets/status/1162293718428217344?s=20
Right, I’m not going to go into detail about that one. But earlier this week, I’ve gotten back and forth with the FC staff regarding the login issue. I’m not going to go into detail with this one on this post or even here on this site because I’ve got a lot to say, speaking as a dev, rather as a fan. I’ll be writing about that in a site study on my tech blog.
It’s a very short entry! 😂
I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one noticing this, but has anyone noticed MADKID slowed down and went low-key since their first six months of 2019? As they say, good things do come to those who wait, and even though waiting sucks, that’s the only thing we can do right now.
Sometimes, it’s hard to hype up a group so good to the general public 6 when you got not-so-new things to introduce and show off. But, if we’re going to hype up MADKID to the general social media world, today and anytime after today is the best time.
Closing out this entry, I won’t be writing anything else on this site until after CRX. Instead, catch me on Twitter for any quick updates during CRX. I still have to build up an itinerary for myself and for friends arriving here, so I’ll be focusing more on the event next week.
Till next time, Axcels!
or what K-Pop fans call a “comeback” single…
Meaning there’s also no MV (music video) on this song either.
SeptemBER, OctoBER, NovemBER, DecemBER
Unfortunately, I am a victim of this as well…
At least with other J-Pop fans
I hail from the East Bay side of the SF Bay area building internet stuff, documenting stuff I build, and sharing my love for them to others for a living. Sort of. I've been an AXCEL since April Fool's Day 2018 and built AXCEL STYLE to show my love and appreciation for MADKID. In my spare time, I like to listen to music, indulge in good food, writing stories, photography, sketch art, read books, and travel. [Twitter // IG]
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Lolita in the Lion’s Den
By Justin Forest · August 23, 2014 · 1 Comment
The Baltimore Post-Examiner is proud to present an excerpt from Justin Forest’s first novel, Loilita in the Lion’s Den.
Forest, who has five college degrees, including a MLSt in taboo studies and a PhD in literature and criticism worked as an English professor for more than a decade, Forest has edited various academic journals and published poetry and fiction. Previously, Forest compiled information for the United Nations on the anti-child sex trafficking movement and has since transitioned to a sexuality researcher and member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He now teaches themes of girlhood and sexuality and also acts as a supporting member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Forest currently lives in the United States with his wife and children.
A young man must overcome a horrific past in order to release his inner demons in Justin Forest’s shocking new novel, Lolita in the Lion’s Den or Pre-Tween Juxtaposition.
Glen has fought for years to escape a brutal home life, one in which he acts as his mother’s only friend and to accept that his father has been molesting his sister for over a decade.
But after dropping out of high school and spending years working aimless jobs, Glen finally turns a new chapter when he enters the thrill of college life.
But with that freedom comes disturbing sexual desires and inclinations. Having become increasingly reliant on his own fantasy world, Glen soon finds himself mired in the world of adult pornography and struggling with his attraction to both women and girls.
Haunted by the damage his father’s actions wrought on his family and other victims, Glen must come to terms with his admiration for the exact thing his father so actively destroyed.
More relevant than ever in today’s hypersexualized world, Lolita in the Lion’s Den or Pre-Tween Juxtaposition is an emotionally provocative read that gets to the heart of some of society’s most pressing issues.
Please purchase the book here.
Lolita in the Lion’s Den (Excerpt)
Two or three years later, I continued to defend the helpless room and the family German Shepherd—who was eight years old—from the running dishwasher. It made a screaming sound as if angry it was summoned to work. I was so carried away that I rolled over the Shepherd’s foot with my steel Tonka dump truck. This made me at eye-level with Shepherd, and the dog’s look was forever etched in my memory. The wolf’s brown eyes glared at me with pain and anger, and as small as I was, I was scared of him. I understood the dog’s message:
“I really want to kill you.”
But then something amazing happened: the dog decided to endure. I would be bit in the face by two Shepherds during my youth, but not this one.
Shortly after, I forgot all about the incident and went on to rescue the cows across the street from the mean bull, zapping him with webs from my wrists. After I finished rescuing the world, I went back in my bed and pretended to be a good little boy. As is often the case with children, Mommy never knew of my indiscretions.
Often, Dad’s return home would lead to hell, but for some reason I always looked forward to Dad coming home. I always hoped for a sign of love but usually my brother would get a dry kiss on the head and my sister would stand looking on from a corner; kisses were given out of parental obligation, not of love. Kerry, my sister, was tense and sad and always distant from him, but when she was younger, she was just a little Toddler in Tiara—showing off for Dad. My brother, Tom, would cringe when Dad kissed him, partly out of the child’s anger that Dad didn’t pay attention to him, and partly because he hated the father he wished to love.
That week, a day after I rolled over the Shepherd’s foot, my mother let the dog loose outside. It was western New York, where nothing ever happens except inside people’s homes. Shepherd was intensely nasty to strangers and, like most German Shepherds, he had only one master.
He loved Mom because she loved him, and when she would leave for work that dog would sit in front of our glass doors and wait eight or nine hours for her to come home. That’s why Americans like dogs; they are the perfect slaves. Cats are hated, especially by men, because they don’t take shit. In a way, they represent liberated women. That’s why men want to hurt and kill them in the worst way. But that day, Shepherd decided to liberate himself from my oppressive father and from life. There were people walking down the road and Shepherd took after them in a nasty rage. But like a true obedient slave, he listened to my mom’s call and turned back around. The dog’s rage put my father into his own rage and he chose to slap that dog across the nose.
For eight years that animal put up with my father’s fits. He shivered as did all our dogs; he was hit and abused, but he took it. He took it for Mom. Even after his stroke, Shepherd still took it, but as we found out, the dog’s capacity for servitude would dry up. No more!
In one swift action, Shepherd knocked Father to the ground, chewed up his side and went in for the kill. With jaws snapping and spit spraying everywhere, he came within an inch of Dad’s throat, but suddenly he was held back. There was my one-hundred-pound mother holding Shepherd back by his tale. Till this day, I wished my mom would have let go. That would be good, pure, ethical and moral justice.
But she did not.
All I heard was what sounded like a large vacuum sucking up water, and my mom screaming, “Shepherd! Shepherd! No! Stop it! My dad came in whimpering. “That bastard!”
Dad had bloody teeth marks in his side and a mark on his throat. I remember thinking, “Why isn’t he bleeding more?” But I was too afraid to say anything.
Shepherd did what any soldier who lost it just a moment ago would do: he tried to carry on like normal. He sat on the lawn and chewed on his favorite Folgers coffee can.
There is only one thing to do with a dog that attacked someone, and that is to kill him. Mom took us kids, all sobbing, and our two other dogs into our bedroom, stacked the chests up against the window to protect us from ricocheting bullets, and told us to cover our ears. Dad took his fourteen-gage shotgun, pointed it out the dining room window, and fired three shots. The gun only held two rounds. He needed to reload. We heard the first shot. “BOOM!”
The violent sound forced my eyes upon my trembling sister; her glistening tears answered back in a traumatic affirmative, forcing mine closed again. Then we heard the dog squeal like a hurt rabbit. My heart stopped and even now the squeal is always behind every thought and memory. Then two more shots came, the second, silence, a third, silence.
And then I felt the dead of peace that follows horror. We heard Father drop the gun. He began crying like a child. That’s the only time he ever cried like that. It was over and now the pain would begin, just like it feels the moment after serious impact. Despite my anger for him, that had to be the hardest thing my dad ever had to do. Shepherd used to follow him around when he cut the grass, rolling around his favorite pet rock, just like a small child.
While my parents were at the hospital, we went out and looked at Shepherd. There he lay, peaceful but spread out, as if running desperately to heaven with his can next to his paws. I didn’t see any blood.
No child that age can process death or tragedy, not well anyway, but I know now that it traumatized me. I could save him from the dishwasher but not from Dad. I guess I was slightly “out of whack.” I could always play the hero but only watch those I loved disintegrate in front of me.
Within a twenty-four hour period, the dog had two choices, and he took the right one: to stand up against tyranny even though it cost him his life.
Justin Forest has five college degrees, including a MLSt in taboo studies and a PhD in literature and criticism. While working as an English professor for over a decade, Forest has edited various academic journals and published poetry and fiction. He now teaches themes of girlhood and sexuality and also acts as a supporting member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. His first novel Lolita in the Lion's Den is a riveting coming of age tale about a young man who must overcome a horrific past in order to release his inner demons. For more information, visit: www.lolitalion.com Contact the author.
A Nephew’s Hug
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Blame my 4-year hiatus of jumping trains on global warming but I’m back
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I have always been frightened by math. 8,473 km, 5,264.878 miles between Amazon rain forests, Greenland ice sheets. 150 acres Amazon forest lost every minute, 78 million acres lost every year. 11
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Recent losses by Sanders supporters show Democratic voters are moving to the center
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at the "Come Together and Fight Back" Democratic Party rally at Verizon Center on April 20, 2017 in Grand Prairie, Texas.
By Carl P. Leubsdorf, The Dallas Morning News • June 30, 2017 10:03 am
Updated: July 2, 2017 3:14 pm
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is back at the same old stand, railing against Republican health care proposals before cheering crowds and television audiences. But beyond the attention and the adulation, the fiery Vermont independent has been encountering resistance from the voters.
Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, Sanders has compiled an even worse electoral record than House Democrats have in losing four of five special congressional elections. And now he faces a potential legal problem in his home state of Vermont.
Sanders supporters lost three special congressional elections, in California, Kansas and Montana. Backers of his 2016 insurgency lost heated fights to chair the national and California Democratic parties. And so did Tom Perriello, for whom Sanders campaigned in Virginia’s high-profile Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Besides, Sanders was hardly helpful in the Georgia congressional race, giving Democrat Jon Ossoff a halfhearted endorsement after complaining he was insufficiently progressive. His only victories have been in scattered local contests.
The irony is that, at a time Democratic grass-roots are aflame with desire for even stronger stands against Trump, Democratic voters may be confirming the more centrist course they took in rejecting Sanders for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In so doing, they may be sending a positive signal for the future, since the last thing Democrats probably need is to veer too sharply left to counter Trump’s extreme turn to the right.
And while Sanders and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren have advocated a more reflexively ideological course, two Clinton White House veterans, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed, are arguing persuasively that a more pragmatic response would help Democrats repeat their 2006 success of retaking the House during a Republican presidency.
Democrats, they wrote in The Atlantic, must not only pick their fights carefully, “they also need to choose credible candidates who can win them.” That means “candidates who closely match their districts — even if they don’t perfectly align with the national party’s activist base.”
Some such candidates may face liberal challengers. For example, some activists have talked of primary contests against U.S. Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Manchin of West Virginia on grounds they are insufficiently liberal, though a more liberal candidate would likely have less chance of winning their relatively conservative states.
As for himself, Sanders has foresworn any talk now of a 2020 presidential rerun, when he will become 79. No serious rival has yet emerged to his 2018 re-election in Vermont. But he faces possible home-state problems stemming from a simmering investigation of his wife Jane’s management of the college she once ran.
According to the independent VTDigger, the FBI is looking into allegations initially made by a top Vermont Republican that Sanders’ office pressured a local bank into granting a $6.7 million loan for Burlington College to purchase a lakefront campus. The paper said three donors said their pledges were misrepresented in the loan documents; the college closed in 2016 with officials citing its debt from the land purchase.
Sanders told Burlington, Vermont, television station WCAX last month that any suggestion his office applied pressure was “nonsense” and has repeatedly said the investigation was “initiated by Donald Trump’s campaign manager,” a reference to attorney Brady Toensing, vice chair of the state Republican Party.
When CNN’s Erin Burnett raised it Tuesday night, Sanders declined to discuss details, angrily defending his wife as “about the most honest person I know” and adding, “When they go after your wife, people’s wives, that is pretty pathetic.” VTDigger and Politico reported Bernie and Jane Sanders have hired two attorneys to represent them in the probe.
The FBI probe could have additional political fallout for Sanders. His office declined to say if his wife’s financial dealings were one reason he has been so reluctant to issue his annual tax returns. That had little impact in 2016 but could become a bigger issue if he runs again, especially if Trump continues to withhold his tax returns. Sanders released a summary of his 2014 return but never fulfilled a promise to issue his 2015 return.
And pending California legislation would require candidates to release tax returns for the five most recent years to qualify for the presidential primary ballot.
Meanwhile, Sanders continues to expand his political efforts, adding a think tank called The Sanders Institute to the political organization Our Revolution. Both are headed by Sanders loyalists from his 2016 campaign.
But his ultimate success will depend on being able to persuade Democratic voters. That’s a fight he lost in 2016 and one where he is still encountering some resistance.
Carl P. Leubsdorf is the former Washington bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News.
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Christian Wood with an Elevated Performance after Christmas
December 27, 2019 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 58 Comments
While Christmas has morphed into a commercialized phenomenon, let us not forget why we engorge in capitalistic orgies because of it. Christmas is the day that Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ; the son of God, the final piece of the Holy Triumvirate, the One who died for our sins so that we may experience salvation. To say that He is an important figure in history is an understatement. So, it is only fitting that on the day after Christmas, a Christian would ball out and be the lede of this post. And it makes sense that such an elevating performance would be delivered from a player named Wood because who doesn’t like elevated Wood. Anyways, Christian Wood delivered:
PTS REB AST STL BLK TOV 3PT FG FT
22 7 3 0 1 3 2/4 7/9 6/6
In 24 minutes off the bench. Now, the Pistons….POOF….made the Wizards disappear, 132-102 last night. As a result, Wood received more run than normal. On the season, he’s averaging 15.3 minutes per game, which is a shame because he balls out when he’s on the court. Maybe this Wood cannot perform for extended periods of time. I kid, I kid. Beep. Boop. Bop. You know what performs 24/7? The Stocktonator. The reason why Wood has been passed around more times than a blunt in a cypher (he’s played for five teams in five years) is because of immaturity and a lack of professionalism off the court. So far this season, Coach Casey has brought him along slowly and made him earn everything. Wood can score, provide tres, grabs boards, contribute defensive stats, and shoot efficiently from the field. Back on December 1st, Wood scored 28 points, grabbed 10 boards, dished out 2 dimes, blocked 1, and stole 1 in 22 minutes!!! That’s the kind of upside we are talking about here. There’s a chance Wood can carve out a more substantial role as the season progresses. For now, he can’t be counted on but make preparations for when that time comes. Sort of like how the celebration of Christmas has evolved over the years. First, it was just about one day a year. Now, it’s something that people begin preparing for right after Thanksgiving.
Jordan Goes On a Scoring Binge
No, not Michael. That would be weird and unbelieveable at the same time. Did he travel in time? Or did he sell his shares in the Hornets, pass through waivers, and get signed by an NBA team? He is 56 years old, so it would be quite the feat if he was able to ball in today’s NBA, and go on a scoring binge no less. Vince Carter is 42 years old and still playing, so anything is possible. Plus, if there was one guy who could pull off the feat, Michael Jordan would have to be at the top of the list. That would be one helluva 30 for 30. But alas, Michael is not the Jordan that I’m talking about. That would be Jordan Clarkson of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who went 30 in 30 last night:
33 6 1 0 1 1 6/8 12/17 3/5
In 30 minutes! Jordan gets buckets. How could he not? In five of six NBA seasons, Jordan has scored at least 30 points in one game. Unfortunately, he’s inconsistent and has never averaged more than 17 points per game. Plus, his last name is Clarkson. Ok, 17 points ain’t bad, as De’Aaron Fox averaged 17.3 points per game last season, which was good for 44th in the NBA. Clarkson just doesn’t do much else, which crimps his overall fantasy value. On the season, he’s a top 140 player.
Buy/Sell: Jumping Fox
December 18, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Buy/Sell | 2 Comments
by: Kostas
The NBA has given us many highlights throughout the years, with most of them ending with a made basket. Dunks, buzzer beaters, assists, triples, you name it. But every once in a while, we are presented with something different that wows us and reminds everyone about how freakishly athletic NBA players are. Something like what De’Aaron Fox did yesterday against the Charlotte Hornets.
Mind you, he did that in his first game back after a Grade 3 ankle sprain, while Devonte’ Graham’s reaction is priceless, when he realizes Fox went over him. It’s also a weird call for the referees, as I’m sure they don’t often see a player go over another without making any contact whatsoever.
Regarding last week’s suggestions, Garrett Temple and Kevin Huerter had useful weeks, with the latter having the brighter outlook for the rest of the season. On a side note, his spike in assists seem like the real deal and hopefully he keeps them coming. Furthermore, Ish Smith’s value will take a hit with Isaiah Thomas back, but he was more than serviceable during the period he started, while Monte Morris never got his chance as Jamal Murray’s injury proved minor. I had Russell Westbrook in the “Sell” column last week and I still maintain this opinion, despite his awesome performances as of late. Cash out while you still can!!
Fantasy Basketball: Power Forwards
October 14, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Basketball, Power Forwards, Rankings | 33 Comments
I now understand why this forward position is named power, as it is a microcosm of society at large. There is the 1% vs everyone else. For fantasy basketball, there is Giannis Antetokounmpo vs womp womp womp. While all the other positions have multiple players who could legitimately vie for the top spot, everyone bends the knee to G. This is 1985-1989 Mike Tyson-esque domination. Could a Buster Douglas come out of nowhere? Sure, as black swan events can never be discounted, but outside of injury to G, that scenario is highly unlikely.
Fantasy Basketball: Top 150 for 2019
September 2, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Basketball, Rankings, Top 150 | 14 Comments
We halfway home. Woo hoo! Take me home, country roads. To the Old Town Road? You want to hear how washed I am? I didn’t know about that song until the young 20-something-girl who takes care of a kid at my son’s school told me about it. When she played it to me, I asked, […]
Fantasy Basketball: Sacramento Kings Preview
August 20, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Basketball, Sacramento Kings, Team Previews |
by: Hampton Kid
KANGS No more!!!
Is Cory Joseph an upgrade over Frank Mason? Are Harrison Barnes and Trevor Ariza a better SF combo than Iman Shumpert and Ben McLemore? Is Dewayne Dedmon and Richaun Holmes a better big man combo than Willie Cauley-Stein and Kostas Koufas? Is Luke Walton an upgrade at coach over Dave Joerger?
If you answered yes to at least three of the above questions, then the Kings will improve on last year’s 9th place finish in the Western Conference.
The Kings were fast, exciting, competitive, and really fun to watch last season. With the development of the young core (De’Aaron Fox, Buddy Hield, Harry Giles and Marvin Bagley), and veteran additions, this team is poised to make a playoff run.
Fantasy Basketball: Bam Kicks it Up a Notch
March 24, 2019 | 2018 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes |
by: Joel
It’s crunch time fantasy ballers! These are the games that make or break your season. A lot of guys who have been reliable stat-stuffers all season disappear or are rested down the stretch and waiver pickups come up with career performances. Bam Adebayo has been fairly reliable for a while, but came up huge last night going 16-11-8-0-4-5 on 6-of-11 shooting and 4-for-4 from the line. Hassan Whiteside is in Eric Spoelstra’s doghouse for one reason or another, which has opened the door for Bam to flourish. It’s all about the adds and drops at this point, so I’m not gonna get into all the big-name superstars. So let’s dive on into the daily notes, and the game-changing performances in the fantasy basketball playoffs. BAM!
Fantasy Basketball: Buy/Sell – It’s Rowing Time
March 13, 2019 | 2018 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Buy/Sell | 11 Comments
The fantasy playoffs are finally here. If you are a roto fan, like me, this does not mean much apart from a slight focus to the categories you stand to gain or lose some points. But for my H2H people out there, this is when the real season begins. Every game and every stat counts and players that are not performing or have a medium-term injury are not welcome any more. Be aggressive with your adds and drops and don’t keep players “for the next matchup” unless you are absolutely sure there will be a next matchup. Because most fantasy leagues are past their trade deadline, this article and all the rest until the end of the season will focus more on adds and drops to the waiver wire and much less on trade targets.
Taking a look at last week’s candidates, the Grizzlies played just 2 games, so Delon Wright can not be adequately judged. He looked good in both these games and I still like him due to the potential of a Mike Conley shutdown. Harry Giles was average at best and the return of Marvin Bagley does not help, while both Danny Green and Malik Beasley proved worthy Sell suggestions, as there are better options available on your wire. As mentioned above, the time for hard but necessary cuts is now, so if a player is underperforming don’t hesitate to get a hot free agent in his place.
Fantasy Basketball: Buy/Sell – Trouble In LA Land
March 6, 2019 | 2018 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Buy/Sell |
Los Angeles, we have a problem. A season that started with nothing but optimism has quickly spiraled into a whirlwind of under-performance, coach questioning, and rumors, as the Lakers are currently the 11th seed in the West, six wins below the Spurs, who are currently holding onto the final playoff position. What is more discouraging is that they have won only five of their last 18 games and the chemistry is visibly mediocre, to say the least.
LeBron’s defense has come into question, and for valid reasons, as at times he seems disinterested on that end of the floor. The only player that seems to have come alive, proving me completely wrong in the process, is Rajon Rondo, but the Lakers have a long way to go. It is going to be a very interesting summer for them and I expect many changes both in the coaching and player personnel.
Apart from Rondo, last week’s buy suggestions of Joakim Noah and Tyus Jones were also misses, as the former saw his minutes reduced and the latter disappeared due to the return of Jeff Teague. On the contrary, Luke Kennard is starting to look like a must own player and I encourage you to hurry and get him because he won’t be available for long. Finally, both sell candidates, Harrison Barnes and Justise Winslow, have not done anything to convince me that they should be removed from the trading block of your team.
Fantasy Basketball: I Hart Radio
January 8, 2019 | 2018 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 24 Comments
Back in 2008, iHeartRadio and SiriusXM changed the landscape of radio. Listeners could customize their listening experience, had access to out-of-market stations, and were given a cornucopia of options (podcasts, news, sports, and channels for specific genres). Options equal versatility which enhances a product. That concept isn’t just for the radio world, though, as it has become the defining characteristic of the modern day, positionless basketball that has taken root. Last night, Josh Hart was a perfect example:
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Hart played a team-high 44 minutes. At 6′ 5″ and 215 pounds, Hart can play the 1, 2, or 3. He’s strong enough to handle himself down on the block, but possesses the agility to guard on the perimeter. He does get burned from time to time, but more often than not plays sound fundamental defense. Hart can shoot from beyond the arc or finish strong at the rim. He’s a willing passer and is able to rack up steals. Now, since LeBron James went down with an injury, Hart has been given an opportunity and has not disappointed. He’s been a top 50 player and has averaged 34.6 minutes, 12.4 points, 1.8 threeecolas, 6.8 boards, 2.1 dimes, 2.1 steals, and 0.6 blocks. The only bugaboo has been the 38% shooting from the field. When LeBron does return, Hart will likely shift back to the bench and lose 7-9 minutes of run per game. With that said, because of his versatility, he will still contribute across the board and provide top 125-ish numbers.
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Netanyahu Again Promises to Expand Israeli Settlements in the West Bank
By Behold Israel, Sep 2, 2019
PM Netanyahu renews his vow to annex Israeli settlements in the West Bank; Netanyahu: With God’s help we will extend Jewish sovereignty to all the settlements as part of the biblical Land of Israel, as part of the State of Israel; Rdainah: Netanyahu’s decision is a continuation of attempts to create an unacceptable fait accompli that will not lead to any peace, security or stability.
In speaking at a ceremony for the first day of school, PM Netanyahu addressed many realities that the people of Israel are currently dealing with. Along with this, he also renewed his vow to annex Israeli homes in the West Bank, or Judea & Samaria. This is a promise he made some time ago during his campaign that he is now getting closer to materializing, though he has made no guarantee as to when.
Of course, when his words became public knowledge, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned his agenda stating that this is a “continuation of attempts to create an unacceptable fait accompli that will not lead to any peace, security or stability”. Meanwhile, a Palestinian of high authority called to impose sanctions against the Jewish state. Netanyahu additionally stated, “This is our land…We will build another Elkana and another Elkana and another Elkana. We will not uproot anyone here”.
Something that may very well impact this process is President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” that is waiting to be unveiled in its completion after the Israeli election on September 17. President Trump has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in moving the embassy there, he has recognized their right to the Golan, and he continues to be Israel’s strongest friend in the west.
At this time, one major detail about the plan that has been leaked is that it’s not likely going include a two-state solution any longer (it has never worked). Additionally, this plan is said to propose the relocation of the Palestinians and provide them a massive $50 billion economic boost. Earlier this year, the Palestinians immediately rejected the plan and boycotted the Bahrain summit.
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Israel has long claimed their biblical & historical right to the land-and they’re not wrong. Evidence is found week after week, month after month, showing the rich Jewish history of the land. Artifacts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient synagogues, countless biblical sites, economic and political items; all of these more than make their case for the land. You take care of what you care about. If you’ve ever been to Israel, you’ve witnessed how the Jewish people care for the land where they reside, but when you enter an area where Jews are the minority or non-existent, the same cannot be said. More than all of this, the God of Israel declares they’re divine right to the land. It’s His land and He’s sovereignly given it to the Jewish people.
“For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land.”
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Thermovex Reviews - Is EvoChem's Pre Workout Any Good?
EvoChem Thermovex Reviews
Thermovex is a product that found it's way onto my radar through my own site search results. Sometimes I sift through the searches to see if my readers are looking for feedback on a product that I was previously unaware of. That is exactly how I stubmled across across Evochem Nutrtion's Thermovex product. After noticeing that Thermovex reviews are few and far between, I decided that it was a great opprotunity to vet this product and at least give people one review of it's benefits, side effects, flavor, ingredients, and more. Could Evochem's unkown fat-burning pre workout drink crack the impending top 10 pre workouts for women of 2014? Read on to find out how I liked Thermovex.
Once I decided that I would review Thermovex, I had to go about finding it. After searching TIRELESSLY online, I figured out that they only are availabel at Nutrishop retail stores. Frustrated, but not deterred, I got in my car and tracked down a jar of Evochem Thermovex at my local Nutrishop (luckily we have one in Santa Barbera!). Happy as could be that I finally had a fun new pre workout for women to try, I went straight to the gas station for a bottle of water, and then straight to the gym! I'll start with my initial thoughts on Thermovex flavoring.
Taste: 9.4
The flavor I got was Cherry Orange. Let me let that sink in for a minute. Cherry Orange! Literally I've never seen another supplement with this flavor before. Needless to say I was super excited to try it out. I took my water bottle, made a improv funnel out of one of my parking tickets, and dumped one and a half scoops of Thermovex into the liquid. I know most pre workouts say not to shake them, but I saw no such warning on this label- so I shook away. Thermovex frothed up a little, and mixed a really nice light orangish-pinkish, almost like a flamingo color. I liked it alot lol.
Let's just say my first sip was legit. The thing you have to keep in mind is that I am not easy to please when it comes to taste. Like almost zero pre workout supplements for women, or any pre workouts, or, er- let's just say - almost NO supplements taste that good. They are all loaded up with sucralose and nasty artificial crap. I know they like have to do this to mask all the active ingredients, but I typically they either don't do that good of a job, or they overpower your taste buds. Evochem really shined here. Thermovex was not too sweet, but also not too 'thin' tasting that all the chemically tastes came through. The cherry orange was fruity enough, and tart enough to be believable, while still having the right hint of sweetness that made you want to drink it all day. I wish I could compare this Thermovex flavor to something else, but I literally don't know if I've ever had anything else cherry orange flavored. I really enjoyed the taste, and as you'll see, it is probably the most outstanding aspect of this pre workout.
Thermovex Ingredients: 8.4
B-Vitamins: The first thing that stands out to me in Thermovex's formula is the amount of Vitamin-B. They cover off on literally every derivative of Vitamin-B known to man. These vitamins are critical to supporting the way your body regulates energy levels, which is my best guess as to why they focused so heavily on this micro-nutrient.
CLA: Conjugated Linoleic Acid, or 'C-L-A' for short, is the focus of Thermovex's formula. CLA is a fat found in red meats and dairy products, that has long been thought to possess lipid oxidation properties. Since Thermovex is the fat-burning pre workout for women, it makes sense as to why they included it. How they got a fat to be a powder is beyond me, but they did put 3 entire grams of it in here. Now. The thing with CLA is that it has never been proven without a shadow of a doubt to actually provide these fat burning effects. Because of this, I have a really hard time giving this formula that much credit-especially given the way it performs (which you'll read more on later).
LCLT: L-Carnitine L-Tartarate is a form of the amino acid L-Carnitne, which is supposed to be largely involved in fat oxidation, as well as improving athletic performance. LCLT is a trendy inclusion to this formula, and I have always been a fan of it.
DMAE: Dimethylaminoethanol is a primary alcohol, believed to be a precursor to acetylcholine. DMAE is therefore a nootropic, or cognitive-support ingredient that has been used more and more in pre workout supplements over the last few years. It increases alertness and focus, while improving mood in a positive manner. There have been several tests involving DMAE over the years, but none are generally accepted as being conclusive.
Citrus Aurantium: Citrus Aurantium is used to provide synephrine, which is an energy and fat-loss ingredient. It is an alkaloid that is present in low-concentrations in oranges and other plants and fruits.
Raspberry Ketone: Raspberry Ketones are the substance in raspberries that give them their strong scent. After being thrust into the spotlight by Doctor Mehmet Oz, Raspberry Ketones have made their way into almost every fat-loss or diet product on the market. However, the studies are just not there to back the claims. It is mostly just for show.
Green Tea: Unlike raspberry ketones, green tea extract is a proven sort of miracle ingredient. Assisting in everything from body composition to healthy cardiovasuclar function to cognitive support- green tea is a fabulous ingredient that serves many purposes to an athlete.
Others: Among the other ingredients in Thermovex are Dandelion Extract, Opuntia Ficus Indica Extract, DL-Methionine, Guarana Extract, Uva Ursi Extract, Grapefruit Extract, Kola Nut Extract, Hoodia Extract, Bacopa Monneri Extract, Artichoke Extract, Phenylethylamin Hydrochloride, Tyrosine, and Coffee Bean Extract. This slew of ingredients is listed at the end of the proprietary blend, so I'm guessing that they are included in nominal quantities. Which is fine, because I have no idea what any of them are supposed to do lol.
Thermovex Benefits and performance: 7.5
Ok so the flavor is great. The formula is decent. But how did Thermovex perform for me? Well unfortunately, not that well. After nursing my cherry orange flavored Thermovex (it really is that good), I hit the gym. As luck would have it, I was in time for my group cross-fit class. Well, it's called X-treme Burn, and it's our gym's watered down version of a cross-fit class. I thought it was the perfect test for Thermovex pre workout. It's not the hardest workout I've ever done, but it's up-tempo, and gets the blood moving.
My first circuit was (unfortunately) burpees paired with dumbell split squats. I retract my previous statement about it being watered down- nothing about burpees is watered down. To be honest, I'm not sure that I felt Thermovex kick in that much during the early going of my workout. Maybe a little boost of energy from the synephrine and the B-vitamins, but that was it. The next portion of the circuit was bodyweight squats paired with a dumbbell shoulder circuit. Thermovex actually started to push me through this and the middle part of my workout. I'm not totally sure why or how, since it isn't really a stim-based formula, but I really did feel Thermovex provide a some pop about 20 minutes in.
Now. The second half of the workout was a bit of a struggle, and I think I know why. The workout intensity stayed up-beat and I was getting really tired. A good tired, but I was starting to feel it for sure. Then all of a sudden I started feeling a little queasy. And then a little queasy turned into o my gosh I really need to go to the bathroom. And that turned into, well, let's just say I retired early from the workout. TMI? Ya. But I've got to tell it like it is, so that you don't end up in the middle of YOUR workout, having to sprint to the lockers like I did! This is by far the worst part of this product- it's that ALL that FIBER is great for supressing your appetite and all, but it's fiber. Fiber makes you go potty. And that's why it's not a standard pre workout ingredient. It's actually one of the last things you want right before a workout. Because Thermovex basically ruined the last part of my workout- I had to hit it with an average score of 7.5.
Thermovex Side Effects:
Thermovex is a relatively harmless formula in the sense that nothing in here is going to cause serious side effects. That being said, there are a few things to keep in mind if you're considering Thermovex as your next pre workout.
Too Much Fiber: Looking at the supplement facts panel, you can see that there are 8 whole grams of fiber in here. Now, that shouldn't be an issue, but as you just read, it DOES come into play if you are using it as a pre workout, like I did. When you consume that much fiber at once, and then jack up your metabolism with a high intensity workout, you might get some 'digestive discomfort' to put it mildly.
Synephrine & NCAA Compliance: I've written about this topic in some of my other pre workout reviews, but I always make sure to include it each time, since I did have a friend who almost lost a year of eligibility because of a supplement with Bitter Orange in it. Synephrine is not an approved substance by NCAA, so if you're a college athlete- take Thermovex at your own risk.
Packaging: 6.7
Thermovex packaging is ok. I really don't have that much to say about it because it's just so plain. I get that it's not specifically made for women, so from that standpoint I get that it doesn't look like the 'Hello Kitty' pre workout. (some of them really do look like 'Hello Kitty' pre workout, am I right?!). The jar is just so boring with the blue on blue on blue label, with the white lid. The typefaces are all boring, and, well, just nothing jumps out at me as being good about this packaging. Discaimer: If you've read my reviews before, you know I'm a tough customer when it comes to packaging- but this is pretty lame. The other thing I've got to unload in this review is the name: Thermovex. Thermovex. Thermovex? I mean, what is this supposed to be? A Star Wars Ship? A superhero film villain? I just don't get what would possess you (Evochem naming-guy), to call your pre workout Thermovex. It's a horrid name let's be honest. You get a 'D' on packaging mostly because the name stinks.
Final Score: 7.9
In Summary, I'm giving Thermovex a final score of 7.9. As an anytime fat burning or diet supplement, might it have broken into the 'B' category? Sure. But these are the pre workout for women reviews, and I've got to judge it on the same criteria as the other pre workouts. And the fact of the matter is that I just didn't have that great of a workout with it- and after all, isn't that all that REALLY matters when you're talking about a pre workout? Thermovex tastes great, and might be a strong diet-drink, but there are better options if you're looking for a pre workout.*
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Mrs Craddock by Somerset Maugham (1902)
‘Entre deux amants il-y-a toujours un qui aime, et un qui se laisse aimer.’
After the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth in 1897, the 23-year-old William Somerset Maugham optimistically abandoned his career as a trainee doctor to become a professional writer. Later in life, Maugham considered this to have been a bad mistake, for literary success came only slowly and he spent nearly a decade churning out ten novels which sold little or poorly.
All the time his real ambition was to be a playwright, but none of his plays were accepted either. It was only in 1907, ten years after Liza, that his play Lady Frederick was finally staged and, to his own surprise, became a runaway success, transforming his reputation and fortunes. Within a year he had four plays running in the West End and had arrived.
Mrs Craddock
Mrs Craddock, from 1902, is a product of his lean early years, and you can see why. It is a long and uneven narrative, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, covering ten or so years in the life of Bertha Leys:
from when she is a head-strong, romantic orphan under the guardianship of her aunt Mary living in the family home, Court Leys in Kent
through her infatuation for and marriage to the virile local farmer Edward Craddock
her slow realisation that Edward is conventional, unimaginative and boring and cares more about his wretched cows and pet dogs than about Bertha’s feelings
(something she starts to suspect on their honeymoon in London where he laughs at crude vaudeville and can’t see the point of the art galleries which Bertha adores)
she is mortified when he humiliates her at tennis at a big party of the local gentry
she hopes that getting pregnant and having a child will bring them close together again, or at least provide a focus for her thwarted love
but, inevitably, she has a long, drawn-out miscarriage and the baby is still-born
worse than anything is the calm, sensible way Edward accepts this and its corollary, the doctor’s conclusion that she will never again be able to have children – news at which Bertha is, understandably, distraught (chapter 17)
their married life becomes a series of niggling arguments – like the one about whether the farm workmen should chop down some beech trees which overshadow an important field (Edward) or should not, because they are old and beautiful (Bertha)
these escalate into flaring rows and, slowly, Bertha is forced to admit that she can no longer stand her husband
so she leaves Edward and Kent to go travelling with Aunt Mary on the Continent for months
on her return to London she has an ill-advised but madly passionate fling with a distant cousin, Gerald Vaudrey
but when, after torments of separation, and even mad thoughts about going with him to the New World, Gerald finally leaves for New York, Bertha’s spirit snaps and she returns to Court Leys emotionally empty
Ironically, throughout the novel, as Bertha’s love for him dwindles and dies, we watch as Edward’s career has gone from strength to strength. He manages the Ley property superbly, making a hefty profit and buying up surrounding land, restoring the house, building a tennis court in the grounds, and becoming the life and soul of local North Kent society.
It’s just a shame that Bertha loathes and detests local North Kent society for its parochialism and small-minded snobbery. In the final chapters of the book Bertha and Edward live together but utterly separate in spirit. Bertha, bored out of her mind, walks the local countryside, watches the changing seasons, goes down to the sea and stares for hours at its endless waves, dreaming of escape, dreaming sometimes of suicide or some kind of painless dissolution, anything to make the dreary routine of morning, noon and night, boring dinners with her husband or dreary visits to the local vicar or other landowners, all go away.
Then Edward, stubborn and confident to the end, goes out riding on a horse which has already thrown him once and broken his collarbone. The horse shies at a fence, falling on top of him and he dies. Stunned, Bertha staggers to her bed and reviews her life. Shocked and dismayed, she realises that she is… free!
On the day of the funeral, there is social comedy about who should get order of precedence in the funeral parade among the various organisations Edward which was a leading member of (the freemasons, the county council, the Conservative Party).
But quite separate from all that, Bertha doesn’t attend the funeral. Remote and isolated from the hurly burly of the entire world, she lies on her sofa, in the beautifully restored house, admiring the fine view to the sea, and picks up a book. The End.
I enjoyed reading Mrs Craddock but was aware of its numerous faults. For a start, there are several odd passages where Maugham is being ‘experimental’ (or giving in to contemporary literary fashion) but which really don’t come off.
One of them occurs half way through, when Bertha, still in her infatuation stage, hears tell that Edward is a little injured, and goes off into a peculiar hallucination of him being brought in dead, her washing the corpse, lowering the coffin into the grave and her throwing herself on top of it, a bizarre stream-of-consciousness hallucination – at the end of which Edward walks in right as rain and wondering why she’s in such a state.
The book is also heavily garlanded with over-ripe, purple prose passages describing the Kent countryside or the romantic air of Italy, which go on for pages.
That said, the book has two obvious virtues or strengths:
One is the effectiveness of the social comedy generated by the stiflingly conventional provincial society of Blackstable (the thinly disguised version of Whitstable where Maugham was himself brought up in the 1880s).
The characterisation of the stiff local vicar, Mr Grove, his well-intentioned sister, the hearty doctor, the dashing local landowner Branderton, the chorus of snobbish local ladies led by Mrs Branderston, with Mrs Mayston Ryle and Mrs Molsons not far behind, the scenes involving this little community – are often very funny.
The vicar’s sister, Miss Glover, is a particularly memorable character, all shiny stiff dress and sincere Christian sympathy. Maugham was always strong on social comedy, and strong on the subtleties and veiled malice of petty snobbery. It would later reappear in his feel for the thousand and one stupid restrictions on colonial life in the Far East, as described in his short stories of the 1920s.
Another is Maugham’s knack for beginning or setting his stories in very mundane settings, and often mundane incidents, but from this base working up passages of tremendous emotional intensity which stay with the reader.
Thus, for example, Bertha’s passionate lust and master-worship of Edward are described with real heat, as is her second great infatuation, the sensuality leading to inflamed lust for young Gerald. You can almost smell the sex. Unusual for its day.
Similarly, Bertha’s anger when she realises that Edward doesn’t much care if she lives or dies or what she does, is vividly described and moving.
And so, again, towards the end, is her prolonged mood of depression as she wanders down to the grey Kent sea and fantasises about drowning in it.
So far so good. But whether all these passages really come together to form a convincing description of a plausible personality, such as literature is meant to, I’m not sure.
I’m not sure and I’m also not sure if I’m qualified to judge. For a start, maybe only a woman reader or critic could really assess whether Bertha is a ‘realistic’ character. Who am I to say?
Secondly, the novel covers a period from the 1880s to the end of the 1890s and… that was so long ago, so far away, in a kind of constipated rural Victorian society which is almost impossible for us to imagine, that I can’t see how any modern reader can make a just assessment of its veracity.
What can be confidently made is the criticism that the number two figure in the story – Edward Craddock – never really comes alive. Tall, strong and good-humoured he remains throughout the novel – admittedly putting on weight and growing red-cheeked as the years pass – an unbendingly good, honest, efficient and utterly boring man, the straight man to Bertha’s fireworks display of emotions.
Maybe it’s the failure to bring the man in this novel fully alive which has contributed to it being more or less forgotten.
But what is good, I think, in the novel, is the slow, slow pace at which Maugham describes Bertha’s slow, slow, slow loss of her infatuation, then loss of her love, then her loss of respect for her husband. The book has to be long because its whole point is to describe the very gradual erosion of her love in great detail. In this respect, in the care with which Maugham has plotted the decay of passionate love, I think the novel works.
Sex and lust
Without much by way of introduction or preparation the book launches us straight into the flustered mind of twenty-one-year-old Bertha – living calmly and respectably with her aunt in the family home Court Leys – and her fiercely physical infatuation with the tall, strong, dark local farmer, Edward Craddock who is a tenant farmer on the Ley family land, at Bewlie’s Farm.
He came nearer, a tall fellow of twenty-seven, massively set together, big boned, with long arms and legs, and a magnificent breadth of chest. Bertha recognised the costume that always pleased her, the knickerbockers and gaiters, the Norfolk-jacket of rough tweed, the white stock and the cap – all redolent of the country which for his sake she was beginning to love, and all vigorously masculine. Even the huge boots which covered his feet gave her by their very size a thrill of pleasure; their dimensions suggested a certain firmness of character, a masterfulness, which were intensely reassuring… His cheeks were flushed and his eyes glistened. His vitality was intense, shining out upon others with almost a material warmth.
Although it’s hard for us now to imagine, a number of later writers, in the 1930s and 1940s, paid tribute to the way Maugham broke free of Victorian silence about sex, and wrote with a new openness and candour about passionate, physical love.
This fierce physicality was there right from the start in Maugham’swork, in the powerful descriptions of Liza’s pulse racing and her body swooning against the tall, strong, masculine figure of Jim Blakeston in his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897) – and exactly the same thing is repeated here, as impressionable young Bertha thrills at the touch and swoons against the tall, strong, masculine figure of young Edward.
When he put it round her shoulders, the touch of his hands made her lose the little self-control she had left. A curious spasm passed through her, and she pressed herself closer to him; at the same time his hands sank down, dropping the cloak, and encircled her waist. Then she surrendered herself entirely to his embrace and lifted her face to his. He bent down and kissed her. The kiss was such utter madness that she almost groaned. She could not tell if it was pain or pleasure. She flung her arms round his neck and drew him to her.
When at last he bade her good-bye and shook hands, she blushed again; she was extraordinarily troubled, and as, with his rising, the strong masculine odour of the countryside reached her nostrils, her head whirled.
In a field she saw him, directing some operation. She trembled at the sight, her heart beat very quickly; and when, seeing her, he came forward with a greeting, she turned red and then white in the most compromising fashion. But he was very handsome as, with easy gait, he sauntered to the hedge; above all he was manly, and the pleasing thought passed through Bertha that his strength must be quite herculean. She barely concealed her admiration.
‘I’m rather frightened of you, sometimes,’ she said, laughing. ‘You’re so strong. I feel so utterly weak and helpless beside you.’
‘Are you afraid I shall beat you?’
She looked up at him and then down at the strong hands.
‘I don’t think I should mind if you did. I think I should only love you more.’
‘Let me look at your hands,’ she said. She loved them too. They were large and roughly made, hard with work and exposure, ten times pleasanter, she thought, than the soft hands of the townsman… She stretched out the long, strong fingers. Craddock, knowing her very little, looked with wonder and amusement. She caught his glance, and with a smile bent down to kiss the upturned palms. She wanted to abase herself before the strong man, to be low and humble before him. She would have been his handmaiden, and nothing could have satisfied her so much as to perform for him the most menial services. She knew not how to show the immensity of her passion.
It’s a commonplace enough word but in Maugham’s hands the word ‘thrill’, more nakedly than in other writers of the time, describes the physical impact of sexual arousal and lust.
Even the huge boots which covered his feet gave her by their very size a thrill of pleasure…
Craddock blushed. Bertha noticed it, and a strange little thrill went through her…
He took her hand and the contact thrilled her; her knees were giving way, and she almost tottered.
His letters had caused her an indescribable thrill, the mere sight of his handwriting had made her tremble, and she wanted to see him; she woke up at night with his kisses on her lips.
It gave her a queer thrill to see him turn white when she held his hand, to see him tremble when she leaned on his arm.
It’s a striking paradox that such an externally polite, formal, correctly dressed, well-mannered and self-contained man as Maugham wrote so obsessively and fiercely, throughout his career, of complete sexual abandonment and the heart-stopping power of sheer physical lust.
Never before had she experienced that utter weakness of the knees so that she feared to fall; her breathing was strangely oppressive, and her heart beat almost painfully.
And the candid way he describes the wish to be mastered, dominated, controlled, owned and directed by a powerful strong man.
For the moment Bertha forgot her wayward nature, and wished suddenly to subject herself to his strong guidance. His very strength made her feel curiously weak.
‘Shut your eyes,’ she whispered, and she kissed the closed lids; she passed her lips slowly over his lips, and the soft contact made her shudder and laugh. She buried her face in his clothes, inhaling those masterful scents of the countryside which had always fascinated her.
Later in the book, the same thing happens all over again when she becomes infatuated with Gerald. In the course of that affair there takes place something you don’t usually read about at the period, which is the clearly defined moment when Bertha decides to have sex with Gerald, to give him the great gift of her body, to make their union unique and unforgettable.
You can almost smell the pheromones radiating off the page as Bertha pursues Gerald across London, tracking him down to her aunt’s house, her aunt goes out and they are on the verge of doing something unforgiveable according to Victorian custom (Bertha was still a married woman and keeps telling us that Gerald is almost young enough to be her son) when… there’s a knock at the door and Aunt Mary reappears in the nick of time!
Still. The description of Bertha’s heat and arousal as` she gets so close to her goal is almost pornographic in its blood-heating intensity.
Later, in the 1920s, Maugham met D.H. Lawrence (but then, he met everyone) although they didn’t hit it off. From the limited knowledge I have, I can’t help thinking that this story about a passionate young woman’s lust for a farmer prefigures Lawrence’s novels of love among the haystacks, and I wonder what the younger man thought of the trail Maugham had blazed with his shocking-for-their-time descriptions.
The battle of the sexes
Arguably the central subject of ‘the novel’ since its birth has been the battle of the sexes – to be precise the struggle to find and keep the perfect partner.
The English novel starts in 1748 with Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, a 500-page battle between a man who wants to ravish his servant girl (Pamela) and the said servant girl who insists that they are married before he takes her ‘virtue’. And the rest of ‘serious’ fiction continued to be centred on this theme for at least 150 years – the sly marriage markets of Jane Austen, the earnest character studies of George Eliot, in the American ladies in Europe of Henry James and the Golden Age snobbery of Edith Wharton, through the endless sex war in D.H. Lawrence, eachoed in the love comedies of H.G. Wells or Aldous Huxley, and so on.
Literature which doesn’t address the problem of finding the right partner, and holding onto them i.e. of marriage and adultery, tends not to be thought central to the Great Tradition of the English Novel. Thus ‘serious’ literary critics for a long time refused to admit Sterne, Dickens or Conrad to the ‘canon’.
Love, marriage, infidelity, these are the topics which fill vast warehouses of ‘serious’ literature. Madame Bovary. Anna Karenina.
Mrs Craddock is smack bang in the middle of that tradition for which marriage is the sole interest of human life and, in particular, unhappy marriage. Unhappy, mismatched and ill-fated love turned out to be the central theme of Maugham’s long career.
And Mrs Craddock amounts to an extended early exploration of this theme.
Maugham and women
And at the heart of these mismatched marriages is the women. Maugham throughout his long career had a special sympathy with women. Take imaginative, free-spirited, if naive, Kitty Garstin getting bored of her dull husband in The Painted Veil. Or Mary Panton, unsuitably married to an alcoholic gambler in Up At the Villa and then seriously considering a second (and obviously foolish) marriage to an eminent diplomat twice her age. Or Julia Lambert, famous actress throwing herself away on a worthless young cad in Theatre. Or Liza giving her heart and body to rascally Jim Blakeston instead of decent loyal Tom in Liza of Lambeth. Mismatches, all of them. And women all at the centre of the stories.
In Maugham’s theatrical comedies of manners, there is also a wide array of interesting women characters. There are old and amusingly cynical women (Lady Grayson in Our Betters), younger, powerful women (Constance Middleton in The Constant Woman) and mature, tragic women (Mrs. Tabret in The Sacred Flame).
It is the women, and their often painful emotional journeys, who stick in the reader’s imagination, while the callow young men in these plays are often only dramatic ciphers.
Maugham’s subject is the eternal erring of the human heart, but it is nearly always a woman’s heart which is described, and felt, with greatest intensity.
The New Woman
As if the marriage theme wasn’t already central enough in the literary tradition, the 1890s saw a particular interest in the role and experience of women in contemporary society. It was the era of ‘the New Woman’, and a flurry of novels were published examining the issue of women in society, with narratives and characters being created to explore the rights and wrongs of women.
The term ‘New Woman’ was popularized by British-American writer Henry James, who used it to describe the growth in the number of feminist, educated, independent career women in Europe and the United States. Independence was not simply a matter of the mind: it also involved physical changes in activity and dress, as activities such as bicycling expanded women’s ability to engage with a broader more active world. The New Woman pushed the limits set by a male-dominated society, especially as modeled in the plays of Norwegian Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906). (Wikipedia)
The New Woman was in all the papers, in magazines, in articles, on the stage, discussed in Parliament, aired in a thousand short stories and novels. It even percolated through to the provincial backwater of Blackstable where Mrs Craddock is set, and where clever, cosmopolitan Miss Ley enjoys teasing the hide-bound locals.
‘Which do you think is the predominant partner?’ she asked, smiling drily [referring to Edward and Bertha].
‘The man, as he should be,’ gruffly replied the doctor.
‘Do you think he has more brains?’
‘Ah, you’re a feminist,’ said Dr. Ramsay, with great scorn.
Striking that old fuddy-duddy Dr Ramsay knows what a feminist is and uses the term ‘feminist’ in a story set in the 1880s. Amazing that women were arguing with men about the role of women, and both able to joke and josh about it, some 130 years ago. In that 130 years hundreds of novels, plays, films, thousands of factual books and hundreds of thousands of articles have been written about the New Woman, about feminism, women’s liberation and #metoo.
Quite clearly it is an issue, a real and enormous issue – but one like homelessness and poverty and managing the economy and the North-South divide and how to run the railways, which every generation of intellectuals thinks it has discovered, discusses to death, but which is, somehow, never finally solved.
Boldness about marriage
I mentioned Maugham’s surprising candour in describing the physical characteristics of lust. He makes at least one of his characters be just as scandalously blunt about the broader realities of sex and reproduction. It is Bertha’s aunt, Miss Ley, who is given a speech impatiently telling the dry-as-dust Miss Glover, the vicar’s sister, that the basis of marriage is biological reproduction and nothing more.
‘Yes, I know what you all think in England,’ said Miss Ley, catching the glance and its meaning. ‘You expect people to marry from every reason except the proper, one – and that is the instinct of reproduction.’
‘Miss Ley!’ exclaimed Miss Glover, blushing.
‘Oh, you’re old enough to take a sensible view of the, matter,’ answered Miss Ley, somewhat brutally. ‘Bertha is merely the female attracted to the male, and that is the only decent foundation of marriage – the other way seems to me merely horrid. And what does it matter if the man is not of the same station, the instinct has nothing to do with the walk in life; if I’d ever been in love I shouldn’t have cared if it was a pot-boy, I’d have married him – if he asked me.’
‘Well, upon my word!’ said the doctor.
But Miss Ley was roused now, and interrupted him: ‘The particular function of a woman is to propagate her species; and if she’s wise she’ll choose a strong and healthy man to be the father of her children. I have no patience with those women who marry a man because he’s got brains. What is the good of a husband who can make abstruse mathematical calculations? A woman wants a man with strong arms and the digestion of an ox.’
‘Miss Ley,’ broke in Miss Glover, ‘I’m not clever enough to argue with you, but I know you’re wrong. I don’t think I am right to listen to you; I’m sure Charles wouldn’t like it.’
‘My dear, you’ve been brought up like the majority of English girls – that is, like a fool.’
Poor Miss Glover blushed. ‘At all events I’ve been brought up to regard marriage as a holy institution. We’re here upon earth to mortify the flesh, not to indulge it. I hope I shall never be tempted to think of such matters in the way you’ve suggested. If ever I marry I know that nothing will be further from me than carnal thoughts. I look upon marriage as a spiritual union in which it is my duty to love, honour, and obey my husband, to assist and sustain him, to live with him such a life that when the end comes we may be prepared for it.’
‘Fiddlesticks!’ said Miss Ley.
As with his hot-blooded descriptions of lust, Maugham’s correlation of human reproduction with animal reproduction i.e. as an animal instinct devoid of all moral or religious meaning, strikes me as definitely anticipating D.H. Lawrence.
Boldness about religion
And the same goes for his treatment of traditional religion. After his parents died, Maugham was brought up an orphan in the home of his father’s brother, the unimaginative vicar of Whitstable in the 1880s (hence the accuracy of the social comedy of provincial Kentish society in this novel).
Sometime in his student years, Maugham’s Christian faith just melted away and he experienced a tremendous sense of liberation, liberation (as Selina Hastings’s fabulous biography of Maugham makes crystal clear) to have sex with whoever he wanted, male or female.
Accompanying Miss Ley’s blunt truth-telling about sex, there is a similar passage in which Bertha brutally attacks the Christian faith. Devout, tightly-laced Miss Glover, the vicar’s spinster sister, has come to ‘comfort’ Bertha after she’s lost her baby in childbirth. Bertha demurs.
‘Oh, Bertha, you’re not taking it in the proper spirit – you’re so rebellious, and it’s wrong, it’s utterly wrong.’
‘I can only think of my baby,’ said Bertha, hoarsely.
‘Why don’t you pray to God, dear – shall I offer a short prayer now, Bertha?’
‘No, I don’t want to pray to God – He’s either impotent or cruel.’
‘Bertha,’ cried Miss Glover. ‘You don’t know what you’re saying. Oh, pray to God to melt your stubbornness; pray to God to forgive you.’
‘I don’t want to be forgiven. I’ve done nothing that needs it. It’s God who needs my forgiveness – not I His.’
The attack continues later, when Miss Glover returns with the vicar as back-up. Bertha initially starts off meekly reading the Prayer Book with them, but then breaks down:
‘I have no wish to “give hearty thanks unto God,”‘ she said, looking almost fiercely at the worthy pair. ‘I’m very sorry to offend your prejudices, but it seems to me absurd that I should prostrate myself in gratitude to God.’
‘Oh, Mrs. Craddock, I trust you don’t mean what you say,’ said the Vicar.
‘This is what I told you, Charles,’ said Miss Glover. ‘I don’t think Bertha is well, but still this seems to me dreadfully wicked.’
Bertha frowned, finding it difficult to repress the sarcasm which rose to her lips; her forbearance was sorely tried. But Mr. Glover was a little undecided.
‘We must be as thankful to God for the afflictions He sends as for the benefits,’ he said at last.
‘I am not a worm to crawl upon the ground and give thanks to the foot that crushes me.’
‘I think that is blasphemous, Bertha,’ said Miss Glover.
‘Oh, I have no patience with you, Fanny,’ said Bertha, raising herself, a flush lighting up her face. ‘Can you realise what I’ve gone through, the terrible pain of it? Oh, it was too awful. Even now when I think of it I almost scream.’
‘It is by suffering that we rise to our higher self,’ said Miss Glover. ‘Suffering is a fire that burns away the grossness of our material natures.’
‘What rubbish you talk,’ cried Bertha, passionately. ‘You can say that when you’ve never suffered. People say that suffering ennobles one; it’s a lie, it only makes one brutal…. But I would have borne it – for the sake of my child. It was all useless – utterly useless. Dr. Ramsay told me the child had been dead the whole time. Oh, if God made me suffer like that, it’s infamous. I wonder you’re not ashamed to put it down to God. How can you imagine Him to be so stupid, so cruel! Why, even the vilest beast in the slums wouldn’t cause a woman such frightful and useless agony for the mere pleasure of it.’
This powerful scene should take its place in any anthology describing the collapse of Christian belief in the later 19th century.
What with the Darwinian view of human reproduction, this forthright atheism, and the implicit theme of the New Woman throughout the novel, along with the numerous natural descriptions which I’ve mentioned, Maugham was clearly making an effort to write a Big Serious Novel tackling some of the fashionable Issues of the Day.
It doesn’t work because the central characters aren’t, in the end, really believable enough to support the great weight placed on them. But it’s a valiant attempt.
Miss Ley
All this is to overlook the third major character in the story who is, on one reading, arguably its most successful character – Bertha’s Aunt Mary, or Miss Ley as she’s referred to.
In the opening scenes of the novel, Bertha is still living under Miss Ley’s guardianship, we see them often together, and so she is one of the first characters we get to know and like. Although she then disappears from view for the long stretches which describe Bertha and Edward’s marriage, whenever Miss Ley does reappear – when Bertha goes to stay with her for a short break, and then runs away with her to the continent, and in the prolonged sequence when Bertha is staying with Miss Ley while she has her almost-affair with young Gerald – she was greeted with cheers from this reader. Why? Because she is drily, quietly funny.
Miss Ley sat on the sofa by the fireside, a woman of middle-size, very slight, with a thin and much wrinkled face. Of her features the mouth was the most noticeable, not large, with lips that were a little too thin; it was always so tightly compressed as to give her an air of great determination, but there was about the corners an expressive mobility, contradicting in rather an unusual manner the inferences which might be drawn from the rest of her person. She had a habit of fixing her cold eyes on people with a steadiness that was not a little embarrassing. They said Miss Ley looked as if she thought them great fools, and as a matter of fact that usually was her precise opinion. Her thin grey hair was very plainly done; and the extreme simplicity of her costume gave a certain primness, so that her favourite method of saying rather absurd things in the gravest and most decorous manner often disconcerted the casual stranger.
‘Saying rather absurd things in the gravest and most decorous manner’. Miss Ley emerges as the vehicle for the best of the book’s sub-Jane Austen sly wit, acting – especially in the first half – as the tart and comic centre of the novel, as drily cynical and Bertha is passionately romantic.
Humanity, Miss Ley took to be a small circle of persons, mostly feminine, middle-aged, unattached, and of independent means, who travelled on the continent, read good literature and abhorred the vast majority of their fellow-creatures.
She asked politely after [the doctor]’s wife, to whom she secretly objected for her meek submission to the doctor. Miss Ley made a practice of avoiding those women who had turned themselves into mere shadows of their lords, more especially when their conversation was of household affairs.
[Miss Ley] had already come to the conclusion that he [Craddock] was a man likely to say on a given occasion the sort of thing which might be expected; and that, in her eyes, was a hideous crime.
Miss Ley was anxious that no altercation should disturb the polite discomfort of the meeting.
Miss Ley revels in the embarrassment of other people, especially the uptight, narrow-minded provincials around her. She spends as much time as she can in London, and even more abroad in Italy (in another anticipation of a more famous novelist, this time E.M. Foster with his nice-girls-and-their-aunts-in-Italy stories). Whenever Miss Lay arrives back in Kent it is hilarious to watch the locals being affronted and outraged and shocked and tutting and twitching the curtains, under fire from Miss Ley’s dry wit and through Miss Ley’s quiet, sardonic gaze.
And she is not only an appealing character in her own right. But at a number of key moments (throughout Bertha’s early infatuation with Edward, then slyly noticing her loss of faith in her husband, and then throughout the Gerald affair) Miss Ley’s role as onlooker and chorus to the main action pushes her closer to the reader’s perspective.
It is as if she was standing next to us in the wings of a theatre, muttering an ironic commentary as we both watch the overwrought romantic heroine fainting and weeping and panting with passion.
Moreover, Miss Ley gets most of the book’s one-liners. Much of the dialogue of Mrs Craddock contains the sub-Wildean cynical wit which was to characterise Maugham’s later string of extremely successful plays, such Oscarisms as:
‘Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough money of her own to live upon.’
‘Marriage is an institution of the Church, Miss Ley,’ replied Miss Glover, rather severely.
‘Is it?’ retorted Miss Ley. ‘I always thought it was an arrangement to provide work for the judges in the Divorce Court.’
‘Mr. Branderton has been to Eton and Oxford, but he conceals the fact with great success.’
‘My dear Dr. Ramsay, I have trouble enough in arranging my own life; do not ask me to interfere with other people’s.’
It is madness for a happy pair to pretend to have no secrets from one another: it leads them into so much deception.
‘I make a point of thinking with the majority – it’s the only way to get a reputation for wisdom.’
‘You wouldn’t rob us of our generals,’ said Miss Ley. ‘They’re so useful at tea-parties.’
And the fact that almost all of these lines are given to Miss Ley, and that she emerges as in many ways the most loveable character, explains why Maugham begins the book with a dedication – more precisely, a mock ‘Epistle Dedicatory’ – to her. He obviously liked her best of all the characters in the book, and she is the only one you would want to meet.
A tiny Marxist comment
Having just been to an extensive feminist art exhibition, and read numerous articles about the Judge Kavanaugh affair, and read some feminist articles about Maugham and Women and, given that Bertha is quite clearly a heroine who traditional feminist criticism would see as the oppressed, repressed, stifled, stymied victim of the Patriarchy – it is worth pointing out that Bertha never does a day’s work in her life.
Bertha lives her entire life off the labour of the workers on her father’s farms and estates, as does Miss Ley.
Both women live lives full of books and art and travel and galleries and fine feelings, their meals are cooked and served and cleared away by nameless faceless servants (we never learn the names of any of the Craddocks’ household servants or farm workers), their rooms are cleaned, their laundry is washed, trains run for them, boats sail for them, galleries open for them – without them ever lifting a finger to earn it.
They belong to the rentier class. They are social parasites. Edward works hard and is efficient and effective at transforming the fortunes of the Ley estate, at managing its livestock and agriculture, and joins local bodies like the parish council and freemasons, which he also runs with exemplary honesty and thoroughness. And for this – he is bitterly mocked by his wife:
Bertha soon found that her husband’s mind was not only commonplace, but common. His ignorance no longer seemed touching, but merely shameful; his prejudices no longer amusing but contemptible. She was indignant at having humbled herself so abjectly before a man of such narrowness of mind, of such insignificant character. She could not conceive how she had ever passionately loved him. He was bound in by the stupidest routine. It irritated her beyond measure to see the regularity with which he went through the varying processes of his toilet. She was indignant with his presumption, and self-satisfaction, and conscious rectitude. Edward’s taste was contemptible in books, in pictures, and in music; and his pretentions to judge upon such matters filled Bertha with scorn.
Books, art and music – that is how Bertha judges people, not for their character or dutifulness or patriotism or hard work. All these are rather ridiculous qualities in her eyes.
This scorn is echoed by young Gerald, himself the wastrel son of rich parents, who was kicked out of public school and has got his family’s housemaid pregnant.
On one occasion Edward comes up to see his wife during her stay with Miss Ley. After he has left, Gerald, the good-for-nothing idler, mocks solid, efficient, patriotic Edward Craddock to Miss Ley, who feebly defends him:
‘His locks are somewhat scanty but he has a strong sense of duty.’
‘I know that,’ shouted Gerald. ‘It oozes out of him whenever he gets hot, just like gum.’
This, one cannot help thinking, is all too often the attitude of high-minded writers and artists – regardless of gender or race – to the actual, physical, hard, demanding labour of making and maintaining the world; the smug condescension of the bookish toward those who do the daily necessary labour which makes their luxurious lives of fine feelings and deep thoughts and carefree travel possible.
Maugham pours so much feeling and sentiment and imagination and sympathy into hundreds of pages describing Bertha’s feelings and passions and thoughts and worries and fears and disillusion and unhappiness and despair – that it is easy to forget that she is a leech.
Plus ça change
Reading older literature, I am continually struck at the way that things which bothered the late-Victorians are still bothering us now. The status, roles and rights of women were exercising many of their best minds. Same now. And so was the problem of the poor, the homeless, and the huge inequalities in society. Same now.
But there are other, lesser issues, too, which made me think that some things really never change.
Railways For example, it was only last week that we were hearing about the Labour Party’s plans to renationalise the railways because, in private hands, the level of service given by the railways is shocking, and all the money they raise seems to end up as massive dividends for their shareholders. Well, here is what Maugham thought about British railways in 1902.
Though it was less than thirty miles from Dover to Blackstable the communications were so bad that it was necessary to wait for hours at the port, or take the boat-train to London and then come sixty miles down again. Bertha was exasperated at the delay, forgetting that she was now (thank Heaven!) in a free country, where the railways were not run for the convenience of passengers, but the passengers necessary evils to create dividends for an ill-managed company. (Chapter 23)
Brexit There’s a passage designed to contrast Edward’s narrow-minded Little Englandism and his simple patriotism with Bertha’s cultured cosmopolitanism and loathing of patriotic symbols (in this case, jingoistic late-Victorian music) which anticipates a lot of the rhetoric of Brexit. Manly if thick Edward is talking:
‘I don’t mind confessing that I can’t stand all this foreign music. What I say to Bertha is – why can’t you play English stuff?’
‘If you must play at all,’ interposed his wife.
‘After all’s said and done The Blue Bells of Scotland has got a tune about it that a fellow can get his teeth into.’
‘You see, there’s the difference,’ said Bertha, strumming a few bars of Rule Britannia, ‘it sets mine on edge.’
‘Well, I’m patriotic,’ retorted Edward. ‘I like the good, honest, homely English airs. I like ’em because they’re English. I’m not ashamed to say that for me the best piece of music that’s ever been written is God Save the Queen.’
‘Which was written by a German, dear Edward,’ said Miss Ley, smiling.
‘That’s as it may be,’ said Edward, unabashed, ‘but the sentiment’s English and that’s all I care about.’
‘Hear! hear!’ cried Bertha. ‘I believe Edward has aspirations towards a political career. I know I shall finish up as the wife of the local M.P.’
‘I’m patriotic,’ said Edward, ‘and I’m not ashamed to confess it.’
‘Rule Britannia,’ sang Bertha, ‘Britannia rules the waves, Britons never, never shall be slaves. Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay! Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!’
‘It’s the same everywhere now,’ proceeded the orator. ‘We’re choke full of foreigners and their goods. I think it’s scandalous. English music isn’t good enough for you – you get it from France and Germany. Where do you get your butter from? Brittany! Where d’you get your meat from? New Zealand!’ This he said with great scorn, and Bertha punctuated the observation with a resounding chord. ‘And as far as the butter goes, it isn’t butter – it’s margarine. Where does your bread come from? America. Your vegetables from Jersey.’
‘Your fish from the sea,’ interposed Bertha.
‘And so it is all along the line – the British farmer hasn’t got a chance!’ (Chapter 12)
Or again, Edward stoutly declares:
‘I’m quite content to be as I am, and I don’t want to know a single foreign language. English is quite good enough for me…. I think English people ought to stick to their own country. I don’t pretend to have read any French books, but I’ve never heard anybody deny, that at all events the great majority are indecent, and not the sort of thing a woman should read… What we want now is purity and reconstitution of the national life. I’m in favour of English morals, and English homes, English mothers, and English habits.’
Cosmopolitan contempt for Britain The cosmopolitan Miss Ley thinks there is something intrinsically pathetic about the English.
‘You’ve never had a London season, have you? On the whole I think it’s amusing: the opera is very good and sometimes you see people who are quite well dressed.’
To this day there is a broad streak of intellectual literary life which despises the English and worships the literature, climate, fashion and landscape of France or Italy.
Tourism When I went to Barcelona recently I couldn’t miss the graffiti everywhere telling tourists to go home and stop ruining their city. I’ve since read articles about other tourist destinations which are struggling to cope with the number of visitors. Back in 1902 Miss Ley shared this feeling that tourism was ruining everywhere, in this case Paris:
We have here a very nice apartment, in the Latin Quarter, away from the rich people and the tourists. I do not know which is more vulgar, the average tripper or the part of Paris which he infests: I must say they become one another to a nicety. I loathe the shoddiness of the boulevards, with their gaudy cafés over-gilt and over-sumptuous, and their crowds of ill-dressed foreigners. But if you come I can show you a different Paris – a restful and old-fashioned Paris, theatres to which tourists do not go; gardens full of pretty children and nursemaids with long ribbons to their caps. I can take you down innumerable grey streets with funny shops, in old churches where you see people actually praying; and it is all very quiet and calming to the nerves. And I can take you to the Louvre at hours when there are few visitors…
Infest! She says tourists infest parts of Paris. If she had been describing immigrants, the book would be banned.
Politicians are idiots In a funny scene Edward stands for election to the local council and makes a speech riddled with pompous expressions, bad jokes, stories which disappointingly taper off, but still manages to end with rousingly jingoistic rhetoric.
Bertha is more ashamed and embarrassed than she’s ever been in her life by its simple-minded idiocy. But the speech is greeted with wild applause and Edward is elected by a landslide. People, Bertha concludes, are idiots. And the biggest idiots of all are running the country.
There is nothing so difficult as to persuade men that they are not omniscient. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it charlatanry [of Edward] to undertake a post without knowledge and without capacity. Fortunately that is not the opinion of the majority, or the government of this enlightened country could not proceed.
Throughout the book the reader finds the same tone, and the same arguments, applied to the same ‘issues’ that we are still discussing and arguing about, 120 years later. Many superficial details change – but arguments about the rights of women, the idiocy of politicians, the rubbish train system, the philistine patriotism and the snooty snobbery of the book and art world – all of this remains the same as ever.
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Somerset Maugham’s books
1897 Liza of Lambeth
1902 Mrs Craddock
1915 Of Human Bondage
1919 The Moon and Sixpence
1921 The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands (short story collection)
1921 The Circle (play)
1922 On a Chinese Screen (travel book)
1923 Our Betters (play)
1925 The Painted Veil (novel)
1926 The Casuarina Tree: Six Stories
1927 The Constant Wife (play)
1928 Ashenden: Or the British Agent (short story collection)
1929 The Sacred Flame (play)
1930 Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard
1930 The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey From Rangoon to Haiphong
1931 Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (short story collection)
1932 The Narrow Corner (novel)
1933 Ah King (short story collection)
1933 Sheppey (play)
1935 Don Fernando (travel book)
1936 Cosmopolitans (29 x two-page-long short stories)
1937 Theatre (novel)
1938 The Summing Up (autobiography)
1939 Christmas Holiday (novel)
1940 The Mixture as Before (short story collection)
1941 Up at the Villa (crime novella)
1942 The Hour Before The Dawn (novel)
1944 The Razor’s Edge (novel)
1946 Then and Now (historical novel)
1947 Creatures of Circumstance (short story collection)
1948 Catalina (historical novel)
1949 A Writer’s Notebook
1963 Collected short stories volume one (30 stories: Rain, The Fall of Edward Barnard, Honolulu, The Luncheon, The Ant and the Grasshopper, Home, The Pool, Mackintosh, Appearance and Reality, The Three Fat Women of Antibes, The Facts of Life, Gigolo and Gigolette, The Happy Couple, The Voice of the Turtle, The Lion’s Skin, The Unconquered, The Escape, The Judgement Seat, Mr. Know-All, The Happy Man, The Romantic Young Lady, The Point of Honour, The Poet, The Mother, A Man from Glasgow, Before the Party, Louise, The Promise, A String of Beads, The Yellow Streak)
1963 Collected short stories volume two (24 stories: The Vessel of Wrath, The Force of Circumstance, Flotsam and Jetsam, The Alien Corn, The Creative Impulse, The Man with the Scar, Virtue, The Closed Shop, The Bum, The Dream, The Treasure, The Colonel’s Lady, Lord Mountdrago, The Social Sense, The Verger, In A Strange Land, The Taipan, The Consul, A Friend in Need, The Round Dozen, The Human Element, Jane, Footprints in the Jungle, The Door of Opportunity)
1963 Collected short stories volume three (17 stories: A Domiciliary Visit, Miss King, The Hairless Mexican, The Dark Woman, The Greek, A Trip to Paris, Giulia Lazzari, The Traitor, Gustav, His Excellency, Behind the Scenes, Mr Harrington’s Washing, A Chance Acquaintance, Love and Russian Literature, Sanatorium)
1963 Collected short stories volume four (30 stories: The Book-Bag, French Joe, German Harry, The Four Dutchmen, The Back Of Beyond, P. & O., Episode, The Kite, A Woman Of Fifty, Mayhew, The Lotus Eater, Salvatore, The Wash-Tub, A Man With A Conscience, An Official Position, Winter Cruise, Mabel, Masterson, Princess September, A Marriage Of Convenience, Mirage, The Letter, The Outstation, The Portrait Of A Gentleman, Raw Material, Straight Flush, The End Of The Flight, A Casual Affair, Red, Neil Macadam)
2009 The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
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John Opie @ Tate Britain
Tate Britain is labyrinthine enough to have half a dozen side rooms and spaces where it mounts small (and sometimes not so small) ‘spotlight’ exhibitions, focusing on a particular topic or artist.
In a modest room off the main atrium, little more than a glorified corridor, Tate Britain is hosting a small but beautifully formed exhibition about the painting and cultural environment of the late-eighteenth century English painter, John Opie (1761 – 1807).
The Cornish Wonder
Opie’s success is surprising because of his background. In the late eighteenth century artists generally came from artistic families, or from educated, middle-class homes where their interest in such a risky career could be indulged.
In contrast, Opie was born at St Agnes, near Truro in Cornwall, the son of a mine carpenter. Although he did attend school, he was probably largely self-educated. A wealthy local couple later reported that he visited the library in their house and ‘read every book in it’. But Opie’s father opposed his intellectual and artistic interests, and trained him as a carpenter.
Opie’s life was transformed when he encountered the poet and art critic, Dr John Wolcot, who brought Opie to London and launched him on his career. Wolcot became the painter’s manager, taking a cut of his earnings and helped him gain fame as a sort of self-taught genius. Opie’s dramatic style and mastery of light and shade that prompted comparisons with the most admired Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Caravaggio, and earned him the reputation of ‘the Cornish wonder’.
Portrait of the Artist by John Opie (c.1790)
The common people
When Opie first came to London, much was made of his humble origins. The Peasant’s Family is a good example of his dignified images of ordinary people. One critic wrote:
Could people in vulgar life [the working-class] afford to pay for pictures, Opie would be their man.
Little is known of the early history of this painting. There is no documentation to prove without doubt that Opie painted it, but it has always been accepted as by him.
The Peasant’s Family by John Opie (c.1783-5)
Opie produced portraits and subject paintings of striking originality and realism. Although little-known today, his work created a sensation in exhibitions during his lifetime. Opie was working at a time when fame was becoming an increasingly important part of artistic success. Artists jostled to grab public attention, painting more flamboyant and dramatic pictures.
We do not know the identity of the woman in this painting who is depicted as the heroine of Shakespeare’s tragedy Troilus and Cressida, but she is probably a celebrity or actress who contemporary viewers would have recognised.
Portrait of a Lady in the Character of Cressida by John Opie (1800)
Mary Wollstonecraft was a ground-breaking feminist. This portrait shows her looking directly towards us, temporarily distracted from her studies. Such a pose would more typically be used for a male sitter. Women would normally be presented as more passive, often gazing away from the viewer like Cressida above.
The painting dates to around the time she published A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). This argued against the idea that women were naturally inferior to men and emphasised the importance of education.
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie ( c.1790-1)
The intellectual milieu
In fact Opie was part of the leading radical circles of the day. After the French Revolution broke out in 1789 and then Britain went to war with revolutionary France in 1793, radical beliefs of any sort became dangerous, but Opie was part of a liberal metropolitan circle which included Wollstonecraft, her philosopher husband William Godwin and the ‘sensation’ painter Henry Fuseli.
Aside from the portraits, one of the most interesting exhibits here is an elaborate anti-radical cartoon by the famous Georgian caricaturist James Gillray. It depicts sequences from a long anti-revolutionary poem by George Canning.
The caricature warns of post-apocalyptic world where evil has triumphed, where the president of the French Directory (Revelliere-Lepeaux) is being installed at St Paul’s Cathedral as the head of a new religion named ‘theophilanthropy’, and where the Leviathan arrives accompanied (and ridden) by an extensive retinue of triumphant British followers waving their revolutionary bonnets rouges.
NEW MORALITY, or, The promis’d Installment of the High Priest of the THEOPHILANTHROPES, with the Homage of Leviathan and his Suite by James Gillray (1798)
As intended, it’s fun reading the elaborate caption under the cartoon and trying to identify the contemporary political and intellectual figures who are being so thoroughly lampooned. And the wall label tells us that Opie in fact painted many of these ridiculed radicals – including Charles James Fox, John Nichols, Lord Moira and Samuel Whitbread, the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Stanhope, the scientist Joseph Priestley and the radical John Horne Tooke.
The ‘cornucopia of ignorance’ which the acolytes are emptying before the altar contains works by Mary Wollstonecroft, the playwright Thomas Holcroft, and the novelist Charlotte Smith, all of whom had sat for Opie.
Amelia Opie
And he married someone from this progressive world – the liberal novelist and poet Amelia Alderson.
Amelia Opie by John Opie (1798)
Amelia was the daughter of a successful physician. She was already gaining notice as a writer with strong liberal and radical sympathies when she met John around 1796. He probably painted this wonderfully feeling portrait in 1798, the year of their marriage. As Amelia Opie she went on to achieve success as a novelist, poet and political activist, especially against the slave trade.
Despite his unconventional manners and his resolutely working class origins (his father in law was revolted by his table manners; even his wife admitted his studio was like a ‘pigsty’), John carved a career for himself in London’s fast-moving and competitive art market. He had just been made Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy when he died suddenly, at the early age of 45. For the rest of her life, Amelia did much to promote his memory and achievement.
This is a charming, funny and interesting little display. There must be hundreds of similarly obscure and forgotten British painters who would benefit from the same care and attention.
John Opie continues at Tate Britain until 23 February 2020 and it is FREE
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Pin the hope on the meerkat: It’s Christmas 2011 and this is apparently where we’re at
Chris Ward December 20, 2011
The Guardian’s piece on the ‘quirky’ titles expected to make a dent in this year’s Christmas bestsellers list makes for a sobering read. Less than ten years ago, the titles that came out of nowhere to dominate the celeb autobios and cookbooks were the likes of Schott’s Miscellany and Eats, Shoots & Leaves; books which dealt with occasionally esoteric or off-putting subject matter in a populist, accessible manner that struck a chord with the reading public; books which, though light-hearted, still on some level strove to improve their readers. Then there’s this year, when publishers have seemingly turned on a TV, giggled uncontrollably and, in an attempt to make themselves feel better for having done so, unleashed 16 separate books about (well, ‘about’) meerkats upon the marketplace.
Now, now, let’s not all rush to judge. This flurry of meerkat excitement may have its roots in something fairly noble and aspirational. I didn’t see all of Frozen Planet, so maybe I missed the episode where a charmingly disoriented meerkat somehow found its way to the Arctic Circle and taught the polar bears to love, and NOPE SORRY CAN’T KEEP THIS UP – of course it’s all because of those bloody insurance adverts, because that’s just how easy we are to entertain, seemingly.
Hoping to replicate the bolt from the blue success of last Christmas’ A Simples Life (eugh), publishers of these 16 Genuine Merecat Products® have missed a crucial point: people don’t love real meerkats. If they did, stockings across the land would be stuffed with certificates of adoption from WWF. People, for [insert deity] only knows what reason, love this one, particular, mildly xenophobic but, crucially, non-existent huckster meerkat, largely because he thinks he’s people, with the talking and the dressing and the business-owning and pluralising of words that shouldn’t be plural, silly meerkat! Who’s the cutest bundle of polygons on the server!
You don’t, to borrow the parlance of another medium, go viral by copying someone else’s idea and hoping enough people aren’t sick of it yet to make it stick. That’s a lesson these publishers will have to learn the hard way, with the only one of those 16 slabs of hot meerkat action to make the charts Where’s the Meerkat?, which has succeeded largely by ripping off something that suckered money out of you longer than a year ago, namely the Where’s Wally? series. Davids don’t speed up bestseller lists simply by copying last year’s Goliaths. There’s still something to be said for innovation, even if it is driven by nothing more than an urge to sell car insurance.
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Robert Crais is one of the most popular crime mystery authors of today. His Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series are bestsellers all over the world.
Reading the Robert Crais books in order is important because, although the stories are separate, there are a lot of backstories and character development that runs like an undercurrent through the author’s work. There are many small things that make sense and give the reader that “Aha” moment if you read each book in the proper chronological order.
A Dangerous Mand by Robert Crais (Elvis Cole #18, Joe Pike #7), 2019
Since the three series strongly intersect and many books feature in each series, I will list all books, mentioning for each where does it belong (and if it belongs to two or all three series, I will add that information as well).
The Monkey’s Raincoat (Elvis Cole #1), 1987
Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole #2), 1988
Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole #3), 1992
Free Fall (Elvis Cole #4), 1993
Voodoo River (Elvis Cole #5), 1995
Sunset Express (Elvis Cole #6), 1996
Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole #7), 1997
L. A. Requiem (Elvis Cole #8), 1999
The Last Detective (Elvis Cole #9), 2003
The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole #10), 2005
The Watchman (Elvis Cole #11, Joe Pike #1), 2007
Chasing Darkness (Elvis Cole #12), 2008
The First Rule (Elvis Cole #13, Joe Pike #2), 2009
The Sentry (Elvis Cole #14, Joe Pike #3), 2011
Taken (Elvis Cole #15, Joe Pike #4), 2012
Suspect (Scott James & Maggie, #1), 2013
The Promise (Elvis Cole #16, Joe Pike #5, Scott James & Maggie, #2), 2015
The Wanted (Elvis Cole #17, Joe Pike #6) 2017
A Dangerous Man (Elvis Cole #18, Joe Pike #7), 2019
Demolition Angel, 2000
Hostage, 2001
The Two Minute Rule, 2006
Robert Crais was born in 1953 in Independence, Louisiana. He grew up in Baton Rouge since his father worked at an Exxon refinery at the time. It is not surprising that he became a crime mystery author since a large part of his family was working as police officers.
When, at the age of 15, Robert read The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler, a classic crime mystery novelist, he knew that what he wanted to become in life would be an author as well.
He did enroll at the Louisiana State University to study mechanical engineering, however, his heart was not in it at all. All he kept thinking was writing. When he moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles in 1976, he began writing TV scripts for TV series such as Baretta, Hill Street Blues and contributed to popular shows such as Cagney & Lacey, Partners in Crime, and Miami Vice. He also wrote scripts for television movies and longer TV series, including In Self Defense and the 1989 miniseries, Cross of Fire.
Although his career was at its peak, Robert Crais wanted to do something else. He wanted to write books, which were part of his long-time dream. In the early 1980s, he started writing, but it took him five years to flesh out the character that would make him world-renown author: Elvis Cole. None of his previous books were ever published.
Once he became established as an author, he stopped writing for TV except in a few rare cases, which he left altogether in 1998. The last TV series he ever worked on was JAG.
The Monkey’s Raincoat was published in 1987 and it became so successful that it immediately was awarded the Anthony and Macavity Awards, and it was nominated for additional awards, such as the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America.
This book was the one to launch the successful Elvis Cole series and Joe Pike series, featuring two PIs which would end up working together more often than not.
Elvis is a Vietnam vet who carries a .38. His office is full of kitsch and he doesn’t seem to grow up. He is often funny and always has wisecrack comments at the ready.
In the first book of the Elvis Cole series, he is tasked by the wife of an agent to find him and their child, as both of them went missing. Elvis takes the case believing it will be an easy one to crack. In addition, as the woman doesn’t seem to be able to cope without her husband, Elvis Cole teaches her some basic things, like how to write a check to be able to pay the bills.
In a way, Elvis Cole took partially aspects of the author’s own life. This particular plot with the checks is inspired by the author himself doing these things for her mother, who couldn’t cope after his father passed away.
Initially, the Robert Crais debut novel should have been standalone, however, soon he realized that a series will be welcome by the readers, so he continued it, making it into the popular Elvis Cole series it is today.
With The Watchman, Joe Pike finally saw his own time in the limelight. He used to be the enigmatic character, a mysterious side-kick for Elvis, and it was high time he got his own series. Since then, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike became the main series that the author is writing until today.
In addition, there is yet another series that the author started, Scott James & Maggie, as part of the Robert Crais books. This series also connects to the previous ones with at least one book, The Promise, where all three main characters play their part.
Currently, the Scott James & Maggie series includes two Robert Crais novels, with the latest one published in 2015.
In A Dangerous Man, published in 2019, Joe Pike gets himself into trouble when an average day with him going to the bank ends with the abduction of a teller in said bank and him helping save the teller, Izzy, and put the guys away. When things get heated up after Izzy disappears and the abductors are found dead, Joe asks his friend, Elvis Cole for help.
Robert Crais Elevates Crime Fiction. (Sun Sentinel)
Robert Crais takes the most popular characters from previous novels and shakes them up in an intense and thrilling mystery. Crais delivers a master class in writing with this latest novel. (Associated Press)
Master crime fiction writer Crais delivers another winner…. (Library Journal)
Stalking the Angel is a righteous California book: intelligent, perceptive, hard, clean. (James Ellroy)
Out on the West Coast, where private eyes thrive like avocado trees, Robert Crais has created an interesting and amusing hero in Elvis Cole . . . definitely new. (The Wall Street Journal)
Far and away the most satisfying private eye novel in years. Grab this one – it’s a winner! (Lawrence Block)
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If you’re not already on the #PeterAsh train, jump aboard now. #TheWildOne is a beautifully written novel, rich with deep, complex characters, full-throttle action, and a superbly realized setting. @_NickPetrie_ is doing headliner work. (Robert Crais)
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HeritageQuest Online Now Provides Data from Ancestry
Dick Eastman · March 9, 2015 · Online Sites · 44 Comments
HeritageQuest Online (a division of ProQuest) has supplied genealogy information to libraries for years. Many public libraries subscribe to HeritageQuest Online and make the information available to patrons who visit the library. Some libraries also offer in-home access to library card holders through the library’s website.
HeritageQuest Online has now announced that the genealogy information within its service is being replaced with information from Ancestry.com. Indeed, I logged onto my local public library’s web site this morning, went to the HeritageQuest Online database, and performed a search for an elusive great-great-grandfather of mine. When a census page appeared on the screen it looked clearer than what I have seen before and it also had an Ancestry logo in the upper-left corner:
The changes will be uncomfortable to those who are used to searching through the old menus. They may have to learn to use new menus. However, the census image that appeared on my screen appeared to be sharper than what I have seen before. So did a few other pages I looked at although I obviously could not check all the millions of pages to see if they were all the same or not.
Parent company ProQuest did issue a press release about the change five days ago although I apparently missed it. Here is the announcement that I found this morning after performing a Google search to look for it:
ProQuest Advances Genealogical Research with HeritageQuest Online
Authoritative family history resource is now powered by Ancestry
ANN ARBOR, MI, March 4, 2015 – ProQuest is advancing the research experience for family history enthusiasts and genealogical experts with a new version of its popular HeritageQuest® Online http://bit.ly/1Dv5beg, a treasury of high quality genealogical and historical information. This authoritative family history resource, which can be accessed from the library or remotely through the library portal, has a new interface powered by Ancestry, enriching the search experience and streamlining the research process.
The new HeritageQuest Online offers new capabilities and benefits to patrons:
The intuitive interface provides a fresh user experience that will be familiar to Ancestry.com users.
The U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 – a highly valued resource that now includes complete every-name indexes and unique interactive maps.
Census data exceeding 700 million records that can now be discovered using Exact Match, Phonetic, Variant, Soundex, Wildcard and Keyword Searches.
Searching full-text of the expanded collection of more than 40,000 family and local history books – is now enhanced with thumbnail images and hit highlighting.
A new Image Viewer offers basic and advanced capabilities without any plug-in, making it easy to share images with family and friends.
Image resolution that is significantly improved with the addition of greyscale and color.
“The enhancements in HeritageQuest Online illustrate a commitment to transforming the research experience for the growing community of genealogists,” said Andon Baltakov, vice president, product management, ProQuest. “ProQuest’s comprehensive collection of family history resources and historical news delivers a winning combination to help library patrons discover their family history.”
The enhancements are a result of the expanded partnership and distribution agreement between ProQuest and Ancestry announced last June. Extensive training services and materials from both companies provide learning opportunities for library staff and patrons alike. For example, the new Research Aid will replace the Learning Center and include topics such as Getting Started, Census, Beyond the Basics, Military and Ethnic.
ProQuest also publishes LibGuides and 2-minute videos, and hosts complimentary full-day workshops and webinars for genealogy librarians. Register for webinars here.
The new version of HeritageQuest Online is available now to all subscribing libraries. ProQuest offers libraries a broad portfolio of quality genealogical products with breadth and depth in content that delivers a complete research solution for beginner and advanced family historians.
About ProQuest (www.proquest.com)
ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company’s products are a gateway to the world’s knowledge including dissertations, governmental and cultural archives, news, historical collections and ebooks. ProQuest technologies serve users across the critical points in research, helping them discover, access, share, create and manage information.
The company’s cloud-based technologies offer flexible solutions for librarians, students and researchers through the ProQuest®, Bowker®, Dialog®, ebrary®, EBL® and Serials Solutions® businesses – and notable research tools such as the Summon® discovery service, the RefWorks® Flow™ collaboration platform, the Pivot™ research development tool and the Intota™ library services platform. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world.
Ray Maki March 9, 2015 at 12:13 pm
I’m devastated with the loss of the discrete searching capabilities offered by the original Heritage Quest. The option for “Exact Match” on the new system doesn’t work. I was often able to find the person on Heritage Quest because their name index was different than Ancestry’s. Now they are identical and you get all the excess results you didn’t want to see. This is not an improvement for genealogists. Can anyone retrieve the old system Heritage Quest had and make it available again – even as an extra cost option?
Helen Sellin March 10, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Ditto. I appreciated the different indexing and that some of the images were much clearer on Heritage Quest than on Ancestry.
Sharon Hodges March 10, 2015 at 4:59 pm
I teach beginning genealogy and one of the things I would always point out was HeritageQuest’s advanced search feature. It was wonderful. I found many people using that quite quickly because I could not find them on Ancestry. We now also lose that terrific feature of results being returned by county breakdown. This is a huge disappointment. Very often when Ancestry takes over an existing database, it is not always an improvement. I personally wish HeritageQuest would have thought this through more. When you can’t find your ancestor on one census database use another one. This has just taken one more opportunity away.
Exactly. Ancestry’s new search this last year is dismal. I frequently have gone over to HeritageQuest in the census to find something I couldn’t find on Ancestry. I’m dismayed that that functionality has gone away! What were they thinking?
Dennis Lohr March 13, 2015 at 11:44 pm
I likewise found the alternate indices from HeritageQuest of tremendous value over the years. However, HQ had only done a partial index for 1930 and it had remained that way since its release over 12 years ago. I also hadn’t noticed a marked difference–if any–in the 1940 HQ index. Ultimately, replacing HQ’s indices, search algorithms, and interface with those from Ancestry is a loss for researchers.
Deb Rapp September 9, 2015 at 11:16 am
I agree 100%. Period.
Melinda Gould March 9, 2015 at 12:48 pm
Thank you for sharing this with Dick Eastman. I just took a look at the new format, and all I can say right now, is it doesn’t work as well as the old version. Using the old search engine, I was able to find people using their first name only, with a few other parameters, and by narrowing down to county and city. Last year I found an infant who had been adopted later by using his approximate age in 1900 and the county, Santa Clara, California. He and his mother were both in an infirmary, but not listed next to each other. I tried doing the same with the new program. Not only did I not get the infant, I could not get him by using his name. Trying to use “exact” did nothing. I still got lots of hits, but not the one I was looking for. I’m very disappointed. It was worth having the scratchy old census pages just to be able to do these obscure searches.
Cathi M March 9, 2015 at 2:24 pm
So now what’s the point in a HeritageQuest subscription?
Formerly, the different census indices made it worthwhile – I don’t see any reason for a library to spend scarce funds on a parallel subscription to the same stuff.
Melinda Gould March 9, 2015 at 4:05 pm
Libraries are also Federal repositories. Back in the day, it was possible to go to the library and look at the census on microfilm. If you want to see the census at the library now, you use a computer to access Ancestry Library. Heritage Quest is another database that now uses Ancestry’s censuses. They broke something that didn’t need fixing.
Kat March 9, 2015 at 8:44 pm
It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. I use HeritageQuest at home through my state library. I had learned to work around the limitations of the old HQ census. Most of their high-contrast images were superior to FamilySearch’s or Ancestry ‘s lower contrast images. Even tho HQ didn’t index every name and some years were not indexed at all, their indexing had fewer errors than Ancestry does. I’ve not tried the other HQ databases, yet.
I still have a bunch of HQ census CD’s that I bought about 15 years ago — haven’t used them in a long time. Not sure if they would work with today’s computer systems.
Doris Waggoner March 9, 2015 at 11:28 pm
I haven’t tried the new HQ system, and it sounds like some who have done so are disappointed. In the past, I’ve found that it picks up some people more easily than Ancestry does while not having thousands of extraneous hits for common surnames. If those differences are indeed lost and all that’s gained is clarity of image, I don’t see any advantage. I have Ancestry, and it’s valuable, but HQ used to be a separate very useful resource. I agree, if it’s not broke, why fix it? It seems another example of the big players in genealogy scarfing up the smaller useful ones with distinct features and making them all look like the big guys. Pretty soon there will be no choices.
How disappointing! WHY would they do that? Heritage Quest’s search function was (IMO) superior to Ancestry’s. Ancestry’s search function doesn’t improve simply because it’s available in more places. If it ain’t broke, replace it with one that is. Yawn….
Monica March 10, 2015 at 6:37 am
Thank you for this information. Being a Beginner Genealogist, I did not know my library offered HeritageQuest. I immediately searched out my library card and logged in to HQ at home.
Ellen Paul March 10, 2015 at 6:57 am
I have to add my voice to those expressing dissatisfaction. I am a FHL volunteer as well as the go-to genealogy person on staff at a public library. I was a hug proponent of Heritage Quest, mostly because it offered a different way to search from both Ancestry and FamilySearch. It really has become useless now.
Steve Holland March 10, 2015 at 7:24 am
Wow! What a shaft for the genealogists! We lost, as said by others, the best indexing site for locating hard to find family. More revenue and required allegiance to Ancestry! I’m saddened by this move. Too bad Ancestry couldn’t have left the old index up as an alternative
Anna Maria Baca March 10, 2015 at 7:49 am
Ray Maki said it best – “I’m devastated with the loss of the discrete searching capabilities offered by the original Heritage Quest. The option for “Exact Match” on the new system doesn’t work. I was often able to find the person on Heritage Quest because their name index was different than Ancestry’s. Now they are identical and you get all the excess results you didn’t want to see. This is not an improvement for genealogists. Can anyone retrieve the old system Heritage Quest had and make it available again – even as an extra cost option?”
I am also devastated, frustrated, and just plain angry…..must ancestry own everything even when it is not in the best interest of the genealogist?
fullerton March 10, 2015 at 7:56 am
Hate it…my go-to book can no longer be found on the new version even tho I used to read it on H Quest all the time…so many useless “hits” Heritage Quest is useless now !!! Can’t even search “hits” in a history book…used to be invaluable…now its a mess !!
KM Jennings March 10, 2015 at 9:48 am
I too mourn the loss of HQ’s search capabilities. I’ve often had success there after frustrating, no-reasonable-results searches on other sites. I’ve also gone there to get clearer images of pages I’ve found elsewhere. This Is no boon to genealogists!
jdwd March 10, 2015 at 10:29 am
My sentiments exactly. HQ is a huge loss for genealogists.
Rick March 10, 2015 at 9:53 am
The 1830, 1840,and 1850 are now indexed on HQ. That wasn’t much of a problem before, as they could be located in the FamilySearch indexes as to the page number, and then be located on a “search by page number” on HQ.
They retained the HQ manner of listing results by census years. This makes HQ *SUPERIOR* to using Ancestry, even though they are the same index and images. On Ancestry, if you search all census **at once**, it throws in meaningless results. As an example, if you search all census at once at Ancestry, and then want to see results from “1820s” it will include tax list results from 1885 because it is in a database of of tax/census from 1810-1900. Do the same on HQ of search all census at once, and then see 1820, and you will get **only census** for 1820. On Ancestry, to get **only** census results, you had to search each census year individually, rather than all at once.
Disadvantage:
The alternative index and images are no longer available. Many times I found an image that was not readable on Ancestry (too dark or too light) that was clear on HQ because they enhanced the images. Those are now lost. To lose the HQ images is the equivalent of an Archives throwing away loose original wills because “we have the same thing in the bound books.” To lose the HQ index is the equivalent of a library throwing away the old published indexes because “they are all online now.”
Tien Le March 10, 2015 at 9:58 am
This is bad. I can’t tell you how many census records I’ve found over the years on HQ that simply would not turn up on Ancestry! Their indexing was so far superior to Ancestry’s. What a loss.
Dave March 10, 2015 at 10:03 am
Hopefully the relevant people at ancestry.com will see the complaints at Dick’s high visibility site and respond. My library has had heritagequest (remote access, but incomplete censuses) and the library version of ancestry (multiple databases, but required visit to library), and I was looking forward to the transition to avoid trips to the library.
However, the new heritagequest, despite the addition of additional censuses and directories, is poorly implemented. Something as simple as searching for a last name with a place name does not work correctly. What kind of quality control was performed if a search so basic fails?
I am an optimist so let’s hope this gets resolved quickly.
Jack March 10, 2015 at 11:00 am
How come the first time I hear about Heritage Quest is to be told it’s now useless?
T.M. Gentry March 10, 2015 at 12:14 pm
So sad to see Ancestry take control of Heritage Quest which had lots better quality and exact research results. Bad but still yet will HQ remain free for those of us unable to pay $$$$ to Ancestry. First Family Search goes to Ancestry which I disliked now HQ. Indeed I am sad and do hope that HQ, Family Search and Ancestry make this better? I will await a reply from all three soon.
jeff March 10, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Well… My carefully collected links to dozens of Heritage Quest webpages don’t work. Time to redo my last several months of research. Thanks again Ancestry…
Connie March 10, 2015 at 5:04 pm
Count me in the group of disappointed as well. Many, many times I was able to find someone that couldn’t be found elsewhere because of HQ’s different searching abilities. And if I couldn’t read a census image on Ancestry, I would try HQ because their census images were from different sources, and often I could read the HQ version better because it was filmed better.
When I tried HQ out this time on another project (finding all Graves in Cayuga Co, NY in 1810), I was sorely disappointed that I did not get my usual very directed list from HQ but a moddled hodge podge more similar to what I would get on Ancestry. And I mourn the loss of the ability to search by age range! I can’t tell you how many times that came in handy.
Dick, while I love your newsletter, I’m sure ProQuest isn’t reading it just to see our comments. Do you know who we can contact with compliments/complaints?
Melinda Gould March 10, 2015 at 8:46 pm
I get Heritage Quest through my local public library. So today, while doing errands, I stopped by to talk with the librarian to ask to whom I should make my complaint about the changes to Heritage Quest. She herself doesn’t use the database, but I showed her how the census search doesn’t work. She pointed out that it is a service of ProQuest and that down at the bottom of the Heritage Quest home page, there is a link for comments. That link wll take you to another page with a link on the left side of the middle of the page for customer support. Click on that to get the form to register your complaint. The librarian filed a complaint saying simply that the census search does not work, and please fix it. http://www.proquest.com/contact/general-contact.html. I hope this works.
Melinda Gould March 10, 2015 at 10:48 pm
I got my response from ProQuest.
“Thank you for contacting ProQuest Technical Support and appreciate for the feedback of new HQO interface.
“I am sorry that because HQO is powered by Ancestry now, they will support the content and functionality issue. Could you please contact them at libraryedition@ancestry.com.”
Deloris March 11, 2015 at 6:07 pm
Earlier this week, we were getting ghosts of images from heavens knows what collections when viewing files on Ancestry. Does anyone really think that they will fix issues we have on Heritage Quest now that we’re stuck relying on them for service there, too? This is just as bad as what they did to Genealogy.com, take a good genealogy-based website, neglect it for years, then shut it down. Terrible.
Don’t forget how Ancestry gutted the message boards by taking over Rootsweb!
Shirley W March 12, 2015 at 10:00 pm
I wonder… since libraries have a library version of Ancestry which is not as complete as what’s available to individual subscribers, is the new Ancestry-provided census & other records incomplete as well? In other words, are the new Ancestry records on HeritageQuest a library version or a home subscribers version? As with others, I, too, would sometimes go to HeritageQuest to find someone or to get a clearer census picture. It’s true – I could find people there even though they were not indexed in Ancestry or indexed correctly.
acl22m@webtv.net March 13, 2015 at 3:11 pm
If I understood the press release correctly, ProQuest has not sold HeritageQuest outright to Ancestry, but contracted/licensed Ancestry to distribute it for a period.
For how long? When this distribution ends, will HeritageQuest revert to ProQuest, and will the undesirable Ancestry features be removed? Did ProQuest foresee the negative implications of this arrangement, and the loss of long-term customer goodwill?
Toby Turner March 16, 2015 at 7:22 am
I am also devastated by this news because I find Ancestry’s search functions unhelpful. I, too, would be willing to pay “extra” for HeritageQuest’s census records. In some cases, the HeritageQuest image was readable whereas Ancestry’s was not. Also, vice versa. I am extremely disappointed in HeritageQuest’s questionable move.
Leonard McCown March 16, 2015 at 11:54 am
I have used HQ for some Census records, especially 1910, as their images were superior to those of Ancestry. It has been a while since I needed one, so don’t know if it is still the same or not. I don’t like Ancestry taking over everything in genealogy. A monopoly controls pricing!
GMF March 25, 2015 at 9:11 pm
ProQuest was very useful as previously formatted. Why has it now gone backwards in its formatting and usefulness?
Pro Quest please do not renew your agreement with Ancestry…I would PAY to get your books back ! I would PAY to get the Rev War pensions back even though I am a subscriber to Fold3…your simple search is faster…I would PAY to get Persi back…please rethink this agreement…and LIBRARIES please note how important the original form of Heritage Quest was and consider this at contract renewal time ! ! !
Carolyn April 5, 2015 at 2:16 am
Now it’s my turn to be upset over Ancestry taking over HQ. I just tried to access PERSI via HeritageQuest Online, and it’s not there, so far as I can tell. I could only access it via FindMyPast but without a subscription, only skeletal info is available. I join fullerton in asking ProQuest to revert to the original form of Heritage Quest.
Kathy Peacock April 15, 2015 at 1:06 am
Heritage Quest is exactly like Ancestry. A devastating mistake has been made, possibly by those that have never done any genealogical research. The Census search offered by Heritage Quest is the best of any genealogical tool offered to the public. Why pay for two of the same? One will be dropped by users and it will be Heritage Quest. Why? Ancestry offers Census research as well as other records. If you cannot change back to the older format, please let users purchase a CD with the old format.
I ask that all researchers and/or libraries contact Heritage Quest and express your opinion.
Heather Robbins July 12, 2015 at 9:24 am
I hate that ancestry has Heritage Quest. I never liked the way Ancestry finds my searches.
On the old Heritage search engine I could narrow search all last names in certain countys and have whole possible family members for the area. I am researching right now and I get a message Opps try later to see Image. Hate it! I also use to teach a class on Heritage Quest and loved it. Now I can’t even begin to get excited about a lesson.
Kathleen Koepp October 9, 2015 at 11:31 pm
I have never used Heritage Quest just Ancestry but it too has gotten worse. I tried to find some information and the old method I used for searching has also changed and my link shortcuts didn’t work either. So they have messed up both genealogical programs. I was sent an evaluation form and I give them very low scores on all their questions but it probably won’t do any good.
Regina Delarm November 5, 2015 at 8:37 pm
So since we all disagree with the new ancestry partnership, will anybody listen and bring back the old Heritage quest? I doubt it, somewhere money is talking and this is just another lost cause… unless somebody out there can revive our old search method under a new site.
Anne Spencer yankura January 12, 2016 at 10:15 pm
I am 85 years old and HATE the new format. The old Heritage Quest was very easy for me to navigate. I Hate Ancestry. That’s why I told my kids never to give it to me as a present!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Helen Sellin January 13, 2016 at 10:42 am
Just this past weekend I learned that Ancestry had the new database Northamptonshire, England Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths which has allowed me to add 100 years of ‘great’ grandparents, back to late 1600’s as well as fill in siblings etc for more recent great grandparents’ families in 1700’s. Now if Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire Church Records would come online…here’s hoping.
Sue Walter July 10, 2016 at 5:22 pm
I agree with the above comments. Heritage Quest doesn’t exist anymore. The Ancestry search engine returns junk even when you choose “exact.” Records are missing that were there before. Libraries should not renew this worthless resource until they change it back. It is obvious that the people who make these changes don’t actually do research or use the site. What a loss for researchers!
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Delhi has no dearth of fine dining restaurants and cafes. And when it comes to Hauz Khas Village (HKV), it’s the ‘baap’ of all food scenes. From cafes to restaurants and pubs, it has everything. Whether it’s the tiredness after a stroll of the Fort and Deer Park or simple foodie cravings, HKV caters to all your needs. While it is more popular for its vivacious nightlife, HKV also houses some hidden gems like The Hippie Trail which completely change your perception of the area.
It may be difficult to locate on the first visit since it is tucked away from the main lane. It is in the same lane as Hauz Khas Social; just a few steps further. As soon as you enter, you will fall in love with the place. It has a very chilled out vibe. This is one place in Delhi where you can strut in wearing your most ridiculous PJs and not be judged by anyone. Such a place is bound to become your favourite hangout spot.
Overlooking the tank, The Hippie Trail is a personification of comfort. It has a floor seating arrangement with comfy moda stools and cushions. My favourite spot is the window seat from where one can have a mesmerizing view that soothes the senses. The walls are painted with funky designs that give a bohemian look to the place. The striking dream catcher near the window seat deserves to be clicked). The servers are very genial.
The menu is quite simple yet full of lip smacking dishes. We went for a Masala Chai to begin our culinary expedition. Unlike popular cafes where the tea is served in tiny little cups, the chai here was served in big tea/coffee mugs. The quantity was heartening. The Mushroom and Cheese Sandwich was the perfect partner to a cup of Masala Chai. Fleshy Mushrooms and oodles of cheese are sure to lift up your spirits with their scrumptious flavours.
I really wanted to have Pancakes but it wasn’t included in the menu. The kind staff made Nutella Pancakes on special request which only goes on to show their congeniality. (P.S. – This was not a Bloggers Meet. The staff was genuinely very accommodating). One plate consisted of two pancakes slathered with a generous amount of Nutella. They were soft, spongy and the Nutella just made it even better.
The Hippie Trail is one of those cafes which become your Portkey to peace. Play board games while sipping on your tea or coffee and indulge in great food with a hearty conversation. Or you could just strike up a random tune on the guitar that they have.
Live, Laugh, Enjoy. That’s The Hippie Trail for you.
Cost for two- Rs. 600 (approx)
Address- Shop 13 A, Deer Park, Hauz Khas Village (near Hauz Khas Social)
Contact No. – 9899203016
London is a melting pot of cultures and a mélange of different lifestyles. People of various ethnicities coexist in perfect harmony. Londoners Bistro and Pub in GK-1 is an embodiment of the cultural conglomeration that London is. While the name may make us think that the place serves purely British food, it also conjures up a blend of cuisines that is quite popular in London.
The brainchild of Paritosh Mittal, an engineer by profession, Londoners has a great ambience with vibrant décor and classy upholstery. Blue seems to be the dominant hue in the colour palette. They also have an outdoor seating arrangement, ideal for Delhi’s winters. The menu consists of traditional British dishes as well as those inspired by other cuisines. The basic idea is to represent London, not as isolated with other cultures but in sync with them. This is the reason behind the fusion dishes in the menu.
The Bloggers Meet began with a Ploughman’s Platter. Traditionally, it is a non vegetarian meal but in keeping with the Indian sensibilities, they also provide a vegetarian version with grilled Paneer dices. Workers in London would pack whatever leftovers they had from dinner and take it to work. Therefore, unlike the well organized Indian lunchboxes , theirs would be a muddle of bread, chicken, ham, cheese, etc. The platter served here included bread, butter, cheese, olives, dried apricots, Brown Onion Sauce slices of apple and cucumber along with boiled eggs or Paneer cubes as per the variant chosen among Veg or Non Veg.
Scotch eggs, a British delicacy, is made with hard boiled eggs wrapped in sausage meat and bread crumbs which is baked or deep fried. Here, the eggs are wrapped in Keema giving it an Indian touch. The Irish Spring Rolls were filled with corn and cheese but served along with a sweet and spicy sauce. They were crispy but not very cheesy which was disappointing. The very concept of a Spring Roll and the sauce is Oriental, again reminiscent of the cultural influences in London. The Tikka Masala Platter was a complete meal with Tandoori Rotis, Daal Makhani, Paneer Tikka Masala, Papad, Green Chutney and onions. One platter should suffice two people.
The Paneer Makhani Pie, for me, was the star of our meal. Firstly, Pies are sweet but this one was savory. Secondly, while Pies are believed to have been originated as a Roman dessert, this one was a full-on desi rendition, replete with a Shahi Paneer filling. This marvelous invention came with fries and salad. The fries lacked salt and a dip along with it could have done wonders. The Paneer Makhani Pasta brought together Indian and Italian in a dish that packed a punch with authentic Indian flavours. While one may complain about the complete abandon of its Italian roots, I don’t mind it even a bit since it is supposed to be an Indianised version of Pasta.
The Clay Pot Pie had a flaky crust on top, like the one that’s usually found in French pastry. The Pie tasted like Au Gratin, only more liquid in consistency and lesser vegetables. The crust tastes best when dipped in the gravy. To wash it all down, try a Blueberry Cheesecake Shake or an After Eight Shake. The Blueberry Shake was perfect in its consistency and presentation (Mason Jars are a huge rage!). Other dishes to look out for are Keema Kulcha and Crispy Konjee Lamb.
Among Desserts I tried the Great Wall of Chocolate which was high on taste and the nutty texture but a bit too hard. The Sticky Toffee Pudding was ACTUALLY very sticky. The caramel lent it a nice flavour but it failed to impress with the texture. It was the Bread and Butter pudding which stole my heart with its presentation and taste. Not too sweet, the pudding comes in a cup/coffee mug topped with a scoop of ice cream. The contrast of warm and cold was a nice play on the taste buds. This one is a MUST TRY.
When you need a break from all the shopping in GK, give Londoners a try. It won’t disappoint you.
Cost for two- Rs. 1500
Address- GK-1, M Block Market (In the lane opposite to Starbucks)
Contact No.- 01133105812
Bilal Hotel
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Bilal Hotel – Matia Mahal lane, Jama Masjid
Ayushi Mathur
The Mughal Empire is known for its grandeur reflected by the larger than life architecture, the flamboyant culture and the eclectic artistry. The Mughal emperors also brought with them the fascination for a rich and diverse cuisine, which led to the conception of a variety of dishes that are popular even today. One of the dishes that originated during the last Mughal Sultanate is called Nihari, a slow cooked beef stew eaten for breakfast. First developed in the late eighteenth century, Nihari was a favourite among the Nawabs. It was part of the meal eaten after the Fajr prayer or the Morning Prayer followed by a long nap. Today, Nihari is served mostly in the Old Delhi area, specifically in the restaurants around Jama Masjid and is eaten for lunch and dinner as well.
Located in the Matia Mahal lane, near Jama Masjid is a restaurant known for its delicious Nihari that takes almost 12 hours to cook. For the first few hours the Nihari is cooked on low flame in a large vessel followed by smoking of the dish, popularly called dum for 3-4 hours. The preparation for Nihari served at the restaurant in the morning starts the previous evening and takes the entire night to cook. Served with Khameeri Roti, the Nihari at Bilal proves to be a hearty meal priced at only Rs. 45. Topped with fresh green chillies, the Nihari has tender, succulent pieces of meat in viscous gravy, which is not very spicy. The Khameeri roti is made with Rawa Maida and has a slightly different texture as compared to the regular Tandoori roti. The best part about the Nihari is the boneless pieces of meat that taste delish with the roti. This meal is so fulfilling that the Nihari gets over by 4 pm every day.
The restaurant was established by Mr. Mohammed Bilal in 1990 and has been serving lip-smacking chicken and mutton dishes to its patrons since. Just as Nihari, chicken korma and beef korma are two dishes equally appreciated by the locals. Every meal is very economically priced providing an extraordinary culinary experience for a reasonable amount of money. Thus, this joint is bliss for mutton lovers.
Address: Bilal, Matia Mahal lane, Urdu Bazaar
Cost for two: Rs. 200
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Delhi University’s North Campus can surely be called a student hub. Apart from housing some of the most popular colleges, the area also provides different modes of recreation for students. Kamla Nagar (K-Nags) caters to your basic needs like clothing, books and has some really good eating joints while GTB Nagar is brimming with student friendly cafes. Another popular area is the Patel Chest Market which sells all kinds of questions papers and from where you can get your notes photocopied at a very cheap price. What many people don’t know is that this area also houses some really cool and pocket friendly eating joints.
One of the eating joints here is Tony’s. It is a tiny stall that whips up some amazing toasts and sandwiches. There’s no seating arrangement except one small table where you can gorge on their food. Tony’s was started 6-7 months ago by Mr. Robin and his friend’s father, Tony. The place gained popularity with its unique concept of serving different types of toasts and now the owners are planning to open a café in Kamla Nagar.
At a walking distance from the Vishwavidyalaya metro station, Tony’s boasts of an impressive line-up of toasts, both vegetarian and non vegetarian. From the conventional Chilli Cheese Garlic Toast to Peanut Butter Toast, they have covered it all. If you’re staying in a PG or hostel nearby, you can also get it packed since they have that facility. I went for a Nutella Cheese Toast and Salami Toast. The Nutella Cheese Toast did not have any toast so I don’t really know why they have that in the name. However, it is one of the best innovations to be whipped out of Nutella. Two slices of bread are pressed together with Chocolate syrup and the top of the sandwich is smeared with copious amounts of Nutella and Choco chips. The final product is a mesmerizing piece of art which is too pretty to bite into!
Be prepared since the Nutella Toast gets your hands all messy with the Nutella and the choco syrup used for finishing touches on the top. The Nutella doesn’t make the bread soggy and the crunch is an additional delight to the sweet rendezvous. The Salami Toast is not a part of their printed regular menu but was written on the tiny blackboard at the stall. It is basically a sandwich prepared with a creamy cheese spread and slices of chicken salami. The sandwich is grilled and divided into 4 quadrants with oregano sprinkled on the top. This one was a crunchy and meaty affair. The service was quick and even the packing is quite good.
And the best part? The entire meal costed just 100 bucks which is a delight for any student suffering from the “mahina gul, paisa gul” syndrome!
Cost for two- Rs. 150-200
Address- Booth 13, Opposite Patel Chest Institute, North Campus, Delhi University
Hanami Summer Menu
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Japan’s Hanami festival celebrates the ephemeral season of cherry blossoms. Guppy by ai, the most celebrated Japanese restaurant in Delhi, recreates the magic of the Hanami Festival (25th April to 30th May) through its dishes by introducing a special menu that captures its essence. Known for his culinary expertise, Chef Vikram spearheads the kitchen at Guppy by ai.
Away from the sweltering heat of Delhi, the food journey started with cold sweet Corn and Avocado soup, enriched with soy milk. The soup is served with salt and a slice of lemon, which adde a distinct texture to the soup. It is truly refreshing.
The menu has been thoughtfully curated with soups and salads as special vegan dishes. The 3 melon salad with Yubari, musk and watermelon looks simple yet the umeboshi plum dressing makes it truly delicious. Umeboshi are fermented pickles made from young, barely ripe ume, a sour Japanese fruit that’s a cross between an apricot and a plum.
Japanese food would be incomplete without Sushi and Sashimi. For me, the highlight of the menu is the Mango and Avocado Cream Cheese Roll. Made with Alphonso mango, cream cheese, tanuki tempura fritters and kimchi, the roll is unique and flavoursome. The roll also has a similar variant with tuna. Another king size roll was the Hanami thick sushi roll combined with black and white rice with sakura dembu, tuna, salmon, crab, yellowtail and cucumber.
In the cold noodles – the 3 different variants are cold hiyashi tantanmen (home-made ramen noodles, served chilled with sesame flavoured pork broth, spicy ground pork meat and fresh vegetables), Hiyashi tanuki cha saba (chilled green tea flavoured buckwheat noodles, topped with tanuki tempura fritters, wasabi, grated radish served with a soy flavoured dashi broth. The Hiyash tanuki cha saba is the only vegetarian option in the noodles menu. The third option is Hiyashi somen (Japanese, thin angel hair wheat noodles topped with crab sticks, prawns, seaweed, cucumber and melon, served chilled with a ginger flavoured dashi broth).
The Hanami cocktail menu has excellent refreshing cocktails like Sendai a mix of vodka, fresh kiwi, fresh melon and lime. Plum Blossom made with sochu, umeshu fresh plum and lime and Umetini with ingredients like sake, umeshu and gold leaf.
The food journey ended on a Mangolicious note a dessert with fresh Mango, liquorice and coconut ice-cream!
Address- 28, Main Market, Lodhi Colony, New Delhi
Timings: 12 to 3.30 and 7pm to 1am
Lunch for two: Rs. 1300
Dinner for two: Rs. 1800
For Reservation – 01124690005 / 6, +919650185005
Websitehttp: guppybyai.com
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New Summer Menu at Pizza Express
– Ayushi Mathur
Summer in New Delhi is hotter than ever this year. With the scorching heat comes the temptation to indulge in food that reminds us of breezy beach locations, refreshing getaways and fun fruity delights. Pizza Express brings all these together in one special summer menu – ‘The Hawaiian Pizza Express’. What began as a fascination for the Italian cuisine and the desire to bring the delicacies to UK, has now become a global favourite for distinctive Italian recipes. Always experimenting with exciting recipes, Pizza Express has truly won hearts with their recent menu this summer.
From refreshing cocktails to unique meaty delights, the new summer menu covers it all. The first drink I tired from their menu was Molto Berry, which was a perfect concoction of mint and berries modelled into an icy paradise. What followed was even better. The next thing I got my hands on was the Lamb Polpette. Polpette simply means large meatballs and the dish was made with meatballs cooked in tangy pomodoro sauce served with freshly baked dough sticks. The first pizza I tried was Gambero, a crispy romana base topped with passata, yellow bell peppers and prawns marinated with Indian spices. What made this pizza an instant success were the fresh and nicely cooked prawns that topped the pizza.
Pineapple on pizza? Sounds exciting right? The pizza that was the absolute highlight of the party was the Hawaiian ‘Pizza Express’ pizza. Topped with sweet pineapple chutney and béchamel sauce, this ham pizza was definitely one of a kind. Yet another pizza on their new menu is the Pollo Cajun, which is made with Cajun sauce, Cajun chicken and finished with the perfect sun dried tomatoes one can ask for. A unique component in this rectangular pizza is the Emilgrana cheese, a type of hard cheese with a granular texture. The new menu has got something for the pasta lovers out there too. Their Linguine Cajun Gambero is rich and creamy pasta made with prawns in Cajun seasoning and sun dried tomatoes.
The visit ended on a sweet note with fresh banoffee pie and baked cheesecake. The banoffee pie was utterly delicious but for me the cheesecake stole the show. And with that sweet note I was left with a content heart and this summer got much more exciting with this stimulating Hawaiian menu that Pizza Express just introduced.
Kham Coffee House
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Forever on the lookout for quiet places to relax and unwind, I can say this with confidence that Majnu Ka Tila fits the bill to perfection. As a city, Delhi is known for its glitz and glamour, swanky malls and polished restaurants. But the Tibetian colony in Majnu Ka Tila breathes a life of its own. Every time I visit this place, I am struck by the serenity of the atmosphere, rhythmic pace of activity and the kind smiles of monks that you are sure to cross paths with.
One is overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and smells of the area. It is a treat for the senses. On one of my solitary walks from the monastery in vicinity, I stumbled across Kham Coffee House. Nestled in one of the narrow alleyways that Majnu Ka Tila is famous for, it is a quaint and cozy little café. The décor is quite similar to that of AMA Café, one of the more popular cafes in this area, though it is not as spacious. Bare brick walls, tree stump tables and upholstery with Tibetian motifs constitute the interiors. As with other cafes in the area, there are well stocked bookshelves which you can raid while sipping your daily cuppa. The café exudes warmth and comfort.
The menu is quite expansive ranging from teas, coffees and mocktails to fresh bakery items like muffins, cakes and pies. They also have all-day breakfast options like pancakes, omlettes, Tibetian bread and a complete American breakfast platter. I went for a Cappuccino and Pancakes. The coffee was good, nothing exceptional. The Pancakes served here were unlike any that I’ve had till date. They were extremely fluffy (almost the breadth of your index finger!). It was divided into four triangular pieces and served with Maple syrup. Two triangles down and I already felt full. The surface resembled that of an omlette and in fact it even smelt like one.
My only problem was that the cutlery felt a bit unclean. The forks, knives and spoons felt sticky and this dampened my experience a bit. Though the cooking and washing area wasn’t unhygienic, the washing was being done in a hurry which perhaps caused the problem.
A place perfect for all occasions, Kham Coffee House deserves a visit. Atleast go for their Pancakes and ambience!
Address- Ga-Kyegu Hotel, Majnu Ka Tila
Contact No.- 01123815196, 8860608389
38 barracks
38 barracks, Connaught Place
Connaught Place is not only a favourite amongst Delhiites, it is also a well known and talked about attraction all across India. Its reputation is backed by a multitude of restaurants, cafes and clubs which offer a variety of food and beverage options. In a buzzing hub like Connaught Place, hundreds of restaurants open and shut down each year which encourages restaurant owners to come up with unique ideas. An astounding opening that hit Connaught Place earlier this year has to be 38 Barracks, located in M-Block outer circle.
The brain child of Mixologist Mr. Kumar Sambhav and Chef Mr. Gautam Chaudhary, 38 Barracks is a true marvel both in terms of its concept and the food it offers. Inspired by the achievements of a real-life colonel, 38 Barracks pays homage to the glorious army life. The walls are decorated with real guns, rifles, trophies and medals of the colonel. There are also black and white pictures of the army giving the customers an antique and historical feel.
Most of the items on the menu are named in military style going well with the concept of the restaurant. The food at the restaurant is exceptionally sumptuous as well as fairly economical. The restaurant offers a wide variety of delicious vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes. Among the vegetarian starters, I had the chance to try their Paneer Tikka Barrels. Cut innovatively in the shape of tiny barrels, these tikkas were full of Indian flavours which might be a little spicy for some. The tikkas were served with a small glass of a palate cleanser to wash the spices down. While skin platter is an absolute delight for all potato lovers like me, another fun starter to try is their Soldier’s Mirchi Wada which is served with fresh vegetable salad and two different dips.
On the other hand, the non-vegetarian menu was very extensive catering to different cravings. For those who prefer fish, Clash of Clans is a must try. It is a platter that offers two completely different fish items, one being the English favourite fish and chips and other the Punjabi achari fish tikka. However this unique combination is topped by their unilateral grilled Salmon, the dish I absolutely fell in love with. It is a salmon fillet grilled from only one side for a long time letting the heat cook the entire fish slowly. It is served with baby potatoes and grilled vegetables that compliment its flavour extremely well. For those who crave chicken, the smoked chicken and scarmoza risotto is to die for. It is very rare that someone nails a risotto but this was perfection!
Apart from the lip smacking food they offer, the cocktails at 38 Barracks are not to be missed out on. Aside from the huge variety of cocktails on their menu, they also make custom cocktails with the freshest of ingredients like seasonal fruits. For those who like a sweet sip, their mango margarita is a must have during summers. Overall, my experience was amazing and I definitely recommend this place to all the readers.
Address: 38 M-Block Outer circle, Connaught Place
Cost for two: Rs. 1200
Jamie’s Pizzeria
Jamie’s Pizzeria – Pacific Mall, Tagore Garden
Deep dish American styled pizzas have been a major part of our diets since the various fast food chains entered the Indian Market. There are also high end Italian restaurants that serve quality pizzas in Delhi. But for someone looking for simple, rustic Italian food at an affordable price, Jamie’s Pizzeria should be a definite stop. UK’s favourite celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver launched Jamie’s Italian and Jamie’s Pizzeria in Delhi last year. And within a few months a new outlet of Jamie’s Pizzeria opened up in West Delhi, paying heed to the popular demand.
As Jamie Oliver promised, the restaurant offers simple yet delectable Italian pizzas made with the freshest ingredients. The Neapolitan style base of each pizza is made with hand kneaded dough which is prepared thrice in a day. The dough is hand stretched into a thin base followed by pomodoro sauce and fresh vegetables which are layered on top, before the pizza is baked. A new addition to their menu is the Jamie’s Super Greens pizza, which is a true delight for vegetarians. The thin crust of the pizza compliments the green vegetable toppings and instantly melts in the mouth giving way to the flavours in the herbs and vegetables. For the chicken lovers, the Chicken Alla Diavola pizza is a must have. The pizza is layered with Jamie’s secret chilli sauce and jalapenos that add a spicy twist to it. Jamie’s Pizzeria is one place where every pizza is equally scrumptious and the secret lies in the way their base is prepared.
The menu is not limited to only pizzas. The hand-stretched garlic bread with cheese that comes with the Olive Tapenade is another item on their menu which is not to be missed. All three dips at the restaurant are absolutely delicious and unique but my favourite has to be their secret chilli sauce that goes well with everything. The homemade iced tea on their menu is unlike iced teas at most other joints. It is not only low on the sugar; it also has a strong brewed taste of the tea which I absolutely loved.
For desserts, we tried the seasonal almond tart with vanilla cream which was topped with fresh mint leaves. It was the most beautiful dish to look at and has to be the highlight of the visit. The tart is so soft and fresh that it melts in your mouth instantly and leaves a yummy almond flavour behind.
Overall, Jamie’s Pizzeria is a jewel of a restaurant. It is undoubtedly a value for money and a great stop for some rewarding food.
Lemon Tree Golf Resort, Tarudhan Valley Manesar
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Delhi, being the capital metropolitan city, serves as the centre for political, commercial and international movements. With the ever growing network of trade, the spirited and ambitious society is continually affecting our lives. Every hard working individual wishes for a peaceful getaway once in a while, to relieve the everyday stress that this competitive culture builds. Recently, LemonTree Hotels inaugurated their first resort hotel in Delhi NCR at Tarudhan Valley Manesar, providing a perfect weekend getaway destination.
With unmatched facilities sprawling across 72 acres of manicured lawns, the resort is a marvel of magnitude located in the lap of Aravalis. In addition to a variety of contemporary rooms designed to suit all experiences, the resort offers a 9 Hole Golf course adding to the leisurely experience. The enthralling experience is made better by facilities like a lap-size swimming pool, a Kids playing zone, an Archery range, a revitalizing spa by Tattva, a restaurant overlooking picturesque landscape, and various game courts and outdoor activities. The resort also offers a separate banquet area with three large conference halls ideal for a variety of events including weddings. The themed bar and restaurant, Skinners, offers an enticing buffet to its guests with unique appetizers, elaborate mains and fresh desserts.
Mere 40 minutes drive from Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, the resort is a perfect destination for a getaway with friends and family. The resort presents three types of rooms, deluxe, executive and studio apartments in Villas facing the golf course to its varying customer base. Each room has a beautifully designed outdoor seating area, ideal for visits during the winter.
LemonTree Hotels are one of the very few chains in the country that train and employ differently abled workers, firmly believing in equal opportunities. With 15% of their employs falling under the differently abled category, LemonTree Hotels is the only Indian brand that aims to increase their employment to a total of 40% by 2020.
For years, LemonTree has been one of the best business hotel chains and now it has ventured into leisure resorts and their golf resort at Tarudhan Valley, Manesar is a true spectacle of magnificence. My experience at the Tarudhan Valley resort was super exciting. It was the first time that I got to try archery, which I must say is more difficult than it seems. The highlight of the visit for me was the lunch buffet, though. It had an array of beautifully dressed appetizers which tasted even better. The one that I absolutely loved was their Mushroom and Asparagus salad. The resort is perfect for some post-lunch putting, which I also got to try. Overall, my experience with the resort was wonderful and I’m definitely visiting again.
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Update, December 12, 2018
This article is drawn from Dense Breasts Canada
Just released breast screening guidelines, will cause unnecessary deaths
Vaughan, AL, Canada Dense Breasts Canada DEC 13, 2018
Canada’s new breast screening guidelines will cause unnecessary deaths and harm and should be ignored by women and their family physicians, say two of this country’s leading breast screening experts.
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTF) today released its latest guidelines for breast cancer screening for women at average risk. The CTF guidelines are used by 43,500 family doctors to guide their discussions about breast cancer screening with up to nine million Canadian women between the ages of 40-74. The 2018 guidelines advise against mammography for women aged 40-49, against women doing breast self-exams, and against doctors doing breast exams. They recommend women aged 50-74 have mammograms every two to three years.
“These recommendations are alarming and should be rejected by family physicians and their patients. Canadian women should be outraged,” says Dr. Paula Gordon, a clinical professor of Radiology at the University of British Columbia. “These recommendations, if followed, will cause unnecessary suffering and deaths.”
Dr. Martin Yaffe, Co-Director, Imaging Research Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, says if the CTF guidelines are followed, Canada will see approximately 400 avoidable breast cancer deaths annually.
“The CTF will spend a lot of our tax dollars on communication tools to try to convince doctors and the public that less screening is a good idea. They’ll suggest that few cancers occur each year and few lives will be saved each year. These numbers will look very small,” says Dr. Yaffe. “But scale them up to the Canadian population and the story looks very different – screening at age 40 would mean about 400 lives per year saved. And for the women in their 40s, each death prevented represents about 20 extra years for a woman to live her life.”
Both Dr. Gordon and Dr. Yaffe say the new guidelines are based on studies that are out of date and use inaccurate numbers and obsolete technology. The CTF has overstated the risk of over diagnosis, exaggerated the “harms” of screening and ignored the importance of women knowing their breast density. The CTF has also ignored the findings that screen-detected breast cancers require less harsh therapies like mastectomy, armpit node surgery (resulting in swelling of the arms) and toxic chemotherapy.
“The most lives are saved when mammograms start at age 40,” says Dr. Gordon. “The task force is ignoring indisputable peer-reviewed evidence by internationally respected organizations that mammography saves lives. Women who have screening mammograms are 40-60 per cent less likely to die of breast cancer than women who do not. The CTF underestimates the percentage to be 15.”
Dr. Gordon says it’s wrong for the CTF to recommend against breast self exams and clinical breast exams when that’s precisely how many interval cancers (the ones found between mammograms) are found. She added that women with dense breasts especially should be encouraged to do breast self-examinations. Women and their physicians should be educated about the risks of dense breasts, and the ability of supplementary screening ultrasound/MRI (dependent on their individual risk) to find the small, invasive node-negative cancers missed on mammograms.
“The CTF is composed of methodological experts with no specific knowledge of breast cancer screening or treatment, ostensibly to avoid bias. It operates at arm’s length from government and its operations are unsupervised,” says Dr. Yaffe. “One would expect that the mission of the CTF would be to recommend how to prevent deaths and suffering from breast cancer. Instead it seems that its goal is simply to reduce access to screening. Their recommendations are misleading, dangerous and a waste of tax dollars.”
Jennie Dale, Co-founder of Dense Breasts Canada, said not only is the CTF undermining confidence in the tools that have helped reduce breast cancer and the need for harsh therapies, but they also missed the opportunity to save lives by not including recommendations for women with dense breasts.
“So much progress has been made against breast cancer in the past 30 years. We should be moving to reinforce and build on that progress,” says Ms. Dale. “Our Canadian screening programs and our doctors assume that the guidance from the CTF is accurate and reliable. Sadly, this is not true. The impact of these misguided recommendations will be devastating to many Canadian families.”
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Sandiganbayan decision, cheap bargaining of justice
May 10, 2011 Noemi Lardizabal-Dado News, press statement 0
Sandiganbayan is bargaining justice—Akbayan
A day after the country’s anti-graft court ruled in favor of the plea bargain deal that the Office of the Ombudsman under former Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez entered into with former military comptroller Carlos Garcia, members of Akbayan party trooped to the office of the Sandiganbayan to protest the said decision calling it a “cheap bargaining of justice.”
To scoff at the court’s decision, members of the group arranged a “mock talipapa” to demonstrate how the Sandiganbayan bargained justice regarding its decision on the Garcia plea bargain deal. The anti-corruption advocates brandished placards styled as bargain signs, which read “plea bargain deal, bina-bargain”, “hustisya, bina-bargain” and “plea bargain deal, 50% off.”
Akbayan Acting President Marie Chris Cabreros who led the action said the decision is a “direct slap on the face of justice.”
“Bargain shops”
“It is very unfortunate that as we celebrate today the first year of the 2010 presidential elections, wherein the people elected a new government under a strong anti-corruption mandate, we see the country’s anti-graft court together with bad elements of the ombudsman acting as ‘bargain shops’ where corrupt officials haggle lopsided plea bargain deals to escape accountability,” Cabreros said.
Cabreros said the decision is “disturbing” as it legitimizes an obviously one-sided agreement, which she said heavily favored Garcia. She also said it is erroneous as the Sandiganbayan ruled in favor of an agreement wherein its main pushers led by Gutierrez filed a manifestation on the Senate’s recommendation to hold in abeyance the approval of the said deal.
“How the court judged the deal as unassailable is bewildering. Talong talo ang mamamayan sa kasunduan na ito,” Cabreros said.
Exit points for the corrupt
For her part, former Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros urged the Sandiganbayan to reverse its decision saying it creates more barriers in the realization of reforms as well as exit points for corrupt officials to evade accountability.
“The anti-graft court must immediately reverse this patently wrong decision. The people recently removed the protector of the corrupt at the Office of the Ombudsman; there is no reason for the Sandiganbayan to act now as the court of the crooked. The anti-graft court should act as the “sandigan ng bayan” and not the “sandigan ng mga kurap,” Hontiveros said.
The former partylist lawmaker also urged the Aquino government to seek all the remaining legal remedies to pressure the anti-graft court to reverse its decision.
“Today we mark the first year of the 2010 elections wherein the resounding anti-corruption vote of the people was heard. We earnestly hope the people are not alone in the fight against systemic corruption. The likes of Garcia must be made accountable if the government wants to win the struggle against corruption,” Hontiveros asserted.
Merci Vindicated?
Reacting on news that the Sandiganbayan’s decision is a “vindication” of the Office of the Ombudsman and the Office of the Special Prosecutor, which entered the deal under Gutierrez, Hontiveros said the court’s decision is not a vindication of the former ombudsman but “a validation that the fight against corruption is far from over.”
“The decision doesn’t absolve those who pushed this lopsided deal. It only proves that the fight against corruption doesn’t stop with the removal of an inept ombudsman. Wala na nga si Merci ngunit ang mga bahid at patibong na iniwan niya ay nananatili. Katulad niya, wawalisin namin ang mga balakid na ito,” Hontiveros said.
Legal action vs. Sandiganbayan justices
Akbayan said it is contemplating the filing of legal cases against the Sandigan justices involved in the said decision. The group said those who made the decision were guilty of issuing an unjust interlocutory order.
In a 22-page resolution written by Associate Justice Teresita V. Diaz-Baldos, the Sandiganbayan through its 2nd Division ruled that Garcia complied with all the conditions required in the plea bargain arrangement.
Under the plea bargain deal, Garcia, who faces plunder charges will hand back P135 million to the government and plead guilty to the lesser offense of direct bribery.
Last February, former Ombudsman Gutierrez filed a manifestation to hold in abeyance the approval of the Garcia plea bargain deal before the Sandiganbayan. The manifestation was made based on the recommendation of Senator Franklin Drilon who is part of the committee investigating the string of corruption cases involving Garcia and some of the top brass of the Armed forces of the Philippines.
Here is President Aquino’s reaction to Sandiganbayan decision on Garcia plea bargain
akbayan, Carlos Garcia, ombudsman, sandiganbayan
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Tone-Deaf Henrico School Board Cops Out In Partisan Deadlock
Anne-Marie Leake
The Henrico County School Board met in a closed-door work session on Thursday, October 4 to make their final choice to fill the Tuckahoe District seat vacated when Lisa Marshall resigned in August for health reasons. In an obvious partisan compromise, the Board ultimately chose the least visible and only male of the three finalists, retired principal Bill Pike, despite the fact that finalist Melissa Dart, a member of the county’s Special Education Advisory Committee and ex-officio member of the Equity and Diversity Advisory Committee, received 167 emails of support, to Pike’s 6. Dart is also a member of the Special Education Work Group that was formed on the recommendation of a study conducted by former Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton.
The School Board held a public forum on September 20 to solicit input on behalf of the candidates. Bill Pike was traveling and unable to attend, but Melissa Dart and the third finalist, blogger and former teacher Marcie Shea, were present, each with their own entourage of roughly two dozen supporters. Both Melissa and Marcie had about 10 – 12 supporters each speak on their behalf. Only two audience members spoke in support of Bill.
“The School Board is here this afternoon to hear from you: our community and constituents,” School Board Chair Micky Ogburn said at the beginning of the hearing. “The information gathered will be vital in helping us make a decision.” Not so vital, as it turns out.
Below are the numbers of emails that came into the “schoolboard” group email address per the instructions published by the School Board, or to the Board Clerk, directly. Emails to the clerk were then forwarded to the full Board, according to spokesperson Andy Jenks. These numbers do not include calls or emails directly to individual School Board members. The FoIA request for the content of the emails was denied since they are considered part of personnel records.
Melissa Dart – 167
Marcie Shea – 76
Bill Pike – 6
While state law prohibits School Board candidates from being listed with a party designation on a ballot, affiliations of sitting members and candidates are typically no secret based on endorsements received, other public support, and their stated positions. Melissa was the Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates in the 56th District in 2017. Marcie has received vocal support for her School Board candidacy from within the Western Henrico Tea Party. Both Melissa and Marcie have stated they do plan to run for this School Board seat in the 2019 election. Bill has been quoted in the press as saying it is too early to tell if he will run.
Without Lisa Marshall, the makeup of the School Board is two Democrats and two Republicans. Faced with an apparent partisan deadlock, the decision was made behind closed doors to compromise and give the interim seat to Bill Pike, despite the fact that Melissa Dart received overwhelmingly greater support from the community than either of the other two finalists.
Others have also expressed concern about the transparency of the selection process, which rejected 8 candidates including former School Board member Stuart Myers, who represented the Tuckahoe District prior to Lisa Marshall. The timing has also raised eyebrows, since the resignation would have triggered a special election in this year’s highly-contested November 6 general election if it had come a few weeks earlier.
In a week when a flawed Supreme Court selection process highlighted the country’s patriarchal chokehold, this was a particularly tone-deaf decision on the part of the Henrico County School Board.
All the School Board seats are up for grabs in November 2019.
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This week, I look into the new game The Mind’s Eclipse – a sci-fi visual novel game by the new studio, Mind’s Eclipse Interactive.
It has to be said that whilst some elements of the game were repetitive (e.g. the layout of the rooms), the rest of the game, such as it’s world buidling and plot, were stunning.
You can read my full impressions on the game using the link below:
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Hope you have a great week!
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Got the Sham Election Day blues? Let’s Go Bowling!
Posted on November 8, 2016 by wendyedavis | 119 Comments
You did remember to vote, didn’t you? Remember: every vote counts©! (Offer void in certain states, counties, and e-voting machines)
No matter which One of them ‘wins’ the Throne in the Big Top. we’ll be screwed. Some will keep living lives of quiet desperation…
The well-to-do will grin and bear it while living inside their gated communities trying to avoid the rabble outside the gates… “Are there no prisons? Are there no work houses?”
But there will always those who will Keep the Beacons lit..until springtime comes again, and the citizenry wakes the hell up and make their lives friction to jam the Machine that’s lasted too long.
Paintings by George Tooker, magical realist
Too many creamains today as there will be for a time, so for now: let’s go bowling!
and dancing!
Wooot! I ♥ production numbers! This must have taken hundreds of hours to piece together in synch (h/t bruce)…
Ant there’s always the night sky to make one feel…insignificant as all giddy-up.
Blessings to all of us, as well a a measure of grace.
Mexican proverb:
They tried to bury us…but they forgot that we’re seeds…
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119 responses to “Got the Sham Election Day blues? Let’s Go Bowling!”
jason | November 8, 2016 at 7:31 pm | Reply
“i’m glad to know he’s out there, takin’ it easy for all the rest of us sinners” the cowboy/stranger [sam neil] re: The Dude at the end of the Big L. doing stuff is sooooo overrated. all these Achievers and their plans & goals, screwin’ up the world for the rest of us.
Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
In thy fats our cares be drown’d,
With thy grapes our hairs be crown’d:
Cup us, till the world go round,
Cup us, till the world go round!
I might feel differently if i was in Flyoverville, but i’m looking forward to the remote possibility of waking up tomorrow to concern-furrowed brows & grimaces & hushed tones if Trump wins, as if they noticed for just the first time that one, or more, of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse is neighing and whinnying in their dreams. these pinnacles of world-historical insight didn’t notice the continuity b/n bush-clinton-bush-obama, what the hell do they know? i know, the world doesn’t revolve around me snickering at these overachievers, but still.
there are no longer any spiritual questions. The only question is: when will i get blown up? – W. Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel speech.
Let the world slide. We shall never be younger-Christopher Slye.
wendyedavis | November 8, 2016 at 8:11 pm | Reply
lol x3. dunno about flyoverville, but brown usians may shiver if the p*ssy man wins, but i’ll smile inside a bit on accountta…well, the rest of the planetary citizens and attilla the hen’s exceptional proclivities, plus as you say: the shock wake the fook up factor.
did faulkner say that? bless his heart, not that i care when i get blown up, i just hope it’s in the first strike. (unlikely here, unless something goes srsly awry w/ geolocators….
tacky of me not to offer an ‘offishul’ He/She-lection night thread, but so it goes. love will’s libation chant. but really i was comin’ back to say g’nite and confess that i peeked into the live coverage ant the paper of record. 104 to 170 then, which means that in a new york minute, everything can change, and in the morning, somebody’s goin’ to emergency, somebody’s goin’ to jail.
i peeked in too and part of me was hoping not to see what i saw. OHIO FOR TRUMP!!!!
“all the new shit going on since that polio guy, what are colored folks getting so worked up about?” many a stunned caucusoid caucuser caucusing at the 1956 Iowa & White Mountain, NH caucuses.
maybe trump being elected will compel some of us to turn off the TMZ celebrity/personality focus spotlights? look on the brite-lite side!
wendyedavis | November 8, 2016 at 10:05 pm | Reply
whooosh. i looked at 538.co., a bit ago, and nate was still predicting a 71% clinton chance. mr. wd just got home from his meeting, flicked on the tube, and he was on saying T 74% chance of winning. blowing the lid off red. holy shite. NC, FL, no call on PA, WI or MI. T is at 244. 270 wins. AZ still in play, tied in Pa now.
well…is this the start of people taking down the stage curtains down? well, sleep well, you’re national guard is awake…
TarheelDem | November 9, 2016 at 12:42 am | Reply
It’s Trump. Just changes the strategy.
Dicey @dicey__ 30m30 minutes ago
I don’t think there is any excuse for white leftists to continue arguing about race vs class. It’s clearly both, it always was. Get to work.
Voter suppression in North Carolina was sufficient, but NC elected a Dem Governor by 3000 votes. Watch for a recount.
Back to the movemental form of politics.
And Comrade HaHaHa can enjoy the entertainment as the collapse begins.
Oh, the polling was totally screwed. There’s one career that suddenly has become obsolete. Now on to the campaign consultants and lobbyists.
wendyedavis | November 9, 2016 at 8:06 am | Reply
so who’s dicey, thd? what form did the voter suppression in NC take? the earlier ID issues, or at the polls or both? who would ask for a recount, the clinton campaign? she apparently conceded to trump by phone; will she concede publicly, or wait to consider recount asks?
with this: “And Comrade HaHaHa can enjoy the entertainment as the collapse begins” are you suggesting that you’d rather have seen clinton win? was the collapse not happening already, and would she have reversed it? clearly she was advocating simpson/bowles again when in office, ttp privately, publicly not.
guess what i’m asking is that on the trajectory the u.s. has been on for so long, wasn’t this revolt almost inevitable? and his win pretty much put paid to duopoly politics. T voters must have had far more incentive to vote, and it will be fascinating to see the post-mortem stats, but not opinions. those idiots on nbc were so clueless; first time i’d seen any of them in prolly ten years. peggy noonan? my stars.
TarheelDem | November 9, 2016 at 1:25 pm | Reply
Given that the revolt from the left was so brutally suppressed and the electoral revolt from the left was bureaucratically suppressed, yes the massive revolt from the far right was what remained as it usually is in capitalist countries.
It is also a repudiation of the conservative intelligentsia that inhabit the comfortable jobs in think tanks, magazines, and publishing no matter how much some of them glom onto it. The rest were horrified by Trump. It was clarifying about the religious bona fides of Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. and now a bunch of local preachers.
I’m in North Carolina, called often this year the tipping point state. There were no third party other than libertarians on the ballot. The Republican Party here are the folks that cooked up a bill to legalize discrimination. Yes, I voted the straight D ticket with open eyes about what the national ticket would bring.
My issue with Trump is that I don’t know which Donald Trump will show up to be President–the one on the stump, the one at the debates, the one that gave his victory speech last night, or some other one. That means that I cannot guess what policies he might actually pursue other than more tax cuts for the rich (also a Clinton proposal) and building up the military. And repealing or reversing some part or all of Obamacare. I also don’t know how much he will drive policy or the political fights within the Republican caucus will drive policy. I fully expect McConnell to do what Reid refused for 10 years to do–completely eliminate the filibuster. I expect the House Republicans to get over their budget and appropriations paralysis and start sending cuts of taxes and spending through (except for the military).
I see that your vote did not flip Colorado nor did Juliania’s flip New Mexico. No charges of spoilers for you two. Would love to have seen some coverage of Green local and state wins instead of a national percentage. But congrats on 1%. That is a step toward taking power within the gates by having enough people outside the gates.
What is curious to me about Trump is his relationship to the deep state, the IC and national security agencies whose retired leaders so directly opposed him. Will Victoria Nuland suddenly retire or be consigned to some out-of-the-way posting? Will the remnants of the Bush era players be organized out of their current positions?
BTW, on appointments, the Plum Book is already up in an amazing demonstration of Obama administration transparency. It’s part of one President’s way of easing the passage of another President called the Presidential Transition Directory:
https://presidentialtransition.usa.gov/2015/09/23/plum-book/
It is the list of current political appointment positions in the Obama administration from which the incoming President can organize his set of political appointments. It also shows which ones have to get Senate confirmation. For the denizens of DC, it’s a job hunting manual for the plum jobs. For the rest of us it’s a program with the team positions for Trump’s rewarding of those who helped him. As you well recognize, it’s not merit-based.
Comrade Rax | November 9, 2016 at 9:30 am | Reply
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
We are Bar-Barians
No time for losers
‘Cause we are Bar-Barians of the world
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Socialism or Barbarism, comrade. Guess what those fucking compradors chose?
TarheelDem | November 9, 2016 at 12:41 pm | Reply
Right on cue and well played, Comrade.
good morning thoughts: first, holy hell, a revolt that the D’s didn’t see comin’, the blind hubristic fools. second, i wonder what team red queen thinks of their pied piper strategy now? we’ll likely never know if ‘america’s first black president’ and power/sex addict really asked T to run, but i would be interesting to know in order to be able to add into their Hubristic math.
it’s one for the history books, and hard not to imagine that poli-sci departments everywhere will be offering classes on it next term, isn’t it? yep, nate silver: what can ya say? while i never could have voted for him, i have to say that i’m glad he won, and hope even a red congress can save him from his most dangerous domestic policies; guess we’ll see, won’t we?
were i he, i’d pardon chelsea manning and julian assange straightaway, even if jerrilynn is correct that for that to happen, it implies sorta allocuting to a crime of which one hasn’t been convicted yet. she’d been speaking to the issue of the possibility of O pre-pardoning the not-queen before he heads out the door.
the dems self-immolated, no one to blame but themselves in the end. will they even begin to admit that? prolly not, if the tools anchoring the election results on nbc last night are any indications. no matter how many ian welshes of the blogosphere pontificate about how T is ‘for the working class’, well, how silly is that? because he wants a wall? (no, they don’t say that so much), or opposes the corporate trade bills? will he keep to that, or has he already waffled; i’m out of touch even w/ the headlines.
can working class movemental politics see the light in time? always being slaves of the Ds was a yuge part of why labor has been so easily discounted for so long. wsws has been reporting how many labor leaders have been shutting down strikes because: hellery. crap, a minimum wage bill passed in CO, but it was not much over 9 bucks, iirc. BFD. medicare for all failed 80/20, for cripes sake. mustta been a hella ad blitz by insurance companies.
the clinton dynasty has been broken, so we likely won’t see chelsea sitting at the resolute desk, will we? and that’s a good thing.
watching who T chooses both for his transition team and eventual cabinet will tell us some things, not others. did any of the elected federal Rs support him? yes, we can hear how he’ll enjoy saying ‘you’re fired’ as he creates his cabinet, or will some of O’s suit him well? how will the intel services and military respond? how much deep state mechanisms will just keep on regardless? that’s something i have no feel for, myself.
his FP policies are rather inscrutable, but many say that war w/ russia won’t happen, but what about the proxy wars, and china. the S china sea, and so forth. with clinton, we knew what we’d get; with T it’s up for grabs, and projection (people painting his canvas for him) will be epic.
yeah, i bet a hella lot of black and brown people are flipping their zoris; i would be, too. as is the EU collectively, of course. zo: four states are still undecided, but w/ 276 electoral votes, orangutan man’s got it.
dunno who @dicey is, but i’m not amused by his screaming at assange whatsoever. he’s doing ‘the Ds are the good guys’ rubbish, as far as i can tell. and: the DOW ha crashed!’ yeah, that’s been part of the problem, dicey, and well, they’re not the good guys, unless one prefers god, gays, and guns and other identity politics. i do hope that the fbi and irs do in fact srsly investigate the clinton foundation soon; that organization has been corrupt as hell, although again: not according to partisan Ds; are there any other kind?
@juliania: mr. wd quipped that we who voted green are now 1%
woooot!
juliania2 | November 9, 2016 at 8:17 am | Reply
Ha ha, yes, we are the 1%! I don’t really mind – I think it’s how far the abhorrence and disgust with anyone adhering to ‘Democratic’ principles got tainted by the current regime. It wasn’t sufficient to be promoting ‘old’ Democratic principles – throw the blighters out meant Jill as well.
This time around I don’t mind it too much, particularly if it turfs out all the people we shudder at – and the weak protests that ‘Bernie would have been better’ – ai! ai! ai! That’s just the Bernie you wish he was, not the Bernie he IS. The Bernie he IS is as tainted and flawed as all the rest of them, and proved it when he gave in to Hillary.
But just thinking (and hoping) that Samantha Powers will be GONE, not to mention the big “C”s – well, I’m sure there will be others we’ll love to hate, but whee!
In New Mexico, the reverse was true for local politics because we all love to hate the Republican regime in the Roundhouse these days, and are still hoping our Democrats are far enough away from the rot in DC that they are working still for the people they represent. I don’t know enough about local politics to know if this is true – Richardson did both good and bad, and that tainted mix is there with our DC representatives though maybe this will help them return to the fold.
more than two cents’ worth here, juliania. one correction: the blighted bern not only gave in to hillary, he quite actively campaigned w/ her. no, few of his supporters saw who he was, most especially his wont for future foreign misadventures coupled with “we must have the strongest military in the world”. kinda moots a lot of his fdr fiscal policy and climate change advocacies, doesn’t it? wonder how he felt when he saw the podesta emails re: ‘we must grind sanders to a pulp!”
yes, i s’pose jill might have gone the way of ‘throw all the blighters out’, but too many on the #fakeLeft likely voted for the dethroned queen because: trump.
glad you’re okay w/ local NM results, here, pfffffft. same shit, different day, including the re-election of scott tipton to congress. he’s a sagebrush rebellionite advocating to ‘give all the federal lands back to the states’. double pfffft. local results aren’t in; somehow things got mucked up w/ the CO database, and the county ballots weren’t even counted by early this a.m. (separate issues). this county mailed ballots out (than you), but where the stamp would go, the envelope said: ‘affix adequate postage here’. wth? it turned out that it took an average of 21 cents more. i did look it up online, and the PO does deliver them, even without stamps, and guess who pays the extra? the county. gotta love the wackiness of that. or not, of course.
shootthatarrow | November 9, 2016 at 8:19 am | Reply
…hi wd
…as ” mornings after ” go this early Wed AM is a standout if one has been slogging it politically the past year, last 4, 8, 12 or since 9/11 or 1992 or 1988 or 1980 or 1968 or November 1963 and what the Dulles Boys did to JFK and we USians.
…I was born when Ike was still in his first WH term so will stop there but we USians now have another WH winner and newly minted Electoral College ” President-Elect ” this Wed AM. My companion who comes from another far away land was confused this AM by how USian ” democracy ” works seeing how HRC may have had a larger popular vote count than D.Trump but still lost this WH election.
… Needless to say trying to explain to someone from a part of the planet where USian Democracy is marketed and Bernaysed by USian Empire as the Be All of how to how run things is not easy. I had to drag out my Eisenhower era vintage late 1950’s World Book E to look up it’s Electoral College entry to help explain things. The history and place and function of the Electoral College in USian WH politics really is university level course sort of thing.
…Anyhoo… USian Uni-Bi-Party “democracy” being what it is and is not has now delivered USians from 4 years of Clinton/D Clan run WH…I am thankful for this.
… I have few/no illusions of what having D.Trump as POTUS may lead to ( see Barack Obama’s post November 2008 duplicity riddled performance ) but will give DT six months and two years just as I did with BO to Walk The Talk and move the ball downfield in ways that align in viewable ways with the pitched Claims of DT’s WH Campaign. Barack Obama never made it to the 6 Month mark as it is or was and forget about BO’s Two Year mark. See ObamaDon’tCare as Exhibit #1, Bush/Cheney Not Looking Back as Exhibit #2 and WallSt./Big Banks/Obama-Holder Scam-Bamboozle as Exhibit#3.
…D.Trump can easily beat Obama in his first Six Months as POTUS if inclined to do so ( doubtful ) and will do so ( see doubtful ).
…USian Empire + ( CIA, NSA, Pentagon M-I-C-C etc. ) still here today like it was yesterday and it ain’t likely going away in my lifetime. However and hopefully doing some Atomic War is now not at DefCon 5 for the next couple of years or the next decade. Being the Pragmatic Idealist I am I could and can live with that being so. ;-)
wendyedavis | November 9, 2016 at 10:10 am | Reply
this is great. first, in your companion’s nation, was the simple majority popular vote all that counted, a in: would some margin of error cause a recount? good on you for reading up on the electoral college; i can’t remember the particulars, but on one of the election pages i saw last night, it was said that if the were a tie in electoral votes, three house reps would decide. no note of which three, but…it seemed pointless to look up when t-man was at 244 in any event.
your exhibit #s were great, your patience time horizon is longer than i might have imagined or given him. may your final paragraph prove so. up yonder i’d mentioned Ds failing to admit…etc.? take a gander at this, including the graphic. this place kinda/sorta banned me, small wonder. but for the first two graphs, the banner blogger could be speaking of both O and hellery. and i think she isn’t doing a riff on putin’s question in her title.
Nate Silver’s model showed a fascinating picture of a wide swath of relatively equally likely outcomes. His estimate of electoral votes was taken from the mean of that distribution, which on Monday night was 300 electoral votes for Clinton. The actual results look to be within one standard deviation of the mean. The actual popular vote is within the sampling margin of error.
It wasn’t Silver as much as people who do not understand statistics attributing more certainty to the forecast than was actually there.
The distribution is symptomatic of a data set that has lots of outliers all along through the various tracking polls. That points to some sampling process issues or a phenomenon that was basically changeable in spite of a poll in which people claimed they hadn’t changed their minds about who they were voting for. That should prove an interesting analysis because systematic voter suppression in random locations could generate those outliers. (Among other things that could) Some graduate student will surely pick up the analysis of this failure of polling as a thesis or dissertation project.
Dicey’s a tweeter from Occupy Wall Street days who has some observant political opinions. He supported Clinton for concern about Trump, which was more electoral than I suspected he would be. Most of his tweets have been movemental politics. He’s in NYC, sort of the epicenter of Clinton organizing.
Just going back and forth between TarheelDem and Jason above, I think the latter has the pertinent quote. “All the new sh__ since that polio guy. . .what are colored folks getting so worked up about?” trumps (heh) class and race, in my book. Lovely quote, Jason.
egad, ww; now i see that you’ve focused on that quote, i can see he’d meant fdr. (bless my pointed li’l empty head.)
jason | November 9, 2016 at 10:34 am | Reply
thanks juliania2. sweet booze was working its dark magic last night.
juliania2 | November 9, 2016 at 12:45 pm | Reply
And I was in a “Life longing for itself” mode I guess – it just came to me that even a black person or a person feeling downtrodden would respond positively to the sentiment expressed therein – there could be give and take on a personal level, whereas abstractions do tend to mummify. (Well, that’s way too abstract in itself) It just tickled my funnybone, is all.
FBI wins – CIA loses!
The Women’s Liberation Movement may be considered as subversive to the New Left and revolutionary movements as they have proven to be a divisive and factionalizing factor…. It could be well recommended as a counterintelligence movement to weaken the revolutionary movement.”
– an August, 1969 report by the head of the San Francisco FBI office.
CIA too tricky but now their work is done. Time for coup de grace.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
that was from those videos i’d mentioned to jason on the sidebar of the ‘steinem speaks of her cia days’, wasn’t it? ‘she dated kissinger? so what, so did candace bergen!’ ‘cia steinem target black women’ mightta been interesting. ;-)
the neighbor told me she just took a walk to the local Big Pharm and the non-caucasoids are looking worried & asking how this country could be so stupid. all of them sharing concern about The Wall, deportation, police violence, muslim registration, etc. and then the clincher, the lesson, from the neighbor: “I guess i’m going to have to get more involved with democratic party.” major groan. i suggested to her that she not be surprised if the victims of trumpery decide they cannot simply resort to electoral politics. she said, “you mean, RIOTS????” i didn’t reply, and she had to split.
what shall we do? what shall we ever do? “the goddam plane has crashed into the mountain!” (the big L). i suppose it’s a good thing that Trump, in his anti-immigrant, anti-muslim, pro-police violence, etc. rhetoric is verbalizing what this country is all about. It will be difficult for many people to see thru the illusion that, e.g., grotesque anti-muslim violence, state violence, didn’t start with trump. but we will no longer be subject to the fake tears over, e.g., Dylan Roof’s victims. maybe we’ll jettison the idiotic R2P humanitarian BS about jargon about war.
the first line of tyranny in this country, for many people, is the employer, the boss. In the interest of money, the big businesses will accommodate themselves to the new regime & compel employees to do likewise. Retirees, you’ve got nothing to lose. or maybe less. if such things start happening, we can all go & register w/our muslim neighbors. Hire illegals (& convicts) off the books, churches & other groups offer sanctuary, refuse to participate in whatever way possible, taxes, lie to the gov’t as much as possible, wear whatever the equivalent of the gold star badge will be, the gold taco or crescent or what have you, do a kickstarter campaign to fund tunnelers to dig under/around/thru/over any walls, etc.
anyway, we’ve still got what, 3 months? of the current asshole. any prospective action to be taken against trump should have been undertaken against obama et al long ago.
for your neighbor and for the great orange satan touting the bern for the head of the DNC:
patrick martin at wsws has some of the facts and demographics on the election.
eric garner’s daughter must be takin’ a boatload of grief for being glad of the election results:
WE lost portions of the civil rights act under Obama. WE were already taking steps back and would have continued under either President. https://t.co/OfeyaLQcwR
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) November 9, 2016
and one more time:
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
~ Frank Zappa
based on cnn’s projections, they calculate 289 trump, 218 clinton, with clinton earning .2% more votes, that’s point 2 percent.
dunno how accurate exit polls are, but here’s cnn’s. a few noteworthy features.
none of you had mentioned tooker’s artwork; i’m enchanted by it
i’m curious about this:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/11/09/pers-n09.html
“Obama’s signature domestic program, the Affordable Care Act, was an assault on health care packaged as a reform. In the final weeks of the election, millions of workers discovered that they are facing double-digit increases in health care costs. This was likely far more important in affecting the outcome of the election than the actions of FBI director James Comey in reviving the Clinton email scandal.”
the timing of it, not the fact of the premium increases itself. i don’t know when these hikes were/are to go into effect but i find it hard to believe that these big insurers gave no thought to the impact of this on the election.
shootthatarrow | November 9, 2016 at 1:55 pm | Reply
…Have seen and read your comments often here at cafe-b but this is first time for making a followup comment…
…How ACA was gamed by Uni-Bi-Party D’s and the K Street and AHIP lobby and vested interest gangs in WashDC to not begin until after 2012 WH election said and showed so much about what Pelosi and Obama and the Uni-Bi-Party D’s were most interested in gaining by having laid and hatched the rotten ACA egg during 2009 – 2010.
…ACA actually having origins as a Uni-Bi-Party R “reform concept” that also was known as RomneyCare. So for anyone paying attention while Barack Obama and the Capitol Hill D’s were flimflamming we USians about doing some actual USian healthcare ” reform “during 2009 and 2010 the irony of the R’s not backing the D’s who were doing a R healthcare reform plan spoke volumes.
…AHIP had well placed fixers in Obama WH and up on CapHill to ensure ACA was little more than a income transfer of USG tax money to main AHIP gang members. What else would you call what has now taken place since 2012? Now here in 2016 my big guess is AHIP and the D’s will try to pour lots of cement around the ” sanctity ” of ObamaDon’tCare while shaking down AHIP members healthcare done for $$$profits money trees and the R’s will be shaking the same AHIP trees for $$$ to not undo ACA or stop the $$$ flows to AHIP.
…So what a Trump WH and the CapHill R’s do or do not do about ACA Debacle as now seen unfolding should/will reveal if the plan all along was to put the fix in for AHIP being and remaining in the middle of USian healthcare access/gatekeeping/money collecting and profits skimming. It is knowable health insurance is not healthcare and it is also knowable USians do not need AHIP to do USian healthcare with a national Single Payer/MedicareForAll plan in place and being done.
…When Medicare was begun back in the mid 1960’s it was built and up and running ( without lots of computers everywhere ) in a short span of time. ACA was a drawn out multi-year slow motion political and policy gaming trainwreck that now is going off the rails. Why?
…I am speculating it was intended all along to game ACA into 2017- 2018 and then open up the USG tax money coffers wider and higher to pour more USG(taxpayer $$$) into current USian healthcare regime big players pockets and Wall St. accounts. What will common USians be getting? More of the same as seen since 2009 and 2012.
… Goshgollygeewhiz…imagine that…hope I am very wrong…I do.
hi there. your comments make a lot of sense. i will be pleasantly surprised if Trump takes on ACA. if the wsws crowd are to believed, one purpose of ACA is to crack open the medicare/aid coffers to private insurers. I’m certain they are right. one indication of the direction Trump is headed is his naming of a Goldman Sachs exec (i forget the name) as his desired Sec of the Treasury.
Voter suppression in North Carolina used all of the tools at a majority party’s disposal except the Attorney General, who was Democrat and maybe governor-elect Roy Cooper.
Purging voter lists of “felons” and any names loosely like those of listed felons, constrained by the address in only certain neighborhoods.
Vote caging. Sending out innocent looking postcards that look like many advertising postcards with a return card. But this one is requesting proof of address; failure to return it causes a challenge to registration. Local Republican parties did this on a mass basis. Often the voter doesn’t know until they go to vote and can’t. One of Rev. Barber’s major efforts early in the election cycle was having people check and recheck their registration status. There were several court cases brought up and reversing the purging on an individual basis. It is an illegal practice. A Republican operative in Rhode Island went to jail for it in the mid-part of the Bush administration.
Phony remember to vote on …date with the wrong date.
Reduction of early voting hours
Reduction of early voting sites and having sites inconvenient to transportation from minority neighborhoods.
Asking for voter ID even after a court struck down that part of the NC statute passed when the Republicans gained the power to do that in the General Assembly. Denying that a valid DMV ID issued under that judicially vacated law was a valid ID.
Differentially challenging voters to show ID.
Requiring a literacy test. One of our African-American friends had to real three paragraphs before voting.
Creating delays that cause people to wait for long periods in line. People with non-discretionary job hours or other commitments have to leave and never vote.
Cruising voting places with firearms. NC like many now is an open-carry state.
The targeted areas seemed to be the areas of Republican controlled Boards of Elections of some bigger bipartisan places–Wilmington, Fayetteville, Greensboro, and many smaller counties.
heilige scheisse. makes me question my “voting doesn’t matter” posture. to an extent.
quite a long list, the pigs. although i got purged in our county this year, but got it straightened out in the end. but north carolina was one state that caused me to include: “(Offer void in certain states, counties, and e-voting machines)”.
the ‘new jim crow laws’, indeed. reading is the one that really pisses me off. like the old ‘citizens’ tests’ blacks were given. good gawd all-friday. the key, of course, is the long fealty blacks have had to the democrats.
but yes, jason, even if one *chooses* not to vote, one has the right to. some states have even begun allowing felons to vote, i’m pretty sure.
The long fealty that blacks have with the Democrats switched from the long fealty that blacks had with the Republicans with Coolidge-Hoover’s toleration of the KKK and the election of FDR with Eleanor Roosevelt’s ambassador relationship with the civil rights movement. They split parties until Nixon’s Ethnic (“Southern”) Strategy tilted toward the segregationists South and North. Reagan’s tour spiking desegregated schools in the name of fighting school busing solidified them in the Democratic Party as did both Jimmy Carter’s fighting segregation in Georgia as governor and Bill Clinton’s fighting segregation in Arkansas. Yes, they are easily taken for granted by the elites. I know some Abraham Lincoln black Republicans who hang in the GOP hoping that on occasion their present softens the general tone of the conservative GOP. The Civil Rights Movement occurred during the brief period that blacks split support between the parties. Jacob Javits was a much hated Republican civil rights advocate in the South Carolina of my youth even as the Dixiecrats were moving into the Republican Party.
i reckon most of us are familiar w/ that history, although not to your degree. good grief, ‘phoenix woman’ at fdl brought that constantly, along with go fund me’s for swatches of solar roadways. but with all due respect, do you both risk infantilizing blacks for only being able to harken to the past, and failing to notice what dems have failed to deliver to them (at least) since obama and clinton? when i watch comfortable blacks give O and the dethroned-queen and her hubbie props, i srsly wonder about their willful ignorance. i won’t even bother to list the policies past three-strikes (for profit prisons), erase glass-steagal, welfare ‘reform’.
see my telesur link at the bottom of the thread: not co-opted activists.
TarheelDem | November 10, 2016 at 3:10 pm | Reply
Around here, blacks are the least infantilized voters. They don’t vote for Democrats for what they have done in the past, they vote for blacks and Democrats for what the GOP is doing to them in the present — trying to roll back the gains of the 1960s while pretending that it is individual responsibility that is important. The comfortable blacks you see on the media likely are part of the political class in one way or another. Even Republican blacks voted for Clinton over Trump, just for the rhetoric that Trump used and his long-term history of discrimination (within his power as a private businessman) and his evasion of responsibility when caught in it. O gets props solely for busting the barrier twice and private criticism for some of his policies (his Kansas background, heh). He is in fact from a policy standpoint ignorant of many blacks’ experiences and cautious not to cause a white riot. #blacklivesmatter was out of his range of personal understanding but within his ability to provide the platitudes of an outside organizer.
There is a picture going around of the White House staff as Obama makes his statement about the election. The grim looks of especially those like Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice who were responsible for some critical failures of policy are striking. I wonder if they understand what happened yet.
wendyedavis | November 10, 2016 at 4:19 pm | Reply
then perhaps i’m the one who am infantilizing them [on edit: but margaret kimberly has the right to give similar advice, imo], but i wasn’t referring to blacks in NC, but the long history of being tied to the dems, as are trade unions, with so little to show for it. that trump won in PA and MI shocked me to the core, but then..will we ever know how many clinton voters stayed at home? how many third party candidates have there been that offered better possibilities for not only blacks, but for all working people of the underclass?
reagan and nixon were certainly horrific for people of color in inner cities (the drug wars, sending crack into the ‘ghettos’, etc., but bill clinton not only ramped up the policies and the black incarceration rate, further punished those w/o jobs w welfare reform, but O’s policies made sure that wealth inequality would be even more hideous for people of color than ever before.
meanwhile, the black caucus and the naacp pretty much focused on affirmative action, pissing off whites to beat the band.by the by, i don’t watch teevee media at all, but sure, what one would see is well-off blacks.
the walmart/wall street queen’s folks did a great job with the ‘black lives mothers’ event; i’ll have to hand it to them, and to her. bubba must have given her tips on how to look empathetic. ‘tell the story’ is great advice, isn’t it? it went viral, all of it, especially after her initial reaction to being interrupted at campaign events.
the further away from one the politician up for election is, the less important voting is. local vs. state. vs. national. my anti-voting BS is mostly about national elections. referenda are a different matter. smoke ’em if you got ’em, CA!
yes! if one only voted on local elections, judicial retentions, referenda…our ballot had 24 ballot initiatives this time. some were once again, poorly named, or backward-named on purpose, such as the ‘make it harder to amend the CO constitution’. that is worthy in many respects, considering how impossible it’s been to rewind TABOR, but this time it was brought by the fossil fuel corps. in order to prevent cities, counties, making almost home-rule laws that outlawed fracking. it passed, of course, as did one poorly titled that would have stopped prisons from forcing inmates to work for pennies, one key issue behind the national prisoner strikes of late. but my guess is that few understood what it was in aid of.
but like bills on ‘death taxes’ agitprop, R’s used to be the masters of that verbiage, no more.
i’m far behind, and may never catch up; i’m still behind on the ‘personal note’ thread. again, i’m glad you’re speaking to each other, and thank you. i don’t do ‘must reads’, but i will recommend this, and i’m so glad to have run into while looking for some specific international news far overshadowed by this electoral circus. this is exactly the reason i was glad that clinton was defeated and applaud the fact that so many seemed to see thru this sham system, even down to voting for such a one as trump. we collectively need to birth a better world of people poer from the bottom…up. bless their hearts.
‘F**k the Elections, Let’s Keep Organizing: US Activists’: teleSUR, Nov 7
“The U.S. elections have left millions out of the equation. Many people, especially young people, vow to continue organizing after Nov. 8 and refuse to settle for the antics of the 2016 presidential campaign. Hailing from the East, West, Midwest and South of the U.S., these youth talk about fighting the whole rotten system.
Rebecka Jackson: “Nov. 8 brings up a series of questions for voters with good intentions. What is the greater evil — a rapist or a person who has sent armed militants to rape and murder thousands all over the globe? Who is more dangerous — a person who would allow Muslims in the U.S. to be profiled and degraded or a person who gives Israel funding to enforce apartheid?
We have the progeny of the Klu Klux Klan against a flag-waving war hawk. Ultimately, anyone with the slightest bit of foresight knows the inevitability of either presidency: corporations win, more poor people die.
Under either candidate, the loss of life will likely be in the millions. Neither candidate has hinted at trying to terminate police brutality, oil or coal production, factory farming, cobalt mining or deforestation. In order to keep these industries booming it cost millions of lives and more abject slavery. On top of that, both candidates would need to continue to fuel the war economy. This will cost the world countless lives as the imperialist invasion through the Middle East and the Global South continues.
Activist and organizers are left with one choice — socialism. Both at the ballot box and in the streets. Socialism rises naturally from the people when they have been pushed to the edges of their humanity when they realize how inherently broken the current system is. The elections should only be a tool used to push awareness for socialism through third party candidates. Nov. 8 can only serve as the last mock exercise of a broken oligarchy in its attempt to cover yet another spurious election.”
jackson has more, and six others speak out in a similar fashion. the rest is here.
Comrade Rax | November 9, 2016 at 7:24 pm | Reply
CIA has long understood the importance of propaganda functioning as a local anaesthetic to control the [comprador] McLeftists.
Amurkan “liberals”‘ legacy is to have cemented a reactionary elite in place in a decadent empire. And, ooops, liberal dreams of prosperity no longer sway Amurka. Now, when socialism rises naturally from the people, war of even more desperate and pervasive character must be manufactured in response.
Perhaps “pragmatists” are responsible for the next holocaust.
Bruce | November 9, 2016 at 4:35 pm | Reply
InDeed ! Let US Roll !!
Mebbe repeating, but surely Rhymes !!!
yep, that was the gingrich revolution: no moar munny for pbs, the commies! zo…where’s the place untouched by man? mayberry woods? j/k/
juliania2 | November 9, 2016 at 6:01 pm | Reply
debsisdead on MofA just linked to NZHerald – John Key is saying TPP is dead – that’s big news because he just shunted it through Parliament. Says no Hillary=no deal. “Hillary Clinton, a firm friend of New Zealand. . .”
Shitez! Are the Atlanticists jumping ship already? Cause Queen Mab is denied her crown? What “local” monsters may rise now, now that pragmatic hegemonsters are falling?
V. Arnold | November 9, 2016 at 6:15 pm | Reply
The Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times; has just come in spades.
A dysfunctional government, of a dysfunctional society, has just held a dysfunctional election and elected a dysfunctional human to lead.
The irony is that the one who lost was equally dysfunctional…
We’ll see…
grand construction of the situation, v arnold. but i might stir in: sociopathic, sham democratic, and end-times capitalistic as well. the proles are stirred unless…they organize and kick back. of course, ‘will we/they
?’ is the question. i like the folks interviewed by telesur above. they done got moxy! ya got think it has to be a global movement now, eh? and not cia/otpor-constructed color revolutions.
loved this socialist’s tweet i’d forgotten to give shoot-that-arrow up yonder:
Presidents come and go, but subversion and destabilization by CIA front organizations just keeps rolling along. https://t.co/1ZRr57Avq3
— Club des Cordeliers (@cordeliers) November 9, 2016
Club des Cordeli put his finger solidly on the modus operandi of the deep state. Great tweet WD, thanks.
He affirms my main reason for saying, it no longer matters who sits in the Oval Office.
The “system” cannot be “fixed” from within said system. Once that is understood, solutions become possible, IMO.
V. Arnold | November 10, 2016 at 4:24 am | Reply
Oh boy; by “fixed” I mean repaired, not fixed in the conspiratorial sense.
This is where words matter, no?
wendyedavis | November 10, 2016 at 6:31 am | Reply
i got to musing later about your term ‘dysfunctional’, though, v arnold. it occurred to me that the system’s functioning as intended for our rulers, sadly. which party occupies the oval matters around the edges, i suppose, but not on the most substantial matters. it’ll be fascinating to see how much pushback T and his red team get from Ds, won’t it?
as to deep state, yes. i started a series on compromised NGOs based on wrongkindofgreen.org’s investigations, but they dug out some very helpful info on the histories of some of the cia ‘do-good’ front organizations and humanitarian orgs, [added on edit] the funding of such, including the brand name stars of the climate change movement: mckibben and klein. already, of course, the msm are projecting what hideous changes T will make given his stated plans. but some commenters reply: “but that’s been happening already!” so yes, we’ll see, or at least see what we’re ‘permitted’ to see of the sausage-making.
added on edit:
But perhaps, you will finally see what we were saying to you all along — that it does not matter which figurehead is at the helm of Empire
— Tankie Sea Creature (@flagrantdolphin) November 9, 2016
ha ha. sausage-making; it starts. the hill has a version of list ‘given’ to buzzfeed news on T’s possible choices for cabinet heads, w/ the usual caveats. trial balloon leak or something else? i won’t give names away save for one i’d hoped never to see again: the former gov ‘i can see russia from my front porch’, john mccrankypants’ running mate. for…wait for it: secretary of the interior’. srsly, that presser she did in front of the dude grinding the heads off turkeys was about the funniest thing i ever saw. ;-) so…fargo.
shootthatarrow | November 10, 2016 at 8:15 am | Reply
… As zingers of well seen and said truth(s) this CdC tweet goes and gets to the middle wd…thanks for posting it wd ….
…I find it is only possible to seek out, scan, read more deeply and then correlate and synthesize only a small part of what is floating across the Inet daily or weekly or monthly as I only have a limited amount of time, energy and brain space. Had not seen CdC before or prior. I easily can and do concur with this CdC tweet.
…It was easy for me to lean towards ” radical and revolutionary politics and social pov’s ” back there in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Being gay and anti-USian imperialism/militarism in rural upper midwest USonia honed my skill set(s) for needing to see and know my position vis a vis who I was with, where I was and what was happening now or could happen and might happen. Either you wise up and learn to blend and bend and zig-zag when needed while always proceeding towards where you would like to be or you found / find out the hard way. Who wants to find out the hard way–sorry ….not me….;->
…As it is I concluded a long time ago that we USians should be seeing and voting for/against who runs the CIA, NSA and Pentagon in ways no different than how we get to ” choose or vote ” for or against who wants to be the R or D POTUS or in Congress or who gets to be a Governor. At least we could make the James Clappers and John Brennans and Ash Carters sweat and squirm once in the while in real world ways and maybe even remind them being fascists and militarists has consequences. While we are at it let us also consider being able to vote up or down on whether CIA or NSA or Pentagon get to continue and how they will continue if allowed to do so.
… Imagine that kind of USian Democracy being so…
…I Ask And Say Why Not? ….Why Not?
voting for heads of the cia, dni, pentagon: our rulers couldn’t have that now, could they? it smacks of giving the power to ‘the people’ (shudder).
now voting on the ‘whether or not’ those agencies are disbanded, i might add: police, DHS, etc., but in an actual horizontal democracy, would there be a cabinet level department of peace instead? (denis kucinich)
i that figure true, jason? podesta spirit cooking; oh, crikey, that was simply sick.
in his election autopsy at CP, john steppling used the same quote by mumia abu-jamal, then quoted his friend (la progressive gonzo journalist)
paul header:
““They walk like zombies, these zithering electronic, Yuppies, post-hippies, old timers, millennials, baby boomers, so many tied to the hope that they, with educations, day-to-day day jobs, will overcome the neoliberal onslaught of total democratic death…As long as there are TGIF’s and night with the Happy Baseball-Football-Final Four Hour, then one paycheck away, well, it makes so much sense that the street people, favela, gangs of dirty, those Oliver Twists, the Breaking Bad fodder, well, they deserve the endless wet, moldy, rotting lives…{ }
These people in the doorways in downtown Portland are a microcosm of the decay worldwide. It doesn’t matter where the capitalism in CAPITAL shows its face, rears its ugly hydra face as it eats the bowels of society. Money for the elite, for those babbles and those empty rooms, those mansions and aircraft carrier-sized yachts, all those destroyers offshore, bombing cultures, indigenous, all those givers and keepers of the real knowledge, splayed, gutted, that’s the creation of the homeless, the destitute, the insane and near insane, folded brains because of the elite’s pharmacopeia game, the giant experiment…”
[on edit]: ‘The Day According to Club des Cordeliers on Twitter’, café babylon, May 19, 2016 dedicated socialist; some say ‘tankie’; dunno.
jason | November 10, 2016 at 9:33 am | Reply
99% (or is it 99.99%?) of the state apparatus doesn’t change b/c of an election. w/all the threat-inflation of these candidates (Messican-islamo-syrian isis border jumpers! soviet cyber-spooks!)? the ghouls running this show will have nothing to say to chef trump beyond, “way to spirit cook that shit sandwich!”
“Have Fantasy with all her chorus, yes,
Mind, Reason, Passion, Tears, the lot,
But don’t you leave out Foolishness.
Make sure, above all, plenty’s happening there!
They come to look, and then they want to stare.
Spin endlessly before their faces,
So the people gape amazed.
The masses are only moved by massiveness.
I tell you, just give them more and more,
So you’ll never stray far from the mark
Just seek to confuse them, in the dark…”
The Michael Bay theory of spectacle-making, excerpts from the “prologue in the theater,” G’s Faust, pt 1.
funniest headline: “How the data failed us in calling the election,” oh NYT. facts don’t do what i want them to, facts just twist the truth around, facts just leave things upside down.
“she’s a great person who’s done wonderful things in her lifetime of service to this country.” “we all wish for the success of the new administration.” blah blah blah.the curtain has come down; watch the performers congratulate each other. jolly good show!
thanks for the laughs; this was perfect for this morning. the faust was perfection, esp. “the masses are only moved by massiveness” (see red map and more!). hard to know how ‘foolishness’ fits w/ the once-and-future queen dethroned, but ‘facts just leave things upside down’ pricked an image of them actually hanging from a tree by black wires. brilliant.
the white house emailed the current occupant’s congratulations by video, with about 9000 words of “we’re all in this together!” truer words were never spoken: of course they are. ;-) yes, jolly good show; pip, pip, and all that rot!
‘…facts just leave things upside down’ -talking heads. i forget which song.
“why are you bitches protesting #trump? go protest #dapl.” word.
i just love the “what will we say to the children!!!!” what did you say to your children about assassinations by drone? let me guess…
wendyedavis | November 10, 2016 at 10:01 am | Reply
lol. it echos: on that librul diary at (the accursed) dagblog i’d give to sta up yonder, with a graphic of the constitution is flames, no less, one of the site owners said he held his infant daughter up to the window yesterday morn’, and burst into sobs.
on edit: ““why are you bitches protesting #trump? go protest #dapl.” word.”
@abowersock “Months of #NoDapl water protectors gathering by the thousands, and no media coverage. People protest Trump and it’s plastered everywhere.”
unicorn riot: ‘Dakota Access Announces Plan to Drill Under Missouri River Within Weeks’, November 8, 2016
“Many claims have been made that the Army Corps of Engineers, in negotiations with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, had ordered a 30-day pause on DAPL construction. As we reported on Sunday, the Army Corps has in fact clarified that the 30-day halt was “only a proposal” and no work stoppage has been implemented.”
unicorn riot has also been streaming trump protests. reuters reports that based on things trump has said, he’ll not only support this one, but allow the KXL.
on the other thread shootthatarrow and i were speaking of pardons, and i’d ended up mentioning mumia in a short list, but i did suddenly remember this café post from july: ‘If Trump is the price we have to pay to defeat Clintonian neoliberalism – so be it.’ – Mumia Abu-Jamal”, cafe babylon
it’s long, but not quite as long as mark lewis taylor’s essay at CP from july of this year in which he’d written:
“Trumpian authoritarianism and Clintonian neoliberalism are actually co-partners in a joint system of rule. Trump’s authoritarianism is often a hidden bitter fruit of Clintonian neoliberalism. Social movements for democracy must fight them both together.”
in my diary, i led w/ paul jay and henry giroux staunchly maintaining that ‘trump must be stopped at all costs’, while claiming that it’s not just a ‘lesser evil’ argument, but a strategy of being better for ‘an independent peoples’ struggle’. elect clinton, or get rounded up in camps, planet death, etc. by fascist trump.
taylor’s careful to say that if anglos are part of a dissident movement of the most oppressed, they must just be allies, not leaders, a theme we’ve heard before, and many whites, esp. academics…disregard. but the interviews of the socialist activists of color caused me to think that it will come…and i hope to see ajamu baraka involved.
more musings from club de cordeliers:
@cordeliers 2h2 hours ago
1. Expect continuity of US imperialism under Trump; likely Sec’y of State Bob Corker is if possible worse than Kerry wrt Russia, Syria, etc.
@cordeliers 2h2 hours ago
2. Corker attacked Obama administration for being insufficiently supportive (!) of fascist junta in Ukraine.
4. Corker, a stalwart ally of Syrian contras, accused Obama of “empowering Syrian strongman Bashar] Assad.”
5. If Trump appoints Corker, assume the fix is in – that Trump’s agreed to climb on board with ruling class program of worldwide aggression.
7. Assume that the ruling class figures who pull the strings checked out Trump, found him sound and reliable, and gave him the go-ahead –
i skipped a couple numbers that i didn’t think were as solid.
jason | November 10, 2016 at 12:37 pm | Reply
bob “who the hell is that?” corker, huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Corker
ladies & gentlemen, we have a wiener! merit pay for teachers, real estate background (his first fortune was via putting in more efficient *drive thru windows* at some of our finer obesity factories), anti-union, racist campaign ads, anti-abortion, big tax cuts, sale of protected wetlands, states do their own off-shore drilling, more “hawkish” than obama & trump, hearts jeebus, etc. why didn’t he run for president?
now don’t be so hasty in declaring ‘the weiner’; there are allegedly other contenders. dunno why cordeliers zeroes in on corker, but mebbe cuz he’s the lesser-known evil? according to the list buzfeed had ‘obtained’ by way of the transition tea, the three contenders are: newtie, john bolton, and corker. now corker’s a real corker, but john bolton? nah, even he reckoned he couldn’t make it thru a senate confirmation back in the day. the moustache of vengeance, maybe? (newtie shows up elsewhere, as do many on ‘da list’.
might it be case of newtie and bolton are known (haroomphs), corker is lesser-known for cordeliers?
palin for interior, the idiotic ben carson for education? ‘he’s not a brain surgeon’! oh wait, yes he is!
jason | November 10, 2016 at 5:09 pm | Reply
oh gawd, b/n trump’s hair & boulton’s ‘stache…mustache of vengeance. like it. listening to the opening of PBS Nooz hour, it is so exciting to hear how well they are all getting along. Rudy Ghouliani??? when will Michelle get to speak again at the NAACP? you know, w/people she doesn’t have to pretend to like, unlike Melania.
I’ve heard Gingrich and I’ve heard Corker (which would trigger a special election in Tennessee). So far looks like a lot of establishment Republicans not a matter of “draining the swamp”.
A result I expected. Trump as an actor for co-opting the anger of the hinterland outside the cultural capitals of the Beltway, Wall Street, Burbank, and Silicon Valley. Even rural NC is “flyover country”.
Even without Corker, that is where I always assumed Trump would come down, even with Lindsey Graham not endorsing him and John McCain waffling. There are hopeful lefties who think that some of his national security advisors who know where the bodies are buried, but I think that this is loony. Trump’s use was to herd up the angry backlash against Obama as well as the deep anger at the failure to bring peace and prosperity in eight years. For Mitch McConnell, this is “Mission Accomplished”.
Here’s the mobile app version of the Plum Book, which lists all of the political appointments listed after 2012. If Trump is interested in “draining the swamp”, he’ll reduce the number of positions in this book.
It’s fascinating reading about the folks who aren’t in the media.
https://m.gpo.gov/plumbook/
lol. i’ll have to leave that sort of entertainment to you, amigo. ‘drain the swamp’ lingo: “you’re fired!” i was telling mr. wd that the only time i’ve hard orgre man speak was waaaay back when all we had was antenna teevee, and an ad for that show would come on.
no mention that “america’s sheriff” joe arpaio is out?
Yes, there are downticket bright sides. The NC and Kansas Supreme Courts are controlled by Democrats. Arpaio is out and possibly on his way to jail.
But the rumor of Secretary of Department of Homeland Security appointment of Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County is likely because Joe Arpaio was sidelined.
so if trump is like mini-hitler, milli-mussolini (milli-1/1000th for the non-metrical merkins, maybe it’s centi- or deci-? who knows?), of what value is the “peaceful transition of power”? shouldn’t obama rather shiv him while he’s not looking? or when we are all looking, for that matter? sic semper trumpis and all that? strangle bambino benito in his baby stroller? ahhh, right. could all that verbiage about how dangerous & “unqualified” (lol) trump is have been better expelled on a hot air balloon?
you earned your wages today, my friend; er…how much do i pay you? i only ever charge $1.99, but was that our contract? ;-)
“other than that, melania, how did you enjoy the play at the theater of the absurd?’
night all; long evening here in real life mayberry, rfd.
jason | November 11, 2016 at 11:32 am | Reply
(for the spooks who have nothing better to do than spy on remote corners of the innerwebs)
your If is your only peacemaker. much virtue in If-Touchstone. unlike Unkie Shmuel, i think preemptive violence is wrong.
TarheelDem | November 10, 2016 at 10:15 pm | Reply
That would be a good move to suddenly bring out a few million firearms and Sheriff David Clarke’s vision of pitchforks and torches.
Wonder how the Trump transition team is making nice with the intelligence community? And the Secret Service?
yeah, we both know that, thd. but jason waxed magical-realism, likely after having seen that giffed-out jerky photo of their meeting. you could almost see the shiv in his palm.
but dayum; i had a lotta nightmares last night. one was being accused of almost burning down someone’s tipi (i was innocent,, i tell ya!), the other was that donald trump is the president-elect. then i woke up and found out that its so. it’s simply staggering that it’s come to this.
sure, lotta bull connors are out there, and i’d imagine that if there really is a kkk rally in north carolina today, they’ll be there. and i know how personal it is for you that your local friends are terrified, as are many muslims and latinos.
dunno about your wondering questions. fake bonhomie rules right now. some dude who worked for dan quayle said that those pols and heads of state who had denounced him in the past are now deleting their tweets and publicly finding common accord. (jason called it a copule days ago.)
…Amusing to see the Electoral College in the Nooz this Vets Day Friday with some DumShit D’s now agitating and petishunning for Hillary to be Crowned by the EC instead of current EC ” winner gets and takes all ” DTrump.
…So where were these D Zealots when Barry The Nobel Prize Wanker was doing his backwards flips as POTUS in 2009 telling we USians there would be No Open Season on G.W.Bush and R.B.Cheney as Not Looking Back was Obama’s policy on warmongers and warcriminals. Barry was quite clever in all this tho seeing how Barry The Death By Drone Nobel Booby Prize guy will now likely get the same No Rearview Mirror Gazing treatment from Mr. You’re Fired! …how convenient….
…Too bad Hillary and DNC and the rest of the DumShit D’s who infest Team D these days sabotaged Bernie Sander’s WH bid as they very openly and knowably did …perhaps the Not Happy With Mr.T winning DumShit D’s ought to be protesting what Hillary and the perfidious DNC did and let Mr.T arrest and prosecute War Criminal Barack Obama …errr…ummm…sorry….Not Happening….
…Remember how Barry The Big D Phony let TelAviv attack and inflict Brand Israeli Death and Destruction on Gaza late 2008 and early 2009? Remember what Barack Obama condoned being done to Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden? What were their crimes again? So where is Barry now regarding Hillary’s malfeasances and multiple malefactor moments? Or is this where IOKIYAAD cantations and conjures come into play?
…Too bad about Mr.T now possibly considering advice or enlisting and being able to recycle some old Reaganites ( Ed Meese ) and late 19th century Spanish-American War minded relics like John Bolton who as SoS could make Obama’s gal pal in Ukraine Icky Vicky Nuland look like a cookie selling Girl Scout…
…John Bolton likely could and would take us right back to Atomic War Days in short order…I feel so silly rejoicing about Hillary losing now….oh goody! John Bolton Rides Again! Yippee yi yay ki oh!!
…The DumShit D’s have have minimal political credibility here in 2016 and fully deserve to go the way of the Whigs…Mr.T perhaps / likely enough was the CIA Manchurian guy all along as I am now thinking the CIA and Pentagon know they need more time to set up doing WW3 with Russia and China and Hillary was not the USian who could do now needed Perfidious USian Empire stringing along with Putin and Russia which Mr.T now may be better at doing…See how USian Empire ramped up and into doing WW2 with Japan.
…Just part of the Big Uni-Bi-Party Show don’cha kno….
…well fine …I will just keep clicking my heels 3 times…;-)
ha. well, yanno…ya can’t switch horses in midstream, or: ya shouldda demanded an end to the electoral college long ago, as well as the presidential debate commission. wikileaks has a john pilger video up entitled: “they had no one else to vote for” or close (disaffected dems, i assume). i did my harruuumph, but in way he’s right: third party candidates were barely on anyone’s radar, save for johnson, but he’d been a elected offishull, and must have still had a machine of sorts. NM gov, iirc.
now jeffrey st. clair in his ‘‘Roaming Charges: Whitelash, White Heat?’ says that the EC was set up to give slave states more power as the discussions of ‘who should elect prezes’ went on. the EC was a compromise, but i got a bit lost on the wiki. now as to the annointed one winning 200,000 more votes, is the implication that some of the ‘electors’ in some house districts went rogue?
(interrupted by visitor for a time) maybe more later, but for now, you might like st. clair’s piece, as he ask some of your questions.
j. st. c has upped his game since alex cockburn passed.
shootthatarrow | November 11, 2016 at 11:34 am | Reply
…I saw John Pilger re: this …thought it was well seen and said…
TarheelDem | November 12, 2016 at 11:11 am | Reply
Former Presidents have a club and federally guaranteed retirement benefits. Trump just joined it and was welcomed by the very membership committee that pretended to blackball him. Trump will not buck the club and risk having those benefits go away.
See if your translations of this are like mine.
Tyler at Sic Semper Tyrannis putting the happy face on Trump’s victory (or is actually a supporter). Also the comments.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2016/11/trump-ascends-to-the-cherry-blossom-throne-tyler.html
Glad to know that Soros is still funding the #TrumpIsNotMyPresident protests. And that like Occupy Wall Street, this is just another color revolution.
too many comments; i stopped about a third of the way down the slidey-bar. clearly, he has fans, although i’ve never read him or heard of him. he didn’t take to criticism did he? b at moa has been a trump supporter, but gives some cautionary warnings. i confess i didn’t finish the piece for time restraints and the ‘now you say this?’ kinda reaction. but it was mainly on domestic policy, the cautions.
now tyler seems to believe that USians actively want what tyler claims T will do. what toasted my buns was his police state rubbish. ‘let the police do what they should do? don’t listen to whines about white police baton whipping black women (or close)?
i’m as glad as he is that the D dynasties may have been put to bed…finally. we’ll see; some silly headlines about some of that at the guardian. who rules out runs, who doesn’t, yada, yada. headline of msn.com: chris rock declares for 2020; i loved it.
this paragraph is self-contradictory, and some of it may be so, but no, the #nevertrump movement was not what he says it was, i think.
“We must also consider who did not support Trump, and who did. The “NeverTrump” faction was mostly neocons who were upset about his Jacksonian style engagement, and wanted a hot war with Russia over Syria, Pussy Riot, and transsexual bathrooms. The appearance of those who espouse certain neocon platitudes (Bolton, Flynn), should be noted, but it should also be taken into consideration that Trump is a deviously fast learner. The man saw the pitfalls and tar babies that the Bush II and Obama Administrations entered, won the Presidency partially on saying he’d avoid foreign entanglements, and I imagine he knows very well who these people are and what they want. In the case of Bolton, the man’s boisterous nature over certain foreign policy entanglements is offset by the fact he seems very “America First” when it comes to foreign policy. However, the hardcore neocons such as Krauthammer and Wolfowitz will not be allowed within missile distance of a Trump Administration. I wouldn’t freak out about Trump bringing in certain personages, as he seems to adopt the maxim about “friends close, enemies closer”.
now i don’t even know who stephen miller even is, so i dunno, nor do i know why he reckons sessions would help put the brakes on. grandma’s check-ups good, handouts: bad. can’t even parse his predictions on healthcare, myself. gotta be it 4 now; too many chores are beckoning. oh, an yes: rapprochement w/ russia i’m all for, but when someone’s on their knees, he’ll give em a hand up? hard to imagine who he means save for his political enemies. but my stars, he believes ‘da list’; the guardian had a different one; i think i snagged the link. syria solved by the end of the year? who will trump bomb, i’ve never been clear on that.
later alligators.
i’m in need of a rest but:
@thd: your take on the tyler essay?
@jason: brilliant; washington’s blog:
National Security Notice
“We are NOT calling for the overthrow of the government. In fact, we are calling for the reinstatement of our government.
We are not calling for lawlessness. We are calling for an end to lawlessness and lack of accountability and a return to the rule of law.
Rather than trying to subvert the constitution, we are calling for its enforcement.”, and so on. and man-oh-man: is the café an obscure corner!
@ sta: wish there were a transcript; i can read better than i can hear; my auditory discrimination bites any more. no transcripts for these yet, but meanwhile, trrn is up w/:
old sourpuss Chris Hedges: ‘Trump Will Crush Dissent With Even Greater Violence and Savagery’; The tools of state repression that will end up in the hands of a Trump administration were built by both Republicans and Democrats, says the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist’ and
‘Trump Foreign Policy Team will Target Iran’; In a wide ranging discussion, historian Gerald Horne and Paul Jay discuss why Trump won and what will likely come next. (easy to find)
a fave of mine, renee parsons, provides food for thought (h/t mr wd), but not a ‘happy face’.
oh, and contrary to ecuador’s statement, the embassy still hasn’t turned on assange’s wifi yet. the organization thanks folks who are calling for trump to pardon him once he’s in the oval.
j. st. clair had mentioned that snowden is circulating this photo.
Yep, the police state stuff did make one see what Truman-W-Obama built in clear light.
I think he intends to be the guy at the abattoir that calms the calves in the veal pen before sending them in to meet Trump.
So far, it looks like a new Republican hodge-podge of guys who were loyal to Trump and whose appointments will cause the libruls to squeal the most. Have no fear. The actual work of executive departments occurs below the high-weather stratosphere. How EPA kept its library through the Bush administration. No doubt how many areas have kept Obama policies from being fully implemented. The senior civil service managers who report to the political line appointees know that their jobs typically outlast multiple Presidents unless the boring routine goes awry. And there is nothing more boring than Sergeant Swejk gumming up the works by doing exactly what the rules and the boss say.
“in the abattoir”, warming them up. well, his claim to ‘the left’ that not only will he do what he says, he’ll do more, and the people™ will love him for it. which…er…people? but then, some say he ‘says’ multiple positions on issues, i really don’t know. but yeah, as i said, buzzfeed never said who actually made ‘da list’. there seem to be others out there, perhaps equally incendiary. i do remember that one guardian list contained jamie dimon (as if he’d take the py cut!) for treasury.
but please kill me now. i just finished reading every comment on a NC essay: ‘trump to clear way for oil pipelines’
first one in was former (arrrgh) friend of the café, ché pasa, castigating the site and commentariat for *advocating* voting for trump, now experiencing buyer’s remorse. he hung in there making his case over many comments. a few folks pushed back, with ‘being utterly anti-clinton doesn’t equal support for trump’, but he wasn’t havin’ any of it. i do wonder if t’were so, though. but that thread lists others a well…
yes, your point and jason’s as to what percentage of work is done by the lowly is well-taken, and it’s so hard to say now what that man will actually do, or be able to do. the projections from the D side are shrieking. egad, NC ao had ‘the petition to the electoral college’ and the electors, who apparently don’t actually cast their votes until dec. some states have them locked in, the others are being begged to cast for the queen. now if that wouldn’t cause an ‘alt-right’ revolution, i can’t think what would.
There were #NotMyPresident demonstrations last night in Milwaukee and Nashville. The electoral vote victory over a Clinton popular vote victory means that Trump has zero popular mandate. So “the people” Trump is talking about is his passionate followers who stand ready to ensure his next victory. But there is an immediate resistance forming that is spreading geographically much like Occupy Wall Street did. Whether it is a similar movement or even ideologically in a similar place remains to be seen because, for now, it is only a spontaneous eruption at the idea of Trump actually being President. It will have to take some sociological form if it is to persist after the novelty wears off.
Exactly right on a renegade electoral college creating and alt-right revolution. Not as spectacular but politically equivalent to a Reichstag fire. And since it would have to be Trump electoral college votes that changed, wouldn’t it, so easily arranged to create outrage. I’m not sure that we’re quite that far gone but it is a possibility.
if i remember correctly, it was which ‘the people’ tyler was channeling in his essay. .had you been waxing skeptical when you’d said close to: ‘nice to know that soros is funding the protests’, then? guess i thought it was common knowledge that he and his cohorts are, and RT has some of the wikileaks and soros quotes to back that up. so does that equate to anything like OWS? what means ‘sociological form’ please?
but i finally did look at some of the videos and stills of the many protests, and the signs seem to indicate that tarzie’s got it right again, as the signs were ‘no rapists’, no racists’, much of which was brought to us by acme pressitute, inc. during this hideous season of personal attacks rather than policy arguments . ‘Fuck Your Partisan “Anti-racism”’.
sure it would have to be T electors who switch, and the petition has some 3,400,000 signatures already. wonder whose brain fart this idea was? but i forgot to respond more fully to your ‘don’t worry’ imprecation. in the end, i’m glad that the dynasties are broken, the system has been proven illegitimate and corrupt, neoliberalism and capitalism itself are inherently racist. i reckon not enough Ds will ever accept blame for this travesty, though; the finger has to pointed at ‘trump/russia/wikileaks’. my stars.
sorry for the rant; i did far too much reading on pipelines, trudeau, the tpp and ‘what the donald means for climate change and carbon reduction’. (as if it’s not likely too late already.) ha; it must be time for toast, lol.
“Soros funding the protests” my unlabeled snark at Tyler’s conspiracy theory.
i wasn’t quite sure, but as i read it, soros/moveon have said it’s so.
how odd; i can’t get the link to embed. https://www.rt.com/usa/366579-soros-orgs-driving-trump-protests/
juliania2 | November 11, 2016 at 8:28 pm | Reply
What uncharted waters we do be in. The change of policy reflected with respect to Syria and the ‘TPP dead in the water on the news – do these reflect a recognition on the part of the ptb that matters could well have been even more dire than the official record of votes tabulated? I’m just throwing that into the mix because if so it may be prudent on the part of those who might otherwise be fielding attempts at continuance of policy this time around to be a bit more circumspect.
I saw that Florida was withheld from tabulations a pretty long stretch of time, and we all know how straighforward and honest the count is there. There were not crowds at Clinton’s rallies until she got the Big Stars in. The people have truly had it with the status quo, and surely any politician wishing to survive can see they aren’t buying the lies; it’s crunch time.
I don’t think there’s going to be any ‘honeymoon’ this time around. And there’s only a very small cadre of truly well off folk to ‘protest’ a change in the status quo, just as there are huge numbers (I include the stayathomes) who expect and this time demand that change. They have waited since 2008, and I wonder if they are going to wait much longer. Trump better be very, very careful. I really hope he is wise enough to be just that because we need a peaceful transition, and we’d better be given real hope, substantial change right from the getgo. It’s that serious.
i wrote you a long comment last night, hit the backspace key, and lost the entire thing. dispirited as all giddy-up, i shut down for the night. i’ll be back after some toast.
juliania2 | November 12, 2016 at 10:03 am | Reply
That’s almost what happened to me, wendye – lost the internet when I pushed “post comment” and was backtracking like mad – usually in that situation the post disappears, but remarkably this one stayed. (Thank you, little machinery gremlins.)
…Well stated last paragraph J2…
…Indeed a central and large failure of Barack Obama’s 2008 WH win was that he and the D Team side of the Uni-Bi-Party from 2009 thru 2016 worked much harder towards not challenging but continuing and expanding on what Bush/Cheney had been doing or putting in place from 2001 to 2008.
…Obama was peddling more of the D Team 2006 mid term elections BS which were marketed and sold by the likes of Pelosi to be all about electing more D’s to be able to confront Bush/Cheney. As it was that was just a big stinking pile of Misdirection R vs. D junk politics. Pelosi and the CapHill D’s did nothing with the electoral wins given them other than sit back down and do too little or nothing other than enable or mimic the politics of R side of the Uni-BI-Party.
…Barack Obama had a very big stage to stand on after his 2008 WH win to do some genuine good and far ranging anti-war and empire reform, economic and social justice with rebalancing of WallSt./Big USian banking/financing cabal and USian healthcare regime for all USians. Recall how Obama was filling big stadiums and his election night acceptance speech. What did Barack Obama do instead? He decided to sit down and act and lead like a R POTUS had won 2008 WH election. Barack Obama ignored, repudiated and trashed the politics that had boosted him into the WH. Obama being in the WH was just More 2006 Pelosi/D Team BS with a slick Obama doing it.
…The Clinton’s WH sorry record in the WH crippled AL Gore’s 2000 WH bid as Gore (D) could not attack the D run Clinton WH 8 year record. Same thing now has happened to HRC who could not attack 8 year D Team run Obama WH record. However the Clinton D gang knowingly dry gulched Bernie Sanders WH bid in every way they could so HRC could have her Coronation. Was all about HRC as far as DNC manipulations could do and go. So now the clueless DumShit D’s are not nailing HRC for being what she is and is not and how she and her DNC minions wrecked Bernie Sander’s legitimate and widely supported WH bid but want to beat up on Trump.
…Stupid D’s not denouncing HRC for her hollow and fake politics and HRC’s deep seated political perfidy but now stupidly attacking Trump who won only because HRC should not win and did not win the WH based on her duplicity and dubious self entitlement conduct shows just how politically useless DumShit D’s are.
…A well earned and deserved political demise for the DumShit D’s would be to go the way of the Whigs. Sooner. Better.
…please disregard comment and contents @ 9:54 AM wd …sta
I don’t know if it’s brain configuration or what, shootthatarrow, but I was able to follow your original thought processes okay, as to what could or could not be excused in the Clinton followup to Obama compared to Gore’s ‘followup’ to Clinton – giving her a bit more cred than I had thought to do.
For me, and just in general, I was seeing the long, long trail from the first Clinton to possible second Clinton as just a ‘more of the same’ only worse, a steady increasing seepage from the septic tank of the WH that was only promising to explode with Hillary’s next eight years – plus, to the assertion by some that ‘Bernie would have won’ – who knows? We can’t go by the polls surely Shirley – haven’t we just discredited polls? (I know, don’t call me Shirley.) But I take your point that railroading Bernie counted against her bigtime.
my error, i’m sure, trying to follow your instructions, mister fuss-pot. ;-). could you just type the paragraph as you want it below this, and i’ll paste it in. sorry.
you’ll need to update me on ‘the change of syrian policy’, i guess. there have been so many conflicting ones, haven’t there? as for tpp being dead, i suppose so. politico’s reporting that mcconnell won’t allow a vote during the lame duck, but given how much public smoke and mirrors abound, i wouldn’t bet my life on it. i still think the Rs like it, and many Ds, but mitch may have one a secret whip count of his side of the aisle, and found most didn’t want to risk pissing off the newly soon to be enthroned king. now that depends on trump not wanting the tpp a he’s long declared.
as a bit of an aside, your nz herald piece had key intimating that trump might be interested in bilateral deals, but i’d have to dig it outta my current word doc containing at lest eleventy-seven links. small matter, but the truth is that he says a lot of things, including the funnies jason brought about ‘leaving major parts of the ACA in place’. tyler at pat laing’s place said: ‘no free give-aways’ whatever that might mean.
but the canadian press is reporting that DT has called trudeau and offered to ‘renegotiate nafta’ if he can get ‘a better deal’; better deal for whom would be the question, wouldn’t it? would he have to ‘renegotiate’ w/ mexico, or just create a bilateral agreement within nafta?
trudeau is another con man, and many are calling him stephen harper 2.0. reneging on aboriginal issues and pipelines, including the gateway pipeline from the tar sands to coastal BC. i’d forgotten to grab the link, but one quote was: ‘we need more oil to sell in order to fund a new green economy!’
anyhoo, pepe escobar’s piece on the trump’s plan to de-globalize thru protectionism is a pretty darned good primer, and kinda funny to boot.
at the end, he references this: “China will seek support for a Beijing-led Asia-Pacific free trade area at a regional summit in Peru later this month, Chinese officials said on Thursday, after Donald Trump’s US election win dashed hopes for a US-led free trade pact.” heh; upping the multi-polar world.
wendye, thank you for earlier referencing the oil segment at NC which I’d passed over – I went back this morning and put in my two bits this morning at the bottom of the thread where it probably won’t be read at this stage. It might clarify a bit what I was saying above about TPP and Syria.
Thanks for linking the Escobar – I’ll go have a read. (I’d got the Syria message at MofA yesterday.)
very good comment, juliania; someone below it rec’d it. ;-)
aw man fudge…all that work i did to get the donald elected and he goes & tells me “major parts of the ACA we’ll keep.” so surprised! so disappointed!
sorry if i’m not responding to posts above…….
…When I saw this about Trump and ObamaAHIP$$$Care in some reports on sites I visit I recalled our comments exchange …only took 3 days for this …imagine that …
Jaango | November 12, 2016 at 9:24 am | Reply
The Criminal Stupidity of Camouflaged Corporate Democrats Posing as Progressives
Since Tuesday’s presidential election, I have intentionally refrained from expressing myself, and thusly, took great enjoyment from seeing the Democrats lose the Electoral College vote. Of course, “telling the Truth and Shaming the Devil” is not well received here in my neck of the woods and that being my wonderful Sonoran Desert. Further, when the corporate Democrats drag us into and through the political gutter for its failure to address the vast array of issues important to the middle class, we too acquire the stink and sleeze, and which requires that we too have to contend with America’s political failures, since, invariably, we are never acknowledged for its successes when these successes do occur.
As military vets, Native Americans and Chicanos alike, we too have our “wants and desires” and if achieved successfully in the political arena, our lives would prove invaluable, given that in both the near and long term, we will be writing America’s history, a current history that is undeniably framed as “criminally stupid” when compared to today’s toxic environment. Thus, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama will be taking the brunt of this history for their wanton failures to address these “unmet needs” of the middle Class.
During the Clinton administration and in the finalizing of “negotiations” on NAFTA with Mexico, the Republic of Ukraine had reached it final stage of negotiation of a Free Trade Agreement with Mexico, and as Mexico’s Back-Up Plan, since Mexico well-understood that Ukraine was the breadbasket of the defunct Soviet Union. And needless to say but I will, NAFTA did not include a “middle class standard” and when challenged our then President Clinton stipulated that after Congress approved NAFTA, the “labor standard” would be addressed effectively and successfully, and yet, for the remaining time of his presidency, Clinton refused to address or participate in any discussion on this much-needed labor standard. And it’s at this point in time that we concluded here in the Sonoran Desert that the European American Stereotype—that is “I don’t care…I’ll be dead…so what’s your point?” was concretized and actualized by both the Democrats and Republicans collectively. And this behavior continues to this day.
Of course, at the onset of the Barack Obama administration and with the Democrats in control of both the House and the Senate, as well as the economic morass unfolding due to Bush’s Era of Gross Incompetence, the AFL-CIO delivered its proposal on Card Check and where and when President Obama promptly tossed this proposal into the trash can. Perhaps, the wittiness and willingness of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in successfully raising over $20 million in a matter of six days that was to be dedicated to defeating Card Check, was the primary factor that cowed the Democrats in the Oval Office as well as in the House and the Senate.
Subsequently, the middle class was now facing two of the three strikes, and received in the form of both Context and Content. And which brings me to America’s “third strike” for my anal analogy.
During this past few days, Elected and Appointed Officials as well as the scribes, pundits and political operatives each have voiced their opinions relative to both sides of political aisle, none have addressed our “concern” and that being the overweening Ambition of three former Democratic Senators, bored with their daily lives, took to the national arena to get themselves elected into the Senate again. All three failed, and yet, this Triumphal Concert of Full-Throatiness, was unable or unwilling to have a private chat with Hillary Clinton to bring forth her campaign to address the important issues and concerns of the middle class in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Of course, these former Democratic Senators failed as did Hillary Clinton. Sadly, the valorous opinion that Hillary Clinton was riding the coattails of both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama will become the primary focus for we, tomorrow’s historians.
However, we, the Native Americans and Chicano military vets all, will be writing tomorrow’s history from our prism of a political view that consist of a Context and Content predicated on progressivism. Thus, the starting point or “yardstick” will originate with LBJ’s War on Poverty and where 198 “ideas” became embedded into public law. Today, with Donald Trump’s success, these existing public laws will fall in large measure, given that the camouflaged corporate Democrats have no “new Ideas.”
And into this political gutter that consists of no “new Ideas,” we, will have to come forth with ideas predicated on Decency and which can easily be proven beneficial to all of us, knowing that in our America, a democracy is that both multicultural and multilingual will reach fruition within the next 20 years. Furthermore, our “yardstick” as a measuring device will become a challenge to each one of us, regardless of geographical address of political affiliation.
In closing, we, the military vets of approximately 20 million persons, writ large, will have a challenge brought forth by Native Americans and Chicanos, not premised on the ongoing travails of the Veterans Administration and its health care delivery systemic, but well-focused on the “unmet needs” of education for our children and grand children, starting at the primary school level. Thus, tomorrow’s Construct of History written by us, will not be favorable to European Americans when we consider that the criminal stupidity that exists today, and where the middle class voters voted contra to their particularized self-interest and in favor of the conservative noblesse oblige for the trivialization of a trickle-down economics of a personalized constriction. Therefore, Native Americans and Chicanos will be final determinant for defining “who and who’s not” a Progressive. And consequently, our advocacy for another monument located in our nation’s capitol and to become widely known as the Monument to Criminal Stupidity, continues apace with 7,000 names already “certified.”
Jaango
thanks, jaango. could you explain what you mean here, please? :…and where the middle class voters voted contra to their particularized self-interest and in favor of the conservative noblesse oblige for the trivialization of a trickle-down economics of a personalized constriction.”
p.s. i hadn’t known about a ukraine/mexico agreement, and can’t find it online. but remember, the day nafta went into effect, the zapatistas came out of the mountains, and birthed an actual self-sustaining socialist democracy.
but at least arpaiio is finally out; should have been in prison years and years ago.
Jaango | November 12, 2016 at 10:08 am | Reply
As to the “finalization” of the Free Trade Agreement between the Ukraine and Mexico, “I” with the Big Eye, negotiated this then pending Agreement. By way of background, the USA knew of my activity, as well as the “delivery man” for NAFTA was a good friend from here in the home state of Florida. Said sadly on my part, he met with a contingent of American officials for lunch, and two hours later died of a heart attack and which I attributed to the “mano negro” that comes from a final handshake among cronies.
Note, if you want to know more in detail, we will have to have this conversation by private email, since I don’t want my then existing behavior, be made available to the general public. Of course, the Alpha Bet outfits are familiar with my history and where the Chairman of the Select Intelligence Committee, had to come forward in my defense, since I was once asked by the “agents” wanting to bolster their retirement accounts to “handle” monies that did not belong to these agents. Thus, corruption inside and outside of government, is not wishful thinking, given my personal experience.
As to the trivialization of trickle down economics via the Reagan administration, the three senators were supportive of Reagan policies for the most part. Thusly, Ambition can be a buzz saw determinant.
no no; i don’t need more, but two things: is the agreement in effect, and i had no idea that you’d have had the power to negotiate a trade deal. quite sure i wouldn’t want the job, myself. but fascinating. but sure, corruption is real in most every ‘big deal’. carrots and sticks, baby! ;-)
Interesting analysis, Jaango. I suggest that the Monument to Criminal Stupidity be placed at the intersections of the lines of sight from the Capitol and the White House. That would put it somewhere in the vicinity of the Washington Monument.
Or maybe K Street lobbyist offices across town can be demolished to provide space for their very own monuments to criminal stupidity.
Very interested in understanding what new ideas folks in your region and your network of veterans would recommend for policy or for changing the political process.
I’m thinking that this point some devolution of power from the federal level and progressive (under your definition for your part of the world) governance at the local and state level can move faster on some of the more urgent matters.
Also wondering at your thoughts on how to deal with the media capture of rural areas and restoring locally-operated media and independent sourcing of news.
Trump’s rapprochement with Russia could permit the US and Russia to ally in restabilizing Syria under Assad and enabling the Shiite crescent of countries from Iran to Lebanon. But it would run into resistance from many establishment Republicans newly reelected to the Senate and who did not depend on Trump’s coattails. And of course, the usual characters like Lindsey Graham, who is still there.
And then there is the Israel-Saudi lobby that virulently opposes Russia’s policies.
A new Syria policy comes out of balancing those contradictory political forces or choosing sides. Which diplomatic poison do you think Trump will take?
i can see that in the future; i’d thought juliania had meant a recent change of US policy on syria. the first is relevant, the other three are simply important to this discussion, imo me, i’m about outta words so i’ll give the floor to others..
Israel collusion with Nusra in Golan Heights. https://t.co/NdGzOj5FlH pic.twitter.com/VLDVqo6X7I
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correcction, amigo: full of SHITTTTT, as per eric idle, our byword around our homestead . ;-)
“life is full of shittttt, when you look at it, tra la la la la la la la lum….’
when ya poke a bear, even accidentally, ya fooking just mite get bit! the fellah who’d said ‘they dunno even know what their g’s been doing’ said it right.
added: i mean, the trump man threw red meat to the law and order lions rubes preparing for the next colisseum, plus fooking giuilani. well, never mind; it’s stoopball season. or head-banging-againsst-walls season, depending on one’s predilection. so let’s dance! or alternately and more to my tastes, let’s dance’!
gettin’ ‘weirdly’ out there…
guest post at ianwelsh.net: ‘This Is a Constitutional Crisis’. an epic battle between titans ché pasa and markfromireland, w/ sterling fighting beyond his weight class. a few others joint the contest. all due to the fact that the fallen queen won the popular vote (by .3%).
yes, RT had it that soros/moveon said they’d funded the #notourPresident protests, but here comes war pimps for the empire joining in to seal the deal:
Photo op organized by spooky Avaaz links anti-Trump movement with anti-Communism pic.twitter.com/mV6E0094Jw
#GeneralStrike has been called for #J20 inauguration day. Build the resistance against #Trump and his America #NotMyPresident pic.twitter.com/jzHNb7Ht6t
— (((DuneMyThang™))) (@Kris_Sacrebleu) November 12, 2016
well, shucks; too bad there’s a chinese stealth fighter J20 that looks just like a MIG…
the ‘Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19’ now has 4,034,976 supporters.
shootthatarrow | November 13, 2016 at 6:11 pm | Reply
… Have seen/read it being suggested/reported that Clinton run DNC and allied D Team orcs in MSM were intimately plotting/contriving to puppet string and game 2015/2016 R nomination process in ways both seen/unseen to herd R’s towards someone like D. Trump to help hide what HRC is and stands for and aid NeoCon HRC in being / getting elected as POTUS in 2016.
…Someone like D. Trump would be set up as the default R candidate who then could be ruthlessly attacked by Clinton D Gang /MSM in general election. Idea evidently was to aim to shift the issues and politics of the 2016 WH election to the right so HRC would look or seem less the WallSt./Big Bank/NeoCon HRC is while portraying D. Trump as a Far Right/Incompetent fool and tool not qualified to be POTUS.
…Looks like Clinton D Gang and DNC and MSM having failed to pull that murky and deviously devised political scheme off with HRC still deservedly losing on Nov.08 now seeking to derail D.Trump via this Electoral College challenge likely G. Soros funded riot making and politically orchestrated coup making. Of course that .3% of the so called total popular vote for Hillary likely can be challenged with multiple vote recounts + tally count validations as well as extensive efforts to expose vote cheating, fraud and chicanery. Likely easy to erase HRC’s .3%.
…What Trump and the R’s now need to be doing very loudly is reminding the rioting D mob and DumShit D’s in general that Hillary’s hacks and orcs and DNC minions screwed them over by sabotaging Bernie Sander’s WH bid in everyway they could. Bernie Sanders very likely could/would have beat D. Trump but Hillary Clinton was not ever about the D’s winning —for HRC was all about Hillary being crowned POTUS. That was and is and has been the rot at the middle of all this from Day One regarding what and who HRC is/is not.
…Not a Pro R Trump USian but I am not Pro D Hillary Clinton either.
…DumShit D’s should wise up and be rioting about what HRC is and stands for. Hillary is a crooked NeoCon D …wake up DumShit D’s.
having a bit of trouble decoding this, sta, including the timeline, but if i catch your drift, yes: the wikileaked podesta emails had the team playing ‘pied piper’ to dt’s getting the nomination. many have also speculated that as the trumps and clintons were social society bff’s, that teflone billy bubba was the one who’d suggested to DT he make a run in the first place. sounds almost plausible to me. i’m pretty sure i embedded one of those ‘pied piper’ tweets on one of these threads.
i’d add, though, that we know from some of the clinton foundation exposés that she and bill wanted to conduct foreign policy their own way, and had chosen which regimes to support with massive weapons sales by way of their ‘presents’ to the foundation. power mad conscienceless grifters of a most malevolent sort.
one comment i’d seen posited: ‘imagine if these protestors and others would have hit the streets in rage that these two most-loathed candidates were the duopoly choices handed voters. yep, clearly the dnc ‘squashed bernie into pulp’, but then he went and campaigned for her. did he regret it once he’d read that? or was his run always as a sheepdog for dems? polling…well, never mind. ;-)
…That was a bit of a punt comment on my part wd that came to mind during my Sunday evening while loitering in The EZ Chair with this Steve Jobs Device on my lap prior to finishing up my duties in the kitchen for the night…sorry if my last comment seemed or seems a bit too impromptu in composition…
…Was maybe/kinda/sorta pointless to let myself compose/post it being so much is now in flux politically/policy wise in WashDC and what we may see or know now will be getting moved around and added to /subtracted from continually now for several weeks and months.
…As it is at this point it is looking and sounding more and more like Mr. You’re Fired! is walking away from some of his oft repeated campaign positions and postures at a rather quick rate/pace. This does not and should not come as a surprise.
…As it is I often visit ZeroHedge these days where the TrumpFans already are expressing 2nd and 3rd thought reservations and pending remorse over and about Mr. T and his R groupies and it has not even been a full week since November 08. Gosh golly …imagine that…;-)
…Plain to see Mr.T is now being closely chaperoned by the Uni-Bi-Party R’s ” established ” WashDC suits who now evidently are not part of the ” swamp ” Mr.T was talking about wanting to drain…
hmmm…imagine that.
…Likely will need to wait until after Jan.20, 2017 and then do 3-6-9-12 month measuring of Mr.T’s WH acts and actions for putting a more accurate dossier together of Mr.T’s actual policy cants and who will be on/not on Team T in the T WH or allowed to serve at Trump’s Court and have one or both of Trump’s eyes and ears. Just hoping the Trump Court Jester(s) are fun to mock/ridicule.;-)
…As for all the hand wringing and gnashing of teeth now being done and shown by the DumShit D’s it seems best just to chalk all that up to being just some more R.vs. D Junk Politics MisDirection Politcal Theatre. Too bad the D’s let Barack Obama slide for 8 years and let the likes of Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer and Reid sit up on CapHill since 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2012 doing what they did and did/do not do. Until the D’s clean up/cull/correct their own long list of D party ails and fails the D’s really ought to shut up about Donny Trump now being POTUS-Elect or actual POTUS post Jan.20,2017. The D’s let Obama be a good R POTUS often enough from 2009 to 2016 as it is and seldom forced Barack Obama to actually honor his campaign / PR talk with the walking of it.
…See Bush/Cheney No Looking Back
…See ObamaDon’tCare
…See Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden
…See Ukraine/Syria/Libya/Iraq/Afghanistan
…See how Obama/Holder/Brennan/Clapper/Nuland ongoing nexuses given big seals of IOKIYAAD approval by the D zealots and hacks.
…So Donny Trump as POTUS is now a big fat “problem” for the DumShit D’s? Oh puhleeeze …Cry.Me.A.River.
…anyhoo …I will try to play nice here at cafe-b wd …love the up top site header photos/images rotation displays of flowers and critters etc. wd…cafe-b is a very nicely styled and themed website wd. I sometimes still stop over at ShadowProof where the less than artistic and uninspired up top banner layout is more akin to what some art challenged high schoolers might have done…sorry Kevin ….thanks for doing what you do/have been doing here at cafe-b wd…best wishes always …
…sta ;-)
i know you’ll play nice, and have. once in awhile, i may take out a few paragraph breaks, though, just to shorten the threads. i appreciate your liking the banner photos: they all come from the wds’ backyard. what a refuge we’ve built for critters of all sorts, fruit trees and others, and small but loudly colorful gardens!.
i’d just grabbed this link and had given it unread to an erstwhile friend commenter at ian welsh’s place. if it contains what the title implies, it might be exactly to the point of ‘why attila the hen lost’ to trump. ‘liberals have nobody to blame but themselves‘.
but yes, waiting is, then movemental politics for the homeland denizens. war? who knows? at least T promises no war with russia.
There is rioting? Where?
If the Clinton/Soros clique tried to engineer it that way, they were too clever by half. On the other hand, after Trump was nominated, the deeply divided Republican Party used him as a Hail Mary pass to total power in DC and a majority of the states. This makes reversal extremely more difficult as it is entrenched through Supreme Court rulings at the federal level and state constitutional provisions that require state referendums to overturn.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is no longer a candidate or candidate-in-waiting for anything. Both the Bush and Clinton dynasties, save George P. Bush (a Trump hanger-on) have been destroyed as political powers. Donna Brazile is in Palm Beach at $1750 registration hanging out with David Horowitz and James O’Keefe at the The Restoration Conference for who knows what reason. Schumer has thrown his support behind Rep. Keith Ellison as DNC Chair. Whatever the Democratic Party in DC becomes there will be few Clinton holdovers. Look for the K Street affiliations of this new crew as they are named.
Meanwhile, Trump has named Reince Priebus his chief of staff (like Andy Card in the Bush administration or Rahm Emanuel in the Obama administration) and Steve Bannon as his chief strategist (like Karl Rove in the Bush administration or Valerie Jarrett in the Obama administration). Bannnon is the CEO of breithbart.com. And the list of Transition Team members looks like one faction of the GOP establishment).
The ratfucking that Deborah Wasserman-Schultz and the Clinton team did during the primary pales when you look at battle of ratfucking in the general election.
According to one source:
“Here are the statistics:
231,556,622 eligible voters
46.9% didn’t vote
25.6% voted for Clinton
25.5% voted for Trump
1.7% voted for Johnson<”
Some of those missing votes were suppressed. There is no acknowledgement of the Stein and other third party votes. But most voted with their seats instead of with their feets. Whether because of inconvenience, indifference, massive aversion to Hobson choices, or whatever, "None of the above" won.
Judging from the sources of tweets I'm getting about the demonstrations disrupting at least 25 cities and bringing out larger numbers of people than did most Occupy Wall Street actions, the folks in the streets are those in threat of deportation, students with high student loans, student getting out for their first protests, gay and especially transsexual people who see their legal protections being suddenly reversed so soon after winning them, African-Americans who currently have police gunning down their neighbors without cause, and lots of women who are tired of being subjected to unwanted groping by business associates and strangers. Their protest is against the election of a guy who won by promising not to deal with any of their issues. Hillary had very little with getting them in the streets. Liberal D mayors in those cities that have them have sent militarized police into the streets, are waiting for boredom to set in and crowds to thin, and then will crack down. Conservative mayors of all parties seem to be doing the same. As in most recent protests, these are likely coordinated out of US Department of Homeland Security Fusion Centers using tactics taught by Israeli consultants in Urban Shield sales conventions.
DumShit D's are still stunned, likely fishing, hunting or avoiding all online activity this weekend. Not yet to the anger phase of grief.
The Democratic establishment essentially is telling Sanders to get them out of the mess they put themselves in. Sanders's first act was to push for Keith Ellison as DNC chair. Schumer likely bargained to keep on track to be minority leader of the Senate. That speaks of a Democratic power vacuum in the Senate with Harry Reid gone. How do you think Bernie Sanders should play the inside game over the next 49 days? He is still officially a registered independent and not trying to save the Democratic Party but the democratic caucus (opposition caucus) in the Senate. Elizabeth Warren likely is more interested in the Democratic Party infrastructure and what to do with it.
For the moment the power rests with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Keith Ellison to come up with the tactics and ideas to oppose the Trump juggernaut that is expected. That is all that is of the inside team at the moment. The outside team is whoever it is in the streets.
How would you have those work together and what would you have them do? For the next two years, electoral action depends on division within the Republican Senate caucus and the Republican House caucus. And what Trump would sign or veto. There is not a whole lot of potential for change there except in some of the details. This is the type of situation in which Sanders's legislative experience is helpful. His amendment on the medical cost ratios under Obamacare is one of the factors forcing pressure for something different.
i took the blockout out, as i have trouble reading the text that way. from what i saw in the early anti-trump protests, it was largely about ‘racism and misogyny’, as per the signage, not many faces of color. where were they when clinton and obama were killing brown and black people all over the planet in their wars of choice for resources? but cnn is reporting that in nyc, the crowd was those you mention. yes, cnn made somewhat of a case for ‘rioting’, some sort of incendiary devices hurled at the popo, and most of the coverage was about trump reigniting the culture wars. the most used phrase was ‘groups fear __’, based on his likely team, named team, and likely judicial appts., etc.
telesur is reporting that as more votes get counted, her popular vote will increase, 7 million *yet* to count in a couple states more favorable to hellary.
funny how he’s been backing of from his red meat to the xenophobic/obamacare-hating lions, isn’t it? i tried to take a bit of a crash course on his earlier policies as i’ve ignored them save for hysterical headlines, but one thing i found on his meeting w/ bibi saying he WILL settle the i/p issue was bad. ‘settlements on palestinian land’ should not be mentioned; it’s counter-productive to a peace deal.
thanks for answering your own pop quiz, though; i didn’t read the homework, lol. this a.m.’s letter from ccr said some of them were at the protests in new yawk, chanting along. well, good on them. at least they were in the battles against the clinton and obama machines shredding the constitution.
I will continue to be somewhat sanguine for the next ten years, or until Florida and Texas become engulfed in the Progressive Wave, that today consists of California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York. And should this occur, the Democrats will have over 160 electoral college votes relative to future presidential elections.
And will the majority of state legislatures governed my Republicans, “correcting” the damage that comes from gerrymandering will become an unenviable task for the many of us.
TarheelDem | November 14, 2016 at 8:48 am | Reply
Democrats or some successor opposition party.
Jaango | November 14, 2016 at 4:40 pm | Reply
TarheelDem
When the Republican-led state legislature passed Arizona’s SB 1050, they also passed HB 1281 and which led to the enactment on the prohibition for teaching a foreign language such as Spanish in our public school systemic. However, the “majority” of these kids come from Spanish-speaking families, and needless to say, European American kids become the “losers” in their future years. Thusly, these non-Spanish-speaking kids will have to play catch-up in their later formative years.
As to the overwhelming majority of “racial and ethnics,” we are NOT going to abandon the Democratic Party, since the next generation of voters will be “capturing” the Democratic Party and done from the standpoint for being Progressive. Consequently, 21 million Latino kids of today, will become the “fulcrum” for Change and within tomorrow’s context.
i’d have to agree w/ thd, partly since there’ve been more ‘bad guys of both genders in Az, but time might prove you right or wrong as the youth become more ascendant.
a counterpuncher whose name i just couldn’t remember; i’m ashamed how many different search queries it took me to discover: ‘RODOLFO ACUÑA, a professor emeritus at California State University Northridge, has published 20 books and over 200 public and scholarly articles. He is the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies Dept which today offers 166 sections per semester in Chicano Studies. His history book Occupied America has been banned in Arizona. In solidarity with Mexican Americans in Tucson, he has organized fundraisers and support groups to ground zero and written over two dozen articles exposing efforts there to nullify the U.S. Constitution.’
he was fired over teaching seditious thought, as i remember it. jeezum crow: amurcan neo-colinization 2.0.
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Please reach out to or your program specialist at any point with questions or to request support.
Download the Accessibility and Accommodation Policy as a PDF
Appeals Policy
In 2020, the potential increases to grant amounts in this program far outstrip the amount of money available in the pool. Grant allocations will be proportionally distributed within the total pool available. All organizations who receive any increase within their category percent range are considered to have demonstrated strength, impact, and merit and be successful in the program, and will not be eligible to appeal their grant amount.
Calgary Arts Development will hear a case for appeal and follow the appeals process only in the below circumstances:
Eligible Appeal Cases
Organizations who received an assessment score of less than 65% and did not receive an increase to their base grant.
Organizations who received an assessor flag through the Fair Notice Policy resulting in a reduction to their total grant.
Ineligible Appeal Cases
Organizations who received any increase within their category percent range.
Organizations who were not eligible for an increase.
Organizations who did not submit an application for an increase.
Organizations who were recommended to be removed from the Operating Grant Program (this process is governed separately by the Fair Notice Policy).
Eligible Reasons for Appeal
Appeals will be heard in cases only where it can be demonstrated that:
The assessment committee materially and fundamentally misunderstood the content of the application as submitted such that their scores or recommendations were made in error.
Due process as outlined in the program guidelines and terms of reference was not followed.
Ineligible Reasons for Appeal
The following matters will not be considered grounds for appeal:
The appeal must be limited to the content of the original application, not facts or circumstances occurring after the date of submission. These include but are not limited to:
External circumstances or variables that have affected the organization’s ability to achieve their mandate.
Changes in the application since the application deadline date.
Information not included in the original application.
An appeal regarding program eligibility (e.g. late submission, incomplete application, etc.).
An appeal related to base grant amounts.
Appeal Procedures
Applicants will have 10 working days from the date that investment notification letters are emailed to notify Calgary Arts Development of their intent to appeal the assessment committee’s decision (see How to Make an Appeal). In addition to stating their intent to appeal, applicants will be required to state the basis of their appeal.
An appeals committee will be convened, consisting of two assessors from the original peer committee and three new assessors.
The committee will review the original application and the organization’s basis of appeal.
The committee will score the organization using the program criteria and scoring matrix.
The final score will constitute their final recommendation
If the organization scores above 65%, they will be allocated a grant increase based on the formula applied to all successful organizations.
How to Make an Appeal
Request Feedback: Upon receiving a letter of notification of the investment assessment, applicants should contact Calgary Arts Development’s community investment team for feedback from the assessment meeting.
Meet with Calgary Arts Development Staff: An applicant must state their intention to appeal the investment decision by informing the Calgary Arts Development no later than 10 business days from the date that investment notification letters were emailed.
Intention to appeal notices must be sent to grants@calgaryartsdevelopment.com. A meeting will be set up with Calgary Arts Development’s community investment team.
The purpose of the meeting will be to provide the applicant with information about the step-by-step procedures that were followed for the assessment. The meeting will also provide verbal and written comments from the assessment.
Provide Written Appeal Statement (max. two pages): If applicants wish to continue submitting an appeal following the meeting, a written statement must be submitted by email outlining the grounds upon which the appeal is based, within the parameters of the original application.
If applicants make a clear and compelling case that the assessment committee was in error in its understanding of the application or where due process was not followed, the application will be re-activated for appeal.
Presentation to Appeals Committee: Applicants with active appeals will be offered a time-specific opportunity to verbally present their case directly to the appeals committee (via conference call, to allow assessors to remain anonymous). Appeal decisions will be based on the original application, comments from the first investment assessment, the appeal statement, and the appeal presentation.
Notification of Decision: Notification of appeal decisions will be sent by email to applicants.
All appeal decisions are final.
Download the Appeals Policy as a PDF
Disclosure of Grant Information Policy
Collection, Use & Disclosure of Grant Information
Personal information is received by Calgary Arts Development from people and organizations who apply for grants, members of committees assessing applications, and many others in the course of its activities. Calgary Arts Development will never reveal personal information to any third party without your prior knowledge and consent, unless required to do so by law.
Information provided in both successful and unsuccessful grant applications may be used to plan, evaluate, and review programs. The information is also used for generating statistics for statistical reporting, studies, issue, and trend analysis. Information shared when reporting in these ways will be anonymized and only shared in aggregate.
No personal information provided in grant applications will be shared publicly without prior applicant consent.
Download the Disclosure of Grant Information Policy as a PDF
Calgary Arts Development is pleased to announce its 2020 grant investment programs. Learn more.
Questions? Contact Calgary Arts Development’s community investment team at 403.476.2031 or by email.
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Salt Lake City Council Candidate Dan Dugan, District 6
Having a talent for landing a moving jet aircraft on a roiling and moving aircraft carrier is not a task many find themselves being asked to do in the course of a day’s work, but it’s exactly what Salt Lake City Candidate for District 6, Dan Dugan, found himself doing for 20 years in the United States Navy.
This first time candidate for any office finds his name on the ballot because of his opposition to an inland port in the northwest quadrant of the city, clean air and energy, and a fix for traffic along Foothill Drive. Candidates.vote’s Michael Brownstein was able to spend some time with Dugan and visit about what inspires him as both a person and candidate. And win or lose today, November 5, 2019, Dugan has put himself forward as a candidate and taken hold of the value of his name in DanDugan.vote.
Candidates.vote — What ended up inspiring you to get your start in politics?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — Politics have always been a topic of conversation with my family. I have been engaged in politics to a degree and never thought of entering a race for a political office. What drove me to enter the race for the City Council was how our elected officials handled the inland port. I believe they did not and have not listened to their constituents or the city as a whole in the city’s overwhelming opposition to the port development. I am a clean air and energy champion and believe the inland port development is bad for our health and the planet’s health.
Candidates.vote — How do you balance your political and personal life?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — The campaign for office overtakes your personal life and this is inevitable. To keep some sort of balance, I put the phone down, turn off the computer and go for a trail run or mountain bike ride, go to a concert, or have dinner with friends trying not to talk campaign.
Candidates.vote — What book are you currently working on reading, and what’s the best part of it?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — I am currently working on getting through ‘Hamilton’ by Ron Chernov. The best part of reading anything other than current politics is that your brain can reset and grow in multiple directions.
Candidates.vote — What would you consider your greatest failure, and on the flipside, your greatest success?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — My greatest professional failure was also the best thing that happened to me. At one point in my career, I did not get a job I wanted and it led me to move to Salt Lake, gave me the opportunity to be a bigger part of raising my daughters, allowed me to coach lacrosse and be a part of this great community.
I have to say, my greatest accomplishments are serving in the Navy for 20 years and landing an airplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier day and night. Of course, seeing my two daughters grow up to be strong, independent women gives me the greatest joy.
Candidates.vote — What was the most valuable lesson your parents taught you?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — I think the most valuable lessons my parents taught me were through their example — be considerate of others, respect others, be honest, and true to your word.
Candidates.vote — What college did you attend, and what made you go there?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — I graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BS degree in Mech Engineering. I went to HS in Sacramento, CA, and decided on attending UCSB because, first, they accepted me, and second, I thought it would be a great place to go to school that was not too close to home.
Candidates.vote — What’s your all-time favorite movie?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — I don’t have an all-time favorite movie. I like a wide variety of movies but I don’t spend a lot of time watching them.
Candidates.vote — What comfort food do you go for and why?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — I do like a good cookie (okay more than one), and good ice cream. Why — my DNA demands good cookies and ice cream at certain times.
Candidates.vote — What’s your favorite place to visit in Utah?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — Zion and Arches National Parks. And our backyard Wasatch Range and canyons can’t be beat for easy access.
Candidates.vote — Hot dogs or hamburgers?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — Hamburgers but I do love hotdogs at Utes and Jazz games.
Candidates.vote — What newspapers/magazines/periodicals do you read, and do you read them in paper or digitally?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — NY Times– Sunday in paper, daily digitally. SL Trib daily digitally. The Atlantic, US Lacrosse, MOAA (Military Officers of America Association) monthly magazines. I also listen to NPR and read Politico, The Hill, and an assortment of other political websites.
Candidates.vote —What was your first ‘real job’? What did you learn from it?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — My first real job was as a US Naval Officer and I spent the next 20 years in the Navy. I learned — discipline, perseverance, hard work, team work, leadership, and learned all about the world.
Candidates.vote — Do you have any pets, and if so, what are they?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — My wife is allergic to animals, so having pets is difficult but we did have a sweet chocolate lab for 12 years. Sadie died shortly after my youngest daughter left for college. We currently do not have any pets.
Candidates.vote: What music do you enjoy listening to?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — I like classic rock n roll, and music that has come out over the last 10 years not to include hard rap.
Candidates.vote — What’s your preferred way to spend free time and why?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — I like spending time outdoors — hiking, running, biking, skiing; and relaxing with a good book. I also like to travel and explore other places and cultures.
Candidates.vote — Who is your greatest idol/person you look up to and why?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — My greatest idol would be my Dad. He was the epitome of a gentleman and a scholar. He was a hero to many. He was accomplished and humble.
Candidates.vote — What is something you respect about your political opponents?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — I have to respect that he stepped into City Council to make the city a better place to live. It is not an easy job.
Candidates.vote — And finally, if you could send a short message to anyone reading this, what would it be?
City Council Candidate Dan Dugan — Be true to your word and learn to listen first then speak. And rejuvenate your body and mind by spending time outdoors with your family and friends.
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Candlewyck Cove Resort has won the 2019 “RedBud Award” for “Outstanding Resort and Lodging Property”
Candlewyck Cove Resort, a locally owned Resort in Grove, Oklahoma, has won the coveted “RedBud Award” for “Outstanding Resort and Lodging Property” from the Oklahoma Travel Industry Association. Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell and Jenifer Reynolds, Discover Oklahoma host, presented the award to Candlewyck as part of the “Conference On Tourism” held in Oklahoma City. The RedBud award represents the highest honor given in the Oklahoma tourism industry.
The opening ceremony was keynoted by the Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell and “Discover Oklahoma” host Jenifer Reynolds presented the awards. Jeff Pelcher, Candlewyck’s Owner, stated: “It was a great honor to receive the RedBud award and to be recognized as an “Outstanding Resort and Lodging Property” in Oklahoma”. The Red Bud Awards represent the highest honor given in the Oklahoma tourism industry. Entries were evaluated by a slate of tourism professionals from across the region. The judging included customer service and experience, marketing effectiveness and media relations.
Candlewyck Cove Resort was also previously awarded, the Traveler’s Choice Award, ranking 16th in the Top 25 Hotels to stay in the United States. Traveler’s Choice Awards are based on millions of reviews and opinions from Trip Advisor’s travelers. Candlewyck has also received the 2013 Certificate of Excellence Award from Trip Advisor for the last fifteen years, placing it in the top performing 10% of all businesses worldwide on Trip Advisor. Candlewyck has a rating of 5 stars on Trip Advisor, and is the number one rated hotel in Grove, Oklahoma.
Candlewyck is a majestic lakefront resort overlooking a deep water cove on beautiful Grand Lake in northeastern Oklahoma. Candlewyck, started in 2003 by Jeff and Gara Pelcher, has become home to people from all over the United States for their family vacations, family reunions, weddings and romantic getaways, and for business travelers for a welcoming place to stay and rest.
Candlewyck is also home to H2O Sports Rental, which services its guest and the public with water sports rental of waverunners, wakeboard and ski boats, and pontoon and triton boat rentals.
Jeff and Gara Pelcher, stated “they are very proud of the resort, and all the hard work that has been put into it from their two sons Derrick and Nathan Pelcher in the Resorts early years of construction and over the sixteen years of operation. Candlewyck is currently managed by Roger Pelcher, Jeff’s brother. Roger stated “the true mission of all our staff has been to treat all of our guests as our “family”, and to ensure their stay provides them the greatest opportunity to create lasting memories”.
Candlewyck wants to express to all its customers the deepest “Thank You” from all of us at Candlewyck for the recognition and reviews that lead to this very prestigious award, and more importantly for allowing us the opportunity to be of service.
Attached are pictures of the RedBud Award being presented, as well as the most recent 2018 Certificate of Excellence Award from Trip Advisor.
For Further Information Contact: Roger Pelcher (901) 603-5098
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Candlewyck Cove Resort (918) 786-3636
www.candlewyckcove.com
Candlewyck Cove Resort
Grove, OK 74344, USA
(Grand Lake Oklahoma)
Sun – Thur: 8AM – 5PM
Fri & Sat: 8AM – 8PM
Oct through February
Fri & Sat hours are 9AM - 5PM
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Reliance Communications adds fuel to ongoing tariff fire with its new offers
The ‘Joy of Holi’ plans offer RCom’s new 4G customers 1GB of data for Rs 49 and 3GB for Rs 149 for 28 days
ET Bureau
March 11, 2017, 11:03 IST
Updated: March 11, 2017, 11:05 IST
Reliance Communications, the telecom unit of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group, launched a special tariff offer on Friday, further intensifying a price war that the industry is caught into.
The ‘Joy of Holi’ plans offer RCom’s new 4G customers 1GB of data for Rs 49 and 3GB for Rs 149 for 28 days.
Both come with free and unlimited onnet local and STD calls. Mukesh Ambani controlled Reliance Jio Infocomm said earlier this month that it will start charging subscribers from April 1. But the sharp discounts it offered for a year for its existing 100 million users and those who sign up by end of March have kick off the next phase of the price war which has already hurt Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India.
For a year from April 1, Jio’s existing users and those who come on board between March 1 and 31 will continue to get 1GB of data a day plus all of its apps for Rs 303 a month and a one-time charge of Rs 99.
Despite being hit badly by the price war, Vodafone and Idea, India’s No 2 and No 3 operators, have come up with new plans to counter Jio’s offer. The two companies offer daily data benefit and free unlimited voice calls for their prepaid customers.
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The Nakamura Courthouse opened in 1940 as the first building in the West designed specifically for use as a federal courthouse. In June, 2009, the building was rededicated after a three-year $74.3 million project to renovate and modernize the historic structure. The building includes 76,600 sq. ft. for the Court of Appeals and 21,000 sq. ft. of additional office space.
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Gardens staff, instructors and docents share with you their knowledge of and passion for plants, horticulture and art. We offer a variety of guided tours at our urban site and throughout the Front Range.
Tours at York Street:
Guided tours are an insightful view of the Gardens and its collections. These informative conversations also allow you to share your thoughts, ask questions, and uncover lesser-known spaces.
Offsite Tours:
Explore the beauty of Colorado! These guided walks take you away from the bustling of the city to learn from and reconnect with nature.
Payment for pre-scheduled tours is required upon registration.
Payment for private group tours requires a deposit (15% of your total cost) at the moment of reservation and payment of the balance five business days before your tour.
Cancellations more than one business week prior to a tour are subject to a 15% cancellation fee.
Cancellations with less than one business week prior to a tour are non-refundable.
Garden Guru Tour
Immerse yourself in the Gardens with a horticulturist as your guide. Gain insight into living museum collections and walk away with gardening tips from an expert. Please note that every tour has its own emphasis and is led by a different horticulturist.
Thursday, February 6, 2 p.m.: “Orchids” with Nick Snakenberg, curator of tropical collections and associate director of horticulture
Tuesday, March 24, 10 a.m.: “Spring Garden Preparation” with Dan Johnson, associate director of horticulture, curator of native plants
Friday, June 19, 10 a.m.: “Plant Select®” with Sonya Anderson, horticulture specialist, Plant Select and pollinator gardens
Tuesday, July 7, 10 a.m.: “Annuals” with Bridget Blomquist, horticulture specialist - annuals
Wednesday, July 22, 10 a.m.: “Medicinal Plants” with Blake Burger, horticulture specialist
Tuesday, September 15, 9:30 a.m.: “Fall Garden Preparation” with Mike Bone, curator of steppe collections
Special instructions: Tours can be both indoors and outdoors; dress accordingly for the weather. Water, sunscreen and sunglasses are recommended. Please bring booking confirmation. Meet guide in the lobby of the Boettcher Memorial Center after entering through the Gardens main entrance. Tours are one hour long.
Notes: Prices include admission to the Gardens. Tours with low registration are subject to cancellation. These tours are not available for private parties.
Love Potions from the Vine Tour
Celebrate the month of love with a captivating tour of exotic plants that have inspired myths and tease the senses.
February brings Valentine’s Day with sweets and roses to entice our loved ones. Roses aren’t the only plants associated with love and romance, though – the steamy jungle has no shortage of plants thought to have powers to inspire, enamor or seduce. Escape the winter chill in the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory with this tour of purported aphrodisiacs and learn about the secret romantic lives of tropical plants.
Tour participants will receive a love-inspired gift.
Price: $14, $12 member, $10 student
Special instructions: Parental guidance advised; some tour content might not be appropriate for young children. Tours take place indoors in the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory. Please bring booking confirmation. Meet guide in the lobby of the Boettcher Memorial Center after entering through the Gardens main entrance. Tours are one-hour long.
Notes: Prices include admission to the Gardens. Tours with low registration are subject to cancellation.
Plains Conservation Center Wagon Tour
Get to know the prairie in a whole new way. On our ride across the plains, participants watch for wildlife in the landscape, from prairie dogs to pronghorn antelope and birds of prey, beneath the great stretching sky while learning about the short grass prairie ecosystem along the way. With stops at the sod homes and Cheyenne camp, your group will experience what it was like to be a homesteader and a Cheyenne Indian living on the prairie in the 1800's. Take a guided tour of the sod homestead and see the sod homes, schoolhouse and blacksmith shop. Then visit the Cheyenne camp to learn about how the Cheyenne lived on the prairie and followed the bison as a seminomadic tribe.
Starting in September, the new later tours are scheduled to coincide with the spectacular sunsets at the Plains Conservation Center. Please refer to the calendar for start times.
Please note: Tours are weather dependent. If a tour is cancelled due to weather, you will be contacted.
Date: Select Saturdays
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and seasonally adjusted afternoon or evening start times. Please refer to the calendar for start times.
Location: Plains Conservation Center, 21901 E. Hampden Avenue, Aurora, CO 80013
Prairie Homestead Self-Guided Tour
Presented and Managed by the City of Aurora
Join us at the Plains Conservation Center for a self-guided tour of our historical sod village and tipis. See what a Native American tipi camp might have looked like in the early 1800s. Immerse yourself in a replication of an 1880s prairie homestead village with authentic artifacts and, depending on the season, real farm animals.
Please Note: All guests must check in at the PCC Visitor Center with purchase confirmation prior to beginning self-guided tour in order to receive site condition updates and the actual self-guided brochure.
For a more in-depth experience, sign up for a guided tour or program! Schedule a private tour by contacting Denver Botanic Gardens at pccinfo@botanicgardens.org or 720-865-3500.
The City of Aurora's Parks, Recreation & Open Space department's mission is to encourage active lifestyles and create healthy environments for people, nature and community.
Hours for Self-Guided Tours:
Monday-Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday-Friday: 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Seasonal Discoveries Tour
No matter the time of year, botanical treasures await your discovery with these guided tours of gardens at their seasonal peaks. Experience the Gardens’ landscape at its best, whether through the early bulbs of spring or the crackling beauty of fall.
Special instructions: Tours are outdoors; dress accordingly for the weather. Water, sunscreen and sunglasses are recommended. Please bring booking confirmation. Meet guide in the lobby of the Boettcher Memorial Center after entering through the Gardens main entrance.
Tropical Trails Tour
Denver may be blanketed with snow, but the plants in the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory enjoy a warm climate year-round. Enjoy the lush vegetation, vibrant flowers and warmth of the tropics as you stroll through the Gardens’ tropical collections. This is a one-hour tour led by experienced docents.
Special instructions: Tours are indoors. Please bring booking confirmation. Meet guide in the lobby of the Boettcher Memorial Center after entering through the Gardens main entrance.
Wild Wednesday Hikes Through Colorado's Life Zones - Alpine
Loveland Pass
Spend the morning with a guide learning about Colorado's alpine life zone and searching for wildflowers. This hike will start off at Loveland Pass, a high alpine pass about 60 miles west of Denver. Here we will see several different alpine plant communities, including fell fields, dry and wet alpine meadows, and snow fields. Dozens of species of wildflowers will carpet the tundra in a short but magnificent display of color. The pass hosts moss campion, phlox, alpine forget-me-nots along with dozens of others. Afterwards, we will drive a few hundred yards down the road to Loveland Lake where riparian alpine wildflowers like Parry's primrose, gentians, and roseroot are plentiful. This hike will be moderate at 4 miles or fewer (in total).
This hike will take place at very high elevation, from 12,000 to 12,500 ft so be aware you may be short of breath and experience altitude-related fatigue at this elevation!
Instructor: Michael Guidi
Michael Guidi joined Denver Botanic Gardens in 2017 as a horticulturist where he manages the native plant themed Mordecai Children's Garden. Rock gardening and native plants are his main areas of horticultural interest, but he is broadly interested in alpine and aridland flora and ecology. Michael holds a B.S. in biology with a focus on plant physiology and ecology and currently sits on the board of directors of the North American Rock Garden Society.
8:30 AM - Jul 29, 2020
Wild Wednesday Hikes Through Colorado's Life Zones - Foothills
Foothills Native Plants Hike
Spend the morning with a guide learning about the foothills life zone and searching for foothills wildflowers. This hike will occur at the JeffCo Open Space Park, Deer Creek Canyon, which is approximately a 27-mile drive from Denver. Deer Creek Canyon Park boasts diverse plant communities including Gambel oak groves, ponderosa pine forests, Douglas-fir forests, grasslands, and riparian. The park is one of the choicest locations to see wildflowers in late spring, including larkspur, Yucca, locoweed, several species of Penstemon and Astragalus. The participants will be provided with a plant list which includes scientific and common names of some of the plants that may be encountered on the hike. The hike itself is approximately 2.5 miles and is rated as moderate, due to a few steep, rocky sections.
Instructor: Jen Toews
Jen Toews joined the Gardens in 2015 as the Plant Recorder and is responsible for researching nomenclature and the accessioning of all plants entering the Gardens. She is an author of the recently published field guide Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region (2018) and has developed content for and taught native plants classes at the Gardens. She holds a BA in Biology from Metropolitan State University of Denver, an MA in English from CU Denver, and is a Native Plant Master®. Outside of work Jen enjoys hiking and photographing Colorado's diverse plants and their habitats and writing about nature-themed adventures in her blog, Telesonix Times.
8:30 AM - Jun 3, 2020
Wild Wednesday Hikes Through Colorado's Life Zones - Montane
Montane Native Plants Hike - Reynolds Park
Spend the morning with a guide learning about the montane life zone and searching for wildflowers. This hike will occur at Reynolds Park, which is approximately a 40-mile drive from Denver. This park showcases ponderosa pine forests, a riparian corridor, scenic overlooks, and an array of wildflowers including paintbrush, pinedrops, wild currants, scarlet gilia, and native thistle. The participants will be provided with a plant list which includes scientific and common names of some of the plants that may be encountered. Exact trail TBD, but will be moderate and 4 miles or fewer.
8:30 AM - Jun 24, 2020
Wild Wednesday Hikes Through Colorado's Life Zones - Plains/Steppe
Green Mountain - William Frederick Hayden Park
Spend the morning with a guide learning about the plains life zone and the flora of Colorado's prairie wildflowers. This hike will take place at William Frederick Hayden Park which encompasses Green Mountain, a 6,800 foot mesa on the west side of Denver. Expect to see beautiful wildflowers including Oenothera, Astragalus, and Lupine as well as learn to identify some of the major grasses and shrubs of the plains life zone. This hike will take us to the summit of Green Mountain and along the way we will see different exposures and microclimates in which dramatically different plant communities exist; these ecotones (transitional biological communities) will represent a transition between plains and foothills flora. The participants will be provided with a plant list which includes scientific and common names of some of the plants that may be encountered on the hike. This hike is 6 miles in length with 500 feet of elevation gain.
Michael Guidi joined Denver Botanic Gardens in 2017 as a horticulturist where he manages the native plant themed Mordecai Children's Garden. Rock gardening and native plants are his main areas of horticultural interest but he is broadly interested in alpine and aridland flora and ecology. Michael holds a B.S. in biology with a focus on plant physiology and ecology and currently sits on the board of directors of the North American Rock Garden Society.
Wild Wednesday Hikes Through Colorado's Life Zones - Subalpine
Spend the morning with a guide learning about Colorado's subalpine life zone and searching for wildflowers. Lake Isabelle is situated at 11,000 feet in the heart of the Indian Peaks Wilderness. Framed by Navajo, Apache, and Shoshoni peaks, this beautiful lake offers some of the most spectacular mountain scenery close to the front range. Just as spectacular are the abundant wildflowers along the trail and surrounding the lake. Along the way, the trail moves through subalpine forest of spruce and fir, crosses several wildflower-bordered streams, and eventually opens up to wide subalpine meadows surrounding the lake. Stands of bluebells, Penstemon, Erigeron, Paintbrush and Pedicularis will keep us busy on the 4.1 mile hike up to the lake.
This hike will take place at moderately high elevation, from 10,500 to 11,000 feet so be aware you may be short of breath and experience altitude-related fatigue at this elevation!
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Military Medal
Campaign medals were awarded to cover specified conflicts, while gallantry medals recognise personal accomplishments by members of the armed forces or acts of civilian bravery.
Collecting areas range widely in this field, from regiments and types of medals to those awarded by certain countries or for special forces. Many campaign medal groups will also include gallantry awards too, and the latter involve remarkable stories of heroism.
For more information, read ATG’s in-depth guide to military medals
Medals earned by a Hardy band of brothers
Peninsular War medals featuring 13 or 14 clasps – showing how many actions the recipient fought in – are impressive enough in themselves. But three of them awarded to brothers who served in the same regiment, offered as a single lot at auction, takes demand to a different level.
Sikh gem-set medal awarded £24,000 in specialist sale
Top-seller at the latest sale of Islamic and Indian Art and antiquities held at Roseberys (25% buyer’s premium) in West Norwood was a 19th century Sikh enamelled and diamond-set gold medal.
Family reunited with medals after ATG appeal
Rare medals stolen from a car and found discarded in a park 10 months later have been reunited with their owner thanks to an ATG news story.
Missing in action but spotted shooting at a bottle of schnapps
‘Highly unusual’ is how the Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) cataloguer described a Second World War medal group ahead of its sale in Dorchester on August 22 for £420, just over top estimate.
Wheelbarrow fells Waterloo hero
Just imagine: you have been through the horrors of the Battle of Waterloo in a regiment which suffered 217 casualties out of 396, and were wounded yourself, and then your career is ended by… a wheelbarrow.
Tribute to a local hero
It’s a simple message but a powerful one. The words Welcome Home are stamped on the front of a rare first World War tribute medal to J Day (believed to be John Day) issued by the Working Men’s Club for the Yorkshire village of Heckmondwike.
Extra award marks ‘Forlorn Hope’ bravery
The ‘Forlorn Hope’ was well named: a band of soldiers, often volunteers, chosen to take the lead part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high. Its usage was especially common in accounts of the Peninsular War (1808-14).
Broadened horizons in medal collecting
While some medal collectors stick rigidly to a narrow period or theme, others take a wider view. A broad taste is evident from a large group on offer in Salisbury.
Strong demand for Boer War medal honouring bravery regardless of race
A medal, silver cigar box and ‘oil lamp’ lighter sold at Ramsay Cornish's latest sale in Edinburgh had come by descent from Major Jonathan Leslie Dean (1859-1926). He was a key participant in the defence of O’okiep (1902), the small town in the Northern Cape that was besieged by Boer Commandos from April 4-May 4, 1902, towards the end of the Second Boer War.
Medal awarded to British soldier killed on the D-Day beaches sells at auction
In the week marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings a poignant medal was sold at auction which had been awarded to a British soldier killed in the invasion.
British Waterloo Medal offered at New York sale
Included in Weiss Auctions’ sale in Lynbrook, New York, on June 26 is this British Waterloo Medal for Henry Gronemann, who was in the 5th Line Battalion of the King’s German Legion.
Obituary: John Hayward (1938-2019)
The death of John Hayward on May 12 has robbed the world of medals and medal collecting of its most colourful personality.
Antiques Roadshow values Dam Busters blueprints – six items relating to the famous raid sold at auction
Among the items that viewers of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow will see valued on this weekend’s programme are the original blueprints for the bouncing bomb depicted in the film ‘The Dam Busters’.
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A hunger strike ‘Fed By Force’ medal awarded to Suffragette Selina Martin (1882-1972) has been snapped up at auction by an Australian museum.
At face value: coins and medals sales recover after 2017 dip
It is a quarter of a century since ATG’s first overview of London’s numismatic auction market. Here we review the heads and the tails of 2018.
Appeal to antiques trade to help find stolen medals awarded to nurse who served in Africa
The owner of a group of medals stolen from a car in south London is calling on the trade to help her locate them.
ATG letter: Does anyone recognise this medal?
MADAM – Here is a medal whose origin I can’t figure out (above). It was found in northern Norway.
Titanic rescue medal makes £45,000 at Bourne End auction – VIDEO
A prolonged bidding battle emerged today in Buckinghamshire as the gold medal awarded to the bursar on board the RMS Carpathia, the ship that famously rescued survivors from the Titanic in 1912, sold at £45,000.
Medal fair free to exhibit under new owner
London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb has bought the 'Britannia Medal Fair' “to ensure that it can remain at the Victory Services Club”, the central London venue where it has attracted dealers and collectors for more than 30 years.
Previews £30,000 plus
Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.
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Alain Karma
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computational modeling of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms from cellular to organ scales including systems biology approaches
My main research interest lies in theoretical understanding of the emergence of nonequilibrium patterns in nonlinear systems with applications to diverse problems in materials science and biology that are both of fundamental and practical relevance. This research makes extensive uses of mathematical models and computational approaches rooted in nonequilibrium statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics.
In the materials arena, the main thrust of my group’s research has been the development and the application of phase-field methods to a wide range of interface dynamical problems with ongoing projects spanning microstructural pattern formation in alloy solidification, stress-driven grain boundary motion and polycrystalline pattern evolution, semiconductor nanowire growth, as well as fracture phenomena and crack propagation in brittle materials. Phase field models typically employ a single or multiple order parameters to avoid explicit interface tracking and incorporate multiple physical phenomena (such as capillarity, interface kinetics, atomic diffusion, stress, etc) into a self-consistent set of nonlinear partial different equations that can be analyzed in certain limits and simulated on massively parallel computer architectures. Much of the excitement in this line of research has been generated by recent successes to combine atomistic and phase-field methods to make materials specific predictions on experimentally relevant length and time scales, which is becoming increasingly feasible due to the rapid advances in computer power. The phase-field crystal method that resolves the crystal density field has also emerged as an exciting new avenue for extending atomistic simulations to diffusive time scales. Our ongoing research tackles some important challenges involved in making this approach quantitative for crystalline solids. An ultimate practical goal of this research is to use computer simulations to guide the design and optimize the properties of a wide range of advanced technological materials.
In the biological arena, our efforts have focused on understanding basic mechanisms of “cardiac arrhythmias”, a term commonly used to describe irregular heart rhythms. Of particular interest is ventricular fibrillation, a turbulent rhythm that stops the heart from pumping and is the leading cause of sudden death among industrialized nations. Ventricular fibrillation claims about 300,000 lives per year in the US. While high risk patients can carry implantable defibrillators, reducing mortality in the wider population of patients who die suddenly and unpredictably from ventricular fibrillation has remained a major challenge. Our recent studies have focused on elucidating the origin of spatiotemporal patterns of period doubling oscillations of calcium and voltage signals in cardiac cells and tissue (networks of cardiac cells) that make the heart susceptible to the onset of life-threatening arrhythmias and fibrillation. This research has the potential to improve current means to identify high risk patients and to prevent cardiac fibrillation beyond the limitations of current therapies, either pharmacologically, or using low amplitude electrical stimuli as an alternative to a massive defibrillatory shock.
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Z. Song, A. Karma, J.N. Weiss, Z. Qu, Long-lasting Sparks: Multi-Metastability and Release Competition in the Calcium Release Unit Network, Speech Communication, 12(1), 2016, e1004671
D. Terentyev, C.M. Rees, W. Li, L.L. Cooper, H.K. Jindal, X. Peng, Y. Lu, R. Terentyeva, K.E. Odening, J. Daley, K. Bist, B.-R. Choi, A. Karma, G. Koren, Hyperphosphorylation of RyRs Underlies Triggered Activity in Transgenic Rabbit Model of LQT2 Syndrome, Circulation Research, 115(11), 2014, 919-928
P.S. Skardal, A. Karma, J.G. Restrepo, Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Calcium-Driven Cardiac Alternans, Physical Review E, 89(5), 2014, 052707
A. Karma, Physics of Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 4, 2013, 313-337
J.N. Weiss, A. Karma, W.R. MacLellan, M. Deng, C.D. Rau, C.M. Rees, J. Wang, N. Wisniewski, Eskin E, S Horvath, Z Qu, Y Wang, A.J. Lusis, Good Enough Solutions and the Genetics of Complex Diseases, Circulation Research, 111, 2012, 493-504
FY20 TIER 1 Award Recipients
25 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY20 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different projects representing up to $900K dollars of investment in research.
Understanding Toughness
MIE Associate Professor Sandra Shefelbine, Assistant Professor Randal Erb & Physics Professor Alain Karma received a $445K NSF grant to determine the toughness of a material and try to recreate it with synthetic components.
28 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY12 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different research projects.
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InSAR, GPS - continuous, GPS - campaign, Levelling, Tiltmeter, EDM, Pixel offsets from thermal infrared imagery
1982-1999 (levelling), 1982-present (tiltmeters), 1994-present (GPS), 1996-2000, 2004-present (EDM), 2002-2007 (ENVISAT InSAR), 2007-2010 (ALOS InSAR), 2011-2013 (TSX InSAR), 2011 (Thermal IR)
Magmatic, Surface deposits
The first deformation measurements of Colima were made with annual levelling surveys, and were complemented with GPS stations installed in the mid 1990’s (Murray & Wooler, 2002). They recorded a persistent subsidence at a rate of 5 mm/year, 1.1 km from the summit (levelling), and 93 mm/yr at the edge of the dome (GPS). The GPS also recorded horizontal displacements at a maximum rate of 23 mm/year near the dome. Simple deformation models were unable to fit the observations, and the deformation was thought to most likely be due to a combination of downslope creep, settling and compaction of the edifice, and gravitational spreading (Murray & Wooler, 2002).
EDM surveys conducted between May 1997 and Jan 1999 detected up to 4 m shortening at an accelerating rate peaking at 90 cm shortening from Oct-Nov 1998 before lava extrusion began on 20th Nov 1998 (Ramı́rez-Ruiz et al., 2002). The pre-eruption inflation was assumed to be caused by magma accumulating in the edifice.
Monitoring of tilt signals at Colima showed inflation between lava extrusion in Oct. 2004 and Vulcanian explosions in Feb. 2005, followed by subsidence in May – June 2005 (Zobin et al., 2011). Two magmatic sources were modelled for the deformation – one at 300-1800 m depth for the earlier inflation and one at 1800-2800 m depth for the later subsidence. The tiltmeters also recorded rapid inflation-deflation signals, caused by impulses from Vulcanian explosions in 2005, and with amplitudes correlated to the size of explosions recorded by seismometers.
Early InSAR studies of Colima did not observe any deformation between 2002-2010 most likely due to steep slopes, atmospheric noise and temporal aliasing (Pinel et al., 2011 and Chaussard el al., 2013, see Popocatepetl entry for full references). Spotlight TerraSAR-X imagery acquired 19 and 7 hours before an explosion on Jan 6th 2013 show up to 5 cm of pre eruptive deformation near the dome (Salzer et al., 2014). Modelling of this deformation is best fit by two shallow elliptical sources pressurising by 22-25 MPa. One source is at 150-300 m below the summit and the other only 10’s of meters below the summit within the lava dome.
Direct measurements of the dome have recently been feasible using pixel offset tracking of thermal infrared imagery. Cross-correlation of pixels from imagery in Feb 2011 records permanent dome growth of up to 0.3 m within 120 s, coincident with volcanic emissions (Walter et al., 2013).
J.B. Murray, L.K. Wooller (2002), Persistent summit subsidence at Volcan de Colima, Mexico, 1982–1999: strong evidence against Mogi deflation. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 117, pp. 69–78, doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(02)00236-6
J.J. Ramı́rez Ruiz, H. Santiago-Jimenez, E. Alatorre-Chavez, M. Bretón-Gonzalez (2002), EDM deformation monitoring of the 1997–2000 eruption at Volcán de Colima. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 117, pp. 61–67, doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(02)00235-4
V.M. Zobin, J.J. Ramírez, H. Santiago, E. Alatorre, C. Navarro (2010),
Relationship between tilt changes and effusive–explosive episodes at an andesitic volcano: the 2004–2005 eruption at Volcán de Colima, México. Bull. Volcanol. (2010) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00445-010-0405-4
Walter, T. R., D. Legrand, H. D. Granados, G. Reyes, and R. Arámbula (2013), Volcanic eruption monitoring by thermal image correlation: Pixel offsets show episodic dome growth of the Colima volcano, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 118, 1408–1419, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50066.
.T. Salzer, M. Nikkhoo, T.R. Walter, H. Sudhaus, G. Reyes-Dávila, M. Bretón, R. Arambula (2014), Satellite radar data reveal short-term pre-explosive displacements and a complex conduit system at Volcan de Colima, Mexico, Front. Earth Sci., 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2014.00012
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Mexican Activist Talks Drugs, Guns and US Policies
Sábado 26 de octubre de 2013 , por Comité Cerezo México , popularidad : 1%
“We believe that the Mexican Army, instead of fighting the Cartels to stop the drug trade, is actually fighting them to control the drug trade,” Francisco said.
Nathaniel Dalton
ndalt398@uwsp.edu
The University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point’s Latin American/ Caribbean speaker series coordinated with the activist group Witness for Peace to bring Francisco Cerezo, a founding member of the human rights organization Comité Cerezo, to campus last Thursday to speak about the effects the United States’ War on Drugs is having on the Mexican people.
Since 2007, the drug war has claimed the lives of over 60,000 Mexican citizens. In addition, about 25,000 people have been seized by Mexican police forces, and a staggering 150,000 people have been displaced by violent conflict.
All of this has been funded by American taxpayers and comes to a total of around 1.6 billion dollars.
This is the situation that Francisco, and the rest of Comité Cerezo, fight every day in Mexico. Comité Cerezo was formed in 2001 when Francisco’s three brothers, also activists, were arrested and imprisoned by the Mexican government on charges of terrorism.
“We eventually managed to defeat those charges in court,” Francisco said. “But one of my brothers was in jail for three and a half years before we could get him out, and the other two were both in for seven years.”
Today, Comité Cerezo focuses on documenting police abuse and advocating for political prisoners in Mexico, as well raising awareness about US policies driving the drug war.
In Thursday’s presentation, Francisco singled out one particular policy, the Mérida Initiative, as the biggest contributor to the human rights crisis in Mexico today.
The initiative was created in 2008 by the US and Mexican governments to outfit Mexican forces with the tools and training needed to achieve two goals: wage war against the drug cartels and prevent human rights abuses. However, according to Francisco and Witness for Peace, the effects of the initiative have fallen far from this stated purpose.
Witness for Peace reports, “Between 2007 and 2012, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission saw a fivefold increase in complaints of human rights violations by Mexican soldiers and federal police, including torture, rape, extrajudicial execution, arbitrary detention, and enforced disappearance.”
Francisco asserts that the initiative is the cause of this jump in human rights violations.
“Support of the Merida Initiative from US is 99 percent military training, one percent human rights,” Francisco said. “The police have been trained to fight enemy combatants, so they treat Mexican citizens like enemies.”
When acting to disperse public protests, police officers will “Restrain protesters and kick them into submission, while others try to stop activists from recording what’s happening by blocking their cameras with riots shields,” Francisco said.
People beaten in this way are often left on the street and there is no official documentation of the abuse that can be used against the police. Other times, people are taken in and their arrest is never put on official record.“When this happens, the families of the people who are arrested will go to the police to find out what happened to their loved ones, and the police deny they ever arrested them,” Francisco said.
Francisco also claimed that the other stated goal of the initiative, to stop the flow of drugs from Mexico, is not being followed through on.
“What is the true reason the US is sending so much money to Mexico?” one audience member asked.
This ties to another theory Comité Cerezo and Witness for Peace have about the true motivations of the drug war: that US corporations that influence policy use it as way to seize land and power in developing countries.
“There is an alliance between the Mexican government, the army, and US corporations,” Francisco said. “The government creates paramilitary groups that kill people, which causes those people to ask for help from the army, which then allows the government to take the land and turn it over to the corporations.”
As outrageous as that situation may sound, Francisco maintained that there are still actions that UWSP students can take to help.
Students can sign up at WitnessForPeace.org to receive action alerts, which are forms that call for signatures to pressure military and political forces to take action on a certain issue.
Francisco has received thirteen death threats over the course of his activism and responses to action alerts have helped insure that none of them have been followed through with.
Students can also follow Witness for Peace and Comité Cerezo on Facebook and Twitter. This type of social media activism can actually make a huge difference when these groups fight in court on behalf of political prisoners.
“The Courts will not be so harsh if they know there is US support,” said Elise Roberts, regional organizer for Witness for Peace’s upper Midwest branch.
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When the USC Kid Watch program was launched more than two decades ago, the area surrounding the six Family of Schools was a far cry from today’s bustling corridor (prior to the Galen Center, the USC Village, the Expo line, Banc of California Field) and the children walking to and from school on their own were susceptible to street crimes and other safety issues.
The goal of the program was to keep children safe by empowering the residents of the neighborhood to become a formidable neighborhood watch. Neighbors would look out for children as they walk to and from school, in the morning and afternoon. The safe passageways created by Kid Watch ambassadors, as the volunteers are referred to within the program, prevent bullying, and gang influence as well as deter street crimes.
Over the years the program has evolved as street crimes in the area surrounding Norwood Elementary, Weemes Elementary, Vermont Elementary, Mack Elementary, 32nd Street Magnet and Foshay Learning Center has subsided. Street and traffic safety has become a focal point of the program. The Kid Watch safety valet program was introduced to create a safe environment in designated drop off locations.
“A big issue in our schools is vehicle and pedestrian safety, cars that double park or parents that park their car in the middle of the street and take their kids out of the car and walk them across a busy street,” says Irvin Jerez, program manager for Kid Watch. “It not only causes a lot of traffic, but it also creates a very dangerous situation.”
Irvin Jerez, program manager for Kid Watch and officers from LAPD discuss safety at the 2018 Public Safety Conference for Kid Watch. (USC Photo/Saul Garcia)
The safety valet program has been a popular addition, not only with the schools and parents, but with the kids under the watchful eye of the program. “Our Kids Watch ambassadors are the first people that the kids see when they arrive at school,” says Jerez. “It builds familiarity between our ambassadors and our kids. It builds trust, and kids feel comfortable. They know that our Kid Watch ambassadors are someone they can look for when they need help.”
While the goal of the program is to ensure the safety of children, it also empowers the community members who volunteer their time. They are empowered through training and information sessions that teaches them skills such proper reporting protocols and self-defense. At a recent public safety conference, the ambassadors were introduced to various safety partners in the program, including USC’s Department of Public Safety, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority (Metro).
“The conference is designed to support our Kid Watch ambassadors and the Kid Watch membership to hear about what they signed up for, as well as to hear from our safety partners,” says Kim Thomas-Barrios, associate senior vice president of K-12 educational partnerships. “They go over what they may see, what they have to deal with and who do they report to. It’s a way to build trust, which you develop more easily when you have personally met a person that represents a law enforcement agency. It bridges the gap when it comes to reporting and it goes a long way into creating relationships between our safety partners and our community members.”
The enduring history of the program is due to its successful collaboration between the community, parents, schools and safety partners with the goal of keeping children safe by getting neighborhood residents involved.
“When you feel like you have a voice, you feel like you are involved. You feel like you have a role in keeping the community safe. Nothing feels hopeless,” says Captain Edgar Palmer, USC Department of Public Safety. “You need community partners in order to keep the community safe.”
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MOTIVATION:
We have become interesting in visualizing the structure of the law including its components and subcomponents. In reduced form, statutes, regulations and certain other units of the law can be characterized in graph theoretical terms. While we do not make deep inroads on the content of this above graph, we do generate a tree traversable visualization for its structure.
Much of my training in law school (particularly in the so called “code-based” classes) was focused upon developing mental models for the structure and content of graphs such as the one displayed above. In my case, I believe the usage of such a visualization early in a code-based course would have been beneficial. Thus, we offer this traversable visualization to the world for not only its research value but also for pedagogical purposes.
Start in the MIDDLE at the “11 U.S.C.__ ” Label and traverse out.
BREAKDOWN OF THE VISUAL:
GREEN NODE LABELS = for SECTIONS {In the Example below, 11 U.S.C. § 101}
YELLOW ARCS — Chapter 7 of Title 11 = LIQUIDATION
BLUE ARCS — Chapter 11 of Title 11 = REORGANIZATION (aka “Filing Chapter 11“)
RED ARCS and GREY ARCS — Balance of the Chapters under Title 11
Red Arcs are for lines which lead to terminal nodes
Grey Arcs are for lines which do not immediately lead to terminal nodes
Please feel free to PLAY AROUND and TEST IT OUT!
This is an early production version so please provide us with any feedback and/or suggestions.
Author Daniel Martin KatzPosted on April 1, 2009 Tags bankruptcy, graph traversal, united states code, visualization5 Comments on With Bankruptcy on Our Minds: The Structure of Title 11 U.S.C.
Co-Sponsorship Networks– Senators of the 108th Congress
In the days and weeks to come we will turn our attenion away from Congress in favor of other institutions and substantive questions. However, given our prior posts focusing upon the structure of the 110th Congress, we thought it proper to highlight some relevant realted scholarship. James Fowler from the UCSD Political Science Department and leader of the Networks in Political Science movement has published several papers exploring the strucutre of legislative co-sponsorship. You can find a link to these papers here. My favorite of these papers is Community Structure in Congressional Cosponsorship Networks published in Physica A by Yan Zhang, A. J. Friend, Amanda L. Traud, Mason A. Porter, James H. Fowler & Peter J. Mucha. The above figure, drawn from the paper, is a dendrogram for the legislative cosponsorship network of the Senate of the 108th Congress.
Author Daniel Martin KatzPosted on March 31, 2009 Tags co-sponsorship, congress, dendrograms, network analysisLeave a comment on Co-Sponsorship Networks– Senators of the 108th Congress
Senators of the 110th Congress Take 2-Contributions by Industry/Sector
To view the full image, please click here.
This represents a deeper cut on campaign contributions to the Senators of 110th Congress. Again, we rely upon data from the Center for Responsive Politics. The CRP aggregates contribution data up to the industry or economic sector. Thus, as before, we adopt their classification scheme and methodology herein. While aggregating to the industry/sector level removes the degree of specificity we offered in our earlier post, it provides a cleaner representation for the graph. For those interested in the other chamber, click here for the House of Representatives.
Click on the picture above and it will take you to our flash where you can zoom in and read the labels.
As you review the graph, please consider the following:
(1) Industries locate in the center of the graph because they provide significant funding to both Democrats and Republicans.
(2) Industries which generally only fund one political party are located toward the respective red/blue boundary. For example, it is hardly surprising to observe the location of “Oil and Gas” relative to “Environmental” groups.
(3) It is important to note that we do not impose the partisan separation or the placement of party outliers apparent in the image. Rather, the algorithm places Red Senators in Blue Territory and Blue Senators in Red Territory because they receive significant sums from industries who typically fund the opposing party. For example, consider Senator Olympia J Snowe (R-ME) who is typically characterized as a moderate Republican. Since she receives money from more industries that typically fund Democrats than Republicans, she is placed in Blue Territory by the algorithm.
(4) It is important not to over read the position of Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI). Over the relevant time window, Senator Kohl received 94% of his resources through self-financing.
Author Daniel Martin KatzPosted on March 30, 2009 Tags campaign contribution, congress, industries, senate4 Comments on Senators of the 110th Congress Take 2-Contributions by Industry/Sector
Google for Government? Broad Representations of Large N DataSets
In our previous post, a post which has generated tremendous interest from a variety of sources, we demonstrated how applying the tools of network science can provide a broad representation for thousands of lines of information. Throughout the 2008 Presidential Campaign then Senator Obama consistently discussed his Google for Government initiative.
From the Obama for America Website:
Google for Government: Americans have the right to know how their tax dollars are spent, but that information has been hidden from public view for too long. That’s why Barack Obama and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) passed a law to create a Google-like search engine to allow regular people to approximately track federal grants, contracts, earmarks, and loans online.
We agree with both President Obama and Senator Coburn that universal accessibility of such information is worthwhile goal. However, we believe this is only a first step.
In a deep sense, our prior post is designed to serve as a demonstration project. We are just two graduate students working on a shoestring budget. With the resources of the federal government, however, it would certainly be possible to create a series of simple interfaces designed to broadly represent of large amounts of information. While these interfaces should rely upon the best available analytical methods, such methods could probably be built-in behind the scenes. At a minimum, government agencies should follow the suggestion of David G. Robinson and his co-authors who argue the federal government “should require that federal websites themselves use the same open systems for accessing the underlying data as they make available to the public at large.”
Anyway, will be back on Monday providing more thoughts on our initial representation of the 110th Congress. In addition, we hope to highlight other work in the growing field of Computational Legal Studies. Have a good rest of the weekend!
Author Daniel Martin KatzPosted on March 28, 2009 Tags 110th Congress, computational public policy, Google for Government, tarpLeave a comment on Google for Government? Broad Representations of Large N DataSets
Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION (The Image)
As part of our commitment to provide original content, we offer a Computational Legal Studies approach to the study of the current campaign finance environment. If you click below you can zoom in and read the labels on the institutions and the senators. The visualization memorializes contributions to the members of the 110th Congress (2007 -2009). Highlighted in green are the primary recipients of the TARP.
In the post below, we offer detailed documentation of this visualization.
Three Important Principles: (1) Squares (i.e. Institutions) introduce money into the system and Circles (i.e. Senators) receive money (2) Both Institutions and Senators are sized by dollars contributed or dollars received (3) Senators are colored by Party.
By Michael Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz.
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Author Michael BommaritoPosted on March 26, 2009 Tags 110th Congress, campaign finance network, congress, network analysis, tarp4 Comments on Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION (The Image)
Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION (Documentation for the Network)
Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to the Senators of the 110th Congress —
The TARP EDITION
By Michael Bommarito & Daniel Katz
BASIC OVERVIEW:
110th Congress = January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009
100 Members of the United States Senate
Click Here for the House of Representatives
BASIC RULE:
Squares (Institutions) Introduce Money into the System and Circles (Senators) Receive Money.
DATA OVERVIEW:
Using recently published data on campaign contributions collected by the Federal Election Commission and aggregated by the Center for Responsive Politics at http://www.opensecrets.org, our visualizations track large money donations to members of the 110th Congress over the 2003-2008 window.
Given that some senators resign or lose reelection, a subset of the senators of the 110th Congress have served less than the full 2003-2008 window. While this imposes some comparability issues, many of these new members faced challenging races and thus attracted significant sums of money.
It is important to note that most of these organizations did not directly donate. Rather, as noted by the Center for Responsive Politics “the money came from the organization’s PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates. Of course, it is impossible to know either the economic interest that made each individual contribution possible or the motivation for each individual giver. However, the patterns of contributions provide critical information for voters, researchers and others.” The Center describes its methodology here http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/method_pop.php. We strike a tradeoff between information overload and incomplete disclosure. To provide for an optically tractable view of the top contributions, we impose the limiting requirement that to be included in our tally a given group’s contribution must fall within a given senator’s top contributor list. For a first cut on the data, we believe this reaches an appropriate balance. However, in subsequent work we plan to go much deeper and probe a much larger set of contribution information.
CONTRIBUTORS & CONTRIBUTIONS:
1,050 of the Donors are captured in the Graph.
Total Recorded Donations Introduced into the System by these Entities Total to $94, 138,917.
(1) SIZING of the SENATOR NODES — Each Circular node representing a U.S. Senator is sized according the amount of incoming donations. Thus, larger U.S. Senator nodes are the recipients of larger sums of money while the smaller nodes received smaller amounts of money.
NOTE ON SELF-FINANCING — Some candidates use personal funds to finance their campaigns. For example, Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) spent $5,922,759 of which $5,575,000 (94%) came from his personal assets. In this respect, Senator Kohl has a significant “self-loop” but is sized very small because he accepts very little outside monies.
(2) COLORING of the SENATOR NODES — Each node representing a US Senator is colored according their Political Party. Using popular convention, we color members of the Republican Party as Red, members of the Democratic Party as Blue and Independents as Purple. For the 110th Congress, there are two Independents—Bernie Sanders (I- VT), Joe Lieberman (I- CT), respectfully.
(3) COLORING of the INSTITUTIONAL NODES — Each square node represents institutions who are top contributors to at least one Senator in the 110th Congress. The full graph contains 1,050 institutions of two separate classes. Green institutions are either primary TARP recipients or now components of primary recipients of resources under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. For example, we color Wachovia as Green even though they are now owned by Wells Fargo, a TARP recipient.
(4) SIZING of the INSTITUTIONAL NODES — Each square node representing a TARP or Non-TARP institution is sized according their relative financial contribution to the over all system. Thus, larger institutions make larger contributions and smaller institutions make smaller contributions.
(5) SIZING of the CONNECTIONS — Each Connection (Arc) between an Institution and a Senator is sized according to the amount of money flowing through a connection. Darker connections represent larger flows of money while lighter connections represent smaller amounts of money.
(6) COLORING of the CONNECTIONS — Each connection representing a campaign contribution from an institution to a US Senator is colored according to partisan affiliation of the receiving senator. Using popular convention, we color members of the Republican Party as Red, members of the Democratic Party as Blue and Independents as Purple. For the 110th Congress, there are two Independents—Bernie Sanders (I- VT), Joe Lieberman (I- CT), respectfully.
(7) STRUCTURE OF THE GRAPH — The Graph is Visualized Using the Kamada-Kawai Visualization Algorithm. This is an automated spring embedded, force directed placement algorithm often used in the network science literature to visualize graphs of this size.
(8) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS — We thank Rick Riolo, Jon Zelner, Carl Simon, Scott Page and the Center for Responsive Politics for their comments, contributions and/or data.
Author Daniel Martin KatzPosted on March 26, 2009 Tags contribution, senate, tarp6 Comments on Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION (Documentation for the Network)
Hustle & Flow: A Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary
This paper written by CLS Blog Co-Founder Daniel Katz and Derek Stafford from the University of Michigan Department of Political Science representes an initial foray into Computational Legal Studies by the graduate students here at the University of Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems. The full paper contains a number of interesting visualizations where we draw various federal judges together on the basis of their shared law clerks (1995-2004). The screen print above is a zoom very center of the center of the network. Yellow Nodes represent Supreme Court Justices, Green Nodes represent Circuit Court Justices, Blue Nodes represent Circuit Court Justices. Here is a wide shot of the broader network visualized using the Kamada-Kawai visualization algorithm:
Here is the abstract: Scholars have long asserted that social structure is an important feature of a variety of societal institutions. As part of a larger effort to develop a fully integrated model of judicial decision making, we argue that social structure-operationalized as the professional and social connections between judicial actors-partially directs outcomes in the hierarchical federal judiciary. Since different social structures impose dissimilar consequences upon outputs, the precursor to evaluating the doctrinal consequences that a given social structure imposes is a descriptive effort to characterize its properties. Given the difficulty associated with obtaining appropriate data for federal judges, it is necessary to rely upon a proxy measure to paint a picture of the social landscape. In the aggregate, we believe the flow of law clerks reflects a reasonable proxy for social and professional linkages between jurists. Having collected available information for all federal judicial law clerks employed by an Article III judge during the “natural” Rehnquist Court (1995-2004), we use these roughly 19,000 clerk events to craft a series of network based visualizations. Using network analysis, our visualizations and subsequent analytics provide insight into the path of peer effects in the federal judiciary. For example, we find the distribution of “degrees” is highly skewed implying the social structure is dictated by a small number of socially prominent actors. Using a variety of centrality measures, we identify these socially prominent jurists. Next, we draw from the extant complexity literature and offer a possible generative process responsible for producing such inequality in social authority. While the complete adjudication of a generative process is beyond the scope of this article, our results contribute to a growing literature documenting the highly-skewed distribution of authority across the common law and its constitutive institutions.
Author Daniel Martin KatzPosted on March 25, 2009 Tags clerk tournament, Judicial Decision Making, Judicial Peer Effects, Law as a Complex System, Law Clerks, network analysis, Public Law, Sociology of Law1 Comment on Hustle & Flow: A Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary
When is the first term enough?: On approximation in social science
Research in the academic world suffers from the “hammer problem” – that is, the methods we use are often those that we have in our toolbox, not necessarily those that we should be using. This is especially true in computational social science, where we often attempt to directly import well-developed methods from the hard sciences.
To prove the point, I’d like to highlight one example we’ve come across in our research. In Leicht et al’s Large-scale structure of time evolving citation networks, the authors apply two methods to a simplified representation of the United States Supreme Court citation network. Both of these methods rely on complicated statistical algorithms and require iterative non-linear system solvers. However, the results are consistent, and they detect “events” around 1900, 1940, and 1970.
One first-order alternative to detecting significant “events” in the Court would be to count citations. One might suspect, for instance, that the formation or destruction of law might go hand-in-hand with an acceleration or deceleration in the rate of citation. Such a method is purely conjectural, but costs much less to implement than the methods discussed above.
This figure shows the number of outgoing citations per year in blue, as well as the ten-year moving average in purple. The plot shows jumps that coincide very well with the plot from Leicht, et. al. Thus, although only a first-order approximation to the underlying dynamics, this method would lead historians down a similar path with much less effort.
This example, though simple, is one that really hits home for me. After a week of struggling to align interpretations and methods, this plot convinced me more than any eigenvector or Lagrangian system. Perhaps more importantly, unlike the above methods, you can explain this plot to a lay audience in a fifteen minute talk.
Author Michael BommaritoPosted on March 23, 2009 Tags artificial intelligence and law, judicial citation network, Judicial Decision Making, supreme court, time seriesLeave a comment on When is the first term enough?: On approximation in social science
Computational Social Science in Science Magazine
This article in a recent issue of Science Magazine— authored by some of the leaders in field— highlights some of the possibilities of and perils associated with a computational revolution in the social sciences. We believe it is a worthwhile read….
Author Daniel Martin KatzPosted on March 22, 2009 Tags computational social science1 Comment on Computational Social Science in Science Magazine
Print 'Hello World'
In the days and weeks ahead, we hope to outline why we believe the application of a computational and complexity informed approach to legal studies will serve as a useful method to consider a wide class of substantive questions. Standing at the intersection of a variety of fields including computer science, applied mathematics, physics, political science, social network analysis as well as others, we hope scholars will be able to leverage relevant techniques to help enrich positive legal theory.
As a entry point, we will highlight relevant developments to date in this new field–including our own work as well as the work of others. So we offer this initial post to say ‘Hello World’ with a promise of more to come….
Author Daniel Martin KatzPosted on March 21, 2009 Tags computational legal studiesLeave a comment on Print 'Hello World'
Computational Legal Studies
Welcome to the Computational Legal Studies blog! We will be organizing behind the scenes in the short term, but check back soon for original content on the computational study of law and the application of complexity theory to legal scholarship. In the meantime… Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Author Michael BommaritoPosted on March 17, 2009 Leave a comment on Computational Legal Studies
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Blood Orange performs Negro Swan songs for Tiny Desk Concert: Watch
Intimate set features "By Ourselves", "Dagenham Dream", and a gospel cover
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Blood Orange's Tiny Desk Concert
Blood Orange is set to hit the road next month for a run of US tour dates. Ahead of that trek, mastermind Dev Hynes appeared as the latest guest on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series.
Hynes performed a four-song set with the help of Jason Arce on saxophone; Eva Tolkin and Ian Isiah on vocals; and Ashlee Haze, who contributed a spoken word bit. At the concert’s core was Hynes’ Negro Swan, one of best albums of 2018, as the group rolled out intimate renditions of “By Ourselves”, “Jewelry”, and “Dagenham Dream”; Hynes in particular could often be seen cozying up to a piano. A poignant cover of “Holy Will”, originally by Detroit gospel group The Clark Sisters, was also included.
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Watch the entire set below.
Hynes’ tour officially begins February 16t and you can find the full itinerary here. The indie R&B artist is also slate to appear at Miami’s III Points Festival, Governors Ball in New York, and Coachella out in Indio.
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Wrongfully Convicted Asks Jurors to Read Appeal – Then Help Correct Their Error – Brought on by Extreme Prosecutorial Misconduct
I want to publicly ask the 12 jurors who wrongfully convicted me to read my appeal, find out what was withheld from them illegally; find out what lies were told by the prosecutor and what judicial misconduct was done by the judge that denied me a fair trial. Then tell me they still think I’m guilty.
I believe jurors should be held accountable and should have to read the appeal. If they then think I should have been found innocent, they should speak out about the corrupt system and how prosecutorial and judicial misconduct was used to bias them and wrongfully convict me.
My appeal can be read at the following link:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-Shelton-Illinois-2009
The jurors names and general place of residence are as follows, which is public record, as they were stated in open court and their names are signed on the guilty verdict form. I wrote them after the trial asking them to review information that was withheld from them and to tell me if this would have changed their decision. NOT ONE had the courtesy to write me with an answer. I promised not to write them again, so I am simply putting this on the Internet and hoping their conscience bothers them enough to read it and correct their harmful mistake as the right thing to do:
William Moldenhauer Northwest Side of Chicago
Francine Prisby Arlington Heights
Joanne Goodloue
David Bennett North Side of Chicago
Cayetano Silva Northwest Side of Chicago
Betty Jackson South Side of Chicago
Margaret Polovchak Northwest Suburb of Chicago
Donna Smith South Side of Chicago
Brian Tobola Southwest Side of Chicago
Sarah Iwema Northwest Suburb of Chicago
Ana Arroyo Southwest Side of Chicago
Linda Engeman South Cook County
If any of these people have the guts to contact me, they can do so at my e-mail address:
picepil@aol.com
Posted in Cook County Courts, Illinois Appellate Court, Judge Jorge Alonso, Judge Kathleen Pantle, Prosecutorial Misconduct
Tagged with Ana Arroyo, Betty Jackson, Brian Tobola, Cayetano Silva, Corrupt Officials, criminal appeal, David Bennett, Donna Smith, Francine Prisby, Joanne Goodlove, Judicial Misconduct, Linda Engeman, Margaret Polovchak, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Sarah Iwema, William Moldenhauer, Wrongful Conviction
Illinois Appellate Court Snubs Nose at U.S. Supreme Court and State Law
I have filed a criminal appeal on a case where I as a disabled person in a wheelchair was attacked by Cook County Sheriff Sgt. Anthony Salemi, he falsified his records, accused me of attacking him, committed perjury and I was wrongfully convicted:
The trial court declared me indigent and ordered the court reporter to file a free copy of the transcripts with the court for an appeal. The court reporter has refused to follow the court order. The trial judge refuses to enforce the order because he said he lost jurisdiction to the IL Appellate Court.
The IL Appellate court has six time refused to enforce the court order and compel the court reporter to file the transcripts or hold her in contempt. My appeal is therefore delayed due to the illegal and unconstitutional acts of the Illinois Appellate Court First District.
The Illinois Supreme Court also has denied a motion for supervisory order to compel the court reporter to file the transcripts and compel the IL Appellate Court to enforce the order.
The IL Appellate Court granted the Cook County States Attorney’s motion to compel me to pay for the transcripts and file them, instead of the court reporter. This is fraud upon the court as it violates a previous court order and is contempt as it also violates the United States Supreme Court holding (precedent) in a case where they ruled that indigent defendants are entitled under the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution to a free transcript for appeal. Illinois Supreme Court Rule 607 also mandates that indigent defendants are entitled to free transcripts filed with the court clerk by the court reporter.
Therefore both the Illinois Supreme Court and Illinois Appellate Court are committing illegal acts.
The Illinois Appellate Court has now vacated their order to compel me to file the transcripts as I moved for them to vacate order as they illegally granted the motion from the State two days too early according to IL Supreme Court rules. They also allowed me to file immediately (instanter) my response to the States Attorney’s motion to compel me to file the transcripts. This response clearly spells out the illegal acts of the IL Appellate and IL Supreme Courts in refusing to uphold previous court orders, and statutory and constitutional rights as previously decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. These are impeachable intentional acts by these corrupt and dishonorable judges. I hope the IL Appellate Court recognizes its mistakes and doesn’t just vacate the order to re-instate it several days later when the law allows them to make a decision.
It is incumbent upon the IL Appellate Court to compel the court reporter to file the transcripts and hold her in contempt if she fails to do so.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18285468/Response-to-State-Motion-to-Deny-Indigent-Defendant-Transcripts-for-Appeal-Illinois-Appellate-Court-2009
Posted in Illinois Appellate Court, Illinois Supreme Court, Impeachment, Judge John Owen Steele, Judge Michael J. Gallagher, Judge Michael J. Murphy, Judge P. Scott Neville Jr., Judge Sheila O'Brien, Uncategorized
Tagged with 351 U.S. 12 (1956), Anita Alvarez, Cook County States Attorney, criminal appeal, Free Transcripts, Griffin v. Illinois, Illinois Appellate Court, Illinois Corruption, Illinois Supreme Court, Illinois Supreme Court Rule 607, indigent criminal defendant, indigent right to free transcript for appeal, Judicial Corruption, Official Misconduct, seditious conspiracy, Sgt. Anthony Salemi, violation of civil rights under color of law, Wrongful Conviction
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Tina Daheley calls out Chris in The Guardian#512804
By neilt0 - Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:34 pm
- Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:34 pm #512804
Tina Daheley: ‘Young, female, brown – I wish there were more of me at the BBC’
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"Few shows have changed the working culture of the BBC quite like Radio 1’s Breakfast Show, but it took Prince William to point it out before one presenter took stock of the past decade.
“The first thing he said to me was that he was such a fan and that he’d been listening to me for years,” Tina Daheley, a former Newsbeat host, told the Observer. “The second was: ‘I’m really pleased that some presenters now aren’t as mean to you now as other presenters’.”
"“When I think about my audition with Chris Moyles … it was just, what, eight years ago? You just wouldn’t get away with it now. At the time, that was the culture: laddy, brash from the top down. He wasn’t politically correct and he had diehard fans. But that’s just how it was, and you got on with it. It was only later on you think, ‘Ooh. Hmm. That was, erm, interesting’.”
On air, Daheley was picked on for how she looked and became a running joke as a potential date for visiting pop stars. “There was an assumption based on the music I liked, so Chris would try to set me up with Tinie Tempah or another black guest,” she said.
She credits Nick Grimshaw, who succeeded Moyles as the frontman of the Breakfast Show in 2012 – not “producers, editors or managers” – for “normalising” Radio 1, doing away with hierarchy and “a culture where the star is untouchable”.
She marvels at how different things were when she started out. “Put it this way, when we did our final [Moyles Breakfast Show] and could invite friends and family, I wouldn’t have dreamed of inviting my 6ft 5in dad in a turban there. Maybe that was down to me, trying to play down my otherness, but it was about how you would be perceived. I used to think it was a compliment that people assumed I went to public school and would tell me I spoke so well. Argh! Go on, finish that sentence; you mean you speak so well for a brown person,” she said."
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Re: Tina Daheley calls out Chris in The Guardian#512805
By Kylerickards1974 - Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:20 pm
- Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:20 pm #512805
I always thought it was an odd mix - and that last show, for a few reasons, seemed weird...
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By Evs - Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:18 am
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:18 am #512806
That's really sad she had that experience. Her tears in the final show seemed genuine and I didn't feel she was treated any differently to anyone else - look at the stick Aled, Fincham, Rachel and Carrie got. Dave, Dom and Chris took plenty of ribbing themselves. But you can't know everything listening in.
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By Nicola_Red - Mon Nov 05, 2018 12:13 pm
This is really interesting. I didn't pick up on those vaguely racist elements, like trying to set her up with the black guests, but of course she's right. And particularly interesting that she feels Grimmy, who was criticised for having 'pop star mates', was the one to normalise the culture. I think him being gay and therefore possibly more aware of the issues facing marginalised staff may have played a part in that. I wonder what Chris thinks of her criticism - I think he would probably be quite defensive about his actions, because nobody likes being called out for playing a part in racist culture, however small. But our job as white people should always be to sit down, listen and learn, so hopefully he might do that.
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By fatboydave73 - Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:23 pm
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:23 pm #512827
So, as we never have really got the real reason as to why the Radio 1 show was wound up......do we suspect at all that this may have been one of the straws that broke the camel's back? That alongside a deteriorating relationship between Dave and Chris and the bosses thought it best to pull the plug? It would certainly make some sort of sense.
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By Kylerickards1974 - Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:39 pm
fatboydave73 wrote: So, as we never have really got the real reason as to why the Radio 1 show was wound up......do we suspect at all that this may have been one of the straws that broke the camel's back? That alongside a deteriorating relationship between Dave and Chris and the bosses thought it best to pull the plug? It would certainly make some sort of sense.
I remember listening to the announcement live that Chris was going - so did he know the show was finishing so he did Jesus Christ or was it the other way around?
By hdsport82 - Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:57 pm
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:57 pm #512831
Kylerickards1974 wrote:
Looking back we knew he was doing the musical and the fact there was never any confirmation of how the show would work during the tour should've been a giveaway. I think Chris had expected he'd end up doing the 10 years on breakfast he'd wanted to do (remember he'd signed a contract until 2014).
From what we got out of the Nolan interview it suggests he didn't have any notice. From memory he had a meeting after the show with his agent and Ben where Ben said it was time to finish the show and Chris thought they'd get another meeting in the diary to work out how to wind it up turns out they wanted to announce it in the next news bulletin! His agent went ballistic etc. he managed to persuade Ben to let him do the announcement (and he wouldn't leak it etc) the next day.
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By neilt0 - Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:12 pm
Chris never mentioned Tina's heritage on air. Not once. For a show that ran for 3 hours a day for years, that's pretty impressive.
The quote about not inviting her father to the last show may be telling.
By G-Sizzle - Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:24 pm
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:24 pm #512840
Genuinely did not realise she was Indian. Or if I did, I quickly forgot it.
I assumed she was mixed race from pictures.
Not once did Moyles mention the fact she’s Indian did he?
Listening back to old shows, as I have been recently, it’s never comes up.
He dug her out for having “crap taste” in music, and said she’s “mental” for having mayo in a bacon sandwich. None of which mentioned her race?
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By doby - Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:47 pm
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:47 pm #512841
The article feels inaccurate tbh, even by Tina's recollection of events although I obviously only know about on-air stuff.
I don't recall her being picked on for what she looked like. On the show she got picked on for her terrible signing voice, her taste in 90's R&B and being a high maintenance girlfriend. There was a running gag about her family being rich but that was because she was living in her parents annex and seemingly nothing to do with her heritage.
It's strange she mentions Tinie Tempah when Marvin from JLS was a running gag for Tina to hook up with, granted he's still a black man but I'm pretty sure she offered up the fact she fancied him, albeit off air which then got brought on air.
Her heritage was brought up once though, they were discussing something from Indian culture, it could have been cusine, and either Dave or Aled asked Tina for clarification prompting Chris to argue why Tina would know as to pretend not to know she's Indian, or rather that that sort of assumption could be insulting based on her skin colour.
To put it in perspective though, and not to dismiss her comments, she did have a rough ride like all the woman did on that show however Aled had to put up with the most, especially in the early years. I find a lot of the homophobic ribbing really uncomfortable listening in 2018.
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By swaddon1903 - Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:20 pm
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:20 pm #513339
Tina Daheley will be joining Zoe Ball's Radio 2 breakfast show team.
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FILE PHOTO: INTERPOL President Meng Hongwei poses during a visit to the headquarters of International Police Organisation in Lyon, France, May 8, 2018. Jeff Pachoud/Pool via Reuters/File Photo
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From unconvincing alibis on visiting cathedrals to highly public revelations of their personal details, a new generation of Russian and other assassins and spies are being publicly identified – and often ridiculed – in ever-growing numbers.
But there is nothing funny about their antics, nor the way in which a growing number of states appear not to care if they or their agents are exposed. The world’s increasingly repressive dictatorships – not just Russia, but China, Saudi Arabia and others – are tightening their grip at home and overseas, and espionage and murder have become more central than ever to the playbook.
International spying and occasional killings have always been government tools. For all the breathless speculation of espionage novels and journalists, however, such activities traditionally have been tightly controlled, with informal agreements keeping killing in particular to a bare minimum, particularly on foreign turf. After a week that saw the possible murder or abduction of a Saudi journalist in Turkey, the disappearance of the senior Chinese official heading Interpol and a Western expose of Russian military intelligence, the rules are changing fast.
After a gradual start, the West is trying to respond. Greater surveillance and the wider information revolution have made undercover operations easier to track and expose. Last week saw the release of apparently coordinated British, Dutch and US government reports on Russian cyber and other espionage activities. The Dutch report – detailing an apparent attempt by four named Russian operatives to penetrate the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – was particularly detailed, including the release of car registration and personal identity documents. Journalists and other civil society researchers also have more access to such data than ever before, with UK-based investigative website Bellingcat piecing together information already in the public domain to identify both alleged attackers in the attempted poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England.
But the purpose of such espionage activities is also broadening and changing. Traditionally – and not unreasonably – the United States and its allies have worried most about foreign spies stealing national secrets. That remains a major threat, with cyber attacks allowing previously unimaginable quantities of data to be captured. But intelligence services are also increasingly concerned over the distortion of democratic processes and the creation of false narratives for political ends. And for the spies of autocratic states, nothing appears more important than ensuring their governments can reach, intimidate – and occasionally kill – domestic enemies seeking sanctuary abroad.
That latter area now seems amongst the fastest-growing. Demonstrating the long arm of the Kremlin – and thereby intimidating other Russians overseas, including oligarchs, dissidents and other former spies – is widely believed a prime motive for the Novichok nerve agent attack on ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury earlier this year. That followed a string of deaths of Russian expatriates abroad, several also suspected to have been linked to Moscow’s intelligence services. Moscow inevitably denies such charges – but while Russian President Vladimir Putin is probably the world leader most often blamed for suspicious deaths overseas, others are increasingly facing accusations of similar activities.
Authorities in Turkey say they believe prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed on October 2 inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by a team that flew into the country for the day and may have left with his disembodied remains. Saudi officials denied involvement in any killing, but surveillance footage aired by Turkish media purports to show the journalist entering the building and not emerging.
Increasingly, autocratic states seem to care ever less whether such denials are believed, or even plausible. If anything, they seem keen to spread the message that no one is safe from their global reach – either through surveillance or direct action – particularly their own citizens.
That doesn’t always mean killing – sometimes, intimidation takes more subtle forms. Chinese authorities have long attempted to silence dissidents overseas – particularly from the Muslim Uighur minority – through threatening their families in China. This summer, several foreign human rights activists based in Hong Kong said their families in Britain and elsewhere received anonymous, threatening letters, presumably from someone “pro-Chinese”. In other cases, Beijing has sought the cooperation of foreign governments in seizing assets belonging to Chinese officials and businesspeople now accused of various forms of corruption.
Power and prestige clearly only offer limited protection. Chinese security official and Interpol president Meng Hongwei disappeared while visiting China; on October 7 the Chinese government disclosed it was holding him in custody, as he awaited an investigation for “violations of law”. This came the same week as a number of other developments all apparently related to chilling discussion and discontent, including the denial of a visa to a senior Financial Times editor in Hong Kong.
Journalists often seem to be at particular risk. Two Russian reporters were killed in Central African Republic earlier this year, after reportedly investigating the Wagner Group, a Moscow-based private military contractor. Maltese reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb last year after probing corruption reportedly linked to Russia. Whether such actions were driven by the Russian government, organised crime, business, or a mixture is far from clear, but experts who follow them closely say they are often deeply interlinked.
Western states are still working out what to do about such actions, just as they are for alleged interference in elections, hacking and the growing range of other espionage activity. Various avenues are reportedly being considered, not least a clampdown on Russian, Chinese and other foreign money laundering through major financial hubs such as London. In particular, the British and Dutch reports on alleged Russian activity – suggest these countries see publicising covert activities as another potent weapon.
Whether it’s enough to bring about a serious change in international behaviour is another matter, however. For now, the world’s authoritarian states seem to know exactly what they want to do. And for all their half-hearted denials, they want everyone to know.
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The premise that the maternal woman, the wife, Catharina, does not understand the right of existence of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, and by extension of Griet herself in the matriarch’s household, is not quite accurate, she understands it all too well, not as a male artist, but certainly as a perceptive woman. In a world with rich, abusive and coveting male patrons who indulge in the comings and goings of female muses and models, Catharina and especially her mother Maria are very aware of the traded female body in the art-world, the interchangeability, the fragile temporary glory and that everything must be made possible and accessible in order to avoid bankruptcy, defamation and public shame. Whereas Catharina is rather easily maintained with occasional sexual advances, jewellery worthy of their societal rank and ego-affirming attention by her husband who needs to make her feel like an appreciated work of art, and thus ephemerally pleased and at ease with the situation, Maria knows of the marital complications, the volatile crevice, the envious tensions, the money-making business, the daily work of reassurance and the pressuring of the wealth-bringing husband and artist and thereby the sweet-talking of another man in charge of the steady money flow namely the lecherous patron Van Ruijven whose open reputation as an infamous exploiter of young indigent women (who, in his eyes, have only their beauty to offer on canvas and their bodies in his sheets) is merely acceptable because of his wealth, influential status and sex.
Griet, gifted herself with an artistic eye, understands Vermeer’s world on his level and not as something political, financial or materialistically pragmatic, for her and her mentor art is a world of its own where none of that matters, where none of that can matter. Catharina and Maria are rather pragmatic, anxious and cautious women in terms of financial security and social survival and as such they take care of the distribution and promotion of Vermeer’s artworks because as soon as they are accomplished his role is as well. Thus mainly Maria remains in control and rather enjoys this position in the family which assures her the overview of events. As a wife and lover, Catharina finds herself in the middle of both worlds, torn rather, with motherhood being an additional role complicating the duties of her persona. Griet seems to be perfectly balanced in this household, on the one hand she is a hard worker whatever she touches and on the other she can immerge in Vermeer’s world and make a change for the better there. Even though Griet has social roles as well, daughter and sister for one, she is stripped of them in the Vermeer household and is purely Griet, an identity she never had space enough to explore and expand.
As Griet enters the Vermeer household, she is stripped of her social identities, a blank body, and is projected upon from different perspectives. For Van Ruijven she embodies his next conquest, for Maria she personifies an opportunity of making good money for the family, for Catharina she slowly but surely incorporates a threat to everything she created and possesses, and most importantly for Vermeer she represents a companion, a fellow-getaway, and the most intriguing introspection into a woman’s soul and even Griet agrees, astonished and deeply moved, that he sees her. The moments leading up to the completion of Griet’s portrait are of an undeniably subtle yet intensely charged eroticism, which in order to maintain the electricity between artist and muse, needs to remain in the realm of the platonic and non-intrusive, the imaginary, the fantastical, the ideal transferred from the mind straight onto canvas. This special bond is locked away beneath the colour, a secret, a history, reflected in her reserved, revelatory and admiring gaze. And yet again, this gaze and posture, this straightforwardness of Griet’s features and expression hit a different nerve in each beholder and thus either the worst nightmare comes true or the most alluring vision and narrative arise and stand confirmed in the observatory and voyeuristically fabricating mind.
Catharina, the life-giver and vessel for Vermeer’s active sexuality, stands unworthy to be painted, too familiar a role and scenery, devalued and disapproved, with no place in his forum of art, but more because she is also the literal attacker of his creations, his universe, his raison d’être, and thus needs to be shunned from his artistic territory because her drawn line between the respectability of his art and infamy is thin and her occasional fits of rage, frustration and sense of invisibility cannot be trusted around his artwork. In his world, Griet is at the top of the hierarchy and Catharina is either non-existent or at the very bottom, with the roles inversed as such, so ignorant of the actual reality that doesn’t matter to Vermeer, Catharina’s fury and jealousy are perfectly understandable. In a sphere, where she has lost her most beloved role, the one of a wife and lover, (not even to mention her accomplishments as a mother to multiple children) and has been ostracised by her own husband, she is a ghost, he a wifeless creator and Griet the unattainable female persona worthy to be immortalised on canvas. For Catharina, this vision, this idea and Vermeer’s impression of Griet is so much more vexing than a simple actual sexual act, as the portrait is the epitome of her ineffectual non-existence, erased from his mind that is completed with this image of another woman. Whereas Vermeer’s affections towards his wife are calculating, manipulative, goal-orientated and ephemeral, the portrait of the Girl with a Pearl Earring is everlasting and that plagues the wife’s proud mind.
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My name is Laura Gentile. I’m of German-Italian descent and I speak five languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Luxembourgish and I’m currently learning Romanian. I hold a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Dissertation: The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita') and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Thesis: Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s 'Thérèse Raquin', Schnitzler’s 'Dream Story', Süskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Eugenides’ 'The Virgin Suicides'). My debut novel, 'Within Paravent Walls', will be published by WiDo Publishing / E. L. Marker. I am the creator of "Croque-Melpomene: Femalecentric Poetry" and I have a YouTube channel carrying the same name. Find me here: YouTube: Croque-Melpomene Twitter: lauragentile13 Pinterest: lauragentile12 Instagram: croque_melpomene12 Goodreads: Laura Gentile LinkedIn: Laura Gentile Contact Email Address: croquemelpomene@gmail.com View all posts by Croque-Melpomene
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The MQ-25’s latent stealth could help it evolve into a stealthy surveillance and attack drone, essentially bringing the Navy’s drone-development programs full circle to their 1990s origin.
byDavid Axe
The U.S. Navy on Aug. 30, 2018 chose Chicago-based Boeing to build the sailing branch’s first carrier-launched unmanned aerial vehicle.
In choosing Boeing to build the MQ-25 Stingray multi-mission tanker, the Navy has opened the next major chapter in a story that began in the mid-1990s, when the sailing branch worked alongside the U.S. Air Force to develop a fighter-like drone.
Boeing will build the first four MQ-25s under the initial $805-million contract for integration in a carrier air wing in 2024. The Navy could buy as many as 72 MQ-25s worth as much as $13 billion to serve as the main tanker aircraft for carrier air wings, freeing up the F/A-18E/F Super Hornets that currently perform the role.
“When operational, MQ-25 will improve the performance, efficiency and safety of the carrier air wing and provide longer range and greater persistence tanking capability to execute missions that otherwise could not be performed,” the Navy stated.
The MQ-25 could evolve to fill additional roles, potentially including surveillance and strike. The single-engine jet’s stealthy airframe — a product of its long, contentious development — could prove to be an advantage in those roles.
In the mid-1990s the Navy and Air Force worked together on the Joint Unmanned Air Combat Sytems program, or J-UCAS — an effort to co-develop a stealthy and highly-autonomous fighter drone.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman both built J-UCAS demonstrators. Boeing’s X-45 and Northrop’s X-47 were wedge-shaped, flying-wing designs, each around 40 feet in length. The X-45 with its proprietary mission software in particular demonstrated a high degree of autonomy in ground-attack missions.
But J-UCAS collapsed in 2006 when the Air Force chose to shift resources to the F-22 and F-35 manned fighters. The Navy salvaged Northrop’s rugged X-47 demonstrator from the J-UCAS program. Under the auspices of the Unmanned Combat Air Systems Demonstration between 2007 and 2015, Northrop’s larger X-47B undertook the first carrier operations for a drone, including the first unmanned trap aboard a carrier in May 2013.
In 2013 the Navy announced the follow-on Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike program to develop a stealthy surveillance and attack drone. But camps within the Navy quarreled over UCLASS’s mission set.
Should UCLASS primarily fly surveillance mission in lightly-defended air space, like the Air Force’s Reaper drone does? Or should it be capable of penetrating enemy defenses in order to attack heavily-defended targets? “You can’t afford both, you have to make your bet,” Bob Work, a former Navy undersecretary who would serve as deputy defense secretary, saidin 2013.
The Navy placed its bet in early 2016. Rather than optimizing UCLASS for surveillance or strike, it chose an entirely separate mission. Rebranded as the Carrier-Based Aerial Refueling System, the former UCLASS, ex-J-UCAS program would develop a tanker.
Critics were displeased. “The Navy suppressed the best promise for innovation in this generation,” Dr. Monte Turner and Air Force lieutenant colonel Douglas Wickert wrote in a 2016 paper for National Defense University.
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Northrop competed with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics for the CBARS contract. As the requirements drifted away from stealth and instead emphasized endurance and fuel capacity, Northrop decided to drop out. Boeing’s new design has almost nothing in common with the company’s J-UCAS-era X-45.
In contrast to the X-45’s and X-47’s flying-wing configuration, Boeing’s MQ-25 is a straight-wing, twin-tail design. But its conventional planform belies its evolution across multiple programs that shifted in emphasis from attack to surveillance to tanking. The roughly 60-foot-long drone boasts a top-mounted air-intake that’s flush with the fuselage, a low-observable design feature that Northrop experimented with in the 1980s its Tacit Blue demonstrator.
The inlet “may be a bet placed by Boeing that the Navy, once it gets the Stingray on its carrier decks, will want to evolve the aircraft from an unmanned tanker to a surveillance/strike asset that needs stealth,” Aviation Week editor Graham Warwick noted.
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Post Malone and 21 Savage’s latest single “Rockstar” has been doing well since its release. While many thought Post Malone wouldn’t top “White Iverson”, he definitely has. After sitting on the charts for about 4 weeks, “Rockstar” has finally reached #1.
Earlier today, Billboard reported that Malone and 21’s hit song has reached #1 for the week of October 28. The week of its release, “Rockstar” was in competition with Taylor Swift and Cardi B for the #1 spot. While Cardi received her #1 spot at the top that week, Malone is now the 5th rap artist to reach #1 in 2017.
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News • Current affairs • 14.02.2018 • Duncan Roberts
Roses were among the 1,200 tonnes of extra capacity for flowers that Cargolux added to meet peak demand ahead of Valentine’s Day.
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EU budget, Valentines freight, defence spending—Delano’s summary of European and Luxembourg headlines
EU budget, Valentines freight, defence spending--Delano’s summary of European and Luxembourg headlines.
Plugging the post-Brexit EU budget
James Crisp in the Irish Independent suggests several ways in which the European Union might redress its budget challenge when the UK leaves the EU. Crisp says the EU could face “a budget shortfall of up to €15bn a year” after the proposed post-Brexit transition phase ends in 2020. The UK is one of the EU’s major net contributors. The EU will not only rely on increased contributions from the remaining 27 members states, but will also meet up to half of the annual Brexit shortfall through spending cuts--EU budget commissioner Günther Oettinger has called for an “efficiency drive”. There could also be an end to rebates for member states. Other suggested sources of income for the EU include a push for the introduction of an EU wide tax on plastic bags and from the introduction in 2020 of a new €5 charge to non-EU nationals entering the bloc from countries that do not need visas to travel to the EU--a fee is already likely to be upped to €7, according to some sources.
Valentines from Cargolux
Millions of flowers, including the traditional roses, have been flown to Europe for Valentine’s Day by Cargolux, the Luxembourg freight carrier reveals. In addition to its 20 weekly flights out of Nairobi, Quito and Bogota, Cargolux added close to 1,200 tonnes of extra capacity to meet peak demand ahead of the celebration. Cargolux’s fleet has “state-of-art thermal capabilities” says Stavros Evangelakakis, the carrier’s product manager for fresh and temperature-controlled commodities. As well as Columbia and Ecuador, Kenya is one of the most significant exporters of flowers, providing 7% of the world’s flowers, of which 35% ends up in European markets.
US warns against defence spending protectionism
The United States ambassador to Nato, Kay Bailey Hutchison, said in a speech on Tuesday that she hoped the European Union’s planned deepened military cooperation would not “be a protectionist vehicle for EU." The Associated Press reports that the US is concerned that EU defence cooperation might also draw resources away from NATO. Hutchison was reported as saying that she wanted a transparent contract bidding process following last year’s agreement by the EU member states to jointly develop or purchase military equipment like drones. "We want the Europeans to have capabilities and strength, but not to fence off American products of course, or Norwegian products, or potentially U.K. products," she said.
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Home noinstant Puppies Found With Elastic Hair Bands Tight Around Their Muzzles.
Puppies Found With Elastic Hair Bands Tight Around Their Muzzles.
There are certainly some very strange things that people do in general, but no more so than this story where the puppies are found with elastic hair ties very tightly biting into their muzzles…
The worker, responsible for maintenance was, at the time, looking into a burst pipe inside a housing complex in Wichita, Kansas, but soon made another discovery.
He opened a door to an apartment and was overcome with a terrible pungent smell, he saw a small plastic dog crate in the room, in the corner, with two puppies inside.
The puppies, that were 7-months-old were clearly in stressed out and not very happy at all, but it was very odd that they were not making any noise!?
Wichita Animal Action League, Sarah Coffman, said:
“There was feces and urine just spilling out the front of the kennel …Then he noticed that the puppies couldn’t open their mouths, so he shined a flashlight in the crate and realized that they had something wrapped around their muzzles that their noses were really swollen and red.”
Not quite sure what to do now, but not wanting to leave them there, the poor pups, he called a friend who fosters dogs for the very same Wichita Animal Action League.
“She called us and was like, ‘I don’t know what to tell him to do,’ …I was like, ‘Tell him to wait right there. I’m on my way and I’m bringing the cavalry.’”
Sara accompanied by animal control officers entered the house and seized the pups, thankfully, and took them directly to the vet.
Sarah was really surprised, not in a good way when she saw what was being used to silence the scared little pups!
“We originally thought that it was wire wrapped around their noses because it was so tight …When we finally got them in the vet’s office and were able to hold them still and take a look, we realized that it was little tiny rubber bands that you’d use in your hair, no bigger around than my thumb.”
The two pups both had these quite inhumane bands around their mouths, the vet said it looked like they had been on for between 12 and 24 hours.
The vet had to use forceps to grip the tiny and cutting bands and snip them off, everyone present was really tearing up by the whole ordeal!
“Hearing the sounds they made, we were helping them and doing the right thing, but the way that they screamed when those bands finally came off and the blood came rushing back to their nose was really quite heartbreaking”
If those bands would have been there for even just a few hours more then the puppies would have almost certainly suffered tissue damage, loss of smell and more, it was so close to an even more serious situation!
The pups had a lovely bath and now are fluffy and smell delightful too, their little noses are still quite sore though for the moment.
They are both said to make a full and fast recovery and are getting love and cuddles safe in a foster home where they are very happy indeed!
“They’re such a great testament to how resilient dogs are because I certainly wouldn’t be as happy if that happened to me…But they’re playing and cuddling with their foster and having a great time.”
Soon the little pups will be ready to go to their forever homes and we are very confident that they will, in fact, find their homes very fast, don’t you think?
Sarah said finally:
“You would never think that you would be thankful for a pipe bursting and flooding an apartment, but it literally saved two lives.”
“It makes you go home and hug your dogs a little tighter”
We completely agree, and we do hope that justice finds the despicable responsible parties that did this to these poor innocent young beautiful creatures.
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How’s your Implant Functioning (My BWE Sub-title to Terminator 3 Movie)
March 15, 2013 Stephen Dolle Neurosciences1 Comment
This is my Brain Awareness Week (BAW) photo which illustrates what we need to aim for in our brain science efforts: “Self Sufficiency.”
If you recall, o ne of the primary themes of the Terminator movie series was the Terminator’s wherewithal to correct its own body breakage & malfunctions. For more than 50 years, Western Medicine has been surgically putting in a wide array of medical implants from bone screws and plates, to heart valves, CNS shunts for hydrocephalus, and neurostimulators for Parkinson’s Disease and seizure disorders. The most problematic of these are CNS shunts, which I have been living with for 20 years.
Over the last 20 years, I have worked feverishly to educate medical science of the needs for self-sufficiency and home diagnostics & solutions to keep the shunt and individual functioning. But medical science in nearly every branch, from FDA to device mfrs to practicing physicians, have remained oblivious to the needs of the patient, and what is technologically possible today.
In 1997, after petitioning the Food & Drug Administration on widespread oversight and needless failures with many CNS shunt devices, I designed and patented a home monitoring system for hydrocephalus and CNS shunt users based on non-invasive methodology which I named, the DiaCeph Test. When I introduced it to scientists at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), I was heralded as a pioneer and visionary by Dr. Eldon Foltz, a long-time practicing neurosurgeon & researcher in hydrocephalus. And when I showed my concept to NIH, they fell in love with it and urged me to find a credentialed university scientist or physician to write the NIH grant application. Later, however, UCI would inform me they would have to own everything, or it wouldn’t be possible for UCI staff to write the grant. I was given no other alternative other then giving it to them, which didn’t make any sense. So I continued to show my DiaCeph system to companies and others in the field, all to no avail. Back then, it was going to be a stand alone software device where we’d be seeking insurance reimbursement, a Medicare code, and industry distribution.
Today, however, the DiaCeph Test could be an app for a mobile phone! The future is now and we need to grasp it! We need to develop cost-effective neuro-technologies for common disorders of the brain, take mind-body modalities, music therapy, mobile apps & AI technology to the next level!
In support of my Terminator 3 BAW photo, I added the caption, “How is your Implant functioning?” I added this from years of frustrating experiences w/ CNS shunt implants where one is left w/ a malfunctioning CNS shunt implant, yet limited to no means to get it fixed. It would seem the age-old saying applies here, “IF you want something done right, do it yourself!” So goes the Terminator! — with hydrocephalus association and national hydrocephalus foundation.
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The Brain and Cognition: Mind-Body Methods & Music and the Brain
March 14, 2013 Stephen Dolle NeurosciencesLeave a comment
Over the last decade, neuroscience & medical science have made many long overdue advances in understanding the human brain. Much of this followed the research published about 12 years ago regarding neuroplasticity of the brain, aging, injury, and how the brain can still form new connections well into our later years. But, some of the more provocative developments in my view have come about in the areas of cognition with music and the brain, hypnosis, and meditation, and neuro and assistive technologies. Many of the mind-body modalities were developed many years ago, but were not well understood or corroborated thru science until more recently. As much as we’ve come today, we still have a long way to go in understanding many of the basic functions of the brain necessary for how this can be applied to medical disorders like autism, stroke, TBI, and hydrocephalus, to name a few.
I’ve done my part in my work with hydrocephalus, and with drumming and the brain. Now it’s your turn.
New Insights in the Management of Sound Sensory Processing Disorder
February 5, 2013 March 1, 2018 Stephen Dolle Neurosciences16 Comments
This blog discusses the science and everyday managment of children and adults who live with neurological & learning disorders, PTSD, and other disorders associated with sensory processing disorder (SPD) and intolerance to sound, lights, and scents. In these affected individuals, sensory overexposure often results in medical sequela ranging from headache to dizziness, irritability, behavioral changes, descreased cognition, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. In later stages, it can trigger “siezures.” Sound sensativity affects about 20 percent of the population. Problematic sensory processing disorder affects 5-10 percent of the population.
Sensory processing disorder is related to dysfunction of any of the five (5) senses. It was earlier termed sensory integration disorder (SID), hyperacusis, sensory overstimulation, and sensory overload. Sensory problems and SPD commonly follow neurological disorders and brain injury spanning hydrocephalus, post TBI, post tumor resection, multiple sclerosis, migraine disorders, drug & alcohol addiction, and PTSD, ADHD, ADD, and autism spectrum learning disabilities.
I became an affected SPD sufferer after onset hydrocephalus in 1992 from a head injury. Since 1995, I’ve undertaken research and implemented my findings in neurological consults (hydrocephalus monitoring, patient consults) and in drumming therapy and drum circle workshops with a wide array of health populations. While my specialty is mhealth, medical devices, and cognition, I am also involved in general health, movement disorders, and wellness and write about my findings online. I am of the opinion that sound, light, motion, and stress act as “sensory triggers” and are responsible for the high prevalence of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and mental health challenges today. Imaging studies show that PTSD produces pathological changes in the brains of children. So, no doubt PTSD and sensory overload is wreaking havak on the brains of adults, including, police officers and those living in inner cities with high rates of crime.
Police officers are now diagnosed with PTSD disorder like their counterparts in military combat.
The web page linked below provides a nice overview of the five (5) senses. Typically 1 to 3 of these are compromised in sensory processing disorder (SPD).
The Mystery of the (5) Senses (Cerebromente.org)
It has only been about 15 years (about year 2000) that SPD and sensory processing dysfunction have really been recognized. So we have a long way to go. Testing and documentation, education, and protections remain years behind what they should be.
I attribute this in part to the government’s earlier efforts to refute PTSD from military combat, and in recognizing autism as a disorder in of itself. In autism, there is also much debate and criticism of a causal relationship with childhood vaccines. And this has not helped to further care and treatment of SPD disorders.
My onset of SPD was gradual and often followed my shunt malfunctions and surgical treatment of my hydrocephalus. By the late 1990s, I understood SPD as a diminished capacity to process auditory, touch, visual, olfactory, and gustatory sensory stimuli. And over time, I began to view the challenges of SPD in terms of access & accommodations to public places, and even more broadly, cognitive accommodations with web sites, store displays, and user instructions. Today, the broader terminology for these considerations is cognitive accessibility, where I have subsequently set up a web page at www.CognitiveAccessibility.org
This next study below is list breakthrough research on sensory processing disorder (SPD) where scientists were able to document the areas of the brain affected by SPD. Thie image below is taken from their study.
Breakthrough Study Reveals Biological Basis for Sensory Processing Disorders in Children
Brain centers involved in SPD or sensory processing disorder, courtesy of UCSF
My name is Stephen Dolle and I began this blog in 2010. I developed hydrocephalus 4 weeks following an auto accident in 1992. In the years that followed, I had many challenges to overcome, and became involved in Food & Drug Administration advocacy that led to my designing the DiaCeph Test for mHealth monitoring of hydrocephalus.
My SPD challenges weren’t so apparent from the start due to all the challenges. It was probably year 3 that I had begun to notice how sounds and visual stimuli (lights & erratic movements) could bring on a neurological event. Young children chasing birds would really get me. For sound, it was just busy environments that bothered me. I took a few more years before I was able to identify specifically what sounds and how they could bring on a neurological event – which I term the SPD effect. This can vary a bit from person to person. But typcially you’ll see a decrease in cognition, an increase in irritability and behavior change, headache, and changes in balance and orientation.
From 1992 to 2013, I underwent twelve CNS shunt revisions. In 2015, I was also diagnosed with pachymeningitis, and it has further aggravated my SPD challenges.
It was my astute neurologist in 1999 that shared new research on sound hypersensitivity, and instructed me with tips on how to help manage it. Back then, it was often termed “overstimulation.” And it then led to my undertaking a critical SPD study.
Sound and Touch (Balance) SPD Sensory Study in Hydrocephalus
Boss recorder and metronome were used in 2002 to evaluate sensory processing in individuals with hydrocephalus.
In 2002, I undertook my first SPD Study, where I employed both the Aerex Balance Pad and the Boss BR-8 Recorder (w/ metronome) to evaluate touch, visual, and sound sensory challenges. I took my materials to a hydrocephalus conference at St. Joseph’s/CHOC Hospital in Orange, CA, and also to England Physical & Balance Therapy in Garden Grove, CA, where I was undergoing vestibular therapy. I published my study results on my web page below.
I employed the Boss BR-8 recorder and metronome to study the effect of sound on cognition in persons with hydrocephalus, plus interviewed about 20 individuals claiming to be affected by sound intolerance. I learned that the adverse effects of sound was more due to “rhythmic structure” of sound, or degree of syncopation or melody, versus volume or tempo.
I used the Airex balance pad to evaluate gaze dependency of balance in individuals with hydrocephalus. What I learned here, was that patients who were unable to maintain balance on the pad while focusing on a moving target (business card on a stick), termed gaze dependency, reported more problematic chronic headaches and SPD complaints. I concluded that additional deficits were likely causing the decreased sensory processing. I felt that the additional deficits might also help predict poor outcomes after the insertion of a CNS shunt for hydrocephalus.
Later in my study, I found that melodic and highly syncopated sound patterns seemed to offer a therapeutic effect to some of these complaints – as a mechanism in support of music therapy. I created an “audiotape” of melodic metronome beats and piano sequences from my Yamaha keyboard, and would play and listen to this audiotape 2-3 times per week. It seemed to help my sound sensory issues.
I published my study on my web site, and it has been hosted there since 2003.
It is common to experience difficulty with sound, light, and motion after brain injury and onset of neurological disorder. Perhaps the most problematic is offensive types of unsyncopated and white noise sound, which is everywhere today in busy urban areas.
You can simplify sound sensory processing into the “melodic” Mozart Effect on the healthy end of the spectrum, and tortuous repetitive sounds on the unhealthful end of the spectrum. Repetitive unhealthful sounds can make even normal people ill at the right decibel and sound pattern. In fact, sound is still today used to extract information from prisoners during wartime, and it plays a significant role in football & basketball.
Drumming for Football
In 2014, I published the above provocative blog on SPD and drumming for football, and detail how the ill effects of sound plays a role in college and NFL football. I discuss sensory and cognitive challenges from fan & stadium noise, and methods for using drum beats to help play call synchronization, player movements, and communications.
My Introduction to Drumming & Drum Circles
It was in 2004 that I became involved in hand drumming and drum circles from my personal and therapeutic activities with music. I had no thought or expectation that drumming would help my SPD challenges. But after about a year of regular drumming, I discovered that my SPD sound sensitivity was improved. I re-examined my research and proposed that group drumming might help affected individuals to better organize sound, like a form of physical therapy for sound processing. My company web page below discusses by durrent work with drumming for general health and neurological disorders.
Young children captivated by their play in a drum circle
Signals traverse our brains in wave form patterns like those seen on EEG tests, and there are literally millions of signals traversing brains daily. As our brains process signals in wave patterns, so do we physically move about in wave forms or rhythmic patterns, and one area where the two overlap today is in “proprioception,” where our bodies are able to remember specific types of movement patterns, i.e. in sports, dance, and this then is integrated into whatever sport, dance, or social activity we are doing.
As I became involved with drum circles and drumming for the brain, I discovered how drumming can help retrain the brain’s ability to process unsyncopated sound by engaging the individual in disordered sound, and allowing them to integrate an order to the beats played – in essence, serving as physical or occupational therapy for the brain. I then began to study audible rhythm’s role in balance and movement, cognition, mental health, team-building, and stress reduction.
Hand percussion instruments helpful in music and drumming therapy, and handy when traveling
In February 2016, I updated this earlier blog on my experience with drumming therapy in cerebral palsy and autism, plus I’ve put on quite a few drumming workshops for a number of neurological disorders. I link all of my efforts together as best I can.
Drumming Therapy Experience in a Child w/ Cerebral Palsy & Autism
This music and the brain illustration depicts the areas of the brain involved in listening and playing music
Below is the autism article in support of the autistic boy in the video at the mall. This story and short video on sensory processing disorder (SPD) in autism is featured on The Mighty web site. I’ve pasted the YouTube link below so that it might play here.
Sound Sensory Processing Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders
In this video, Alexander Marshall, 10, of West Yorkshire, England, is the star of The National Autistic Society’s new Too Much Information campaign, and he’s featured in a short video that shows what sound sensory overload can be like.
The video is shot from Alexander’s point of view during a trip to the mall. From noises to smells to bright lights, it shows all the things that might cause Alexander, who was diagnosed with autism two years ago, to have a meltdown.
SPD is often a problematic medical/disability issue in autism, and deserves to be much more a part of our public health dialog. In fact, I believe we should approach autism from the standpoint of brain health, and treat it’s related sensory processing disorder more for what it is, a sequel of medical complaints.
If 20% of the populace were found vomiting from traveling in cars and public transportation from motion sickness, that would be a big story. But when it’s an individual struggling with a health issue involving the brain (as opposed to the middle ear), the public sees it thru biased eyes. And governments do too. The link below is the National Institute on Health April 2016 publication of alternative medicine for autism.
NIH National Center for Complimentary & Integrative Health
April 2016 Newsletter on Autism
While my own SPD complaints are not normally as severe as the child in this film, at times I feel a lot of what this child is experiencing. Often I am forced to undertake a number of steps to protect me from unhealthful sound. SPD is not just about autism or hydrocephalus or PTSD. It’s about brain health, public health, and how we all approach dysfunction of the brain.
SPD, Integrative, and Alternative Medicine in Drug & Alcohol Addiction
In September 2015 I spoke on alternative medicine, SPD, cand cognitive accessibility in drug and alcohol addiction at Sovereign Health of Orange County. My presentation/blog is quite lengthy, but I share a lot of detail into SPD about 2/3 of the way through the blog.
Today in 2016 — the best way to manage SPD is not to put yourself in an environment that is more than your can process, leaving you overstimulated. You want to get out and do things. But your neurological stamina and your environment are changeable – and you may often not take the right intervention to head off an SPD event in time. Then you’re dealing with neurological sequela.
It’s important to know the individual medical makeup of each affected person, and the nature of their surroundings at any given time, and catch the early WARNING signs. If you’re around someone with SPD difficulties, the signs to watch for are: changes in their eyes, demeanor, irritability, cognition – which indicate overstimulation. Ultimately it’s a function of matching neurological stamina with a tolerable environment. Sound mobile apps, ear plugs, and eye cover can help too. My blog below discusses in more detail how decibel meter apps can help in managing sensory processing disorder. And I discuss my proposal for a new sound processing standard and algorithm measurement that could be used in sound measurement apps.
Decibel Meter Apps in Managing Sensory Processing Disorder
My Proposal for a Sound Processing Standard & SPD Algorithm for Mobile Apps
The decibel sound scale is now more than 50 years old. Its time we create a Sound Processing Scale & Algorithm for Measurement
Cognitive Accessibility
The image of “The Hulk” crushing a tree-schredding machine is provided as it is symbolic of the crisis facing individuals with sound sensitivities leading to neurological and behaviorial sequela. The idea for the animated Hulk Crushing the Tree Shredder comes from my HydroPowered Super-Hero series, which is a collection of super hero stories about children living with hydrocephalus. The tree schredding machine also illustrates the challenges that public noise poses to persons with sound sensory disorders. Sound sensativity affects as much as 20 percent of the population today. Yet comes with little to no accommodations or protections.
Cognitive Accessibility in SPDs.Hulk Destroys Tree Shredder
The broader issue of sensory processing disabilities and SPD spans not only adverse sensory responses on cognition, but also comprehension of information, user instructions, Internet access, access to technology, and reliability of assistive technology. In these regards then, the access to and controlled environment of, defines an accommodation that should be protected by applicable disability rights persuant to the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), and Sections 504 & 508 of the Rehab Act.
One of the common sound/SPD challenges today is with loud and eratic TV and radio advertisements. I am yet to post YouTube examples, but hope to in the near future. I have been exploring technological and regulatory solutions, including, a proposal for a new sound processing standard that would allow for a reproducible means of evaluating sound for likely unhealthful qualities.
A new sound processing standard could help identify differences in sound makeup and resulting audio & brain processing, particularly in affected individuals. This would be particularly helpful in screening offensive TV and radio commercials, machinery, and non-synchronous broadcasts in public places, and would be used in concert with the current decibel emission volume standard. Generally the more monotonous or less synchronized a sound, or the more its component audio is broadcast at the top of the EQ spectrum, the more difficult it is to process. Some types of these sounds are used to break the will of prisoners. Many of today’s audio broadcasts and public noise are now approaching unhealthful levels.
The image below is a c-panel screenshot of Time Warner Cable’s VOIP telephone options for blocking “telemarketer” and other unwanted telephone calls. I have inserted my proposal for TV quiet options (technologically possible) to screen/mute/lower unhealthful audio from TV commercials and programs. I shared this on Twitter and Facebook too recently.
Screenshot of Time Warner Cable “quiet” options to block unwanted phone calls, plus Options I added for blocking audio of unhealthful TV commercials and programs.
Cognitive Accessibility at Dolle Communications
In 2013, I purchased the domain CognitiveAccessibility.org and have been organizing content for broader plans. This domain currently points to a page on my main web site. I do all of my web site work in Microsoft Frontpage, which is being phased out by web hosting companies. I am now writing more on WordPress as have found it easier to use than learning a whole new web platform.
Below I share my blog on TSA Travel Accessibility tips for when flying with a CNS shunt for hydrocephalus or any cognitive disability.
TSA Accessability Cognitive Disability Hydrocephalus Travel Tips
These last two blogs discuss healthful solutions for sensory processing disorders as they relate to the sports of basketball and football. I also discuss methods in basketball for mindfulness and therapy to help calm the brain.
Brain Science and Therapeutic uses of Basketball
Drum Beats help Sound Sensory Management in Football
The Challenges of Sound Sensory Processing in Football Stadiums Today
And for fun stories and art in support of hydrocephalus, visit my HydroPowered.org web site or blog.
HydroPowered Blog
HydroPowered.org Share the Passion for Hydrocephalus
YouTube Videos document Harmful Audio of Sounds from Everyday Life
The audio in the videos below are known to “trigger” neurological complaints and behavioral changes in persons with neurological & learning disorders with secondary sensory processing disorder (SPD). The difficulty in the sound is often in the lack of melodic pattern as I wrote about in my above 2002 metronome study. A similar depiction is presented in the above video on autism from “The Mighty.” Sometime soon, I will update this section of videos with “offensive TV & radio commercials” airing today. Despite passage of the CALM Act baring loud commercials in 2012, it seems that little has changed. Advertisers also manipulate the sound EQ distribution of audio in commercials to get your attention, making it more problematic to persons with neurological disorders and SPD.
CAUTION: Please turn down your audio.
These sounds may trigger medical sequela.
Video of a Problematic Noisy Construction Site
Video of a Problematic Mobile Carpet Cleaner
Video of a Mixture of Problematic Musical Sounds
Video of how I wish Construction Equipment Sounded
If you would like me to speak on my efforts with sensory processing disorder, workplace drumming or therapeutic drumming, please contact me via the information below.
Neuroscientist & Drum Circle Facilitator
Justice Department rejects Disability Complaint on Sound Accessibility at YMCA of Orange County, Similar Venues
February 4, 2013 March 1, 2018 Stephen Dolle Neurosciences2 Comments
Complaint to the U. S. Justice Dept for sound sensitivity accomodation for loud music and screaming at YMCA of Orange County
This blog discusses my disability rights complaint to the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division, and request for a sound sensory accommodation from loud music and screaming broadcast all over my YMCA of Orange County fitness center where I was a member. I had been a member from 2007 to 2011. But it was in the later part of 2010 that a new fitness director was hired, who began putting on zumba classes with loud music and screaming, which was then broadcast all over the gym. Being exposed to this in the adjacent rooms then made me ill.
I undertook numerous remedies to bring a resolution to this. I was eventually asked WHY I couldn’t tolerate it, that loudness levels were within limits set my their national organiozation, and was told to where ear plugs when in the facility – which I tried for a while. But I kept having to take them out when a nearby member spoke to me. Other members (esp seniors) I was told discontinued their membership due to the unhealthful noise. Earlier in 2007, I had abandoned my 25 year membership at 24 Hour Fitness after they began playing loud overhead music. This YMCA gym could have, and should have, made the necessary accommodation I requested. In their ruling, DOJ rejected my complaint in its entirety and instructed me to seek other (esp. civil) remedies. In my opinion, both were legally and morally in the wrong! But there’s very little advocacy for SPD and sound sensory disabilities.
YMCA’s practices effectively barred me and other members with sensory processing disorder from using their fitness facility. The loud music and screaming gave me headaches, nausea, made me dizzy, and irritable – not unlike motion sickness. This is a known medical response for affected individuals to this type of sound sensory stimuli. And it gets better. After I filed my complaint to DOJ, the fitness director created a fake incident alleging I was disturbing other members, where I was told my membership was no longer good. I left and never returned!
Prior to filing my complaint with DOJ, I verbally and requested in writing to management for a change in their music broadcast policies. YMCA declinded to make any accommodation or modification. This was also after I had done volunteer work (music therapy) for this YMCA, and after others (affected seniors) had donated money.
It took DOJ two years to respond with a “no.” My complaint was filed with the “Disability Rights” division, who has jurisdiction over public and private facilities for disability rights accommodations. My complaint asked DOJ to draft new language of protections applicable to public and private venues across the U.S. where loud music or machinery poses unhealthful consequences to persons with neurological and sensory processing disorders.
Mostly what this YMCA needed do as an accommodation – was keep the door of the Zumba classroom closed. But management decided it more important to leave the door open, despite the room already having numerous open windows to the outside that brought in fresh air, and instead chose to broadcast the loud music and screaming through the rest of the facility.
Below is my complaint to DOJ and request for accommodation to the YMCA of Orange County, both of which were denied. These parties theated sound sensitivity and sensory processing disorder as though it were a “comfort” issue, rather than health issue.
A large segment of the U.S. population suffers from sensory processing disorder as a result of either autism, post TBI, PTSD, ADHD, hydrocephalus, post tumor, post stroke, Parkinson’s Disease, multiple sclerosis, migraine disorder, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more. Affected individuals become very sensitive to loud/erratic sound, from music, machinery, loud raucious TV commercials, and other types of sound which carries elements which are problematic to affected individuals. The affected Americans account for 15-20 percent of the population. These unhealthful sound levels for many, are often protected by years old standards of the decibel scale & chart below. But, these acceptable limits are coming under fire as I share further below.
Standard decibel chart approved many years ago before much was known about the brain or sensory processing.
The above chart has been coming under fire. OSHA, the primary authority over unhealthful sound in the workplace, still agrees with the more liberable interpretation above.
The decibel chart offers some additional insight to how the readings are made. Today mobile apps also provide decibel readings.
This next chart illustrates the decibel levels of common machinery.
This decibel chart provides decibel readings from many common machinery.
Now we’re getting a little more current science with this next chart, which factors in reporting by persons exposed to what were thought of as otherwise safe decibel levels. And none of this yet takes into consideration the loss of sensory processing function by persons with neurological injury and disorders, and related SPD. When affected individuals are unable to tolerate these sound/noise levels, that raises ACCESSIBILITY to public and private facilities. Such facilities would include health clubs, restaurants, night clubs, churches, schools, malls, art & music venues and events, fairs, parks, and the like.
Study of group response to decibel levels otherwise considered safe by the decibel scale.
The image below illustrates the critical brain areas in volved in sensory processing.
In 2016, technology has made decibel meters available as mobile phone apps. I use the Smart Tools decibel app. However, what is needed is an app and new sound standard to measure the EQ mix of sound and its likely effect on sound processing. Such data would then lower the effective healthful range of sound.
Chosing the right mHealth App can be confusing.
In individuals such as myself, I will have good days and bad days, where my sound intolerance can vary and leave me in a pickle if I ignore the early warning signs. As an affected individual, you need to be aware at any given time of the status of your sensory intolerance, so you can make your optional adjustments as needed. However, there still needs to be new efforts in mitigating the hap-hazard broadcast of sound and noise as so many people are effected, with many more becoming affected who aren’t aware.
As for regulatory actions against noise, the only one that comes to mind is Congress 2012 ruling on the CALM Act – intended to prevent volume raising of TV commercials. But nothing has changed. Obnoxiously loud and ridiculous TV commercials continue on almost all channels. And on radio too. While the science in support of sensory processing disorder and affected neurological disorders exists, the U.S. government and DOJ have acted to deny the science, accommodations, and disability rights protections, while advocating for bizarre new and usual protections for special interests groups. I challenge those who deny this, to play such sounds at an official’s or company office. You will likely be thrown out! So WHY is this exposure OK for the general public? I discuss this in more detail in my 2015 blog on Tips and Information on sound related Sensory Processing Disorder below.
New sound standards and measurements must occur for there to be progress. There first needs to be a revision to current safe decibel scale, to revise it to reflect the health needs of persons with SPD disorders. Next, I am advocating a NEW decibel scale to include a “sound processing component” to account for how the human brain processes sound. Examples of difficult sounds are machinery with fast unbroken patterns, TV & radio commercials where a person is talking fast or screaming with music playing at full volume, and music with people screaming and yelling.
Since this blog was authored in 2013, I have added a new web page of information for sensory processing disorders and cognitive disabilities at CognitiveAccessibility.org, as well as several new blogs which I discuss below.
Cognitive Accessibility.org
In 2015, I authored this important blog on tips and new information on sound related sensory processing disorder, or SPD, which includes updated supporting blogs and web content on this important subject. I am hoping to find the time and energy to build a complete web site for CognitiveAccessibility.org to advocate and share science on sensory processing disorder and cognitive disabilities. In this blog below, I also share some of my efforts with drumming and drum circles that can raise one’s level of intolerance, and improve over well being.
Tips & Information on Sound related Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
Drumming Therapy helps Children with Autism, ADHD, and ADD with Focus and Initiation of Action.
We have supporting science. Now we simply need to connect it to protections and managing in everyday living thru accommodations, technology, and awareness.
Earlier in 2002, I undertook an important study on sensory processing disorder, which is also discussed in the above updated blog:
2002 Study in Support of Sound related Sensory Processing Disorder
Availability of Patient Medical Apps in U.S. now under new FDA Regulations
September 11, 2012 September 11, 2012 Stephen Dolle NeurosciencesLeave a comment
After more than 75 years, medical questionnaires that patients use to share information to physicians, are yet to innovate. Here’s what our FDA is doing now in regards to this innovation. See the accompanying story link.
Having spent many years in clinical nuclear medicine, and more recently, the neurosciences, I always viewed myself as an innovator. But, when I’m a patient undergoing any type of medical treatment, I’m less forgiving of an industry’s unwillingness to innovate, and their insistence to hold the marketplace hostage for their failures.
Way back in 1997, some 5 years and four failed surgical attempts later to get one of my CNS brain shunts to correctly drain CSF fluid needed for my hydrocephalus condition, I designed a patented a software-based monitoring system & named it the “DiaCeph Test.” It was to be a stand-alone software device. Fourteen years later, the DiaCeph Test still sits on a shelf, while new diagnostics needed for hydrocephalus and many other disorders, are not brought to market. This, and tech monitoring of many other disorders today, could be done via mobile phone apps.
Here’s the link to info on my DiaCeph Test, though it’s not been updated in a while: http://www.dollecommunications.com/DiacephPatent.htm
Also, visit your Android or Apple store to see what’s available today.
My frustration boiled over recently as I was passed between physician specialists and a slew of lab and other diagnostic tests. Truly the medical field is failing to innovate both in the collection of relevant patient information, and in IT systems that should be mining patient tests results for the appropriate steps to follow. Widely today, physicians still use the same patient questionnaires that were introduced over 75 years ago. And no to very few clinical apps have made much of a dent in care in the doctor/patient relationship. And with all the money spent in health care in the U.S., and all of the political wrangling over Obama Care, why is no one talking about these key failures to innovate, and the difference it could make in care today?
I’ve enclosed a link to an industry story on the Food & Drug Administration’s new law and guidance regarding health apps. It remains unclear whether these regulations will help or hurt the cause for innovation. But it is certainly a story and topic you should follow, at least if you think there’s chance you might need medical treatment any time soon.
Of course, you could seek alternative medical care for what ills you, such as the drum circles and healing (that I do), or chiropractic, meditation, energy work, essential oils, vitamins & herbs, and energy water, to name a few of the alternative options that are available today. These each have some efficacy in bringing about positive outcomes. But, if you have a serious or more chronic illness, you probably want a more proven medical treatment. But, you’ll need supporting technology to make this all work, and you had better stay atop these developments in the industry, and in Washington.
Enjoy the reading.
http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/mobile-wireless/new-fda-law-paves-way-for-mhealth-regula/240004268
Free drum circle and Q&A on drumming and healing at Temple of Light Healing Fair
August 30, 2012 August 30, 2012 Stephen Dolle NeurosciencesLeave a comment
Free drum circle and Q&A on drumming and drumming and healing at the Temple of Light “Holistic Healing Fair” on Sept. 8, 2012, from 12-5pm.
I will provide information & the opportunity for visitors to play hand percussion instruments and learn about drum circles, and drumming and healing. This is normally a $20 class, but is free during the Holistic Healing Fair. Drum Circle is 2-4pm.
Event information on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/377148545686561/
How do you decide on Burial versus Cremation?
August 30, 2012 August 31, 2012 Stephen Dolle Neurosciences2 Comments
How do you decide on whether to be burried, or cremated, after your death?
As one or the other will certainly happen to each of us, there’s no time like the present to address this difficult decision. More recently, the deaths of a cousin, and a fellow drummer and friend of mine, both of whom were 48 and Catholic, prompted my brother to send out an email to all family seeking to learn of their interest in using a family burial site. Such decisions are not easy onces, but as a medical intuitive having worked in health care, and now a neuroscientist working with drumming and the brain, I feel I have some qualification and insights I can share on this topic.
Of the two deaths in my life recently, one was buried while the other was cremated. I suspect my drummer friend may have preferred burial, but opted for cremation due to the lower costs. Outside of the financial aspects of deciding how to dispose of our remains, I think the bigger and more relevant two questions are: which method is most conducive to the proper moving on of our spirit; and which method brings to most comfort to family as far as being able to memorialize and visit you?
A permanent resting place is of significance too in that it allows the family to perhaps better memorialize and visit your body in the earthly world. But, I’m not sure how relevant it is for family to visit your ashes. It would seem the best way would be for family to be able to look at your writings and others works, and reflect on who you were and your contributions to life here.
Burial does offer the luxury of an more undisturbed body for “that period of days and weeks” when we are in spirit form, but are not fully done here or ready to move on to our next place and assignment, that we may still somehow need our body. There are no proven studies on the subject, but a great deal of discussion and suspected revelation.
There are many reports of people who have died and come back to life and shared in great detail what they saw. But, I don’t know of any accounts of people being in the spirit world for any length of time, and then coming back to describe it.
Historically, Jewish, Catholic, and Islamic religions have forbid cremation. But about 20 years ago, the Catholic church made cremation OK. And to the best of my knowledge, the others remain unchanged of their views. The articles I have included shed some light also on religious views.
Most recently, with the passing of my drummer friend, Carlos, I had an epiphany type moment 6 days later where I erupted in tears while listening to an early Santana song I was to perform that day. I can’t be certain if it was due to Carlos, but it was very unusual for me. It may also be unrelated. During Carlos’s prayer vigil, there were moments that were powerful. But it is hard to say if his spirit were actually involved. There were two things, though, that became clear after this service:
1) He had evolved to a higher and much more “self-less” person in the past 2-3 years, unbeknownst to most of us, and this put him ahead of his years, and likely opened the possibilities to his early death & assignment elsewhere; and 2) I was primarily there to convey a message to his closest brother, and offer support to his other brothers. And I have some skill in there areas.
My intuitive experiences in death originally arose in 1981 during my work in nuclear medicine imaging and the skill I developed as a medical intuitive. It was normal to carry on conversations with patients during these 60 to 90 minute exams. But after developing this medical intuitive ability, i.e. to see illness in my patients, I found I also could see impending death by way of who had agreed to die from their illness.
I was required to spend several minutes up to 10 minutes or so doing a clinical workup and history of each patient, and this often led to other dialog from my patients during the exams. Needless to say, over 11 years and 10,000 procedures, I had some pretty interesting encounters and conversations.
My intuitive connection to death and the afterlife then really took a leap forward in 1987 as I attended the death of my great aunt. During two occasions that day in the mortuary parlor, when I got within 6-8 feet of her body, a sense of “weightlessness” overtook me and a message was delivered from some higher power and said, “She was right and she is moving on to the highest possible place. Heaven.” From then on, any time someone I knew passed away, I would experience a very unusual and striking conversation with them for a period that lasted days and weeks, presumably the time period they remained nearby.
Of these deaths close to me since 1987, 3 were via burial and 3 were via cremation. From this limited number of 6 deaths, I can’t say I sensed any difference in “spirit” communication between those who were buried, and those who were cremated. But, I wasn’t thinking about it either. And now I am.
Earlier this year, I shared my experiences with a very Catholic man from Ireland and he spoke very confidently that what I had initially experienced in 1987 at my aunt’s funeral was the “Communion of Saints,” where I am actually in open communication with the spirit who just died, and those in Heaven. I had read about this earlier and it surely seemed plausible. But one thing seemed almost certain, that what I initially experienced in 1987 opened a doorway to my consciousness to better understand the “unseen.” And in fact, I think I can say that about all of my intuitive traits.
But this brings me back to my original question: Which is the better way to dispose of our bodies: Cremation or Burial? All I can hope for is that by discussing and praying over this question, we may have the better answers revealed. Perhaps we may also come up with new and better ways to memorialize the contributions of a loved one.
Please share your thoughts and experiences. Stephen Statistical Article: http://voices.yahoo.com/cremation-vs-burial-choose-574958.html?cat=12 Article from the traditional Catholic position: http://www.americancatholic.org/newsletters/cu/ac1097.asp
July 18, 2012 March 1, 2018 Stephen Dolle Neurosciences8 Comments
As many of you might expect, I almost always have percussion instruments with me, even while on vacation. When I traveled to Northern Michigan in 2012, I brought the above claves, shaker eggs, a cylinder shaker, woodpecker, gongo bell, flute, and thunder tube. I travel with these should I be asked to entertain or do a drumming therapy session. This request came from a friend of the family for an 11-yr old girl with cerebral palsy and autism from a chromosomal defect. The child was quite challenged and could not walk or talk, and suffered from restlessness and difficulty sleeping.
Stephen Dolle, Neuroscientist & Drum Circle Facilitator
The Patient Workup
In preparing for my sessions, I perform a brief patient workup that consist of speaking to the parent in the presence of the child – to get the relevant patient history and to let each see me speaking in the presence of the other – which establishes permission. I am experienced in doing clinical workups from my prior nuclear medicine work and current hydrocephalus consults and drumming work. All together, I have 17 years of clinical workup experience as a nuclear medicine technologist (10 years with my company Certified Nuclear Imaging), 15-20 years hydrocephalus and medical device consulting, more than 10 years in drumming, and 10+ years earlier experience coaching youth soccer and baseball where some of my kids had speacial needs
Next, I introduced myself and spoke directly to Eliza, the eleven year old child in this session. I wanted to assess her present state of mind and willingness to work with me- which was positive. I assess the eyes, body movements, and listen to any verbal responses to any nervousness or physical complaints that might interfere with the session. It is important to know any issues that might limit the session – so I can ideally adjust ahead of this. I shared with her mother that I would keep the instrument play simple and not too loud, and start simple and increase stimulation and complexity as long as she was agreeable and engaging. As the therapist, I must continually observe her engagement and adjust my interactions accordingly.
Cognitive Accessibility.org currently under construction
Most all children with autism also suffer from sensory processing disorder (SPD), as do many with hydrocephalus, ADHD, PTSD, Parkinson’s, post TBI and the like. IN SPD, the individual will become easily over sensatized to sound, light, motion, or scents. Sound is the most common, but lights and colors are often an issue too. The list of accommodations for individuals with SPD as a medical challenge vary, but now fall under “cognitive accessibility,” which medically and legally defines the neurologic functional needs of the individual. I have become increasingly involved in cognitive accessibility over the last 5 years.
As I sat down next to Eliza, I observed her to be drooling, a bit anxious but also curious about what I was about to do. She was cooperative. My approach is to be calm and assuring. In these sessions where sensory processing disorder is present, sound, color, my voice, and movements become a critical part of the music therapy session. I maintain my attentiveness to her responses.
Color, Movement, and Music
These shakers come in all sizes and flavors and are very handy in music and drumming therapy.
I began by playing a simple 1-2 beat on my wooden claves, and it immediately drew her attention. I followed this up with one shaker egg, and then two, and she responded with giggles and excitement the more I played. With the colored egg shakers, it was hard to differentiate how much of her response was due to the egg color and motion versus sound from the eggs. Then I played the cylinder shaker, which can be loud if not careful, and I got more positive response from her. Next, I played the woodpecker and shaker together, and she went bananas! Yes everyone likes the wood pecker. By this time, she had been awaiting and anticipating my every movement and instrument sound. It was as much fun for me as it was for her. She became a terrific student and fan!
Then I played the Remo thunder tube. And she became so excited, she reached out and grabed it. Her mother said she couldn’t hold things in her hands. But she pinned the thunder tube between her right hand and lap, and resisted a bit as I reached to take it and play again. However, at no time did she play any of the instruments. I tried to get her to hold a shaker egg, but without success. Eventually she held the thunder tube almost entirely in her hand. My session lasted almost 40 minutes, and I was very pleased at her attentiveness, willingness to engage me, and willingness to challenge her own limitations.
I believe the favorable response and attentiveness during this treatment was due to the child’s attentiveness to engage me and the sounds and colors of the instruments. By the end of the session, she had remarkable focus and level of excitement, and briefly drank from a bottle. And then stood up by holding onto the porch railing, and stretched in excitement. I explained to her mother that these type of therapies might be helpful in her walking or talking someday. The family has a piano where she and the other kids will gather around and play together. I’m told she likes the bass notes on the piano. So I suspected she’d love the sound of a bass drum (I did not have on this trip). I would be curious as to what an EEG would show of her brain waves since she craved active sounds. She’d also been to a Blue Man show where the performers made her part of the show.
Music & Drumming Therapy as Healing Arts
EMDR therapy is one related sound and movement therapy that comes to mind and is used in PTSD and sensory processing disorders to desensative the individual. I reflected on new EMDR methods in 2002 when I undertook my sound sensory study with the Boss metronome (discussed further below). As EMDR is also a “healing art,” I’ve shared my blog below on CAM and alternative medicine. It is from 2012. But it’s been updated. It is the first third or so of this blog, where I discuss my past mind-body methods, that I think is relevant to music and drumming therapy today. In these regards, I believe the benefits come from more than sound and interaction, they come from the authencity and “intent” of the therapists. And this is widely true thoughout the various alternative medicine modalities. There must be a BUY IN by the patient! The trust and optimism causes a release of neurochemicals in the brain and change in cell structure throughtout the body.
Healing thru Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
Drumming for the Brain & its Effect on Brain Wave States
In EMDR Therapy, the therapists determines what to say and how to integrate sound and visual cues. It has been discovered via Parkinson’s Disease work that happy and relaxing activities please the brain and aid in the release of endorphins, particularly dopamine. Dopamine levels often run low in PD. I am uncertain as to the effect seen in cerebral palsy and autism. But I observed in my session with this child that she had a strong affinity for rapid stimulation thru musical toys, also confirmed by her mother.
I am unsure whether Eliza’s low functioning state kept her brain waves in a lowered state, i.e. alpha. But she craved rapid stimulation. I felt it critical that I engage her in a step-by-step method of rhythmic movements and sound so as not to overstimulate her, and maintain her focus and level of engagement. Most of what I played were slower rhythms. The most up tempo I played was a moderate samba on the bell and clave. And this was only one session. I didn’t have opportunity to stimulate her on multiple levels. And at the end of this single session, I could see she was tired.
I suspect a djembe drum or bass drum might also captivate her. I’ve observed a young girl with marked autism at the HB pier who will sit right in front of the large fast playing djembes. I’ve been concerned it may not be healthy for a child at her level, though she appears drawn to the stimulation. Children have lower brain waves until their teens. So any artificial attempt to speed them up could have adverse consequences. This is also why caffeine and sugar act differently in children.
The next day Eliza’s mother contacted me to share that she slept thru the night and seemed remarkably calmer after the drumming session. This experience is one of the reasons WHY I became involved in drumming. It has also helped me personally in managing many of my own challenges with hydrocephalus. Further below, I discuss some of the contraindications and research with sensory processing disorder, including, a blog with audio examples from YouTube of problematic machinery noise.
Group Drumming Events, Drum Circles, Drumming Therapy
I have been involved in drumming therapy since before I became involved in drumming in 2004. It was my 2002 sound sensory processing study with the Boss metronome which were my orginal efforts in sound patterning. After becoming involved in drumming in 2004, my interests were split between play and research. I authored this first web page on drumming entitled, What is a Drum Circle, which discusses some of the science plus my own views on drumming, or drum circles.
In 2005, I put on my very first drumming for the brain workshop at the High Hopes Head Injury center in Tustin, CA. From there, I began to put on a wide array of drumming for health events, though these were mostly for disorders of the brain and central nervous system. This drumming for wellness page below features some of these efforts.
Drumming therapy is finding success today in 1:1 and group sessions with ADHD, ADD, autism, hydrocephalus, Parkinson’s Disease, post TBI, aging, and more. What is critical in all of this is that the individual and group ENGAGE!
The information on my above drumming web pages discusss how you can obtain a drumming event, workshop, or therapy session with me.
Dolle Communications – Cognitive Neuroscience
I created the above Cognitive Neuroscience web page to encompass my neurosciences efforts from hydrocephalus to mHealth, sensory processing disorder, drumming, drumming therapy, cognitive accessibility, and related outreach. Like so many sites and pages, it is a work in progress to keep it up to date.
Generally speaking, decibel apps only help you with loudness or decibel level of surrounding sound before it might become problematic for you, your child, or parent. Unfortunately, the triggering aspect of sound, is more in its pattern and pitch than loudness, and is why I undertook this next study in 2002 on sound and sensory processing – to understand the types and effects of sound exposure on persons with hydrocephalus who also have SPD. I feel the types of SPD challenges I evaluated in hydrocephalus is similar to that of autism and other neurological and learning disorders.
Sound Sensory Dysfunction in Brain Injury and Neurological Disorders
As for balance, coordination, fitness, and sensory processing challenges, it doesn’t get much better than shooting baskets – which I began doing therapeutically in 2008. I eventually met up with another shooter, Al Massip, and our on court discussions turned to philosophy and brain science. One day, I posed the question, Where does the Shot come From? And this became a focal point of our shooting for several years, until 2015 when I published this in-depth blog that now attracts 500+ monthly visitors from all over the world. This suggests a lot of people are trying to answer this question. The answer may be in part mystical too. On a therapeutic level, my basketball and drumming with basketball methods are very helpful for a number of neurological disdorders and brain health.
Sports Science vs Brain Science of Basketball: Where does the Shot come From?
My next blog discusses how mobile apps are helpful in managing sensory processing disorder in everyday life, no easy feat. This is a detailed blog with supporting links.
Mobile apps Helpful in Managing Sensory Processing Disorder
The final supporting presentation below was from my power point as part of a talk I delivered at Wayne State University on drumming and rhythm methods in STEM3 education. I discuss a range of implications from language and learning, to speaking tempo and entrainment of teacher/student, to health and sound sensory processing and classroom noise considerations.
From my 20+ years in living with hydrocephalus, research and writing about the brain, a lifetime of playing music, 17 years in nuclear medicine, and coach on 20 little league soccer and baseball teams, I truly understand how drumming helps others.
Contact me if you are interested in drumming therapy sessions, consults, or having me speak at an event. The best method of contact is via email.
Healing thru Complimentary and Alternative Medicine with new methods in Drumming
May 3, 2012 March 1, 2018 Stephen Dolle Neurosciences6 Comments
Animal Spirits surround Stephen at this 2010 Drum Circle
Who are we? What are we doing here? Why do I get sick and feel pain? What are the limits of the human mind? Why do we have conflict? What happens after we die? These are perhaps the most common questions asked about human life.
The photo above of me playing at a full moon drum circle was taken in 2009 as I led a group of some 200 drummers. I have changed my header to this blog several times looking for the perfect “image” to best explain what occurs in spontaneous healing (it’s often not spontaneous, rather is over a day or few days) from mind-body practices. When I saw the above photo, I was intrigued by the clarity and number of unusual shapes in the flames of the bonfire. There were quite a few other photos too. Some refer to this as “animal spirits.” I really have limited knowledge of animal spirits, only know about it from books I’ve read. But what I do know, is about mind-body and intuitive healing from over 40 years of experience and study. Many of these occurred in my medical work, and 5-10 occurred as near spontaneous healing in my own personal health.
Stephen Dolle Headshot in a Suit
My experience in health and wellness spans 17 years as as a nuclear medicine technologist (1976-1992) where I interviewed several thousand patients – the majority having cancer, my work as a drum circle facilitator (since 2004), my work as a neuroscientist as a medical device consultant/mHealth developer/patient advocate, and personal health consults I’ve provided to friends and family over the years. I enrolled in pre-med at the University of Cincinnati in 1973. However, my heart wasn’t in it, in large part because I had witnessed several remarkable intuitive events that I could not explain.
I have benefitted from a variety of alternative medicine modalities that date back to the 1970s. While I have undergone twelve (12) brain shunt surgeries with CNS shunts for hydrocephalus, I never abandoned my mind-body medicine roots. My earlier work in nuclear medicine enabled me to develop an mHealth solution for hydrocephalus in 1997. And by 2004, I began to innovate new health solutions using Western Medicine, mHealth, and the healing arts (mind-body medicine). Perhaps one of the more novel health methods I personally use is applied kinesiology (AK) and cranial adjustments (dev by osteopathic medicine), where I perform a self-assessment and adjustment of my cranial misalignment caused by my hydrocephalus and chronic meningitis. I do not currently provide “medical intuitive” consults. But I provide neurological consults for hydrocephalus, advice on mHealth, and am developing several new drumming programs – including a novel program for basketball. Drumming is an extraordinary tool to facilitate “change.“
I initially wrote this blog in 2012 and have updated it multiple times, including, this update of May 11, 2016. I now realize it should be re-written and re-organized – time I could apply to a book on the subject. I enjoy WordPress as I can link related blogs. I have done my best today to tie in the most important points of this discussion.
There are many mind-body or healing arts practices today. They are listed under quite a number of alternative health subjects. The most widely used are: Alternative Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), Integrative Medicine, the Healing Arts, and Mind-Body Medicine. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of books and stories on the subject.
Complimentary & Alternative Medicine or CAM was created by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bridge the gap between Western Medicine and accepted methods of alternative medicine. Within Western medicine, CAM is usually limited to traditional modalities like acupuncture, meditation, music therapy, and massage.
In September 2015, I spoke on Alternative Medicine and CAM in Addiction Treatment at Sovereign Health of Orange County. I had been wanting to write an up to date paper on alternative medicine, and the addiction presentation provided the opportunity. In that blog, I list most of today’s modalities with supporting information. Feel free to open up this blog on alternative medicine methods in addiction treatment.
Many healing modalities, but just a limited number of mechanisms thru which healing occurs. Further below, I discuss man of these.
I also now face a personal health challenge that Western Medicine has not been able to resolve. So, I am driven in part by this in my quest to discover new and more effective mind-body techniques to benefit my own health.
Highlights of Mind-body Healing Blog
1. Overview of Alternative Medicine and Mind-Body Medicine
2. Interviews with Several Thousand Patients battling Cancer (1981-1992) – The Connection with Illness to your Thoughts and Beliefs
3. Experiences with Spontaneous Healing
4. Experiences with Self-Hypnosis – Discovering the Subconscious Mind
5. Understanding the Placebo Effect widely seen in Pharmacology Studies
6. Can Mindfulness Prevent Injury and Illness?
7. Drumming Methods helpful in Healing
8. Basketball, Mindfulness, and Movement Therapies
Components needed for Mind-Body Healing (all healing arts)
Your Brain and Related Functions
Your Mind and Consciousness
Your Personal/Spiritual/Religious Beliefs
The types of Practices you Undertake that Resonate best with You
A Supportive Physical & Social Environment conducive to Healing
Self-Care via Diet, Exercise, Brain Health, and minimizing Substance Abuse
Time and Commitment to Mind-Body Practices
Our brains are far more capable than we know. It is the occasional extraordinary event that draws our curiosity. Some will stop there. Many will explore further.
Given our connection to the planets and stars, it is likely that gravitational and planetary forces play a role in our health in this earthly dimension.
Earlier Experiences in Mind-Body Medicine and CAM
I was first exposed to alternative and mind-body teachings in 1971 thru books on ESP, psychology, philosophy, sales and motivation, and mindfulness. While in pre-med in college, I delved into psychology, and eventually chose NOT to go on to medical school. Instead, I took a one-year internship in nuclear medicine technology. I continued to read about philosophy, mindfulness, and mind-body medicine in books by Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dale Carnegie, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In 1978, I became involved in new studies on spirituality, music, and nutrition. That same year, I had a compelling tarot card reading that indicated I should move out West. As I was working in nuclear medicine, I was inclined to validate these methods with science as best I could.
Major Breakthrough in 1981 helps me overcome Peripheral Neuropathy
I had a major metaphysical breakthrough in 1979 that led to meeting my wife. Two years later, I had my 1st validated mind-body healing experience that led to unexpected skills, or abilities, as a medical intuitive – corroborated in my work as a nuclear medicine technologist.
This healing experience came courtesy of a 3-week trial of Bufferin undertaken for pain associated with a peripheral neuropathy disorder. The healing trial spanned 6-12 months as I was being passed around from doctor to doctor. I had 8-10 years of reading books & articles on allergies, healing, spirituality, and nutrition. So I knew what was possible! Executing it was another story, however. Arguably, it was “serendipity.”
For as long as I could remember, I had a severe allergy to “aspirin” and would break out in hives from just the slightest bit of aspirin. I’d had become so disfigured at times, I became unable to function or go out for several days to a week.
It was earlier in 1981 when Dr. Horwitz, a Hoag Hospital radiologist I worked with, suggested I try a high dose regimen of Bufferin to help with pain that had become so disabling it had begun to limit my work. There were no NSAID drugs at that time. And I did not want to take opiates. I had read a number of articles on allergies and the use of mind-body mechanisms to overcome them. I knew at the core of even my allergy, there was a long held mis-directed belief that caused the hives. I knew I needed to only confront this unconscious memory and “change” my belief concerning it.
My neuromuscular or peripheral neuropathy was diagnosed by way of abnormal EMGs of both arms & legs, and a positive muscle/nerve biopsy of my left lower leg. Both of my legs had become thin and atrophied in appearance from the nearly 10 years I suffered these complaints. This was about June 1980. The Hoag neurologist informed me I would have to change careers and find a desk job to accommodate the loss of muscle tone in my back and legs. He told me I would also no longer be able to play sports.
So, for several weeks, I prayed and meditated on this allergy to aspirin, and “asked” the higher power that I be able to take Bufferin for several weeks to possibly help with my pain. I had very modest expectations. But like most types of change, I needed a push or catalyst — and this came one day by way of delayed test results & frustration in my rheumatologist’s office – that caused me to storm out and never return. On that day, I took responsibility for my health! And it changed me life!
The next day, I took my first tablet of Bufferin – AND I did NOT break out in hives. Then, I took another. And another! And there were no hives. Over the next 3 weeks, I took the maximum dose of 8 or 12 tablets per day. Whatever was the label’s listed maximum dosage at that time, that’s what I took.
Pain Relief from Bufferin: Could it be the Placebo Effect?
By the end of my 2nd week on this Bufferin dose, my back and leg pains were remarkably improved, so much so, I was able to leap about my department’s exam rooms and lift heavy patients without limitation. Two weeks earlier, I could barely stand on my feet.
In the months that followed, I discovered when my complaints returned, all I needed do was “think” about the Bufferin and how I felt when taking it – the pain and weakness would quickly go away. This really caught my attention and led me to explore this apparent “Placebo Effect” further. So, over the next few months, anytime I experienced an ailment, a cold, an injury of any kind, etc., I would treat it through a mind-body conversation. I would look at my complaints, have a brief discussion with myself over it, and then tell it to go away. But this wasn’t the only change in my life. I soon realized I could see or “sense” illness in my patients and clinical work in nuclear medicine.
At that time, I had been working as a nuclear medicine technologist at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach for about 2 years. But I had been a technologist since 1976. I performed about 6-8 diagnostic & therapeutic procedures per day – each of which I worked up clinically. Apparently, with my change in consciousness from this healing experience, I could now sense the type and location of illness, eg. spread of metastises in my cancer patients while in the imaging room and in my brief clinical workup – before results were available and reviewed by the radiologist. Today, this is referred to as “medical intuitive.”
Our ability to effect social change is rooted in God, the Holy Spirit, and in Brain Science.
I could see the illness usually by simply talking to the patient. I eventually began to share this with Hoag physicians and co-workers. But, I had to be careful as the prevailing views about this then were that it was “quackery.” And I did not wish to be disciplined. I also could not share any results with patients. However, on occasion I would impart a healing affirmation or blessing to a patient. I had many wonderful discussions and thousands of patient interviews over the next eleven years (1981 to 1992) of imaging work.
1981 was many years before CAM would become accepted by Western medicine. And at that time, there were really no or few opportunities to do this for a living, which I was very interested in pursuing. So instead, I spent the next 10 years applying my mind-body methods to film & theatre acting, vocal work, and my own imaging business, plus became involved in a wide array of spiritual, health, and wellness healing modalities. If you get a chance, please also visit my in-depth blog on the brain science of basketball where I delve into the role of “mindfulness” of movement and proprioception in athletics.
Science of Basketball – My Mindfulness & Fitness Methods
Surviving the Challenges of a Major Neurological Disorder
Pain management and mindfulness in Shunt Revision
In 1992, I developed the condition hydrocephalus after an auto accident in Costa Mesa, CA. In the past, I was able to manage any illness in-part with mind-body methods. But the hydrocephalus affected my cognition, making mind-body practices very difficult.
From 1992 to 2013, I underwent a total of 12 brain shunt surgeries with many related complications. I did fairly well considering the health challenges I faced.
I remain involved in the care and treatment of hydrocephalus, the cognitive neurosciences, mHealth apps, and putting on drumming workshops. I use the term “nuts & bolts” to describe my work with Western Medicine, i.e. methods which can be corroborated and reproduced by science, and CAM methods as healing via “the unseen,” referring to methods that are not well corroborated by pier reviewed medical studies. Many of my methods in drumming are now being corrborated today.
2012 (near) Spontaneous Healing of an Abdominal Fungal Rash
A fungal type rash followed a routine shunt revision and laporoscopy, was treated w/ corticosteroids, but only abated one day after a mindfulness session where I commanded it to go away.
In March 2012, I experienced a near spontaneous healing of an abdominal fungal rash that arose from my complete VP shunt revision of Feb. 12, 2012. My peritoneal catheter had been revised by inflating my abdomen with air (laporoscopy technique). But it left a fungal rash at the site of both fenestrations that spread all over my abdomen and chest. The image shows it at 7 days post op. Sorry for the graphic illustration!
I was prescribed Betamethasone Dipropionate cream, a corticosteroid, and had been applying it for 6 weeks. It had spread even up to my chest. One Saturday morning in March 2012, I lay in bed and expressed my frustration as to why it hadn’t gone away. In that moment, I recall looking at the rash and saying, “You need to go away.” I thought it, and I meant it too. I didn’t commit any additional thought to it for the rest of the day. In the evening as I prepared for bed and removed my shirt, I noticed the rash was gone. Completely gone! Not a trace. I recall experiencing a wonderful feeling of calm.
From my years of reading and being involved in healing practices, I best explain this healing as a mindfulness affirmation, where my affirmation was also a command that the rash to go away. This was a bit different than my practices of the 1980s, when I held dialog with my body, injury, or illness, and gave instruction and asked that it be healed. On this day in 2012, I commanded it to go away. That’s a bit different mindset. I’m sure there are healing experts who might better explain this. This is my best recollection and understanding of the healing mechanism.
2010 Spontaneous Healing of Injured Shoulder at my YMCA Gym
I experienced an instantaneously healing in my right shoulder during one of my workouts here
The following is a spontaneous healing of my right shoulder that occurred in 2010 while working out in my area YMCA gym. I have had rotator cuff problem in my (non dominant) right shoulder for 30 plus years and it had been limiting the amount of dumbell weights for several months. Earlier I had a fantastic chiropractor who could help with adjustments. I’d been dealing with several months of pain and limitation that was especially problematic while lifting dumbell weights.
On this day, I was doing my normal routine, but with only about half the weight. And “something” occurred in between reps as I glanced over and caught a glimpse of a pretty buff guy who was lifting a lot of weight. In that instant, I had a moment of enlightenment, where for no particular reason I said to myself, “I can do that too” (lift heavy weights). And I instantantly began lifting my usual past weight, twice as much as when limited by pain. But now all pain was gone. In an instant, something happened in my consciousness where my shoulder became healed (at least from pain). I chronicled this on my Facebook Fan page where I attempted to explain it. I admit it came amid a more stable period of mental and physical health– that I think lends itself to healing. I feel the healing mechanism is self-hypnosis by way of conscious affirmation with the subconscious mind. There are many techniques for “healing.” In hypnosis and self-hypnosis, you modify your subconscious belief system.
Most Eastern healing methodologies follow “meridian theory,” which follows a map of the body’s energy fields. This also involves one’s physical and spiritual influences. Chiropractic medicine takes this a step further by adding “diagnostic” evaluations with a practice termed “Applied Kinesiology,” or AK, which uses the muscle reflext test. Chiropractors use AK as biofeedback to test and treat a variety of injuries & conditions. It is also used by practitioners in psychotherapy.
Applied Kinesiology is also involved in the body’s responses during drumming via an array of physiologic & meridian field interactions – which includes thru movement, emotion, vibration, connectedness, and brain wave entrainment. I’ve written extensively on drumming for the brain on my web site and blog. I host a dedicated web page on the Cognitive Neurosciences with links to my papers, blogs, and related web pages.
DolleCommunications.com – Cognitive Neurosciences
Other methods of biofeedback measurement include assessment of breathing, heart rate, brain waves, body temperature, and blood flow in the fingertips (i.e. the color Stress Card). I found AK testing easy to use and reproduce. It is also used in truth assessment. Other methods of truth assessment include heart rate monitoring (i.e. lie detector tests), voice, hand-writing, and eye contact analysis.
Taiko Drummer sets the Time, Rhythm, and type of Movement
The effectiveness of CAM therapies is in part dependent on the level of “engagement,” or how well the individual believes and interacts with the methodology. In taiko drumming, for instance, there must be considerable engagement of the physical and emotional self. This is true in hand drumming & drum circles too. I incorporate these methods in my health and wellness drumming. CAM’s effectiveness can sometimes rival that of Western Medicine. In both, you must believe and have a desire to be healed. You can also choose to fight your treatment, where you will see poor outcomes. Reciprocally, you can be healed through your belief in a sugar pill, known as the “placebo effect.” The favorable response rate of the placebo effect in prescription drug studies ranges from 15-40%. Plant Therapy, like that seen in the photo below, is also useful in mind-body healing.
Living plants tend to speak for you letting you know everything is OK.
There is considerable evidence in support of the positive benefits of a physician’s bed-side manner in healing. I’ve witnessed numerous examples on this in Western Medicine. And at the center of each favorable outcome, is almost always LOVE & TRUST. As humans, we are particularly effected by the power of LOVE. And love is at the core of most CAM modalities, from energy work to meditation, chiropractic to drumming, CAM allows participants to engage their bodies, mind, and spirit thru love & trust. Just look at the love, trust, and engagement of the children in this drum circle below.
Drum Circles make for great Children’s Activity as young as age 3.
The effectiveness of CAM and mind-body modalities is also in large part dependent on the patient having an OPEN state of mind. The OPEN state of mind allows the patient to direct his/her thoughts and beliefs in support of the healing, and especially so when prompted by a therapist or facilitator, and similarly, in healing affirmations in your at home sessions. In fact, an OPEN state of mind is required to achieve success in almost every activity in life from sports play to school, counseling to group drumming (group hypnosis), and overcoming adversity. Keep an OPEN MIND. And BELIEVE!
It was in 1994 two years post hydrocephalus that I began to utilize music as therapy to help my related health challenges, and took music classes at Orange Coast College. This helped to reconnect my intuitive brain with my emotional self and address some of the damage done to me physically. This enhanced intuitive function became important to medical research I was doing, where my memory and short term memory were often problematic in complex neuroscience, mHealth, and artificial intelligence topics.
I also conducted research and wrote about sound Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) in neurological disorders, and drumming therapy as an adjunct healing art. The blog below was updated in April 2016. The opposite to calm, is CHAOS, like in the TV sets some of us grew up with.
Technical difficulties can affect you when you least expect it.
Tips and new Treatments in Sound Sensory Processing Disorder
In 2002, I undertook a study of Sensory Processing Disorder that revealed important findings in cognition and mindfulness. Though my focus was SPD in hydrocephalus, my findings are relevant to ADHD, autism, migraine, post TBI, PTSD, addiction disorders, and anyone requiring mental focus and mindfulness. The inability to achieve this state often leads to illness and/or injury.
Boss BR-8 includes a full 50 selection Metronome
In 2008 I became involved in “cognitive accessibility,” the front line of accessibility accommodations relating to sensory processing disorder. I also own the domain http://www.CognitiveAccessibility.org
Stephen Dolle speaks on drumming for the brain at Wright State University
I am extensively involved in drumming for the brain as a facilitator, event organizer, neuroscience researcher, and speaker. Since 2005, I have put on over 200 community and private drumming events, including, numerous drumming workshops involving my research. I find group drumming particularly effective in health and wellness as it allows for the merging of neuroscience principles with the healing arts, and which can be tailored to programs to for specific health populations. Drumming is supported by both Western medicine and CAM principles.
Between my professional hydrocephalus consults, community drumming, Meetup events, and drumming workshops, I have validated many of my drumming methods.
Drumming for wellness helps seniors and those facing chronic illness
In 2012, I conducted a 1:1 drumming therapy session with a young girl with cerebral palsy and autism. She ended up having a remarkable response to my 35 minute drumming session, using only small hand percussion. Her favorite instrument turned out to be the Thunder Tube (not pictured) that she attempted to hold.
Drumming Therapy Session: Young Girl w/ Cerebral Palsy & Autism
Drum circle shakers come in all sizes and flavors, including, fruits and vegetables
No doubt one of the more powerful mind-body group therapies is “group drumming.” It offers the ability to help participants detach from the constraints of their self-imposed belief system in healing of illness, managing pain, and overcoming the psychological hurdles needed to usher change in their life for self-healing. Drumming is able to alter our perception and attachment to a set of beliefs and behavior. The challenge for the facilitator then is in creating the right setting and structure.
Stephen Dolle plays calming drum rhythms to a large group of pinnipeds in Carmel, CA.
The nuts & bolts portions I carry out through physical play and exercises, while the CAM portions are carried out through discussion, play, and affirmations of who/what you are, and who/what you want to be. Be it the effects of a brain disorder like hydrocephalus, or the metastatic spread of cancer, I believe drumming play and affirmations can create the kind of change in one’s belief system to cause change in one’s physical body. What is needed are structured workshops fine tuned to the specific population and setting.
Web Site Information – Drumming Workshops
Drumming in the Workplace
Alternative Medicine/CAM in Addiction Treatment
The Brain Science (and mindfulness) of Basketball
I cannot say enough about athletic, movement, and proprioception activities. I’ve spent a lifetime in athletics and coaching, including, more than 20 of my son’s AYSO soccer and little league baseball teams where I often used philosophy and mind-body teachings, and in 10 years of my drumming work today.
I like to incorporate applied kinesiology, or AK, into wellness programs and therapeutic drumming. With a strong medical technology background, I was also able to design and patent an mHealth app for hydrocephalus in 1997, which today could accommodate AK testing and results. I’ve now written about mHealth apps for migraine, and more widely in health care in these two blogs below.
Weather App helps in Managing Migraine
I’m a big fan of AK and its diagnostic properties, and I use these methods to regularly evaluate and adjust my own cranial deficits, spinal misalignments, and shunt malfunction. I believe AK could be used to focus energy on a health problem during drumming play. The area could be the site of a tumor, a failing implant, or an injury.
mHealth apps will transition how we care for chronic illness and disorders such as hydrocephalus, but also revolution the use of Eastern healing modalities
The broader role for mHealth apps in CAM is as clinical case managers in ongoing therapy, in AK diagnostics with practitioners, and with your own at home practices. Bear in mind the primary weakness of the human brain is “memory.” Currently poor documentation of treatments limits CAM outcomes. mHealth apps and software would aid documenting this for better continuity of effective treatment.
The big challenge today for the next generation mHealth apps and UI interfaces is: How do you design apps that facilitate healing, while not being a distraction to healing? What is needed is an mHealth interface that includes the nuts & bolts of medicine, while not overwhelming the patient and allowing for interactive discussion and healing.
At the core of all healing is this profound statement, “What you believe to be true, Is.” This is termed the Biology of Belief.” Summing it up, it means that when you change your belief system — You change your life and health!
You can’t recover from an illness until you BELIEVE it will happen! You must also have “balance” in your life which will help in managing all aspects of your life. The Wheel Of Life image below illustrates the eight areas of your life you must bring into harmony.
In order to achieve good health, you must have balance and cooperation in all areas of your life.
Below is Web Information cited in this Blog
Stephen Dolle’s Fan Page on Facebook
Dr. Andrew Weil Dr.Weil.com
Dr. Weil.com List of Popular Wellness Therapies
Dolle Communications Drumming for Wellness
Alternative Medicine/CAM Methodologies in Addiction Treatment
National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Health (NIH – CAM)
Contact me if interested in drumming, healing arts, or speaking.
Neuroscientist and Drum Circle Facilitator
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Bridge to Nowhere no more? Report lists preferred link
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Plan favors joining 550 to 160 at Grandview
By Dale Rodebaugh Reporter
Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 5:01 PM
Updated: Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 1:56 AM
The interchange known as the Bridge to Nowhere may yet serve as the connection for U.S. Highway 550 and U.S. Highway 160.
A new draft environmental report released this week by the Colorado Department of Transportation names the interchange as the preferred location for joining the two highways. The path of Highway 550 across the mesa would be altered slightly from a previously proposed route to avoid a gas well.
The public will have the opportunity to ask questions about the plans at a hearing Nov. 2 at Escalante Middle School.
CDOT will take public comments on the report until Nov. 28. A final decision about the alignment is expected in spring 2012.
In the interim, motorists will use the current 550/160 interchange at Farmington Hill, CDOT spokeswoman Nancy Shanks said Friday.
Although the $47 million interchange will not connect to Highway 550 any time soon, it will be operational next month, Shanks said. The roundabout and ramps will serve Highway 160 and surrounding areas.
Two other connection options were considered in the report. They are:
Routing Highway 550 farther east and connecting it to the Three Springs intersection.
Winding Highway 550 across Florida Mesa and hooking it to the Three Springs intersection.
After a new alignment is carrying traffic, the abandoned section of Highway 550 will end at a commercial establishment where the highway begins its abrupt descent. The remainder of the downgrade will be revegetated.
The roundabout north of Highway 160 is the workhorse of the interchange. From that point, motorists can choose on- and off-ramps to Highway 160 and, eventually, Wilson Gulch Road that will provide access to Three Springs and Mercy Regional Medical Center.
The completed interchange contains four bridges, six retaining walls and a 2,000-foot-long multiuse footpath. It also adds a fourth lane to a stretch of Highway 160 and drainage work.
Planning for the new interchange began in the early 1990s as one of 28 high-priority transportation needs statewide. The project included upgrading Highway 160 between Durango and Bayfield.
Replacing the Farmington Hill interchange was a safety issue. The two-lane Highway 550 was steep with unnerving switchbacks, she said.
CDOT has spent more than $100,000 on the supplemental environmental assessment, plus staff time. The supplemental report took into account four historic ranches.
If Highway 550 is routed farther east, it would require the analysis of three other ranches.
The corridor around the interchange registered 27,875 vehicle trips a day at peak times in 2009. The number is expected to rise to 44,478 trips day by 2030 at the current growth rate. If the Grandview area develops to its potential, the number of daily trips could rise to 85,910 by 2030.
daler@durangoherald.com
A hearing is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 2 at Escalante Middle School, 141 Baker Lane, about the new environmental study involving the connection of U.S. highways 550 and 160.
The deadline for comments is Nov. 28. They may be mailed to Sandra Taylor, Colorado Department of Transportation, 3803 Main Ave., Suite 300, Durango, CO 81301. They may be faxed to 385-1410. Or visit www.coloradododot.info/projects/us550-at-160.
The draft environmental study also is available at the website.
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Masterpiece Classic: The Old Curiosity Shop
2007 NR 1h 33m DVD
Young Nell Trent (Sophie Vavasseur) and Grandfather (Derek Jacobi), who owns "The Old Curiosity Shop," have no choice but to go on the run when ruthless loan shark Daniel Quilp (Toby Jones) takes everything from Grandfather and plans to put him in a mental institution. Bryan Dick, Christopher Ettridge and Geoff Breton co-star in this grand BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. Kevin Connor directs.
Derek Jacobi, Toby Jones, Sophie Vavasseur, Gina McKee, Adam Godley, Anna Madeley, Adrian Rawlins, Geoff Breton, Bryan Dick
Drama, British TV, Dramas Based on Classic Literature, Pre-20th Century Period Pieces
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Wiki:Terms of Service
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Sri Lanka bad loans grow to 4.8-pct in June after soft-peg collapse
Monday July 15, 2019 06:51:00
ECONOMYNEXT – Bad loan in Sri Lanka banking system grew to 4.8 percent of gross loans by June 2019, up from 4.2 percent in March, though the credit system has gone through much worse levels of non-performing loans in the past Central Bank Governor Indrajit Coomarasamy said.
"Clearly it is something we have to be cautious about and monitor very carefully," Governor Coomaraswamy said.
"It is not at crisis levels, we have had higher levels in the past. What we have to do is get growth growing again. We are trying to push lending rates down and push liquidity in to the system."
Bad loans spiked after the central bank triggered a currency collapse by printing money just as growth picked up in 2019 which left the rupee at 182 to the US dollar by end 2018 from 153 at the beginning of the year.
Monetary instability kills consumption, which hits revenues of companies, whose loans then go bad.
At the beginning of 2018, bad loans were at 3.0 percent, as tighter accounting rules forced banks to disclose bad loans early.
After the 2008 soft-peg crisis and capital flight bad loans peaked at 8.8 percent. After spiking during the 2015/2016 soft-peg crisis, bad loans fell to a low of 2.5 percent by the end of 2017.
The 2018 soft-peg crisis came quickly on top of a 2015/2015 crisis, but the currency fall is deeper, and liquidity shortages were prolonged.
Gross non-performing loans had grown to 323 billion rupees by the end of the first quarter of 2019, from 200 billion rupees a year earlier, according to central bank data, under tighter accounting rules.
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"I do not think we are at the point where red lights are flashing." Governor Coomaraswamy said.
"It is probably in the amber light stage."
Sri Lanka is also considering giving a moratorium for about 100 billion rupees of tourism loans. Banks will not have to provide for loans suspended after the moratorium was announced. However the sector is expected to recover next year.
At the moment banks are well capitalized, with ratios generally above required levels, Deputy Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said.
"If NPLs are rising banks will have to provide. That will have an impact on capital. At the moment capital is above even after making provisions NPLs."
But loans at finance companies were at 7.8 percent by March 2019. In March 2018 bad loans were at 5.82 percent of gross loans.
However in the finance company sector, there are several legacy companies dating back to the 2008 soft-peg crisis which ended a bubble which grew for several years.
At the time the central bank was battling fiscal dominance, with the Treasury apparently vetoeing attempts to raise policy rates. (Colombo/July15/2019)
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Arena » Arena ARC
JOHAN-CRUYFF-STADIUM, BARCELONA
Named in honour of FC Barcelona’s iconic club legend, the Estadi Johan Cruyff is part of the Catalan club’s monumental Espai Barça infrastructure development project. The UEFA Category 3 stadium has a capacity of over 6,000 seats and is located on the club’s Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper training ground. It is the new home of FC Barcelona’s Reserves, U19 and women’s teams. Quite possibly, the next Messi will start going for goals here in the near future. The project perfectly demonstrates the versatility of the ARC range across all seating categories, including VIP, press area and players’ benches.
6,000 x ARC LITE, VIP | Press tables
© Eheim Iberica, Spanien
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Newest References in category Arena ARC:
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EST. RAMÓN SÁNCHEZ PIZJUÁN
GROSSE SPORTHALLE, SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND
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moodgym
mental health guru
mental health guru delivers online training for all employees. It provides information about depression and anxiety – encouraging early help-seeking, reducing stigma and highlighting responsibilities in the workplace.
mental health guru can help your organisation to appropriately manage mental health issues and reduce associated productivity losses
How is mental health guru structured?
mental health guru delivers brief online training for workplaces, in two modules which are completed in order. These include information, interactive exercises, videos and quizzes with personalised feedback.
Module 1: Depression
Understanding depression, its impact and how it is diagnosed.
Treatment options, risk factors and how to get help.
Myth-busting and stigma.
Depression in the workplace.
Module 2: Anxiety
Understanding anxiety, worry and different types of disorders.
Common misconceptions and stigma.
Anxiety in the workplace.
Approximately 1 in 5 people in the UK, Canada, USA and Australia will experience a mental health problem every year.
Office for National Statistics, 2015
Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2013.
Mental Health America, 2014.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007.
Mental illness creates high costs for employers due to absenteeism, presenteeism, compensation claims and turnover.
The estimated cost:
UK: £35 billion a year (Centre for Mental Health, 2017).
Canada: $6 billion a year ( Smetanin. et. al., 2011).
USA: $44 billion a year, 200 million days of lost work (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 2015).
Australia: $11 billion a year (PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2014)
Employers have legal obligations in relation to the management of mental illness in the workplace.
UK: Equality Act 2010, Employment Rights Act 1996.
Canada: Canadian Human Rights Act, Employment Equity Act.
USA: Americans with Disability Act (ADA), OSHA, Family Medical Leave Act.
Australia: Disability Discrimination Act 1992, WH&S, Privacy Act 1998.
How can mental health guru help?
mental health guru will help your organisation to address these issues through:
Decreasing stigma
Increasing knowledge
Improving help-seeking
Improving management of mental health problems within the workplace.
Program elements
mental health guru includes depression and anxiety symptom quizzes with feedback.
mental health guru features videos of real people describing their experience with mental health problems in the workplace.
mental health guru offers practical advice about how to assist colleagues and responsibilities of supervisors.
mental health guru features
Brief training for all staff
Information and how to get help
Interactive myth busting
Responsibilities of supervisors
Evidence for effectiveness
mental health guru has been evaluated in a randomised controlled trial, which showed use of the program improved employee knowledge and decreased employee stigma about depression and anxiety, and these effects were sustained after six months.
ehub Health welcomes independent research on the use of mental health guru. We encourage researchers to contact us to discuss the requirements of your research.
mental health guru:
Griffiths, K.M., Bennett, K., Walker, J., Goldsmid S., Bennett, A. Effectiveness of MH-Guru, a brief online mental health program for the workplace: A randomised controlled trial. Internet Interventions 2016; 6: 29-39. [Full text].
Negative attitudes to mental disorders can prevent people from seeking appropriate help and can lead to worse outcomes. Stigma can also lead to mismanagement of issues within the workplace.
mental health guru busts common myths about depression and anxiety, and educates users so that workplace issues can be managed appropriately.
Smart phone friendly
mental health guru works on devices with different sized screens, including smart phones and tablets. Users access the program through their web browser – anywhere, and at any time – with privacy and confidentiality.
What mental health guru users are saying
“After using mental health guru, I had a conversation with someone to ask if they are okay, and was able to feel more confident about talking about support available.”
mental health guru user
“I thought the videos of people giving their accounts was really good. It brought a human element to the content and demonstrated the different experiences that people may go through.”
“The myth busting and treatment sections were particularly useful. Also the personal stories were very good at explaining how people feel when they are depressed or anxious.”
Online mental health training
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Deviant Leisure: A Criminological perspective
March 14, 2016 / deviantleisure
Oliver Smith and Thomas Raymen
The broad area of deviant leisure has garnered increasing interest within criminology and the social sciences over the last several months. Robert Stebbins has very recently returned to issues of hedonism, incivility and the negative or ‘deviant’ side of leisure. Members of this research network, such as Steve Redhead, have begun to communicate deviant leisure perspectives to an increasingly global audience, whilst cultural criminology is beginning to expand its gaze beyond the limited constructs of crime and deviance to take interest in the relationship between consumer culture and normalised harm. Dedicated panels and streams at various international conferences serve to compound the suggestion that this is a perspective that is gaining traction within the social sciences.
Of course for us and to those who have been following this blog, such interest is entirely unsurprising. As evidenced by the wide array of topics covered here and beyond, deviant leisure is indeed a ‘broad church’ of exciting research areas. However in light of this spate of recent activity, we feel it is time for us to bring greater clarity to the deviant leisure project by explicitly outlining our understanding of deviant leisure as a theoretical concept. What follows below is an abridged version of a forthcoming journal article in which we begin to present the fundamental theoretical principles of a deviant leisure perspective.
The non-work activities of human beings have rarely been far from the inquisitive gaze of the social sciences. Cultural criminology in particular, has a rich tradition of exploring some of the most visible forms of ‘deviant leisure’ such as graffiti writing, street racing, BASE jumping and innumerable exemplars of what Lyng (1990) describes as edgework. Utilising a deviant leisure perspective enables us to look beyond these spectacularly deviant activities and explore the harms around more culturally accepted and embedded forms of leisure. Our theoretical framework draws upon advances in both cultural criminology and ultra-realist criminology. We bring together these theoretical approaches to present a conceptual basis for deviant leisure which illustrates how individual, social, economic and environmental harms are structurally embedded within many accepted and normalized forms of leisure.
This initial exploration of a deviant leisure perspective includes a range of illustrative examples, but is of course far from being an exhaustive list. While deviant leisure remains far from a ‘finished’ theoretical perspective, these initial examples and theoretical discussions will highlight the basic theoretical approach in order to contribute to the on-going development of the study of deviant leisure from a criminological perspective.
Leisure, pleasure and harm
Early work by cultural criminologists claims that deviant forms of leisure arise as a result of the timeless natural desire to seek thrills, pleasure and excitement. Indeed, this view is pervasive across disciplines, forming part of a liberal orthodoxy, which tends to promote individual agency and a naturalist view of resistance to authority in narratives of harm. In this sense, the choice to seek thrills and excitement in a way that supposedly challenges authority is often celebrated and positioned as politically charged. Elsewhere, the opprobrium drawn by clearly visible forms of violence and illegality detract from the more pertinent source of the violence and disorder, ignoring the necessity to locate harm within the social structures of late modernity. Continuation with the orthodox analysis of leisure and deviance serves to obfuscate the range of harms that occur as a direct or indirect result of commodified forms of leisure and their attendant cultural supply chains.
One of the challenges associated with the harm-based approach is the role of morality in deciding what we classify as harm. The construction of a moral calculus will have to be left for another time, but suffice to say that within the context of a marketised leisure economy, we follow Zygmunt Bauman in his assertion that morality is manipulated by social structures and systems, most specifically the late modern form of capitalism. The competitive individualism that lies at the centre of the economic exchange mechanisms of consumer capitalism is, we argue, the driving impetus behind the willingness of individuals to inflict primary or secondary harms upon others, with moral judgments being superseded by the special liberty (see Hall, 2012) that is synonymous with success in the hyper competitive individualized environs of the current social order. However, our problematisation of contemporary leisure goes further than a critique of firms and corporations unethically profiteering from leisure forms which harm individuals, cultures or the environment. Rather, we problematize the systemic absence of a categorical imperative around a moral commitment to leisure practices which are ‘harm neutral’ or actively pro-social. This is underpinned by what Bauman describes as a ‘duty to the other’, a collective human responsibility to look out for, care, and act in such a way that not only avoids harming others, but positively contributes to society, culture, and the environment. We argue that this is the minimum we must demand of a more progressive engagement with leisure cultures. However the dominant neoliberal ethos of individualism contributes to the continual erosion of the social, and the eradication of a collectivist conception of morality.
The point here is that these harms are embedded in culturally acceptable, value-normative behaviours, bound inextricably to what Zizek terms the ‘cultural injunction to enjoy’. Not only are these harms often experienced as hidden, systemic forms of violence, but in many cases are largely preventable. In short, prosocial forms of leisure are possible, but lie beyond what we term a hedonic realism, the inability to see beyond the horizon of a social order where leisure identity is synonymous with the hyper-competitive and individualized arena of consumer capitalism.
Deviant Leisure – a typology
Some of these examples may be familiar to readers of this blog, but our hope is that the engagement of an ultra-realist perspective prompts a recasting of the familiar as the cornerstone of a re-engagement with the notion of deviance, leisure and harm. Our typology uses the identified harm associated with various commodified leisure practices as its rationale. harmful forms of deviant leisure are categorised according to the primary focus of harms associated with them, and are divided into the following broad categories:
Subjective harms
Environmental harms
Socially Corrosive harms
Embedded harms
1. Subjective
Subjective forms of harm involve an easily identifiable perpetrator visiting harm upon a clearly identifiable victim in action related to a clearly defined leisure activity. Perhaps the clearest example of this is the commission of violence within the alcohol-based night time economy (NTE). The NTE has become synonymous with rising levels of interpersonal violence, often portrayed within the mainstream literature and media reporting as the pathological behaviour of a minority of working class men whose actions taint an otherwise unproblematic site of creativity and identity gain. The reality is that the NTE is responsible for over a million hospital visits a year (a somewhat conservative figure which is likely to underestimate the reality of the number of assaults). In addition to this are the significant numbers of assaults on ambulance and emergency room staff who should also be considered victims of alcohol based violence. Outside of these clearly subjective forms of violence are swathes of objective forms of violence, systemic and symbolic violence meted out against other consumers, bar workers, takeaway workers, taxi drivers and other peripheral victims of deviant leisure.
‘Headlock’ Copyright Lee Jones
The marketised environment of the night time economy is key to creating an arena of sorts for violent encounters, as well as the creation and maintenance of leisure based identity. It is characterized by a near universal adherence to intoxication and the suspension of the moral regulation and behavioural norms of the daytime, but in the starkest of terms, it is this problematic and harmful form of determined drinking that is the most valuable from the perspective of the alcohol industry, accounting for 60% of the industry’s profit. These harms can be outward facing as discussed above, or can turn inwards on the participant, such as those involving poly-drug use, and other forms of risky or dangerous activities. In these instances of subjective harm, leisure behaviours incorporate an element of risk-taking that is barely managed, and appears to be undertaken not without knowledge of danger, but in spite of it.
2. Environmental
Green criminology has done much over the last 25 years to direct criminological attention at the harms inflicted upon the environment as a result of non-criminal activities, alongside criminal and harmful behaviours that emanate from interaction with the global economy. From a Deviant Leisure perspective, we interrogate not only the harms that result from engaging with leisure cultures, but explore the role of consumerism in the creation of individual desire and the cultivation of competitive individualism. Perhaps the starkest example can be found in the case of the Maldives.
An island chain of 26 atolls in the Indian ocean, the Republic of the Maldives is the lowest country in the world, and while it is probably the most vulnerable country in terms of the threat of sea level change, it also faces a compound danger through the popularity of leisure and its desirability as a honeymoon or status destination. This economic value however, comes at a cost, with waste disposal providing a specific challenge. Perhaps most symbolic of the types of harm we are talking about here, is the creation of Thilafishu waste treatment and disposal site. In essence, this amounts to the sacrifice of an island atoll and lagoon for the disposal and treatment of waste.
‘Garbage Island’ copyright: Muha
While the classic liberal defence of the tourist industry might rely on pointing to employment created by the tourist industry, in reality very few well-renumerated jobs go to indigenous islanders, with 42% of the population earning around $1.50 per day (Scheyvens, 2011), while money leaks out of the country due to high levels of foreign ownership and a high proportion of expatriate employment at 53% of the workforce (Shakeela et al, 2011)
For us, the challenges faced by the Maldives are not the product of tourism in an abstract sense, but are synonymous with the commodification of a range of symbolism that is closely related to consumer culture. The ubiquitous image that adorns specialist honeymoon magazines (again an indication of the importance and reach of the honeymoon tourism industry) is of miles of white sands, empty but for the carefree linen-suited groom and his sarong-wearing new bride. However, the pristine beauty of the magazine is not as natural as we might suppose. Rather, the islands have been sanitized; depilated, shaved and plucked to the detriment of local ecosystems.
Some tourists may of course be unaware of the effects on the environment However, engaging in these leisure experiences despite the knowledge of the environmental degradation, is an example of what Steve Hall refers to as special liberty, the individual belief that one is no longer constrained by ethical codes, and has the right to freely express desires and drives, albeit with in the constrains of the external control system. It is the fantasy of special liberty that allows the individual to abdicate from moral responsibility and engage in harmful forms of leisure, perpetuating the economic, social and environmental forms of inequality that leak from commodified leisure. Moreover, the environmental harms associated with leisure and the piles of waste it builds are not restricted to the far-off lands of the Maldives, but are simultaneously experienced in multiple locations globally. As Jeff Ferrell identified a decade ago in Empire of Scrounge, the environmental harms associated with waste produced by a globalized consumer culture is only going to intensify over time as the demands of a consumer economy and its neophiliac subjects consume and discard fashions, fads and trends in an ever-shortening life cycle of commodities.
3. Socially Corrosive
Here, we identify leisure forms that contribute to the erosion of our shared social life. Baudrillard acknowledged the ‘end of the social’ with the dawn of neoliberalism, positioning consumer-citizens as increasingly atomised, cynical and disinterested in the possibility of collective interests. The social is constructed through a coherent and comprehensive sociosymbolic order, based in shared meanings and codes, which in their absence result in anxiety, unhappiness and despair, a constant state of emotional and existential precarity that can be temporarily assuaged by engagement in consumer markets.
A deviant leisure perspective must therefore examine the potential for leisure to cut individuals adrift from the social, contribute to the further erosion of social institutions such as family, class, community, and exacerbate the fragmented and individualized nature of the social under late capitalism. There are many forms of leisure that would fall into this category, but one example might be the creation of artificial scarcity, the privation of that which would otherwise be plentiful and free to the public. The creation of ‘club goods’ has the potential to create demarcated leisure zones of wealth and cultural capital. A clear demonstration of this is embodied within Donald Trump’s grab for an enormous stretch of the Aberdeenshire coastline for the creation of a ‘world-best’ $1.5 billion luxury golf-course, club, and hotel. Aided by a legal system that assiduously protects the interest of private property, these leisure spaces create cultures of fragmentation. Notwithstanding the environmental damage done to local dune ecosystems, within such spaces of cultural exclusivity, Trump’s golf-course and other similar country clubs become a no-go zone for those lacking the requisite social, cultural and financial capital.
Of course, Trump in his role as a neoliberal ‘undertaker’ (Hall, 2012) has argued that he is simply doing what has to be done in order to revitalize the economy of the region, providing jobs and attracting tourism, despite vocal opposition. Despite promises of 6,000 jobs only 200 jobs were created, while residents experienced interrupted water supply for several years. Exemplifying ‘special liberty’, Trump has transcended the ethical codes of the symbolic order in order to achieve his aims, irrespective of the effect it has on people.
Further examples of socially corrosive leisure are found in those individualized leisure forms which seduce individuals to retreat from the social into the ‘wallpapered worlds’ of fantasy through violent gaming and pornography. Rowland Atkinson and Tom Rodgers (2015) describe this as the proliferation of ‘murder boxes’, which create visually realistic zones of cultural exception based upon human harm, domination, and the perpetuation of gendered and racialized scripts of violence, domination, and subjugation.
4. Embedded Harm
Here we position leisure cultures that are notable for becoming successfully embedded within legitimate consumer markets and while imbued with potential for the creation of malleable identities based on the notion of cool, are deserving of closer criminological scrutiny. Perhaps the most illustrative example is the ubiquitous gambling industry, which has become legitimized, and normalised through becoming embedded within other forms of leisure such as the consumption of professional sport, online social networks, and the night-time economy. With an increasing array of gambling opportunities, quite literally at our fingertips, it is likely that ‘social’ gambling, fiercely defended by the gambling industry as non-problematic, masks a range of damaging social and individual effects.
While once subject to wide-ranging state control, gambling has become increasingly embedded within the night-time economy, sports fandom, and online forums of socialisation. Perhaps nowhere is the legitimized democratization of betting and gambling more visible than in the explosion of sports-betting, specifically around association football. It is impossible to watch any sports channel without being bombarded by targeted advertising of innumerable high-street and online bookmakers which visually situate the act of gambling within a wider weekend leisure experience of friends, football and beer at the pub or at home with friends. These individuals experience participation in organized gambling as integral to broader circuits of leisure, consumption and identity as gambling becomes imbued with more than the simple outcome of winning or losing. Rather, the act of betting becomes irretrievably entangled with identity, with how one bets having the potential to act as a reflective mirror of who they are. For our respondents, the reorientation of gambling away from exclusive casinos and toward sports and the night-time economy has infiltrated football fandom to the extent that gambling has become an entrenched and constituent aspect of masculine leisure environments.
An identity-based culture of sports betting, combined with relentless promises of ‘easy wins’ encourages the chasing of losses and impulsive bets. In this way the cost of an afternoon watching football spirals, costs that can loop into other areas of life. In the face of financial losses, becoming trapped in the unforgiving and high-interest cycle of payday loans to cover gambling losses or even afford more simple domestic outgoings becomes a real possibility. The combination of the accumulation of social capital allied to the allure of the gambling win, underscored by readily available credit, has the potential to cast these young people into a new culture of indebtedness. The peaks and troughs of winning and losing, against the background of the ‘objectless’ anxiety of late-capitalism, perpetuates a leisure culture which, while culturally normalised, is characterised by the harms of stress, financial uncertainty, emotional volatility, depression and anxiety.
The discussions above regarding leisure’s more interpersonal, social, and environmentally corrosive cultural dynamics suggest a need for criminology to end the moratorium on more critical approaches to commodified leisure. By taking ultra-realism’s focus on the concrete reality of liberal-capitalism’s most systemic social harms, whilst adopting cultural criminology’s interest in contested ‘theatres of meaning’, we begin to provide a deviant leisure perspective which can critique how and why the myriad harms of commodified leisure forms have become so culturally accepted and normalised in contemporary culture by positioning them squarely in their cultural meanings and functions to both the individual and economy in a global age of consumer capitalism.
In doing so, we can understand how culturally conformist practices such as parkour are excluded from the consumer-oriented urban realm, whilst the vast environmental and social harms of honeymooning in the Maldives or maintaining tenuous post-social friendships through gambling and the night-time economy continue to be ignored by both consumers and society more broadly. Most forms of commodified leisure are not capable of providing “one of the few tangible and mundane experiences of freedom which feels personally significant to modern subjects” (Cronin, 2000: 3). Rather, the absence of more stable forms of collective identity in contemporary society has intensified the need for a coherent set of symbols through which to make sense of our lives. Thus, as increasing swathes of the population have turned to leisure and consumer markets for freedom and identity, they have appended their existential security and self-esteem to the ‘velocity of fashion’. This is the precarious ‘life cycle’ of commodities, fads, and leisure trends and the spirals and loops of cultural meaning, which further intensify the objectless anxiety and the perpetual solicitation of the ‘unfreedom’ of leisure.
To date, there has been limited critical analysis not just of how harm is a predictable externality of the commodification of leisure and leisure practices, but how the ‘barbarity of leisure’ is an intrinsic feature of the drives and energies which motivate leisure behaviours. As an increasing array of forms of ‘deviant leisure’ become culturally embedded within the mainstream and their attendant harms become normalised, we argue that criminology’s usual focus on legally-defined crime and forms of deviance which controvert social norms and values requires some conceptual expansion. For a criminology that intends to keep up with a rapidly changing landscape of crime and harm, it is necessary to distance ourselves from the concept of crime and instead direct its attention towards the doxa of consumer culture and associated leisure industries. In order to understand and explain phenomena such as the statistical crime decline in the absence of any demonstrable improvement in social relations; in order to understand ‘crime’ and ‘deviance’ within a rapidly expanding zemiological field of economically and culturally normalised harm, criminology must examine the drives, desires, and underlying violence that underpin the social order. It is our hope that this expanding body of work offers a contribution to this perspective by proposing some conceptual foundations for a criminological analysis of ‘deviant leisure’.
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Cronin, A. M. (2000). Advertising and consumer citizenship: Gender, images and rights. London: Routledge.
Hall, S. (2012) Theorising Crime and Deviance: A New Perspective. London. Sage.
Hayward, K. (2015) ‘Cultural Criminology: Script Rewrites’. Theoretical Criminology. Available at: http://tcr.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/12/17/1362480615619668.abstract
Scheyvens, R. (2011). The challenge of sustainable tourism development in the Maldives: Understanding the social and political dimensions of sustainability. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 52(2), 148-164.
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This is an excellent macro-level contextualization of deviant leisure, which apart from Chris Rojek’s ideas at this level, has revolved too exclusively around the micro-level view of this kind of leisure. We need the whole picture and, of course, an integration of both levels to make a true big picture. I attempt such an integration in Chapter 9 of Leisure Activities in Context: A Micro-Macro/Agency-Structure Interpretation of Leisure (Transaction, late 2016), but the contents of this blog show how much more work there is to do in this area.
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It is unfortunate that violence in the population youth has significantly grown in the recent past. This increasing trend is not only seen in the regions of the country, but also recorded all a round the world (Edwards, 2008). The "Zero tolerance policy" in the juvenile system requires the authorities concerned with juvenile behavior in the society "to have no tolerance for their behaviors in question (Carpenter, 2011)." The juvenile behaviors in the schools that are regulated by zero tolerance are of an extreme nature and the governing bodies regard that they should attract stringent penalties for the perpetrators (Siegel, 2008). The behaviors include carrying of weapons to school, use of drugs and alcohol, selling of drugs, physical assault, sexual harassment, bullying and excessive truancy.
According to Siegel and Welsh (2008), many schools have adopted zero tolerance against these and due notification is made to the parents and guardians together with the penalty they attract. This is usually suspension or expulsion from school. Critics of the policy have argued that it is unfair in including such tough consequences for even some behaviors that may seem relatively lighter such as bullying. They have also criticized the fact that zero tolerance advocates for the immediate punishment even for first offenders whose case may be unique, such as in juveniles with special needs or one who may be coerced by peer pressure into doing the punishable act, and should not deserve such extreme penalties. The policy however, "mandates specific consequences together with punishments for the delinquent acts" and behaviors, and does "not allow anyone to avoid the specified consequences (Siegel, 2008)."
Graduated sanctions on the other hand, advocates for the justice system to offer the "penalties according to the nature of the crimes committed and their severity (Taxman, 1999)." The policy implies that "the penalties for the delinquent behavior should move from the more restrictive penalties", as proposed by zero tolerance, and graduated to "according to the relative extent of severity and involving other factors" including past delinquencies if the juvenile is not a first offender. "Types of the graduated sanctions include" the immediate, intermediate and restrictive sanctions (Siegel, 2008)." The immediate sanctions applies to the case of "the nonviolent offenders", while the intermediate sanctions are targeted towards the minor offenders (especially the repeat offenders) and "the first time serious offenders". The more restrictive sanctions include the measures reserved for "the most dangerous of the juvenile offenders". The "graduated sanctions" increase gradually in restrictions and the intensity of the consequences mandated as punishment, as the "offenders move from minor offences to more serious offenses (Siegel, 2008)."
The "graduated sanctions" have been seen to be fairer as applied within the system of justice in regard to juvenile matters than "the zero tolerance strategy." It has been accorded by many as more justified in its application within the system and has been advocated for by many parents, guardians and teachers among other stakeholders (Taxman, 1999). It has been criticized though for giving second chances to some serious offenders who deserve to be expelled from school, with many of "the repeat offenders" finally ending up in committing serious juvenile crimes.
The debate on which of the two policies is appropriate in addressing the delinquency issue within the juvenile systems has been ongoing for along time. The question on which policy will serve the system best has raised many answers. Some have the extreme opinion of doing away with either of the two. The two policies can be appropriately applied together in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the juvenile justice system.
The country has over the years experienced rising cases of delinquents and many questions have been asked concerning appropriate measures of containing the unfavorable situation. The young generations are the future f the country and as a result, the situation deserved great attention from the government authorities, experts on juvenile matters, the justice system together with the parents and teachers. The "juvenile justice and delinquency prevention act of 1974" brought the concept that led to removal of the juvenile offenders from the secure confinements and incarceration, as many had seen the initial measures as "overused" and inappropriate for "the young delinquents," particularly "the nonviolent offenders."
The incarceration of these offenders was also deemed to having achieved little in changing their delinquent behaviors; "the 'lock them up' mentality for juveniles" only makes the situation worse and hampers the chances for rehabilitation (Cotterell, 2008). These surrounding circumstances in their justice led to the re-structuring of the existing policies and drafting of new and relevant policies in curbing the problem and ensuring all the involved strategies focused towards achieving improved behavior and academic performance in the delinquents.
There have been changes over time on the term and "the meaning of graduated sanctions (Taxman, 1999)." According to Taxman and Soule (1999), it was synonymously used with "intermediate punishment and intermediate sanctions in the 1980s. In that context, it "referred to the correctional programs", that were "designed to serve as alternatives to incarceration", and/ or to "expand the sentencing options", for the juvenile offenders (Taxman, 1999). The "term zero tolerance was first used in the early 1990s", and the proposed assumptions of the concept, were quickly adopted by schools and other institutions of learning, with the view of reducing and curbing delinquent behaviors. Both of the strategies have been popularly applied within the systems of justice in view of juvenile issues, albeit with different strategies based on the difference in assumptions.
The "zero tolerance" and "the graduated sanctions" policies have been of great use in regard to the juveniles within justice systems, but they are based on entirely different assumptions. The two have huge differences in the system with propositions that impact on the mandated penalties and other resulting consequences of the committed offences. "Zero tolerance" does not significantly, take into consideration the fact that," the psychological immaturity of 'the juveniles' affects their decision making in matters within the contexts relevant to justice (Scott, 2008)."
On the other hand, the "graduated sanctions" proposes a series of measures and penalties that graduate with "the nature and severity" of the offence involved, as it has been discussed within the preceding sections. The policy in its application gives clear guidelines in the range of the juvenile offences involved and "their mandated sanctions." In its application, "graduated sanctions" incorporate correctional and rehabilitative measures for behavioral change of the young offenders (Taxman, 1999).
Juvenile offenders are by far different from the adult offenders and this is an essential fact in regulating juvenile offences (Scott, 2008). The young offenders may not have enough knowledge and information on the severe implications of the delinquent behavior on the live and at many times, are pressured by their peers into committing the offences. The "zero tolerance policy" automatically gives the authorities the complete freedom of awarding the inherently severe penalties to the juvenile. The stiff consequences are meted out to the "apparently deserving" youth without as much as a background check on the factors involved. The fact that the juvenile offender caught in the act of bullying other minors may have special needs or may have been forced by peers, would not suffice in helping the cause of the offender.
Other factors, such as being a first offender may not be considered resulting in lighter penalties, but that the offender will face the full extent of the mandated punishment. Most offenders are expelled from the schools without a second chance and "repeat offenders" may be forced to change school after school if correctional strategies do not aid in modifying their delinquent behavior. In its application, the policy has a greater implying perspective in its presentation of the resulting penalties as "the motivating factor for behavioral change within the juvenile justice system."
The "graduated sanctions policy," on the other hand, have the assumption that the different juvenile offences deserve different measures of sanctions and penalties, and not a "blanket consequence" as proposed by "zero tolerance." It also assumes that the "juvenile offenders can have another chance" in life by change their behavior, with its incorporation of correctional programs "for behavior change." The basic assumption that behavior change is most effective in curbing this social problem is the key to the success of this policy (Siegel, 2008). The "zero tolerance strategy" definitely has its place in the system, especially in addressing the serious and violent offences which are deemed by the majority to be of a deserving nature in attracting the stiff and strong punishment "within the juvenile systems," but its problem lies with its assumption.
This is a "long embedded social problem" within all regions of the country (Cotterell, 2008). "Zero tolerance" greatly fails in solving the delinquencies within the schools and the society because it offers no opportunity for correctional and rehabilitative measures for the purpose of inducing behavioral change in the affected youths. The offenders are not given much option in explaining their circumstances and it results to wasted opportunity in giving the appropriate guidance and advice to the young youth, who may not have fully grasped the impending consequences of the actions. Not listening to the offenders and not giving the demanded attention, only serves to alienate them leading to resentment and as a result the offender will most likely harden in their behavior and grow up into adult crime.
"Zero tolerance" does indeed play a huge role in ensuring that these juvenile offences are kept to a possible minimum. The approach may further be made effective and fair in collaborating it with "the graduated sanction" in its application. The "graduated sanction policy" is the one most suited of the two, in its approach and in the way it applies strategies and programs focusing on "behavioral change of the young offenders". The "change in attitude and behavior" of these offenders is a better guarantee in them not repeating the offences in future, and will prevent them from advancing into adult crime.
The policy gives the first time delinquents a much deserved chance in correcting themselves, with the repeat offenders accorded the opportunity of getting the appropriate attention that will help in unearthing the real issues involved and suitable measures applied in their case. In addressing the delinquent issue failure should not be an option (Cotterell, 2008). The graduated sanctions best ensures this and should be the approach to be applied in matters concerning the juvenile's system of justice.
Applying both strategies in the system, in an appropriate and integrative manner, will effectively lead to a more concerted effort in tackling the delinquency problem. Placing more emphasis on "graduated sanctions" will greatly benefit the justice processes aiming at reducing the delinquent recidivism and ensuring the offenders have another chance in their lives. The "graduated sanction policy" has a greater chance of achieving success in "behavioral change of the offenders." This is as a result of proposing "the most suitable and convenient correctional programs," to be assigned to the juvenile offenders. The change in behavior is key, in ensuring the justice system's success in curbing the problem (Siegel, 2008).
This problem starts within the confines of "the family unit". Addressing this at the earliest possible point in the concerned delinquent, would curb the problem early on. This will also ensure that the youth has adequate knowledge on "the consequence of their actions." Parents have the greatest role in incorporating the right values into the lives of their children. By providing good guidance, the parents would ensure they keep their youths away from crime. It has been noted that delinquent youths who have good relationships with the parents and other family members, proceed to have "healthy sense of self." In addition to having "high and positive expectations in life," they subsequently change their behavior for the better (Edwards, 2008). Addressing this issue would require more than the policies, but should involve all members of the society.
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Athenian Constitutionalism: Nomothesia and the Graphe Nomon Me Epitedeion Theinai
Posted on February 7, 2019 by keithsutherland
Many of us who argue the case for the implementation of sortition in modern lawmaking like to base their arguments on fourth-century Athenian practice. In my PhD thesis on the topic I argue (on the authority of Hansen and Blackwell) that there were eight stages involved, and a new paper by Mirko Canevaro (who disagrees with many of Hansen’s claims) argues that it was even more complicated. The following stages are from page 73 of his paper:
In fourth-century Athens, to pass a law,
[1] the demos first acted in the form of the Council of Five Hundred, selected by lot. The Council set the agenda for the Assembly and could be persuaded to put lawmaking (as the production of new laws – general permanent rules) in the agenda of the next Assembly.
[2] At that point, the Assembly (composed potentially of the whole demos, and in any case very rarely of fewer than 6,000 people) held a preliminary vote not on new law proposals, but on whether laws could be proposed at all. The institutional setup was such that the first vote in the Assembly was not on a particular solution, but on whether the demos recognised that there was a problem that needed solving through legislation.
[3] If the vote was successful, then volunteers could propose new laws, which had to be widely publicised for a month.
[4] At the end of the month, the Assembly would set a date for the meeting of the nomothetai to enact new laws.
[5] There was however a concern for the coherence of the laws of the city. Thus, before enacting new laws, the proposers had to repeal all existing contradictory laws, arguing that their new laws were more epitedeion (‘appropriate’, ‘fit’ to be laws of the city, as we shall see) than the ones they were repealing, and this needed to happen not in the Assembly, but in a lawcourt, against advocates of the contradictory laws elected by the Assembly at the end of the ‘publicity’ month.
[6] Once this was done, there would be the session of the nomothetai, and the nomothetai would finally approve the new law(s).
[7] But this was not the end: if it turned out that the proposer had not followed
the correct procedure to the letter, had not properly publicised his proposal, or had failed to repeal a contradictory existing law, then anyone could bring a public charge against him (a graphe nomon me epitedeion theinai), and he (and his bill) would be judged by another lawcourt, in a form of judicial review.
Canevaro argues that this amounts to a form of constitutionalism, replete with checks and balances, which also accorded Solon a similar status to that claimed for the US Founding Fathers.
The point that interests me is that sortition only had a defining role in stages 6 and 7. The Council [1] was a collective magistracy, selected by lot, but its role was limited to deciding whether or not law-making should be on the Assembly agenda. “Could be persuaded” suggests that the proposal to change the law might have been initiated by non-council members — in any case the council was not a deliberative body that came up with legislative proposals (pace the claims of many deliberative democrats). Sortition had no role to play in advocating new laws (this was down to “volunteers”), or defending the old laws. Although the nomothatai were manned by randomly-selected jurors, they played no advocacy role and jurors did not initiate the graphe nomon me epitedeion theinai.
Andre has argued (persuasively) that modern dynamic societies could not function effectively along these highly constrained lines but the proposals by some members of this forum to restrict all aspects of lawmaking to randomly-selected bodies is without any sort of historical provenance.
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hubertushofkirchner, on February 7, 2019 at 8:56 am said:
As the number of possible societal problems and laws (thus proposals) is unlimited in principle, it makes good sense to do a first filtering of proposals originating from anybody, not limited to the Council of 500. This first filter stage is a “triage”. It ensures efficient sorting proposals by distributing, thus reducing the overall workload. There is interesting recent experimental research on best efficiency for idea triage in the open innovation space, and the “Method of the Lemons” seems to lead the pack.
I’d think that the Assembly’s function would then be “acclamation”, a safety check with a largely informational purpose.
We can falsify this acclamation theory by a prediction that the Assembly should have followed the Council decisions with a high correlation in the range of 99% or more.
Do we know if this is the case?
PS: In Venetian and middle age European emperor elections there were also acclamation stages.
keithsutherland, on February 7, 2019 at 9:29 am said:
Hubertus,
According to Canevaro, the only decision the council made was whether or not to put lawmaking on the Assembly agenda — concrete proposals were formulated by volunteers at a subsequent stage. This certainly couldn’t be described as a filtering process. I’ve not come across Canevaro’s claim before (and I’m not a historian), so I don’t know how controversial it is, but most historians agree that the council was an administrative secretariat, not a deliberative body (it’s hard to imagine deliberation between 500 people).
I think the second Assembly vote ([4] — to appoint a nomothetic panel to decide on specific proposals) could be described as an acclamation, but the final choice (between the new and the old law) was in the hands of a randomly-selected jury. My point is that sortition only had a significant role to play at the end of the lawmaking process.
Keith, one more question: “whether or not to put lawmaking on the Assembly agenda” sounds completely generic. Are you sure that they did not – at least – decide on some more specific proposal, even if still rough or tentative? For example: that something may be a collective problem, or that some idea for a new law may have merit?
keithsutherland, on February 7, 2019 at 10:06 am said:
The impression I get from Canevaro’s article is along the lines of “something may be a collective problem”, but the council is not the main focus of his article and I don’t know if his position is controversial (Hansen, for example, suggests that a probouleuma was a substantive proposal that was put on the assembly agenda as approved by the council). Hopefully Andre will clarify this.
keithsutherland, on February 7, 2019 at 4:09 pm said:
Another point of relevance is that when the demos decided that the laws should be changed (stage 2) they didn’t request the randomly-selected council to deliberate together and come up with proposals, they invited volunteers from the whole citizen body, and then placed the onus of publicity on them. I guess the modern analogue for large states would be the citizen initiative with its associated need to gain publicity and attract the requisite number of signatures. This privileges elite actors in both the ancient and modern contexts, but in the Athenian example elite initiatives were then judged by the demos in the assembly, nomothetai and law courts. The problem with modernity is that there is no popular check on elite initiatives. Commentators who are seeking to exclude elite influence from the political process are perfectly entitled to their views, but have no right to claim Athenian provenance — the only historical example we have of a working sortition-based political system (Florence and Venice were using sortition for entirely different reasons).
hubertushofkirchner, on February 7, 2019 at 4:48 pm said:
As the nomothetai were determined by lot, the requirement of their approval of the best law proposals (6) for a problem identified by the Assembly (2) would certaiony preempt any “privilege to elite actors” (3)?
In principle, this makes perfect sense, and Perikles said about innovators: “Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.” Or is there something hidden in step 4 which requires privilege.
PS: Today’s hurdle of requisite number of signatures is of course protecting privilege, no doubt.
I’m in complete agreement with all three of your points.
tbouricius, on February 7, 2019 at 7:06 pm said:
We don’t want to get too side-tracked with Athenian procedures and roles of various bodies, but Hansen (The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes) makes a strong case that all those wishing to propose a new law had to first go to the randomly selected Council of 500 to get it on the agenda of the Assembly in hopes of getting to the randomly selected nomothetai for final adoption or rejection. As to whether the Council deliberated… you aren’t fairly stating the LACK of agreement on whether the Council was a deliberative body. It is known that the Council constituted many standing committees from among their members to deal with different matters, so deliberation didn’t have to occur in the full group of 500. Also, any institution that exists for two centuries certainly ebbed and flowed in terms of exactly how they functioned, so it is impossible to state categorically that the Council did or did not deliberate over individual law proposals.
However, the main reasons that I favor incorporating sortition and volunteers, crowdsourcing, ho boulomenos initiation, and separation of functions into agenda setting, proposal generation and review is not blindly tied to Athenian practice, but rather democratic principles of control by ordinary citizens, protection from elite domination and epistemic quality of decisions.
I agree that neither of us are historians and that an absence of evidence does not rule out (theoretical) possibilities. However we should accept that most historians view the Athenian council as an administrative magistracy, not a deliberative forum, and be aware of the danger of using sketchy historical evidence as a foundation for our modern proposals.
As regards your “democratic principles of control by ordinary citizens” and “protection from elite domination” there seems to be an unbridgeable divide between those of us who accept the role of competitive markets and inter-elite competition (primarily Hubertus, Andre, Conall, myself), and those who argue for sortition all the way down (Yoram, Simon and yourself).** Some (most?) of the latter group share a provenance on the hard left (you self-describe as a former Marxist) hence your view that representative isegoria (involving competition between different commercial media) is an oxymoron. Simon and Yoram have favoured the role of “public” media, whereas us liberal pluralists would claim that commercial competition has a crucial role to play and would agree with Adam Smith on the role of the invisible hand and Bernard Mandeville that private vices can be public virtues.
We all agree on the epistemic quality of decisions by large cognitively-diverse groups but this does not suggest a role for sortition in the proposal/advocacy process. Given the unbridgeable divide between these two camps on the isegoria function, please let’s bracket that out for the time being and focus on what unites us – the crucial role of large, randomly-selected juries in democratic lawmaking.
** I use these names purely on the basis of recent frequent postings, although many other past contributors spring to mind.
PS, as the difference between these two groups seems to be a by-product of a general outlook on markets (witness the conversation between Conall and Simon on the distribution of cannabis licences), I found Danny Finkelstein’s recent Times op-ed of interest:
. . . a version of socialism derived from one understanding of Marx in which the role of class is replaced by “the elite” and “the people”. A socialist society is being blocked by the power of the establishment (the few) who are preventing the progressive co-operative society which everyone else (the many) would be able to enjoy. In this interpretation the elite are unproductive and leeching off the labour of the people.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-beginner-s-guide-to-life-in-corbyn-s-britain-gj5jbthzw
The “democratic principles” mentioned by Terry (control by ordinary citizens, protection from elite domination and epistemic quality of decisions) naturally can and do result in quite different proposals to achieve them.
Keith perceives a difference in “sortition throughout” where I feel correctly represented by the position that sortition is a very helpful tool for some tasks in a truly democratic process of lawmaking but that – for the best possible result – sortition other than in the most simple cases always needs to be combined with a second element, more precisely elections and competitions) to ensure the epistemic quality of decisions.
That said: isn’t there an unresolved debate in this forum on this epistemic quality of decisions? I perceive a still opposing position that “any decision is good and democratic as long as the average citizen is represented”.
I’d rephrase the principles listed by Terry:
Control by all citizens (“ordinary” is misleading in that they only must be capable of free decisions)
Protection from domination by any subset of citizens (not just “elite”)
Highest degree of rightness of decisions
I have observed that this last item is both, the most important and the most contentious, people have difficulty with the notion that there is an absolute “right” law somewhere out there in concept space and that lawmaking must be understood as a process to discover it, improving from on the status quo as current (existing or gaps in) law is found to produce wrongness. Interestingly, the first two on Terry’s list can be logically derived as a consequence from the third when defined thus.
>people have difficulty with the notion that there is an absolute “right” law somewhere out there in concept space and that lawmaking must be understood as a process to discover it.
Yes, that’s true — Urbinati describes this as the “epistemic disfiguration of democracy”, and even Rousseau was ambivalent as to whether the general will was revealed (uncovered) or constructed. But the notion of the aggregate “wisdom of crowds” deriving from the benefits of cognitive diversity does at least have the (negative) benefit of shielding the decision process from groupthink (Tetlock and Surowiecki are very good on this). But this assumes well-balanced expert advocacy (both for and against) and has no implications at all for the benefits of cognitive diversity in policy generation (pace Landemore, Page etc). As you pointed out Perikles had it right with his “Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.”
Just one question — if the assembly thought that the council was the right place to generate policy proposals, then why did they not tell them to go away and deliberate, rather than opening it up to any volunteer and self-publicist? Most volunteers would be politicians (in the informal sense of the word), but this didn’t seem to bother the assembly — in fact Moses Finley goes so far as to say that the demos never produced spokesmen from their own ranks. Does this mean that the Athenians didn’t live up to your demanding standards of democracy?
two topics:
1. You doubt the Council of 500 served more than an administrative role in preparing the agenda for the Assembly (and indirectly the Nomothetai). You suggest that this is the majority opinion of historians. I am not sure of that, as many of these historians only study the first Athenian democracy, rather than the reformed democracy after 403 BCE… Many of them didn’t even know of the nomothetai. Two points for why we might think the Council was more than administrative. First there is no logical reason to have a sample of 500 people for merely writing down proposals submitted by individuals and putting agenda items in order for the Assembly and oversee the various magistracies. Why in the world would they waste that much time of 500 people? They must have expected them to do SOMETHING more important in preparing material for the Assembly. Hansen writes on page 169: “Furthermore, the Council had a special legislation secretary, which indicates that discussion of new laws took place in the Council as well as in the Assembly.”
2.You wrote that the wisdom of crowds (sitting in mute attention to expert witnesses) “has no implications at all for the benefits of cognitive diversity in policy generation.”
I disagree. There are two distinctly different benefits to diversity… both in JUDGING proposals (as we both agree), but also in problem solving and shaping proposals. There is plenty of research (you mention Page’s) showing that diversity can trump expertness in formulating better solutions to problems. A homogeneous set of experts will generally perform WORSE that a diverse deliberating group who can share insights and pool diffuse knowledge that the experts don’t know because of their homogeneity. My democracy design recognizes that these two distinctly DIFFERENT benefits of diversity also interfere with each other if attempted by the same group of people (group think, pride of authorship, etc.) so need to be exercised by separate mini-publics.I also favor volunteer proposers (open to elites, but also any other citizen without privileging elites). One mini-public deliberates about all these raw proposals to generate a best proposal for a separate mini-public to judge and vote on.
I’ll leave it to Mirko to comment on the deliberative function of the council in a new post (he’s more sympathetic to your perspective). I don’t dispute the epistemic value of cognitive diversity, only that none of Landemore’s examples support the claim that sortition would be the best way to achieve it.
Yes, sortition is not inevitably the BEST way of having optimal diversity (though it is clearly one good way). But it has other benefits as well. It is resistant to bias in a direction contrary to democratic goals. Plato’s philosopher kings might have good cognitive diversity for generating proposals, but we expect that they might also have certain undemocratic biases. We also know that partisan elected chambers are an especially poor way of creating desirable diversity (even if varying in policy preferences according to party, nearly all members are of a similar overly self-assured personality type, who believe they have the best answers even before the chamber commences nominal deliberation). Perhaps someday we will find a better means of generating proposals (some supercomputer artificial intelligence that will examine all policies ever tried anywhere in the world, or that could possibly be adopted and propose alternatives). But for now, sortition is probably the best means of achieving both desired diversity, representativeness, and resistance to elite bias when refining the raw material proposals generated by any citizens.
>sortition is probably the best means of achieving both desired diversity, representativeness, and resistance to elite bias when refining the raw material proposals generated by any citizens.
Unfortunately it means that the vast majority of citizens will have no say at all in the laws under which they live — they can no longer choose someone to speak and act on their behalf or select directly their preferred legislative options and the chances of them being selected by sortition are infinitessimally small — and I don’t think that citizens will be prepared to abandon their hard-won franchise without a struggle.
sorry, didn’t intend all the italics
@Terry: “two distinctly different benefits to diversity … both in JUDGING proposals (as we both agree) but also in problem solving and shaping proposals.”
We must not confuse “diversity” with “randomness”. While the latter implies the former, it is not so the other way round.
Sure, creative work needs diverse talents but this diversity is of an entire different, highly selective kind than produced by randomness. Remember Socrates’s famous statement: No-one would chosse a random person off the street for a task which requires a high level of specific skill.
It is self-evident that a “random diverse” team cannot produce, e.g. a great movie or a new technological marvel. Creative projects need a creative mind, even genius, in the lead and that leader / innovator / entrepreneur / creative must be able to add exactly those talents which complement his own. Hence, team building is a matter of conscious election, not of sortition. This is true as much for social and legal innovations as for artistic and technological ones.
Does that mean that random people cannot deliberate about innovations? Here may be the source of misunderstanding between You and Keith: they clearly do deliberate but they do this from the buy-side instead of the sell-side. Buy-side is an entirely different kind of deliberation, it is not creative but critical, it evaluates a specific creative work’s merits and issues.
Here in Vienna, Wittgenstein expressed this important distinction in his lucid logic in 6.4321 of the Tractatus: “The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution.” This is what a random committee from sortition can do: identify the problem with any creative proposal (as a fact). Their solution is the innovator’s task.
Anonymous, on February 9, 2019 at 10:38 am said:
nicely put
On what the Council of 500 did and did not do | Equality by lot, on February 9, 2019 at 2:49 pm said:
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André Sauzeau, on February 9, 2019 at 3:08 pm said:
*** The lack of consensus among the historians about the legislative process in the Second Athenian Democracy comes from the bad quality of the data.
*** Aristotle’s Constitution of Athens does not include anything about this process. Strange. In a 1985 article Hansen wrote he could not suggest a «plausible explanation of this remarkable omission ». Without being paranoid, we can think Aristotle did not want to acknowledge the specific character of the Second Athenian Democracy model.
*** And Aristotle’s Politics likewise does not include any information about the use of allotted bodies as legislators. Aristotle’s political works are pervaded by his bias. Note that the « lapse » in Aristotle’s Politics about legislation by allotted bodies helped Western thinkers to underestimate the role of sortition in 4th century Athens.
*** Therefore we are left with indirect information from some speeches, actually two Demosthenic speeches, « Against Timocrates » and « Against the Law of Leptines ». But speeches often give ambiguous information, and may be somewhat biased by the orator. And Canevaro thinks that the trial of Leptines’ law followed an exceptional procedure …
*** In the extant texts of these speeches are inserted quotations of laws. Alas ! there are strong doubts about the authenticity of these legal documents. Recently Mirko Canevaro, using stichometrics, launched a devastating attack on their authenticity. Note that Hansen acknowledges him as a serious historian. In his 2016 article about « The Authenticity of the Law about Nomothesia inserted in Demosthenes Against Timokrates 20–23 » Hansen writes : « My conclusion is that I disagree with Canevaro about the authenticity of the document at 20–23. But in spite of my disagreement I would like to add that Canevaro’s book is a highly professional and valuable contribution to the debate. »
*** Lively debate for classicists, but it is difficult for the interested kleroterian to get a definite idea.
*** Which is interesting for the democratic theory in the exact procedures of 4th century Athenian legislation? I think it is the role of players other than the allotted bodies ( = the randomly-selected bodies which voted new laws, and the allotted courts which could reject them in a kind of judicial review). These other players were the proposers of new laws, the Council, and the Assembly. There are two possible views. First view, the Assembly only decided that there was a problem, and elected advocates to defend old laws; the Council only eliminated spurious proposals. Second view, the Assembly and/or the Council could rule out proposals which the majority disagreed with, in a kind of first step of legislation, the allotted legislators only deciding in a second step. With possibility of some grey area.
*** Following the first view, in the legislative process of the Second Athenian Democracy, does not appear any filtering step. That may appear strange for us. Maybe we don’t consider enough the difference between a modern dynamic and complex society, and an ancient society, rather static (and even Athens was rather static from a modern point of view, however dynamic it might appear to the other Greeks), and with a limited number of ideological groups.
*** What can be said is that, at least, symbolically, the law was ascribed to the allotted legislators, and only to them. As mentions Hansen (Democracy … p 167) a law began by the formula “it was decided by the Legislators” , whereas a decree for example could be said “decided by the Council and the Assembly”.
*** Keith Sutherland writes in his post « the proposals by some members of this forum to restrict all aspects of lawmaking to randomly-selected bodies is without any sort of historical provenance. ». In Athens randomly-selected bodies voted new laws, and other allotted bodies could reject them in a kind of (expanded) judicial review. The other players was first the proposers of new laws, which will exist in any modern (ortho-)democracy. And second the Assembly, the role of which is not sure.
*** The role of the Assembly anyway could not be easily transposed in a modern society, because it is difficult to establish a general assembly of the citizens in a big society. It is difficult, not impossible: in a modern society the Assembly could be an electronic meeting of all citizens, with checking that all of them hear all the argument between orators ; but it would be very difficult and heavy. A very huge allotted body could be approximate to a general assembly.
*** I agree fully with Terry Bouricius when he says « I don’t think it is correct to equate a modern mass referendum to the Athenian Assembly vote, since those present at the assembly at least attended a meeting and would hear from advocates and opponents. »
Let’s suppose Harvey Weinstein undergoing a trial for rape. Some jurors say: “No problem, I saw the media, he is guilty, I don’t want to hear neither witness nor advocate, I am going to leave and to drink out of the court hall”. It would look strange. But we know that a part of voters do not follow the debate in modern mass referendums, when the subject is not the fate of a person but maybe of myriads of persons. They think as the jurors I was speaking about. The vote must be linked to the duty of deliberate – at least silent deliberation after hearing witness and advocates.
*** The Athenian system cannot be exactly copied in a modern society, and frankly it would be a strange idea. What we must keep is the principle of isêgoria: any proposal has right to be subject to popular evaluation, and therefore any filtering of proposals may be only by popular decision, either by a general assembly or by an allotted body.
Yoram Gat, on February 9, 2019 at 5:02 pm said:
> What we must keep is the principle of isêgoria: any proposal has right to be subject to popular evaluation, and therefore any filtering of proposals may be only by popular decision, either by a general assembly or by an allotted body.
This ‘principle’ is a guarantee of an a-rational process. In any large group there are bound to be too many proposals for any noticeable number of them to be evaluated based on their merits. No sane person would spend their time and effort giving a fair hearing to a proposal knowing that the chance they make it into a law is, say, 1 in 10,000.
Thus, an a-rational process is established. The outcomes of an a-rational process are decided either by chance or by manipulation, and, of course, those with resources are much more effective in manipulation than the average person. For example, a proposal written by professionals, with the backing of some well-known authorities and accompanied by a well orchestrated public relations campaign is infinitely more likely to pass a superficial a-rational review than the same proposal without those trappings.
The bottom line must be that an allotted group has to decide which proposals are dealt with. It is undemocratic for self-appointed constitution makers to decide how government is run. The masses can only agree on general principles – any kind of details must be written by a select group. In a democracy, that group must be allotted.
Yoram,
Ironically it is the arationality of the lottery principle that appeals to Stone and Dowlen. This shows that the blind break and invisible hand approaches to sortition have nothing in common.
@Yoram: “In any large group there are bound to be too many proposals for any noticeable number of them to be evaluated based on their merits.”
This statement overlooks the other side of the equation. Yes, in any large group there could be many proposals. However, a large group can also form many parallel, statistically-representative councils to evaluate the merits of these proposals.
In fact, given that the Council of 500 had only a 10th of the numbers in the Assembly, we can safely assume that in Ancient Athens the flow of proposals from innovators was but a fraction of the numbers needed to judge them. Ergo, the council would have been designed for efficiency, not even for the necessity to cope with a flood of proposals. I’d defend the prediction that this ratio would be roughly the same, nowadays.
“No sane person would spend their time and effort giving a fair hearing to a proposal knowing that the chance they make it into a law is, say, 1 in 10,000.”
Such chances are absolutely good enough in the start-up sphere to inspire novel ideas all the time. It is clearly a function of the reward which the best innovators can expect to receive of a proposal turns out to produce great results for the General Good.
tbouricius, on February 11, 2019 at 1:36 am said:
1. Keith says:
>”the blind break and invisible hand approaches to sortition have nothing in common.”
They are distinct, but rather than having nothing in common, they are closely interconnected. It would be possible to select a statistically representative sample (Keith’s “invisible hand”) using an extremely complex quota system (super-stratified). But the problem would be trusting the people who write the algorithm, to be impartial. The blind break solves this problem. By using random selection we achieve reasonably good statistical accuracy (depending on sample size) but because we use an arational system (the blind break) we don’t have to trust anyone in designing the rules of the draw. The blind break is a very useful feature of random selection for all kinds of purposes in addition to aiding statistical sampling, primarily protection from manipulation (think of the numerous panels made up of ten magistrates each in Athens, or Renaissance Italian city republics selection of leaders). A good democracy would find many uses for sortition using BOTH the blind break principle and the invisible hand of statistical sampling. Two sides of the same coin… not “nothing in common.”
Of course we want bright innovators to make proposals. It would be foolish to limit proposal generation to the handful of people in a body (whether elected or allotted). The Greek principle of ho boulomenos (from any who wish) needs to be part of democracy. The question is how to both elicit suggestions and then also filter them to a manageable number. Establishing an agenda for the immediate time period needs to be performed by a mini-public that is free from short-term partisan electoral imperatives and special interest donations. Once an agenda is established any citizen who wishes must be free to participate in formulating responsive proposals. I have proposed this be done through proposal teams or “interest panels” of perhaps a dozen people each, with as many teams being formed as volunteers will fill. I think the small-group deliberation process would improve the proposals, rather than those springing fully formed from a single brain. Because the teams are drafting proposals that they know will have to pass muster before a well-informed mini-public review body and final jury, they have an incentive to seek common ground that will win supporters in drafting. But there are other means that might be used to filter these raw proposals. I am particularly intrigued by the “bag of lemons” crowdsourcing filter mentioned in another post on this site… research showing that people are much more capable of quickly identifying BAD proposals, so the winnowing process might work better by removal, rather than trying to initially identify best proposals.
In any event… mini-publics must be in charge of agenda setting, review and formulation of final proposals from raw material, and then final adoption or rejection.
keithsutherland, on February 11, 2019 at 5:23 am said:
Of course in practice we need the blind break and the invisible hand. My point is theoretical, as the former relies on arationality and the latter on the rational ability of sortition to create a minipublic that has the same characteristics as the target population. Yoram’s post shows how we need to be clear about which property of sortition we are claiming (as Stone and Dowland would find it absurd to use the word arational in this way)
tbouricius, on February 11, 2019 at 12:55 pm said:
Okay. And yes, I agree that far too many people with a cursory understanding of sortition conflate these two characteristics… Thus when I speak of the value of a mini-public for adopting laws, they seem to just think “so randomly selecting legislators is good” and then confuse this with the blind break effect for selecting a few individual candidates who are free from the elite selection process… which may or may not be a good idea, but has nothing to do with the representative sample feature that sortition also allows.
keithsutherland, on February 12, 2019 at 7:30 pm said:
Given the particular use of arational by the blind breakers it might have been better if Yoram had chosen an alternative word.
André Sauzeau, on February 13, 2019 at 5:02 pm said:
*** Terry Bouricius said « It would be possible to select a statistically representative sample (…) using an extremely complex quota system (super-stratified). But the problem would be trusting the people who write the algorithm, to be impartial. »
*** Actually the algorithm writers would need not only lack of bias, including of unconscious bias, and lack of theoretical / ideological assumptions.
*** They would need likewise ways of looking into the people’s mind, for instance to distinguish militant characters from non-militant ones.
*** And they would need likewise a deep knowledge of psychology and society which may be not attained by current social sciences. As sociological example, let us consider the movement of Gilets Jaunes which is shaking the French political system. It is complex, but shows clearly an important phenomenon : the sudden and violent entry into politics of a specific « class », the « subaltern workers » (with the « strange » appearance in the political landscape of forklift drivers and assistant nurses). But this class as entity was usually not taken into account by sociologists, political scientists, pollsters … I doubt it would have been considered by any algorithm writer.
*** Well, I understand Bouricius was not considering a realist alternative to sortition, and that he used the super-stratification concept as an element of reasoning. But his sentence could be dangerous. I am afraid we could find among social scientists some people who consider themselves as able to write an unbiased super-stratification algorithm.
hubertushofkirchner, on February 13, 2019 at 5:20 pm said:
@André: “And they would need likewise a deep knowledge of psychology and society which may be not attained by current social sciences.”
We need to think about this the other way round. In a dynamic world and with sequential decision making, we can proceed from the general to the specific.
1. General: We can start from the current criticism: “It is only elderly white men who decide politics.”. We can respond and draw a mini-public with stratified elderly/young, census based skin colours and men/women with the the scope to design the mini-public for a specific topic at hand. Experience shows that a half day is fully sufficient for such an exercise. This shuts up the critics and I predict that the resulting General Will determined will be perfectly rational, as a consequence of collective intelligence.
2. Now, if such a general mini-public decides in this prior round that certain groups’ interests are to be taken into consideration in the actual decision making, we can organise our second mini-public which over-samples those groups and adjusts majority requirements accordingly.
Voilá! We get democratically legitimate stratification, with zero bias introduced from the designers.
Simon Threlkeld, on February 18, 2019 at 6:07 am said:
> there seems to be an unbridgeable divide between those of us who accept the role of competitive markets and inter-elite competition (primarily Hubertus, Andre, Conall, myself), and those who argue for sortition all the way down (Yoram, Simon and yourself).** Some (most?) of the latter group share a provenance on the hard left (you self-describe as a former Marxist) hence your view that representative isegoria (involving competition between different commercial media) is an oxymoron. Simon and Yoram have favoured the role of “public” media, whereas us liberal pluralists would claim that commercial competition has a crucial role to play
I think we agree that laws should only be passed if they have the informed consent of statistically representative juries/minipublics/mini-publics. That in any case is my view (with the proviso that maybe some laws could be decided by popular vote if in the informed judgement of a jury it was better that that particular law be decided by popular vote rather than by jury).
The big question then, given that agreement, is how to ensure that the best possible laws, with a real chance of winning the informed support of a jury, are formulated and proposed to legislative juries/minipublics/mini-publics. I think that that question has several good answers, and that there is not just one method (such as an improved version of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly) that is the only one that should be used.
I do not say that laws should be proposed only by sortition-chosen bodies. I am fine with individuals and experts proposing laws. And I think that some expert-proposing of laws should be publicly funded, and given a legal basis. For example, I am in favour of there being law reform commissions chosen by jury that have the power to propose laws to juries, and of regulatory commissions chosen by jury to in at least some cases have the power to propose laws to juries within their area of expertise. I am also not against professional politicians, but want them chosen by jury rather than popular election (because selection by jury is far more democratic, far better informed, far better for putting candidates on a level playing, and for those reasons also far better for getting the best possible politicians, or at least the ones that are best in the informed judgement of selection juries with an open democratic choice of candidates on a level playing field). I of course don’t want politicians to have the power to decide laws, but if they are democratically chosen by jury, I do not object to them having the power to propose laws to juries.
With regard to media, the key step for me is that all of the decision-making power over media that is now in the hands of elected politicians be transferred to juries. That includes lawmaking power, the power to appoint regulatory authorities and the boards of public broadcasters, and the power to decide the amount of public funding (if any) provided to public media.
Keith, as we have discussed before I think Chomsky’s propaganda model of the corporate media is not wrong. I also think that Bernie Sanders is correct about the US corporate media tending to represent the interests of established power rather than those of the people (though he might not quite like that paraphrase of his views on that). On these points perhaps we disagree, but perhaps you do not disagree with ending the decision-making power of politicians over the media, and transferring that power to juries.
I have never described myself as “hard left.” I have long thought left-right a dubious take on the political spectrum. I think an equally or more valid way to see the political spectrum (if we are to keep it to two poles) is as running from democracy, liberty and equality on one end, with oligarchy, restrictions on liberty and inequality on the other. In this spectrum, Hitler, Pinochet, Stalin, and Mao would all be on the oligarchy, anti-liberty, anti-equality end of the spectrum, not on opposite ends of the political spectrum as some would have it (two of them being on the left and two on the right). Some might say that Stalin and Mao believed in equality, but as Orwell aptly says in Animal Farm about Stalin and perhaps Lenin (and the same applies to Mao): “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Simon:> perhaps you do not disagree with ending the decision-making power of politicians over the media, and transferring that power to juries.
I agree with the first half of your sentence and disagree with the second, as I believe that free competition has an important role to play — not just in providing goods and services but also in democratic politics. You may be right about the dubious nature of the left-right distinction, but your proposal for law-reform commissions and regulatory commissions (which share a common etymology with the original soviet councils and assemblies) sets the alarm bells ringing with liberals like myself.
Simon Threlkeld, on February 18, 2019 at 9:03 pm said:
> I agree with the first half of your sentence and disagree with the second, as I believe that free competition has an important role to play
Decisions about media concentration, allocation of frequencies, rights of way for fiber optic cables, protections for journalistic sources including for whistle-blowers, libel laws affecting the media, public funding for media, tax breaks for media, whether there will be net neutrality, privacy rights for citizens such as those using social media, and so on, have to be made by someone. Far better and far more democratic that they be made by juries and jury-chosen public officials than by elected politicians and the officials they appoint.
Rule by politicians over these things is contrary to rule by the people, the political equality of citizens and the independence of media from politicians, parties and government, and fails to recuse politicians due to the conflicts of interest they have (specifically their interest in media coverage favourable to themselves and to interests that support them, and in not being held to account and exposed in the media for wrong-doing, deception, corruption and incompetence). A further problem is that rule over the media by politicians has a corrupting influence on media, as it gives the media an incentive to go easy on the politicians in power and to repeat their narratives, so that those politicians will choose public policies that preserve or increase media profits, and in the case of the BBC so that politicians will for example keep the public funds flowing (not biting the hands that feed you is a fairly basic concept that I that I doubt is lost on the BBC, and is perhaps part of the reason they spread propaganda and fake news to justify the invasion of Iraq).
Transferring the decision-making power from politicians to juries regarding the media does not mean an end to free competition in the media.
(I happen not to agree with you that the rule of a few very large profit-driven corporations over the media is a form of “free competition,” and I also think it better that media have a mandate to tell the truth, expose falsehood and hold the powerful to account, rather than their sole mandate being to maximize profit. But that is a different topic from who decides the laws that govern the media, and who chooses the regulatory and BBC officials now chosen by the government, or by the PM and her cronies/cabinet.)
> your proposal for law-reform commissions and regulatory commissions (which share a common etymology with the original soviet councils and assemblies) sets the alarm bells ringing with liberals like myself.
I don’t see why that should be so, nor do I see a common etymology. Do you really prefer that regulatory authorities and those in charge of the BBC be chosen by the government rather than by juries? They must be chosen by someone.
Law Reform Commissions are typically chosen by the politicians who hold power, as are regulatory commissions. Better and more democratic that they be chosen by jury. Also, the only power I am suggesting they have regarding laws is an advisory one, in particular the power to propose laws to juries, which will be decided by those juries after a fair hearing on a level playing field.
I thought you were in favour of harnessing elite talent for the formulation of laws, and not against it?
A jury-chosen law reform commission would be elite or aristocratic in the sense of being chosen on the basis of merit, as judged by juries.
I appreciate that workers choosing who runs the factories they work at, (as was the case with the original Soviets after the workers took over the factories, and until that was displaced by the one party police state created under Lenin), may be a disturbing thought to you, but that is a totally different thing from public officials and law reform commissions being chosen by jury rather than by politicians.
Lenin and Stalin of course thought it was a great idea for public officials to be chosen by the government, and would not at all have liked the idea that they be chosen by randomly sampled juries of the people, with those juries being administered independently from the government and the party.
Simon is an advocate for a whole separate arm of sortition reform (which I also support)… using juries to select executives, administrators, judges, commissions, and other government officials that require a degree of expertness that ordinary citizens typically do not have. As long as mini-publics can select and oversee such experts, democracy is possible. This is not in lieu of using mini-publics for making legislative and other big policy decisions, but rather an extension of sortition into areas where drawing from the pool of the entire population isn’t optimal. There can even be a third tier…. a jury approves a pool of qualified individuals from which final appointees are randomly selected.
keithsutherland, on February 19, 2019 at 11:24 am said:
Simon/Terry
Since publishing Gerard Casey’s Freedom’s Progress — a 964-page volume on the history of political thought — I’ve become more and more sympathetic to libertarian anarchism. Casey’s position (loosely aligned to von Mises, Rothbard et al) is that competitive markets are not just essential for economic efficiency, as the right for individuals to choose the newspapers they wish to read (and, more reluctantly, the politicians to represent them) is a fundamental moral imperative. (The individualist perspective of such thinkers is clearly anathema to Chomskyite and former Marxist collectivists like yourselves.) Liberals do now acknowledge that the freedom of the pike necessitates protection for the minnow but view the latter as a necessary evil. Given the resultant need for the state, and the agonistic relationship between its component individuals, majority rule has to be the decision mechanism (supplemented by constitutional safeguards for dissenters and other minorities), hence my enthusiasm for sortition-based juries as the optimum way to decide the outcome of proposals to change the laws.
I think the gulf between liberals and collectivists is such that we are always going to talk past each other on anything else, so would appeal to you again to focus
sorry, last para cut off, should be:
I think the gulf between liberals and collectivists is such that we are always going to talk past each other on anything else, so would appeal to you again to focus on the one thing we agree on. Having said that, I’m entirely happy that the conclusions of royal commissions (etc) be determined by large random-selected juries, so long as they are under judicial supervision and subject to forensic, rather than deliberative, rhetoric (this was my original proposal for an alternative to the Brexit referendum https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/keith-sutherland/brexit-lottery). This rules out the jury setting its own rules and appointing its own advocates, and the same would apply if the rules and advocacy were determined by another randomly-selected body. I appreciate that this is a form of Aristotelian politeia, rather than (extreme) democracy.
*** hubertushofkirchner suggested (February 13) a sequential set for stratification : first, to « draw a mini-public with stratified elderly/young, census based skin colors and men/women ; second « if such a general mini-public decides in this prior round that certain groups’ interests are to be taken into consideration in the actual decision making, we can organise our second mini-public which over-samples those groups and adjusts majority requirements accordingly ».
*** I was considering the Bouricius hypothesis of pure stratification by social scientists( not the use of stratification in steps of allotment). I objected that cannot give a body which is the mirror of the People along all relevant dimensions, and which has therefore democratic legitimacy.
*** There are in France today salient differences which are not gender or skin color. For instance see the class of « subaltern workers » which seems the kernel of the Gilets Jaunes (note that one of the most known members, Priscilla Ludosky, is a black-skinned woman). And the difference of religious origin (Catholic, Jew, Moslem, Protestant – alphabetic order). And the difference in views, with very different shades of feminism, for instance; and differences in the intensity of feelings between activist characters and ordinary people.
*** If a first-step sample, selected by some social scientist with statification along gender and skin color, rejects further stratification along class or religious origin, the members of the dissatisfied categories will reject this decision. And it will not possible to oppose them with the idea of democratic legitimacy, because there will be not proof that the selected sample is a mirror of the People.
*** Hubertus considers « the current criticism: “It is only elderly white men who decide politics.” ». Criticisms about the disproportionate weights of social classes and ethno-religious groups are at least as strident in today France (except maybe in some circles under heavy anglo-saxon influence).
*** The idea of democratic legitimacy is strong in France. It would help the power of mini-publics which could say they mirror the People. Any selected body which could not invoke this legitimacy would have a much weaker weight, whatever its epistemic merits.
*** Given the situation of present-day Western societies, I think that the legitimacy of the political power is paramount. Maybe it is especially true for France, but I guess that it could be true for other countries.
Andre: Please treat my example as an example. Each country will have a different set of attributes to consider for the boot-strap stratification. In Austria, we find that gender is on everybody’s mind, followed by age and income.
Andre wrote: “If a first-step sample, selected by some social scientist with stratification along gender and skin color, rejects further stratification along class or religious origin, the members of the dissatisfied categories will reject this decision.”
I am of the opposite belief, and we clearly need to observe this in practice for actual outcomes for these two heavy “ifs”. My expectations on how this will play out, as follows:
“Would a deliberating boot-strap sample decide against a relevant stratification for the decision at hand?” I expect that a good deliberative process would come to the “right” choice in this matter just as in the actual subject matter.
Second question: “Even if the boot-strap representative sample decides against some further class or religious origin stratification: Given that these classes or religions will be randomly represented anyway, on what rational grounds could they reject the second samples’ decision?”
Giving in to some particularist group’s exaggerated sense of self-importance does not lead to better societal decision making for the whole.
*** If stratification is a step in a whole lot process, so that the selected body is mirroring the People, ok nobody will be entitled to complain of bias in the governing body. I was speaking of a model of stratification by social scientists without lot (or with lot but on a voluntary basis – we know that in today Western societies it would lead to a strong lack of statistical representativity along some dimensions).
*** That said, a stratification step in a lot model would have a drawback. Hubertus says « giving in to some particularist group’s exaggerated sense of self-importance does not lead to better societal decision making for the whole ». Yes, some groups will have an exaggerated sense of self-importance. And some other groups will be angry not to be officially recognized.
*** I am not sure of Hubertus stance : does he agree that the mini-public must mirror the People? i.e. be a « representative sample » along any dimension.
Andre:” does (Hubertus) agree that the mini-public must mirror the People? i.e. be a « representative sample » along any dimension.”
Let us assume, for argument’s sake, (1) that The People is a quite distinct Higher Being than just the sum of all the individual people constituting it. (2) that this Higher Being has its own General Will, i.e. decisions for actions which intend its collective Greatest Happiness but which may be quite distinct from the decisions which its average members believe to bring themselves individual happiness. (3) that this Higher Being possesses a Collective Intelligence which makes verifiably better decisions for the People than just the average of the individuals’ decisions.
In this framework, it is self evident that for good decision-making, some mechanic mirroring of the people in an allotted mini-public is not the question. The true question is, (1) how to identify all those who possess decision-relevant information (including collective predictions), how to (2) sample them for the mini-public (oversampling if needed), (3) how to capture this knowledge to a reasonably full extent and last, (4) by which procedure to aggregate the individual judgements to discover the General Will.
Any mirroring rule for an allotted mini-public beyond (1) is a populist placebo to make the true process palatable to the methodically ignorant public (including journalists). Today’s “democratic” players know exactly how to profit from the madness of crowds using populist methods but next to no-one has any good understanding (not to say ignorance) of what collective intelligence is, how to harness it with appropriate methods, and just how much different and better its decisions can be.
André Sauzeau, on February 23, 2019 at 11:06 am said:
*** It is clear. The model that Hubertus advocates is basically different from what I call “ortho-democracy”, modern version of dêmokratia. Hubertus thinks it is superior, from the point of view of “collective intelligence”.
*** I am not sure of the epistemic superiority Hubertus claims. I am afraid his model will give too much weight on the elite sensitivities, distorted by elitist feelings against the ordinary citizens. Well, Hubertus will say that I think too much about “ifs”, and I acknowledge we must wait to see two countries not very different and working along the two models to see which epistemic differences appear.
*** But there is something I am sure about. Hubertus’ model, with its implied political inequality of citizens, will be suspect of bias towards the specific moral and material interests of some parts of the civic community, and, whatever theorists may discuss about, it will lack legitimacy, whereas the ortho-democratic system could easily get a strong legitimacy. And I think that strong legitimacy is paramount to rule a modern society, where traditional deference is low, where inequality must be legitimated by a very strong ideology. I doubt Hubertus discourse would be strong enough. If this model is established, it think it will be an easy target for “players knowing exactly how to profit from the madness of crowds using populist methods”.
@Andre: “with its implied political inequality of citizens”
This lacks any supporting argument. How exactly does the method described imply political inequality and to what part of citizens, specifically?
I am very wary of a metaphysical debate about a mere construct “legitimacy” without offering falsifiability of claims and without connection to the actual purpose of a functioning democracy.
The true and practical legitimacy of the method I propose will derive from general elections, in the percentage of voters electing the party offering it, hence deciding that this is the method they want.
*** If the sampled body is not a mirror of the People, that would mean that some kinds of citizens are more represented that others, which implies political inequality of citizens. Which kinds of citizens will be under-represented and over-represented, that would need a specific study by social scientists.
*** I was not engaging in « a metaphysical debate about a mere construct “legitimacy” », I was mentioning the mental strength of the idea of democratic power implying perfect political equality of citizens. Maybe I am somewhat France-centered, and in France this idea is especially strong. But the same fact may be present in many countries, with different degrees.
*** Ok, your model can get indirect legitimacy, through the vote of citizens where every citizen will be equal. The same reasoning could be adduced to a system with life-president with all powers, for example. But such indirect democratic legitimacy is weaker than the direct democratic legitimacy. Maybe the British Parliament would like to cancel the Brexit voted by referendum, and along the judicial power it would be constitutional ; but I doubt the British Parliament will dare.
hubertushofkirchner, on February 24, 2019 at 11:37 am said:
@Andre: Are you conflating “legitimacy” with the quality of the decision it produces?
The root issue with the Brexit referendum was not the legitimacy of the People or the British Parliament deciding. Remember Art. 6 of the rights of Men & Citizens (1789): “All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation.”
The issue was the bad quality of the discovery of the General Will. Referenda are visibly manipulable by slogans and British Parliament decisions are visibly distorted by conflicting party tactics.
Legitimacy as measured by a voter percentage, at least, is a fact.
*** Hubertus writes : « Referenda are visibly manipulable by slogans and British Parliament decisions are visibly distorted by conflicting party tactics. ». Alas, he may be right.
*** But what I said is that more direct popular power and clearer political equality means much stronger « legitimacy » . The British Parliament, even without party tactics, will hesitate before canceling the result of the referendum. In France, the direct election of the President is thought a bad idea by various political thinkers, but no politician dares to propose a more indirect model. it is not my subjective feeling, it is a fact.
*** Therefore I may conclude than rule by a mirror sample, without any hint of political inequality, will have the stronger legitimacy we could imagine.
*** A model of hereditary aristocracy by twenty lineages could have many advantages. Maybe it could be a good system. But only in science-fiction, because it contradicts political equality, and, as I said, in the modern world only a very strong ideology is able to contradict political equality.
hubertushofkirchner, on February 25, 2019 at 9:51 am said:
Andre, I reduce our main difference:
1. For you, legitimacy of a decision results from maximising equality of participation of citizens, with your ideal of “representativeness” using force if necessary: The specific process.
2. For me, legitimacy of a decision results from maximising the happiness of the entire citizenry, where individuals decide what is best for society: The quality of a decision.
Let’s look at Brexit or Trump: Can we really ignore the quality of the decision only as long some ideological rule has been followed? Clearly no, because any bad decision will necessarily have do be done again (or waited out).
keithsutherland, on February 25, 2019 at 12:32 pm said:
I agree with Andre that democratic legitimacy has to take priority over epistemic considerations — especially when the ignorance and folly of Brexit and Trump supporters is presumed to be self-evident. We need to be very careful that sortition does not become associated with an anti-populist political perspective, however self-evident the “rightness” of that perspective may be in some people’s eyes. There is a serious risk of just trading in one form of elitism for another.
Keith: “the ignorance and folly of Brexit and Trump supporters is presumed”
I emphatically point out that I presume no such “ignorance or folly of supporters”. I was talking about bad process. No more, no less.
With different words:
The two supreme “legitimacies” which the representative system offers today, an elected parliament and a general referendum, did not settle the debate on the Trump and Brexit matters.
This shows clearly that the kind of legitimacy specified by Andre is insufficient to satisfy free willed individuals. True legitimacy would produce solid General Acceptance of the settled decision, regardless of whether one voted for the outcome.
Thanks for the clarification Hubertus — I guess the problem is that you chose to name check Trump (as opposed to any other elected politician).
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Cross-section of human skin
Cross section of skin under the microscope
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Anatomical terminology
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The dermis or corium is a layer of skin between the epidermis (with which it makes up the cutis) and subcutaneous tissues, that primarily consists of dense irregular connective tissue and cushions the body from stress and strain. It is divided into two layers, the superficial area adjacent to the epidermis called the papillary region and a deep thicker area known as the reticular dermis.[1] The dermis is tightly connected to the epidermis through a basement membrane. Structural components of the dermis are collagen, elastic fibers, and extrafibrillar matrix.[2] It also contains mechanoreceptors that provide the sense of touch and thermoreceptors that provide the sense of heat. In addition, hair follicles, sweat glands, sebaceous glands (oil glands), apocrine glands, lymphatic vessels, nerves and blood vessels are present in the dermis. Those blood vessels provide nourishment and waste removal for both dermal and epidermal cells.
2.1 Papillary dermis
2.2 Reticular dermis
2.3 Dermal papillae
Structure[edit]
The dermis is composed of three major types of cells:[3] fibroblasts, macrophages, and mast cells.
Apart from these cells, the dermis is also composed of matrix components such as collagen (which provides strength), elastin (which provides elasticity), and extrafibrillar matrix, an extracellular gel-like substance primarily composed of glycosaminoglycans (most notably hyaluronan), proteoglycans, and glycoproteins.[3]
Layers[edit]
Illustration of dermal circulation and layers
Papillary dermis[edit]
The papillary dermis is the uppermost layer of the dermis. It intertwines with the rete ridges of the epidermis and is composed of fine and loosely arranged collagen fibers.[2]
The papillary region is composed of loose areolar connective tissue. This is named for its fingerlike projections called papillae, that extend toward the epidermis and contain either terminal networks of blood capillaries or tactile Meissner's corpuscles.[4]
Reticular dermis[edit]
The reticular dermis is the lower layer of the dermis, found under the papillary dermis, composed of dense irregular connective tissue featuring densely packed collagen fibers. It is the primary location of dermal elastic fibers.[2]
The reticular region is usually much thicker than the overlying papillary dermis. It receives its name from the dense concentration of collagenous, elastic, and reticular fibers that weave throughout it. These protein fibers give the dermis its properties of strength, extensibility, and elasticity. Within the reticular region are the roots of the hair, sebaceous glands, sweat glands, receptors, nails, and blood vessels. The orientation of collagen fibers within the reticular dermis creates lines of tension called Langer's lines, which are of some relevance in surgery and wound healing.[5]
Dermal papillae[edit]
Dermal papillae
Papilla of the hand, treated with acetic acid. Magnified 350 times.
A. Side view of a papilla of the hand.
a. Cortical layer.
b. Tactile corpuscle.
c. Small nerve of the papilla, with neurolemma.
d. Its two nervous fibers running in spiral coils around the tactile corpuscle.
e. Apparent termination of one of these fibers.
B. Tactile papilla seen from above so as to show its transverse section.
b. Nerve fiber.
c. Outer layer of the tactile body, with nuclei.
d. Clear interior substance.
papillae dermis
The dermal papillae (DP) (singular papilla, diminutive of Latin papula, 'pimple') are small, nipple-like extensions (or interdigitations) of the dermis into the epidermis. At the surface of the skin in hands and feet, they appear as epidermal or papillary ridges (colloquially known as fingerprints).
Blood vessels in the dermal papillae nourish all hair follicles and bring nutrients and oxygen to the lower layers of epidermal cells. The pattern of ridges they produce in hands and feet are partly genetically determined features that develop before birth. They remain substantially unaltered (except in size) throughout life, and therefore determine the patterns of fingerprints, making them useful in certain functions of personal identification. [6]
The dermal papillae are part of the uppermost layer of the dermis, the papillary dermis, and the ridges they form greatly increase the surface area between the dermis and epidermis. Because the main function of the dermis is to support the epidermis, this greatly increases the exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste products between these two layers. Additionally, the increase in surface area prevents the dermal and epidermal layers from separating from each other by strengthening the junction between them. With age, the papillae tend to flatten and sometimes increase in number. [7]
Dermal papillae also play a pivotal role in hair formation, growth and cycling. [8]
In mucous membranes, the equivalent structures to dermal papillae are generally termed "connective tissue papillae", which interdigitate with the rete pegs of the superficial epithelium.
List of cutaneous conditions
Subcutaneous layer
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^ a b c Marks, James G; Miller, Jeffery (2006). Lookingbill and Marks' Principles of Dermatology (4th ed.). Elsevier Inc. Page 8–9. ISBN 1-4160-3185-5.
^ a b malvi (4 March 2011). "The Ageing Skin - Part 1 - Structure of Skin and Introduction - Articles". PharmaXChange.info.
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^ Ross M, Pawlina W (2011). Histology: A Text and Atlas (6th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 498. ISBN 978-0-7817-7200-6.
^ "Dermal papillae". Probert Encyclopaedia. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08. Retrieved February 2010. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ "Friction Skin". Ridges and Furrows. Retrieved February 2010. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ Lin, Chang-min; et al. (October 2008). "Microencapsulated human hair dermal papilla cells: a substitute for dermal papilla?". Archives of Dermatological Research. Springer. 300 (9): 531–535. doi:10.1007/s00403-008-0852-3. PMID 18418617.
Skin and related structures
Stratum corneum
Stratum lucidum
Stratum granulosum
Stratum spinosum
Stratum basale
Basement membrane
Lamina lucida
Lamina densa
Papillary
Reticular
Subcutaneous tissue
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Panniculus carnosus)
Membranous layer
Loose connective tissue
Superficial fascia
Adnexa
Skin glands
Sweat glands: Apocrine sweat gland
Eccrine sweat gland
Root sheath
Outer root sheath
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Henle's layer
Huxley's layer
Hair shaft
Bulb with matrix cells
Hair follicle
Arrector pili muscle
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FBN1
Elaunin
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German turbine maker fires 3,000 staff
Enercon begins an extensive turnaround program and outsources, among other things, the entirety of its turbine blade production. Five out of six jobs are being cut from the company's headquarters.
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BY MAZ PLECHINGER
Germany's wind sector crisis is now seriously impacting Enercon. Friday, the German wind OEM told its employees that up to 3,000 staff stand to lose their jobs, report several domestic media including news agency DPA and Süddeutsche Zeitung.
"The energy transition's crisis has now caught up with us," Enercon Managing Director Hans-Dieter Kettwig tells Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The manufacturer has initiated an extensive turnaround strategy which, according to German media, entails several rearrangements including the outsourcing of all turbine blade production. The OEM also takes a hard blow to its administrative nerve and reveals that 250 of the 300 personnel stationed at the company's Aucrich headquarters will be laid off.
German malaise
There's something to be expected about Enercon being impacted so hard, as both the company's product quality and price have earned the reputation of being the Rolls-Royce of wind turbines. The manufacturer has been leading player in the German market throughout many years and, until seven years back, was the largest wind turbine producer outside the US and China. However, the firm has come under heavy fire this year because of the shift to the tender system and problems securing environmental permits, which have practically paralyzed the market.
Enercon has gone from having installed an annual capacity of roughly 5 GW five years back to roughly 1-1.5 GW this year. This malaise has been clear in the latest five tenders, which have become more and more undersubscribed.
However, despite the federal government's recent reforms to reduce the complexity for securing licenses, the market is expected to take a few years before normalizing. The government's climate protection plan also entailed added distance requirements and generally affords a national energy policy the sector sees as unambitious for onshore wind.
Not just jobs at risk
Kettwig also points to the political environment as a big factor behind the misery, and references the solar PV industry, which began in Germany, but after spending billions in public aid, the sector's center of gravity shifted to China.
"The present energy and climate policy not only jeopardizes the jobs and knowledge that we have build up in a sector over the years – but also climate change mitigation and the green energy transition as such," says Kettwig, as cited by DPA.
"After the federal government presented its climate protection package, it became clear to us that our problems have grown even larger.
The massive round of layoffs doesn't exactly come without warning. News emerged last September that Enercon had eliminated more than 800 staff positions in the privately-owned wind OEM's hitherto larger cost-cutting exercise. Meanwhile, the manufacturer's Brazilian subsidiary, Wobben, has jettisoned 370 jobs since the spring.
Not the one firing
Furthermore, the other wind turbine manufacturers active in the German market are also having problems. Most obviously Senvion, which filed for insolvency protection in April and last month sold off most of its service business as well as its blade factory in Portugal to Siemenes Gamesa. No buyer has yet been found for Senvion's onshore and offshore wind turbine production in Germany.
Siemens Gamesa, too, has made significant cuts in recent times and also referred to Germany's stagnation. In late September, the German-Spanish turbine maker announced that it would terminate 600 jobs as a consequence of the German market slump. The reduction of 600 further jobs was disclosed earlier in the week – including 100 employees in Germany.
Similarly, Vestas, which hold the second-largest market share in Germany after Enercon, also slashed 600 jobs because of the German market. Nordex was obliged to ask for financial aid from its largest stakeholder, Acconia.
Rips away the carpet
Turbine producers are not alone in feeling pressure in the country. The same applies to a long series of suppliers and subsuppliers, several of which have been forced to close shop. At Enercon, whose business model has to a high degree entailed allowing other companies to function as exclusive "production partners", the CEO acknowledges that the turnaround will be painful.
"We're ripping away the carpet from under these companies," Kettwig tells Süddeutsche Zeitung.
German labor union IG Metall calls the layoffs "catastrophic". Enercon is the largest employer in Aucrich, located on the coast of Northwestern Germany, and the wind OEM has a big responsibility for the dismissals taking place in ordered fashion – as do politicians.
"As in recent years, Enercon must take responsibility here. We demand a reasonable, socially acceptable solution for all affected parties, and this must also be supported on the national political level," Thomas Gelder from IG Metall Leer-Papenburg tells media Handelsblatt.
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BUS TOUR
DAY 66: BUS 1&2: EMIN BUSES BACK HOME!
Amazing! How wonderful it was to see the 2 EMIN buses united again. 66 days later, 32 countries later, a gazillion experiences later, the 2 EMIN buses got together yesterday in Brussels, the city of departure and home coming!
It feels truly impossible to exchange and share all our stories. The experiences we all had were so rich, so exciting, so diverse… We have been working on Minimum Income Schemes for several years, we know the data, the legislation, in all the European countries. But having had the opportunity to meet the men, women, families, receiving (or needing, but not receiving) MIS in all the countries really casted an entirely different light on the realities in all our countries. Unfortunately, as Fintan Farrell pointed out, the realities we met were often worse than we imagined. But the energy, courage and hope we encountered also exceeded our expectations!
For our final event, we had a campaigning moment on the Place Sainte Catherine in Brussels. The square was crowded and covered in sunlight. The two buses were parked in front of the Cathedral (a church where undocumented migrants found a safe space not that long ago). So great it was to campaign together with both teams, of BUS 1 and BUS 2, to meet again after such an intensive journey. And to welcome volunteers, friends, allies,… who have been part of this journey in one way or another.
Also the Dutch MEP Jeroen Lenaers came by, and shared messages of solidarity. Pointing out that the European Union should be more than a market focused Union, that Europe urgently needs to travel into the direction of a Social Europe. And that the European Pillar of Social Rights is a good framework to foster progress. He invited us in the European Parliament to share our experiences. To be continued!
It was very nice as well to meet other Belgian organisations (Réseau Wallon de Lutte Contre la Pauvreté, the Belgian Anti-Poverty Network, vzw Wieder, Global Social Justice…) on the square. They told us that, although they were not (often) physically present during our trip, following our blog made them feel travelling with us.
After our public event, we had a closing moment in a bar nearby. Philippe and Marcel, the drivers from BUS 1 and BUS 2 told us that this experience was unforgettable for them, challenged and changed their views on poverty, on social issues, and that they feel part of a European family.
I want to use the opportunity of this post of the last day to say THANK YOU to everyone involved, everybody who made this journey an unforgettable experience: all the volunteers and colleagues on the bus, our drivers, (who were so much more than ‘drivers’, but part of the team and centipedes), the national teams, who did an amazing job, the partners, but most of all, the project manager Fintan Farrell, who initiated this journey, and inspired us all. We rebaptised the ‘EMIN Godfather’ yesterday into Fintan Fire. Thanxx a million, Fintan, for making this unforgettable journey happen!
This was the final bus stop, but definitely not the terminal of our journey. More than ever, we feel the need, the urge and the fire to fight for decent minimum income schemes, for everybody who needs it, as long as they need it!
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World Team Ch: England take silver, China take bronze
3/15/2019 – The final round of the 2019 World Team Championships decided silver and bronze medallists in both categories, as the winners had already been decided a day earlier. In the Open, England defeated Sweden and took home silver, while China managed to get bronze after a topsy-turvy event overall. In the women's section, China finished with a perfect 18/18, while Russia tied with Georgia, getting both teams to the podium. | Photo: David Llada / Official site
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3/14/2019 – The FIDE World Team Championship 2019 takes place from March 5th to 14th in Astana, Kazakhstan. Ten teams compete in a round-robin tournament with matches played on four boards. Teams earn 2 match points for a win and 1 for a draw. Games, standings and commentary by GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko & WGM Anna Burtasova. | Photo: David Llada
World Team Ch: Russia and China secure gold with a round to spare
3/14/2019 – Before completing the nine rounds stipulated in the regulations, Russia and China won the open and women's section of the World Team Championships, respectively. In both cases, a fierce struggle for silver and bronze awaits: China still have good chances of finishing on the podium of the open category, while among the women the Russian defending champions might be taken out of the top three by Georgia, but only if the latter score a big win. | Photo: David Llada / Official site
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World Team Ch: It's Russia's to lose in the Open
3/13/2019 – Russia defended its lead at the World Team Championship in Astana with a narrow 2.5: 1.5 win over the USA. In the women's tournament, the Chinese were able to extend their lead to three points as Russia scored a point against Ukraine. | Photos: David Llada
World Team Ch: Russian lead shrinks
3/11/2019 – Russia, the leading team at the World Team Championship, unexpectedly gave up a team match point to Azerbaijan round six. India and England are only one point behind. England scored an important win over Iran 3-1 despite the early loss of their reserve player Jon Speelman on board four. In the Women's section, China continues to lead the field. | Photos: David Llada
World Team Ch: China beat Russia in key women's match-up
3/10/2019 – Two devastating attacks gave the Chinese women a crucial victory over the defending champions from Russia, who now need other teams to cooperate — by beating China — in order for them to take gold. Meanwhile, in the open section, Russia took down Kazakhstan despite Sergei Karjakin's loss on board one and are still the sole leaders. England and India tied their direct encounter and are the only chasers, two match points behind. | Pictured: Lei Tingjie | Photo: David Llada / Official site
World Team Ch: Russians undefeated
3/9/2019 – After four rounds, the Russian players in Astana have yet to give up a full point. In the open section, they are alone at the top of the standings, while in the women's they share first place with China — the co-leaders are set to face each other on Saturday. India, United States and England trail by one match point among the men, with the Olympic champions from China far behind on the leader board. | Photo: David Llada / Official site
World Team Ch: USA upset China, share the lead with Russia and England
3/7/2019 – Team United States dazzled in round two by defeating China despite not having taken any of their stars to Astana. They now share the lead on a perfect score with Russia and England, and are set to take on the latter in the next round. In the women's event, the American team is also over-performing, as they drew Ukraine and defeated higher-rated Hungary in the first two days of competition. Nonetheless, the favourites from Russia and China are leading with 4/4. | Photo: David Llada / Official site
Astana to host World Team Championships
3/3/2019 – The Open and Women's World Team Championships will take place on March 4th-14th in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana. Both events will be nine-round single round robin tournaments. The open section will have Russia and China as the clear front-runners, while the women's meeting is much harder to call in advance, with rating favourites Russia having to contend against strong squads from Ukraine, China, Georgia and India. | Photo: Official site
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SAA running out of cash as unions seek to expand strike
State-owned SAA has racked up losses of more than R28 billion over the past 13 years and wants to cut jobs as part of a turnaround plan.
EFF supporters join Numsa and South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) members picketing at the SAA Airways Park in Kempton Park on 15 November 2019. Picture: Mia Lindeque/EWN
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JOHANNESBURG - South African Airways (SAA) is running out of cash and could be liquidated if the government doesn’t give it additional guarantees soon, a board member said on Wednesday, as trade unions threatened to escalate a crippling strike.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) called a strike at SAA last week after wage talks turned acrimonious and the airline said it planned to cut almost 20% of its staff.
On Wednesday the unions threatened to follow through with a plan to shut down South Africa’s entire aviation sector via a secondary strike.
SAA board member Martin Kingston told Reuters the strike was costing the airline around R50 million a day and that banks weren’t willing to lend the company more money without the government approving more state guarantees.
“We may not have enough cash to pay salaries at the end of the month, we are still investigating how we can do that,” he said. “This is a real-time discussion we are having with National Treasury and the Department of Public Enterprises. We need help imminently.”
The financial crisis at SAA is a key test of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pledge to fix bloated state firms. He needs to balance the need for cost-cutting and job cuts with deep-seated anger at the country’s 29% unemployment rate and the weak state of the economy.
A broad cross-section of society also vocally opposes any moves that could weaken the role of state firms.
SAA’s last permanent Chief Executive Vuyani Jarana resigned in June after less than two years in the job, saying his turnaround strategy was being undermined by a lack of state funding and too much bureaucracy.
The striking unions held talks with the government and SAA on Tuesday, which ended without any agreement.
NUMSA spokeswoman Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said there would be “no surrender”. The union had issued aviation catering firm Air Chefs with a letter of intent for a secondary strike and had secured a strike certificate for a separate issue at British Airways franchise partner Comair, she said.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said in a statement on Tuesday he was committed to saving SAA but the government was not able to offer more financial help.
Over the last three years, the government has given more than R20 billion of bailouts to SAA to keep it afloat.
Ramaphosa needs to halt a steep run-up in government debt if he is to preserve the country’s last investment-grade credit rating from Moody’s, which has a negative outlook.
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Aegis Chemical and Service Delivery with Fieldpoint Scheduling Software
With thousands of recurring field service work orders generated every month, Aegis Chemical Solutions’ (Aegis) long-term goals of providing quality customer service, while also reducing costs and minimizing any time wasted, ran a risk of not being met.
As a provider of high-quality chemical treatment and technical services for oilfield applications, the Houston, Texas based company needed to make a change to how they worked in the field, and how those work orders turned around into invoices. With a two- to three-day turnaround, after a service call was completed to create the invoice, cash flow needed an improvement, and a new system identified.
Going the digital route, complete with mobile applications, Aegis has seen the real-time benefits of a field service software, as invoicing is now done in real time, while field technicians are now able to capture more information, such as inventory logs, photos, and signatures, which updates back at the office instantaneously.
“The Fieldpoint solution, complemented by the field service app, has given us an improved ability to process field activities in real time and has made us more efficient,” said Marty Resweber, IT Director, Aegis. “It also has allowed a reduction in billing errors. Through these two areas, we have reduced accounting time spent on invoice error correction, and have reduced the time between activity completion and invoicing.”
Aegis migrated away from a complicated system that required highly skilled competency and training, which brought heavy costs to make improvements. Work orders in the previous system were generated automatically, but scheduling delivery dates and making changes to future deliveries was very time-consuming.
Instead, replaced by Fieldpoint’s field service software, the customer delivery agreements are now entered into Fieldpoint, and through some customization, preventative maintenance scheduling functionality was built in to ensure customer work orders were generated on their particular recurring delivery dates, allowing Aegis to generate work orders on a schedule that they choose, and can make changes as needed.
Fieldpoint designed and built the infrastructure within the application so Aegis could continue to define flexible recurring schedules. Whereas this kind of change in scheduling previously required several hours, it’s now done in a few seconds.
“The key success factor here was that all the service application requirements are met and the team at Fieldpoint understands the unique challenges that Aegis faced in their industry,” said Resweber. “They displayed a high degree of certainty on how the field service software would solve problems and help Aegis achieve their benchmarks, reduce costs, time consumption, boost efficiency and performance.”
With over a dozen resources now utilizing the software with minimal support, Aegis’ goal of reducing costs and minimizing time wasted is well on its way to being achieved.
Mobility has helped address the issue of handling the daily word order volume and real-time updates, and presently, technicians at Aegis have access to information like customer history, location and the type of service delivery agreement they have. The mobile field service app can capture photos and signatures, while work orders are being closed off on-site, generating an invoice in less than a minute in real time.
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Experiments in Food Science Laboratory Manual
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Introduction: What Is Food Science?
Experiment 1: Butter, p. 2
Experiment 2: Casein (Milk Protein), p. 2
Experiment 3: Role of Salt in Meat Processing, p. 3
Experiment 4: Exploding Marshmallows, p. 4
Experiment 5: Food Flavors, p. 4
Experiment 6: Determining Flavor with Your Nose?, p. 5
Experiment 7: Candy Making (Hard-Crack Stage, 300 ˚F), p. 5
Experiment 8: Gluten, p. 7
This laboratory manual has two purposes. The first purpose is to describe what food science is and what food scientists do. The second purpose is to describe fun laboratory experiments that demonstrate practical applications of food science. Food science is all of the science involved in taking agricultural food products from the farmer’s gate to the grocery store, restaurant, or dinner table. Food scientists generally work with all sectors of agriculture. Food science includes both basic and applied biology, microbiology, chemistry, math, business, engineering, physics, and other disciplines. A food scientist’s goal is to make safe, high quality food products that are profitable to all segments of agriculture.
Those who earn a bachelor of science in the food science discipline have starting salaries of $45,000 to $55,000 per year and work for some of the largest food manufacturing companies in the country. Food science students also have opportunities to compete in national competitions dealing with food, such as Dairy Judging, Meats Judging, New Product Development, and the Research Chef’s Association. These events offer participants networking and learning opportunities for future career growth.
It is also possible to pursue a career as a veterinarian through an option in the food science curriculum. This is an excellent opportunity for students interested in veterinary school to work towards an undergraduate degree while completing the pre-veterinary (pre-vet) required curriculum. The veterinary school acceptance rate for food science majors is very competitive compared to the acceptance rate for all pre-vet disciplines. But students with food science backgrounds and degrees who do not get accepted in veterinary school still have great job opportunities making $45,000 to $55,000 a year to start, with room for rapid advancement. Such an annual income and opportunities may not be available to students who graduate from other programs with pre-vet curriculums.
Laboratory exercises in this manual demonstrate principles behind butter making (density, lipid chemistry), cheese production (acid precipitation, protein chemistry), processed meat production (use of salt in meats, protein chemistry), meat marination (use of vacuum in meat processing), sensory evaluation (principles of sensory science; appearance, taste, and smell), candy production (candy chemistry, carbohydrate crystallization), and bread production (bread texture, gluten proteins). These laboratory experiments demonstrate some simple scientific principles that apply to food and explain why and how it is possible to make certain food products.
Experiment 1: Butter
This experiment demonstrates the principles of butter making.
clean jar with secure, tight-fitting lid
salt (1/3 teaspoon or to taste)
Pour 1/3 cup of heavy cream into a clean jar. Cap the jar.
Shake the jar. Take turns shaking; you may need to shake for 15 to 20 minutes. The cream will start looking like cottage cheese (whipped cream). Continue shaking.
You will note a separation of solids and liquids.
The solid is butter, and the liquid is buttermilk.
Pour off the buttermilk. Add salt to the butter for more flavor. Try the butter on crackers.
Dairy milk is composed of 87 percent water, 3.2 percent protein, 3.9 percent fat, 4.8 percent carbohydrate, and roughly 1 percent minerals and vitamins. The fat in milk is a mixture of lipids. Triglycerides are the main type of lipid. Lipids have a lower density than water, so when raw milk sits for several hours, the cream (butter) will rise to the top.
The density of cream is the basis for butter making. The cream is churned to separate the butter (solids) from the buttermilk (liquid). Butter contains at least 80 percent milk fat by weight. The butter can be salted and poured into molds for further processing. Butter remains solid when refrigerated but softens to a spreadable consistency at room temperature and melts to a thin liquid consistency at 32 to 35 ˚C (90 to 95 ˚F). Butter is generally pale yellow but can vary from deep yellow to nearly white. The yellow color is the result of the b-carotene in the grass that dairy cows eat.
Homogenizing milk prevents the cream (butterfat) layer from separating from the milk. Homogenizing breaks down the fat globules into smaller globules and disperses them evenly in the milk. The smaller globules will not rise to form cream during normal storage conditions.
Experiment 2: Casein (Milk Protein)
This experiment demonstrates (1) the precipitation of protein (casein) from milk with an acid (vinegar) and (2) the effectiveness of casein as a bonding agent to make casein glue.
400 milliliter beaker
stir bar
stir plate
1 teaspoon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon household ammonia
wooden craft sticks
Pour 1/4 cup of milk into a 400 mL beaker. Place stir bar into beaker.
Measure the pH of the milk. Place a thermometer in the beaker.
Heat the milk to 70 ˚C on a hot plate. Remove the beaker from the heat. Remove the thermometer.
Place the beaker with the warm milk on a stir plate and add 1 teaspoon vinegar. Stir for 2 minutes. Allow the milk to sit for a few minutes. The casein will precipitate into heavy white curds. The remaining liquid is the whey.
Measure the pH of the liquid portion again.
Cover the top of the beaker with a piece of cheesecloth. Drain off the vinegar and whey over a sink. Carefully remove the cheesecloth and collect the curds (casein) in the cheesecloth. Rinse the cheesecloth containing the casein in cool water and squeeze the cheesecloth until the casein is almost dry. Spread out the cheesecloth to let the casein dry for a few minutes.
After drying them, place the curds into a weigh boat.
Very carefully add 1/2 teaspoon ammonia solution to the curds. (CAUTION: ammonia is an irritant.) Slowly stir with a glass rod until the mixture becomes thick and creamy in texture.
Rub the casein glue onto two wooden craft sticks and join them together. Allow the glue to dry for a few minutes.
Milk is composed of many proteins. The main groups are casein and whey proteins. Caseins are very digestible when compared to other food proteins, making it a very important human food. Casein is negatively charged in its natural state. This negative charge permits the casein to disperse in milk. When you add an acid, the H+ concentration neutralizes the negatively charged casein. When you acidify milk, its pH is allowed to reach 4.6, which brings casein to its isoelectric point. The isoelectric point is the point at which all charges are neutral. When casein loses its negative charge, it precipitates as curds. This acid casein is the basis for the manufacture of cottage cheese and cream cheese. Acid casein is also used in the chemical industry; in the production of adhesive products, textiles, and cosmetics; and as a binding agent in food products.
Casein can also be precipitated with rennin, an enzyme found in calves’ stomachs. This rennin coagulum is made of casein, whey protein, fat, lactose, and minerals. It has a fluffier and spongier texture than the acid precipitate. This is the basis for the manufacture of cheese.
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Experiment 3: Role of Salt In Meat Processing
This experiment demonstrates the importance of salt in meat processing.
food preparation gloves
food scale that measures in metric units
100 grams raw ground beef, divided equally
small food processor
20 milliliters water, divided equally
2 grams salt
large white paper such as butcher paper
Wear gloves when working with raw meat. Keep meat away from other food products. Wash hands and workplace after completing the experiment.
Place 50 g ground beef into a small food processor.
Add 10 mL water. Chop the meat for 15 seconds.
Remove the meat from food processor. Form it into a ball. Flatten it like you are making a hamburger patty.
Now, put the slightly flattened meat in the palm of your gloved hand (palm up). Turn your hand over (palm down). What happens? Does the meat stick to your hand, or does it fall down?
Repeat step 1 in this procedure with the other half of the meat. In step 2, dissolve 2 g salt into the 10 mL of water before adding the water to the meat. Follow steps 3 and 4 with the new mixture.
Tape a piece of white (butcher) paper to the wall. Place plenty of newspaper on the floor below. Throw the two meat patties at the paper. Does either one stick to the paper?
In this experiment, ground meat without salt probably did not stick to your hand or to the target. When you added salt to the ground meat, it made the salt-soluble proteins come to the surface of the meat. In scientific terms, it extracted the salt-soluble proteins from the cellular structure. The proteins then acted like glue.
Salt serves many purposes. It brings out natural flavors, slows growth of spoilage microorganisms, and enhances a food’s color, odor, and appearance. This experiment shows that salt also creates the protein structure necessary to make processed meats like hot dogs and deli meats. Salt helps bind meat by extracting its proteins, which “glue” together adjacent pieces of meat. Salt also increases water-binding properties, which reduce cook losses and contribute to enhanced texture. It also helps give a smooth, firm texture to processed meats. In addition, it helps with the color development of ham, bacon, hotdogs, and other processed muscle food products.
Without salt, it would be impossible to make hot dogs, deli meats, and other processed meats. Can you explain why?
Experiment 4: Exploding Marshmallows
This experiment demonstrates (1) the principles of air pressure, (2) how changes in air pressure can affect food products, and (3) the principle behind applying a vacuum in meat processing.
glass jar suitable to be attached to the vacuum pump (The jar should have a rubber stopper with a hole in it to insert a tube. The tube connects to the vacuum pump. You could also use a capped Erlenmeyer flask with a side arm to attach a tube that will connect to the vacuum pump.)
marshmallows (different sizes)
Place a marshmallow inside the glass jar.
Cap the jar. Connect the tube from the rubber stopper to the vacuum pump.
Turn on the vacuum pump. What happens?
Turn off the vacuum pump. What happens now?
Discuss your results.
Variations: You can place several marshmallows inside the glass jar or make a marshmallow man. You can also try expanding chicken meat.
Marshmallows are a mixture of sugar, air, and gelatin. The sugar makes them sweet, the air makes them fluffy, and the gelatin is a protein that holds everything together. By volume, marshmallows are mostly air. When subjected to vacuum, the air from around the marshmallow is removed. This decrease in pressure causes the air trapped inside the marshmallow to push outward, expanding it. Eventually the vacuum is strong enough to pull air from inside the marshmallow, causing it to shrink. When the air in the jar returns to normal atmospheric pressure, you end up with a “mallow grape” because the air has been removed from inside the marshmallow.
This same principle is used in the meat and poultry industry to marinate chicken and other pre-marinated meats. Vacuum meat tumblers marinate meat in a very short time. Under vacuum, the foods’ fibers stretch, becoming more porous. This allows the marinade to penetrate evenly throughout the product. Vacuum tumbling allows meat to absorb up to about 20 percent of its starting weight in marinade without extended preparation. There is an increased yield in the raw product, which means increased yield after cooking and a product that is juicy and tasty.
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Experiment 5: Food Flavors
This experiment demonstrates how appearance influences our perception of how foods taste.
Gatorade Materials
small sampling cups with lids (2 oz size is ideal)
Gatorade (lemon-lime flavor and orange flavor)
red food color
Add a few drops of red food coloring to lemon-lime flavored Gatorade. Mix until the color resembles the orange of orange flavored Gatorade.
Pour the two orange-colored Gatorades, lemon-lime and orange, into sampling cups. Label each cup using a code to identify each type of drink.
Give students both samples.
Ask the student to pinch his or her nose and taste each Gatorade sample. Record the response.
Ask the student to release his or her nose and taste each Gatorade sample. Record the response.
Soft Drink Materials
Sprite or other clear soda
Coca-Cola or other brown cola
Add a few drops of caramel color to Sprite until the color is similar to that of Coke.
Pour both drinks (Coke and colored Sprite) into labeled sampling cups. Each cup should have a code to identify its drink.
Provide students with both samples.
Ask the student to pinch his or her nose and taste each soda sample. Record the response.
Ask the student to release his or her nose and taste each soda sample. Record the response.
Variation: If you cannot find caramel color, you can try a red-colored soda like cherry and an unflavored clear soda like club soda or seltzer water. Add a few drops of red color to the clear soda until it looks like the red soda, pour the sodas into the sampling cups, and ask the students to taste both drinks.
Most of the time we assume things about a food’s flavor based on its color. Changing the color of lemon-lime Gatorade can make it look like orange-flavored Gatorade, but it still tastes like lemon lime. However, your mind can play tricks on you and convince you that it is orange flavored. Similarly, the color of Sprite is changed so it looks like Coke, but it does not taste like Coke.
Experiment 6: Determining Flavor With Your Nose?
This experiment demonstrates how your mouth and nose work together to perceive different flavors.
jelly beans of different colors
small sampling cups
Place two jellybeans of the same color in the sampling cup.
Ask the student to pinch his/her nose and taste a jellybean from the cup. Record the response.
Ask the student to release his/her nose and taste another jellybean from the same cup. Record the response.
You cannot determine flavor without your nose. Without the sense of smell, foods would not be tasty. You would not be able to tell the difference between foods with the same texture. A food’s odors allow us to determine its flavors. About 80 to 90 percent of what we perceive as “taste” is actually due to the sense of smell. This is why foods taste bland when you have a cold or a stuffy nose.
There are four different types of true tastes: sour, sweet, salty and bitter. The salty/sweet taste buds are near the front of the tongue, the sour taste buds line the sides of the tongue, and the bitter taste buds are at the very back of the tongue. Children are very sensitive to the flavors in foods. As people age, their taste buds become less sensitive.
Experiment 7: Candy Making (Hard-Crack Stage, 300 ˚F)
This experiment demonstrates (1) the chemistry of candy making and (2) the effect of temperature on the texture of candies.
shallow baking pan (8x8x2 inch)
heavy duty aluminum foil
oil spray
435 grams (about 2 1/8 cups) sugar
2-quart saucepan or 1000 mL beaker
candy thermometer
stove (for saucepan) or hot plate (for beaker)
1/2 teaspoon oil flavoring
Line an 8x8x2 inch pan with heavy duty aluminum foil, extending foil over the edges of the pan. Oil the pan lightly.
Combine sugar, corn syrup, and water in a 2-quart saucepan or a 1000 mL beaker. Place a candy thermometer in the pan. The thermometer should not touch the bottom of the pan or beaker. Stir the mixture over high heat until it boils.
Reduce heat to medium. Continue cooking over medium heat. Do not stir the mixture while it is cooking. When the syrup reaches 260 ˚F, add food color. Do not stir; boiling action will incorporate color into the syrup. Remove from heat precisely at 300 ˚F. Remove thermometer.
Once boiling has stopped, add flavoring. Pour syrup quickly but carefully into prepared pan. (CAUTION: mixture is very hot.) Let it stand for 5 minutes.
Using a broad spatula, mark candy surface in 1/2 inch squares. Retrace previous lines and press the spatula deeper each time until you can press the spatula to the bottom of the pan.
Cool completely. Use foil to lift candy out of the pan. Break candy into squares and store in plastic bags.
Variation: You can use plastic molds for hard candy or lollipops. Lightly oil the molds before pouring the hot mixture. Twist the lollipop stick to make sure it is covered with the syrup. Let lollipops cool until hardened before removing from molds.
Sucrose, or table sugar, and other sugars are the main ingredients in candy. Sucrose is made of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose, that are bound together. Sugar crystals are solid at room temperature. When sugar crystals are dissolved in water, the sugar goes into solution. At a particular temperature, water can dissolve only a certain amount of a particular sugar. The solution reaches the point where no more sugar can be dissolved, and extra sugar will just sink to the bottom. This point is called the saturation point.
Heating the sugar/water solution increases the amount of sugar that can be dissolved. The heat causes the crystals to break into smaller molecules. The sugar molecules move faster and farther apart, enabling the solution to dissolve more and more sugar molecules. The solution turns into a clear sugar syrup. As you add more sugar, the solution becomes super-saturated. This means that the solution has reached a delicate balance of just enough sugar molecules and enough heat to keep the sugar molecules dissolved, but in an unstable state. The sugar molecules begin to crystallize back into a solid at the least disruption of heat or action. In other words, the sugar comes back together as sugar crystals when the syrup cools.
To make candy, you boil a mixture of sugar and water to create sugar syrup. The water evaporates, and the sugar concentrates. The higher the temperature, the more concentrated the sugar becomes. The texture of a candy (hard, soft, or chewy) depends on its cooking temperature and ingredients.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/index.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy
Experiment 8: Gluten
This experiment demonstrates (1) what gluten is, (2) its importance in bread making, and (3) its presence in all-purpose flour.
1/2 cup + 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
1/2 cup soy flour
1/2 cup water, divided
Measure 1/2 cup of soy flour into a bowl. Measure 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour into a different bowl.
Add 1/4 cup of water to each bowl of flour and mix.
If the all-purpose flour mixture is sticky, add up to 2 teaspoons of additional flour, 1 teaspoon at a time. Mix and knead after each flour addition. Do not add flour to the soy flour mixture.
Knead dough mixtures for about 5 minutes each. Note texture, appearance, color, elasticity, and flexibility of each dough ball. The soy flour dough looks clumpy, yellowish, and has no elasticity. Why? The all-purpose flour is opaque, elastic, and flexible.
Place the all-purpose dough ball under the faucet and run cool water over it. Squeeze the dough ball to drain white, starchy water. Continue doing this under running water for about 5 minutes. What happened? Note how the dough shrinks in size, changes color, and becomes thread-like. These are the gluten threads. The water that drains from the dough ball is white as the starch is washed out of the dough ball.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. All breads made with wheat flour have a certain amount of gluten, depending on the type of flour. For example, cake flour has the lowest amount of gluten (5 to 8 percent), while high-gluten flour has greater than 14 percent. All-purpose flour is 11 to 12 percent gluten.
Gluten is the substance that gives bread its structure, texture, and elasticity. Gluten is made up of two main groups of proteins: gliadins and glutenins. Without these proteins, it would not be possible to make bread with an acceptable texture. Gluten is developed in the dough when gliadins and glutenins absorb water and are pulled and stretched in the kneading process. As the proteins are worked, they become long, flexible strands. The yeast produces gases in the dough, mostly carbon dioxide. These strands trap the gas bubbles, and the dough rises before it is baked.
Without gluten, bread would be very dense or flat. Rice, potato, and oat flours do not have gluten, and bread made from these flours does not turn out well.
Some people are unable to eat gluten because of either a wheat allergy or celiac disease. Gluten causes damage to the intestines and stomach of a person with celiac disease.
VanDyke, E.M. 2007. Chemistry Supplement to High School Food Technology. Pittsburgh Teaching Institute. http:\\www.chatham.edu/pti/Kitchen_Chem/VanDyke_01.htm
The information given here is for educational purposes only. References to commercial products or trade names are made with the understanding that no discrimination is intended against other products that may also be suitable.
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Pick a point, any point. It can, literally, be anything, anywhere, anytime. From this point, look out in all directions. Imagine an invisible line, tiny, microscopically thin, shooting through time and space. If you were to imagine this line replicated again and again and again–would there be any end to it? A million lines, a billion, a billion-billion . . . they would shoot out, imperceptibly, everywhere, never ending, always seeking and probing and searching for something more.
This is the kind of feeling I always get when I sit down to write a new story. A story can begin anywhere. For instance, take the following situation . . .
Sharon is a thirty-year-old woman who works for a computer software company as a technical writer. She is the only liberal-arts sort of person amid a sea of logically thinking programmers. She enjoys her job, mostly enjoys her coworkers, but sometimes feels out of place. On one particular afternoon, she neglects to save a document she has been working on for several hours. Her mind is elsewhere–on her parents’ divorce, her daughter Lauren’s struggles adjusting to the first grade, her creepy new neighbor who too often studies her with something in his eyes she doesn’t like. And when the prompt pops up to save her changes, she doesn’t do it. Only after closing out of the document does she realize what she’s done. Hours of work gone to waste. She will need to start all over, work late–it’s a time-sensitive document, and needs to be finished by tomorrow. How could she have been so stupid? She calls her sister, asks if she can babysit Lauren until she gets home. “I’m so sorry,” she says. Her sister tells her it’s no problem.
Hours later, nearing evening now, she arrives home, exhausted, frustrated. Alarm bells immediately ring in her head when she pulls into the drive. Her sister’s car is nowhere to be found. “It’s okay,” she tells herself. She must have picked Lauren up and taken her to her own house. She pulls out her cell, calls her sister. While the phone on the other end rings, she notices her neighbor sitting out in a lawn chair. He salutes her with a beer bottle and smiles. Something inside her crawls. Of all people, why did he have to buy the house next door?
She gets her sister’s voice mail, leaves a message. She tries to convince herself that everything is all right, but a bad feeling nags her, takes hold of something deep within, and locks on tight.
Where should this story begin? What would the first scene look like? The first paragraph? The first sentence? You could start it anywhere. Maybe at the office, just when Sharon fails to save her changes and realizes she needs to start over. Maybe earlier that day, in the lunch room, when she has an upsetting conversation with a coworker. Maybe when she calls her sister, asking her to babysit. Maybe when she arrives home, sees her ogling neighbor, and gets a bad feeling. Any one of these starting points would work, along with so many others. The options beckon, tantalize, mock, jockey for position. And it doesn’t end when an opening sequence is selected. Whichever way you begin a story has reverberations that filter through the rest of it, like ripples in a pond. One sentence leads to the next, one scene shapes and influences the next. At every stage, there are decisions, choices, and consequences.
When I began writing The Eye-Dancers, I had a premise–three boys each sharing the same dream, three nights in a row. Each one thinks he is the only one having the dream, not realizing–yet–that it’s a shared experience. Given this, I could have started the novel anywhere. I decided to begin with Mitchell Brant in the midst of this recurring nightmare–dreaming of the “ghost girl”–again. How would the novel read, though, if I had opened with Joe Marma or Ryan Swinton instead? Or even Marc Kuslanski, the one protagonist who does not experience this dream? The idea, the overall concept of the plot, might have remained the same, but the end result, with each scene leading in to the next, would have looked quite different.
And of course with writing, with art–there are no airtight equations, no 1 + 2 = 3 comfort zones.
Whatever choice you make on page 7 will influence what happens on page 8, and page 88 and page 308. It is natural to ask, throughout the process, “Did I make the right choice?” But the thing is, in a story, in a movie, in a painting, in a song–there is no “right” and “wrong.” There is only art. Hopefully, a story will interest and captivate the reader, a movie enthrall the viewer, a painting mesmerize the onlooker, and a song move and engage the listener. Even then, every reader is different, every viewer unique. In the end, all we can do is tell our story the best way we know how, tell it with feeling and passion, with heart–tell it because, if we don’t let it out, it will scratch and kick and punch, demanding to be let loose onto the page.
At one juncture in The Eye-Dancers, the intuitive, imaginative Mitchell Brant tells the logical, rational Marc Kuslanski, “Haven’t you ever just felt something to be true?” When it comes to art–that may well be our best guide as we travel through the myriad choices at our disposal. You can write the greatest scene in the world (it would pass the technical 1 +2 = 3 test with flying colors)–but if it seems out of place, if it doesn’t feel right to you, then it doesn’t belong in your story. The detail-oriented work of revisions and line editing await–but the creative first-draft stage is all about endless possibilities and wide, expansive vistas that spread out before us like green, lush valleys full of promise and potential.
All those choices can be daunting. You can take your story anywhere. But isn’t life like that, too? Each moment presents its own limitless set of possibilities, and whichever course you take directly influences the next moment, and the next, and the next . . .
Daunting? Yes. But liberating, too.
Because every day, every minute, every second, we stand . . .
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Maryam suffers from heart disease, for which she requires regular medical attention. Harsh prison conditions have also resulted in her suffering from depression.
Please join Iranian Christians in thanking God for her release and continue to pray for her health and well-being: that the Lord will strengthen Maryam mentally and physically, that she will receive the medical attention she needs and that she will adjust well to ordinary life after her long prison sentence. (Source: Release International, Middle East Concern)
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[Demo/Beta Release] Beyond the Portal (Indie Game Megawad)
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by ReedtheStrange » Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:25 pm
A while ago, I posted a WIP thread on Beyond the Portal right here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=32812&hilit=beyond+the+portal
I'm nearing a demo, which is why I'm posting again because I know I haven't been updating. Right now, I may be nearing finishing the demo of Beyond the Portal. I've working on this project for two years obsessively off and on and it's close to being presentable to a stranger. It's art style is more similar to Wolfenstein than it is to Doom because after playing Spear of Destiny 2 and 3, I've realized that sometimes similar art styles can create the illusion of being more colorful. Not everything is simpler in art style, however; skyboxes, for example, usually transition between colors. I want the environments to make the player feel strange
You play as Dr. Rakim Xavier, an engineer with doctorates in physics and engineering. Rakim is a genius and has been offered a job and special training by the Gokstad facility. When something wrong happens and strange people and creatures start appearing around the facility, rather than escaping, Rakim decides to delve into the portal to other universes to investigate why what happened at the Gokstad happened despite the Gokstad generally being able to manage such instances. Rakim Xavier is a former soldier with three purple hearts and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and well known for being courageous by those close to him.
These are most of the weapons. More interesting weapons are found later in the game.
1. Fists - Primary fire for jabbing and secondary fire for a full-body swing.
1. Energy Saw - A standard cutting tool for colonial scientists.
2. Pistol - An intermediate caliber pistol carried by mysterious men.
2. Ricochet Pistol - A semi-automatic energy pistol firing powerful, ricocheting round.
3. Pump-action Shotgun - No description necessary
3. Double-barreled shotgun - Primary fire for firing one round; secondary fire for pulling both triggers simultaneously.
4. SMG - Automatic sub-machine gun. More accurate than pistol unless sprayed.
4. XEAR - Experimental xenomatter energy assault rifle. More powerful than smg, although the projectiles move slower. Primary fire for automatic firing; secondary fire for 4 round burst. Xeno matter is a valuable material found in a universe known as "The Absolute Wilderness." One of its disadvantages to other energy sources found in other universes is that it is much more difficult to hold in large quantities and it quickly uses all of its energy.
5. Pod Rocket Launcher - Rocket launcher originally used by colonial Gokstad scientists for mining. Quickly became modified for use on larger creatures and has remained combat oriented since.
5. Xenomatter Bomb Launcher - A revolver-style grenade launcher that uses energy grenades.
6. Neutron Rifle - A high-powered all-purpose rifle that fires small particles of highly condensed matter that rip apart everything in its path. Can "shish kebab" small enemies and is effective against larger enemies.
7. Xenomatter Bomb - Primary fire throws like a grenade. Secondary fire drops on the ground. Dropped xenomatter bombs serve as landmines and will not detonate until stepped on.
8. Particle Thrower - Basically, a giant blowtorch using high-energy supersymetric particles with a better reach. It is useful in overwhelming situations.
More interesting weapons later in game:
2. Creature Head Gun - A voidhunter's neurons were sped up in an experiment to observe the behavior of the species was nudged slightly in evolution. As it turns out, they are very sophisticated. A voidhunter was placed in a cage with a competitive species that stores objects that follow prey and perceived threats and explode. The voidhunter managed to create a weapon that could utilize these objects, using the species' heads as ammunition.
3. "Mess-maker" Automatic shotgun - Less interesting than the other three, but ridiculously fun and cheap to use. Player will seldom have access to this weapon.
7. Eyebomb - A tiny floating robot that scans the neurological data of living organisms and AI to determine which will be hostile toward the thrower. Will follow the player, looking for hostiles and will fly toward hostiles and self-detonate in an attempt to kill them.
8. Monster Head Gun - Gun built by artificially sentient creature. Currently only one in existence. For ammo it uses a monster's head that fires mucus that explodes and fires projectiles in all directions. It is an invaluable weapons for clearing rooms and killing enemies hiding around corners.
9. Atlas Cannon - A newer weapon designed by Dr. Bock designed to kill larger, more powerful targets. It fires three projectiles: One large ball that explodes on impact and two tracing projectiles with the same potential energy; however, they do not explode, but rather follow a target, cutting through the target repeatedly until target is dead, or until the collide with something else. If used on enemy in open area, atlas tracers will continue to internally eat away like piranhas.
9. God Lobe - The only prototype not in use. Although it is the smallest weapon available to the player, it is by far the most powerful. It is an improved cybernetic version of a region of the brain only found in organisms for the universe known as "The Absolute Wilderness" that allows the organisms to manipulate matter energy. When installed to the brain, it endows the user with the ability to manipulate matter and energy; the player essentially becomes a what can be considered a god through scientific means. Primary fire is ripping a straight hole through all the matter in front of the user; secondary fire pushes, lifts and crushes anything in a 30 foot radius from the user. It is true power.
0. Secret Weapons - There may be novel weapons hidden throughout the game. They are hidden very, very well. None are finished yet.
The gameplay is more similar to Blood than it is to Doom, although it is slightly more difficult than Blood. Enemies will often kill you very fast by themselves and corners are to be watched either by gunning you down or eating you (some monsters do both). You are given large amounts of ammo as you progress and usually won't be forced to use a particular weapon other than at the start of the game. Enemies are challenging and may force you to use a variety of weapons for different situations and environments. Many enemies have tricks to defeating them, depending on the situation. Enemies range in size from small enough to step on and randomly hiding in destructible barrels to being two stories tall, and that's without considering bosses. The player will feel slightly on edge for most of the game, some music promotes this to give the feel of someone walking around with PTSD. There is a story that you choose whether or not to be interactive with. NPC's may talk to the player, but the player can dash off at any time, cutting the conversation short and for players very interested in the world around them, there are monitors that can be read. The beginning intro can be skipped.
Why I wasn't going to continue:
Recently, I watched the video Shock Value by MovieBob on the Escapist analyzing Bioshock: Infinite. I have never played Bioshock: Infinite, but there appears to be so many similarities that I now feel like my game has lost its creative value significantly. Below are the similarities (spoilers because there are spoilers to both games). It's really taken a hit to me, considering I've been working on this project for two years now and am in love with it. I'm extremely sad to see that at least storyboard wise, someone has put out art similar to mine before I was able to. While all aspects of the story are not yet stated in the game, there is evidence of it everywhere even if nothing is said. Either way, I feel a certain coldness in my chest to see that someone else has thought of one of the ideas that I was proud of.
Similarities in story
The protagonist to Bioshock: Infinite has a past that he regrets and the antagonist has the same past but has reinvented himself as someone else who is treated as a messiah under a new alias. In Beyond the Portal, protagonist, Dr. Rakim Xavier, has nightmares about losing his best friend in a roadside bombing and, going berserk, begins gunning down all local militants. During his rampage, he launches a grenade into an adobe which he finds out right after doing, contained women and children that he had just killed. Omega, the antagonist, is Rakim from an alternate universe who has become all powerful and has the ability to manipulate matter and energy and alters himself into a godlike entity, recreating himself as the alias "Omega." Omega, changing his neurological patterns to deal with the immense PTSD, accidentally turns himself into a complete narcissist and begins forcing people to worship him as a god.
The only major difference between Rakim and Booker is that Rakim is an all around good person except for in the universe where he becomes Omega.
Bioshock: Infinite is an attack on America's pride in old military culture, a topic that was once unquestionable in the States. Beyond the Portal is an attack on the behavior of god in Abrahamic religions, a topic that was once unquestionable in the States.
Both have a female sidekick who appears helpless at first, but turns out to be more powerful than perceived and Bioshock's is apparently a large driver in the plot. Sandra Wong is responsible for almost everywhere and everything Rakim does and always calculates where he's going to be and when.
There's also a melee weapons that's a circular saw that comes out of the player's arm in both, granted Beyond the Portal's is science themed and Bioshock's is steampunk.
I just want somebody to know that I have also thought out a plot that was good. I just didn't know how good until I saw the reviews and analyses of Bioshock: Infinite.
I also do have the copyrights do Beyond the Portal, but I don't know if Bioshock: Infinite's are older, and even if they aren't I highly doubt they knew about my idea, considering it isn't clear in the actual game and is only clear in my copyright proof documents. Months before the first Bioshock came out, I actually wrote a small science fiction story that was very similar to Bioshock. The city it took place in was even in water, granted it was an ocean on a different planet. This tells me that someone apparently thinks a lot like me and is in charge of storyboard and creative direction for Irrational Games. I would actually like a conversation with them to see how similar we are.
Why I will continue:
Because the game is fun and the colorful and diverse environments make you feel indescribable emotions. I've found out that I've been kind of beat to that finish line by Void, Foreverhood and Beyond Reality, but my environments do feel different from these games.
Update: I am currently working on the demo. It should be available by the end of June. I say by because it may be completed sooner. The demo will most likely be maps 01-06 in addition to one secret level. All that needs to be for the demo is a few textures fixed and two sound effects and some changes in enemy placement. Most likely, all weapons will be available through console commands, but obviously, not all will be placed within maps 01-06 + secret level #1.
Update 7/11/2013:
Will give myself a Thursday deadline to wrap things up. I've decided to make it maps 1-9 instead of 1-6 to give a more accurate sample of the game. I am giving myself a due date of the 18th (unless complications arise) to wrap up the demo version.
Added features:
Destructible walls
Ricochet pistol
Destructible barrels with random drops
I am wrapping up maps 1-9 and will be presenting them later tonight (or tomorrow, depending on your timezone).
Update 7/19/2013 - The Demo/Beta Release:
I apologize for being a little bit late.
I highly recommend using GZDoom 1.6.0.. I'm not sure why, but newer versions of GZDoom seem to have problems with decals. There may or may not still be bugs (the ones that have occurred are very rare and hard to test), but if the WAD is run through Doom II, they will never appear. I have not yet made a color palette for the ZDoom version to look as it should, but I may or may not because it is meant to be played through GZDoom.
Nothing is final and all criticisms are welcomed. In fact, if any of you make a video of you playing Beyond the Portal, I promise to watch and study how you play to see what I could improve.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dup2qc6wc5jbxka/PORTAL.wad
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Re: [WIP] Beyond the Portal (Possibly going to abort; near d
by Ribo Zurai » Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:18 pm
Well, I like of this kind of insanity/surrealism, and would love to play this out. I think you should continue with it.
Ribo Zurai
by jute » Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:58 pm
I think you should continue.
by Sunbeam » Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:17 am
I also think you should continue working on this. I'm not very experienced when it comes to released Doom WADs but I think just from the looks of it your mod will be something fresh. Also you shouldn't just let all your work go to waste. Another thing is: How many stories are out there which are nealy the same? Just look at some movies, it will be very hard to come up with a story that's completely new. And as you said it shouldn't matter that much since you can play the game without story.
by VICE » Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:38 am
Deliberately trying to make a story that was never done before is an exercise in futility (read up on something called "The Hero's Journey"). Especially since all media is influenced by other media.
Just create what you like, your story sounds original enough, even if it shares structure and tropes with Infinite. Having played Infinite and having seen the same Moviebob Review you did (I watch Escapist videos too ) I can tell you you're worried about nothing, you haven't played Infinite so you're missing a lot of little nuances and details that Moviebob didn't mention that set your game apart from it more.
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Re: [WIP] Beyond the Portal (Will now be made; near demo)
by ReedtheStrange » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:27 am
I am currently working on the demo. It should be available by the end of June. I say by because it may be completed sooner. The demo will most likely be maps 01-06 in addition to one secret level.
Re: [WIP] Beyond the Portal (Indie Game Megawad; near demo)
by Master Of Metal » Sat May 04, 2013 9:37 am
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by Trooper 077 » Sat May 04, 2013 11:09 am
Doom Nukem wrote: Download link?
Really? What does the post right above yours say?
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by QuickShotGunman » Sat May 04, 2013 12:04 pm
You could really check some of the fine print before you go and press "submit",it would make some of us happier,Mr.Nukem.
Otherwise, you'll be bumping unfinished projects that haven't had an demo yet with the same darn question.
Just a word of advice .
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by Master Of Metal » Tue May 07, 2013 10:56 am
Em.... You know my name is changed now is not Doom Nukem.
by Xaser » Tue May 07, 2013 11:50 am
Master Of Metal wrote: Em.... You know my name is changed now is not Doom Nukem.
There's a little concept called "time" that you should familiarize yourself with. It's generally very helpful in determining the order in which things occur, which will help clarify situations like this. For example, the post you responded to was posted on May 4th at around 1:00 PM (in my time zone; that's a concept I will not cover yet, so just take it as-is), which according to the rules of time, comes sometime before 5:40 PM which appears to be the time that day at which your name changed (according to this post). As such, it's entirely reasonable that a person quoting and responding to your post before your name changed will not yet see the new name because that event hadn't actually happened yet (again, according to the basic rules of how time works).
It's a bit confusing, but if you'll brush up on the topic a bit, it'll serve you well in the future.
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Re: [WIP] Beyond the Portal (Indie Game Megawad; Beta Releas
by ReedtheStrange » Fri Jul 19, 2013 4:37 pm
Also, you will notice that your HUD will obstruct your view of how many monsters you've killed and how many secrets you've found. This is intentional because I never want you to know if you've found all secrets and I want you to have some doubt as to whether or not there's more to find in a map.
by grouchbag » Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:29 pm
Oh,boy!Am I ever gonna enjoy this!
Re: [Demo/Beta Release] Beyond the Portal (Indie Game Megawa
by Ribo Zurai » Sat Jul 20, 2013 10:03 pm
I'm liking it a lot so far, reminds me of a very very old DOS game to me.
by ReedtheStrange » Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:57 pm
Also, I would like to know which maps were the most fun for those who played through. I would like to know what general direction to go with map design and what works. I'm pretty sure I need to make secrets easier to find at times and to design certain levels to be more maze like.
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I Never Thought I'd See the Day
By Blake Aued @BlakeAued
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
Athens First AME Pastor Claude Ray James (right) preaches with other local ministers at a memorial for the Charleston massacre victims.
If you had asked me 10 years ago whether same-sex marriage would have become legal in Georgia and the Confederate flag would be pulled down all over the South in the same week, I would have laughed in your face.
That’s because I covered the debate over the Mississippi state flag in 2001, when 64 percent of voters (read: almost every white person in the state) chose to keep the Confederate-themed design. I moved to Georgia in time for the aftermath of Gov. Roy Barnes’ minimizing the St. Andrew’s Cross on Georgia’s flag, which ultimately cost him re-election. One of my first assignments was covering a Confederate Memorial Day event, interviewing the “Sonny lied!” contingent about Gov. Perdue backing out of his promise to put the flag up for a vote. And I was here when Republicans used a constitutional gay-marriage ban to divide and conquer Democrats, completing their takeover of state government. A now-inconceivable 76 percent of voters wanted to keep same-sex couples from marrying in 2004.
That ban is no more. The Supreme Court struck down the 14 remaining same-sex marriage bans, including Georgia’s, last Friday. “Advocates for marriage equality won on all the big questions in the case,” University of Georgia law professor Hillel Levin said.
Just a few hours after the decision was handed down, Judge Susan Tate was officiating the wedding ceremony of Jordyn Dolente and Moriah Martin—the first of many couples who lined up for their marriage licenses that day. “It feels like we’re finally citizens,” said Joy Carrell, who unofficially married her partner Lisa Brown at a Unitarian Universalist Fellowship partnership three years ago but made it official June 26. “We finally have the rights of the citizens of the United States.” (Look for more coverage of this late-breaking, historic ruling in next week’s issue.)
At the same time, for the first time, Southern politicians are running from the Confederate flag like the Yankees breaking at Bull Run. For instance, Gov. Nathan Deal last week defended Confederate license plates; his advisors must have passed out on the fainting couch, because he reversed himself less than an hour later.
This came to pass because of a tragedy: Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist, walked into Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC, sat in on a prayer meeting for an hour, then shot nine black worshippers to death.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Athens First AME invited churchgoers white and black to a memorial service for the victims on June 24, where the Rev. Claude Ray James, First AME’s pastor, and pastors from at least a dozen other local churches prayed for healing and an end to racism.
“We pray for the people who are consistently and constantly pumping hatred into the hearts of the youth,” James said. “We’ve got to stop teaching hate. There is no way a 21-year-old can feel that much hate unless somebody taught him.”
No longer is our government teaching Americans that gays and lesbians are second-class citizens, or that a heritage of segregation and brutality against African Americans is something to be proud of. It won’t end hatred, but it’s a start. And when you factor in King v. Burwell finally enshrining Obamacare, maybe we can all move on. [Carolyn Crist and Benjamin Tankersley contributed reporting.]
Terrapin Stay-tion: The Athens Banner-Herald’s Jim Thompson had a nice scoop last week, learning that Terrapin Beer Co. had sought out offers to move its Newton Bridge Road brewery out of state. According to documents obtained by the ABH, Terrapin co-founder and President John Cochran leveraged lucrative incentive offers from South Carolina and at least one other suitor into a tentative deal with Athens-Clarke County to spend $1.7 million on land for an expansion that would be leased back to the company at a steep discount.
The Internet disapproved, but it’s hard to blame Terrapin for gaming the system (business is business, after all). And maybe giving the company a little boost will pay off in the long run—we don’t know, because neither Cochran nor ACC officials are talking.
However, the secretive negotiations were yet another reminder that, in the economic development world, governments can legally bribe companies, and companies can legally blackmail governments. Tax incentives used to be reserved for the biggest deals like Caterpillar, which could have built its Athens plant anywhere in the Western hemisphere with access to a port. Lately, though, ACC seems eager to give money away even to grocery stores and hotels—businesses that have no choice but to be in Athens. If corporate welfare is how we define being business-friendly, we need to rethink our strategy.
This should also serve notice to state legislators that they ought to revisit allowing breweries to sell beer directly to the public. South Carolina liberalized its beer laws last year in an effort to lure Stone, a popular and respected California craft brewer. Stone opted to build a second brewery in Virginia, instead. Combine that failure with South Carolina and Georgia’s rivalry (see: Volvo), and our neighbors to the east are bound to try to pick off another one.
A Pat on the Back: Pat Allen, one of ACC’s founding fathers and UGA’s diplomat to Athens, retired on June 30.
Allen chaired the committee that wrote the charter when the city and county unified 25 years ago. A banker by trade, in 2003 he took the newly created position of UGA director of community relations.
"The university needed someone to wake up every morning and ask, 'How will what we are going to do today at the University of Georgia impact folks in the community?'" Allen told Columns, the UGA newsletter.
While not perfect, town-gown relations have improved markedly during my 10 years in Athens, and Allen deserves quite a bit of credit for that.
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Moto G5 Launch in India on April 4, Confirmed to be Amazon Exclusive
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Moto G5 Launch in India on April 4
With the Moto G5 Plus dispatch done and over with, Lenovo is conveying the Moto G5 to India. Motorola's parent organization has reported that it will have the Moto G5 India dispatch on April 4 and has begun sending media welcomes for the same. The Moto G5 India dispatch will harmonize with that of Sony Xperia XZs.
Not at all like its kin, which is selective to Flipkart, the forthcoming Moto G5 will be sold solely on Amazon India and is affirmed to go marked down in India at 12 am IST on April 5. Exceptional Moto G5 dispatch offers will be given to Amazon Prime clients in the nation, however, they are yet to be detailed. Before this, Moto telephones, for example, Moto G (Gen 3), Moto G Play, Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus, Moto G Turbo Edition, Moto X-Force, Moto Z and Moto Z Play have been sold on Amazon.
Moto G5 cost in India
The Moto G5 is the littler variation of the Moto G5 Plus with numerous distinctions in specifications also. The gadget will apparently be less expensive than the Moto G5 Plus (Review), which was propelled in India for Rs. 14,999 for the 3GB RAM+16GB storage variations, and Rs. 16,999 for the 4GB RAM+32GB storage variation. Official cost and accessibility subtle elements will be declared at the April 4 occasion. Both the cell phones were initially divulged at MWC in Barcelona. At a value point lower than that of Moto G5 Plus, the forthcoming Moto G5 will come in direct rivalry with the prominent Xiaomi Redmi Note 4.
Moto G5 keeps running on Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box and was revealed in Lunar Gray, and Fine Gold color variations. The cell phone highlights a 5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) show and be fueled by a 1.4GHz Snapdragon 430 processor. It offers 2GB or 3GB of RAM and 16GB or 32GB of primary storage, with the choice to grow to encourage by means of a microSD card slot(up to 128GB). The Moto G5 packs a 2800mAh removable battery with support for quick charging. Concerning optics, the Moto G5 sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with PDAF, f/2.0 opening, and double LED streak and a 5-megapixel wide-edge front camera for selfies.
The Moto G5 accompanies a unique fingerprint scanner in the front underneath the Home Button. Notwithstanding, the huge highlight is that the gadget incorporates Google Assistant, a component first selective just to the Pixel gadgets. Much the same as the Moto G5 Plus, it accompanies Motorola-selective elements, for example, Moto Display, Actions, contort signal, and a One Button Nav mode that gives clients a chance to explore the interface with swipes on the unique finger impression scanner.
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When Anti-Pipeline Activism Becomes Tortious Interference
Op-ed: With a Democratic majority in the House, infrastructure must remain key priority
Earlier today, The Hill published an op-ed by former Congressman Charlie Melancon of Louisiana calling on Congress to develop a comprehensive infrastructure plan in 2019. Rep. Melancon argues that in a time when partisan politics are seemingly at a record high – Democrats and Republicans can come together on at least one thing: infrastructure. He emphasizes the importance of further development in the US, noting that fourteen million Americans have jobs directly related to infrastructure.
Despite the bipartisan benefits of investment in our critical infrastructure, Melancon points out that there are still fringe groups opposing infrastructure advancement and modernization. He writes:
It’s clear that infrastructure development must be a priority in 2019. Yet, that’s not what we have seen in the bayous of Louisiana or the plains of the Dakotas. For example, energy infrastructure projects have been plagued with fringe activists and anti-energy protesters who continue to escalate tactics, often times breaking the law and endangering themselves and innocent bystanders in the process. Some have taken to chaining themselves to construction equipment and creating aerial blockades in the trees. In Pennsylvania, one vigilante protester started a fire near equipment and spread spoiled food near a construction site to bother workers and attract wild animals.
Melancon contends these “risky demonstrations and polarizing attempts are further contributing to the collapse of public discourse around this important issue.” Vigilante tactics and ideological opposition to responsible infrastructure development are not conducive to moving the US forward. Melancon even notes that “some groups have even gone as far as to demand banks refuse to do business or associate with the energy companies building projects to better serve American consumers across the country.” He concludes that although our infrastructure deficiencies are complicated and will take time to address, it starts with a straightforward and bipartisan plan right now in 2019, as he writes:
The U.S. faces complex infrastructure deficiencies that are undoubtedly multi-faceted and will take some time to improve. These matters will not be solved overnight; or within the next year, for that matter. But a long-term solution starts with a strong infrastructure plan with bipartisan support in 2019. Through the integration of effective public-private partnerships and a clear vision, lawmakers can hit the ground running and develop a plan to grow our nation’s infrastructure.
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re_select_1.00000874 Leonardo DiCaprio stars in THE REVENANT, an immersive and visceral cinematic experience capturing one manÕs epic adventure of survival and the extraordinary power of the human spirit. Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox. Copyright © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. THE REVENANT Motion Picture Copyright © 2015 Regency Entertainment (USA), Inc. and Monarchy Enterprises S.a.r.l. All rights reserved. Not for sale or duplication.
The movie, The Revenant takes a raw aim at the human nature and dissect it to the bone. I haven’t seen anything quite like it. First I was shocked by the brutality and the rawness of it all; yet I kept watching. Then it hit me and jolted my soul…the realization of the human nature with all its facades vs. Nature itself. Awakening!
All was tangible and real right in front of my eyes. The virginity of the snow, the harsh yet serene winter, the remoteness of the place, and the shabby print of the white man’s presence on it …bringing greed, weapons, destruction, diversion and hate.
It cuts deeper into the human nature layer by layer. You see it raw, crude, and as natural as it was when man was first created. Love between husband and wife, father and son, family, tribe, and friendship. Loyalty and comradeship vs. betrayal that cuts deeper and hurt longer than the marring of a giant grizzly. Faith when it purifies the soul and heal the wounds as portrayed by the native man (Hikuc)’s dealing with the loss of his family:
“Hikuc: My heart bleeds. But revenge is in the creator’s hands”;
On the other hand, when egoism and arrogance hijack Faith and turns it into extremism as portrayed by the character Fitzgerald.
Then racism, white-man-supremacy with its power, discrimination, greed, stealing lands and conquering people. The movie is an experience, a revelation that transforms the viewer and force him to look face to face deep within.
My intention is not to write about the movie, but to share a synopsis about the feelings that it may stir in you, it’s so powerful, it compels us to reflect and think. Revenant, may will be, all of us who are awakened to the truth.
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This photo provided by courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox shows, Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, in a scene from the film, “The Revenant,” directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The 73rd annual Golden Globe nominations in film and television categories will be announced Thursday morning, Dec. 10, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox via AP)
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Malctg - The Foureyed Poet. says:
Dear gainperspectiveblog. I have heard of this film but not seen it. Has there not always been this conflict between man and nature. We do not respect nature yet continue think we are superior which of course we are not! Thank you for liking my poem Tracey! Peace and Best Wishes. The Foureyed Poet.
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Georgia Politics, Campaigns & Elections for September 18, 2012
Posted by Todd Rehm / Brian Kemp, Campaign Finance, Charter School Amendment, Direct Mail, Dog adoption, Dog rescue, Education, Elections, Ethics, Georgia Political News, Georgia Politics, Georgia Senate, Georgia State House, Governor Nathan Deal, Gwinnett County, Immigration, Robocalls, Voter Registration, Voting
27525 is a young, male, adult yellow lab who has found himself on the wrong side of the law and now waits to be bailed out and taken to his new home from the Gwinnett Animal Shelter. Volunteers at the shelter describe him as friendly and he becomes available on Saturday.
27459 is an adult, female black lab who will become available for adoption from the Gwinnett County Animal Shelter tomorrow. Pretty sure that’s a friendly dog right there.
27427 (above, female) and 27426 (below, male) are baby chocolate labs who are available today for adoption from the Gwinnett County Animal Shelter. These two are siblings and are both described as playful and friendly.
Opponents of the Charter School Amendment complain that the preamble to the ballot question includes misleading statements designed to entice voters to back the measure.
[O]pponents of a November ballot question are also crying foul.
They’re upset over the preamble wording for the Charter School Commission Amendment.
It reads, “Provides for improving student achievement and parental involvement through more public charter school options.”
The amendment vote was authorized by the Georgia Legislature in response to the previous Charter Schools Commission being declared unconstitutional by a court ruling.
Now voters will get to decide whether to recreate the commission.
Like T-SPLOST, it’s a hot issue that has non-partisan supporters and opponents.
Opponent Elizabeth Hooper told 11 Alive on Wednesday that she believes the Charter Schools Amendment preamble is also rigged to get “yes” votes.
“It’s absolutely biased,” she said, “Who wouldn’t be for improving student achievement?”
“To say that is going to happen is a lie,” she added.
Bert Brantley, spokesman for the pro amendment group Families for Better Public Schools, told 11 Alive News a recent study by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement proves they make a difference.
“I think it’s factual,” he said of the preamble wording.
“We’ve got proof that state charter schools perform better than the schools in the districts where those charters are located,” Brantley said.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who took heat for the T-SPLOST preamble wording, is distancing himself from this one.
Kemp spokesman Jared Thomas wrote 11 Alive that “The Secretary of State does not choose the Constitutional amendment ballot language.”
“That task falls to the Constitutional Amendments Publication Board…comprised of the Governor, Speaker (of the House) and Lt. Governor. Any language they choose must be approved by 2/3 of their board,” Thomas added in his statement.
Meanwhile, a recent poll by Republican Todd Rehm of GaPundit.com showed 48% support the amendment, while 26% oppose it.
Columbia County News-Times writer Barry Paschall argues that the Charter School Amendment will harm local schools.
Columbia County schools, like all public schools in the state, will be further damaged by the continued drain of funds toward private, for-profit schools. That’s why another analysis found much of the money behind the amendment flows from out-of-state private school companies hoping to reap millions if it passes.
Perhaps that also explains the recent commentary from an Arkansas professor boosting the amendment for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
In it, Jay Greene crowed about charter school successes around the country – but failed, oddly, to mention any from Georgia. Could that be because a study last year showed charter schools in Georgia perform no better, and in some cases slightly worse, on testing than Georgia’s public schools?
Even with the eminent danger to our financially struggling but academically strong local schools, and with virtually no evidence to support the amendment’s passage, most Columbia County voters likely will stab their own school system in the back so they can say they voted for what they think is “school choice.”
The Gwinnett County Commission is back to its full complement of five unindicted Commissioners, as Jace Brooks was sworn in yesterday.
[Commissioner Lynette] Howard said she attended Monday’s ceremony to show Brooks support.
“He makes for more sound decisions in Gwinnett County, when you have five people making that decision instead of less than, and all parts of the county are represented,” Howard said. “And District 1 has their own representative. It’s good for the people in District 1 to have their own elected official.”
Brooks said the commissioners would begin work on the budget in November.
“Now it’s time to start doing what I talked about during the campaign,” Brooks said. “The slow process of trying to rebuild the trust. That’s really where it’s got to start.”
The Lake Lanier Legislative Caucus, including members from Gwinnett, Hall, Forsyth and Dawson counties, will meet publicly today at 4 PM at the Buford Community Center, located at 2200 Buford Highway, across from City Hall on Buford Drive.
Nerds patriots at Gainesville High School set up voter registration tables yesterday to mark the 225th Anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution by helping their colleagues register to vote.
The Augusta Canal National Heritage Area may lose federal funding this month as its funding sunsets.
[Augusta Canal Authority executive director Dayton] Sherrouse said it is possible – but not certain – that the “continuing resolution” that allows the government to keep operating under the previous year’s budget until a new one is adopted could preserve Augusta’s allocation for next year.
This year, that allocation was slightly more than $300,000, making up about 20 percent of the canal authority’s annual operating budget. Other funding sources include grants, sale of hydropower from the canal’s turbines, and revenues from boat tours and other activities.
Republican candidate in the Twelfth Congressional District Lee Anderson has declined the Atlanta Press Club debate against Democrat John Barrow. Barrow has said that he’ll go if Anderson does, but will not attend to debate an empty podium. I wonder if they’ll air 30 minutes of dead air.
“Lee Anderson will consider sharing the stage with Barrow once he stands in front of a local television camera and confesses his politically disastrous secret – he’s voting for Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi,” [Anderson spokesman Ryan] Mahoney said in a statement.
Former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill has asked the court to dismiss 37 felony counts included in an indictment against Hill, claiming they were politically motivated. Walton County District Attorney Layla Zon called the claim by Hill “ludicrous”. Hill’s lawyers make an interesting claim that if resolved may affect campaigns going forward:
He also is accused of diverting money from his failed 2008 re-election campaign to himself.
“He is essentially taking from himself and therefore cannot be guilty of a crime,” Frey argued.
Zon, the district attorney for Newton and Walton counties was appointed special prosecutor in this case.“It’s not his money. The fact that he keeps arguing the campaign money is his is absurd,” she said.
She said she found it incredulous that Hill would claim it was his to do with as he wished.
“The campaign belonged to Victor Keith Hill. He can’t steal from himself,” Frey answered.
In news to no one, people are complaining about robocalls.
Political robocalls and automated calls from charities, or informational robocalls, such as an airline calling about a flight delay, are exempt from the ban. But those exemptions are being abused, too, with consumers complaining of getting calls that begin as a legitimate call, say from a charity or survey, but then eventually switch to an illegal telemarketing sales pitch.
Robocalls can be highly annoying to consumers because they’re hard to stop. Fraudsters use caller-ID spoofing so that when a person tries to call back the robocaller, they get a disconnected number or something other than the source of the original call.
The best thing people can do when they get an illegal robocall is to hang up. Do not press “1” to speak to a live operator to get off the call list. If you do, the FTC says, it will probably just lead to more robocalls. The caller will know you’re there and willing to answer, and may continue to call.
Your County Commissioner could be costing taxpayers between $180,000 and $500,000 each year to run his or her office, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The data show that even Cobb, with its reputation for austerity, spends about $180,000 a year for each of its five commissioners. Gwinnett commissioners spend about $190,000, while the chairman’s budget is about $296,000. In DeKalb, each commissioner spends about $387,000. Clayton spends $240,000 per commissioner, or $1.2 million. But the actual money that Clayton spends on commissioners is much less. The County Commission’s budget includes the county manager and clerk and those employees. Additionally, Clayton commissioners, who earn $22,000 annually, do not have individual staffs and discretionary budgets.
By comparison, each state senator in Georgia cost taxpayers $200,000 annually to run his office. State senators serve about the same amount of constituents as commissioners and are likewise tasked with one specific job: to plan and approve an annual budget.
“Our phones ring off the hook,” said Fulton Commissioner Liz Hausmann, whose $398,000 budget is the county’s smallest. “The majority of it is constituent issues, problems dealing with county departments.”
Georgia’s “show your papers” provision from HB 87, which allows law enforcement to check immigration status for people who are suspected of committing certain crimes and do not have ID, is on hold as the Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals decides whether to re-hear the case.
Forsyth and Cherokee county sheriff’s deputies are among those now putting off training and other planning to enforce the law. It doesn’t make sense to start drafting a policy for it, Forsyth Sheriff Ted Paxton said, when the legal battle is not over.
“We are simply just in a holding pattern,” Paxton said. “Until [the legal case] is resolved, it is very difficult for us to craft any type of policy because there are a lot of unknowns.”
State officials were planning to teach the new law to officers Monday, but they postponed that training after learning the law will remain on hold.
“If I talk about it in class, officers may walk away thinking they can do it,” said Wally Marchant, supervisor of the legal training section at the Georgia Police Academy. “And I don’t want that to happen.”
In the days leading up to the latest tie-up in court, other police agencies indicated they were not ready to begin enforcing the law. Gwinnett police, for example, said this month that they could not say when or how they would apply the law until the county’s Law Department has “reviewed the complete bill after all issues have been resolved from the state.”
“Once that has been done, we will review the final law and determine if any of our current policies and procedures will change,” said Cpl. Edwin Ritter, a police spokesman.
DeKalb police said this month that they were developing a policy on how to apply the law. And now that the law is on hold again? Police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said: “We will continue to monitor legislation and plan accordingly.”
Some police emphasized that doing immigration status checks is optional under the law.
“The provision authorizes, but does not require, the department to investigate the immigration status of individuals who cannot produce adequate identification to prove citizenship,” Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos said, “provided probable cause exists that the individual committed a crime.”
In Alabama, a similar measure has caused enough problems that some local jurisdictions are choosing not to enforce it.
[Clanton, Alabama] Chief Brian Stilwell said that measure — which critics call the show-me-your-papers law — has made immigrants afraid to report crimes and burdened his officers with hours-long investigations. The chief was so troubled by the law that he apologized to a young mother who was turned over to immigration authorities after committing a minor traffic infraction in town.
Supporters of the year-old law point to Alabama’s falling unemployment rate as proof it is working and preserving jobs for U.S. citizens, though not everyone agrees there is a correlation. Alabama state Sen. Scott Beason, one of the law’s architects, says it is also aimed at protecting his state’s taxpayer-funded resources and boosting public safety.
While Beason and Stilwell — both Republicans — have staked out different positions on the law, they agree on one thing: Georgia authorities should use caution when they start enforcing a similar measure.
Stilwell, Clanton’s police chief, has concluded the law is unenforceable, partly because state lawmakers this year repealed a provision authorizing police to arrest motorists for driving without a license. He added it sometimes takes hours for federal authorities to respond to his officers’ queries about the immigration status of suspects. Worrying that such prolonged stops — without an arrest — could violate people’s constitutional rights, Stilwell said his officers stopped enforcing the law last summer.
In Tuscaloosa, police officers are releasing suspects when it appears it will take too long to confirm their immigration status and if they have no lawful reason to detain them, said Sgt. Brent Blankley, a police spokesman. Like Clanton police, Tuscaloosa officers have been reaching out to Hispanics since Alabama enacted its law. Blankley indicated those efforts have paid off and that Hispanic victims are continuing to report crimes to police.
My fellow word nerds and I will be in Midtown on Thursday evening for the taping at the Fox Theatre of NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…” WABE’s Dennis O’Hayer interviewed the show’s host. O’Hayer also interviewed GBI Director Vernon Keenan on the state’s progress in combatting sex trafficking.
State Senator Josh McKoon (R-Columbus) is holding a fundraiser tonight with Lt. Governor Casey Cagle in McKoon’s district.
Governor Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens will be featured at a Campaign Rally at Wild Bill’s in Duluth on Thursday night sponsored by the Gwinnett County Republican Party.
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Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections for August 21, 2012 — Primary Runoff Election Day
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Giant Goldenrod (Early Goldenrod, Smooth Goldenrod)
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Giant Goldenrod is a native erect perennial and is a common roadside Goldenrod.
Stems: It grows from 1 to 6 plus feet high. The stem is unbranched below the floral array, smooth throughout but within the floral array there may be sparse short stiff hair. In full sun stems can be reddish in color.
Leaves are all stem leaves, alternate, lance shaped with sharp teeth on the margins, tapering to a pointed tip and tapering to the stem; larger leaves with two noticeable veins parallel to the mid-rib, all 3 rising from the base. Upper stem leaves may be without teeth. Most leaves are sessile (stalkless). The lowest leaves usually wither by flowering time. Mid-stem leaves are the largest, 3 to 5 inches long, then decreasing in size into the floral array. The underside of the leaf may have hair on the main veins and nerves or can be otherwise smooth, but is much paler in color.
The floral array is a spreading pyramidal cluster of arrays at the top of the stem with the flowers on one side of each branch of the array; these branches tend to recurve backward (downward), particularly the lower branches of the array. The branches may have fine hair or be smooth.
Flowers: The yellow flower heads are bell shaped, less than 1/4 inch across, composed of two types of florets: 9 to 15 tiny pointed ray florets, with yellow rays, which are pistillate and fertile, and 7 to 12 disc florets with yellow corollas whose lips are pointed and erect to spreading during pollination. These are bisexual and fertile. The disc florets have 5 stamens with yellow filaments and anthers. The anthers surround and are appressed to the style. Anthers turn darker at pollen maturity. The thin phyllaries are greenish to yellow-green in color and these surround the flower head in 3 to 4 series of unequal size. The outer series lanceolate in shape with pointed tips and the inner series more linear with tips less pointed.
Seeds are dry cypselae, 1.3–1.5 mm long, with a fluffy whitish pappus for wind dispersal. The cypselae are tan and are of a shape called narrowly 'obconic' - that is like a narrow inverted cone. Seeds of Solidago usually require 60 days of cold stratification and light for germination.
Habitat: Giant Goldenrod is subject to some interesting galls (see below). The plant can form dense colonies from its creeping rhizomes and from self-seeding. It grows in roadsides, open fields, prairies where there is full to partial sun, moist to slightly dry conditions. This is the same habitat as Late Goldenrod, S. altissima and the two may frequently be found in the same area, although S. gigantea tends to bloom earlier. There may be some hybridization between plants growing in the same vicinity, which will tend to frustrate identification.
Names and varieties: The genus Solidago is from the Latin solido, to 'make whole' as the plants of this genus were known to medicinally "make whole". (see bottom of page). The species gigantea means 'large'. This species is one of the tallest native goldenrods. The author name for the plant classification - ‘Aiton’ is for William Aiton (1731-1793), Scottish botanist, who succeeded Phillip Miller as superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden and then became director of Kew Gardens, where he published Hortus Kewensis, the Garden’s catalogue of plants. Older synonyms for this species are Solidago serotina and Solidago pitcheri.
Comparison: Closely resembling this species is Late Goldenrod, S. altissima. That species has a similar height and root system, but the stems have fine hair throughout except sometimes at the base of the stem. S. altissima has fewer disc florets - 3 to 6 vs 7 to 12 and fewer ray florets - 5 to 13 vs 9 to 15. Its leaves have fewer teeth, the phyllaries tend to be more yellow, but it is also subject to the stem galls explained below.
Above: The floral array with its arching lower branches. Drawing from Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
Below: Detail of the flowers.
Below: 1st photo - a stem leaf, tapering on both ends, stalkless. 2nd photo - leaf underside showing fine hair on the mid-rib.
Below: Comparison of large mid-stem leaf and upper stem leaf.
Below: 1st photo - the phyllaries of the flower head. 2nd photo - Smooth stem, reddish when in full sun.
Below: The floral array has ascending branches forming a pyramidal shape. Flowers are concentrated on one side of the branch. 2nd photo - an open field grouping of the plant.
Goldenrod Galls: Late Goldenrod (Solidago altissima with two subspecies) and Giant Goldenrod (S. gigantea) are subject to three different types of stem galls caused by tiny insects that lay their eggs on the plants The larva from the hatched egg then eats its way into the stem. In two cases (ball gall and spindle gall) the plant then responds to this event by rapidly increasing cell growth around the intrusion, enveloping the larva in a woody protective sheathing that not only keeps the larva safe, but they have a ready-made food supply for the remainder of the summer and a home to overwinter in and emerge in spring as a new adult, unless a woodpecker finds them. In the case of the rosette gall (3rd photo below), the plant creates a dense growth of what looks like small leaves at the top of the plant after a larva hatches at the top of the stem. This rosette is caused by the plant stopping stem growth without stopping leaf production. In the case of the spindle gall (below- 2nd photo), the eggs are laid on an autumn leaf where they overwinter. In spring the hatched larva migrate from the dead leaf to a nearby stem, bore in for a home and the plant responds as indicated above. S. canadensis (two subspecies) is not known to be seriously affected by the galls.
John Muir wrote in 1911: Each species seems to know what kind of plant will respond to the irritation or stimulus of the puncture it makes and the eggs it lays, in forming a growth that not only answers for a nest and home but also provides food for the young." From his essay Mt. Hoffman and Lake Tenaya.
Below: 1st photo - The "ball" or "apple" gall. 2nd photo - The "spindle" gall. 3rd photo - The " numerous rosette" galls on Giant Goldenrod.
The insects that cause these galls are as follows: Ball gall - Goldenrod Gall Fly, Eurosta solidaginis; Spindle Gall - Goldenrod Gall Moth, Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis; Rosette Gall - Goldenrod Gall Midge, Rhopalomyia solidaginis. This gall only occurs on Late Goldenrod. Below: 1st photo - A larva of the Gall fly in the sectioned gall. Note the gall has a dense woody structure. 2nd photo - An example of a stem affected by all of them.
Notes: Giant Goldenrod is not indigenous to the Garden but it is to the local area. Eloise Butler first planted it in the Autumn of 1919 with plants she dug up near the Belt-line Bridge in Minneapolis (now called Highway 100). The name used in her day was Solidago serotina. She planted more in 1927 but Martha Crone did not list it on her 1951 Garden census. In 1987 Gardener Cary George wrote that it and another species not listed on Martha Crone's inventory were now in the Garden. He did not state that he planted it, just that it was there.
Subspecies: There are 18 species of Solidago known in the wild in Minnesota. Within Minnesota S. gigantea is found in all counties except eight in the SW farm belt. This is one of the most wide spread goldenrods, occurring in all the U.S. except Arizona, and in all the lower Canadian provinces except the Maritime. The other two main species, S. canadensis and S. altissima, are also very widespread.
Medicinal Lore: The genus Solidago has several species whose leaves and tops were used by natives for sickness of the stomach - usually a teaspoon of leaves to a cupful of boiling water. Hutchins (Ref. #12) mentions several other uses. Here in Minnesota, Frances Densmore (Ref.#5) reported that the Minnesota Chippewa used various species of Goldenrod, for treating cramps, fevers, colds, ulcers and boils. Mrs. Grieve (Ref. #7) reports on European use of various species.
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Home Gossip Tiffany Pollard Dating Boyfriend Aktion LA Jackson; Are They Panning To Get Married? Know Details
Tiffany Pollard Dating Boyfriend Aktion LA Jackson; Are They Panning To Get Married? Know Details
Mahammad Arsad shekh Fri Mar, 2017
One of the most renowned controversial television personalities, Tiffany Pollard has nowadays considerably grabbed headlines with her scandalous affairs with the guys on the show named Flavor of Love and I Love NewYork.
Not only that, while she was having a romance with one of the contestants on the show Celebrity Big Brother, Tiffany's mysterious boyfriend was revealed that caused a wide attention and curiosity to media and millions of her fans.
Don't worry, we are gonna introduce you to that mystery man. Just stay with us.
Tiffany Pollard dating her mystery boyfriend since 2012
Firstly, let you know that this 35 years aged celebrity, Tiffany Pollard rose to the fame after participating in VH1's hit show Flavor of Love and I Love NewYork. In that show, In that show, Tiffany was dating a boyfriend who was also one of the contestants in the show,
But later, as soon as the show ended, the relationship between Tiffany Pollard and that unidentified boyfriend also ended.
Tiffany Pollard kissing Scotty T on CBB, and her boyfriend Aktion La Jackson
Source: Celebfresh.com
However, when Tiffany participated in one of the most renowned Television show named Celebrity Big Brother, she seemed to be in love pretty seriously with a hot contestant of the show, Scotty T.
Tiffany even shared onscreen Kisses with Scotty T,
Video: Kissing scene of Tiffany onscreen
But, when she was asked whether she was having any affair then she completely denied the fact. She said,
There is somebody, but we’re not together technically. It's not even dating, it’s kind of just randomly talking. I’m definitely single.
But later, on 2nd February 2016, while playing the Truth or Dare game in the show, Tiffany revealed that she has got a secret boyfriend outside this show. She even said,
I've been with the same d**k for four years.
Later, Frostsnow found that Tiffany's love partner is the popular rapper, Aktion LA Jackson.
Tiffany Pollard with her boyfriend Aktion LA Jackson
Source: Mirror
Going through his tweets, Frostsnow confirmed their relationship as the music artist, Aktion shared a tweet stated that he doesn't care about his girlfriend Tiffany's flirtations on the show. He also posted a picture with Tiffany on his twitter, in which he was seen promoting Tiffany and asking viewers to vote her. Let's have a look at it.
Does it look like I'm worried about a kiss or 2 or 3 or 8 or 20 or 99 or VOTE for @TiffanyPollard..I think I'm sick? pic.twitter.com/0C5JEUcIba
— AkT!oN LA JaCkSoN (@aktionlajackson) January 26, 2016
It has been over five years since their first date and their relationship is still going stronger day by day. It's very rare They do not even have a rumor of getting separated or having any extra affairs anyway.
The couple has also shared the pictures of them on Instagram. Let's have a look at it too.
Woke up MISSIN' my dude @aktionlajackson ?? Guess there's some ppl I just CAN'T do w/o ????
A post shared by Tiffany Pollard (@tiffany_hbic_pollard) on Dec 15, 2016 at 5:44am PST
Tiffany Pollard pregnancy and miscarriage
Nearly a year ago, on April 14, 2016, while Tiffany was filming for the TV series Family Therapy with Dr. Jenn, Tiffany decided to take a pregnancy test.
Tiffany Pollard's pregnancy test was positive; it said yes
Source: Thesun
After taking the pregnancy test, Tiffany came to know that she is pregnant, though it is still a mystery who was the father of that child. At first she was shocked and felt too sad but later on, she cried happy tears and said,
Maybe it is time for me to just have a baby, it’s going to be fun. It’s a lot of work.
But unfortunately, Tiffany revealed that she suffered a miscarriage and lost her baby, just weeks before joining the show Celebrity Big Brother.
She revealed this on Steve Harvey show, being pretty emotional. She said,
I lost my child and it was one of the most painful things, I could ever…and you never even believed me to start.
Let's watch the full video of Tiffany on Steve Harvey show.
As for now, Tiffany looks happy with her boyfriend Aktion. Let's wish she soon settle down and get married to him and hope we would see them as a husband and wife in future. For more updates, keep in touch with Frostsnow.
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Home NFL AFC Fitzpatrick, Dolphins face Mixon, Bengals in 2020 NFL Draft Battle
Fitzpatrick, Dolphins face Mixon, Bengals in 2020 NFL Draft Battle
Kayla Morton
Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick calls out a defensive scheme to his teammates. PC: Behind the Steele Curtain
The Miami Dolphins will face the Cincinnati Bengals in their final home game of the 2019 NFL season. The game, full of huge 2020 NFL Draft implications, will be played in heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Flores on thunderstorms impact
“Just ball security. It’s something that’s obviously got to be a high priority whether it’s regardless of the weather – inclement weather whether it’s rain or snow or wind, whatever it happens to be,” Miami head coach Brian Flores said. “So taking care of the football – that’s anyone who touches the football – snapper, punter, holder, receivers, backs, quarterback obviously, making good decisions at that position and then just making it more of a priority to take care of the football when we’re running with it, catching it, putting it away.”
How this game impacts the NFL 2020 Draft immensely
The 1-11 Bengals currently hold the number one overall pick in the 2020 draft, but the 3-13 Dolphins could still wind up with it.
If Miami loses out and Cincinnati wins out the Bengals would own the tiebreaker, hurting them, and land with the second overall pick. Miami only has to worry about the New York Giants if it were to lose out, but even if the Dolphins and the Giants finish with the same record, New York owns the pick behind Miami with its win last week over the Dolphins. Miami closes its season in New England after this week, while Cincinnati closes at home against Cleveland.
Joe Mixon will lead Bengals
Entering tomorrow however, these two teams will see heavy thunderstorms throughout the afternoon and 10-20 mile-per-hour winds during the game. This bodes well for Bengals running back Joe Mixon. Mixon has back-to-back games with more than 130 scrimmage yards, and those statistics have not come in garbage time; especially in the team’s game vs the Patriots.
Cincinnati is relying heavily on Mixon with the return to quarterback Andy Dalton back in the lineup for its last two games. Mixon has 23 and 25 carries respectively in those previous two games, second and third this season only to his 30 carries against the Baltimore Ravens in week 10. With not only the shakiness of Dalton, but the 31st ranked rush defense for Miami, paired with the weather, Mixon will be the workhorse in the game.
“I think we’ve had both success and struggles on the edge, inside, in the C-gap which is basically right in between the middle and outside. All of it’s important. So you want to be strong inside, really out and I think we need to do a good job – a better job – of being more consistent across the board in the run game,” Flores said.
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Fitzpatrick, Laird will lead Dolphins
For Miami, its leading rusher is currently Ryan Fitzpatrick with the turnover rate of the Dolphins rushers this season. Fitzpatrick currently has 219 yards, paired to starting RB Patrick Laird’s 155. Sunday will mark Laird’s fourth career start, where he averaging 3.2 yards per carry. Laird will be looking for his career rushing touchdown, while Fitzpatrick has three on the season.
DeVante Parker eyeing first 1,000-yard season
Fitzpatrick should also have a decent day through the air even in the rain. He’ll have No. 1 wide receiver DeVante Parker, a top-10 receiver in the NFL this season, removed from any worry of his concussion suffered a few weeks ago. Parker is already having a career year, but needs just 46 yards for 1,000 yards on the season. His previous career high was 804 yards, and Parker could also eclipse double-digit TDs for the first time in his career. His previous was eight.
Cincinnati will be blown out without WR help
Cincinnati wins this game if Dalton is on and has his own WRs step up. Tyler Boyd (No. 1), John Ross (No. 2), Alex Erickson (No. 3/4) and Auden Tate have been Jeckyll and Hyde receivers all season. Miami gets the inclement weather to help them, but the Dolphins have moved up to the middle of the pack in pass defense throughout the season. Despite the injuries, the defensive unit is playing better as a whole.
“No. It’s nothing like it was in the beginning. In the beginning, I didn’t really – compared to now – I didn’t really understand the defense. It’s just a work in progress and we’ve definitely been doing that,” linebacker Jerome Baker said.
1972 Perfect Team to be honored
Additionally, Miami will honor its perfect 1972 team at halftime of this game as part of the “NFL 100 Greatest” movement that this year’s season has revolved around. This team was named the best team in the NFL’s 100-year history.
“It’s always special to be around the guys who came together to accomplish what no other team in the 100-year history of the NFL has ever done – the perfect season,” said Hall of Fame head coach Don Shula. “It’s only fitting as the League closes out this milestone season that the 1972 Dolphins are officially recognized with an honor that we always knew was true – that they are the greatest team in NFL history.”
– Kayla Morton is the Managing Editor for Full Press Coverage Miami Dolphins. Like and follow on Follow @mortonsalt74 Follow @FPC_Dolphins and Facebook.
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Your leadership has done more to set back race relations than George Wallace, but folks like you refuse to see it, and acknowledge it.
Haha. Yeah, we did it your way, not helping 1 bit, for hundreds of years and nobody gave minorities a shot. Now, after 40 years of programs there are millions of prosperous minorities. So, you're full of shiat.
E1: Forty-eight years ago there were 1,469 black elected officials nationwide, according to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; in 2011 there were roughly 10,500 such officials. Yeah, we've set them back.
I also blame Obama for the iPhone allowing everyone to actually see the **** minorities deal with.
Originally posted by wonderboy
The main reason you care about immigrants; legal and illegal, is because you want their vote.
Well, that's an awful way to be a human being. I think you might be projecting there, champ.
Open borders means more Democrats and more handouts which equates to liberal enslavement.
Again, how does that help me? I don't get any handouts and never have. Neither have my parents or my brothers. I don't have any student debt. I have a good job. Democrats wouldn't be lowering my taxes so far as I am aware. I'm not gay. I don't need abortions (hurrah for vascectomies!). I have health insurance through my employer.
So, again, please explain why I want their vote. Otherwise you are looking really dumb.
It was more about FT being pretty damned silly than his goofy way of trying to express himself. As always, it totally lacks an End Game on our behalf. Minorities by and large don't like the GOP and it isn't because white people tell them not to. Give minorities a little more credit than that.
Acknowledging President Joke being an idiot doesn't get anyone points either. It just means you grasped an obvious fact.
Minorities, for the most part, favor Democrat policy. They like the near endless and unchecked entitlements for one thing. That's why they vote Democratic. The GOP aren't so free with the nations money.
What does "it totally lacks and end game on our behalf" mean? Did you miss some keys or something?
You progs haven't been in control for 48 years so how can you attempt to take credit for prosperity among minorities? There's a lot of things that enter into your statistics. Not only policy. Not only programs. But like a typical prog you leave the real facts in the toilet and attempt to take all the credit. Clintonish.
Did you really say that after 40 years of programs there are millions of prosperous minorities? Yea, in the inner cities all across the US. Millions and millions of prosperous minorities. What a lie.
Forgive me. When using the word "you" I am speaking in generalities. As in "you progressives". Or as in progressive politicians. I don't mean to insinuate that you are a walking and talking example of every progressive policy. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Like I said before, you're only a yes-man.
Whatever you say wb.
Or was I suppose to say--yes.
You decide and let me know.
Oh dear God. How racist are you? "If not for the welfare state, minorities could never succeed!" Asians disprove that silly logic.
Despite the gains they trumpet, now, in 2018, they market black politics as if blacks have it worse than ever, racism is rampant, cops want to kill black people, the system is aligned against them. Can't have it both ways.
I think black people do owe their present quality of life to progressives. The 70% fatherless children, the highest proportion of the prison population, the lowest academic standards, the millions of black abortions, the ghettos, the lowest standard of living of all ethnic groups.
Blacks should be SO grateful to those progs.
Originally posted by FriarTom View Post
I'm saying black people didn't succeed in great numbers until programs that were placed to help them against other people's racism who wouldn't even give them a chance. But, you knew that. Asians, while being discriminated against as well from the beginning, were never discriminated against to the extent blacks were. They were more accepted than blacks, same with any immigrant including white immigrants. Cmon man, it's historical fact.
Who the F is saying it's worse than ever? You are just flat out lying now. It's much better than it ever was, I haven't seen a lynching in this decade, I'd call that a win.
But, the flip side is that you and people like you think there is no racism anymore. When you just gave stats that proved there is racism. Blacks killed by cops...Highest proportion in prisons. hmmm Yeah, I wonder why!!
You progs haven't been in control for 48 years so how can you attempt to take credit for prosperity among minorities?
You're a moron. Why do certain people need to be in power the whole time? The civil rights act was passed and never overturned, does that mean blacks don't have civil rights during years when conservative run things?
Once again, you're a moron. You're an idiot that doesn't understand how the whole government shiat thing works. Just go back to your cave and jack it to Jesus. I jack it to Jesus all the time. I pray to him to send a hitman to kill Trump. He hasn't listened as of yet. I might need to switch to KY jelly.
You write this stuff and you call me a moron?
The GOP aren't so free with the nations money.
Right. That's exactly why Trump and the GOP are currently spending us out of debt at an alarming rate. C'mon, man....
The truth is that whether you agree with FT or not his comment was easily understood. But you jumped into the same boat with Cal and FBurns without a thought. Just my opinion, but you could keep better company.
But I'm still thankful to you for teaching me how to copy and paste!! Remember that?
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